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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithAmbarisaandCatholicPriestJune141976Detroit_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="136" link="Room Conversation with Ambarisa and Catholic Priest -- June 14, 1976, Detroit" link_text="Room Conversation with Ambarisa and Catholic Priest -- June 14, 1976, Detroit">
<div class="heading">Better in the restaurant.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Ambarisa and Catholic Priest -- June 14, 1976, Detroit|Room Conversation with Ambarisa and Catholic Priest -- June 14, 1976, Detroit]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Just like our Haridāsa. You know Haridāsa? Bombay?</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Yes, uh-huh.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He, Moscow, he was chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa on the street, and when people asked "What is this?" "This is cinema song."</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Sometimes as devotees we have to be a little bit crooked.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (indistinct) We shall do everything as the material person does, karmīs do, but we have to do everything for Kṛṣṇa, not person. Then it is all right. So?</p>
<p>Śrutikīrti: There's one thing, our best hours, some of the best business in the restaurant, would be very late at night, like between nine to eleven o'clock at night. So is that all right as long as we can arrange...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Śrutikīrti: ...everyone's following the program? People are up 'til midnight.</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Still they will come to the morning program.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But there will be picture of Caitanya Mahāprabhu?</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Yes.</p>
<p>Śrutikīrti: A nice altar, small altar, Pañca-tattva.</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: The temple is only one block away. We were wondering, should we offer the food to the Deities in the temple or should we offer it in the restaurant?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Better in the restaurant.</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Better in the restaurant. Yes, that is a little easier also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They must know that they're eating prasādam.</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Śrutikīrti: There was one other thing. Mānasvī, he is outside of New York. And I don't know very much what his position is. I talked to him once, he wanted to see you in New York. I don't know if you know that. Because he says that all these things are not true. No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's a thief. He has taken about twenty-five thousand dollars. He's a thief from the very beginning. What he is doing now?</p>
<p>Śrutikīrti: He's working two jobs. They won't allow him in the temple. I think you sent one letter or something.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, he should not be admitted.</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: Also in Boston there's a lady who may be donating a million-dollar farm to the Boston Temple. This is just a project that's a little bit..., that's just started, and she wants to donate her farm. So that is also going on, and also the temple is purchasing the building next door. I gave them some money for a down payment on it so they could buy the building next door to use it to house the people that are living in the restaurant and also for the Bhaktivedanta Institute, because I think the Bhaktivedanta Institute is going to be in Boston. Mādhava is there.</p>
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