Vrindavan Temple Development and Festival Planning

Vrindavan project and publication updates

0:00Prabhupāda: So, everything is going nice?

0:02Akṣayānanda: Yes, by your grace only.

0:04Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We have a very beautiful garden for you.

0:09Prabhupāda: Hm. Garden? Oh.

0:11Akṣayānanda: Guesthouse has improved very much. Now we have about twenty paying guests. And during Śrāvaṇa and Janmāṣṭamī it was completely full. Very, very encouraging.

0:26Gopāla 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.

0:32Akṣayānanda: They were fighting to come.

0:34Prabhupāda: So, they are allowed three days free?

0:45Akṣayānanda: Only. Also book distribution has improved very much.

0:56Prabhupāda: Locally?

0:58Akṣayānanda: Here in the temple specifically. Haihaya has been concentrating. He's very good.

1:05Prabhupāda: Hindi?

1:05Akṣayānanda: Yes, Hindi magazines and what we can get.

1:10Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Viśāla alone does about two, three hundred every day.

1:17Akṣayānanda: Viśāla is...

1:20Prabhupāda: Where is our Viśvambhara? Viśvambhara is helping nicely?

1:24Akṣayānanda: Oh, yes. Hundred percent. [break] French.

2:07Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: That's the new French Bhāgavatam on the back.

2:10Prabhupāda: Oh. I think I have seen it. Hari-śauri: Yes, that's the one we got in Paris, Bhagavān.

2:20Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It looks very nice.

2:21Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Bank is going nice?

3:22Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: The bank.

Gurukula construction and festival planning

3:47Akṣayānanda: The bank is all right. [Hindi with Bhagatjī]

3:57Prabhupāda: So, the gurukula building, how far it is? [Hindi conversation] You have got them, the keys? [devotees look through keys]

4:24Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: When devotees come for Gaura-Pūrṇimā... [Hindi with Bhagatjī] Māyāpur, Delhi, Vṛndāvana, Bombay. From Bombay back to Europe. [Hindi]

5:06Bhagatjī: Prabhupāda? [Hindi with Gopāla Kṛṣṇa and Prabhupāda]

5:09Prabhupāda: So let them come first of all here from Delhi.

5:13Bhagatjī: They come first here.

Financial management and facility maintenance

5:17Gopāla 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, they are saying. [Hindi with Bhagatjī]

6:00Prabhupāda: Where is Hari-śauri?

6:12Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Hari-śauri? Prabhupāda wants you.

6:28Prabhupāda: Is that correct? Is that correct key? What is that? Hari-śauri: This one's for some of the locks on the doors. Which door? Hari-śauri: Ah, front door. I think it was one on the bedroom originally.

6:54They may have taken them off again. Find out the door. [Hindi conversation with Prabhupāda] He is pakkā-bāṇiyā, and here is another, more pakkā. [laughter] [Hindi with Bhagatjī] ...special quality, he's very tolerant.

12:31Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He's very cool. [Hindi conversation for some time, much laughter] [to Pālikā]

13:14Prabhupāda: You have come before? Or with us?

13:16Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: With you.

13:16Pālikā: In a bus. I have some fruits ready for you, if you'd like to take.

Land acquisition and contractor negotiations

14:03Prabhupāda: Yes. You have [indistinct] paraṭā? No. What you have prepared? [Hindi conversation for some time]

14:25Bhagatjī: Keep patience. I am not dishonest.

14:28Prabhupāda: Dishonest or not... [Hindi] Your family is very nice.

14:30Bhagatjī: Keep patience. I am not dishonest. [Hindi conversation]

14:35Devotee: Your breakfast has come. Breakfast is here.

14:47Prabhupāda: I'll take. This man, he's not [indistinct]. Jaya.

15:05Devotees: Jaya, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

15:11Prabhupāda: Come [Hindi] Bala-hīnena labhya Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.4

Resource management and spiritual strength

15:23[Hindi]

15:23Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: By your mercy, Balarāmajī is giving.

15:36Prabhupāda: 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]