Determined Krishna consciousness practice transcends material modes and reaches Krishna through sincere effort joined with prayer.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk at Stowe Lake — March 23, 1968, San Francisco 680323MW-SAN FRANCISCO [31:11 Minutes] Prabhupāda: First thing is, their calculation of Candra..., moon planet, they have different views. Different scientist, they have different views. It is not a standard. They have not agreed to the...
Somebody says something, somebody says another thing. Speculation. That's all. But that idea, that it is very low in temperature, that is mentioned in Bhāgavata also. You cannot live in the water.
You have to qualify yourself. [sound of ducks] Just see. Their body is made just suitable for the water. So you have to qualify yourself. That is... Just like in the spiritual sky they can live only spiritual body, and material body cannot live there.
Material body is not allowed there. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā madhye tiṣṭhanti rājasāḥ [Bg. 14.18]. [Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.] Those who are too much passionate, they are meant to live in this planet. This planetary system, status. There are many other planets like this world.
So they are allowed to live here. Here all living entities, they are very much passionate. And adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ. And there are other planets, they are dark, dark planets, below this earthly planet. And the animals, they are in darkness.
Although they're on this park, but they do not know where they are, darkness. Their knowledge is not developed. So this is the result of the modes of ignorance. And those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, they are neither in darkness, nor in passion, nor in goodness. They are transcendental.
So if one cultivates Kṛṣṇa consciousness nicely, he is at once promoted to the Kṛṣṇaloka. That is wanted. You are all chanting sixteen rounds? No? [laughs] Śarādīyā: I did at first, but then I slipped back. Prabhupāda: Is it very difficult? Mālatī: No.