Travel and Preach Widely - Conversation on ISKCON Mission Strategy in Bombay

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Conversation [partially recorded] — March 16, 1971, Bombay 710316R1-BOMBAY [14:44 Minutes] Conv_710316R1-BOMBAY Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...[indistinct] let's say our needs. But we know people who will buy it somewhere else. But [indistinct] will change. Perhaps we should have our own place of worship. Prabhupāda: Indians [indistinct] students are from all over the world, through birth.

We should, when we see that [indistinct] also try for [indistinct]. It is not like your country, that velvet road and everywhere there is motel, there is supply of gas and this, that. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then we'll come with you immediately. Prabhupāda: What? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then we'll all come with you now. The only reason we want to remain in Bombay was to purchase vans, trucks. Now I fear, Prabhupāda, is that..., that we know that Your Divine Grace... Prabhupāda: But what..., where you shall remain?

This place is not for… Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, we won't remain. Prabhupāda: That man, Jamun, that building, that Sītā-Rāma... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh. Prabhupāda: ...they are welcoming us. They are [indistinct] to help when the building is [indistinct], and they are also prepared to give you transport facilities. But it is very away from Bombay. Śyāmasundara: The only reason we were thinking to remain in Bombay for a short time is to get equipment and printing leaflets to pass out in Indian languages along the way while we will travel. Prabhupāda: If you get equipment for traveling, you still you do not know Indian language. How you will preach in the villages? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, that’s right.

I think Prabhupāda's right. There's no preaching in... Prabhupāda: Villages, you have no scope for preaching... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, only the major cities. Prabhupāda: Major cities, and amongst the enlightened class. Just like last evening we had, they are all enlightened. So unless we get such support, from the mass of people you cannot. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda?

Say if we try to establish temples wherever you go now... Prabhupāda: No. Apart from establishing temple, you don’t establish. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It’s just, the saṅkīrtana party will be depleted if every time we go and leave the city we try and leave some men there to open a temple. There won’t be any men left. Prabhupāda: No. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This should be a tour of the world, I think, trying to give the whole world an idea of Krsna consciousness. Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All right. We were thinking that everywhere we go we could take down names and addresses in great detail, as well as make members throughout the world, and then to retrace our steps later on and open temples.

Prabhupāda: Now, in Bombay we are finding difficulty, forth-class at the present moment. This is temporary. And that place is not good.

Prabhupāda: I think it was, that Madanan's place, it is not Madanan's place. It has been wrong place shown. Madanan is very rich man. I think that proprietor...

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