Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
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- Yadava Krsna spoke with Arjuna... It was the personal God Himself or it was an incarnation, this Krsna which is in Bhagavad-gita?
- Yadubara wanted to film you translating. Is that all right?
- Yamunacarya was sisya or guru of Ramanujacarya?... Ramanujacarya was guru or sisya?
- Yeah, but do they have any prohibition about these religious discourses?
- Yeah, but people following you, could, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- Yeah, well, when a person is attached to that group in the temple, isn't this, become a lust too? You see, being influenced by the group and also attached to the people...
- Yeah, within one material life (gain release from birth, death, and old age)? You necessarily don't have to return?
- Yes (if you require car, you have a bullock cart. That's all. Why should you hanker after petrol, mobile, oil, machine, this, that, so many things. Why?), but don't you think that it would be impossible for you to come mostly?
- Yes (we do not approve anything which is not actually beneficial). But what about certain technological advancements like airplanes and automobiles?
- Yes, and if they receive-they'll take anything, they are so renounced. So isn't that more spiritual?
- Yes, but degradation is not...? Is it not a law of nature?
- Yes, but how can a psychologist judge a religion? That's not his field. They have to bring in scholars whose field is religion
- Yes, but if you say fact (it is not belief, it is fact), how do you prove?
- Yes, but we in Krsna consciousness, we aren't interested in that Paramatma, are we?
- Yes, but when you go out do you feel it (the cold)?
- Yes, fried portal also. Would you like to have some capati with that, Srila Prabhupada? Capati? Or some rice?
- Yes, I accept that view (if you are unable to give perfect knowledge, then what is the use of taking knowledge from you). But how do you prove that a man...?
- Yes, I would most certainly like to come back if I may. What is the best time?
- Yes, I've seen this morning's. Fairly similar, just to talk about the movement. Are you happy with the way it's going here?
- Yes, seahorse. Did such an animal exist, seahorse? Or is this man's imagination?
- Yes, Srila Prabhupada... So why don't you develop?
- Yes, that means I am not the body, I am something beyond body. And what is that beyond body?
- Yes, that the president's recommendation is overseeing, is scrutinized, by GBC, so that when Your Divine Grace gets a recommendation, it's been, by someone else, it's been checked. Do you think it's unnecessary?
- Yes, there may be God, but what does it matter what I do? He is controlling everything. What do I have to say?
- Yes, we can make. How many garages do you want?
- Yes, we have lost. That is right. And we are gaining it again. The heaven is lost; heaven may be regained. (laughs) What is that, Milton's?
- Yes, well, due to problems that do occur from time to time, we.... You know, what people consider to be the false guru, is that all right with you?
- Yes, what's the most important practice…He is asking whether one technique is more important than another?
- Yes, why doesn't Krsna come and do it (they want historical evidence for everything) now?
- Yes. But if someone has a temple and he maintains a Deity for his personal sense gratification...
- Yes. Can you scientifically prove this, sir (you'll get next body according to that mentality)? I mean is it purely a matter of belief or...
- Yes. Till (Balarama's. So fasting) noon?
- Yes. We eat that (kalmisan). We shouldn't let it grow in the pukkur? It's growing in one little corner of the pukkur
- Yes. Yes. Of course, that (I do not know what is my future. Then what is my education?) is one standpoint, isn't it?
- Yesterday I met a devotee from New York who said that there were many people present at the festival from other planets and that you could see them. Is that true?
- Yesterday in Assam seven student have been killed, but is it the communists who killed them?
- Yesterday you gave an example of a man who was lying asleep in bed, and he is transported somewhere in dream, walking on the beach. What is the full analogy?
- Yesterday you said that the spiritual master may have to suffer due to the sinful activities of his disciple. What do you mean by sinful activities?
- Yesterday you said when one becomes initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, his body changes?
- Yesterday you took dal and ruti? ... How was it tasting?
- Yesterday, that film arrived?
- Yesterday, you said that Krsna appreciates when a devotee accepts voluntary adversity. How do we know when we should accept this adversity?
- Yet no two (flowers) are the same, are they?
- Yet now there is a new controversy in America because during Christmas season our book distributors dress themselves up as Santa Claus. You've seen Santa Claus?
- Yet you say that there are several processes for knowing God. Is that right? That are written? And that only one can be used now?
- You (Srila Prabhupada) accept our (his disciples) karma also. Is that correct?
- You (the actual head of the Krsna movement) have no successor when you move into another dimension; that from the masses, from the disciples that you have throughout the world, someone will rise to take your place when you move to another world?
- You accept to answer my questions?
- You all have moved your school out of Texas. Is that correct?... Why was that done?
- You also said if you decorate Krsna, make Krsna beautiful, your heart will become beautiful ?
- You always point out that sometimes people say that bhakti is sentimental, but where is there more scientific person than Jiva Gosvami, more philosophical?
- You always return as an animal?
- You and your movement tend to separate people from concern with what's going on in the world, like that's a Presidential election and Jimmy Carter is the democratic candidate... Isn't that an example of it?
- You are a cultured man. You're educated... Did you not learn...? Who gave you the talent to translate your Vedic scriptures?... Who gave you the talent, father?
- You are accepting to you questions put by a young man. Will you still kindly answer all questions put by an old?
- You are allowed to go freely, or there are restrictions for your movement?
- You are at this particular time then the head in the world of this movement? Would that be correct?
- You are enjoying death and old age?
- You are finding some difficulty with sex desire and have asked guidance from me to instruct you how to handle this problem of the material body
- You are going by plane or by car?
- You are going to have a temple there (South Africa)?
- You are going to Kumbha Mela tomorrow?
- You are in fact the spiritual leader of these students. What does that mean?
- You are in general, then, trying to increase the interest in God. Is that correct?
- You are in India today a religious life, or...?
- You are intent to serve the Lord Krsna in the same method for ever?
