Srila Prabhupada about famous personalities
Joshomatinandan : Prabhupada's life was to give philosophical instructions about Krishna to whoever came. He used to show intelligent, prominent people Dr. Radha-Krishnan's book and say, "See what Dr. Radha Krishnan is saying? That Kurukshetra is not a historical place, that Kurukshetra allegorically means your body, the five Pandavas means your five senses, and Kauravas means the evil desires in your mind. And Radha-Krishnan says that originally the Mahabharata was written by a poet who assumed the fictitious name Vyasa and then other people added to the Mahabharata until tt became a big epic." Prabhupada blasted the Indological ideas that Radha-Krishnan had learned from Westerners and which he propounded. Prabhupada said, "Today thousands of people visit the historical place, Kurukshetra, yet Radha-Krishnan says Kurukshetra is not there. So how can anyone learn Bhagavad-gita or hear anything from such a person?" One of Mahatma Gandhi's statements was, "If all the activities attributed to Krishna in Srimad-Bhagavatam are true, if Krishna performed these pastimes, then I refuse to accept Him as God incarnate even at the cost of being banished from Hinduism." Prabhupada was furious at this. He said that Gandhi had no understanding of Krishna, he had no understanding that Krishna's pastimes are transcendental, not material. God is the supreme and original enjoyer. We have the tendency to enjoy, and that tendency comes from Him. Our enjoying tendency is a perverted reflection of His enjoying tendency. He is the purusha, and every jiva is prakriti. We are all God's wives, God's prakriti. Therefore, your wife is His wife. God has all the rights. In his autobiography, Experiments with Truth, Gandhiji said, "Since I never had a spiritual master. I never understood spiritual life and I always suffered because of a lack of spiritual instructions." He admitted it, but he still made wildly inaccurate comments and Prabhupada would explain that to visitors.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 3 by Siddhanta Dasa
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