The soul, not the body, is the true subject of all genuine knowledge and spiritual understanding.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, this is Mr. B. T. Koshi.
He is the assistant editor of The Current, which is a weekly news magazine. Prabhupāda: "Current"? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Current." Prabhupāda: Betiye. [Please sit down.] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You want to set this tape recorder up? [break] Prabhupāda: He can sit. Mr. Koshi: I have come from the material world.
It is totally different from what the situation is outside. You have been in the news at the festival which was held at Bombay. I decided to try and see you. There's been a lot of curiosity as to what the movement is about.
Not only here, but abroad. A lot of controversy. I would like to know how this movement started, what gave you the idea. What is the background?
And why it was called the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement? Is it a return to something very fundamental? Prabhupāda: So I can say in English. This movement is started to give something to the whole human society about the real culture. And that is India's prerogative.
India can give it. The whole world is in darkness of ignorance. So India was expected after independence to give the real knowledge. But instead of giving that real knowledge, they became victimized by their glamor of material civilization.
So I wanted that such a magnificent gift from the side of India, it shall remain uncontributed to the world, let me try. This is the intention. This culture is based on Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it is named Kṛṣṇa consciousness.