Prabhupāda: . . . inform that man, he'll come at about ten.
Haṁsadūta: He'll come at ten tonight? It's on the way to Gorakhpur?
Prabhupāda: Yes, we can go via that way also. Then it would be time?
Haṁsadūta: When do they want us to come there?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Haṁsadūta: When do they want us? If we leave . . . the day we leave here, we can go there? Sixteenth or seventeenth?
Prabhupāda: No, we are leaving on the seventeenth, so we can get that place on the eighteenth and live there for three, four days, if they'll provide a good bungalow. And they have promised. So this is the position. Now you can consider.
Haṁsadūta: They can arrange a program for you?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. They'll do everything.
Yamunā: (indistinct) . . . make arrangements . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Then we can cancel that. So the possibility is on the eighteenth. (break)
Devotee: In order that you should leave by the eighteenth, actually we have to go by plane. And so the plane reservation has already been made, and . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: So you, amongst yourself, consider all these. I cannot tax my brain. So whatever is good, you do it. At Gurudāsa's meeting, we shall be required all to represent there? Some of them may go.
Yamunā: Not all.
Prabhupāda: Not all. Then some of them may go directly to Delhi, and some of them may go via Krishnanagar. What do you think, Haṁsadūta?
Haṁsadūta: I think so, yes.
Prabhupāda: So you consider. Make a meeting amongst yourselves. Decide what to do.
Haṁsadūta: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: And here, for opening a center it is already proposed that they will give us land and they will give us a temple also. Other buildings we have to manage.
Haṁsadūta: They will give us a temple also?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Haṁsadūta: Where is that temple?
Prabhupāda: Temple we have to construct.
Haṁsadūta: Oh!
Prabhupāda: But for that construction, temple, they will pay. But for residential and other buildings and maintenance, we have to arrange. That's not a bad proposal. It is nice proposal. They are giving us land, giving us a temple. And we can raise funds and construct as we increase men. In the meantime we can manage the temple. It is good proposal.
(knocking noise) (Hums) Open it. Somebody is knocking. Keep it open. No, don't keep it ope . . . yes, open, open. Keep it open like that. Yes . . . (indistinct)
Another thing: that Gopāla is not offered sacred thread? You were not doubly initiated? So he can be initiated doubly. And Bruce, what it is? He is not going to be initiated?
Yamunā: I'll have to ask him . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Huh? No, you can ask later on. He is now practiced to our habits. So he can be initiated. Yes. There is sufficient place. You can sit down here. (break) (Hindi: Please come in.)
You can sit down behind the women. Aiye, aiye. (Hindi: Please come sit at the front.) Come. Come on forward. Come forward. (Hindi: You all please sit at the front.) Now the difficulty is if I speak in English, most probably the ladies will not be able to understand. And if I speak in Hindi, then these . . . (laughs)
Guest (2): . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Huh?
(discussion among guests and Prabhupāda, ladies say they understand English)
Prabhupāda: Speak in English? You can do one thing. You can translate. Huh? That will be nice. So you come here. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt (BG 2.40).
Guest (2): The Sanskrit . . . I don't read Sanskrit.
Prabhupāda: No, I will speak in English, but you will . . .