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Prabhupāda: That was, He was five or six years old. That's all.
Hayagrīva: And this is... What's the location again?
Prabhupāda: This location is front of Jagannātha Miśra's house.
Hayagrīva: Yes. Six years later in other words.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hayagrīva: All right. That's the... Does He meet any of these characters at the river? Does He meet any of the characters up there?
Prabhupāda: No. General public. General public. But they are all brāhmaṇas, rigid brāhmaṇas. They are taking bath. Yes.
Hayagrīva: Now the constables broke up a saṅkīrtana carried on by Caitanya's friends. Any location here particular?
Prabhupāda: Yes. It is called the Śrīvāsa house.
Hayagrīva: On a house. At someone's home.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Because in India the village houses they have got some compound. Not that only fixed house. Every house has got a compound.
Hayagrīva: All right. Very good. Now the fourth scene, this is the meeting with the magistrate.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Fourth scene. That...
Hayagrīva: They march to the magistrate.
Prabhupāda: Magistrate house and in the courtyard all the people, they were very much enthusiastic.
Hayagrīva: Several thousand.
Prabhupāda: Our so-called temple?
Caller: Your so-called temple. Why do you set up a place like that in the Haight-Ashbury?
Interviewer: I'll rephrase it. I'm going to punch her out. Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?
Prabhupāda: It is not for particularly selected the hippies' quarter, but the boys they found a cheaper place in that quarter. Therefore they occupied that place.
Interviewer: Cheapest place you could find.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Because we are not very rich institution. So we found it cheaper. So we selected it. It is not for the reason that because it is hippie quarter, therefore we selected it. No.
Interviewer: Actually, most hippies couldn't join your religion because they take drugs...
Prabhupāda: Yes, we are completely different from the hippies, because hippies they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Elephants, there are many in India. Elephants, camels, horses also. Still there are many.
Devotee: Could we film on location, on the battlefield?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. The battlefield is still existing, Kurukṣetra. Yes. It is about hundred..., about within two hundred miles from Delhi. It is not far off. That, my red tape recorder is not replaced. Is it very costly now?
Devotee: I think so. Yeah. About five hundred dollars.
Prabhupāda: Five hundred dollars, that may be Japanese. The original is English.
Devotee: Oh, English? I thought it was German. English?
Prabhupāda: Yes. German or English. That is eight hundred dollars. It was very nice. Yes. I therefore used to keep daily in my compartment. I didn't allow to leave it here. How you are feeling, Jadurāṇī? All right? So I think we shall chant little Hare Kṛṣṇa and close this meeting.
Journalist: Yes, it is mountainous. Well, I mean there's mountains here too. I'm not being facetious. Again, I'm just curious.
Hayagrīva: No, it's very economical living there and it's also nicely located because we have temples in New York and in other areas in the east. So it's sort of like, between the east and the west, so it's sort of centrally...
Prabhupāda: And one thing is that main supporter is he. He is working in Ohio University. He's nearer.
Journalist: Where are you?
Hayagrīva: In the Ohio State University.
Journalist: That's where you teach? How come you're not teaching now?
Hayagrīva: This is Christmas vacation.
Journalist: Oh, you're on a vacation. You have tickets to the ball game?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. What is the description?
Satsvarūpa: Very excellent location, right downtown. The things wrong with it is that the temple area is no bigger than the temple area we have now, but the location is just the greatest. Second floor. Still, right downtown.
Prabhupāda: Second floor. So what is the rent?
Satsvarūpa: Three hundred a month. But we can do it as long as... Presently, Patita-pāvana is working and so am I, and sometimes the gopīs get some money. So we wouldn't have any problem as long as Patita-pāvana would continue to work.
Prabhupāda: All right, Kṛṣṇa will solve the problems. But the space is not lesser than this temple?
Pratyatoṣa: Oh, yeah. You just dial over an ordinary telephone. You can use more than one time-sharing service on the same terminal just by dialing different numbers. In Washington, D.C., I was using four different computers through the same terminal, just by dialing different numbers. And they can be thousands of miles away, it doesn't matter. In Minneapolis, I'm using a computer that's located in..., near Baltimore, near Washington, D.C. And it's just like... It doesn't matter how far away it is.
Prabhupāda: You receive the phone call?
Pratyatoṣa: Yeah, just by a phone call. Just by calling a local number, too, because they have lines already set up.
Devotee (4): Like you were talking with that big (indistinct).
Pratyatoṣa: I was communicating with a karmī friend of mine in Baltimore through the computer system. He was using the same computer. So that's another thing we could do, communications. And we could do a (indistinct)...
Prabhupāda: We haven't got much communication with outside.
Prabhupāda: Yes. "The Motor Car Crisis"?
Revatīnandana: Is it mentioned in that essay? I think it must be a different location.
Vicitravīrya: I think it was in one of the Resurgence magazines, perhaps. It was in one of the eight magazines, I think.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes, yes. Here.
Popworth: The one on Buddhist economics.
Schumacher: No, it was the other one. This is "The Economics of Permanence."
Popworth: Oh.
