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- A brahmana priest would come (for the Vedic ceremonies)?
- A Deity of Krsna is carried on an elephant. At some of these big festivals there may be many non-Vaisnavas. Is it all right to show these people? Or should we only show Vaisnavas in this movie?
- A devotee becomes more surrendered because the influence of the modes, the three modes, becomes diminished, or is the influence just changed from ignorance and passion to goodness?
- A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it?
- A devotee is sometimes subject to hankering or lamentation. That is material though, isn't it?
- A devotee may have some demoniac qualities?
- A devotee must work for everybody's liberation?
- A devotee who is very faithful reaches this stage (devotees are neither in the goodness, passion, or ignorance. They are transcendental to all these qualities)?
- A devotee, he can be very poor, but is it okay if he's hankering after something for Krsna? Can a devotee think like that, "Why can't we get a nice house like these people for Krsna"? Is that all right?
- A devotee, how can he control his tongue?
- A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?
- A dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- A God-brother brought up that he heard that Srila Bhaktivinode was at one time an impersonalist. Was he ever?
- A lot of devotees, they never read the books, but they're doing the chanting. It will progress them without reading the books, because they're the most important?
- A lot of people were unable to come. Do you think it will be possible for you to come back to Durban from Johannesburg, after your Johannesburg stay?
- A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement?
- A man is finite. How can he do good for everyone?
- A man may evolve to a state like unto the demigods. Is that a possibility?
- A man shipwrecked on an island alone, he is not in any sense taking part in illicit love. It doesn't mean that he is free from all desire for illicit love. Is it the exterior rather than the interior (that decides)?
- A person (Krsna)? Person in the ordinary sense of the word, or...?
- A person might argue that the Indians weren't satisfied either; otherwise they wouldn't have taken up the English culture. So what's the difference?
- A person who is a Negro, Chinese, Indian, etc. are they different species of life making up the 400,000 species?
- A person who is not indulging in illicit sex life or intoxication and other things has to live a comparatively simpler life... One will live much simpler life, agreed. But at the same time, would it change some complex things?
- A priori we are not born with knowledge of what is right?
- A pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere, that He's never out of your vision, and at the same time in Siksastaka prayers Lord Caitanya explains that "Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be twelve years or more." Could you explain this?
- A pure devotee realizes it as Krsna's energy, but as a neophyte, how do we enjoy material energy in this aspect, the fresh air and the morning walk?
- A statement was made some time ago in a conversation that somebody was looking for the Gita without the Rama. Could you explain what they might be meaning by that?
- A sudra, if he is working, he cannot take brahmana initiation, but he can take hari-nama, is that it?
- A thief commits theft repeatedly and is imprisoned repeatedly, and he has full knowledge of it - then what is the cause of his putting himself into miserable condition of prison life?
- A vipra means he has the twelve qualifications, and he also has the qualification of faith. I don't understand exactly what it means when Prahlada Maharaja says that I should be meditating on a follower who has no faith in God or God watching him
- About a hundred hoods, how could Krsna manage all of those hoods?
- About Guru dasa prabhu's point, when the heart transplant, the soul stays in the subtle body. Is that sound?
- About how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- About Lord Caitanya's civil disobedience. That is with the Kazi? His civil disobedience?
- About my birth?
- About religion, Swamiji. Religion is capable to stop death?
- About the apartment (these are one gentleman came to talk with me?)?
- About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?
- About the eternally conditioned souls and eternally liberated souls. I'd like to know what's the meaning of eternal in both those statements?
- About the shell which you are presently keeping in the temple
- Above the world or in the world (is there any hell)?
- Accepting that there is a eternal soul, how is the soul distinguished, then, from the body or from the machine since things like the senses, the mind, the intelligence, desire and hate, which people accept as the symptoms of the soul...
- According (What is the thesis of life?) to who?
- According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- According to Krsna consciousness philosophy, the first living being was Brahma, and in the Christian Bible it says Adam was the first man. So he wants to know if in Krsna consciousness scriptures there is any mention of Adam
- According to the Aquarian Gospel, Christ was in Jagannatha Puri?
- According to the Bhagavatam, the sun is also 93,000,000 miles away from the earth?
- According to the Vedic conception, is the king or the monarch above the law?
- According to their philosophy, if whether you practice or you don't practice you get the same result in the end, what's the use of doing anything? If at death everything merges back, what's the use of doing anything? Why not commit suicide?
- According to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate whether to eat meat, whether to eat the vegetables?
- According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible?
- According to Vedic theory, when did this yuga begin?
- According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana?
- Actually are devotees or how do they become demons? Are they devotees? Obviously Kaliya is... Just like Jaya and Vijaya, they were devotees. And due to some offense, then they became demons and they fought with Krsna to satisfy Krsna
- Actually, although the actual number of initiated devotees is still few, there is a growing, ever-growing number of sympathizers - So you make good supporter, then government is yours - Then it's all based on selling your books more and more?
- Actually, I was concerned this morning about inflation. The government and the newspapers, they say the biggest problem today is inflation. From our Krsna conscious standpoint, how can we cure this problem of inflation?
- Actually, you were asking if there were any examples of explosions happenning without material cause, and I was just wondering if you could explain how volcanoes explode
- Adhyaki. What's that?
- African? No other meaning to it? No other meaning?
- After all, it is not even one full day yet since you first took the medicine. How can we reject it so quickly?
- After death no death?
- After if one becomes purified, is it possible when he becomes transferred to the spiritual world that he can meet Rupa Gosvami and other great...?
- After King Pariksit, then it divided up (Bharata-varsa), that soon after?
- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- After taking birth again, how does one continue his spiritual progress?
- After taking sannyasa, though, He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) had sikha and Tulasi mala?
- After ten years? Then they (gurukulis) can do Deity worship?
- After that seven months of unconsciousness in the body, in the womb, what does that spirit soul experience from that time till it comes out?
- After the Battle of Kuruksetra there were many men killed. How were all the young people and the women protected after so many millions of men were killed?
- After the festival, Prabhupada, are you going to Vrndavana?
- After the scattering of these Aryans, they have come different place. How is it that we brought all the cultural heritage in north, east and western countries?
- After we die, what happens to our spirit?
- After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?
- After you, is it any decision has been made who will take over?
- Ah, but sir, what is lacking ("if you chant Rama, then gradually you will get attachment for Rama. Then how you can give it up?")?
- All activities done for sake of Krsna or God are the real...
- All classes of men should preach Krsna consciousness?
- All devotees are cultured?
- All new things are created out of necessity?
- All of the prasadam, or just sweets (order the foodstuff from confectioner)?
- All over the entire world we find the Indian community, practically speaking. Is this part of Lord Caitanya's plan to help spread this Vedic culture?
- All prophet is one?
- All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?
- All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?
- All the basic questions are asked, "What is life? What is this?" So many things
- All the devotees here are your disciples, Srila Prabhupada, eternal disciples, eternal servitors. But what if we have to take birth in the material world in the next life? How will we be able to render direct service unto you?
- All the living entities are completely satisfied?
- All the night or do you (sleep) at the day sometimes?
- All the other programs should be continued, and this program (varnasrama college) should be added?
- All the people who are hoarding those grains, that economic procedure to produce famine. What is the way to check them?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- All the symbols in Visnu's hand, are, all the symbols in Visnu's hand are weapons. How is the lotus a weapon?
- All the Vedic literatures? Why would they be written down?
- All the women, when Lord Caitanya was a baby, how did they feel about Him?
- All they're (the scientists) doing is creating the conditions for the jiva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
- All this is prepared by these young men?
- Almost everyone, except me perhaps, is concerned about death. But how about the smaller obstacles which nevertheless can make people very depressed, neurotic? How do you recognize and live with them or eliminate them?
- Also (this Oath of Allegiance should be signed by the presidents also)?
- Also based on karma, that one man is meant to have more than another of material things? Is that an argument against...?
- Also different planets (for the 400,000 different species of human life)?
- Also in Los Angeles they are buying press?
- Also our party is well equipped to do evening programs. So there will be lot of senior devotees, and advance party could arrange programs and do different big temples or different public meetings… You want that, Srila Prabhupada?
- Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now
- Also you mentioned Mullik family in Calcutta to be your grandparents or someone?
- Also, I have brought (indistinct) from the bazaar. In which subji should I put?
- Also, should this college have men and woman or just men (this is a union of various theological schools. So now in Berkeley we have this very nice building, and we can become a member of this Graduate Theological Union)?
- Although a devotee feels helpless in the hands of Krsna, still, in order to execute his duty, he must be very strong... How does he reconcile those two?
- Although we are conscious, our consciousness seems to be affected by different material arrangements... Is that simply the arrangement of the modes of nature?
- Although, Srila Prabhupada, it's somewhat easy for us to convince that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the summary study of all the Vedic literatures, how can we take that Bhagavad-gita is the summary study?
- Always a different color though (the sea). Always a little different isn't it?
- Am I conscious of... My body's being constantly changing?
- Am I keeping you too long now?
- Am I my brother's keeper? Am I, am I responsible for my brother's actions?
- Am I separate from matter?
- Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- America (formerly the Aryans never touched these places. Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here)?
- America is living on advertisement. Right or wrong? I have been studying American, I mean, psychology
- Americans, they are not allowed to see Jagannatha temple. What Prabhu Bhaktivedanta is doing? What he's doing for them?
- Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
- Among the trees also, there are different grades of trees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Among two of the incarnations, there is Kapila and Buddha. And Kapila is practically, finally, the classical Sankhya-ist atheist. How could it be?
- An extra burden on the mind (when there is bunch of hair, we feel it is an extra burden)?... Makes it, weighs heavily on the mind?... So that's the reason why? It makes the mind lighter?
- And a devotee is acting, but he's not getting any mental impression? From his activities?
- And after the (atomic) war what will be the result?
- And after they (people who) join it (Krsna consciousness)...?
- And after you left the college, were you employed?
- And ah, this inside, it grows because of Krsna does it (anything you take, it grows from the Supreme)?
- And all Krsna's soldiers were killed?
- And also that man, that Sastri, the Ministry of Education? That man Mr. Sastri, in the Ministry of Education, the Ratri of Sanskrit-samsad, he bought fifty copies?
- And also this Ujjvala-nilamani?
- And also with that (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden) in the center? Island?
- And another thing I wanted to ask Your Divine Grace is this. This Bhagavad-gita, I would like to print it as it becomes finished chapter by chapter. Otherwise it will be a long time before we have a book
- And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?
- And are these married and...?
- And bhakti... (what is meant by bhakti-yoga?)?
- And Bon Maharaja also has told he is a graduate. What is he?
- And Buddha (this sankhya philosophy which is known in Europe amongst the European scholars, that is the atheist Kapila. It is not the original Kapila)?
- And by origin you are from?
- And can one not directly surrender to Krsna through his own feelings and heart and...?
- And Chapkhanna cannot be very not good. Not very good. Your printing is wonderful. From where... Where is that place? From Japan?
- And Christians, how do you present this? Suppose if someone was a Christian (this is our philosophy, to accept knowledge from the perfect person or his bona fide representative)?
- And did you stay in the city (Moscow), or did...?
- And do they go out and make other disciples?
- And do you have a, what I may call a training in contemplation, in which you get...?
- And during the recess what should they (Gurukula students) do?
- And for design of Gaura-Nitai and Radha-Krsna, we should just use the same design or we should make better?
- And green (eucalyptus twigs). And as thick as the finger?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And he (anybody) cannot change that (given lifespan)?
- And He (Bob Dylan) came to see Srila Prabhupada?
- And He (God) comes in bodily form?
- And He (Lord Krsna) used to come here for herding the cows?
- And he (Syamasundara) is coming tomorrow?
- And he (this kaviraja) says very soon you'll be able to have the strength to actually do parikrama. So why are we throwing everything out the window, that we must go tomorrow? I cannot understand
- And health card (shall I take it)?
- And how about in the south? Do you have many...?
- And how do we get guru?
- And how does Krsna control a devotee?
- And how does yoga...?
- And how is Krsna different from us?
- And how long are you going to stay there (Kashi), sir?
- And how long do you think this takes to (become spiritualized)... for a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And how to surrender to God, how to do this?
- And I think, sir, even Sankaracarya has not meant that we must be short of that. He was also worshiping, was he not? He was worshiping Para-brahman
- And if everybody became Krsna conscious?
- And if he (Blitz) was Krsna before, how is it he's disagreeing with what the Bhagavad-gita says?
- And if it's finished nicely, are we prepared to give them money for that (Vrndavana gate)?
- And if the person rejects that love, does He (God) still love him?
- And if women were subordinate to men, it would solve all of our problems?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- And in Goloka Vrndavana, are there still varieties? Are there still varieties in Vrndavana?
- And in India where is your asrama or something like that?
- And in the way of hospitals (to serve the poor people in the way of welfare)?
- And inside these people doing this work (modern science), is it Krsna? Or what is it makes them do the work?
- And is everybody able to take the nine processes?
- And it (Krsna Book) is just two volumes or...?
- And it (the moon) does not go all around other planets?
- And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?
- And it's the same spiritual body that we had before we came into the material world?
- And Jiva Gosvami and Rupa, they drank from this well?
- And John Temple was here?
- And karma-yoga then (so you can perform bhakti-yoga by fighting, by cooking, by going to the office, everything, if that purpose is for Krsna. That is bhakti-yoga. Is it clear)?
- And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?
- And lastly, a very trivial question. The uniform, the haircut, why is that?
- And lot of people (in Bombay, Juhu Beach) can see you. And they bow down to you?
- And Maharaja, are they (the doctors) able to increase the life by a single moment?
- And material is, nothing but the transformation of maya, is it not?
- And Mayavadis, they do not attain that impersonal realization?
- And now divorce is getting easier too, isn't it (so by one instance I can understand that how in the Western countries people become out of social structure. The root cause is godlessness. Root cause)?
- And now you will remain here in India for some time?
- And now, how...? Do they go through college (your children)?
- And so that group of eighteen secretaries will choose another leader (he has appointed from all the disciples a group of secretaries. Each one is in charge of a different sector of the world... Presently there is eighteen)?
- And space (time is eternal. Reality. And therefore we take time as another feature of God)?
- And steady intelligence, that is acquired by hearing? We can keep our intelligence steady by hearing?
- And that (why you elect? Depend on God) comes through lack of spiritual knowledge, Swamiji?
- And that is also practical (the absolute value is God. That is division. Satyam param dhimahi. That is our objective)?
- And that machine (of nature) also makes distinction, doesn't it?
- And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?
- And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?
- And that works (voluntarily accepting death so that immediately he can return back to the spiritual world)?
- And that's permitted to the grhasthas (they can simply ask help for the bare necessities of life)?
- And that's why the Krsna movement is separate (the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter)… Appears to be separated, that's the way you would put it. Well, is it separated?
- And the actual importance of the Hare Krsna chant, is that in saying the name?... Or is it a... continuous flow?
- And the interpretation is by you yourself?
- And the part where you, which you said to preach Krsna's... to attain the satisfaction of..., but what you have already said, that one should first know himself first, basic...?
- And the pure devotee, does he see the Paramatma feature or does he see...?
- And the purport (of the meaing of verse SB 10.14.58)?
- And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused?
- And the swastika (where does it have it's place in Krsna consciousness?)?
- And then go back to the States?
- And then he (Gopal) arranged programs, speaking programs?
- And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere?
- And then what is the program? Your Divine Grace is coming back to Delhi? From Vrndavana after three weeks?
- And then you went directly to Pennsylvania? By bus?
- And then, then, then I want to make you talk. What will I do?
- And then, when he is physically fit, then he will do the needful. But first of all, by their prayers to Jagannatha, they should make him physically fit. Is that right, Srila Prabhupada?
- And there are particular scriptural verses that speak about this (sraddha, faith)?
- And these asexual people...?
- And they (the Gosvamis) used to meet here daily?
- And they should give us some facilities (a good person is one who is God conscious and lives according to the instruction of God. So there is instruction of God, we are presenting this all over the world)?
- And they told me also that this morning you had some brahminical initiation to the... Gayatri... How many people?
- And this (Gayatri) mantra. What's the purpose?
- And this (primary readings) is all right to use (for the New Vrndavana Gurukula)?
- And this is your first visit to this (Paris) center?
- And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
- And we as human beings, are we part of that (God in three aspects) too?
- And we let the parents know how the children is progressing? Do we have responsibility to parents, to let them know, inform them about the progress of children?
- And what about before they joined Krsna consciousness?
- And what about desires?
- And what about France (you have some disciples)? Is it...
- And what about with people (we are maintaining animals, giving them food, giving them security of life in all our farms the animals are very free)?
- And what are you doing now, sort of a meditation?
- And what do you mean by surrendering, sir?
- And what else would one have to give up (illicit sex and)?
- And what form does that direction take (the direction from Krsna)?
- And what if the brahmana starts to rule the world in their own interest?
- And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows?
- And what is the figure (of people joining) likely to be? Five a week, ten a week?
- And what is the fourth?
- And what is the gain?
- And what is the upasana you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jnana?
- And what is your program, sir?
- And what is your relationship with the Ba'hai faith?... The Ba'hai faith that also preach Krsna consciousness?
- And what is your relationship with, say, the Ramakrishna Mission?
- And what of special foods and special drink?
- And what was his (Prakasananda Sarasvati's) role again in the town? What was he... He was a Vedantist?
- And what were you in India before that? Did you have a religious background?
- And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities?
- And what will it profit us if we get to know about Him (Krsna)?
- And when did you go to the United States?
- And when I have been doing some other saguna puja, another is seen always... Suppose I am doing... Sankara pure puja then I am seeing er, Devi.... Like that it is happening. Secondly, so how to go to nirguna state? That is my difficulty
- And when we understand that… (our movement begins when one understands that he is soul or something other than this body)?
- And when you have these asramas and all, and how to serve the poor people in the way of welfare?
- And when you translate the texts that you use, they come from Caitanya?
- And where did it (the Krsna consciousness movement) first start, which country?
- And where did you sleep? Was there a bed (I was paying seventy-two dollars a month)?
- And who decides what is first class?
- And who is that (everyone is puffed up with his body. Nobody considers even that "When I say this finger, 'my finger, my head, my leg...'") "my"?... Who is that, saying it, "my"?
- And who sees to that ("I want to see, as the chairman of the BBT, that fifty percent is spent on printing and fifty percent is for constructing temples")? The GBC?
- And why should they object if we decide to surrender to one authority?
- And you are sure this is the truth?
- And you had not bad days all your life. Or you were quarreling? I am sorry to intrude
- And you had one house near (the Los Angeles black quarter temple)?
- And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)?
- And you think it's more because of your age, I mean you've got used to a colder climate than India, have you?
- And you think there's enough food (now, so far I have studied, that in America, in Africa, in Australia, there are so much vacant places that the present population of the world, if it is increased ten times, still there is enough food)?
- And you think they (gurukulis) can be taught typing, for instance? A skill like typing and how to use typewriter?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- And you'll continue to take the kaviraja's medicines?
- And you're training them to lead?
- And your actions are perfect actions (we are giving knowledge from Bhagavad-gita. This is perfect knowledge. You take it; you become perfect)?
- And your Godbrother Swami Bon?
- And your health was better?
- And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta?
- And your question about Bhisma deva, after he left this planet...
- And you’ve got another copy of this (book)?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Animals?
- Anitya is temporary, Prabhupada?
- Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...?
- Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...?
- Another question that raised itself, you'll see in the paper in fact, was the little mention in one of the books that I was reading, not from Krsna consciousness movement, just to get a bit of background, on Lord Caitanya, and it seems to have been...
- Another thing is they know they are taking body again and again. They are taking the body again and again after birth. Why they are committing again and again sins and which mode of nature...?
- Another thing that's stated in the Bible, in the Christians' philosophy, they say that God created man out of His own image. It's stated in the Bible. So therefore man has a form, why not God? Because it's stated there in the Bible
- Anxiety for one's self is maya?
- Anxious to learn from the spiritual master?
- Any activities in Krsna consciousness... Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Any difficulties?
- Any elaboration of what you refer to as vanaprastha college?
- Any English literature, American literature, English literature (should be taught)?
- Any Indian history (should be taught)?
- Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
- Any of the sciences at all (should be taught)?
- Any other type of concentration (meditation) you do?
- Any way how to make any progress, or have you any representation, for instance, in Russia?
- Any work you do, do it very nicely. That is expert. Don't do it haphazardly. To your best talent, to your best capacity, try to finish it very nicely, whatever it may be. You are entrusted with some work. Do it nicely. That is expert
- Anybody who comes to the farm has to agree to follow the four regulative principles? These people?
- Anything else in the second scene, fourth act (of a play about Lord Caitanya)?
- Anything else you would like tonight?
- Anything other than this (in Bhagavad-gita it is said, etat jnanam: This is knowledge, and all other things, they are not knowledge) is ignorance?
- Apart from (indistinct) quality of Lord Rama, are there a few other things which could be included while you are worshiping or devoting or meditating on...?
- Apart from Catholicity of the American church, what can be the other reasons of their indifference towards your positive ideas?
- Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being?
- Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know
- Are all religions following? There are so many sects
- Are all spiritual bodies the same? I mean, is your spiritual body exactly the same as...
- Are Arjuna and Kunti Devi in Krishna Loka?
- Are blood transfusions permissible, Swami?
- Are changes visible in Hinduism in its doctrinal content, mode of individual and collective worship as a result of Hinduism's contact with the West?
- Are disciplic successions from Brahma and from Arjuna different?
- Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?
- Are great sages put under yogamaya or maya? Also are all the eternally liberated souls under yogamaya?
- Are human beings the only creations that can have Krsna consciousness?
- Are many people joining you?
- Are men superior in your movement?... Are men regarded as superior to women?
- Are more souls falling all the time?
- Are not all the poor, and miserable, and the weak, God? Why not worship the living God first?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are people using the wrong things to live too sophisticated?
- Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?
- Are Siddha-lokas like angels, Prabhupada?
- Are Siddha-svarupananda Gosvami and Tusta-krsna Maharaja and their followers more advanced in their understanding of Krsna and the spiritual master than the other devotees in ISKCON?
- Are spirit souls alike, or are they different?
- Are sudras supposed to take sannyasa also?
- Are the (book) prices in here?
- Are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life?... Like the dog. Is he happy to be a dog?
- Are the devotees in the mode of goodness?
- Are the impersonalists better than the gross materialists?
- Are the lower human species responsible for sinful activities?
- Are the majority of citizens sudras? In a varnasrama society?
- Are the moon's phases due to the planet Rahu, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are the people (at Srinivasa's house) mainly young people like Himself (Lord Caitanya)?
- Are the people in this age lusty in the modes of ignorance or are they lusty in all three modes?
- Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
- Are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them?
- Are the teachings themself spiritual?
- Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?
- Are there any books written about Krsna consciousness here available in Seattle or any other organizations besides the temple?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- Are there any formal rules that they agree to accept at this stage? Over and above the earlier...?
- Are there any local problems still surviving?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- Are there any murti, having (so I was thinking to take some Deities with me to worship wherever I go)?
- Are there any of the characters listed up here among the brahmanas who complained (to the magistrate)?
- Are there any other Deities besides Kaliya-Krsna you want us to make for Fiji?
- Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings are staying? Why the information is not given about that? About the other earthly planets also (why not? In Bhagavata there is all information)?
- Are there any other prophecies in the Bhavisya Maha-Purana or in any other scriptures telling more accurately Jesus Christ's birthday?
- Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?
- Are there any other, any other nice incidences between this time and when Lord Caitanya got married?
- Are there any prohibitions as to what type of work? For example, would a follower of yours work in a war industry?
- Are there cases of..., which relapse? Persons who begin to withdraw from drugs...?
- Are there Christian also, or Muslim also joining this (movement)?
- Are there different Kailasa-dhamas like is there any Kailasa-dhama in a particular universe also?
- Are there different paths that one can learn to love God?
- Are there different prajapatis for the different species?
- Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are there fundamental differences between, or is it simply a difference in approach between your awareness and interpretations and, for example, those of the people who are involved with Zen?
- Are there individuals in these bodies?
- Are there lines of disciplic succession on planets all over the universe or only on these middle planets, like Earth?
- Are there many decisions that people asked you to make, about whether the movement should do this, or should do that, or do they bother you of that now, or are you just busy writing and translating?
- Are there many Indian-born disciples abroad, or are they mainly Western disciples?
- Are there many living entities within the body?
- Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?
- Are there many songs in there?
- Are there many universes, or only one?
- Are there not certain characteristics that are particularly male and certain characteristics that are particularly female?
- Are there not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?
- Are there not things about which in the mortal life one can have no clear idea?
- Are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Krsna consciousness path?
- Are there other ways besides Krsna consciousness to reach that same goal? Or is that the only goal?
- Are there some people who do not find Krsna attractive?
- Are there some qualifications of grhasthas, that grhasthas, they're required, like they are required to support the brahmanas, like that?
- Are these (Srimad-Bhagavatam) going to be translated into Swedish too?
- Are these actually the tangible signs by which one can judge what is real religion?
- Are these astrological charts very much applicable for a devotee, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are these bad conditions or ailments not part and parcel of God?
- Are these living entities (within my body) constant? They don't change any?
- Are these people consciously cheating or raised in cheating so that they don't know the difference (in this material world, the more you are expert cheater, you are considered very able man. All over the world, so many expert cheaters are going on)?
- Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?
- Are they ("no sinful life." No more illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxicants) prerequisites to accepting your knowledge?
- Are they (our books) sold mainly in the Western countries?
- Are they (the stars) self-luminating like the moon?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are they able to increase the life by a single moment?
- Are they brahmanas (devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement)? Not by birth?
- Are they equal and the same, or are they just equal (those who are actually learned, they do not see the outward covering, either human being or animal)?
- Are they going to start on Mayapur building this year?
- Are they less fallen (the jivas in brahmajyoti) because they are doing some service by lighting it up?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are things bounded by space in the spiritual world?
- Are those rooms you live in, were they formerly inhabited by the Gosvamis, Jiva or Rupa Gosvami, those rooms you have now?
- Are we all part of Krsna and at the time of death if we think of Krsna, like we become what? Like meshed in with Krsna?
- Are we all part of Krsna?
- Are we closer to this practicality when we sleep (when you engage your physical senses in the service of the Lord, then the physical quality of the senses will be diminished or gone, your spiritual sense activities will begin. This is practical)?
- Are we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are we duty-bound to maintain our body?
