Jagadīśa: Five hundred dollars!
Viśvakarmā: Oh, yes. I mean, I had some Indian men that gave three hundred dollars worth of bhoga just for your coming. Four men came with seventy pounds of butter, fifty pounds of sugar, so many preparation, ah, bhoga for offering. So I think they'll pay five hundred dollars. That's for catering. We give the prasāda, we give the hall for the evening. They can come, and the devotees will be there. We distribute prasāda to them, have kīrtana.
Prabhupāda: If kīrtana, prasāda distribution is there, you can allow. That is our main program.
Viśvakarmā: But they won't pay that much. They have to pay at least a thousand.
Prabhupāda: That's nice. Then give them prasāda, and if they chant, then it is all right.
Hari-śauri: They'll pay that easily for a wedding. It's a big thing for Indians. Even in the West people....
Prabhupāda: Whatever they do, but prasāda will be distributed by us, and they must chant for half an hour. (laughter) Then we accept. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Viśvakarmā: How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadīśa was saying?
Prabhupāda: They can have their own fire. What is that? They'll chant some Vedic mantra, that's all right. But they must chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
Jagadīśa: We can allow them to have a fire here?
Prabhupāda: Where is the wrong? If it is Vedic mantra, then there is no...
Viśvakarmā: Yes, then they will feel that the temple is like a place where they can come, even though if it's only for once a year. They will still give the lakṣmī, a donation.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They will consider it is their own interest.
Viśvakarmā: 'Cause all the Christians have their churches, and we are the only church for them. The other...
Prabhupāda: No, no. Then you can (can't(?)) allow it.
Viśvakarmā: There are four temples in Toronto of other Indian groups. But they are political and social. The people really don't like them. And they don't have Deities like we have.
Prabhupāda: That is a farce. That is not temple. In London also there are Hindu Center, this, that. All nonsense. Now they are installing Deity. But it is not taken care of properly.
Viśvakarmā: They invited me, Śrīla Prabhupāda, to visit one of their Sunday services, and I went, and they had a fire, an installation of the Deities. They had one brāhmaṇa, and they had a small Deity of Viṣṇu, and he had the fire sacrifice in four minutes, and then they installed the Deity on the altar. That was it.
Prabhupāda: They, what do they know?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The press reporter's here, Śrīla Prabhupāda. (end)