Separate pieces are useless; combined in Krishna consciousness, they become a divine instrument.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...because as soon as the ship stopped, Commonwealth Pier, Boston, the Immigration Department came and took their papers. So I entered America in Boston. There was no checking in New York. The ship stopped in Boston.
The official entrance was done there. Then when I came to New York, it is just like one day's travel. Harikeśa: No, that's not very far. And then you went to Pennsylvania.
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Harikeśa: And then you went directly to Pennsylvania?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Then one agent appointed by my host, Gopal Agarwal... He was in Butler. So he arranged with some professional, what is called, host.
Prabhupāda: Maybe travel agent. He came to see me, that "I am sent by Gopal Agarwal, so I'll arrange for your dispatch. You come with me." Hari-śauri: Gopal Agarwal was your sponsor?
Prabhupāda: Yes, sponsor. His father came to see me sometime in Agra. Hari-śauri: In India. Prabhupāda: Agra. His father, mother came. Hari-śauri: And then they suggested that he be your sponsor. Prabhupāda: It was all by chance. I was for a few days guest at his father's place in Agra.
I did not know that his son is in America. So he was talking about his family. He was little sorry that his eldest son went to America to study electric engineering, and he was entrapped by an English girl there, and he married and settled there and did not come back. In this way...