At that time, devotees would mainly go out to distribute invitations for Gaura Purnima and to collect rice, but I started preaching. I would start early in the morning when everybody was still sleeping—I would wake up early, take my Deities (photographs and the altar), do mangal arati, etc. We did everything in the same way how we do it in the temple—we would turn the house into a temple. Sometimes, I would take along some brahmacharis and some foreign devotees also. Sripad Trivikram Maharaj was not a sannyasi at that time, he also went with me, Bhakta Bandhu Prabhu, Munindra Mohan Prabhu, Sadhu Priya Prabhu, Gaurachandra Prabhu, and many other devotees also went with me. At that time, devotees would come for Gurudev's appearance day, so there were usually a lot of foreign devotees living at the temple.

Before that, those who went to villages did not follow so many things—they would wake up, take some breakfast and then go to collect rice. What for will people give them rice? What for do we go for collection? When I go, I mainly give attention to the preaching programme—more than to the actual rice collection. What for do we come? We do not come just for rice or money. We come to preach. So, I would stay in some devotee's house and from there go on a sankirtan with a megaphone (hand mic) around the whole village announcing and inviting everybody to some programme or to the evening programme. People like it, they become excited, "Oh, Krishna-Name has come to my house!" I would invite everyone, "There is going to be a programme in the evening. Please come, everybody." In the meantime, I would tell the person where I stayed to prepare prasadam for two-three hundred people, and they are usually rich people, so they were happy to feed others. I invited everyone to the programme and for prasadam ("Come to this house tonight, join our programme"), and many people would come just for prasadam, but they joined the programme, listened to my class, and so on. This is how I started preaching. In the evening, most of villagers do not work, they sit and gossip at the tea stall or some village shop—I thought better they instead come to my class and hear some kirtan. In this way, I would give a class, chant kirtans, and the next day I would go for collection and people happily gave much rice because they understood what for they were giving it.

We are not beggars. We are not going house to house asking for some rice. No. We do not come as beggars—we come to give something to them. We are actually donors coming to give them something, we do not come to take anything from them. Those who understood it happily gave very much rice.