771002 - Conversation - Vrndavana
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Just writing some notes. I was remembering the discussion we had, all of your disciples and you, when we were considering whether we should go to Vṛndāvana or not, how we were all giving different arguments, one side or the other. So I was remembering how... I was just writing down some of the different arguments. Then we all concluded that the best program was to come to Vṛndāvana. And now I can see that it was the right conclusion, because I feel that we are at home. Here it is home. Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are here.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Did you have a nice rest? I think so. I think you rested for about three hours in a row just now.
Prabhupāda: Three hours?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. It's a nearly quarter to one. You were very tired from the trip. [break] I've heard it said that when great personalities arrive, everything is always cleansed. So I see that upon your coming, everything is cleansed by Kṛṣṇa sending all of this rain. The atmosphere becomes cool, and the sound of the rain is also very pleasing.
Prabhupāda: And there is sun? Sun also was there?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The sunshine? There was sunshine when we arrived, but now it is cloudy and rain. I was wondering, Śrīla Prabhupāda, whether you would like for the kavirāja to be called. I was thinking he might be called tomorrow. Today no need for him to come. Better that you mostly relax today. I was thinking that as you said, better or worse, some husband must be there. (Prabhupāda laughs) So we should have some doctor. Is that all right? It's so nice to be with you when you are in Vṛndāvana.
Prabhupāda: So you can do the needful.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Do the needful?
Prabhupāda: (Prabhupāda's voice is very weak and low now) Yes, you all consider. Is that all right?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In what regard, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: In every regard.
Hari-śauri: Everything. Every regard.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yes. All you have to do is think of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Give me that chance, and rest you'll do.
Hari-śauri: Darśana and rest.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Give me that chance."
Hari-śauri: Oh.
Prabhupāda: Is that all right?
Hari-śauri: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Gurukṛpā will also remain here.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Gurukṛpā should also remain here. Yes. Actually he is quite... He's quite devoted to Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma as well as to Your Divine Grace. He likes the two brothers very much.
Prabhupāda: Very good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes he likes to go out to collect for Them. Is that all right?
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So starting tomorrow, we will go in front of Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma for a half hour every day?
Prabhupāda: Or less time.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Or less time. As you feel comfortable.
Prabhupāda: Let us try.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Maybe Baladeva will give you the strength to sit for a half hour there. [break] ...comfortable in here? This new bed is all right? It is a jumbo size, very big size bed.
Prabhupāda: Where is Viśvambhara?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well actually, I'm going to call him now. I wanted you to, you know, wake up, because I didn't want to have him wait so long. So I thought better to let you rest. Now I can call him?
Hari-śauri: Does Prabhupāda want that moved down there?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You could find out. He might want to also have a quick sponge bath. He hasn't bathed since the trip. Yes, I think we ought to give him a sponge bath. (aside:) You want to...
[break]
Bhagatji: ...slow, due to the difficulty of cement. Cement was the problem. But we have store now full. Gate will be finished within this month, one gate. The other gate will begin after finishing this.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That gate looks very good, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Bhaktivedanta Swami gate, Bhaktivedanta Swami Marg, Bhaktivedanta Swami Gurukula.
Bhagatji: (laughs)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, this is Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma's garland, tulasī garland. Fragrant.
Upendra: Would you like to go back into sitting up here, Śrīla Prabhupāda? It's more comfortable. (pause) [break]
Bhagatji: (Hindi) For eleven days it stopped, and then from since last two days it has again become.
Prabhupāda: And rate have been...?
Bhagatji: The rate of the grain has gone so high. Last year the rate of wheat was forty rupees; this year, seventy-eight rupees. Gram [flour] fifty rupees; this year, eighty rupees. And, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that everything has gone so high. Yaba , this barley, was thirty rupees; this year, fifty rupees at present. And it is only up to April. And new rate will be coming in the month of April. So this means after seven months.
Brahmānanda: Why is it so high?
Bhagatji: The rains have destroyed all crops.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, do you want tilaka?
Bhagatji: From Delhi, only day before yesterday the road was clear. Again it is raining. Delhi to Mathurā, that road.
Brahmānanda: The road is clear?
Bhagatji: Because it was blocked.
Hari-śauri: It was blocked. Yesterday they got through, but only just. The day before it was blocked. Now today again it's raining.
Prabhupāda: The buses stopped?
