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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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They have advanced to take up this enlarged edition. Otherwise, they are business. In the beginning they refused. They said: "No, no, we cannot publish so big volume. We can . . . if you minimize . . ." Therefore we minimized it to four hundred pages.
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Upendra: Paramānanda and Satyabhāmā, they brought me this, your Bhagavad-gītā.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Upendra: When I first . . . in New York.

Prabhupāda: Now this Macmillan's report is that ours selling more. Therefore, they have advanced to take up this enlarged edition. Otherwise, they are business. In the beginning they refused. They said: "No, no, we cannot publish so big volume. We can . . . if you minimize . . ." Therefore we minimized it to four hundred pages.

Śyāmasundara: They made a study. They know what's going . . . they want all of your books. In the contract for Topmost Yoga and Easy Journey they have the option to take your next big book.

Pradyumna: In Harvard Library, your Bhagavad-gītā—they have many, many Bhagavad-gītās, about four hundred, many—and Bhagavad-gītā As It Is was taken out, of late, since it's been in there, more than any other ones. They all have dust, and yours has been taken out. And Kṛṣṇa book, Kṛṣṇa book was never in. I could never see it in, because it was always out, from the very first day it was in. In fact, when it was going into the library, the head of the department, he took it right away.

Prabhupāda: Another thing happened in Los Angeles. I wanted some quotation from a place of this Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So the man came, he said: "Swāmījī, first of all I must buy this book. Either you accept or not accept our quotation, what price I shall pay you?" I said: "Give me six dollars." Immediately he took this book. "Such a nice book I have never read. So either it is printed or not printed in our press, I must take this book." Actually, these ideas what we have explained in our books, they're unknown to the modern world. Unknown.

Śyāmasundara: They're not described anywhere else. No other source.

Prabhupāda: Nobody knows that God can be person, there can be dealings like this, there are dealings actually, and they are described. That is wonderful.
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