He used to sit and turn the globe

Govinda dasi: He used to sit and turn the globe, and he would meditate on the different countries. And he would say, "Brahmananda, you shall go to Russia. Goursundar, you shall go to Japan. Somebody else, you shall go to South America." You have to understand, we had no money, we had no manpower, we had nothing. We were a handful of teenagers, 10 people in their early 20's who were rather eccentric, all of us, because we had rejected our cultural values and we were following him like a Pied Piper, and he was telling us about these different countries we were going to go to and open temples. He had his plan. It was not haphazardly done. I have a beautiful picture of Prabhupada sitting and turning his globe. He did it a lot. He meditated on the globe. He looked at the different countries. You would see him doing it a lot, and he was planning. He had planned the takeover of Russia long before he ever went to Russia. This is a part of what he knew he had to come to this world and do. We just didn't know what all he was doing, although sometimes.