Prabhupāda: Hm. "Cars, Profits and Pollution." I was just reading this article. "Cars, Profits and Pollution." So this one side, we make profit, another side, we make pollution. This is the material, result of material activities. Whatever you do. Anything you do material, it is same. In one side, you see, "Oh, there is so much profit," and another side, you'll see so much pollution. Therefore the remedy is to act for spiritual realization. Then you will avoid pollution. The remedy is.
Prabhupāda: Because in the sewer, I could not see such nice things.
Professor: Here, it's a wonderful location.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Here it is wonderful. Now I can make an idea, what is Paris. Yes.
Professor: Surely.
Prabhupāda: I was under impression in Paris there is no nice park. Now this time I see, yes, Paris excels the whole world, having such a nice park. Yes. I saw Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. That is also very nice. But this park is nicer than Golden Gate Park.
Professor: You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Professor: Well it depends. I like the Golden Gate too because there is the sea not far. Here, in Paris, you have no ocean, nothing.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Śaṅkarācārya.
Ambassador: From Kerala. Sir, I have got a question. I have not really been able to locate when exactly Rādhā entered Hindu mythology. Because the Bhāgavatam doesn't mention. They mention only rāsa-krīḍā as a... Before that, they were, before Gaurāṅga, Caitanya, did you, do you have rendered exactly the bhakti cult to take... The Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, I mean. They were generally the gopīs and...
Prabhupāda: Other ācāryas, they elevated people up to sākhya-rasa.
Ambassador: Sākhya-rasa.
Prabhupāda: It is Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He gave us mādhurya-rasa.
Ambassador: Mādhurya-rasa.
Prabhupāda: Therefore about Caitanya Mahāprabhu, it is said, anarpita-carīṁ cirāt. Anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasāṁ...
Paramahaṁsa: In the beginning stage, yes.
Ambassador: Yes, then you'll have to locate something.
Prabhupāda: So practically single-handed I am trying to give this original Indian culture to the world. And nobody's helping me. Neither, if some rich man wants to help me, government will not allow to help me.
Ambassador: Oh, yes, especially...
Prabhupāda: Now just like Sir Padampat Singhania of Kanpur, he promised that, "You just construct a nice temple in New York." He wanted to give the money. The government will not allow.
Ambassador: Oh, foreign exchange.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Not allow. I made correspondence with the government. The last reply was that "You can raise fund locally, but you cannot take money from here." Now who will pay...? Of course, these boys are paying me. We are getting... Now recently, one boy, you know his name, George Harrison. He's a very famous singer.
Prabhupāda: That means they have not gone thoroughly. One portion of it.
Karandhara: Well, they have scanners on these satellites which pick up vegetation or life. From hundreds miles away, it will show up on a screen. And they sent it all around the moon, and it hasn't shown any indication of any organic matter or life. They can send this satellite up around the earth planet and they can locate fields of corn, fields of wheat, from hundreds of miles away, just by the way it shows up on these different electronic devices. (break)
Prabhupāda: Take one of these... (break)
Yogeśvara: The vegetables, made of different elements. (break) ...and they say they found indications of elements that were existing at the time of creation that went into the making of the living entities... (end)
Prabhupāda: ...lunch time.
Siddha-svarūpa: Yes. (break) ...the location also. That's a very good location they have, on the main road.
Prabhupāda: Japanese?
Siddha-svarūpa: Yeah. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...injunction, apāṇi-pado javano grahīta, is, "He, the God, has no leg, no hand, but He accepts gift." "Accepts gift," means He has got hand, but why it is said, "No leg, no hand"? That means He has no material hand and leg. He has His hands and legs, but that is spiritual. That is the meaning. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1). His body is made of spiritual eternity... This body is not eternal. But God has got His eternal body. There is no question of God's becoming old. Because His body is eternal. It is the material body which is not eternal. That is subjected to old age, disease, birth, death. What is this big house? (break) ...stated that he came to cheat the atheists. They did not believe in God, but God came as Buddha.
Siddha-svarūpa: Yes, yes.
Prabhupāda: And he said, "Yes, you are right. There is no God."
Prabhupāda: Oh. How far it is from our palace?
Jayatīrtha: About half an hour, I think. It is between several big towns. And it's very centrally located for saṅkīrtana all over France.
Prabhupāda: Oh, we can go here and there.
Jayatīrtha: Yeah. They're going to use that as the saṅkīrtana base for our traveling saṅkīrtana all over France.
Prabhupāda: Very good.
Jayatīrtha: Parties will go out for a few weeks and then come back. So it's very good.
Prabhupāda: What is the climate now? It is cold?
Jayatīrtha: It's nice during the day and a little cold at night.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Mayor: The, er... I'm not sure what the time schedule is, but it's my impression that they were going to start remodeling it for city purposes later this year. It's about a three million dollar project, both for the purchase of the land from the sisters and the remodeling to make it suitable for various city needs. And then they're going to... The city is now located at nine different locations, that is, their facilities. And they're trying to incorporate them all in this one place so that when people need city services, they can just go one place and get all the...
Prabhupāda: But this is more important. City service is going on, but criminals are increasing. So why not give us little opportunity?
Mayor: Well, I could certainly discuss this with the city manager and see what could be worked out.
