"The Rama Krsna mission is popular in Bengal because it does not restrict -- 'Whatever you like, you can eat,' -- but our mission does not say that. "Formerly, Allen Ginsberg [Prabhupada pronounced it as "Jinsberg"] was very frequently coming to me. And, he could understand -- intelligent man -- that we are not giving up these four principles. So he does not come any more. He thinks 'I cannot give up these, and Swami does not like me.' Therefore, as an intelligent man, he does not come any more. I'm thinking his influence with the young men is not so strong any more?"
Madhudvisa: Ginsberg? No. He's simply a remnant of a past age.
Prabhupada: Old fossil.
Madhudvisa: Yes!
Prabhupada: And -- Timothy Leary?
Madhudvisa: Jail!
Prabhupada: He's in jail?
Madhudvisa: He's been arrested in Afghanistan and brought back to America.
Madhudvisa explained that Leary -- ex-Harvard psychology instructor and once-popular advocate of LSD -- had been arrested previously and convicted for drug smuggling, then put into jail for twenty years, but he had escaped from prison, flown to Algiers, and had been at large for three years. One month ago, he was again handed over to US officials and was now in jail again.
Prabhupada shook his head. "Yes, he has killed your country by introducing this LSD. This is a great disservice -- he and Ginsberg. Not only drugs, but sex indulgence, homosex [homosexual] sex also."
- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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