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<h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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Actually, that has become the mentality of Indians at the present moment that, "One has to go to the foreign countries, take some technological degree and then impart the knowledge in India. Then we become big . . . and let us sacrifice our own culture." That is the mentality now. So your example . . . you have got by the grace of Lord some foreign degrees. If you present this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in India, many persons will follow. So you think in that way and try to understand our philosophy. You are very nice boy. And India's condition is not very satisfactory at the present moment. They are misled. So I came here with that purpose also that, "This movement I cannot start. They will not accept. But if I go to America, if the Americans accept and they preach, then they will accept.".
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[[Vanisource:710713 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles|710713 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles]]
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So Dr. Rao, your spiritual name is Rāmānanda. Yes. This Rāmānanda, he was also Rāya, Rāmānanda Rāya, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya and governor of Madras. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu picked up a very important persons, the six Gosvāmīs, Rāmānanda Rāya, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, like that, eight or ten direct disciples. And later on they preached the whole thing.

In the Bhagavad-gītā there is a verse, yad yad ācarati śreṣṭha itaras tad anuvartate ([[Vanisource:BG 3.21 (1972)|BG 3.21]]). If a śreṣṭha, if an important man, acts in some way, others follow. That is natural. So by the grace of Lord Caitanya we are meeting, and you have got great responsibility, because . . .

You came here to take your doctorate degree. That's very nice. When one of my Godbrothers went to England during my Guru Mahārāja's time, so Lady Willingdon, she challenged that Godbrother that, "Your men from India, they come here, and we give them some degree, and they become big men there. So what you have got to teach us?" That was her challenge.

Actually, that has become the mentality of Indians at the present moment that, "One has to go to the foreign countries, take some technological degree and then impart the knowledge in India. Then we become big . . . and let us sacrifice our own culture." That is the mentality now. So your example . . . you have got by the grace of Lord some foreign degrees.

If you present this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in India, many persons will follow. So you think in that way and try to understand our philosophy. You are very nice boy. And India's condition is not very satisfactory at the present moment. They are misled. So I came here with that purpose also that, "This movement I cannot start. They will not accept. But if I go to America, if the Americans accept and they preach, then they will accept."

So that position has somehow or other come. So you together . . . it is not meant for either for American or Indian, it is meant for the whole human society. They are suffering grievously for want of this consciousness. So every one of us has got a great duty to broadcast this knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Bhagavad-gītā .
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