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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Prabhupada's Books, BBT and BTG]]
[[Category:Questions On... Srimad-Bhagavatam]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Donation. This Dalmia, Jayadala, he gave me about four thousand.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 31, 1976, Bombay|Room Conversation -- December 31, 1976, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He did not say no, but the printing of books, that was difficult task for him. He had no money. He's hardly collecting for maintaining. And India, printing of books is a big job. There is no guarantee of sale.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He must be feeling sorry for it now. Of course, he's dead. But later on he must be feeling sorry that if he would have given you... Agreed to your request...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. These things I would have done from Caitanya Maṭha.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: I never knew... We never knew that you went to Tīrtha Mahārāja.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (chuckles) No... Rather, it is Guru Mahārāja's institution. I first of all gave him...</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: A chance.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's head man. "All right. I shall join you."</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: When was this? Which year?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In 1953. Before going to America. Two years before.</p>
<p>Girirāja: '63.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: '63, yes.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: '63 you were already sannyāsa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. '63 I was in Vṛndāvana. Before that.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Before sannyāsa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Before coming to Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes. At that time I was not sannyāsa. That means it was before '58. Somewhere in '57 or... So I tried my Godbrothers, that if they give me facilities for this, then I shall join. Otherwise, I will work independently. So nobody was able to provide me with this.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Nobody?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, they had no money. It requires money, printing of books.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: How did you manage to get your first Bhāgavatams printed?</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: From donations.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Donation. This Dalmia, Jayadala, he gave me about four thousand.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: H.N. Sharma always tells me, "I helped your Guruji print the first books."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That was through Hanuman.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Everybody is now taking credit for helping. Now that you are so big everybody says, "I did this. I did that, I did that."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, actually, these Dalmia started with four thousand rupees.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: They're nice people.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: I met two of them. They were...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He gave me twice funds. Four thousand once, five thousand. Five thousand he gave me when I went to America for the second time.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: They gave fifteen thousand about three months ago for gurukula in Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. No, they are sympathetic.</p>
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