Jayapataka Swami: You see, the Golden Age is supposed to start 5000 years after the advent of Kali-yuga. Lord Caitanya came 4500 years ago, so the Golden Age starts at 5000 years, that’s just now. That’s when Śrīla Prabhupāda took the movement all over the world. We need to now spread the chanting of the holy name all over the world, and of course after maybe 200 years of Lord Caitanya’s appearance, there was 200 years of some weaker situation. That’s due to the influence of Kali, but somehow, different misconceptions had entered into the society of devotees. There were different apa-sampradāyas or improper disciplic successions, unauthorized disciplic successions, and these were mistaken as true representative of Lord Caitanya’s philosophy. So, people lost faith that Vaiṣṇavas were not so good, at that time, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, he reestablished the vaiṣṇava-dharma, in their proper understanding, and he reestablished the Nāmahaṭṭa which had been started by Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. So since then, in his disciplic succession, we have been working to reestablish the proper understanding of Lord Caitanya’s teachings,and His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, taking the inspiration from Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda Ṭhākura, he went around the world and established Kṛṣṇa consciousness, worldwide, so you can say, now is the beginning of the Golden Age.
31-MAY-2020 SRI MAYAPUR DHAM, INDIA