Prabhupāda: Before leaving home I was loitering here and there, "If there is any shelter, this?" But that time in Harigrama, I stayed there for two, three days. Nice temple. He has construction of the work there. I'll try some of that . . . that is next.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Your Guru Mahārāja had many disciples. Like you, he was very merciful. You have so many disciples, we have lost count.
Prabhupāda: I . . . I have disciples all over the world. They have got specially in Bengal.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Special . . .?
Śatadhanya: In Bengal.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In Bengal, local. Your Guru Mahārāja knew that you would do this, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Hmm. He foretold.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Time will come when he will do."
Prabhupāda: That time I could not understand.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But he knew.
Prabhupāda: And in my horoscope there was written there, "After seventieth year this man will go outside India and establish so many temples."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Really?
Prabhupāda: I could not understand. "What is this, that I have to go outside India? That is not . . ." and Guru Mahārāja foretold. He told my Godbrothers, Śrīdhara Mahārāja and others that, "He'll do the needful when time comes. Nobody requires to help him." He told in 1935. And after all, this was true. Guru Mahārāja told. And in the beginning, first sight, he told, "You have to do this."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No one helped you. That's a fact. You asked that . . .
Prabhupāda: Who?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . . Tīrtha Mahārāja for some help, but he didn't help at all. He wouldn't even give a little place.
Prabhupāda: Nobody. Everyone admits.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually, when you intended to go to America, everyone was advising, "Better not go. It is too dangerous for someone of your age. Do not go." Someone even said that you might not come back.
Prabhupāda: I thought all this. I went to USA not to come back. I left India hopeless. I did not want to come back. I went with determination that, "If I do this job, I will survive." So Kṛṣṇa helped me. I never desired to come back. It was 197 . . . er, no, 1968. You all helped, so I called you, "I want to return back. There are so many . . . (indistinct) . . ."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, you called me from France.
Prabhupāda: London.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I was in Paris.
Prabhupāda: Yes, and you were Paris.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: That "I want to go back. There is some conspiracy. Don't want."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You said: "Take me out of here. It has become like fire." I remember. 1970, it was, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No, it was 19 . . . maybe '70.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It was. August.
Śatadhanya: Yes.
Prabhupāda: It was hint already that, "I want to go back."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually, at that time we were massaging your heart. It was such a shock to you. And I remember, the only medicine you want . . . we were massaging your heart and reading Kṛṣṇa book. And you developed a very bad cough.
Prabhupāda: I do not wish to recall that. It was intolerable. Then these things were now brought to . . . otherwise I did not like to come back. I would have stayed.