Prabhupāda: ...moment I am sick. When I am well enough, I shall do something. Hm? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, that's a very proper answer. So in order for you to be able to do something, they should pray to Jagannātha. Śrīla Prabhupāda? Girirāja is here.
Prabhupāda: Oh. Girirāja?
Girirāja: Yes.
Prabhupāda: How is your health?
Girirāja: Oh, I'm better, improved.
Prabhupāda: What is the news of Nepal?
Girirāja: Oh, well, they have a very nice program there. They have a nice house with many rooms, and the Nepalese people...
Prabhupāda: How many rooms?
Girirāja: About nine big rooms. And they do street saṅkīrtana every day in the main street, and they distribute literature. And the Society is not yet registered there, but I went with Prabhaviṣṇu to a lawyer, and we've set up the formalities for getting registered, but the government is presently reviewing the registration law, so it might take a few weeks before they accept our case.
Prabhupāda: On the whole, it is favorable. Hm?
Girirāja: Oh, yes. There is a tremendous scope. And the royal family is very powerful. They run the whole country, and, of course, they're Hindus. So I also went with Prabhaviṣṇu to meet one relation of the Queen Mother, and this lady was very enthusiastic about our activities. So I discussed with Prabhaviṣṇu the strategy how to approach the royal family, and... It's a Hindu state. They don't claim to be secular, like in India, so...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hopeful.
Girirāja: Yes, it is hopeful. Then he has one local boy who has joined, Nepali, and he's a very nice boy. I mean, there's so much field for preaching. There's the royal family, then there's membership for the business community, and there's saṅkīrtana and book distribution for the general people, and then also there are many hippies there. So we could recruit devotees from amongst them.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The hippies seem to be still our best customers, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The hippies seem to be still very good customers. (Prabhupāda laughs)
Girirāja: That's because Prabhupāda's patita-pāvana. And the temple atmosphere is nice. It's mainly saṅkīrtana. There are no women there, so very good atmosphere. They have a nice program. They have a love feast program, and many people are coming. I think they can have two or three hundred people coming very soon. And the people are very simple and good natured. Everywhere we went, people would chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They recognized the devotees?
Girirāja: Yes. And they're not envious. It seems that in India many of the people are a little envious of us, but everywhere we went in Nepal, it seemed that the people were very happy to see us.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Have you ever been there, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You'd like to go sometime?
Prabhupāda: Why not?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. We'll include that on our world parikrama.
Girirāja: Actually, the relation of the Queen's mother whom we met, she was also asking about people coming who could give good lectures and enthuse everyone. So I said that you yourself would probably like to come when you're feeling better. So she was really wild about that idea. I'm sure that they would give you a real royal welcome.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Very good field it sounds like, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Trivikrama: What about the language? Is there problem with language?
Girirāja: No. The educated people speak English. In all the schools they teach English, so all the youngsters speak English in Kathmandu. And then most people in Kathmandu, even if they don't speak English, they speak Hindi. And there are just a few who only speak Nepali. But Prabhaviṣṇu has arranged for The Perfection of Yoga to be translated into Nepali.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He sounds like he's doing very good, Prabhaviṣṇu.
Girirāja: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Good man.
Girirāja: He's very good. So he's eager to get that in print. Then they'll be able to distribute literature to everyone without exception.