Pañca-draviḍa: Prabhupāda, who is that prostitute the gopīs refer to...?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Pañca-draviḍa: In the Kṛṣṇa book the gopīs say that "The great prostitute," I forget the name, "Pimba," or something, "says that..."
Prabhupāda: Kubjā, Kubjā, Kubjā.
Satsvarūpa: Disappointment.
Prabhupāda: Kubjā.
Devotee: Kubjā?
Pañca-draviḍa: Yeah, she said.... That prostitute has said "Disappointment is the greatest pleasure."
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: "Gives rise to the highest pleasure."
Pañca-draviḍa: The gopīs refer to that when they...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Pañca-draviḍa: Who was that prostitute?
Prabhupāda: Why you are asking me? (laughter) As if I have to keep account of prostitute. (laughter) What is this nonsense? There was a big educationist, Visacandra Vidyasagara(?). So.... So to show compassion to the prostitutes, at night in a.... In India I have seen in our childhood, prostitute, they stand on the road. And in Paris I have seen.
Haṁsadūta: Yeah, everywhere.
Prabhupāda: Everywhere, they.... So, so they're standing—no customer at two o'clock. It is very cold. So Vidyasagara will take compassion: "All right, you take two rupees. Go home. Sleep." And that is in Vidyasagara's life, compassionate to the prostitute. By giving her two rupees, will she change her profession? But this learned man, he thought like that, that "She is standing in the severe cold. All right, let me.... Let me.... Let me give her two rupees. Then go home. Don't take so much..." He's Vidyasagara. The vidyā-sāgara means "ocean of education." And Haridāsa Ṭhākura—a prostitute came for three nights and converted her to a devotee. That's it. That is real compassion, not that "Take two rupees and go home." No. Turn her. That is real compassion, to turn everyone to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the greatest welfare activity in the world. Otherwise there cannot be any peace or prosperity.