Prabhupāda: Yes. After coming back from foreign countries, he made his position here in Madras.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Beautiful building.
Acyutānanda: In Calcutta we have a life member, Veni Śaṅkara Sharma? You stayed at his house?
Prabhupāda: Hm, yes.
Life members (Conversations, 1976 - 1977)
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Morning Walk -- January 2, 1976, Madras:
Yaśodānandana: This vehicle is the vehicle in which we travel to all the different cities for making the life members and arranging all the programs in South India, this vehicle.
Prabhupāda: This is your own?
Yaśodānandana: We are renting.
Prabhupāda: When I was in South Africa...
Indian man (1): South Africa.
Prabhupāda: Yes, Johannesburg. This beach reminds me of that beach. You were with me?
Harikeśa: Yes.
Morning Walk -- January 8, 1976, Nellore:
Prabhupāda: (break) ...pure Vaiṣṇava. What is that?
Indian man (1): House of a life member.
Prabhupāda: Oh. (break) ...take to our principles, these things will be automatically be finished. Na ca daivāt paraṁ balam.
Morning Walk -- January 17, 1976, Mayapur:
Prabhupāda: Immediately.
Jayapatāka: He can supply two and half lakhs of bricks within one month.
Prabhupāda: That's all right.
Jayapatāka: We should give the... We have two life members there. I've done this before. Give the price for one lakh of bricks in advance and we get twenty rupees off. That way they'll give you the full supply. So in one month we can get all the bricks.
Prabhupāda: So why they want advance?
Morning Walk -- January 17, 1976, Mayapur:
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is everywhere.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Wrongfully, you know. That man who is our life member from Madras who was in charge of Indian Express? Girirāja and I made him a member.
Madhudviṣa: Goenka?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Goenka. He was taking the money and they caught him. He's one of the trustees, and he was embe..., you know, embezzling the money, using it for individual business projects he had. The government caught him.
Prabhupāda: (break) ...from distant place.
Morning Walk -- February 26, 1976, Mayapura:
Prabhupāda: No, no, he's reading. That is working. If he's... But he is sleeping, that is another thing. In the name of reading, sometimes we sleep. If that is not done, it is all right. He's reading. That's all right. But if he shows that "I am reading," but he's sleeping secretly, that is bad. To see that he's not sleeping, he's actually reading.
Indian devotee (4): He's life member also, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: :Hm? Anyway, if he's doing something, that's good.