Category:Questions asked to SP... 1972
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
Pages in category "Questions asked to SP... 1972"
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- 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)?
- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- After we die, what happens to our spirit?
- Also in Los Angeles they are buying press?
- And can one not directly surrender to Krsna through his own feelings and heart and...?
- And he (anybody) cannot change that (given lifespan)?
- And He (Lord Krsna) used to come here for herding the cows?
- And he (Syamasundara) is coming tomorrow?
- And health card (shall I take it)?
- And how does Krsna control a devotee?
- And Jiva Gosvami and Rupa, they drank from this well?
- And they (the Gosvamis) used to meet here daily?
- 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?
- Any way how to make any progress, or have you any representation, for instance, in Russia?
- Are spirit souls alike, or are they different?
- Are the devotees in the mode of goodness?
- Are there some people who do not find Krsna attractive?
- 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 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 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?
- Are you acquainted with Swami Ranganathanandaji? You have met him?
- Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- As for the question about menstrual cycle...
- As for your question about celibacy...
- 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
- At that time Vrndavana was existing as a village or mostly open area?
- At what age may children be recommended for initiation?
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- Because scientists cannot enter into the actual activity on the moon planet, technically, according to Bhagavata, they have not reached there?
- 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 you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction
- Before I go, Your Grace, I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- Being a brahmana by birth, does it mean anything?
- Being in these modes determines your karma, is that correct?
- Bhagavad-gita teaches us that one should treat a piece of gold and a piece of stone alike. Is it practically considered?
- Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu was written here, in this place?
- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- Brain of who (the brain of Einstein)?
- 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 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 is good bondage good?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- But one should pray, is that so?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- 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 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 what I'm basically asking is what are these ksatriyas going to fight with?
- But why only the name Krsna?
- By brain what do you mean?
C
- Cadillac (first-class car must go to India)?
- Can a scientist teach the science of combining acid and alkaline and this kind of science with Krsna as its object?
- Can a true devotee come face-to-face with God through the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Christ?
- Can an animal be in the mode of goodness?
- Can Krsna be called by any other name?
- Can only a few pure devotees deliver others
- Can they (ksatriyas) still make spiritual advancement?
- Can we decide what we want to be in our next life?
- Can we get one picture of the group?
- Can we get some cymbals?
- Can you please describe the dress in which you are clothed?
- Can you really expect to change the whole society?
- Can you tell me again what intelligence is?
- Can you tell me some more about chanting Hare Krsna?
- Chanting His names, surrendering to Him, feeling love for Him, doing service. Is that not or would that not take one person to...?
- Christian..."Watchtower" (the idea is that marriage is not sacred. They think marriage is a legalized prostitution. They think like that, but marriage is not that. Even that Christian paper, what is that, "Watch...?"?
- Could I have been in my last life?
D
- Devotees, do we get sick because of our bad actions in the past?
- Did the Gosvamis drink from this well, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction?
- Do the animals have no consciousness of God?
- Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation
- Do we take these births in a human form all the time, or perhaps do we take a birth in perhaps an ant or a rat or a dog, or will it always be in the human form if we believe in Krsna consciousness now?
- Do you believe in a life after death for the body?
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Do you deal in percentages?
- Do you feel diseases and sickness? Is this a result of your past karma?
- Do you foresee that the devotees will grow in numbers in this country?
- Do you have any views that for the past fifty or hundred years people have been predicting that there is going to be like a second coming or a spiritual changeover which will have an effect on the whole planet
- Do you have many Indian followers? Many Indian followers as well as foreign?
- Do you have references about that (Jahnava-devi was controlling the whole Gaudiya Vaisnava community) in any of your books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you know how old she (Sumati Morarjee) is Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you not project this Krsna consciousness movement is an improvement over the whole...
- Do you receive some knowledge directly from Krsna?
- Do you see yourself then as the savior of American youth?
- Do you seek government help?
- Do you think, in a world so much caught up in material way of things... (indistinct) ...be able to penetrate?
- Do you want us to distribute this? Srila Prabhupada, this is special water from the Ganges if you want to drink some?
- Do you want us to make more zones now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Does a devotee lose some of his individuality in that...?
- Does evening arati vary according to the sunset?
- Does he have to be designated by the former spiritual master (a spiritual master)?
- Does it (just like these boys they are after Krsna's service) mean that we should leave the work and we should not work and...?
- Does it mean that the initiative from the human being is completely surrendered to the almighty God? And if you surrender, is there any initiative left for the human being?
- Does Krsna create the universe or does He just make it possible to be created?
- Does somebody forget his wife completely then?
- Does that (love towards relatives is also bondage) mean you should not love your parents?
- Does the devotee who surrenders keep his individual taste for different things? Does he keep his individual likes and dislikes?
- Does this apply to the brahmanas (you cannot see your wife being insulted before you. You must fight. You must kill him.That is the law. Aggressor)?
