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<div class="heading">To convince people that this is nice movement, we have got dozens of books, and they are selling nicely. Practically we are standing by the sales of our books and literature.
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Prabhupāda: And if still people are unhappy with this movement, then what can be done?

Author: So you say that you encourage anybody who disagrees with aspects of your philosophy to argue with you.

Prabhupāda: No. We invite everyone, "Please come and take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness." So if one disagrees, why he will come?

Author: But don't you suggest that if somebody feels that they can find fault in your philosophy . . .

Prabhupāda: Then let him explain what is that fault.

Author: Right.

Prabhupāda: Then we can reply. But without fault, if they make some, what is called?

Pradyumna: Complaint?

Prabhupāda: Complaints, that is very difficult thing. What is our fault? Please tell me?

Author: Then sir, I want to ask you about, well . . . it seems this book is impracticable without the kind of material I want. Now, I don't want to adopt an uncompromising position at all, but I am convinced that you misunderstand my motivations.

I don't know how to persuade you that my motivations are good ones, and so therefore I am in a corner, in a cul-de-sac. Now, the material that I must have in this book is sufficient to be able to persuade people that they are reading about something which is true. That means, for example, that I . . .

Prabhupāda: So, that books we have already got. To convince people that this is a nice movement, we have got dozens of books, and they are selling nicely. Practically we are standing by the sales of our books and literature. How to convince people that this is a nice movement, we are ourselves publishing. You cannot publish better book than what we have done. We know the interest.

Author: Sir, I am not seeking to persuade people that it is a nice movement. I am seeking to describe it as it is.

Prabhupāda: No, no, describe, but you cannot describe better than us. Is it not a fact?

Author: Sir, Back to Godhead and the other books are not . . .

Prabhupāda: Because we know our business, therefore we are describing our facts very nicely. You are outsider.

Author: That's right.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So you cannot place our, I mean to say, pros and cons so nicely.

Author: Sir, I think we are talking about two different things. I think you . . .

Prabhupāda: You, you wanted little history of this movement? I have given you. That you can create. Yes. How the movement is going on, you can . . . but we cannot spoil our time in that way, that I describe the biography of a person.

Author: Right.

Prabhupāda: In our books there is no biography of anyone. That biography is not that you . . . we are interested in the philosophy.

Author: Well, I, erm . . .

Prabhupāda: If this . . . the philosophy, ''vijñāna''. It is called ''vijñāna'', science. If you want to know what is the science of this movement, we can spare day and night to convince you. But these are superficial. First of all we say that, "I am not . . . we are not this body." So why we shall be interested with the history of this body?