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[loud kirtana in background]

Prabhupada: Everything is all right?

GargamuniYes, Srila Prabhupada.

Prabhupada: Let him dance. Wherefrom you are coming?

Gargamuni: From Calcutta. Mayapur, Calcutta.

Prabhupada: My health is not going...

Gargamuni: Yes, I have heard. We brought you some medicine from your sister.

Prabhupada: Oh!

Gargamuni: Yes.

Prabhupada: Yes, I wrote her.

Gargamuni: Yes. We have that with us.

Prabhupada: So. Feeling all right?

Jayapataka: Everything all right to have your darsana, Srila Prabhupada. We don't feel good that you are not feeling well. Your health.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Gargamuni: Everyone in Calcutta, they are asking how you are. Many people, they are anxious to see you. We have gotten very good recent publicity there. Three days in a row.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Gargamuni: Three days in a row of front page news articles.

Prabhupada: What is that publicity?

Gargamuni: Very good. Many ministers are also coming to Mayapur. It's very...

Prabhupada: Here also the chief minister very much appreciated.

Devotee: Yesterday.

Prabhupada: Chief minister came yesterday. Very much appreciated.

Gargamuni: Yes, he is okay.

[indistinct background conversation]

Prabhupada: Gradually they will appreciate. Everyone, all over the world.

Gargamuni: This was on the front page of the Ananda Bazar, five lakhs' circulation.

Prabhupada: [Transl. "Krsna preme matoyara mayapura." Mayapur is maddened by love of Krsna.]

Gargamuni: Front page.

Jayapataka: This is an answer...

Prabhupada: Eh?

Jayapataka: This is an answer to those accusations made by the...

Gargamuni: By the CPI. [Communist Party of India] This is in answer. They came and did a full report with tape recorders, movie cameras. This newspaper.

Gopala Krsna: We can send this copy to Delhi for those ministers who want it.

Gargamuni: Those. Oh yes. This is the largest circulation in India.

Gopala Krsna: This probably came in the big letter yesterday. [indistinct] has been enclosed the xerox copies already. With the front page, we can get it translated...

Gargamuni: Yes.

Gopala Krsna: ...so that they can read it.

Gargamuni: Right. [kirtana in background; devotees talking]

Hari-sauri: So Prabhupada can lecture and he doesn't have to go down. [indistinct conversation]

Gargamuni: Wow. He just sits right here. Perfect. Also, this came the day before, in the same newspaper. [indistinct conversation]

Prabhupada: You directly refute that "We are not CIA." [Transl. Krsna-nama kari. We chant the holy name of Krsna.]

Gargamuni: And Bhavananda invited the CPI [Communist Party of India] members to come to Mayapur and see for themselves.

Prabhupada: Ah!

Gargamuni: This article invites them.

Gopala Krsna: These members are now in Delhi, so we can send it to them.

Gargamuni: Yes.

Prabhupada: Very good.

Gopala Krsna: These members are all in Delhi. And when I write the letter which you dictated, we will also enclose it.

Prabhupada: Yes. They published one English article, "Hare Krsna Movement Catches On."

Gopala Krsna: Okay.

Prabhupada: In Ananda Bazar.

Hari-sauri: It's that magazine called Sunday.

Prabhupada: Hah, hah.

Hari-sauri: We saw it in New York.

Prabhupada: Somewhere I saw.

Hari-sauri: New York.

Prabhupada: Very nice article.

Hari-sauri: Yes, about thirteen pages in the magazine.

Pusta Krsna: Oh, really.

Hari-sauri: Yes, very long, three quarters of the magazine.

Prabhupada: What is this?

Gargamuni: That's an income tax form. I pasted these on the back.

Prabhupada: That CPI member, what did he say?

Gargamuni: Well, apparently they're a little bit envious because Mayapur is becoming very popular amongst the local people. We get five thousand people now for the... Five thousand people are coming for the prasadam. And even the Congress leaders, they come here and eat with the people. They said, "This is wonderful."

Prabhupada: Where is that?

Gargamuni: At Mayapur.

Prabhupada: This is a unique. In these days we are...

Gargamuni: And Jayapataka is going to the villages. I gave him one bus, and he is selling about six to seven hundred Gitar Gans a day.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Gargamuni: Six to seven hundred Gitar Gans are being sold each day.

Prabhupada: Sixty...

Gargamuni: Six hundred.

Prabhupada: Six to seven hundred.

Gargamuni: Yes. Each day.

Gopala Krsna: You'll run out of those thirty thousand...

Jayapataka: We'll be finished in two months with those thirty thousand.

Gargamuni: And the response is wonderful within the villages. They all say "Hare Krsna," everywhere.

Prabhupada: They are envious of this, certainly.

Gargamuni: Yes.

Prabhupada: How people are receiving this movement all over the world, is a menace to the Communist party. They are trying to kill God, and we are pushing God. We are the greatest enemy.

Gargamuni: Yes.

Jayapataka: Show that other article that... This is the actual article against us. The one against us.

Gargamuni: Also this came in the Statesman, the pro-vice-chancellor of Calcutta University came to Mayapur. He wants to affiliate Mayapur with the Calcutta University. This came in the Statesman. And a few days ago, the vice-chancellor...

Prabhupada: It is not yet finished?

Jayapataka: That's the old picture.

Gargamuni: No, this picture's six months old.

Jayapataka: It's more than that.

Gargamuni: It's more than that.

Jayapataka: We're working on the roofs now. We've received ten lakhs so far. The building total cost was twenty lakhs.

Prabhupada: [indistinct]

Jayapataka: It's a huge building, six times longer than our building. Two hundred rooms.

Gopala Krsna: This is against us?

Gargamuni: Yes. This is the first article. [break] The first article. That was against us, in the same paper. Then these two came. But it was very good. Many people came to the temple. They said, "Your Society is cleared." Many Bengalis, so many came, "We have read, 'Your Society is cleared.' "

Prabhupada: Now it will be more cleared. We have got so many. All right take seats. [end]