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- A brahmana priest would come (for the Vedic ceremonies)?
- A Deity of Krsna is carried on an elephant. At some of these big festivals there may be many non-Vaisnavas. Is it all right to show these people? Or should we only show Vaisnavas in this movie?
- A devotee becomes more surrendered because the influence of the modes, the three modes, becomes diminished, or is the influence just changed from ignorance and passion to goodness?
- A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it?
- A devotee is sometimes subject to hankering or lamentation. That is material though, isn't it?
- A devotee may have some demoniac qualities?
- A devotee must work for everybody's liberation?
- A devotee who is very faithful reaches this stage (devotees are neither in the goodness, passion, or ignorance. They are transcendental to all these qualities)?
- A devotee, he can be very poor, but is it okay if he's hankering after something for Krsna? Can a devotee think like that, "Why can't we get a nice house like these people for Krsna"? Is that all right?
- A devotee, how can he control his tongue?
- A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?
- A dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- A God-brother brought up that he heard that Srila Bhaktivinode was at one time an impersonalist. Was he ever?
- A lot of devotees, they never read the books, but they're doing the chanting. It will progress them without reading the books, because they're the most important?
- A lot of people were unable to come. Do you think it will be possible for you to come back to Durban from Johannesburg, after your Johannesburg stay?
- A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement?
- A man is finite. How can he do good for everyone?
- A man may evolve to a state like unto the demigods. Is that a possibility?
- A man shipwrecked on an island alone, he is not in any sense taking part in illicit love. It doesn't mean that he is free from all desire for illicit love. Is it the exterior rather than the interior (that decides)?
- A person (Krsna)? Person in the ordinary sense of the word, or...?
- A person might argue that the Indians weren't satisfied either; otherwise they wouldn't have taken up the English culture. So what's the difference?
- A person who is a Negro, Chinese, Indian, etc. are they different species of life making up the 400,000 species?
- A person who is not indulging in illicit sex life or intoxication and other things has to live a comparatively simpler life... One will live much simpler life, agreed. But at the same time, would it change some complex things?
- A priori we are not born with knowledge of what is right?
- A pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere, that He's never out of your vision, and at the same time in Siksastaka prayers Lord Caitanya explains that "Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be twelve years or more." Could you explain this?
- A pure devotee realizes it as Krsna's energy, but as a neophyte, how do we enjoy material energy in this aspect, the fresh air and the morning walk?
- A statement was made some time ago in a conversation that somebody was looking for the Gita without the Rama. Could you explain what they might be meaning by that?
- A sudra, if he is working, he cannot take brahmana initiation, but he can take hari-nama, is that it?
- A thief commits theft repeatedly and is imprisoned repeatedly, and he has full knowledge of it - then what is the cause of his putting himself into miserable condition of prison life?
- A vipra means he has the twelve qualifications, and he also has the qualification of faith. I don't understand exactly what it means when Prahlada Maharaja says that I should be meditating on a follower who has no faith in God or God watching him
- About a hundred hoods, how could Krsna manage all of those hoods?
- About Guru dasa prabhu's point, when the heart transplant, the soul stays in the subtle body. Is that sound?
- About how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- About Lord Caitanya's civil disobedience. That is with the Kazi? His civil disobedience?
- About my birth?
- About religion, Swamiji. Religion is capable to stop death?
- About the apartment (these are one gentleman came to talk with me?)?
- About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?
- About the eternally conditioned souls and eternally liberated souls. I'd like to know what's the meaning of eternal in both those statements?
- About the shell which you are presently keeping in the temple
- Above the world or in the world (is there any hell)?
- Accepting that there is a eternal soul, how is the soul distinguished, then, from the body or from the machine since things like the senses, the mind, the intelligence, desire and hate, which people accept as the symptoms of the soul...
- According (What is the thesis of life?) to who?
- According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- According to Krsna consciousness philosophy, the first living being was Brahma, and in the Christian Bible it says Adam was the first man. So he wants to know if in Krsna consciousness scriptures there is any mention of Adam
- According to the Aquarian Gospel, Christ was in Jagannatha Puri?
- According to the Bhagavatam, the sun is also 93,000,000 miles away from the earth?
- According to the Vedic conception, is the king or the monarch above the law?
- According to their philosophy, if whether you practice or you don't practice you get the same result in the end, what's the use of doing anything? If at death everything merges back, what's the use of doing anything? Why not commit suicide?
- According to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate whether to eat meat, whether to eat the vegetables?
- According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible?
- According to Vedic theory, when did this yuga begin?
- According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana?
- Actually are devotees or how do they become demons? Are they devotees? Obviously Kaliya is... Just like Jaya and Vijaya, they were devotees. And due to some offense, then they became demons and they fought with Krsna to satisfy Krsna
- Actually, although the actual number of initiated devotees is still few, there is a growing, ever-growing number of sympathizers - So you make good supporter, then government is yours - Then it's all based on selling your books more and more?
- Actually, I was concerned this morning about inflation. The government and the newspapers, they say the biggest problem today is inflation. From our Krsna conscious standpoint, how can we cure this problem of inflation?
- Actually, you were asking if there were any examples of explosions happenning without material cause, and I was just wondering if you could explain how volcanoes explode
- Adhyaki. What's that?
- African? No other meaning to it? No other meaning?
- After all, it is not even one full day yet since you first took the medicine. How can we reject it so quickly?
- After death no death?
- After if one becomes purified, is it possible when he becomes transferred to the spiritual world that he can meet Rupa Gosvami and other great...?
- After King Pariksit, then it divided up (Bharata-varsa), that soon after?
- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- After taking birth again, how does one continue his spiritual progress?
- After taking sannyasa, though, He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) had sikha and Tulasi mala?
- After ten years? Then they (gurukulis) can do Deity worship?
- After that seven months of unconsciousness in the body, in the womb, what does that spirit soul experience from that time till it comes out?
- After the Battle of Kuruksetra there were many men killed. How were all the young people and the women protected after so many millions of men were killed?
- After the festival, Prabhupada, are you going to Vrndavana?
- After the scattering of these Aryans, they have come different place. How is it that we brought all the cultural heritage in north, east and western countries?
- After we die, what happens to our spirit?
- After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?
- After you, is it any decision has been made who will take over?
- Ah, but sir, what is lacking ("if you chant Rama, then gradually you will get attachment for Rama. Then how you can give it up?")?
- All activities done for sake of Krsna or God are the real...
- All classes of men should preach Krsna consciousness?
- All devotees are cultured?
- All new things are created out of necessity?
- All of the prasadam, or just sweets (order the foodstuff from confectioner)?
- All over the entire world we find the Indian community, practically speaking. Is this part of Lord Caitanya's plan to help spread this Vedic culture?
- All prophet is one?
- All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?
- All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?
- All the basic questions are asked, "What is life? What is this?" So many things
- All the devotees here are your disciples, Srila Prabhupada, eternal disciples, eternal servitors. But what if we have to take birth in the material world in the next life? How will we be able to render direct service unto you?
- All the living entities are completely satisfied?
- All the night or do you (sleep) at the day sometimes?
- All the other programs should be continued, and this program (varnasrama college) should be added?
- All the people who are hoarding those grains, that economic procedure to produce famine. What is the way to check them?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- All the symbols in Visnu's hand, are, all the symbols in Visnu's hand are weapons. How is the lotus a weapon?
- All the Vedic literatures? Why would they be written down?
- All the women, when Lord Caitanya was a baby, how did they feel about Him?
- All they're (the scientists) doing is creating the conditions for the jiva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
- All this is prepared by these young men?
- Almost everyone, except me perhaps, is concerned about death. But how about the smaller obstacles which nevertheless can make people very depressed, neurotic? How do you recognize and live with them or eliminate them?
- Also (this Oath of Allegiance should be signed by the presidents also)?
- Also based on karma, that one man is meant to have more than another of material things? Is that an argument against...?
- Also different planets (for the 400,000 different species of human life)?
- Also in Los Angeles they are buying press?
- Also our party is well equipped to do evening programs. So there will be lot of senior devotees, and advance party could arrange programs and do different big temples or different public meetings… You want that, Srila Prabhupada?
- Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now
- Also you mentioned Mullik family in Calcutta to be your grandparents or someone?
- Also, I have brought (indistinct) from the bazaar. In which subji should I put?
- Also, should this college have men and woman or just men (this is a union of various theological schools. So now in Berkeley we have this very nice building, and we can become a member of this Graduate Theological Union)?
