180 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 14
Deities are worshiped must all be visited and worshiped by those
who want to be spiritually advanced. One who intends to advance
in spiritual life may visit all these places and perform ritualistic
ceremonies to get results a thousand times better than the results
of the same activities performed in any other place.
PURPORT

In these verses and in verse twenty-nine, stress is given to one point:
harer arcasritas ca ye or harer arca. In other words, any place where the
Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is worshiped by devotees is
most significant. The Krsna consciousness movement is giving the
population of the entire world a chance to take advantage of Krsna con-
sciousness through the ISKCON centers, where one may perform Deity
worship and chant the Hare Krsna mahd-mantra and in this way obtain
results with effectiveness increased a thousand times. This constitutes
the best welfare activity for human society. This was Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu’s mission as it was predicted by Him in the Caitanya-
bhagavata (Antya 4.126):

prthivite Gche yata nagarddi-grama
sarvatra pracdra haibe mora néma
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted the Hare Krsna movement, with in-
stalled Deities, to spread to every village and town in the world, so that
everyone in the world might take advantage of this movement and be-
come all-auspicious in spiritual life. Without spiritual life, nothing is
auspicious. Moghaséd mogha-karmaéno mogha-jndna  vicetasah
(Bg. 9.12). No one can become successful in fruitive activities or specu-
lative knowledge without being Krsna conscious. As recommended in the
Sdstras, everyone should be very eagerly interested in taking part in the
Krsna consciousness movement and understanding the value of spiritual
life.
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