Prabhupāda: Oh, the Navadvīpa gosvāmīs. They raised 25,000 rupees and wanted to bribe this police officer that "You take this money. We shall finish him. Don't take any action."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the policeman said . . .?
Prabhupāda: Refused. "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why?
Prabhupāda: "He's a saintly person. We cannot agree to that." Everyone knows police takes bribe. They admit, "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases." This was told by Guru Mahārāja, Bhaktisi . . . to me. He was talking many things confidential.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, but what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī was invited to . . . He wanted to get invitation or he was invited to speak, and they put so many conditions on his speaking. It was some place.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They said, "Now you cannot speak on such and such subject." He agreed, "All right."
Prabhupāda: I think there was a Vaiṣṇava meeting inaugurated by Mahārāja Maṇīndrānandī. You are referring to that. (break) When I was visiting, I used to sit on his couch. Yes, like . . . Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down. So then I began to sit down. Neither Guru Mahārāja told me, neither anybody told me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What kind of a . . . It was a regular couch . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . .or a cauki?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Not cauki; couch. That padded couch, bench.