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George: I like the idea of seeing Kṛṣṇa as a baby, the way He’s often depicted in India. I like the idea that you can have Kṛṣṇa as a baby and feel protective of Him, or as your friend, or as

insert taken from the cover of Prabhupāda’s Bhagavad-gītā showing Kṛṣṇa and His friend and disciple Arjuna

Mukunda Goswami: Oftentimes you speak of yourself as a plainclothes devotee, a closet yogi or “closet Kṛṣṇa How did you first come in contact with Kṛṣṇa?

What’s the difference between worshiping Kṛṣṇa, or God, in His personal form and worshiping His impersonal

the movement – but in a sense it didn’t really matter if they said something good or bad, because Kṛṣṇa The fact that the media was letting people know about Kṛṣṇa was good in itself.

George: And if I didn’t get feedback from Prabhupāda on my songs about Kṛṣṇa or the philosophy, I’d get

Is there any special way you like to think of Kṛṣṇa?

television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa , Hare Kṛṣṇa while bolting on the wheels.

Mukunda: Is it an instantaneous process, or gradual?

“I wanted to show that Hallelujah and Hare Kṛṣṇa are quite the same thing. I did the voices singing ‘Hallelujah’ and then the change to ‘Hare Kṛṣṇa’ so that people would be chanting I had been chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa for a long time, and this song was a simple idea of how to do a Western

produced a hit single, “Hare Krishna Mantra,” performed by George and the members of the London Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Top 10 or Top 20 best-selling record charts throughout England, Europe, and parts of Asia, the Hare Kṛṣṇa chant became a household word – especially in England, where the BBC had featured the Hare Kṛṣṇa Chanters

Wherever I go in the world, when I see devotees, I always say “Hare Kṛṣṇa!”

As soon as the plane began bouncing around, I started chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare against the seat in front, my seat belt as tight as it could be, gripping on the thing, and yelling Hare Kṛṣṇa , Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare at the top of my voice. Peter Sellers also swore that chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa saved him from a plane crash once.

George: It’s like the difference between hanging out with a computer or hanging out with a person. Like I said earlier, “If there is a God, I want to see Him,” not only His energy or His light but Him

Prasāda really helped me a lot, because you start to realize, “Now I’m tasting Kṛṣṇa.”

Everybody has to burn out his karma and escape reincarnation and all that. Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we’ ll beat them, and then we’ll all have a rest and live happily ever after.

There’s a lot of people out there who are just waiting, and if it’s not today it will be tomorrow or next week or next year.

Vaiṣṇava tradition [the spiritual culture centered on loving devotional service to Lord Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa , the Supreme Personality of Godhead], where the modern-day Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has its roots

The great saint, mystic, and incarnation of Kṛṣṇa who popularized the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa and founded the modern-day Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.

Beatles’ spiritual quest of the sixties, and up until his death in 2001, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare