Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: You can ask your questions now.
Interviewer: Sir, who initiated you into this movement?
Prabhupāda: My Guru Mahārāja. You show my Guru Mahārāja's picture here. Here is a picture.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Here here. Haṁsadūta has it right here.
Prabhupāda: He asked me to do this.
Haṁsadūta: Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda.
Interviewer: Has he a seat here in India?
Haṁsadūta: Yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Founder of the Gauḍīya Math.
Prabhupāda: He is the founder of Gauḍīya Math. He advised me to take up this movement when I was twenty-five years old, young man. But at that time I thought that "I am a married man; let me wait." So waiting, waiting. When I retired at the... I was born in 1896. So I retired in 1954. That means I retired at the age of fifty-eight years. At fifty-eight years. Then I remained as a vānaprastha in Vṛndāvana up to seventieth year of my age. Then I thought that "Guru Mahārāja asked me to do this at the age of, when I was twenty-five years old. I could not do it. So let me try." So by his grace and Kṛṣṇa's grace, it became little successful. That's all. In 1965 I went to New York without any help. But gradually, in 1966 I registered this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in New York. And then gradually, it spread whole America, Europe, Australia, Canada. Like that.
Interviewer: What is the reason of the success of your mission in the foreign countries?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is very intelligent question. We are after material civilization, and they are fed up with material civilization. That is the position. We are now trying to imitate them, a skyscraper building, but they are disgusted with skyscraper building. These boys, they are coming from very respectable family, rich family, and especially in America there is no question of poor man. There is no question of poor man. But still, they do not like the materialistic way of life of their father and grandfathers.