Berkeley Home Visit

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Berkeley · 1972

Chapters

Prabhupāda: Well. [indistinct] [sounds like a big empty room] I have heard the chanting.

Arrival at the new temple

Karāndhara: They have, instead of chain they have made this a rail.

Prabhupāda: Very nice. So this is our own home.

Karāndhara: Yes it is owned.

Prabhupāda: How you can change it?

Renovations and cleaning the building

Covered with so much dust. [Jingling noises] [Offers obeisances] nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-taleśrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine.

Offering obeisances and prayers

Very good you are making [indistinct].

Devotee: My wife.

Canopy for the deities

Brahmānanda: We are making it a large canopy for the Deities. [indistinct]

Prabhupāda: .

Brahmānanda: Yes. And then we will buy one from India. [Offers obeisances] nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-taleśrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine...

Prabhupāda: Who has painted this Sanskrit?

Sanskrit paintings from Isopanisad

Brahmānanda: Oh.

Karāndhara: Jayānanda’s wife, Trayī.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Karāndhara: It is the Īśopaniṣads.

Prabhupāda: Yes. [indistinct dialogue between devotees]

Touring the temple facilities

Karāndhara: Would you like to sit Prabhupāda or see the rest of the temple?

Prabhupāda: I can [indistinct] it.

Arrangements for taking prasadam

So prasādam is there or here?

Brahmānanda: There. For you? Yes in there. Do you wish to take here?

Prabhupāda: Anywhere. [Indistinct dialogue between devotees]

Brahmānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda I was wondering if you’d like to [indistinct].

Prabhupāda: That’s alright. [Phone ringing. Chanting. Moving noises. Indistinct dialogue] [break]

Devotee: ...I’ve so many things to do in this house I missed it.

Spiritual Sky incense business

Prabhupāda: And this is not...

Devotee: Spiritual Sky. [indistinct dialogue] [loud traffic noise] [break] [end]