Śrī Govinda: Possibly we could invite the city manager also to come to discuss with Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No. So if we get a good place with the cooperation of the authorities, then our simple program is that, as Professor Judah has remarked, drug-addicted hippies, they have been turned into devotees. We shall invite anyone to come and chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and take prasādam and we are... I began this movement in New York alone, and these boys gradually came to me, but my process was this: chanting and giving them prasādam. He is one of the original student. He was. So this process, very simple process, everyone will be able to accept it. Chant, dance, and take prasādam.
Prabhupāda: You see? If they cooperate, then we can push on our movement more vigorously.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So with our present location here we cannot...
Prabhupāda: No, no, that you can do in a larger scale.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I see.
Prabhupāda: We are doing it. In a small scale it is going on, but if we get some support of the authorities, we can push on in larger scale.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That is the idea. We are not going to stop for anything. We are going on with our movement.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. So the point is we need a larger scale...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Very good. Very good.
City Counselor: Thank you. No, I have the pleasure of having the temple located in the area which I represent on the city council, and I've found the temple to be a welcome addition to the city. I have no questions. There are formalities which have to be met in order for the temple to be repaired. And I'm sure that as soon as these formalities are met then the work can proceed, but er...
Prabhupāda: What are the formalities?
Śrī Govinda: There's been some delay in the approval on the building due to different building violations and we have to receive approval from the zoning board of appeals, then the city council. And it's a matter of time. But also there has been some opposition in the city council, and...
Prabhupāda: So what can I do? What is the difficulty? What do you want from us?
City Counselor: Really nothing. The only problem is that there are certain rules and regulations that all the citizens of Evanston must comply with. And that's all that has been asked to be done. Originally, as I expressed, there were some... This property, the temple, is located in an area which is zoned for business. And there were some originally who wished to maintain that...
Prabhupāda: What is that? On the basis of what?
Sandy Nixon: I can't locate it directly. But the Brahma...
Prabhupāda: Brahmānanda. Who has said that this is caste system? This is not caste system. Cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ (BG 4.13). According to quality and according to work, there are four divisions of men. Just like you can understand there are engineers and there are medical practitioners. So do you take them as caste? "Oh, he is engineer caste. He is medical caste." Do you say like that?
Sandy Nixon: I don't want to say what I feel because I'm recording you. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: I'm asking you, I'm asking you...
Sandy Nixon: Well, I think there's always been castes. It's just that we don't recognize the fact that they're there.
Prabhupāda: No, recognize means if a man is qualified medical man we accept him as medical man. And if a man is qualified engineer, we accept him as engineer. Similarly, Bhagavad-gītā suggests—not suggest, it is there—there are four classes of men, the most intelligent class of men, the administrator class of men, the productive class of men and ordinary worker.
Prabhupāda: ...reason it is advised that the father must get the daughter married. Otherwise these things will happen, loose society. (break) ...location of the Hyatt (?) (Hunt?) House is very nice. (break) ...the horse is the most beautiful.
Satsvarūpa: More beautiful than the cow?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Satsvarūpa: More than the cow.
Prabhupāda: Cow is not very beautiful. (laughter) (break) ...in the human society the Jews are most beautiful. Is it a fact? Jews? Yehudi.(?)
Satsvarūpa: Each group says that they're the most beautiful. (laughter) The blacks say they are beautiful, and the whites say...
Prabhupāda: No, impartially. That everyone will say, "I am beautiful." Hippies also beautiful. Lavanyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam. (break) ...dirty water.
Prabhupāda: So out of five hundred dollars if you have to pay 175, rent, then why it is not poverty? Almost one third money is finished by paying rent. (break) ...seen in India the Narmada Falls? Huh? Jabalpur? Ah, it is wonderful.
Indian man (1): The location of that church is very nice because there are so many thousands of cars pass every morning and in the evening.
Prabhupāda: Where?
Indian man (1): Avenue Road. It is very busy street. There are so many cars coming in the morning, I think, twenty thousand a day.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And they will see the signboard. (break)
Indian man (2): ...that India, I traveled after several years. I last went in 1966. It was not so demonic. But this time I found the younger generation of India is very, very demonic and they don't believe God at all.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: ...many millions miles away.
Indian man (4): But it is not locate... Only hell is located in one place or a prada(?) is located in another place? Do you think so, Swamijī?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. There are different planets.
Indian man (4): There are many people who suffer in this world itself.
Prabhupāda: So they are first of all trained up in that hellish planet and then they come here to suffer the same standard of life.
Indian man (4): When our soul gets out from our body, it goes to the hell or...
Prabhupāda: Hellish planet.
Indian: ...hemisphere or it take birth immediately afterwards?
Prabhupāda: Not necessary. What is the use of car? If you locate yourself to get everything, your necessity, then where is the use of car? If you require car, you have a bullock cart. That's all. Why should you hanker after petrol, mobile (Mobil?) oil, machine, this, that, so many things. Why?
Guest (3): Yes, but don't you think that it would be impossible for you to come mostly?
