The Juhu Story

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Hare Krishna, Maharaja, please accept our obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. You are very welcome and we want to thank you Maharaja for being with us. The title of this conference is “I will build you a temple: The story of Juhu.” You can begin, Maharaja. Hare Krishna.

Giriraj Swami: Well I will begin by singing the maṅgala-ācaraṇa prayers and leading a short kirtan.

[Prayers]

So the title of this talk is “I’ll build you a temple: The Juhu story.” The title of the talk is taken from the title of the book.

In a way, the history of this story begins before Srila Prabhupada even went to America. Srila Prabhupada had a benefactor named Srimati Sumati Morarjee, who was the, I guess in today’s language we could say the CEO of Scindia Steam Navigation Company. And at the time Srila Prabhupada was staying as her guest at the Scindia colony in Andheri which is not far from Juhu. And he would come to Sumati Morarjee’s bungalow on Juhu beach and speak to her and read to her from his First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And on the way, he would pass some vacant land and think that, “This would be a nice place for a temple.” Years later that land, that very same land, became the Hare Krishna land where Srila Prabhupada built the temple of Sri Sri Rasabihari.

So, Srila Prabhupada went to America and he preached there, and then after about five years in America, Srila Prabhupada wanted to come back to India to revive the spiritual culture of India. At the time ISKCON had about twelve or fourteen centers in America and the idea was that the number two man in each temple would get to go to India. So I was the number two man in Boston, Satsvarupa dasa Adhikari, he was the temple president and I was the saṅkīrtana leader, temple commander, and treasurer. So I got to go to India.

So in India, Srila Prabhupada introduced the life membership program by which someone could donate at the time 1111 rupees and they would get a complete set of Srila Prabhupada’s books, not only the books that had been published but also all future publications. And they would get a lifetime subscription to Back to Godhead magazine and they would have the facility to stay free of charge for three nights in any of our temples or guest houses throughout the world.

So yeah, eventually we rented an apartment on Warden Road, also known as Bhulabhai Desai Road, and we had our temple there. So while the devotees were going out to meet people to enroll them as life members, one of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples named Tusta Krsna dasa met Mr. A.B. Nair, who was the editor of one of three English daily newspapers in Bombay called the Free Press Journal. And Mr. Nair informed Srila Prabhupada that he had some land in Juhu that he would like to offer for some good cause. And that was the same land that Srila Prabhupada had seen before he went to America and thought, “This would be a nice place to have a temple.”

Well, it turned out that Mr. Nair was a cheater, he was a very tricky person, and even before entering the agreement with Srila Prabhupada, he had already entered an agreement with another party to sell him the same land. But as cunning as Mr. Nair was, Srila Prabhupada was even more cunning than he was. And Srila Prabhupada suspected that there could be trouble with Mr. Nair and so he thought that the best way to secure our position would be to bring the deities Radha-Rasabihari to the Juhu land. So, the deities had been worshipped in the apartment called the Akash Ganga and we didn’t have any motor vehicles then so we got two taxis and the deity of Radharani lay on the laps of the devotees in one taxi and the deity of Krishna lay on the laps of the devotees in the other taxi, and they came to Juhu.

And Srila Prabhupada wanted to begin the activities in Juhu with a pandal program on the land. The layout of the land was that the front portion was vacant and in the back portion there were six apartment buildings, two-story buildings. So we, Srila Prabhupada had us set up a pandal on the front portion, and when the deities of Radha and Krishna came from the temple in the apartment in Bombay, they were worshipped in the pandal. And Srila Prabhupada promised the deities that, “You just stay here and I will build you a temple.” And that’s how the title of the book came, “I will build you a temple.”

So, after Srila Prabhupada left, well maybe I’ll say one other thing before then. So, when Srila Prabhupada first got possession of the land I was in Calcutta and just before Calcutta I was in Mayapur for the Gaura-purnima Festival. And Srila Prabhupada said to me that during the British rule there were three provinces: Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. Sohe asked me, “Which do you want?” I said, “Srila Prabhupada, I will do whatever you want, just tell me where you want me to go,” and Srila Prabhupada said, “No, I want you to decide.” And I understood that Srila Prabhupada was trying to bring me to a deeper level of surrender. Because only by surrender could I get the answer of where to go.

