Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? For the Bombay opening, is it necessary to have those South Indian brāhmaṇas? If Yaśodānandana Mahārāja knows the ceremonies...
Hari-śauri: Which he does very, very well.
Prabhupāda: Then why?
Hari-śauri: He does know.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Because many of the... Gurukṛpā Mahārāja and others were expressing the feeling that Bombay is not like Vṛndāvana.
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In Vṛndāvana there are so many smārta-brāhmaṇas, but Bombay is a very materialistic, modern, Western city. Some of our devotees have already been invited, Acyutānanda and one other, for themselves opening a temple. So it was the common opinion of most of the devotees, "What is the need of hiring these fourteen, fifteen brāhmaṇas? The people don't care in Bombay for this."
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Rather, they may be more impressed to have the Western devotees doing it, and we save so much...
Prabhupāda: Western brāhmaṇas.
Hari-śauri: Western brāhmaṇas, yes.
Girirāja: Imported. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: That was my prediction. As they're importing ghee, milk, similarly, brāhmaṇa also. Go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya. That's nice proposal.
Hari-śauri: Jaya. Yaśodānandana can do it very nicely. He did it very expertly in Fiji.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hari-śauri: And the Indians there were very, very appreciative that the Western, white brāhmaṇas had done the installation. They were telling Vāsudeva that "Now we must take instructions from these men. They know the pūjā."
Prabhupāda: That is good proposal.
Hari-śauri: Jaya.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Would you like it to be opened on your Guru Mahārāja's disappearance...
Prabhupāda: Any... Early as possible. That would be nice, Guru Mahārāja appearance day. It is...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's his disappearance day.
Girirāja: The disappearance day is on December 29th, which is just the correct time when we want to open.
Prabhupāda: Ah, that's nice.
Girirāja: So we could begin...
Prabhupāda: We have no such difference, disappearance and appearance.
Girirāja: Except in your case. We don't want disappearance.