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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="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1968 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1968 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">We have got thirteen temples. Thirteen. One in this Los Angeles, one San Francisco, one in New York, one Santa Fe, one Buffalo, one Boston, one Montreal, one Vancouver, and Seattle, Columbus, and then London, Hamburg, in this way... Hawaii.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles|Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: I have got about a little more than one hundred disciples who are strictly following my regulative principles.</p>
<p>Journalist: One hundred.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. In different branches. I have got about thirteen branches. Some of the disciples are working in London. Yes, they are doing very nice. They are all married couples. I got them married. Yes. I got them married. They're young boys, all within thirty. My oldest disciple he is 28. Otherwise 25, 24. At most 30. And similarly, girls, you have seen this girl. You see. So I get them, make them happy in married life. Their mentality is... They are not after so-called puffed-up life. They can live very simply with the least demand of bodily necessities, but thinking very high of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So I am very hopeful that even I die... Because I am old man, 73 years old. I may die at any moment. But I am now assured my movement will go on. These boys will carry it. That, my mission, is in that way successful. I came here with this idea, that this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should be started from America. Because anything accepted by America, people follow because America is considered to be the... Actually America is not a poverty-stricken country. So they can very easily understand, they can take it. And there are many confused youths. So with all these considerations, I came here, and I think I'm successful, yes.</p>
<p>Journalist: Doesn't seem like very many converts in that amount of time. How many followers other... (sneezes) Pardon me please.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right.</p>
<p>Journalist: How many followers are there then, within...? Just a hundred?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Little more than hundred.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: These are initiates who are strictly following. Of course, there are more and more people come to the temples. More people join us.</p>
<p>Journalist: How many temples are there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have got thirteen temples. Thirteen. One in this Los Angeles, one San Francisco, one in New York, one Santa Fe, one Buffalo, one Boston, one Montreal, one Vancouver, and Seattle, Columbus, and then London, Hamburg, in this way... Hawaii.</p>
<p>Journalist: Well, there's got to be more than a hundred people in thirteen temples.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, more than a hundred, yes. About a...</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: I don't know.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, I have got list. There are more than hundred.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Must be at least because that would only be an average of ten per temple.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Here we have got about twenty heads in this temple.</p>
<p>Journalist: About twenty. Where does the money come from to print Godhead?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God sends. (laughs)</p>
<p>Journalist: Well, yes, I was pretty sure of that, but God doesn't write checks and stuff like that. I'm just sort of curious. And I must say that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God dictates you and you pay. That's all.</p>
<p>Journalist: I must say that that answer to that question is a very ambivalent answer.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (chuckling) Yes. I came here... You will be surprised. I came here with seven dollars only and the whole establishment expenditure is not less than, I think, five thousand dollars monthly. At least.</p>
<p>Journalist: That's sixty thousand a year. I mean, is it donated?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Five thousand is very minimal. I think it is more than that.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: I have no idea.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Because we are paying... This temple, we are paying four hundred, simply rent. Similarly each and every place we are paying three hundred, four hundred rent.</p>
<p>Journalist: Well, do people come to the services who are not disciples and devotees?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. No, we allow everyone, "Come on, chant. Take prasādam." We offer this prasādam. Chant, dance, hear Bhagavad-gītā, and take prasādam, and go home.</p>
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