So Mahārāja Parīkṣit was protected by Kṛṣṇa. He could counteract it, but still, he tolerated that punishment, or the curse given by a Brahmin boy. He immediately resigned from his royal throne, handing over the charge to his son, and he retired on the bank of the Ganges, although he had only seven days' time to live. And during those seven days the whole Bhāgavata was recited.
So, I mean to say, the royal family has got very intimate relationship with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And as soon as that was broken—because sometimes it breaks—the religious process declined and the royal power also declined. That is the whole history of the world.
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.