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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Preaching, Spreading Krsna Consciousness]]
[[Category:Questions From... Journalists, Reporters, Writers]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. Yes. Neither anybody has written so many books within ten years.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Magazine Interview -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles|Magazine Interview -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: When Prabhupāda is there, for us it's the most, it's like our life has come back.</p>
<p>Guest: I was at the airport when he came in, and it was really quite joyous. There were about seven hundred devotees, I would say. The place was just vibrant.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: They diverted all the other passengers somewhere else because they couldn't get into the room, there were so many devotees.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: The knowledge that Śrīla Prabhupāda is giving us is actually giving us our real reason to be alive. Most of us didn't know what the goal of life was. We had some ideas about this profession or that, but most of us had no real, you know, aim in life. And this philosophy and this knowledge has now given us proper direction. It's cleared up a lot of bad qualities that we may have had.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Is this your last trip to America?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: He's asking if this is your last visit.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not necessarily.</p>
<p>Interviewer: You feel that you can continue to make those serious travels?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, I began my traveling in foreign countries at very ripe old age, seventy years. Ten years I'm traveling. This is the fifteenth tour all over the world.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Are you surprised to see the popularity of your teachings in the last few years?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I think it is becoming popular.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: He was asking if you are surprised that it is being, that your books are selling so much and that so many devotees are coming.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Neither anybody has written so many books within ten years.</p>
<p>Guest: How many?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now it is fifty-four. Bring books.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: I've shown him the books already. The universities and the scholars are also very appreciative. At least ninety percent of the universities in America have already ordered these books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In India, also.</p>
<p>Guest: They are sold throughout the world.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Yes, and they're published in many different languages. French, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Indian languages. Spanish, very big.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Get this light.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Where did you get these paintings?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Paintings? Our students did.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Our art studios are here in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Interviewer: What happens when that inevitable time comes when a successor is needed?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: He is asking about the future, who will guide the movement in the future.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They will guide. I am training them.</p>
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