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<div class="code">720720IV-PARIS - July 20, 1972 - 04:52 Minutes</div>


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'''Devotee:''' Yes. I think this gentleman would like to have some interview with Śrīla Prabhupāda. (to other devotee) You're going to translate . . . (indistinct) . . .?

(to guest) And you can sit here? And you can sit here, please?

'''Prabhupāda:''' Give him some . . .

'''Devotee:''' Sit here.

'''Bhūgarbha:''' We have a cushion. (break) . . . speak any English. (break)

'''Prabhupāda:''' Hmm?

'''Bhūgarbha:''' The listeners probably only speak French.

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (French)

(devotee translating questions and answers throughout)

'''Frenchman:''' . . . great spiritual master, you kindly present yourself to the listeners to . . . (indistinct)

'''Prabhupāda:''' I have already explained what is our mission, what is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Already I have explained to some extent, and if he wants some particular answer, he can ask me.

'''Frenchman:''' (French)

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' He would like to know who you are, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and how old you are.

'''Prabhupāda:''' I am now seventy-seven.

'''Frenchman:''' (French)

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (translating) For how long are you at the head of this movement?

'''Prabhupāda:''' Well, for the last five years.

'''Frenchman:''' (French)

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (translating) Can you please describe the dress in which you are clothed?

'''Prabhupāda:''' You can ask about some philosophy. Dress, what people will benefit knowing about my dress? Instead of wasting time in that way . . . I can ask you why you are in dressed in that way . . . that's not very important thing.

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (translates and then asks man to please pose questions about the philosophy)

'''Bhagavān:''' Anyone can answer those questions.

'''Frenchman:''' (French)

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (translating) What do you think of the future?

'''Prabhupāda:''' Huh?

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' Of the future, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

'''Prabhupāda:''' Future you can guess . . . because I am seventy-seven. I may die. But these young men, they are taking. They will live, and they will spread all over the world.

'''Frenchman:''' (French)

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' He's asking about your childhood, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

'''Prabhupāda:''' Hmm?

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' He'd like to know something about your childhood, would be my guess.

'''Prabhupāda:''' So?

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' Childhood.

'''Prabhupāda:''' My childhood? I was all along a devotee, from my childhood. Yes. My father was a devotee, and he trained me a devotee.

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (again asks man to ask about the philosophy)

'''Frenchman:''' (French)

'''Guru-gaurāṅga:''' (translating) Are you happy? (devotees laugh)

'''Prabhupāda:''' What do you think? What do you think? I'm happy or unhappy? (break) (end)