a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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3 July 2004 JOURNAL: 3 July - 5 July Sunday 3 July Pradipada: Sunrise: Sunset Monday 4 July Dwitya Sunrise. Sunset Moonrise: Tuesday 5 July Tritiya Sunrise Sunset Moonrise letters | 01:29 | 2 July 2004 JOURNAL: Saturday 2 July Purnima. Sunrise 4/36 Sunset 7/32 Moon rise 8/45 Today also I phoned to Con Edition they have promised to come sometimes today. Let me see what they do. letters | 01:27 | 1 July 2004 JOURNAL: Friday 1 July Chaturdasi: Sunrise 4/35 Sunset 7/32 Moonsets 4.07 Today I entered the new house at 26 Second Avenue rear portion Room #B1. For my purpose it all good. I do not why Krishna is trying to establish me in New York. I am his servant's servant and therefore let His desire be fulfilled through my agency. The Landlord Mr. Gardiner is pukka landlord. He knows how to increase the rent. But I am not sorry. For two months namely July and August I will have to pay at 62 and odds whereas from September 1st I will have to pay $71 and odds. Let me see how Krishna arranges the things. In the evening there was meeting in the New Store. There was about eight men Collection $5.50. Book Collection 4.00 The whole day I waited for Con Edison but they did not Telephone duly installed The New Number 674-7428 Expenditure (?) .50 c letters | 01:25 | 29 June 2004 [From a room conversation, Vrndavana, September, 1976] "One boy, he was coming to me. In that hundred, about one hundred seventy-first street, all my things were stolen. My tape recorder, typewriter. Fortunately they did not touch my manuscript that I was typing, typing my books. So some money was stolen. Then one boy, he was coming to me, he told me, "Please come to my place." A loft. Bowery Street. "I did not know the Bowery Street was not a good quarter. All bums and drunks. When I see there, one Jewish friend, he had electrical shop, he told me, "Swamiji, you have gone to Bowery Street? Oh, it is not your place." I did not know that it is full of drunkards. But they were lying down in front of my door, but they were very respectful. When I'd go, these drunkards comes and they respectfully give me ways. And they would lie down on urine and something like that, on water. "Then the boy who took me there... He was Murray. His last title was Murray. And he was taking LSD. So since I went there he did not go to work. Otherwise, he was working and getting daily twenty-five dollars, in some dock he was working. Since I went, he stopped working, and I had to pay 125 dollars for the loft. One lady was the landlord. "So I was going on. Some people were coming. That Mukunda began to come, his wife, and Yeargen, Karlapati. I gave him name, Karlapati. He was coming. Then one day that boy Murray, he showed some crazy features. So I thought it is dangerous to live with him. So I approached Mukunda. Mukunda had no place, still I asked him. So I kept my goods at Mukunda's house and went to live with Yeargen. That is another loft. "So in this way, with great hardship--sometimes here, sometimes there--in this way, I got two hundred dollars by selling books, and then I asked Mukunda to find out an apartment. He found this apartment, 26 Second Avenue. One storefront down and one living quarters up. So I found it very convenient. Down I would lecture and hold kirtana. "So he charged 75 dollars per month for the apartment, small apartment. I think in a space like this room or less than that, everything is there. There was kitchen, there was shower, and two rooms. I think less than this. Two-thirds of this room and everything there. So I shifted there. And there I remained up to May 1967, I think. Then I got heart attack." [From a room conversation, Vrndavana, September, 1976] letters | 01:08 | |
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