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Grihasthas Must Maintain Temple Connection Always, Devotee Community Near Sacred Centers

📅 July 17, 1977 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 52 min
Grihastas must remain connected to temples and devotees, or material association will gradually pull them away.
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Prabhupāda: ...and slowly moved, not that like... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, no. Prabhupāda: No. The whole siṁhāsana will move. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, I've seen that in India. Moves slightly. Sometimes for festivals, can...? Prabhupāda: There it can be done.

Just like you have four rings, and hang it, and very slowly. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. After They're installed, can They still be taken for... Sometimes They have special festivals. Is that all right?

Because They've always traveled. They're not like a marble Deity. It's different. [pause] Your translating work is becoming a very regular thing now in the afternoons.

Everybody I write to, I tell them that you have doubled your translation work, in keeping with the doubling of book distribution. We got quite an encouraging letter just now, a full report from Dhṛṣṭadyumna Mahārāja about all the different things in... Prabhupāda: Get this fan. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Fans? Encouraging report from Dhṛṣṭadyumna Mahārāja about all of the things that he's in charge of.

It's very nice. Prabhupāda: In New York. [break] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...he's like... Paramānanda's the president of the farm, and he's the sannyāsī there. Everything [indistinct—microphone moving].

And he's also in charge of the Rādhā-Dāmodara office. While Tripurāri Mahārāja travels in the field, he heads up the office. And the office is in a city right near the farm. So he goes half the week to the farm, half the week to the office to manage.

And they... Remember I mentioned, Dhṛṣṭadyumna's brother is an architect. So they're planning the farm for building it. It's called a model community.

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