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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1971 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1971 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationAugust151971London_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="19" link="Room Conversation -- August 15, 1971, London" link_text="Room Conversation -- August 15, 1971, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 15, 1971, London|Room Conversation -- August 15, 1971, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Allahabad, Gorakhpur. So same thing. And for persons spiritually inclined, for them this traveling is very good. Traveling means with this occupation. It is very good. You'll be more popular and there will be no difficulty, mind will be steady.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: It takes away our attachment for everything materially.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The Gosvāmīs, they did not stay underneath a tree for more than one night. So you decide; then you do the needful.</p>
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<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly41972NewYork_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="31" link="Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York|Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bob Cohen: And how does Kṛṣṇa control a devotee?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like you control your beloved. Just like you have got a beloved child. So you control him, for his benefit. If he's going to touch fire, you immediately say to him, "No, no, my dear child, don't touch it." So a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, devotee, he is never misled, because Kṛṣṇa is always guiding him, whereas those who are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, they're in charge of māyā, and māyā will do the needful, as you have seen(?).</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly41972NewYork_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="31" link="Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York|Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kīrtanānanda: They're doing some disturbance to the temple there. And they are here. They've come to New York.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah, so, what do they want?</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: They want to see you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why? He is not my student. So the GBC unders may see and do the needful. All affairs, how can I see everyone?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly51972London_2" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="33" link="Room Conversation -- July 5, 1972, London" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 5, 1972, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 5, 1972, London|Room Conversation -- July 5, 1972, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sumati Morarjee: No, no, but, I'll talk to this ah, Girirāja in Bombay, about becoming the patron myself.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Sumati Morarjee: I said let us see.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (indistinct) We, let us form a trustee, and you become president of the trust. (laughter) You become the president of the trustee, and do the needful.</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkFebruary31975Hawaii_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="2" link="Morning Walk -- February 3, 1975, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 3, 1975, Hawaii">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 3, 1975, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- February 3, 1975, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guru-kṛpa: Kṛṣṇa wants every living entity to come back to home, back to Godhead.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. This is the plan. If this plan is not executed, then there is suffering. So this human life is given to the living entity for understanding this plan and do the needful. If they do not understand, then they are punished.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithDirectorofResearchoftheDeptofSocialWelfareMay211975Melbourne_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="86" link="Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That we can do.</p>
<p>Director: That you can do. As long as they don't contradict your...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Our principle is this.</p>
<p>Director: I mean a lot of church organizations taking children and...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can see one day. If you kindly come early in the morning and stay one day, you see our activity, how nicely we are doing. And then do the needful.</p>
<p>Director: I don't come here as a person. I'm representing my department.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, whatever it may be...</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune231975LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="107" link="Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmānanda: Oh, yes. (break) ...Bhavānanda Mahārāja, he did not give a very good report about New York, that the devotees there are not very enthusiastic. He says he was there one day, they collected... The temple collected only $125, which is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So Bhavānanda has given report to the GBC. Now you do the needful.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Well, he's heading back towards New York now.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkNovember21975Nairobi_3" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="231" link="Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi" link_text="Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi|Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: There is no question of "so-called." We want real brāhmaṇa. That's all. It was heard by the real brāhmaṇa, Brahma. Brahma, Brahma.</p>
<p>Indian man (4): So they worship Gāyatrī. They say it like as a...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They... Whatever they say, you forget that. You do your own duty. You follow the rules and regulation and do the needful. Why you...?</p>
<p>Indian man (4): But we have to make them understand very clearly.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But they will never understand. You don't waste your time. Go on with your duty. When they will see that you are actually acting as brāhmaṇa, they will appreciate.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkNovember71975Bombay_4" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="234" link="Morning Walk -- November 7, 1975, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- November 7, 1975, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- November 7, 1975, Bombay|Morning Walk -- November 7, 1975, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhāgavata: So we should engage the local dollmakers in doing this.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: First of all you have your place; then make dolls. But dolls should not be exactly like this, in the same way. But when you make actually, then I will give you how the models should be made. Now, how to do, where to do, that, it is your business. You decide, some of yourself, and do the needful. You have not yet done any plan for the big temple?</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary121976Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="10" link="Morning Walk -- January 12, 1976, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 12, 1976, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 12, 1976, Bombay|Morning Walk -- January 12, 1976, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He says, "First you prove that I'm guilty." But I said...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But this is your charge. You say that "I have not done it." Present him and you say in writing that "I have never done it. Now I shall do it." Otherwise we shall have to do the needful. (break) ...go to Māyāpur. He is ready to go to Māyāpur?</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary131976Calcutta_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="11" link="Morning Walk -- January 13, 1976, Calcutta" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 13, 1976, Calcutta">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 13, 1976, Calcutta|Morning Walk -- January 13, 1976, Calcutta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So why don't you take it very seriously?</p>