- You are just beginning that (yogendra-rasa) now, of course. Tomorrow you might give it up. Then what will be our position?
- You are leaving tomorrow morning? Only today you have got time?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not organizing a yatra in Paris?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are not suggesting that all of that (if they stop manufacturing, there is unemployment. And if they increase car, there is power shortage. So this dilemma, this modern civilization will have to meet this dilemma) is just cut away completely...?
- You are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
- You are of the same line of Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher, no?
- You are participating in it, are you not (he asks if you are going to participate in the Ratha-yatra Parade)?... Will you attend the one here in New York?
- You are ready for bathing, Srila Prabhupada?
- You are saying at the present moment we are all suffering?
- You are saying that man shouldn't have bondage?
- You are selling your books in Moscow?
- You are the founder of this movement. You are the founder?
- You are the head of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Is it a church?
- You are traveling all Latin America now?
- You are travelling to India, I hear?... Are you establishing a university in India?... At Navadvipa?
- You arrange the marriages?
- You ask how you can become free of envy
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not?
- You ask one question about the nature of books I want you to write as my disciples?
- You asked earlier about our program for educating society; are you still interested in this?
- You asked if we will remember the earth, when in Vrindaban...
- You believe you can transmit that to other planets?
- You belong to the Caitanya...?
- You belong to West Bengal?
- You brought them (the Deities) from Jaipur?
- You came here not too many years ago. Did you ever expect that it would grow into what it has over the years?
- You came here ten years ago, or eleven years ago. You were almost seventy at the time...?
- You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?
- You can do it in two hours, but by bullock cart it will take five hours. We have... You had difficulty even doing a half-hour parikrama around this temple. You became very faint. Whether you think that you can go five hours in a row?
- You can feel that it's still loose. How long will it remain like that?
- You can feel things deteriorated? In what respect, Srila Prabhupada?
- You can have more than one (ksatriya)?
- You can love God and be near God and train to be a medical man. Why don't you let some of your boys be trained to be medical men? Why do you say no?
- You can see the Deity as too strong, repressive, taking away your freedom, your own wishes and so you can come to hate the Deity
- You can't read or talk to someone (while chanting)?
- You cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it?
- You choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?
- You commented that, you gave the words "Never trust," if I understood you right, "never trust an old man and a politician (a woman or a politician)"?
- You conclude that when you become enlightened, you will see the God in form of human nature?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You could explain something of what the scientists are always talking about, mutation and variation, and how one species evolves from another species?
- You did not begin to teach Srimad-Bhagavatam when you first came to the U.S.?
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You do agree that there are many people who do try and cheat?
- You do perform wedding ceremonies?
- You don't allow the tea here in the...?
- You don't feel the cold in the nighttime here?
- You don't find it possible to achieve any absolute condition in our time?
- You don't have the Bengali panditas teaching Sanskrit (at Navadvipa)?
- You don't like fruit juice?
- You don't mind those steps going up?
- You don't pay ... in Bombay?
- You don't think it's possible to stop willing?
- You don't think that people could have a gift for healing?
- You don't think that somebody could be an instrument to help other?
- You don't think the patients have any mind of their own?
- You don't think there's some irony in that (boys and girls undressed themselves and got in the mud and they just played with the hogs. Dirty, just living like the hogs, which they worship)?
- You don't think, Prabhupada, they have reached the moon?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You don't want the card, do you?
- You don't want them (peanuts) heating or anything?
- You don't want to drink anything today?
- You don't want to go to Krsna?
- You don't want to take those pills the other doctor gave you? You don't want to take those pills for your urine?
- You encourage anybody who disagrees with aspects of your philosophy to argue with you?
- You enquire about the mode of goodness, and why such people do not worship Krishna
- You expect him to pay that money back, or not necessarily?
- You expect that they would oppose?
- You explained that we have three kinds of miseries: adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika. So adhyatmika is the misery also of the mind. How can I understand?
- You feel that you can continue to make those serious travels?
- You feel weaker?
- You first made ice cream in New York, Srila Prabhupada? Someone told me that in 26 Second Avenue, did you make..., you made them ice cream when it was very hot?
- You founded the Krsna consciousness movement. How long ago was that?
- You founded this movement I think it was ten years ago, that's correct. Why was it that you left till you were so late in life before you founded it?
- You gave some diet that we should follow. We shouldn't have meat, eggs, fish, and chicken. Can we eat cheese? Is there anything else we should not eat in our diet?
- You go for a prescribed course of study?
- You go to bed at two-thirty?
- You go to Detroit from here?
- You got a copy, eh, Easy Journey to Other Planets?
- You got a report?
- You had a paternal guru?
- You had a yatra, I guess, in San Francisco, didn't you?
- You have a farm now?
- You have a taste for nim?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have a way to stop the crime?
- You have asked about "chemical changes of consciousness" or drugs, and if these may ever be utilized in Krishna's service
- You have asked about construction plans in New Vrindaban...
- You have asked about Gaura Nitai deity worship by the householders in Los Angeles. That is for those who live far away from the temple and cannot attend
- You have asked about my travelling schedule...
- You have asked about Rupanuga
- You have asked about singing the prayers of Narottama Thakura...
- You have asked about the compiler of Sri Brahma Samhita...
- You have asked about the management of our society, and the position is that management should be done in such a way that people may not break away. That is the first business of management
- You have asked about the printing of Srimad-Bhagavatam...
- You have asked about the specialness of the month of Karatieya
- You have asked about where you will get the money for bookbinding equipment...
- You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the Sankirtana Movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the Sankirtana Movement
- You have asked as to where is the ocean of love?
- 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. So you are asking how this can be so?
- You have asked for some men...
- You have asked for some song translations...
- You have asked for the translation to the Text 63, chapter 1, Fourth Canto...
- You have asked how the Sankirtana activities become more relishable every day...
- You have asked how you can thank me
- You have asked if I found it difficult to carry on devotional service when in my household life...
