While gathering and reviewing information for writing about Srila Prabhupada and Juhu, I came across an interesting conversation with him that I thought to share with you. —GS
Hrdayananda: Your Bombay project is very impressive. We’ve just taken a tour.
Prabhupada: Therefore I persistently took that place. Nobody encouraged me, “He is all . . .” Nobody helped me. I hesitated a little, that “If I am persistent to take it, they will not cooperate. It may be a failure.” Still, I took it. And only fifty thousand and one lakh of rupees I gave this thief Nair: “All right, take it. Come on. Whatever I have got, you take it.” Still he thought, “Oh. I’ll get money.”
Tamala Krsna: He had already played the trick with one man.
Prabhupada: Still, I took the risk, that “I have no money. If he cheats me, that’s all right, but let me attempt.”
Tamala Krsna: Then you installed the Deity as soon as possible.
Prabhupada: Yes. Immediately Akash Ganga left. All Krsna’s desire.
Tamala Krsna: Everyone is appreciating how wonderful this project is—all of Bombay.
Prabhupada: So many obstacles, one after another, one after another, one after another.
Tamala Krsna: Krsna would not leave.
Prabhupada: No. That was my request: “Please sit down here tight. Then I shall do everything.”
Pancadravida: Practically, Giriraja has not left either.
Prabhupada: Yes. He has not trembled in any circumstance. That is his qualification. That nasty, hot [place], and mosquitoes. You also lived there. No gentleman can live.
Pancadravida: I lived there also, Srila Prabhupada. So many rats.
Prabhupada: Rats, mosquitoes, and so much inconvenience. [You] had no place. Sometimes here, sometimes there, sometimes there.
Tamala Krsna: You were also so inconvenienced. You had to move. One time you were living in that . . .
Prabhupada: But you . . . For me you make good arrangement wherever I live, that’s all. But I know how you were living in that nasty hut, full of dirty things, mosquitoes, rats, dripping of water. And Nair is attacking, municipality is attacking.
Tamala Krsna: You always said that we were so trained that we would even live on the roadside.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. That you are trained. [laughs] You don’t care for this palace or underneath a tree.
Tamala Krsna: Formerly we were living like that as hippies, and now we live like that to serve you.
(Room Conversation, March 22, 1977, Bombay)
Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of colours or the festival of love. is a free-for-all carnival of colours,[5] where participants play, chase and colour each other with dry powder and coloured water, with some carrying water guns and coloured water-filled balloons for their water fight. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders. The frolic and fight with colours occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. Groups carry drums and musical instruments, go from place to place, chant Hare Krishna and dance. Read more › 
‘The holy name of Krishna is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Krishna Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Krishna’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Krishna Himself. Since Krishna’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with maya. Krishna’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Krishna and Krishna Himself are identical.’ Padma Purana 
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city. O Lord Krishna, at this moment let the royal swan of my mind enter the tangled stems of the lotus of Your lotus feet. How will it be possible for me to remember You at the time of death, when my throat will be choked up with mucus, bile, and air? Mukunda mala stotra 
Sri-KRSNA nama is the sweetest among all things that are sweet, and it stands supreme amongst all that is auspicious.It is the eternal, fully ripened spiritual fruit of the wishfulfilling tree of the Vedas. O best of the Brighus, if anyone even once offenselessly chants Sri-KRSNA nama, either with faith or indifference, Sri-KRSNA nama immediately delivers that person from the ocean of material existence. 
“One who chants Krishna's name and constantly remembers Him, even though living in this material ocean of nescience, is like the lotus, which is born in the water but is untouched by it: it's position is transcendental. This great soul is capable of liberating all the suffering residents of the hellish planets. (Varaha Purana) 
On this earth, the place known as Vrndavan in the district of Mathura, ninety miles southeast of Delhi, is a replica of that supreme Goloka Vrndavana in the spiritual sky. In all of India, that eighty-four-square-mile tract of land is considered to be the most sacred place of pilgrimage because Krishna sported in it, and many devotees still linger there in ecstasy in search of Krishna and His childhood associates. Srila Prabhupada has explained that "It is not that such devotees meet Krishna face to face in that tract of land, but a devotee's eagerly searching after Krishna is as good as his seeing Him personally. How this is so cannot be explained, but it is factually realized by those who are pure devotees of the Lord." 
Even if in the beginning one chants the Hare Krishna mantra with offenses, one will become free from such offenses by chanting again and again. Papa-kshayas ca bhavati smaratam tam ahar-nisam: one becomes free from all sinful reactions if one chants day and night, following the recommendation of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. 
Indradyumna Swami: This summer we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our Festival of India tour along the Baltic Sea coast in Poland. It began auspiciously yesterday with our first program in Kolobrzeg. As always, thousands of people came and were introduced to Krsna consciousness in a most attractive way. The festivals continue every day through the summer up until August 29. Srila Prabhupada, it is all for your pleasure. Please give us your blessings! 
‘Pure devotional service in Krishna consciousness cannot be had even by pious activity in hundreds and thousands of lives. It can be attained only by paying one price—that is, intense greed to obtain it. If it is available somewhere, one must purchase it without delay.’” Padyavali quoted CC Madhya 8.70 