760903 - Conversation A - Vrndavana

Conversations by Date, 1976

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

760903R1-VRNDAVAN - September 03, 1976 - 16:12 Minutes

Prabhupāda: So, everything is going nice?

Akṣayānanda: Yes, by your grace only.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We have a very beautiful garden for you.

Prabhupāda: Hm. Garden? Oh.

Akṣayānanda: Guesthouse 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 our Life Members were turned down. We met some in Delhi. They said they couldn't get in. 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. He's 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. Hundred percent. (break) 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?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: The bank.

Akṣayānanda: The bank is all right.

Prabhupāda: Sab theek hai? Tabiyat theek hai to? Aur sab padosi theek-thaak hai? (Everything is alright? Your health is fine? Our neighbors are doing good?) So, the gurukula building, how far it is? . . . (indistinct Hindi) . . . you have got them, the keys? (devotees look through keys)

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: When devotees come for Gaura-Pūrṇimā . . . Ground floor me reh sakte hain . . . (They can stay on the ground floor . . .) Māyāpur, Delhi, Vṛndāvana, Bombay. From Bombay back to Europe.

Bhagatjī: . . . (indistinct Hindi)

Prabhupāda: . . . (indistinct Hindi) So let them come first of all here from Delhi.

Bhagatjī: 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. . . . India me rehana hai to financially bahut mehenga padta hai sab devotees. (. . . to stay in India becomes very expensive for all the devotees.) Book distribution stops completely, they are saying . . . (indistinct Hindi with Bhagatjī)

Prabhupāda: Where is Hari-śauri?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Hari-śauri? Prabhupāda wants you.

Prabhupāda: Is that correct? Is that correct key? What is that?

Hari-śauri: This one's for some of the locks on the doors.

Prabhupāda: Which door?

Hari-śauri: Ah, front door. I think it was one on the bedroom originally. They may have taken them off again.

Prabhupāda: Find out the door.

Bhagatjī: . . . (indistinct Hindi conversation with Prabhupāda)

Prabhupāda: He is pakkā-bāṇiyā, and here is another, more pakkā. (laughter) Ye pakka baniya hai accha, aap to shaant hain, ye apka special quality. (He is a thorough business man, isn't he? You are so tolerant, this is your special quality.) He is very tolerant.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He's very cool.

Bhagatjī: . . . (indistinct Hindi)

Prabhupāda: (to Pālikā) You have come before? Or with us?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: With you.

Pālikā: In a bus. I have some fruits ready for you, if you'd like to take.

Prabhupāda: Yes. You have . . . (indistinct) . . . paraṭā? No. What you have prepared?

Bhagatjī: . . . (indistinct Hindi)

Prabhupāda: Jitna jaroorat hai utna collect karo. (Collect only that which is required.) Keep patience. I am not dishonest.

Prabhupāda: Dishonest or not . . . (indistinct Hindi) . . . your family is very nice.

Bhagatjī: Keep patience. I am not dishonest . . . (indistinct Hindi)

Devotee: Your breakfast has come. Breakfast is here.

Prabhupāda: I'll take. This man, he's not . . . (indistinct) . . . Jaya.

Devotees: Jaya, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Come Krishna-Balaram sabko sukhi kare, aur kya humlog chahte hain. sub uni ka kripa hai. (May Kṛṣṇa Balarāma make everyone happy, what else do we want? Everything is His mercy.) Balarāma . . . Bala-hīnena labhya (Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.4). Wo bhagvan Baladev ka kripa kiya to apka kya nahi hota hai. Wo Vivekananda uska meaning kya hai. Jisme takat kam hai vo . . . kya labh. Mota-taaza khub maans khao wo mota-taaza bahut . . . ye hota hai. (Balarāma . . . if He showers His mercy then anything is possible. Vivekananda gave the meaning of this verse to one who has less muscle power . . . what is the use? Fat sturdy eats a lot of meat and becomes fat . . . this is what happens.)

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)