- Are we even one millionth of what Krsna was?
- Are we giving the knowledge (of material science)?
- Are we going to have any kirtana tonight? What is the program
- Are we more conditioned than the people in the Satya-yuga?
- Are we not all one?
- Are we not observing this eclipse rituals, that, during the eclipse we stop aratis and all of this... And after the eclipse is over, take bath and then do the arati?
- Are we not training all classes of men? In Krsna consciousness...?
- Are we not, potentially, not to understand Bhagavad-gita, then (at least you do not understand. That's all)?
- Are we supposed to chant twenty-four hours?
- Are we to believe in that by chanting the holy name of Krsna that we can attain a higher conscious level on this earth and attain self-realization without going through all the rigors of the old Vedas, scriptures?
- Are we to take Krsna conscious dreams seriously or some illusion?
- Are you a Bhagavan?
- Are you a brahmana? By birth you're a brahmana, right?
- Are you acquainted with Swami Ranganathanandaji? You have met him?
- Are you against medical help? I mean, you want just to let Krsna do His way and not let the doctors help at all?
- Are you all becoming first-class men? You want to become first-class men?
- Are you also obliged to help animals, to help other human beings?
- Are you at all concerned about the, what seems to be an increasing number of gurus and swamis throughout the world?
- Are you attempting to form a college?
- Are you comfortable, Srila Prabhupada?… Little?… What is that "my," Srila Prabhupada?… Massage? Where, Srila Prabhupada? On your leg?? On your leg?… Both sides?… Here, Srila Prabhupada. Hm?…
- Are you ever going to stop traveling?
- Are you familiar with the writings of Descartes?
- Are you feeling any pain, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you feeling the cold in Melbourne your grace?
- Are you getting any opposition from the church?
- Are you God?
- Are you going to give some more instruction (you just show how to Deity worship, how you are doing that, and they will learn. Yes. She is doing that very nice. So you can, all of you, all girls, you take, her. See doing, how she is doing)?
- Are you going to have any kirtana also tonight?
- Are you going tomorrow?... Tomorrow at what time?
- Are you happy always in reflection?
- Are you happy with the way the Krsna movement is progressing throughout the world and particularly throughout Australia?
- Are you happy with the way the movement has really spread?
- Are you in this world?
- Are you interested to know how we produce anti-matter in our laboratories from...?
- Are you knowing people take diksa from many gurus?
- Are you leaving the decision up to me?
- Are you liking the massage, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you married, sir? You say you have no connection with your family? Why? To do this, did you have to divorce? When did you renounce your family? How are they managing without you? Do you ever see them at all?
- Are you perfect master?
- Are you planning to choose a successor?
- Are you planning to go there, to Manipur?
- Are you prepared to die?
- Are you referring to self-realization when you mentioned that Krsna consciousness? Are you referring to self-realization, cosmic consciousness?
- Are you retiring now?
- Are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time?
- Are you saying that our men should have more than one wife?
- Are you saying that there are people on the moon?
- Are you saying that they (men in our society) do more work?
- Are you saying that this (Vedic) knowledge has appeared in many forms? Does it appear also in, let's say, Christianity, in Muslim, Mohammedanism?
- Are you saying that you should never kill a cow but that you sometimes can kill a person?
- Are you speaking of ant-eater? They eat ants?
- Are you speaking specifically about all animal killing, Your Excellency? Or, how do you speak of animal killing? In other words, vegetarian living, is that what you're speaking of?
- Are you suggesting that every person, whether he is Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Jew or Parsi or anybody else for that matter, should accept the Hindu doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of soul?
- Are you suggesting then that what is taken to be liberty is actually enslavement? And what is assumed to be the pursuit of happiness is nothing more than a rat race in which you try to make the best of what you can?
- Are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- Are you surprised to see the popularity of your teachings in the last few years?
- Are you talking about reincarnation, life after death?
- Are you there referring to references from the scriptures (that is explained very elaborately in the Bhagavad-gita: na jayate na mriyate va kadacin na hanyate hanyamane sarire)?
- Are you thinking of formal education now?
- Are you training a successor?
- Are you training people to become teachers in this school, this process of education?
- Are you trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- Are you welcome in Japan? People are interested, eh?
- Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Krsna or as the teacher of His teachings?
- Are you, sir, writing off all scientists because they've failed to understand the spiritual dimension in life?
- Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
- Are your followers encouraged to visit with their... (all family members, children, husband, wife, they are present there. How do you say it is against family? Wrong criticism)?
- Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- Aren't there coverings of the 8 elements?
- Aren't these desires given outlet in other ways? Do we channel the desires to some other field? Instead of seeing a beautiful woman, we see the beautiful form of Krsna, like that?
- Aren't they allowed to boil water in India? In boiling the water do you kill any little insects that are in the water?
- Aren't we all the sons of God?
- Aren't we the images of God?
- Aren't you in a sense eating another soul too if you're eating vegetables? Not only if you're eating meat?
- Arithmetic should be taught (in Gurukula)?
- Arjuna had to fight in the war, didn't he? In the Bhagavad-gita, he still had to... But it didn't matter him killing if it was Krsna's responsibility?
- Arjuna uvaca. These boys understand this, all of them?
- Arjuna was praised as Gudakesa?
- Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?
- As (a man is supposed to be educated when he sees every woman as mother)?
- As a conclusive question, she asks what can we do to help the whole movement to continue to expand?
- As a life member, I am suffering because of this reason that there is no construction of a temple, therefore I cannot develop spiritually. If I have got attraction for a particular temple, why I should be denied?
- As a mother loves the child in pure love, does that help her to also find the pure love in the spiritual world?
- As a practical result of his (Arjuna followed the decision of Krsna, so there is value. He became victorious, he enjoyed the kingdom, and he became a famous devotee) activities?
- As Arjuna he (Nara-narayana) acts as an ordinary jiva?
- As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
- As far as I can operate within my practicality, there are no purple men. I've never seen one; no one has ever seen purple men. So isn't this logical?
- As for the question about menstrual cycle...
- As for your question about celibacy...
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- As for your question regarding the children, what can I do? I am not a teacher. You should ask Satsvarupa on all of these matters, he is the GBC, so everything small and big should be referred to Satsvarupa
- As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As many as in the West, or more (many people in India are becoming spiritually successful)?
- As soon as the modes of nature are no longer working on the spirit soul, then he experiences that he's no longer changing his body?
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
- As the age of Kali progresses, will those people just eventually be diminished and wiped out because they already live so short?
- As the Kali-yuga advances, the human beings will eat their children too. Srila Prabhupada?
- As the Kali-yuga progresses the people are getting smaller. Does this mean that Krsna and His associates were much taller in stature than we are now?
- As the man's concentration through which progresses, how, in what forms he goes on seeing Him (you cannot see unlimited. That is His mercy, that He presents Himself before you in three dimension because you have no eyes to see Him)?
- As the spirit soul is leaving the body, do you become older?
- As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes, atheist and theist, is it not advisable for all religions to come together, and what positive steps can be taken in this direction?
- As the yugas progress, the human body itself, doesn't it become more degraded?
- As we develop our experience, our life progresses, then we develop truth because we see that this idea works in my experience, so then it becomes true. Is this not the process?
- As You have explained in "Two Essays", that as body is covered by shirt and coat, similarly, soul is covered by mind, intelligence, and false ego - if it is so, then who are mind, intelligence and false ego? Who controls them?
- As you, yourself have said: What is talking? What is lies?
- As Your Divine Grace had said, that due to the sankirtana movement an auspicious atmosphere is being created all over the world. So is it not possible that at least for the time being things will improve?
- As your students, we are trying to hear in that way. Now when we go and preach and we tell, if we tell a man, "First of all, you surrender before you'll be able to understand," then what, what question is there of preaching?
- Asato ma sama grad? You said, Prabhupada?
- Assuming for example that Hare Krsna grew to gigantic proportions as Christianity has grown, would not they (the fringe areas, who professed to be the followers of the Hare Krsna) be the difficulty as the Christian is today?
- Astakala-lila. What is that exactly? Eightfold lila or some...?
- At Bheda Dvaraka, that is the residential palace of Lord Krsna. And seven ranis of Lord Krsna. They show each building, their whole building. So what was that?
- At night you're supposed to take tripolin, no?
- At noontime you seemed to be getting a little taste. Did you have a little?
- At one of the programs, somebody raised the question that we cited that Lord Siva is worshiping Krsna, that he is a Vaisnava. So that person replied that Lord Rama also worshiped Siva. So he wanted to know the explanation
- At one time, you had instructed that all the children should attend the main class. They say that some of the very small children have trouble to keep their attention...
- At Radha-Damodara, did you cook yourself?
- At rebirth do we all return as a male if the previous existence was a male, or do we change
- At that time (end of the day of Brahma. End of fourteen Manus) is the earth destroyed, or is it simply covered by water?
- At that time He acted like a magician, that God. How can He reduce it into writing?
- At that time Vrndavana was existing as a village or mostly open area?
- At that time were there only insects existing?
- At the beginning one, the word, and this word was God and this word was with God. So what is this word?
- At the end of Manu's day, when there is flood (the whole thing would be filled up with water. So water course is very heavy. So it can turn even big, big rocks, mountains rolling)?
- At the end of the Krsna Book, when Krsna and Arjuna visit Lord Visnu and Visnu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Krsna appeared through Ksirodakasayi Visnu?
- At the moment of pregnancy (as soon as one girl is pregnant, she should be separated)? From the moment of pregnancy one and a half years?
- At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?
- At the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species... They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?
- At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, there is a subtle reality that the subtle body enters into?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
- At this time should we try to introduce it (varnasrama) in our centers or not?
- At Vrndavana you studied at a later time, then, did you?
- At what age did you realize God?
- At what age may children be recommended for initiation?
- At what age should they (gurukulis) be taught to cook prasadam?
- At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- At what stage could one say that a person is Krsna conscious? There must be a beginning stage...
- At what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?
- Aurobindo? He always had some French people with him?
- Avaroha process?
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- Babar was also a minister of his (Akbar)?
- Back to the temple we'll be performing aratik to Your Divine Grace. And there was not very much time. I was wondering whether during the time we're performing aratik to you, whether it's proper to be giving out cookies to the children?
- Bacteriology, study of germs. So Srila Prabhupada, the reason one person gets a disease from a germ and another person doesn't get a disease, it is karma?
- Bada? That means?
- Baka is a duck?
- Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, Krsna came (Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days)?
- Basically they and myself and others want to know how do we get this spirit into our own hearts and how does this then issue out into everyday living?
- Basically, what have you to offer that is different than the Christian ethos or the Jewish ethos?
- Because for me, God is merely a word. How can you explain God with a word?
- Because he (Arjuna in the beginning denied to fight, but he agreed to fight) was satisfied by his faith in Krsna?
- Because he (Hiranyakasipu) was standing still (his body was practically finished by the earthworm, what is called, moths and ants)?
- Because he has become devotee of a follower of Laksmi-Narayana, he may come to associate with Laksmi-Narayana?
- Because he was the spiritual master, would he be living in a very opulent house?
- Because I inquired with him that whether it is not something to do with CIA, wherefrom your money comes?
- Because of impiety the sun and the moon, people would not be able to see. So there would be no vegetation. And without vegetation, even animals cannot live. So eventually they would take to eating their own children. Is this what takes place?
- Because scientists cannot enter into the actual activity on the moon planet, technically, according to Bhagavata, they have not reached there?
- Because the guru is responsible for taking all of his disciples back to home, back to Godhead, I was wondering what was the position of Lord Jesus Christ?
- Because there's no sacrifice, because people aren't performing sacrifices now, is it more difficult to live off the land? It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?
- Because they are materialists, so whether they live or die does not affect anything so much. But because you are a great transcendentalist, your presence means that so many thousands of people can be saved. How are you feeling, Srila Prabhupada?
- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Because they promise something they don't deliver (the so-called religion, so-called economic development, so-called sense gratification, so-called liberation, they're all cheating)?
- Because we do not know what sin is, wouldn't whatever the authority said be purely an idea to us?
- Because we get lots of that dahi. You drink it cool with a little sugar in it. I think it's good for digestion, dahi. How are you feeling today?
- Because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction
- Beef bouillion (I saw that she (Sally) was feeding her child, one boy, meat powder)?
- Before I go, Your Grace, I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- Before I leave, can they just stand here and have darsana and then we go? Can they come in?... My sister and my brother-in-law.
- Before it can be printed, everything has to go through his hands because he is the chief translator. But at the present moment it's going so slowly. But one arrangement I proposed was to pay him some money?
- Before Krsna, who was?
- Before one has success, the kundalini must be opened. What do you think about this?
- Before the birth of Lord Krsna, was God existing?
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Before you went to America, in India, before 1965, were people coming at all, Indian people, to learn anything? Were they interested in any way?
- Being a brahmana by birth, does it mean anything?
- Being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- Being capable of action, is that a good definition of substance?
- Being in these modes determines your karma, is that correct?
- Being influenced by different degrees of desires, would that influence each person's faith?
- Besides the chanting Hare Krsna and arousing this Krsna consciousness in the people, what else are you doing to establish the way...?
- Better to keep the temple open with the Deities there or can the...?
- Beyond exclusive centers, how far beyond that can it go in the United States?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul?
- Bhagavad-gita teaches us that one should treat a piece of gold and a piece of stone alike. Is it practically considered?
- Bhagavad-gita's Battle of Kuruksetra fought, in which month?
- Bhagavad-gita...is it the proper one?
- Bhagavatam class in the morning?
- Bhakti is really a process of decontaminating the mind?
- Bhakti-caitanya Swami is the fit driver for your vehicles, Srila Prabhupada. Is that all right? I know he would want to come. Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bhakti-caru is just waiting to go and get the kaviraja in the front. Do you want me to bring him?
- Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu was written here, in this place?
- Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhu, Bhaktisiddhanta your spiritual master. How you spent the days, your young age, with Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust (and different name, you can purchase)?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust, or Charitable Trust? Which do you prefer, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bharadvaja is here. He can sing any song you'd like to hear especially this morning. ... Is there some special request?
- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- Bijam, seed, "I am the seed of all existence" (Plato uses the word "idea" in order to denote a subject's primordial existence, or maybe it's archetype. I think that Krsna uses the word bijam)?
- Billiards (What is called? That table?)?
- Biology (should be taught)?
- Birds have language? Animals have their language?
- Black is beautiful?
- Blind leaders and blind followers (another blind leader, so-called leader, he is blind himself. He does not know how to lead people. And the followers, followers are also blind. So what will be the result?)?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- Bol, Srila Prabhupada?… Soda water?
- Both (spirit and matter) come simultaneously?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- Both were the sons of Kasyapa... Kasyapa, gods and demons. By their behavior one sect became demons, no?
- Boy, was he skinny in those days! This is Brahmananda? And this is Kirtanananda Swami sitting down?
- Boy. That's Visnu within their (birds) heart?
- Brahman realization for the devotee in the beginning is just that he realizes his constitutional position as servant of Krsna?
- Brahmana can teach how to fight?
- Brahmana initiation should be strict (actually chanting sixteen rounds, following the regulative principles)... Those are the important...?
- Brahmana is not to accept any employment?
- Brahmananda Swami's proposals, top portion, we'll just add?
- Brain of who (the brain of Einstein)?
- Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
- Brainwash, accha. How you entered in their hearts?
- Brainwashing (to define brainwashing)?
- Brazil (that Ravana's brother, Mahiravana, was in...)?
- Buddha taught very similar things to what the Gita taught also, didn't he? Are there agreeances there, agreement in certain places what Buddha taught and what the Gita teaches?
- Buddha's name is also considered hari-nama?
- But a renunciation of something?
- But a Vaisnava would always offer his respects to a sannyasi. Is that not true?
- But are you asking people, if they accept your teachings, to retreat from the world, like for instance, the people who are surrounding us now?
- But are you feeling better, Swamiji?
- But are you not giving credit ("If you want little credit by experimenting, hydrogen, oxygen mixed together, then how much credit should be given who has created the vast Atlantic Ocean, not only one, millions! Why don't you give credit?")?
- But aren't they also purified spiritually by doing this (distribute these books)?
- But aren't we impure and He is pure?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But as I understood it, you were encouraging death as a form of liberation. Isn't that my understanding? That that was the ideal?
- But because this is the age of Kali, even if the Krsna consciousness movement spreads and even captures governments, how can we stop individual people from doing this (sinful life)?
- But by that time you had some kind of... organization going?
- But can all the masses of people become devotees?
- But can God be defined? We haven't got a definition of God. I challenge you... You cannot. Intellectually, you cannot analyse things
- But can God protect? Even Jesus Christ, he was killed
- But can they not come at the function?... He says some friends are coming at some time, so can you meet them? We can just go back and if you want to walk or something?
- But can you prove that ("This (Krsna consciousness movement) is the only association for understanding Krsna throughout the whole world"?
- But can't we bring chanting of japa into it? Mantra Yoga (regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vrndavana and Bombay)
- But can't you have people doing good for the sake of goodness?
- But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality (in future, everyone may fall and everyone may become elevated. But we have to take his present situation, what he is at present)?
- But did you hold any meetings or anything?
- But do the results of an idea have to be predictable?
- But do they (men living in other planets) not come here sometimes to visit us or we cannot go there?
- But do you accept the validity of other religion?
- But do you get benefits? Benefits there are but not the same (Siva is just like milk and yogurt. The yogurt is milk but it is not milk. You will not derive the benefit of milk from yogurt)?
- But do You mean that up till now your excellency were giving the question of transmigration, field of science, and now you are also taking that subject of God in this sphere of science?
- But do you think it's unusual, the fact that it's an Eastern, mysterious Eastern religion has an appeal to American young people?
- But do you think most of the Hare Krsna members will vote in the election in November?
- But do you think that really God love human beings and...?
- But do you think they (the dinosaurs) were on this planet?
- But do you think they (the Koran or the Bible or any other religious) are successful?
- But does he (the pure devotee) focus his mind upon the two-armed...?
- But does He not say that "Whatever or whoever does it, it comes to Me" (the Mayavadi philosophers, they say that "We can chant anyone's name, either I chant of any demigod's name or any name")?
- But does it depend on knowledge? I mean, the final judgement that you make (then you must know what is distinction between Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan, if you are serious student)?
- But does that light (coming from the snakes which have got jewel on the head) also keep them healthy (the people in those seven other planets where the sunshine does not go)?
- But does this not imply - one ten-thousandth the size (the size of the soul) - does that not imply measurement, that it can be measured?
- But doesn't bondage give the incentive to live (good bondage, but it is bondage, after all. If you are prisoner, first-class prisoner or third-class prisoner, you are prisoner)?
- But doesn't it (faith) come first because of trust?
- But doesn't Krsna know if I will do it (misuse my independence)?
- But don't we do that also (Caitanya Mahaprabhu was interested only on the spiritual platform. He had no idea of material side. He rejected material side)?
- But don't you look upon him as a religious man? Gandhi, religious man?
- But encouraging (to give money to the temple) is not recommended?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But even accepting their idea that things are produced from chemical reactions, who is creating the chemical reactions?
- But for Brahmananda, he may remain sannyasi? Brahmananda?
- But for happiness, or ananda, isn't bhakti essential, love, or ananda?
- But for his actions other than just following the four regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds. He does so many other things during the day. Where does he derive his authority if he's not, let's say, living in the temple?
- But for our plan to be put into action on big scale, big people must accept, who, who are presently, who presently have power to control the state... So is this to say that we must... replace them?
- But for what purpose and to what end? What's the final end (ultimate is that you are spirit soul, you are being materially engrossed, you are creating different situations and you are being transferred to different bodies. That is different situations)?
- But from '65-'66 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- But God can communicate differently?
- But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
- But have they (devotees) met God?
- But he (Gandhi) did not accept any post, you know that? At the same time...,
- But he does it on your behalf (he's guru. He's guru)?
- But he has to be yogi at that time, isn't it?
- But how about the people living next door or the people...(everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra)?
- But how can so many cheat?… Together they all cheat, they all say they went to the moon. One thousand scientists, all together in one room? They all say, "We agree, this, they went to the moon, here's the..."
- But how can that (real process is devotion) be scientifically presented? How can we accept that scientifically?
- But how can they (scientists) prove the existence of the soul through experiment?
- But how can we understand all this science and technology just by understanding Krsna, just by one book?
- But how do they (disciples) know they're pleasing you, Srila Prabhupada?
- But how do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- But how do you know it (egoism is there in ass also)?
- But how do you know one authority from the other?... But what I mean is you use the word authority, saying why would he translate that into English without authority? Now, what is the authority and who has the authority?
- But how does someone prove that something exists beyond his..., beyond our senses?
- But how does that give us sense content (this is sense content, that sarvam khalv, "Everything is Brahman")? What does that mean to my sense observations?
- But how does this differ from the Hebrew scriptures? Hebrews also say the same thing, you know, that you have fallen down from the heaven and go back...?
- But how has the cockroach been formed?
- But how many of them (people in India) practice it (Krsna consciousness)?
- But how problems of India... like poverty, and this lack of balance between rich and poor. How these problems can be solved?
- But how so many things are working under the laws...?
- But how that will affect the atmosphere and Krsna consciousness of the temple (that hall is made, constructed for making some money, then the money will not come if we don't rent out to the cinema actors, actresses)? It's not that the theater...
- But how they have forgotten this is the greatest, I mean, mystery to me. Because the sadhus voluntarily, I mean, embrace poverty?
- But how to convince them (the Ramanuja and the Madhva)?
- But how to engage these people who are desirous who have desire of serving Krsna in Bombay? If you are talking about a farm and other things
- But how to make the people realize importance of Bhagavad-gita?
- But how we can get them to come, to take prasadam?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But how would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- But how would you know, anyway? How are you able to tell, anyway? I mean, for any of your disciples or us or anybody that goes to any spiritual master, how are we to tell... True master. How are we to tell one from the other?
- But how you can say he (the pope) is not the best Christian? He is the head of all the Christians?
- But I am God, right? I am God. You are God too
- But I have never heard anything of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, and I wondered if you would tell me a little bit about him, if you would?
- But I mean they do, these men who are space travelers, they say "We did land on the moon." Now are they lying?
- But I mean, how about in your view (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- But I'm going on the argument that his medicine is doing some good. So I don't want to see it stopped. So you have no objection if we consult the other kaviraja, do you?
- But I'm trying to ask does he (the Presidential candidate) have to be Krsna conscious, involvement, in order to be God conscious?
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- But if he's (indistinct), then where is he going to get the money for his food?
- But if I think I'm happy, isn't that enough?
- But if it's (independence) not good for me, if I will misuse it, why would Krsna give it to me anyway?
- But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?
- But if that energy (God's energy) is perfect, how can it violate?
- But if the standard is happiness, and the hog is happy and the devotee is happy, then what is the distinction?
- But if there's anything that you feel that you want to ask me or...?
- But if they (the faithless) take some prasadam, that will help them?
- But if they (the scientists) accept, do we have program ("be Krsna conscious and solve all the problems." This is our point)?
- But if they're committing so many sinful activities, murdering their father and like this, then how will they get to that stage of being able to approach Krsna consciousness?
- But if this energy (the spiritual energy, everything is ever-existing) was never created, then what is the need for a creator?
- But if we don't make the research, then how will we ever solve these problems?
- But if we tell that that there is no law of gravity, they will say that why is it that if you throw up a ball then it comes down?
- But if we tried to do that, wouldn't it be sort of artificial (they go in the village for begging little food, that's all. Just like you can live in this forest. And what you will eat? Two capati. So you can go and beg. That's all)?
- But if what you say is true, why don't more people know about it? There are so many teachers. There are spiritual teachers and...?
- But if you're actually followers of God, then why are you breaking up the families? Shouldn't you have love for everyone?
- But in all humility, Srila Prabhupada, supposing that they would succeed in actually creating the living cell artificially, what would we say?
- But in India there are so many people. They're not disciples; they're not initiated by you. So are they in the same category (a brahmana woman who came to touch the feet of Lord Caitanya; immediately He went and jumped in the Ganges)?
- But in our Krsna consciousness philosophy the ideas are not to be re-evaluated. Aren't they absolute, the philosophy of Krsna consciousness?
- But in the people in general, how can we engage them also in Krsna consciousness? How can we provide them a means to use their leisure time to perfect their lives?
- But is each cell an individual living entity?
- But is good bondage good?
- But is it (that worship made by trees and other lower animals) voluntary or involuntary?
- But is it not animal food?
- But is it not correct, Srila Prabhupada, that Paramatma is the (...) is behind?
- But is it possible to also learn spiritual truths from this..., from representatives on the subtle plane?
- But is it possible to lead the life of a grhastha and at the same time think of that (janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvatah)?
- But is it possible to understand Krsna directly?
- But is it the guru? Does the guru give him that sense (when one is actually in service, then he comes to.... "So I have enjoyed. Now, no I don't want. Now I want Krsna." That is voluntary)?
- But is meditation in itself..., would that be sufficient to transcend these lower...?
- But is that correct (in any position, if you worship Krsna, then it is all right)?
- But is that true (training should be given from childhood)?
- But is the converse true, that we chant very well and that we can love Krsna even when we cannot love our fellow people?
- But is there a great time period between the different divisions of the creation?
- But is there any special, specific person who wants to go to India immediately?... Who would like to have visa?
- But is there anything wrong with accepting the fact that you are mortal, you die, you rot and you become nothing?
- But is there something else that you may know or that you may feel that you may be able to say that would assist us in a reduction less than the ideal?
- But is this force (nature is forcing) irrational and blind? This is what he thinks
- But isn't inflation possible even with coins? Even if you have gold coins, isn't inflation still possible?
- But isn't it better to give up all ego altogether?
- But isn't it by force anyway (Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver, "You love me, otherwise I shall kill you.")? If we don't love Krsna, we suffer
- But isn't the bhajana that you do for concentration?
- But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world?
- But isn't the tendency there to exploit the man and take more profit (I have hired one man to work for me. I have to pay him and therefore I require profit)?
- But isn't the understanding of the white light composed of seven other colors, isn't that also a fact of direct sense perception?
- But it (prapatti or surrender) is not yoga. It is different from yoga?
- But it is possible to man without the helping of God to realize his perfection?
- But it requires some emanation from a cockroach body in order to create another cockroach body. So how can a cockroach body be created from vapors without contact of another cockroach?
- But it's not by Krsna's sex desire. What is the meaning of the words "Krsna's sex desire"? Krsna's satisfaction?
