Without dharmic regulation, civilization loses all moral distinction between chastity and prostitution.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: No, they gave it, account up to December 12, week ending on December 12. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, there was a six-day period when they sold 650,000 pieces of literature, six days. Śāstrījī: My God! Jayapatākā: [Transl. That's a huge amount of rupees!]
Prabhupāda: Recently we have published abridged edition of Bhagavad-gītā, 350,000... Three hundred and fifty hundred thousand. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Three and a half lakhs.
Prabhupāda: Three and a half lakhs. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Already, though, over half of it is sold out. In one month we've sold over half the printing. Subhaga: Even among Indians it is so popular, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Which one? Subhaga: Your Bhagavad-gītā. All the Indians, in meeting they all come. Two or three times I have met.
Some of them say, "You have got more? You have got more Bhagavad-gītā?" Prabhupāda: [Transl. I named it "As It Is." That makes people inquisitive.] No commentary. Subhaga: [Transl. So much demand.] Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
They have lost their own culture; therefore they have no one honest. Formerly Indians were so honest that after one man's death, his son comes—even we have seen it in childhood—"Sir, my father took from you the five thousand rupees. So now he is dead, so I have come to pay you." So he says, "I never seen my account that your father has taken five thousand rupees from me. I cannot take it." This is India.
One man is offering him five thousand, that "We are debtor to you. Please take it." And he says, "No, I don't find in my account that your father took five thousand. I cannot take it." And now they are cheating. This is India's position.