The word Hare is the word that calls upon the energy that's around the Lord. If you say the mantra enough, you build up an identification with God.

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect.

When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.

Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.