Authorized spiritual knowledge comes directly from God through scripture, never through speculation or unauthorized interpretations.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Reporter: I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your routine. I understand that you only sleep about two or three hours a day. And do you usually sleep during the middle of the daytime as well? Prabhupāda: Yes. Daytime I sleep two hours, and night also two hours. Reporter: Ah!
Two hours at night also. Prabhupāda: Hmm. Reporter: Does it...? Is it more difficult to do this when you're traveling a lot? Prabhupāda: No. I..., my work is going on. By traveling also, I carry this machine, Dictate..., Dictaphone.
I dictate, and then my assistants, they write, transcribe, and then it is..., it goes to the Press. In this way my work is going on. [noises coming from outside] Reporter: I'd like to ask one... Is your role in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in the United States particularly or worldwide?
Ten years ago, when you first came to the United States, did you take a very active role in the organization, and I'm wondering whether you do much of that now? Prabhupāda: No, although the volume of work has incr... [break] ...a hundred times, but these American disciples, they are helping me, so I haven't got to work personally so much. I simply give the instruction and they carry out. But the work has increased voluminously, there's no doubt about it.
I came here alone in 1965 without any help practically. Where to live, where to sleep, there was no destination. Sometimes some friend's house, sometimes some friend's house, practically loitering on the street. And in this way were passed more than one year.
I arrived here in 1965 in September, end of September, 17th of September, in Boston. Hmm. Is it Boston? Devotee (1): Yes, Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: Yes. Then, in Boston, I stayed on the sea, on the only, but I saw the Boston city.
Then I was brought to New York. So I had one friend in Butler, Pennsylvania. Hmm. After my arrival, I was received by some representative of my host.