“Actually I have not given any of you sannyas. But I am in a war with Maya, the material energy, and I need leaders. It is called in wartime ‘battlefield commission.’ There are no qualified leaders, but someone has to lead the charge. So you take every fifth man, ‘You are now lieutenant of the squad.’ He is really a private, but we make him lieutenant for the day and he leads the charge. It is to be understood that you are not sufficiently equipped for this fight and most of you will go down.”
Srila Prabhupada Conversation, July 1976: NEW YORK CITY
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