We take advantage of Srila Prabhupada words and become what he wanted us to become. That is why we are here and thus we are very much conscious that Srila Prabhupada is present and that in this movement Srila Prabhupada is still alive. In the Srimad Bhagavatam, if you open up the book in the beginning, then it is said, “He lives forever in his instructions and the follower lives with him.” So that’s a very big statement, which is like a great blessing. It’s not a small little thing that, ‘Oh ya, we must write something on the first page,’ sometimes I see a big encyclopaedia written by three professors and then on the opening page it said, “To Emily,” and I was thinking, did you really do all of that for Emily? Poor Emily, she has to read that whole book! But when I think of the Bhagavad Gita and what Prabhupada wrote there in the opening words: “He lives forever in his instructions and the follower lives with him.” So this is very nice. Therefore there is nothing lacking…Prabhupada did not go to every town and village; he visited a lot of places, he didn’t personally go everywhere but Prabhupada is present there where he is remembered-there he is present; where his teachings are remembered- there he is present; where his words are take seriously- there he is present and thus his movement is still his movement and it’s still unique.(Excerpt from Pitermaritzburg class, September '08, HH Kadamba Kanana Maharaja)
