Prabhupāda: How many devotees?
Jayatīrtha: We have about 120 devotees.
Prabhupāda: Everyone happy?
Jayatīrtha: Yes, they are quite happy, I think, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Of course, they're very distressed to hear about your illness.
Prabhupāda: I am not distressed. Body is.
Jayatīrtha: Jaya.
Prabhupāda: Book distribution increasing?
Jayatīrtha: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, book distribution is increasing.
Rāmeśvara: In London they have already doubled what they did last year. Twice as much as last year in London.
Prabhupāda: What about Bury Place?
Jayatīrtha: Bury Place we're keeping. They're still trying to get us out, but we are keeping. I don't think that Kṛṣṇa will leave until He wants to leave. (Prabhupāda laughs) We just fixed up His Deity house and generally repaired the place. Now...
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is smiling. They are trying to drive Him. Kṛṣṇa's smiling. That's all. Go on with your business.
Jayatīrtha: Therefore you called Him Rādhā-London-Īśvara.
Prabhupāda: Our London, Bury Place, Deity is very beautiful, smiling.
Kīrtanānanda: There's a picture there, Prabhupāda, on your altar.
Prabhupāda: Hm. That is the first installed...
Jayatīrtha: Yes. And the new place also, we're...
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Jayatīrtha: The new place we bought on Soho Street, we're making it into reading room and restaurant.
Prabhupāda: New place?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: On Soho Street off Oxford Street they have purchased one pub, a restaurant.
Prabhupāda: That I saw?
Jayatīrtha: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda. So in a few months that will be open with restaurant and reading room and so on.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bhaktivedanta Reading Room.
Prabhupāda: So you have taken my money last month?
Jayatīrtha: No, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No, no.
Jayatīrtha: We did it without that money. The money is still there.
Prabhupāda: So that place is also nice?
Jayatīrtha: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Very good.
Jayatīrtha: Many people will come there.
Prabhupāda: That is further improvement. I want to do in New York, everywhere. That Kṛṣṇa's desire...
Jayatīrtha: You've entered into almost every home in the world, Śrīla Prabhupāda, as your books.
Prabhupāda: That is a...
Jayatīrtha: In every home you're staying.
Prabhupāda: The Deity worship and Indian real culture you develop. That is our contribution. Nobody could do before me, in the Western countries, introduction of this Deity worship, śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā **, and large-scale distribution of Indian cultural traditions. This is a new contribution. Not bug-bhak(?). The Indians are realizing. All these rascal swamis, "bug-bhak,"(?) professional... Here there is Śyāmabhāi?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Here there is...?
Prabhupāda: Śyāmabhāi.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śyāmabhāi, yes, Surao Sharma(?).
Prabhupāda: She is always in London, constantly.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In London.
Prabhupāda: But not a single disciple.
Jayatīrtha: Since October we've made about thirty-five new devotees in London. We have one picture actually.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Thirty-five new devotees have joined in the last six months. (end)