1. Vivekananda

    Nitai: Once I met a little old lady on the streets of Denver when I was distributing books.

    Prabhupada: Old lady.

    Nitai: Very old. She was walking down the street. She was all bent over. And she asked me what I was doing, and I showed her our magazine and explained that we were teaching Krsna consciousness, and she said, “Oh, is this yoga? I remember way back when Vivekananda came here. Have you ever heard of him?” So we began talking about Vivekananda. She said that she was there when he made his tour. She was in Denver when he made his tour of the United States, and that he stopped there for one meeting and lectured. And she went there to see that meeting, but she said that all in all she was disgusted with him because he was so much attracted to the women. She said that he was victimized by the women. They were all trying to get him, and she said so when he went back to India he was a broken man.

    Prabhupada: Yes, he took with him three women. One of them was Sister Nivedita.

    Srila Prabhupada, Room Conversation with Professor Olivier Lacombe — June 14, 1974, Paris