- But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that?
- But it's the same with Arjuna, wasn't it (clear word is there, "Thou shalt not kill." And why they're maintaining so many slaughterhouses?)?
- But just because you have two different kinds of energies, why do you have to differentiate them (you cannot say that, that the temperature of the sun and the temperature of the sunshine is the same)?
- But just like when we want to try and attract someone to Krsna consciousness now, the main theme is to try to get them to come and stay at the temple. But will that continue in the future?
- But Krsna means... Who is He? Is He a personal or impersonal?
- But Krsna will always be there if we want to go back?
- But Krsna's disappearance, about having a maya body that He left behind. A maya body. Is that anything to do with Mayavadī?
- But Mahabharata describes all the continents even way before that, doesn't it (...the Vikings first discovered America, they said... From Scandanavia came, before Columbus)?
- But maybe he's taken (he's not sannyasi, he is householder), I don't know, I thought he had a danda, one of those staffs. I saw the little temple in the garden, Krsna and Radha, where they stay in bed. It's like a bed like this. You know the one?
- But most people are materialistically minded, aren't they? There's very few that aren't
- But mostly they are in America. Also in that number in Japan (in one week, the books, total of books, was seven lakhs books in one week)?
- But nobody off the street would go into the temple, would they (our business is to sell this book so that people may take advantage of it…. we have got fifty books like that… We are giving enough knowledge)?
- But nonviolence is not well in every case?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- But now do you not think that Christianity and Islam accept this (when he is on the platform of Brahman realization, then he becomes jubilant, prasannatma, na socati na kanksati. That life is required, Brahman realization. That is education) as well?
- But now I'm wondering how this should be managed, who should take charge of this project (this one gentleman has already offered one house in Bangkok. He's put at our disposal, in the middle of the city. A very beautiful house)?
- But now they are again becoming a mouse, the Americans? Now they are losing the favor of God?
- But now we should not teach them any exercise at all?
- But on the spiritual platform, everybody (on the material platform, nobody is prasannatma)?
- But on this one time should we bathe directly?
- But one must come to that point of being serious to recognize the problems of life? Before one can understand your books, the karmi must become serious to understand that he is in misery and that he must get out?
- But one should pray, is that so?
- But people are objecting that: If we cannot get divorced, then we are forced to live with each other even if we hate each other
- But people in general you say are walking on the dead platform in live bodies (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- But people know when they're doing evil, don't they?
- But philosophy is meant to understand the ultimate goal of life. What does he say the ultimate goal of life is? What is his ultimate goal of life?
- But Prabhupada, I'm still not quite clear. In other words, we'd teach, for example, like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam (on the varnasrama college)?
- But Prabhupada, there are still such things as dead matter?
- But Sagar Island, isn't that in the Bay?
- But she (woman) doesn't have any structure at all until marriage?
- But somebody asks, "How do I know a bird is not more highly advanced than a human being?"
- But sometimes the impersonalists, they say, Prabhupada, that this Krsna consciousness is just the beginning platform, that after Krsna consciousness then one can come to impersonal realization
- But Srila Prabhupada, the living entities, the jivatma within the..., and the Paramatma within, why the living entities suffering even the Paramatma is directing the living entity within?
- But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?
- But suppose the government is atheistic (the leaders cannot control nature, so why don't they accept a supreme controller? That is the defect in society)?
- But surely there is a practical point of view also. There is nothing to eat. What will happen?
- But that (Bhagavad-gita as it is) must be also a translation, mustn't it? Whoever puts it into English
- But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada?
- But that subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- But that would be the same if I could see a picture of you or I could see a...?
- But the body is important to the self isn't it?
- But the bones of those people that they've found, where are their bodies now? Have they gone to some other...?
- But the extinct species are not all present at this particular moment on this planet, are they?
- But the innocent souls, they're not surrendered to Krsna?
- But the intelligence is awarded from... Intelligence, according to the individual, is awarded according to pious activities?
- But the personality is changed (what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one)?
- But the question comes up that you have given a vow against fire at the time of marriage that the husband will look after the wife and the family. Then how does that fit in when you leave the family all of a sudden?
- But the Sanskrit wasn't give here?
- But the sheep has no sense of herd. What poor sheep can do?
- But the world will never all become Krsna conscious, will they? There will always be different scriptures
- But then God in His essence is Atman, Brahman, not Krsna. Is that what you're saying?
- But then is that man that's hammering the bricks, isn't he going to quit hammering the bricks, too?
- But then it is very bitter or... Because medicine will be a little bad tasting. Very much bitter, no, Srila Prabhupada?
- But then there is an argument, if we were originally in the spiritual world, why don't we remember that and try to go back to the spiritual world?
- But then what is the action for the... Practical action, practical... (when there is no more people following their sva-dharma)
- But then what is the stimulus? Why will they... (Krsna says, "Anyone who comes to Me, back to home, back to Godhead, he does not come again to this material world which is full of misery")?
- But then who created the creator?
- But then why do you fear this death of the physical body (the material body is the cause of pains and pleasure. So if you don't get the material body, if you remain in your spiritual body, that is real enjoyment)?
- But then, in the event that some present GBC member leaves, either leaves (how many GBC's are there already? So add him. GBC is not to be changed)?
- But there are in India other community of Visnu...?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- But there are some very intelligent men who are not spiritually enlightened, perhaps even men who understand that they are not, or the body is not all, the body is dead and there is something else. Why aren't these men spiritually aware?
- But there is no, no atheism, literate, some atheism, atheism, atheism, religious indifference, materialists exist in the towns, in the towns (in India)...?
- But there must be different stages that you go through, is that not correct?… Can you tell me from your own experience some of these different stages you've been through
- But there's no doubt it would be a big help if we could give Ph.D.s. Wouldn't it establish? Give some prestige?
- But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...?
- But these religions are just material. These Hindu, Christian, Muslim, they're following these things because that is simply their destiny? They don't know how to please God, so that's simply part of their happiness and distress?
- But they have choice within maya. Isn't that a fact?... Choice what to do in the material world, many different fields. They will say that they can do this or that
- But they may say "Where did God come from?"
- But they permit this kind of thing (Russian young boys are as good as Americans. By artificial means they have been checked. The Russian government is not good at all. Suppression. Simply suppression)?
- But they say, "Where did Krsna come from?"
- But they will be on the altar or they will be in front (and on the opening day the Deities will be on the altar or they will be in front when they're bathed? When the bathing is taking place in Bombay for the opening...)?
- But they'll actually manage the government (one day our men will be leaders of government? - Yes. Leaders means as soon as you make the public in your favor, you are leader)?
- But this is Krsna's inferior energy, right (my body is also Krsna's energy. I am also Krsna's energy. I am always with Krsna. Simply I have forgotten it)?
- But this young boy who was asking what to do with the fascists the day before yesterday, he wanted precisely violence to fight against the fascists. You, remember...?
- But those devotees will eventually go there. Those kind of devotees like devotees of Sita-Rama, they will also attain the spiritual sky in their various positions?
- But to a layman what would you preach?
- But to become learned, you go to so-called learned people, and you go to so-called learned people. How do you know that those so-called learned are...?
- But to get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- But to whom did God give the seed (material nature is the mother, and God is the father)?
- But trained by others or trained by themselves (a certain man can be trained up as first-class man)?
- But ultimately you're basing all your faith factually, aren't you, on your reasoning?
- But wasn't that school (the gurukula school in Texas) moved to India?
- But we are so insignificant. Why should God waste His time talking with us?
- But we must all perform yajna?
- But we were all cheaters before we came to you, Srila Prabhupada. So how is it that we're not accepting a cheater? How is it that we cheaters have accepted some knowledge from you?
- But what about Lord Caitanya? He is a little rare
- But what about people that are never exposed to Krsna consciousness?
- But what about the cheating going on, big cheating, international cheating about the space flights?
- But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
- But what are you going to do about your security? Can I talk to this about this, you know?
- But what do the hogs think (you rascal, you do not know what is pleasure. Just like the hog. He's also enjoying pleasure, eating stool. So your pleasure is like that. You eat stool and enjoy life. That is your standard of pleasure)?
- But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- But what do you see happening to (the future of) the actual world? Do you see any... You know, with Christianity and other religions? The world has... a beginning and an end
- But what happens if you do die before you finish (I have taken up my translation work, Bhagavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation)?
- But what I'm basically asking is what are these ksatriyas going to fight with?
- But what if they asked you, "What is this all about?" (they came... Naturally they came and joined me and began to dance, that's all. That is the beginning)
- But what if they change later on in their life (you believe in free choice. So suppose the children grow up and they want to go to college. But you have not sent them to a public school. Therefore they are not eligible for going to college)?
- But what if you are reincarnated into other planets? Is it less painful, or is it the same procedure?
- But what is our inner things? How we know it? In our classical music, actually Lord Krsna is the main figure in all... In even Muslim classical music, they also pray Lord Krsna
- But what is that sun?
- But what is the breaking of the pot (you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with)?
- But what is the meaning of akarma?
- But what is the position now? Is it dying out or increasing?
- But what is the stage at which it is atma gets merged with Paramatma? If atma would get merged with Paramatma then...?
- But what is the use of having big strong body if now they're using airplanes and tanks and guns?
- But what of our efforts to conquer cancer and tuberculosis (no, we do not say that we are making progress like you. We are trying to make spiritual progress. We are servant of God. We never say that we are very big men)?
- But what was your experience of that saksaska?
- But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty... Then those karmas don't affect...?
- But when the body is finally finished, aren't the senses also finished?
- But where can I stay in the night?
- But whether Prabhupada will eat some? Prabhupada, you will try to eat the Gujarati ruti and dal?
- But who is to say... what is a perfect experience?
- But who sees all these things (mayavadi says zero, just like the sky. The sky is there, but it is zero. You cannot see the planet)? That is what...
- But who wants to make eggs (write in the paper that, Prabhupada was speaking like that, a challenge to the scientist: Is there any scientist who can make an egg which is put in the incubator and gradually it comes to become)?
- But who was responsible for bringing this body into existence? ... The owner?
- But why are we in the prison house?
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But why do you blame us for not surrendering when we see that even Krsna's devotees can't surrender to Him? They come to us and ask us for money for these books. Why don't they give them away?
- But why existence of all these things (I have already said that we have got our imperfect senses. We cannot understand. But we have to understand from a person who has got perfect knowledge)?
- But why give names to Him? Why give names to that God?
- But why is there no disease here? Why is there no symptoms (they argue that this Vedic philosophy is coming from India, and in India there is so much disease and so many problems, but here, where we have our science, there is no disease)?
- But why only the name Krsna?
- But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance?
- But why should we be callous to the sufferings of others?
- But why the samudra changes (phenomena is changeable, always changing. Just like this samudra - sometimes here, sometimes there)? We go into there, into deep depth of that...
- But why would God want to keep the living entities in darkness?
- But why, why 1966 (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)? I mean what was there, what was there, special about the Sixties?
- But within each atom the living entity is present?
- But without pain how can you experience pleasure?
- But would that mean that a person who is a pure devotee doesn't have to die?
- But would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- But you are me and I am you. We are both God. Right?
- But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?
- But you can come to God consciousness through a variety of paths?
- But you can improve it (this world)?
- But you don't find that the fact that your monks are wearing robes or shaving their heads is a difficulty in the West, where not many people...?
- But you don't require recognition of any court, do you?
- But you know Aldridge?
- But you led a rather normal life - before this you were married. You were a businessman?
- But you mentioned in Miami... This is the reason I'm bringing it up. In Miami we mentioned that we would be discussing at Mayapur. Something, you know, should be done so that...?
- But you might want to come back to the U.S.?
- But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
- But you, aren't you translating your books still?... Isn't that a great joy, a great joy to you?
- But young men don't tend to be wise, do they (so at the early age, up to twenty-five, he's trained up. If he can, he can continue as brahmacari. He directly can take sannyasa)?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
- But, Guru Maharaja, if one has some original faith in Jesus Christ or Muhammad, would he...? They think they're sons of God or a messenger of God
- But, Guru Maharaja, one has to do her duty as advised?
- But, of course, there are conflicting educations, aren't there (people should be educated that "If you do not perform this yajna, you will suffer")?
- But, Prabhupada, the point was, can there be more than one article (in the BTG) by yourself? Or only one..?
- But, sir, if we are drop of the same ocean, why should we be impure at all?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, don't you think that the medicine is working, is having some good effect?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, is this valid to conclude that spirit, spiritual world, or life is very complex?
- By a reintroduction, reintroducing Krsna consciousness, the tide can be turned in age of Kali?
- By argument you can convince a skeptic of the possibility of the existence of God, but the reality of Godhead can only be really realized... I mean has to be experienced or realized, does it not?
- By brain what do you mean?
- By details (in the beginning don't talk of these details) do you mean the rules and regulations?
- By elaborate you mean effective, is that? You mean effective by elaborate? I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate (well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate)?
- By His grace, Krsna will show Himself to you?
- By our desires we are pulled?
- By pleasing Lord, one does not please one's own ego also to some extent?
- By preaching Krsna consciousness would you condemn other people's beliefs?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
- By the frogs (kumbhaka; this art is known by the frogs also)?
- By the mercy of Supersoul, he (the pure devotee) can be present in many places at once?
- By this (there are degrees of light), you mean that those who adopt the teachings coming from the Koran or from the Bible is lesser light than from the Gita?
- By understanding this mantra, Hare Krsna, if you do not know any scriptures, you do not know srutis, mantras, anything, then has any effect at all?
- By who (their (the Marwari's) food is first class, there is no doubt. Yes... It is certified by Sir P. C. Raya), Srila Prabhupada?
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- Cadillac (first-class car must go to India)?
- Caitanya was incarnation of Krsna? But was a disciple of someone who was not incarnation?
- Call the sannyasis (to discuss about our preaching work)?
- Can a father impose on a child, something which he does not believe himself?
- Can a hydrogen molecule desire to become part of water and be given that body? Does it have the independence to desire something and take a body accordingly? The hydrogen molecule, does it have a life?
- Can a living entity ever lose his existence?
- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can a material calculation prove a spiritual fact?
- Can a normal student from, for instance, from one of the best universities, who is attending lectures in normal way, etc., also be initiated and admitted to your community?
- Can a person become a brahmana?
- Can a person become Krsna conscious only by renouncing, or can he do both, continue his life and also become Krsna conscious?
- Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
- Can a scientist teach the science of combining acid and alkaline and this kind of science with Krsna as its object?
- Can a self exist without a body?
- Can a true devotee come face-to-face with God through the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Christ?
- Can a woman become sannyasi?
- Can a woman reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna?
- Can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- Can an animal be in the mode of goodness?
- Can anybody create anything with this mystic power, any idol of God or any idol of devotee or anything, and then turn them to..., just a good mission to turn them to God?
- Can anyone be said to be innocent in this world?
- Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?
- Can crops be grown anywhere in the world?
- Can drugs sometimes be used to help us for spiritual realization?
- Can hatha-yoga hinder or help Krsna consciousness?
- Can he (this yogi who attains Vaikuntha) later go on from Vaikuntha to Goloka? Can that happen also?
- Can he find the truth on his level, because he hasn't arrived at your level?
- Can he hear? We say "Rama, Rama." Can he hear that?
- Can I ask a question? Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- Can I ask is this a very special welcome for you, or is this a performance that you go through each day?
- Can I ask one more question, Swamiji?… Some people are more inclined to worship Rama, saying Hare Rama, Hare Rama instead of Hare Rama, Hare Krsna, both?
- Can I ask one question? You were mentioning that you wanted to start local industries, casting Deities?
- Can I ask you where you come from?
- Can I get a copy (from the recorded tape) from you?
- Can I put a question? Why do you always say, "From a perfect person"?
- Can I say about my concept of God and philosophy?
- Can I see God by becoming a Christian?
- Can I serve the devotees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Can I show you a copy (letterhead from France)?
- Can ice cream purchased from the market be offered?
- Can intelligence be created in an unintelligent person?
- Can it (aratiks) be three, can it be simple?
- Can it be understand that if a person, for instance, some Americans are very wealthy, that they... (pious family means automatically he gets chance to become Krsna conscious)?
- Can Krsna be called by any other name?
- Can Krsna give us the ability to someday remember every word that you are saying to us now?
- Can one assume that matter is a kind of energy?
- Can one be a householder, I mean, with his normal worldly life, and at the same time be a...?
- Can one be egoistic and be spiritual at the same time, I mean, be proud of himself, not as a body, but proud of his state of the spirit?
- Can one be forgetful of Krsna eternally?
- Can one be in spiritual life if they're not worshiping the Deity?
- Can one chant when working?
- Can one develop determination gradually?
- Can one perceive by their own senses what is that (the mercy of Lord Caitanya)...?
- Can one say om instead of "Krsna" and gain the same benefit?
- Can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead that presents itself to man and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- Can one say that necessity for eating, sleeping, mating and defending is animal life? The necessity for God is advanced life?
- Can one say that soul and life are identical?
- Can one say what qualities the atman has?
- Can only a few pure devotees deliver others
- Can our religion bring something more than other religions?
- Can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
- Can someone achieve self-realization without a guru or does he need a guru?
- Can someone outside, who does not follow these practices (give up certain habits such as one should not smoke and things), can he achieve perfection?
- Can Swamiji please explain how is it that Sanjaya is to Dhrtarastra and how it came to pass that Vyasadeva wrote the Bhagavad-gita?
- Can the Bhagavad-gita be sung?
- Can the desire to go back to Godhead be sense gratification?
- Can the human consciousness transcend time?
- Can the human heart feel compassion?... The human heart cannot take to compassion?
- Can the Janata explosion be regarded as a division of Krsna consciousness or similar consciousness?
- Can the living entity perceive the situation at this time, when he's being transferred from one body to another?
- Can the name of God be pronounced, uttered?
- Can the older boys be trained in a particular kind of devotional service? For example, press work?
- Can the profit of the manufacture of something which is manufactured purely for profit be turned to good?
- Can the scientists control that, the type of genes, the kinds of body, the child will get?
- Can the seed extract anything without the spirit soul being present there?
- Can the Vedas be taken symbolically as well as literally?
- Can there be an existence without a faith, sir?
- Can there be opposition in the spirit world? Conflict in the spirit world?
- Can these things be understood theoretically, Srila Prabhupada, or is realization required?
- Can they (ksatriyas) still make spiritual advancement?
- Can they be in opposition (spirit in themselves, they are not opposition)?
- Can they do Bengali work (simply they have to find a good press who can do the work. Press, Usha Press is nice)?
- Can this mantra also be chanted afterwards, in addition, also on the beads?
- Can we assume that energy itself, all three types of energy, are related to life?
- Can we become Krsna consciousness right now?
- Can we call these trees (with no fruits and no flowers) demonic?
- Can we decide what we want to be in our next life?
- Can we drink date rasa? We are allowed to drink date rasa?
- Can we eat cheese?
- Can we find it (truth) only in the scriptures, in following all the regulative principles we're following day after day, or can we find also that truth by following our own path, by keeping our own freedom to do whatever we like?
- Can we find the one in ourselves?
- Can we get one picture of the group?
- Can we get some cymbals?
- Can we hear a little bit from the Sankhya philosophy? Sankhya philosophy of Lord Kapiladeva? The creative elements
- Can we just have the chanting without instructions?
- Can we not also say that self and not self must separate, either in death involuntarily, or through destiny?
- Can we overcome that danger? We can try to overcome that danger (as soon as we give up this temple worship method, regulative principles, then we become, in the dress of so-called, we become victim of maya)
- Can we purchase the house (take to farming for supporting yourself) for our own staying?
- Can we say that the living entity is present within the atom by consciousness?
- Can we say that the living entity is there, and that he is the one that makes the molecules and the atoms come together to form a body just like the scientists give explanation? No? We can't?
- Can we see Him, just as we see Lalaji? But with these eyes or the... (so our knowledge is very easy. We don't make any research. Here is Krsna says that He is the Supreme Personality - we accept it. That's all. It is very simple)?
- Can we solve political problems with this religious basis?
- Can we stop mental speculation immediately
- Can we take you some time all around Vrndavana? ... What about to Govardhana?
- Can we touch your feet, Swamiji?
- Can we withdraw our independence, can we request Krsna to force us to surrender to Him, due to our conditioning?
- Can we, can you say a bit more of that, just for the tape? You were saying that religion is obeying the supreme controller
- Can you be completely perfect and follow the orders perfectly?
- Can you be interested directly in politics?
- Can you become aware of this without Krsna consciousness (when one understands that this big machine (the body) is useless without the pilot (the soul))?
- Can you briefly tell us what the difference, how your approach is different from the approaches of the other gurus who have come? You seen to have rather a unique place in...
- Can you ever lose your identity? Can I ever forget myself?
- Can you explain about taking a spiritual body after death?
- Can you explain about vaibhava and prabhava?
- Can you explain exactly what speculation means?
- Can you explain more about the Stita-dhi Muni, the undisturbed sage? In the purport you explain how he is neither attached nor detached. What is that, that he is neither one or the other?
- Can you explain subordination again?
- Can you explain the reason why yogis don't eat meat?
- Can you explain the ways of papa-nirvanam?
- Can you explain to me just a bit more, if the soul is undying, does everybody's soul go to be with God when they die? Do you have a belief in a heaven or a hell?
- Can you explain to me then what difference it makes being a member of the Hare Krsna movement
- Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?
- Can you explain to me, then, perhaps finally, just some of the stages you go through in this spiritual life. Sort of, from somebody being a new devotee to Hare Krsna, what are the mental or the spiritual stages you go through?
- Can you explain to us what time is?
- Can you explain what I read in one of your books, that the sound spoken either in chanting a mantra or when talking about God or Krsna is somehow transcendental sound, though it's spoken with the same voice?
- Can you explain why Lord Krsna encourages Arjuna to fight his own blood?
- Can you explain, Prabhupada, once again what action in action and inaction in action?
- Can you give any explanation about the spiritual, around the earth. If they are all luminous?
- Can you give us the number how many temples are there in foreign countries?
- Can you have perfect knowledge?
- Can you make a child Krsna conscious if you yourself don't believe in Krsna consciousness?
- Can you make them (the people) reasonable? If they're unreasonable, is there some way to make them reasonable?
- Can you not say that this knowledge is an atma-vidya, that we are trying to come to the knowledge of the atman (this is our main business, that is, jivasya tattva-jijnasa, to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- Can you please describe the dress in which you are clothed?
- Can you please explain that it is our only way out for salvation?
- Can you point out any time in history when there existed such a perfect system (we are always hankering after happiness. So we do not like suffering. So if there is no suffering, that is perfect system)?
- Can you really expect to change the whole society?
- Can you remember some of your first impressions of North American society when you came here? Did you feel it was ripe for Krsna consciousness at that time?
- Can you repeat why you said you have been successful where others have not?
- Can you satisfy equally as brahmacari or grhastha or sannyasi? Can you satisfy equally in whatever path you have chosen?
- Can you say exactly the point where Christians are not obedient. Do you see any points here by your visit to the Christian countries and you like to say for us? It is a help for us to say exactly the point
- Can you say something about the training for a brahmana (in the varnasrama college)?
- Can you say that it is worse, the condition of the world is worse now than it used to be or is it relatively the same or...?
- Can you say what is God?
- Can you see an age that you could live until? Could you predict how long you might live?
- Can you show me something about that visva-svarupa?
- Can you take inside? Is it allowed (I wanted both of you to take various detailed photographs of that Capitol)?
- Can you take little bit of ice cream or cold custard?
- Can you tell me a little bit about the future direction of the movement, how you plan to expand?
- Can you tell me again what intelligence is?
- Can you tell me how many of those (who joins) actually stay?
- Can you tell me how the Hare Krsna movement came to be founded?
- Can you tell me how you feel about this welcome that you got? Are you used to anything a little bit more serene?
- Can you tell me how you feel led, you know, how you are guided to do what you do?
- Can you tell me how your teaching relates to the Bible, to the Christian teaching?
- Can you tell me some more about chanting Hare Krsna?
- 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?
- Can you tell me the chant? Will you recite the chant to me? And then tell me why it's used so often by the followers?... The Krishna chant
- Can you tell me what is Krsna consciousness?
- Can you tell me what this painting up here is?
- Can you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life, why do we exist in the first place?
- Can you tell me what you believe, what is the philosophy of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Can you tell me who is Lord Krsna?
- Can you tell me...? There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- Can you tell us a little bit about Krsna consciousness, what it does mean?
- Can you tell us a little bit about the plans you have for your project in India
- Can you tell us the wonderful feeling of enlightenment to enter this spirit? We don't know how to exactly enter this spirit and travel as you travel
- Can you tell us what the program is for Hindu priests or Hindu holy man, swami?
- Can't people be spiritual without dressing in this fashion and dancing in the street?
- Can't we all be combined in a single person rather than dividing them into four, at least in the present age?
- Cannot be done, then (take the chemicals and combine them together in a test tube so that a soul can enter into)?
- Catur-varnyam maya srstam: is it applicable to India alone, or the whole world?
- Cause passion will come you, when at times of anger gets temporarily the better of you, what is the guidance which can bring you back to normality?
- Certain sections, or just say all of these (the lawyer can present that "My client's defense statement is here in these books." "Defense statement." Don't say, "the books." "Defense statements are there")?
- Channa?
- Chanting His names, surrendering to Him, feeling love for Him, doing service. Is that not or would that not take one person to...?
- Chanting in the temple increases the?
- Chanting is devotional service?
- Chanting is mental concentration, is it?
- Chanting, following the orders of the spiritual master... Is that considered offenseless chanting?
- China?
- Christ consciousness and Krsna consciousness, the words are so similar. Please combine the words, explain how the words came to us
- Christ says that he's the Almighty. What is your opinion?
- Christ's general teaching was that they should not worry for anything because God is supplying to everyone, even the birds and beasts. So why should they (the preachers) worry? Just go out and preach. That was his basic teaching to his twelve apostles
- Christian priests, they asked me that "Why Christianity is dwindling? What we have done?" So I told them, "What you have not done?"
- 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...?"?
- Christianity has to change their customs or the Christianity, Roman Catholic or Protestant, must return to the source?
- Cobbler (woman can take care of the milk products or spining (spinning). And sudras can be engaged for working as weaver, as a blacksmith, a goldsmith. There are so many things)?
- Coming back to this question of the western type of civilization, do you feel that the success of the movement in the western society is an indication of the need being felt by the western man that has been lacking in spiritual ideologies?
