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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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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 class="heading">Not very well known, but people knew me... Yes... Or because of your ambition to come to the West?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 26, 1976, London|Room Conversation -- July 26, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Right in here.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Through that window you could see Rūpa Gosvāmī's samadhi. And for those two rooms they were charging five rupees a month?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. These rooms were broken. So they told me that "You can repair these, and whatever you like, you can give." So I thought, "Don't need much space." "Pay me if..." I know, before me there was a tenant in that other room. He was paying three rupees. So I thought, "Two rooms, but I have spent money. So I'll give him five." Now I am giving them ten rupees.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: To retain it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Sometimes the devotees go down there and clean out the rooms, and they have kīrtana there sometimes. I think this is the first book that someone included this photo.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. It was very calm and quiet. And people used to offer obeisances from outside because they knew. Practically everyone knew me. So they used to offer...</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: You were very well known in Vṛndāvana before you came?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not very well known, but people knew me.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Because you were writing or...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Or because of your ambition to come to the West?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, at that time there was no such thing. I was living there, retired man.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: So when you went to Vṛndāvana, you'd given up the idea of coming to the West or...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, coming to the West, the idea was there, but I was planning how to go.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Oh, nothing concrete was there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that idea was there, but how to go there, how to preach there, how to take some books, how to bring them, everything alone...</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: So as soon as you had some books, then you were...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Then I decided. Everything was being dictated by superior.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: I was told that one day you were told by Rūpa Gosvāmī that you must go.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But that was open secret. Everyone knew. This antique photo is very dull.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Where this photo was?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: I don't know. (end)</p>
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