And as Srila Prabhupada has explained there are three classes of disciples, the third class receives an instruction from the spiritual master and then he says, “What was it that guru Maharaja wanted me to do?” The second class receives an instruction from the spiritual master and executes it perfectly. And the first class knows what the spiritual master wants even without being told.

So Srila Prabhupada wanted me to decide.

So from Mayapur, we went to Calcutta and I would chant and pray to the deities to reveal to me where I should go, but I wasn’t getting any answers. So one day I decided to trick Srila Prabhupada into revealing where he wanted me to go. So I went into his room in the Calcutta temple and I said, “Srila Prabhupada, I think I should go back to Madras,” and then I gave the reasons. And Srila Prabhupada said, “Yes, you can go.” Then I said, “But then again I was thinking I should stay here in Calcutta,” and I gave the reasons. And Srila Prabhupada said, “Yes, you can do.” And I said, “But then again I was thinking I could go to Bombay,” and then I gave the reasons for that. And with the same expression, the same tone of voice, he said, “Yes, you can do.” So I realized that my attempt to trick Srila Prabhupada into revealing where he wanted me to go did not work. But I was also happy that my spiritual master was so intelligent he couldn’t be tricked.

So, Srila Prabhupada left and I was chanting and praying and then one day I got an insight that I should go to Bombay, because our most important program in India was life membership and Bombay was our headquarters, so I thought I would go to Bombay and organize the life membership. So I wrote Srila Prabhupada and he said, “Yes, come to Bombay.” And so I wound up my affairs in Calcutta and went to Bombay.

So there was, a few days later there was a meeting in Srila Prabhupada’s room to discuss who would take charge of the Juhu project, because Brahmananda Prabhu had been in charge but he was needed back in Africa. So there is a serious meeting with all the senior devotees in Srila Prabhupada’s room. And at a certain point Srila Prabhupada said, “So Giriraj, you will take charge.” That was not at all my idea in coming to Bombay; my idea was I would be the membership secretary and preach, because I was more inclined to preaching than to managing.

So Srila Prabhupada said, “So Giriraj, you will take charge” and my mind was rebelling against the idea. But I was convinced that the secret of success in spiritual life is to serve the spiritual master and please the spiritual master. SoI said, “yes” and then Srila Prabhupada said, “So now the whole responsibility is on you,” and my mind was saying, “Why is he saying that? Doesn’t he know how hard this is for me?” But anyway, I agreed and soon thereafter Srila Prabhupada left.

And as I mentioned Mr. Nair was a big cheater and what he did with the previous person is he built a condition in the contract and then Mr. Nair used his influence to make sure the person couldn’t fulfill that condition. So with the previous person, the condition was that he should get permission from the municipality to subdivide the land, and then Mr. Nair used his influence to make sure he couldn’t get the permission from the municipality. And with us, he put the condition that we should get permission from the charity commissioner, and then he used his influence to make sure we couldn’t get the permission. He was influential, he had money, he was the editor of an English daily newspaper and he had been the sheriff of Bombay.

So, there are many twists and turns in this story but I will skip ahead to one significant event. So, yeah it was part of the agreement that after Srila Prabhupada made a certain down payment we would get possession of the land. So we got possession and we brought the deities and after the pandal program we built a semi, we called it a semi-permanent temple for the deities and on Janmashtami we moved Them from the pandal to the semi-permanent temple.

So that was Janmashtami of 1972 and we had permission for that little temple which I renewed for the next year. But one day some workers from the municipal corporation supported by police in a paddy wagon, they came to demolish the temple, saying that we didn’t have permission, but we did have permission. So I came out with the papers to show them but they weren’t interested and they started to break down the temple. So we were rushing forward to stop them and one by one they put us in the police, the paddy wagon of the police. But one devotee was not so heroic, he was a Gujarati named Manasvi, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, and he was watching the whole thing and he called a friend of ours who had connections with Bal Thackeray who was the founder and the leader of the Shiva Sena political party.

