Morning Walk [partially recorded] – October 2, 1976, Vṛndāvana

If we keep the temple clean, then our heart will be cleansed

Prabhupada: This is the trouble. Going up and down. If we keep the temple clean, then our heart will be cleansed. This is the process.

[break] ...should be engaged in flower business, in dress business, light and interesting to them. They should not be given any heavy work. Cooking, helping cooking, cutting the vegetables.

[break] ...women should be engaged in something. That is wanted.

[break] And to paint these panels also.

Hamsadūta: Yes, outside. So it will be painted. These decorations. Oh, the panels here?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Hamsadūta: You mean the panels. Yes, inside and outside.

Prabhupada: There are so many pictures. And what is that boy?

Hari-sauri: Visnu dasa.

Prabhupada: He can do every panel in three days.

Hamsadūta: I've written him that Prabhupada suggested he might come and do it.

Prabhupada: He knows the art, how to do it.

[break] ...unique, American. What is this American? I could not reach.[?] [break] ...conditioner, to keep the air conditioner. There was foolishness.

Hamsadūta: In some temples which are built like this with a courtyard, they put a screen over the top so that the birds don't come in. Can we do that, or is that because...

Prabhupada: No, monkeys.

Hamsadūta: Oh, for monkeys. It keeps the birds out, too. We have so many birds that come in. They always sleep in the tree, and they pass stool all over the place.

Hari-sauri: Pigeons too.

Hamsadūta: Yes, pigeons and small birds. In the lamps they are, in the fans they are.

Prabhupada: Pigeons will come. [laughs] They'll enter within.

Devotee: In the grills.

Hamsadūta: Yes, but even here a screen can be put.

Devotee: Every year we'll have to change the screen.

Hamsadūta: It is too much endeavor.

Prabhupada: "Much ado about nothing." [break] [indistinct] ...or not?

Aksayananda: Now I don't know. Previously they were... [end]