<p>Jayapatāka: Well, he just told me last week. I heard you were coming, so.... The thing has to be done from Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So our men can do it. You advise them to do the needful.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationApril41976Vrndavana_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="66" link="Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagat-guru: Also, Śrīla Prabhupāda, you have seen on our altar, Gaura-Nitāi? We have large Gaura-Nitāi and two small, three actually, three small sets of Gaura-Nitāi Deities. The ones on the far left, just under Lord Nityānanda's feet, They are going also to South Africa. They came originally from East Africa. I mentioned it when I first came to Māyāpura(?). So we will be taking them. We have a very nice siṁhāsana built for Them, finished tomorrow, and we'll be displaying Them at all our programs, preaching programs.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Do the needful. That's all.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember51976Hyderabad_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="341" link="Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad|Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: When we speak all these things, they say it is brainwashing movement. Actually it is brainwashing movement because we are dissipating all kinds of misunderstanding, values of life. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12]]). It is not brainwashing; it is heart-washing. Our heart is stacked with so many dirty things, so we are trying to wash it. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam. And that is our movement. We are trying to cleanse the heart so that he can understand himself. One can understand his real position and then do the needful and life becomes successful.</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ArrivalofBBTManagerJanuary91977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="24" link="Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay|Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: This is the notice of the money we just sent to Bombay from Los Angeles, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So now do the needful about this. And the invoice? You have sent the books?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithSvarupaDamodaraJanuary301977Bhuvanesvara_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="68" link="Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- January 30, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- January 30, 1977, Bhuvanesvara">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- January 30, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- January 30, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...the children. They're not attacking the children. Otherwise they cannot keep four ferocious animal in a place. They'll fight and they will kill one in order to... You were at that time there?</p>
<p>Nanda-kumāra: No. I was in...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you keep this later on, do the needful.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationFebruary171977Mayapura_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="90" link="Room Conversation -- February 17, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 17, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 17, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 17, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ādi-keśava: So we'll challenge them like that, "What is this loss of identity? You don't have anything to lose."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "Who are you? What is your identification? That you do not know. Rather, we are teaching that identifying yourself with this body, you have lost your identity. That is brain. (pause) If you say 'beyond our intelligence,' that means you have no brain. And we can explain. Therefore we have got brain. (pause) You have so many technical insti..." That I challenged in the M.T. (M.I.T.), that "Where is your..., that technology that when a dead man is stopped, you can replace life by technology? Where is that department?" They could not answer. Technology means the car has stopped. Go to the expert. He will repair it and do the needful. Again you will run on. That is technology. And where is that technology? As soon you say "beyond our intelligence," then don't talk nonsense. Your intelligence is not perfect. So where is your brain? This very point will solve. "You have no brain."</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithGBCmembersMarch231977Mayapura_3" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="116" link="Room Conversation with GBC members -- March 2-3, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation with GBC members -- March 2-3, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with GBC members -- March 2-3, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation with GBC members -- March 2-3, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Husband, but why he does not marry them? (laughter)</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Well, sometimes there may be as many as twenty women in a party.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: They would like to.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have no objection if one marries more than one wife. That I have stated. But law does not allow it. So do the needful.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationApril21977Bombay_4" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="129" link="Room Conversation -- April 2, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 2, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 2, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- April 2, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Girirāja: So what I was thinking, if you agree, is to go to Delhi for a few days, and he could introduce me to the pious members of Parliament, and then we could organize a whole group, and I could bring them there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Do the needful. Go. At least, in India, there must be this spiritual institution. The whole world may take advantage of it. What is this cats' and dogs' race civilization? Is that civilization? Here is civilization, Bhagavad-gītā. Basic principles of civilization. So India should maintain this.</p>
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<div id="ConversationwithPatitapavanaApril201977Bombay_5" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="147" link="Conversation with Patita-pavana -- April 20, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Conversation with Patita-pavana -- April 20, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Patita-pavana -- April 20, 1977, Bombay|Conversation with Patita-pavana -- April 20, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Neither you take any credit.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Why shall I take?</p>
:tāṅdera caraṇa-sevī-bhakta-sane vāsa
:janame janame haya ei abhilāṣa
<p>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.</p>
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<div id="ConversationVairagyaSalariesandPoliticalEtiquetteApril281977Bombay_7" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="157" link="Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay|Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is to be discouraged. What do you think?</p>
<p>Girirāja: I agree.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In Los Angeles it is very freely going on. In the name of Vaiṣṇavism they are drawing salary, living comfortably, having sense enjoyment. This is not good, not at all. So you all high officers, you think over it and do the needful.</p>
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<div id="MorningConversationApril291977Bombay_8" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="158" link="Morning Conversation -- April 29, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Morning Conversation -- April 29, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Conversation -- April 29, 1977, Bombay|Morning Conversation -- April 29, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Now it is a fact, the Yaso (Israel?) Hospital failure. (break) So many temples. I have given my program how to manage it. Now you see. That is my anxiety, that there may not be any discrepancies or slackness. Am I right or wrong?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So far money is here, scattered, you can take charge and do the needful. I kept some money here, there, just to... But now you can take charge of the all money, one or two or three of you, and let me remain free from all management. And only request is, don't spoil it. I sometimes chastise everyone that may not be spoiled. You are taking care of everything, but still more careful. I can live without any food, simply taking these fruits. There is no difficulty.</p>
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<div id="ShortDissertationsMay24251977Vrndavana_9" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="176" link="Short Dissertations -- May 24-25, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Short Dissertations -- May 24-25, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Short Dissertations -- May 24-25, 1977, Vrndavana|Short Dissertations -- May 24-25, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: You can write, "Translated by a qualified judge."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's a wonderful court decision. He sent the original back also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So do the needful.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJune171977Vrndavana_10" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="188" link="Room Conversation -- June 17, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 17, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 17, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- June 17, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And in my horoscope there was written there, "After seventieth year this man will go outside India and establish so many temples."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Really?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I could not understand. "What is this, that I have to go outside India? That is not..." And Guru Mahārāja foretold. He told my Godbrothers, Śrīdhara Mahārāja and others, that "He'll do the needful when time comes. Nobody requires to help him." He told in 1935. And after all, this was true(?). Guru Mahārāja told. And in the beginning, first sight, he told, "You have to do this."</p>
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