Srila Prabhupada executes his duty, despite all inconveniences.

02-15-2005, 03:28 AM

Prabhupada: Just like at Vrndavana -- that is practical. Here I am now
sitting in New York, the world's greatest city, such a magnificent city, but
my heart is always hankering after that Vrndavana.

Woman: Yes. (Laughs.)

Prabhupada: Yes. I am not happy here.

Woman: Yes, I know.

Prabhupada: I shall be very happy to return to my Vrndavana, that sacred
place. But then, "Why are you here?" Now, because it is my duty. I have
brought some message for you people. Because I have been ordered by my
superior, my spiritual master: "Whatever you have learned you should go to
the Western countries, and you must distribute this knowledge." So in spite
of all my difficulties, all my inconveniences, I am here. Because I am
obligated by duty. If I go and sit down in Vrndavana, that will be good for
my personal conveniences -- I shall be very comfortable there, and I will
have no anxiety, nothing of the sort. But I have taken all the risk in this
old age because I am duty-bound. I am duty-bound. So I have to execute my
duty, despite all my inconveniences.

>From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.11 -- New York, March 4,
1966