Professor: Are you going to have any kīrtana also tonight?
Prabhupāda: Oh yes, why not? You want to hear?
Professor: Yes, very much.
Prabhupāda: Well, all right. Begin.
Pradyumna: With the mṛdaṅga?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Paramahaṁsa: Karatālas.
Prabhupāda: So you are a bhakta? You are a devotee.
Professor: Well... I'm sorry.
Prabhupāda: Now you have appeared. Very good.
Professor: Well... But...
Prabhupāda: So we have got a...
Professor: ...well I'm studying it and I'm attracted by many things.
Prabhupāda: No, studying, there are many scholars, they are studying, but you are factually bhakta. How you wanted to hear kīrtana? That is the sign of bhakta. Yes. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam (SB 7.5.23). Tan manye 'dhītam uttamam. Uttamam. He has, he has studied really.
Professor: In India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
Prabhupāda: Yes, I have got center in Vṛndāvana.
Professor: Oh?
Prabhupāda: Yes, in Navadvīpa. I was, after my retirement from family, I was staying at Vṛndāvana. From 1956. Then in 1965 I came to America. So... Where is Haṁsadūta?
Paramahaṁsa: He's leading kīrtana downstairs, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā. Then...? You can, you can lead. Or anyone can lead. (break) So you like this kīrtana?
Professor: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Professor: It's very unusual in Sweden.
Prabhupāda: So you are, you are a devotee. Kindly cooperate with us, and overflood Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You are educated. Your word will be accepted more than ours.
Professor: Yeah. How does one order these books?
Haṁsadūta: We have them here or...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Paramahaṁsa: We just received shipment from Germany.
Professor: You stock them here?
Prabhupāda: Yes, all the books are there.
Professor: (indistinct) You have spoken to him.
Paramahaṁsa: I have spoken to him on the phone. He's on a trip, I think.
Professor: Yes, to New York, I think.
Prabhupāda: So what is your full name?
Professor: Carl Suneson. It's quite difficult.
Prabhupāda: Carl Simhasan.
Professor: S, U, N, E, S, O, N.
Prabhupāda: You are this...?
Paramahaṁsa: Swedish.
Professor: Swedish, yes.
Prabhupāda: So he can attend our meeting. He can introduce. That will be nice.
Professor: Yes.
Paramahaṁsa: Yes. We're having a meeting, as you know, tomorrow night, at the Stockholm University.
Professor: Yes, I'll probably be coming, yes.
Paramahaṁsa: If you would, would you be kind enough, perhaps, to give an introductory lecture or, you know, to...
Professor: Well...
Paramahaṁsa: ...say, praise, or your appreciation of our movement or Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings in front of the audience.
Professor: I, I, I don't know exactly... I hope I can come, but I can't say for sure.
Paramahaṁsa: I understand. I understand. Well, you're kindly invited. That goes without saying.
Professor: Yes, yes, I'll try to come. That will be at the University.
Paramahaṁsa: Yes, tomorrow evening at seven-thirty.
Professor: No, I'll try to come. Do you think, this one, do you think I could...?
Prabhupāda: Yes, this is also available.
Professor: ...for myself, or...?
Paramahaṁsa: Unfortunately, I think we have to order these.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Śrutakīrti: I don't think they have it here yet in your...
Prabhupāda: We are getting the consignment. Now we have only one copy.
Professor: This is the only copy you have?
Prabhupāda: Yes. But if you want to read overnight, then you can take. You can return tomorrow.
Professor: Of course, if I don't take...
Paramahaṁsa: Hm? No, I can return. I can.
Professor: That's all right. I can wait. But then I get a copy of... That will be all right.
Prabhupāda: So give him some prasādam.
Śrutakīrti: Someone went out to get it. (break)