- Although a devotee feels helpless in the hands of Krsna, still, in order to execute his duty, he must be very strong... How does he reconcile those two?
- Although we are conscious, our consciousness seems to be affected by different material arrangements... Is that simply the arrangement of the modes of nature?
- Although, Srila Prabhupada, it's somewhat easy for us to convince that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the summary study of all the Vedic literatures, how can we take that Bhagavad-gita is the summary study?
- Always a different color though (the sea). Always a little different isn't it?
- Am I conscious of... My body's being constantly changing?
- Am I keeping you too long now?
- Am I my brother's keeper? Am I, am I responsible for my brother's actions?
- Am I separate from matter?
- Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- America (formerly the Aryans never touched these places. Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here)?
- America is living on advertisement. Right or wrong? I have been studying American, I mean, psychology
- Americans, they are not allowed to see Jagannatha temple. What Prabhu Bhaktivedanta is doing? What he's doing for them?
- Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
- Among the trees also, there are different grades of trees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Among two of the incarnations, there is Kapila and Buddha. And Kapila is practically, finally, the classical Sankhya-ist atheist. How could it be?
- An extra burden on the mind (when there is bunch of hair, we feel it is an extra burden)?... Makes it, weighs heavily on the mind?... So that's the reason why? It makes the mind lighter?
- And a devotee is acting, but he's not getting any mental impression? From his activities?
- And after the (atomic) war what will be the result?
- And after they (people who) join it (Krsna consciousness)...?
- And after you left the college, were you employed?
- And ah, this inside, it grows because of Krsna does it (anything you take, it grows from the Supreme)?
- And all Krsna's soldiers were killed?
- And also that man, that Sastri, the Ministry of Education? That man Mr. Sastri, in the Ministry of Education, the Ratri of Sanskrit-samsad, he bought fifty copies?
- And also this Ujjvala-nilamani?
- And also with that (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden) in the center? Island?
- And another thing I wanted to ask Your Divine Grace is this. This Bhagavad-gita, I would like to print it as it becomes finished chapter by chapter. Otherwise it will be a long time before we have a book
- And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?
- And are these married and...?
- And bhakti... (what is meant by bhakti-yoga?)?
- And Bon Maharaja also has told he is a graduate. What is he?
- And Buddha (this sankhya philosophy which is known in Europe amongst the European scholars, that is the atheist Kapila. It is not the original Kapila)?
- And by origin you are from?
- And can one not directly surrender to Krsna through his own feelings and heart and...?
- And Chapkhanna cannot be very not good. Not very good. Your printing is wonderful. From where... Where is that place? From Japan?
- And Christians, how do you present this? Suppose if someone was a Christian (this is our philosophy, to accept knowledge from the perfect person or his bona fide representative)?
- And did you stay in the city (Moscow), or did...?
- And do they go out and make other disciples?
- And do you have a, what I may call a training in contemplation, in which you get...?
- And during the recess what should they (Gurukula students) do?
- And for design of Gaura-Nitai and Radha-Krsna, we should just use the same design or we should make better?
- And green (eucalyptus twigs). And as thick as the finger?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And he (anybody) cannot change that (given lifespan)?
- And He (Bob Dylan) came to see Srila Prabhupada?
- And He (God) comes in bodily form?
- And He (Lord Krsna) used to come here for herding the cows?
- And he (Syamasundara) is coming tomorrow?
- And he (this kaviraja) says very soon you'll be able to have the strength to actually do parikrama. So why are we throwing everything out the window, that we must go tomorrow? I cannot understand
- And health card (shall I take it)?
- And how about in the south? Do you have many...?
- And how do we get guru?
- And how does Krsna control a devotee?
- And how does yoga...?
- And how is Krsna different from us?
- And how long are you going to stay there (Kashi), sir?
- And how long do you think this takes to (become spiritualized)... for a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And how to surrender to God, how to do this?
- And I think, sir, even Sankaracarya has not meant that we must be short of that. He was also worshiping, was he not? He was worshiping Para-brahman
- And if everybody became Krsna conscious?
- And if he (Blitz) was Krsna before, how is it he's disagreeing with what the Bhagavad-gita says?
- And if it's finished nicely, are we prepared to give them money for that (Vrndavana gate)?
- And if the person rejects that love, does He (God) still love him?
- And if women were subordinate to men, it would solve all of our problems?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- And in Goloka Vrndavana, are there still varieties? Are there still varieties in Vrndavana?
- And in India where is your asrama or something like that?
- And in the way of hospitals (to serve the poor people in the way of welfare)?
- And inside these people doing this work (modern science), is it Krsna? Or what is it makes them do the work?
- And is everybody able to take the nine processes?
- And it (Krsna Book) is just two volumes or...?
- And it (the moon) does not go all around other planets?
- And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?
- And it's the same spiritual body that we had before we came into the material world?
- And Jiva Gosvami and Rupa, they drank from this well?
- And John Temple was here?
- And karma-yoga then (so you can perform bhakti-yoga by fighting, by cooking, by going to the office, everything, if that purpose is for Krsna. That is bhakti-yoga. Is it clear)?
- And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?
- And lastly, a very trivial question. The uniform, the haircut, why is that?
- And lot of people (in Bombay, Juhu Beach) can see you. And they bow down to you?
- And Maharaja, are they (the doctors) able to increase the life by a single moment?
- And material is, nothing but the transformation of maya, is it not?
- And Mayavadis, they do not attain that impersonal realization?
- And now divorce is getting easier too, isn't it (so by one instance I can understand that how in the Western countries people become out of social structure. The root cause is godlessness. Root cause)?
- And now you will remain here in India for some time?
- And now, how...? Do they go through college (your children)?
- And so that group of eighteen secretaries will choose another leader (he has appointed from all the disciples a group of secretaries. Each one is in charge of a different sector of the world... Presently there is eighteen)?
- And space (time is eternal. Reality. And therefore we take time as another feature of God)?
- And steady intelligence, that is acquired by hearing? We can keep our intelligence steady by hearing?
- And that (why you elect? Depend on God) comes through lack of spiritual knowledge, Swamiji?
- And that is also practical (the absolute value is God. That is division. Satyam param dhimahi. That is our objective)?
- And that machine (of nature) also makes distinction, doesn't it?
- And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?
- And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?
- And that works (voluntarily accepting death so that immediately he can return back to the spiritual world)?
- And that's permitted to the grhasthas (they can simply ask help for the bare necessities of life)?
- And that's why the Krsna movement is separate (the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter)… Appears to be separated, that's the way you would put it. Well, is it separated?
- And the actual importance of the Hare Krsna chant, is that in saying the name?... Or is it a... continuous flow?
- And the interpretation is by you yourself?
- And the part where you, which you said to preach Krsna's... to attain the satisfaction of..., but what you have already said, that one should first know himself first, basic...?
- And the pure devotee, does he see the Paramatma feature or does he see...?
- And the purport (of the meaing of verse SB 10.14.58)?
- And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused?
- And the swastika (where does it have it's place in Krsna consciousness?)?
- And then go back to the States?
- And then he (Gopal) arranged programs, speaking programs?
- And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere?
- And then what is the program? Your Divine Grace is coming back to Delhi? From Vrndavana after three weeks?
- And then you went directly to Pennsylvania? By bus?
- And then, then, then I want to make you talk. What will I do?
- And then, when he is physically fit, then he will do the needful. But first of all, by their prayers to Jagannatha, they should make him physically fit. Is that right, Srila Prabhupada?
- And there are particular scriptural verses that speak about this (sraddha, faith)?
- And these asexual people...?
- And they (the Gosvamis) used to meet here daily?
- And they should give us some facilities (a good person is one who is God conscious and lives according to the instruction of God. So there is instruction of God, we are presenting this all over the world)?
- And they told me also that this morning you had some brahminical initiation to the... Gayatri... How many people?
- And this (Gayatri) mantra. What's the purpose?
- And this (primary readings) is all right to use (for the New Vrndavana Gurukula)?
- And this is your first visit to this (Paris) center?
- And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
- And we as human beings, are we part of that (God in three aspects) too?
- And we let the parents know how the children is progressing? Do we have responsibility to parents, to let them know, inform them about the progress of children?
- And what about before they joined Krsna consciousness?
- And what about desires?
- And what about France (you have some disciples)? Is it...
- And what about with people (we are maintaining animals, giving them food, giving them security of life in all our farms the animals are very free)?
- And what are you doing now, sort of a meditation?