Bhagatji: Buses stopped, Prabhupāda, taxis stopped. Only they are allowing some cars to go. Yesterday only car could go.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the planes were on strike. The planes were not going either. In Bombay no planes were leaving. We were lucky to get the first-class train.
Hari-śauri: The road is very bad though, anyway. It wouldn't have been passable, not for Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It would have taken three to four hours to go by car from Delhi in this condition. And bumpy. The train journey was not so bad, I think, not so bad. The weather was nice.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct) [break] ...water for drinking?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Upendra Prabhu? Is there a drink for Prabhupāda?
Hari-śauri: Mung jal is ready.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's ready. Yes, we prepared mung water. Praṇava's wife, she was cooking with Kulādri today. She prepared two things, mung jal and the water from spinach. So that's supposed to be very good also. Would you like to try? Praṇava said that the feature of the spinach water is that it's very good for strength and very easily digestible. That's what he said. You might like to try something of both.
Prabhupāda: There is fresh milk? Half water, half milk.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right now would you like to have some mung water?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Mung water. And spinach water?
Prabhupāda: Little, little.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. And milk we'll keep ready for whenever you want. We have some milk?
Bhagatji: Any cow.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Black cow.
Bhagatji: We will keep one cow ready
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, all the time. One cow. Bhagatji says one cow will be kept ready all the time, so when you say you want milk, immediately they will go and milk this cow. (chuckling)
Prabhupāda: Hm. (pause) That's all right. You can...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. We'll go and take our lunch now? Er, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Now you'll be taking mung water, so in about a couple of hours would you like to try some milk? Okay. So we'll take leave now, Śrīla Prabhupāda, take our meal. Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. [break] (reading:)
kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā
ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ
ye 'nye ca pāpā yad-apāśrayāśrayāḥ
śudhyanti tasmai prabhaviṣṇave namaḥ
SB 2.4.18
Prabhupāda: Where is beginning?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Where is the beginning?
Prabhupāda: That chapter?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: These are prayers offered by Śukadeva Gosvāmī.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You want to know what the first prayer is?
Prabhupāda: Hm. Go on reading.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
śrī-śuka uvāca
namaḥ parasmai puruṣāya bhūyase
sad-udbhava-sthāna-nirodha-līlayā
gṛhīta-śakti-tritayāya dehinām
antarbhavāyānupalakṣya-vartmane
"Śukadeva Gosvāmī said..."
Prabhupāda: Read slowly but correctly.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. (repeats verse slower and correctly) "Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete whole residing within the body of everyone, and His ways are inconceivable." Bhūyo namaḥ sad-vṛjina-cchide 'satām.
Prabhupāda: Purport.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Purport. This material world is a manifestation of the three modes goodness, passion and ignorance, and the Supreme Lord, for the creation, maintenance and destruction of the material world, accepts three predominating forms as Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śaṅkara (Śiva). As Viṣṇu He enters into every body materially created. As Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu He enters into every universe, and as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu He enters the body of every living being. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, being the origin of all viṣṇu-tattvas, is addressed here as paraḥ pumān, or Puruṣottama, as described in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.18). He is the complete whole. The puruṣāvatāras are therefore His plenary expansions. Bhakti-yoga is the only process by which one can become competent to know Him. Because the empiric philosophers and mystic yogīs cannot conceive of the Personality of Godhead, He is called anupalakṣya-vartmane, the Lord of the inconceivable way, or bhakti-yoga. SB 2.4.13;
<RD:"Verse Text">bhūyo namaḥ sad-vṛjina-cchide 'satām
<RD:"Verse Text">asambhavāyākhila-sattva-mūrtaye
<RD:"Verse Text">puṁsāṁ punaḥ pāramahaṁsya āśrame
<RD:"Verse Text">vyavasthitānām anumṛgya-dāśuṣe
<PS:Translation> Translation: I again offer my respectful obeisances unto the form of complete existence and transcendence, who is the liberator of the pious devotees from all distresses and the destroyer of the further advances in atheistic temperament of the nondevotee-demons. For the transcendentalists who are situated in the topmost spiritual perfection, He grants their specific destinations. (Bell rings).
Prabhupāda: What is the time now?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Time is now five minutes to four o'clock.
Prabhupāda: What is that bell?
