Marriage ceremony at Bombay festival

Yamuna : On March 29, 1971, at the Bombay festival, Srila Prabhupada performed a marriage ceremony on stage which pleased the audience immensely. It was the first time they had seen serious Western devotees marry in a traditional Vedic ceremony. During the ceremony, Srila Prabhupada said something very powerful about his young followers that profoundly struck me:

"My Guru Maharaja ... Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja Prabhupada was creating more brahmacharis and sannyasis for preaching work, but I am creating more grihasthas, because in Europe and America the boys and girls intermingle so ... it is very difficult to keep one brahmachari. So there is no need of artificial brahmacharis. It is sanctioned. My Guru Maharaja wanted to establish daivi-varnashrama ... It doesn't matter whether one is sannyasi or one is grihastha or a brahmachari. The main principle is bhagavad-bhajan. But practically also, I may inform you that these married couples, they are helping me very much because ... For practical example, I may say that one of my godbrothers, a sannyasi, was deputed to go to London for starting a temple, but three or four years he remained there, and he could not execute the will; therefore he was called back. Now, I sent three married couples - all of them are present here - and they worked so nicely that within one year we started our London temple, and that is going on very nicely."