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Book Printing Expansion Requires Financial Support, Managing ISKCON Resources Wisely

📅 January 9, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 47 min
Print and distribute books as many as possible—this is our main program; all else is secondary.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: Then somebody must be there to look after the construction. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We can send one boy, Vijeta, from here. He's not doing very much, and he's on the construction department. I was just waiting for Saurabha to come back.

Prabhupāda: So he can go, because Gaura-Govinda will be engaged for collecting. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Vijeta and his wife, they can both go right now. He is...

Prabhupāda: Very bitter. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This medicine?

Jagadīśa: We're going... All three of us are going. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: At one o'clock.

Prabhupāda: So what other news? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? I had previously told you that the BBT was... Because it's doing very heavy printing at the moment, say, for about two months, we need a little loan. Prabhupāda: You showed me you have got four lakhs. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: That is including an accounts receivable.

That money's invested in books. Prabhupāda: Oh. Para-hasta gataṁ dhanam. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Like Gargamuni owes BBT one and a half lakhs. Prabhupāda: I know that. That is called para-hasta gataṁ dhanaṁ puṭṭhi-gata-vidyā.

"I am very learned man." How? "Now I can speak when I see the books." That means "Personally, I have not assimilated anything. I can... And I have got money.

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