- And what do you mean by surrendering, sir?
- And what else would one have to give up (illicit sex and)?
- And what form does that direction take (the direction from Krsna)?
- And what if the brahmana starts to rule the world in their own interest?
- And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows?
- And what is the figure (of people joining) likely to be? Five a week, ten a week?
- And what is the fourth?
- And what is the gain?
- And what is the upasana you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jnana?
- And what is your program, sir?
- And what is your relationship with the Ba'hai faith?... The Ba'hai faith that also preach Krsna consciousness?
- And what is your relationship with, say, the Ramakrishna Mission?
- And what of special foods and special drink?
- And what was his (Prakasananda Sarasvati's) role again in the town? What was he... He was a Vedantist?
- And what were you in India before that? Did you have a religious background?
- And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities?
- And what will it profit us if we get to know about Him (Krsna)?
- And when did you go to the United States?
- And when I have been doing some other saguna puja, another is seen always... Suppose I am doing... Sankara pure puja then I am seeing er, Devi.... Like that it is happening. Secondly, so how to go to nirguna state? That is my difficulty
- And when we understand that… (our movement begins when one understands that he is soul or something other than this body)?
- And when you have these asramas and all, and how to serve the poor people in the way of welfare?
- And when you translate the texts that you use, they come from Caitanya?
- And where did it (the Krsna consciousness movement) first start, which country?
- And where did you sleep? Was there a bed (I was paying seventy-two dollars a month)?
- And who decides what is first class?
- And who is that (everyone is puffed up with his body. Nobody considers even that "When I say this finger, 'my finger, my head, my leg...'") "my"?... Who is that, saying it, "my"?
- And who sees to that ("I want to see, as the chairman of the BBT, that fifty percent is spent on printing and fifty percent is for constructing temples")? The GBC?
- And why should they object if we decide to surrender to one authority?
- And you are sure this is the truth?
- And you had not bad days all your life. Or you were quarreling? I am sorry to intrude
- And you had one house near (the Los Angeles black quarter temple)?
- And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)?
- And you think it's more because of your age, I mean you've got used to a colder climate than India, have you?
- And you think there's enough food (now, so far I have studied, that in America, in Africa, in Australia, there are so much vacant places that the present population of the world, if it is increased ten times, still there is enough food)?
- And you think they (gurukulis) can be taught typing, for instance? A skill like typing and how to use typewriter?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- And you'll continue to take the kaviraja's medicines?
- And you're training them to lead?
- And your actions are perfect actions (we are giving knowledge from Bhagavad-gita. This is perfect knowledge. You take it; you become perfect)?
- And your Godbrother Swami Bon?
- And your health was better?
- And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta?
- And your question about Bhisma deva, after he left this planet...
- And you’ve got another copy of this (book)?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Animals?
- Anitya is temporary, Prabhupada?
- Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...?
- Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...?
- Another question that raised itself, you'll see in the paper in fact, was the little mention in one of the books that I was reading, not from Krsna consciousness movement, just to get a bit of background, on Lord Caitanya, and it seems to have been...
- Another thing is they know they are taking body again and again. They are taking the body again and again after birth. Why they are committing again and again sins and which mode of nature...?
- Another thing that's stated in the Bible, in the Christians' philosophy, they say that God created man out of His own image. It's stated in the Bible. So therefore man has a form, why not God? Because it's stated there in the Bible
- Anxiety for one's self is maya?
- Anxious to learn from the spiritual master?
- Any activities in Krsna consciousness... Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Any difficulties?
- Any elaboration of what you refer to as vanaprastha college?
- Any English literature, American literature, English literature (should be taught)?
- Any Indian history (should be taught)?
- Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
- Any of the sciences at all (should be taught)?
- Any other type of concentration (meditation) you do?
- Any way how to make any progress, or have you any representation, for instance, in Russia?
- Any work you do, do it very nicely. That is expert. Don't do it haphazardly. To your best talent, to your best capacity, try to finish it very nicely, whatever it may be. You are entrusted with some work. Do it nicely. That is expert
- Anybody who comes to the farm has to agree to follow the four regulative principles? These people?
- Anything else in the second scene, fourth act (of a play about Lord Caitanya)?
- Anything else you would like tonight?
- Anything other than this (in Bhagavad-gita it is said, etat jnanam: This is knowledge, and all other things, they are not knowledge) is ignorance?
- Apart from (indistinct) quality of Lord Rama, are there a few other things which could be included while you are worshiping or devoting or meditating on...?
- Apart from Catholicity of the American church, what can be the other reasons of their indifference towards your positive ideas?
- Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being?
- Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know
- Are all religions following? There are so many sects
- Are all spiritual bodies the same? I mean, is your spiritual body exactly the same as...
- Are Arjuna and Kunti Devi in Krishna Loka?
- Are blood transfusions permissible, Swami?
- Are changes visible in Hinduism in its doctrinal content, mode of individual and collective worship as a result of Hinduism's contact with the West?
- Are disciplic successions from Brahma and from Arjuna different?
- Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?
- Are great sages put under yogamaya or maya? Also are all the eternally liberated souls under yogamaya?
- Are human beings the only creations that can have Krsna consciousness?
- Are many people joining you?
- Are men superior in your movement?... Are men regarded as superior to women?
- Are more souls falling all the time?
- Are not all the poor, and miserable, and the weak, God? Why not worship the living God first?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are people using the wrong things to live too sophisticated?
- Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?
- Are Siddha-lokas like angels, Prabhupada?
- Are Siddha-svarupananda Gosvami and Tusta-krsna Maharaja and their followers more advanced in their understanding of Krsna and the spiritual master than the other devotees in ISKCON?
- Are spirit souls alike, or are they different?
- Are sudras supposed to take sannyasa also?
- Are the (book) prices in here?
- Are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life?... Like the dog. Is he happy to be a dog?
- Are the devotees in the mode of goodness?
- Are the impersonalists better than the gross materialists?
- Are the lower human species responsible for sinful activities?
- Are the majority of citizens sudras? In a varnasrama society?
- Are the moon's phases due to the planet Rahu, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are the people (at Srinivasa's house) mainly young people like Himself (Lord Caitanya)?
- Are the people in this age lusty in the modes of ignorance or are they lusty in all three modes?
- Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
- Are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them?
- Are the teachings themself spiritual?
- Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?
- Are there any books written about Krsna consciousness here available in Seattle or any other organizations besides the temple?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- Are there any formal rules that they agree to accept at this stage? Over and above the earlier...?
- Are there any local problems still surviving?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- Are there any murti, having (so I was thinking to take some Deities with me to worship wherever I go)?
- Are there any of the characters listed up here among the brahmanas who complained (to the magistrate)?
- Are there any other Deities besides Kaliya-Krsna you want us to make for Fiji?
- Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings are staying? Why the information is not given about that? About the other earthly planets also (why not? In Bhagavata there is all information)?
- Are there any other prophecies in the Bhavisya Maha-Purana or in any other scriptures telling more accurately Jesus Christ's birthday?
- Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?
- Are there any other, any other nice incidences between this time and when Lord Caitanya got married?
- Are there any prohibitions as to what type of work? For example, would a follower of yours work in a war industry?
- Are there cases of..., which relapse? Persons who begin to withdraw from drugs...?
- Are there Christian also, or Muslim also joining this (movement)?
- Are there different Kailasa-dhamas like is there any Kailasa-dhama in a particular universe also?
- Are there different paths that one can learn to love God?
- Are there different prajapatis for the different species?
- Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are there fundamental differences between, or is it simply a difference in approach between your awareness and interpretations and, for example, those of the people who are involved with Zen?
- Are there individuals in these bodies?
- Are there lines of disciplic succession on planets all over the universe or only on these middle planets, like Earth?
- Are there many decisions that people asked you to make, about whether the movement should do this, or should do that, or do they bother you of that now, or are you just busy writing and translating?
- Are there many Indian-born disciples abroad, or are they mainly Western disciples?
- Are there many living entities within the body?
- Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?
- Are there many songs in there?
- Are there many universes, or only one?
- Are there not certain characteristics that are particularly male and certain characteristics that are particularly female?
- Are there not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?
- Are there not things about which in the mortal life one can have no clear idea?
- Are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Krsna consciousness path?
- Are there other ways besides Krsna consciousness to reach that same goal? Or is that the only goal?
- Are there some people who do not find Krsna attractive?
- Are there some qualifications of grhasthas, that grhasthas, they're required, like they are required to support the brahmanas, like that?
