Danavir Goswami: When we would come back through the alley, we would stop right beneath Prabhupada’s room and his window and we would continue chanting there until Prabhupada came to the window and traditionally he would wave. On one particular day, we were out there chanting and Prabhupada looked out the window and waved. And then he told Karandhar, “Don’t involve them in this,” and he was speaking about the controversy that was going on with the sannyasis. He said, “Don’t involve them in this, they are innocent.”
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Danavir Swami