“Today the Bhagavad-gita is printed in millions of copies in scores of languages and distributed in all nooks and corners of the world. The credit for this great, sacred service goes chiefly to ISKCON... For this one accomplishment alone, Indians should be eternally grateful to the devoted spiritual army of Srila Prabhupada’s followers... Bhaktivedanta Swami went to the United States in 1965. The respect and popularity his movement gained in a very short span of 12 years must be regarded as one of the greatest spiritual events of the century.”

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India

 

“In the period from October 1968 to November 1975, His Divine Grace Abhayacharanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, astonished academic and literary communities worldwide by writing and publishing 52 books on the ancient Vedic culture... His philosophical journal Back to Godhead had attained a monthly circulation of three million copies. These and other of his writings were being published throughout the world in 22 languages.”

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1976

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