I want to see simply distribution of books in any language. That I want. Room Conversation – July 27-28, 1977, Vrndavana

Our main business is to distribute my books and people will come gradually. Everything should be done for that purpose. Srila Prabhupada; letter to Ramesvara, 7 November, 1976

(Spoken shortly before his disappearance) I have upset many persons’ minds. Many may have considered me their enemy because I was obliged to speak the plain truth of service and devotion toward the Absolute Godhead. I have given them all those troubles only so that they might turn their face toward the Personality of Godhead […]

Atreya Rsi: Yes. That’s the difference between Your Divine Grace and all these other bhogis. They make it according to the taste of the people. They change. That’s why this movement is so solid: no compromise. Prabhupada: No. Why compromise? My Guru Maharaja never made any compromise. Room Conversation — June 29, 1972, San Diego

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments that saralata, or simplicity, is the first qualification of a Vaisnava, whereas duplicity or cunning behavior is a great offense against the principles of devotional service. From Srila Prabhupada’s purport to CC Antya 2.117

If you simply push on our literature, then our movement is going, you must know. It is really going forward. And there will be no scarcity. You’ll get everything. Srila Prabhupada – January 5, 1974, Los Angeles

Now people are reading all kinds of nonsense books and thus their reading capacity is helping to pave their way through the circles of birth and death. If they will simply take to reading this transcendental literature we are presenting, the same reading capacity will elevate them to the highest perfection of spiritual life. Srila […]

Our preaching work will be measured by the quantity of books we distribute so continue ever-increasingly. Letter to Makhanlal, 11 December 1973

You have said rightly when you write that the devotees are working to please me by distributing my books. My mission on behalf of my guru maharaj and Lord Caitanya, to spread Krsna Consciousness would never have been so successful if it had not been taken up by enthusiastic boys and girls such as in […]

Regarding sales figures, please endeavor in this way. The sales figures — this is the only solace in my life. When I hear that my books are selling so nicely, I become energetic like a young man. From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Ramesvara — 13 August, 1974

Arjuna was trying to become very gentleman, nonviolent, Arjuna: “Krsna, I am not going to fight.” People very much appreciate, “Just see, Arjuna is so gentle, he is trying to become nonviolent, and Krsna is inducing him to become violent.” This is the vision of the demons. They do not know whatever Krsna desires, that […]

You cannot understand God by your speculative method. Big, big scholars, they have speculated about Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita. Misled, they could not understand. Just like a big politician, Gandhi, he also has Bhagavad-gita in his hand, but he never spoke throughout his whole life that Krsna is worshipable. He never spoke. Have you seen […]