Gaurasundar is suffering from too much intelligence
Govinda Dasi: Srila Prabhupada had several disciples in Hawaii who were intelligent and charismatic and had misled some of the more simple devotees. Since I had been the first devotee in Hawaii, I felt protective of the others, they were like my children and I was in anxiety about what was going on. I explained to Prabhupada how these people were misleading devotees, changing the philosophy and so forth. Prabhupada calmly said, "The mouse respects the cat, and the cat respects the dog. The dog respects the wolf, and the wolf respects the tiger. But we see they are all animals." In other words, from his perspective, all of the people that he had to deal with on this planet were on the level of animals. Prabhupada was coming from Krishna Loka while we were coming from low-grade backgrounds and once we realized this, there would be no chance of our getting puffed up and trying to outguess him, edit him, change his ideas or think we could do better. It's impossible, we can't. I saw many instances of this. Unfortunately, one close-to-home instance was my own husband, Gaurasundar, who I loved very much. He was brilliant, he was educated and he was a nice devotee. He was studying Sanskrit and Bengali, and did the transliteration for the first part of Chaitanya Caritamrita. He took Prabhupada on walks and massaged Prabhupada every day. I give him all the credit for the wonderful service he did. But later on he left and although Prabhupada knew I was quite attached, he many times commented to me, "Gaurasundar is suffering from too much intelligence. He has the disease of being too intelligent. He thinks he knows more than his guru." This was Gaurasundar's flaw. He was brilliant in every respect. But as soon as a person thinks he knows more than his guru, the fall down begins.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 3 by Siddhanta Dasa
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