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Hare Krishna every one! I just went through wikipedia & i am completely stunned by the phenomenal tasks successfully executed by Srila Prabhupada. 100% Nobody can do what the great Srila Prabhupada has done apart from the Lord himself & that is why i have raised the question mentioned in the title.

In 1944, (from his front room at Sita Kanta Banerjee, Calcutta), Prabhupada started the publication called Back to Godhead,^[21][22] for which he acted as designer, publisher, editor, copy editor and distributor. He personally designed the logo, an effulgent figure of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the upper left corner, with the motto: "Godhead is Light, Nescience is darkness" greeting the readers

From 1950 onwards, Prabhupada lived at the medieval Radha-Damodar mandir in the holy town of Vrindavan, where he began his commentary and translation work of the Sanskrit work Bhagavata Purana.^[28] Of all notable Vrindavana's temples, the Radha-Damodara mandir had at the time the largest collection of various copies of the original writings of the Six Gosvamis and their followers - more than two thousand separate manuscripts, many of them three hundred, some even four hundred years old

In this matha, in Mathura Vrindavana, Prabhupada took Vaishnava renunciate vows,sannyasa, from his friend and godbrother Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Maharaja , and following this he singlehandedly published the first three volumes covering seventeen chapters of the first book of Bhagavata Purana, filling three volumes of four hundred pages each with a detailed commentary

After a group of devotees and a temple had been established in New York another center was started in San Francisco in 1967.^[19][37] From here Prabhupada traveled throughout America with his disciples, popularizing the movement through street chanting (sankirtana), book distribution and public speeches.

In the twelve years from his arrival in New York until his final days he:

• circled the globe fourteen times on lecture tours that took him to six continents^[17]
• initiated many disciples, awarding sannyasa and babaji initiations.^[39]
• introduced Vedic gurukul education to a Western audience^[40]
• directed the founding of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust,^[41] which claims to be the world's largest publisher of ancient and classical Vaishnava religious texts^[42][43]
• founded the religious colony New Vrindavan in West Virginia,^[44]
• authored more than eighty books (with many available online^[45]) on Vedantic philosophy, religion, literature and culture (including four published originally in Bengali)^[17][43]
• introduced international celebrations in the capitals of the world like that of Jagannatha processions^[17]
• watched ISKCON grow to a confederation of more than 108 temples, various institutes and farm communities^[41]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada