Chanting without following regulative principles delays spiritual progress like wet wood delays a blazing fire.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — February 3, 1975, Honolulu 750203MW-HONOLULU [38:06 Minutes] Walk_750203MW-HONOLULU Devotee: Nature's law?
Prabhupāda: Yes, how the nature is working. Devotee (1): It's working, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ suyate sa-carācaram [Bg. 9.10].
Prabhupāda: Yes. Devotee (1): Acting under Kṛṣṇa's...
Prabhupāda: Under Kṛṣṇa's plan. Therefore you cannot violate nature's law. As soon as you violate nature's law, then you will be punished. [pause] Devotee (1): Bhagavad-gītā, that prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni...
Prabhupāda: ...guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ [Bg. 3.27]. Yes, and prakṛti is working under the direction of Kṛṣṇa. That means..., nature's law means Kṛṣṇa's law or Kṛṣṇa's plan. So what is the Kṛṣṇa's plan?
What Kṛṣṇa wants? Yaśodānandana: Kṛṣṇa wants every living entity to come back to home, back to Godhead.
Prabhupāda: Thank you. This is the plan. If this plan is not executed, then there is suffering. So this human life is given to the living entity for understanding this plan and do the needful.