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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1972]]
[[Category:Questions On... ISKCON - General]]
[[Category:Questions On... Geographical Places]]
[[Category:Questions On... Preaching, Spreading Krsna Consciousness]]
[[Category:Questions On... Process of Krsna Consciousness - Bhakti-yoga]]
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG647AhmedabadDecember121972_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="225" link="Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972">
<div class="heading">Now you have come, it is success. It is success. You have come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is our success. Formerly you were not coming. Now you have come. So that is our success.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972|Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Question: To what extent the Society has succeeded in India for propagating Kṛṣṇa consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now you have come, it is success. It is success. You have come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is our success. Formerly you were not coming. Now you have come. So that is our success.</p>
<p>Question: ... Western materialistic countries, quite dangerous materialistic country, where India is forgotten in the ... of the...? (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because there is great propaganda to curb down by your leaders. They are naturally inclined. Anyone who takes birth in India, it is to be supposed that in this past life, he was spiritual. Bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]]). There is great opportunity for persons who are born in India for spiritual advancement. Unfortunately by force, by propaganda, we are suppressing them. That is the cause. We are suppressing them. Otherwise still we get experience. We hold these Hare Kṛṣṇa Festival in Calcutta, Bombay, and other places. Here also. Many thousands of people are coming. Because at heart there is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but, by external forces, they are being suppressed. That is going on. It is not natural. It is unnatural. Natural is every Indian is Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is natural. By artificial means they are being suppressed. This is the misfortune of the present day of India. (break) ...can be done? In the educational system no Bhagavad-gītā. Just see. How much unfortunate... One Indian girl in Berkeley University, she asked me, "Swamiji, what is God?" Just see. She's Indian, where God takes birth, Rāmacandra, Kṛṣṇa, and she is now materially advanced. Now she is asking what is God. This is our position. The land where God come, from that land a advanced student is asking: "What is God?" This is our advancement. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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