Who is Srila Prabhupada referring to here?

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> It appears that an offender to a Vaisnava continues to suffer and does not

> give up his life. We have actually seen that a great vaisnava-aparadhi

> continuously suffered so much that it was difficult for him to move, and

> yet he did not die.

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> >>> Ref. VedaBase => Adi 17.54

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> It can't be Mr. N. of Bombay as he died a sudden death.

 

SP Lilamrta Vol 4 "Let There Be A Temple" pg 60 February, 1972

 

" Residing in Madras was an elderly scholar and former leading politician

who had written several books and translations of Vedic philosophy from the

impersonalist point of view. Prabhupada visited him, but the man was

paralyzed and could only sit trembling, without speaking. Prabhupada spoke

for some time about personalism in the Gita. The old scholar sometimes

responded with a glimmer in his eye, but he could only make incoherent

sounds. Previously Prabhupada had criticised this man's translation of the

Gita which declares that although Krishna says surrender to Him, we don't

actually have to surrender to the person Krishna but to the eternal

impersonal principle *within* Krsna. The meeting seemed to have a strong

effect on Srila Prabhupada and for days afterward he would sometimes soberly

mention how the old Mayavadi scholar was living almost like a vegetable."