Vyāsa-pūjā at New Vrindaban

Marble processing and workshop facilities

0:00: Hari-śauri: [announces] Prabhupāda visits the marble shop. [break]

0:02Kīrtanānanda: This is a cutting table, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Here's is a diamond saw. When you cut marble you have to use water, so it automatically shoots water out.

0:12Devotee: You can make the cut if you want to.

0:18Prabhupāda: This is the marble? No.

0:19Kīrtanānanda: This is a marble base. This is what they cut on, just to make it flat. It has to be a perfectly flat table. This is part of the floor for your study room.

0:28Prabhupāda: Oh. This is marble?

0:30Kīrtanānanda: Yes, this is all marble, but it is glued together in little pieces, like inlaid. And this is the polishing room. [break] Take the rough marble and make it shine.

0:48Prabhupāda: You have spent so much money. What is the price of this machine?

0:49Kīrtanānanda: Well, there was a man, he was going out of business in Pittsburg, and I got a great deal of marble and all the machinery and everything for nine thousand dollars. It is very cheap.

Agricultural land and livestock management

1:33Prabhupāda: Oh. Do you know how to work? No. [devotees laugh]

1:33Kīrtanānanda: That is a heater. It's burning wood. [break] [walking outside, kīrtana going on] ...growing mung beans in this little field over there.

1:47Prabhupāda: Jaya. [break] [in car] ...horse? What do they do? Plowing?

2:38Kīrtanānanda: Yes. They do some plowing, they do some pulling wagons. Mostly they are used in the woods for logging.

2:46Prabhupāda: Oh.

Crop cultivation and spiritual pastimes

2:54This land is very nice. For mung beans?

3:00Kīrtanānanda: Yes, those are all mung beans up there. [break]

3:02Children: Haribol! [laughs]

3:32Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa Balarāma used to practice race with the birds. Hari-śauri: Now our boys are racing with the cows. This is childish game.

Property infrastructure and building materials

4:11This nature is there in Kṛṣṇa. This is their only school building?

4:11Kīrtanānanda: This is not ours. This was an old school building, public school, but that is not our building.

4:19Prabhupāda: This is not our?

4:30Kīrtanānanda: Not ours. [break] ...looks like it might clear today.

4:43Prabhupāda: Oh. How these logs will be used?

4:49Kīrtanānanda: Roof.

4:49Prabhupāda: Oh. And you have to cut into planks? No. Or beams?

4:55Kīrtanānanda: Yes.

5:11Prabhupāda: Cylinder? Gas?

5:16Kīrtanānanda: Gas. [end]