Interviewer: Were you a businessman?
Prabhupāda: Yes, I was connected with some chemical industry. I was manager in a big chemical industry. Then I started my own business. In this way I was family man.
Rāmeśvara: But at the same time, Śrīla Prabhupāda was always Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bali-mardana: And He was writing.
Rāmeśvara: And also he was writing transcendental or spiritual books even at that time.
Bali-mardana: 1944.
Rāmeśvara: It's not that he has adopted a new occupation now.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Rāmeśvara: He has always been Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Prabhupāda: This Back to Godhead was started in 1944, when I was still a family man.
Interviewer: You started that in India.
Prabhupāda: India. The first copy is here, some copy?
Hari-śauri: The first copy is in the Library of Congress in Washington.
Interviewer: Your family, your blood family, are they Kṛṣṇa conscious as well?
Prabhupāda: Not very much. Therefore I had to leave them and create another family.