- Communists win, that will not stop our preaching?
- Completely (the sinful departments, illicit sex, meat-eating, this will be closed)?
- Concerning your questions about tantric sastras
- Conchshell. What is this for, Swamiji?
- Consciousness is also subject to body's changes, change of body?
- Consciousness movement in the West-like you said, the Western people are fed up with materialism. Is it that they are fed up only with materialism or with...?
- Contact labor? Labor contact (now we want to finish this. If you have got any good contact on labor?)?
- Costumes were good (play was very nice)?
- Could a monarch use this argument, the argument of divine right, in order to discourage his subjects' rebelling under the pretense that they are communing directly with God? What guidelines are there to assure against this? Wasn't there one King Vena...?
- Could a woman be a temple president?
- Could he (a merchant in India) spend that (a bunch of Indian notes printed in China) money?
- Could I ask please, if prana is the life force, isn't it? Is it the prana is the life force, isn't it?
- Could I ask you another question? You've been hitting on some of the Ten Commandments tonight like "Thou shall not kill." Now, if you believe the Ten Commandments like that, it also says in there that you shouldn't worship idols, bow down to idols
- Could I ask you if you might sign... Put your name in... Autograph?
- Could I have been in my last life?
- Could I permitted to take a Bengali class one hour daily, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust room for foreign and also Indian boys?
- Could it (chanting Hare Krsna) be called the true yoga of our time?
- Could it be that there may be different interpretations (if you do not accept the direction of the author, then what right you have got to say that you have understood Bhagavad-gita)?
- Could it be, Srila Prabhupada, that this sanction of wine drinking be from God? Could that sanction come from God? Do we think that is possible?
- Could that go on and on forever, his not desiring (as soon as the living entity desires to unite with the Supreme Lord, he can become. And so long he does not desire, he'll have to continue this material existence. So that depends on him)?
- Could the president of the Coca-Cola company find the way to Krsna, to serve Krsna?
- Could they (liberated souls) ever misuse it (their independence) ?
- Could we just talk for a minute or two so that we could get all this set up? If you'd like, just to tell me. You're going to India tomorrow, is that correct?
- Could we say that anyone who is engaged in glorifying the body is actually engaged in idol worship?
- Could we use alchemy to make gold for Krishna's altar?
- 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 describe your temple to me?
- 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 elaborate a little bit on the point of debate of Krsna manifesting everything, and therefore He's attractive?
- Could you estimate how many people in India have found true spirituality through Indian religion?
- Could you explain (illicit sex, do you think it is...? Not only outside marriage. Even in marriage, you cannot have sex as you like. You must have sex according to the regulative principle or religious principle)?
- Could you explain a little bit about the position in which we were situated in the spiritual sky before coming to the material world?
- Could you explain further, purification of the senses? You said that you had to purify your senses before you can see God
- Could you explain that (this women's liberation is just a trick by the men)?
- Could you explain what you meant by knowledge? What? Spiritual knowledge or...?
- Could you give me a brief rundown on their...? Are they devotee, they're devotees... (Srinivasa and Haridasa. Haridasa character is there?)
- Could you give them by name, the five kinds of liberation? In English?
- Could you go over each of the three functions you've been mentioning-eating, sleeping and sex - and tell me what specifically, what rules or hints that you would give people who are seeking spiritual enlightenment to aid in their lives in these ways
- 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?
- Could you please tell me a little bit about your life and how you knew that you were the spiritual master for the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Could you recall the beginning of your first trip to USA and how you spread the message? I was told that you came here with six dollars?
- Could you repeat that, Srila Prabhupada? I want to record it
- Could you say that prayer again of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "You chant Hare Krsna..."? I didn't understand that
- Could you speak to us on giving thanks to the Lord?
- Could you tell about Lord Caitanya asking where is Krsna and falling in the water?
- Could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did...?
- Could you tell me about the Hare Krsna mantra because it's so important to Krsna consciousness
- Could you tell me how much you do derive from the airport solicitations in the United States?
- Could you tell me how old you are?
- Could you tell me something about your altar?
- Could you tell me the names of these special foods? How do you know what Krsna eats and drinks, please?
- Could you tell me why at times it is dangerous to meditate on concentration on the astral world?
- Could you tell people how you are dressed today, what's the significance of your clothes?
- Could you tell us a little about your spiritual master's life?
- Could you tell us about something about Lord Caitanya's production of Vaisnava drama? Are there any of the plays that you know are still extant?
- Could you think of yourself? And when you think, you are thinking of Krsna?
- Couldn't we say that we as men are determined to freedom, determined to indeterminism, so to say, determined to take some responsibility?
- Couldn't you get all the necessity you require from grains?
- Cow dung chip is called kandi?
- Created a new species, Prabhupada?
- Crime, Why and How to Solve It?
- Cyavana and his followers (two heavenly physicians, asvini-kumaras made him very nice beautiful-looking young man by taking him to a certain lake, and they dipped down and all of them became fresh young men, beautiful, very beautiful)?
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- Daily how many times you'll utter the names of Lord Krsna?
- Death is just like sleep. When we're sleeping we feel.... So why, then, we should be afraid of death?
- Defamation of our religious cult. Because we're recognized by scholars as being bona fide. It says here, "Ungodly face of Krsna cult." How is that ungodly?
- Defense (so material things, viṣaya, simply increasing the method of eating, sleeping, sex life and defense. This is material activity)?
- Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara. Could it be said, then, that we are transmigrating even while in this life?
- Deity worship is temple worship?
- Delhi, some astrologer said (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Demigods are not liberated?
- Devotees are beginning more and more, Srila Prabhupada, under your instruction, to enter into politics. But the political leaders, they will claim, "Well you have no experience. How can you be qualified to...?"
- Devotees are doing very well in Moscow, Prabhupada? Is that right? They are distributing books there?
- Devotees, do we get sick because of our bad actions in the past?
- Devotees, sometimes they feel that in ISKCON we're talking so much about the business of how to spread Krsna consciousness, but we're not talking enough about Krsna's pastimes, krsna-katha. Won't it purify them? That's what they say, "It will purify me"
- Dharma is for the envious?
- Dharma there (sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam) means to the religious faith or duty?
- Diameter (of the universe)?
- Did all the souls that were in the spiritual sky fall out of the spiritual sky at once or at different times, or are there any souls that are always good, they're not foolish, they don't fall down?
- Did any of them come up here who are still with you now (alone I was doing that. And then gradually one or two boys began to come)?
- Did anyone tell you that, or you just know it from before (these kind of symptoms are seen when a man is poisoned. He said like that, not that I am poisoned)?
- Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura take sannyasa in later years?
- Did Bhismadeva get wounded by arrows at the battle of Kuruksetra, or did he simply chose to leave his mortal body and thus lay down for passing on a bed of arrows?
- Did Gandhi reply to your request (this request I made to Gandhi That "You are..." People accepted him as a spiritual man all over the world. So if Gandhi would have taken this movement sincerely and scientifically, it would have grown thousand times)?
- Did Hakeemji come? Did the doctor come? Hakeemji?
- Did He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) have a spiritual master?
- Did He (Krsna) translate it into English?
- Did I understand you to say the swami has no sex life?
- Did Jesus die on the cross to redeem all the sins of the world?
- Did Kamsa also achieve the grace? He was immediately transferred to the spiritual planets after he was killed?
- Did Krsna create us to serve Him? And to enjoy us?
- Did Krsna describe to Arjuna the disciplic succession?
- Did Krsna have children by the gopis?
- Did Krsna invent Radha for His own pleasure?
- Did Krsna play that (football)?
- Did Lord Caitanya have women, householders traveling with Him when He went on sankirtana?
- Did Lord Caitanya take sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi?
- Did Lord Caitanya worship Sarasvati?
- Did some time lapse between Vyasa's conception of the Srimad-Bhagavatam and the actual writing down of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Was it passed orally, or was written down by Vyasa Krsna himself?
- Did someone put tilaka on the dog?
- Did Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu have a dandi or a tridandi?
- Did that milk give you any mucus, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did the Chand Kazi stop this cow killing thereafter? After talking with Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- Did the Gosvamis drink from this well, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did the Greek civilization follow the Vedic culture?
- Did the people who said they went to the moon, did they go to another planet?
- Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna?
- Did these dinosaurs exist, or is it just their imagination?
- Did they (Englishmen) teach God consciousness (in India)?
- Did they (Scottish Churches College) teach in English or Bengali?
- Did they (the astronauts) actually get to the moon or not?
- Did they (the European professors from Scottish Churches College) come mostly for missionary work? Was that their purpose?
- Did they actually land on the moon, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did they find a temple in Hamburg? In Hamburg. I was there once, but they just had a little tiny house, and they were trying to get another
- Did they go to some other planet (than the moon), Prabhupada?
- Did they try to make you Christian? Like that?
- Did we fall in the material world to experience something which is higher?
- Did we fall in this material world to find some highest pleasure?
- Did you build a Maha-ratha?
- Did you come with the purpose of spreading Krsna consciousness?
- Did you ever think at that time that you would be able to expand or...?
- Did you get formal training with a...?
- Did you get some barley flour?
- Did you go to East Africa also?
- Did you go to the United States to found the Krsna consciousness?
- Did you have to go there (to Dr. Mishra's apartment) to bathe also?
- Did you help to build that one?... Did you help to establish that Gaudiya Matha (In Allahabad)?
- Did you know him (Sir Jagadish (this Marconi's theory is his theory)) ?
- Did you mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out? The dormant Krsna consciousness, is that...
- Did you meet any of them (the Soviet Union leaders)?
- Did you purchase any land at Kuruksetra yet, Prabhupada?
- Did you say once that sometimes Krsna will let you work off some of your karma in a dream (indistinct)?
- Did you say self-realization is realizing our identity with Brahma?
- Did you say that for the atman, are part of the eternal? For the atman, it is... A need for the being is for the purpose, ananda
- Did you say that having a family necessarily interferes with Krsna consciousness?
- Did you say that illicit means sex between people who are not married?
- Did you say that Sri Krsna Caitanya was playing Radha?
- Did you say through a particular ritualistic process you can go there in your next life?
- Did you see the color printing inside? It's also very nice. They have done the same.... This was last year in Paris, when you received Bhagavad-gita
- Did you send copies to all the libraries (of the first Back to Godhead magazine)?
- Did you stand on street corners and chant?
- Did you talk with people there (in Moscow)? Were you permitted, were you allowed to talk with the people in the streets and so on?
- Did you tell everyone you were leaving, or you simply disappeared?
- Did you then begin, after you finished the university, did you begin your writing?
- Did you want to go out into the garden tonight or not?
- Did you want to know where that was, "Hallowed be Thy name."?... Were you asking where that was from?
- Did you work for Jagadishacandra Bose too?
- Did you work out the spiritual disciplines for the group yourself? I mean about the morning chanting and the recital of the two thousand Hare Krsnas a day and... Did you work those out yourself?
- Did you write all these books?
- Did you yourself study Sanskrit at Vrndavana or...?
- Didn't Bhaktivinoda Thakura do that (there are many who claim to become God. All of them should be brought into the court) once?
- Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to fight when he was lifting the chariot? Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to kill him?
- Didn't some Manipur devotees visit Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Jagannatha Puri sometimes?
- Didn't that Dr. Radhakrishnan go crazy at the end of life, Srila Prabhupada?
- Didn't the Queen make some remarks about that? She said something to you… (Yes, she said, "How marvelous it would be to completely trust Krsna")?
- Didn't they (the residents of Vrndavana) know who Krsna was?
- Different levels of consciousness?
- Different Puranas have different Gitas, Prabhupada?
- Different stages? Are there different stages?
- Dinosaurs also (were from a previous Kali-yuga )?
- Disease is not hopelessness. Otherwise why the people go for treatment to a physician? Similarly, out of ignorance you are now in this miserable condition, but if you become treated by bona fide spiritual master, then you'll be cured
- Distributing books (first-class brain, they should be engaged in studying sastras, writing books and in the worship of the Deity, lecturing enlightened people. This is brahmana. They haven't got to work as ksatriya, as vaisya)?
- Diwali is the 10th or 11th. I think the Marwari community, they celebrate on the 10th. So we expect him on the 11th or by the latest the 12th, which means one week from today. Do you mind waiting that long?
- Do (the jivas in vegetables that are offered to Krsna) they just get liberation or do they go directly to Krsna? They go to Krsna or do they only get liberation? Do they go to Goloka Vrndavana? What kind of liberation?
- Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end?
- Do animals also have independence?
- Do any of them come now? Do any of them come now apart from Prabhakara?
- Do different spirit souls have different activities, spiritual activities?
- Do ghosts refer to categories of ghosts or particular famous?
- Do I have to join your movement to be happy? Can I just take Krsna consciousness outside your movement?
- Do I think it (one should only endeavor to go back to Godhead. That should be the mission of everyone's life." So this is our mission. We are propagating this) is all right? Well, it's a point of view
- Do I understand that the children in your school in Texas, that they're brought up in what you consider spiritual consciousness...?
- Do innate ideas have to be universal? Might not some living entities have some innate ideas and other living entities have others? Why does an innate idea have to be universal and apply to everyone?
- Do many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- Do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction?
- Do monkeys have any use?
- Do most human beings fall down into the animal species?
- Do people come to the services who are not disciples and devotees?
- Do people lose God consciousness as they grow older?
- Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop?
- Do the animals have no consciousness of God?
- Do the car companies make bicycles?
- Do the demigods sometimes forget their positions?
- Do the disciples take on new injunctions and prohibitions at this time?
- Do the fallen souls leave the spiritual world all at once or gradually?
- Do the five direct rasas take place between jiva souls also when they are...?
- Do the laws of nature also make distinction, Prabhupada?
- Do the liberated souls also seek after this Krsna consciousness? Those who have become free
- Do the living entities who are born from perspiration require a mother and father?
- Do the needful? ... In what regard, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do the number of demigods have something to do with the number of species, like there are thirty-three million demigods?... Do they belong to these species? They are also included in these eight million four hundred? These Gandharvas?
- Do the rays of the sun actually take away our life?
- Do the rickshaw drivers in Letchmore Heath chant Hare Krsna?
- Do the same rules apply to women as to men?
- Do the Vedic histories refer to this planet only?
- Do these demigods have the potency to show the universal form?
- Do these men get trained in mystic prayer, contemplation?
- Do they (people who join) have to wear those clothes and shave their heads and chanting those things...?
- Do they (the sudra class) kill them in a slaughterhouse? The goats?
- Do they (the Vallabhites) worship in vatsalya-rasa or just show?
- Do they (your followers) do anything like social work or other...?
- Do they have a period of training or a program for the training of the swamis?
- Do they have any temples of Lord Jagannatha there? They have any temples of Lord Jagannatha in Kuruksetra?
- Do they have many birds in Bhuvanesvara?
- Do they have to practice every day?
- Do they know the cause of cancer?
- Do they reject it because they (the politicians) cannot do it?
- Do they speak Kashmiri language, the people, or is it Hindi?
- Do we accept the contour of the continents? Do we accept the general continents?
- Do we all originate from Krsna?
- Do we announce that you will give darsana on the stage for five minutes?
- Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation
- Do we consider ivory as something pure or impure?
- Do we ever personally contact Krsna in Krsna consciousness?
- Do we get a second chance if we don't make the most of this life? In other words, is reincarnation part of your...?
- Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye?
- Do we have a viewpoint on contraception?
- Do we have anything, Srila Prabhupada, in the reference, saying that all the living entities are already there?
- Do we have to completely leave the world? We cannot stay within the world and sanctify ourselves?
- Do we have to liberate ourselves from karma in order to achieve Krsna?
- Do we offer any solution for socio-economic problems that you can...?
- Do we recognize that any of those Christian saints were great devotees? Did they develop love of God? Or what's the comparison?
- 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 we use machines and modern methods on our asramas and farms
- Do women fit into this (four classes) social structure? You keep referring to man
- Do you accept the supremacy of the Vedas, veda-pramanam?
- Do you accept the whole of the material world? Do you think there are some things in it which are wrong?
- Do you advocate sending the children to secular schools, or have you made arrangements with the government to...?
- Do you agree with that, Prabhupada? Isn't it? Prabhupada, Prabhupada? Do you agree with that, though, that it was not necessary to, say chant continually out in a doctor's surgery or...?
- Do you agree with the work of the Ramakrishna Mission, Mahesh Yogi, and Divine Light Society that are working in America?
- Do you attempt to speak with governments and city officials and that sort of thing to spread your message?
- Do you attribute accidents and disease to a desire for self-destruction?
- Do you basically reject the modern civilization?
- Do you believe in a life after death for the body?
- Do you believe in a resurrection?
- Do you believe in love of God, and that God is a person? Some people say that God is not a person, and we say God is a person
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Do you believe in some sort of universal but inherent deficiency in human nature, in other words, that man irrespective of his environment, irrespective of where he comes from, that he has, he is prone to evil?
- Do you believe in the blessed trinity?
- Do you believe in the essential unity of religious paths in such a way that soon people will take to God and yoga?
- Do you believe in the Holy Bible?
- Do you believe in these (Hindi) and everything?
- Do you believe that Christ said that Krsna was his father?
- Do you believe that God is pleased by your prayer and helps the world because of your prayer?
- Do you believe that Hare Krsna is the only true faith?
- Do you believe that Jesus and Buddha and Krsna are manifestations of the same God?
- Do you believe that other religions have some truth to them because they all are...?
- Do you believe that the Gita should be followed as it is or interpretation...?
- Do you believe that the origin of this creation is a sin?... A sin of man or is the love of God? What is the origin?
- Do you believe that the soul and God is one as Ramanuja and Sankaracarya says, or as Madhvacarya says...
- Do you believe then that there is more than one way?
- Do you believe, I mean now from the point of view of facts, or events, not of ideas, of events, of reality, do you think there are many these men who are without spiritual ideas in the world of today?
- Do you call it your temple or a church?
- Do you claim then that your way of loving God is the way to love God?
- Do you come (to India) every year, or is this the first time you have come?
- Do you consider that this kind of practice or the practicing this kind of culture is regimentated? A person has to come in and spend sometimes in the temple, and...?
- Do you consider that your movement is basically more of an educational movement than a religious movement?
- Do you consider.... Is it your Deity? Do you consider that glorified?
- Do you deal in percentages?
- Do you defy by trying to learn His mayadhyaksena suyate prakrtih sa-caracaram (you defy Krsna)?
- Do you differentiate, as you would do, it's only a matter of attempting to comprehend the differences of things, the difference between thinking and feeling as rational functions?
- Do you direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma
- Do you do your printing in Japan and America?
- Do you envisage or envision a different role for Hinduism in the Western countries where the influence of other great religions has been felt for centuries?
- Do you equate then the impersonalists and the Mayavadis? Are they the same?
- Do you ever feel Krsna's presence, or see Him?
- Do you expect Him (Krsna) to come again?
- Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you already?
- Do you feel also that if someone read the Bhagava...?... Bhagavad-gita and other books, that a person merely by reading these could attain knowledge of Krsna?
- Do you feel any difficulty during urination?
- Do you feel are you in good health now? You look it.
- Do you feel diseases and sickness? Is this a result of your past karma?
- Do you feel like going on? I don't think I'm going to write these now. I'm just going to use this tape. When I go over a scene I'll just play it back. It's too much to write
- Do you feel like speaking and hearing about Bhagavatam?
- Do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet?
- Do you feel that he should come and prepare it (medicine) in your presence? You want to see him? Or can it be prepared in South and brought by the devotees?
- Do you feel that those who've had genuine religious, spiritual understanding would not have that kind of argument?
- Do you feel, sir, that it (education about God) is lacking only here in the United States?
- Do you find a place for romantic love within...?
- Do you find that in the translation from the thoughts and the Sanskrit to the English words, then from the English words to the mass of the people's heads, do you find that there is much loss?
- Do you find that the chant goes on in your heart?
- Do you find that you are having difficulty disassociating yourself (your group) with false prophets like the Guruji?
- Do you find that you chant, it clarifies you?
- Do you find the English weather cold?
- Do you find, Swamiji, that the mood of the young people in North America is the same now as it was in '65, or has it changed?
- Do you find, uh, you must find it very, very difficult travelling all the time?
- Do you foresee a time coming when people will realize... (it has already come, disaster). No, I mean a time coming when disaster is averted and people realize...
- Do you foresee a time when many people will receive that remedy (the instruction is there. Just like Bhagavad-gita says, "Produce food grain." The remedy is there. But you will not produce food grain; you will produce motorcar. Then you must suffer)?
- Do you foresee that the devotees will grow in numbers in this country?
- Do you give him permission to come visit you ("...with your permission we would like to come and visit you sometime later this year, as it has now been so long since I have had your personal association")?
- Do you go to this institute for a certain period of time (yes, there is a monastery. We have got institution, Gaudiya Math Institution. They have got hundreds of branches, yes)?
- Do you have a large number of American negroes in your movement, Swamiji?
- Do you have a name that you call... are they called students?
- Do you have a particular asrama there (in Vrndavana)?
- Do you have a temple here, Swami, or do you meet in libraries?
- Do you have altars?
- Do you have an opinion on the Hebrew scripture, the Kabbalah?
- Do you have any children, family?
- Do you have any evidence ("what you say, you have no proof, but what I say I have got proof")?
- Do you have any feeling about the crime here in the United States as opposed to the crime in your own land?
- Do you have any hope in the future that you, your movement, will involve printing a lot of books, making, building schools for your children?
- Do you have any ideas where you would want (the facility to chant the holy name of God and distribute prasadam)?
- Do you have any in training for second class?
- Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches?
- Do you have any opinion about Ted Patrick, who I guess you've probably heard of?
- Do you have any other source, like donations or something like that for your movement?
- Do you have any panditas in the Western movement?
- Do you have any plans of propagating your movement in India?
- Do you have any proposal to spread this movement in Communist countries?
- Do you have any sort of teachers in your centers, and how do they get their education if you have any teachers?
- 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 anything comparable to bishops and the hierarchy of the Christian faith and of other major faiths?
- Do you have arrangements with hospitals in case somebody gets sick, and do you watch diet carefully and...?
- Do you have certain dietary rules for which you do not eat? What do you not eat?
- Do you have children?
- Do you have children? You just left them?
- Do you have classes on Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you have lots of members?
- Do you have many Indian followers? Many Indian followers as well as foreign?
- Do you have more temples there (in India) than here (in the West)?
- Do you have much of a following in India itself?
- Do you have plans for other schools?
- Do you have plans, Srila Prabhupada, to comment on Ramayama in future?
- Do you have programs developed to educate mankind towards this God consciousness?
- Do you have references about that (Jahnava-devi was controlling the whole Gaudiya Vaisnava community) in any of your books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you have that photograph? I'll show you
- Do you have the original here of the Bhagavata Purana?
- Do you have the powers of Jesus? Can you say to a person, "Rise up and walk," when they're paralyzed?
- Do you have these temples in India?
- Do you have this, the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavatam?
- Do you have women followers also in this movement?
- Do you hope to acquire school buildings for teaching school?
- Do you imagine in this life an attainment of a follower...?
- Do you initiate girls?
- Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- Do you just keep changing bodies indefinitely or does it end?
- Do you know about Paramahamsa Yogananda?
- Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now?
- Do you know how old she (Sumati Morarjee) is Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you know much of Mormonism?
- Do you know Professor Bimal Motilal came in during your discourse?
- Do you know that story of Ekalavya?
- 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 know the prayer that the Russians use, the Jesus prayer?
- Do you know the Sufis are Muslims (indistinct)?
- Do you know their (Hawaii birds) names
- Do you know this man from a long time ago?… He wants some money for some temple?…Here in Vrndavana
- Do you like it (bitter melon), Prabhupada?
- Do you like that (there will be at least forty devotees going with Your Divine Grace to Mayapur - the devotees who go and the devotees who greet you there), Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you like that place, Swamiji? Where the disciples are now, on Glenville Avenue?
- Do you like this (painting) one, Prabhupada?
- Do you mean (in the sky there are millions of miles land of copper, gold) other planets, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you mean every, the whole of India is Krsna conscious?
- Do you mean Krsna is Absolute, and Krsna is everything? Then why does Krsna have a specific form?
- Do you mean that (if you keep people in darkness - he does not know what is his future - then what is the use of education and university) the university should be abolished?
- Do you mean that healing is an illusion? Because healing is a fact (better, that is everyone is trying, that is... But there is no cure. If you think that temporary cure is better, that's nice, but there is no cure)
- Do you mean that nobody could be cured (you stop his death or you stop his birth, stop his disease. So point is when I say you cannot heal, that's a fact. That's a fact. You can heal one disease, another disease will appear. Therefore you cannot heal)?
- Do you mean that Siva is demigod?
- Do you mean the Kali-yuga exists all the time?
- Do you mean the perfectness is to become God or to become the man?
- Do you mean the universe is likely to go on forever?
- Do you mean to say that this (transcendence) is just a contemplative thing that doesn't really have a active influence upon the society to change the different...?
- Do you need a car, Swamiji?
- Do you need to be involved in the Krsna movement to be God conscious?
- Do you need to have a name and address and occupation for God?
- Do you not project this Krsna consciousness movement is an improvement over the whole...
- 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 plan to propagate your message in India?
- Do you practice meditation in your center?
- Do you prefer they go to a place where God is not known, where spiritual values are not estimated? Or they go also to places where God is loved and God is present?
- Do you read newspapers?
- Do you receive some knowledge directly from Krsna?
- Do you receive visitors most of the time, or do you do a lot of reading?
- Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you recognize that India does need some method at this point...?
- Do you regret having come back to India?
- Do you remember what you wrote about, which part? About Krsna's birth?
- Do you return to Vrndavana often?
- Do you rule out talking about the beings living on the moon planet?
- Do you say that God has nothing to do? But He has lots of energies, and it is the energy that creates beautiful things? How is the energy ordered?
- Do you see a difference or a conflict between being a devotee of Jesus and a devotee of Krsna? May one be both?
- Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Do you see America getting more God consciousness?
- Do you see hope for mankind in the future?
- Do you see that nations will fight too? That there will be wars, things like that?
- Do you see yourself then as the savior of American youth?
- Do you seek government help?
- Do you separate the eternal world from the Paramatma? It is something, a world like our material world that we have got, physical world that we have got, is going to be out of, the eternal world?
- Do you sing any hymns, kirtanas in Bengali also?