So Bal Thackeray was a staunch Hindu and he phoned the municipal commissioner and told him to stop the demolition and the municipal commissioner said, “But they don’t have permission.” Bal Thackeray said to the commissioner, “Don’t forget who this city belongs to,” which you can say was a veiled threat. And so the municipal commissioner MW Desai said, “Yes, Bal Thackeray, I will stop.”

So the municipal commissioner phoned the k-ward officer and the k-ward officer came running personally to the site to stop the demolition. And meanwhile, we had all been taken to the police station because we were trying to stop the demolition and they were putting us in the police wagon. So when we were released and came back to Hare Krishna land we saw that the temple had been, the darshan mandap had been demolished. And they were just beginning to break the roof on top of the deities, but everything was intact with the deities. And we had a picture of Nṛsiṁhadeva in front of the deities’ room, above, that picture was there, just a little bit crooked, I thought, “Yes, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva has protected the deities.

So then we went through a process of trying to convince the members of the municipal corporation of our case. But after a while we realized we didn’t need to do that, we didn’t need to give them, excuse me, we didn’t need them to give us permission to rebuild the temple, because we already had permission for the temple. So we decided we would just rebuild it.

So Mrs. Nair had her spies everywhere and she learned that we were planning to rebuild the temple. So she went to the high court, this was on a Friday, so she went to the high court to get an injunction to stop us from rebuilding the temple. But the judge said, “I will not give any injunction without hearing the other side.” “Yeah, well just give a temporary injunction,” and the judge said, “No, I will not give any injunction unless I hear from the other side and that can only be on Monday.” So we knew we had the weekend to rebuild the temple.

And one of the big heroes of this saga is Mr. P.L. Sethi, he was a very staunch devotee of Srila Prabhupada, his devotion for Srila Prabhupada reminded me of Hanuman’s devotion for Rama. So he was building a house in the Juhu Scheme and he happened to come to Juhu to see the progress on the construction and to go for a walk on the sea side. And he stopped at the temple and he saw that it had been demolished, so we explained the situation and he said, “Yes, we must rebuild this.” He was a building contractor and he got some of his workers and building supplies. And it was really raining very heavily. But he remembered Indra sending rainfall and Krishna lifting the Govardhana Hill and he said, “Okay, if Indra wants to send rain let him send rain, but we have to do this for Srila Prabhupada.”

So the local municipal councillor who was in with Nair, named Pushpakant Mhatre, he came to the site and he said, “You can rebuild the temple but I’m going to come with fifty guṇḍās and we will break it down again.” Then Mr. Sethi said to his son, “Brij Mohan, bring my rifle and my revolver.” And then he said, “How many cartridges do I have?” He used the word cartucho. And Brij Mohan said, “You have two hundred and fifty.” So Mr. Sethi told Mhatre, “Fifty guṇḍās is not enough, I have two hundred and fifty cartridges, so you’ll have to come with at least two hundred and fifty one guṇḍās.”

So anyway, there are other events. Yeah, at one point during the night someone came to see if they could intervene and stop the temple reconstruction and Mr. Sethi raised his gun and that man ran away, and he told his friends, “They are ready to fight, we can’t go there.” So we rebuilt the temple and then Monday morning we went to the court and we told the judge, “The temple is already rebuilt,” and the judge told Mrs. Nair, “What’s built is built.”

So, there are many intrigues, you could say that, many complications but eventually we got the permission to build the temple and the construction began. Srila Prabhupada was bringing funds, I mean we were collecting as much as we could but it wasn’t enough. And then on January 14th, 1978, Srila Prabhupada had passed away exactly two months earlier, November 14th, 1977. It was his heart’s desire to see the temple open but we did feel that he was present spiritually and yeah, it was a grand occasion. There were major articles in Newsweek magazine and in the New York Times. And so Srila Prabhupada’s promise was fulfilled, “I’ll build you a temple,” and what a temple it was, I should say what a temple it is.

So, this is a little summary of the Juhu story. I mean the book is eight hundred pages so you can imagine that it’s quite a story, but I gave a little summary of some of the highlights. And I thank you.

Oh, I see in the chat from Rukmini dasi, “I’m buying eight books,” okay. To Tucson, wonderful.

So now we can open the floor to questions and comments, if devotees, you can raise your hand. Gopeshwar dasa has raised his hand.

