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Madhudvisa: ...Bhagavatam you say that we should greet the sun with the verse from Gayatri mantra. Does that means we should wait for sunrise to say our Gayatri? Just as the sun is rising, we should say the Gayatri.

Prabhupada: No. Early in the morning. [gurukula boys chanting in background]

Tamala Krsna: Sometimes we take bath before sunrise and put on tilaka. Should the mantra be said at that time, after putting on tilaka? Or should we wait and then say it...

Prabhupada: No, no.

Tamala Krsna: ...when the sun rises? After tilaka?

Prabhupada: No, no. Tilaka should be done after bathing.

Tamala Krsna: And then when should the Gayatri be said? Right after...

Prabhupada: After tilaka. Gayatri mantra is description of the sun. [break] ...our land?

Bhavananda: Yes, Srila Prabhupada.

Jayapataka: This is wheat growing here.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Jayapataka: This is wheat growing.

Prabhupada: This land?

Jayapataka: This is not our land.

Prabhupada: And this? Up to this...?

Bhavananda: This is our land, and this is our land. This is not. [break]

Jayapataka: Srila Prabhupada? Would it be nice to have lampposts here? Little lampposts to light the road?

Prabhupada: [pause] It is cold. [laughs] [break] Where? No. That's nice. Nice for barefooted. It is there, up. [break] You have to make little shade like this, just like upon the wall the shade is there. You make to the walls so that the water may not spoil the painting.

Bhavananda: Oh, on the front wall.

Jayapataka: A little sun screen.

Bhavananda: Sun..., rain screen.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Jayapataka: Stick it one foot out, one, two feet out.

Prabhupada: Yes. Not two foot. One, one-half foot will do.

Jayapataka: I was thinking that this morning, Srila Prabhupada, when I woke up.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Jayapataka: You must have been thinking... I woke up thinking that the paintings needed a sun screen because rain will fall on them.

Prabhupada: Which way? [break] All the members, they should water in front. Hmm? Just like if somebody remains in this room, he must water. Then there will be no difficulty. Here is water. So anyway, you have to engage them. Why it will dry? [break]

Jayapataka: You suggested prasadam, books, cloth...

Prabhupada: Cloth you are not going to sell. Cloth, are you going to sell?

Jayapataka: We can take donations for cloth. We won't sell. We'll take donations for cloth.

Prabhupada: That, for that purpose...

Tamala Krsna: What is the harm of selling cloth, Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: No, then you will require extra energy.

Jayapataka: No, I mean our own production, not outside.

Prabhupada: No, no, your production... You should make production for your necessities.

Tamala Krsna: The American devotees, when they come, they want to purchase the cloth.

Prabhupada: That is amongst ourselves, not public. That one can purchase from that side. Why a shop? You make one utensil shop, basana, basana, karatala. So one, prasadam; one, basana; and another?

Jayapataka: Books.

Prabhupada: Books. And another? Four you have got.

Tamala Krsna: Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Tamala Krsna: You know those quotations you gave from your Guru Maharaja? Yesterday you wrote some quotations?

Prabhupada: Yes, yes.

Tamala Krsna: Here is a place where they might be displayed. This is a blank place.

Prabhupada: Yes, yes. There it should be written.

Tamala Krsna: This is very prominent.

Prabhupada: Not only there; here also.

Jayapataka: In big letters here.

Prabhupada: Yes. And there are so many places. Yes. First of all you place this and the other. We can give the upadesa of Prabhupada. I'll give you matter for writing. So writing, that charges should be reduced. One...

Jayapataka: Yesterday Caitya-guru, the man he brought from Calcutta, he only wanted one rupee, seventy-five paisa.

Prabhupada: For painting. And for writing that should be...

Jayapataka: Writing, maybe one twenty-five.

Prabhupada: No. One. One. Make it one.

Jayapataka: One rupee.

Prabhupada: Yes. Which way we shall go?

Tamala Krsna: This way. We haven't gone walking this way.

Prabhupada: So where you are going to give that shade upon?

Jayapataka: So what we'd have to do is we'd have to break the top.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Jayapataka: We'd have to break the top and then...

Prabhupada: Break? Why break? Another expenditure. Simply you make two brackets, wooden brackets, like that, and have a tin. That's all.

Jayapataka: Tin.

Prabhupada: Tin or steel. Why breaking, again another?

Jayapataka: There's already a... I was thinking about the rain, if it's falling straight down, that will be somewhat protected by this arch. Only if the rain is coming from this side, and even then it won't protect...

Prabhupada: Oh, yes. The arch will... That's all right. Then don't require. Then it is all right. Don't require. [break] It will be colder in Bengal. Maghi, Magha-masa. [January-February] Who has done this mischief, "Mayapur"?

Devotee: Someone put mud over "Mayapur."

Jayapataka: This is our land, Srila Prabhupada.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Jayapataka: This is our land here.

Prabhupada: Which one?

Jayapataka: This, with the wheat. We have a tube well there. We irrigate these lands. There are six and six bigha, twelve bigha. [break] ...last year's harvest. We haven't had to purchase any wheat this year.

Prabhupada: The chapati we eat, that is our wheat?

Jayapataka: Yes.

Prabhupada: Very good, yes.

Jayapataka: [break] ...bigha is also ours.

Prabhupada: This one?

Jayapataka: Yes.

Prabhupada: What you have grown there?

Jayapataka: Chickpeas.

Prabhupada: Oh, that's nice. Chickpea, chapati, gūr-first class. [laughter] And milk.

Jayapataka: [break] ...land next to us, this gentleman.

Indian man (2): [Transl. Please come, Prabhupada.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Hare Krsna. Are you all doing well?]

Indian man (2): [Transl. Yes, alive by your mercy.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Why? [laughs] Hmm. Live happily.]

Tamala Krsna: What is his name?

Jayapataka: Vakreshvar. He worked on our original house. [break]

Prabhupada: Just see how... [break]

Jayapataka: In the rainy season the Ganges, when it rises high, it comes through here. It runs right by the birth site. They say this is the original Ganges, over here. [break]

Prabhupada: Hare Krsna.

Gurukula boys: Hare Krsna!

Prabhupada: Jaya. [Transl. Good boys.]

Jayapataka: [break] Not so many ghosas [cowherds] come for prasadam. Little cows. [break] [end]