Gopesh
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August 21, 1976, Hyderabad
Prabhupada: You were selling Back to Godhead on the street?
Gargamuni: Yes, in the pushcart.
Prabhupada: That time how many copies you were printing?
Gargamuni: We were printing 500 to 1,000. We started at 500 then to 1,000.
Prabhupada: Then when Brahmananda proposed that “We can get it printed from Japan, but they want order for 20,000 minimum.” So I said yes. Five hundred, 1,000 we were selling, and he proposed 20,000. “Yes. You order.” [laughs] Now, two million?
Hari-sauri: The biggest one, I think, was that centennial, bicentennial issue. What was that? It increases, anyway, every year.
Prabhupada: Brahmananda was hesitating how 20,000 per month we shall consume.
Gargamuni: Yes, we were all afraid.
Prabhupada: [laughs] I said, “Yes. You order. We shall consume.” Then this Tamala Krsna, he helped.
Hari-sauri: He was in book distribution from the start.
Gargamuni: Yes. From Los Angeles.
Prabhupada: That’s right.
Gargamuni: From their sales they were sending.
Prabhupada: Yes. He gave impetus for distribution. Then we got encouragement—other party, another party. Where those mimeograph machine gone?
Gargamuni: I don’t know. After I went to San Francisco… They should be preserved. That was beginning. We could still use them.
Prabhupada: Yes. I paid $150 I had collected. They wanted hundred dollars each or $125 each. So I went there, that I want two machines, but I have got $150 dollars only. So he wanted to throw away the machine. “All right, you take two machines.” So I gave $150 and took away two machines. I think it is more costly. Eh?
Gargamuni: Yes, oh, yes. Those are heavy-duty machines. They were old, but they were good.
Prabhupada: No, they were working nicely. And the printer was that boy?
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