Prabhupāda: Now you can arrange for the car?
Devotee: Yes. Ātreya Ṛṣi is going to be working on it, too, to raise funds.
Prabhupāda: So, at least two first-class car must go to India.
Devotee: Cadillac?
Prabhupāda: Any. They must recognize, "Here the American guru is going."
Devotee: Have to get Cadillac.
Prabhupāda: (laughter) If the American guru has no car, he's walking on the street, that is disgrace for you. Is it not? (laughs) And they criticize, "Oh, what kind of guru you are, you are walking on the street? You are American guru?"
Devotee: I was thinking if each devotee in the United States went out...
Prabhupāda: You write on the car, "The Spiritual Master of USA." (laughter) And people will see, "Oh, here is the spiritual..." (laughs)
Devotee: Should we do that? "Spiritual Master of USA"?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why not? (laughter)
Devotee: If each of your devotees collected five dollars one day, that's $5,000, more, more than $5,000.
Prabhupāda: That you... And soon as you issue letter, that will come. It is not my (indistinct) And she will carry. Make arrangement with government so that next time when I go to India, I sit on the car. That's all.
Devotee: And Gurudasa... Actually we better do it soon, because it takes two or three months.
Prabhupāda: Yes, so you can do.
Devotee: We can talk about the details later.
Prabhupāda: That I am immigrant here; I've stayed since 1965. The embassy, everyone, knows. So I can take my cars, that there is a law. So in this way take permission from the government and you get the car and I go and drive it. That's all.
Devotee: You'll take this car with you, Prabhupāda, wherever you go?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Devotee: You will take this car with you wherever you go?
Prabhupāda: As far as possible. People will see, "The spiritual master of USA is going there."
Devotee: Supposing you want to go to Bombay. You can fly to Bombay and someone can drive the car there. And then when you're in Bombay, you can drive it in Bombay.
Prabhupāda: No, you can go from Calcutta to Agra, nice road. And from Agra to Bombay.
Devotee: How many days? Two days?
Prabhupāda: No, no. One day, two days, yes. Even if it runs fifty mile per hour, so from morning, early morning to noon, say six hours if we run, it's three hundred miles in the morning and three hundred miles in the evening, and stay at night. And then the next day three hundred miles, three hundred..., six hundred miles. Twelve hundred miles anywhere you go from Calcutta to Bombay, Calcutta to Madras, Calcutta to Delhi, within twelve hundred miles. Within two days from anywhere to anywhere you can go. India's length and breadth is not so wide as in your country. You have got... That is also not good roads, in your... But in Calcutta, to Calcutta-Bombay, Madras, Delhi, there are good roads.
Devotee: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: Good roads. So we can go by road.
Devotee: So we can begin campaigning right away, collecting funds for the vehicle.
Prabhupāda: And you are a good driver. (laughter) Eighty miles. You once at eighty miles, his father's car. His father gave a very nice car for my driving. His father, mother, sister met me in Portland. Very nice gentleman, mother nice, sister very beautiful.