Srila Prabhupada Passtimes:56--Everyone Is Won By Kirtan

We have travelled throughout India -- to Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, and to smaller cities too. We have been on the street, to conventions, in temples, and with the Prime Minister. Some people we have met have been convinced by our philosophy and some have not, but practically everybody is won by kirtana -- the sound representation of Krsna.

 At religious conventions, monistic philosophers may rebuke us all day long, insisting that everyone is God -- but by nightfall they are begging us to perform kirtana for them. Everyone is impressed that Srila Prabhupada has established his "New Vrndavana" in West Virginia with cows, forests, and temples modelled after the original Vrndavana of Lord Krsna in India. They marvel at his fifty centres established throughout the world, at the fifty thousand participants at his Ratha yatra Festival in San Francisco, and at the monthly circulation of five hundred thousand Back to Godhead's, to be increased to one million by the summer. 

The people of India, who are looking to the example of the West, are surprised to find Americans, Europeans, and Asians chanting Hare Krsna. Lord Caitanya, who is God Himself, is simply witnessing everything that He already knew would happen. His name is being sung as Srila Prabhupada said in every village and town in all countries throughout the world; Krsna consciousness is being brought back to India from the West, and those who are chanting the Hare Krsna mantra are experiencing the ultimate goal of life: the transcendental bliss which comes from love of God.

Back to Godhead Magazine- Krsna Returns to India- Giriraja dasa Brahmacari (ISKCON-Bombay)