Talk Before Class Prabhupada: Who has taken your Deity? Virabhadra: Who has taken Him? I don’t know. Somebody, they broke in the house, they took one typewriter and the sewing machine and I think it’s… Prabhupada: Typewriter? When? Tamala Krsna: Last night. Yesterday we just got a new sewing machine. A very expensive sewing machine and they stole it. Prabhupada: Sewing machine? Tamala Krsna: And a typewriter. It was taken from the house. Revatinandana: While we were at Griffith Park with kirtana party they broke into our house and took it. Tamala Krsna: Yes. Prabhupada: So that quarter is not nice? Tamala Krsna: No, it’s not a nice quarter. So we’ll take more precautions now. Prabhupada: Somebody must remain always. That is the only precaution. Tamala Krsna: O.K. Yes, that’s what I was thinking. Prabhupada: I think in our apartment also somebody must remain. Here this is… In New York also I lost my typewriter, tape recorder. In 72nd St. at daytime, at nine o’clock. I went to take my meals in Dr. Misra’s place at about nine, and when I came back I saw the door is broken. That superintendent, he was a Negro. He has done, I know that. This is very common case here. You purchased new machine and new…? Tamala Krsna: The tape recorder… I mean the sewing machine was Silavati’s. She has sent it down here with Dinesh. Two or three hours before I had just gotten it. Prabhupada: Your tape recorder also? Dinesa: No. I had brought the sewing machine from Silavati in San Francisco. Yes. This sewing machine. Prabhupada: And typewriter, whose? Tamala Krsna: The typewriter was mine. I’d just… Purusottama had just brought it from New York from my parents to me. So less than a week and they both are gone. Prabhupada: New typewriter? Tamala Krsna: Well, it was practically new. It was a very good typewriter. Prabhupada: What is the maker? Tamala Krsna: Olivetti. It’s the portable. Prabhupada: Olivetti portable. Tamala Krsna: Yes. A good one. But the sewing machine is very expensive. It may be 150 dollars. 163 dollars. Very good. Prabhupada: So we have to take care. What can be done? Now you should be very careful, and somebody must remain there always. Govinda: We live in a very good quarter though. They live by Watts and that’s the… They live by Watts district, and Watts district is very notorious. There were seven-day riots of shooting and Negro revolts there about two years ago, three years ago. We live in a very nice quarter, but where they’re living is in a very bad place. Prabhupada: So you will continue to live there? Tamala Krsna: Yes, it’s in La Palma. It’s not directly in the worst area. It’s not in Watts county. It’s in a different area, but still… Where you live is very good though. I don’t think there would be any theft. More safe. Prabhupada: Yes. It appears very respectable quarter. All right. Read. (end)
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
November 29, 1968, Los Angeles