Prabhupāda: Take that book. Take his book. No, I.... (tape of Prabhupāda plays in background, laughter)
Mike Barron: I'll think about that.
Prabhupāda: That is the lack of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. (background talking, commotion) (break) Sixty, seventy, and another, small books. Sixty books like this.
Hariśauri: She's asking how many do we sell.
Prabhupāda: Sell? That I have given, estimate.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: With our standing orders we sell them all.
Carol Jarvis (Woman Interviewer): Oh, no, I mean, how many do you sell a day? For instance, how many of each book would you sell a day? Would it be thousands a day?
Guru-kṛpā: Yeah, maybe.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, sometimes tens of thousands.
Prabhupāda: Twenty thousand dollar daily.
Guru-kṛpā: Minimum.
Prabhupāda: Minimum. Sometimes we go to fifty thousand dollars.
Carol Jarvis: A day?
Prabhupāda: Day. All over the world.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Devotees are working very hard to spread this consciousness, knowledge. (background talking)
Prabhupāda: Religious book, selling daily so much, huge amount, that is unique in the history.
Carol Jarvis: Are they sold mainly in the Western countries?
Prabhupāda: All over the world. Especially in Europe, America.
Hariśauri: We even had some book orders just recently from Russia.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They are also inquiring.
Guru-kṛpā: Every university in America takes complete book. Every book Śrīla Prabhupāda writes, there is standing order. Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, UCLA, University of California...
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: All of the leading professors also have written very favorable reviews, citing these...
Prabhupāda: Where is that book, Professor Judah's book? Hare Krishna and Counterculture.
Carol Jarvis: Oh, yes.
Prabhupāda: You have read that?
Carol Jarvis: No, I haven't.
Prabhupāda: Oh, he has written big book, Professor Judah. He has very much appreciated. And he has given statistics and everything, very scholarly book. Hare Krishna and Counterculture.
Carol Jarvis: Ah, yes. Yes, I have read it. (background conversation-about filming? Machine makes whirring sound)
Prabhupāda: It is breathing? (more background conversation, machines whirring, etc.)
Carol Jarvis: Your Divine Grace, what prompted you to start the Kṛṣṇa movement?
Prabhupāda: Well, the scientists make research. One does wrong thing to do that. So our process is to carry out the order of the higher authorities. So my Guru Mahārāja, my spiritual master, asked me to do this. Therefore...
Carol Jarvis: But you led a rather normal life—before this you were married. You were a businessman.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Carol Jarvis: What made you change suddenly?
Prabhupāda: By this association. Just like we are holding meeting, and so many boys, girls, they come. If somebody is capturing the idea, he makes further progress.
Carol Jarvis: What was it that was different about your way of thinking?
Prabhupāda: It is not my way of thinking; it is nobody's way of thinking; it is the natural way of life. Just like you eat. It is not a way of thinking. It is natural demand of the body.
Carol Jarvis: Well, why is it, can I ask, perhaps, that the Kṛṣṇa movement is the natural way of living against, say, other religions, other faiths?
Prabhupāda: It is not the question of religion or faith. It is the necessity. This already I have said, that you are hungry, and you require some food. It is not a way of thinking, that "I am hungry. I require..." It is the urge. You are hungry, and you require to eat. Similarly, people are making so many arrangements to become happy. So this is also another way, but this is the right way.
Carol Jarvis: You have now thousands and thousands of devotees all around the world.
Prabhupāda: Yes.