Interviewer (3): Do you think it will come to India via the West now?
Prabhupāda: I don't follow.
Interviewer (3): Will it come to India via the West?
Prabhupāda: India is already there. You are neglecting. Why don't you admit that you are neglecting?
Interviewer (3): Will that neglect go, disappear, through the West?
Prabhupāda: How will that? If you don't like it, how it will go?
Interviewer (4): No, no, my colleague's point is, we have not been accepting, we are not able to understand Bhagavad-gītā on our own. Just because first Western people understand, and because of their...
Prabhupāda: No, no, you have neglected. My charge is that you have neglected. Bhagavad-gītā is there. Bhagavad-gītā is spoken in India. Bhagavad-gītā is there. I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gītā, but if you do not study it, you neglect it, that is your fault.
Interviewer (3): No, that is because it is not part of the educational system.
Prabhupāda: Because you have it. It is the first educational system.
Interviewer (3): No, but the system that we have here...
Prabhupāda: That you have introduced. That is your unfortunate case.
Interviewer (4): No, that is because of historical reasons. We were ruined by a foreign...
Prabhupāda: If the real subject matter of study you neglect, that is your negligence, your misfortune.
Interviewer (3): Now how to rectify this...
Prabhupāda: You can take it now. You are simply arguing. Why don't you take it? That means you don't want to take it. There is the thing, but if you want, you can take it. But if you don't want, then how we can help you?
Interviewer (5): On you return from West do you feel..., do you think your movement in India has gained ground or created consciousness...
Prabhupāda: I am not interested in any particular country. This is meant for the whole human society. As you think "India" or "America," we do not think like that. We take the opportunity wherever it is possible to introduce more and more we take that opportunity.
Interviewer (5): What is the response in India?
Prabhupāda: Indian response we have seen when we held meeting in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, thousands and thousands of people come here to hear about Bhagavad-gītā. Inherently they are inclined, but there is no systematic education. That is the defect. Now the Janmāṣṭamī day is coming I think every Indian will observe Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī, without any fail. But they are not being educated systematically about Kṛṣṇa. They know Kṛṣṇa, they are inclined to Kṛṣṇa, the education of Kṛṣṇa is there, but nobody is interested to give them properly, systematically. That is the difficulty.
Interviewer (4): How is the response in the West?
Prabhupāda: Of course it is a foreign thing for them, but still they are coming and taking it very seriously.
Interviewer (5): Do you think they are taking to it because it is novel?
Prabhupāda: Huh? No, many novel things go from here, but they are sticking to it. They are now seriously taking to it. They understand that this is a great science and we are publishing books. We have already published eighty-four books like that. Eighty-four of four hundred pages. And you'll be surprised that throughout the whole world we are selling books about sixty thousand dollars a day. That means six lakhs of rupees. That is the basic income for our expenditure, 102 centers all over the world.