Prabhupāda: No, no. So long it is not available, we must take the best advantage. That is another thing. But gradually we shall develop a society that all these unnecessary rubbish things should be rejected. That is the idea. Or those who are interested, let them manufacture car; we take advantage. We don't bother ourself how to manufacture car. Ajāgara-vṛtti. Ajāgara-vṛtti, the idea is... Ajāgara means the snake. So a mouse makes a hole in the field to live very peacefully. So, and he enters the hole, and a snake gets the information and he comes, enters the hole. He eats the snake... The snake eats the mouse and lives peacefully. So let this rascal manufacture motorcar. When we require, we take from them and ride away. We are not going to manufacture. There will be some rascals. Let them do that, mouse. We enter as snake. (laughter) That's all. We are doing that. We are doing that. I did not manufacture this house, but somebody, some mouse, has done. (laughter) And we have entered it, that's all. That's all.
Prabhupāda: Keśighāṭa we have already given in New Vṛn...
Ambarisa: It's right on a river. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...name that... Kṛṣṇa... They brought the assembly house from heaven and located in Dvāraka. There is a name like that. I shall give you the name.
Brahmānanda: (break) ...robi. You can give a name for Nairobi mandir.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) Devasadan.
Brahmānanda: Devasadan. What is the meaning?
Prabhupāda: Celestial building.
Ambarisa: What does it mean?
Brahmānanda: Celestial.
Prabhupāda: D-e-v-a-s-a-d-a-n. Devasadan. (break)
Brahmānanda: ...Devasadana?
Prabhupāda: No. Devasadan.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Yaśomatīnandana: Where is that located? (laughter)
Dr. Patel: In your mind.
Prabhupāda: No. Where is the sun located now?
Yaśomatīnandana: 93,000,000...
Prabhupāda: No, no. Sun. Sun. Where is located now?
Yaśomatīnandana: Oh, it's out of my sight.
Prabhupāda: You cannot see it.
Yaśomatīnandana: Sumeru we cannot see. It's not on the earth?
Prabhupāda: You can, but you have no eyes.
Dr. Patel: (Hindi) I call him also mahārāja. He's a brāhmaṇa.
Yaśomatīnandana: Brahma-bandhu.
Prabhupāda: So it is good idea.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, the location is very good. It's right in the center. And they have Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deities there, plus they have Rāma, Sītā, Lakṣmaṇa, Hanumān, which we can also worship.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Only problem is they have Durgā.
Prabhupāda: Durgā, so we can worship, giving Durgā the prasādam of Rāma or Kṛṣṇa. That's it.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, something can be worked out.
Prabhupāda: Not directly. His prasāda. If we can worship ordinary human being, why not Durgā? But we give prasādam. We shall give. So don't tell all these things now.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, I didn't tell him anything.
Prabhupāda: We do not say that we do not believe in the demigods. No, we believe in. But they are servants. That's all. We cannot make the servant and the master on the equal footing. That is all. We worship Durgā, sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni vibharti durgā (Bs. 5.44).
Prabhupāda: And for public it is very cheap.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Very inexpensive. And if they advertise it, they won't be able to handle all the people who come. It's such a central location.
Prabhupāda: It will be automatically advertised. When people will say, "Oh, there is a nice ISKCON restaurant, and it is so cheap and so nice," people will come. Just like in our Vṛndāvana temple, we don't advertise. Of course, that's.... People are coming by thousands. I thought that so long distance from the city, nobody will come. But Balarāma is so powerful, He's bringing: "Come out here." (laughter) Otherwise, I was.... What is that? Plowing? Yamunā was threatened.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, Balarāma.
Prabhupāda: And the whole Kuru dynasty was threatened.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Very good class of people are coming to the restaurant, businessmen, like that.
Prabhupāda: And there is book display?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Did you explain that it was being built for someone who was going to start a restaurant, but they didn't?
Śrutikīrti: Yes. They ran out of money, these people, and there were so many restrictions at this location because of these buildings here. People live there, and they didn't want anyone in there who was going to cook meat. And they didn't want anyone who was going to serve intoxication. So practically we're the only people that don't serve meat and intoxication. So actually they're very glad.
Ambarīṣa: The man who owns it says he gets fifty phone calls every day from people who want that space. It's such a good space that fifty people a day call.
Prabhupāda: Fifty?
Śrutikīrti: People are very interested, the location is excellent. It's on one of the most important streets in all of Boston.
Ambarīṣa: Once we get open we'll be able to serve a thousand people a day.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is a good location. This building is for sale.
Prabhupāda: This is that Vedic om or something like that?
Hari-śauri: I think so. It says "Om eternal."
Bali-mardana: Yes.
Prabhupāda: The om word is used in English?
Bali-mardana: Om is very popular in English language for a long time. When they think of mystical things, they think of om. The English, originally because they were in India, they thought to imitate some Indian words.
Prabhupāda: Many Indian words have been introduced in dictionary. And many English words is also introduced. That is natural. (break)
Prabhupāda: That Juhu temple, Akasganga, you know? Everyone asked me not to go there, "Nobody will go there." I said "It is Bombay city. Wherever you shall go, people will come."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The question is whether, if we open another temple, it will increase the total number of people coming, or whether simply the same people will come to two different locations.
Prabhupāda: Yes, if you have got demand, then you can open.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: First let us fill up this place.
