Interviewer: One question. You have priced these books very high comparatively for the poorer countries. Do you have any plans to reduce...
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: You have priced these books very high for poor countries.
Haṁsadūta: We're printing locally now. The same books, but local printing so that they can be afforded by the public.
Prabhupāda: Yes. When we print locally it will be sold at half-price.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This Bhagavad-gītā for example, it's going to be sold to the masses at fifteen rupees in about three weeks. We are printing the Indian edition with 48 color plates. The government of India is giving us concessional paper for printing. They are very pleased with our... We're getting lot of concessional paper so we are expanding the printing.
Interviewer: What is the price of this edition?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This is, in America it's seven dollars, seven dollars ninety-five cents.
Prabhupāda: And what the home member has said?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: The home minister recently said that he wants this movement to be spread all over the world. One of the prominent people said he wants this movement to be spread all over the world.
Interviewer: Now, sir, from your lips, how to attain this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and to maintain it?
Prabhupāda: Once you come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you will maintain. You won't have to...
Interviewer: No, from your own, direct from your lips how to...
Prabhupāda: No, this direction is there in the Bhagavad-gītā that... Find out this verse, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65). It is very simple thing. Find out this verse. (Indian guest is entering or leaving and Prabhupāda says for him to take prasādam in Hindi)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
- man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
- mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
- mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam
- ātmānam mat-parāyaṇaḥ
- (BG 9.34)
"Engage your mind always in thinking of Me. Offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me." It's Chapter Nine, verse 34.
Prabhupāda: So what is the difficulty? If you think of Kṛṣṇa, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto, is there any difficulty? There is no difficulty.
Interviewer: I think his problem is, it is my problem as well. You see, the spiritual consciousness does not stay at the same level. Sometimes you are well absorbed. At other times you do all the arja. The arja, the bhakti. It's not a constant factor.
Prabhupāda: No, you have to keep it constantly.
Interviewer: How to do it? That is the problem.