Prabhupāda: What about Saurabha?
Devotee (1): He called last night from Delhi.
Prabhupāda: Oh. He's there in Delhi?
Devotee (1): Yes. He just came back yesterday. He'll be coming here soon.
Gurudāsa: Now, previously the budget... I figured it out with the ones who are cooking. You wanted puris and halavā and subji, something like that. But we didn't have enough before. So I was going to make puṣpanna. Is that all right? Or would you rather... Now, with the ten thousand rupees...
Prabhupāda: Puṣpanna for visitors also? No, they will have objection to take anna. They'll take puri, śāk, halavā.
Gurudāsa: What do you want?
Prabhupāda: Purī, śāk, halavā is... It can be distributed to anyone. Puṣpanna, some may take, some may not take.
Hari-śauri: There's some special reason?
Gurudāsa: Well, it is due to our budget.
Prabhupāda: No, budget not. The puri-śāk is pakkā, and puṣpanna is kacchā. They think like that. That kacchā, there is distinction of jata. One jata, one caste, will not take other caste anna. That is Indian thinking. But puri-śāk, everyone.
Gurudāsa: But also everyone was serving...
Prabhupāda: Puri-śāk will be cheaper, I think.
Gurudāsa: Whatever you like. They said...
Prabhupāda: I don't like, but if you distribute, must be acceptable to everyone.
Gurudāsa: Everyone is serving, that is serving, capati and dahl.
Prabhupāda: That's nice.
Gurudāsa: But everyone is serving that already. That's another reason I thought that puṣpanna would be nice because it would be unique.
Prabhupāda: No, I have no objection. That is all right. But puri-śāk is better. Is it costly?
Gurudāsa: More costly, yes. And I told him to make a list for you to see, if you need it, why it's more costly. At any rate, he says... The cook has done research, our man, and says puri-śāk would be more costly.
Prabhupāda: But don't allow him to purchase.
Hari-śauri: Don't you have an Indian purchaser?
Prabhupāda: Who is purchasing?
Gurudāsa: No, he's not an Indian. He's one of our men.
Prabhupāda: Oh. That is another thing.
Gurudāsa: Our men are purchasing.
Prabhupāda: Oh. Then it is all right.
Gurudāsa: Two of them go together, and they've given me complete receipts. I said, "If you cannot get a receipt, give me a kacchā receipt. If you cannot get a pakkā, give me kacchā receipt written by someone else. So anyway, we'll try and do puri-śāk.
Prabhupāda: Puri-śāk, always simple. And if you add with that, some puri and some this puṣpanna, that can be done. But generally they are taking śāk, roti-śāk, dahl.
Gurudāsa: The devotees, yes.
Prabhupāda: And rice also? No.
Gurudāsa: Once a day.
Prabhupāda: That's nice. Above all, manage. That's all right, nicely. The foodstuff must be palatable. That should not be rubbish thing.
Gurudāsa: No. How are we going to feed others if we are not feeding the devotees nicely?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Now, yesterday we made simple cooking. How it was nice.
Gurudāsa: We're making soup at night, simple soup, and devotees like it 'cause it's not hurting their digestion. And I'm having some flat rice on hand for anyone who needs it. So, I'm trying to care for everything.
Prabhupāda: There is milk supply? No.
Gurudāsa: Yes. We have one man from Vṛndāvana who's bringing milk at 2.70 a kilo, a little costly, but Mela time, and they have to bring it from a far distance. Anyway, 2.70, kilo, cow's milk.
Prabhupāda: Cow's milk...
Hari-śauri: They say. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Cow's milk means buffalo with water.
Gurudāsa: With a little bit of the newspaper inside also.
Prabhupāda: Acchā.
Gurudāsa: For to put, to make it look like cream, they put newspaper also.
Hari-śauri: Make it thick. They grind paper. You have to strain it before you drink it.
Gurudāsa: But I... We tasted it. We came to the conjoint opinion that it was passable.
Prabhupāda: Less newspaper. (laughter) So why such milk should be taken, with newspaper?