Prabhupāda: So whatever is lacking, you ask me. I will supply you.
Hayagrīva: Well, I have nothing lacking. But I would like to see that version.
Jayadvaita: That's with a Dictaphone. So it's . . .
Hayagrīva: I would like to see that in going over mine. I'll have to go over it chapter by chapter. But I will compare the version I have with that version, and . . . I know the translations themselves, they were somewhat changed in Bhagavad-gītā As It Is as it came out in Macmillan. Did you like those translations?
Prabhupāda: Whichever is better, you think. That's all. You can follow this Macmillan.
Hayagrīva: That was the second . . . they're good. I think they're very good.
Prabhupāda: Yes. You can follow that translation. Simply synonyms we can add, transliterations.
Hayagrīva: And we have all the purports. We can include everything. Nothing will be deleted. Everything will be in there.
Prabhupāda: That's all right.
Satsvarūpa: Prabhupāda, I have a question, and it applies only to me, but it's important. A year ago you wrote me in a letter when I was . . . said the editing was going slow, to pay more attention to managing the temple. So . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes. Managing, you . . . why don't you make this Girirāja as the temple manager?
Satsvarūpa: But still . . . I've already done that. I've made him, but practically I'm still managing anyway. And I made Murāri manager, but still I'm . . . I don't spend much time in editing. People are always coming, and I'm running all over the place. I don't edit at all. It makes me sad. I don't . . .
Prabhupāda: No, no. They must give relief to you. You can give them instruction, but the actual execution should be done . . . Pradyumna is there. He can also do. But anyone who is expert in management, he should be . . . temple management should not be done directly by you. You can give him policy that, "You do like this." That's all. Because you have got so many other things to do. Yes. So you create. If there is no expert manager, you create some manager. That is most important thing: to create. To become . . . (laughs)
In our college there was one Mr. Kidd, professor of economics. He was always chastising us—we were student; he was our professor—"Oh, you cannot have independence. You cannot manage it. You cannot manage. You can work just like ass, but if some asses are given under you, you cannot work." He was talking like that. "So don't cry for independence. You are not yet nation." He was talking like that.
So actually his experience was nice, that since the Britishers have gone away, the management of Indian government is not nice. They cannot manage. So he was experienced. He told. I sometimes remember that Professor Kidd told me like that. (laughs) So we have to create nice administrator. That is another function, you see? Every department, we shall create assistant, assistant. So that in case he is ill or he is sick, he cannot work, somebody must work for him.
Brahmānanda: That is how we can expand also.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Some assistant always must be there, training of assistant. So far your editorial is concerned, you can train. Now Puruṣottama, he can also assist you. Similarly, Gaurasundara can assist you.