Businesslike
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
Dai Nippon representative: Divine Grace, please allow that we are, we getting to the businesslike (laughter) conversation but...
Prabhupāda: One thing I shall request you, that our missionary activities, we are not exactly businessmen. You see? Our only idea is these books are published for missionary activities. So exactly we are not business power. So I will request your chairman that even sometimes you find something, discrepancies, you don't mind it, because we are not strictly businessmen. Yes. But we are very sincere. We shall reciprocate very sincerely. But sometimes we are not strictly like businessmen. (Japanese)
Dai Nippon representative: What Mr. Tajima(?) would like to tell you, that he is also businessman. So our talking is getting to be businesslike. So please allow him. But if we send one liaison officer in Los Angeles, we need some expenditure over there. You see? So we, Mr. Tajima(?) expects you to increase the publishing of your books more and more.
Prabhupāda: Oh yes, oh yes. That we shall do, certainly. That is certain. We are very much enthusiastic to see more publication, more publication. We take this publication work as big drum. You know with clay drum? So this is big drum. When we play drum, it is resounded within some quarters. But this drum is going from country to country. So it is bigger drum. (Japanese)1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: You got a copy, eh, Easy Journey to Other Planets?
Prabhupāda: It is very attractive.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: You like it? We only did ten thousand each, but I think we'll sell it out in Kumbhamela. And if we have these two pandals in Ludhiana and Mathurā...
Prabhupāda: So why don't you order more?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Right now I don't have much money, so I'm going slow. But when we sell, we'll get the money back, print more.
Prabhupāda: No, I can give you some loan.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We will do that. We may need a small loan because... Also the printer came to see me. I told him to bring down the Bengali Gītār Gān price, and I'll think we'll print only one lakh here because his quality is much better than a small letter press in Calcutta.
Prabhupāda: So if you regularly do businesslike, I can give you loan.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We may need a small loan, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I'm not asking till it becomes...
Prabhupāda: No. For printing books I'll give you loan.Rāmeśvara: The loan is for book printing?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, for book printing. We're printing the Bhagavad-gītā now.
Rāmeśvara: Then who's going to pay for the vehicles? You are, right?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Rāmeśvara: I think the loan is for the vehicles. Who's taking out the party? (laughter)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, no. No, it's not. I'm going to...
Prabhupāda: Now, cool headed, you can study the situation. If you recommend, I'll give.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Thing is, I only wanted you to give...
Prabhupāda: No, you convince him. If he recommends, I'll give you. He is businesslike. I know him. So if he recommends, I'll give. He's very correct to his word. Businessman is correct to his word. That is the... No speculation. Now our Hyderabad affair is not in very order.Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. I have told Rāmeśvara Mahārāja that before he goes back to America he should spend a day with me so we can work all these things out. So after he leaves you, he will spend...
Prabhupāda: Everything should be done businesslike.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We don't want anything free.
Prabhupāda: All first class.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. To be popular and profitable, they're approaching it on a very businesslike basis. And also the other point is that they're afraid that... In Bombay they've made this hall, such a beautiful hall. So they don't want it to lie vacant or empty, and they just can't think of what can be done inside that hall every single day of the year. It's a fact that hall should be used every day of the year.
Bhavānanda: By us.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: By us. But since they feel that there's not going to be any constant use from our side, they're thinking that it doesn't make sense to have built and spent so much money on such a good hall and not utilize it daily, which from the business point of view is a fact. But that means that you're going to have to invite all kinds of semi... It's not even Kṛṣṇa conscious. I wanted to say semi-Kṛṣṇa conscious, but they're going to have to invite different theater people, entertaining people.
Bhavānanda: So the Kṛṣṇa conscious solution is to utilize the hall every night for our own purposes. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is unlimited. There's so many dramas, so many lectures, so many symposiums.
Prabhupāda: No, suppose you construct some house and rent out. Then they can do as they like. So similarly, if that hall is made, constructed for making some money, then the money will not come if we don't rent out to the cinema actors, actresses. It is just like... What is called? Village house. Hm? The hall is called? When one pays, marriage ceremony... For making some money you have made.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is that why we made that hall, for making money?
Prabhupāda: Otherwise what you will do?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, originally you had intended that that hall would be used for Svarūpa Dāmodara's scientists and for our theater group and things like that.
Prabhupāda: That's all right, but are you going to have every day?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, I know that they won't. They cannot do that. I mean practically they won't.
Bhavānanda: It's possible, but...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, it would have to take a tremendous endeavor on the part of our movement, and our movement is not... We're not geared to do that.
Prabhupāda: It is like tenant house. So whoever pays to your satisfaction, you give him for one day.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is that all right with you, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: I don't think it is wrong.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. Well, then that makes it very easy.
Prabhupāda: Because it will be a source of income.Correspondence
1967 Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
1969 Correspondence
Page Title: | Businesslike |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Jamuna Priya |
Created: | 18 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=5, Let=5 |
No. of Quotes: | 11 |