Prabhupāda: Best thing would have been to keep the Deities for a week there.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That would not have been permitted. They only permitted us legally two hours for everything. That's why we were rushing everything. We only had two hours legally for the whole program.
Prabhupāda: Yes, then there is no need.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I heard people say "We've never seen such a festival, never seen such a parade." I heard these comments. One man said... Someone said, "What's going on?" and he said, "Oh, they have so many things going on here." They were very appreciative. And actually we could not put our full energy into it this year because we were so busy preparing the building simultaneously.
Prabhupāda: And above all, the atmosphere, the weather, was very nice.
Bali-mardana: Oh, yes, Kṛṣṇa has blessed us.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (laughs) The breeze was there. We did not feel any...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No discomfort.
Prabhupāda: ...fatigue.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And there was nearly four hundred to five hundred devotees there.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They will stay in the temple?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, they've been staying here.
Prabhupāda: That's nice.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There's no difficulty to accommodate them.
Prabhupāda: Yes, Nārāyaṇa told me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You know, Prabhupāda, I really feel like I should concentrate lot of my preaching here in New York.
Prabhupāda: Do that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What do you think?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Preaching is required, here or there.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You once said, "A good businessman, if he knows how to do it, he can make more money sitting in one place..."
Prabhupāda: No, no, no. Money is not our aim. Our aim is how people will understand Kṛṣṇa.
Bali-mardana: He is just using that as an analogy for preaching.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That if you have a good place, many people can be attracted, as many as moving around to many places.
Prabhupāda: My Guru Mahārāja was in favor of preaching in the city because you can get many men.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But do you think I should travel a lot, or what is the best thing?
Prabhupāda: Both things should be done.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Both. So if you... We were hoping that you could give us another chance by coming back next year.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, I'll come.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But you do say that to a lot of different temples, but we will try to make this doubly big.
Prabhupāda: Always, so long I live, I must come.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Really?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: If we get on Fifth Avenue, you'll come again?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But we will double the amount of people, promise.
Bali-mardana: And double the prasādam.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We will double everything if you are here, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. I can stay here also. I like especially New York, because I started the movement here. And because there are so many branches, if I go they become enlivened.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, right, just like we are enlivened.
Prabhupāda: Everyone wants.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Everyone wants you to come.
Prabhupāda: That is natural.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Question of love.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bali-mardana: New York was your second home after India.
Prabhupāda: Yes, I say fatherland. India, motherland; this is fatherland.