BOOK DISTRIBUTION IS OUR SUCCESS

[Guest guest]

Devotee (4): We were thinking about how everyone knows about Krsna now. In

the United States they didn't know before, but when they see this little

picture

on the book, they all know, "That is Krsna." We hand them the book, and we

say, "We're passing these out." They say, "Oh, that is Krsna." ...(Book

distribution) is so successful that everyone has learned about Krsna.

Prabhupada: Oh, as soon as they see the picture, they understand it is Krsna.

Devotee: When they see the book they think, "Oh, the Hare Krsna devotees. I

saw them on the street." When they see the picture of Krsna on the book, they

think of the devotees chanting.

 

Devotee: Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, people travel from one airport to

another, and they'll get a book in Chicago and then they'll come to Atlanta and

 

we'll approach them to give them another book, and they've already gotten one

book in Chicago. And they ask, "How many of there are you around the world?"

Because everywhere they go, in every airport they are getting books. So they

think

that there must be millions. They think that there must be millions of Hare

Krsna devotees, because everywhere they go they're being approached to take a

book.

Devotee: I once asked a boy in Washington temple how many devotees he thought

we had, and he said, "Oh, I cannot guess." And I said, "Make an educated

guess." And he said, "Well, I've seen you here and I think maybe two million."

(laughter) And I said, "Three thousand. Now just see the potency of Hare Krsna.

 

You're thinking we're two million, and we're simply a handful." He became a

little convinced. So our books make us millions. People think we are millions

because of the books.

Prabhupada: Push this on. Then our movement is successful. All Americans

should have at least one set of books. That is not very difficult for them, to

purchase one set books. But it will be a good asset for them if they keep and

see

sometimes. Any line he reads, he will get transcendental knowledge. Anyone

who reads Krsna book, he will become Vaisnava. That's a fact.

 

Devotee: But we have no attraction for Krsna. You are attracting us to Krsna.

Prabhupada: (laughing) Actually Krsna is attracting. Like one magnetic stone

is attracting one piece of iron, and then another, then another.

Devotee: We are becoming happy by distributing your books.

Prabhupada: Thank you. They are Krsna's books. (Conversation with Srila

Prabhupada 3/2/75)