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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="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ConversationwiththeGBCMarch271975Mayapur_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="36" link="Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur" link_text="Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur|Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: What is that something? The first something is that everyone is complaining that they are not getting books. You just, first of all, do it, how to stop these complaints.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We got to get the books (indistinct)</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: In India?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: This is the problem.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The India is membership, and the members, if they are dissatisfied, then? This is not good. So find out the way how this complaint can be solved.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: So does it mean that the BBT should take charge of the Life Membership program or to see that they're supplied the books?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Life Membership... Suppose you make one Life, he has to be supplied books.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So fifty percent goes to the...</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Book Fund.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is stated in the BBT. That is the main purpose, that fifty percent must go...</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: For printing. Fifty percent for printing, fifty percent for building.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. This is the main purpose.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: But the difficulty is that in India there's no other source of income besides the Life Membership. How they will maintain?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the...? That you discuss.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, a meeting. (?)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That you discuss, how these sources, how their maintenance should be... But BBT is already declared. It is meant for two purposes. Now you find out how the sources. That is business of GBC.</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: That we can discuss afterwards?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: Śrīla Prabhupāda...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The BBT, that, it should be: how the complaints should be stopped, and if they have no other income, then how things should be managed. That is... GBC should discuss.</p>
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<div id="ConversationwiththeGBCMarch271975Mayapur_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="36" link="Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur" link_text="Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur|Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. I want to see, as the chairman of the BBT, that fifty percent is spent on printing and fifty percent is for constructing temples. That's all.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And who sees to that? The GBC?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The GBC.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That means, practically speaking, the management... The BBT is separate from ISKCON for legal purposes, but the management of it is done by the GBC.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That's nice.</p>
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<div id="ConversationwiththeGBCMarch271975Mayapur_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="36" link="Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur" link_text="Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur|Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This complaint from the members is not at all good. If somebody becomes envious, he can file a suit that "These men have collected money from me, eh, but not supplied books."</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: They sign a document we also sign.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: We sign one document when they become a member.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: And they sign also. It's a contract.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So this is the first thing, that the GBC maintains here. Immediately the collection is there—fifty percent goes to the BBT account, and fifty percent goes to the printer.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: May I recommend, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that one GBC member, plus GBC India be appointed to look very carefully into this whole si...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Be appointed. Do this. Be appointed.</p>
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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 id="RoomConversationApril201976Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="80" link="Room Conversation -- April 20, 1976, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 20, 1976, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 20, 1976, Melbourne|Room Conversation -- April 20, 1976, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So when they pay for it.... When they pay for it, they will try to see "What these books are saying? Let me see." And if you get free, then you may keep it in your rack for hundreds of years. So that is not the.... But after all, we have to print these books, so who will pay for that? We have no money.</p>
<p>Carol Jarvis: Well, what happens to the rest of the money, though, that is collected in the streets?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We are increasing our movement. We are opening centers. We are printing more books. This is my books. I have made a Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. That is my will, and I have given my will that fifty percent of the collection should be spent for reprinting the books and fifty percent should be spent for spreading the movement. So there is no question of material profit.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationApril231976Melbourne_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="85" link="Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne|Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest: And the funds that you derive from the books...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Book Trust. That is explained.</p>
