Srila Prabhupada's activities show he was empowered by Krsna.

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Knowing that Lord Krsna wanted the world flooded with love of God, Srila

Prabhupada had earnestly tried to do it, beginning in a storefront in New

York City. And Krsna had responded, sending him a few men and enough money

to pay the rent. Then Srila Prabhupada had attempted to do more, and again

Krsna had responded. Thus a second ISKCON center and a third and a fourth

and more had sprung up, and book printing had begun. Srila Prabhupada, in

his mood of loving reciprocation with Krsna, just kept attempting more and

more.

 

Now it was no longer simply one person's work; Srila Prabhupada was

entrusting the work to his disciples. And those disciples, if they were

actually to help, would have to adopt Prabhupada's selfless dedication.

 

As they tried to follow him in his expansive plans, however, their minds

faltered. For a handful of devotees to maintain even one temple in one city

was a big job, yet Prabhupada was doing this a hundred times over. He wanted

the movement he had started to continue for thousands of years, and he was

confident that as long as his followers remained pure, working within the

guidelines he had given, they would be successful.

 

Although the present age of Kali was the worst of all ages, in which people

had little or no interest in spiritual life, Prabhupada had faith in the

past acaryas' predictions that Krsna consciousness was destined to enter a

golden age of worldwide influence. True, it was the worst of times; yet by

the influence of the holy name of Krsna it would become the best of times.

The chanting of the holy name was the religion of the age; the people of

Kali-yuga could find deliverance simply in chanting Hare Krsna.

 

Srila Prabhupada's activities show he was empowered by Krsna. This is

evident from his childhood, when at the age of five he held a Ratha-yatra

festival, and it is certainly evident from these years, 1968 to 1971, when

he actively expanded his Krsna consciousness movement. Prabhupada compared

ISKCON to the Varaha incarnation of Krsna, who at first had been no bigger

than a thumb but had quickly expanded to half the size of the universe.

 

ISKCON's rapid growth was not simply due to rapid communications and modern

travel, nor to its founder-acarya's material organizational abilities.

Prabhupada, judged materially, was not a likely person to conduct a

worldwide movement, to travel vigorously, to write volumes of books, and to

train thousands of disciples on every continent. He was satisfied with a

simple, regulated life, and he disdained all such cultural items as music,

fashion, sports, politics, art, food-anything not related to Krsna. He

worked and traveled out of an intense desire to benefit the world with real

culture, to implant spiritual culture in what to him was the desert of a

materialistic society.

 

(From Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta Ch. 36)