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Sandy Nixon: How do you deal with negativity? In the outside world do... The devotees encounter negativity every day, people that are not interested. How, not just on the outside world, but how does one deal with that within, how does one relieve oneself of that negativism?
Prabhupada: Negativity means... Just like we say, "No illicit sex." We say, we teach our students, "No illicit sex." Do you think it is negative? What does she mean by...?
Jayatirtha: The situation is that other people think that it's negative, and therefore they feel negatively towards us. So how should we react to that?
Sandy Nixon: Well, how to do, you deal with it within yourself?
Ravindra-svarupa: What do you mean negativity within yourself?
Sandy Nixon: No, no, not just criticism but if you get a lot of people that are working against you all the time... Here you're surrounded by people that are positive and that are reinforcing. But when you get yourself in the outside world in a position where there are people that are draining you and taking your energy, how do you replenish that energy?
Ravindra-svarupa: How do we stay fixed when there are so many people against us?
Prabhupada: So nobody is against you? Do you think nobody is against you? I am asking you.
Sandy Nixon: Do I think nobody is against me? Oh, sure, there's people for me, against me, that don't care about me.
Prabhupada: So there are against and for. Why do you bother about the against? As there are some people against us, there are many people for us. So that is the position in every field of activity. So if somebody is against us, why should we bother about it. We are selling books daily, a huge amount. So there is no question of against us. Anyone who is even against us, he is persuaded to purchase one book. So how he is against us? He is purchasing our book. What is the daily amount of sales, our books?
Jayatirtha: We sell about twenty-five thousand books and magazines a day.
Prabhupada: What is the price?
Jayatirtha: The collection would probably be around 35 to forty thousand dollars a day.
Prabhupada: We are collecting forty thousand dollars a day by selling books. How I can say they are against us?
Sandy Nixon: You're very positive. I like that.
Prabhupada: Where is the any other institution who can sell forty thousand dollars a day? So how do you say that they are against us?
Sandy Nixon: My last question. Could you tell me about the Hare Krsna mantra because it's so important to Krsna consciousness. And I'd like to have...
Prabhupada: It is very simple. Hare means "O the energy of Lord," and Krsna means "O Lord. Both of You kindly engage me in Your service." That's all. "Both of You, Krsna and His energy..." Just like here we have got conception of male and female, similarly, originally, God and His energy, God is male and energy female, prakrti and purusa. This idea of male and female, wherefrom it comes? God is manufacturing so many male and female. So the male and female idea, wherefrom it comes? It comes from God. He is the origin of everything. So the female, or prakrti, or energy of God, and God Himself... He is called purusa. So we are appealing both God and His energy, combined together, engage us in Their service. This is Hare Krsna. O Hare means "O the energy of God," O Krsna, "O Lord, both of You take care of me and engage me in Your service." That's all. This is meaning.
Sandy Nixon: O.K., thank you. And I lost some on the way, I guess. When I moved into the house, there were these... just came out of the earth and it was so beautiful to see them.
Prabhupada: So your questions also is answered?
Anne Jackson: May I ask you a few questions? Could you please tell me a little bit about your life and how you knew that you were the spiritual master for the Krsna consciousness movement?
Prabhupada: My life is simple. I was householder. I have still my wife, my children, my grandsons. So my Guru Maharaja ordered me that "Go and preach this cult in the western countries." So I left everything on the order of my Guru Maharaja, and I am trying to execute the order. That's all.
Woman: And is this picture here the man...?
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[Room Conversation, with writer, Sandy Nixon, July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]
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DESCRIPTION CONTINUED: Prabhupada: Yes, he is my Guru Maharaja.
Woman: And he is no longer living.
Prabhupada: No.
Woman: He spoke to you spiritually?
Prabhupada: So this is my (indistinct). That's all.
Woman: At what point was it that he told you to do this? It was very late in your life that you...?
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