- Do you sit and meditate alone? What do you do with your mind as it wanders? Do you think of something? Do you put it on something or do you let it wander by itself?
- Do you specifically have a precept against telling a lie, or against hypocrisy?
- Do you spend a certain amount of time in each center? Do you yourself travel from one center to another?
- Do you spend your whole year traveling, or only part of the year?
- Do you suppose that the British supported Darwin so that that would also help their political ambitions, by introducing...?
- Do you take interest in the political happenings?
- Do you take rebirth in human form literally?
- Do you take this throne (vyasasana) with you all the time?
- Do you teach abstinence or moderation in the use of these things?
- Do you teach Gayatri mantra to your disciples also?
- Do you teach self-realization? Do you initiate? Then you are an authority on initiation?
- Do you think for instance, in this country, if somebody is a Protestant, or I mean a Christian and goes to church, this is also, you don't try to convert them away from that?
- Do you think he is a good doctor?
- Do you think I should set up a separate account for the records, so that all the profit is used for food distribution?
- Do you think if a person is to be a real believer in God he has to also worship Krsna or speak of Him?
- Do you think if all men, let's say, all the religions could try to come together...?
- Do you think if people had a deeper understanding of God... a spiritual consciousness...? Do you think it would solve the problems of...?
- Do you think it is necessary for India to eschew religion?
- Do you think it is possible to live in say an education framework, or should it be something quite separate?
- Do you think it is possible, for instance, to have the husband being involved in this movement and not his wife?
- Do you think mankind is making some improvement?
- Do you think meditation is a way to see God inside yourself?
- Do you think modern man must get better and know God or he will destroy himself?
- Do you think Mrs. Gandhi's leadership has not been successful?
- 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 people should beware (of false gurus)?
- Do you think so (everyone is loving themselves)?
- Do you think something could be written on this wall?
- Do you think Swamiji, the scientists would be able to create life as they...?
- Do you think that all men can stand on the spiritual platform?
- Do you think that drugs would help attain the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think that every human being will become liberated?
- Do you think that I am inferior to you (by physiological condition (women are inferior to men). Just like you are. Your bodily features are different from the man's features. You cannot deny it)?
- Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group?
- Do you think that my father is in any way different in his parentage of me from God in His parentage of me?
- Do you think that one of the attractions of Krsna consciousness is the rather exotic, Hindu, unusual customs in the West. These customs are unusual in the West and they have a sort of exotic appeal for young people?
- Do you think that some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world?
- Do you think that some people could have best... better gift for healings, for temporary healings than other?
- Do you think that the great mystics down the ages have actually seen this spark?
- 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 think that the message of Krsna consciousness or Krsna Caitanya is very different from the message of realizing God which is promulgated in other religions, for instance the Saiva religion or...?
- Do you think that the present democratic system will be able to impart a spiritual education?
- Do you think that the Russian society is not put off by this bhajana?
- Do you think that the Vedic sciences will be revived?
- Do you think that the young Indian boys in the future, they will become anywhere near as pious as their parents?
- Do you think that the, say astronauts that would land on the moon, do you think they would encounter any difficulty in going about and doing what they wanted to and then leaving?
- Do you think that the, the poor Indians who are suffering because of this terrible drought in India... is their relief never going to be in this world? Is it only going to be when they die?
- Do you think that there is a special way that Hinduism looks upon man's place in the universe?
- Do you think that there will become a level of demigods, a race of demigods?
- Do you think that this concept (God means Supreme Controller) is the special insight of the Vedic?
- Do you think that this is because of the Western influence under which they have gone and you are... (nobody spoke that "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You worship Him." Nobody has said. This is the first time, I am saying)?
- Do you think that this M. M. would try to cause any trouble in the future? Or is he so useless that he won't do that even?
- Do you think that this powder has been successful, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you think that we should make these marble here, on the side?
- Do you think that your mission is successful?
- Do you think that your movement has a chance to make it here in America?
- Do you think that, that stage (to be united on the spiritual platform) is possible within this generation?
- Do you think the deep-rooted Indian culture and religion will ever have a sort of a re-creation, or will it continue?
- Do you think the India-originated religion is, serves its particular purpose in the Western society? I mean, does, is it of particular value in a rather technological society, the Hindu tradition?
- Do you think the same problem is here in India as in other countries (and now in India another danger is that so many rascals, they are declaring, "I am God." And this India, people have become so fallen down, they accept all these rascals as God)?
- Do you think the social unrest...?
- Do you think the time will come when we will... (if they allow us to forward our movement, then we are satisfied. And when there is hindrance, the person who is hindering, finished. But don't do it now, (chuckles) then you will be finished)?
- Do you think the type of life that your devotees must lead... is in fact a happy one, getting up very early in the morning?
- Do you think then that that, that message is the most important message that you have to convey?
- Do you think there is a necessity to open a ministry of religion?
- Do you think there should be any sequel to this film? In other words, to carry on the philosophy?
- Do you think there will always be a few who understand (God)?
- Do you think there's a difference between the various peoples of the world? In other words, do you think that Indians as opposed to Europeans have more of a tendency or are more likely to adhere to the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think they (west) are taking to it because it is novel?
- Do you think those who are butcher are all criminals?
- Do you think transcendental meditation is beginning to help...?
- Do you think we have too much for our needs?
- Do you think we should go straight to the minister?
- Do you think we're going to come right, then? Is that a possible question? Or is it just far too many people now who are purely in the body and in the world of the senses? Is the world going to come around?
- Do you think you could do a little (recite Caitanya-caritamrta)?
- Do you think you could explain to me about the Deities and how it's different from idol worship?
- Do you think you'll be able to see the temple either today or tomorrow and give me some ideas on how to utilize the building? I can arrange it with Pusta Krsna? When you're available?
- Do you think your movement is the only way to come to know God?
- Do you think your quality to change... A person, if that sould becomes fate or lift...?
- Do you think, in a world so much caught up in material way of things... (indistinct) ...be able to penetrate?
- Do you think, in your opinion, mayavada was a necessity to undo all the bad effect of the degenerated Buddhism? This followed some three, four or seven hundred years of after Gautama Buddha
- Do you think, Swamiji, that man can become perfect?
- Do you think, this one (this book), do you think I could...?
- Do you travel much all over the world and...?
- Do you understand your previous lives from the descriptions in authoritative texts, or from any introspective recollection of your own?
- Do you use any grammar, Sanskrit grammar, when you study Sanskrit?... How do they learn when they learn Sanskrit?
- Do you use Gayatri mantra also?
- Do you use the Judeo-Christian scriptures at all in your work?
- Do you use the word guru?
- Do you use your body when you speak?
- Do you want another cover, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want him (Mr. Myer) to be initiated just now or wait some time?
- Do you want the peanuts roasted in ghee or just dry roasting?
- Do you want these (cotton swabs)?
- Do you want this to become a part of the educational system here?
- Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible?
- Do you want to go further, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want to have responsive chanting?
- Do you want to hear the next letter?
- Do you want to keep the checks or give them to him (Kirtanananda)?
- Do you want to know more about the conference?
- Do you want to take rest, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want to walk?
- 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?
- Do you want us to offer feast to your Guru Maharaja at noontime? A special plate of feast?
- Do you want your hat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you watch TV yourself?
- Do you wish me to take this (book) away or should I look at it here?
- Do you worship to a person or what? To his doctrines or...?
- Do you, in other words, do you believe that astronauts landed somewhere?
- Do you, in your creed, do you believe in metempsychosis, that is the soul going through one form of life and then if it lives badly, the person lives badly, it comes back in another form and so on? Do you believe in the metempsychosis?
- Do.... Your lines of authority then come from you, or is it an elective authority?
- Does a devotee lose some of his individuality in that...?
- Does a devotee, who is working as a sudra, get second initiation?
- Does a man then stop judging his actions (if the physician says that you take this medicine in such and such dose, you don't do this, and do this. If I follow, then I'm cured, perfect)?
- Does a person have to experience enough frustration to give up this process of...(chewing the chewed)?
- Does all desire ultimately have to go, including the desire to attain Krsna consciousness?
- Does an animal make that mistake? I thought the animals would not see the water that our eyes tell us that there is a mirage in the desert
- Does any physical change take place in your body when you become Krsna conscious?
- Does belief in any scripture whatsoever, such as the Bible or Koran...? Does belief in any scripture lead to salvation?
- Does devotion come before wakefulness, or does wakefulness come before devotion?
- Does each temple operate by itself, or each division operate by itself?
- Does evening arati vary according to the sunset?
- Does everyone go there (spiritual world) or only some?
- Does faith develop from accepting (bhakti)?
- Does fortune mean it's the mercy of Krsna?
- Does God need service?
- Does God speak to me, within me, whether I listen or not?
- Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu?
- Does he (Lord Brahma) become a pure devotee? Otherwise how he can see Krsna and reveal Brahma-samhita? Also he's the head of our disciplic succession. How can he be the head of our disciplic succession if he's not a pure devotee?
- Does he (Lord Buddha) say so (He's personally Krsna), or you...?
- Does He (Lord Caitanya) meet any of these characters at the river?
- Does he have to be designated by the former spiritual master (a spiritual master)?
- Does ISKCON believe in reincarnation?
- 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 (victory for the communists) mean that they will also attack the Krsna consciousness?
- Does it do atheists any good to chant your verses if they only want to be happy through chanting them?
- Does it ever happen, Swamiji, that some disciples of yours may disagree with you in spiritual matters?
- Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first (nobody could answer, a simple question... According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first)?
- Does it matter how long it might take you? Can you become first-class men soon, within five years?
- Does it matter what religion you believe? Does it matter which religion you believe? Would it matter if one was a devotee of Hare Krsna...?
- Does it matter what the specific thing is, like not killing a cow or like chanting or are there many specific things that people can do for love of God and for discipline that will serve the same purpose?
- Does it matter who performs the Deity worship?
- Does it mean (because in the air there is sound. Therefore ether is there. It is a production of the ether... Air from the ether because when the air blows, you find the sound, sshhhh. That is ether) beyond the ether there's no sound?
- 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 it mean that Your Divine Grace will come on the experiment (Vrndavana parikrama), or we should go without Your Divine Grace and experiment?
- Does it mean we should use violence to spread Krsna consciousness then, Srila Prabhupada?
- Does it not mean, sir, that naham tesv avasthitah, "I am staying in Goloka"?
- Does it say somewhere in the Bhagavad-gita that we shouldn't eat meat?
- Does Jesus Christ reside in the Vaikunthas or Brahmaloka?
- Does karma-yoga mean to follow exactly the sastras?
- Does Krsna consciousness make you aware of this, though (actually knowledge begins from that point, that "I am not this body." Just like a big 747 plane is running on, but there is the intelligent pilot)?
- Does Krsna create the universe or does He just make it possible to be created?
- Does Krsna desire we get a spiritual name?
- Does Krsna eat out of the fire?
- Does Krsna give beneficial instruction to someone and not to someone else, intuition in the heart to take or not to take the book?
- Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be foolish and fall?
- Does Krsna know beforehand everything?
- Does Krsna know that he will rebirth and then come to earth and to preach us and make all that?
- Does Krsna know the time, or does He direct the living entity at some certain time to surrender or is this the will of the living entity?
- Does Krsna know when the living entities are going to surrender unto Him? If He knows, then how does the living entity have choice?
- Does Krsna makes us ignorant or are we ignorant?
- Does Krsna mean God?
- Does Krsna punish people who do not serve Him purely? Or do the people punish themselves when they do not serve Him purely?
- Does Krsna speak the Bhagavad-gita in the hellish planets?
- Does Lord Caitanya always appear just after Krsna? In every universe?
- Does Lord Jagannatha reside there any more (Jagannatha Puri)?
- Does Lord Jesus Christ appear in the spiritual sky with the body he manifested on the earth?
- Does Lord Rama or Lord Caitanya forget?
- Does Lord Siva have a wife, like, a consort?
- Does one attain a consciousness that is beyond words? Or, I dare say, is there a communication that is not the word itself but perhaps a vibration which is much like sound or sound itself? Is there something else beside the verbal? Talk?
- Does one become elevated by following the karma-yoga principles only?
- Does one experience the miseries of the gross body when one's in sattva-guna, in the mode of goodness? Does one experience hunger and thirst, those things like that?
- Does one function better in society as a result of affiliation with Krsna consciousness?
- Does one go into a subtle machine?
- Does one have a better chance of reaching to the spiritual platform if he is performing pious activities?
- Does one have to leave one's family? I think everybody lives in the temple, don't they?
- Does our line of succession go directly to Gaurakisora dasa Babaji or to Bhaktivinoda Thakura?
- Does religion or God, can give you eternal life?
- Does she (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mother) give Him her blessing finally?
- Does somebody forget his wife completely then?
- Does someone who has been in prison and then he becomes free, does he appreciate his freedom more than someone who has always been free?
- Does straightforwardness, that arjavam quality of a brahmana, does that include making the truth palatable to someone who will not understand the truth directly?
- Does such a comet (comet Kohoutek) affect consciousness as well as matter?
- Does sundara, like "Gaurasundara," that sundara means beautiful?
- Does taking the initiation create a permanent bond between disciple and guru?
- Does that (it is said that sun is the source of everything within this universe) mean that Vivasvan is more powerful than Lord Brahma?
- Does that (it is stated in the Bhagavata, the moon is 1,600,000 miles...) mean that the earth is farther from the moon than from the sun?
- Does that (love towards relatives is also bondage) mean you should not love your parents?
- Does that (there is smaller particles than the atom) mean the electrons?
- Does that (they appear to be other solar systems. Like they have a sun and planets around them) mean the material covering between the different brahmandas is invisible?
- Does that (they think catching fish is great sport, great fun) mean that the people that catch the fish have to also become fish?
- Does that (they will come, after much trouble, much enquiry, they will come to the same conclusion, vasudevah sarvam iti) mean that everybody is ultimately on the way back home? Back to Godhead?
- Does that (we are inviting to the farm and giving food to the jobless in industry) mean we have to wait for the situation to arise where they are jobless?
- Does that (we have got two selection, either to the path of hellish condition or to the path of back to Godhead) name, that the things such as, you mentioned smoking and alcohol and sex and meat, that all those things are material and therefore bad?
- Does that also apply to reading the words of a pure devotee (even a moment's association with a pure devotee - all success)? Even a little association with your books has the same effect?
- Does that apply then to other kinds of decisions and other kinds of activities as well (Krsna will tell directly. A devotee always consults Krsna and Krsna tells him, "Do like this." Not figuratively)?
- Does that apply to all the rules of the Krsna movement?... For everyone. I mean rules about not drinking... Would that be a sin in a non-Krsna follower?
- Does that include all sex life or...? What is illicit?
- Does that involve a majority of the people, or... (so those who are working on the bodily platform, they are working on the dead platform)?
- Does that mean a serious devotee should only pass stool once a day?
- Does that mean difficult to understand or difficult to practice?
- Does that mean he (a dedicated disciple) must give up his family, and come and live here?
- Does that mean Krsna is beyond even spiritual?
- Does that mean that he (one who is in the mode of goodness) is not... He's experiencing the subtle body inside of the gross body, or what does that mean exactly?
- Does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- Does that mean that the atom is living entity?
- Does that mean that the more one gets control over his senses, he becomes more lazy intelligent?
- Does that mean that the spiritual body changes, Prabhupada?
- Does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- Does that mean that you assume or propose that the world would all become one in one religion?
- Does that mean the same amount of gold is here (if the large scale industry and trade becomes stopped, that is good for people)?
- Does that mean they have no knowledge about leaves (Vedic scripture was there. They did not read. That's all)?
- Does that mean to say that you can't live a happy life without being religious?
- Does that mean to some extent that the soul is dependent on a material condition?
- Does that mean you are calling Jesus Christ a hypocrite (how can you support Christ that if he has done killing business himself and he instructs others not to kill)?
- Does that mean you go back to Sankaracarya?
- Does that means all the planets are fixed in relationship to each other as well (Gita says, urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham. The pole-star in the... And we see at night everything is moving. As a bunch it is moving)?
- Does that means they should not worship these demigods and goddesses?
- Does that sound right (and if for some reason it's not effective, then we have to trust simply in krsna-nama. That we're doing anyway, but that's... We'll have to do exclusively at that point), Srila Prabhupada?
- Does that take on a positive aspect as well so that by not only do I not kill animals and I don't kill men, do I, am I obliged under your system (we are not cruel to anyone. Either he's a man or animal or tree or bird), am I obliged to actively help...
- Does the condition of being entrapped, enhance the understanding of liberation?
- Does the devotee go through these levels of understanding Brahman then Paramatma then Bhagavan? Does the devotee gradually go through these levels, or does he immediately realize Brahman when his service is perfect?
- Does the devotee who surrenders keep his individual taste for different things? Does he keep his individual likes and dislikes?
- Does the devotee, I mean just like you are always enthusing us to push on...
- Does the group live a vegetarian life, without any meat? Is that what you're saying?
- Does the heat of the sun increase or decrease through the ages?
- Does the human species come with the gradual evolution or is the human species created first?
- Does the hydrogen molecule have an independent desire?
- Does the Krsna movement recognize other types of service to human beings like the social workers?
- Does the Lord go to sleep so early and before everyone, and wake up so late, after everybody?
- Does the method include meditation? What... How do you go about this process?
- Does the mind play any part in the evolutionary process? The mind?
- Does the self exist without the body in this world?… In this life?… As a spirit apart from the body
- Does the soul ever become weak or strong on account of its association and contact with material nature?
- Does the soul reincarnate?
- Does the soul suffer with the mind, or he's always enjoying?
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
- Does the swami, once he has been installed in office, does he wear a white long coat with a white hat?
- Does the table have a jiva soul?
- Does the word nirvana mean Krsna?
- Does there come a time Srila Prabhupada, when one misuses his independence, the independence is taken away?
- Does this (non-veg) food make effect on a human nature?
- 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 make a difference, the opinion that one's fellow ksatriya would have of him?
- Does this mean that a person should turn his attention from the world, from his surrounding?
- Does this mean that by their activities that they're engaging in now their incentive is that they want to enjoy these four sinful activities...? And that really they're not looking for truth?
- Does this mean that that rasa (relationship with Krsna as lover) is superior or better than the other rasas?
- Does this organization (ISKCON) do social work?
- Does this remind you of Vrndavana, Prabhupada?
- Does this take a whole lifetime to learn (process by which you can see the other world)?
- Does your haircut have any particular significance?
- Does your method include meditation, austerity of various sorts in addition to no alcohol, no drugs?
- Doesn't everyone derive strength (from God)?
- Doesn't he (Mahatma Gandhi) know this, that he is not in the disciplic succession? And if this is so, why does he do this? Why does he make a translation?
- Doesn't Krsna say in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am the spiritual master"?
- Doesn't necessity mean plan?
- Doesn't Rama refer to a man that was born in India or somewhere, and Christ was born in Europe? Two different men, but still the same?
- Doesn't that make us a rather exclusive group of people? If only those who are completely pure can engage in service, that means only people like us who have time to sit and meditate...
- Dog is barking, but does he possess discriminative knowledge?
- Dogs, they are becoming attached to the human being. Are they becoming human beings in their next life?
- Don't followers of Krsna consciousness ever get angry?
- Don't they sometimes have to go to Yamaraja first for practice?
- Don't what, Prabhupada?
- Don't you find it extremely difficult to get the literal meaning from the Sanskrit to the English?
- Don't you find the whole Krsna movement more successful in an age and era when there is such laxity of moral standards and spiritual leadership and direction?
- Don't you have a gurukula in Texas?
- Don't you think it is a contradiction that if a man is a bad throughout his life and only at the time of death he thinks of Krsna and gets...?
- Don't you think it will be a bad thing, because there are some bad people in the world, like Hitler and Stalin and others, they may be the first people to use the technology to prolong their life?
- Don't you think it's against the dharma-sastra (we are creating brahmanas in the western countries)?... Tell me why?
- Don't you think that all the other chantings like in the Muslim religion and the Buddhist religion and the Japanese religion, their chantings, they are all the same thing?
- Don't you think that by denying raja and jnana and some of the other yogas that you're denying the infinite aspect of mankind? Don't you think that by asserting bhakti-yoga as the only way that you're saying that...?
- Don't you think that instead of building a temple, asramas in this brahmacari model would be...?
- Don't you think that perhaps bhakti-yoga isn't the way for everyone?
- Don't you think that the blame should not be, usually be laid on the Africans but on the whole...? The brahmanas who comes from our overseas temples here, it's their responsibility to see that the Africans follow properly
- Don't you think that the children should be given freedom to choose voluntarily?
- Don't you think that the scientists have done good things but people have...?
- Don't you think the people are lazy also?
- Don't you think this kind of reasoning (if there is a man, he must have a father) is a deductive logic rather than inductive?
- Don't you think we are killing other living beings (there is a sect in the Orient that wears gauze over their mouth so as not to kill microbes while they breathe. But we are killing those microbes - So they are to satisfy everyone)?
- Down the fall (ice, flood, every second)?
- Dr. Agarwal was your sponsor?
- Dr. Wolfe? Is he missing the evolution (he was speaking biological?) Yeah, I think he was not understanding it so well?
- Drinking tea and coffee also ("unless one gives up these four things he cannot understand what is God")?
- Due to a larger number of people, is it possible to return all these people to the real goal?
- Durga, she is in charge of... She is Krsna's agent, so what is the harm in worshiping Durga?
- During the aratiks here at the temple where should the women be standing?
- During the present day, sir, to whom we will treat as brahmana, ksatriya and vaisya and sudra?
- During the time when the living entity is transferred from one body to another, is he always fully conscious of the subtle facts?
- During this transformation, are we still ignorant? During this transformation from body to body.
- Dvaita-advaita?
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- Each second the body is a little different?
- Earth is a mixture of all these different elements?
- Eight billion years one day of Brahma?
- Either direct or indirect. But how can I experience that statement that "Everything is Brahman"?
- 11th. And coming back (to Bombay) about 17th?
- English car, Prabhupada?
- Equal in intelligence (woman is not equally intelligent as a man)?
- Especially Indian people, you know, they say, "Well, if I surrender to Krsna, who will feed me?"... But because in India people know that they should surrender to Krsna, no?
- Eternal life (explain to them about eternal life)?
- Eternally individual, so how do the impersonalists attaining their goal merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti?
- Ether. How does ether distinguish...?
- Evam prasanna-manaso?
- Even a drop of water, when you take it from the glass and put it on this one. Another drop of water will come and when you put it in medicine won't come in water. Like that, atma, will it not merge with the Paramatma?
- Even a tulasi dala and a little water is not necessary?
- Even all species of life it (we hear that woman is pregnant. We never heard the man is pregnant) is the same?
- Even between the atoms of matter there is a spiritual life, spiritual force?
- Even good literature sanga is also sat-sanga, is it not?
- Even he doesn't consider material necessity (a devotee has to work sincerely to serve Krsna. Then everything is there)?
- Even if it's a work which you have not yet translated yourself (we are doing other languages. If it is properly translated, it can be…)?
- Even if they mix hydrogen and oxygen to get water, still, where does the hydrogen and oxygen come from?
- Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
- Even if we see the seven colors in the laboratory with instruments, we still don't understand the even simpler facts of which that is composed. There may be seven colors, but how to understand those?
- Even if you study the way the sun and the rain and so on combined to make this fruit ripe, you still have the question, "Well, why is there fruit in the first place?" Why is there fruit? Why has fruit appeared on this planet?
- Even in India, Muslims are taking to Krsna consciousness?
- Even nitya-siddha has guru?
- Even the basic of this (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)?
- Even the mind occupies space and transpires in time. Mind occupies space and works in time. Is that also a fact?
- Even those three days they have to attend the mangala-arati?
- Even though several million years ago they find no evidence in the rocks...?
- Even when this universe ends, doesn't that (temporary) law carry on?
- Even when you drink fruit juice there is cough?
- Even with all our philosophic and all our learning we have the sense of possession of this body which can't leave the moha in it. With all that, sir, then how can they do it?
- Even with this education, they (the children in Gurukula) still might not be intelligent, what you consider intelligent people. How, you know... Is it more likely that they will be what you would term intelligent, having been educated in this system?
- Eventually we should divide up our society in this way (if you are fit to become brahmana, become brahmana. If you are fit to become ksatriya, become ksatriya. If you are fit to become sudra, do it)?
- Every day she does some meditation, so before meditating, she wants to know, how many rounds should she chant?
- Every stone has life?
- Every successive teacher has added some interpretations of the knowledge, no?
- Every time I make lot of rats, I'm asking for rat souls. Why then I can do it? When I can, or when I want them to be here, they will be here, not on the will of God
- Every time Lord Krsna appears, original Krsna appears, does Lord Caitanya appear on the following Kali-yuga?
- Every, every word is important, Bhagavad-gita... Why one word?
- Everybody is concerned with peace. Do people like Guruji, because they're such rascals... Like Guruji, this young boy, do they constitute a threat to peacefulness in society?
- Everybody knows God, but what's His name and how can we tell that He's God?
- Everyone becomes Brahma first?
- Everyone has some special strategy if we don't want the total population the world is Communist. Should not there be a special strategy to enter in their own hearts?
- Everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys, or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
- Everyone has to learn from someone. Who has informed God of all knowledge?
- Everyone is born with this devotional spirit?
- Everyone requires leader, yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- Everyone should marry?
- 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 Krsna's. How can you give anything? Even a leaf?
- Everything is not God?
- Everything is occuring by explosions. In our mind an explosion occurs, and we start believing in God. So that is not that, sir. I think they (the scientists) are misguided. How can anything happen without a supreme power?
- Everything that exists wants to enjoy?
- Everything we conceived, that is wrong (take the version of Bhagavatam)?
- Except this Kimpurusa-varsa and other varsas in the mountain area, these are part of subtle world. So how we will mention it?
- 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)?
- Excuse me if I insist on the first question I asked for. Your aim, your most important aim, if I understood it well, is to bring the faith and love for God to man. No? This is your first aim, to encourage man to be a...
- Excuse me, does that mean that people from other religions may..., it is not possible for them to achieve the highest perfection?
- Excuse me. Your honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?
- Expansion or incarnation has the six opulences in full except for Krsna?
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- Factual scientific study would mean to study all 8,400,000 species?
- Faith begins from the association of devotees?
- Faith is fixed by knowledge?
- Falldown means deviation from the orders of the spiritual master?
