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Not-Brainwash-but-Heart-Wash Village-Preaching-by-Bus-and-Tent Plan-for-India, Nawab-Knew-No-Beggar-Is-Followed-by-So-Many Scholars-Testify-This-Is-Genuine

📅 October 31, 1976 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 62 min
Effective preaching requires local management systems, genuine service motive, and institutional credibility through respected testimonies.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: ...I want to do something in India. Haṁsadūta: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So, if you can arrange. Now I am purchasing car. I have given money to Gargamuni. Haṁsadūta: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So one car here in Delhi side, one in Calcutta side, one in [indistinct] for my going. And he is a good driver, he will drive. Eh? I do not know, but he said.

[laughter] Hari-śauri: In the way. I don't know about in India. Different thing altogether.

Prabhupāda: Haṁsadūta is also a good driver. Haṁsadūta: I am good for nothing.

Prabhupāda: [laughs] Driver we'll get, there is no... So I want to preach little in the village. So for that purpose, in the big bus like that, we shall go with our tents, and we camp in a place where there is water, and begin our preaching. And Hindi books we are getting.

In this way let me try in India, in the village, not in the city.

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