Prabhupada: I am going to every country, because everywhere the same mistake is going on: bodily concept of life. So I am trying to bring them to the real life, and then make their plan. They will be happy. It is not for South Africa. For any Africa, or any country, South America or South India or anywhere, the problem is the same. Everywhere the same conception: “I am South African,” “I am American,” “I am Indian,” “I am this,” “I am that.” So all these things are on the bodily concept of life. Nobody says, “No, I am not his body. I am different from body.” Nobody says. We are simply preaching that “You are not this body. You are different from this…” That is our unique situation. Perhaps throughout the whole world we are trying to preach that “You are not this body. You are different from body.” And we have not manufactured this idea. This is the instruction in the Bhagavad-gita.

(From a conversation with a reporter of The Star — October 16, 1975, Johannesburg)