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Lord Caitanya's Mission Spreading Worldwide, Western Society Rejects Spiritual Authority

📅 January 21, 1977 📍 Bhubaneswar ⏱ 103 min
The medicine of bhakti exists eternally; we merely administer it without adulteration through proper disciplic succession.
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Prabhupāda: ...important worldwide movement. Very cautiously, very intelligently, we should use our resources, intelligence. This is a worldwide. And feeling our pressure, there is obstruction, therefore.

And it is genuine movement. There is no doubt about it. No doubt about it. We are not going to be defeated, I am confident.

And with this confidence I went to your country, that "Why Caitanya Mahāprabhu's..." That is substance. "So many rascals are going and talking nonsense. They are becoming successful. Why not Caitanya Mahāprabhu?" That was my confi...

Otherwise I never expected that I shall be able to write so many books and it will be so much appreciated. It is wonderful appreciation. Is it not? Rāmeśvara: Oh, yes. Hari-śauri: Yes. Prabhupāda: I never expected. I thought that "Who will hear me if I say all this nonsense to them?" To them it is nonsense. Rāmeśvara: By these apreciations... Prabhupāda: Therefore they say "brainwash." They cannot appreciate. Hari-śauri: Yeah.

There's never been such appreciation of one author's work before. It's just amazing. Rāmeśvara: Even our own men are taking our mission more seriously now that these appreciations have come. They are understanding more how this is the only hope for the whole world—very grave work. Prabhupāda: Yes. That's a fact.

That's a fact. Lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sāt... Find out this verse. We are giving a light which was unknown in the world.

That's a fact. Lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata... Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje [SB 1.7.6]. This is the secret of making the world happy.

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