- Family names, we said two family names, like Raya Chaudhuri, like Datta Gupta. How this happened?
- Few scientists may be like that. That does not mean all scientists are like that. We are here. Half a dozen of us are scientists, aren't we here? How can I (Dr. Patel) not believe in God?
- Fifth scene (of a play on Lord Caitanya)... This is Haridasa Thakura?... At who's death? At Haridasa's death?
- 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)?
- Finally Swamiji, what is the relevance of Krsna consciousness in our modern society?
- Finished with urine, Srila Prabhupada?
- Finished, Srila Prabhupada?
- Fire? Fire, disease and debts (agni, vyadhi, disease. And ṛṇa, debts. You should not neglect it. You should finish it)
- First we have to believe it, and then we can see it?
- 500,000 dollars (so the price is 500,000 dollars)?
- Follow Krsna consciousness very strictly and very seriously like, say, for the rest of our lives, is there a chance that we'll be able to see Radha and Krsna in this life?
- For being in the Mohammedan service (these Mulliks they are also De. Their original title is De. This Mullik is their title)?
- For boil also (I will give you so many formulas)?
- For detachment, it's just constant austerities?
- For eating (so we cannot pay more than five thousand (maintenance money for the devotees in ISKCON Vrndavana))?
- For example, for that boy who is chanting now in Egypt, he has his beads, but his chanting is effective even though he's still eating meat sometimes with his family?
- For example, if I become a teacher at varnasrama, say, the first teacher at the varnasrama college, then I have to also become expert at how to fight?
- For food relief or... (there was supposed to be some man who was going to give five thousand or ten thousand rupees)?
- For how long are you at the head of this movement?
- For instance, not a student but a young worker or a young son of a farmer, he would abstain from his old life and he would be initiated and join your community into a given center. How he would entertain himself?
- For instance, there's no dinosaurs existing now. They're extinct now but where are they gone? Some other planets then?
- For making, you know, the wool, woolen garments like the cap and cadara... Sometimes it's made out of wool. They would get from sheep?
- For meditation, which form should we (meditate upon)?
- For purpose of practice I am asking, when you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you?
- For spreading this movement in India, are you hopeful it will be?
- For sterilization (the poor, these babajis, they were going to beg, and by force, once, twice, injection. So immediately, after one week…)?
- For that matter, Srila Prabhupada, when one comes to that stage, there is no difference between animate and inanimate. Is that true (we cannot distinguish now reality and non-reality because the heart is unclean. So we have to cleanse)?
- For the abhiseka, do we require cow urine and cow dung and tail of cow?
- For the cows (farmers, they do not produce food for human being. They produce food for the cows)?
- For the festival, is it all right for Them (Damodara Deities) to go on Lord Jagannatha's altar while He is gone? Is it all right to put the Deities on the altar in the temple, on Lord Jagannatha's altar while He's gone?
- For the truth, since each one finds the truth in himself, does that mean that the truth is different for each person?
- For them spiritual life is the prayer, salvation in Lord Jesus Christ. And they're not quite sure... They're interested in knowing what is our relationship with Krsna. Is it the same or...?
- For this machine (the only business is to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- For those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- For us, is the perfection to be absorbed in preaching to others, rather than thinking "I want to go and play with Krsna"?
- For your final question, should leaflets, which are destined to be thrown upon the ground, contain pictures of Krishna, Jagannatha, etc?
- Forgetfulness is artificial?
- Forgive me if I'm not using the right expression, but the caste system is written into the law of Godhead?
- Four kinds of…?… Births… What is that jaray…?… Womb… Womb is everyone. That comes... Sweat?
- Four sides, the steps (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden)?
- Four times? That's all right. Three times around, into the temple, and one more time. That will be nice. Four times. Is that all right? Will that be all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Four what (purchase at least four vehicles), Srila Prabhupada?
- 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?
- Freud put so much emphasis on children and the mentality and emotions of children - what one is experiencing, youth and so on - and it is all concocted, don't you think?
- From 1965 to 1966 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- From a distance (I saw (snow) in Kashmir, but that was not so white)?
- From all scriptures you instructed us in Srimad-Bhagavatam that we should not jump from book to book, but I am so much attached to them that I read every book. Would that stop me to understand the philosophy?
- From America it (a very strong car) came?
- From libraries (can I take your books from any library)?
- From the ancient Vedic scriptures we learn that God is and He cannot be seen. However, in the Bhagavad-gita we learn that Lord Krsna is born as a human. Now, does this not work conflict to the ancient scriptures of the Vedic religion?
- From the level of application of his (Mahatma Gandhi`s) programs, is there some value?
- From the material point of view, though, people can live an irresponsible life, and they have some earnings. They feel that they can enjoy. What is the need for morality?
- From the modes of ignorance to the modes of passion to the modes of goodness is a very gradual process?
- From the Sanskrit (Christo and Krsna)?
- From the standpoint of the ingredients of this world, material ingredients, is this the best possible world with those ingredients?
- From the U.S.A. Could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...?
- From the very beginning we should teach Bhagavad-gita (in the varnasrama college)?
- From this movement what has been, what is the plan?
- From what I've seen in your writings - that there's an underlying truth behind all religion. Would you agree with that?
- From where does that tendency come, (to fall down)?
- From which class of society in the United Sates do most of your disciples come?
- From whom one should hear about Krsna?
- Frustrated (in the Western countries, unless they are hungry for spiritual consciousness, why they are hippies? They are frustrated. They are not going to live like their fathers and forefathers)?
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- Gandhi said that Hitler change of heart that would be effective and not that punishment. That means punishment is a fault, and I would like your enlightenment on this paradox
- Gandhi was born in...?
- Gandhiji (Gandhi has written in his life that while his father was dying he was enjoying sex with his wife)?
- Gandhiji, he was politician, he was actually not devotee, and he could not understand Bhagavad-gita. But how the name of Rama has come when he died? The name of Rama, Hare Rama, has come from his last word. How it has come. It is, it is...
- Garuda is from the jiva-tattva or he is an expansion?
- Garuda put some nectar on the tree to preserve it... Is it spiritual?
- Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika in which you, all the original svarupa of all the devotees are given?... So most of the Lord Caitanya's associates were gopis from the...
- Generally in colleges in the West, they charge some fee for going to the college. What is our position?
- George Harrison is your member?
- George Harrison? He has donated in cash for that building?
- George is going to make any more records, recordings?
- George's question that there is something beyond Krishna
- 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?
- Giriraja is requesting to come, Srila Prabhupada. Is it all right?
- Giriraja, how you are earning fifty thousand rupees a month?
- Gita, Krsna, Caritamrta, and Bhagavatam. You have other texts?
- Give them milk?
- Give up this staying here (our real business is how to get out of the clutches of maya)?
- Go ahead and get the projector do you think, new projector?
- God (no, no, they must have some name of God. "I am" is not the name. That is false conception. -They say it's something very personal.- No. When you ask name, that is personal)?
- God created man?
- God has not created us imperfect?
- 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 has to go to burden this one (I will have to preach, bringing men from America and Europe. Nobody is coming here. Everyone is talking big, big) also?
- God is a state of mind?
- God is all-loving?
- God is independent?
- God is not love?
- God is person?
- 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?
- God seems to depend on human history. God is not transcendental but is manifest in the world... But does the history of man necessarily make any sense? Hegel saw it as progressing, as man, here again is evolution...
- Going back to this sense question, where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?
- Golden Gate Park (this is the first time I come here)?
- Goldsmith? He's a lawyer or something in Los Angeles?
- Goodness (so without knowing how to give service, sometimes we may be punished. What kind of service we shall give? (indistinct) example. So there are three kinds of services: goodness, passion, and ignorance)?
- Goodness (the living entity is never born or it never dies. This is eternity. You change your body, but you eternal. Therefore he requires that sattva-guna)?
- Goru means (we are simply repeating the Krsna's word. That's all. Therefore guru. And as soon as I make addition or alteration, I am goru)?
- Governor of (during Jawaharlal Nehru's time)?
- Govinda told me that it started five hundred years ago in Western Bengal. Could you elucidate on this please?
- Grace of God (the chance theory is the grace of God)?
- Gradually we are now developing, making drama, this, that. We are taking it just as if Krsna-lila itself is a fact. It is a theatrical thing?
- Groving (throbbing)? What does that mean?
- Guru is there. Why don't they come?
- Guru means teacher?
- Guru-krpa only comes by pleasing the spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada?
- Gurudeva said the only aim of human being is to surrender to Sri Krsna, to the lotus feet of Sri Krsna. In India especially, there are so many temples and gods and goddesses...
- Gurudeva, the question I wish to ask is: where did we come, why are we here, and what is the true reason for our existence, and where are we going?
- Guruji, according to the bhakti-yoga, a person starting at least in the elementary way of bhakti-yoga...?
- Gurukula. She's asking if you could tell her about the system of education you have established in America
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- Had you met Gandhi?
- Hand machine (without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane)?
- Happens after death, where do we pick up?
- Hare Krsna means what? "Brahman, please remove from me the... " Isn't it?
- Hari-vilasa's wife? Parijata (I told them two o'clock their time, I also told them not to make anything fancy but to make very simple)?
- Haridasa Thakura is following all the principles, but he's always feeling so fallen. So Lord Caitanya tells him, "Put away your excess humility." Is this what He is trying to teach him? That we should have assurance?
- Has anybody actually seen Krsna?
- Has anybody practiced this type of sex?
- Has everyone the potential to accept Krsna?
- Has God also devised the most perfect government?
- Has God put the suffering here for us to experience so that we will want to give up material lives and get closer to Him? Is it punishment?
- Has he seen our books?
- Has my soul ever been liberated? If I was once liberated...
- Has spirit no want?
- Has that house (Bhaktivedanta Manor) been transferred actually yet?
- Has the movement involved itself in social philosophy?
- Has the name a special esoteric meaning? And is the technique of chanting the name, has this a special hidden purpose that the unenlightened...
- Has the universe existed forever, or does soul have a beginning?
- Has there been a fasting or other preparatory (all these boys present, they were, one year before, they were initiated for chanting, and now they are being second time initiated by mantra-diksa)?
- Has there been any official opposition to your movement in any country?
- Has there ever been debates on the authenticity of modern science, or is this the first time modern science has been challenged in the world?
- Has this happened before, the material wealth that we have now? Has it happened in past ages? Technological advancement, scientific?
- Has your movement arranged once any particular event which is a movement in a particular country?
- Have any of these demigod creatures visited the earth? Are they in human form?
- Have any of your Godbrothers translated anything?
- Have Muslims taken to this movement?
- Have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
- Have there been any complaints from Detroit?
- Have there been dropouts, out of the movement, of the hundred that were initiated?
- Have these books been reviewed in foreign papers?
- Have they (the chief minister) done (given land in Kuruksetra) so?
- Have they advanced beyond following the rules and regulations of ISKCON?
- Have they encountered any problems in, like out on the Hollywood Boulevard? Police action or telling them to move or...?
- Have we fallen from higher to lower or do we come from the very bottom of plant then to animal?
- Have we interested any of the leading French citizens in our movement?
- Have you all seen Krsna?
- Have you also members of your movement which are simply in their work, in the community, in the world?
- Have you any comment about the lawsuit that the sect here is involved in with regard to whether they should be allowed to sell literature and collect donations?
- 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 any program for the common people?
- Have you any program of Swamiji for the common mass?
- Have you asked the government for money? President Nixon?
- Have you been harassed in London at all?
- Have you been in connection with Aurobindo?
- Have you been many times in France or not?
- Have you been to Kerala ever?
- Have you been to Puri for a long time?
- Have you been to Russia? They allowed you to preach?
- Have you been troubled by any undesirable elements?
- Have you ever been there (in Nepal), Srila Prabhupada?… You'd like to go sometime?
- Have you ever continued the correspondence with that heart surgeon?
- Have you ever found what you believe to be your self? Could you tell us what you found?
- Have you ever seen Krsna?
- Have you got a particular mission for London?
- Have you got any French literature of conception (indistinct)?
- Have you got books on the use of flick knives, like your brother-in-law's there?
- Have you got some points in common with the Christians?
- Have you got them here?
- Have you had a significant impact on the American society? The values you preach, have they influenced Americans to a certain degree?
- Have you had any difficulty in bringing this, which seems to have originated in India, into the West?
- Have you many branches of your society everywhere? Where is your main center, and where are the branches?
- Have you met Mother Theresa?
- Have you put any conditions (they may say that "Your Krsna; our this." No. That knowledge Krsna is giving for everyone. And it is accepted by everyone. They are Christians. How they are accepting? I am not bribing them)?
- Have you put into writing these three subjects somewhere (Vedic Concept of Communism, Knowledge by Authorized Tradition, Scientific Values of Scientific Classless Society)?
- Have you read the book of Satsvarupa Maharaja?
- Have you realized the highest truth yourself?
- Have you seen Krsna?
- Have you seen many people in Melbourne?
- Have you seen?
- Have you studied other religions?
- Have you translated also the Bhakti-rasamta-sindhu?... All of it...? Or...
- Have you tried to compare with Gita written by Gyaneshvara, or by Vinoba Bhave or by somebody else?
- Have you wandered around from village to village?
- Have you wanted a businessman to come?
- Have you written all of these books or are they by other philosophers of...?
- Haven't you come across some hostile attitude to your teaching from orthodox Hindu, from orthodox brahmanas in India itself?
- Haven't you given the copyright to them (Macmillan)?
- Having a temple and a farm?
- Hawaii. They have a new place (our Hawaii, tulasi grows very nice)?
- Hawaiians, they are not very much inclined to read. So does that mean we should distribute lots of prasadam here profusely?
- He (a devotee who works for Krsna yet doesn't follow the four regulatives principles) will fall down?
- He (a vrajavasi) has a spiritual master?
- He (Bon Maharaja) lived underneath the ground in one cell. You know that?
- He (cobblers, they eat this cows' flesh when the animal is dead, not living and we'll kill) dies his own natural death?
- He (Dr. Rao) was not serious?
- He (Dr. W. S. Urquhart) was the one who said that the woman's brain is thirty-six ounces?
- 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 (Einstein) died in a leper colony, didn't he?
- He (Giriraja) is not married?
- He (God) doesn't get hungry or thirsty?
- He (God) doesn't supply his bread to everybody unless... People die, do they not?
- He (God) knows before creating people, they'll sin. Then why does He create them?
- He (Grnanatha) didn't stay here?
- He (Jackie Vaughn) says we're in the world, but how can we be aloof from it? How can we not be a part of it?
- He (Jawaharlal Nehru) accepted as spiritual master, some sort of... His teacher is Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi. So he was teaching him the same thing what he has learned. From here he learned all this knowledge which has spoiled our Indian culture?
- He (Jesus) is not Krsna?
- He (Krsna) has no these external senses?
- He (Krsna) took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He (Lord Caitanya) would sometimes eat clay?
- He (Lord Krsna) displays His Vrndavana only on the earthly-like planet?
- He (Maharaja Yayati) sent them (his two sons) there (to the European quarters) for conquering?
- He (Mahiravana) built the subway (to Brazil)?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother to Ceylon in the battle?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother, wasn't he...?
- He (Meher Baba) died in motor accident?
- He (my ancestors) made no tools, or he had no house? But why weren't there any tools left behind for us to find, remnants?
- He (one Hindi gentleman) was serious? He was serious about the map (he presented a picture, India's map, and all the whole India is full of avataras: Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, this, that)?
- He (Prabhupada) has traveled the world sixteen times around?
- He (Ravana) was devotee of Lord Siva. Otherwise why Lord Siva gives him whatever he wants?
- He (Sanskrit scholar) does not want to learn (English) ?
- He (someone) has what?
- He (Srila Prabhupada's son) can come to Mayapur to see you?
- He (Syamasundara) wants to give back some money?
- He (the psychologist) didn't become angry (he is a good boy. Although I say, "You do not know anything")?
- He (the pujari) comes on this side of the altar and blows the conchshell. Is that all right? It should be behind the curtain or in front of the curtain?
- He (the yogi) doesn't see the Supersoul with the gross senses, does he?
- He (Tukarama) was the one who was initiated by Lord Caitanya?
- He (Vivasvan) will stay as long as the sun... He is present?
- He argues that Krsna knows everything, so Krsna knew that he would have trouble controlling his senses; therefore why did Krsna give him senses?
- He asked a question about... In Latin America there's much belief or superstition in this so-called lost city of Atlantis. It's very famous all around the western world that there was a lost civilization called Atlantis. It fell down into the ocean?
- He asked about heart transplants, where does the soul go in heart transplant, when they change the heart from one body to another body?
- He asked if anyone now has seen Krsna
- He asked if you're pleased if your disciples do things like Sharma, if they, like, go to live in trees and do artificial renunciation?
- He asks how many disciples there is in France?
- He asks if our students are Indian. He likes the paintings. He was wondering whether they were done by Indian students
- He asks if we have a school in France?
- He asks if we have temple in France or if we do in apartment or if we do in conference, private conferences. How we are doing it?
- He asks if we have to be disciple, do we have to know Sanskrit or to learn Sanskrit?
- He asks what are our political principles in Krsna consciousness. Do we have a program?
- He asks what language we use when we read Bhagavad-gita?
- He asks: In our society do these four divisions also exist?
- He can perceive that he has changed from child to old man, but he can't perceive what is going to happen after death. So who knows?
- He does not speak krsna-katha, Prabhupada. So five thousand you have estimated for the Deities? For a month you have estimated last night five thousand?
- He gets the body? Does he get the body (Krsna's pure devotee, he's not in the material world. In the spiritual world)?
- He has a very good cook. That day I don't know how he ran away, or... You striked him, no?
- He has become a dog, Nehru?
- He has not come now. There is no unrighteousness in this world?
- He has understood from Bhagavad-gita that Krsna says that "As you approach Me, I present Myself." So in that sense can this movement be compared to also the consciousness of Christ, Christ consciousness
- He holds your hand and gives that hand to God. That is guru. That is what I think. Am I right in a way?
- He is a sudra. Would we retrain him as a farmer?
- He is asking if he should not show this humility, attitude of humility, to all others?
- He is asking if it is possible for them to chant the name God, that in fact is not really a name, by the name Krsna, because according to what you are explaining, God is Krsna. So can they chant the name of Krsna?
- He is asking if they were actually covered in the spiritual world as well?
- He is asking if we are sure if we are right in what we are saying?
- He is asking when you take birth again do you take birth as the same sex or do you change your sex?
- He is making it in the mortar. Should you take it directly on the mortar?
- He is saying that you have said that we have a material body and also a spiritual body. So he wants to know if the spirit and matter are born simultaneously or if the matter is born, the material body is born, and later the spirit comes
- He is simply attached to serving Krsna (a devotee is always satisfied in any condition. He has no attachment or detachment)?
- He is still doing that (not staying anywhere more than three minutes)? Narada Muni?
- He is taking over there, you take here?
- He is telling that he's requesting repeatedly that Prabhupada doesn't talk too much. He says that the energy that he's building, the moment he starts talking, he loses that energy… Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- He is what (according to our philosophy, unless one has got perfect knowledge of his self-identification, he remains an animal)?
- He is wondering is it possible to spread Krsna consciousness in Yugoslavia?
- He likes syrup or tablets? Tablets will be difficult for swallowing?
- He loses all his self-control and he said, "I am going to throw myself in the fire. I have lost my son." Is that the action of a man who has heard God Himself speak to him?
- He mentions the point, what is that urge? Why do I want to improve? What is that urge that makes me want to...
- He said also, the doctrine of Buddha, that man has not person, doesn't exist as person. He's only some moving elements, physical and psychical and nothing else?
- He said he noticed that there are only men here. Does that mean that women cannot become transcendental?
- He said in a letter, he just wrote a letter to you that... You laid a cornerstone in some temple? About three, four years ago?
- He said one thing is to understand theoretically the knowledge, and the other is to practice it. What is the method for...?
- He said, "In others words (if you don't follow, then you are not spiritualist; you are fool), is all humanity a fool then?"
- He says he takes Christianity as Krsna consciousness. What do you say?
- He says his understanding is that this living force inside all of us is the spirit of God that is in every one of us?... But there must be something more than just these words. There must be some way of experiencing that, of realizing that?
- He says if we practice Krsna consciousness and develop a spiritual body, is there also a... Which spirit animates the spiritual body?
- He says no one can hate God, but what about Kamsa and others?
- He says reason is by nature equal in all men. Now isn't reasoning power different in different men?
- He says seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?... How should society be organized in order to achieve these goals?
- He says that for Christians, this feeling of being with God comes from praying to Lord Jesus Christ. He's asking if Krsna has that same position for us?
- He says that he understands that we are talking of love meaning two people, but does that mean that... Why can't we think of love in terms of an exchange between man and everything, between man and the cosmos?
- He says that if God is a person, how can we understand, as there's a common saying that God is and also is not?
- He says that legions of sadhus, such white men, persons from West, become sadhus, then who will do this job of earning a living?
- He says that you cannot bring life, but you can bring death immediately. Why is that?
- He says the term "entering into silence" is a mystic term that means... it is undescribable because it's something that's arrived at inside through meditation. You can't really describe it in words?
- He says there must be some higher knowledge that you know that can actually liberate people. He is looking for that. He wants to know what is that
- He says why do you put so much emphasis on the personalism after liberation because it seems like to him that the ideal perfect thing would be the unity rather than having something separate?
- He says you must have in your teachings some higher knowledge which will permit everyone to do away with this nationalism, to do away with this false ego, and this pride. What is that knowledge?
- He says, "But then Krsna says, 'Why are you afraid to fight? After all, the soul is eternal, but the body is only temporary.' So isn't that a justification..."?
- He says, "Does this Krsna consciousness message apply as well to the outcastes?"
- He says, "How is this, that the only thing we've talked about since we've gotten here has been eating of meat? Is that the only thing that the Bhagavad-gita teaches?"
- He says, "It is not so much that God is in everything but rather that everything is in God."... What is this position?... Why should it be more one way than the other?
- He says, do we see Krsna as being a savior in the way that Christians see Christ as being the savior?
- He sounded like this? He (Krsna) talked like that, like the birds talk?
- He still wants to go on with the same question he asked before: If we are content just to purify ourselves or if we also want to help the society?
- He thought the word (electricity) did not exist at the time?
- He took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He wanted to know what is the relation between the Vedic culture of India and the cultures that originally were in Latin America. There seemed to be some similarity, cultures such as the different Indian cultures?
- He wants to bring the brahmanas to inaugurate the Bombay temple, Srila Prabhupada?
- He wants to know does the ant receive benefit (if a devotee step on a ant by mistake)?
- He wants to know exactly what is the form of the body. If spirit soul is nonmaterial, what is the form?
- He wants to know how can we live in this material world without becoming entangled?
- He wants to know how he will be engaged. Who will tell him what to do?
- He wants to know how in the beginning, when we are starting to engage in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to God, can you develop enthusiasm and sincerity
- He wants to know how to find out how to please the spiritual master with one service
- He wants to know if Krsna is above Jesus Christ?
- He wants to know if our reincarnations are progressive or regressive
- He wants to know if the greatest offense is to disobey the guru
- He wants to know if the senses, the material senses we now have, originally belong to the soul which has been covered by the material body
- He wants to know if to be able to talk in that way you have met God, you have seen God, and if God has given you the authority for being seated on this vyasasana and receiving the obeisances of your disciples?
- He wants to know if we are born good and then we learn the bad thing?
- He wants to know if within marriage it is possible to achieve perfection?
- 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 if you, if you think that you will be able to complete all the volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam which you have projected?
- 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 wants to know something about psychic phenomena
- He wants to know what are the characteristics of a person who has realized that he is not this body
- He wants to know what the doctrine of Krsna consciousness is
- He wants to know why Lord Caitanya is not mentioned in the Bhagavatam with the other incarnations
- He wants to know, is this consciousness within us (the soul means consciousness. It is just like sunshine. The soul is very small particle, but it is shining as consciousness)?
- He was a good professor? He was a good man (Mr. Cameron)?
- He was asking how do we know what Krsna dictates, by what authority. How do we know how we can serve Krsna?
- He was citing the instance of the four Kumaras who were traveling through the gates of the Vaikuntha world, but actually they were not completely God-realized...
- He was speaking in English (Aurobindo never preached in Hindi)?
- He would like to become Krsna conscious, only wants to know if you believe in God?
- He would like to know if to instruct young Christians to chant the name of Krsna will be helping them attain the highest perfection or if it is changing their religion?
- He would like to know what our opinion is of Jesus Christ?
- He would like to know what you think that Australia should help Asia with as far as making people more comfortable to live in this world and what Australia can imbibe from Asia?
- He would swoon whenever He heard Krsna's name? He would be swooning? Lord Caitanya would faint?
- He's (George Harrison) living in the temple?
- He's (God) not omniscient?
- He's asking a question, Srila Prabhupada: isn't it important to mold the activities of ourselves and also the children in coming to this movement; to mold them that so that we can become Krsna conscious?
- He's asking again about geographically, what will it be like (after 400,000 years) as far as temperatures and the different continents?
- He's asking how can he be relieved from such sadness when his son has died? How do we evaluate death?
- He's asking how can we prove our point (that body and soul are two things)?
- He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
- He's asking if this religion is a matter of reason or is it a matter of feeling?
- He's asking is the form of the soul material?
- He's asking that it states in part one of Srimad-Bhagavatam that one should not jump to the Tenth Canto without having read all the previous?
- He's asking whether Srila Prabhupada would like to take some dab water
- He's asking you how to translate a French word, "au revoir."... How do you translate into English?
- He's asking, "Everyone in India (is Krsna conscious)?"
- He's asking, "How do we see ourselves and how is it that we intentionally distinguish ourselves by dressing differently, by having a different presentation than the rest of society?"
- He's saying did you think of these things yourself, to chant on the beads and follow the program in the morning, have you made these up yourself?... Who originated those steps?
- He's saying if man is not meant to eat meat, then why is it that some animals eat meat? He's saying that we are animals also
- He's saying why are we dressing like that, like Indians?
- He's saying why do you say a perfect person instead of saying a perfect philosophy?
- He's talking about if you're married before you come to the movement and one person wants to join the movement and the other person is not very agreeable?
- He's the oldest devotee? Mukunda? He's the oldest devotee?
- Helped (I am very much indebted to them because they have helped me) in what sense?
- Her (Sumati Morarjee) husband is alive?
- Her question is... Suppose someone has some faith in life after death, and he also may be an intelligent man by material standards. Why isn't he automatically...?
