Prabhupāda: Well I, I told him that "You make some play for showing here in Vṛndāvana."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's all right that the women are dancing?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Śrutakīrti: You said plays. He could do plays.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Woman, as far as possible, should be no. . . That's not good.
Devotee (1): He spoke to me about it. He wants to do four performances here.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is that dancing he wants to do, or plays?
Devotee (1): Dancing.
Prabhupāda: With women?
Devotee (1): I don't know.
Prabhupāda: No.
Devotee (1): He has to do play?
Prabhupāda: So without woman there is no dancing? (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: His whole troupe is women. The New York devotees, the Vaikuṇṭha Players, they have drama group.
Prabhupāda: So drama is good. Woman dancing will not be very much appreciated here. (break) . . .scarcity of grains, and government will exact taxes for poor-feeding, and it will be used for their own purpose. These are the Kali symptoms. (break) . . .stay in future.
Indian man (1): Are they doubting for themselves or for us?
Prabhupāda: For us.
Indian man (1): They should doubt for themselves.
Prabhupāda: No, apart from that, now, from logical point of view. . .
Indian man (1): Our movement, this movement, is Kṛṣṇa's own movement.
Prabhupāda: No, no, that they may not. . . I mean to say, mundane argument, we are selling these twenty lakhs of worth books monthly, so it is being spread all over the world. And those who are purchasing books, they are intelligent men. Then when they will read, how this movement will stop?
Indian man (1): It will never stop.
Prabhupāda: It will not stop. The books distribution is so important that it will continue to stay.
Satsvarūpa: They doubt that our devotees will stick, many times.
Prabhupāda: Never mind. We will create by distributing books new devotees. These devotee may be. . . But others will be created. And we are creating a new generation for becoming devotee at Dallas.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Gurukula. Śrīla Prabhupāda? One thing in your lecture, you sometimes say that we spend ten lakhs a month just for maintaining. But I figured out we spend. . . You can say even fifty lakhs, because ten lakhs is very conservative.
Prabhupāda: No, so far I have heard.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, I. . . From what I have seen, we spend. . .
Rāmeśvara: Ten lakhs is just three or four temples.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?
Rāmeśvara: Los Angeles, New York, maybe Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, that's all. Ten lakhs right there.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Every month.
Prabhupāda: So what is the actual expenditure?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, it must be. . .
Rāmeśvara: Four times that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At least fifty lakhs.
Rāmeśvara: At least fifty lakhs each month.
Prabhupāda: Then how you are getting money? If you are selling only twenty lakhs' worth books, how you are spending forty lakhs?
Rāmeśvara: We are selling more books.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: More than twenty lakhs.
Prabhupāda: So give me, what is called, consensus.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The idea is the Book Fund, if the book is sold, it's sold at a profit. So although you may be getting only twenty or thirty lakhs, much more is being collected. That is the point.
Prabhupāda: So why did you not correct me in the meeting? (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, I didn't. . . (laughter) Even ten lakhs is a very impressive figure.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Ten lakhs expenditure, but twenty lakhs collection.