Car Conversation

Rāmeśvara:
And I’ve been told that all the TV stations showed our Ratha-yātrā. That means millions of people saw the ratha cart. And everyone has seen it in the newspapers.

Prabhupāda:
Yes.

Rāmeśvara:
That Newsday also had coverage. We didn’t get that paper for Prabhupāda, but they also… This is even before their article, interview.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
Oh. What about Newsweek and…?

Rāmeśvara:
When those interviews that those reporters took are published, we’ll send them to you immediately.

[aside:] Newsday, Associated Press and Newsweek. [break]

Prabhupāda:
…higher[?] to temple.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
Not exactly. We’ll go, probably, over the Fifty-ninth Street bridge, right?

Ādi-keśava:
I think it would be better now to go through the tunnel.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
Tunnel?

Ādi-keśava:
Little easier ride.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
We’re going over the tunnel, into the tunnel. What street is that? Fifty…?

Ādi-keśava:
About Thirtieth Street.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
You think that’s faster?

Ādi-keśava:
Yes, it goes right under…

[indistinct discussion about route] [break]

Rāmeśvara:
…people of New York are appreciating, Prabhupāda, how you came here alone, and now you have a big building with many followers. Actually the people are aware, very much aware of how you started this movement in New York.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
And were struggling personally. [break]

Prabhupāda:
…life there is struggle. Without struggling there is no…

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
We should not be…, try to avoid struggle.

Prabhupāda:
No. Because we have got preaching point of view. Preaching means struggling. If it was simply bhajana, you can sit down and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa like Haridāsa Ṭhākura. [break]

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
“There’s one credit that I have. I was never a lazy fellow.”

Prabhupāda:
Yes, throughout my life. [end]