Morning Walk, House Visit, Evening Darsana
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
August 12, 1976, Tehran

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)