Truth admits no compromise—spiritual gold cannot be mixed with philosophical iron without destroying both.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: His last questions are like this. He's asking about proselytizing in the Western countries, preaching. Is there any hope for preaching? He says Hindu dharma, like this.
I think everything is arising because of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement and your Divine Grace's preaching work. Otherwise, they were all sleeping. Hari-śauri: Ten years ago, if they'd have asked these questions before you came to the West, they wouldn't even have thought about going to the West. They are only asking that now because they can see in the last ten years we've been so much successful. Prabhupāda: They do not know what is bhakti, what is Vedānta. They do not know.
Simply aspiring, all after women and money, that's all. First-class rogues. I know all of them, all first-class rogues, after money and women, beginning from Vivekananda. But they are so popular, if you say openly... Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That's a fact. Prabhupāda: Satyaṁ brūyāt priyaṁ brūyāt mā brūyāt satyam apriyam [Sanskrit Proverb].
"You can speak truth, but don't speak which is unpalatable." But we speak in a different way. And directly we don't speak. People will be angry. They're already fools and rascals.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: All of the others are trying to make some compromise. Prabhupāda: That is also bad. How we can make compromise? Here is gold, here is iron. How you can compromise?
Can we accept iron as gold? "All right, let us accept." [laughs] Where is the possibility? Hari-śauri: They don't see that clearly. They are looking at their iron and thinking it's gold. Prabhupāda: They are seeing... They're tested.
I don't make any compromise. All my speaking is also no compromise. Here is guru, here is Kṛṣṇa, here is God, here is Vedānta. Real version they neglect, and they stick to the rascal's version, Śaṅkara's version, Śārīraka-bhāṣya.