Devotee (Gopeshwar dasa): Hare Krishna, Maharaja, [Unintelligible 01:10:29].

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna.

Devotee (Gopeshwar dasa): It’s nice to meet you after long time, long time.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you.

Devotee (Gopeshwar dasa): It was like a movie, Maharaja, movie, old movie from seventy-two to seventy-eight. You brought great memories Maharaja, Lord’s blessings.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you.

Devotee (Gopeshwar dasa): Thank you so much, Maharaja, thank you so much.

Giriraj Swami: Gopeshwar was one of the early devotees in Juhu after the new temple opened.

Devotee (Gopeshwar dasa): Your mercy, your blessings.

Giriraj Swami: And actually many devotees have said that it would make a good movie.

Devotee (Gopeshwar dasa): It’s a great, Maharaja, great. [Unintelligible 01:11:38] online. [Unintelligible 01:11:48], please come every day twenty minutes online and charge us. [Unintelligible 01:12:02], thank you so much. Love you so much, Maharaja, love you, love you, love you.

Translator: Maharaja, I have a question.

Giriraj Swami: Yes

Translator: Maharaja, during my days when I was hearing you, I think was in 1994, you were giving a class which unfortunately the lights went off in Mayapur, we couldn’t hear the rest of the class, but you were mentioning something, that you went to a meeting with Mr. Nair and Mr. Nair had hired a lady.

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Translator: Okay, so now, you were giving a very nice and deep, I’ve been looking for that lecture for years and I can’t find it, it’s not in anywhere. Okay? But they were recording that lecture, it was recorded but we don’t seem to find it anywhere online. Okay? So would you mind for, because I have always, during my time serving in Latin America, I always try to explain those points but we didn’t hear the explanation. But you were giving an explanation about having a sentimental attachment to the guru, even you considerd yourself lower on that side. Would you mind explaining that event to all of us?

Giriraj Swami: Yes,do you want to translate the question or they?

So this was very early in the history of the Juhu story. And Mr. Nair was taking me in his car to the city, to downtown Bombay, to meet the lawyer. And he arranged for me to sit in the back seat of that car, it was a sort of smallish car, maybe a Fiat. And so he was, Nair was on my right side, I was in the middle and then there was a lady on my left side. And that lady started to touch my leg and she was moving up my leg to my private parts and I was young then and my senses were getting out of control. But then I thought that, “If I do anything it will hurt Srila Prabhupada, it will hurt his movement.” And I thought, “I can’t do that to Srila Prabhupada.”

So then later I found out that she was a sort of a well-known prostitute in Juhu and she would come around to the Hare Krishna land but I avoided her. But yeah I guess you could say I realized that I loved Srila Prabhupada more than I loved myself. Because for myself being touched like that by that prostitute, I don’t know maybe I could have become implicated but I couldn’t hurt Srila Prabhupada. Yeah, so that was the story that you wanted to hear.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Hare Krishna, Maharaja. Thank you very much your nice lecture. I have a question.

Translator: Okay, he is asking why did Srila Prabhupada used Bombay, I mean defined Bombay as his office?

Giriraj Swami: Yes, that is a good question. Srila Prabhupada said, “Bombay is my office, Vrindavan is my home, and Mayapur is my place of worship.” So I mean it was his office, it was where he, it was his headquarters for India. And he managed all the affairs in India from Bombay, from his office. So yeah, and even legally Bombay was the head office of ISKCON in India.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Thank you, Maharaja.

Devotee (Anandamukhi San Miguel): Yes, Maharaja, my obeisances. Thank you so much for all this beautiful class. I have a question but this is not about the Juhu temple, this is about when you entered the movement I heard, I think it was I heard from you in another class, something about your father not agreeing with you becoming a devotee. Canyou tell us a little bit about that? I have two children so I kind of want to know.

Giriraj Swami: Yeah, definitely my parents did not approve of my becoming a devotee. And my father was quite wealthy and he tried to lure me away from Krishna consciousness by offering me money. After I joined in Boston, Srila Prabhupada wanted to return to India with some of his American disciples and I was in the group that went.

