Guru-kṛpā: You know a man who lays bricks, a brick layer, in India he gets paid 10 rupees a day...
Prabhupāda: Utmost.
Guru-kṛpā: And here he gets paid twelve dollars an hour.
Prabhupāda: Bricklayer.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, twelve dollars an hour.
Guru-kṛpā: So one hundred dollars a day.
Prabhupāda: Oh, it is impossible to engage.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh yeah, very expensive.
Guru-kṛpā: Construction worker, just to build a simple building, they charge construction about nine dollars an hour, every man, minimum, unskilled man, nine dollars an hour.
Prabhupāda: Then, how it will be possible?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We were discussing this. The way to do it, is that you get some person... There are many persons all over the country who are knowledgeable, who can do the work, but who are friendly. Just like in many temples that I visited, they have people, professionals who are working, but they are young men and because they are friendly towards our society, they'll do the work for less money. I'm sure that there are people who can be found like that here.
Prabhupāda: American devotee, Asian, and Australian devotee.
Guru-kṛpā: I think it can be done amongst our devotees.
Prabhupāda: Mm. We are not very anxious to get done immediately, we shall do slowly.
Guru-kṛpā: So we are, me and Tamāla Kṛṣṇa, we have organized the saṅkīrtana here. The saṅkīrtana should increase about ten times. Before they were doing three hundred dollars a day, now they should be doing at about one thousand three hundred dollars a day.
Prabhupāda: That is nice.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Therefore I think if we have profit, fifty percent can go for books, and fifty percent can be banked. And when they have enough money, then we can build the temple. But it's the only question...
Prabhupāda: No, with what, whatever collection is there, fifty percent, go on. Why wait?
Guru-kṛpā: And what about my collections in Japan?
Prabhupāda: We also spent here for the time.
Guru-kṛpā: 'Cause I will be getting nice collections this year.
Prabhupāda: Yes.