Prabhupāda: And this "Christ" has come from Kristo, Kṛṣṇa. Yes.
Dr. Patel: The cow from . . . gao from cow, and cow from gao. No? It is absolutely not . . . so very easy.
Prabhupāda: We are Kṛṣṇian, and they are Christian. There is similarity.
Dr. Patel: Christian. Nomenclature. Christ was really a bhāgavata, I mean, in a true sense.
Prabhupāda: Anyone who accepts God, he is bhāgavata.
Dr. Patel: Christ, sir, really taught absolutely bhāgavata-dharma. The way . . . all his sayings, all the . . . what, the New Testament and his Sermon on Mount, all is absolutely bhāgavata. I have studied it very, in great detail and compared the two myself. So Christ was the greatest Hindu, to tell the truth. But as those people in the Middle East were heathens and absolutely junglis, they crucified him. Had he been here he would have been a big saint and avatāra.
Prabhupāda: Recent history is that he did not die. He came to Kashmir.
Dr. Patel: Came to Kashmir. There is a tomb in Kashmir. I read some literature about it. His resurrection . . . they say that they smuggled him out of that cave. It is possible. When he was on the cross, he . . .
Prabhupāda: No, even by yoga system . . .
Dr. Patel: He must have gone in a trance.
Prabhupāda: He lived by trance.
Dr. Patel: He was a great devotee. There is no doubt about it.
Prabhupāda: By trance.
Dr. Patel: When he . . . on the cross they say he uttered, "Father, don't forsake me," that is the time he went into trance most probably. Eh? He must have gone in trance when he uttered the last words, "Father, don't forsake me." And then when he was brought down in the lap of his mother and they took him in the cave, no? Under the guard of those Italian soldiers. Then there was a big hurricane or something like that, and they all ran away. And after that he was smuggled away from that place. Christ has rebuilt his father's temple in true sense, the way he spread the Christianity. The churches have degenerated in his teaching, unfortunately. It is the Church. That happens with every, in every, I mean, these things, teachings. Race, this race is very bold, indeed, that God's choicest race, these Jews, somehow or other.
Prabhupāda: Jews?
Dr. Patel: Really, it is God's choicest race. (laughter) They have produced wonderful people, right from Christ up to Professor Einstein, very bold people, very bold indeed. They are truthful to their convictions. They would die for their convictions, but they will not, I mean, budge an inch.
Brahmānanda: But they're impersonalists.
Dr. Patel: Very brave. Very brave race.
Brahmānanda: They are impersonalists.
Dr. Patel: Today still, those people really very brave. Very brave. It is the choicest race from God. It's a fact.
Prabhupāda: Brahmānanda is very much pleased. (laughter)