- You have asked if it is true that the Spiritual Master remains in the material universe until all of His disciples are transferred to the Spiritual Sky?
- You have asked if the Yadu dynasty has continued beyond Satasena
- You have asked in your letter to Purusottama if you should observe the lists of 44 offenses and 44 regulations for deity worship...
- You have asked me - Prabhupada (Letters)
- You have asked me about my plans...
- You have asked me about sassafras...
- You have asked me for suggestions of what to say to different persons on Sankirtana Party...
- You have asked me how many hours you should work?
- You have asked me if the spiritual master is ultimately Krishna
- You have asked me some questions about the functions of sex life in Krishna Consciousness
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest" as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest'' as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me to assign you to some duty...
- You have asked me to disclose my dream about John
- You have asked me to let you know about the concrete plan for Bombay...
- You have asked me to send you a check for $4,500, but this is for the first time you have asked me to pay on account of BTG...
- You have asked me to tell you everything that you should know...
- You have asked me to tell you whether you are right or carry one by the following the foolish advice of Kirtanananda...
- You have asked me to write something about Mr Paul...
- You have asked me what are the formalities that you have to observe for recruiting Krishna devotees in India...
- You have asked me what I feel is the best engagement for you at this time
- You have asked my permission whether you can stay in San Francisco...
- You have asked some specific mantra...
- You have asked that somebody go there to Fiji to assist you...
- You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krishna
- You have asked what is a brahmacari's work?
- You have asked what is meant by illicit sex. Sex should be used only in marriage for begetting nice children to raise in Krsna Consciousness
- You have asked whether you may use charcoals to use for fuel during the winter...
- You have asked your spiritual children to leave the outer world in the West and to go deep within the heart of ISKCON, within your heart and the heart of the Supreme, to accomplish what you've set as their goal. What about outer service to humanity?
- You have asked... (Letters)
- You have been to Communist Russia, and was there any church worship? The Eastern Orthodox church used to be the standard Russian religion. Is there any church worship in Russia today?
- You have centers all over the world?
- You have come to a round visit to the west now?
- You have different schools for men and women, is that correct?
- You have given the example that one has to give up certain habits such as one should not smoke and things, but is it true that that is not the ultimate goal of transcendence?
- You have got a center established in Iran?
- You have got a copy?… If I could have access to it?
- You have got a school, a Krsna school?
- You have got such chelas there (disciples from Islamic countries)?
- You have had so much to do with bringing the dharma to the West. What is your idea? What is your mission? It seems to me, in many ways there is a transfer of the essential spirit going West, because the interest is there
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky...
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky?
- You have inquired about my books...
- You have inquired about the Jagannatha Car...
- You have inquired about the quality number 63 of Krishna that He is surrounded by loving devotees...
- You have inquired if you should learn the German language...
- You have inquired why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka. But perhaps you have missed the point
- You have mentioned many authorities, beginning with the Veda, Brahma-sutra, Bhagavad-gita or wisdom of the Mahabharata. Do you accept all truth?
- You have mentioned pain within the body. What is the origin of pain and the origin of imperfection?
- You have pain in that hip, Srila Prabhupada?
- You have priced these books very high comparatively for the poorer countries. Do you have any plans to reduce...?
- You have said simply by eating prasadam this is controlling the tongue. But still, we have tendency when there is a big feast to eat very much prasadam. Is this a good thing, or...?
- You have said that India should take this movement seriously. How do you want India to take this movement?
- You have said that you have nullified the law of gravity, but how can we explain that everything is falling down?
- You have said, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God." Is not God eternal, therefore how was there a beginning? And if the beginning was the word, who was it spoken by or how was it spoken if it was the beginning?
- You have seen (Niagara Falls)? How do you like it?
- You have seen (the Niagara Falls)?
- You have seen that letter (from Aldridge)?
- You have so many disciples, thousands, and one devotee was asking me yesterday, "I want to please Srila Prabhupada. How does he know my progress and my service when I'm so far away from him and if I don't write him?"
- You have some project here. Can you kindly explain what is that?
- You have sour cherries too?
- You have started that school? Yes. Could you sometime tell me about that school. They teach Sanskrit, English?
- You have taken that tablet for passing more urine?
- You have ten swamis. And outside of swamis, what's the lower?
- You have the temple of Krsna?... You have a community in Paris?
- You have to spend (before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task)?
- You have very frankly inquired from me about householder life, especially in the matter of sex relationship
- You have written that Maha-Visnu has some attraction to the material world?
- You have, that letter has a return address from Mandalibhadra?
- You haven't heard of it (the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement)?
- You hired a sankirtana party?
- You indicated in..., before you came here (Washington), that you were interested in meeting some leaders in the city. Have you met any of them?
- You indicated that the creation of this universe takes place in stages. Darwin's theory also says that first there was water, then vegetation came up, and then gradually every species evolved. Is there correlation?
- You just sleep a couple of hours, then (in the evening Srila Prabhupada goes to bed at ten o'clock and gets up at eleven-thirty to begin translating)?
- You knew him before?
- You know from Meher Baba?
- You know him (Mr. Dubhai), and Himavati. I told them I'd see you pretty soon. I thought maybe you might be interested in seeing a few pictures?
- You know his (Paramananda's) wife, mother Satyabhama? She sent you a gift. Do you want to see it?
- You know that book Rupanuga's putting together?
- You know the Cardinal that you spoke with in Paris? You know how he died?
- You know the Cardinal that you spoke with in Paris?... You know how he died?
- You know the story (of the tortoise and the hare)?
- You know what a papi I am. I don't think the Krsna consciousness is so easy...?
- You know, it sticks in the mind, about the leaders and the government, you said it. Is the duty of the leaders of the government to see the people are happy. In this context, how do you see the government of India?
- You know, Prabhupada, I really feel like I should concentrate lot of my preaching here in New York… What do you think?
- You like with peanuts (Rice Krispies)?
