Guest: You belong to West Bengal?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest: Or East Bengal?
Prabhupāda: My birthplace is in Calcutta.
Guest: Calcutta.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest: Great and famous place. Looked after...
Prabhupāda: Where you are governor also.
Guest: Looked after very badly. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Lalaji was governor in West Bengal.
Guest: How you have... Yes. I was called governor for some time there. I liked the place when I was there. They were all very kind. They had settled down after a lot of rioting and, and (indistinct), and all that, they had settled down.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest: They were all very good to me. They looked upon me as a, an impartial man, which is a very great compliment in our country. Now you have undertaken a very great task. I am not competent to discuss or comment upon it.
Prabhupāda: No. I think you are the best man to comment upon it.
Guest: True. Still, I am not presumptuous enough to comment on one who has actually taken up the work. That is the difference between thinking and doing. Thinking is easy. Doing requires inspiration, and you have taken it up.
Prabhupāda: I was thinking of taking up this task long, long ago. I wrote one letter to Mahatma Gandhi that "You have got influence all over the world, and you are acknowledged a man of spiritual understanding. Now you have got svarāṭ, you better retire and take up this preaching of Bhagavad-gītā all over the world."