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Hari-sauri: They had that one in the bedroom in New Vrindavan.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Hari-sauri: This picture, the original. It was in New Vrindavan.

Prabhupada: Kirtanananda has purchased.

Surendra Kumar Saigal: I have washed my hands with nim soap.

Prabhupada: That's all right.

Surendra Kumar: Now I will give you [indistinct].

Prabhupada: And Philadelphia, what is that name?

Hari-sauri: Port Royal farm. Port Royal? That's the nearest place to it. Pennsylvania farm.

Prabhupada: Ah. Is there any gain there? I have been in Pennsylvania farm. They get enough quantity milk. They sell fifteen hundred dollars per month. Jaya.

Surendra Kumar: Maharaja, you wanted milk and apple.

Prabhupada: Yes, that's all...

Surendra Kumar: What time you like, sir?

Prabhupada: At nine.

Surendra Kumar: Nine. Are you feeling some relief?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Surendra Kumar: You will get relief. From two, three applications, absolutely.

Prabhupada: Very good.

Hari-sauri: What's the Hindi name of that drug that you were taking the other day? That plant?

Prabhupada: Oh. Ghrta-kumari.

Hari-sauri: You can get some of that?

Surendra Kumar: Which one?

Hari-sauri: Ghrta-kumari.

Surendra Kumar: I have not heard.

Hari-sauri: Looks like a cactus. The English name is aloe vera.

Surendra Kumar: Which has got pulp? Yes. You want it? I have got it in my house. My wife takes them by making in the chapati or parata, because of her knees. It is wonderful for this pains in the knees. Yes.

Hari-sauri: We were told it was good for relieving high blood pressure and clearing the...

Surendra Kumar: Relieving high blood pressure, best is garlic.

Prabhupada: Garlic.

Surendra Kumar: Garlic, you don't want it. [laughter]

Prabhupada: Garlic, onions, prohibited.

Hari-sauri: But if you could get some of this ghrta-kumari...

Prabhupada: It is there in his house.

Surendra Kumar: Yes, it is in my house, it is in my garden. So my wife will prepare for your breakfast small apati. You will find it very tasty and delicious. That's called gwaraka-pata. [Transl. We call it here] Gvara-patha. Gvara. I will show you.

Prabhupada: Accha. That's nice. It is little bitter?

Indian man: No. It is, I mean, tasteless. And it is...

Prabhupada: You know?

Gaursundara: Yes. We have in Hawaii. It's called aloe cactus. Aloe vera.

Surendra Kumar: It is kneaded in the flour and little ghee and the paratha will be... It is wonderful for your joints. And this arthritis, it is wonderful. I got it about a year back and put in my garden because my wife needed, and we were getting it from somebody else's garden. So I told my gardener, "Why don't you put it in our own? We have plenty of land."

Prabhupada: It doesn't require to taken care of very much. It grows automatically.

Surendra Kumar: Its growth is very good. And plenty of it. If Your Divine Grace gets any benefit from it, then it can be planted in each temple on one side. No problem. And then on your visits, that place where you will use.

Prabhupada: Then we can, in Vrndavana.

Surendra Kumar: I will show it to you. Yes, yes. Vrndavana, we will put the plant in Vrndavana. And I will show you tomorrow.

Prabhupada: No, he got from Vrndavana.

Surendra Kumar: Got from some Vrndavana?

Hari-sauri: Yes, but not from our temple. From an asrama it's grown.

Surendra Kumar: Well, I will show you what you mean and I mean are the same things. And my wife will make herself for breakfast. It will be... He will like it.

Gaurasundara: Rub it. Do you apply it externally?

Hari-sauri: Well, this is the first I've ever heard of it.

Gaurasundara: Break a little. You can rub it on eczema or anything, very helpful.

Hari-sauri: I know it's very good for burns.

Gaurasundara: We use it on cuts and things. Yes, burns, very good. Any skin disease, you rub a little of it.

Hari-sauri: We can try that. That boy that came from Philippines, Tamopaha, he told us.

Gaurasundara: It's also Hawaiian medicine. Everyone knows it.

Prabhupada: Body is simply troublesome. [end]