Rupa Goswami inspired him to go to the West and spread Krishna consciousness

Shyamasundara das: Look, he's so healthy and exuberant. He's back home. This is where he hatched out the whole Hare Krishna Movement. This is where Krishna empowered him to come West. And little Saraswati, she was one of his favorites. She followed him wherever he went. Sometimes he would grab her hand and walk with her. If Saraswati didn't come to his room every morning around eight o'clock, he would sometimes ask, "And where is Saraswati?" He expected to see her every morning. And quite often he would play some trick on her when she came, either to make her laugh or cry. But he would always make up and give her some nice sweet. Here he is showing us the sights, showing us around the samadhis of great Vaisnavas behind Radha-Damodara temple, explaining a little bit about who is buried where. In those days, it was all run down and practically abandoned. Well, most of Vrindavan was practically run down and abandoned. We used to think that Raman Reti was far out of town. Prabhupada revived the whole spiritual life of India starting with Vrindavan, a now flourishing spiritualized city because of Prabhupada. Of course, Rupa Goswami's samadhi there, Prabhupada's favorite place. He used to say that Rupa Goswami inspired him to go to the West and spread Krishna consciousness because he would sit in his room and gaze out on his samadhi year after year and chant and read, translate.