Why you always criticize?! You always criticize so many different people
Yasomatinandana das : On one occasion, Srila Prabhupada was criticizing the Mayavadi philosophy, especially the philosophy of Vivekananda and Ramakrishna. Yatha math, tatha path: as many ways, so many conclusions. In this philosophy, it means that whomever you want to worship you can worship.
Whoever your heart goes to you can worship, and you will attain the same supreme destination. Srila Prabhupada was extremely opposed to this conclusion. So whenever such idea came, he would put them down forcefully and call them rascals who believes in such nonsense philosophy.
So one time one of the Dr. Patel's friends, Mr. Shah, he started screaming, "Why you always criticize? You always criticize so many different people!" So devotees were ready to push him away but Prabhupada said, "No, no, no, don't do anything." So for three or four minutes he kept criticizing, and we kept walking.
Finally Prabhupada said, "What can we do? We have to train our disciples against all kinds of deviant philosophies. Therefore, sometimes we have to criticize. Krishna also criticizes in the Bhagavad-gita, na mam duskrtino mudhah, prapadyante naradhamah. Krishna also in this way criticizes people who do not surrender to Him. Therefore, we also have to do that," Prabhupada would say.
So then he kept quiet. It was about five minutes before we came to the temple, just at the corner of Gandhigram Road. So we all came back quietly. Prabhupada would not let any of us become upset with the man. Then as usual we came to the vyasasan and Guru-puja was going on. We were offering flowers. So this Mr. Shah also came to offer flowers.
He offered flowers to Prabhupada's lotus feet, then he put his head on Prabhupada's feet and started crying like a little baby. He was just crying incessantly. He knew he had committed a great offense. Srila Prabhupada was so kind, he just put his hand on his head and said, "It's OK, it's OK." So gradually cooled him down. After that, next day Prabhupada said, "We don't want to talk because if Dr. Patel comes he will again argue. Let us instead read Krishna Book." So this is how this Krishna Book reading started instead of the discussions.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Yasomatinandana Dasa
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