I heard a lively argument between Srila Prabhupada and Dr. Patel on a morning walk on Juhu Beach, February 23, 1974. Srila Prabhupada was criticizing so called gurus who are actually Mayavadis and say, “I am God. Let me now have rasa dance. Send your children. Send your wife, send your daughter. We’ll dance.” “These are all rascals,” Prabhupada said. “Mayavadis. Mayavadi-bhasya sunile haya sarva-nasa. This is the statement of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. As soon as one hears the statements of Mayavadis, he’s doomed; he’s finished.”
Dr. Patel objected: “You have been bracketing so many good people like that, with the bad, and I feel strongly”
“Where is good people?” Prabhupada exclaimed. “Where is good people? All rascals! Let them come. Let them come. Yes! I shall kick on their face! I am so strong. Where is good man?”
“You see”
“I have already kicked that . . . What is that?”
“Bala Yogi,” Tamal Krishna answered.
“Yes. He’s a dog. I said in a public meeting. So, we have got some discrimination. This is our only point: If anybody is a Mayavadi, he’s a dog. Kick him on his face that’s all.”
“What do you mean by Mayavadi?” Dr. Patel asked.
“Mayavadi means who thinks that Krishna is different from His body. That is Mayavadi. They think that Krishna comes with a ‘maya body.’ Therefore they are Mayavadis.”
Dr. Patel began to eulogize some Mayavadis, and Prabhupada pointed out their defects.
“You are a guru,” Dr. Patel said. “so I don’t want to contradict you. I am going.”
“Then you have got some selection of your own.”
“I have no selection.”
“I have to tell the truth. You may like or not like, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. I have to say the truth. I am saying all over the world.”
I felt grateful to Srila Prabhupada that he spoke the truth all over the world, wherever he was, and thus saved us from being misled by so-called gurus and others who did not know or speak the truth. He was so strong.
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