He took sannyasa; I was witness there.
I sent him to take cloth, danda, and everything.
Then he began to preach everywhere in India.
After some time, even he was a street-beggar,
anyhow he arranged to come to America
because Prabhupada, his gurudeva, had ordered him
to preach in Western countries.
First of all he came to [New York].
And in Tompkins Park
he began singing,
sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-
gaura-bhakta-vrinda
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hearing his kirtana,
on karatalas only – no other instruments.
Let me tell one sentence.
Then so many hippies,
hearing his kirtana, began to dance.
They used to give him wine,
out of happiness.
Sometimes, they used to give him cigarettes
and so many things.
The great influence of kirtana
from a maha-bhagavata,
made them from hippies to ‘happies’.
(applause)
Syamarani is here.
(applause)
She and her husband were hippies,
and now she became a great devotee.
He wanted that I should be preaching
in the Western countries,
but I told, “Now I am serving my gurudeva.
Later on I will come.”
He used to give his preaching report to me weekly.
I have about five-hundred letters from him.
I sent him so many deities, karatalas, mrdangas,
and famous sweets of Mathura, peda.
What he wanted, I sent at once.
In one letter he has told, “Your relation with me is
as my transcendental relation with Prabhupada
– same relation.
After a few years, within a few years,
he preached all over America, Europe, Asia, Australia,
and so many places.
He published so many authorized books
and he established mathas
on the mountains, amongst oceans,
and here and there.
Very soon he spread his mission everywhere in the world.
But you should know
that he never gave anything new.
What he had from his gurudeva Srila Prabhupada through parampara –
only the same wine in a new bottle.
I think that,
where he established the mathas with his own hands
are very sacred pilgrimages for me.
So, I wanted to visit these places,
and very soon I visited so many places.
But, ISKCON has banned me, out of fear
that if any ISKCON leaders will hear my classes,
they will never return back to ISKCON.
So they banned me:
“Any disciple of
ISKCON will not meet Svami Narayana Maharaja."
So to visit all sacred places
I went over the whole world.
Up till now I have visited the whole world
about thirty times –
this is my thirtieth time in world preaching.