And I, at one stage I was in Calcutta with Srila Prabhupada and my parents came to visit me. So they came to meet Srila Prabhupada in his room and my father told Srila Prabhupada that he wanted to make a trust for me and give me a million dollars. And that was fifty years ago, I mean a million dollars then is much more than it is now but even now a million dollars is a good amount. So, Srila Prabhupada said that, “You can make the documents and send them here and your son will sign them.”

My mother had a different concern, she was concerned about my health and I was quite thin then. And many Americans and Europeans then had the idea that if you don’t eat meat you won’t get enough protein. But Srila Prabhupada always used to keep sweets on his table to give to people as prasāda and being in Calcutta he had rasagullā and sandeśa. So he showed my mother, I mean he distributed actually to my parents and he said, “These are made of cheese and they are very high in protein.” And then he said to me, “Giriraj, you must eat two dozen sandeśa and rasagullā every day.”

So anyway, there are more details but as we were leaving Srila Prabhupada’s room my father said to me, “I can say two things about your master: he is a brilliant organizer and he really knows how to deal with people.” And in my father’s values, those were the two highest compliments that he could pay to anyone.

After Calcutta I went to Madras, I was the first ISKCON devotee to go to Madras. And we didn’t have a center, I was just staying at different people’s homes and eating very well and I put on weight. So then I arranged a program for Srila Prabhupada in Madras, and he hadn’t forgotten my mother’s concern, he said, “You should take a picture of yourself now and send it to her.”

So yeah.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Thank you so much. You mentioned that Mr. Nair is cunning but Srila Prabhupada is more cunning, Krishna also said in Gītā, “He is greatest cheater among cheaters.” How do we understand this and not misuse? Especially when we are in leadership or management. Thank you.

Giriraj Swami: Yes, Srila Prabhupada quoted a, maybe it’s a proverb that if someone is straightforward with you, you should be most straightforward with them, and if someone is cunning with you, you should be more cunning than them. So yeah, that’s true. Krishna is the greatest cheat and when a big cheat of this world came to cheat Srila Prabhupada, Krishna empowered Srila Prabhupada not to be cheated by him. Yeah, Nair was cheating.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Okay, next is Malati dasi, sorry, Harry Krishna, please unmute yourself.

Devotee (Harry Krishna): Hare Krishna, Giriraj Swami, I heard a class by Srila Prabhupada and he said that a former prime minister of India became a dog of somebody in Sweden in his next life. Sodoes anybody know what Mr. Nair became in his next life?

Giriraj Swami: Someone raised the question with Srila Prabhupada and I think that devotee was thinking Nair would have taken birth as a snake. But Srila Prabhupada said that he would take birth as a human because even though he came to cheat Srila Prabhupada, he did give the Hare Krishna land, reluctantly he did. And many times Srila Prabhupada said that the, that Krishna or a great man doesn’t take the dark side, but he takes the bright side, and the bright side was that he offered the land to Srila Prabhupada.

Devotee (Harry Krishna): Thank you, Hare Krishna.

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Okay, now is next Malati dasi.

Devotee (Malati dasi): Hare Krishna, guru Maharaja. Please accept my humble obeisances, guru Maharaja, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, All glories to His Divine Grace. Guru Maharaja you had a lot of surrender while serving Srila Prabhupada and many other qualities actually to please Prabhupada. So, accordingto you guru Maharaja, what are those prime qualifications of a disciple to please their spiritual master?

Giriraj Swami: Well, in one sense you could say the prime quality of surrender, but in another sense, you could say the prime quality is guru-niṣṭhā, strong faith in the guru, because based on strong faith in the guru one will surrender.

Devotee (Malati dasi): Thank you, guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna.

Devotee (Malati dasi): Hare Krishna.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Okay, Mataji Santhi Kumar Asamy.

Devotee (Santhi Kumar Asamy): Guru Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Devotee (Santhi Kumar Asamy): Guru Maharaja, my question is similar to Mataji Malati. Okay, guru Maharaja, what is most pleasing to guru and Lord Krishna? I mean in termsof sevā?.

Giriraj Swami: Well basically to taste Krishna consciousness and to share Krishna consciousness with others. We should practice and we should preach.

