Category:Questions asked to SP... 1969
- 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... 1969"
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- About Lord Caitanya's civil disobedience. That is with the Kazi? His civil disobedience?
- About the shell which you are presently keeping in the temple
- According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna?
- According to the Aquarian Gospel, Christ was in Jagannatha Puri?
- According to Vedic theory, when did this yuga begin?
- After ten years? Then they (gurukulis) can do Deity worship?
- 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 women, when Lord Caitanya was a baby, how did they feel about Him?
- And this (primary readings) is all right to use (for the New Vrndavana Gurukula)?
- And you think they (gurukulis) can be taught typing, for instance? A skill like typing and how to use typewriter?
- Any English literature, American literature, English literature (should be taught)?
- Any Indian history (should be taught)?
- Any of the sciences at all (should be taught)?
- Are the people in this age lusty in the modes of ignorance or are they lusty in all three modes?
- 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 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 many songs in there?
- Are we not all one?
- 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 happy always in reflection?
- Are you leaving the decision up to me?
- 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 trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- Arithmetic should be taught (in Gurukula)?
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- At what age should they (gurukulis) be taught to cook prasadam?
B
- Being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- Beyond exclusive centers, how far beyond that can it go in the United States?
- Biology (should be taught)?
- 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?
- 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 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 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 I am God, right? I am God. You are God too
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- 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 that (Bhagavad-gita as it is) must be also a translation, mustn't it? Whoever puts it into English
- But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- But you are me and I am you. We are both God. Right?
- But, Prabhupada, the point was, can there be more than one article (in the BTG) by yourself? Or only one..?
C
- Can a woman reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna?
- Can hatha-yoga hinder or help Krsna consciousness?
- Can I ask is this a very special welcome for you, or is this a performance that you go through each day?
- Can one chant when working?
- Can we eat cheese?
- Can we withdraw our independence, can we request Krsna to force us to surrender to Him, due to our conditioning?
- Can you explain the reason why yogis don't eat meat?
- Can you explain, Prabhupada, once again what action in action and inaction in action?
- Can you tell me something about Caitanya's initiation in Vaisnava faith? When He was initiated?
- Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like?
- Conchshell. What is this for, Swamiji?
- Could you accept me as your student until eternity?
- Could you describe Krsna's pastimes as cowboy whenever He goes out in the morning with the cowherds boys?
- Could you discuss the various levels on the way to bliss consciousness? What happens to the body and the mind as one approaches bliss consciousness?
- Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well? Are the names important? Could you just count - one, two, three, four - and that would work just as well?
D
- Deity worship is temple worship?
- Did He (Krsna) translate it into English?
- Did Krsna describe to Arjuna the disciplic succession?
- Did Krsna invent Radha for His own pleasure?
- Did Lord Caitanya worship Sarasvati?
- Did the Chand Kazi stop this cow killing thereafter? After talking with Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to fight when he was lifting the chariot? Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to kill him?
- Do the five direct rasas take place between jiva souls also when they are...?
- Do you just keep changing bodies indefinitely or does it end?
- Do you know that? Do you know that for a fact? How do you know this is not illusion? How do you know that? Do we know anything for sure (this is cotton. This is cotton. Everyone knows. But if I give you a lump)?
- Do you like that place, Swamiji? Where the disciples are now, on Glenville Avenue?
- Do you like this (painting) one, Prabhupada?
- Do you mean that Siva is demigod?
- Do you need a car, Swamiji?
- Do you not think it's worth going to such places as Ireland and trying to talk to the people out there to stop warring?
- Do you spend a certain amount of time in each center? Do you yourself travel from one center to another?
- Do you take rebirth in human form literally?
- Do you teach Gayatri mantra to your disciples also?
- Do you think of this in terms of a historical event that will occur in the lifetime of your disciples (all miscreants will be killed, and out of them, there must be some pious... They remain)?
- Do you think that the Hare Krsna chant could serve as an intermediary to link the religious tendencies of, both of Christianity and Muslim religions?
- Do you understand your previous lives from the descriptions in authoritative texts, or from any introspective recollection of your own?
- Do you use Gayatri mantra also?
- Do you use your body when you speak?
- Do you want to have responsive chanting?
- Does devotion come before wakefulness, or does wakefulness come before devotion?
- Does everyone go there (spiritual world) or only some?
- Does ISKCON believe in reincarnation?
- Does it matter who performs the Deity worship?
- Does Krsna mean God?
- Does Lord Jesus Christ appear in the spiritual sky with the body he manifested on the earth?
- Does the method include meditation? What... How do you go about this process?
- Does your method include meditation, austerity of various sorts in addition to no alcohol, no drugs?
