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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
2
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
4
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.”