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Room Conversation

June 29, 1971, Los Angeles
Prabhupada: Some time must be taken, but unlimited time, unlimited expenditure, that's not good. Ten percent. You produce books. Take ten percent. You may have more than 1,500. You may have more than that. They were to send me one card. There are no letters from them?
Karandhara: No. That's all that came, Prabhupada. There were some more checks. I sent some to London. I sent two packages to London, two, two things to London. [break]
Prabhupada: So anyway, I was very much anxious to hear about Chidananda. So he has written me. He is not very bad.
Karandhara: Well, he was in the hospital, and he got into a fight with the guard, I guess, and they arrested him for fighting and put him in jail for six months.
Prabhupada: Fighting?
Karandhara: Yes.
Prabhupada: But he is weak. With whom he'll fight?
Karandhara: Yes. It was actually very... We have a lawyer working on it to get a suspended sentence. We've got a lawyer who is trying to get him a suspended sentence because he was sick and he..., they had him taking drugs and he was weak and he had been in the hospital for four months. Why they should put him in jail? He just got a little irritable.
Syamasundara: They mocked him. I think they mocked him for having this and finally he couldn't take any more, and he probably hit the guard, so they threw him in jail for six months.
Karandhara: And in jail they won't give him anything to eat except... They won't give him a special diet, so all he can eat is just a little bit of vegetable. They have... On a plate they give him mostly meat and a little vegetable. They won't give him any extra vegetables.
Prabhupada: Yes? Where the jail is?
Syamasundara: Which jail is it?
Karandhara: County jail, Los Angeles County Jail.
Prabhupada: So we cannot send our prasada there?
Karandhara: No. They won't let anything in. You can't even send books there. They won't let him wear his beads. They won't let him have his beads or anything, or his sacred thread. They took it all away from him.
Syamasundara: Can we go visit him?
Karandhara: We can visit, yes. Visiting hours on Saturdays and Sundays. I went there the Saturday before last, before I came.
Prabhupada: So how is he here?
Karandhara: Well, he's doing all right. He says he chants and he prays.
Prabhupada: Well, what can be done?
Karandhara: We're trying to see the minister there and get some books in to him. If the minister will allow it, we can give him books. Otherwise they won't let him have any books.
Prabhupada: So you see or else why this poor fellow should be given unnecessary trouble. What is this? Huh?
Dayananda: Cardamom seed.
Prabhupada: Oh. Yes. (devotees offer obeisances)
Prabhupada: What is the price of a closet?
Karandhara: A closet? How big, Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: Not very big.
Karandhara: Maybe forty dollars.
Prabhupada: Steel?
Karandhara: Oh, steel. Probably more than forty. Like a locker? A locker like this or a closet like this?
Prabhupada: Closet.
Karandhara: Closet. Probably sixty or seventy dollars.
Prabhupada: I don't think it is much.
Karandhara: We can get it. Six feet high?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Revatinandana: A wardrobe for clothes.
Devotee: Like a chefferon(?)
Karandhara: Made out of steel instead of wood?
Prabhupada: Steel is cheaper?
Karandhara: No, steel is more. Wood is cheaper.
Prabhupada: So steel is, I think, nice.
Karandhara: Okay. We'll look for one.
Prabhupada: And one stove.
Karandhara: A small stove?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Karandhara: Two burners?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Karandhara: Okay.
Devotee: Hare Krsna.
Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. (end)

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