Prabhupāda: Who was criticizing?
Pañcadraviḍa: Bhavānanda. Because of the letter you wrote to him saying that we are personalist to the letter.
Acyutānanda: So it means I am a Māyāvādī, that's what it means.
Pañcadraviḍa: Well . . .
Śyāmasundara: It's a matter of overall conduct, not just individual, specific things.
Acyutānanda: That overall I'm a Māyāvādī.
Devotee: I find an overall bad atmosphere in India. Resentment against many of the devotees. Party politics and different things like that are going on. It's not limited, it's going on all over India.
Acyutānanda: That's so . . .
Devotee: Very heavy.
Śyāmasundara: Just like with . . . just like with Tamāla Kṛṣṇa. He has the respect of everyone now, because he is doing such a good job of managing, and he's just, he's doing, he's performing nicely his devotional work, and he's getting some results. That's respect. Then you'll get respect. Bali-mardana Mahārāja, he's built up ISKCON Press 'till it's just like (snaps fingers) that, and everyone touches his feet when they see him. You don't find anyone disrespecting him, because he's performing his duties. You automatically get respect if you perform something nicely. Not just say: "Oh, the atmosphere's bad . . ."
Prabhupāda: Well, we have got many faults. He can find out. But generally, if I direct nicely, others will follow. That is the principle. I may have some fault, you may have some, that you are not liberated paramahamsa. We are all trying. So generally we should behave very nicely according to the rules and regulations, chanting sixteen rounds, rising early in the morning. Particularly maybe there is some discrepancy here and there. So generally with our . . . general rules are . . . (indistinct) . . . common. First of all rising early in the morning, he cleans and be ready for our performances. So these things are followed, chants sixteen rounds, then everything is there.