throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. In 1973, Kailāsa‘s skill and dedication were formally recognized: His guru sent a congratulatory letter to the Evanston, Illinois temple president for the success of its college preaching campaign. It was also in 1973 that Kailāsa became one of the first devotees to distribute Krishna Consciousness publications at O’Hare Airport. Kailāsa secured brahminical initiation from, and private darshan with, his spiritual master in July, 1974; this was while serving at the Evanston temple. Kailāsa relocated to the Honolulu temple in the spring of 1975. Here he was able to accompany his spiritual master on morning walks and perform percussion accompaniment at guru-pūjas. He helped organize a dialogue between Srila Prabhupāda and Yogi Bhajan. Later, he was appointed temple president of the movement’s rural ashram near Mauna Kea. He traveled throughout Europe propagating Krishna Consciousness in mid-1976. During 1977, he made his first of three pilgrimages to India. After the disappearance of the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmi Prabhupāda, in November 1977, through controversial circumstances, Kailāsa became alarmed by the movement’s trajectory. He was ordered by the Southern U.S. zone governing commissioner of ISKCON to sell drug paraphernalia in 1978 as a fund-raising initiative. This, along with other deviations from his spiritual master’s guiding principles, led him to sever connections with the “ISKCON” establishment in the summer of 1978. He was one of the early reformers entering the battle against the "ISKCON" zonal acharyas in Vrindaban, India, in 1978 and 1979. Asked by a leader of that reform group, Kailāsa was the devotee who compiled a lengthy position paper against the zonal acharya system. He was one of the first members to be ostracized from the now changed "ISKCON" movement. A 1979 resolution statement issued by the new “ISKCON” Governing Body Commission warned all "ISKCON" centers about Kailasa’s activities. In the late spring of 1985, Kailāsa was contacted by Sulocana Dāsa, who was in need of an editor for his tracts that were meant to be combined into an eventual book. Kailasa traveled with him throughout America, in his godbrother’s converted van, during the summer and early autumn of that year, finalizing the edited work. At the behest of one of the “ISKCON” zonals, Kailāsa‘s friend, Sulochan Dāsa, was assassinated in Los Angeles in May 1986, while in his van. In January, 1988, Kailāsa co-founded The Vaishnava Foundation. The foundation was