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Distributing India's Spiritual Knowledge Worldwide, Ideal Institution Like Ancient Nalanda University

📅 April 15, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 140 min
Distribute India's locked spiritual knowledge worldwide through ideal institutions modeled on Nalanda.
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Girirāja: ...either in Kurukṣetra or else in Vṛndāvana. Prabhupāda: So let him do it. You suggested something? Girirāja: Well, I suggested that he should have it in Vṛndāvana, and the delegates can stay in our guesthouse. So he liked the idea. Prabhupāda: When he is going to hold it? Girirāja: Well, I think after a few months. I mean, this is just preliminary planning.

One thing is, he does have a lot of faith in your words. I mean, he doesn't understand very much about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but... Like he wanted to know what you thought was coming in the future, so I told him that you had predicted that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement would become stronger and stronger and that people would again become God conscious and so on. And he was really hanging on each word.

He was very concerned. So then I said... Prabhupāda: No, no, mean... And who cares for Vinoba Bhave? They are... Girirāja: Well, he doesn't care.

Girirāja: Sentimentally he cares, but like...

Prabhupāda: No, sentimentally, old man, pious man, everyone should care. But actually what he's done?

Girirāja: Actually, except for Your Divine Grace, no other leader has any real disciples, because all of their followers, they have their own ideas, which they consider more than their master. Like Mr. Bajaj...

Prabhupāda: Charismatic? What is the...? Tell. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Charismatic.

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