- Don't followers of Krsna consciousness ever get angry?
E
- Eternally individual, so how do the impersonalists attaining their goal merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti?
- Everything comes down to just another form of energy, another form of complexity, so that everything is suited to one thing and yet it's different?
- Everything he says must be done in perfect Sanskrit verses?
- Everything is being controlled ultimately by Krsna. Either by inferior energy or superior energy. His activities (of the jiva) are never independent?
- Everything is not God?
H
- Have you any idea what the number of the people are nationally?
- Have you any plans yet to go to England? Is anything definite?
- Have you ever found what you believe to be your self? Could you tell us what you found?
- Hawaii. They have a new place (our Hawaii, tulasi grows very nice)?
- He (Lord Caitanya) would sometimes eat clay?
- He would swoon whenever He heard Krsna's name? He would be swooning? Lord Caitanya would faint?
- How are we to tell one (true master) from the other (any spiritual master)?
- How can I explain how the light and heat from the single sun in this universe is able to reach so far? Is it a question of the receptivity of different planets?
- How can one inquire of you how to know Krsna? What is the process? How does one inquire of the spiritual master?
- How can the living entities actually be happy?
- How can the sun itself be different from it's energy?
- How can we begin to serve you so that you'll be pleased?
- How did the material covering begin? How did we fall into that?
- How do we know if somebody else, Yogananda, Maharsi, and all these different people that have translated it, how are we to tell that their version isn't Krsna's word from your version?
- How do we know of the spiritual abodes since once going there no one returns?
- How do we know that we're going to have a body in the next life?
- How do you explain suicide?
- How do you know that person who wrote it was perfect? And who is the perfect man? How do you find out?
- How important is your diet?
- How is it that devotees of Krsna like demigods can be fearful even if they see Visvarupa?
- How is it that there is so much material "advancement'' in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? Is a man after economic development automatically worshiping Lord Siva whether he is making Yajna or not?
- How is the lotus a weapon?
- How long a sankirtana to begin with, do you think?
- How long have you been in this country? Did you come to found this society?
- How long will you be in England, sir?
- How many articles can we put in by you? These are the most important contributions we have, and, say, would it be too much material to put in, say, an essay by you and maybe a lecture?
- How many centers are there now?
- How many manuscript pages?
- How much of his time do you think should be spent preaching and traveling?
- How one can know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- How the impersonalists mistake the difference between the soul and the Supersoul?
- How to realize Krsna?
- How would you adapt the Krsna chanting to Christianity?
I
- I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- I don't understand how is it that we forgot it... How can we remember...?
- I have thought of doing Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Brahma-samhita. Do you think we could serialize it maybe in three or four Back to Godheads? Or could we print it ourselves in a little pamphlet? Or which do you think would be better?
- I know the translations themselves, they were somewhat changed in Bhagavad-gita As It Is as it came out in Macmillan. Did you like those translations?
- I mean the Kazi, he can be in the kirtana?
- I noticed that someone in the temple was reading a book, The Divine Name. Is it all right to read it?
- I should just like to know how old you are
- I thought Krsna was sixteen only?
- I want to know what it means, "If you touch the element, then you can be healed"
- I was looking at the copy of the disciplic succession and where does Krsna instruct Arjuna? Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- I was wondering how Krsna consciousness would relate to this cosmic consciousness
- I wonder if anybody can spoil something that is not material?
- I'd like to know how physical things that are done, as chanting or dancing or... If you consider, as having any importance. How do these physical things affect our spiritual understanding?
- I'm not sure I understand what you mean by a spiritual body. When I look at you, it seems that you're...
- I'm not sure that I understand you. You mean that suicide is putting an end to suffering?
- If a person is married and they are interested in entering into Hare Krsna, Krsna consciousness, can they reach the ultimate?
- If all it requires is chanting to be pure, then why do you require musical instruments, an altar, and flowers and things of this sort?
- If all that is required is chanting Hare Krsna, why do we have the pictures and the clothes and the instruments and the altar and Lord Jagannatha?
- If chanting means out loud, how can you do it all day while you're working in so many different situations? How can you chant out loud?
- If God is everything, then why don't you, not loving one by one? Why...(if you love God, then you can love everybody. Because God is everything)?
- If Hare Krsna is such a strong, powerful mantra, is there any reason to chant anything else?
- If LSD is a material attachment, then is not the sound, sabda, also a material attachment?
- If the mantra itself has such power, does it matter where you receive it, where you take it?
- If the parents are good, then there is a remarkable possibility that the children may have a chance to be. Is that not true?
