Marble Shop Visit

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

Kīrtanānanda:
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.

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

Prabhupāda:
This is the marble? No.

Kīrtanānanda:
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.

Prabhupāda:
Oh. This is marble?

Kīrtanānanda:
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.

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

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

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

Kīrtanānanda:
That is a heater. It’s burning wood. [break]

[walking outside, kīrtana going on]

Kīrtanānanda:
…growing mung beans in this little field over there.

Prabhupāda:
Jaya. [break]

[in car]

Prabhupāda:
…horse? What do they do? Plowing?

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

Prabhupāda:
Oh. This land is very nice. For mung beans?

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

Children:
Haribol!

Prabhupāda:
[laughs] Kṛṣṇa Balarāma used to practice race with the birds.

Hari-śauri:
Now our boys are racing with the cows.

Prabhupāda:
This is childish game. This nature is there in Kṛṣṇa. This is their only school building?

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

Prabhupāda:
This is not our?

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

Prabhupāda:
Oh. How these logs will be used?

Kīrtanānanda:
Roof.

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

Kīrtanānanda:
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
Cylinder? Gas?

Kīrtanānanda:
Gas. [end]