Dharma requires action; Gandhi's nonviolence failed where armed resistance succeeded, and Krishna Consciousness spreads where distorted teachings cannot.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: ...the same man that Ātreya Ṛṣi went and met. Prabhupāda: Any sane man will receive our... Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He's helping us in Karachi to open a temple now. And in Lebanon also... Prabhupāda: Everyone is accepting. It is for all, even Communist countries. Everyone is accepting our literature, our attempt.
That's a fact. And you do not heard about the report in the South Africa. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: South Africa. Prabhupāda: South Africa, the Europeans hate the Indians like anything. Now they're receiving our literature. That means they will now appreciate Indian culture.
They'll understand that India has got some substance. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This is very important point to bring up even with the government. Prabhupāda: Gandhi tried twenty years to get little equal rights. The General Smuts refused. He was failure in South Africa. And then he decided that "I shall drive these Europeans, Englishmen, from India." He came.
That also he could not do. Here also, for thirty years he struggled. He was failure, nonviolent. It is Subhas Bose's INA which drove away these Englishmen.
You know that? That Indian Army, what is that, INA, National Army? Yaśomatīnandana: Indian National Army Prabhupāda: When he organized this National Army, then the Englishmen came to sense, that "Now we cannot rule over." This rascal was going on, nonviolence [laughter] while, "We shall pat them: 'Oh, yes, you are so powerful. Oh, why you are trying to drive away?' " And he'll be "Oh..." The [indistinct] Colony in a loincloth, and engaged in the [indistinct]. He had no practical knowledge.
He started the movement from 1917, and actually it was... Independence was given, 1947. Thirty years he failed. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What was that about loincloth? Prabhupāda: Twenty years he failed there. He spoils fifty years for nothing, and distorting Bhagavad-gītā, that "In Bhagavad-gītā there is nonviolence." Such a rascal.
Bhagavad-gītā begins with, with this word, dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre yuyutsavaḥ [Bg 1.1]: "Two parties desiring to fight." That is the beginning. Yudhyasva mām anusmara [Bg 8.7]. And Kṛṣṇa's whole life is yudhyasva, fighting. Before His birth, plan was being made how to kill Him. This is yuddha.