Morning Walk, House Visit, Evening Darsana Prabhupada: (in car) …that is Krsna’s mercy, but I am not that devotee, you are devotee. It is a fact, Krsna supplies everything to the devotee’s comfort. Dayananda: Left or right? Right? Atreya Rsi: Prabhupada, in Vaisnava temples, asramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples? Prabhupada: No. (laughs) Atreya Rsi: It is not customary at all? Prabhupada: It is used for my personal friend.(?) Atreya Rsi: But it would be nice, Srila Prabhupada, once in awhile… Prabhupada: No. There was devotee, Nityananda’s contemporary, he used to whip, and his whipping means as soon as he whips, the man becomes a devotee. (visit to house which Atreya Rsi was purchasing) Prabhupada: You are not going to install Deity? Atreya Rsi: Not here. Prabhupada: Oh, not here. Atreya Rsi: The Deity will be installed in the other place. Prabhupada: Oh, this is only for restaurant. Atreya Rsi: Which the company is buying. There is… Prabhupada: Oh, then it is all right. Atreya Rsi: And the restaurant will be just downstairs. Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Atreya Rsi: Brahmacari will be upstairs. Householders live in the other place, and the Deity will be there. Prabhupada: Then it is all right. Very good explanation(?). But people in this land, they will come for a restaurant, customer? Atreya Rsi: Yes, this is very good neighborhood. Prabhupada: As soon as they understand, they will come. Atreya Rsi: Yes. Prabhupada: For restaurant, very nice. (some conversing as lady shows them through) Dayananda: Very nice kitchen, Srila Prabhupada. It’s a good size kitchen. Atreya Rsi: That kitchen can be extended. Prabhupada: Thank you. Dayananda: An adjoining room for storage. Atreya Rsi: Would you like one of these peaches, Srila Prabhupada? Yes, that’s right, that’s right. Would you prefer an orange? Can I skin this? Hari-sauri: I can cut an orange. Atreya Rsi: Orange? Prabhupada: Yes. Cut into pieces, give me. Give me little. Pradyumna: Bitter skin. Sometimes there are amoebas on the outside. Nava-yauvana: The location is very central. In the city it’s very central. (end)
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
August 12, 1976, Tehran