The Hare Krishna mantra is our weapon
Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: The last night In Bhubaneshwar I mentioned to Srila Prabhupada that the devotees were planning to put his name on a sign over the door where he was staying, saying that on such-and-such a day, at 2:50 a.m., he began the Tenth Canto. Srila Prabhupada was pleasantly surprised, You heard me? We explained how we heard him beginning from the next room. Then he said, Yes, the Tenth Canto chapters 29-34 are the smiling face of Krishna.
Krishna's flute can be heard in the Tenth Canto. He then told about Subhash Candra Bose. His was the real movement that gained Indian independence not Gandhi's nonviolent movement. Only the clerks and some teachers took part with Gandhi, and the British saw it going on for thirty years. They thought, Let the old man go on with his philosophizing, but when Subhash Candra Bose organized the Indian National Army and his Gurkhas and Sikhs were joining against the British, then the British knew it was all over.
Gandhi differed with Subhash and removed him as president of India. Then Subhash Candra Bose went outside India. He tried to induce Tojo of Japan to help enter India. Tojo thought he would enter India, but then kill Bose. Then at one point, Subhash Candra was interned at home, but he disguised himself as a Muslim and escaped to Germany. He made a deal with Hitler and thus organized the INA. Indian soldiers would surrender to Hitler (this was World War II and the Indian soldiers were fighting as part of the British army) and be allowed to join the INA. Gandhi's noncooperation movement was a good trick, but it did not succeed. The granddaughter of this Nethaji (as he is called), Subhash Candra Bose, comes to visit Prabhupada infrequently. She made a remark that Srila Prabhupada is like Nethaji in that he has gone outside India to organize a movement of Vaisnavas.
Srila Prabhupada liked that. He said, Yes. He said that we have organized an army now and it is in the right hands. You Americans are resourceful, you can do it. The frame is there, now organize. This mission is para-upakara. We don't want to exploit anyone. Today's so-called civilization keeps people in the clutches of maya. They are being misled, they are lusty, and they are demons. Our movement is against this. It is really para-upakara, to help the people, and you will be recognized by Krishna.
Simply go on working for this movement. Take all strategic points for fighting. There is a declaration of war by us against maya. No, not actually maya, (she is a servant of Krishna). She would relinquish her grip on everyone, but because they remain demons she cannot. That's her duty. Actually, we are fighting not with maya, but with the demons. Now in this American opposition, the demons are feeling our presence. It is a fight and we have to defend. A fight is a fight.
My Guru Maharaja used to say, A fight is a fight, so some of our soldiers will die. Still, then we should fight much more. Fight like brave soldiers. Krishna will help. Do not make a truce with the demons. The Hare Krishna mantra is our weapon. They are afraid of this astra weapon. Go on fighting. We are not like Vrndavana babajis who claim, Oh, I am so advanced, I never go out of Vrndavana, and at the same time keep three dozen widows.
The train ride from Bhubaneshwar to Calcutta took ten hours. Three of us myself, Hari Sauri and Srila Prabhupada were in the first-class cabin. The train left after 11:30 p.m. Srila Prabhupada took rest at 12 and got up around 3 a.m. Then after awhile, he took a little more rest until 5:30 a.m. Then we all got up. As Srila Prabhupada got up, the first thing he said was that Ayurvedic medicine should be taken by us on our farms. That is also a basic part of maintenance, along with shelter and cloth. The train we were on was an express train, and as it was going past all the stops, Prabhupada asked me to call out the names of the towns. He was remembering them, because he is from the area.