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You do not know the process

So later on we were in Jaipur, and they had given Prabhupada a room in the Jaipur Palace. And one of the big monkeys, the langurs, had torn the door off the kitchen and eaten all the bhoga. So they replaced the door, and I was in Prabhupada's room on a day that just happened to be filled with a lot of people including influential Indian guests. And we kept a stick inside the back door.

All of a sudden there's a noise outside, you can hear this door rattling, and I look out the screen and there's a monkey trying to take the door off the kitchen. So I picked up the stick, remembering the dog, remembering Prabhupada's example, and went out and got six feet or eight feet away from the monkey. And as he heard me come, he turned around and stood up. And as he stood up, I lifted the stick up and said, "Hut!" He looked at me and he puffed his chest up and he bared his teeth, and he growled and he started walking towards me. And I ran, I turned around and ran back in Prabhupada's room, and he and all of his guests just broke out laughing. He said, "You do not know the process," and then he laughed more. He said, "If you had said hut again, he was testing you. If you had done it twice, he would have backed away."


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Nanada Kumar Dasa