# Book Distribution *On the importance of distributing transcendental literature* --- ### Invest in Books > And I'll not keep a single farthing. I shall spend all before I die. Invest in book, that's all. I am insisting on this. But I am simply afraid if we have got enough stock, it may not be stolen and misused. Otherwise I want to immediately invest in books all the money that I have got. — [[spoken/1977/770105r3.bom|Dictation, Bombay, January 5, 1977]] --- ### Books Distribution Will Never Stop > We are selling these twenty *lakhs* of worth books monthly, so it is being spread all over the world. And those who are purchasing books, they are intelligent men. Then when they will read, how this movement will stop? ... It will not stop. The books distribution is so important that it will continue to stay. — [[spoken/1975/750419mw.vrn|Morning Walk, Vrndavana, April 19, 1975]] --- ### Take Advantage of These Transcendental Books > These transcendental literature, we have taken much pain to translate them into English so that you can understand. We have got fifty books. So take advantage. It is not meant for the cats and dogs. It is meant for the human being. Not a particular class or nation. No. It is meant for all human being. — [[spoken/1975/750521sb.mel|Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture, Melbourne, May 21, 1975]] --- ### Associate with Me by Reading My Books > So in my absence you read the books. What I talk, I have written in the books. That's all. ... That's all right. But still, you can associate with me by reading my books. — [[spoken/1975/750807mw.tor|Morning Walk, Toronto, August 7, 1975]] --- ### If They Read My Books, They Will Be Benefited > Some way or other, if they read my books, they will be benefited. There is no doubt about it. — [[spoken/1975/750622gc.la|Garden Conversation, Los Angeles, June 22, 1975]] --- ### Distributing Books and Thinking of Krsna > So a Krsna conscious person is above all of them because by nature, by chanting Hare Krsna *mantra,* he cannot think anything else except Krsna. He is worshiping the Deity in the temple, he is going to distribute books, Krsna books, he is talking of Krsna, he is eating *krsna-prasadam,* and always absorbed in Krsna. — [[spoken/1975/750702sb.den|Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture, Denver, July 2, 1975]] --- ### Sixty Books of Science and Philosophy > No, we have got about sixty books. If you want to learn this movement through science and philosophy, we have got our books. You have not seen our books? — [[spoken/1975/750305iv.ny|Interview, New York, March 5, 1975]] --- ### A New Contribution to the World > Oh, yes, it is very much growing. You will be surprised that we are selling these books... We have got about fifty books like this, and every library, college, professor, universities, they are very much appreciative of this, because there was no such literature existing. This is the new contribution to the world. — [[spoken/1975/751008r1.dur|Room Conversation, Durban, October 8, 1975]] --- *8 verified verbatim quotes from Srila Prabhupada on book distribution*