In a letter addressed to Śrī Atendriya dāsa Adhikārī, the compiler of Śrī Gauḍīya Kaṇṭhahāra, Śrīla Prabhupāda wrote, “Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has revealed a wonderful pastime by describing himself as a sweeper of Śrī Nāma-haṭṭa, the marketplace where śrī harināma is bought and sold. We, with our hundreds of collective mouths, will follow the footsteps of the great personalities who came before us. We will present ourselves as brooms to accomplish his task of prapañca-mārjana-līlā, or removing the dirt of ignorance born of materiality from the hearts of the conditional souls. In other words, we shall preach hari-kathā everywhere and endeavor with all sincerity to save others from harmful association. Although this activity may not appeal to the people of this world, it is the sole means by which they will attain true auspiciousness.”
Each time Śrīla Purī Gosvāmī Mahārāja would recite this quotation, he would add, “Śrīla Prabhupāda has instructed us to become brooms to clean the dirt of ignorance from the hearts of the conditioned souls. Still, it is not by becoming an independent broom that I will consider myself most fortunate and my life to be successful. Rather, I wish to become just one of the twigs of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s transcendental broom.”