760819 - Conversation B - Hyderabad
Prabhupāda: Everything is all right?
Devotee (1): Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda
Prabhupāda: Let him dance (?). Wherefrom you are coming?
Acyutānanda: From Calcutta, Māyāpura, Calcutta.
Prabhupāda: My health is not well.
Acyutānanda: Yes, I have heard. We brought you some medicine from your sister.
Prabhupāda: Oh, oh!
Acyutānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes I wrote her.
Acyutānanda: Yes. We have that with us.
Prabhupāda: So. Everything all right?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Everything all right to have your darśana, Śrīla Prabhupāda. We have heard that you are not feeling well.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Acyutānanda: Everyone in Calcutta, they were asking how you are. Many people they are anxious to see. We have gotten very good recent publicity there. Three days in a row.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Acyutānanda: Three days in a row of front page news articles.
Prabhupāda: What is they have published?
Acyutānanda: Very good. Many ministers are also coming to Māyāpur. Very...
Prabhupāda: Here also the chief minister, many have come to see me.
Devotee: Yesterday.
Acyutānanda: Yes, he is OK. (indistinct background conversation)
Prabhupāda: Gradually they will appreciate. Everyone, all over the world.
Acyutānanda: This was on the front page of the Ananda Bazar, five lakhs circulation.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct)
Acyutānanda: Front page.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This is in the...
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This is in after all the accusations made by the...
Acyutānanda: By the C.P.I. This is an answer. They came and did a full report with tape recorders, movie cameras. This newspaper.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We can send this copy to Delhi for those ministers who wanted it.
Acyutānanda: Those. Oh yes. This is the largest circulation in India.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This probably came the big (indistinct) yesterday. (indistinct) has been closed (indistinct) xerox copies (indistinct). We'll have it translated.
Acyutānanda: Yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: So that they can read it.
Acyutānanda: Right. ( kīrtana in background-devotees talk in background) Also, this came the day before in the same newspaper. (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: You directly do that. You (indistinct) the idea. (indistinct)
Acyutānanda: And Bhavananda invited the C.P.I. [Communist Party of India] members to come to Māyāpura and see for themselves.
Prabhupāda: Ah!
Acyutānanda: This article invites them.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: These members are now in Delhi so we can send it to them.
Acyutānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: These members are all in Delhi. And when I write the letter which you dictated, they will also enclose it.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They published one English article, "Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement Catches On."
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: OK.
Prabhupāda: In Ananda Bazar.
Hari-śauri: It's that magazine called Sunday.
Prabhupāda: Ha, ha.
Hari-śauri: We saw it in New York.
Prabhupāda: Somewhere I saw.
Hari-śauri: New York.
Prabhupāda: Very nice article.
Hari-śauri: Yes, about thirteen pages in the magazine.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Oh, really.
Hari-śauri: Yes, very long, three quarters of the magazine.
Prabhupāda: What is this?
Acyutānanda: That's an income tax form. I pasted these on the back.
Prabhupāda: That C.P.I. member, what does he say?
Acyutānanda: Well apparently they're a little bit envious because Māyāpura is becoming very popular amongst the local people. We get five thousand people now for the prasādam. And even the Congress leaders, they come here and eat with the people. They said, "This is wonderful."
Prabhupāda: Where is that?
Acyutānanda: At Māyāpura.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct)
Acyutānanda: And Jayapatāka is going to the villages, I gave him one bus and he is selling about six to seven hundred Gītār Gāns a day.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: You'll run out of those pretty...
Jayapatāka: We'll be finished in two months with those thirty thousand.
Acyutānanda: And the response is wonderful within the villages. They all say, "Hare Kṛṣṇa," everywhere.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct)
Acyutānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: How people are receiving this movement all over the world, even (indistinct) to the communist (indistinct). They are trying to kill God, and we are putting God (indistinct) educated families.
Acyutānanda: Yes.
Jayapatāka: Show that other article that... This is the actual article against us.
Acyutānanda: Also this came in the Statesman, the pro-vice-chancellor of Calcutta University came to Māyāpura, he wants to affiliate Māyāpura with the Calcutta University. This came in the Statesman. And a few days ago the vice-chancellor...
Prabhupāda: It is not yet finished?
Jayapatāka: That's the old picture.
Acyutānanda: No, this picture's six months old.
Jayapatāka: It's more than half.
Acyutānanda: It's more than that.
Jayapatāka: (indistinct) We've received ten lakhs so far. The building total was twenty lakhs.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct)
Jayapatāka: (indistinct) ...building, six times longer than our building. Two hundred rooms. [break]
Acyutānanda: This is the first article. That was against us. In the same paper. Then these two came. But it was very good. Many people came to the temple. They said, "Your society is cleared." Many Bengalis, so many came, "We have read, 'Your society is cleared.' "
Prabhupāda: Now (indistinct) cleared. (indistinct) (end)