Room Conversation

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: ...three days till you get a little more strength. I mean this is a very good sign, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You've taken a half a kilo of milk. No mucus, no stool. If you get a few days of strength... I mean, I have no objection even tomorrow to take you. I just would like to hear what the kavirāja... I really have a little faith on him. I mean I have all faith on you, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I have only a little faith on him, but I don't want to reject his advice as a doctor. This kavirāja is giving sound advice so far.

Prabhupāda: Where he is?

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: We're just trying to get him here. He went out again to get some more medicine for you. He says now that he's seen that you took this half kilo of milk he's going to start to give a medicine that will make this milk make muscles on your body, because all the muscles have become finished, slackened. So he wants to do that so that you'll then have strength. Parikramming the temple is not so bad. Let's just see what he says. It's certainly not that difficult. The main thing is, you have to be able to sit up for some time. [aside:] Prabhupāda wants to become enlivened spiritually, you know, by some spiritual activity. [to Prabhupāda:] We'll ask the kavirāja if he thinks we can take you tomorrow for a short parikramā around the temple, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Hmm? That would be good.

Anudeśa[?]: I was asking him for medicine. He just got on the phone. I talked to him.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: He's coming back?

Anudeśa[?]: Yes. He asked if the kavirāja has come, [indistinct] medicine. I said he's coming right back. He's very happy.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: I told him... I couldn't believe that... I felt so bad, seeing him tonight. He was sitting, Śrīla Prabhupāda, on the fountain steps, completely dejected. Couldn't understand why. He just was so, so disappointed and unhappy. [pause]

Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali; mentions milk, miṣṭi]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, the way you deal with us simply deepens our attachment every moment.

Prabhupāda: It is my duty. [laughter] There was a professor in Scottish Churches' College. So when you would say something, he would reply, "That's my juti," "juti," j-u-t-i. [chuckles] So there was a student, he said... So he said, "Is that Scottish pronunciation?" [laughter] [pause] [break]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: What would you like, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Pass urine.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Okay. [break]

Prabhupāda: ...properly fixed up?

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Is it properly fixed up, Prabhupāda wants to know?

Bhavānanda: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. All right. [pause]

Bhavānanda: Finished, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Hmm.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: About 40 cc's, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. [Bengali with Bhakti-caru]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali] [Bengali conversation continues for some time] [temple bell sounds 9 times]

Jayapatākā: [Bengali with Prabhupāda and Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Are you comfortable, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Yes. I want little...

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Little?

Prabhupāda: My...

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: What is that "my," Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Jayapatākā: "My" must mean massage.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Massage? Where, Śrīla Prabhupāda? On your legs?

Prabhupāda: On the corner of the waist.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Corner of the waist. Both sides?

Prabhupāda: No, left side.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Hmm?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: I'll put a little oil on? It's against aching. This is all right.

Prabhupāda: Brisk.

Upendra: [indistinct about oil]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: This is that oil you liked for pains...

Upendra: On the back. You had it on the back.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: ...Upendra says. Should I put a little?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Okay.

Jayapatākā: Is this mattress hard for you, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: No. It becomes harder, gradually. Hmm. Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Is that all right?

Prabhupāda: Um-hmm.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: This whole waist area?

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: This whole area?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Okay.

Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali with Prabhupāda, mentioning Bon Mahārāja]

Prabhupāda: Bon Mahārāja came actually, but he did not come here.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Oh. Where he came to?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: He was waiting in his college.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Oh. Because he did not come here.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: He said that "Go there and whether I will see Mahārāja at this time."

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: How we can give a fixed time? Actually, it's better you get a little bit stronger before receiving guests, Śrīla Prabhupāda. If you see him, you will be doing a lot of preaching and talking. He's still here in Vṛndāvana, Bon Mahārāja?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Yes.

Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali]

Prabhupāda: Time?

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: What time is good, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Ten o'clock?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Tomorrow there is function.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Oh, tomorrow's function. Day after tomorrow?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Ha, day after tomorrow.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Tomorrow is no good?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Day after tomorrow.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: What time is convenient?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Every day.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: For you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, any time is convenient.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Day or night is the same for you now.

Jayapatākā: [indistinct]

Prabhupāda: So day after tomorrow.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: We'll send our car?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: We'll send the car, say about half past eleven?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Half past eleven, yes.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Eleven-thirty.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Good time?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Good, good.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Is that all right with you, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Half past eleven.

Prabhupāda: Ask Bābājī [Bon?] Mahārāja.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: You also come. Where will you be?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: I am at Imlitala.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: So first we will pick you up.

Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Yes. They will take prasādam here, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? They will take prasādam here? Bhakti-caru Mahārāja cooks very, very first class Bengali prasādam.

Bhavānanda: Very best.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: They should take here.

Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali with Prabhupāda]

Svarūpa Dāmodara: The evening.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: In the evening on Saturday, er, Sunday.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: On Sunday in the evening.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Sunday evening. That means tomorrow.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: No. Day after tomorrow.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Tomorrow is Saturday.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Tomorrow is Saturday. Day after tomorrow. Tomorrow is Saturday? Ācchā.

Prabhupāda: So you'll stay there...

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yeah, tomorrow is Saturday.

Prabhupāda: ...and they will send car.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: All right. So day after tomorrow, evening. What time?

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Evening, any time is right.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Six o'clock. You tell Bon Mahārāja, say, at... We will pick you up earlier.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: No, I'll come to Bon Mahārāja.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Ācchā. Then five-thirty.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: At five-thirty.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Is that all right? Yes? And they will take prasādam here, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Ācchā. So make it even a little later, say six-thirty.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: Six-thirty. Not six-thirty; five-thirty.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Hmm? Five-thirty's better. Okay. Ṭhike. Five-thirty.

Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [laughing] Hare Kṛṣṅa.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Hare Kṛṣṅa. Bhakti-caru Mahārāja, you have to make nice prasādam Sunday evening.

Kṛṣṅa dāsa Bābājī: [Bengali with Bhakti-caru]

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: [aside:] He's going now? So we will take him back. You arrange. Okay.

Jayapatākā: [indistinct] come also?

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: He'll come. Anudeśa, you arrange for the car also. Help Bhakti-caru. Is this giving you a little relief, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Massaging your legs are Bhavānanda Mahārāja and Girirāja.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: I was just praying to Kṛṣṅa-Balarāma. [pause]

Prabhupāda: Soda water?

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Bol, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: The soda water sound.

Bhavānanda: Soda water?

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Soda water?

Prabhupāda: You don't hear the sound of soda water?

Bhavānanda: Yes, I do. Oh, that's the water bucket. [whispers:] Someone was boiling water.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: Some water was boiling, Śrīla Prabhupāda. That was the sound of boiling water.

Jayapatākā: There's water boiling in this room too.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Upendra must be boiling some water.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: In America people always keep the teapot boiling. So similarly, here, Upendra, he always keeps a pot of water boiling, Śrīla Prabhupāda. He is always ready to serve you with warm water. Whenever you need warm water... So that's one of the things. Always there is some water boiling here. You must be very tired today, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You've done a great deal of talking. [pause] [break] [end]