Rāmeśvara: He was asking if you are surprised that it is being, that your books are selling so much and that so many devotees are coming.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Neither anybody has written so many books within ten years.
Guest: How many?
Prabhupāda: Now it is fifty-four. Bring books.
Rāmeśvara: I've shown him the books already. The universities and the scholars are also very appreciative. At least ninety percent of the universities in America have already ordered these books.
Prabhupāda: In India, also.
Guest: They are sold throughout the world.
Rāmeśvara: Yes, and they're published in many different languages. French, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Indian languages. Spanish, very big.
Prabhupāda: Get this light.
Interviewer: Where did you get these paintings?
Prabhupāda: Paintings? Our students did.
Rāmeśvara: Our art studios are here in Los Angeles.
Interviewer: What happens when that inevitable time comes when a successor is needed?
Rāmeśvara: He is asking about the future, who will guide the movement in the future.
Prabhupāda: They will guide. I am training them.
Interviewer: Will there be one spiritual leader, though?
Prabhupāda: No, I am training GBC, eighteen all over the world.
Rāmeśvara: His personal secretaries.
Interviewer: I see.
Rāmeśvara: To see that the original teachings that Prabhupāda has given are not in any way changed.
Interviewer: Well, nothing more? Then ah, thank you, and I wish you well in your travels.
Rāmeśvara: We have given him many books to read and magazines, so he's already preparing the article from that material we have given him.
Prabhupāda: For a common man it is little difficult, but it is very easy. We are talking of the spiritual platform, but common man does not understand what is spiritual, although it is very easy. My body, your body, is moving on account of spiritual spark. That's a fact; everyone can see. As soon as the spiritual spark, soul, is off, the body, it is simply lump of matter. That is a fact; everyone can see. But still they are not serious to understand what is that spiritual spark. There is no education. Mostly they are thinking there is no spiritual spark, the body is moving.... How it is moving? What is their explanation?
Rāmeśvara: Chemical combination and reaction.