The basis of book distribution is hearing and chanting and there’s no substitute for that. People can come for a little while, may be interested and do the service, but the hearing and chanting in groups of devotees where there’s lots of discussion about the philosophy, that’s when devotees actually start to feel the inspiration to do it on their own.

Please print as many books as possible, this is my real pleasure. By printing these books of our Krsna Conscious philosophy in so many different languages we can actually inject our movement into the masses of persons all over the world, especially there in the western countries and we can literally turn whole nations into Krsna Conscious nations. (Letter to: Hrdayananda – Bombay 21 December, 1974)

New Delhi ISKCON has become a world leader in distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books. On my way home from Vrndavana, I stopped in New Delhi specifically to find out from the devotees there how they are doing it.