Prabhupāda: If he says, "No, none of my students are efficient," "Then why you are preaching? If you cannot make any one of your students as efficient, then why you are preaching, wasting your time?" No, no, these rascal, they, their face should not be seen even. They are so fallen.
Indian devotee: But now they all afraid from your stick.
Prabhupāda: Stick?
Indian devotee: Prabhupāda, they all thought many times that "Prabhupāda, he criticize us." You know, they say. We said, "Yes, you are made to be criticized."
Devotee (3): Your stick is Bhagavad-gīta As It Is.
Prabhupāda: They say? They say?
Indian devotee: Oh, yes. In Mauritius there are many cults. So they invited us. I went to two, three. So they asked me that "We are coming many temple. You people, why not you come?" I said, "Well, whenever you invite us, we are ready to come, but you accept our philosophy." So they said, "How we can accept your philosophy? Prabhupāda, he, wherever, he say that all the other are Māyāvādī. All other are rascal." (laughter) "Well, Kṛṣṇa has said that. Prabhupāda is not doing that. Kṛṣṇa said who don't accept Him, he is mūḍha; he is rascal. So Prabhupāda is giving as it is, whatever Kṛṣṇa has said." Oh, they were . . .
Prabhupāda: No . . . (break) Kṛṣṇa said: "The rascals do not surrender to Me." So as soon as we see somebody not Kṛṣṇa conscious, we call him rascal. So what is the wrong there?
Indian devotee: It is not wrong.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa says, na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ (BG 7.15). So we find out rascals if he is not Kṛṣṇa conscious. So what is our fault? Kṛṣṇa says this is the test to find out who is a rascal. And who is rascal? Who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he is a rascal. So if you are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, you are a rascal. We have to see through the śāstra characteristic of a rascal, that he is not Kṛṣṇa conscious. That's all. We may be fool, but we take lesson from Bhagavad-gītā. That's all. And from the lesson we understand you are rascal number one. That's all.
Indian devotee: Tilaka's(?) wife, she told me . . . she was very upset, you know. One day she, when she came to see you and that one rascal yogī was there, and he said that in the Vedas everything is mentioned that we can drink, and woman and the man have equal right. Then you answered her—and she was also saying the same thing—and you answered her, "Okay, if woman and the man have equal right, then why not your husband begot the children . . ." No, "Why not you begot the children in the womb of your husband?" And she was very upset, you know. She said, "Prabhupāda sometimes say the things like that which are unreasonable, you know."
Prabhupāda: It may require . . . no, I said that "If you are equal rights, then make some arrangement: sometimes you become pregnant; sometimes he becomes pregnant. Why there is not right, equal right?"
Indian man: She was telling me when . . . she . . . I said that, "Prabhupāda sometimes says these things that we feel all ashamed, you know, because . . ."
Devotee (2): The medicine is not always palatable for these people.
Prabhupāda: But in speaking spiritual understanding we cannot make any compromise. What to speak of in Mauritius; in Chicago I told. There was great agitation in papers.
Harikeśa: In the TV, on television.
Indian man: Same thing?
Devotee (2): In France also.
Prabhupāda: They were very upset. And when I was coming, I think, in Chicago, in the aeroplane, one of the host girl, she was seeing . . . (makes some gesture) (laughter) I asked her to supply one 7-Up. And, "I have no key." She was so angry. But all the captains and others, they gathered around me.