One must try to understand that Srila Prabhupada is neither an Indian author nor Indian culturist nor Hindu sectarian. The first teaching of the  Bhagavad-gita  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 Krsna consciousness.
To think, “I am American,” “I am Russian,” etc., is our disease, and is due to forgetfulness of our eternal nature as spirit soul. Unfortunately, under the spell of illusion, every embodied creature is satisfied with his present material body. Even the worm in the stool is thinking, “I am all right.” Despite so many disadvantages and miseries, all living entities are engaged in satisfying their senses and are thinking it is all right. Therefore when the bona fide  guru  comes with the transcendental message, calling the souls back to home, back to Godhead, they do not want to come out of material encagement. Often, people prefer to be encouraged in illusion and therefore pay fees to learn that they are God or equal to God in all respects and thus “free” to go on “enjoying” material life of sense gratification. So we see yoga and meditation teachers advertising that they will improve one’s material facilities. They overlook the fact that elimination of sense gratification is the first step in the standard  yoga  or transcendental system. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami does not encourage unrestricted sense gratification, or the belief that one is God, or that God is impersonal or void. He is passing on, as it is, the information from Vedic literature, that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a person and that devotional service unto Him is the perfection of all purificatory processes. Lord Krsna in  Bhagavad-gita  is recognized as the Supreme Lord, and  Sri isopanisad  confirms the Personality of Godhead as the antimaterial supreme controller and the only enjoyer. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is teaching surrender to Krsna, the Supreme Lord.
Srila Prabhupada is the living example of the saintly person pointed to in all Vedic literature who is personally free from all material contamination and active in spiritual understanding. He is the Krsna conscious personality who is so dear to Krsna, who understands that the highest welfare is not to pose oneself as the friend of humanity, but to teach that God or Krsna is the dearmost friend who alone is capable of alleviating the misery of each and every living entity. A.C. Bhaktivedanta is teaching what is really common sense to our intelligence, but we are so bewildered by the glitter of the material Nature that we are distracted from his message. He is simply canvassing for God on the order of his spiritual master. Once Srila