Hare Krishna Quotes:

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love

- George Harrison

topic: And Love, Krishna, Hares, Hare Krishna

No matter how much money you've got, it doesn't necessarily make you happy. You have to find your happiness with the problems you have, not worry too much about them, and chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.

- George Harrison

topic: Worry, Matter, Too Much, Hare Krishna

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

- George Harrison

topic: Mean, Thinking, Track, Hares, Hare Krishna

When you're open to something it's like being a beacon, and you attract it. From the first time I heard the chanting Hare Krishna, it was like a door opened somewhere in my subconscious, maybe from some previous life.

- George Harrison

topic: Doors, Firsts, Krishna, Previous Life, Hare Krishna

It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

- George Harrison

topic: Would Be, Benefits, Krishna, Hare Krishna

Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and chanted all the way. It gets you feeling a bit invincible. The funny thing was that I didn't even know where I was going. I mean I had bought a map, and I knew basically which way I was aiming, but I couldn't speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese. But none of that seemed to matter. You know, once you get chanting, then things start to happen transcendentally.

- George Harrison

source: "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

topic: Mean, Funny Things, Speaks French, Portugal, Hare Krishna

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Spiritual, Intellectual, Sensual, Chanting, Hare Krishna

Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

- George Harrison

source: "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

topic: Krishna, Hallelujah, Hares, Hare Krishna

Chanting Hare Krishna can make a person a better Christian.

- George Harrison

topic: Christian, Krishna, Hares, Hare Krishna

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

- George Harrison

topic: Cities, India, Krishna, Hare Krishna

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

- George Harrison

source: "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

topic: Nice, Reality, Meditation, Hare Krishna

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Sunday, Night, Meals, Sunday Night, Dorm Rooms

We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.

- Pat Robertson

topic: Karma, America, Meditation, Vishnu, Wheel Of Life

Wherever I go in the world, when I see devotees, I always say "Hare Krishna!" to them, and they're always pleased to see me. It's a nice relationship. Whether they really know me personally or not, they feel they know me. And they do, really.

- George Harrison

topic: Nice, World, Krishna, Hare Krishna

"Hallelujah" is a joyous expression the Christians have, but "Hare Krishna" has a mystical side to it. It's more than just glorifying God; it's asking to become His servant. And because of the way the mantra is put together, with the mystic spiritual energy contained in those syllables, it's much closer to God than the way Christianity currently seems to be representing Him.

- George Harrison

source: "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Expression, Spiritual Energy, Glorifying God

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

- Haruki Murakami

source: "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami , Chapter 19: Oshima, 2002.

topic: Gay, Pigs, Wind, Hare Krishna

Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

- George Harrison

source: "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

topic: Thinking, Car, Creative, Auto Industry, Hare Krishna

If you repeat something enough it can literally physically change the air particles around you and it can infuse the air with this sacred sound vibration, or it can change your material body, like transform your flesh to spirit. These are all beliefs within the Hare Krishna philosophy we were brought up with.

- Taraka Larson

topic: Philosophy, Air, Sound, Hare Krishna

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

- Padma Lakshmi

source: "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

topic: Church, Way, Krishna, Fried Chicken, Hare Krishna

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Spiritual, Stress, Practice, Hare Krishna

One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from an overdose of drugs. I cried tears – my model had died. After this, an exciting new group, the Radha Krishna Temple, came on and sang the Hare Krishna mantra. I immediately felt deep solace.

- Sacinandana Swami

topic: Drug, Tears, One Day, Rolling Stones, Overdose

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

- George Harrison

topic: Sweet, Krishna, Lord, Hare Krishna

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

- Taraka Larson

topic: Spiritual, Differences, People, Spiritual Music, Hare Krishna

We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.

- Taraka Larson

topic: Growing Up, Play, Age, Linear Time, Hares

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?", p. 327, 1995.

topic: Soul, Progress, Pedestal, Mantras, Hares

It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Self, Names, Meditation, Advisable, Hare Krishna