My great moon trail interviewed Srila Prabhupada by a New York Times reporter, John Nordheimer, in September 1972. “How many followers do you have?” asked Nordheimer. “Well, this is a very difficult job, naturally,” Srila Prabhupada replied. “We don’t have a large number of followers. When you try to sell a diamond, you can’t expect a lot of customers. However, a diamond is a diamond, even if there are no customers. The number of customers is not the proof. The customer must pay the value of the article. “In this Society, we propose that you give up illegal sex, eat meat, eat stimulating and drunk substances and gamble. When people listen to this, they go and say, ‘Oh, Swamiji is not the proof. But I can’t be the value of the