Serve Krishna through sincere Deity worship and chanting; obstacles cannot stop this path.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Arrival Talk — February 12, 1973, Sydney 730212AR-SYDNEY [24:11 Minutes] Arrival_730212AR-SYDNEY [kīrtana] [10:26]
Prabhupāda: [prema-dvani prayers] …my coming to Sydney. First opportunity was to bring the Deities, and the Deities are installed... The Oxford Street?
Prabhupāda: So at that time I prayed to Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, that "I am leaving You, Sir, with these innocent boys and girls. They want to serve You, but they are not yet competent. Kindly take care of Yourself and give them intelligence so that they can serve You." So I see that Kṛṣṇa has given you good intelligence, and you have improved very much. And fortunately, therefore, the very good leader Śrīman Madhudviṣa Mahārāja will come, so each of you learn how to worship Deity, how to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra in this way—ecstatic.
And go corner to corner of the Australia continent. There is good potency for this country, and everyone is suffering for want of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is a fact. So from all angles of vision—from national point of view, from religious point of view, from social welfare point of view, any point of view—Kṛṣṇa is all-perfect.
You can take Kṛṣṇa from any angle of vision and there will be perfection. So we have got books also, philosophy also, plus the sankīrtana, combined together. Sankīrtana is… Sankīrtana as well as books, that, that is called bhagavat-mārga, and the Deity worship is called pañcarātrika-vidhi. Both of them should go parallel.
One will help… The Deity worship will help you in the path of bhagavat-mārga, and the bhagavat-mārga will help you in the pañcarātrika-vidhi. So combine together; make progress. I am very happy that you have already made sufficient progress. But don’t be satisfied that "This is end." No.
Kṛṣṇa is unlimited. His service is also unlimited. Ānandāmbudhi-vardanam. This is the line; Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the line where the blissful ocean increases. Here you have got experience, the salty ocean, it does not increase; it is decreasing. But the another ocean, ānandāmbudhi... Ānanda means blissfulness, transcendental; ambudhi means ocean. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said, ānandāmbudhi-vardanam pratipadaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanam param vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanaṁ [Cc. Antya 20.12] Sankīrtana movement is so nice that it will increase blissful life more and more, more and more. Although you are getting some impediments from the authorities, you don’t mind for that. You go on with your business and nobody can check you. Kṛṣṇa is there.