- Are these (Srimad-Bhagavatam) going to be translated into Swedish too?
- Are these actually the tangible signs by which one can judge what is real religion?
- Are these astrological charts very much applicable for a devotee, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are these bad conditions or ailments not part and parcel of God?
- Are these living entities (within my body) constant? They don't change any?
- Are these people consciously cheating or raised in cheating so that they don't know the difference (in this material world, the more you are expert cheater, you are considered very able man. All over the world, so many expert cheaters are going on)?
- Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?
- Are they ("no sinful life." No more illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxicants) prerequisites to accepting your knowledge?
- Are they (our books) sold mainly in the Western countries?
- Are they (the stars) self-luminating like the moon?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are they able to increase the life by a single moment?
- Are they brahmanas (devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement)? Not by birth?
- Are they equal and the same, or are they just equal (those who are actually learned, they do not see the outward covering, either human being or animal)?
- Are they going to start on Mayapur building this year?
- Are they less fallen (the jivas in brahmajyoti) because they are doing some service by lighting it up?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are things bounded by space in the spiritual world?
- Are those rooms you live in, were they formerly inhabited by the Gosvamis, Jiva or Rupa Gosvami, those rooms you have now?
- Are we all part of Krsna and at the time of death if we think of Krsna, like we become what? Like meshed in with Krsna?
- Are we all part of Krsna?
- Are we closer to this practicality when we sleep (when you engage your physical senses in the service of the Lord, then the physical quality of the senses will be diminished or gone, your spiritual sense activities will begin. This is practical)?
- Are we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are we duty-bound to maintain our body?
- Are we even one millionth of what Krsna was?
- Are we giving the knowledge (of material science)?
- Are we going to have any kirtana tonight? What is the program
- Are we more conditioned than the people in the Satya-yuga?
- Are we not all one?
- Are we not observing this eclipse rituals, that, during the eclipse we stop aratis and all of this... And after the eclipse is over, take bath and then do the arati?
- Are we not training all classes of men? In Krsna consciousness...?
- Are we not, potentially, not to understand Bhagavad-gita, then (at least you do not understand. That's all)?
- Are we supposed to chant twenty-four hours?
- Are we to believe in that by chanting the holy name of Krsna that we can attain a higher conscious level on this earth and attain self-realization without going through all the rigors of the old Vedas, scriptures?
- Are we to take Krsna conscious dreams seriously or some illusion?
- Are you a Bhagavan?
- Are you a brahmana? By birth you're a brahmana, right?
- Are you acquainted with Swami Ranganathanandaji? You have met him?
- Are you against medical help? I mean, you want just to let Krsna do His way and not let the doctors help at all?
- Are you all becoming first-class men? You want to become first-class men?
- Are you also obliged to help animals, to help other human beings?
- Are you at all concerned about the, what seems to be an increasing number of gurus and swamis throughout the world?
- Are you attempting to form a college?
- Are you comfortable, Srila Prabhupada?… Little?… What is that "my," Srila Prabhupada?… Massage? Where, Srila Prabhupada? On your leg?? On your leg?… Both sides?… Here, Srila Prabhupada. Hm?…
- Are you ever going to stop traveling?
- Are you familiar with the writings of Descartes?
- Are you feeling any pain, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you feeling the cold in Melbourne your grace?
- Are you getting any opposition from the church?
- Are you God?
- Are you going to give some more instruction (you just show how to Deity worship, how you are doing that, and they will learn. Yes. She is doing that very nice. So you can, all of you, all girls, you take, her. See doing, how she is doing)?
- Are you going to have any kirtana also tonight?
- Are you going tomorrow?... Tomorrow at what time?
- Are you happy always in reflection?
- Are you happy with the way the Krsna movement is progressing throughout the world and particularly throughout Australia?
- Are you happy with the way the movement has really spread?
- Are you in this world?
- Are you interested to know how we produce anti-matter in our laboratories from...?
- Are you knowing people take diksa from many gurus?
- Are you leaving the decision up to me?
- Are you liking the massage, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you married, sir? You say you have no connection with your family? Why? To do this, did you have to divorce? When did you renounce your family? How are they managing without you? Do you ever see them at all?
- Are you perfect master?
- Are you planning to choose a successor?
- Are you planning to go there, to Manipur?
- Are you prepared to die?
- Are you referring to self-realization when you mentioned that Krsna consciousness? Are you referring to self-realization, cosmic consciousness?
- Are you retiring now?
- Are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time?
- Are you saying that our men should have more than one wife?
- Are you saying that there are people on the moon?
- Are you saying that they (men in our society) do more work?
- Are you saying that this (Vedic) knowledge has appeared in many forms? Does it appear also in, let's say, Christianity, in Muslim, Mohammedanism?
- Are you saying that you should never kill a cow but that you sometimes can kill a person?
- Are you speaking of ant-eater? They eat ants?
- Are you speaking specifically about all animal killing, Your Excellency? Or, how do you speak of animal killing? In other words, vegetarian living, is that what you're speaking of?
- Are you suggesting that every person, whether he is Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Jew or Parsi or anybody else for that matter, should accept the Hindu doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of soul?
- Are you suggesting then that what is taken to be liberty is actually enslavement? And what is assumed to be the pursuit of happiness is nothing more than a rat race in which you try to make the best of what you can?
- Are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- Are you surprised to see the popularity of your teachings in the last few years?
- Are you talking about reincarnation, life after death?
- Are you there referring to references from the scriptures (that is explained very elaborately in the Bhagavad-gita: na jayate na mriyate va kadacin na hanyate hanyamane sarire)?
- Are you thinking of formal education now?
- Are you training a successor?
- Are you training people to become teachers in this school, this process of education?
- Are you trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- Are you welcome in Japan? People are interested, eh?
- Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Krsna or as the teacher of His teachings?
- Are you, sir, writing off all scientists because they've failed to understand the spiritual dimension in life?
- Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
- Are your followers encouraged to visit with their... (all family members, children, husband, wife, they are present there. How do you say it is against family? Wrong criticism)?
- Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- Aren't there coverings of the 8 elements?
- Aren't these desires given outlet in other ways? Do we channel the desires to some other field? Instead of seeing a beautiful woman, we see the beautiful form of Krsna, like that?
- Aren't they allowed to boil water in India? In boiling the water do you kill any little insects that are in the water?
- Aren't we all the sons of God?
- Aren't we the images of God?
- Aren't you in a sense eating another soul too if you're eating vegetables? Not only if you're eating meat?
- Arithmetic should be taught (in Gurukula)?
- Arjuna had to fight in the war, didn't he? In the Bhagavad-gita, he still had to... But it didn't matter him killing if it was Krsna's responsibility?
- Arjuna uvaca. These boys understand this, all of them?
- Arjuna was praised as Gudakesa?
- Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?
- As (a man is supposed to be educated when he sees every woman as mother)?
- As a conclusive question, she asks what can we do to help the whole movement to continue to expand?
- As a life member, I am suffering because of this reason that there is no construction of a temple, therefore I cannot develop spiritually. If I have got attraction for a particular temple, why I should be denied?
- As a mother loves the child in pure love, does that help her to also find the pure love in the spiritual world?
- As a practical result of his (Arjuna followed the decision of Krsna, so there is value. He became victorious, he enjoyed the kingdom, and he became a famous devotee) activities?
- As Arjuna he (Nara-narayana) acts as an ordinary jiva?
- As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
- As far as I can operate within my practicality, there are no purple men. I've never seen one; no one has ever seen purple men. So isn't this logical?
- As for the question about menstrual cycle...
- As for your question about celibacy...
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- As for your question regarding the children, what can I do? I am not a teacher. You should ask Satsvarupa on all of these matters, he is the GBC, so everything small and big should be referred to Satsvarupa
- As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As many as in the West, or more (many people in India are becoming spiritually successful)?
- As soon as the modes of nature are no longer working on the spirit soul, then he experiences that he's no longer changing his body?
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
- As the age of Kali progresses, will those people just eventually be diminished and wiped out because they already live so short?
- As the Kali-yuga advances, the human beings will eat their children too. Srila Prabhupada?
- As the Kali-yuga progresses the people are getting smaller. Does this mean that Krsna and His associates were much taller in stature than we are now?
- As the man's concentration through which progresses, how, in what forms he goes on seeing Him (you cannot see unlimited. That is His mercy, that He presents Himself before you in three dimension because you have no eyes to see Him)?
- As the spirit soul is leaving the body, do you become older?
