Prabhupāda: Actually we are pledged to give something substantial to the human society. This is our mission. We are not that group, that showing some magic and take some fees and . . . it is not our business. We have got so many literatures full of treasure house of knowledge. We have to distribute that. Not bluffing, showing magic or this or that, miracles. No. We are not this. It is a institution for giving knowledge to the human society. The first beginning of knowledge is that at the present moment, people, although very much proud of their advancement of knowledge, he does not know the, what is the active principle of life.
Guest (2): Could we cover one more subject, sir, before we close, or do you have some . . .
Guest (1): I would like to ask about the writings and where they came from and so on, but you go first.
Guest (2): You should read the book. I have a very good friend, a brahmin friend in the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. How do you view the development of the potential for nuclear explosions in India?
Prabhupāda: Yes I have, from the revealed scripture we can understand from . . . (aside) You have got the first part of Bhāgavatam?
Cāru: Yes, right here. Part One?
Prabhupāda: The Aśvatthāmā released the brahmāstra?
Satsvarūpa: That's not in that book. That's in Three, I think.
Prabhupāda: Similar nuclear, nuclear weapon was there. It was called brahmāstra. So when this brahmāstra was released by one Aśvatthāmā, the same symptoms of nuclear weapon . . . (to devotees) Kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā bāho. That is . . .
Satsvarūpa: We don't have that volume.
Prabhupāda: Why you are lacking? You say you have got enough books. I inquired from you in the morning. You said: "Yes, we have got enough stock."
Madhudviṣa: We have them, but we do not have them here.