“I was present on four occasions when Srila Prabhupada repeated the Chanakya adage, ‘Never trust a woman or a politician.’ On each occasion Srila Prabhupada looked me in the eye to see my response. On the last occasion, in Bombay in 1973, he quoted the saying, heartily laughing in front of a small group of men. Then he said: ‘What do you think, Yamuna?’ Immediately I retorted: ‘Of course it is true, Srila Prabhupada,’ where-upon he became grave, looked at me with great feeling, and said, ‘But you are not a woman; you are a Vaishnava.’” Srila Prabhupada’s consistent goal is to help us tran-scend all material designations. He wants to see each of us advance spiritually."
