Fulfill Caitanya's prophecy by spreading Krishna consciousness to every village and town on Earth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126 — July 2, 1971, Los Angeles 710702CB-LOS ANGELES [10:57 Minutes] CB-Antya-04.126_710702CB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma sarvatra pracāra hoibe mora nāma [CB Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126] Pṛthivīte means "on the surface of the world." Pṛthivīte. Āche, "there are," yata, "as many." Pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi, "towns," grāma, "villages." Pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma: "As many towns and villages there are on the surface of the globe," sarvatra pracāra hoibe mora nāma, Lord Caitanya says, "everywhere people will know My name." This is the prediction of Lord Caitanya. Now, after five hundred years have passed, that, I mean to say, opportunity has come. So your responsibility is very great. I am old man, seventy-five. A few months after, I'll be seventy-five.
So I can pass away any moment. But the legacy which I am giving to you, you have to execute. That's your duty. And you have to create so many sincere devotees who will go from village to village, town to town, and establish center.
Center is required. Just like here in Los Angeles we are trying to establish a nice center. So Kṛṣṇa has given us the opportunity. We have got a very nice place.
Such a nice temple, such nice devotees, and sincere worker. Such kind of temples and workers required everywhere. But it is not at all difficult. That you are experiencing. I came here empty-handed, just gambling—that's a transcendental gambling.
[laughs] [devotees laugh] I thought, "Let us…, let me go and take a chance." There was no possibility, because "As soon as I'll say the four restrictions, all of them will go away." [laughs] But Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He has given me the assistance of so many nice boys and girls. So I am very much thankful to you that you are helping and cooperating. So Kṛṣṇa will bless you, and my Guru Mahārāja will be very much pleased upon you. So you continue this cooperation. Don't stop it.
That will be good for the whole human society as well as for you personally. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so nice. I remember in one of the Shakespeare's books, Merchant of Venice. So when Portia was appealing to Shylock, she was saying, "The mercy is so nice that one who accepts, he also becomes satisfied, and one who distributes, he also becomes satisfied." So greatest mercy is this distribution of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Ordinary mercy: you are suffering—I give you some medicine. Or you are hungry—I give you a morsel of food. You have no shelter—I give you some shelter. People estimate value of these things very high.