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Westerners Reviving Lost Divine Consciousness Through Association, English Courage Must Expand Krishna's Movement

📅 August 10, 1977 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 41 min
Awaken lost divine consciousness through courageous expansion of Krishna's empire with both strategic vision and compassionate heart.
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Prabhupāda: That means they condemned. They tried for the last, at least hundred years, to expand them. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. It didn't work.

Prabhupāda: They dared to attack America even in that Pearl Harbor. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It seems like that was crazy, craziness. How they could have thought to attack America? [Prabhupāda chuckles] Like a mosquito trying to kill an elephant.

Prabhupāda: [chuckling] Āpat kāle viparīta-buddhi.

Bhakti-caru: Some say that it was framed, because that way only got America involved in the war. And American generals knew about that attack on Pearl Harbor.

Prabhupāda: And why they should attack? If they wanted to live there, they're welcome. Why should they attack? Viparīta-buddhi.

Prabhupāda: Viparīta-buddhi. Many Chinese people were living in America peacefully. They could also live, go. America would have welcomed them.

They're very intelligent, artisans. Why attack? [pause] That's all right. Naturally it will be September. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Naturally it will be September? [Hindi in background] Prabhupāda: Yes, because...

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