When Krishna protects His mission, obstacles become opportunities for expanding devotional service worldwide.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: So? Six? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Seven. Sometimes six. I think I better start coming at six again. Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Bhavānanda Mahārāja and Śatadhanya Mahārāja have come. Prabhupāda: What news? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What news? Bhavānanda Mahārāja, what news? Bhavānanda: Everything is nice at Māyāpur, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: Give me little detail. Bhavānanda: The Show Cause, our Show Cause, has been submitted, and the hearing was set on the seventh, last Friday, but the ADM canceled it until next month on the 18th. And all of us who were involved in this shooting case, we also appeared in court on Friday, and the judge, magistrate, released us for traveling in India and preaching. Before that we had been restricted to Nadia district.
We hadn't been allowed to leave Nadia. The magistrate said that we are free to travel within India for preaching work, which was good. And the next date has been set for the 29th of December, and on that date we'll most likely be discharged from the case. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hmm. Discharged.
The case will be dropped. Bhavānanda: The case against us will be dropped, and case will be brought against the Muhammadans for attacking the temple. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In other words, it seems that it's reversed. Bhavānanda: It's reversing. Prabhupāda: Rākhe kṛṣṇa māre ke. [devotees chuckle] Bhavānanda: As soon as we were released, Śrīla Prabhupāda, I immediately came here. I'm free to stay here with you. When we heard that your health had gotten worse and worse, I realized that I'm totally dependent upon you for my very life and soul, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
If you should leave, I don't... [break] ...then with a group of men, and in one week he distributed over five thousand books. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Which book is selling the most? [some background discussion: "He was in Bihar. Bengalis are most there.] Bhavānanda: And Ānanda-svarūpa is in Malda, and he in the last week distributed over four thousand books. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is the report from Haridaspura? Bhavānanda: They had their disappearance day of Ṭhākura Haridāsa.
They distributed prasādam, and five thousand people came. We sent a party of men down. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Five thousand. Bhavānanda: Now the flood waters have recessed. We're preparing for the planting, plowing. Everything has been flooded.
Just now it's dry enough to plow for planting wheat. We planted 170 coconut trees. [pause] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Your pulse is nice and strong, Śrīla Prabhupāda.