The sannyāsīs had returned to India Vaiṣṇavism could never take hold in the West. And the sannyāsīs had accepted this response as the standard for all Europeans. One of the sannyāsīs had met Lord Zetland, who had inquired curiously, “Swamiji, can you make me a brāhmaṇa?” The sannyāsī had assured Lord Zetland he could, certainly, if Zetland would give up meat-eating, intoxication, gambling, and illicit sex. Europeans couldn’t sit long enough to hear the Vaiṣṇava philosophy. It wasn’t possible to teach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the mlecchas, they had complained. ![]() During the 1930s he had sent his most experienced sannyāsīs to London, but they had returned, nothing accomplished. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, Prabhupāda’s own spiritual master, had wanted Kṛṣṇa consciousness in Europe.
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