Dhanañjaya: Sixty-seventy pounds a day they're collecting.
Prabhupāda: You are not collecting so much?
Dhanañjaya: What's that?
Prabhupāda: You are not collecting so much?
Dhanañjaya: Here in the temple?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Dhanañjaya: We are collecting, on Oxford Street, we're collecting about forty, fifty pounds a day, and on travelling saṅkīrtana, sixty, seventy pounds, because they're doing it for more hours. So altogether we're over a hundred pounds a day.
Prabhupāda: Now you are GBC here, you have come, now you make it hundred pounds daily. How to do it, he knows.
Dhanañjaya: But, but there is already hundred pounds coming. Two hundred pounds, then.
Prabhupāda: And his best friend is George. (laughs)
Devotee: I'm going to see him tomorrow.
Devotee (1): Is he in town?
Prabhupāda: He can alone make purchase a good temple. George alone can purchase.
Devotee (2): He says George is in New York.
Devotee: (conversation in background)
Dhanañjaya: Oh, he may be with Mr. Ravi Patel. I think we saw him at the airport.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Dhanañjaya: He's a printer, and he came in the van with you from the airport. He's a very nice man. He's doing printing for us. He says he has so many thousands of rupees in Bombay and in Madras from his printing. And he also wants to offer his services. I think he will come tomorrow to see you.
Prabhupāda: They can print our books, in Bombay.
Dhanañjaya: He said he wanted to offer his services here for this temple somehow or other by getting money from advertising purposes. He's the director of some company that's just been started. It's called Golden Products. They make all kinds of consumer goods like shampoos and soap powders, so many things like that, for household use. And he wanted to use his symbol, Golden Products, with this society. This is his idea.
Prabhupāda: Golden powder?
Dhanañjaya: Golden Products.
Prabhupāda: In our society? No.
Dhanañjaya: I told him...
Prabhupāda: That is not possible.
Devotee: Who is he?
Dhanañjaya: He went to the (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: Yes. There was a boy.
Dhanañjaya: His other idea is, he said he was working for Sai Baba, Satya Sai Baba. He said that in India he had raised so many thousands of lakhs of rupees by making posters. They are impersonal posters, so much nonsense in them, but they sold like lottery tickets. In this way he printed them and made so much money.
Prabhupāda: I mean he cannot suggest. We cannot accept anyone's suggestion.
Dhanañjaya: Yeah.
Devotee: That's proven to be too..., too horrible.
Devotee: Yes, always.
Devotee (2): I saw Mr.... Who was that? What's that man's name who made your first record in New York?
Prabhupāda: Collin.
Devotee (2): Ah, I saw Mr. Collin at the airport when you arrived in New York at that meeting, press meeting.
Prabhupāda: Oh, he was there?
Devotee (2): He was there.
Prabhupāda: Oh, why did he not see me?
Devotee (2): He didn't come. He was a little embarrassed, I think.
Prabhupāda: He must be embarrassed. He's a thief. (laughter) Desirous man never becomes happy. He did not pay me anything as royalty for the record.
Devotee: Hm.
Devotee (2): He's still selling it, too.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Devotee (2): He's still selling that record.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Must be selling and taking advantage of this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.
Devotee (2): That's a nice record.
Devotee: Is that Govinda?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Devotee (2): That's a very nice record. Everyone is appreciating.
Prabhupāda: But I heard that rascal always played my record and hear Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Devotee (1): At least he's benefiting somehow. I saw him in Bombay also one day in the market of Madhubal, Madhubhag(?) temple? He was buying beads for his store in New York.
Prabhupāda: He's selling beads, records, on our account. (laughter)
Devotee (1): He was being cheated himself, in Bombay. He was being cheated like anything. He was paying one rupee for one strand of beads, those poor quality beads. (pause)
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.