- As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes, atheist and theist, is it not advisable for all religions to come together, and what positive steps can be taken in this direction?
- As the yugas progress, the human body itself, doesn't it become more degraded?
- As we develop our experience, our life progresses, then we develop truth because we see that this idea works in my experience, so then it becomes true. Is this not the process?
- As You have explained in "Two Essays", that as body is covered by shirt and coat, similarly, soul is covered by mind, intelligence, and false ego - if it is so, then who are mind, intelligence and false ego? Who controls them?
- As you, yourself have said: What is talking? What is lies?
- As Your Divine Grace had said, that due to the sankirtana movement an auspicious atmosphere is being created all over the world. So is it not possible that at least for the time being things will improve?
- As your students, we are trying to hear in that way. Now when we go and preach and we tell, if we tell a man, "First of all, you surrender before you'll be able to understand," then what, what question is there of preaching?
- Asato ma sama grad? You said, Prabhupada?
- Assuming for example that Hare Krsna grew to gigantic proportions as Christianity has grown, would not they (the fringe areas, who professed to be the followers of the Hare Krsna) be the difficulty as the Christian is today?
- Astakala-lila. What is that exactly? Eightfold lila or some...?
- At Bheda Dvaraka, that is the residential palace of Lord Krsna. And seven ranis of Lord Krsna. They show each building, their whole building. So what was that?
- At night you're supposed to take tripolin, no?
- At noontime you seemed to be getting a little taste. Did you have a little?
- At one of the programs, somebody raised the question that we cited that Lord Siva is worshiping Krsna, that he is a Vaisnava. So that person replied that Lord Rama also worshiped Siva. So he wanted to know the explanation
- At one time, you had instructed that all the children should attend the main class. They say that some of the very small children have trouble to keep their attention...
- At Radha-Damodara, did you cook yourself?
- At rebirth do we all return as a male if the previous existence was a male, or do we change
- At that time (end of the day of Brahma. End of fourteen Manus) is the earth destroyed, or is it simply covered by water?
- At that time He acted like a magician, that God. How can He reduce it into writing?
- At that time Vrndavana was existing as a village or mostly open area?
- At that time were there only insects existing?
- At the beginning one, the word, and this word was God and this word was with God. So what is this word?
- At the end of Manu's day, when there is flood (the whole thing would be filled up with water. So water course is very heavy. So it can turn even big, big rocks, mountains rolling)?
- At the end of the Krsna Book, when Krsna and Arjuna visit Lord Visnu and Visnu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Krsna appeared through Ksirodakasayi Visnu?
- At the moment of pregnancy (as soon as one girl is pregnant, she should be separated)? From the moment of pregnancy one and a half years?
- At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?
- At the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species... They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?
- At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, there is a subtle reality that the subtle body enters into?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
- At this time should we try to introduce it (varnasrama) in our centers or not?
- At Vrndavana you studied at a later time, then, did you?
- At what age did you realize God?
- At what age may children be recommended for initiation?
- At what age should they (gurukulis) be taught to cook prasadam?
- At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- At what stage could one say that a person is Krsna conscious? There must be a beginning stage...
- At what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?
- Aurobindo? He always had some French people with him?
- Avaroha process?
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- Babar was also a minister of his (Akbar)?
- Back to the temple we'll be performing aratik to Your Divine Grace. And there was not very much time. I was wondering whether during the time we're performing aratik to you, whether it's proper to be giving out cookies to the children?
- Bacteriology, study of germs. So Srila Prabhupada, the reason one person gets a disease from a germ and another person doesn't get a disease, it is karma?
- Bada? That means?
- Baka is a duck?
- Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, Krsna came (Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days)?
- Basically they and myself and others want to know how do we get this spirit into our own hearts and how does this then issue out into everyday living?
- Basically, what have you to offer that is different than the Christian ethos or the Jewish ethos?
- Because for me, God is merely a word. How can you explain God with a word?
- Because he (Arjuna in the beginning denied to fight, but he agreed to fight) was satisfied by his faith in Krsna?
- Because he (Hiranyakasipu) was standing still (his body was practically finished by the earthworm, what is called, moths and ants)?
- Because he has become devotee of a follower of Laksmi-Narayana, he may come to associate with Laksmi-Narayana?
- Because he was the spiritual master, would he be living in a very opulent house?
- Because I inquired with him that whether it is not something to do with CIA, wherefrom your money comes?
- Because of impiety the sun and the moon, people would not be able to see. So there would be no vegetation. And without vegetation, even animals cannot live. So eventually they would take to eating their own children. Is this what takes place?
- Because scientists cannot enter into the actual activity on the moon planet, technically, according to Bhagavata, they have not reached there?
- Because the guru is responsible for taking all of his disciples back to home, back to Godhead, I was wondering what was the position of Lord Jesus Christ?
- Because there's no sacrifice, because people aren't performing sacrifices now, is it more difficult to live off the land? It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?
- Because they are materialists, so whether they live or die does not affect anything so much. But because you are a great transcendentalist, your presence means that so many thousands of people can be saved. How are you feeling, Srila Prabhupada?
- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Because they promise something they don't deliver (the so-called religion, so-called economic development, so-called sense gratification, so-called liberation, they're all cheating)?
- Because we do not know what sin is, wouldn't whatever the authority said be purely an idea to us?
- Because we get lots of that dahi. You drink it cool with a little sugar in it. I think it's good for digestion, dahi. How are you feeling today?
- Because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction
- Beef bouillion (I saw that she (Sally) was feeding her child, one boy, meat powder)?
- Before I go, Your Grace, I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- Before I leave, can they just stand here and have darsana and then we go? Can they come in?... My sister and my brother-in-law.
- Before it can be printed, everything has to go through his hands because he is the chief translator. But at the present moment it's going so slowly. But one arrangement I proposed was to pay him some money?
- Before Krsna, who was?
- Before one has success, the kundalini must be opened. What do you think about this?
- Before the birth of Lord Krsna, was God existing?
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Before you went to America, in India, before 1965, were people coming at all, Indian people, to learn anything? Were they interested in any way?
- Being a brahmana by birth, does it mean anything?
- Being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- Being capable of action, is that a good definition of substance?
- Being in these modes determines your karma, is that correct?
- Being influenced by different degrees of desires, would that influence each person's faith?
- Besides the chanting Hare Krsna and arousing this Krsna consciousness in the people, what else are you doing to establish the way...?
- Better to keep the temple open with the Deities there or can the...?
- Beyond exclusive centers, how far beyond that can it go in the United States?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul?
- Bhagavad-gita teaches us that one should treat a piece of gold and a piece of stone alike. Is it practically considered?
- Bhagavad-gita's Battle of Kuruksetra fought, in which month?
- Bhagavad-gita...is it the proper one?
- Bhagavatam class in the morning?
- Bhakti is really a process of decontaminating the mind?
- Bhakti-caitanya Swami is the fit driver for your vehicles, Srila Prabhupada. Is that all right? I know he would want to come. Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bhakti-caru is just waiting to go and get the kaviraja in the front. Do you want me to bring him?
- Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu was written here, in this place?
- Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhu, Bhaktisiddhanta your spiritual master. How you spent the days, your young age, with Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust (and different name, you can purchase)?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust, or Charitable Trust? Which do you prefer, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bharadvaja is here. He can sing any song you'd like to hear especially this morning. ... Is there some special request?
- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- Bijam, seed, "I am the seed of all existence" (Plato uses the word "idea" in order to denote a subject's primordial existence, or maybe it's archetype. I think that Krsna uses the word bijam)?
- Billiards (What is called? That table?)?
- Biology (should be taught)?
- Birds have language? Animals have their language?
- Black is beautiful?
- Blind leaders and blind followers (another blind leader, so-called leader, he is blind himself. He does not know how to lead people. And the followers, followers are also blind. So what will be the result?)?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- Bol, Srila Prabhupada?… Soda water?
- Both (spirit and matter) come simultaneously?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- Both were the sons of Kasyapa... Kasyapa, gods and demons. By their behavior one sect became demons, no?
- Boy, was he skinny in those days! This is Brahmananda? And this is Kirtanananda Swami sitting down?
- Boy. That's Visnu within their (birds) heart?
- Brahman realization for the devotee in the beginning is just that he realizes his constitutional position as servant of Krsna?
- Brahmana can teach how to fight?
- Brahmana initiation should be strict (actually chanting sixteen rounds, following the regulative principles)... Those are the important...?
- Brahmana is not to accept any employment?
