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the western world to others. Srila Prabhupada writes,
“…He (Bon Maharaja) was first deputed by my Guru
Maharaj, along with our late God Brother, Bhakti Pradip
Tirtha Maharaj, to open a missionary center in London,
and they stayed there for three years, but didn’t make any
appreciable advance. Except that spent enormous money
of my Guru Maharaj, and later on they were called back to
India.” (Letters, 68-4-18) After the failure of Bon Maharaj,
there were no other serious attempts by the Gaudiya Math
to spread Krishna Consciousness in the western world as
per the desire of Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Thakura
until Srila Prabhupada ventured to the USA with full faith
in the words of His Gurudeva.

He fulfilled the wish of his Gurudeva by profusely printing
and distributing authorized Vaisnava scripture all over the
world. Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam are the
incarnation of Lord Krishna in Kali-yuga. Srila Prabhupada
made these two most important Vedic literatures available
for millions of conditioned souls to read. There is no doubt
that Srila Prabhupada was empowered by his Gurudeva
Srila Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakura and all the
Vaisnava acaryas and especially by Lord Krishna Himself
to spread Krishna consciousness all over the world.
Yet, Brahma das wants to imply that Srila Prabhupada
may be influenced by the material conditioning of
his upbringing.

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