Prabhupāda: Māyāvādī-bhāṣya sunile haya sarva-nāśa (CC Madhya 6.169), finished—his spiritual progress is finished if he associates with a Māyāvādī.
Madhudviṣa: It says in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, even if we look upon the face of a pāṣaṇḍī, we should jump in the river with all our clothes on to become immediately purified, what to speak of giving any aural reception to them. But then again we see that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu listened, you know, attentively for so many hours to Sarvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and also Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī. How is it can we understand...?
Prabhupāda: Just to see how the animal is jumping. (to passers-by:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya, jaya. (chuckles) Just like a fish is given freedom, even if he's caught up by the trap. It is like that.
Madhudviṣa: So Lord Caitanya had him on the line all the time.
Prabhupāda: Lord Caitanya was waiting, "Let the rascal go on speaking. How long he can speak?" (laughs)
Hari-śauri: He just waited till he dried up.
Prabhupāda: Jaya. He's foolish. He knows that he has got some limited stock; it will be finished very soon, so "Let him finish, then I shall capture." That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's policy.
Madhudviṣa: But should we take that example or...?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why not?
Madhudviṣa: We can also listen to the Māyāvādīs and then defeat them like that?
Prabhupāda: If you are so qualified like Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Madhudviṣa: (laughs) Otherwise we should...
Prabhupāda: Otherwise you will be captured.
Madhudviṣa: Otherwise we shouldn't listen.
Prabhupāda: No.