By: Vidura dasa
“So my dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Krsna. That is my success. It was the prediction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu:
prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama
sarvatra pracara hoibe mora nama
(Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya 4.126)
Lord Caitanya desired that "In all the towns, in as many towns and
villages as there are on the surface of the globe, My name will be
broadcast." He is Krsna Himself, svayam krsna, krsna caitanya-namine,
simply changing His name as Krsna Caitanya. So His prediction will never
go in vain. That's a fact. So my plan was that "I shall go to America.
America is the leading country of the world. If I can convince younger
generation of America, they will take up." I am old man. I came here at
the age of seventy years; now I am seventy-six. So my warning is already
there. In nineteen hundred and seventy-one, I had a severe heart
attack. You know, all. So the mission of Caitanya Mahaprabhu is now in
your hands. You are American boys and girls, very intelligent and graced
by Krsna. You are not poverty-stricken. You have enough resources,
prestige. Everything materially, you are all well-equipped. If you
kindly take this Krsna consciousness movement seriously, your country
will be saved, and the whole world will be saved.”
Arrival Lecture -- Los Angeles, May 18, 1972
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur predicted:
"Soon there will appear a personality who will preach the holy name all over the world."
Songs of the Vaisnava Acaryas, introduction, Prabhupada-approved 1974 edition
"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted that His message should be broadcast
all over the world, in every village and every town, and my Guru
Maharaja attempted. Bhaktivinoda Thakura distributed his literature. I
think, in 1896, he sent his first book, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and I
saw in McGill University that book. And I do not know. That was the
year of my birth also, 1896. So somehow or other, later on, I came in
contact with Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja in 1922, and he
immediately asked me that 'Why don't you go to the foreign countries and
preach Caitanya Mahaprabhu's blessings.'[...] In this way I started,
first in New York, then in San Francisco, then Montreal, then Boston. In
this way, now we have got about one hundred branches all over the
world, forty branches in America. Big, big cities..."
Lectures : Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.149-171 -- San Francisco, March 18, 1967
Devotee: ...you Srila Prabhupada. Only by your mercy you have brought us to this Krsna consciousness movement.
Srila Prabhupada: I am simply messenger. Mercy is of Bhaktivinoda
Thakura and Srila Prabhupada. Before your coming they predicted, that
"Somebody will bring." Maybe that somebody I am. (chuckles) Bhaktivinoda
Thakura predicted. So anyway, Krsna has given us nice place.
Arrival Talk in Room -- Mayapur, March 23, 1975
"He [Bhaktivinoda Thakura] sent his first book in 1896. Bhaktivinoda
Thakura was the first origin of this movement. But he simply thought of
it. And he was expecting some others that willing to take up the work.
Well, somebody says that I am the same man. And I was born in 1896."
Room Conversation with Canadian Ambassador to Iran -- March 13, 1975, Iran
"Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura then comments: 'Without being
empowered by the direct potency of Lord Krsna to fulfill His desire and
without being specifically favored by the Lord, no human being can
become the spiritual master of the whole world. He certainly cannot
succeed by mental concoction, which is not meant for devotees or
religious people. Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy
name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krsna. By
distributing the holy name of the Lord, he cleanses the hearts of the
most fallen people; therefore he extinguishes the blazing fire of the
material world Not only that, he broadcasts the shining brightness of
Krsna's effulgence throughout the world. Such an acarya, or spiritual
master, should be considered nondifferent from Krsna-that is, he should
be considered the incarnation of Lord Krsna's potency. Such a
personality is krsnalingita-vigraha-that is, he is always embraced by
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. Such a person is above the
considerations of the varnasrama institution. He is the guru or
spiritual master for the entire world, a devotee on the topmost
platform, the maha-bhagavata stage, and a paramahamsa-thakura, a
spiritual form only fit to be addressed as paramahamsa or thakura."
C.C. Madhya Lila 25.9 How All the Residents of Varanasi Became Vaisnavas
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