“And this Krsna consciousness movement will go on. This is the genuine thing. Param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. Take it seriously, not as a trifle. You are all young men. You will live. Take it seriously. You American boys, you have got intelligence. You have to take it. I was thinking that if my body finished, everything finished. Now I am hopeful. It will be finished.” Prabhupada said this with great certainty. “Who cares for Gandhi’s non-violence and Vivekananda’s hospital? Nonsense!” We all praised Prabhupada and said that this movement was all his mercy. Prabhupada replied, “Yes, it is all Krsna’s mercy. I have tried. What mercy I have got! Poor Indians! Started without any substantial support-forty rupees.” Prabhupada began crying. “Loitering in the street on Fifth Avenue. After my lunch, I used to go on Fifth Avenue to see the Christian festivals. You are helping. You go on helping.”
From TKG’s Diary
(September 30, 1977)