Rāmeśvara: In other words, instead of filling up that building and then just buying a new one, you just buy a second temple. And keep it that way.
Prabhupāda: That's a good building.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We shouldn't give it up. Very good facility. Especially once we make all improvements on it, why we should give it up? Better to simply open another one.
Prabhupāda: And that is advertised means nobody's purchasing at this quarter, it is not very safe.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This quarter? No, this is the most prestigious. Fifth Avenue between Seventy-ninth Street and Thirty-fourth Street is the prime location. That's about as far north as you would want to go. Any further north uptown will not be nice, but this area here is very select. The best area is from Fifty-ninth Street to Thirty-fourth Street on Fifth Avenue, where all the shops are, the library. That area is very high class. This is Fifty-seventh Street, Fifty-fifth Street.
Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?
Prabhupāda: When the spiritual master goes there, somewhere, his nearest assistants, they automatically go there to assist him. When Kṛṣṇa comes the demigods also come to help Him. That is there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. All these Yadus, Yadu family, they came from heaven. So before Kṛṣṇa's disappearance, by some trick they were all killed and they returned to their original place. It is nicely described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Just see, small house, this yellow. Still, in New York City.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There are two classes, Broadway and off-Broadway theater. Two different classifications. Broadway is very costly, big productions, very elaborate, and off-Broadway is more simple, but also very often there are good plays there. So this particular temple is located in an off-Broadway location. And actually it's very prestigious. We can advertise, and people will attend. They will definitely attend, and they'll even pay for the performances. We don't feel that we should charge yet, until the caliber of the performance is first class and until they have some full program. Because right now, just like this play only took about..., the dance only took about twenty-five minutes.
Prabhupāda: Altogether.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Unless they have something that is at least two hours, one and half, two hours, you cannot charge for. People will definitely pay.
Prabhupāda: Pay or not pay, doesn't matter. They should understand the meaning.(?)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Did you feel that the message of the Gītā came through?
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Yes.
Bali-mardana: In other words, Prabhupāda is creating a class of purified persons, so they are located throughout the world, and if other persons come to them, then they become purified. Just like we have come to Prabhupāda and we have become purified, similarly his disciples are empowered to purify others because they have become pure. In that way it increases geometrically.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's an educational process. Someone coming from the street you can't expect that he's given a degree in chemistry. He has to be trained up. So the educational process goes on and on. It expands naturally.
Bali-mardana: Just like in the beginning Prabhupāda was teaching Bhagavad-gītā personally to his disciples. But now in each one of his over a hundred temples throughout the world, his instructions are being taught. So he's expanded himself through his books and his temples. So anyone who enters into them, they are associating with him and becoming purified. So then more temples, more people come and become purified.
Interviewer: Are you prepared to die?
Prabhupāda: What is this question?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's a good location for the festival, very important place, Washington Square Park. It's the center.
Prabhupāda: Best thing would have been to keep the Deities for a week there.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That would not have been permitted. They only permitted us legally two hours for everything. That's why we were rushing everything. We only had two hours legally for the whole program.
Prabhupāda: Yes, then there is no need.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I heard people say "We've never seen such a festival, never seen such a parade." I heard these comments. One man said... Someone said, "What's going on?" and he said, "Oh, they have so many things going on here." They were very appreciative. And actually we could not put our full energy into it this year because we were so busy preparing the building simultaneously.
Prabhupāda: And above all, the atmosphere, the weather, was very nice.
Prabhupāda: They... Nobody has objection. Simply I am thinking that if I stay in one place and do not see the others...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But this is a very central location.
Prabhupāda: That I shall consider.
Bali-mardana: They may come here. We will make... We have guest rooms.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can make an airline office by which they'll get a reduced rate, and they can travel here, travel agency, and they can come here very inexpensively to visit you, and we can give full accommodations. If somehow we can keep you here, we will do anything required.
Bali-mardana: At least for a few months. That is all.
Prabhupāda: Which month?
Bali-mardana: During the summertime.
Prabhupāda: July?
Prabhupāda: Yes, Kṛṣṇa's mercy.
Atreya Ṛṣi: You will see it.
Prabhupāda: So make arrangement on Thursday. At any time, we shall go.
Atreya Ṛṣi: It is both nice location and a nice small house. We can also get a bigger one nearby, and a bigger one, we can take the whole city.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Later on. Later on. No, we can member anyone, because we are proposing very pure thing, "You chant the holy name of God." Who will object?
Atreya Ṛṣi: You should let Dayānanda Prabhu and I live a thousand years. We will buy the whole city.
Prabhupāda: I shall go there. I am going. (devotees offer obeisances) So thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Give this one garland to this boy and another to Atreya Ṛṣi. (end)
Dayānanda: An adjoining room for storage.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Would you like one of these peaches, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Yes, that's right, that's right. Would you prefer an orange? Can I skin this?
Hari-śauri: I can cut an orange.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Orange?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Cut into pieces, give me. Give me little.
Pradyumna: Bitter skin. Sometimes there are amoebas on the outside.
Nava-yauvana: The location is very central. In the city it's very central.
