# Conversation [Partially Recorded] — December 26, 1970, Surat <audio controls preload="metadata" src="https://media.prabhupada.io/audio/1970/701226R1-SURAT.mp3"></audio> **Prabhupāda:** Why not preach in a systematic way under government patronage? I am alone trying for it. Indian man: I would just request you, if you can give some idea as to how we could do this in practice; otherwise it is... **Prabhupāda:** No, no. You cannot see how I am doing this *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is*? We don't misinterpret *Bhagavad-gītā* [indistinct]. Indian man: Well... Hare Kṛṣṇa, our in the *bhajan* Hare Kṛṣṇa we did. Perhaps we did with the boys and girls, not with adults. **Prabhupāda:** No, no. You have seen our book, *Bhagavad-gītā* *As It Is*? Indian man: And the preachers will not be proper present. **Prabhupāda:** No. No. I can train them. My submission is that this movement is acceptable all over the world. Indian man: Yes, yes. **Prabhupāda:** That is experimented. Why not government gives this movement in a systematic way? I am trying alone in my own, individual way. Indian man: That is the [indistinct]. **Prabhupāda:** Government understand it [indistinct] that this important..., is very, very important from religious side, and people are eager for it. Indian man: Well the government difficulties, this being a secular state... You see, the difficulty would be... **Prabhupāda:** First of all accept *Bhagavad-gītā*. We are speaking on the *Bhagavad-gītā*. Indian man: Government... Then government has to also [indistinct] book... **Prabhupāda:** Then why the [indistinct] did not accept another religious books? [end]