- You like with peas (Rice Krispies)?
- You live in New York?
- You made a good point about why although now thousands of American boys and girls are coming to India, no one is going to the Ramakrishna Mission, so what kind of impact has he had?
- You made the statement in your purport that the moon is giving life to the vegetation on this planet. So how it can be a desert?
- You may achieve recognition of the God that's in yourself, of that aspect... Without being pantheistic, you mean?
- You may come back?
- You mean ("This is required?") the part about the books ("I shall follow the instructions of the books..."), Srila Prabhupada?
- You mean a mortar and pestle?
- You mean about the Eastern and Western (they are thinking that they are body. "I am Muhammadan, I am Christian, I am American, I am Eastern, I am Western," all bodily conceptions)?
- You mean actually Krsna is in here?
- You mean by intuition can we understand?
- You mean he (Bon Maharaja) has been corresponding with professors in America?
- You mean He (Krsna) eats fire in His representation as the fire-god?
- You mean I experience the seven months of being in a sleeping state?
- You mean I should leave everything and start a farm?
- You mean ice is covering the fire?
- You mean if a person commits a murder, a sinner?
- You mean in a rich country like this, why should anyone be on the street?
- You mean like a community, spiritual community like Kirtanananda?
- You mean like Bengalis are a different species than Gujaratis? Something like that?
- You mean our High Commissioner? Why can he not (help your mission)?
- You mean she's not qualified as first, second, or third-class until she marries?
- You mean Swamiji then that all scientific efforts, whatever they are, should be stopped altogether?
- You mean the Bhagavad-gita, he must know that or what (you may take part in the movement or not but he must know the science)?
- You mean the lack of spiritual leadership has driven us to this state of affairs?
- You mean the spirit has got subtle form, though it may be exact form?
- You mean the spirit? Food? Does the spirit require food (so the car requires petrol. Does it mean the driver also requires petrol?)?
- You mean the subtle body or the soul, the same thing?
- You mean these things (meat, wine and tobacco) just reinforce body consciousness?
- You mean they never were conditioned at any time or... You said there were millions of souls...?
- You mean this movement in the world ("Try to understand and broadcast it. It is not a sectarian, so-called religious movement")?
- You mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out?
- You mean to say eternally there is a soul and... This atma and Paramatma will remain separate?
- You mean to say that any system that doesn't subscribe to this movement has no future at all?
- You mean to say that this should become part, an integral part of the educational system?
- You mean you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something?
- You mean you're not working for the jail life (we're not working to keep people in the jail conception of life. So that's why they cannot understand what we are doing)?
- You mean your future (which body I am going to accept, there is no education. So I am kept in darkness. So what is the value of my education?)?
- You means you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something? And those who relapse, can they be treated again?
- You meant for Kali-yuga (your way is the way)? For the time that we live in right now?
- You mentioned about how like, if you meditate a lot and you really, well, you feel something, that you should do something...?
- You mentioned new bodies. Does this embrace reincarnation? That is, when we leave the physical body we have now on death, do you mean that consciousness goes on
- You mentioned once that most of the parikrama devotees, they wanted to go on parikrama but he was speaking?
- You mentioned something about Caitanya dancing with Haridasa?
- You mentioned that eventually the communists will take over the capitalists. So how long do you think that will happen?
- You mentioned that soon there will not be so much use for automobiles. What will be our means of spreading the sankirtana movement?
- You mentioned that there was nowhere any sanction by God for industry or business. So does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- You mentioned that Vrndavana would be a place for those people who have become a little disturbed in Krsna consciousness, or burned out, we call it, from so much activity, that he comes here and gets rejuvenated. Is that still...?
- You mentioned this morning that when you sit up you feel a little stronger now. I think it's good that you're not taxing yourself in any way. That's important. Would you like to do something specific right now, Srila Prabhupada?
- You met a gentleman by the name of Harvey Cohen?
- You must please God for Him to reveal, is that correct?
- You never feel any intense separation from your spiritual master?
- You never saw snow?… Even in the Himalayas?
- You now come right from Vrndavana or...?
- You once said that in case of a strong rush of sex desire to think of the Gopis, the Dearmost to Lord Krishna. Is there another help in case of anger or harshness?
- You once said there is a gross and subtle part of the moon planet. Is that so? No
- You refer to Ramanujacarya as an important person... Where does he fit into your, the Caitanya tradition? He's accepted as an authority. His, the Sri Bhasya is studied, accepted...?
- You referred earlier to some proofs of after-life. I wonder are these available in writing in English, and do people here know of them?
- You remember you went to that Kuruksetra meeting?
- You rented a room there (it was an office room. That building is meant for office, not for residences)?
- You run farms as well, do you not?... What do they... Are they working farms, producing farms?
- You said ... our relationship to Krsna is as children. But, I've also read that our relationship is also as, as Krsna as our son?
- You said before that the more hospitals they open that means the more people have to become sick?
- You said before that with respect to achieving Krsna consciousness, that the end was most important… Would that ever allow you to or any one of the devotees, to engage in practices that would be considered unjust or criminal in a broader society?
- You said it takes an intelligent person to become Krsna consciousness, but it's obvious that are not so many intelligent people. Whose choice is it? If a person isn't intelligent, is it because he wants to enjoy that makes him ignorant?
- You said Prahlada Maharaja, he heard Narada Muni speaking in the womb
- You said that a person progresses through the three levels of God realization from Brahman realization. Is that true also for a Vaisnava? Does he first attain Brahman realization and then Paramatma, or does he...
- You said that after leaving this body, this body is gone, you'll part with Krsna consciousness and go to a higher place?
- You said that as long as one is engaging in sex life one cannot become a yogi?
- You said that as the age of Kali-yuga progresses there'll be no more butter?
- You said that by committing sinful activities one has to be punished by the laws of nature. So if one is repentant is he still punished?
- You said that everybody who has laws should live under them. Does an individual have a right to choose his own laws?
