Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Let's go. Just go.
Prabhupāda: (break) . . . in this bus.
Kīrtanānanda: Oh, you traveled in the bus. Yes, it was comfortable. (break)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda, there's about two hundred and fifty devotees here now.
Prabhupāda: That's nice. Make the whole city your . . . (indistinct)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's very nice. We can handle all of these devotees, I think, very comfortably.
Prabhupāda: All facilities are there.
Kīrtanānanda: Kṛṣṇa is giving all facility. (break)
Prabhupāda: . . . distributing free, thirteen hundred or thirteen thousand?
Kīrtanānanda: Thirteen thousand.
Prabhupāda: Daily.
Rāmeśvara: Inconceivable.
Kīrtanānanda: That is inconceivable wealth.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Kīrtanānanda: That is inconceivable wealth. And they were fully decorated.
Rāmeśvara: We can never imagine where all those cows were able to be situated.
Prabhupāda: No, something like it. The whole world.
Rāmeśvara: Full of cows.
Kīrtanānanda: Yes, a few years ago we couldn't conceive of distributing twenty thousand Back to Godheads a month. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: We started with five hundred.
Kīrtanānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: What was that machine?
Kīrtanānanda: Mimeograph. Then I think it went to two thousand then to two thousand, then to five thousand.
Rāmeśvara: Now for December we are printing two million copies. Last year we printed one million copies, so this year we must double. Two million copies in one month.
Kīrtanānanda: Wonderful.
Prabhupāda: It is all Kṛṣṇa's mercy. You have seen the first copy? They have brought photograph from . . . which library?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Congress Library in Washington. They found the original . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes. I do not know how they got my . . .
Rāmeśvara: Oh, your original, from India.
Prabhupāda: Yes, 1944, the first copy . . . (indistinct) . . . I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Very thick. It was a thick magazine.
Prabhupāda: In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That was a lot.
Prabhupāda: Yes, three hundred rupees, nowadays at least ten times. Three hundred, ten times?
Kīrtanānanda: Three thousand.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At least three thousand. I think even perhaps more, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Yes, not less than.
Kīrtanānanda: Say five hundred dollars a month?
Prabhupāda: And I was not getting any return.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How were you getting so much money?
Prabhupāda: My income, poor income, from my business.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh. (aside:) Prabhupāda took us past Seventy-second Street the other day, also showed us this place.
Rāmeśvara: He showed us the fruit store where he would buy fruit.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: (indistinct) . . . shop.
Prabhupāda: Harer nāma (CC Adi 17.21).
Kīrtanānanda: Those early days. My best memories are those early days. Especially the morning classes, when you'd be sitting behind the desk . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: . . . and the sun would just be coming in. Prabhupāda would talk for an hour.
Prabhupāda: Only Hayagrīva, you and . . .
Kīrtanānanda: Umāpati.
Rāmeśvara: Mukunda.
Prabhupāda: Not Mukunda. One, that . . .
Kīrtanānanda: Sometimes Carl would come, sometimes Jim Green. Not very often, they wouldn't come.
Prabhupāda: Brahmānanda later on.
Kīrtanānanda: Rāyarāma would come.
Prabhupāda: Rāyarāma.
Kīrtanānanda: Satsvarūpa came, started coming, and he would go to work after class.
Prabhupāda: Ah.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Always very responsible.
Prabhupāda: At that time Kīrtanānanda Mahārāja was taking one cāpāṭi.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whew! Only?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Nothing else?
Prabhupāda: I would offer. He would take one or two, that's all. Later on, one dozen. (laughter) And that boy? (laughing)
Kīrtanānanda: Stryadīśa.
Prabhupāda: He would take at least twenty cāpāṭis.