There is a great need for this movement. We want hundreds and thousands of preachers to go outside India and preach this cult. And there are customers ready. Wherever we are opening our branches, it appears as if they are awaiting our arrival. Immediately they take up. So there is very great opportunity.
You cannot compete with the Western countries by your technology, however you may make some sewing machine or cycle or Ambassador car. They are hundred years ahead. You cannot make any competition by machine. If you can give them anything and glorify your country, then this is this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then they will admit that you have something.
Wherever I go, they inquire, "Oh, India is poverty-stricken. Oh, you have come from that part." India is advertised as poverty. Yes, in comparison to Western country it is simply poverty-stricken. We have not enough food, nor enough, I mean to say, house, and above all you have no milk. India, the land where we hear from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that, that the . . . by the cows' milk in Vṛndāvana there was muddy ground. And in that India now there is powdered milk.
So my request is that young men, as young men from America, Europe, Canada . . . now I am coming via Africa. I was in Nairobi, Mombasa. And the black men, they are also dancing. And they are asking the Indian people there, "Why did you not give us this sublime message so long?" Because there are many Indians in Nairobi and Mombasa. Unfortunately, our svāmīs go there, make some collection, and preach that, "I am God, you are God. Why you are searching God? Gods are loitering in the street," and "Make this gymnastic and you will become God in six months." These things are going on. But nobody was interested.
Bhagavad-gītā was taught in Europe and America for the last one thousand years, many big, big English edition. But never Kṛṣṇa was presented as He is. But as soon it was presented, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, the people are accepting. Immediately they are accepting. They . . . (indistinct) . . . otherwise, if you interpret Bhagavad-gītā in your own way, concocted way . . . Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ (SB 5.18.12). By mental concoction, you have to come back to this asat.
So I will not take much of your time. My appeal to you, to Lalaji especially, and with the help of his people, my request to you, all ladies and gentlemen . . . (indistinct) . . . please try to understand the potency of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and make your country . . . because Kṛṣṇa consciousness is in India, it is surprising that India is not serious about Kṛṣṇa consciousness.