Prabhupāda: Our Los Angeles temple, what we paid? Dayānanda, you know?
Dayānanda: It was two twenty-five, I think. 225,000 dollars.
Prabhupāda: 225,000.
Dayānanda: 225,000.
Mr. Sahani: 225,000. But it must be a gorgeous place. Beautiful.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Mr. Sahani: And what was the downpayment for the...
Prabhupāda: I paid fifty thousand.
Mr. Sahani: Fifty thousand. Here the downpayment means the total payment. You have to pay everything.
Mr. Patel: And land is so small, must be very small.
Mr. Sahani: We expect that in one or two years' time the prices of land will come back to normal, or at least there will be some place available out of town at a reasonable price. When that happens, I think...
Ātreya Ṛṣi: I don't think that will happen.
Mr. Patel: No, it won't happen. Price will never become down.
Mr. Sahani: Now, you know, people are taking the advantage. One who is selling now, he's going to America. He said "Let me collect this two lakhs of dollars, go and buy in America."
Prabhupāda: They, in America, they immigration?
Mr. Sahani: He must have taken immigration. His family is going to America. His son and daughter must be there. All Iranians have sons or daughters in America or Europe. So...
Prabhupāda: What is the reason?
Mr. Sahani: Reason is because from the last fifty years the education was a big problem here. And the government needed people to get educated. So they gave lot of facilities that people should send their children out to get educated.
Prabhupāda: Foreign education.
Mr. Sahani: Yes. So everybody who could have some money if he could afford it, he sent his children to America, London, Paris, Germany. Berne, even Switzerland, but they are full in Germany, they are full in London, they are full in America. They are the four places where everybody... In London you walk everywhere on the street and you can hear...
Prabhupāda: Oh, you are going? Thank you very much. Utsāhān dhairyāt...
Nava-yauvana: So we are here, if we work hard and try to please Kṛṣṇa, then there we will get a temple. Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived in New York with only eight dollars? Forty dollars? How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
Prabhupāda: Seven dollars.
Nava-yauvana: Seven dollars.
Dayānanda: I think you got that from selling Bhāgavatam.
Prabhupāda: No, that extra. I brought from India seven dollars. At that time the exchange was four rupees, eight annas. So they would not allow to take more than forty rupees. That is sufficient. So I wanted to sell one set of books to the captain, Mr. Pandiya. So he gave me twenty dollars in exchange of three books. I was confident Kṛṣṇa was there seven dollars. (end)