Prabhupada’s Greed

Prabhupada continued to accelerate.  After the first initiations and the first marriage, he was eager for the next step.  He was pleased by what he had, but he wanted to do more.  It was the greed of the Vaisnava—not a greed to have sense gratification but to take more and more for Krishna.  He would “go in like a needle and come out like a plough.”  That is to say, from a small, seemingly insignificant beginning, he would expand his movement to tremendous proportions.  At least, that was his desire.  He was not content with his newfound success and security at 26 Second Avenue, but was yearning to increase ISKCON as far as possible.  This had always been his vision and he had written it into the ISKCON charter: “to achieve real unity and peace in the world . . . within the members and humanity at large.”