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At the present moment there is great propaganda from the side of the government and others to kill India's original culture

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"at the present moment there is great propaganda from the side of the government and others to kill India's original culture"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

So at the present moment there is great propaganda from the side of the government and others to kill India's original culture. So when Americans go there and preach and they see, "Oh, so nice Vaiṣṇava, so nice devotee and so pure," they will become attracted, "Oh," because that is their original culture. At heart they want to do that, but by artificial means they are being forced to accept something else. So when they see these foreigners and Americans so . . .

Give one man from each center. It doesn't require that he is very advanced. Advancement will be done by training, by practical application in life. If you send from each center one man to India . . . if you can send more, that's all right. But at least one man. In India we have got many things to do.

Because the business in India is important in this respect, that partly due to their subjugation by foreigners, their original culture has been killed. Just like in India, they did not know drinking tea, drinking wine, meat-eating, illicit sex. They did not know. Even fifty, a hundred years before, they did not know. These Britishers, in order to control them, very silently introduced all these things.

I know in our childhood, this drinking of tea was unknown to any family. You see? Meat-eating, there was no question. Just like in my life, I do not know what is meat-eating, do not know womanizing or illicit sex life, because they are trained in that way. So due to foreign domination, they were killed and after Independence—these rascal leaders, they are killing it, "What is the wrong in meat-eating? What is the wrong in drinking?" They are canvassing, "Eat chickens, eat eggs." This is going on.

So at the present moment there is great propaganda from the side of the government and others to kill India's original culture. So when Americans go there and preach and they see, "Oh, so nice Vaiṣṇava, so nice devotee and so pure," they will become attracted, "Oh," because that is their original culture. At heart they want to do that, but by artificial means they are being forced to accept something else. So when they see these foreigners and Americans so . . .

And government is not very favor of my movement there, because it is natural, when the Americans they exhibit a nice, pure Vaiṣṇava, they come attracted. Just like in Calcutta and Bombay, what was there? The same Deity was and saṅkīrtana was there, and I was speaking say for a half an hour. But why these forty thousand, thirty thousand people were coming? They were coming to see, "Oh, how Americans have taken to this life." That is their surprise. They are giving credit only for that purpose. This man also.

So there is good chance of preaching in India in this respect. We want some men to preach there. It will be great work. So I think in each center, from each center you can contribute one man, and some of you leaders may go. There are already, organize. People are very much attracted. They are wanting . . . giving us money, they want to give us place, there is no scarcity of food, there is no question.

But this Immigration Department, they will harass. But we have to manage somehow or other. We shall have to keep always at least one hundred men in India. So how to do it, that we will consider and do it. That's all. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Now chalk out your plan how to preach nicely all over the world.

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Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-12-21, 14:14:31
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