Do not be depressed. All along my godbrothers gave me only depression, repression, compression ? but I continued strong in my duty. So never mind there is some discouragement, continue with your work in full enthusiastic Krishna Consciousness attitude of service.
Letter tо Gurudas, August 29, 1972
Always think of the Lotus Feet of Sri Krishna and you will find no difficulties in executing the tasks allotted to you by Krishna.
Letter to Satsvarupa das, August 28, 1973
A little bit of pure thing is much better than huge volumes of impure, adulterated things.
Letter to Brahmananda, August 27, 1969
"Big, big monkey, big, big belly ? Ceylon jumping, melancholy." With big belly a monkey comes forward, and if you ask him, "Jump over like Hanumanji," finished, belly finished. "I cannot do it." And why you have got so much belly? So this is not good.
Vrindavan, August 26, 1975
Chanakya Pandit says that if there is one tree in the forest producing nice aromatic flower, that one tree can glorify the whole forest by the flavour of its flower. Similarly, if there is one tree in whose cavity there is a little fire, that one tree can burn into ashes the whole forest. So this simile is applicable anywhere. In a family if these is one good boy, he can glorify the whole family and similarly if there is bad boy he can turn the whole family into ashes.
Tokyo, August 25, 1970
Emperor Akbar, his chief minister was Todarmal. Todarmal is Hindu. The Muslim emperors used to employ Hindus as chief of department. They did not believe Muslims to become the chief. They knew it very well that these Muslims are not reliable. They can kill their father even.
New Delhi, August 24, 1975
We should not eat more than required. Eating, sleeping, mating, all these are material demands; the more we minimize, then that is good, but not at the risk of health. Because we have to work for Krishna, so we must maintain our health nicely.
Montreal, August 23, 1968
Energy is always kept on the left side. Radharani is on the left side of the Lord, and similarly, Laksmiji is also on the left side of the Lord. We are also marginal energy, not exactly like Radharani or Laksmiji, so we should keep ourself always on the left side of the Lord, and let us act as His Arms, or army.
Letter to Brahmananda, August 22, 1968
Krishna is everywhere. Simply you have to catch Him. And he's also ready for being caught. Yes, if somebody wants to catch Him. Suppose you are a devotee. If you want to catch Him, He comes forward ten times than your desire. He's so kind. Therefore, we have to simply receive Him.
London, August 21, 1973
Maya is on the back side of Krsna and if we keep ourselves always in front side of Krsna, engaged in His service, then the external energy on the back side of Krsna will not be able to attack us.
Letter to Bhagavan, August 20,1970