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Conversation [Partially Recorded]

26 December 1970SuratRoom conversation701226r1.sur

Why not preach in a systematic way under government patronage?

Prabhupāda:
Why not preach in a systematic way under government patronage? I am alone trying for it.

Indian man:
I would just request you, if you can give some idea as to how we could do this in practice; otherwise it is…

Prabhupāda:
No, no. You cannot see how I am doing this Bhagavad-gītā As It Is? We don’t misinterpret Bhagavad-gītā [indistinct].

Indian man:
Well… Hare Kṛṣṇa, our in the bhajan Hare Kṛṣṇa we did. Perhaps we did with the boys and girls, not with adults.

Prabhupāda:
No, no. You have seen our book, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is?

Indian man:
And the preachers will not be proper present.

Prabhupāda:
No. No. I can train them. My submission is that this movement is acceptable all over the world.

Indian man:
Yes, yes.

Prabhupāda:
That is experimented. Why not government gives this movement in a systematic way? I am trying alone in my own, individual way.

Indian man:
That is the [indistinct].

Prabhupāda:
Government understand it [indistinct] that this important…, is very, very important from religious side, and people are eager for it.

Indian man:
Well the government difficulties, this being a secular state… You see, the difficulty would be…

Prabhupāda:
First of all accept Bhagavad-gītā. We are speaking on the Bhagavad-gītā.

Indian man:
Government… Then government has to also [indistinct] book…

Prabhupāda:
Then why the [indistinct] did not accept another religious books? [end]