Yaduvendu das Remembers Srila Prabhupada

Following Srila Prabhupada

Interview DVD 03

Yaduvendu: When Prabhupada would ask if there were any questions at the end of the class, I’d never put my hand up because I always felt that everything he said was fairly straightforward, everything made sense. But one morning he began to talk about a Golden Age, about a Vedic Age which had ended 5,000 years ago, and he described that there was only one language, one culture and one religion throughout the whole of the world. I’d never heard this before, and I’d been very interested in history. I had quite a hard time taking this in because it seemed to me that if that was correct, then the professors would be teaching this in the universities and it would be appearing in the historical textbooks. But it sort of shook my faith a little in Krishna consciousness in that it just didn’t make sense to me. So I decided that I would investigate this myself, and I started to do that over the following years. I discovered to my surprise that there was a great deal of information and that everything that Prabhupada was saying there is evidence for. I’ve since spent 30 years actually just studying this very point. When Prabhupada first came to England, there was a press conference arranged by Apple. One of the newspaper reporters asked Prabhupada, “What have you come here to teach?” And Prabhupada said, “I have come to teach what you have forgotten, that is all.” Actually what Prabhupada has brought back to England we can definitely say is exactly the same as existed here previously. All the Vedic gods were worshiped here, the language is from Sanskrit, the priests of Britain totally correspond to the brahmanas of India, they performed fire yajnas, they divided their society into four spiritual and four social orders. There are dozens and dozens of parallels, and it’s quite amazing that Prabhupada gave that answer. What he has brought is actually what we have forgotten, even in this country of Britain.