Srila Prabhupada considered phones a nuisance

Pradyumna Dasa recalls:

Srila Prabhupada considered phones a nuisance.

He never had a phone in his room that I recollect. There was a phone in 26 2^nd Avenue somewhere but he didn’t like phones. He commented a few times,
"How can you live like this. Your phone is ringing all the time. It’s a nuisance!”
In India someone doesn’t call before they come; they show up at your door!
‘Ya ya’, you motion to them, ‘come in!’

One time Srila Prabhupada was sitting in his room in LA and he stated:
"Our Indian philosophy is that it ‘open door…open window… open mind!’
This is our philosophy; we do not like to be blocked in."