Carol Jarvis: If you want your thoughts to be passed on to other people, why do you sell the books and make money out of them?

Prabhupada: Otherwise you’ll not read it. If I give you free, then you’ll think, “Ah, this is something nonsense. They are giving free.”

Carol Jarvis: Not necessarily give them free, but perhaps sell them for a price that pays for the cost of producing them.

Prabhupada: So when they pay for it… When they pay for it, they will try to see, “What these books are saying? Let me see.” And if you get free, then you may keep it in your rack for hundreds of years. So that is not the… But after all, we have to print these books, so who will pay for that? We have no money.

Room Conversation & TV Interview with Mike Barron and Carol Jarvis – April 20, 1976, Melbourne