Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Right on that, there's already a profit of more than twenty thousand rupees. So just with export...
Prabhupāda: So you can return that twenty thousand rupees I have given you for Jayapataka. (laughter) Yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually, we will invest that as further expansion, but if you want...
Prabhupāda: Then you should also take it as loan.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This all, advertisement?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Certainly. It is business.
Rāmeśvara: From one pocket to another.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. So Bali-mardana says... I just got his letter today.
Prabhupāda: I had one... When I was doing medical business I had one very nice customer. He was my patron also, one Muhammadan doctor, Sriraja Uttina.(?) He was very kind to me. He was just like a father to me. So his system was that in his pharmacy, patent medicine, drugs, medicine, surgical instruments, like that different headings. So suppose, at the sales time, sells some patent medicine. So he has got a box. So he puts the price in the patent medicine. And if he sells some surgical, he puts the price in the surgical pot. In this way, when they want to purchase again, so he would consult his pot, whether there is money. Then he'll allow to purchase. Otherwise not. So he told me, "This is my account. This is my account. When they want to purchase, they consign us something. I shall allow them to purchase so much as I have got in the box." This is... I have seen that gentleman. And in Calcutta there was... In our young time there was a cinema, Mr. Maddar, J.F. Maddar. He's a Parsee. So for some..., business, he was tenant of mine. One of my tenants. So in his room there were boxes. So I asked Mr. Maddar what is this box at home. And "This is the counter containing counter part of ticket in my cinema house. So these are sent to me. I count the counter part. Then I can calculate, 'This is the calculation.' I don't keep an account. Now let them do whatever they like. I understand that so many counter parts, so much money."
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Bali-mardana writes to me that he even wants to order 7.2 and 7.3 from India. So what I'm saying is the demand is there for our books. Because we are selling the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for one dollar forty-five cents, same quality with plastic cover and two or three ribbon.
Prabhupāda: No, one thing is that if you export, you will come to the light of the government. They want. And then you will get a good supply of paper.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We can import paper also.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: So that's why I want you to spend a day or two. We have so many things I want to cover with you.