Oct 4 1974 Mauritius
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes, Prabhupāda, when they see your Bhagavad-gītā, they say, “Oh, it is too big for me to read.” They don’t know that the purport…. They’ve never read.

Prabhupāda: Therefore I say that bring them, let them chant and dance and take prasādam. That, everyone will hear, agree.

Harikeśa: One who does that, he is preaching? One who arranges for chanting and dancing and taking prasādam, that is as good as preaching?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Śravaṇam, kīrtanam, arcanam—anything.

Harikeśa: These festival programs are very important.

Prabhupāda: (pause) You have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is so difficult task.

Cyavana: You have to spend?

Prabhupāda: Gallons of blood, waste.

Cyavana: In what way?

Prabhupāda: By talking with him, with the rascal and foolish. You tax your brain and spoil your energy, blood.

Harikeśa: Spend so much food.

Cyavana: So we should do that.

Prabhupāda: Unless you are not a preacher. You should be prepared. Yes. They cuts, sacrifices life, what to speak of wasting blood. Wasting life. This is preacher. Then he is recognized by Kṛṣṇa: “He has done so much for Me.“

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa will give more and more energy.

Prabhupāda: He is going to die for Kṛṣṇa, and therefore he is recognized. Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ [Bg. 18.69]. You become immediately very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Your business is how to become very intimate to Kṛṣṇa. That will be served by preaching.

Some Conclusions–This is a very instructive conversation(and there is much more to it) about holding programs, however large or small, on a continuous basis  I don’t know why more devotees do not do this as it is very enlivening for all to take part in the sravana kirtanam Vishnu process and then have some prasadam after some discussions about our philosophy. These Nama Hatta programs begun by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur will ensure the spreading of the yuga dharma to every town and village. So as devotees, we are either part of the problem or part of the cure-and we all know what the cure is for this degraded age.

Hare Krsna

damaghosa das