Bhajans and
Room Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
March 8, 1975, London

(Prabhupada plays harmonium and sings “Gay Gora Madhur Sware” for a few minutes, then stops.)

Prabhupada: Just try.

Hamsaduta: I can’t. Nobody can do like you do.

Prabhupada: Gay goracand madhur sware. I think I have sung this song. Huh? (Prabhupada continues playing and singing for a few more minutes) Wherefrom you have purchased it?

Hamsaduta: This harmonium was originally made for Nara- narayana, and then it was… but it was never delivered to him. It was picked up by Manibandha. And Manibandha left it in Amsterdam, and so they did not like it. So I gave them a harmonium that I had, and I took this one. (Prabhupada chuckles) Because I think it’s very good, huh?

Prabhupada: It is not very good.

Hamsaduta: But it’s nice. (laughs)

Prabhupada: So kirtana is going on, here and there.

Hamsaduta: Oh, yeah, everywhere.

Prabhupada: Paris also?

Brahmananda: Oh, yes.

Prabhupada: You have seen that house?

Brahmananda: No, I didn’t see it. I was only there just twenty-four hours.

Prabhupada: I think you change that silk cloth. Ordinary cloth is, because it does not stand, it becomes loose.

Srutakirti: Plain cotton.

Prabhupada: Cotton is better.

Srutakirti: Yes.

Prabhupada: So that land, what is the description of the land here?

Hamsaduta: That I was telling you about?

Prabhupada: Hmm.

Hamsaduta: You know the lady in the front here. There’s this lady, Miss… Um, I can’t think of her name. She called us yesterday, and she said it is much bigger than the land which we have purchased here, which is four acres. We bought four acres. So she didn’t say how big it was. She didn’t tell us. But she said there’s several houses on it. And it will cost approximately 38,000 pounds. So it seems to be quite a sizable piece of land. And the man who owns the property, he knows that we are interested in it, and he is willing to work with us. And so far as we are told, that nobody knows about it. It is confidential. (end)