Srila Prabhupada Letter to Lalita Kumara, November 15th 1971

“If you simply push on this one activity of distributing my books, your all success will be there. I have hatched this ‘transcendental plot' for getting money by selling my books, and if we stick only to this plan, and use our brain for selling books, there will easily be sufficient money. I have recently informed the GBC to allow each temple to keep 25% of the money they collect from direct book and magazine sales for temple maintenance, 75% to be sent to book fund. Supposing you can sell 800 dollars a week worth of literature (retail price). Will not 200 dollars weekly be sufficient for food and rent? If not, increase book sales, or, until things are adjusted in this way, supplement in other ways, but try to avoid too much business as this distracts us from our real mission. If Krsna sees that we are very active to spread information about Him, He is Master of the goddess of fortune, He will give everything.”