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<div class="heading">I must be prepared to teach. Teaching is not so easy thing. I was ordered to teach at the age of twenty-five years by my Guru Mahārāja. But I was finding out the opportunity how to take up the work. So it took me so many years, so that at seventy years I came out for teaching. That is my Guru Mahārāja's blessing. He ordered me, I tried my best, so there is little success.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with Religion Editor of The Observer -- July 23, 1976, London|Interview with Religion Editor of The Observer -- July 23, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Cline Cross: What impelled you personally, when you, at a fairly late stage in life, to come to the West to teach?</p>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with Religion Editor of The Observer -- July 23, 1976, London|Interview with Religion Editor of The Observer -- July 23, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Cline Cross: What impelled you personally, when you, at a fairly late stage in life, to come to the West to teach?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I must be prepared to teach. Teaching is not so easy thing. I was ordered to teach at the age of twenty-five years by my Guru Mahārāja. But I was finding out the opportunity how to take up the work. So it took me so many years, so that at seventy years I came out for teaching.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I must be prepared to teach. Teaching is not so easy thing. I was ordered to teach at the age of twenty-five years by my Guru Mahārāja. But I was finding out the opportunity how to take up the work. So it took me so many years, so that at seventy years I came out for teaching.</p>

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

I must be prepared to teach. Teaching is not so easy thing. I was ordered to teach at the age of twenty-five years by my Guru Mahārāja. But I was finding out the opportunity how to take up the work. So it took me so many years, so that at seventy years I came out for teaching. That is my Guru Mahārāja's blessing. He ordered me, I tried my best, so there is little success.
Interview with Religion Editor of The Observer -- July 23, 1976, London:

Cline Cross: What impelled you personally, when you, at a fairly late stage in life, to come to the West to teach?

Prabhupāda: I must be prepared to teach. Teaching is not so easy thing. I was ordered to teach at the age of twenty-five years by my Guru Mahārāja. But I was finding out the opportunity how to take up the work. So it took me so many years, so that at seventy years I came out for teaching.

Cline Cross: Why particularly in the West?

Prabhupāda: Because my Guru Mahārāja ordered that "You go and teach this gospel in the Western world."

Jayatīrtha: His teacher instructed him to do this.

Cline Cross: Yes. And are you surprised at the great success you've had?

Prabhupāda: That is my Guru Mahārāja's blessing. He ordered me, I tried my best, so there is little success. When I see so many boys and hundreds of centers, they are living very peacefully in a nice house, getting good prasādam, having good knowledge in the books, and reforming their character, and getting some good home, that is my success. Otherwise, they are loitering, no home, no character, no peace of mind. So at least this is my success. I have given so many boys a life. That is my success.

Cline Cross: Well, I'm very honored to have met you. I've read some of your work. I intend to read more.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So we are trying to give the best service to the humanity, human society, and this is the only service. People should come forward and cooperate with us. It is not a sectarian sentimental religious system. It is a scientific understanding of the value of life.

Cline Cross: Well, thank you very much indeed, sir.

Prabhupāda: Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.

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