Room Conversation
How people are receiving this movement all over the world, is a menace to the Communist party.
[loud kīrtana in background]
Prabhupāda:
Everything is all right?
Gargamuni:
Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda:
Let him dance. Wherefrom you are coming?
Gargamuni:
From Calcutta. Māyāpur, Calcutta.
Prabhupāda:
My health is not going…
Gargamuni:
Yes, I have heard. We brought you some medicine from your sister.
Prabhupāda:
Oh!
Gargamuni:
Yes.
Prabhupāda:
Yes, I wrote her.
Gargamuni:
Yes. We have that with us.
Prabhupāda:
So. Feeling all right?
Jayapatākā:
Everything all right to have your darśana, Śrīla Prabhupāda. We don’t feel good that you are not feeling well. Your health.
Prabhupāda:
Yes.
Gargamuni:
Everyone in Calcutta, they are asking how you are. Many people, they are anxious to see you. We have gotten very good recent publicity there. Three days in a row.
Prabhupāda:
Eh?
Gargamuni:
Three days in a row of front page news articles.
Prabhupāda:
What is that publicity?
Gargamuni:
Very good. Many ministers are also coming to Māyāpur. It’s very…
Prabhupāda:
Here also the chief minister very much appreciated.
Devotee:
Yesterday.
Prabhupāda:
Chief minister came yesterday. Very much appreciated.
Gargamuni:
Yes, he is okay.
[indistinct background conversation]
Prabhupāda:
Gradually they will appreciate. Everyone, all over the world.
Gargamuni:
This was on the front page of the Ananda Bazar, five lakhs’ circulation.
Prabhupāda:
[Transl. “Kṛṣṇa preme mātoyārā māyāpura.” Māyāpur is maddened by love of Kṛṣṇa.]
Gargamuni:
Front page.
Jayapatākā:
This is an answer…
Prabhupāda:
Eh?
Jayapatākā:
This is an answer to those accusations made by the…
Gargamuni:
By the CPI. [Communist Party of India] This is in answer. They came and did a full report with tape recorders, movie cameras. This newspaper.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
We can send this copy to Delhi for those ministers who want it.
Gargamuni:
Those. Oh yes. This is the largest circulation in India.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
This probably came in the big letter yesterday. [indistinct] has been enclosed the xerox copies already. With the front page, we can get it translated…
Gargamuni:
Yes.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
…so that they can read it.
Gargamuni:
Right. [kīrtana in background; devotees talking]
Hari-śauri:
So Prabhupāda can lecture and he doesn’t have to go down. [indistinct conversation]
Gargamuni:
Wow. He just sits right here. Perfect. Also, this came the day before, in the same newspaper. [indistinct conversation]
Prabhupāda:
You directly refute that “We are not CIA.”* [Transl. Kṛṣṇa-nāma kari.* We chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.]
Gargamuni:
And Bhavananda invited the CPI* [Communist Party of India] members to come to Māyāpur and see for themselves.
Prabhupāda:
Ah!
Gargamuni:
This article invites them.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
These members are now in Delhi, so we can send it to them.
Gargamuni:
Yes.
Prabhupāda:
Very good.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
These members are all in Delhi. And when I write the letter which you dictated, we will also enclose it.
Prabhupāda:
Yes. They published one English article, “Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement Catches On.”
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
Okay.
Prabhupāda:
In Ananda Bazar.
Hari-śauri:
It’s that magazine called Sunday.
Prabhupāda:
Hah, hah.
Hari-śauri:
We saw it in New York.
Prabhupāda:
Somewhere I saw.
Hari-śauri:
New York.
Prabhupāda:
Very nice article.
Hari-śauri:
Yes, about thirteen pages in the magazine.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:
Oh, really.
Hari-śauri:
Yes, very long, three quarters of the magazine.
Prabhupāda:
What is this?
Gargamuni:
That’s an income tax form. I pasted these on the back.
Prabhupāda:
That CPI member, what did he say?
Gargamuni:
Well, apparently they’re a little bit envious because Māyāpur is becoming very popular amongst the local people. We get five thousand people now for the… Five thousand people are coming for the prasādam. And even the Congress leaders, they come here and eat with the people. They said, “This is wonderful.”
Prabhupāda:
Where is that?
Gargamuni:
At Māyāpur.
Prabhupāda:
This is a unique. In these days we are…
Gargamuni:
And Jayapatākā is going to the villages. I gave him one bus, and he is selling about six to seven hundred Gītār Gāns a day.
Prabhupāda:
Hmm?
Gargamuni:
Six to seven hundred Gītār Gāns are being sold each day.
Prabhupāda:
Sixty…
Gargamuni:
Six hundred.
Prabhupāda:
Six to seven hundred.
Gargamuni:
Yes. Each day.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
You’ll run out of those thirty thousand…
Jayapatākā:
We’ll be finished in two months with those thirty thousand.
Gargamuni:
And the response is wonderful within the villages. They all say “Hare Kṛṣṇa,” everywhere.
Prabhupāda:
They are envious of this, certainly.
Gargamuni:
Yes.
Prabhupāda:
How people are receiving this movement all over the world, is a menace to the Communist party. They are trying to kill God, and we are pushing God. We are the greatest enemy.
Gargamuni:
Yes.
Jayapatākā:
Show that other article that… This is the actual article against us. The one against us.
Gargamuni:
Also this came in the Statesman, the pro–vice-chancellor of Calcutta University came to Māyāpur. He wants to affiliate Māyāpur with the Calcutta University. This came in the Statesman. And a few days ago, the vice-chancellor…
Prabhupāda:
It is not yet finished?
Jayapatākā:
That’s the old picture.
Gargamuni:
No, this picture’s six months old.
Jayapatākā:
It’s more than that.
Gargamuni:
It’s more than that.
Jayapatākā:
We’re working on the roofs now. We’ve received ten lakhs so far. The building total cost was twenty lakhs.
Prabhupāda:
[indistinct]
Jayapatākā:
It’s a huge building, six times longer than our building. Two hundred rooms.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:
This is against us?
Gargamuni:
Yes. This is the first article. [break] The first article. That was against us, in the same paper. Then these two came. But it was very good. Many people came to the temple. They said, “Your Society is cleared.” Many Bengalis, so many came, “We have read, ‘Your Society is cleared.’ “
Prabhupāda:
Now it will be more cleared. We have got so many. All right take seats. [end]