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BBT (Lectures)

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

This book department, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Apparently, it is business. We also want money. We also land. We want also building. We want also men. Then where is the difference between the ordinary person and Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement? This is the difference: kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ. Everyone has sacrificed his life for Kṛṣṇa. Personal? There is no personal interest.
Lecture on BG 4.19 -- Bombay, April 8, 1974:

Now, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, there is attempt. We are also after land. We are also after building. We are also after money. We are also after business organization, either a sky... What is that? Our? Spiritual Sky. Or this book department, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Apparently, it is business. We also want money. We also land. We want also building. We want also men. Then where is the difference between the ordinary person and Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement? This is the difference: kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ. Everyone has sacrificed his life for Kṛṣṇa. Personal? There is no personal interest. These boys, these girls, are working day and night, hard, in my direction, but I don't pay them. Neither they expect any payment. Otherwise this movement would not have proceeded so quickly. There is no question of payment. Kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ. Everyone is engaged for satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa.

Arrival Addresses and Talks

Rāmeśvara prabhu is very competent manager of the BBT. And he works very hard. That is his qualification.
Arrival Talk in Room -- Mayapur, March 23, 1975:

Jayapatākā: Now Illustrated Weekly is nothing compared to Back to Godhead.

Prabhupāda: No. (laughs) Better than Illustrated Weekly. I thought of getting some help from artist. For painting picture, I will dictate, and they will paint picture. Now Kṛṣṇa has got lots of artists. So depend on Kṛṣṇa. He can do everything. Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma. This new catalogue you have seen? They have made nice catalogue, Rāmeśvara prabhu. Rāmeśvara prabhu is very competent manager of the BBT.

Jayatīrtha: Yes, he's first class.

Prabhupāda: Yes. And he works very hard. That is his qualification. What is the news of our Karandhara prabhu? He's not coming?

So can you give me a list how much money you have to realize from our devotees who have taken money, loan?
Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975:

Prabhupāda: So can you give me a list how much money you have to realize from our devotees who have taken money, loan?

Jayatīrtha: Who have taken money in loan? You mean unauthorized loan?

Prabhupāda: Not unauthorized, authorized.

Jayatīrtha: Oh, how much Book Trust has loaned...

Prabhupāda: Unauthorized also? There are?

Jayatīrtha: How much Book Trust loans there are. You want to see the list of Book Trust loans?

Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.

Jayatīrtha: Yes, we can give you that list.

Prabhupāda: There is unauthorized loan also?

Jayatīrtha: I thought you were... Sometimes in the past from time to time these things have gone on.

Prabhupāda: Past is all right.

So that Bhaktivedanta go-down has come here?
Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975:

Prabhupāda: No, I gave to Gurukṛpa and he sent through somebody.

Jayatīrtha: He did not give it to me. Maybe he gave it to Rāmeśvara. I'll check with him. I think he must have forgotten.

Prabhupāda: So the engineering block is now occupied?

Jayatīrtha: Oh, yes. As we go by it, you can see the big sign is there, "Bhaktivedanta Book Trust." It's over here to the left.

Prabhupāda: Oh. (laughs) So that Bhaktivedanta go-down has come here? No.

Jayatīrtha: No, go-down is still there. This building is not large enough for that.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You have not seen this building yet, Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Oh, here is for lease.

General Lectures

We have started a Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for expanding this movement.
Evening Address to Pandas and Scholars -- Jagannatha Puri, January 26, 1977:

So we are preaching Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam all over the world. We have translated into English Bhagavad-gītā, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And they are being received very nicely. In the Christmas period in a week, from 17 December to 24 December, our report is we have sold books, small and big, seventeen lakhs. And our general survey is: we are selling books to the worth of five to six lakhs daily. Daily. And our expenditure is also very heavy. We have started a Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for expanding this movement. We have got about two hundred buses to preach the Jagannātha cult all over the world, village to village, town to town...

Page Title:BBT (Lectures)
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:14 of May, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=5, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:5