Prabhupāda: Yes. From tulasī. It was made in Honolulu. In Honolulu tulasī plants are very luxurious. Hyderabad local people, they are not sympathetic with our temple? Huh? Not sympathetic?
Acyutānanda: But when their caste guru comes they may come out, because that's a big thing. Narayana Jeer, Rāmānuja-sampradāya, so Rāmānujas have to pay their respects to their own ācārya. The temple is being built. And the location of Hyderabad is such that there are so many guesthouses, because it's near the station, Nampally Station. There are many guesthouses. So from all over India people who stop in Hyderabad, they come to the temple. So from all over Andhra we got invitations from people who had come to the temple. (plane going over)
Prabhupāda: Guesthouse?
Acyutānanda: There's the Vṛndāvana Hotel, and that Ashoka?
Vāsughoṣa: Annapurna...
Acyutānanda: Annapurna Hotel, so many guesthouses.
Prabhupāda: They visit our temple?
Prabhupāda: Yes, if we get from...
Saurabha: Of course, the location is excellent. It is... This is... There's two towers, and here is the road. Here is that, our road, going to our land in the back. Here is the main entry. Here is the temple in the back. So these two on the ground floor are meant for bank. So people can come right from here, and here is an entry. So place is the best for the bank. So they all want that place. So you think State Bank of India is the best?
Prabhupāda: No, as you think?
Saurabha: I don't know very much, but Gopāla said that the Indian Overseas Bank is an upcoming bank as well as Syndicate Bank, so they may be more eager for this.
Prabhupāda: Syndicate Bank is not very...
Saurabha: I also think to have a big bank is better.
Prabhupāda: Big bank is better. And who pays the best price.
Prabhupāda: Holland. That is the international court?
Doctor: Yes, the court case located, the headquarters.
Prabhupāda: I went somewhere. That is also international. In Geneva, I think. Is there any...?
Doctor: Geneva is another headquarters of the, of the United Nations. New York, Geneva. But the court is in the Hague.
Prabhupāda: So I went to that place in Geneva.
Doctor: Geneva has got so many specialized agencies of the United Nations, like the I.L.O. and so on.
Prabhupāda: Do you think United Nations is making any tangible progress?
Doctor: Sir, it at least brings people together under one umbrella to discuss. If you did not have that...
Prabhupāda: But discussion, that I have already explained.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. So how far it is from the park.
Devotee: About ten or fifteen miles. You see it is more in, away from the ocean and it's located right in the middle of this college community where most of the residents are students of the university and the university has...
Prabhupāda: So you can get the chance of attracting students.
Devotee: Oh yes, yes of course, this is a main thing there of the location is in being around the student community.
Prabhupāda: San Diego seaside, I went. There are so many swimming clubs.
Devotee: In La Jolla.
Prabhupāda: The underneath, under within water they're swimming.
Devotee: Skin-diving, underneath the water.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That's nice.
Devotee (4): It's all right?
Devotee (3): We were planning to have our temple site located here at this corner of the land.
Prabhupāda: Oh. That's nice. Flat land. This is flat land?
Devotee (3): Yes.
Mahāṁśa: We didn't want to put it this side because then people would come into the living area, so we put it right on the road, on this side, with a prasādam hall.
Prabhupāda: Very good. (break)
Devotee (4): ...some pottery made here.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Gurudāsa: Because he sent them first in one man's name who didn't cash them, or was instructed that he shouldn't do that, and he did by mistake. Then he sent them in my name and he sent them "account payee," and they wouldn't open an account without permission from the Reserve Bank of India. So that would have taken too long. So I've come... First I went to Calcutta, and I thought... I have the drafts. I thought maybe Gargamuni Swami could give me the lakṣmī, the money. But he didn't want to do it. So now I'm here. I'm going to get it this morning and go back. I wrote a complete report for you, but I'll tell it to you. As far as the location goes, the location is a little bit off. I'm not that satisfied with it, but...
Prabhupāda: Where is the location?
Gurudāsa: It's on what's called Gangadwip. But that's new place. It's an island that just appeared this year, splitting the Ganges in two. You know, Jushi is here, and Gangadwip is here. And the place where we were last year is here. We were here last year, Gangadwip is here, and Jushi is here. And... But I've been sending out and going out on saṅkīrtana, so that will make up for our location. It's not so bad, but I want to paint a true picture. It's not so good, nor is it so bad. And there's thirteen tents. We have three bigas of land, sand. And we've made a tin enclosure all the way around. And we had a Swiss cottage tent for yourself. Swiss cottage means a room about this large from the end of the almirah to the wall and about this wide. And then a middle room about from here to the wall, and then another small room. But I was not satisfied with that, so I took that tent down, and when I left a day and a half ago I told Bhāgavata dāsa and Jagat-guru Mahārāja, who are there, to erect a straw house for you, bigger. So they are, I hope, doing that. The difficulty was that we had no money, and therefore I've come and am going back. I had a few hundred dollars in traveler's checks which I cashed and gave it to them to keep going.
Prabhupāda: Straw house is not good.
Prabhupāda: No, our former camp, last time...? So this is not so good?
Gurudāsa: Location was better. But our living is better this time. Living is better, but location was better last time.
Prabhupāda: That location cannot be had. What is the reason?
