Swamiji’s lectures often included the metaphor of falling back into the material illusory ocean or maya. He would gesture as if throwing a stone. One day Vince got confused and yelled, “I don’t get it. It’s just another religion, another sectarian cult.”

He stomped out of the temple.

Brahmananda and I looked at each other, and I said, “He fell back into the
ocean of maya.” Brahmananda made the gesture of throwing a stone and said, “Bloop.” After that, every time a devotee left we’d say, “Ah, he’s blooped.” Or if someone was misunderstanding we’d say, “I think he’s gonna bloop.” Or when someone didn’t show up for a few weeks, we’d say, “He’s probably blooped.” Bloop became our word for leaving.

Some weeks later the Swami asked, “Where’s that boy Vince?”

Brahmananda said, “Oh, he blooped.”

Prabhupada slowly turned to Brahmananda. “Bloop? What is this bloop?” Brahmananda gulped and meekly said, “Well, you’ve been explaining how if we do not catch onto the lotus feet of Krishna, again we will fall into the ocean of material illusion. So, like a stone falling into water, it makes that
sound – bloop.”

Prabhupada paused, considered the word, and said, “Well then, if he has blooped, what can be done?”

(From BLAZING SADHUS or Never Trust A Holy Man Who Can’t Dance, by Achyutananda Das)