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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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<div class="heading">Yes. Where is that abridged edition?... Yes. So foreign countries, foreign religions, and they are foreigners. So why they are purchasing these?... We are printing huge quantity.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsana -- May 12, 1977, Hrishikesh|Evening Darsana -- May 12, 1977, Hrishikesh]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So people are accepting all over the world the instruction of Kṛṣṇa. These books we are selling. Daily our collection is five to six lakhs of rupees. Now this recent publication, how many copies we have printed, this?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 220,000.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. We expect to sell them very...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Three months' time.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That Bhagavad-gītā, abridged edition, we have 300,000?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Of the abridged edition?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Where is that abridged edition?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): It's in the corner.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So foreign countries, foreign religions, and they are foreigners. So why they are purchasing these?</p>
<p>Devotee (2): Three lakhs and three thousand copies, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We are printing huge quantity.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They just printed fifteen lakhs more.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: New printing is fifteen lakhs, one time, abridged edition.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi) It will distribute India's glories. People will feel obliged to India, that "We have got this knowledge from India." Actually knowledge is here. There is no such knowledge all over the world.</p>
:bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra
:janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra
:([[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]])
<p>Paropakāra. India is meant for paropakāra. India is not meant for exploiting others. But unfortunately the knowledge is... Sarasvatī jñāna-khale yathā satī. We have got the store of knowledge, but we have kept it locked up, not distributed to the world. They are called jñāna-khala. One who has knowledge but he does not want to distribute it, that is, they are termed as jñāna-khala. So we should not be jñāna-khala. In India there is storehouse of spiritual knowledge, and every one of us should make our life successful by assimilating this knowledge and distribute all over the world. There is customer; there is appreciation. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. (Hindi) Why you should be jñāna-khala? Na sādhu manye. Jñāna should be distributed. The modern scientists also, they have... If they have discovered something new, they go and distribute for the benefit of the whole human society. Unfortunately we are distorting the knowledge in Bhagavad-gītā, interpreting in a different way according to my whims, and spoiling my life and others'. This process should be stopped. Present Bhagavad-gītā as it is. You'll be benefited; others... Don't distort. That is our duty.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Sir, do you not consider it advisable to get the judgment that the Americans have translated into Indian so we can look?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That... We require an expert lawyer. There are some technical terms. Ordinary man cannot translate. If amongst yourselves there is a lawyer, if he helps us translate, we can publish it. There are so many legal... The judgment is wonderful judgment.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Historical judgment.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I was expecting to fight that case at least for some years, but by Kṛṣṇa's grace he has given on the first day the judgment.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Was it argued on also?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Simply we presented our statement. I advised them that "You take my eighty-four books and present before the judge that 'Our statements are here. First of all you read these books. Then you give your judgment.' "</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Prabhupāda's judgment.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So (laughs) Kṛṣṇa has given him sense that from the ordinary statement he has understood the whole thing, and he has given judgment immediately. I never... This is all Kṛṣṇa's arrangement. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati ([[Vanisource:BG 18.61|BG 18.61]]). He is everyone's heart, so He has dictated that "You give judgment like this." So he... Otherwise it was impossible. And that is... In many courts... We have been harassed in Australia, many, many, because they are afraid of... Now Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is advancing. The some... One politician has said that "This movement is increasing like epidemic. If we do not check it, within ten years they'll take our government." (laughter) Yes, in America one politician... So actually that is happening. In spite of so much obstacles, we are increasing. Our books are selling. They are advancing. We are getting more devotees. Our movement is not checked. It is... (break) But you do not know. We are dropping from the sky? Our main movement is Europe, America.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Throughout the world over.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All over the world.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): No, all over the world I have heard about...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So all over the world does not include Europe?</p>
<p>Indian man (3): No, it does.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then why you ask me? We have got in every country of Europe-England, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Rome, Sweden, everywhere.</p>
<p>German man: But the Pope is agreeing with you in Rome?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>German man: The Pope is agreeing?</p>
<p>Devotee (2): The Pope.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Pope.</p>
<p>German man: In Rome. He is agreeing with Hare Kṛṣṇa...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But he agree or... Who cares for his agreement?</p>
<p>German man: With chanting and...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We don't care for anyone agrees or not. We push on. That's all. Do you think in India they agree Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person? Then? We don't care for them. We have to go forward. That is our business. If Kṛṣṇa agrees, that is all right. We don't care for anyone else, agrees or not agrees. If our master agrees—we are servant—that is our satis... We don't care for ordinary...</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Unfortunately, that this training ground all over the world, excluding India, the birthplace of... There the movement should be increased. In present you have got temples in here...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi) They say, "What is this Hare Kṛṣṇa? We have chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa many times. Now let us meditate." This is going on.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): The Indian government even does not grant visa for the followers of Hare Kṛṣṇa movement in India.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we are not dependent on Indian government.</p>
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