Prasādam and books attract Western seekers to Krishna consciousness through practical engagement in devotional service.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...in winter months, even though we keep it to a minimum, the oil bill runs about eight thousand dollars a month. It's very costly. Because one time we tried to turn it off, and it was very dangerous. They warned us never to do that again, because if the pipe freezes, the whole thing will explode.
Therefore we have to always keep some steam coming so that it never freezes. We can't turn it off for ten hours and then turn it on again. We were thinking we could do that. That we may do in each room, but down in the boiler room we must keep the boiler going. Prabhupāda: And in summer shut off. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yeah.
We have... We hired a man. There was man working there for four years. They were paying six hundred dollars.
So we kept him for the first year until... We had one man stay with him. We have one devotee, he's a plumber. He's very good man.
And he learned from him everything about the boiler for one year. And then we let that man go, and we have our own man running it. And there has to be a man twenty-four hours a day, sitting with the boiler. Prabhupāda: That means you have to change. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, we have to change. One man is expert.
He knows how to run. The other men, they simply watch the gauges to see that... Because the gauges indicate if everything's okay. If anything ever goes wrong, then they call that man.
He's a maintenance man. He's very good. Prabhupāda: So where do they supply that...? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oil? There are companies that sell you oil. I don't know what the rate is. Prabhupāda: What is that oil?