In short, they will not be easily prejudiced, one way or the other, and use their discrimination always before or after accepting one as a saint or Master.
If there was a case like Iyer's in the West, I would not hesitate to explain the situation to the person, because I know he would use his discrimination and could digest and accept when my explanation was duly given. Whereas, a person in India, however educated, would very rarely do this due to difference in ideals, the ways of thinking and certain traits of character.
In India, people with a very firm and staunch faith in a Master, such as myself, would at once start thinking and would react with prejudice if I were to go to a cinema or certain places of amusement or recreation. Whereas, in the West, people would on the contrary almost forcibly take me to the movies or theaters and such places. For those persons in Europe or America would use their discrimination and see nothing wrong in a Master who works on the physical plane going to places of amusement or recreation. Whereas those in India would not tolerate for a moment such an idea, due to the rigid ideals and prejudices that saints or Masters have nothing at all to do with things of the world, much less with amusements and entertainments! And one who would do this — visit cinemas or theaters — could never be a spiritual being, much less a saint or a Master.
So also, in many other things of daily routine, regarding food and clothes, modes and manners of living, et cetera, for which people in India have certain very rigid ideals as to the lives and activities of saints being always in caves, mountains, or in ashrams situated in very secluded places away from towns or cities. Those saints must have a certain appearance with a beard and long hair, or be clean-shaven all over like swamis. They must have a certain type of dress, long robes, white or ochre-colored kafnis, and they must not eat or drink certain things. They must live mostly on milk and water or fast. The more abstinence, the greater their spiritual dignity and advancement. They must know the religious scriptures — the Shastras for Hindus, Sufic and other literature for Mohammedans. They must also do certain yogic practices or asanas [exercises]. Life in their ashrams must be regulated and disciplined under certain rigid rules for all alike.