Leaders like you can transform the world by sharing Krishna consciousness, the eternal science of peace through devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation With John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison — September 11, 1969, London At Tittenhurst 690911R1-LONDON [102:11 Minutes] Conv_690911R1-LONDON Prabhupāda: Would you like to record, or not? [chuckling] John Lennon: Don't know. George Harrison: Don't mind.
Prabhupāda: Give this garland. Śyāmasundara: Haribol. George Harrison: Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: This is Kṛṣṇa's blessings. George Harrison: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Yes. There is a verse in Bhagavad-gītā, yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas itaras tad anuvartate sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate [Bg. 3.21] [Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.] The idea is that anything which is, I mean to say, accepted by the leading persons, ordinary persons follow them. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭha. Śreṣṭh means leading persons; [break] ācarati, acts.
Whatever leading persons act, people in general follow them. Sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute. If the leading person says, "It is nice. It is all right," the others also accept it.
So by the grace of God, Kṛṣṇa, you are leaders. Thousands of young men follow you. They like you. So if you give them something actually nice, the face of the world will change. So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, it is not a manufactured, new thing.
It is, from historical point of view, at least, it is five thousand years old. Because Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means Bhagavad-gītā as it is. And Bhagavad-gītā... Of course, it is supposed to be Indian religious book, but it is not like that.