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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
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<div class="heading">Why not? You have got money?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- November 6, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- November 6, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The answer is there: "Here is my father." They'll not accept. Without father, how there can be son? You do not know who is the father. Why the particular tree is giving particular fruit, particular flower, and this is exactly like...? What do they answer?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They actually have no answer.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (chuckles) From the rose tree, why rose flower come, not other flower? This is a species. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati. They have no knowledge.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Without coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness it's not possible for them to understand. That is the root cause, that they're trying to assume that everything is coming out of chance. But once they...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: These people, Gītā-pratiṣṭhāna, they spoke in Hindi. So there were so many foreigners. If Kṛṣṇa consciousness is meant for Hindu or Hindi, not for others, what do they say?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are... They only spoke in Hindi. That means they're very narrow-minded.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And Kṛṣṇa conscious. And Kṛṣṇa said, ahaṁ bīja-prada..., sarva-bhūtānām. "Gītā-pratiṣṭhāna."</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They don't have even the human respect of a gentleman. The real gentlemen, they won't speak like that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: For their dealings, they are compact within India. They cannot go out. Who will care for their Hindi? And their nationalism and at the same time they are...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are so many false attempt.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They don't understand the spirit of Gītā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Anyway, during the two days that they held their meeting, we distributed about thirty thousand Bhagavad-gītās around the world. Every day we distribute at least ten thousand Gītās per day in different languages.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bhagavad-gītā sañjaya.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This year, Śrīla Prabhupāda, we will have distributed about two million Bhagavad-gītās, in different languages. One year. (break)</p>
<p>Kavirāja: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Bhakti-caru: He says that the swelling is much less than before, and there is no weakness in the heart also.</p>
<p>Kavirāja: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Everything is going nicely except that the strength is going away.</p>
<p>Bhakti-caru: Right, yes.</p>
<p>Kavirāja: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Bhakti-caru: When did Śrīla Prabhupāda take foodstuff last?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Foodstuff? Cāpāṭi? Rice? About four months ago.</p>
<p>Kavirāja: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Bhakti-caru: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He took a little bit about a month ago, but it was very little.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Kavirāja: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Since he left we haven't done parikrama.</p>
<p>Kavirāja: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the news of Māyāpur?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Actually everything is going very nicely now. Everyone was... When the news came that you were coming, it spread just like electricity. All of a sudden, all Gurukula boys, all devotees, they started to cry out, "Haribol! Haribol!" jumping up and down. Just within a few moments everyone was immediately jumping. Now the book distributors, they've been very eager to fulfill your order to do hundred thousand books. So already last month they did almost forty thousand. Last week they did twelve thousand books. One party in Assam, they were selling Bengali, mostly Bengali books. They did seven thousand books in one week.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Which one?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Which book?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Gītār Gān and Bhagavānera Kathā and...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Seven thousand. That's pretty good, Śrīla Prabhupāda, in one week, just for one party. And they have four parties.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Well, now there's two. But... So we are organizing now so that we'll be able to even distribute thirty, forty thousand big books in a month.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: English?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Well, this Vairāgya Vidyā, that will be printed in two weeks, so then we will distribute that. In English there's good scope also, because in my zone, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, they are English-predominated state because the Christian missionary have converted everyone. But they found great reception there, although the Christians are... Even the Christians are buying. There seems to be a lot of land for sale right now. About 60 to 80 bighās of land is for sale, and the people are asking the market rates. So it's... We don't have to depend on acquisition. We can just go and buy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Can you... If you are able to... (mic moving) Subscribe within our jurisdiction so much land. Otherwise they will sublet(?) it. Why you have purchased agricultural land?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: We will purchase in the... We'll get a permit from the government to hold more land. And until that time, then we'll purchase in the name of Gopāla Kṛṣṇa, Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? We can also purchase in the name of Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: A trust can hold fifty bighās of irrigated land, seventy bighās unirrigated. And once we turn that... If we turn that to nonagricultural land, then there's no limit. By paying twice the land tax we can convert to nonagricultural for the purpose of building our temple or building anything, and then it's no longer subject to any ceiling. We will see with lawyer very carefully that...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So you can purchase in Svarūpa Dāmodara's name.</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: This land is for sale from whom? Muhammadans?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Yes, both Muhammadan and Hindu.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Should we buy this land, Śrīla Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why not? You have got money?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. There is enough money.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: We do not want to rest until every home in Bengal has a copy of Gītār Gān and Bhāgavatam.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Gītār Gān is nice. It's attractive.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: About ten new devotees are there now. Every week two or three new devotees are coming. Four of them are college graduate. They're helping answering letters and transcribing. Subhaga has five books that he had written in England. So we got those, and now they're being copies for printing.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What kind of books?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Small books. Beyond Birth and Death, Easy Journey.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Subhaga is doing nicely?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Yes. Same as usual.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Is there Bengali boys, Mahārāja?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Yes.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So how many members are there now, devotees in Māyāpur.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: I don't know. I didn't take the exact count. Two hundred.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Two hundred. Big āśrama, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: I'm thinking of bringing some Manipuri boys to Māyāpur next time I go.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Do it.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Bring some boys from Manipur.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Manipur boys are very good workers. We saw them in Bombay. Remember, Śrīla Prabhupāda? I brought three of them to meet you. They all looked like Svarūpa Dāmodara junior. Very humble, intelligent, hard-working.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: The Manipur Mandir in Navadvīpa, when I was gone they had sent an invitation for attending one function. They're very favorable. When the party went to Assam, then they got invitation to go to Tripura, which is next to Manipur. It's eighty percent Bengali-speaking and also many Vaiṣṇavas. So we expect to distribute many books there. Next month party will be going to Tripura.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Book distribution has hit India, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: And, Śrīla Prabhupāda, I was thinking that it's very important... We want to complete this temple during your stay here on this planet. Then your life's mission will be... There won't be anything that's left uncomplete if we could just complete the temple. The present... Just meditating that what are the obstacle... Actually we have already enough land for the temple itself, but the temple design... When you first came to Māyāpur, then the temple was going to be 225 feet. Then we asked Saurabha to make a design, and then he made 300 feet. At that time the estimate was fifteen million. Then again he was designing, designing, and it went to 350 feet. Then it went to thirty million. Then it went to 400 feet, fifty-five million. Now it's up to seventy million.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Dollars?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Dollars. Every time he thinks about it, he adds fifty feet, and it goes up twenty million. So now all the distributors in the world, they were very eager to see the temple built, but at the present time it requires so much money at seventy million dollars and 450 feet that no one can think of even starting it for five years. But if the temple was 300 or 350 feet and twenty-five or thirty million dollars, which I don't think anyone—it would be the biggest building even in India and the biggest temple in the world—then it could be started immediately, feasibly. Four temples in America said that if they just get five women each, that means twenty women from the Society, then they could each pledge 25,000 rupees a month for..., in collection. That means $125,000. Plus BBT's $100,000 a month and Gurukṛpā, that would be enough immediately even in the coming year to start the construction of the temple, simply if Saurabha was asked to just make the temple on a thirty million dollar budget, which would be 350 feet or 300 feet. And this is really inspiring the book distributors to have this temple begun, and to complete it within your lifetime, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
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