Morning Walk Conversation Prabhupada: …up and down. If we keep the temple clean, then our heart will be cleansed. This is the process. [break] …should be engaged in flower business, in dress business, light and interesting to them. They should not be given any heavy work. Cooking, helping cooking, cutting the vegetables. [break] …woman should be engaged in something. That is wanted. [break] And to paint these panels also. Hamsaduta: Yes, outside. So it will be painted. These decorations. Oh, the panels here? Prabhupada: Yes. Hamsaduta: You mean the panels. Yes, inside and outside. Prabhupada: There are so many pictures. And what is that boy? Hari-sauri: Visnu Das. Prabhupada: He can do every panel in three days. Hamsaduta: I’ve written him that Prabhupada suggested he might come and do it. Prabhupada: He knows the art, how to do it. [break] …unique, American. What is this American? I could not reach. (?) [break] …conditioner, to keep the air conditioner. There was (indistinct). Hamsaduta: In some temples which are built like this with a courtyard, they put a screen over the top so that the birds don’t come in. Can we do that or is that because… Prabhupada: No, monkeys. Hamsaduta: Oh, for monkeys. It keeps the birds out too. We have so many birds that come in. They sleep in the tree and they pass stool all over the place. Hari-sauri: Pigeons too. Hamsaduta: Yes pigeons and small birds. In the lamps they are, in the fa Prabhupada: Pigeons will come. (laughs) They’ll enter with this. Devotee: In the grills. Hamsaduta: Yes, but even here a screen can be put. Devotee: Every year we’ll have to change the screen. Hamsaduta: It is too much endeavor. Prabhupada: Much ado about nothing. [break] …or not? Aksayananda: Now I don’t know. Previously they were… (end)
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
October 2, 1976, Vrndavana