- Her question was, "Is your physical place important, surroundings"?
- Her soul is still alive, and she is still functioning spiritually, even though her brain is dead. Is that what...?
- Here (many monkeys were deported by the government but people protested. They were capturing monkeys...)?
- Here in Vrndavana the people also pay taxes?
- Here it mentions Brahman, and as I understood omkara... My question is whether omkara is a representation...?
- Here too, in this country also, they're making butter from stool?
- Here's another one kind of on that line. How do you feel about women's lib?
- Here, Srila Prabhupada. Can you give me the verse (sa te 'ham yogah proktah puratanah. Puratanah. Find out)?
- Higher than the demigods (we are contaminated or conditioned on account of association with these three modes of material nature, and if we keep ourself aloof from the association of three modes then we are mukta, we are liberated)?
- Hindu College (is that St. Julia's College a Hindu College)?
- Hinduism has always renewed or revitalized itself according to the need of the times. In today's context, are any correctives called for, and if so, who will bring them about and how can they be brought about and made acceptable to all the masses?
- Hinduism has been defined as a way of life?
- Hing and what? Prepare with hing and?
- Hiranyaksa was taking the gold from the earth. Now they are taking the oil. So the weight, the oil makes weight in some parts of the globe, no?
- His (Krsna's) senses are (spiritual)...?
- His first question was regarding tilaka. What is the symbolism, significance?
- His idea.... His question, Prabhupada, is also, suppose someone wants to buy a farm or wants to do some new project. Do they ask your permission first?
- His question is that now the government is corrupt, so what can be immediately done?
- His question is, do we concern ourselves with particular problems in the world, there's the war in Vietnam, there's racial discrimination? Do we make statements to condemn these things?
- His question was that can you take initiation by accepting the spiritual master in your heart without actually taking...?
- His question was when we take initiation from you, we understand that we become your eternal servitors. But if we have to come again to another birth...?
- Hogs are there as well (in the spiritual world)?
- Homeopathic doctor (that Ahmedabad, that gentleman in his house, you were guest, you were in Ahmedabad (they will make processes for eating the seaweed))?
- 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 if a disciple wants to use the help of Visnu for the spiritual master?
- How about Kabir (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching is the summary of all Vaisnava-Ramanuja, Ramananda, Madhvacarya, and Visnu Svami, Nimbarka. There are four sampradayas. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu follows everyone. There is no difference much)?
- 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 opening one temple in Ahmedabad?
- How about people who aren't first-class intelligence, people, as you mentioned, the foolish. What message...?
- How about Radha-Krsna also (let them worship Gaura-Nitai)?
- How about serving the parents?
- How about teaching them how to love themselves?
- How about the duality (relative means you cannot understand anything without the other. That is called relative. Suppose if I say "good man," I cannot understand a good man without having another man, bad man)?
- How about the meaning of the chanting. You are insist on chanting?
- How about the one who picks up and he doesn't find the owner of the coins but he offers to Krsna?
- How about the third and fourth-classes?
- How and from where did the conditioned souls fall?... If someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down?
- How and what relation can develop greater love for Krsna through conquering sleep?
- How and why did we lose our awareness of our true love for Krsna in the beginning?
- How are others doing?
- How are the boys and girls to learn these things in manners of decorum and manners from the sannyasis, for example. How are they to offer respects to their godbrothers?
- How are the individualities (of the spirit soul) accounted for?
- How are the references made?
- How are these conditions going to change (material condition is the four principles of bodily demands: eating, sleeping, sex and defense)?
- How are they able to perpetuate such an enormous hoax (ask all scientists this simple question. Why, all over the world, Sunday, sun first and moon second? Why? And Saturday last. All of you could not answer this question)?
- How are they feeling about it (temple), the Vrndavana Gosais?
- How are they going to change in order to bring about a profound spiritual transformation (formerly people used to live very humbly. Now they are living very, very big, big skyscraper building)?
- How are those supported (the forty centers in the United States)? Do they support themselves?
- How are we going to fare in this court case?
- How are we to determine how much of our endeavor should be for our own personal progress?
- How are we to tell one (true master) from the other (any spiritual master)?
- How are you feeling after it (massage)?
- How are you feeling this morning, Srila Prabhupada?
- How are you feeling this morning, Srila Prabhupada? You haven't passed any urine for quite awhile. What is the reason for that?
- How are you to know that this act or that act is good or bad?
- How are you trying?
- How are you?... You have carried a big load. What is... Will you be in a position to come to the conference?
- How can a devotee be free from being attracted to this worldliness?
- How can a man's intelligence be rectified? If intelligence is the...
- How can a person with all material desires develop desire to love Krsna?
- How can a spirit become so ignorant?
- How can all sections of Hindus be made to take an equal interest and have the same sense of belonging to the Hindu religion?
- How can an artificial kidney be expected to work like a real kidney? I mean, they want to hold back time…They think that they can defeat the time...
- How can any body live in the sun?
- How can any materialist manage more than a few wives without divorce?
- How can anybody say (that Kunti is as good as Arjuna or Bhima)?
- How can anyone in any part of the world understand that he is part of God?
- How can Catholic people, without rejecting their own religion, take to Krsna consciousness?
- How can darkness argue with the sunlight? Their trying to argue is just like darkness trying to argue with the sunlight (they said, "Everyone has a father, so who's God's father?")
- How can God be controlled by His own energy, illusory energy?
- How can God be localized?
- How can he (the Calcutta kaviraja) give strength? Just like makara-dhvaja is for giving strength
- How can he be supreme if he can fall down?
- How can I apply that (Krsna consciousness) in my factory?
- 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 I forget about myself so I can concentrate on other more important things?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can I give up attraction for woman?
- 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 that (who is guru?)...?
- 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 it be that we're advancing if we can become a dog in the next life, is that it, or something inferior? Where is the question of progress?
- How can Krishna be mother if He is the Supreme Male?
- How can one be better equipped to tolerate these despairs and miseries of our human existence?
- How can one come to have faith that there is life after one leaves his body?
- How can one cut down his limited knowledge if he's habituated to material life?
- How can one discriminate what is a real authority and who is a blind person posing as an authority?... How can we tell a real authority?... As opposed to someone who is posing as an authority?
- How can one establish faith in the principle of reincarnation? How can one come to believe in it?
- How can one inquire of you how to know Krsna? What is the process? How does one inquire of the spiritual master?
- How can one reach the point where he knows that a particular type of service will please the spiritual master?
- How can one remain humble in executing his devotional service?
- How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant Hare Krsna yet is still being plagued by desire for sex?
- How can one see the spiritual master in darkness? If you are standing in a dark room...
- How can one serve Krsna in daily life?
- How can one strengthen the spiritual will to act plain and live the spiritual life?
- How can one understand God's love?
- How can she be sure that the spiritual master is bona fide?
- How can the four natural divisions of man be translated into American society?
- How can the living entities actually be happy?
- How can the people in general recognize when a devotee is pure?
- How can the position be reconciled if in Krsna consciousness one of the two, the husband or the wife, wants to enjoy sense gratification, but the other does not? Should there be separation then?
- How can the purification process, Prabhupada, be carried through the average life, twenty-four hours a day?
- How can the sun itself be different from it's energy?
- How can the Vedas be considered eternal since they contain many historical references?
- How can the world survive when people forget their karma and immerse themselves in Krsna consciousness? Won't it lead to inaction and a stand-still condition?
- How can there be any truth separate from the Lord?
- How can these people be so sincere and so earnest?
- How can they vote for human beings (the voters are pigs and asses and camel and dogs. So if these animal vote for somebody, then what he is)?
- How can this practically be applied to American society, this idea of trusting God? How would things change?
- How can we accept it (although Christ says, 'Thou shalt not kill,' I can neglect that." And then, if still he is captured, he will say, "Bible is very old.")?
- How can we achieve samadhi?
- How can we add (introduce classes where such laws of nature (dehino 'smin) and such-on scientific line, without giving it a Hindu or religious name) in innumerable, rather, uncountless schools and colleges?
- How can we be happy when you're not well?… We can't be happy if you're not well
- How can we become intelligent or independent? In a money-orientated world?
- How can we begin to serve you so that you'll be pleased?
- How can we best serve the movement? By joining it? I have joined it in a...
- How can we fast move in India to spread our Krsna consciousness?... How can we spread the Krsna consciousness?
- How can we feel the transmigration of the soul?
- How can we force the scientists to accept Bhagavad-gita?
- How can we get a God conscious leader (president) in this country?
- How can we get this perfect knowledge and how can we practice it if we're like prisoners?
- How can we get those people who are immersed in maya to become serious?
- How can we get to Krsna? How do you get to Krsna?
- How can we give a recommendation on this question (you cannot guarantee anything success. Maybe success, maybe failure. If kaviraja's suggestion, if it becomes success, that's very good. But if it is failure), Srila Prabhupada? I mean...
- How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- How can we increase our desire for sankirtana?
- How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness?
- How can we know that somebody is perfect?
- How can we know what is good and what is bad? How can we define them?
- How can we make them understand they're being punished?
- How can we perfectly follow only what Krsna has said?
- How can we prove Krsna scientifically?
- How can we realize Krsna is satisfied?
- How can we realize the omnipresence?
- How can we recognize yogamaya?
- How can we relieve ourselves of material pain and live in spiritual pleasure?
- How can we repay you?
- How can we say that to give people..., that the only real problem is to give knowledge. There are people who are starving; there are people who are sick; there are people who are in so much distress?
- How can we stop speculating?
- How can we surpass the misery?
- How can we understand the difference between personality and individuality? And if God expands Himself in everything, then He must be inside all of His creation?
- How can we understand the guru?
- How can you be sure you have realized yourself?
- How can you be sure you're free from all anxiety if you're incapable of perceiving happiness?
- How can you convince that we are the real genuine people?
- How can you deal with such a person without forcing him to contain himself in such a way that he will resent it? Or must he be allowed to expend his energy until he is convinced by experience?
- How can you drink milk when the cough is like this?
- How can you fight a war and then be nonviolent at the same time?... How is it possible to be nonviolent...
- How can you focus your mind on God before you know what He is?
- How can you follow it (try to understand Krsna and go back to home, back to Godhead) if you've never been exposed to Krsna?
- How can you get back to Godhead...?
- How can you make them (people) interested if they're not?
- How can you say this (this is all childish) when we have so much proof that we have gone to the moon?
- How can you separate out economics, politics...?
- How can you tell when your senses are getting purified?
- How can you trust God if you don't know anything about Him? First you have to know something about God before you can trust Him.
- How can you use something in Krsna's service? What is the process to use things in Krsna's service?
- How close does one student usually, how close does he get to the master? How closely does he understand the master? Or he could interrelate himself to the master?
- How come a lotus flower is so great?
- How come in the locational, archaeological and ontological records, Krsna consciousness is not mentioned by other religions?
- How come that if in this age of Kali people in general are less intelligent, in this particular age they've received the fullest revelation of knowledge? Why not in the Satya-yuga?
- How come we (your disciples) come to you (Srila Prabhupada)?
- How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?
- How could father feed even the child (they say they may become pregnant and have children, but the men should take care of the children, equally... They get milk from the mother, not from the father)?
- How could God, who is perfect, be lonely?
- How could he use that for Krsna's service if he's expert in mathematics?
- How could I know the unknown within the known?
- How could one choose when he himself is ignorant?
- How could some people look at the seed of a tree and come to a different conclusion?
- How could the mere repetition of words bring about God realization?
- How could they stop it (before they are taking anything)? By virtue of the strength of the mind. That man, if he has got no strength of mind, he should not...
- How could Visnu appear from the nostril of Brahma?
- How could we make a poor choice if we were part and parcel of Krsna? How could we have chosen the material world?
- How could we understand Srimati Radharani?
- How could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.
- How could you reconcile these two: He is formless, and He has form. He has form and yet infinite?
- How did Krsna consciousness develop?
- How did Prakasananda Sarasvati see or think that Lord Caitanya was the Lord Narayana Himself when he only realized Brahman?
- How did Subash Bose get from India to Germany?
- How did Sukdev Goswami hear Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- How did that war of Kuruksetra differ from other wars?
- How did the atman come into being?
- How did the gopis surrender unto Krsna? You said they surrendered everything. How did they do it?
- How did the material covering begin? How did we fall into that?
- How did you attract people? You landed in New York...
- How did you become a disciple yourself?
- How did you feel about Gandhiji spiritually?
- How did you feel about when they taught Darwin when you were in school?
- How did you find Moscow?
- How did you find the transition, or how did it affect you, the transition from leading a life in the business world?
- How did you like the pomegranate juice?
- How did you manage immediately after landing in USA?
- How did you manage to get your first Bhagavatams printed?
- How do I come to know that Krsna is satisfied?
- How do I create matter that is my body?
- How do I know that animals do not want to die?
- How do I know that I am thinking properly?… I must know what I am meant for… That's what my question is, how does one know?
- How do I know who is a perfect person?
- How do I know who is perfect?
- How do I serve the servants of the gopis?
- How do the different seasons come about-winter, summer, spring?
- How do they know it's not millions of years ago
- How do they live, then? The same example (the moon)
- How do they make it (puffed rice) ?
- How do they respond in China?
- How do we attain our spiritual body?
- How do we become free of envy?
- How do we bring them (the atheists) to their senses?
- How do we chant Hare Krsna?
- How do we develop devotion for service, desire for service?
- How do we enter into the modes of goodness?
- How do we explain that (I was telling my colleague that stratus, the layers so perfect that everywhere, say five inches, just like it appears somebody has laid down)?
- How do we finance our movement?
- How do we free ourself from maya?
- How do we give knowledge to the common masses of people?
- How do we handle these people who don't seem to want to carry their own weight, though, Prabhupada? The ones who don't want to work and help produce this food?
- How do we know he's a good doctor or not? By his credential or... (if you are suffering from some disease, you have to go to a doctor who knows how to treat)?
- 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 the animals don't know all of these great truths?
- How do we know that the meaning (of Bhagavad-gita) is distorted?
- How do we know that they're not (indistinct) (suppose someone is coming to stab you; you cannot jump. Therefore bird is more intelligent)?
- How do we know that Vedavyasa is not defective like other living beings?
- How do we know that we're going to have a body in the next life?
- How do we know when God is pleased?
- How do we know when we should accept this (voluntary) adversity?
- How do we know which one of the meanings is used in this verse?
- How do we know, then, what is the real fact (when everyone gives his own opinion)?
- How do we make ourselves bad?
- How do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- How do we render perfect service to Krsna?
- How do we stop them from subletting? ... No, I mean supposing they were to move out completely and let someone else move in?
- How do we support our challenge to the scientists that they have not actually gone to the moon?
- How do we take the meaning of earthquakes and natural disasters which could destroy the lives of pure people as well as impure people?
- How do we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles...?
- How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?
- How do we.... What do we do during the day? What are our activities?
- How do you account for the fact that man sometimes takes animals and feeds them and protects them, whereas otherwise these animals might have died of starvation or exposure or something?
- How do you agree to this (to act according to the whims of Krsna)?
- How do you apply the concept of consciousness and life to a God conceived of in the terms like this image here?
- How do you awake that consciousness?
- How do you become informed as to certain events?
- How do you become qualified? How did you become qualified?
- How do you call devotion to the Lord?
- How do you choose, you are responsible for the organization?… Are you the one who chooses who runs each center, who is responsible in each temple?
- How do you classify dreams?
- How do you convince a person that they are suffering, when they're saying they are happy and not afraid to die?
- How do you deal with negativity?...The devotees encounter negativity every day, people that are not interested. How, not just on the outside world, but how does one deal with that within, how does one relieve oneself of that negativism?
- How do you decide whether a place is sacred or not?
- How do you define a brahmana?
- How do you determine what's an obstacle?
- How do you develop a service attitude in Krsna consciousness?
- How do you develop the strength to keep chanting even when maya is making you so attracted?
- How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?
- How do you envisage one should act, if I may ask that?
- How do you explain aham brahmasmi?
- How do you explain suicide?
- How do you explain the advance that Marxism has made?
- How do you explain the fact that Jesus said that "I am the way, the truth, and the light," and that "No man comes to the father but by me"? How can we explain that Jesus said he is the only way?
- How do you explain vrsninam vasudevo 'smi?
- How do you feel about Mao Tse-tung?
- How do you feel about Rabindranath Tagore, the poet?
- How do you feel about self-expression, art, as a path back to Godhead?
- How do you feel God inside you?
- How do you feel now? Do you like warm thing or cold thing?
- How do you feel that this kaviraja's medicine is affecting, Srila Prabhupada?
- How do you feel the modern world (have received Krsna consciousness)? What's your feeling?
- How do you feel?
- How do you find the taste (mint tea)?
- How do you get that direction moment by moment, hour by hour?
- How do you get the strength to follow the rules and regulations?
- How do you get to the second stage by making your own decisions without God's..., without God's representative? In other words, how can you come to the platform of the third stage from the second stage?
- How do you have that assurance (this movement is the only way to know God)?
- How do you know (that is a bogus)? Have you met him (Guru Maharaji)?
- How do you know how to follow the footsteps of the mahajanas?
- How do you know if you have satisfied God?
- How do you know that "Krsna" is a name of God?
- How do you know that a name (of God) is approved?
- How do you know that person who wrote it was perfect? And who is the perfect man? How do you find out?
- How do you know that you know? May I ask this (we have to find out, we have to find out who can give the perfect knowledge)?
- How do you know the animal has a soul?
- How do you know there's a soul?
- How do you know this Deity is Krsna, and this one isn't? Because each Deity looks a little different to the material eyes
- How do you know when he's attained to Krsna consciousness?
- How do you know whether you're using it for Krsna or not?
- How do you like them (the ratha carts), Prabhupada?... Strong? Strong enough?
- How do you make everything that you say so simple to understand?
- How do you measure your liberation from the laws of nature?
- How do you process to a right moment unless one is helped at the last minute of death?
- How do you recognize someone who has already a family and he's working and who wants to progress in Krsna consciousness? Is he, does he have to give up his job and shave his hair and wear robes?
- How do you regard abortion? At what stage does the spirit enter into the womb?
- How do you regard suicide, and would there be any exceptional circumstances that might justify it?
- How do you relate Christ with Krsna?
- How do you relate the International Society for Krishna Consciousness to Hinduism?
- How do you relate your strong interest in dairy products to modern thinking on cholestrol and similar problems?
- How do you see helping your fellow man?
- How do you spend your days? You do an awful lot of traveling I understand
- How do you stop that (greed)?
- How do you teach a varnasrama college? In varnasrama college if somebody comes in... They say, "I want to be ksatriya" or "I want to be vaisya." Is it like that?
- How do you teach Krsna consciousness to a five year old who is only a children? What it means to be a teacher?
- How do you teach your disciples to become aware of this force which is no matter that makes matter alive?
- How do you think about somebody in last few days defeated the existence of Mahabharata itself?
- How do you understand incarnation?
- How do you view the development of the potential for nuclear explosions in India?
- How do you want India to take this movement?
- How does a devotee know which food Krsna likes him to take?
- How does a man find out what his duty is?
- How does a preacher realize? How does a preacher come to realize?
- How does chance come about, if there is such a thing?
- How does He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) accept sannyasi?
- How does He (Krsna) speak to you or to us?
- How does he (the sadhu) live in the woods without a spiritual master and learn?
- How does he become conditioned when the jivatma is eternal full of bliss and knowledge?
- How does it attack (Rahu planet comes to attack the sun and the moon)?
- How does it benefit the person who is selling the book, the devotee?… How is he benefited by selling books to others?
- How does it matter what people call Krsna, whether they call Bhagavan or Visnu or what, Krsna? If it is just only one God. We are talking removing Krsna from Gita but putting Bhagavan there instead of Krsna. How does it matter?
- How does it react? Potassium cyanide? It blocks the oxygen path? That's what science says?
- How does krpa-siddhi work, Srila Prabhupada?
- How does Krsna consciousness differ from samadhi?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to Advaita philosophy?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to the Hindu religion? Because that is also based on the Bhagavad-gita
- How does Krsna support them (the forty centers in the United States)?… He mediates through physical things, does he?
- How does one become "bhagyavan"?
- How does one become humble and remain humble?
- How does one become strong?
- How does one contact the spiritual master? Through a book can you contact the spiritual master?
- How does one distinguish between what is a false God...?
- How does one establish clearly (your studies of philosophy will be perfect when you establish, "Yes, there is God.")?
- How does one feel called toward Krsna conscious? What demands are made upon him? How does he come into the frame of mind where he can accept Krsna consciousness?
- How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krsna or not?
- How does one get the experience of personal existence of God?
- How does one get to know the true spirit?
- How does one give up the fear of dying?
- How does one interpret if the cause is great (if the cause if great, then killing is no sin)?
- How does one know a bona fide spiritual master who can lead them?
- How does one know when he has the understanding of the Bhagavad-gita?
- How does one learn to control the senses, overwhelming?
- How does one practice to keep the mind from being restless?
- How does one sharpen one's senses?
- How does one show such an impersonalist with absolute proof logically? I was told Srila Bhaktivinoda has such a proof
- How does one surrender to Krsna?
- How does one surrender?
- How does one train the mind?
- How does our love for Krsna somehow or other get transformed into lust?
- How does our philosophy define mind and intelligence?
- How does repeating one word, "Krsna," or singing "Rama" and "Krsna" help achieving the way?
- How does say that in your process, anybody has been made happy?
- How does she get Krsna's instructions while chanting?
- How does that come? (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession… Originally the order is from Krsna)?
- How does that fit in with the species of life, Srila Prabhupada, when they combine two different species, artificial?
- How does that happen, when he becomes over-intelligent?
- How does that result in more women (the more the man will become attached to woman, the woman population will increase)?
- How does that work, that if somebody has the association of a pure devotee for only a lava, one-eleventh of a second, that he attains all perfection?
- How does the authority know to tell you?
- How does the cosmic force become ignorant of itself and fall into this condition? If before he was this form he was the cosmic energy, how he can fall down into ignorance and become an individual, limited, conditioned soul?
- How does the devotee go about practicing this Krsna consciousness when he's asleep?
- How does the jiva get out of the atom and take a gross body?
- How does the ksatriya build a palace for himself or something like that?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How does transcendental knowledge burn to ashes the reactions of sinful...
- How does Vaisnava act? What are his...?
- How does worship of Visnu solve social problems? Just like in Calcutta there are more social problems than practically anywhere
- How far can a bullock cart travel in one day?
- How far is samskara powerful like...?
- How far should the orders of my duly appointed officers like GBC, etc., be obeyed and followed?
- How far the study of the scriptures helps us in being Krsna conscious?
- How far this adaption of Krsna consciousness by many American boys would affect the politics of their attitude, for instance, to such a bearing problem of America as Vietnam War?
- How far would you carry Jagannatha (you used to take Jagannatha right through the streets)?
- How foreign intervention will be dangerous to you if you are perfect (if your theory is perfect, why there should be foreign intervention?)?
- How has India improved by independence? What is the improvement? They are more godless than ever
- How he becomes aware in himself as an experience, not as conclusion, because I realize that on the inner way it becomes important more and more to feel deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper realities?
- 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 high did he (Ravana) make it (a staircase to reach the heavenly planets)?
- How I was created, I created this universe (I am repeatedly saying that God does not create anything. Just like the same example. You created. Why do you blame)?
- How important is formal initiation?
- How important is it to look after physical life?
- How important is the association with the devotees?
- How important is your diet?
- How important is your physical environment to you? If this room is very lovely - it has light and space and air and flowers - is this important at all or would it be the same to you to be sitting out on the street?
- How in the beginning is it decided that somebody is working and he should be given or not given (let them (lazy people) become sudra. Let them become servant. No property. If you work, you can get food. Just like animal)?
- How in the Kali-yuga advancing can everyone become Krsna conscious?
- 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 bad and good the same thing, Srila Prabhupada?
- How is ether distinct from air?
- How is it benefiting (to automatically pass through all the different species) him (the living entity)?
- How is it done (calculation of time from the atom, Srila Prabhupada. He is talking about Bhagavatam. By the light passing over the atom, you can calculate the time, the sunlight passing over the atomic particles)?
- How is it opened, the eyes (naked soul is there, but you have no eyes to see it. Naked soul is there, but it is so small you cannot see it... But there is. There is no doubt about it)?
- How is it possible that Tulasi-devi is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant?
- How is it possible to deceive so many people (you have made picture. I have not gone and seen that. How can I believe you? The same argument. You say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you)?
- How is it possible to forget the subtle body?
- How is it possible, Srila Prabhupada? We're so tiny, one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair, and yet we can become so puffed-up as to think that even I am God or I am the controller of the material nature like the scientists are thinking?
- How is it that after they (Devaki and Vasudeva) gave birth to Krsna this time they went back to Godhead?
- How is it that Bhaktivinoda Thakura was not so strict in that regard, yet his son, who learned from him, became very strict, like a rod?
- How is it that devotees of Krsna like demigods can be fearful even if they see Visvarupa?
- How is it that I cannot explain my position (I can explain Krsna consciousness, but you cannot explain nirvana. That is the difficulty. I can explain my position but you cannot explain your position)?
- How is it that people are saying that He's so tiny that He may even be an ordinary man? How can they be so illusioned to think like that? Krsna is everything. How can they ignore Him?
- How is it that people who have done some pious activity, they get a nice birth in this statement, but usually people who are not wealthy or not so educated, sometimes they more or less take to worshiping Krsna or God?
- How is it that some men have no conception of God?
- How is it that the devotees who run the great temple of Jagannatha refuse to allow foreigners and certain low-caste people, when this was the favorite place of Lord Caitanya, who, like you say, advocated that it should be taught in every town and village?
- How is it that the soul is also a person?
- How is it that the soul wants different things and then the material body acts according to the desires of the soul?... What is the connection that spirit causes matter to do so many things?... How is that contact there?
- How is it that the trees and plants will be happy?
- 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 it that these men (Mayavadis like Vivekananda) are so attractive to the Indian people?
- How is it that they made such a big mistake (there are many planets invisible. So there is a Rahu planet which comes in front of the moon planet, and that is called eclipse. I think they are going to that Rahu planet, not to the moon planet)?
- How is it that we see the moon moving?
- How is it that when our coat, size of the coat, changes because the body grows bigger the size of the coat is bigger?
