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Prabhupada: What else?

Srutakirti: The vegetable.

Prabhupada: What type vegetable?

Srutakirti: Cauliflower and peas and everything.

Prabhupada: Oh, they have got cauliflower?

Srutakirti: Yes, they have cauliflower and tomatoes.

Prabhupada: So you can give also two paratas to me.

Srutakirti: Now, you mean?

Prabhupada: Yes. And milk you have got?

Srutakirti: Yes. They have got. I think there's one other guest coming, isn't there?

Pradyumna: Is the professor coming?

Prabhupada: Heh?

Devotee: He was supposed to come a half an hour ago.

Srutakirti: There was a guest who was supposed to be here one half hour ago.

Pradyumna: He's a little late.

Srutakirti: So I'll bring it down.

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Professor: [indistinct]

Prabhupada: These are our books. You have seen?

Professor: Yes, sir, I've seen... Some of them, I've seen. This one in particular I have seen.

Prabhupada: Yes. We are... This is Srimad-Bhagavatam. There are sixty volumes, books like this.

Professor: Sixty volumes like this?

Prabhupada: Yes. Sixty volumes. And you can see how we are doing Sanskrit.

Professor: Transliteration.

Prabhupada: Yes. Transliteration and word meaning, then translation, then purport.

Professor: Yes, I've studied the text myself.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Professor: I've studied the text myself.

Prabhupada: I see. You have studied? How do you like it?

Professor: Yes, I like it very much.

Prabhupada: Thank you.

Professor: I'm very interested in the bhakti.

Prabhupada: Which one you have studied?

Professor: Oh, well, I haven't read all of the Bhagavata Purana, but of course, this Tenth Chapter I read.

Prabhupada: Tenth Canto?

Professor: Yes, the Tenth Canto I read. And other parts, other parts also.

Prabhupada: Oh. We have begun from the First Canto, janmady asya yatah.

[aside:] You show him the verse, janmady asya yatah. This is First...

Pradyumna: First volume.

Professor: Yes.

Pradyumna: After introduction. [indistinct]

Professor: Yes, yes, it's...

Prabhupada: Janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye... Like that.

Professor: You belong to the Caitanya...?

Prabhupada: Yes, yes. We have translated Caitanya-caritamrta.

Professor: Oh?

Prabhupada: Yes. This is one chapter only, sample.

Professor: In the Bengali script. That's good.

Prabhupada: Yes, in... Caitanya-caritamrta is in Bengali.

Professor: I've read also. I've read parts of that also.

Prabhupada: Caitanya... Original Bengali?

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada: So you know Bengali?

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada: Oh, thank you. [laughs]

Professor: Yes. Sanskrit and Hindi and Bengali and Tamil.

Prabhupada: Oh, oh, that's nice.

Professor: So I read lot of the Tamil bhakti scriptures.

Prabhupada: Oh, I see.

Professor: The Alwars and the Nayanas.

Prabhupada: I see. Just a..., immediately he came, Damodaran, the Ambassador. He came just now.

Professor: Yes. Oh, he came just now?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Professor: He has left now?

Paramahamsa: Yes, Ambassador Damodaran. He was... Just prior to your coming, he was also meeting with Srila Prabhupada, yes.

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada: Just a half an hour before, he was here.

Professor: I see, I see. I know him well.

Prabhupada: He's coming from Malayalam.

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada: So we can see..., you can see how we have done.

Professor: Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritamrta, Bengali?

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes.

Professor: Do you think you could do a little?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Professor: I would be very interested.

Pradyumna: Glasses.

Prabhupada: Yes. Shall I read? You want?

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada: All right.

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This is...

Professor: If you could read some of the Bengali part. Of course, in the beginning there are some Sanskrit.

Prabhupada: Only one verse.

Professor: Some Sanskrit.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Professor: But the pure Bengali.

Prabhupada: Yes.

You understand Bengali?

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada: Or shall I explain?

Professor: Oh, well, I understand.

Prabhupada: All right.

Professor: Yes.

Prabhupada:

[chants verses 7.2-59 from Adi-lila in Bengali]

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