Rāmeśvara: Next year at the Ratha-yātrā they are planning to have a press box, so that the newspapermen and television cameras can come and film the activities on stage also. They can film your lecture, they can film the play.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We're also thinking to have a press box along the parade route, so that they can stay in an elevated position and take photos. We collected a total of about seven thousand dollars, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: And what you spent?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Spent ten thousand. But we also collected another fifteen thousand in advertisements. So total collection was about twenty, over twenty thousand, and expenditure was under ten.
Prabhupāda: Good business. (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And that was the first year.
Rāmeśvara: (chants japa)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Next year we will collect sixty to seventy thousand dollars...
Devotee: Whew!
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Easily, I'm sure, with advertisements.
Prabhupāda: Where the profit is going?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Where is the profit? Into distributing more books.
Prabhupāda: That's nice, very good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That is our only business. (break) ...completely cleansed all of the grounds throughout the night, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Where?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Last night all night long we were cleaning up the grounds.
Rāmeśvara: At the park.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At the park. One woman who lives next to the park said "In all my years of living here I've never seen such a wonderful festival held." And one..., the official of the park, who's in charge of the park, was on CBS television, and he said that "You see? Spiritual life is still present in Washington Square Park." He made that comment. He said "We are very proud to be able to say that in our... This park was founded hundreds of years ago, when America was religious." And he said "Spiritual life is still present in Washington Square Park."
Prabhupāda: So why not ask the mayor to construct a temple there? (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I don't think they'd...
Prabhupāda: People will come.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Maybe, but, ah, I don't think they will agree to that. They're not that spiritual.
Rāmeśvara: No, in America you have to raise your own money for temples. You cannot get the city to build it.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, you can't get their land either, not for a building like that. You can put a hospital maybe. Thing is, park space is so short in that area of the city that they..., I don't think they'd give it up for a building. Prabhupāda told us yesterday that we should rent a small building downtown in that area and call it Guṇḍicā, so that Lord Jagannātha will stay down there.
Prabhupāda: For one week.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: For one week. And we'll keep a restaurant there.
Prabhupāda: And then they'll again come in procession.
Rāmeśvara: Wow!
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, two festivals.
Gurudāsa: I was told there was another procession last night bringing the car back, and all the night persons-there's a different whole segment of the city, people who come at night...
Devotee: Bums.
Gurudāsa: ...who stay up all night. And they were there, hundreds of people following the car back in the nighttime.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It took about seven hours to bring the carts back. All night they worked. Jayānanda was slaving out there, and Ādi-keśava Swami. Ādi-keśava finally got back at five in the morning, collapsed on the carts, he was exhausted.
Prabhupāda: They should be given some recommendations(?) in writing.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Give Ādi-keśava a recommendation. This will be gigantic, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I'll tell you one thing, that the first way we go, next year when we go one way, it will get huge publicity, and that will be the publicity for the going return trip. Because it will be so publicized, even more people will come on the return ride.
Rāmeśvara: On the return you simply go to the temple and drop the Deities off?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We'll go to Fifty-ninth Street and have another feast at the park.
Rāmeśvara: Yes, there has to be another feast.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We'll have the feast, we may have buses, we'll have all our buses, and we'll bus the people to the temple. We could rent buses, Rāmeśvara.
Prabhupāda: Return Ratha-yātrā. Ulṭā-ratha.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is it called?
Prabhupāda: Ulṭā-ratha.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Ulṭā-ratha.
Rāmeśvara: Should the actors perform the Herā Pañcamī ceremony?
Prabhupāda: That is in the middle.
Rāmeśvara: In the middle.
Prabhupāda: Do that(?).
Rāmeśvara: So they can do that? (break)