Prabhupada, Los Angeles, June 20, 1975: Now our next attempt will be Kuruksetra, where Krishna personally spoke Bhagavad-gita. Recently I have been in Kuruksetra. You were… Yes.
So I have decided to do something there. Yes. Because Krishna personally spoke there. Our two movements—we are preaching Krishna consciousness on the basis of Bhagavad-gita and we are holding Ratha-yatra—all these two incidences took place at Kuruksetra.
Kuruksetra is so important. Krishna, Balarama, and His sister, on some occasion of lunar eclipse, they came from Dvaraka in a chariot, ratha, two brothers and sister, and that is the occasion of Ratha-yatra. And the Vrindavana inhabitants, especially Radharani, they came from Vrindavana to see Krishna after long time.
And she pleaded that “Krishna, You are the same Krishna, I am the same Radharani…” No. “But this place is not the proper place. Let Us go to Vrindavana.” That is Mahaprabhu’s feeling.
That Mahaprabhu’s feeling of Krishna is like that. Therefore He took part in the Ratha-yatra and invited Krishna, “Come to Vrindavana.” So these two important things took place in the Kuruksetra.
So we must have a very big temple there, and a varnasrama college. This is my desire. Krishna’s direct instruction, Bhagavad-gita. It should be a historical… It is historical. People should come here as the most important historical place.
And Gita is well known all over the world. And Gita begins with the word dharma-ksetre kuru-ksetre [Bg. 1.1]. So Kuruksetra, in that sense very important.
Brahmananda: That was one of the first things you told us when you came, that Kuruksetra is an actual place. There’s a railway station. People can go there.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Brahmananda: We had never known that. We thought it was something mythological or…
Jayatirtha: Allegorical.
Prabhupada: That is not. These political leaders, they have made it.
Arrival Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Los Angeles, June 20, 1975
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