# Room Conversation [partially recorded]

*Type: Conversation Dated: January 6th 1971 Location: Calcutta Audio file: 710106R1-CALCUTTA.mp3*

**Haṁsadūta****:** [introduction on tape] The following lectures were recorded in Calcutta, India, starting January 6th, 1970 [sic], following the Surat lectures, preceding lectures some were recorded at Māgh-melā. So these are being inserted under emergency conditions, being copied from Devānanda's tape recorder. And following these lectures we will have the other lectures in sequence from the Māgh-melā. All these lectures are on the story of Ajāmila, from the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.*

**Prabhupāda: **

> hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
> kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
> hare rāma hare rāma
> rāma rāma hare hare

> śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya
> prabhu-nityānanda
> śrī-advaita gadādhara
> śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

**Devotee:** Hare Kṛṣṇa.

**Prabhupāda: **Yes. Stop. [break]

**Devotee (1): **This [indistinct].

**Prabhupāda:** Mosquito?

**Devotee (1):** Yes.

**Prabhupāda:** Oh. [laughter] Many, many?

**Devotee (1): **Uhm, a [indistinct].

**Prabhupāda: **Without mosquito curtain you cannot sleep.

**Devotee (1):** No, we can sleep anywhere. But at Advaita Bhavan there's a fair amount of mosquitoes at night. But there's not so many that you can't sleep without mosquito coil burning.

**Prabhupāda:** Ohh. That's all right. [break]

**Devotee (2):** ...wild goats, [indistinct].

**Prabhupāda: **Hmm. [indistinct]

**Devotee (2): **The rats in Hawaii are not so big as the rats here. They're only about this big, the body.

**Prabhupāda:** Every house has rats?

**Devotee (2):** Not every house. No.

**Prabhupāda:** At least Advaita Bhavan has got.

**Devotee (2):** They were some, but they cleaned them out. They got rid of them. I'm not sure that's actually are rat poison.

**Devotee (3):** [indistinct conversation between devotees]

**Devotee (2):** We were getting a cow, but we joined with ISKCON just before we got the cow. We were going to get one for four hundred dollars. It was giving sixteen quarts a day and had a calf.

**Prabhupāda:** Sixteen quarts?

**Devotee (2):** A day, yes. There was a small calf also.

**Prabhupāda:** There must be grazing ground for cows.

**Devotee (2): **Yes.

**Prabhupāda: **Then there is no problem.

**Devotee (2):** There was a grazing ground. The lawn would grow. [indistinct]

**Prabhupāda:** What is that? A recording?

**Devotee (2):** Little.

**Prabhupāda:** Why? These are not important thing.

**Devotee (2): **True. [end]