Svarūpa Dāmodara: Practical application is more important than theoretical knowledge.
Bhakti-caru: That also they don't have.
Brahmānanda: Mr. Nārāyaṇa recognized that about our Society, that we are applying Bhagavad-gītā. He said, "I see from very early morning hours you are applying Bhagavad-gītā," because he attended the maṅgala-ārati.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He was very impressed. He is naturally a devotee, Gujarati. He's naturally a Kṛṣṇa devotee. He can appreciate the importance of ārati and Deities.
Brahmānanda: That man from that āśrama...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Aurobindo.
Brahmānanda: Auroville. He was poisonous, very poisonous. Mr. Bajaj wanted to conduct the proceedings in English just so that I would be able to understand, because I was sitting as your representative, but that man refused.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What did he say?
Brahmānanda: Well, he just spoke in Hindi, and he said something in Hindi to Mr. Bajaj that "I want to speak in Hindi," and he continued speaking in Hindi.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All artificial platform, surface. "Hindu, Indian, Hindi."
Brahmānanda: He was very envious, that Auroville, of what is going on.
Jayādvaita: They're nothing.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They are nothing. No one ever heard of them outside of India.
Prabhupāda: Aurobindo never preached in Hindi.