<PS:First><BP:0> Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That bell? It didn't ring four times earlier. (discusses with Upendra) Yeah, there is a bell in the front of the temple which people sometimes ring as they enter. Do you want to hear the purport to this verse? Yes? Purport. There are two sides of the transcendental manifestations of the Supreme Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. For the pure devotees He is the constant companion, as in the case of His becoming one of the family members of the Yadu dynasty, or His becoming the friend of Arjuna, or His becoming the associate neighbor of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, as the son of Nanda-Yaśodā, the friend of Sudāmā, Śrīdāmā and Madhumaṅgala, or the lover of the damsels of Vrajabhūmi, etc. That is part of His personal features. And by His impersonal feature He expands the rays of the brahmajyoti, which is limitless and all-pervasive. Part of this all-pervasive brahmajyoti, which is compared to the sun rays, is covered by the darkness of the mahat-tattva, and this insignificant part is known as the material world. In this material world there are innumerable universes like the one we can experience, and in each of them there are hundreds of thousands of planets like the one we are inhabiting. The mundaners are more or less captivated by the unlimited expansion of the rays of the Lord, but the devotees are concerned more with His personal form, from which everything is emanating ( janmādy asya yataḥ SB 1.1.1 ). As the sun rays are concentrated in the sun disc, the brahmajyoti is concentrated in Goloka Vṛndāvana, the topmost spiritual planet in the spiritual sky. The immeasurable spiritual sky is full of spiritual planets, named Vaikuṇṭhas, far beyond the material sky. The mundaners have insufficient information of even the mundane sky, so what can they think of the spiritual sky? Therefore the mundaners are always far, far away from Him. Even if in the future they are able to manufacture some machine whose speed may be accelerated to the velocity of the wind or mind, the mundaners will still be unable to imagine reaching the planets in the spiritual sky. So the Lord and His residential abode will always remain a myth or a mysterious problem, but for the devotees the Lord will always be available as an associate.
<PS:Purport>In the spiritual sky His opulence is immeasurable. The Lord resides in all the spiritual planets, the innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets, by expanding His plenary portions along with His liberated devotee associates, but the impersonalists who want to merge in the existence of the Lord are allowed to merge as one of the spiritual sparks of the brahmajyoti. They have no qualifications for becoming associates of the Lord either in the Vaikuṇṭha planets or in the supreme planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, described in the Bhagavad-gītā as mad-dhāma and here in this verse as the sva-dhāma of the Lord.
<PS:Purport>This mad-dhāma or sva-dhāma is described in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.6) as follows:
<PS:"Verse in purp"><BP:0.125>na tad bhāsayate sūryo<CR>na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ<CR>yad gatvā na nivartante<CR>tad dhāma paramaṁ mama
The Lord's sva-dhāma does not require any sunlight or moonlight or electricity for illumination. That dhāma, or place, is supreme, and whoever goes there never comes back to this material world.
<PS:Purport>The Vaikuṇṭha planets and the Goloka Vṛndāvana planet are all self-illuminating, and the rays scattered by those sva-dhāma of the Lord constitute the existence of the brahmajyoti. As further confirmed in the Vedas like the Muṇḍaka (2.2.10), Kaṭha (2.2.15) and Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣads (6.14):
<PS:"Verse in purp"><BP:0.125>na tatra sūryo bhāti na candra-tārakaṁ<CR>nemā vidyuto bhānti kuto 'yam agniḥ<CR>tam eva bhāntam anu bhāti sarvaṁ<CR>tasya bhāsā sarvam idaṁ vibhāti
In the sva-dhāma of the Lord there is no need of sun, moon or stars for illumination. Nor is there need of electricity, so what to speak of ignited lamps? On the other hand, it is because those planets are self-illuminating that all effulgence has become possible, and whatever there is that is dazzling is due to the reflection of that sva-dhāma.
<PS:Purport>One who is dazzled by the effulgence of the impersonal brahmajyoti cannot know the personal transcendence; therefore in the Īśopaniṣad (15) it is prayed that the Lord shift His dazzling effulgence so that the devotee can see the real reality. It is spoken thus:
hiraṇmayena pātreṇa
satyasyāpihitaṁ mukham
tat tvaṁ pūṣann apāvṛṇu
satya-dharmāya dṛṣṭaye
"O Lord, You are the maintainer of everything, both material and spiritual, and everything flourishes by Your mercy. Your devotional service, or bhakti-yoga, is the actual principle of religion, satya-dharma, and I am engaged in that service. So kindly protect me by showing Your real face. Please, therefore, remove the veil of Your brahmajyoti rays so that I can see Your form of eternal bliss and knowledge." [break]
Hari-śauri: ...reminding them that the caukidāra wasn't ringing the bell until it became established.
