This map is keeping me alive

Gargamuni Dasa: I got so many hundreds of reviews, from Muslim scholars, from politicians. I got a letter from the Gujarat government ordering all state libraries to buy Prabhupada books. So we sold all the books to the state libraries. I got a letter from Andhra Pradesh government, saying all state-owned libraries or universities have to buy Prabhupada books. And they did, by showing that letter. So Prabhupada was very, he's...

I kept a map, a six-foot map of India in Prabhupada's room with different color pins. Because, when you go to a university you don't sell one set. Like Benares University, do you know how many libraries? They have 22 libraries - you got the Sanskrit library, you got the Agricultural library, you got the main library, you got the English library. You got 22 different... we sold sets to every library in the University; not one set, 22 sets of books at 25 books. How many books is that? 500 books, 600 books at one time. So that's how we sold the books.

So I put like... blue color pin meant 1 to 5 sets in that city, red color would be 10 to 15 sets, and yellow color would be over 20 sets. I put the pins every time in Prabhupada's room and he said, "This map is keeping me alive." This map showing where all his books were being distributed all over India, and the map was covered in pins, because 1,200 sets, so it was all over. So Prabhupada was very good at bestowing mercy upon these devotees.

Some of them got very famous after... Satyanarayana, he was on my party, he's a BBT trustee. Vaiyasaki is a famous kirtana singer, he was on my party. Oh! there's many devotees that were... Maha Vishnu, he's a sannyasi, he was on my party. Prabha Vishnu was on my party, he's also a big, he became guru and sannyasi you know. So all these people because of their service in distributing books in India, Prabhupada awarded them great titles, all by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.