<p>Guest: ...are used within your congre..., within the people that live in...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I make a Book Trust. That is my will, that from all the collection of the books fifty percent for reprinting and fifty percent for expanding these temples, these buildings. In this way.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune41976LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="112" link="Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And the BBT is paying part of the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And at least, by tickets, people will pay ten dollars.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Yes, that's Bharadvāja's idea, to tickets.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Otherwise, how we will raise the money? Book Fund cannot give.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The Book Fund has been giving one half...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: But now...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That can be given as loan, not for...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: As loan, the whole thing...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Originally you told me wherever they go, the temple will pay fifty percent and the BBT will pay fifty percent.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, that is loan.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Oh.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's got to be a loan.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: BBT is, our policy is fifty percent for reprinting and fifty percent for temple. Nothing else.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Strict.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: But that fifty percent for temple is only as loan.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Except in India (laughs), then it is gift.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Because we are rich Americans.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is contribution to your Guru Mahārāja.</p>
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<div id="GardenDiscussiononBhagavadgitaSixteenthChapterJune261976NewVrindaban_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="162" link="Garden Discussion on Bhagavad-gita Sixteenth Chapter -- June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Garden Discussion on Bhagavad-gita Sixteenth Chapter -- June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Discussion on Bhagavad-gita Sixteenth Chapter -- June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban|Garden Discussion on Bhagavad-gita Sixteenth Chapter -- June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Our Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, the formula is therefore: as soon as you get money, fifty percent spent for printing and fifty percent for temple. This is the basic principle of our Bhaktivedanta (Book Trust)—no saving. As soon as you have got some money, print books, print books. Don't keep it. If you print books, some day somebody will read. But if we keep money, it creates disturbance. I am therefore always insisting, "Print books, Print books." Or construct temple, this building, that building. There is no need of keeping money.</p>
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<div id="EveningDarsanaJuly131976NewYork_4" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="209" link="Evening Darsana -- July 13, 1976, New York" link_text="Evening Darsana -- July 13, 1976, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsana -- July 13, 1976, New York|Evening Darsana -- July 13, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mr. Kallman: Prabhupāda, could you please accept this small donation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. Give this garland.</p>
<p>Devotee: We are still building the front, left over from Gaurahari's work. So we're constantly putting more money into the front(?), for your use, whatever.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, my funds are being utilized in printing books, and expanding centers. My book trust is divided into two. Fifty percent for the printing the books and fifty percent for expanding centers.</p>
<p>Mr. Kallman: Any way I can help Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationAboutMayapuraConstructionAugust191976Hyderabad_5" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="273" link="Room Conversation About Mayapura Construction -- August 19, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation About Mayapura Construction -- August 19, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation About Mayapura Construction -- August 19, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation About Mayapura Construction -- August 19, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gargamuni: If we stock money, then there'll be no preaching. But if we print books, then we have to sell the books. So that is preaching.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore I am insisting all over, "Print any book." Never mind either Hindi or English or... Print book and keep it in stock, nicely.</p>
<p>Gargamuni: And gradually we will sell. Then we will preach. Otherwise, if we...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the purpose of my Bhaktivedanta Trust. Fifty percent must be spent for printing and fifty percent for building. That's all. No money. Don't keep any account.</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationSeptember71976Vrndavana_6" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="300" link="Garden Conversation -- September 7, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Garden Conversation -- September 7, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- September 7, 1976, Vrndavana|Garden Conversation -- September 7, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: "In London, George Harrison donated a big castle which is now called Bhaktivedanta Manor. We have purchased many buildings and converted them to temples from the sale of our books. What is wrong if a portion of Bhaktivedanta Book Trust sales are transferred to India for construction of temples? Fifty percent of Bhaktivedanta Book Trust income is spent for further publishing and the other fifty percent is spent to build temples all over the world. In fact, Blitz should appreciate this because Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda's books are bringing valuable overseas currency into the country without any cost to the Indian public."</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationonFarmManagementDecember101976Hyderabad_7" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="345" link="Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Don't spoil money, but do like businessman. He invests money, he gets a return. Spend it for Kṛṣṇa. That is wanted. There is no question of becoming a miser. I never did it. When I have got that farthing, I want to spend it. Immediately spend. Oh, what I have made this BBT? Immediately 50% for printing, and 50% for spreading this. (indistinct) and understand what I want to do.</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ArrivalofBBTManagerJanuary91977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="24" link="Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay|Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So these books are there?</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Now I have everything in stock. We have everything.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And which we have not got stock you print here. Keep for sufficient stock, in this way. So I was asking last night that at least in Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, simply whatever collection is there, fifty percent print books and fifty percent spend for temple or for pushing on the books. No money available. Bas.</p>
