If you teach them not to become drunkards, not to become woman-hunter, the modern society, where you can…, where is our business? Our business is to [indistinct] the problems, and stop them, [indistinct] and drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes, and so many problems. And then what is our business? Teach the Westerners: “Give up,” like that. So what is our business? Then we have to show them. This is our position. Therefore it is said, “It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.” That I was thinking in the beginning, that “I have come here as wise man. How these rascals will accept? They are so much addicted to all these things.” I never expected that anyone will accept it. It is simply Krsna’s grace that some of you have accepted; otherwise I won’t complain. Bon Maharaja, hopelessly he left. And so many big, big horses came, and I was a little horse. Bora bora ghore gela rasatala, beta ghora bole koto jal. Horse, they was swimmer, but the stream was so strong, big, big horses were carried away, and one pony, he was, “Can you tell me how I cross the river?” That means he wants to cross over. He was informed that many, many big horses, they jumped over and they fell in. But he still escaped. So my position was like that. Big, big Vivekananda and so on, so on, they came, they became victims themselves. Instead of stopping illicit sex, he became subjected to illicit sex. And when he returned to India he brought with him two women secretaries and intimately associated with them. That was going on. One was Sister Nivedita, another was some Baladestya[?] or something. He could not find any male disciples, so he took two cheap women. This is Vivekananda, when he returned, two women, and one of them was very intimately connected with him. Just see.

Srila Prabhupada, Conversation, June 13, 1976, Detroit