- Brahmananda Swami's proposals, top portion, we'll just add?
- Brain of who (the brain of Einstein)?
- Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
- Brainwash, accha. How you entered in their hearts?
- Brainwashing (to define brainwashing)?
- Brazil (that Ravana's brother, Mahiravana, was in...)?
- Buddha taught very similar things to what the Gita taught also, didn't he? Are there agreeances there, agreement in certain places what Buddha taught and what the Gita teaches?
- Buddha's name is also considered hari-nama?
- But a renunciation of something?
- But a Vaisnava would always offer his respects to a sannyasi. Is that not true?
- But are you asking people, if they accept your teachings, to retreat from the world, like for instance, the people who are surrounding us now?
- But are you feeling better, Swamiji?
- But are you not giving credit ("If you want little credit by experimenting, hydrogen, oxygen mixed together, then how much credit should be given who has created the vast Atlantic Ocean, not only one, millions! Why don't you give credit?")?
- But aren't they also purified spiritually by doing this (distribute these books)?
- But aren't we impure and He is pure?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But as I understood it, you were encouraging death as a form of liberation. Isn't that my understanding? That that was the ideal?
- But because this is the age of Kali, even if the Krsna consciousness movement spreads and even captures governments, how can we stop individual people from doing this (sinful life)?
- But by that time you had some kind of... organization going?
- But can all the masses of people become devotees?
- But can God be defined? We haven't got a definition of God. I challenge you... You cannot. Intellectually, you cannot analyse things
- But can God protect? Even Jesus Christ, he was killed
- But can they not come at the function?... He says some friends are coming at some time, so can you meet them? We can just go back and if you want to walk or something?
- But can you prove that ("This (Krsna consciousness movement) is the only association for understanding Krsna throughout the whole world"?
- But can't we bring chanting of japa into it? Mantra Yoga (regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vrndavana and Bombay)
- But can't you have people doing good for the sake of goodness?
- But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality (in future, everyone may fall and everyone may become elevated. But we have to take his present situation, what he is at present)?
- But did you hold any meetings or anything?
- But do the results of an idea have to be predictable?
- But do they (men living in other planets) not come here sometimes to visit us or we cannot go there?
- But do you accept the validity of other religion?
- But do you get benefits? Benefits there are but not the same (Siva is just like milk and yogurt. The yogurt is milk but it is not milk. You will not derive the benefit of milk from yogurt)?
- But do You mean that up till now your excellency were giving the question of transmigration, field of science, and now you are also taking that subject of God in this sphere of science?
- But do you think it's unusual, the fact that it's an Eastern, mysterious Eastern religion has an appeal to American young people?
- But do you think most of the Hare Krsna members will vote in the election in November?
- But do you think that really God love human beings and...?
- But do you think they (the dinosaurs) were on this planet?
- But do you think they (the Koran or the Bible or any other religious) are successful?
- But does he (the pure devotee) focus his mind upon the two-armed...?
- But does He not say that "Whatever or whoever does it, it comes to Me" (the Mayavadi philosophers, they say that "We can chant anyone's name, either I chant of any demigod's name or any name")?
- But does it depend on knowledge? I mean, the final judgement that you make (then you must know what is distinction between Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan, if you are serious student)?
- But does that light (coming from the snakes which have got jewel on the head) also keep them healthy (the people in those seven other planets where the sunshine does not go)?
- But does this not imply - one ten-thousandth the size (the size of the soul) - does that not imply measurement, that it can be measured?
- But doesn't bondage give the incentive to live (good bondage, but it is bondage, after all. If you are prisoner, first-class prisoner or third-class prisoner, you are prisoner)?
- But doesn't it (faith) come first because of trust?
- But doesn't Krsna know if I will do it (misuse my independence)?
- But don't we do that also (Caitanya Mahaprabhu was interested only on the spiritual platform. He had no idea of material side. He rejected material side)?
- But don't you look upon him as a religious man? Gandhi, religious man?
- But encouraging (to give money to the temple) is not recommended?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But even accepting their idea that things are produced from chemical reactions, who is creating the chemical reactions?
- But for Brahmananda, he may remain sannyasi? Brahmananda?
- But for happiness, or ananda, isn't bhakti essential, love, or ananda?
- But for his actions other than just following the four regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds. He does so many other things during the day. Where does he derive his authority if he's not, let's say, living in the temple?
- But for our plan to be put into action on big scale, big people must accept, who, who are presently, who presently have power to control the state... So is this to say that we must... replace them?
- But for what purpose and to what end? What's the final end (ultimate is that you are spirit soul, you are being materially engrossed, you are creating different situations and you are being transferred to different bodies. That is different situations)?
- But from '65-'66 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- But God can communicate differently?
- But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
- But have they (devotees) met God?
- But he (Gandhi) did not accept any post, you know that? At the same time...,
- But he does it on your behalf (he's guru. He's guru)?
- But he has to be yogi at that time, isn't it?
- But how about the people living next door or the people...(everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra)?
- But how can so many cheat?… Together they all cheat, they all say they went to the moon. One thousand scientists, all together in one room? They all say, "We agree, this, they went to the moon, here's the..."
- But how can that (real process is devotion) be scientifically presented? How can we accept that scientifically?
- But how can they (scientists) prove the existence of the soul through experiment?
- But how can we understand all this science and technology just by understanding Krsna, just by one book?
- But how do they (disciples) know they're pleasing you, Srila Prabhupada?
- But how do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- But how do you know it (egoism is there in ass also)?
- But how do you know one authority from the other?... But what I mean is you use the word authority, saying why would he translate that into English without authority? Now, what is the authority and who has the authority?
- But how does someone prove that something exists beyond his..., beyond our senses?
- But how does that give us sense content (this is sense content, that sarvam khalv, "Everything is Brahman")? What does that mean to my sense observations?
- But how does this differ from the Hebrew scriptures? Hebrews also say the same thing, you know, that you have fallen down from the heaven and go back...?
- But how has the cockroach been formed?
- But how many of them (people in India) practice it (Krsna consciousness)?
- But how problems of India... like poverty, and this lack of balance between rich and poor. How these problems can be solved?
- But how so many things are working under the laws...?
- But how that will affect the atmosphere and Krsna consciousness of the temple (that hall is made, constructed for making some money, then the money will not come if we don't rent out to the cinema actors, actresses)? It's not that the theater...
- But how they have forgotten this is the greatest, I mean, mystery to me. Because the sadhus voluntarily, I mean, embrace poverty?
- But how to convince them (the Ramanuja and the Madhva)?
- But how to engage these people who are desirous who have desire of serving Krsna in Bombay? If you are talking about a farm and other things
- But how to make the people realize importance of Bhagavad-gita?
- But how we can get them to come, to take prasadam?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But how would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- But how would you know, anyway? How are you able to tell, anyway? I mean, for any of your disciples or us or anybody that goes to any spiritual master, how are we to tell... True master. How are we to tell one from the other?
- But how you can say he (the pope) is not the best Christian? He is the head of all the Christians?
- But I am God, right? I am God. You are God too
- But I have never heard anything of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, and I wondered if you would tell me a little bit about him, if you would?
- But I mean they do, these men who are space travelers, they say "We did land on the moon." Now are they lying?
- But I mean, how about in your view (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- But I'm going on the argument that his medicine is doing some good. So I don't want to see it stopped. So you have no objection if we consult the other kaviraja, do you?
- But I'm trying to ask does he (the Presidential candidate) have to be Krsna conscious, involvement, in order to be God conscious?
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- But if he's (indistinct), then where is he going to get the money for his food?
- But if I think I'm happy, isn't that enough?
- But if it's (independence) not good for me, if I will misuse it, why would Krsna give it to me anyway?
- But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?
- But if that energy (God's energy) is perfect, how can it violate?
- But if the standard is happiness, and the hog is happy and the devotee is happy, then what is the distinction?
- But if there's anything that you feel that you want to ask me or...?
- But if they (the faithless) take some prasadam, that will help them?
- But if they (the scientists) accept, do we have program ("be Krsna conscious and solve all the problems." This is our point)?
- But if they're committing so many sinful activities, murdering their father and like this, then how will they get to that stage of being able to approach Krsna consciousness?
- But if this energy (the spiritual energy, everything is ever-existing) was never created, then what is the need for a creator?
- But if we don't make the research, then how will we ever solve these problems?
- But if we tell that that there is no law of gravity, they will say that why is it that if you throw up a ball then it comes down?
