He speaks real good Bengali
Satadhanya das: Krishna das Babaji Maharaj was there and he was a very close friend of Prabhupada's, a godbrother, and very pure and effulgent. Prabhupada had told us that he was a pure devotee, and they were discussing in Bengali. It was just Krishna das Babaji, Prabhupada and myself inside the room. But at that time, Subal Sadhu, a funny, eccentric fellow, old man, came in but at one point he started really chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna," and he started rolling on the floor in Prabhupada's room. I thought, "I must do something about it." So at that time, what little Bengali I could speak I told Subal, "Prabhupada is very tired now. So you please come another time," and I stopped him from rolling very gently and I lifted him up and I showed him out the door and I shut the door. I went back and Krishna das Babaji Maharaj, he was always prone to laugh. He would laugh at everything. Especially what the Western devotees would do and say, he found very humorous. But this time he was heaving, he was going hysterical. And as he laughed more, Prabhupada began to laugh, and they were both laughing and laughing and laughing. Then Prabhupada, in the midst of his laughter, he looked at Krishna das Babaji and he said in Bengali, "Khub bhalo bangla bolche," that "He speaks real good Bengali," and they laughed and laughed and laughed.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Satadhanya Dasa
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