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Ratha-yatra Receives Wide Media Coverage, Preaching Means Struggling With Purpose

📅 July 21, 1976 📍 New York ⏱ 2 min
Preaching Krishna consciousness necessarily involves struggle; this struggle is purposeful and inseparable from the mission.
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Rāmeśvara: And I've been told that all the TV stations showed our Ratha-yātrā. That means millions of people saw the ratha cart. And everyone has seen it in the newspapers.

Rāmeśvara: That Newsday also had coverage. We didn't get that paper for Prabhupāda, but they also... This is even before their article, interview. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh.

Rāmeśvara: When those interviews that those reporters took are published, we'll send them to you immediately. [aside:] Newsday, Associated Press and Newsweek. [break]

Prabhupāda: ...higher[?] to temple. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Not exactly. We'll go, probably, over the Fifty-ninth Street bridge, right? Ādi-keśava: I think it would be better now to go through the tunnel. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Tunnel? Ādi-keśava: Little easier ride.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We're going over the tunnel, into the tunnel. What street is that? Fifty...? Ādi-keśava: About Thirtieth Street. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You think that's faster? Ādi-keśava: Yes, it goes right under...

[indistinct discussion about route] [break]

Rāmeśvara: ...people of New York are appreciating, Prabhupāda, how you came here alone, and now you have a big building with many followers. Actually the people are aware, very much aware of how you started this movement in New York. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And were struggling personally. [break]

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