Interviewer: I was wondering if he had a successor to do . . . do you have a successor to take your place when you die?
Prabhupāda: Not yet settled up.
Interviewer: Pardon me?
Prabhupāda: Not yet settled up.
Interviewer: No. So what process would the Hare Kṛṣṇas . . .?
Prabhupāda: We have got secretaries. They are managing.
Rāmeśvara: He has appointed from all the disciples a group of secretaries. Each one is in charge of a different sector of the world.
Interviewer: How many secretaries?
Rāmeśvara: Presently there is eighteen.
Interviewer: And so that group of eighteen secretaries will choose another leader?
Prabhupāda: I am training each one of them as leader so that they can spread extensively. That is my idea.
Interviewer: So, in other words, you started this whole movement here in the United States ten years ago. Would you say that the United States had the most active, financially, group of followers?
Prabhupāda: What is that?
Rāmeśvara: She wants to know, seeing that you chose the United States to begin this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement ten years ago, now do you find that in the United States there is the most active membership, financially speaking. In terms of contributing to this movement, supporting the movement, is the best field America?
Prabhupāda: But without finance we can go on.
Rāmeśvara: Without finance we can go on.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Interviewer: Oh, we can go on?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Interviewer: How?
Prabhupāda: Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not have any financial help, but His movement is going on. It does not depend on a . . . on financial. It is independent. Spiritual movement is independent of any material help. That is spiritual movement.
Interviewer: But how would you be able to carry out your educational program or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
Prabhupāda: How I am managing now?
Interviewer: But now you are doing well financially.
Prabhupāda: You are stressing on financial help, but my reply is that this movement does not depend on financial help. That is the reply.