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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1969]]
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<div class="heading">These paintings are first-class, these paintings.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Discussion with BTG Staff -- December 24, 1969, Boston|Discussion with BTG Staff -- December 24, 1969, Boston]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: You want me to do Nectar of Devotion and then Kṛṣṇa and then Bhagavad-gītā, in that order?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So everything is all right, bṛhat-mṛdaṅga department? Major saṅkīrtana party. They are going, saṅkīrtana parties in different cities. That is junior. But your, this party, it is senior. You are sitting one place; you have to work thousand times more than them. Yes. You have to edit in such a way. Where is that water?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: It's being offered, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All right, all right. That's all...</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: I have a question from the art department.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Art, yes.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Jadurānī asks are they going too slow? She wants to know are they going too slow. They have thirty pictures ready.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: One thing, that Jadurānī should have some assistants. She alone cannot do that.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Well, Prabhupāda, you used that word once before, assistant. So then when Jāhnavā saw that letter she said, "That means I should paint." So all that assistant meant was that they all painted. And Śāradīyā began to paint. I don't know what you mean by assistant.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Assistant means that they should work under her direction. That is assistant.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: And produce pictures side by side with her.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I give some idea, sketch, and then under that sketch, instruction of Jadurānī, and...</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: So according to Jadurānī, only she, Muralīdhara, Devahūti, and Baradraj were good enough, that the other weren't good painters, Jāhnavā and Śāradīyā. But I don't know that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then they may practice. They may be given to practice, not the actual work. So... But they are scattered in different places.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Baradraj is coming to Boston.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Baradraj is good. Yes. He can... If he likes, he can do much work.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: And Muralīdhara is good and also produces. Devahūti is good, but doesn't produce.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So Devahūti has gone. I would have talked with her.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Yes. I don't have her address.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, she does not live in the temple.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: No. And she doesn't come often to the temple. I do not know her address, so I don't know how to... I will call up her daughter in Dematine(?). See if I can get her address and write her.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: What about Mādhava-lati?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. She is good painter.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: She's exhibiting a much nicer atti... She had a sari on today, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: She had a sari on today.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sari?</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: Yes. She was wearing a sari at the temple. She looks very nice.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, she is nice. She is talented.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: She could be an assistant painter.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And why not somebody marry her? If somebody want to marry, then she will be all right.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Nayanābhirāma wanted to marry her.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then why not ask and get her married? Yes. Then she will be fixed up. I think she requires to be married. Then she will be satisfied.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: One more question from art was...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: She is here. I recommend that just ask her to get married. If she agrees, that, what is that boy?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Nayanābhirāma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Let them marry and live here.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: The other question was, is the subject matter, as they're being done, is there any criticism or should it be changed? The paintings that have been finished thus far, should they be changed in some way?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then... These paintings are first-class, these paintings.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Is that one first-class there, Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: What's the trouble?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The trouble is that Kṛṣṇa's body is... Why it is made so big? Why the others, inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, smaller?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: He's supposed to be up in the front. He's supposed to be in the front, and they're all behind Him. But it mustn't be done well enough.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, that is... Do you think that is represented? Kṛṣṇa did not show His gigantic body. As He was, He lifted. Yes.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: He seems gigantic.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa could show His gigantic. Actually He expanded His gigantic body. Otherwise how He could lift?</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: These are very nice.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: These things are... Yes.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Do you like this one, Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is also not bad, but...</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: The calf looks like a dog.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? Yes.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: So they should be done over.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. This is all right. You see? So you can take some photograph like this picture. This is also... Kṛṣṇa is patting a cow.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: That's a good one.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: We should just reproduce that as it is?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, why not?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Gurudāsa has some very excellent pictures from the archives taken from books that were printed several hundreds of years ago, Bhagavad-gītā and some woodcuts of Nṛsiṁha, which would be considered quite artistic, but maybe we can send them to you to see if they meet your approval and maybe reproduce them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, whatever card, form, we get, unless we have got arrangement for worship... Of course, we can keep, but our, any form, wooden or stone, that should be worshiped.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: These are photographs, these are pictures.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, pictures. Then it is all right. All right. It is all right?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Yes. That's all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all. So now distribute prasādam. First of all, chant once more Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)</p>
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