Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...offices. They're very pleased. And they were especially pleased to get these fixed deposits. Immediately we gave them this six lakhs' fixed deposits, they were very happy with this. They've got about something like 350 accounts already from outsiders within a month or two. They're very, very pleased. They feel that this will become a full branch very quickly, and they have a great amount of space, and they're not at all sorry about the price that they're paying. And it's a good income for our temple.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Nearly ten thousand rupees a month.
Prabhupāda: Why ten thousand?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I don't think it's quite ten thousand. I think it's less. Eight or nine thousand. Four rupees....
Prabhupāda: No. It is... Plus interest of the money.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Plus interest of the... Of which money?
Prabhupāda: The deposit money.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Fixed deposit money. Well, of course, but that we would have gotten anywhere. But from the point of view of rent it is certainly very substantial rent. That was your scheme, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No, Kṛṣṇa is giving us all facility. Utilize it.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I especially like that bank, because when you come in, in the center of the wall, instead of seeing some old grumpy-looking bank president, we see Your Divine Grace's effulgent picture, and it says, right under your picture-it's a very big picture—it says "I.O.B. Welcomes You." It's very nicely done. And in each of the teller's counters, each of the cashier's counters, there's a little picture of Rādhā-Rāsabihārī.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, it's very nicely done. People who go there bank with confidence.
Prabhupāda: And they are getting benefit.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. It was the proper bank to have there. And because it's right on the ground floor and just near the entrance of the gate, people don't mind coming from the outside. And I've noticed people, after they come and do their banking business, they go for darśana.
Prabhupāda: Very good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Maybe our Deity will get known that people who bank in our bank, they get more money. (laughs) I think the I.O.B. is thinking like that, that to be connected with the Deity is very auspicious, so they're accentuating the involvement with ISKCON and Your Divine Grace and Rādhā-Rasabehari.
Prabhupāda: That's a fact.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We had no idea how that Hare Krishna Land would ever be successful.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It was a jungle.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's what we were thinking. "Why does Prabhupāda want us to live in a jungle?" So far away. Nothing there but mosquitoes, and so many rats. We thought, "Who will come there?"
Prabhupāda: Now when we construct the other building, further down, it will be (indistinct).
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Godown will be on the ground floor, and residences and Gurukula on the other floors. The only problem is that it's such a good place that now we can't get the residents to move out of those other buildings. They say, "Why should we move? Now we have a temple. There'll be a Gurukula. There's a bank." It's very hard to get them out. Of course, we don't care if they stay, if they're nice.
Prabhupāda: Gradually they'll be devotee.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Either they'll be devotees or they'll be driven out by the mahā-mantra. The upper floor of each of those buildings has also increased the utilization of those buildings. That was also your scheme, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: That was my scheme, but we have not given full freedom to the tenant, or controllment(?).
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We're always on their heads.
Prabhupāda: You take four brāhmaṇas from South India, four from Vṛndāvana, and four from...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bombay.
Prabhupāda: In this way, make it gorgeous.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I'm just thinking, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that each of these brāhmaṇas have their own style and method, and by bringing three different groups, it will be a..., you know, there may be some disagreement amongst them.