Advancement in Krishna consciousness is proven by the progressive diminishing of all sense desires.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — May 14, 1975, Perth 750514MW-PERTH [50:49 Minutes] Walk_750514MW-PERTH [in car] Prabhupāda: Sixteen hundred thousand. And what is their calculation? Gaṇeśa: 250,000.
Prabhupāda: 455,000? Paramahaṁsa: 250,000 miles from the earth. They say it is very near the earth and that the sun is very far away. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...circumstances, it is now doubtful whether they are going to the moon planet. Paramahaṁsa: Yes. [break] [on walk]
Amogha: In the newspaper yesterday there was an article about New York City. The city government is going bankrupt because they... They have asked the President for 1,500 million dollars emergency aid. Because of crime and dirtiness and noise, all the rich people are leaving New York, and they can't get any taxes from the poor people.
So they don't have money to pay to run the city.
Prabhupāda: Yes. I have seen. New York is very dilapidated, many quarters. And especially Second Avenue, those are very dirty.
The... On the Fifth Avenue, that Central Park is also very dirty. This civilization will collapse. It cannot be run on.