# Room Conversation

*Type: Conversation Dated: December 28th 1976 Location: Bombay Audio file: 761228R2.BOM.mp3*

Prabhupāda: ...they will not walk on the street. This was the system.

Rādhā-vallabha: You would never see them.

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Rādhā-vallabha: You would never see them at all.

Prabhupāda: That is...

Rādhā-vallabha: You want lunch? Do you want some lunch, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: If woman walks on the street then [s]he is not respectable. Now women are going to offices.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Now they are doing everything, even leading nations.

Prabhupāda: Nation is also doing that.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: In President Carter's new cabinet he included a woman as a secretary now, as a minister, for the first time, I think.

Hari-śauri: In England also they have a woman Prime Minister for the first time.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: She's a leader of the opposition.

Hari-śauri: No, she was the Prime Minister as well. She's the opposition now.

Prabhupāda: Woman is acting as police in England.

Rādhā-vallabha: In Los Angeles there was this one man at the temple that we suspected that he had a gun. So we called the police. It is a difficult job for police when someone has a gun. They always send the best men. So a car pulled up and a woman got out, and she crept up on the man to arrest him, and the men stayed in the car.

Prabhupāda: Everything is becoming a farce. [break] What is that?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: These are just some letters I'm sending with Rādhā-vallabha to Los Angeles.

Rādhā-vallabha: When we reprint the *Kṛṣṇa* book trilogy this year, the hardbound, I was wondering, could we put more pictures in the second and third volumes? Not changing, but additional.

Prabhupāda: Why increase cost?

Rādhā-vallabha: I don't think it would be that much. The first volume has over sixty pictures, and the second one only has thirty-two and the third only has twenty-four. It will incr... Anything we do will increase the cost, but not so significant. Few cents. We were thinking that the *Kṛṣṇa* books were originally printed many, many years ago, and since then we have a lot of nice paintings of Kṛṣṇa's pastimes that we could put in.

Prabhupāda: If you can give without increasing price, there is no harm. Or for this cents. Let us.

Jagadīśa: *Prasādam* is ready.

Rādhā-vallabha: If it's only an insignificant increase then we'll put some in.

Prabhupāda: But you don't increase price.

Rādhā-vallabha: Oh, to the temples.

Prabhupāda: No, to the customer.

Rādhā-vallabha: Yes. That's no problem.

Prabhupāda: *Prasāda* ready?

Pālikā: Yes. [end]