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ask when Guru Mahārāj would speak, then I'd sit down and go on hearing. I would understand, or not understand; others would disperse, I'd not disperse. So he remarked, 'This boy is interested to hear'. Because I was serious in hearing, therefore I am now serious about  kīrtanam , which means speaking or preaching. If one has heard nicely, then he will speak nicely."
At Allahabad in 1933, Abhay Charan De was formally initiated, and in 1936, just days before Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī's departure from this mortal world, he was specifically ordered to spread Kṛṣṇa Consciousness in the English language to the West.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda has told us that at first he did not take the mission given to him by his spiritual master with the utmost seriousness. But then he was reading a  Bhagavad-gītā  commentary by Śrīla Bhaktivinode Thakur, who was the father of Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī and the pioneer of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement in the modern age. Śrīla Bhaktivinode has written that just as one cannot separate the body from the soul while in this conditioned state, so the disciple cannot separate the spiritual master's order from his very life. Śrīla Prabhupāda took these words seriously, and gradually his whole life became dedicated to carrying out the orders of his Guru Mahārāj. In 1959 he took  sannyāsa , the renounced order of spiritual life, and in 1965, at the advanced age of 70, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda arrived in New York City to fulfill his master's sacred mission.
One must try to understand that Śrīla Prabhupāda is neither an Indian author nor Indian culturist nor Hindu sectarian. The first teaching of the  Bhagavad-gītā  is that no one is Indian, no one is American—our real self is beyond this temporary bodily designation; our permanent identity, eternal, blissful and full of knowledge, is with the Supreme Personality of Godhead as His eternal servant; and our position is to be situated beyond the material universes in the spiritual planets, within the spiritual sky. This is the platform of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.