Dhruva Maharaja, by his meditation, startled the whole universe. And we are so many, and by our devotional service cannot we startle the whole America? [laughs] Is it not possible? That is possible. If we go according to the prescribed, we can startle by that spiritual power. That is possible.

In Calcutta we defeated Ramakrishna Mission. Nobody is going there. [laughter] In India we have now cut down all the svamis. Everyone is thinking of us, not of them. There are so many big, big svamis — Chinmayananda Swami, Vivekananda Swami. Now people are talking about us. They are bringing Vivekananda… As soon as our talk is there, he gives reference to Vivekananda, and he is doing more than Vivekananda. But we are doing many millions times more than Vivekananda. What Vivekananda has done, and what he has power to do? What does he know? But if we say like that, that will be little pride. But that’s a fact.

Vivekananda’s institutions are here for the last eighty years, or more than that. He started in 1893. Vivekananda came here, in America, in 1893 and started a center in New York, 72nd Street. But in comparison to their center and our center, there is ocean of difference.

Srila Prabhupada, speaking in Los Angeles, 5 July 1971