Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: If there's no life in it, then what's the use? That place is not especially a good place for a temple anymore.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: But fifty years . . .
Prabhupāda: No, so many houses, they are lying vacant. Nobody goes there.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But what to do with it? Prabhupāda's saying . . . You're going to have someone just sit there?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: For ten, twenty years we will keep it, and in future we may . . . It may be a great place of pilgrimage for the whole world.
Prabhupāda: That future hope (laughs) you cannot invest money in, waste. That's not good.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Jaya.
Prabhupāda: Do something positive. If you have got preacher, then never mind what is the quarter. Have kīrtana and distribute prasādam.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have . . . We can do that.
Prabhupāda: Then you can do anything.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have men we can put there. Right, Ādi-keśa?
Prabhupāda: Simply the drunken negroes, call them, "Take prasādam and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can put Bhaktijana there, 'cause he's always very fond of preaching. You know, Bhaktijana. He's always wanted to go to Harlem. So . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, then we can deliver them. They are, after all, simple. These negroes, they are, after all, simple. We have to claim them. You have got now experience in Detroit. They are very good-behaving negroes. They come to our temple. Nobody could drive there. Therefore we could acquire that house so cheap.