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.