# Interview Lectures Total lectures: 45 ## 1968 - [[spoken/1968/680309iv.sf|Interview]] — March 9, 1968, San Francisco <em>The basis of this teaching is Bhagavad-gītā As It Is</em> - [[spoken/1968/680312iv.sf|Radio Interview]] — March 12, 1968, San Francisco <em>But meditation as this Maharshi or any other svāmī or</em> - [[spoken/1968/680924iv.sea|Recorded Interview]] — September 24, 1968, Seattle <em>This Bhagavad-gītā is read by the human society not only in India, but outside India, since a very long, long time</em> - [[spoken/1968/681217iv.la|Interview]] — December 17, 1968, Los Angeles <em>That we have to see to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that God expanded Himself first of all in Mahā-Viṣṇu</em> - [[spoken/1968/681226iv.la|Interview with LA Times Reporter About Travel to the Moon]] — December 26, 1968, Los Angeles <em>So far the movement is concerned, it has nothing to do with the moon planetary journey</em> - [[spoken/1968/681230iv.la|Press Interview]] — December 30, 1968, Los Angeles <em>We select girl, say, about sixteen, seventeen years old, and boys not more than twenty-four years old</em> ## 1969 - [[spoken/1969/690212iv.la|Radio Interview]] — February 12, 1969, Los Angeles <em>This Kṛṣṇa consciousness means practical understanding of Bhagavad-gītā</em> ## 1971 - [[spoken/1971/710516iv.syd|May 16, 1971, Sydney]] — May 16, 1971, Sydney <em>There are prominent problems: birth, death, old age and disease</em> - [[spoken/1971/710729iv.gai|Television Interview]] — July 29, 1971, Gainesville <em>So He is Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is teaching how to love Kṛṣṇa</em> - [[spoken/1971/711110iv.del|Interview]] — November 10, 1971, Delhi <em>, everyone has knowledge what is the taste of water</em> ## 1972 - [[spoken/1972/720419ar.hk|Arrival and Interview]] — April 19, 1972, Hong Kong <em>Unfortunately, there are so many interpretations by so many unscrupulous persons, so-called scholars and philosophers, that they have spoiled the precept of Bhagavad-gītā</em> - [[spoken/1972/720629ar.sd|Arrival Interview]] — June 29, 1972, San Diego <em>Just like you, me, we are actually brothers; we are all sons of God</em> - [[spoken/1972/720630iv.sd|Interview]] — June 30, 1972, San Diego <em>A very beautiful, nice girl, she is appreciated by everyone</em> - [[spoken/1972/720720iv.par|Interview]] — July 20, 1972, Paris <em>I have already explained what is our mission, what is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement</em> - [[spoken/1972/720720i2.par|Interview]] — July 20, 1972, Paris <em>Because from God's side there is always an attempt to make the people right</em> - [[spoken/1972/720811iv.lon|Interview with Journalists "God is the proprietor, God is the enjoyer and God is the maintainer"]] — August 11, 1972, London <em>But we have made artificial division: \"This is America</em> - [[spoken/1972/720902iv.nv|Interview with the New York Times [Back to Godhead Article]]] — September 2, 1972, New Vrindavan <em>This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading that message</em> - [[spoken/1972/720909iv.pit|Interview]] — September 9, 1972, Pittsburgh <em>Some parts of the world the sky is cloudy just like London and northern parts of Europe they are always cloudy</em> ## 1973 - [[spoken/1973/730806iv.lon|Interview with Reporters]] — August 6, 1973, London <em>Our meditation is twenty-four hours, in varieties of occupation</em> - [[spoken/1973/730912iv.lon|Interview with Professor Gombrich and Reporters]] — September 12, 1973, London <em>Because there are many foolish rascals, they interpret unnecessarily</em> ## 1974 - [[spoken/1974/740426iv.tir|Interview with Minister]] <em>Therefore there must be side-by-side propaganda who can maintain the temples</em> - [[spoken/1974/740629iv.mel|Reporters' Interview]] — June 29, 1974, **Melbourne <em>Yes, meditation is also one means, but you cannot meditate now, because you do not know what is God</em> - [[spoken/1974/740704iv.chi|Interview with Envious Reporter]] — July 4, 1974, Chicago <em>That is also another cause, because they are not satisfied</em> ## 1975 - [[spoken/1975/750305iv.ny|Interview]] — March 5, 1975, New York <em>It is a little difficult to understand this movement, because it is spiritual movement</em> - [[spoken/1975/750525iv.fij|Radio