Brahmānanda: It's been going on for years.
Prabhupāda: After my departure they stopped this? You may take. Where is Akṣayānanda? [break] (bell rings)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hari-śauri? Śrīla Prabhupāda, they just rang the bell now.
Prabhupāda: He is going...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That was the half-hour bell. Before was the four o'clock.
Prabhupāda: Oh. Oh, this is half hour?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Hari-śauri? [break] It's starting to get darker early. Sun is setting earlier now, I think, than it was when we were last here. [break] ...to see that things are going on.
Prabhupāda: The leaders are... Similarly, leaders of this temple, they will have to organize.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hm? No, we're able to see these things are going on.
Prabhupāda: But you never inquire.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, the bell went off on time.
Prabhupāda: What kind of ringing was going on? If it is going on whimsically, then that is not very good. I don't think I have seen Akṣayānanda from the morning.
Brahmānanda: He was here. When you arrived into your room he came. He was sitting in the room.
Hari-śauri: He was driving your car from Mathurā.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And he was also here when Bhagatji came.
Prabhupāda: He came?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Hari-śauri: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That is my concern, that such huge, huge establishment, if properly, regularly not managed, then again everything will be finished.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I don't think that that's going to happen, Śrīla Prabhupāda. We're too much indebted to you to allow what you have established to become spoiled.
Prabhupāda: Please see to that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: In this condition it is impossible for me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All you should have to do is just think about Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Kindly give me that chance.
Brahmānanda: (to a devotee:) "Kindly give me that chance."
Prabhupāda: In this condition, even I cannot move my body on the bed. Only chance you should give me—let me die little peacefully, without any anxiety. I have given in writing everything, whatever you wanted—my will, my executive(?) power, everything. Disaster will happen if you cannot manage it. Hm?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, we do not want any disaster to happen. Our only business as your sons and servants is to maintain what you have established. Even if we don't increase it, if we just maintain it...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That'll be... You've done so much. If it's even maintained, it will be a great credit. We shall be proud if people will say that "These young men are fit sons of their Guru Mahārāja." That would be our great pride if people will say that of us, that "They were worthy sons of their Guru Mahārāja." [break]
Prabhupāda: I must thank you that you took me to London and again brought me without any difficulties. That's a great credit for you. That I am thanking you, that in this condition, a bundle of bones, you did it. Kṛṣṇa will... Yesterday I saw that Central Station, Bombay, so much crowded. Unexpectedly. Is it not remarkable?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Because they have introduced this train. Twenty-four hours this Deluxe train is running.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There's a train that's even faster, called the Rajdhani. Seventeen hours.
Brahmānanda: Also there was air strike. So people who would normally take airplane, they're taking train.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Girirāja made one life member aboard the train, a very nice gentleman living on Marine Drive, quite wealthy. He says he never takes the train, only flies. But he went to the airport at four o'clock, and the airport said, "We have no flights. All flights cancelled." They didn't even give the courtesy to call up the people to tell them the flight was cancelled, although they had the telephone numbers of the ticket purchasers. So the man had to take the train.
Prabhupāda: The strike instrument invented by modern civilization, so dangerous.
Hari-śauri: Means the government becomes completely controlled by the lowest working class.
Prabhupāda: Naturally. Without hands and legs, how one can function? Therefore Vedic civilization, that everyone is engaged.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Just like in our temples. Everyone is engaged in some service. We don't reject anyone.
Prabhupāda: No. The system should be made in such a way that everyone is engaged.
Hari-śauri: With these farms that is very easy to do. No unemployment. Everybody can work. Next to our farm in Australia there is one man. He has five hundred acres of land, but he sends his wife out to work because he's so lazy, he does not work the land. Simply they put some cows there to become fat and then kill them. He has five hundred acres of land. [break]
Prabhupāda: Husband does not do.
Hari-śauri: This is the modern disease. Everyone is so lazy. You have always pointed out that there is so much land unused. Now no one wants to work. It is much simpler for them to go and work for eight hours a day in some office and get some bits of paper money and then buy from the grocery store.