- You said that Hare Krsna is the most superpowerful word, and if that is true, then why do you bother to utter any other words?... is it necessary? And why do you encourage us, saying that we're songwriters and all, ... to write any song but Hare Krsna?
- You said that if people try to land on the moon they would not be able to. Can you explain what you meant by that?
- You said that if we are performing some activity, that activity must be tested to see if Lord Krsna is pleased. But what is the test?
- You said that if we fast and we can't do our work and we become weak, than this is not so good... So, our devotional service comes first?
- You said that if we serve Krsna we will enjoy, and if we serve maya then we suffer. How can we get over our desire to serve maya and enjoy separately from Krsna?
- You said that if you have some material desire and you take to Krsna consciousness, you get double benefit, that the material desire is fulfilled and also you get Krsna consciousness. If you have that material desire, does that slow up your advancement?
- You said that it (God) is person ultimately. What does that mean ultimately?
- You said that it is possible to see God eye-to-eye. How can this be done?
- You said that Krsna speaking through intuition. Is it therefore possible to follow Krsna by following the intuition?
- You said that Lord Krsna has many opulences, but in Chapter Thirteen verse fifteen he says that He is nirguna. How to reconcile this statement?
- You said that monarchy and democracy, both are systems which cannot help this cause. Then...?
- You said that sometimes you feel pain, some sickness, due to the sinful activities of your devotees?
- You said that spirit soul is one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair. In the spiritual sky, is the spirit soul still just that big?
- You said that the four pillars that you follow are outward manifestations. They belong to a material person...?
- You said that the pictures they draw of the men with wings, that is not bona fide pictures?
- You said that the purpose of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust was for development of Gaura-mandala-bhumi. ... It should be just for Gaura-mandala-bhumi or general?
- You said that the samskaras should be revived to the lowest?
- You said that Vasudeva, it was known fact that he was homosex?
- You said that with the payments, that the society can take up some of these? How would that be managed, and when would it be put into effect?
- You said that your followers may not drink? What about the drug picture, marijuana, LSD, and those?
- You said that, one time, that brahma-jyotir is like the pure light, and it's filtered in the material world through the modes?
- You said there are four classes and the first-class is to rule?
- You said two or three pages. Maybe four pages would be all...?
- You said we can't understand Brahman unless we understand Krsna?
- You said we have to approach a perfect person, but that means we have to accept so many restrictions and this is actually impossible. It cannot be done... Why should the knowledge be so limited?
- You said we're not supposed to tolerate any blaspheming of the Lord, not of His name or in any way. How are we supposed to not tolerate that?
- You said you had some plan? For the land here? When we came in, you were saying you had some plan for the land
- You said you wanted to give certain titles for different categories?
- You said you wanted to shave and have your head shaved today?
- You said you're losing your willpower?… Don't you think there has been a slight improvement, Srila Prabhupada? Over last few days there has been a little improvement?
- You said: "I want a different body. Immediately nature supplies." Even within this body?
- You say a true devotee of Krsna, such a person need not go after the demigods?
- You say if there were high forms of, say Brahma, in Brahma's time or millions of years ago, there were also other high animals besides men?
- You say in these times (five things are not allowed in this age, Kali-yuga). How recent is this?
- You say in Vaikuntha everything is the same as here in the material world. So there are families. The children... Do the children grow...?
- You say is back to Godhead. But when one is situated in pure, transcendental love of Krsna, then that's, then wherever he may be, that's back to Godhead. Isn't it?
- You say it works (the means may be different. So that means is justified by the end. If at the end, you do not come to God consciousness, then whatever process you have, that is bogus. That is not bona fide)?
- You say it's a real body (the Deity), but it appears to be stone?
- You say it's artificial to forget anything?
- You say it's the simplest one (to chant Hare Krsna). Are there presumably other chants that maybe you yourself use?
- You say like "Mother Rukmini"? There's a devotee named Rukmini. You say, "Mother Rukmini"? How do you address a woman? Do you say, "Mother," and then the name of the devotee?
- You say not separating but liberating?
- You say that if people die in the mode of passion, they come back in human life. (...) So the people today seem to be... Is it that they'll all come back as animals in their next life?
- You say that in every issue there should be at least one picture, painting, of Krsna?
- You say that Krsna consciousness people should start at an early age, but does that mean we should consider ourselves at age of a very small child towards beginning Krsna consciousness?
- You say that Krsna consciousness solves the problem of death. Does it mean that we won't die?
- You say that Krsna consciousness will solve all problems. But factually, there are so many problems in the world that aren't being solved. So what is the proof?
- You say that our souls are..., we will always go on. But you are getting more and more people. No, we are getting more people, aren't we?
- You say that people kill cows only out of envy. I was wondering if you could give a definition of what envy is. I don't understand why they would kill animals out of envy
- You say that we have a choice, that either we can surrender to Krsna, or we can remain under the control of the external energy. Those in the mode of passion and ignorance, do they have any choice?
- You say that we have eternal relationships with the Supreme?
- You say the Americans might have to leave. What about the British?
- You say the chanting cleans the dust from the mirror of the mind. What does mirror mean? How does it mean mirror? What is it reflecting?
- You say there's pure joy in achieving the transcendental platform. Why? Why necessarily joy and not sorrow?
- You say we should lose the designations. Now, would you consider the caste system as designations?
- You say you do know, so why don't you produce it (soul) and put it back in the body and make it work?
- You say, in your essay, Super Consciousness, that the topmost is to see Narayana Form and take dictation. In short the question is, is it true that the yogi who is travelling to planets and performing siddhis - has never seen Narayana?
- You see all these trends today to learn meditation. It's only one longing to feel something and not only to believe. That is the situation now very much in Germany, isn't it so?
- You see Him in three dimensions?
- You seem to be placing a lot of emphasis on books. Are you following any particular path of yoga, niyama-yoga...?
