it's good because instead of criticizing a pure devotee, they just criticized myself.
Amogha das: So this is at the house of Thakurdas Watwani. He had some pictures of Krishna, posters that he had bought from us, in the hallway. And in this room where all the assembly is sitting, there were these big huge paintings, one of Sai Baba, maybe Shiva, but none of Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada gave the lecture in Hindi. In the questions and answers session, one man got up who was from Arya Samaj. And Arya Samaj are very atheistic, they deny the Bhagavad-gita, they deny so many things, that Krishna has a form, that God has a form. So this man actually argued with Prabhupada, kept arguing. Then Prabhupada, he called him something; and I remember the whole audience was shocked, but we couldn't really understand because it was in Hindi.
As we know, devotees don't tolerate people who blaspheme Krishna in that way. After the meeting, they wanted to invite Prabhupada into the next room to eat. I said to Srila Prabhupada, "They'd like you to come into the next room for some prasadam," and Prabhupada said, "We can go now?" I said, "Oh, yes, Srila Prabhupada, we could go now, but actually they'd like you to go into the next room and have some prasadam." And he said, "We can go now?" So I knew he wanted go so I said, "Yes, Srila Prabhupada, we can go."
So we went out to the car and left, and they got very upset. But then the other thing is, which is seen in other times in history, that the disciple can take some blame instead of someone blaming the guru. So everyone blamed me for escorting Prabhupada out of the situation there and said it was all my fault, that Prabhupada didn't leave but I misdirected or misorganized. So in that way I guess it's good because instead of criticizing a pure devotee, they just criticized myself.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Amogha Dasa
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