- If there is God, how can there be suffering and disease
- If this is an illusion, then why is it here? What's it doing here (you are thinking that you'll be happy in this material world by adjustment, but you'll never be. That is called maya. So whatever you are struggling for, that is illusion)?
- If we are acting, like preparing offerings for Krsna by our work, but while we are doing this work our mind is not engaged in Krsna all the time, thinking about Krsna all the time, we fall into maya, but we're still doing the work
- If we can use everything in Krsna's service, then why is it that these four things are excluded and they can't be used?
- If we've never been with Krsna, if we've never been in Krsnaloka, then how is it that we start remembering His pastimes and His form?
- If you call Brahma the Absolute, how do you make a distinction between Brahma and Krsna?
- If you can just tell me what you, the best way to have a nice scene of Jagai and Madhai?
- If you have no other suitable name, chant Krsna. That's Caitanya's...? Did He feel there were other suitable names?
- If you were American, how would you say the chant? In other words, I know it has many translations, but what would it mean to you? How would you say it in English?
- If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda Krsna, what of those people who identify love with the sabda Allah?
- In answer to your questions concerning sex life...
- In further reference to your question about the form of the spirit soul of the conditioned living entity...
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- In regard to Kardama Muni, how can a pure devotee become passionate for any amount of agitation?
- In the Bhagavad-gita I think you have references such as Arjuna being told not to become attached to the fruit of his actions, but act. Can you give us some idea of the principles which would guide one's action while trying to develop Krsna consciousness?
- In the Bhagavata Purana is there also provision for the Caitanya cult?
- In the Gita it is said that God helps those who help themselves. Now, how do we determine what we should...?
- In the material world there are instruments to measure different kinds of energy. How does one measure, what kind of instrument, how does he develop it, to measure the spiritual energy?
- In this evolution, is it a natural evolution that you can teach people, you can guide people, you can show them the path, but the actual progress that one would make towards the supreme knowledge, is that a natural evolution or is it...?
- In which way will it be most helpful, in giving money personally or inducing others to give money? He will give money?
- Is Arjuna described in disciplic succession?
- Is astrology of any importance to a way of life?
- Is God the one energy you speak of?
- Is it possible for one to engage himself in bhakti-yoga without rendering service to Krsna? Let's say someone who is worshiping Lord Buddha or Lord Jesus
- Is it possible for one to make it in this life? Is it possible that one falls down?
- Is it possible to find an American mantra?
- Is it that the Supersoul controls every movement in this world through the agency of Maya and the inferior energy according to the desires of the dreamer-jiva?
- Is it the living entity's choice, complete choice, to be demonic, against God, or is it a part of Krsna's energy to put demons, or to have created him that way?
- Is Kabir in the Vaisnava tradition?
- Is Kalki connected with the Kali-yuga cycle?
- Is Ksirodakasayi Visnu present in non-living entities, like rocks, matter?
- Is Subhadra, Lord Krishna's Sister, the same Durga or Maya?
- Is that one (painting) first-class there, Prabhupada?
- Is the Caitanya-Krsna ritual, as you have it here in this house and in the other asramas, is that something that a large mass of people can enter into?
- Is the chanting of Hare Krsna the answer to living successfully in today's world?
- Is the humorous direct or indirect? One in humor?
- Is the mode of life that you are proposing adaptable to many, many, many people?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- Is the samadhi which is the perfection of this eightfold yoga system the same as the samadhi of bhakti-yoga?
- Is there a basic conflict between a spiritual life and material living?
- Is there any place in the movement for the drug addicts, a new class which has come...
- Is there individual complete choice?
- Is this an association or this a vision (if I see every living being is son of God or Krsna, then that means I see God in every beings. Is there any difficulty to understand?)?
- Is this singing essential to the sustenance of your faith?
- Is this understanding of verse 18, chap. 4, correct; that the sage sees material activities as zero (inaction in action) and sees the devotee seated chanting as eternally active (action in inaction)?
- Is this world a real place? According to what you were saying, it's illusion
- Is your philosophy, your approach to consciousness, based on the Gita?
- Isn't it really a matter for the devotee, that one person may find Hare Krsna is more beneficial to his spiritual progress, and yet somebody else, some other mantra may be more beneficial? Isn't it like just a matter of taste? Like judging a flower
- Isn't the sound, though, as good as the explanation (have the sound only. (Laughs) The explanation... I shall give you little explanation)?
- It says in the Bhagavad-gita that the om sound, omkara, is a representation of Krsna. Is it different from the Hare Krsna mantra?
- It was a big snake? Very big? And was it Sesa?
- It's on this quotation from Bhagavata Purana that Caitanya built His system?