Room Conversation -- November 13-14, 1977, Vrndavana
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's sort of encouraging to see you taking milk. That's encouraging. That's something which you said if you could take, you would get stronger, so I'm encouraged by that. I think that a great deal of patience is ultimately required. We have to expect that actual strength and muscles will take a little time to come. (background conversation) (Hindi conversation)
Bhakti-caru: No, that will go away. (Hindi conversation)
Prabhupāda: They are taking urine?
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Upendra: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you didn't pass any urine the first time. Do you want to try again? We can cleanse you now?
Prabhupāda: (Bengali) (Bengali conversation with Bon Mahārāja)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is a certificate arrived from the Soviet Union.
Bon Mahārāja: It's in Russian language or in English?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, some of it, I think, is in Russian. I have the translation. It says, the top wording here, this says that "Books in the service of peace and progress. A diploma for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Bombay, given by the First Moscow International Book Fair Exhibitions and Fairs, General Directorate of International Book Exhibitions and Fairs, USSR." (Bengali conversation)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: All Russian universities ordered Prabhupāda's books. (Bengali)
Bon Mahārāja: (Bengali) (Bengali conversation with Prabhupāda) That's Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto. That is up to which chapter?
Jayādvaita: Twelve chapters. This is up to chapter twelve. And now thirteenth chapter is also completed.
Bon Mahārāja: In and out, both are superexcellent. Inside, in Mahārāja's translation, and outside, your publication, printing, makeup, everything superexcellent. That is first attraction, when you take the book in your hand you feel that is something very nicely done. I don't think in India we can have this type of printing. You get them printed now in Los Angeles?
Jayādvaita: They're printed in Tennessee.
Bon Mahārāja: Tennessee. And the pictures are printed separately, then the pictures are sent to the publisher in pages.
Bon Mahārāja: Last time they told me in New York... Your press was in New York, and they were shifting it to Los Angeles. About two hundred brahmacārīs were working there and they told me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Now it's in Los Angeles.
Bon Mahārāja: Los Angeles. Well, it is all Mahāprabhu's will, and Prabhupāda is our...
Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Los Angeles is godown... (Bengali) Howrah Station. (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I have a picture of it, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I have a picture of that BBT godown.
Prabhupāda: Show him.
Devotee: It's about two blocks long and about one block high.
Bon Mahārāja: Everything is done in a very big way.
Devotee: 'Cause Prabhupāda's a big (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: (Bengali) (Bengali conversation with Bon Mahārāja)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Here's a picture of that book godown in Los Angeles.
Bon Mahārāja: What's the length of the building?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is the length of that building, Jayādvaita? Twenty thousand square feet in area.
Bon Mahārāja: In area. Well, in your country, in USA, everything is very big. Nothing is done in a small way.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is the Los Angeles temple. These are the Deities, Śrī-Śrī-Rukmiṇī-Dvārakādhīśa. And we have a very nice doll exhibition there.
Bon Mahārāja: What is that exhibition?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Doll, diorama. These are some of the exhibitions. This devotee here, Bharadvāja dāsa, he's the creator of this doll exhibition. This is our temple in New York now, this building.
Bon Mahārāja: You have purchased it? There was a talk of taking that twelve-story theological seminary.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is also thirteen stories, but it's a different building. It's in Manhattan.
Bon Mahārāja: Which street?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Fifty-fifth Street. This is our temple in London. We have actually three temples there now. This one is in Hertfordshire, called Bhaktivedanta Manor, and then we have one near the British Museum in Bury Place, which is that five-story building. And then we just purchased a restaurant and reading room just off of Oxford St., on Soho St. This is in France. It's a chateau which we have purchased, very nice, with a farm. Very beautiful place. And these are the Deities, Kṛṣṇa-Kāliya, in Fiji. This temple was just opened in Fiji. Kṛṣṇa-Kāliya.
Bon Mahārāja: Kāliya-damana. That is in Fiji. (Bengali with Prabhupāda)
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali) (Bengali conversation with Prabhupāda and Bon Mahārāja) ( kīrtana )
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Prabhupāda is asking to give prasāda to all the devotees. [break]
(Pradyumna chanting mantras with devotees chanting loud kīrtana ) (end)