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<div id="ConversationVairagyaSalariesandPoliticalEtiquetteApril281977Bombay_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="157" link="Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay|Conversation: Vairagya, Salaries, and Political Etiquette -- April 28, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So these things should be stopped, that they should live comfortably with husband and wife, children, and take salary from the... You decide. This is not to our... Besides that, in our BBT it is clearly written that "Fifty percent for printing book, and fifty percent for..." So you cannot violate this. Those who can give voluntary service, "Welcome." Otherwise we don't require. At least they should not be given any salary. That is very bad. This is against principle.</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaBombay15November1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="593" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 15 November, 1970" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 15 November, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 15 November, 1970|Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 15 November, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your collecting is concerned, persons who donate should not receive membership for such donation, membership is different. Fifty per cent should go each to the Temple Fund and to my Book Fund. For the 50% put into my Book Fund, yes, they may receive credit for our book program; why not?</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaBombay27November1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="620" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 27 November, 1970" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 27 November, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 27 November, 1970|Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 27 November, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please send a list of the Members you have already made and how the collection is dispersed. Are the funds divided into 50% for the Temple Construction and 50% for the Book Fund? And a separate contribution for the Hamilton House.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoDayanandaCalcutta8February1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="50" link="Letter to Dayananda -- Calcutta 8 February, 1971" link_text="Letter to Dayananda -- Calcutta 8 February, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dayananda -- Calcutta 8 February, 1971|Letter to Dayananda -- Calcutta 8 February, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now the most important point is to recruit life members as many as possible. Please let me know how many you have made. The money received of the life membership fees should be divided into two: 50% for building fund and 50% for my book fund. By distributing of our books and literatures through this program of life membership, our institution can become greater and greater all over the world.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKsirodakasayiBombay17April1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="167" link="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 17 April, 1971" link_text="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 17 April, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 17 April, 1971|Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 17 April, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have advised to send you 50 sets of books immediately, so all the proceedings from their distribution should be divided 50% to the Building Fund Account and 50% to the Book Fund Account and the respective banks are as follows:</p>
<p>Central Bank of India, Head Office, Bombay</p>
<p>"International Society for Krishna Consciousness Building Fund," Current Account No. ?????.</p>
<p>Central Bank of India, Gowalia Tank Road Branch, Bombay</p>
<p>"A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Book Fund"</p>
<p>"International Society for Krishna Consciousness Book Fund" H.S.S. Account No. ??????</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaBombay19April1971_2" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="170" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 19 April, 1971" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 19 April, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 19 April, 1971|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 19 April, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am advising the bank to change the name of my Book Fund from "A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Book Fund" to "International Society for Krishna Consciousness Book Fund". Kindly, therefore, regularly transfer by mail all collection of membership fees 50% to the Building Fund and 50% to the Book Fund. Similarly advise Gorakhpur also to do the same.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKsirodakasayiBombay21April1971_3" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="173" link="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 21 April, 1971" link_text="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 21 April, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 21 April, 1971|Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Bombay 21 April, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All book sale proceeds should be immediately transferred by mail transfer. 50% should go to the book fund account and 50% to the building fund account. The building fund account number is 9-381, Central Bank, head office. The book fund account number is 14538, Central Bank, Gowalia Tank branch, Bombay.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoAllISKCONCentersVrindaban14March1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="71" link="Letter to All ISKCON Centers -- Vrindaban 14 March, 1974" link_text="Letter to All ISKCON Centers -- Vrindaban 14 March, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to All ISKCON Centers -- Vrindaban 14 March, 1974|Letter to All ISKCON Centers -- Vrindaban 14 March, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I specifically formed the BBT to invest in it exclusive rights for the printing of all literature containing my teachings, writings and lectures. In this way the collections are to be divided fifty percent for printing new books and fifty percent for construction of temples.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaVrindaban7September1974_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="384" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1974" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1974|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now you publish in German language all our books and distribute. Krsna will help you in every respect. The BBT collection should be spent 50% for publishing and 50% for construction of temples. At the present moment the Mayapur-Vrindaban projects are going on, so as soon as there is an excess of money it should be utilized here. Not a single farthing should be invested in any business enterprise. Formally it was so done without any sanction. So be careful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaBombay8December1974_2" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="659" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 8 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 8 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 8 December, 1974|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 8 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Or there is no need of keeping a separate BBT account. The BBT is here in India. That BBT may or may not keep an office in Japan where the majority of the books are printed. The printer ships the books to, say, ISKCON LA, who can warehouse and distribute to other ISKCON centers. BBT India issues the advice what amount ISKCON LA has to pay the printer. And ISKCON LA pays 50% directly to the printer for goods received and 50% may be deposited in the ISKCON Mayapur Vrindaban Fund, to be used for temple construction or purchasing property. In this way there is no need of keeping any separate BBT account which may be taxable. And, ISKCON LA acts as the appointed agent of BBT India. So, if ISKCON LA goes into liquidation, BBT India will not be affected. If the agent goes into liquidation, does it mean that the supplier must also go into liquidation? So ISKCON LA receives goods and pays according to advice received from BBT India.