Books and spirited preaching spread Krishna Consciousness more effectively than hospitals and institutional charity.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Conversation — December 4, 1971, Delhi 711204R1-DELHI [13:49 Minutes] Conv_711204R1-DELHI Prabhupāda: These, they do not leave the control. They sell things, and they catch some leaders, they take loan from them, and they take it, and eighty percent for themselves and twenty percent for so on. This is going on, the so-called independent country. In India also, that is being done.
America is loaning, and these, ah, those who are in charge of the government, they're spending money in their way... [break] …purchasing weapons from them. Actually, the development, and these Britishers and Americans, they're constantly engaging Pakistan in fighting spirit and supplying them ammunition and supplying here. Their business is going on, taking loan from them and paying to them, and they remain debtor perpetually. You give me money, purchase from me, and in books you are debtor. I take your money by supplying some goods.
So my money comes back, and you remain a debtor in the book, perpetually. Guest: [laughs] Prabhupāda: Is it not? Guest: Yes. Eighty percent rupee belong to the States, United States. Prabhupāda: Just see. Guest: The public did the dee…, the date, 3-04-80[?]. The interest is calculated every fortnight. So though it is two or three percent, but it works out about eighteen percent in a year.
Guest: You see, it's a sort of, I don't know how to call it. It's… Not only compound interest, but super-compound interest. Every fifteen days or a month something is added to the capital. So things are… But I think Kṛṣṇa consciousness is better for them as well as for us.
[laughs]. So I will take leave and come tomorrow at four o'clock. Hmm? Dalmiyaji has been here?
Jai Dayal Dalmiyaji? Gurudāsa: Not recently.
Prabhupāda: I have come just yesterday night, last night.