False independence invites nature's punishment; surrender to Krishna alone brings genuine freedom and happiness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: These things are not available in the Western countries. They do not know all these. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I don't think that there has ever been a personality who has ever given such a great gift to the Western world as yourself, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Yes, actually that is the fact. But let them appreciate, that's all. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Gradually I think they all will. Some are now...
Prabhupāda: No, they are intelligent. First... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The thing is, it seems to me that we are flooding so many books that they must become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Prabhupāda: [laughing] Yes, they have no alternative than to read these books. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Practically now it is commonplace that every day when our men go out, supposing each man meets in a day a thousand people or five hundred people, always, without a doubt, at least one or two of the people he's met, they already have another book, and they are taking a second or third book.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Many of them have two or three volumes of Caitanya-caritāmṛta or Bhāgavatam. And although they may not read it, their children are reading it. Prabhupāda: Somebody is reading. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yes. I made a study.
I asked the men in our party, when they were all gathered, to raise their hand if they had received a book before joining our party, and every single one of them had gotten a book before joining the movement—without exception. They were attracted through reading a book or a magazine. Prabhupāda: I talked with that police officer. He has published. In Chicago. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Crime: What to do?" Harikeśa: "Why and what to do?" Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Why and what to do?" Prabhupāda: Every paper.
There are so many papers. Education so much advanced, and everyone is a criminal. Hmm. Have saṅkīrtana, then lecture. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You chant? Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa only. [break] That is foolishness.