Gurudāsa: Well, first of all, when I came they already settled it up. There's nothing I can do, you know. I said immediately, "This is not such a good location." And Bhāgavata said, "I did not know. I saw it on the map. I had no experience." So I didn't blame him because he didn't know. So they said that "You will draw people, and so we thought we would put others..." I think it is political.
Hari-śauri: "You draw more people, so you can go out of the way."
Prabhupāda: Political?
Gurudāsa: Yes. I think that many people were pushing for good positions, and we did not push, and... Last year was good, but, of course, the saṅgam has shifted a little. The saṅgam has shifted to the island where we are. The governor's camp is on the island. And there's some people. Maharishi is on the island. It's just I didn't want to say it's a wonderful location and then you come there and see that it's a little bit far off. I wanted to tell you...
Prabhupāda: Only it is far off.
Gurudāsa: And there's another slight defect, which is that it's underneath a railway bridge.
Prabhupāda: Railway bridge?
Gurudāsa: But with all the things that are going on, you can't even hear the trains. Now everyone's starting with... And we have the biggest microphones in the whole Mela. Everyone's got microphones this big. And speakers? Speakers? Ours is this big. We've got the biggest ones, six of them, to point in all directions. So that... We thought we would make up for the distance. I thought I would make up by big speakers. We told Kamalapati Tripati that, "Yes, we are living underneath one of your railway bridges," and he laughed.
Prabhupāda: Ah, he's railway member. So railway bridge there is sound.
Satsvarūpa: Well, they were saying that what happens is, if they're both in the same building, that they get to hate each other, he said. The preaching is either the boys should avoid the girls and the girls should avoid the boys, but they get a very... It's better to be out of sight of each other, not even near each other. They could be in Vṛndāvana, but it'd have to be in a different building or location, they said. So maybe better Bombay.
Prabhupāda: Bombay's good. These things should be decided by the GBC.
Satsvarūpa: I mentioned that to them. They said they had been with Jagadīśa. I said, "Well why...?" They said they just want to know your opinion, then they'd go and talk with him again.
Prabhupāda: My opinion is already there according to the... They should be chaste, faithful to husband. Little literary knowledge, they can read. That's all. Not very much.
Satsvarūpa: As for the details of where and how to do this, that should be worked out by the GBC.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We have formed this Bhaktivedanta Institute and we had a meeting in Washington.
Prabhupāda: Where is my spectacle? So now your, that immigration problem is solved.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Now, where you desire to keep a permanent office or a location of this Bhaktivedanta Institute?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We are trying to locate a place. Rūpānuga suggests that Washington...
Prabhupāda: Base.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...temple. And...
Prabhupāda: But you have got enough place there?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. And Boston is also a good place.
Prabhupāda: Now in Hyderabad we have got the farm. We can produce ghee and grains and make restaurant.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In Hyderabad.
Prabhupāda: City.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Especially the location of our temple is so first class.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The center of the town.
Prabhupāda: You can have very nice center for restaurant. And in these cities they like nice restaurant.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can compete with G. Polareddy.
Prabhupāda: No, he's a sweet man. He has no restaurant.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There are many hotels in Hyderabad.
Prabhupāda: Hm. Vṛndāvana hotel in our quar...
Prabhupāda: So now we have to push on this movement as the (heavy coughing) bona fide religion, but the most scientific, not dogmas. That we have to do.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yesterday I made a tour of Manipur to see a possible location for a temple, and I saw a nice place.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: It's just near the present temple of Govinda that I was talking. It is a small forest full of monkeys, and they are so friendly.
Prabhupāda: Monkeys are very friendly.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh, yes. They're much more friendly than monkeys in Vṛndāvana. (laughing) I have seen that many, very healthy. There's some sort of welcome people coming. There are many. That place is some sort of a central place of Imphala. It's a very..., spiritually, a very conducive area. Many kinds of birds, and it's very natural surroundings. So I went with two of our life members, and they are thinking that maybe we can approach the government so that we can get the land from Manipur government, and then we can construct a temple.
Prabhupāda: Eleven?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The elevator charge, for the electricity, twenty-five hundred dollars a month. It's not a joke to run a building of that size. That's why in New York to have, own a building in that location they get a very good rent. Every apartment, say, a two and half room apartment, 250, 300 dollars per month.
Prabhupāda: USA.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And we have three hundred rooms. It would fetch... If it was divided up as an all-apartment building, it would make very..., lot of money. To run a building like that... It's very prestigious. Even though it's not a new building, still, it is prestigious. People are impressed. Many Indian people come there from India at night. A number of officials came, and they were all very... They said, "Oh, we didn't know you had such a building like this." They said like that. They were very impressed. And they liked the... They were very much impressed with the temple room and the restaurant and the general size of the building. Those three features are impressive. The restaurant they're very impressed by, pure vegetarian prasādam served with a restaurant atmosphere.
