Prabhupāda: Anapekṣaḥ, just see. When I went to Europe, America, I went with forty rupees. The Sumati Morarji gave me a ticket, and I had only forty rupees. That forty rupees could not be spent there. Then, when I was getting down, I asked the captain, "Captain Pandia," that "I have not a single dollar with me. So you purchase one set of my books." "So what is... Swami, what is your price?" "Sixteen dollar." He paid me twenty dollars. With that twenty dollars, I dropped.
Mr. Sar: This is anapekṣaḥ.
Dr. Patel: Anapekṣaḥ śucir dakṣa.
Prabhupāda: Now I think we have got money.
Dr. Patel: Two million dollars.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) So that is not a problem. That is not a problem because I knew that Kṛṣṇa is there.
Dr. Patel:
- anapekṣaḥ śucir dakṣa
- udāsīno gata-vyathaḥ
- sarvārambha-parityāgī
- yo mad-bhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ
Yo na... (break) ...na kāṅkṣati na... na kāṅkṣati na śocati, śubhāśubha-parityāgī yo mad-bhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ.
Prabhupāda: Yes, śubhāśubha. When I was in Boston, I was thinking that "I have come here. How they will receive me? As soon as I'll say that 'No meat-eating, no illicit sex, and no gambling, and no intoxication,' immediately they will say, 'Please go home, don't preach here.' All right." So for one year there was no success, you see? And I was going to the shipping company: "When your next ship is coming to return back?" So the manager was telling, "Swamiji, you are always inquiring, but you never go." (all laugh) I said, "Yes, when I am too much frustrated, I come to here to ask you. Then again I go back: 'Let me see two months more.' " It was going like that. Nobody was there with me.
Dr. Patel:
- tulya-nindā-stutir maunī
- santuṣṭo yena kenacit
- aniketaḥ sthira-matir
- bhaktimān me priyo naraḥ
Prabhupāda: (laughing) Aniketaḥ, automatically aniketaḥ. There was no place, no place to live. No money.
Dr. Patel: This is the culmination of a sannyāsī.
Mr. Sar: One who has no place, he lives everywhere.
Prabhupāda: Sannyāsa means aniketaḥ. Now we have got hundred temples. We have got hundred temples. But Kṛṣṇa does not allow me to stay eight days, more than.
Dr. Patel: But how long you going to stay here? You have promised me to stay long, eh?
Prabhupāda: But if Kṛṣṇa allows...
Mr. Sar: I will always pray to Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: I am dependent on Kṛṣṇa. If He allows. Hare Kṛṣṇa.