Planetarium Project and Final Instructions

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Rishikesh · 1977

Chapters

Prabhupāda: If you have got the name, so why not reply to each one, with the letter...

Planning the Vedic planetarium project

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, I see.

Prabhupāda: ...that "We are intending to make a huge planetarium.

Fifth Canto cosmological descriptions

If you can help us?"

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Mentioning the Fifth Canto, Bhāgavatam?

Prabhupāda: Exactly to the description of Fifth Canto, we want.

Acquiring contact lists for outreach

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How will we get their addresses?

Prabhupāda: Hmm? Or I can write to Mr. Chandali[?].

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There's one thing we could do. I haven't seen the article, but he must have spoken at some institution or some meeting.

We can write a letter to the secretary of that institution and meeting, telling them what we intend to do and to forward us a list of the people who attended and their addresses. And in that way we can...

Managing official correspondence personally

Should... Of course, I can do it, but do you want us to do it, or should Surabhi's office do it?

Prabhupāda: Surabhi?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Why?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, he's already got letters like this, and he's receiving letters from people. He has... I don't mind doing it.

Prabhupāda: Surabhi... No. I shall deal it personally.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All right, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Otherwise there is chance of being cheated.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, okay. So then...

Seeking confirmation from specialists

Prabhupāda: I know what are things, but still, they are specially specialists.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Little confirmation...

Prabhupāda: Yes, that's all right. I know everything.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think, more than anything, you want confirmation just in case... [break]

Prabhupāda: That is my request, that I may remain unconscious...

Instructions for end of life

[break]

... kapha-pitta-vāyu.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Conscious, unconscious and...

Prabhupāda: Hmm. But never put me in hospital.

Refusal of hospital treatment

You can refuse, that "This is our Guru Mahārāja's order." Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Bās. Let me die peacefully.

Chanting during states of unconsciousness

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: When Caitanya Mahāprabhu was unconscious, all that His disciples would do is they would chant in His ear.

Prabhupāda: That's all.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So we'll take that example. Please don't ever doubt that. We will never let them. It will be over my dead body.

Prabhupāda: This is my order. If I become unconscious... Otherwise... [Bengali] Bhakti-caru: [Bengali] [end]