It's offensive to call this world an illusion !!

Kaushalya: One time in New Delhi, somebody was talking about maya, saying, 'This whole world is just an illusion.' Prabhupada objected, "How dare you call it an illusion. It is beautiful. The mountains are beautiful, the oceans are beautiful, the rivers, the sky, the trees. This is a beautiful world. But it's temporary, and it's a perverted reflection of the spiritual world. If you see the beauty of this world, you'll see the beauty of the spiritual world, which is a million times more beautiful. If you said to me, 'Srila Prabhupada, look at the painting I have done for you,' and I said, 'It's an illusion,' that would hurt your feelings. In the same way it is offensive for you to call this world an illusion.'