Śyāmasundara: There's a whole class of scholars now called literary critics who simply take one book, or not even a scripture but any mundane book, and they spend their whole lives making comments what this must mean, what that must mean, "This is my opinion," "This is my thesis."
Prabhupāda: Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām (SB 7.5.30), chewing the chewed.
Śyāmasundara: That really is chewing the chewed.
Prabhupāda: That is chewing the chewed.
Śyāmasundara: One book called Moby Dick . . .
Prabhupāda: That is called scholar. "Oh, he is a big scholar."
Upendra: Is that the māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ?
Prabhupāda: Māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ (BG 7.15), yes. All nonsense. You take it granted that anyone who has no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is a nonsense, whatever he may be. That is I take it, and I challenged him like that. I criticized Dr. Radhakrishnan in my Back to Godhead: "Scholar deluded." I was criticizing him like anything.
Upendra: That was the first Bhagavad-gītā I read was this one by Radhakrishnan.
Prabhupāda: I have criticized him like anything, yes.
Upendra: Then Paramānanda and Satyabhāmā, they brought me this, your Bhagavad-gītā.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Upendra: When I first . . . in New York.
Prabhupāda: Now this Macmillan's report is that ours selling more. Therefore, they have advanced to take up this enlarged edition. Otherwise, they are business. In the beginning they refused. They said: "No, no, we cannot publish so big volume. We can . . . if you minimize . . ." Therefore we minimized it to four hundred pages.
Śyāmasundara: They made a study. They know what's going . . . they want all of your books. In the contract for Topmost Yoga and Easy Journey they have the option to take your next big book.
Pradyumna: In Harvard Library, your Bhagavad-gītā—they have many, many Bhagavad-gītās, about four hundred, many—and Bhagavad-gītā As It Is was taken out, of late, since it's been in there, more than any other ones. They all have dust, and yours has been taken out. And Kṛṣṇa book, Kṛṣṇa book was never in. I could never see it in, because it was always out, from the very first day it was in. In fact, when it was going into the library, the head of the department, he took it right away.