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<div class="heading">At the present moment people need this Kṛṣṇa consciousness very badly. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness the whole world is going to hell. And you can practically see how they are changing, how this movement is changing character and mentality of the population. So I have come here.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:701211_-_Lecture_-_Speech_to_Their_Highnesses_-_Indore|Speech to Maharaja and Maharani and Conversations Before and After -- Indore, December 11, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Now, at the present moment, we have started this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement from the Western world so that people may become again happy and come to their original consciousness. And that is being accepted by the Western world. I have got within four years forty-two branches all over the world. In America especially, practically in every principal city, I have got a branch. Especially in Los Angeles and New York we have got the biggest temple. And in England also, London, we have got our temple, 7 Bury Place.

When your Highnesses may visit London or New York or Los Angeles—most probably you visit London occasionally—I invite you to our temple at 7 Bury Place near the British Museum. It is very prominent place. And this girl in front of you, Śrīmatī Yamunā devī, she and her husband, Gurudāsa, is in charge of the temple. But because I have come to India, they are assisting me. She has seen the Prime Minister also, Indira Gandhi. She is very much impressed with the ''saṅkīrtana'' movement.

So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and patronization by the royal family is very old relationship. So I came especially in Indore to see Your Holinesses . . . er, Highnesses, that if you give us some shelter we can immediately open a branch of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. I have brought with me forty American, European, Canadian students, and they will be exemplary teachers. You can see from their faces how they are advanced in spiritual consciousness, how they have accepted these principles of Vaiṣṇavism.

They are no longer meat-eaters. They don't touch meat, egg or fish, nothing of the sort. They have given up drinking habit or any kind of intoxications. They do not accept even tea, coffee and cigarette, and they do not take part in gambling, neither they have any illicit sex life. And they are observing Ekādaśī days and other Vaiṣṇava festivals like Janmāṣṭamī, Śrī Rāma-navamī, and every temple, they are following the same principles. And gradually we are increasing the number. The Western boys and girls, my students, are all between twenty and thirty years old. You will find none of them more than twenty-five, twenty-six years old. So they are . . . in Japan also. Here is a Japanese boy also.

So the world is taking very serious situation. All over the world they are appreciating. Your Highnesses will be pleased to see how many books we have published. Perhaps you have seen one of them, Kṛṣṇa. That is published in two parts. We have got our magazine, ''Back to Godhead'', in five languages: English, French, German and Japanese, Hindi and Bengali. Of course, Bengali is going to be out. Hindi is already out.

So we are doing these activities, and we have a mind that we may open a center in a nice city like Indore under your patronization. Although I know that at the present moment the time is different; still, if you like, you can help us in so many ways. In our Indian parable it is said that, "A dead elephant is also one ''lakh'' of rupees." Elephant, living or dead, still, it is valuable. ''Mara hati laksa''.

So this movement, from very old days, beginning from that sun-god, and again five thousand years ago between Lord Kṛṣṇa and the Pāṇḍavas, the pious kings . . . so this movement has got very intimate relationship with the ''kṣatriya'' kings. So I would request Your Highness . . . both, you are sitting, if you kindly give us a little place here in Indore, we can immediately start a nice center.

And this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is essential. In the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' it is said that:

:''yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā''
:''sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ''
:''harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā''
:''mano-rathena asato dhāvato bahiḥ''
:([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]])

That, "If anyone has got devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then he develops all the good qualities." Just like Sanātana Gosvāmī. Because he was a devotee, he did not distinguish the king, whether he was Muhammadan or Hindu. He immediately accepted that, "You are representative of Kṛṣṇa." That is the version.

Arjuna, because he was a devotee, although he was in the battlefield, he was insulted, his wife was insulted, his kingdom was usurped, still, he said: "Better not to fight and kill my kinsmen." That goodness was not found on the other side, Duryodhana. Because Arjuna was a devotee, he was compassionate with his brothers, not to kill them. But Kṛṣṇa wanted that this fighting must go on because He wanted to install Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the pious king, on the throne.

So therefore Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and the support of the royal family is very old relationship. And at the present moment people need this Kṛṣṇa consciousness very badly. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the whole world is going to hell. And you can practically see how they are changing . . . how this movement is changing character and mentality of the population. So I have come here. I wish that both of you will be kindly enough to patronize this movement to your best capacity.