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Answer: It saved my life. Having no other choice when I joined ISKCON 1972, as with all others, I had to go out and distribute Srila Prabhupada's books.
Seeing from a spiritual platform, everybody being born in this world is a narcist.
Those who came to believe that they are the only chosen ones and herewith holders of the keys of Vaikuntha or even Goloka Dham and their agressive critics, the head hunters, got it both wrong.
Dear Srila Prabhupada!
Please accept my dandavats at your lotus feet.
All glory to you, who taught us the meaning of life and exposed the illusion we are living in.
Regardless of its material or spiritual nature, any mission initated by a Founder is doomed to fail for the same reason: it becomes depersonalised.
There are those who, being by the mercy of a pure devotee spiritually refreshed and attracted to devotees of the Lord, after a period of seemingly humbly performed devotional service, return to their ways to use and cultivate their material conditioning in the name of a movement Srila Prabhupada started as an “organised attempt” to save conditioned souls from the very same illusions they insist to maintain once being established as his followers. As they say, “opportunity makes a thief.”
Already in his early days of preaching in the West, Srila Prabhupada, realising the obstinate nature of the western people, pointed out: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am not criticising; I am analysing!”
Srila Prabhupada didn't hesitate to comment on up-to-date issues, once even taking inspiration from a magazine he saw while flying on an aeroplane, which carried the title:
In 1972, I joined a movement consisting mainly of brahmacaries and brahmacarinis. I rejoiced in the association of those who dedicated their lives entirely to the mission of Srila Prabhupada.
Already at the first meeting with his spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, by that time a Gandhi activist, when arguing that first one has to establish oneself in a political sense, then one can preach the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Prabhupada was deeply impressed by the firm faith in a pure spiritual way to solve problems Bhaktisiddhanta maharaja demonstrated to him.
