At the airport on the day of Srila Prabhupada's first visit to the UK, he boldly replied to reporters who asked,
 
“What have you come to teach us?”
 
“I have come to teach you what you have forgotten—God.”
 
“These boys and girls who are following me, they are very elevated. They are not ordinary boys and girls...”
 
A few years later during darshan in his rooms at The Manor, he made the following statement:
 
“In your last lives you were all brahmanas, otherwise how could you so quickly come to this platform of Krishna consciousness. Actually, you were all ordered by my Guru Maharaja to take birth to help me to spread this movement.”
 
Srila Prabhupada then lent back, paused briefly while he looked at us, and then with a most beautiful smile said,
 
“And now we are all together again”.
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