Books are our greatest weapon to awaken humanity from spiritual darkness and oppression under maya.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: First business, how to get our books. "Bṛhat-mṛdaṅga." [loud kirtan in background] For Russia, export from India will be favorable. So government paper we are printing seven, eight rupees price. Make that addition, all the books.
Ask them to take paper from the government, huge quantity, and all these books should be published immediately, five thousand copies. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Five thousand copies each.
Prabhupāda: Yes, if possible. Minimum one thousand. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Last time when we were speaking, I was mentioning to you that in Russia they are particularly inclined towards an exchange program of books, where we give our books and they will give some useless books.
Prabhupāda: So what useless books, why should we do this? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You mentioned last time you will throw them away.
Prabhupāda: For us there is no readable books in the whole world. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No.
Prabhupāda: We cannot waste our time. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, of course. But is there any... I mean, of course we would like to... Prabhupāda: But only some of the authorized books, just to take reference and to refute; otherwise, we haven't got to take lesson from anyone. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Prabhupāda: This is a fact. All rascal speculators, what value they have got? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Supposing there are many thousands of libraries in Russia and they are agreeable to placing, say, one of our books of each book in each of the libraries, but they are not willing to purchase all of these books, but they are willing to give us some book in exchange?
Will we make this sacrifice? Because it will represent a loss of money. Prabhupāda: No, if you can arrange for selling those books at any cost. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can arrange to sell our books to them at any cost? Prabhupāda: No, no, exchange. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can sell. There is some set resale value. Then we can realize some money. Prabhupāda: Yes, then it is all right. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They'll have value.