Krishna Is The Ultimate Artist

Kaushalya Mataji, one of Srila Prabhupada's first female disciples relates the following pastime:

Once, in New Delhi, somebody told Srila Prabhupada:
"This whole world is maya, it's just an illusion!"

Kaushalya Mataji recalls that Srila Prabhupada jumped down this throat and retorted:
"How dare you call it an illusion!
It is beautiful! The mountains are beautiful, the oceans are beautiful; the rivers, the sky. This is a beautiful world! But what it is, is that it's temporary.
And it's just a perverted reflection of the spiritual world. So if you see the beauty of this world, you'll see how beautiful the spiritual world is. A million times more beautiful.


It's like if you were to paint a painting and bring to me and say: "Srila Prabhupada look at this painting I have done for you!"
And I would look at it (with disdain) and say: 'It's an illusion!'
It would hurt your feelings.
So I find it very offensive that you call this world an illusion!"