Room Conversation [Partially Recorded]

Haṁsadūta:
[introduction on tape] The following lectures were recorded in Calcutta, India, starting January 6th, 1970 [sic], following the Surat lectures, preceding lectures some were recorded at Māgh-melā. So these are being inserted under emergency conditions, being copied from Devānanda’s tape recorder. And following these lectures we will have the other lectures in sequence from the Māgh-melā. All these lectures are on the story of Ajāmila, from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Prabhupāda:

hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya
prabhu-nityānanda
śrī-advaita gadādhara
śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Devotee:
Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda:
Yes. Stop. [break]

Devotee (1):
This [indistinct].

Prabhupāda:
Mosquito?

Devotee (1):
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
Oh. [laughter] Many, many?

Devotee (1):
Uhm, a [indistinct].

Prabhupāda:
Without mosquito curtain you cannot sleep.

Devotee (1):
No, we can sleep anywhere. But at Advaita Bhavan there’s a fair amount of mosquitoes at night. But there’s not so many that you can’t sleep without mosquito coil burning.

Prabhupāda:
Ohh. That’s all right. [break]

Devotee (2):
…wild goats, [indistinct].

Prabhupāda:
Hmm. [indistinct]

Devotee (2):
The rats in Hawaii are not so big as the rats here. They’re only about this big, the body.

Prabhupāda:
Every house has rats?

Devotee (2):
Not every house. No.

Prabhupāda:
At least Advaita Bhavan has got.

Devotee (2):
They were some, but they cleaned them out. They got rid of them. I’m not sure that’s actually are rat poison.

Devotee (3):
[indistinct conversation between devotees]

Devotee (2):
We were getting a cow, but we joined with ISKCON just before we got the cow. We were going to get one for four hundred dollars. It was giving sixteen quarts a day and had a calf.

Prabhupāda:
Sixteen quarts?

Devotee (2):
A day, yes. There was a small calf also.

Prabhupāda:
There must be grazing ground for cows.

Devotee (2):
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
Then there is no problem.

Devotee (2):
There was a grazing ground. The lawn would grow. [indistinct]

Prabhupāda:
What is that? A recording?

Devotee (2):
Little.

Prabhupāda:
Why? These are not important thing.

Devotee (2):
True. [end]