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Brahmānanda: It's the capital. [indistinct]

Gargamuni: Tallahassee.

Prabhupāda: Miami is the capital.

Brahmānanda: No. Miami is a big tourist city.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Janārdana: It's all tourist, the whole place.

Gargamuni: There's an Indian fellow in the San Francisco temple. He comes very often. He's a student, and his name …

Prabhupāda: Vinode.

Gargamuni: Yes. And he helps us cook prasādam. And he cooks in the kitchen, and oh, he says, "Kṛṣṇa is …

Prabhupāda: Very good.

Gargamuni: He mentioned to me that he's married and that he has a child in India. And he asked, "Oh, …

Prabhupāda: [chuckling] There is a Tulasī dāsa poetry, din ka ḍākinī, rāt ka bāghinī, palak palak rahe cuṣe duniyā sab …

So the system is six months father house and six months husband. In this way, going and coming. But when …

Brahmānanda: Oh, he's so attached.

Prabhupāda: Yes. "She'll go later on. She'll go." So he went back. The father used to..., went back. In this …

That struck him very badly, and he immediately left that place and went to... Left home for good. Yes. And …

So he became a great devotee of Rāma, Tulasī dāsa. His book, Rāma-carita-mānasa—means "Thinking always of Rāma"—that is his book. …

So he has written that din ka dakini: in the daytime she is just like, what is called, witches. Witch? …

Brahmānanda: Witch, yes.

Prabhupāda: Ḍākinī. And rat ka bhāginī: at night she is tigress.