Just ten days earlier, Prabhupada had conducted the first movement of his India Temple Symphony — the Mayapur Sonata — in allegro, to a full house in the middle of a rice paddy in rural Bengal. Now he would dig deeper into his theme and calmly conduct the second movement in a slower tempo, in adagio, on an empty plain on the outskirts of Vrindaban…[In Vrindaban] there were three major tasks to accomplish: (1) to sign the deed for the Raman Reti property; (2) to sign documents granting Prabhupada his rooms at the Radha-Damodar temple in perpetuity; and (3) to organize a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new temple on the Raman Reti land. Prabhupada was scarcely settled in his room when the various characters in the sitcom began to arrive, one by one, from central casting.

Quiet on the set! Action!

SCENE ONE

Interior. Room Three.