Prabhupāda: And so palatable.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, it's a pamphlet. Should I read it to you? It says, "Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Encyclopedia Department, Hare Kṛṣṇa Land, Juhu Road, Juhu, Bombay. In 1970 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda founded the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for worldwide printing and publishing of Vedic knowledge. Today the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes in twenty-five languages with total of 55,000,000 publications printed in six years." Phew! Fifty-five million! That means an average of nearly ten million a year, pieces of literature. No other publishing house can boast that, I don't think, such a big amount. "The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust offices are located in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Bombay. Śrīla Prabhupāda has..."
Prabhupāda: You can send one copy to Dr. Kapoor by post.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I'll tell Gargamuni. It will be more impressive coming from Bombay.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And one to Bon Mahārāja at Vaṁśī-vaṭa(?).
Prabhupāda: In London mostly they are brick.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 'Cause of the cold climate. But the location is...
Prabhupāda: Very costly.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...very, very important. Just off Oxford Street.
Prabhupāda: The corner.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Just off the corner, in the middle of the block.
Prabhupāda: They said that report following will come.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Report is coming. In the telegram that we received? Yeah, it said, "Report follows." I think some activity is good. Somehow I get the idea that you need to be more active. I know that you don't have any strength, but still, it seems to me unless you are active, you won't get your strength.
Prabhupāda: Hm. That's a fact.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Via Fiji? No. Hong Kong, like that. Hong Kong, Tokyo, Hawaii. We have... In Hong Kong and Tokyo we have both places a house if you should desire to go and stop overnight. Both places we have a house in the countryside. It might be easier to stay overnight in a hotel, because it's more centrally located. Because we don't want to take a flight for very long. Hong Kong flight is not bad, I think maybe six, seven hours. Stay overnight. Then again to Tokyo is a short trip. And then Hawaii, another six hours. We can do like that. And Gurukṛpā knows the way very well there. Śrutakīrti will be coming here. I heard that Madhudviṣa is coming. Someone told me. Rāmeśvara sent him a ticket, and he's expected to come here any day. His wife had a child, a son. So he was saying after this child was born he was going to come to see you, and now that has happened. I don't know what his plan is.
Prabhupāda: That's nice.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's a fact. From the point of view of health, Hawaii is the best place in the world. It's paradise. There's nothing that can compare with it. And you'll get juices there. You can live on the fruit juices.
Prabhupāda: And wherever there are my established Deities, that is Vṛndāvana. Anywhere I have got temple, that is Vṛndāvana. So wherever the health will remain very nice...
Prabhupāda: They are all Muslim. That quarter is very busy where the house, restaurant.
Rāmeśvara: Yes. It's only about five minutes from the Senate and the main Parliament buildings. Also the biggest museums are very nearby. Very good location. And one man has also joined, a local man who is very intelligent. And he has begun translating Bhagavad-gītā into Parsi. And in three months' time his translation of the entire Bhagavad-gītā will be completed.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Did he come recently to India with Ātreya Ṛṣi?
Rāmeśvara: That's a different man.
Prabhupāda: It will be locally published.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Locally published.
Rāmeśvara: Yes.
Śatadhanya: Jayapatākā Mahārāja is very anxious to purchase that land. It's exactly where the site for the big temple, at that location. Fifteen bighās.
Prabhupāda: Whether he can purchase?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whether he can purchase? If you don't go to Māyāpur, Śrīla Prabhupāda, all of Māyāpur will come here to be with you. Now, if you get a little stronger, we can go.
Śatadhanya: Even the airport officials were disappointed. They were saying, "Where is our Guru Mahārāja?" I was shocked to hear them saying. "Where is our Guru Mahārāja?" They had purchased very nice fruits and vegetables of all different varieties, and Prabhupāda could choose which he liked-portal, jinga, so many things.
Prabhupāda: What other news?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That... The kavirāja that we brought from Calcutta. He's... The thing I liked about him also is I felt that he was the kind of person who I... Somehow I felt that in your childhood or something, that your family would have engaged some such a Marwari... You always said how the Mulliks' house was located amongst many Marwari community people. I was thinking somehow it seemed suitable that this is... Of course we don't designate like that, but somehow it seems suitable that... You know. Marwaris are... They occupy a high place in the community. Everything they do, they do very first class. Their food is first class. They do first-class business. Most of our members are from the Marwari community. Anyway, it just seemed like it was nice that this man...
Prabhupāda: Their food is first class, there is no doubt. Yes... It is certified by Sir P. C. Raya.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: By who, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: A big chemist.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What was his name?
Prabhupāda: Sir P. C. Raya.
Prabhupāda: All right. (break) San Diego, we have got a temple.
Jayādvaita: Oh, yes. We have... They just moved to a nicer location, nicer building. They have maybe seventy devotees. It's quite large temple near the ocean in San Diego. They have... Every year at Govardhana-pūjā they have a very nice festival in the park. They have chanting and discourse and distribute prasādam. Then in the spring again they have a very nice festival. You were there one time. You spoke. Your Divine Grace spoke at one festival in the park in San Diego. They also go to preach just over the border in Mexico, and many Mexican boys join our San Diego temple, Mexican boys who've come to America. They join our temple in San Diego. The Deity there is very beautiful and very nicely dressed also in San Diego.
Pañca-draviḍa: Their new temple is very nicely decorated, with arches and everything. Rādhā-Giridhārī.
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| Created: | 10 of Oct, 2011 |
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