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  • The Universal Teacher. Sriman Nitai dasa speaks about how Srila Bhaktsiddhanta started his preaching with only 2 or thee men.

    Pobag used to stay, not in his own home, in, near the Pak-Brijan state, not there. He used to stay at Uttar Pradesh No. 1, Uttar Pradesh Dhan-Sarok, near the Parashuram centre. He started his preaching from there.

    Only three or four disciples, like no mosque, no mosque, nowhere in India, no question of falling. At that time my age might be 14 or 13, 13-14, that is in the year 1930. So far I remember. And the temple was started in constructing by my father Chaitanya Babu, I think in year 1930.

    When he was not born. And it was completed in 1934. And though my father was not an educated man, he read Atvatara 6. He has got no father, mother, none in this world.

    And he was born in the district of Ghatot, 80 miles from Calcutta, which is now under Balnazad. When he did not get any food anywhere, he only used the half tank. No shot, nothing. By watching, he came down to Calcutta.

    I told him, at the age of 12, when the tram car was drawn by horses, my father was initiated at the age of 28, he came to Calcutta at the age of 12, he used to work in a salt market without taking any ammunition, only two times a meal, only noon and night. No other hope at all, no money, nothing. In this way he started his life. Then he came in contact with Chobha, that very near, where that gentleman who was running his salt business, in the land, now, following the sattva, connecting Uttar Naga and Godavari.

    Near, just on the side of the gang, Like a canal, have you seen? Then Bhagavad-gita mosque was started by J.B.Jastav, donated all money by J.B.Jastav, who has got no children, two wives. Then gradually became... I think in the year 35 or 39, after 35, Bhagavad-gita temple.

    I did, and gradually I began fishing all over India. Mahaprabhu, Jyotirmandir, Bhishma and his father, Allahabad, the big capital, Ulema, Ulema this time, they were the residents of Allahabad. In Agra, in Dhaka, I chose to live in Bhishma mod. One of the others, he aspired in Bhagwaja mod, Ulema mod. on the first of January 1937.

    He was taken by a special chain from Sierra Leone to Macau and the ceremony was done at that place. Donated by all devotees, not by one. All the devotees, according to their condition, they donated.

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