Marble Shop Visit — June 26, 1976, New Vrindavan

Hari-śauri: [announces] Prabhupāda visits the marble shop. [break] 

Kīrtanānanda: This is a cutting table, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Here’s is a diamond saw. When you cut marble you have to use water, so it automatically shoots water out. 

Devotee: You can make the cut if you want to. 

Prabhupāda: This is the marble? No. 

Kīrtanānanda: This is a marble base. This is what they cut on, just to make it flat. It has to be a perfectly flat table. This is part of the floor for your study room. 

Prabhupāda: Oh. This is marble? 

Kīrtanānanda: Yes, this is all marble, but it is glued together in little pieces, like inlaid. And this is the polishing room. [break] Take the rough marble and make it shine. 

Prabhupāda: You have spent so much money. What is the price of this machine? 

Kīrtanānanda: Well, there was a man, he was going out of business in Pittsburg, and I got a great deal of marble and all the machinery and everything for nine thousand dollars. It is very cheap. 

Prabhupāda: Oh. Do you know how to work? No. [devotees laugh] 

Kīrtanānanda: That is a heater. It’s burning wood. [break] 

[walking outside, kīrtana going on] 

Kīrtanānanda: …growing mung beans in this little field over there. 

Prabhupāda: Jaya. [break] 

[in car] 

Prabhupāda: …horse? What do they do? Plowing? 

Kīrtanānanda: Yes. They do some plowing, they do some pulling wagons. Mostly they are used in the woods for logging. 

Prabhupāda: Oh. This land is very nice. For mung beans? 

Kīrtanānanda: Yes, those are all mung beans up there. [break] 

Children: Haribol! 

Prabhupāda: [laughs] Kṛṣṇa Balarāma used to practice race with the birds. 

Hari-śauri: Now our boys are racing with the cows. 

Prabhupāda: This is childish game. This nature is there in Kṛṣṇa. This is their only school building? 

Kīrtanānanda: This is not ours. This was an old school building, public school, but that is not our building. 

Prabhupāda: This is not our? 

Kīrtanānanda: Not ours. [break] …looks like it might clear today. 

Prabhupāda: Oh. How these logs will be used? 

Kīrtanānanda: Roof. 

Prabhupāda: Oh. And you have to cut into planks? No. Or beams? 

Kīrtanānanda: Yes. 

Prabhupāda: Cylinder? Gas? 

Kīrtanānanda: Gas. [end] 

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