Ātreya Ṛṣi: In my country there is also a reaction towards Indians. I had to come twice. Once I came the night before, and they would not give me visa at the entry.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: The Indian government.
Prabhupāda: Indian. Indian?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, because so many Indians have not been granted visa in Iran, so they are now reciprocating like that, and I had to go back to Tehran to see the ambassador, who is our friend, getting visa and come back immediately.
Prabhupāda: Just see.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: The government are just playing these games.
Prabhupāda: Whimsical. Very, very difficult to deal with such unscrupulous government. But still, we have got open field all over the world.
Rāmeśvara: In America the book selling has now surpassed last year.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?
Rāmeśvara: We are trying to double. So it is not yet doubled, but it has gone...
Prabhupāda: Surplus.
Rāmeśvara: ...beyond last year.
Prabhupāda: Oh. That's nice. It is going to be doubled.
Rāmeśvara: We are confident. By your words it will double.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Be doubly blessed. Yes. I say, America is my fatherland. So New Vrindaban is developing? Be happy everywhere.
Kīrtanānanda: How can we be happy when you're not well?
Prabhupāda: Hm? Hm?
Kīrtanānanda: We can't be happy if you're not well.
Prabhupāda: I am always well.
Kīrtanānanda: Why can't you give us your old age?
Prabhupāda: When I see that things are going on nicely, I am happy. What is this with this body? Body is body. We are not body.
Kīrtanānanda: Wasn't it Purudāsa that gave his father his youth?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Rāmeśvara: Yayāti. King Yayāti traded his old age.
Kīrtanānanda: With his son. You can do that.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Who did?
Rāmeśvara: King Yayāti.
Prabhupāda: Ah. Yayāti. No, why? You are my body. So you live on. There is no difference. Just like I am working, so my Guru Mahārāja is there, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. Physically he may not be, but in every action he is there. I think actually I have written that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, it's in the Bhāgavatam, that "He who lives with him, he lives eternally. He who remembers his words lives eternally."
Prabhupāda: So I am not going to die. Kīrtir yasya sa jīvati: "One who has done something substantial, he lives forever." He doesn't die. Even in our practical life... Of course, this is material, karma-phala. One has to accept another body according to his karma. But for devotee there is no such thing. He always accepts a body for serving Kṛṣṇa. So there is no karma-phala. (pause)
Rāmeśvara: Last volume of Ninth Canto is at the printer.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Rāmeśvara: The last volume, it is already at the printer, being printed.
Prabhupāda: Oh, Ninth.
Rāmeśvara: It will be here in about ten days. And the first volume of Tenth Canto, we have just received Chapter Four and Chapter Five, and the artists will be finished in two weeks.
Prabhupāda: Another thing, the Hindi photographic pages, if you send to Los Angeles, the books can be printed there.
Rāmeśvara: Printed in America?
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Rāmeśvara: What language? Hindi?
Prabhupāda: The photographic pages...
Kīrtanānanda: For the photographic pages in the Hindi, the printing of the photography...
Rāmeśvara: The color? That's possible. I can talk with Gopāla to see if it is less expensive.
Prabhupāda: Because Hindi composition is not possible there. So after composing here, if they send you the photography, finished copy, from that copy, whether you can print there?
Rāmeśvara: Oh, yes.
Prabhupāda: I think you can work out.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Print there.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Rāmeśvara: In America. The art pages?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, everything.
Rāmeśvara: Everything? It will be more expensive because in India they print on cheap paper. If we use the same cheap paper, they'll still have to pay more because it has to be shipped back to India. But I can check.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (pause) So?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Kīrtana, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hm? Kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ (CC Adi 17.31). Without condition, kīrtana should go on. And that is the panacea of all troubles. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given, jāy sakal bipod, bhaktivinod bole, jakhon o-nām gāi. This is a fact. If you always continue kīrtana, there is no danger. You are above all danger. Our Kīrtanānanda Mahārāja knows very well. He has no danger. He's sticking to that New Vrindaban program, improving, very good example. They eat first-class, nutritious food, and in Philadelphia also.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Pennsylvania, Port Royal.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In our Port Royal farm.
Prabhupāda: Yes. First class. Satyabhāmā gave me...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, that cāpāṭi.
Prabhupāda: "Too thick. How shall I eat it?" Oh, it was so nice.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Satyabhāmā gave Prabhupāda this black cāpāṭi. He thought, "So thick. How will I be able to eat it?"
Prabhupāda: Very delicious and easily digested. They are living very happily. You had been there?
Rāmeśvara: No, I've just heard all the good reports.
Prabhupāda: Very happily. That is life. Eat very sumptuously nutritious food. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Bas. What is this nonsense life, from five o'clock in the morning driving big, big trucks, "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."? Is that life? In Berkeley... Berkeley? Or where is that? Where are our temple only?
Rāmeśvara: Yes, Berkeley.
Prabhupāda: So there is a road. Whenever you go, always trucks: "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoo, whoo, whoo..." The docks and ports filled up with all rubbish things. People are harassed. Is that life? And they are compensating by drinking, by illicit sex and meat-eating. Soul-killing civilization. Śīta ātapa bāta bariṣaṇa. You know this song? There is a song.
Ādi-keśava: Govinda dāsa. Bhaja Huṅre Mana.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Sing it. You know?
Ādi-keśava: Not all the words.
Prabhupāda: You know?
Jayapatākā: Most of it.
Prabhupāda: Śīta ātapa, bāta bariṣaṇa, e dina jāminī jāgi re, biphale sebinu, kṛpaṇa durajana... Hm? What is that? Capala sukha-laba lāgi' re.
Jayapatākā: Bhaja huṅre mana.
Prabhupāda: Ah. Bhaja... Sing it.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Sing it.
Jayapatākā: (sings Bhaja Huṅre Mana to:) ...śīta ātapa, bāta bariṣaṇa, ithe ki āche paratīti re...
Prabhupāda: It is śīta ātapa, bāta bariṣaṇa, e dina jāminī jāgi re.
Jayapatākā: (continues singing Bhaja Huṅre Mana)
Prabhupāda: (correcting Jayapatākā:) Bhajahuṅ hari-pada nīti re. Śravaṇa kīrtana...
Jayapatākā: (continues singing Bhaja Huṅre Mana)
Prabhupāda: (correcting Jayapatākā:) Govinda-dāsa-abhi...
Jayapatākā: (continues singing Bhaja Huṅre Mana)
Prabhupāda: So why don't you teach this song? You repeat, and they will repeat, and they will...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Chant.
Prabhupāda: Very nice song. Very. Just applicable to the point, everywhere. Philosophical, practical.
Jayapatākā: (sings) (break)