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"

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"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"

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

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.

Garden Discussion on Bhagavad-gita Sixteenth Chapter -- June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban:

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...: 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.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: You said your Guru Mahārāja used to keep the temples in debt all the time.

Prabhupāda: Hmm.

(pause)

Prabhupāda: So you don't require covering? This girl? This cloth is sufficient? Sufficient? So you have no covering? Hmm? You do not require clothing?

Kulādri: It is warm for us, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: No, if they require, there must be supplied. You must ask them what they need and provide them. Because they do not say, you'll also keep silent. That's not good. Every month they must be asked what they need. Necessities, they must be supplied. We have already discussed this point. The women, they require protection—children, women. (break) All right, you can...

Devotees: Jaya.