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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
[[Category:Questions On... ISKCON - Finances]]
[[Category:Questions From... Academics]]
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<div class="heading">Yes... No gifts. By selling books... There are sometimes gifts... Just like George Harrison has given us a house in London, Letchmore Heath. It is worth 220,000 pounds.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor -- August 13, 1973, Paris|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor -- August 13, 1973, Paris]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: I, I brought with me forty rupees and books. That's all.</p>
<p>Professor: Forty rupees! That was not enough to live in Boston or in New York.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. And now we are spending about eighty thousand dollars per month.</p>
<p>Professor: Per month.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Throughout the whole world. But we are selling our books very nicely, about... How many, how much dollars?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: How many, how many lakhs of rupees of books per month, Pradyumna?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, daily...</p>
<p>Professor: Lakhs of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Daily we are collecting about thirty, eight hundred... In, in, in Los Angeles we collect about eight hundred dollars daily.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: More than that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: More than that. Eh?</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: I think it must be about two thousand, about twenty thousand dollars a day, through the society.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Professor: Just by selling books or...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Just by selling books.</p>
<p>Professor: You must receive gifts as well.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No gifts. By selling books.</p>
<p>Professor: Why not?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There are sometimes gifts.</p>
<p>Professor: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like George Harrison has given us a house in London, Letchmore Heath. It is worth 220,000 pounds.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Over a half million dollars.</p>
<p>Professor: Ācchā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you can come sometimes. No you can stay there. It is very nice place. We have 17 acres of land, open, with a lake. It is a royal palace.</p>
<p>Professor: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. We are installing our Deity next 21st. So if you have time, I invite you. It is not far, London.</p>
<p>Professor: London is not far. Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Professor: The 21st of September?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Twenty-first of August.</p>
<p>Professor: Oh, I see.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: In a few days.</p>
<p>Professor: It's a big feast.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you are Sanskrit scholar. You can join with this movement and help us.</p>
<p>Professor: Thank you.</p>
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