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April 5

Any yoga, either karma-yoga or dhyana-yoga or jnana-yoga, any system of yoga, once begun in this life, that will continue. That will continue. Yoga-sthah kuru karmani.. The Bhagavata says, Srimad-Bhagavata says, tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam harerbhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi yatra kva vabhadram abhudamusya kim ko vartha aptah, aptah abhajatam sva-dharmatah [SB 1.5.17]. This is speech by Narada to his disciple, Srila Vyasadeva, that "You should try, people, to connect them in spiritual life, in conducting spiritual life. It doesn't matter even if he fails to complete the course; still, he's not loser. Still, he's not loser. He..." The whole system of Vedic knowledge, especially the Krsna philosophy... Krsna philosophy - the whole philosophy.

Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.49-51, New York, 5 April, 1966