View source for In 1922 My Guru Maharaja wanted me to preach in the Western countries, and in 1965 it was fruitful. Forty-three years. So it is better late than never

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<div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasDisappearanceDayLectureHyderabadDecember101976_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="37" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976">
<div class="heading">My Guru Mahārāja wanted me to preach in the Western countries, although I was at that time a ordinary manager in a chemical firm. I never thought, but I took it seriously. So from that 1922, in 1965 it was fruitful. Forty-three years. So it is better late than never.
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Prabhupāda: So recently . . . I am very pleased to say that our Harikeśa . . . I ordered him to go immediately to Poland, and he thought that he was being punished. That was . . . No. I was thinking that "Here is a important, a very intelligent boy. If he is given chance to preach he'll come out very successful." So I see the glimpses that he has got in our post. He's a very good organizer. That's a chance. At that time he might have thought that I was separating him. No. My, my good will was there, that he should be given chance for better opportunity. So I am very much happy that he is doing there very nice. So this should be the attitude. My Guru Mahārāja wanted me to preach in the Western countries, although I was at that time a ordinary manager in a chemical firm. I never thought, but I took it seriously. So from that 1922, in nineteen hundred seven . . . 1965 it was fruitful. How many years?

Devotees: Forty-three.

Prabhupāda: Forty-three years. So it is better late than never. Yes. So he desired me. I thought, "Now I am a family man. Let me adjust things." I would have accepted immediately, but I was not so intelligent at that time. I thought, "My responsibility to family is there. Let me wait." But still, Guru Mahārāja was so kind to me that when I was ''gṛhastha'', I was seeing him in dream and, and I was . . . He asked me, "You come with me." So I was going, and after that, I was thinking, "Oh, I will have to take ''sannyāsa'' and go with him?" So it appeared to me very horrible. I was not very much inclined to take ''sannyāsa'', but Guru Mahārāja is so kind that he ultimately forced me to take ''sannyāsa'' and do this work. So it is all his kindness. So this is the memory of his kindness.</p>
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