- You should be violent (in order to punish a thief)?
- You slept many, many, many hours. How do you feel?
- You speak of knowing the creator. Jesus Christ said that "No man comes to the father" - and I always understood by this he speaks of the creator - "but by me." What do you think of Jesus Christ?
- You spoke about transmigration of souls, and reincarnation. If you believe in it, could you answer me by telling me how someone who has entered a new body and a new life doesn't remember anything of the past?
- You spoke of initiation. What is that initiation?
- You started this explanation by saying, "But who will take it?" So is this to say that this religion that you're speaking of is not trying to be made acceptable to the masses, or is it only for those who will take it?
- You started this ten years ago. But why is it that when you were recognized..., you were recognized by others and not in this country?
- You stated that a statue of yourself is not the same as you, and yet in some of our temples, such as Vrndavana, the murti of Your Divine Grace has been installed and they are offering prasadam. So is it the same, that the prasadam is accepted by the guru?
- You stated that the reason that we forget is that we change, the body changes. Now when we chant, we remember. I wish you could sort of elaborate on why we forget. I don't completely understand
- You still have massages every day?
- You support the ancient caste system?
- You take rest usually from..., up to two o'clock?
- You talk about different yogas reaching different platforms, like one the twenty-fifth, one the fiftieth, and one the eightieth. Does each one really reach the same point?
- You talk about the service of Lord Krsna. How does service of our fellow man come in?
- You teach your children, don't you? No, I didn't mean disciples. I meant children, little ones. They understand, do they not?
- You tell me that Rama and some other higher creatures lived on this planet so many millions of years ago, so I can expect some day to find evidence of that?
- You think he (Gandhi) has gone to heaven or some, what is his position?
- You think Mirabhai was a bhakta?
- You think one day, Prabhupada, maybe these big buildings will be our temples?
- You think people are doing something hospitals, that is for others?
- You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
- You think that all healers are fool?
- You think that men of God are a minority?
- You think there is nobody like that (no one is prepared to become first-class man)?
- You think we can't help people?
- You think we pay too much importance to money?
- You think you really want to go to Ann Arbor?
- You told to that gentleman that the scientists, they thought that they have been on the moon planet, but does that actually mean they went to another planet than the moon planet?
- You told us about that Bharati Maharaja. What was that?
- You took your cooker with you? Is that the same one?
- You use that example of the cow and the market?
- You used to take Jagannatha right through the streets?
- You very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the spirit soul then goes into the brahma-jyotir, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahma-jyotir is composed of fallen souls?
- You visited Italy, Italy yourself?
- You want (the verse) about the about the ksatriya or the brahmanas?
- You want Complan instead of milk?
- You want Gopala Krsna to print in India or you want us to print in Los Angeles?
- You want him to do it here, though (either he (Bhagatji) does the puja here or don't do it at all. Is that all right?)?
- You want it now (massage), Srila Prabhupada?
- You want Jagadisa or Hari-sauri?
- You want kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?
- You want kirtana?
- You want me to do Nectar of Devotion and then Krsna and then Bhagavad-gita, in that order?
- You want me to give him the receipt?
- You want me to start using that new type of letterhead that Bhagavan has brought? Should I start using it?
- You want me to take care of it? Your rooms at Radha-Damodara? You want me to take care that they're cleaned and kept?
- You want some channa?
- You want some more vegetables and puris?
- You want some water, Prabhupada?
- You want strawberry juice or plain strawberries?
- You want sweet water?
- You want the translation to it (Bg 2.13)?
- You want them to go into the temple and perform kirtana?
- You want to begin tomorrow morning (parikrama)?
- You want to do like seven verses a day?
- You want to do some just now (translating)?
- You want to drink something now, Srila Prabhupada?
- You want to film the Bhagavad-gita, Swamiji?
- You want to go to Mayapur?
- You want to go to Mayapur? ... Traveling by train? It will be a little difficult, Srila Prabhupada
- You want to hear what they wrote? Should I read to you what they said (we haven't gotten all of the newspapers yet, but we did get some of them. This is the very popular Daily News)?
- You want to keep this?
- You want to know when the godown is beginning to be built?
- You want to lean back, Srila Prabhupada?
- You want to rest. So we'll keep it very quiet for a while. I'm just writing some letters, so should I continue to do that?
- You want to say that the astronomers are the mistaken. The astronomers have been mistaken to say all these things?
- You want to see Bhakti-caru?
- You want to see the lake?
- You want to sit up, Srila Prabhupada?
- You want to speak with him (sac-cid-ananda) about the kaviraja?
- You want to start it now or in the new temple?
- You want to stay in Bombay, stay until the... Is there any date until?
- You want to try some malapuyas later on tonight?
- You want to try that, Srila Prabhupada (yogendra-rasa)?
- You want us to write a letter to the editor?
- You want your name to be taken off (so they want a second person from our Society also to be on the coordinating committee, because you may not always be able to attend the meetings)?
- You wanted the colleges named the Vedic Theological College?
- You wanted them to take it? You were offering... (Many times in Vrndavana the monkeys have taken away from my hand foodstuff)
- You wanted to ask Dr. Sharma about altitude?
- You wanted to go and visit Puri?
- You went back to India by boat?
- You went there (Jagannatha Temple) sometimes to take prasadam?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You went to Russia. What's your impression?
- You were a chemist yourself, were you not, in secular life before you took up the position you have...?
- You were also telling me that Krsna is in the atom as the jiva expansion. Not as a plenary expansion, but a part of a plenary expansion?
- You were asked whether this record (the new G.A.P. record: "A Change of Heart") could be played in the temples and you replied: "Why not in the temples" Hari Sauri thought you said, "not in the temples"?
- You were belonging to Bengal?
- You were getting seasick?
- You were in Butler, right?
- You were intimate with him (Dr. Radhakrishnan)?
- You were lecturing that, that unless one performs the proper samskaras for the children, they will become degraded. They will not follow the regulative principles and such. They become unwanted population?
