In 25 years will be no other religion - only Hare Krishna

Gargamuni Dasa: We got the land in Bhubaneshwer. Prabhupada wanted to do the stone laying ceremony there. So he wanted me to come.

And Gurukripa, he always brought his men to India from Japan in the winter because that was the best time to enjoy the holy places - it wasn't so hot. So he was going to come down and I was going to bring my six Mercedes vans with my party down with Shanti Lal to do the cooking. For Prabhupada, they built a little thatched hut, a kaccha hut, and they built a little tent for the devotees. Of course I had six vans so there was no problem.

I had pots and pans and carried the cooker. They didn't have gas in those times. We had to use those wood coal, you know, coal or something made from wood. We carried a bag of it wherever we went. I used one of the vans for utilities.

Actually Prabhupada had a conversation about this in the 1940s when he talked to his Godbrothers about travelling sankirtana. He said, "If I was going to do this," he said to his godbrothers, "I would have the vans for the devotees and a van for the utilities." So Prabhupada has already contemplated this desire in his brain and somehow he transferred this desire into my heart. So I fulfilled the desire of Srila Prabhupada and by doing that, along with the dictaphone, getting Los Angeles, so many things, preaching in the Muslim countries, I realized at that time that the only duty of a disciple is to fulfil the desires of the spiritual master. That's all you have to do. Then you're on your way back to Godhead. You don't have to do any other thing. Just fulfill his desires. Still that stays on my mind that we should fulfill the desires of Srila Prabhupada.

There's one desire that we have not fulfilled. He quoted in 1975 that, "If you all devotees keep preaching enthusiastically, the way you are doing, in 25 years there will be no other religion but Hare Krishna." So twenty-five years means the year 2000. But still there's other religions and there's not just Hare Krishna. So we have not fulfilled that desire. So if we try to do that, the leaders - by opening more centers, and more temples, making more devotees - then perhaps we can fill that desire in some other form. But Prabhupada had so many desires. And we have yet to succeed to fulfill most of them.