Interview]] — May 25, 1975, Fiji <em>Because Indian people, being subjugated for at least one thousand years, they have lost their original culture</em> - [[spoken/1975/750709iv.chi|Television Interview]] — July 9, 1975, Chicago <em>, already not equal with the man because in so many respects your functions are different and man's function are different</em> ## 1976 - [[spoken/1976/760420r2.mel|Recording of TV Interview [Partially Recorded]]] — April 20, 1976, Melbourne <em>were minstrels who wander our city streets, mumbling about Hare Kṛṣṇa, then the man to answer your questions is the man who started the Kṛṣṇa movement, His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda</em> - [[spoken/1976/760610i1.la|L.A. Magazine Interview]] — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles <em>For a common man it is little difficult, but it is very easy</em> - [[spoken/1976/760612iv.det|Interview with Jackie Vaughn, State Representative]] — June 12, 1976, Detroit <em>He came also last year. He's very impressed by Kṛṣṇa consciousness</em> - [[spoken/1976/760618i2.tor|Interview with Professors O'Connell, Motilal and Shivaram]] — June 18, 1976, **Toronto <em>We are actually struggling for achievement of the highest goal of life</em> - [[spoken/1976/760618iv.tor|Interview with Kathy Kerr Reporter from The Star]] — June 18, 1976, *Toronto <em>They think the body, by some chemical and physical combination and electric power</em> - [[spoken/1976/760630iv.whe|Interview with Mike Darby, from Wheeling Intelligencer]] — June 30, 1976, Wheeling, W. Virginia <em>They are passing resolution according to the time, changing the instruction of Bible</em> - [[spoken/1976/760708iv.wdc|Interview and Conversation]] — July 8, 1976, ** Washington, D.C. <em>This is a spiritual movement, and the present moment people are more interested with material improvement</em> - [[spoken/1976/760714iv.ny|Interview with Newsweek]] — July 14, 1976, New York <em>She's assisting us in arranging for these interviews</em> - [[spoken/1976/760714i2.ny|Interview with Newsday Newspaper]] — July 14, 1976, New York <em>If you chant, then gradually you realize yourself that you are a spiritual being; you are not this body</em> - [[spoken/1976/760716r1.ny|Conversation After Interview with Religious Editor, Associated Press]] — July 16, 1976, New York <em>Even the Orissa politicians, they accused Caitanya Mahāprabhu</em> - [[spoken/1976/760716iv.ny|Interview with George Orwell Religious Editor of the Associated Press]] — July 16, 1976, New York <em>We say the car and driver, if you understand this analogy, the car and the driver, so who is important?</em> - [[spoken/1976/760717iv.ny|Interview with Trans-India Magazine]] — July 17, 1976, ** New York <em>Generally people are on the material platform, on the bodily concept of life, and the whole world is going on with that wrong conception of life</em> - [[spoken/1976/760723iv.lon|Interview with Colin Cross Religion Editor of The Observer]] — July 23, 1976, London <em>There are so many system of religions, but do they actually know who is the supreme controller?</em> - [[spoken/1976/760727iv.lon|Radio Interview with Mike Robinson from London Broadcasting Company]] — July 27, 1976, **London <em>Accept the supreme controller, everything is clear</em> - [[spoken/1976/760817iv.hyd|Press Interview at Muthilal Rao's House]] — August 17, 1976, Hyderabad <em>When Arjuna accepted Kṛṣṇa as the spiritual master, śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam</em> - [[spoken/1976/761016iv.cha|Press Interview]] — October 16, 1976, Chandigarh <em>So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is purely a spiritual movement</em> - [[spoken/1976/761231iv.bom|Press Interview]] — December 31, 1976, Bombay <em>There are two sections: the impersonalist and the personalist</em> ## 1977 - [[spoken/1977/770226iv.may|Interview]] — February 26, 1977, Mayapur <em>What He had said, people could not understand, therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has appeared as a devotee in this world</em> - [[spoken/1977/770405iv.bom|Interview with Mr. Koshi [Asst. Editor of The Current Weekly]]] — April 5, 1977, Bombay <em>This movement is started to give something to the whole human society about the real culture</em>