Srila Prabhupada was determined to save the world

Swarupa Dasa: I recall sitting at night typesetting the Krishna Book while everyone in the house was sleeping and I’d think to myself, “Here I am ... 17 years old ... should be in my senior year of High School ... but instead, I’m engaged in the most important work in the universe. Srila Prabhupada was very eager to present to the world a summary study of the Tenth Canto of Shrimad-Bhagavatam in such a way that the reader would have no doubt that God is a Person and everything about Him and His interaction with liberated souls in the spiritual world were completely transcendental and free from any mundane material impurities. George Harrison donated $19,000 for the first printing and wrote some Words (From Apple) in the front part of the book and Srila Prabhupada dedicated it to his father, Gour Mohan De.

As it turned out I did the majority of typesetting on Krishna Book and Nectar of Devotion and I also worked on the unabridged Gita, Shri Ishopanisad, the ten paperbacks for each of the chapters in the Second Canto of Shrimad-Bhagavatam as well as the rest of the Bhagavatam volumes as the tapes arrived, along with other paperbacks such as Topmost Yoga, Shri Ishopanisad, etc. To say the least, I was kept very busy as were all of us. After all, Srila Prabhupada was determined to save the world from Godlessness and as such there was much to do using whatever resources we had.