How much New York?

Gargamuni das: We had eight sankirtan parties going out every day. We would come back and then at night go out again. We would stay out till twelve o'clock, one o'clock every night. The whole spirit behind this, I have to say, was Vishnujan. This person could chant Hare Krishna on a drum all day long. He must have been a divine personality because I don't see how a human could do that. People were anxious to go on sankirtan, and it was such a wonderful sight to see. People would watch us for hours and hours and hours, it was so attractive. Then we used the conch shells to hold the money, and the deal was you'd give a Back To Godhead with a pack of incense for a buck. In those days, Prabhupada had me order Back To Godhead, and we would sit down once a month and he would give me the order.

It came out to about 250,000 a month at that time. He would say, "How much New York?" I said, "Well, Prabhupada, you said 30,000." He says, "Make it 40." He would put adjustments. We were taking the most, though, L.A. We were taking 60,000 to 70,000 a month, and there was no problem in distributing them. By the end of the month, we were all out. That's how big sankirtan was.