In 1975 Ranchor Prime came to India for the first time, where he got "quite a lot of culture shock". He got very sick and depressed, finding it "a difficult place to handle". During his first visit to India, he made a pilgrimage to the holy city of Vrindavan, the birthplace of Krishna. "It was quite basic. We didn't have a lot of facilities in those days for Western visitors to India. It was a new idea really, for western pilgrims to come. Some hippies had come, but not really pilgrims in that way. But I persevered, and when I got back to the West it took a couple of years to digest, I think, the experience of Vrindavan".