Indian man (2): How you explain the act of Kṛṣṇa taking away the sārīs of the gopīs?
Prabhupāda: First of all try to understand Bhagavad-gītā, then go to the sārī of gopī. You do not know what is Kṛṣṇa and you are going to His gopīs. This is another malinterpretation. You are studying Bhagavad-gītā. Talk of that. In the Bhagavad-gītā the gopīs' sārīs are not mentioned. So why you are bringing gopīs' sārīs now? This is our fault.
Indian man (2): Normally, you know, our people . . .
Prabhupāda: No, no. This is our fault There is no mention of gopīs' sārīs. We are talking of Bhagavad-gītā, why you are bringing gopīs' sārīs?
Indian man (2): Because that . . .
Prabhupāda: Again "because." There is no subject matter there. You have no right to bring that. That is our fault—to bring a horse before a cart. We are talking of Bhagavad-gītā. There is no mention of Kṛṣṇa and gopīs' sārīs there. So let us talk. Finish that.
Indian man (3): So you clearly said that interpretation is wrong.
Prabhupāda: Interpretation means lost.
Indian man (3): No, no. You clearly said that interpretation is wrong.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Indian man (3): What has been done all these years?
Prabhupāda: If you have done all these years wrong, that does it not right. If all of them have done wrong, then combined together it does not become right.
Indian man (3): Will you repeat your . . .
Prabhupāda: I mean to say if everyone has done wrong, then combined together will it become right? Hundreds of zeros will make one? It will remain zero. It will not be effective. Kṛṣṇa says, sa kālena yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa. And what is the next line?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa.
Prabhupāda: Then? Next line?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Sa evāyaṁ mayā te 'dya (BG 4.3).