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and start ISKCON Press. Other times, I should go to
New York and live with the celibate men. Yet again,
he said I should go back to Santa Fe and maintain the
temple.
When I asked why he changed his mind so
much, Prabhupad said, "I have my plans, and you
have yours, but, Krishna has his plans, and that's
what we have to follow."
I flew to San Francisco with Prabhupad, Goursundar,
and Govinda Dasi. I stayed there about a
week and then returned to Santa Fe.
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I managed the Santa Fe temple alone for several
months and led a full worship schedule even if no one
came. Sometimes it was a week between visitors. I
made plaster castings of the Jagannath deities,
painted them, and sold them in craft shops on Canyon
Road along with incense I got from San Francisco.
When Dan and Krishna Devi asked Prabhupad
how they could better serve him, he said, "Send
money to Subal to help him maintain the Santa Fe
temple." They sent a hundred dollars a month.
A Yaqui Indian couple came to the temple
regularly for a while. The woman pushed a baby in a
stroller and did the talking. The man couldn't talk except
in grunts and sign language. He made violent
gestures of stabbing and cutting the throat with a
knife. His wife explained that he hunted bears with a
knife.
A young Chicano couple also came regularly. I
carved a large Balaram deity to accompany the Ja-
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