True devotion flourishes even in prison when the heart remains fixed in chanting and prayer.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — June 29, 1971, Los Angeles 710629R1-LOS ANGELES [04:15 Minutes] Conv_710629R1-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: So anyway, I was very much anxious to hear about Chidānanda. So he has written letter means he is not very bad. Karandhara: Well, he was in the hospital. He was in the hospital and he got into a fight with the guard, I guess, and they arrested him for fighting and put him in jail for six months. Prabhupāda: Fighting? Karandhara: Yes. Prabhupāda: But he is weak. With whom he'll fight? Karandhara: Yes.
It was actually very... We have a lawyer working on it to get a suspended sentence. We've got a lawyer who is trying to get him a suspended sentence, because he was sick, and he..., they had him taking drugs and he was weak, and he had been in the hospital for four months. Why they should put him in jail?
He just got a little irritable. Śyāmasundara: They mocked him. I think they mocked him for having this, and finally he couldn't take any more, and he probably hit the guard, so they threw him in jail for six months. Karandhara: And in jail they won't give him anything to eat except... They won't give him a special diet, so all he can eat is just a little bit of vegetable. They have...
The plate they give him mostly meat and a little vegetable. They won't give him any extra vegetables.
Prabhupāda: Yes? Where the jail is? Śyāmasundara: Which jail is it? Karandhara: County Jail, Los Angeles County Jail.
Prabhupāda: So we cannot send our prasāda there? Karandhara: No. They won't let anything in. You can't even send books there.
They won't let him wear his beads. They won't let him have his beads or anything, or his sacred thread. They took it all away from him. Śyāmasundara: Can we go visit him? Karandhara: We can visit, yes.