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THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION
Prof. Kotovsky:  May I put one question to you? Have you many branches of your society in the world?
Śrila Prabhupāda:  Yes.
Prof. Kotovsky:  Where is your main center, and where are the branches of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness society?
Śrila Prabhupāda:  Of course, I have over sixty-five branches.
Prof. Kotovsky:  Sixty-five branches.
Śrila Prabhupāda:  Yes, and I have made my main center in Los Angeles. And now we are establishing an important center in Māyāpur, the birthplace of Lord Caitanya. Have you been to India?
Prof. Kotovsky:  Six or seven times. Now there is a very difficult situation in Calcutta because of the influx of refugees from Bangladesh.
Śrila Prabhupāda:  Yes, but we had our  sankīrtana  there for ten days, and it was very wonderful. The gathering was not less than thirty thousand people daily. They were much interested in hearing our lectures, since we lecture from the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and the  Bhagavad-gītā . So people are responding from every part of the world, especially the American boys and girls. They are especially interested, and England, and also Germany and France. From here I plan to go to Paris. What is the name of that place?
Disciple:  In Paris? Oh, Fontenay-aux-Roses?
Śrila Prabhupāda:  Yes, they have taken a whole house, a nice house. So our process is very simple. We ask our students to observe four prohibitive principles—no illicit sex life, no eating of meat, fish, or eggs, no gambling, and no intoxication, including cigarettes, tea, and coffee. One has to obey these four principles and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra , and you will find how, by this process only, these boys and girls are quickly improving. The process is very simple. Besides that, we have books—volumes of books—the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , the  Bhagavad-gītā . Throughout all these years, I have written about one dozen four-hundred-page books— Kṛṣṇa ,  the Supreme Personality of Godhead  in two parts, the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  in six parts,  Teachings of Lord Caitanya  in one part,  The Nectar of Devotion  in one part. So we are trying to spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa is a historical personality, as much as Lenin is a historical personality. Just as you are trying to understand his philosophy, we are trying to understand Kṛṣṇa's philosophy.
Prof. Kotovsky:  Are there many participants in your sixty-five branches?
Śrila Prabhupāda:  Oh, yes, more than one thousand initiated, and outside there are many. The one thousand have accepted the principles. Just