Interviewer: They still have to go out and ask occasionally?
Bali-mardana: It's not that we sit back and wait for Kṛṣṇa to send it to us.
Rāmeśvara: No, we're very industrious.
Prabhupāda: We don't sit down idly.
Bali-mardana: God helps those who help themselves.
Prabhupāda: We are not idle preachers, we are working. All, very hard, more than the karmīs.
Rāmeśvara: These men, they go out to engage people in taking our books maybe twelve hours a day sometimes, ten hours a day, without any salary.
Prabhupāda: I am now eighty years old, I am working twenty-four hours. I think I work more than my young disciples (laughter).
Bali-mardana: Oh yes, definitely.
Prabhupāda: I work at night.
Rāmeśvara: It is hard to keep up with Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Hari-śauri: Very difficult.
Prabhupāda: We are not idle creatures.
Rāmeśvara: We are publishing his books and sometimes he is ahead of us by seventeen volumes.
Interviewer: How do you spend your days? You do an awful lot of traveling I understand.
Prabhupāda: Traveling is going on throughout the whole world and wherever I go, at night I write books.
Bali-mardana: Translates.
Prabhupāda: Translate. And daytime I meet devotees.
Bali-mardana: Manage.
Prabhupāda: Manage.
Interviewer: You arrange the marriages?
Bali-mardana: Manage.
Prabhupāda: They have to ask me, final decision is taken from me. From all over the world, from all over the world letters are coming some problem, some problem, some problem. Although I have got about twenty secretaries, still they have to consult, I have to give them advice.