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Legal Victory Establishes Movement's Bona Fide Status, Strategic Organizational Development

📅 March 20, 1977 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 88 min
Legal recognition establishes Krishna consciousness as bona fide religion; now focus on substantive expansion and scientific presentation.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...John Lennon. [Govindam record playing in background]

Prabhupāda: [sounding physically quite weak] At that time I used to come to Conway Hall. It took at least one hour. Then they inquired. In that car I was singing with this tune, govindam ādi-puruṣam.

So they adjusted this word, George, Mukunda and... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yamunā.

Prabhupāda: And took up this tune. I was repeating. They were chanting within the car while coming from Conway Hall. That is intelligence.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Not to do anything new, simply to explain in one's own way.

Prabhupāda: This song was favorite to me since very, very long time. [pause] This album was very popular in Europe and America. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. It was not quite as popular as the first record, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." That was...

Prabhupāda: Which I sung. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. And also the "Hare Kṛṣṇa" which they sung, you remember, in London. That was very popular.

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