761002 - Morning Walk - Vrndavana
Prabhupāda: ...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.
Haṁsadūta: Yes, outside. So it will be painted. These decorations. Oh, the panels here?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Haṁsadūta: You mean the panels. Yes, inside and outside.
Prabhupāda: There are so many pictures. And what is that boy?
Hari-śauri: Viṣṇu Das.
Prabhupāda: He can do every panel in three days.
Haṁsadūta: I've written him that Prabhupāda suggested he might come and do it.
Prabhupāda: 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).
Haṁsadūta: 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...
Prabhupāda: No, monkeys.
Haṁsadūta: 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-śauri: Pigeons too.
Haṁsadūta: Yes pigeons and small birds. In the lamps they are, in the fans they are.
Prabhupāda: Pigeons will come. (laughs) They'll enter with this.
Devotee: In the grills.
Haṁsadūta: Yes, but even here a screen can be put.
Devotee: Every year we'll have to change the screen.
Haṁsadūta: It is too much endeavor.
Prabhupāda: Much ado about nothing. [break] ...or not?
Akṣayānanda: Now I don't know. Previously they were... (end)