krishna/articles/2009/003

The animal propensity is to exploit others. And human propensity should be to do good to others. That is the difference between animal propensity and human propensity.
- Seattle, September 24, 1968

The more people will be materialistic, the world will be burdened. Therefore, there must be war, pestilence, famine, to clear these rascals out.
- Vrindavan, September 22, 1976

Radharani is the source of spiritual inspiration.
- Calcutta, September 23, 1974

Krishna takes special care of the devotee, guides him, and gives him intelligence? Just to give him the clue how one can go back to home, back to Godhead. Krishna does not give intelligence how one can gain some material prosperity. Therefore, people are not very much interested in worshipping Krishna.
- Bombay, September 26, 1973

If one is situated in real Krishna consciousness, he can face the most severe type of adversity and remain completely undisturbed.
- Calcutta, October 5, 1971.

If there is some earthquake or there is some danger, naturally, spontaneously, we pray. But we forget it. The tendency of offering prayer to the Lord at the time of danger is automatic.

So we should know that we are in danger. We are in this material condition of life means we are in danger. Therefore we should pray.
- Durban, October 7, 1975.

For us, every day is New Year’s. Krishna is always new, always fresh, and we are always celebrating Him. Just see how these people in maya are celebrating, drinking poison to forget everything!

Because they are frustrated, they want to forget. But for a devotee, it is just the opposite. The devotee wants to remember Krishna at all times.
- New York, 1966

So far as we are concerned, our new year is every day because Krishna belongs to the nitya lila. Nitya lila means that all of His Pastimes are going on in either of the so many universes.

It is just like the rising of the sun. In your country the sun is supposed to rise at 6:30 at the present moment, but at any time you can inquire in some part of the world and there it is the same 6:30 and sunrise.

While you are in this meridian, in another country it may be 6:30 AM, and the sun is rising.
- Correspondence, January 1969, Los Angeles

May Krishna bless you all more and more, in this year and all years to come.
- Correspondence

Well, our every day is a New Year. Nava-navayauvana. Our Krishna consciousness is so nice, the more you advance, you see New Year, New Year.

That's all. Nothing is old. But we are feeling new pleasure in every moment. Take any other chanting, you cannot chant more than few hours. But the Hare Krishna mantra we can chant perpetually.

So unless there is new enlightenment, how we can do that?
- Conversation, January 1974, Los Angeles