By chanting Hare Krishna, the impure consciousness becomes purified, and the forest fire of material suffering is extinguished by divine mercy.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Arrival and Interview — April 19, 1972, Hong Kong 720419AR-HONG KONG [25:51 Minutes] Arrival_720419AR-HONG KONG Interview_720419AR-HONG KONG Prabhupāda: ...gītā. Unfortunately, there are so many interpretations by so many unscrupulous persons, so-called scholars and philosophers, that they have spoiled the precept of Bhagavad-gītā. So we are just trying to present Bhagavad-gītā as it is to the world, and I am very happy to inform you, you know, that all over the world, wherever I am going, I am preaching this philosophy, they are being accepted. So I am also very glad that in this distant place, Hong Kong, from India, you are training your children in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
It is a very good sign. Their life will be very happy. So continue this process, try to understand the Kṛṣṇa philosophy, try to help this movement. I may refer in this connection that Subhas Chandra Bose, you know Netajī, he organized his Indian National Army outside India, because in India he was unable to organize. The circumstances were so awkward, even Mahatma Gandhi would not allow him.
That was his position. So you know very well how Subhas Chandra Bose came out of his country and organized the INA movement, and practically India's got independence due to Subhas Bose's INA movement, not Gandhi's non-cooperation movement. That is a fact. So India has to give something to the world, and that is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice it can solve all the problems of human society.
So in India, even our Indians are prepared to help to propagate this movement all over the world. Our government is so nice that it will not allow. It will not allow. Not a single farthing is allowed to come out of India.
So there are so many obstacles, but I am working in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement single-handed, so it is very pleasing to me that you are taking so much interest. So continue to support this movement spread all over the world, and I am sure people will be benefited. Actually they are being benefited. All these boys from Europe and America, how they are making advancement in spiritual consciousness you have seen, one or two examples. There are many thousands, and they are accepting it very seriously.
So this movement is very important movement, and it is India's gift, and I would request you all Indians present here to support this movement: prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā śreya-ācaraṇaṁ sadā etāvaj janma-sāphalyaṁ dehinām iha dehiṣu [SB 10.22.35] This body, to make this body successful, this human form of body is meant for making our life success. Otherwise, if you remain like cats and dogs, that is not success. The success is, ataḥ pumbhir dvija-śreṣṭhā varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam [SB 1.2.13] You may remain a brāhmaṇa, varṇāśrama, varṇa and āśrama, as I have already explained. Whatever you may be, you must be within this one category, either brāhmaṇa or kṣatriya or vaiśya or śūdra or brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha or sannyāsī.
In whichever classification you may remain, it doesn't matter, but try to see that your life is successful. ataḥ pumbhir dvija-śreṣṭhā varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ [SB 1.2.13] This is an instruction given by Sūta Gosvāmī to the great learned scholars in Naimiṣāraṇya, that ataḥ pumbhir dvija-śreṣṭhā, "My dear learned brāhmaṇas, dvija-śreṣṭhā..." All the members present there were highly learned brāhmaṇas, so he gave this advice. "My dear dvija-śreṣṭhā, the best of the brāhmaṇas," ataḥ pumbhir dvija-śreṣṭhā varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ. There are divisions of social order or spiritual order, but one should try to see [indistinct], he must try to see that his life is successful. And what is that life is successful? Varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ.