Bhagavān: Most are at the farm, waiting. Here there is about sixty; the rest are there. They told me that after I told them that you might not come, the next morning at maṅgala ārtik no one was dancing.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) I know that. Therefore I come in this old age to encourage the devotees. (coughs) Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare.
Bhagavān: There is nice water here, from the source. We have a source.
Prabhupāda: From?
Bhagavān: There is a source, a natural spring not far from here, and people take their water.
Prabhupāda: You all bring all drinking water from there?
Bhagavān: No, yours.
(pause)
Bhagavān: Here, we are an hour ahead.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Bhagavān: One hour ahead, 12:20. We have bitter melon and all fruits and vegetables, everything.
Prabhupāda: Who will cook?
Bhagavān: We have Mandākinī . . .
Prabhupāda: Mandākinī has not cooked very nice last.
Bhagavān: There is Aditi; there is . . . The wife of Hari-vilāsa, she cooked for you before.
Prabhupāda: All right, she can cook.
Bhagavān: So what, what is for lunch? Bitter melon?
Prabhupāda: Bitter melon, you teach them how to do it.
Bhagavān: Samosā?
Prabhupāda: Not necessarily. Simply prepare nice ḍāl, nice rice, vegetable, some bitter melon, and two, three cāpāṭis, that's all. Not cumberous. Must be well cooked, rice. That's all.
Bhagavān: Mung ḍāl, is all right? Mung ḍāl?
Prabhupāda: Mung ḍāl, yes.
Bhagavān: Mung ḍāl.
Prabhupāda: It boils nicely? Any ḍāl which boils nicely, that's all right. Without being boiled, it is useless.
(long pause; background discussion as devotees arrange things)
Prabhupāda: Is it working or not? (referring to the bell)
Devotee: Yes. We tried it yesterday, it was working.
Prabhupāda: I don't think it is working.
Devotee: It's not working.
French devotee: Yesterday we tried everything. It was working, I know.
Prabhupāda: Is there any buzzing? No.
French devotee: What, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Is there any buzzing?
Devotee: From the buzzer.
Prabhupāda: No.
(background discussion as devotees fix the bell) (coughing)
Bhagavān: Where is that loṭā . . . (indistinct) . . .?
Harikeśa: I told them two o'clock their time, which is one o'clock your time from London, because that's a compromise of . . . in between the two, and in that way it would adjust.
Prabhupāda: All right.
Harikeśa: I also told them not to make anything fancy, but to make very simple.
Prabhupāda: Who? They will not be able.
Harikeśa: Hari-vilāsa's wife? Parijāta?
Prabhupāda: Oh, she's . . .
Harikeśa: She's here.
Prabhupāda: All right.
Harikeśa: So I explained to her, and Arundhatī's going to show her the cooker and everything, so . . .
Prabhupāda: Arundhatī cannot. She cannot.