True ambition means serving Krishna's mission with devotees, not personal gratification; this transforms individuals and nations.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: We have no other business. We want to see people live—eating very nicely nutritious food, keeping good health. But unnecessarily artificial things, bothering, that we don't want. Keep your health very nice, live for as many years as possible, and be Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Then next life you go back to home, back to Godhead, permanent life. Yad gatvā na nivartante [Bg 15.6]. This we want to give. There is no cheating.
There is no politics, no personal ambition fulfillment. This is our mission. Try to convince them. There is not a little tinge of personal sense gratification.
This is our... Now can you point out, any one of them, that "Here is the point, the personal sense gratification"? We are talking amongst ourselves, so if there is any flaw, you can point out—can anyone?—that "Here is the point, personal sense gratification"? There is no such things in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Tāṭdera caraṇa-sebi-bhakta-sane bās. Our only ambition is we live among devotees and execute the mission of our predecessors, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Kṛṣṇa. This is our ambition. tāṭdera caraṇa-sebi-bhakta-sane bās janame janame hoy ei abhilāṣ [Hari Haraye Namaḥ, 7] We have got ambition, but this is our ambition: that live with devotees and execute the mission of our predecessor. This is our aim.
Without ambition nobody can live. Self-interest, ambition, is everywhere. But self-interest is to execute the Kṛṣṇa's desire. So that they do not know.
Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum [SB 7.5.31]. That they do not know. So you are Americans, and they are responding. You are responding means Americans responding.