- You were planning to raise a temple in Kuruksetra?
- You were purchasing here (Westend Superette)?
- You were saying about Eisenhower and Nehru? Nehru was trying to hide the villages
- You were saying don't bother, you know, don't bring the scriptures in, use common sense. But what part do the scriptures have in your religion? How important are they?
- You were saying everyone is inquisitive for happiness, but shouldn't that be purified? Shouldn't we give up all desire for happiness?
- You were saying how one can take birth as a dog even, so she's wondering how long does this go on. How many births does one take like this?
- You were saying Lord Buddha gave impetus to Buddhism by converting the Emperor Ashoka. What is...?
- You were saying that all the scientists are fools and rascals but they may challenge, "How has your knowledge benefited you?"
- You were saying that the children should learn these three, geography and these things, and I wanted to know if they should also learn what they call biology, that is how the body is working, what are the bones and blood and...
- You were saying that we should do one verse in one day, Srila Prabhupada? And do it thoroughly?
- You were saying that when one is in the mode of goodness, that he is on the mental platform?
- You were saying that you're not necessarily trying to get a large number of devotees, but you think there are a few people who are yet ready to accept?
- You were saying yesterday how foolish it is to think that God is creating planets without putting any life on them. The scientists are saying there is no life on any planet. Then why would He create a planet unless there was life on it?
- You were saying, minute before that the socialism, your socialism is that Krsna is your Marx, sort of... It will be my last question. What about you in that? Would you be, you are a spiritual chief. Would you be...?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You were speaking in SB class about Ajamila and how by circumstances he fell down, and that because it wasn't intentional, Krsna forgave him. So, but still, at one point or another, he agreed to the desires of the prostitute. So isn't that free will?
- You were speaking about the blind person who is thinking that he can see. He is in illusion. How can we best convince him that he is not able to see?
- You were staying with somebody in Butler? Is he still there?
- You were talking about the higher planets?
- You were there at the time (I published something about you a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- You were very well known in Vrndavana before you came? Because you were writing or…?… Or because of your ambition to come to the West?
- You were widely respected in India before you came to the United States?
- You were worshiping Jagannatha, weren't you?
- You will be translating while you're travelling?
- You will go from London to Bombay?
- You will take this car with you wherever you go?
- You won't have to sit up for any reason except just only for drinking. Will that be all right? And we'll help you, Srila Prabhupada. It won't be any strain. You feel comfortable laying like this?
- You won't let us help you to have that stamina?
- You would accept their (of the Alavars of Tamil Nadu) teachings also?
- You would go to different libraries and colleges?
- You would like electric fan or hand pulled. Hand pulled?
- You would like some growing?
- You would like to hear something (Krsna-kanti and Mangalananda asked you if they could do this contemporary style music with Krsna lyrics. So this is the very first copy)?
- You would like to see growing in your garden a little sabji?
- You would like to stay a little longer this year?
- You would punish yourself? What would you do? Would you start attacking him (the thief)?
- You would see the worshipers of Siva as impersonalists?
- You would walk on this street (seventy-second Street)?
- You'd like it (kirtana) to be throughout the night?
- You'd like to meet him (when I was in Radha-Damodara temple, there was a khol manufacturer here)?
- You'll be answering in Hindi or English?
- You'll be coming back after how many days?
- You'll be coming to America in about a month's time?
- You'll be having certain industries for export also in Mayapur. Will they be manned by disciples, and if so, do you think that they would be in a much better position to look after these big gosalas and other things than, say, other, people would be?
- You'll be visiting only Sweden this time?
- You'll sit up for a little while? Can I scratch your back?
- You'll take one little taste (ice cream), Srila Prabhupada?
- You'll take, Srila Prabhupada? Also some jinga
- You're a citizen however, aren't you, a U.S. citizen?
- You're all vegetarians, are you?
- You're always leaning. You're not able to sit up straight. Of course, that was there also even a week ago, but it seems a little more noticeable now. Do you think you are weaker now than you were a week ago?
- You're comparing Krsna, Buddha, Muhammad to Jesus as the same, and Guru Maharaj-ji too, another Jesus. You're saying that?
- You're completely vegetarian, and not have meat of any kind and not eggs at all?
- You're feeling a little stronger today, Srila Prabhupada?
- You're not feeling any discomfort?
- You're not feeling up to a walk this morning? It affected your kidney or your digestion?
- You're not giving us any sort of answer. You're just sort of saying, "Believe in us, assume that you believe in us." So why don't you give us an answer?
- You're not going to walk upstairs?
- You're not supposed to ask from God anything for yourself. So you can ask from God maybe things to help improve your consciousness?
- You're planning to leave Wednesday?… Maybe you'll be better tomorrow
- You're really talking about the atman? Aren't you?
- You're saying that "Something cannot come from nothing."... So therefore this explosion (big bang) came from God. But then where did God come from?
- You're saying that America is the most important?
- You're talking about the man of Mahesh Pandit?
- You're the leader of how many disciples or devotees throughout the world?
- You've always preached that we should do things in a modern way, just appropriately… And use for Krsna whatever available... I think if we fix up vehicles very nicely, that will be nice. Will that be all right, Srila Prabhupada? Is that all right?
- You've got to get a visa (to Russia). How do you... How can you get?
- You've heard of it (Pasu-pati-natha temple, which is the biggest temple in Nepal), Srila Prabhupada?
- You've heard of the Dalai Lama? Well, his position would be the same as yours. Wouldn't it? In religion?
- You've just said a few minutes ago there are eight million different kinds of life. Would you agree that the potato, the cabbage... and what have you also has a life?
- You've, said that our society ISKCON is like a sample of the spiritual world?
- You, you dreaming (and I was dreaming also, Guru Maharaja, asking me, "Come on." So I was going. So I was, "Oh, I have to go? I have to take sannyasa?")?