Devotee (Santhi Kumar Asamy): Okay, guru Maharaja, this regarding preaching because at times whenever we preach we get a lot of negative feedbacks from non-devotees, how would we solve this? I mean how would wehelp the souls that are suffering? How do you help them?

Giriraj Swami: Well, if they are not receptive to the message of Krishna you can use other approaches; you can give them prasāda, you can invite them for kirtan, invite them to festivals, give them Srila Prabhupada’s books. Yeah, we don’t want to make them enimical by our preaching, but somehow or other we want to find a way to engage them. And I’m sure you can find the ways and means to engage.

Devotee (Santhi Kumar Asamy): Thank you so much, guru Maharaja, thanks a lot.

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna.

Devotee (Santhi Kumar Asamy): Hare Krishna.

Translator: This is coming from a devotee who used to be one of the main saṅkīrtana distributors in Peru. He is asking, what is your best realization after you met Srila Prabhupada?

Giriraj Swami: That I am his eternal servant. Yeah, life after life. Cakhu-dān dilo jei, janme janme prabhu sei.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Okay, I think Harry Krishna again.

Devotee (Harry Krishna): Hare Krishna, Giriraj Swami. I’ve heard you mentioned several times that you helped Srila Prabhupada go to the bathroom and by doing that intimate service you got more realization than you did through attending several maṅgala-ārati. Sois it possible you could share some realization that you got from that, doing that intimate service?

Giriraj Swami: Yes, this incident took place in Srila Prabhupada’s last days in Vrindavan when he was bedridden and very ill. And he couldn’t get up to go to the bathroom so we had a plastic bottle that we would fix between his legs when he had to pass water and then he would pass water into that bottle. So, at one stage at the end, his usual servants were not there, I was just there with Upendra, Prabhupada’s disciple and Prabhupada motioned that he had to pass water and Upendra motioned to me that I should put that bottle between Srila Prabhupada’s legs and it was such a purifying experience. It’s true, at that time I had the thought that I felt more purified by doing that service than if I would have offered a hundred aratiks. It was unexpected, but it was some special mercy.

Devotee (Harry Krishna): Thank you, Hare Krishna.

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna.

Translator: He is asking, what is the most difficult instruction that Srila Prabhupada gave you that you were not able to perform?

Giriraj Swami: I mean I can think of difficult instructions but I can’t think of one that I wasn’t able to perform. I mean it was difficult to become the temple president of Juhu as I mentioned, but I can’t think of an instruction he gave me that I couldn’t follow.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Maharaja, but at least the more challenging to perform.

Giriraj Swami: Yeah, well being in charge of the Juhu project was challenging. I mean I always had faith in the order of the spiritual master, I never really felt that any of the instructions were difficult in a way. I think of one exchange that Srila Prabhupada had with Srila Bhakti Svarupa Damodara. Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Maharaja said to Srila Prabhupada that, “I have only one department, the Bhaktivedanta Institute, and I have to deal with so many problems and you have the whole worldwide movement to manage, so I can’t even imagine how many problems you have to deal with.” And Srila Prabhupada replied, “Problems? I don’t see any problems, I see only service to my guru Maharaja.”

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Okay, thank you very much, Ithink this is, there is a last question, it is possible Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Translator: Thislady from Peru is asking, is there anything specifically, anything that you miss from Srila Prabhupada?

Giriraj Swami: Anythingthat I miss?

Translator: You miss on Srila Prabhupada.

Giriraj Swami: Oh well, sometimes as a society, yeah, as individuals and as a society we wish that Srila Prabhupada were still here so that he could tell us what to do. So yeah, I do miss that. Clarity and decisiveness that he could give us.

Host (Guneshwar dasa): Okay, Maharaja, I will say something in Spanish to finalize.

Translator: Okay, he is asking, he is saying the importance that you had on building this temple. Okay, it was your faith and your work was very difficult for us in Latin America to understand that.

Host: That’s okay, okay thank you very much, Maharaja.

Translator: Maharaja, it’s very nice seeing you, I hope you can bless us, it will be very nice.

Devotee: Thank you so much, guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you so much, to all of you, to all devotees.

Devotee: Guru Maharaja, very inspiring lecture, Maharaja.