# Conversation [Partially Recorded]

*Type: Conversation Dated: December 26th 1970 Location: Surat Audio file: 701226R1-SURAT.mp3*

**Prabhupāda:** Why not preach in a systematic way under government patronage? I am alone trying for it.

**Indian man:** I would just request you, if you can give some idea as to how we could do this in practice; otherwise it is...

**Prabhupāda:** No, no. You cannot see how I am doing this *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is*? We don't misinterpret *Bhagavad-gītā* [indistinct].

**Indian man:** Well... Hare Kṛṣṇa, our in the *bhajan* Hare Kṛṣṇa we did. Perhaps we did with the boys and girls, not with adults.

**Prabhupāda:** No, no. You have seen our book, *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is*?

**Indian man:** And the preachers will not be proper present.

**Prabhupāda:** No. No. I can train them. My submission is that this movement is acceptable all over the world.

**Indian man:** Yes, yes.

**Prabhupāda:** That is experimented. Why not government gives this movement in a systematic way? I am trying alone in my own, individual way.

**Indian man:** That is the [indistinct].

**Prabhupāda:** Government understand it [indistinct] that this important..., is very, very important from religious side, and people are eager for it.

**Indian man:** Well the government difficulties, this being a secular state... You see, the difficulty would be...

**Prabhupāda:** First of all accept *Bhagavad-gītā*. We are speaking on the *Bhagavad-gītā*.

**Indian man:** Government... Then government has to also [indistinct] book…

**Prabhupāda:** Then why the [indistinct] did not accept another religious books? [end]