Vairagya without Krishna consciousness is empty; true detachment must redirect the heart toward divine love.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...consciousness, there is one very nice cause. The cause is, the Western people, they have no attachment for wife. Is it not a fact? Pṛthu-putra: Yes.
Prabhupāda: They do not care for the wife. Pṛthu-putra: They do not care for family attachment in general. Akṣayānanda: Some vairāgya is there due to frustration.
Prabhupāda: Whatever the cause... Akṣayānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: The vairāgya is there. That is... Akṣayānanda: Then you came and gave the missing link. You gave the Kṛṣṇa consciousness itself.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Vairāgya means that there must be another engagement. Then life is successful, with another spiritual engagement. Akṣayānanda: That you have supplied.
Prabhupāda: That I have studied. Akṣayānanda: Yes. Prabhupāda: Yes. Akṣayānanda: You must have known that before you went to the West. Prabhupāda: No, it was Kṛṣṇa's arrangement. Kṛṣṇa wanted to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the Western countries, so He gave me the chance to take the credit, that's all. [laughter] It is Kṛṣṇa's arrangement. But He liked that one of His devotee may take the credit.
That's all. Nimitta-mātraṁ bhava savyasācin [Bg 11.33]. Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna that "I have already killed them. They are not returning, either you fight or not fight, but you can take the credit." So it was arrangement of Kṛṣṇa that Western countries should now have this Kṛṣṇa consciousness.