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Precious asset of India

Lokanatha Swami: Once, while you were in London, during a press conference a reporter asked you why you had come. You responded by explaining how the British rulers and viceroys had plundered India. They had stolen whatever they thought was valuable and taken it away to exploit, enjoy, or just display in a London museum. "But," you added, "the British had left the most valuable items of India behind." The reporter wanted to know what they were. You responded that the most precious thing is India’s ancient culture. Sastras are our real treasure, and the holy names are our real jewels. You declared that you had come to freely deliver these most valuable goods free of cost.

On behalf of Lord Caitanya, you established this Hare Krishna movement as the infrastructure to continue to deliver the most valuable gifts of the Indian subcontinent, Bharata-varsha. 

So many empires have risen and fallen, come and gone. They were all based on concoctions and speculations by ambitious individuals or groups. The British were proud that the sun never set on the British Empire. So, where is that empire now? 



Reference: My Prabhupada by Lokanath Swami