Our books are recognized by the academic section of universities
Expressions researched:
"Our books are already recognized by the academic section of universities"
|"appreciated all over the world by scholars, by universities"
|"Our books are being read in universities"
|"by high-class professors, universities, libraries"
|" universities, they are studying Krsna book"
|"universities, they are very much appreciative"
|"University, colleges, professors, they are reading our books"
|"universities, they are receiving so nicely"
|" books are being very much appreciated. In all universities"
|"universities, they are welcoming our books"
|"our books are being so much accepted throughout the universities "
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Pṛthu-putra: He asks if you wrote all these books.
Yogeśvara: Did you write all these books?
Prabhupāda: That you can say. What can I...?
Yogeśvara: Yes, our spiritual master has translated these books. (French) He asks, "These are the ancient Sanskrit books then?"
Bhagavān: Prabhupāda has not just translated. He's given commentary, purport.
Prabhupāda: Yes, you can show the nature, translation, word-meaning. (French) Then I combine with reference to the modern society, how they can be applicable to the modern life. (French)
Yogeśvara: Have we interested any of the leading French citizens in our movement?
Prabhupāda: That I do not know, but many French men came to see me, and...
Yogeśvara: Last year, at Hotel De Ville.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Yogeśvara: Last year, you were received by the Mayor at Hotel De Ville.
Prabhupāda: No, but in America we have reception from highly scholarly people, university heads, like that. Our books are being read in universities, colleges, and they're accepted in big, big libraries. Not only accepted what is published, but they have forward order for all the publications that will come.1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: So this is very important movement. Try to understand and broadcast it. It is not a sectarian, so-called religious movement. It is a scientific movement.
Reporter: You mean this movement in the world?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And all our books, they are very nicely being accepted...
Reporter: Yeah, I have some of them.
Prabhupāda: ...by high-class professors, universities, libraries. They are all accepting. You will be surprised to know that we are selling books, according to our Indian currency, twenty lakhs of rupees per month. Out of that, we are spending eight to ten lakhs for all our centers.Haṁsadūta: She says she has heard that in the universities in America it is being taught about Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In some of the universities Kṛṣṇa consciousness is being taught.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Girl: It's a beginning.
Prabhupāda: Hm. Just like Temple University, they have got this Nectar of Devotion. And many universities, they are studying Kṛṣṇa book, Bhāgavatam. They are gradually accepting. At least the professors, teaching staff, they are accepting. They are studying as one side of views, not seriously.Prabhupāda: That's all. That's all. It is going on like that. They have no standard method. We are presenting the standard method. This is Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. As it is, without any malinterpretation, we are presenting as it is. This is standard.
Faill: Yes. If you begin dressing things up, they change. And the size of the movement now? Is it a growing movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, it is very much growing. You will be surprised that we are selling these books... We have got about fifty books like this, and every library, college, professor, universities, they are very much appreciative of this, because there was no such literature existent. This is the new contribution to the world.1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Janice Johnson: Why is it that the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement has in the last couple of years attempted to make itself a little bit more respectable in the public's eyes by having members wear street clothes and wigs and so forth, while they are soliciting?
Prabhupāda: By nature it is very important movement. Therefore those who are intelligent, they are taking serious interest. We have got so many books. Perhaps you have seen. They are being accepted by the learned circle all over the world. University, colleges, professors, they are reading our books, placing standing order, and we have got relationship, especially with educated circle. They are trying to understand the importance of this movement.
Janice Johnson: I don't quite understand that in terms of my question about wearing street clothes and wigs instead of saffron robes and chanting and so forth.
Hari-śauri: She's pointing out that in recent years we've changed our dressing style while we're on the street selling books.
Prabhupāda: Dress? Dress is not important. Practically, as sannyāsī, brahmacārī, we dress with saffron cloth, but sometimes you do not like, but we have to do business with you; therefore we change. What can be done? "Necessity has no law."Bali-mardana: These are some of our books that Prabhupāda has published just to explain this science.
Prabhupāda: We are explaining this science in so many books. It is open to everyone.
Interviewer: That's quite a library.
Hari-śauri: This is just the beginning. And there's another forty volumes after this.
Interviewer: Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know.
Prabhupāda: It is very difficult, but I have already produced eighty books.
Interviewer: Eighty? Eighty?
Prabhupāda: Eighty books.
Interviewer: Eighty?
Prabhupāda: Eighty. Eight zero.
Interviewer: Translations of the Vedic scriptures.
Bali-mardana: And commentaries.
Interviewer: Translation and commentaries.
Prabhupāda: And all world scholars, professors, universities, they are receiving so nicely.
Bali-mardana: We have standing orders for all of Prabhupāda's books that he has now and in the future, all over the world in all the leading universities and the professors are using them as texts. We have hundreds of letters.
Prabhupāda: You can see some of the lists.Indian man (3): Well, this is God's work, Lord Kṛṣṇa's work. I am trying (indistinct) to cooperate with you because nobody can do.
Prabhupāda: No, you have done tremendous work.
Indian man (3): No, but which is very little considering the situation, the condition, problem (in the) country. I am at a lower level than your level than your work (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: The one encouraging thing in this movement is that our books are being very much appreciated. In all universities, foreign and Indian, libraries, professors, learned scholars.
Indian man (3): Yes, they'll branch out and... It's a great service.
Prabhupāda: We are selling books to the extent of sixty thousand dollars daily. That is our only hope, that we shall not be financially in difficulty. People are taking our books very nicely. People are accepting our literature.Correspondence
1974 Correspondence
1975 Correspondence
Page Title: | Our books are recognized by the academic section of universities |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Matea |
Created: | 10 of Sep, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=7, Let=2 |
No. of Quotes: | 10 |