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7                                    preaching Means fighting

           Sarasvaté stated, “The aggressive pronouncement of the concrete
           truth is the crying necessity of the moment for silencing the
           aggressive propaganda of specific untruths that is being carried on
           all over the world.” 1

           Some devotees may claim that although chopping techniques were
           suitable in the time of Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté and Çréla
           Prabhupäda, they are no longer suitable today. But actually those
           words of Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté’s in 1931 are eternal
           beacons to preachers in this world, which is populated by an
           overwhelming majority of jévas intent on forgetting Kåñëa, plus
           a tiny minority trying to “arrest the perverted current tide and
           redirect it toward the eternal source.”  What was a crying necessity
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           in 1931 is now even more pronounced. And thus Çréla Prabhupäda,
           as the best servant of Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté, having
           fully imbibed the mood of his spiritual master, fought against the
           demonic civilization to establish Kåñëa as the Supreme Absolute
           Truth. Çréla Prabhupäda avowed himself to be “the greatest enemy
           of modern civilization,” and added, “It is a regular war declared.” 3
           The war that Çréla Prabhupäda declared was against “all swamis,
           all yogis, all pseudo-religionists, all politicians, all leaders, all
           scientists.… Our business is to protest against all of them. Very
           unhappy, hard task.”  Once, when disciples pleaded that he rest
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           and recuperate his health, Çréla Prabhupäda gravely responded, “I
           want the benediction to go on fighting for Kåñëa, like Arjuna.” 5
           And fight Çréla Prabhupäda did, even from the outset of his
           ministration in the West—for instance, when he became livid at
           the impersonalism of his earliest followers:


           1  Harmonist 29.169 (Dec 1931); SBV,   3  TKG’s Diary, 21 May.
           vol. 3, p. 146.                 4 Conversation, 16 Sep 1972.
           2  Harmonist 25.9 (Jun 1927); SBV,    5 SPl ch. 50, “The Lame Man and the
           vol. 3, p. 41.                  Blind Man.”
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