760903 - Conversation A - Vrndavana
Prabhupāda: So, everything is going nice?
Akṣayānanda: Yes, by your grace only.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We have a very beautiful garden for you.
Prabhupāda: Garden? Oh.
Akṣayānanda: Guest house has improved very much. Now we have about twenty paying guests. And during Śrāvaṇa and Janmāṣṭamī it was completely full. Very, very encouraging.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually many of the life members were telling us, we met some in Delhi. They said they couldn't get the whole thing was full.
Akṣayānanda: They were fighting to come.
Prabhupāda: So, they are allowed three days free?
Akṣayānanda: Only. Also book distribution has improved very much.
Prabhupāda: Locally?
Akṣayānanda: Here in the temple specifically. Haihaya has been concentrating very good.
Prabhupāda: Hindi?
Akṣayānanda: Yes, Hindi magazines and what we can get.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Viśāla alone does about two, three hundred every day.
Akṣayānanda: Viśāla is...
Prabhupāda: Where is our Viśvambhara? Viśvambhara is helping nicely?
Akṣayānanda: Oh yes. 100%. [break] And French.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: That's the new French Bhāgavatam on the back.
Prabhupāda: Oh. I think I have seen it.
Hari-śauri: Yes, that's the one we got in Paris, Bhagavān...
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It looks very nice.
Prabhupāda: Oh yes. Bank is going nice?
Akṣayānanda: The bank is all right.
Prabhupāda: (Hindi) So the Gurukula building, how far? (Hindi)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: When devotees come for Gaura-Pūrṇimā... (Hindi)
Prabhupāda: So let them come first of all here from Delhi.
Indian devotee: They come first here.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Thing is, the whole thing has to be completed in three weeks because the American GBCs don't like... They think it is a very big loss financially. (Hindi) Book distribution stops completely. (Hindi)
Prabhupāda: Is that correct? Is that correct key?
Hari-śauri: This one's for some of the locks on the doors.
Prabhupāda: Which door?
Hari-śauri: Ah, from the... I think it was one on the bedroom originally. They may have taken them off again.
Prabhupāda: Find out the door.
Indian man: (Hindi conversation with Prabhupāda)
Prabhupāda: ...special quality, he's very tolerant.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He's very cool.
Indian man: (Hindi conversation for some time) Keep patience. I am not dishonest.
Prabhupāda: Dishonest or not... (Hindi) Your family is very nice.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Breakfast has come.
Prabhupāda: No, I don't want. This man, he's not (indistinct). Jaya.
Devotees: Jaya, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: (Hindi)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: By your mercy Balarāmajī is giving.
Prabhupāda: Nitāiyer koruṇā habe braje rādhā-kṛṣṇa pābe. These rascals they do not know. Nitāi, balarāma hoila nitāi. So without the mercy of Balarāma, nobody can appreciate Vṛndāvana life. Jaya. (end)