- Your authority for this statement is based in the Vedic literature?
- Your base there is in Bombay?
- Your devotees say that you aim to get beyond the stage of material existence. I don't quite pick up what your process was for doing this, and could you tell me what the end result is once you do get beyond this
- Your devotees' health is looked after, then (so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all)… By who?
- Your Divine Grace, are we all equal in sight of God?
- Your Divine Grace, can I ask you how old you are now?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see meditation as a means to God realization?
- Your Divine Grace, do you think that chanting the Hare Krsna mantra is the only way to achieve liberation?
- Your Divine Grace, how long are you staying in Vrndavana?
- Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Your Divine Grace, is this also true that every species of life... For instance, plants and trees, don't appear to be breathing as we do, but they breathe through their...?
- Your Divine Grace, since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Your Divine Grace, there is Mukunda-mala-stotra by Kulasekhara Maharaja. Are there any translations of that in the English and other languages? (indistinct) ...slokas with you (indistinct) Krsna mantra?
- Your Divine Grace, what prompted you to start the Krsna movement?
- Your Divine Grace, when someone has a very little amount of God consciousness, he is a poor servant of God and doesn't love Him very much, do you see God as loving him still, and, say, wanting him to come to consciousness in helping him?
- Your Divine Grace, will you kindly explain the significance of Ratha-yatra festival?
- Your Divine Grace, would your message be exactly the same for, say, a starving man in India and a Westerner who's got everything that a person needs?
- Your Divine Grace, you referred to the body as simply matter. Do you believe in a life after death for the body, the human body?
- Your family, your blood family, are they Krsna conscious as well?
- Your father used to take that svarna-sindhura?
- Your father would give him (one Mayavadi sannyasi in Kalighata) ganja?
- Your father would not give you up. He was a sannyasi?
- Your father would not let you go any farther than this?
- Your final question is how can you become a pure devotee, and the answer to this is given in Bhagavad-gita
- Your first question about the jiva's form with particular reference to Bhagavad-gita 8.18 purport "during the nighttime they have no form"
- Your first question if someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down?
- Your first question, shall Srimati Radharani's feet be showing?
- Your fourth question, about the "life force'' mentioned in Chap. 4 of the Bhagavad-gita...
- Your good sir, if you describe the following of Bharata Maharaja, Bharata-varsa. I'd like to be enlightened on that, how the Bharata-varsa is derived?
- Your Grace, a great many of South Africa's church leaders from some of the big churches are fearful that South Africa is going to find itself in a situation, or find... What message would you give this country in terms of avoiding any...?
- Your Grace, can I start by asking you what do you think of South Africa?
- Your Grace, could I ask you, first, how you pronounce your name?
- Your Grace, do you keep in touch with the world through television or newspapers or the media?
- Your Grace, have you been to New Zealand before?
- Your Grace, how many times do you recommend that I chant on my beads? How many rounds?
- Your Grace, if we could perhaps go back over that just for a minute - you said nobody is free… But are you saying that if we live a good life we in some way determine our future as well?
- Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings?
- Your Grace, what stops so many people from becoming Krsna devotees?
- Your Grace, you said I needn't give up my job, but may I look forward to the time when I may give up my job?
- Your Grace? How can a person tell what his or her occupation or duty is supposed to be?
- Your Grace? I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- Your Guru Maharaja wanted twelve originally?
- Your Guru Maharaja, he was an astronomer?
- Your health is...?
- Your home base is in Los Angeles?
- Your individuality, you mean?
- Your initiated disciples had some relationship with Lord Caitanya when He was on this earth?
- Your intention and aim is not merely to cater to the mind, cater to reason, cater to the intellect, but to effect a kind of transformation of man himself. Is this why you have introduced a whole way of living, a whole way of life, is it?
- Your internal potency You have set up the influence of maya. That is part of the internal potency?... Well, I thought it was the external potency?
- Your knee is hurt. Is that enjoying?
- Your knowledge of Sanskrit, this is one of your basic interests?
- Your knowledge says that millions of years ago there were higher forms of living entities on this planet?
- Your line is so very good in saying that the real evolution of man's mind has been his ability to produce more and more the functions of whatever the mind may be. We know what the brain is, but we don't know what the mind is?
- Your message is similar in some ways to the message of evangelical or fundamentalist teachers in Christianity, who are taking the name of Jesus Christ and excluding everything other than complete devotion to Christ. Would you comment on this?
- Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries?
- Your movement, your consciousness of Krsna, engloves, takes all the direction of economics and political possibility... Can you speak, explain me about that?
- Your next question is if Visala Das will be your name eternally
- Your next question was about the free will, whether we have it or not?
- Your next question, whether the Spiritual Master was formerly a conditioned soul...
- Your people have a serenity that many western people don't have. What, what is the secret of serenity? And is it... I gather you reject many material demands, materialism as such
- Your philosophy seems very clear cut... Are you well satisfied with that, that there is no area of doubt?
- Your plan here in America, then, is to set up centers so that those who are that concerned can pursue their studies and practice a ritual?
- Your question about not chanting while attending class...
- Your question about travelling SKP parties in other zones...
- Your question about will and the individual and the difference between them...
- Your question in regard to marriage
- Your question is whether miseries are eternal or not
- Your question is whether you can utilize your inclination to play the guitar and write songs about Krishna in devotional manner of activity
- Your representatives, the presidents and GBC may be there, but what is my personal relationship with you?
- Your second question about falling down from the brahma-jyotir...
- Your second question about spacemen from other planets...
- Your teachers are called spiritual masters?
- Your teachings are based on the assumption that Sri Krsna who lived for that period of time is the perfect person. But how do you fundamentally assure that what He has said is correct? How do you reconcile the two points?
- Your visa from here (I am very much in anxiety when the government says, "Now you go away. Your visa is finished")?
- Your volumes are dealing with each chapter of Gita?
- Yourself and Gandhi were together for some time?