1. Inauspicious comet

    Bali-mardana: There’s a comet in the sky and they’re saying that some very inauspicious…

    Prabhupada: And what is auspicity now? We are describing all inauspicity, even without the comet. [laughter] Where do you find the auspicity? One man said that “He has kicked me, he has beaten me with shoes, and again he has said that ‘I shall insult you.'” Where is the scarcity of insult? If he is beaten by shoes and kicked by his leg, and still he’s expecting some more insult? You are already in inauspicity. Why you are expecting more inauspicity by the presence of comet? We are already in inauspicity. And therefore these descriptions are there. You have no fixture anything — where to live, where to take bath, where to eat, where to have sex life — nothing fixed up. Everything catastrophe, chaos. What more inauspicity you want? Everywhere. Here even one problem, another, in another country, another problem, another problem, another problem. He must be problematic. Daivi hy esa… Because anyone who is not Krsna conscious, he must be punished by the laws of nature. He must be punished. Therefore it is said, daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya, mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam [Bg. 7.14]. They’re already in inauspicity. The whole atmosphere is inauspicious. So if there is little more inauspicity, what is the wrong there? The more inauspicity will come.

    Srila Prabhupada — Hawaii, January 18, 1974