- But if we tried to do that, wouldn't it be sort of artificial (they go in the village for begging little food, that's all. Just like you can live in this forest. And what you will eat? Two capati. So you can go and beg. That's all)?
- But if what you say is true, why don't more people know about it? There are so many teachers. There are spiritual teachers and...?
- But if you're actually followers of God, then why are you breaking up the families? Shouldn't you have love for everyone?
- But in all humility, Srila Prabhupada, supposing that they would succeed in actually creating the living cell artificially, what would we say?
- But in India there are so many people. They're not disciples; they're not initiated by you. So are they in the same category (a brahmana woman who came to touch the feet of Lord Caitanya; immediately He went and jumped in the Ganges)?
- But in our Krsna consciousness philosophy the ideas are not to be re-evaluated. Aren't they absolute, the philosophy of Krsna consciousness?
- But in the people in general, how can we engage them also in Krsna consciousness? How can we provide them a means to use their leisure time to perfect their lives?
- But is each cell an individual living entity?
- But is good bondage good?
- But is it (that worship made by trees and other lower animals) voluntary or involuntary?
- But is it not animal food?
- But is it not correct, Srila Prabhupada, that Paramatma is the (...) is behind?
- But is it possible to also learn spiritual truths from this..., from representatives on the subtle plane?
- But is it possible to lead the life of a grhastha and at the same time think of that (janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvatah)?
- But is it possible to understand Krsna directly?
- But is it the guru? Does the guru give him that sense (when one is actually in service, then he comes to.... "So I have enjoyed. Now, no I don't want. Now I want Krsna." That is voluntary)?
- But is meditation in itself..., would that be sufficient to transcend these lower...?
- But is that correct (in any position, if you worship Krsna, then it is all right)?
- But is that true (training should be given from childhood)?
- But is the converse true, that we chant very well and that we can love Krsna even when we cannot love our fellow people?
- But is there a great time period between the different divisions of the creation?
- But is there any special, specific person who wants to go to India immediately?... Who would like to have visa?
- But is there anything wrong with accepting the fact that you are mortal, you die, you rot and you become nothing?
- But is there something else that you may know or that you may feel that you may be able to say that would assist us in a reduction less than the ideal?
- But is this force (nature is forcing) irrational and blind? This is what he thinks
- But isn't inflation possible even with coins? Even if you have gold coins, isn't inflation still possible?
- But isn't it better to give up all ego altogether?
- But isn't it by force anyway (Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver, "You love me, otherwise I shall kill you.")? If we don't love Krsna, we suffer
- But isn't the bhajana that you do for concentration?
- But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world?
- But isn't the tendency there to exploit the man and take more profit (I have hired one man to work for me. I have to pay him and therefore I require profit)?
- But isn't the understanding of the white light composed of seven other colors, isn't that also a fact of direct sense perception?
- But it (prapatti or surrender) is not yoga. It is different from yoga?
- But it is possible to man without the helping of God to realize his perfection?
- But it requires some emanation from a cockroach body in order to create another cockroach body. So how can a cockroach body be created from vapors without contact of another cockroach?
- But it's not by Krsna's sex desire. What is the meaning of the words "Krsna's sex desire"? Krsna's satisfaction?
- But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that?
- But it's the same with Arjuna, wasn't it (clear word is there, "Thou shalt not kill." And why they're maintaining so many slaughterhouses?)?
- But just because you have two different kinds of energies, why do you have to differentiate them (you cannot say that, that the temperature of the sun and the temperature of the sunshine is the same)?
- But just like when we want to try and attract someone to Krsna consciousness now, the main theme is to try to get them to come and stay at the temple. But will that continue in the future?
- But Krsna means... Who is He? Is He a personal or impersonal?
- But Krsna will always be there if we want to go back?
- But Krsna's disappearance, about having a maya body that He left behind. A maya body. Is that anything to do with Mayavadī?
- But Mahabharata describes all the continents even way before that, doesn't it (...the Vikings first discovered America, they said... From Scandanavia came, before Columbus)?
- But maybe he's taken (he's not sannyasi, he is householder), I don't know, I thought he had a danda, one of those staffs. I saw the little temple in the garden, Krsna and Radha, where they stay in bed. It's like a bed like this. You know the one?
- But most people are materialistically minded, aren't they? There's very few that aren't
- But mostly they are in America. Also in that number in Japan (in one week, the books, total of books, was seven lakhs books in one week)?
- But nobody off the street would go into the temple, would they (our business is to sell this book so that people may take advantage of it…. we have got fifty books like that… We are giving enough knowledge)?
- But nonviolence is not well in every case?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- But now do you not think that Christianity and Islam accept this (when he is on the platform of Brahman realization, then he becomes jubilant, prasannatma, na socati na kanksati. That life is required, Brahman realization. That is education) as well?
- But now I'm wondering how this should be managed, who should take charge of this project (this one gentleman has already offered one house in Bangkok. He's put at our disposal, in the middle of the city. A very beautiful house)?
- But now they are again becoming a mouse, the Americans? Now they are losing the favor of God?
- But now we should not teach them any exercise at all?
- But on the spiritual platform, everybody (on the material platform, nobody is prasannatma)?
- But on this one time should we bathe directly?
- But one must come to that point of being serious to recognize the problems of life? Before one can understand your books, the karmi must become serious to understand that he is in misery and that he must get out?
- But one should pray, is that so?
- But people are objecting that: If we cannot get divorced, then we are forced to live with each other even if we hate each other
- But people in general you say are walking on the dead platform in live bodies (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- But people know when they're doing evil, don't they?
- But philosophy is meant to understand the ultimate goal of life. What does he say the ultimate goal of life is? What is his ultimate goal of life?
- But Prabhupada, I'm still not quite clear. In other words, we'd teach, for example, like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam (on the varnasrama college)?
- But Prabhupada, there are still such things as dead matter?
- But Sagar Island, isn't that in the Bay?
- But she (woman) doesn't have any structure at all until marriage?
- But somebody asks, "How do I know a bird is not more highly advanced than a human being?"
- But sometimes the impersonalists, they say, Prabhupada, that this Krsna consciousness is just the beginning platform, that after Krsna consciousness then one can come to impersonal realization
- But Srila Prabhupada, the living entities, the jivatma within the..., and the Paramatma within, why the living entities suffering even the Paramatma is directing the living entity within?
- But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?
- But suppose the government is atheistic (the leaders cannot control nature, so why don't they accept a supreme controller? That is the defect in society)?
- But surely there is a practical point of view also. There is nothing to eat. What will happen?
- But that (Bhagavad-gita as it is) must be also a translation, mustn't it? Whoever puts it into English
- But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada?
- But that subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- But that would be the same if I could see a picture of you or I could see a...?
- But the body is important to the self isn't it?
- But the bones of those people that they've found, where are their bodies now? Have they gone to some other...?
- But the extinct species are not all present at this particular moment on this planet, are they?
- But the innocent souls, they're not surrendered to Krsna?
- But the intelligence is awarded from... Intelligence, according to the individual, is awarded according to pious activities?
- But the personality is changed (what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one)?
- But the question comes up that you have given a vow against fire at the time of marriage that the husband will look after the wife and the family. Then how does that fit in when you leave the family all of a sudden?
- But the Sanskrit wasn't give here?
- But the sheep has no sense of herd. What poor sheep can do?
- But the world will never all become Krsna conscious, will they? There will always be different scriptures
- But then God in His essence is Atman, Brahman, not Krsna. Is that what you're saying?
- But then is that man that's hammering the bricks, isn't he going to quit hammering the bricks, too?
- But then it is very bitter or... Because medicine will be a little bad tasting. Very much bitter, no, Srila Prabhupada?
- But then there is an argument, if we were originally in the spiritual world, why don't we remember that and try to go back to the spiritual world?
- But then what is the action for the... Practical action, practical... (when there is no more people following their sva-dharma)
- But then what is the stimulus? Why will they... (Krsna says, "Anyone who comes to Me, back to home, back to Godhead, he does not come again to this material world which is full of misery")?
- But then who created the creator?
- But then why do you fear this death of the physical body (the material body is the cause of pains and pleasure. So if you don't get the material body, if you remain in your spiritual body, that is real enjoyment)?
- But then, in the event that some present GBC member leaves, either leaves (how many GBC's are there already? So add him. GBC is not to be changed)?
- But there are in India other community of Visnu...?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- But there are some very intelligent men who are not spiritually enlightened, perhaps even men who understand that they are not, or the body is not all, the body is dead and there is something else. Why aren't these men spiritually aware?
