Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Go ahead, let's go, just go.
Prabhupāda: (beak) ...in this bus.
Kīrtanānanda: Oh, you traveled in the bus. Yes, it was comfortable.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda, there's about two hundred and fifty devotees here now.
Prabhupāda: That's nice. Make the whole city your (indistinct).
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's very nice. We can handle all of these devotees, I think, very comfortably.
Prabhupāda: All facilities are there.
Kīrtanānanda: Kṛṣṇa is giving all facility. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...distributing free, thirteen hundred or thirteen thousand?
Kīrtanānanda: Thirteen thousand.
Prabhupāda: Daily.
Kīrtanānanda: That is inconceivable wealth.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Kīrtanānanda: That is inconceivable wealth. And they were fully decorated.
Rāmeśvara: We can never imagine where all those cows were able to be situated.
Prabhupāda: No... The whole world.
Rāmeśvara: Full of cows.
Kīrtanānanda: Yes, a few years ago we couldn't conceive of distributing twenty thousand Back to Godheads a month.
Prabhupāda: We started with five hundred. What was that machine?
Kīrtanānanda: Mimeograph. Then I think it went to two thousand then to five thousand.
Rāmeśvara: Now for December we are printing two million copies. Last year we printed one million copies, so this year we must double. Two million copies in one month.
Kīrtanānanda: Wonderful.
Prabhupāda: It is all Kṛṣṇa's mercy. You have seen the first copy? They have brought photograph from which library?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Congress Library in Washington. They found the original...
Prabhupāda: Yes. I do not know how they got my...
Rāmeśvara: Oh, your original, from India.
Prabhupāda: Yes, 1944, the first copy. I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Very thick, it was a thick magazine.
Prabhupāda: In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That was a lot.
Prabhupāda: Yes, three hundred rupees, nowadays at least ten times. Three hundred ten times?
Kīrtanānanda: Three thousand.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At least three thousand. I think even perhaps more, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Yes, not less than.
Kīrtanānanda: Say five hundred dollars a month?
Prabhupāda: And I was not getting any return.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How were you getting so much money?
Prabhupāda: My income, poor income, from my business.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh. (aside:) Prabhupāda took us past Seventy-second Street, showed us this place.
Rāmeśvara: He showed us the fruit store where he would buy fruit.
Prabhupāda: Harer nāma (CC Adi 17.21).
Kīrtanānanda: Those early days. My best memories are those early days. Especially the morning classes, when you'd be sitting behind the desk...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: ...and the sun would just be coming in. Prabhupāda would talk for an hour.
Prabhupāda: Only Hayagrīva, you and...
Kīrtanānanda: Umāpati.
Rāmeśvara: Mukunda.
Prabhupāda: Not Mukunda. One, that...
Kīrtanānanda: Sometimes Carl would come, sometimes Jim Green. Not very often, they wouldn't come.
Prabhupāda: Brahmānanda later on.
Kīrtanānanda: Rāyarāma would come.
Prabhupāda: Rāyarāma.
Kīrtanānanda: Satsvarūpa came, started coming, and he would go to work after class.
Prabhupāda: Ah.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Always very responsible.
Prabhupāda: At that time Kīrtanānanda Mahārāja was taking one cāpāṭi.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whew! Only?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Nothing else?
Prabhupāda: I would offer, he would take one or two, that's all. Later on, one dozen. (laughter) And that boy?
Kīrtanānanda: Trayādhīśa.
Prabhupāda: He would take at least twenty, cāpāṭis.
Devotees: Wow!
Prabhupāda: "Trayādhīśa, can I offer you?" "Yes." I gave four. Again finished, again four.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You must have been surprised to see how much they could eat.
Prabhupāda: Um, I was not surprised. He was young man, very stout and strong.
Kīrtanānanda: Originally, we all ate from Prabhupāda's plate though. There was one plate of prasādam. And Prabhupāda would just give little, little to everybody. And everybody would be satisfied.
Rāmeśvara: It is the great weapon, prasādam.
Prabhupāda: I used to keep some prasādam, anyone would come I would give.
Kīrtanānanda: After class also you always distributed some prasādam. After kīrtana and class.
Prabhupāda: Yes. I was clapping my hand. In meeting, I used to collect not less than six dollars, not more than twenty dollars. And that was...
Rāmeśvara: Daily.
Prabhupāda: Not daily.
Kīrtanānanda: Three times a week.
Prabhupāda: Three times. (break) ...used to come sometimes.
Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda said he sold his books then; they ordered his books.
Prabhupāda: Yes, they purchased my books. In Butler also, many churches would purchase.
Rāmeśvara: This month the first volume of the Eighth Canto is going to the printers.
Prabhupāda: Seventh Canto, last volume you saw.
Kīrtanānanda: Jaya.
Rāmeśvara: That reporter yesterday, he was surprised you had written so many books.
Kīrtanānanda: Any intelligent man would be surprised. It is unbelievable, so many books.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Where is there an author who has written so many books?
Kīrtanānanda: In so short time.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They don't know how to control their senses. This is inspirational...
Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda told us yesterday that one Sanskritist was appreciating the Harvard classics very much as being very important in educating people about Indian culture, but Prabhupāda's books are even better.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He said "insurpassable." "Prabhupāda's books are insurpassable."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That man was the chief of the Benares school?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Sanskrit department.
Prabhupāda: Very learned scholar in Sanskrit. Titles in Sanskrit.