Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? This kīrtana that's in the temple, can you hear it?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that's all right.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I wanted to know whether... The person who's singing is Śveta-varāha from Māyāpura. In Māyāpura they use a small microphone, not for the drums but for his voice, and he has a very sweet voice. So normally we don't use mic at all, but sometimes the devotees don't know how to sing very sweetly. Whether we should use a small microphone for his voice?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can try it, and if it's not nice we can stop it.
Prabhupāda: It is going on without microphone?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The drums are... Right now the drumming is very loud.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the voice is hard to hear. Should I try a little microphone? I can take it off immediately if it's not good. I think you'll...
Bhavānanda: Last year in Māyāpura, Śrīla Prabhupāda, during the festival and before, when you were there, they would, this kīrtana group of your disciples, they would be chanting over microphone so that Your Divine Grace could hear it in your room. I remember you commented many times on how sweet and nice it sounded.
Prabhupāda: It is already very loud.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It's very loud actually. (pause) All the devotees were very happy when they heard that you have started translating again.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yesterday Prabhupāda translated for nearly two hours. The edited work, Śrīla Prabhupāda, sounds very beautiful. It's very first class when it's finally edited. The whole staff is here, and it sounds very nice.
Prabhupāda: Tamāla Kṛṣṇa?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: In the horoscope we have dragged the life through so many catastrophes, but ultimately how long the life we have dragged?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: As far as I recall... The horoscope is written in such a way that if you survive these catastrophes, then it mentions that... He said that you would live for another five or six years.
Prabhupāda: That's all.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, there are different horoscopes. One... I can show you that some of them say that you will live for more than five or six years. One of them said you could live up to one hundred.
Prabhupāda: So there is no...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: That is not standard.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, according to this man, your life should have been over at the age of seventy-five. In other words, when someone is a pure devotee, then he is not conditioned by the laws of birth and death. For people who are conditioned, there is standard. But in your case they cannot... They admit openly that there's no question of material standard. They can simply tell you... According to your birthday they can predict which days will be difficult for you because of the position of the planets. But so far as your ability to conquer over these difficulties and to live, that they completely accept is completely within Kṛṣṇa's hands, that you're not bounded by the material energy.
Prabhupāda: Karmāṇi nirdahati.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: What's that?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54).
Prabhupāda: That's all.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Anyway, do things very carefully. I am already dead. But still, I am giving you instruction as far as I can. And this is not life, a bundle of bones.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: You are still the inspiration for everything we do.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That I shall go on till the last breathing.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: (loud) Hare Kṛṣṇa. (laughter) (end)