- But there is no, no atheism, literate, some atheism, atheism, atheism, religious indifference, materialists exist in the towns, in the towns (in India)...?
- But there must be different stages that you go through, is that not correct?… Can you tell me from your own experience some of these different stages you've been through
- But there's no doubt it would be a big help if we could give Ph.D.s. Wouldn't it establish? Give some prestige?
- But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...?
- But these religions are just material. These Hindu, Christian, Muslim, they're following these things because that is simply their destiny? They don't know how to please God, so that's simply part of their happiness and distress?
- But they have choice within maya. Isn't that a fact?... Choice what to do in the material world, many different fields. They will say that they can do this or that
- But they may say "Where did God come from?"
- But they permit this kind of thing (Russian young boys are as good as Americans. By artificial means they have been checked. The Russian government is not good at all. Suppression. Simply suppression)?
- But they say, "Where did Krsna come from?"
- But they will be on the altar or they will be in front (and on the opening day the Deities will be on the altar or they will be in front when they're bathed? When the bathing is taking place in Bombay for the opening...)?
- But they'll actually manage the government (one day our men will be leaders of government? - Yes. Leaders means as soon as you make the public in your favor, you are leader)?
- But this is Krsna's inferior energy, right (my body is also Krsna's energy. I am also Krsna's energy. I am always with Krsna. Simply I have forgotten it)?
- But this young boy who was asking what to do with the fascists the day before yesterday, he wanted precisely violence to fight against the fascists. You, remember...?
- But those devotees will eventually go there. Those kind of devotees like devotees of Sita-Rama, they will also attain the spiritual sky in their various positions?
- But to a layman what would you preach?
- But to become learned, you go to so-called learned people, and you go to so-called learned people. How do you know that those so-called learned are...?
- But to get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- But to whom did God give the seed (material nature is the mother, and God is the father)?
- But trained by others or trained by themselves (a certain man can be trained up as first-class man)?
- But ultimately you're basing all your faith factually, aren't you, on your reasoning?
- But wasn't that school (the gurukula school in Texas) moved to India?
- But we are so insignificant. Why should God waste His time talking with us?
- But we must all perform yajna?
- But we were all cheaters before we came to you, Srila Prabhupada. So how is it that we're not accepting a cheater? How is it that we cheaters have accepted some knowledge from you?
- But what about Lord Caitanya? He is a little rare
- But what about people that are never exposed to Krsna consciousness?
- But what about the cheating going on, big cheating, international cheating about the space flights?
- But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
- But what are you going to do about your security? Can I talk to this about this, you know?
- But what do the hogs think (you rascal, you do not know what is pleasure. Just like the hog. He's also enjoying pleasure, eating stool. So your pleasure is like that. You eat stool and enjoy life. That is your standard of pleasure)?
- But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- But what do you see happening to (the future of) the actual world? Do you see any... You know, with Christianity and other religions? The world has... a beginning and an end
- But what happens if you do die before you finish (I have taken up my translation work, Bhagavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation)?
- But what I'm basically asking is what are these ksatriyas going to fight with?
- But what if they asked you, "What is this all about?" (they came... Naturally they came and joined me and began to dance, that's all. That is the beginning)
- But what if they change later on in their life (you believe in free choice. So suppose the children grow up and they want to go to college. But you have not sent them to a public school. Therefore they are not eligible for going to college)?
- But what if you are reincarnated into other planets? Is it less painful, or is it the same procedure?
- But what is our inner things? How we know it? In our classical music, actually Lord Krsna is the main figure in all... In even Muslim classical music, they also pray Lord Krsna
- But what is that sun?
- But what is the breaking of the pot (you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with)?
- But what is the meaning of akarma?
- But what is the position now? Is it dying out or increasing?
- But what is the stage at which it is atma gets merged with Paramatma? If atma would get merged with Paramatma then...?
- But what is the use of having big strong body if now they're using airplanes and tanks and guns?
- But what of our efforts to conquer cancer and tuberculosis (no, we do not say that we are making progress like you. We are trying to make spiritual progress. We are servant of God. We never say that we are very big men)?
- But what was your experience of that saksaska?
- But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty... Then those karmas don't affect...?
- But when the body is finally finished, aren't the senses also finished?
- But where can I stay in the night?
- But whether Prabhupada will eat some? Prabhupada, you will try to eat the Gujarati ruti and dal?
- But who is to say... what is a perfect experience?
- But who sees all these things (mayavadi says zero, just like the sky. The sky is there, but it is zero. You cannot see the planet)? That is what...
- But who wants to make eggs (write in the paper that, Prabhupada was speaking like that, a challenge to the scientist: Is there any scientist who can make an egg which is put in the incubator and gradually it comes to become)?
- But who was responsible for bringing this body into existence? ... The owner?
- But why are we in the prison house?
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But why do you blame us for not surrendering when we see that even Krsna's devotees can't surrender to Him? They come to us and ask us for money for these books. Why don't they give them away?
- But why existence of all these things (I have already said that we have got our imperfect senses. We cannot understand. But we have to understand from a person who has got perfect knowledge)?
- But why give names to Him? Why give names to that God?
- But why is there no disease here? Why is there no symptoms (they argue that this Vedic philosophy is coming from India, and in India there is so much disease and so many problems, but here, where we have our science, there is no disease)?
- But why only the name Krsna?
- But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance?
- But why should we be callous to the sufferings of others?
- But why the samudra changes (phenomena is changeable, always changing. Just like this samudra - sometimes here, sometimes there)? We go into there, into deep depth of that...
- But why would God want to keep the living entities in darkness?
- But why, why 1966 (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)? I mean what was there, what was there, special about the Sixties?
- But within each atom the living entity is present?
- But without pain how can you experience pleasure?
- But would that mean that a person who is a pure devotee doesn't have to die?
- But would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- But you are me and I am you. We are both God. Right?
- But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?
- But you can come to God consciousness through a variety of paths?
- But you can improve it (this world)?
- But you don't find that the fact that your monks are wearing robes or shaving their heads is a difficulty in the West, where not many people...?
- But you don't require recognition of any court, do you?
- But you know Aldridge?
- But you led a rather normal life - before this you were married. You were a businessman?
- But you mentioned in Miami... This is the reason I'm bringing it up. In Miami we mentioned that we would be discussing at Mayapur. Something, you know, should be done so that...?
- But you might want to come back to the U.S.?
- But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
- But you, aren't you translating your books still?... Isn't that a great joy, a great joy to you?
- But young men don't tend to be wise, do they (so at the early age, up to twenty-five, he's trained up. If he can, he can continue as brahmacari. He directly can take sannyasa)?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
- But, Guru Maharaja, if one has some original faith in Jesus Christ or Muhammad, would he...? They think they're sons of God or a messenger of God
- But, Guru Maharaja, one has to do her duty as advised?
- But, of course, there are conflicting educations, aren't there (people should be educated that "If you do not perform this yajna, you will suffer")?
- But, Prabhupada, the point was, can there be more than one article (in the BTG) by yourself? Or only one..?
- But, sir, if we are drop of the same ocean, why should we be impure at all?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, don't you think that the medicine is working, is having some good effect?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, is this valid to conclude that spirit, spiritual world, or life is very complex?
- By a reintroduction, reintroducing Krsna consciousness, the tide can be turned in age of Kali?
- By argument you can convince a skeptic of the possibility of the existence of God, but the reality of Godhead can only be really realized... I mean has to be experienced or realized, does it not?
- By brain what do you mean?
- By details (in the beginning don't talk of these details) do you mean the rules and regulations?
- By elaborate you mean effective, is that? You mean effective by elaborate? I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate (well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate)?
- By His grace, Krsna will show Himself to you?
- By our desires we are pulled?
- By pleasing Lord, one does not please one's own ego also to some extent?
- By preaching Krsna consciousness would you condemn other people's beliefs?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
- By the frogs (kumbhaka; this art is known by the frogs also)?
- By the mercy of Supersoul, he (the pure devotee) can be present in many places at once?
- By this (there are degrees of light), you mean that those who adopt the teachings coming from the Koran or from the Bible is lesser light than from the Gita?
- By understanding this mantra, Hare Krsna, if you do not know any scriptures, you do not know srutis, mantras, anything, then has any effect at all?
- By who (their (the Marwari's) food is first class, there is no doubt. Yes... It is certified by Sir P. C. Raya), Srila Prabhupada?