"YOUR purpose is not strong!"

Suresvara Dasa recalls:

"After the Vyasa puja lecture, Srila Prabhupada took questions from the audience."

Srila Prabhupada had been talking about how strong maya is, so a long-haired man at the back of the room asked: "If the purpose of life is to know God, Krsna, then why is it that Maya is so strong?", as if indicating that there was a defect in Krishna's arrangement.

Without a blink or a wink, or skipping a beat, Srila Prabhupada pointed strongly at the man with vehemence and responded: "YOUR purpose is not strong!!!"

Srila Prabhupada had made this statement with such power and profundity that, not only the fellow was taken aback, but everybody present was completely blown away.

Srila Prabhupada's reply, they felt, was meant for each one of them!