Morning Walk, House Visit, Evening Darsana -- August 12, 1976, Tehran
Prabhupāda: (in car) ...that is Kṛṣṇa's mercy, but I am not that devotee, you are devotee. It is a fact, Kṛṣṇa supplies everything to the devotee's comfort.
Dayānanda: Left or right? Right?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Prabhupāda, in Vaiṣṇava temples, āśramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?
Prabhupāda: No. (laughs)
Ātreya Ṛṣi: It is not customary at all?
Prabhupāda: It is used for my personal friend.(?)
Ātreya Ṛṣi: But it would be nice, Śrīla Prabhupāda, once in awhile...
Prabhupāda: No. There was devotee, Nityānanda's contemporary, he used to whip, and his whipping means as soon as he whips, the man becomes a devotee.
(visit to house which Ātreya Ṛṣi was purchasing)
Prabhupāda: You are not going to install Deity?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Not here.
Prabhupāda: Oh, not here.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: The Deity will be installed in the other place.
Prabhupāda: Oh, this is only for restaurant.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Which the company is buying. There is...
Prabhupāda: Oh, then it is all right.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: And the restaurant will be just downstairs.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Brahmacārī will be upstairs. Householders live in the other place, and the Deity will be there.
Prabhupāda: Then it is all right. Very good explanation(?). But people in this land, they will come for a restaurant, customer?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, this is very good neighborhood.
Prabhupāda: As soon as they understand, they will come.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes.
Prabhupāda: For restaurant, very nice. (some conversing as lady shows them through)
Dayānanda: Very nice kitchen, Śrīla Prabhupāda. It's a good size kitchen.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: That kitchen can be extended.
Prabhupāda: Thank you.
Dayānanda: An adjoining room for storage.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Would you like one of these peaches, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Yes, that's right, that's right. Would you prefer an orange? Can I skin this?
Hari-śauri: I can cut an orange.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Orange?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Cut into pieces, give me. Give me little.
Pradyumna: Bitter skin. Sometimes there are amoebas on the outside.
Nava-yauvana: The location is very central. In the city it's very central. (end)