- Does this remind you of Vrndavana, Prabhupada?
- Does this take a whole lifetime to learn (process by which you can see the other world)?
- Doesn't Krsna say in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am the spiritual master"?
- Doesn't necessity mean plan?
- Dvaita-advaita?
E
- Even if they mix hydrogen and oxygen to get water, still, where does the hydrogen and oxygen come from?
- Excuse me ((one should pray, is that so?) that is his business)?
- Excuse me (because I take the version of the greatest scientist, therefore I am greatest scientist. I may be fool personally, but because I take the knowledge from the greatest scientist, I am greatest scientist. I have no difficulty)?
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- Fifty pounds (suppose if you kill one cow, you get blood how much, how many pounds?)?
- Fight in a real..., sword, fight with swords (in these days, the same principles are there. Ksatriyas should fight for Krsna. That is his perfection of life… Then the question is whom shall we fight now? Those who are not Krsna conscious)?
- 500,000 dollars (so the price is 500,000 dollars)?
- For how long are you at the head of this movement?
- Fred Robinson has been forecasting doom to happen very shortly for the human race and says that it is far too hopeless to try and grab for the spiritual plane until one goes back to simple living. What would you say to that?
- From whom one should hear about Krsna?
G
- George is going to make any more records, recordings?
- Giriraja is a good man. I want your advice. So first day I called Giriraja, he came. I said, you I don't want. Where is that Syamasundara?
- God has taken the shape of a Narasimha Swami and then He finishes him by tearing his stomach. And then He takes all the intestines and pushes out. What is the significance and how this is actually, what it is meaning?
- God isn't something that can be sensed and He isn't something that can be grasped by the finite mind. The infinite, as you said... But how do we know God?
H
- Has this happened before, the material wealth that we have now? Has it happened in past ages? Technological advancement, scientific?
- Have you asked the government for money? President Nixon?
- Have you ever continued the correspondence with that heart surgeon?
- Have you ever seen Krsna?
- He (Dr. Rao) was not serious?
- He (Duke of Windsor's castle) is the king there, right? The queen's husband
- He (Duke of Windsor) also is the one who has the Windsor Palace?
- He (Giriraja) is not married?
- He wants to know if you believe that the Virgin Mary who is the mother of Jesus is the same as Parvati
- He wants to know more about those who are asleep and those who are awake in our eyes. What is a sleeper and who is awake?
- He's asking how can he be relieved from such sadness when his son has died? How do we evaluate death?
- Her (Sumati Morarjee) husband is alive?
- How a man such as yourself, in such a high position and such hierarchy was able to leave all this in order to bring this message to others?
- How about love between people? Just like this... Is that bondage also?
- How about love towards relatives? They say, "Love your parents," or "Love your wife and children." Isn't that also bondage?
- How about serving the parents?
- How are the references made?
- How are you to know that this act or that act is good or bad?
- How can I forget about myself so I can concentrate on other more important things?
- How can I know if I wasn't Krsna conscious in my last life?... Could I have been in my last life?
- How can I know with my inferior brain who has the best brain (we want to see who has got the best brain, who has got the best opulence, who has got the best beauty, who has got the best knowledge, who has got the best friend)?
- How can I serve you better?
- How can these people be so sincere and so earnest?
- How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness?
- How can we realize Krsna is satisfied?
- How can you separate out economics, politics...?
- How could God, who is perfect, be lonely?
- How do we know when God is pleased?
- How do you define a brahmana?
- How do you feel God inside you?
- How do you relate Christ with Krsna?
- How does a devotee know which food Krsna likes him to take?
- How does chance come about, if there is such a thing?
- How does repeating one word, "Krsna," or singing "Rama" and "Krsna" help achieving the way?
- How far is samskara powerful like...?
- How far should the orders of my duly appointed officers like GBC, etc., be obeyed and followed?
- How he can live or how we can develop or how we can progress? Because the whole, whole progress is this, the progress of ego
- How is a human being going to continue in this world if it has to exist, and if the initiative is not left to the human being, as you say that God is there and God has to be accepted?
- How is Krsna the greatest scientist?
- How is that madness transferred to Krsna?
- How is the human life better than the demigod?
- How long we have to surrender?
- How many days (you can go from Calcutta to Agra, nice road. And from Agra to Bombay)? Two days?
- How many disciples do you now have, sir, in the U.S.?
- How many followers do you have (1972)
- How many full aratis should we perform, Srila Prabhupada?
- How many qualifications does a spiritual master have in terms of being a spiritual master?
- How may a devotee arrive to this particular form (is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only)?
- How much or how little brahmacaris should associate with the unmarried brahmacarinis in the temple?
- How one can tell that he is a devotee of Krsna (one should hear about Krsna from Krsna devotee, not a professional man)?
- How to awaken kundalini, and how to have permanent state of awakened kundalini?
- How to identify a true learned man?
- How to please God's representative?