Brahmānanda: Or even if they're farmers, all they do is just graze cows. And they don't do any work. They just have the cows eat, and then they sell them.
Prabhupāda: And maintain slaughterhouse, eh?
Brahmānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So you have kīrtana now?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Prabhupāda. I'll bring the little... [break] ...that the bells are being rung on time, on the hour and half hour.
Prabhupāda: It is going on?
Akṣayānanda: Oh, yes. Everything's going on nicely, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: So the bank has dispatched them, no?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Has the bank dispatched those two deposits? I wrote you one letter. You received that?
Akṣayānanda: I only got that letter. The bank was away, and now you have come, I'll send them.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The bank was away?
Akṣayānanda: The bank was not here on that day. I could not check it yet. The letter only came, and today is Sunday.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Tomorrow, first thing, Prabhupāda.
Akṣayānanda: Tomorrow, first thing, I'll check it.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The deposits were due on the 25th and on the 30th. They became matured. So one should have been dispatched on the 25th and the other should have been dispatched on the 30th.
Prabhupāda: No, the letter came so late?
Akṣayānanda: It came. The day it came, the bank was on strike. Next day we received notice you were coming, and we had to rush and get a chair for you and make arrangements. Unfortunately that was the only day I could not go there. It came late. First thing tomorrow, we'll go.
Prabhupāda: You have got that letter?
Akṣayānanda: I have it.
Prabhupāda: No, their letter...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Not only one copy. I have two copies.
Prabhupāda: Where is that letter?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I have them... It's attached in that file with the fixed deposit receipts.
Prabhupāda: What it is written there?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It gives them specific instruction to immediately transfer these two fixed deposits on the date of maturity to the Central Bank of India, Gwalior Bank, north branch, to the account of Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
Prabhupāda: No. What do they say?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And they also acknowledge having received it, having received the two fixed deposit receipts. The bank manager stamped it, dated it, signature. We gave them the receipts signed, so they acknowledged having received it.
Prabhupāda: But they have not issued any letter, "Yes, it will be done"?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, their acknowledgement of the letter should constitute that. I got them to acknowledge that they received the original. The fact that they would take the receipt of the fixed deposits indicates that they have to do the needful, as we have instructed them. And I have no doubt that they will do that. When they came to see you, they accepted that they would have to do that, because the money was sent to them, the four lakhs.
Prabhupāda: So other banking business going on? Huh?
Akṣayānanda: Generally everything is all right, yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bank is giving good service?
Akṣayānanda: Yes. It's all right.
Prabhupāda: Go on. [break]
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...no greater honor than to be called your son, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Where is that Dr. Sharma?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Dr. Sharma. Oh, yes. Where is he? He's here. Did that milk give you any mucus, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's good.
Prabhupāda: It is very, very good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Really fresh.
Prabhupāda: If I drink this milk twice, morning and evening, I think I can avoid any food.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You can what?
Prabhupāda: Avoid any food.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You don't like fruit juice?
Prabhupāda: I mean to say, I can drink in the meantime, but by simply drinking this milk, I can live healthy. I think so.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The saintly persons in the past did adopt that policy. They were living simply on milk. Are you feeling all right?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You are happy to be in Vṛndāvana, I think. You look very natural, being in Vṛndāvana, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: That's all. [break]
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda said scratch hard. [break] The other train? Punjab Mail? Frontier Mail? Oh, Rajdhani. Rajdhani Express?
Prabhupāda: That is from Calcutta?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There's two. One comes from Calcutta, between Calcutta and Delhi, and the other goes Bombay-Delhi and Delhi-Bombay. Both of them take about seventeen or eighteen hours. The one going from Calcutta stops only once, Śrīla Prabhupāda, in Kanpur, I think. Between Calcutta and Delhi it makes one stop at Kanpur. That's all. It's all air-conditioned.
Prabhupāda: And the other?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The other one stops once, I guess, but I'm not certain of the place. Between here and Bombay it makes one stop, so far I know. I'm not sure what is that stop. They're very popular trains. They run only about twice a week. But the train we were on was quite quick also. But not so quick as this. The train we were on took about twenty-two hours, Bombay-Delhi. But Rajdhani, I think, takes seventeen. It's about five hours faster.
Prabhupāda: They are also very fast. No?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That one we were on?
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, it was very good. And it was very much on time. (end)