Śyāmasundara: Could you tell us any stories about Rūpa Gosvāmī while we are sitting here, or any . . .
Prabhupāda: (Bengali: To gosāi of temple. Prabhupāda: Gosaiji.
Gosāi: Yes please.
Prabhupāda: Regarding Rupa Goswami, do you know anything? When he came, what was the matter . . . ?
Gosāi: No I don't.
Prabhupāda: You don't know.) Rūpa Gosvāmī was a minister. So after retirement he, under the instruction of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he came to Vṛndāvana.
Indian man: (Bengali: About which Goswami you are talking about?
Prabhupāda: Rupa Goswami.
Indian man: Rupa Goswami?
Prabhupāda: Yes
Indian man: There is no scope of saying anything . . . on what he was . . .)
Prabhupāda: Rūpa Gosvāmī. So formerly they were living under trees. That I have already described in Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Later on, when Jīva Gosvāmī constructed this temple, his nephew and disciple, at that time Rūpa Gosvāmī also, he lived with his disciple. Actually, this temple belongs to Jīva Gosvāmī, and Rūpa Gosvāmī's temple is at . . .
Śyāmasundara: We saw it.
Prabhupāda: . . . Govindajī.
Śyāmasundara: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: And Sanātana Gosvāmī's temple is at Madana-Mohana. But when Jīva Gosvāmī was here, naturally—they were elder uncle—so lived together, and because they, all of them lived here, so other Gosvāmīs, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, all of them used to meet here. And Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī used to live . . . (indistinct) . . . and all other Gosvāmīs used to be here. And this is explained, Rūpa Gosvāmī's bhajana, they chant.