Sarasvati devi, we have got good news: your father is coming tomorrow
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Prabhupada: You have not met?
Gurudasa: Yes, I have met him. At Janmastami two years ago at New Vrindavan.
Panca-dravida: He is coming in on the third shift, I think.
Prabhupada: Huh?
Panca-dravida: They will... Giriraja and Bhavananda and them, they will probably be in the third shift, depending on how the land deal goes, whether it is settled by then.
Prabhupada: It must be settled. Not whether. Therefore I have asked so many people to go there. It must be settled.
Panca-dravida: The last situation I had heard was that everybody was agreeable, that Nair himself was agreeable and that everything was proceeding, but it was in the hands of the Municipality, and that was going so slow, and that Nair himself, he is saying so many dubious things on the outside, but in complete agreement once you step into a room with him. So we are not so much sure. It's more or less in the hands of the Municipality, but who knows what is going on behind the table. Something like that. [break]
Prabhupada: Take a little breakfast?
Gurudasa: They said you wanted to see me?
Prabhupada: Huh? Oh, about that typing.
Gurudasa: Accha. [break]
Prabhupada: Oh, you have secured that house in London.
Gurudasa: Oh, jaya! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Prabhupada: [indistinct] Berkshire Palace.
Devotee (1): Berkshire Palace, very impressive.
Gurudasa: Duke of Windsor's castle[?].
Devotee (1): He's the king there, right? The queen's husband.
Prabhupada: He was to be the king, but he rejected for that one common girl. So the ministry asked him that "You have to give up this girl or you have to give up your throne." So he preferred to give up his throne.
And the present queen's father, his second brother, he was made king, King George VI. Otherwise, this Duke of Windsor... When he refused to become the king, he became the Duke of Windsor and he was given this Berkshire Palace.
Gurudasa: He also is the one who has the Windsor Palace?
Prabhupada: No, Windsor Palace is the queen's. That is some seasonal residence. This Buckingham Palace is office. Actually, for residential palace, the Windsor Palace. Windsor Palace?
Gurudasa: Windsor, yes.
Prabhupada: That palace we see in passing.
Gurudasa: Yes, large palace.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Gurudasa: Windsor.
Prabhupada: Berkshire Palace is also nearby.
Gurudasa: Yes.
Prabhupada: It is nearer to John's Tittenhurst. What is that?
Gurudasa: Tittenhurst Park.
Prabhupada: Tittenhurst Park. [to Sarasvati:] Come on, come on. Come on. So Sarasvati devi, we have got good news: your father is coming tomorrow. It is all right? Syamasundara is coming tomorrow. You like?
Gurudasa: She says she has four fathers and mothers.
Prabhupada: Four fathers?
Gurudasa: And mothers.
Devotee (1): Who are they?
Sarasvati: [indistinct] [devotees laugh]
Prabhupada: Four fathers and four mothers?
Sarasvati: Four fathers and [indistinct]. [break]
Prabhupada: Syamasundara is coming tomorrow.
Sarasvati: I told her.
Prabhupada: You have told her?
Sarasvati: I told her that she's..., Syamasundara is coming very soon.
Prabhupada: So if you can make somebody agree, then he is coming tomorrow or day after tomorrow.
Acyutananda: But no one will agree to leave you.
Prabhupada: What is that?
Acyutananda: Letter from the press, regarding my songbook.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Acyutananda: So I don't know what to do. Nobody would like to go, to leave you. We would like to go, but we wouldn't want to miss your classes.
Gurudasa: That is so.
Prabhupada: So you can make one condition, that if you return us, we can go at eight or nine, but you must return us by four. Then we can go. Make this condition. Instead of saying no, make some condition.
Acyutananda: It's the 29th?
Gurudasa: Yes.
Acyutananda: And he's coming tomorrow?
Prabhupada: I have asked him to come day after tomorrow. He comes generally at about ten.
Acyutananda: But I heard that last year we went and it was not a very big function. [break] I wrote that letter to this Lalitananda about this Jahnavi...
Prabhupada: Huh?
Acyutananda: Jahnavi-sampradaya.
Prabhupada: Jahnavi-sampradaya? Oh, yes, yes.
Acyutananda: So they don't want to put it in Back to Godhead because I used the word "infantile, naive, undereducated and incompetent," and that's considered most ungentlemanly.
Devotee (2): They do not like publishing [indistinct] articles.
Acyutananda: But Prabhupada says fools and rascals and...
Devotee (2): I have written so many articles in the past two years, and one has been published in two years.
Prabhupada: For Back to Godhead?
Devotee (2): Back to Godhead, yes. They say no one can understand them.
Acyutananda: [indistinct] from Subala dasa Maharaja that they have received his letter on September 16th and I have requested Karandhara to send him one Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Devotee (2): Karandhara has already said no. [laughs] [break]
Prabhupada: [converses in Hindi with guests] [break] [end]