0:00:08.010,0:00:12.281
He took <i>sannyasa</i>; I was witness there.

0:00:12.291,0:00:17.851
I sent him to take cloth, <i>danda</i>, and everything.

0:00:17.851,0:00:23.528
Then he began to preach everywhere in India.

0:00:27.390,0:00:35.650
After some time, even he was a street-beggar,

0:00:35.650,0:00:40.730
anyhow he arranged to come to America

0:00:40.730,0:00:45.098
because Prabhupada, his <i>gurudeva</i>, had ordered him

0:00:45.098,0:00:49.166
to preach in Western countries.

0:00:49.166,0:00:59.446
First of all he came to [New York].

0:00:59.446,0:01:04.575
And in Tompkins Park

0:01:04.575,0:01:08.577
he began singing,

0:01:08.577,0:01:16.667
<i>sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda</i>

0:01:16.675,0:01:20.635
<i>sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-</i>

0:01:20.645,0:01:24.773
<i>gaura-bhakta-vrinda</i>

0:01:42.256,0:01:46.476
<i>Hare Krsna Hare Krsna</i>

0:01:46.486,0:01:50.551
<i>Krsna Krsna Hare Hare</i>

0:01:50.551,0:01:54.930
<i>Hare Rama Hare Rama</i>

0:01:54.930,0:01:59.260
<i>Rama Rama Hare Hare</i>

0:02:17.755,0:02:20.895
Hearing his <i>kirtana</i>,

0:02:20.895,0:02:29.223
on <i>karatalas</i> only – no other instruments.

0:02:29.223,0:02:33.763
Let me tell one sentence.

0:02:33.763,0:02:38.653
Then so many hippies,

0:02:38.653,0:02:44.859
hearing his <i>kirtana</i>, began to dance.

0:02:44.859,0:02:50.739
They used to give him wine,

0:02:50.739,0:02:54.329
out of happiness.

0:02:54.329,0:02:57.847
Sometimes, they used to give him cigarettes

0:02:57.847,0:03:02.597
and so many things.

0:03:02.597,0:03:06.377
The great influence of <i>kirtana</i>

0:03:06.377,0:03:09.756
from a <i>maha-bhagavata</i>,

0:03:09.756,0:03:14.232
made them from hippies to ‘happies’.

0:03:14.232,0:03:22.672
(applause)

0:03:22.672,0:03:25.174
Syamarani is here.

0:03:25.174,0:03:30.064
(applause)

0:03:30.064,0:03:34.004
She and her husband were hippies,

0:03:34.004,0:03:43.363
and now she became a great devotee.

0:03:43.363,0:03:45.826
He wanted that I should be preaching

0:03:45.826,0:03:48.836
in the Western countries,

0:03:48.836,0:03:54.045
but I told, “Now I am serving my <i>gurudeva</i>.

0:03:54.045,0:03:57.045
Later on I will come.”

0:03:57.045,0:04:05.373
He used to give his preaching report to me weekly.

0:04:05.373,0:04:12.063
I have about five-hundred letters from him.

0:04:12.063,0:04:19.971
I sent him so many deities, <i>karatalas, mrdangas</i>,

0:04:19.971,0:04:24.352
and famous sweets of Mathura, <i>peda</i>.

0:04:24.352,0:04:28.790
What he wanted, I sent at once.

0:04:28.790,0:04:33.220
In one letter he has told, “Your relation with me is

0:04:33.223,0:04:38.808
as my transcendental relation with Prabhupada

0:04:38.808,0:04:40.798
– same relation.

0:04:40.798,0:04:45.918
After a few years, within a few years,

0:04:45.918,0:04:53.848
he preached all over America, Europe, Asia, Australia,

0:04:53.848,0:04:57.821
and so many places.

0:04:57.821,0:05:02.245
He published so many authorized books

0:05:02.245,0:05:06.266
and he established <i>mathas</i>

0:05:06.266,0:05:11.466
on the mountains, amongst oceans,

0:05:11.466,0:05:13.686
and here and there.

0:05:13.686,0:05:18.564
Very soon he spread his mission everywhere in the world.

0:05:18.564,0:05:22.582
But you should know

0:05:22.582,0:05:26.212
that he never gave anything new.

0:05:26.212,0:05:31.792
What he had from his <i>gurudeva</i> Srila Prabhupada through <i>parampara</i> –

0:05:31.800,0:05:40.310
only the same wine in a new bottle.

0:05:40.310,0:05:44.078
I think that,

0:05:44.078,0:05:51.008
where he established the <i>mathas</i> with his own hands

0:05:51.008,0:05:57.852
are very sacred pilgrimages for me.

0:05:57.852,0:06:04.620
So, I wanted to visit these places,

0:06:04.620,0:06:10.520
and very soon I visited so many places.

0:06:10.520,0:06:16.698
But, ISKCON has banned me, out of fear

0:06:16.702,0:06:21.762
that if any ISKCON leaders will hear my classes,

0:06:21.762,0:06:24.524
they will never return back to ISKCON.

0:06:24.524,0:06:27.034
So they banned me:

0:06:27.034,0:06:31.484
“Any disciple of

0:06:31.484,0:06:38.524
ISKCON will not meet Svami Narayana Maharaja."

0:06:38.524,0:06:45.202
So to visit all sacred places

0:06:45.202,0:06:47.912
I went over the whole world.

0:06:47.912,0:06:51.709
Up till now I have visited the whole world

0:06:51.709,0:06:54.799
about thirty times –

0:06:54.809,0:06:59.418
this is my thirtieth time in world preaching.