Patita-pāvana: In that press release that we gave the paper we wrote a great deal about the work of Your Divine Grace in the West and how...
Prabhupāda: So how you get it that "Here is only prominent, Surabhī Swami"?
Patita-pāvana: One thing is, he's a Christian.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be...
Patita-pāvana: I guess so. It's true.
Prabhupāda: He has nothing to do...
Patita-pāvana: But we have emphasized that several times in the talk.
Prabhupāda: Hm. What is that?
Girirāja:
sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye
yan māṁ vadasi keśava
na hi te bhagavan vyaktiṁ
vidur devā na dānavāḥ
- (BG 10.14)
Sarvam—all; etat—these; ṛtam—truth; manye—accept; yat—which; mām—unto me; vadasi—You tell; keśava—Kṛṣṇa. Translation: "O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither the gods nor demons, O Lord, know Thy personality."
Prabhupāda: So it is easy for us. What Kṛṣṇa says and Vyāsadeva says, that's all. We haven't got to manufacture. And as soon as you manufacture, fall down. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayaḥ... (BG 4.2). This manufacturing idea is very, very dangerous in spiritual life. Whatever little success is there for me, I did not manufacture any idea.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Neither you take any credit.
Prabhupāda: No. Why shall I take?
tāṅdera caraṇa-sevī-bhakta-sane vāsa
janame janame haya ei abhilāṣa
Our mission is to serve bhakta-viśeṣa and live with devotees. Not that you take the place of the guru. That is nonsense, very dangerous. Then everything will be spoiled. As soon as you become ambitious to take the place of guru-guruṣu nara-matiḥ. That is the material disease. The article clearly says that it is everything, "your city," "his city." That is clearly intimated that "You have dropped from the sky to give this city to the world." That is the sum and substance. Is it not? What is this nonsense? So do the needful.