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaBombay27December1974_3" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="710" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 27 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 27 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 27 December, 1974|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 27 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have just received one letter from Tamala Krishna Goswami which is very encouraging regarding his preaching program in the United States. He has requested to take a loan from BBT for $30,000 to purchase three more buses. I fully authorize this. Therefore please do the needful.  Fifty percent of BBT funds ar for printing books and fifty percent are for construction of temples. So these buses are like temples, moving temples. Therefore you should give him the loan.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaBombay28December1974_4" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="721" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 28 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 28 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 28 December, 1974|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 28 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have written Hamsaduta one letter to give you the loan of $30,000. BBT means fifty percent is for printing books and fifty percent for construction of temples. So your buses are all moving temples. Don't worry. There will be no scarcity of money. Go on with your program and increase and increase more and more. In the end of your letter you mention that people are not very much eager to go to Temples but with your program you are bringing the temples to the people. Yes, this is a very important point. You have picked up this idea very nicely, of bringing the temples to the people. In this way you will give everyone the opportunity to step in the direction of back to Godhead, back to home.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaLosAngeles21June1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="352" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1975|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is my habit to see that money is not being squandered. If money is spent unnecessarily, I feel very badly. You are collecting with great effort, and I do not like to see it spoiled. I am thinking that Guru-krpa's collections may be used for book publishing only. He can print books in Japan and send there to you for selling in India. From these sales, you can spend 50% on construction and 50% on Hindi publishing. And anyone who can manage such an organization, he can manage the BBT. But one must do it. It is simply a matter of organization. We can send you unlimited number of books. You simply have to apply your brain how to sell them. Then you will have plenty of money.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJayatirthaMayapur22January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="60" link="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 22 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 22 January, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 22 January, 1976|Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 22 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have suggested that some men are best engaged in doing business. I agree. All grhasthas who are interested in doing business should do so in full swing. Yat karosi yad asnasi, yaj juhosi dadasi yat/ yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kurusvamad arpanam ([[Vanisource:BG 9.27 (1972)|BG 9.27]]). Let this be the guiding principle. So let all the grhasthas who wish to, execute business full-fledgedly in the USA and in this way support Gurukula. Business must be done by the grhasthas, not by the sannyasis or brahmacaris. Neither the sannyasis or brahmacaris can be expected to support Gurukula. The parents must take responsibility for their children, otherwise they should not have children. It is the duty of the individual parents. I am not in favor of taxing the Temples. The parents must pay for the maintenance of their children. Neither can the BBT be expected to give any loans. Now the BBT 50% for construction is pledged to the projects in India—Bombay, Kuruksetra, Mayapur. The profits from the businesses should first go to support Gurukula and balance may be given for the local Temple's maintenance. Grhasthas can do business. It is best if the Temple Presidents are either sannyasis or brahmacaris. If the grhasthas want to do book distribution, they should be given a commission of 5 to 10% of which part must go to Gurukula. For any others who are engaged in important Society projects, they must get something for maintaining their children at Gurukula.</p>
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<div id="Lettertounknown228September1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="542" link="Letter to unknown 2 -- 28 September, 1976" link_text="Letter to unknown 2 -- 28 September, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to unknown 2 -- 28 September, 1976|Letter to unknown 2 -- 28 September, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There has been various remarks about our income and expenditure, and on this some questions were raised in our Lokeshava and discussions made there to. The Lokeshava members accepted the fact that our various expenses are met up with our income of selling various books, as well as various donations from the public. Up till now my humble self could write at least 84 books and print them in English. Those are Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto I to VII (24 volumes), Teachings of Lord Chaitanya, Shri Chaitanya Charitamrta (17 volumes), the Nectar of Devotion, Krishna Consciousness The Topmost Yoga System, Shri Isopanisad, etc., etc. These books are sold throughout the world, and the amount of their daily average sale is a little over five lacs, and for this Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, a registered body has been formed, with the intention that 50% of the sale proceeds will be utilized for printing books and the balance to be spent towards building temples, maths, and their day to day expenses.</p>
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