Interviewer: A question: you are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
Prabhupāda: That Kṛṣṇa will dictate who will take my place.
Interviewer: Kṛṣṇa will tell you that?
Hari-śauri: You want that verse, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.
Hari-śauri: This is the translation of what the Sanskrit...
Prabhupāda: No, you can read the Sanskrit also.
Hari-śauri:
- ananyāś cintayanto māṁ
- ye janāḥ paryupāsate
- teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ
- yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham
- (BG 9.22)
"But those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form—to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have."
Interviewer: They still have to go out and ask occasionally?
Bali-mardana: It's not that we sit back and wait for Kṛṣṇa to send it to us.
Rāmeśvara: No, we're very industrious.
Prabhupāda: We don't sit down idly.
Bali-mardana: God helps those who help themselves.
Prabhupāda: We are not idle preachers, we are working. All, very hard, more than the karmīs.
Rāmeśvara: These men, they go out to engage people in taking our books maybe twelve hours a day sometimes, ten hours a day, without any salary.
Prabhupāda: I am now eighty years old, I am working twenty-four hours. I think I work more than my young disciples (laughter).
Bali-mardana: Oh yes, definitely.
Prabhupāda: I work at night.
Rāmeśvara: It is hard to keep up with Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Hari-śauri: Very difficult.
Prabhupāda: We are not idle creatures.
Rāmeśvara: We are publishing his books and sometimes he is ahead of us by seventeen volumes.
Interviewer: How do you spend your days? You do an awful lot of traveling I understand.
Prabhupāda: Traveling is going on throughout the whole world and wherever I go, at night I write books.
Bali-mardana: Translates.
Prabhupāda: Translate. And daytime I meet devotees.
Bali-mardana: Manage.
Prabhupāda: Manage.