- How is it they can see continuity between baby's body and young boy's body and young man's body, they say, "Oh, he's still here," but they can see no continuity between this body and...?
- How is Krsna different? How is He individual in each one of the atoms?
- How is Krsna the greatest scientist?
- How is Mayadevi in such a distasteful position? How did she acquire her position?
- How is our movement doing in India?
- How is that (if you pour water on the root of the tree, the service reaches everywhere) manifesting?
- How is that (over-intelligent by so-called education)?
- How is that (trees have the abilitiy to see and hear)?
- How is that madness transferred to Krsna?
- How is that spiritual dimension realized (if you chant, then, gradually, you realize yourself that you are a spiritual being; you are not this body. Then his spiritual life begins. Actually human life is meant for spiritual realization)?
- How is that there are different types of religion in the world?
- How is that they say that in some of the mantras they are cakras and all that?
- How is that, that this world is unreal? Why do we say that there is good thing and bad thing in the world?
- How is the best way to do that (Prasada selling)?
- How is the Ganges flowing through the planetary systems?
- How is the human life better than the demigod?
- How is the Kuruksetra going?
- How is the lotus a weapon?
- How is the moon behind the sun?
- How is the response in the West?
- How is the school in Vrndavana? The school?... Have they started?
- How is the soul degraded (by lust, anger and greed) when it is transcendental to the body? Doesn't that imply that the soul has changed?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How is this (grhastha duties) connected with Vyasadeva and his situation?
- How is this godlessness showing itself in our society?
- How is your health now?
- How is your health?
- How is your path or your way different from (or) better than others?… It is the only way?
- How it is possible, how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmana?
- How it is? It's a line for a kite, and it's wound upon on a stick, and to make the kite go higher you unleash...?
- How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
- How Krishna is with the spirit soul in the spiritual world?
- How long a sankirtana to begin with, do you think?
- How long are you going to stay there?... In India, when you go?
- How long do you say it is before Krsna comes to this planet again in His physical, in human form?
- How long do you think this takes to (become pure)... For a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- How long do you want to work in Bombay?
- How long does it take (to learn about God)? Well, can we do it? And what happens to me then?
- How long does it take for anyone to achieve perfection? How many stages one must go through, or how many years, how many centuries?
- How long does it take to purify ourself?
- How long does it take you to translate?
- How long does that period (Kali-yuga) last?
- How long does this process of withdrawal (from drug or alcohol addiction) take?
- How long has Krsna consciousness been in India, or were you...?
- How long has this earth, we know, existed?
- How long has your group been in the United States?
- How long have you been a Hare Krsna man?
- How long have you been here, sir?
- How long have you been in Australia?
- How long have you been in this country? Did you come to found this society?
- How long is it since you've been to the Radha-Damodara?
- How long it will be (the age of Kali)?
- How long this movement has been started?
- How long we have to surrender?
- How long were you there (in Moscow)? With your disciple?
- How long will you be feeling bad from the injection?
- How long will you be here (in Iran)?... And then?
- How long will you be in England, sir?
- How long will you be staying in Melbourne?
- How long will you stay in Paris?
- How long will Your Divine Grace be here (Stockholm)?
- How long would the planets float if it was put in the hands of a scientist?
- How long you are going to be in Hyderabad?
- How long you are in India now?
- How long you are staying here?
- How long you going to stay here (Bombay)? You have promised me to stay long, eh?
- How long you'll stay (in Mexico)?
- How many (ISKCON) branches in India?
- 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 asramas do you have in India?
- How many births do we have?
- How many books are already finished, and how much is more to come in the future?
- How many brilliant stars are there in this Universe?
- How many centers are there now?
- How many centers in the United States?
- How many children do you have?
- How many commentaries does this one... (Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavat Purana)?
- How many days (you can go from Calcutta to Agra, nice road. And from Agra to Bombay)? Two days?
- How many days were you there (in Moscow)?
- How many different paths are there for self-realization?
- How many disciples do you now have, sir, in the U.S.?
- How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- How many followers do you have (1972)
- How many followers do you have throughout the world now?
- How many followers do you have?
- How many followers have you got now throughout the world or can you not count?
- How many full aratis should we perform, Srila Prabhupada?
- How many ksatriyas can I have on this farm? How many ksatriyas can we have on one farm?
- How many leaders have actually achieved this aim (the true aim of human life)?
- How many levels of initiation do you have?
- How many Life Members in India? Must have at least ten thousand
- How many manuscript pages?
- How many members do you now have? How many followers?... Ten thousand? That is in this country or is that...?
- How many members in the United States? I'm told two thousand. Is that correct approximately?
- How many minutes do you recommend a day? How many minutes do you chant?
- How many more years will Kali-yuga will stand?
- How many of us are scientists here?
- How many of your disciples would have seen the vision of God in the sense of seeing the Lord given in their heart?
- How many officials (?) are there?
- How many other people are there on this planet who have made as much spiritual progress as you have?
- How many paramparas are there?
- How many people are in the Krsna movement in the world, about?
- How many people are in the movement approximately?
- How many qualifications does a spiritual master have in terms of being a spiritual master?
- How many sticks of incense? Two?
- How many swamis do you initiated, American?
- How many temples are there now?
- How many temples are there?
- How many volumes is this one (Caitanya-caritamrta), when it's complete?
- How may a devotee arrive to this particular form (is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only)?
- How may we best expand our movement into the rural areas or into the country areas?
- How may we recognize yogamaya?
- How much money did you carry with you (to America)?
- How much money?
- How much more difficult is it for one born in a family of nondevotees to become a devotee than a person who has been born in a family like Prabhupada's?
- How much of his time do you think should be spent preaching and traveling?
- How much or how little brahmacaris should associate with the unmarried brahmacarinis in the temple?
- How much would be expected of the students (of the Varnasrama College) as far as...? Would they live with us and follow the four principles? Like that? Or just come for classes or...?
- How old are the oldest of the Vedic scriptures?
- How old are you?
- How old is Caitanya now (second act of a play on Lord Caitanya) ?
- How old is He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) at this (when He visited the Jagannatha temple) point?
- How old is He here (in the sixth scene)? How old is Caitanya here? Maybe five, six?
- How old is Krsna?
- How old is this man (Prakasananda Sarasvati)?
- How old it is (the earth)?
- How old was his wife (Dr. Rajendra Prasada, the president, he was married when he was eight years old)?
- How old were you (when a man wanted Prabhupada to become his son)?
- How old were you when you got married?
- How old were you when you got your Radha-Krsna Deity?
- How old? She (Prabhupada's daughter) must be forty-five years old?
- How one can become peaceful?
- How one can know that given source of supposed spiritual truth is an actual truth? Is there any technique how one can get to it?
- How one can know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- How one can supremely control all conditions that would free one from karmic reaction? How could they control the environment?
- How one can tell that he is a devotee of Krsna (one should hear about Krsna from Krsna devotee, not a professional man)?
- How one should start when he's completely ignorant of all these things (you must accept guru and learn. Why should you remain ignorant)?
- How one surrenders? What is meaning of surrender?
- How or why did this spiritual body become covered by the material body?
- How serious would it be for me if I should miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?
- How seriously should they (the criminals) be punished?
- How shall I speak? Shall I beat your body?
- How shall the worship be in the temple, Srila Prabhupada, the small temples. What shall they worship?
- How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadisa was saying?
- How should the relationship between a sannyasi and the temple president be?
- How should we do this in our ISKCON society with these young girls (the Indian system is that when the girl is utmost twelve years, not more than that, ten to twelve years, she must be married)?
- How should we have these Ratha-yatra festivals. Should they be big? Should they be big festivals? Should I plan on having three carts next year, just one, or a small cart?
- How should we know that he (the guru) knows about Krsna?
- How strong is it (the Hare Krsna Movement in India)?
- How strong is the power of Krsna?
- How the body goes away?
- How the eternal spirit soul becomes so completely absorbed that he completely forgets about the future and simply he becomes absorbed in some temporary sense gratification?
- How the five great elements are a gross representation of the subtle false ego?
- How the impersonalists mistake the difference between the soul and the Supersoul?
- How the Mayavadi thinks that he can..., that the material energy is false when at every step he's baffled by the material energy?
- How the movement is growing? Can you give me any figures at all? I was speaking to one of your colleagues earlier who mentioned 150, but seventy-five approximately which were in London. Are the figures growing week by week?
- How the simpler faith of a real Christian, that is not so advanced in knowledge of the Supreme Person, differs in ecstasy or the end result of God-consciousness?
- How the Vedas can be 3,000 B. C. in age?
- How these devotees are finding salvation for others?
- How they (birds) turn all together and how do they communicate each other that "Yes, let's move out away"?
- How they are going against it (Bhagavad-gita), Prabhupada?
- How they measured it (the life-span of atoms)?
- How they will believe that man didn't go to the moon?
- How this movement has helped in solving any specific issue, any special problem?
- How this movement was formed when you came here. You are the father of this movement. How this idea was created within you?
- How this social order can be generated in India?
- How to acquire the quality of patience?
- How to act when there is a choice of either attending Aratrik ceremony without bathing first or bathing and thus missing attendance at the Aratrik ceremony?
- How To attain that knowledge then?
- How to attain this Krsna consciousness and to maintain it?
- How to awaken kundalini, and how to have permanent state of awakened kundalini?
- How to come to that position (of goswami)?
- How to convince the young persons who are thinking that Meher Baba is an avatara?
- How to find the...? How to get to the atman, the inner body?
- How to from sa guna I do not know?
- How to give up this bad habit (Krsna is not subjected to your thinking. You have to give up this bad habit first of all, that Krsna will be subordinate to your thinking. That is not God)?
- How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
- How to identify a true learned man?
- How to know it (what Krsna wants)?
- How to live in such a way where there is no dearth of thing as well as there is no continuing of that need that a man becomes lost?
- How to measure it then (the soul)? What is the measurement?
- How to mend from lies?
- How to mend him (a Gurukula student) from lies? He speaks lies
- How to offer respects to Sannyasis?
- How to please God's representative?
- How to please Krishna?
- How to prove that the soul is eternal?
- How to realize Krsna?
- How to see Lord Krsna? Can anybody see Him by chanting the holy name Hare Krsna mantra? Is it possible for a human being in his short period of life?
- How to seek a master? How to find a master?
- How to stop it then (they accept any rascal as God)?
- How to surrender?
- How to understand, how to measure (those who are habituated to act sinful)...?
- How was it possible for Ajamila to chant the name at the time of death?
- How was the soul originally created?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How we can come over the ego?
- How we can satisfy God?
- How we know about soul?
- How were the leaders, though, of India so weak when the British first occupied that they allowed this all to take place?
- How were you getting so much money (1944, the first copy. I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American… In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month)?
- How will it be possible, Prabhupada, for a man whose mind is clouded to constantly chant Hare Krsna?
- How will the government decide what my gold is and what his gold is? How does the gold get distributed?
- How will the judgement be rendered (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- How will the spiritual master be pleased?
- How will you prove it (the gas came from ether, and ether came from mind, and mind came from intelligence, and intelligence came from the soul)?
- How will your movement give anybody brains?
- How would he (the crocodile) have that loving feeling to hatch the baby?
- How would His Grace see Jesus Christ?
- How would I recognize a true follower of the Krsna consciousness movement by his behavior? What would his traits be? What would his outward expressions be?
- How would it (varnasrama college) differ from gurukula?
- How would one tell that one had a genuine guru because one would be told to give up certain parts of...?
- How would the ksatriyas kill the animals (in the varnasrama college)? How would they kill? With guns or bow and arrow?
- How would they get it back from the moon?
- How would we define the word responsibility in Krsna consciousness?
- How would you adapt the Krsna chanting to Christianity?
- How would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- How would you describe that platform (the difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working (many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world))?
- How would you describe these people that live there (on the moon)? Would they be invisible to us or visible?
- How would you explain about eclipse which we get?
- How would you get man to become aware of the situation so he could desire (God consciousness), even desire unconsciously?
- How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji?
- How would you prove that all of them (the single elements alone in the body do not have life) combined together don't have life? How would you prove that?
- How you chose this America to be your first...?
- How you explain the act of Krsna taking away the saris of the gopis?
- How your preaching differs from various acaryas? Say, Sankara or Vallabha or Ramanuja?
- How's that now (the persons in the jail are thinking "These people are not working for life in the jail," so they don't understand what we are doing)?
- How, then, can we advise them (envious people), Srila Prabhupada, if they are like serpents?
- How? I don't see that you're diminishing in your strength (so far I am thinking, I'm not improving in strength. And how can I improve by drinking little barley and milk and little fruit juice? I have no appetite for anything else)
- How? Which authority is that?
- Huns. They were considered like that (to be aborigines)?
- Hussein is his son. Ali is the cousin and the son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed. But can they feel the grace of Krsna within this framework?
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- I agree for some people to, you especially, to think of this because you are a leader of your Vedic religion. But for everybody to do that, where would we be? We couldn't all sit down and think all the time
- I agree with that (you cannot say wrong or right (unless we want to say that this kaviraja is absolutely wrong)). So we have to say, "in case." So what is your point, Srila Prabhupada? That in case you don't gain strength...
- I also come across from Srila Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that the living entities, all the living entities, 8,400,000 species, they are simultaneously created?
- I also wanted to ask a question, Srila Prabhupada, on dancing in the temple room during arati, especially mangala-arati. Is it not that the devotees should not turn their back while dancing to the Deity?
- I always want to ask whether if you met demigods or Indra or Brahma or...
- I am a part and parcel of the almighty God. So when animals are butchered, why the butcher does not get pain?
- I am asking the question whether dog knows that he is dog. Cow knows that she is cow?... Have they got the intelligence to know?
- I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- I am not clear about the life equal to matter?
- I am now trying to learn (indistinct) something, and I find that by doing bhakti, ah, what you call puja, saguna puja, whenever I come to your place, instead of seeing the Krsna murti, I always see the lingam, pure lingam. Why this phenomena going on?
- I am son of God. And what about Krsna? He says...
- I am the constant change, the process (you remember, that "I was a child." But the child body is no longer. So you remember or not remember, the body is changing. This is the answer. This is self-realization)?
- I am thinking about this, Swamiji, that your Guru Maharaja is preaching through you, and you are preaching through them?
- I am very distressed that none of these boys continue their education. What is going to happen to them when they are like you, when they're older, they have no talents?
- I ask you, Prabhu, what is that dharma-ksetra and kuru-ksetra?
- I ask, how could you meet the Supreme being by chanting...by chanting of worldly name, tuned on prayer...
- I asked about a man not knowing what his duty was, and you spoke of the highest duty of giving up all to Krsna and becoming detached from the fruits of your action. But suppose the question is What shall I become - a shopkeeper, a teacher, a carpenter?
- I asked earlier about the nature of atman, now the nature of Brahman?
- I asked him the purpose of God of creating men, and if He is all love, He is all, nothing happens without His will, what is His purpose in creating men, and then these men, which he created, and claimed to be beloved by Him, suffers?
- I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- I beg your pardon (that is Krsna consciousness)?… The way they support themselves?… Krsna supports?
- I believe Jesus is coming back and not Krsna. And what are you guys going to do when you see Jesus?
- I believe that Krsna is the Supreme God, so don't get me wrong, but since you mentioned Christ, was he an incarnation of Krsna? Was Jesus Christ sent here by Krsna from...
- I believe that there's God in everybody, but why are some people so evil?
- I believe you once said that once a conditioned soul becomes perfected and gets out of the material world and he goes to Krsnaloka, there's no possibility of falling back
- I believe, obviously, you would have ways, methods of becoming God conscious, Krsna conscious. What...? Sort of a meditation? Chanting? Or...?
- I carry a picture of him, the leader of, in our movement. (indistinct) meditating on the master. And I try to live up to it, to the teachings. Would you like to see that picture?
- I come from village, and I'm happy now as I have taken to holy name and prasada. So more, other villagers... Half of these boys are from villages?
- I could mention a lot of names that are still very close to God and brilliant men in science... Where would we be without our scientists, without our doctors, medicine? They all have to go to university and get a degree before they...
- I didn't quite understand why it was necessary that we have religion. You said that so that we can be different to cats and dogs?
- I didn't understand that about one book?
- I don't call myself first-class, second-class, third-class. As you said, there are no first-class men, second-class men. But then how, apart from making them (my children) first class that they should follow the religious...?
- I don't know how geologists date earth layers but let's say the deepest layer is only five hundred years old, but still the ones on top are newer. So in the lowest layer, there are no chariots, cities?
- I don't know if I'm understanding your desires about all of these points (regarding Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity)?
- I don't know, but it may be more psychological, from laying in bed all the time. Naturally there is a feeling perhaps that one is... Weakness also means one's willpower becomes more weaker. Is that possible that that may be it?
- I don't know. I was thinking the trip.... We have that big Mercedes limousine. You rode in it last year. It was very comfortable, and the ride, I don't think you found it so difficult, did you? Last year
- I don't quite understand that in terms of my question about wearing street clothes and wigs instead of saffron robes and chanting and so forth?
- I don't quite understand what material world is?
- I don't think it's very painful to drink, is it? ... What is the reason you haven't been doing it the last few days?
- I don't think there's any need of taking any loan agreement or anything, is there? Is there any need?
- I don't think there's just one mantra, sir. I feel that the entire mantra would be Om. And so Hare Krsna Rama would be just one part of Om. Now, isn't that true?
- I don't think you're finding any difficulty here (Vrndavana), are you?
- I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
- I don't understand how is it that we forgot it... How can we remember...?
- I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name?
- I don't understand that why then you'd go to Visnu and not to Krsna if Krsna is higher?
- I don't understand what you... You want to pass urine without drinking?
- I don't understand. I don't see how man in one life can achieve a level of consciousness that he could sit with Krsna. Don't you have to go through a change, I mean, according to what you do in your life?
- I don't want you to be disturbed about it (some of the sannyasis and GBC's are choosing to go to Bhagatji's. But the conference people who are involved, they are all at the (science) conference). So should I go or not go, Srila Prabhupada, to Bhagatji's?
- I fear Swami, if I may say so, without disrespect, that in some ways you're preaching to the converted and you only make it more muddled to me by giving analogies, don't you feel that at times?
- I feel, but have no proof, that I have experienced in my, in the things I do, which lead me to believe that my experiences based on a memory I don't understand which, which belongs to previous lifetimes. Now is that, a fa...?
- I got a telegram from family in Manipur saying that the grandfather expired, and so they want me come back for few days to do the ceremonial rites. So do you think shall I go for a few days, Srila Prabhupada?
- I guess if you have the idea of prapatti, of surrender... this is a way to God directly?
- I guess when you started out down here in Greenwich Village in 1965 you didn't have any idea that your movement was going to become the rather large movement it is. Did you?
- I have a photograph. Should I bring it?
- I have a question about evolution. Our position is that all the species have been established by Krsna, even before creation. But yet, in the creation, it comes about through an evolutionary process?
- I have a question, Srila Prabhupada. At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- I have a question, whether we should always give them khicuri or whether we should
- I have a question. If one wanted to redistribute Krsna's property by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, in doing so all you'd have to do is make maybe one or two false statements
- I have already answered the most important question. How to please Krishna?
- I have always been taught since I was a little kid to love God and then I will love everything. Is God Krsna?
- I have an outline with me. ... Of the ideas. Perhaps I could read some portion to you?
- I have heard or read somewhere that Christ had studied in India. Is this true?
- I have just opened it (7-UP). Is it cold enough?
- I have known some people who have meditated, and they don't know how to meditate, and they try to meditate, on the astral, and they contact the incarnate souls in the astral world. And sometimes they get ahold of the wrong one. How can one avoid this?
- I have noted your questions about the serving of prasadam...
- I have read in your Easy Journey to Other Planets that no matter how many endeavors they make, they will never reach these other planets. Is this...?
- I have seen in other mathas, that present before God, it is the proper way to redress our sins. Is this correct? If not, will we not suffer for our sins committed here on earth, or after...?
- 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 have to, to contact them and find out how it was actually (published)... Should I write them a letter (they should be informed that without being passed by the authority, nobody should publish any literature)?
- I haven't remembered the four, but is one of those basic principles concerned with truth? Which one?
- I heard a story, Visvamitra once he grew people from trees. Is that correct?
- I heard he (Subash Bose) took the dress of a Muslim?
- I heard it said that you have perfect enlightenment. If this is true, I'd like to know what does that mean?
- I heard that if you pass stool more than once a day you become a bhogi? You are called a bhogi?
- I heard you also saying that Caitanya was disciple of Madhvan-dasa-pura?
- I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa (Nityananda Kananda. He was a minister in the central government, deputy minister) During when? Approximately?
- I keep wondering how you're so sure you know what good is, particularly when it comes to war
- I know I will (die), but how can we realize that, come to the platform of realizing?
- I know I would take sometimes rice and plantain. It wouldn't have a good effect?
- I know Jiva Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, or Rupa, Sanatana. You know those other two also, what is their name? They were also very high up?
- I know some of the devotees have had to sever relationships, so to speak, with their material world parents, and it gives them some degree of grief, because their parents don't understand. Now what do you tell them to kind of make this easier?
- I know that our bodies are not eternal, and we have to leave them, and some are made male bodies and some are made female bodies. But our spirits, our souls, are there any difference?
- 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 know you define that as civilization. It's just, I was trying to suggest that some societies, and indeed, some individual personalities, are avaricious seemingly by nature. How do you...?
- I may ask you, you see, that this foundation is a Christian foundation, and I wonder what is your personal opinion about the main figure in the Gospel, Jesus Christ
- I may have missed a point about the atheist. He sees God at the time of death. Does he see the form of Krsna at the time of death?
- I mean (what do you mean by retired life?) are you giving up your position as spiritual leader?
- I mean a Roman, perhaps, has never heard of Krsna before. He breaks all your five rules, does he not, every day. Is that a sin in him? If he drinks wine...
- I mean I wouldn't expect that you should be that much stronger, but I don't see why you should be weaker now. Do you think it may be psychologically that you're weaker? I mean, how would you know if you were weaker now?
- I mean supposing I wished to become an initiate. Wouldn't I have to come and live here?
- I mean the Kazi, he can be in the kirtana?
- I mean the mood of the time (the Sixties) might have been right then. I mean was there something about that age that made it especially attractive to the young people?
- I mean to my mind. It (the cause of nonretirement) may be another cause also. I don't know. What do you think? Lack of proper education?
- I mean what is an example of different species of man. What are they, for example, several species of men?
- I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?
- I mean you say that people identify themselves, the body as the self... And that this is ignorance to identify the self with the body… But does that mean a sort of rejection of the body as unimportant?
- I mean, but will the power of the ksatriyas will be in the hands of the Krsna conscious persons sometime during this Kali-yuga?
- I mean, how did I get my spiritual body?
- I mean, what is the idea in "Even if it goes slowly, it must begin"(so let them begin the foundation… Let it go on slowly, but it must begin)?
- I mean... We can't understand Krsna with our mind
- I met, I think, one of your master's other devotees, I forget his name. Gosvami, big, in Vrndavana, big, tall, with a staff, bald hair. Said you knew his name?
- I might get the cooperation of somebody like George Harrison. What would you think about this? Do you think, with your knowledge of the young mind, particularly the young western mind, that this might be a good means through to the young people...?
- I notice that most of your followers, at least in this temple, are young, like in the college age or in the teenage. Is it because Krsna doesn't attract the older generation, I mean, yourself excluded?
- I noticed that someone in the temple was reading a book, The Divine Name. Is it all right to read it?
- I only say is it not possible for things to be dedicated to God without actually being placed on the altar in that way?
- I read a news report recently that you had said in Paris that you no longer taught your followers to chant simply the name of, the Hare Krsna mantra, because the name of God could be chanted in any form. Is that so?
- I read in a book sent from India that Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura was sent directly by Lord Sri Caitanya from the spiritual sky. I am not sure if the book was bona fide. Is the above true?
- I read in the invitation that this center is not only a center as such but something more. It should also be an asrama and also a forest university in the tradition of the ancient times?
- I read somewhere that possibly you wanted to convert people who were politicians and businessmen. Why?
- I read too, Srila Prabhupada, that in the time of Maharaja Yudhisthira there was only rainfall in the nighttime. Is this true?
- I realize that we're all considered spirit souls. But can a woman be first-class if she...?
- I remember over five years ago you telling me about, "If you read the first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam, you become fully Krsna conscious." Would you kindly tell me what does it mean to be fully Krsna conscious?
- I remember reading that Krsna told Arjuna he can go to the sun planet by worshiping Him. Why does He say that?
- I remember, Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that all we require is some oxen, and the oxen can carry?
- I request, Swamiji, on what basis we can say that it is a different meaning or distorted meaning and not the meaning which the Gita says (but you understand in different way. That is difficulty. You create your own meaning)?
- I said, "If you are not going to bathe at least get out of bed and come to aratik." But he wouldn't even do that much. So what can you do under these conditions when you tell somebody, you can't physically twist their arm?
- I saw a card last night which said, "The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc." A friend of mine asked me why the word "Incorporated"?
- I saw your magazine (Back to Godhead). It's a beautiful magazine. Where is that done?
- I see there are a lot of young children in the asrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all?
- I see. Then how to understand it (the difficulty is you do not understand even a line of Bhagavad-gita. Still, you say that you are student of Bhagavad-gita. This is difficulty)?
- I should be very glad to know where I should go for my second trip. If you could inform me?
- I should just like to know how old you are
- I should make it (one capati), or Palika or...?
- I should now request you, Your Divine Grace, if God wills everything?
- I should stay here with Subala Maharaja?
- I still think of this problem why Lord Krsna had to have an incarnation like Buddha who was teaching atheist doctrine and no...?
- I tend to approach from the other side and ask "Who am I?" and "What is this thing that I call myself?"
- I think a little while later giving you full sponge bath and then changing the sheets. You want to do it now?
- I think Abraham Lincoln was the best of the whole presidents. What is your opinion, Abraham Lincoln?
- I think change is good also sometimes. So we should make that program (take Srila Prabhupada to Mayapura)?
- I think he (Mr. Nair) died before you completed the transaction. He died, no?
- I think he was fair, but he was very tall, very big, and you know, like this, huge size. You know that place where I stayed the night?
- I think he's asking a question also that sometimes comes up, that if one loves in this material love, for example one loves a child, or loves humanity, does this help to develop love of God?
- I think it was a nun that asked you about the position of Jesus on this, and you quite rightly said, "Well, of course, Jesus never claimed to be God." I do wish that some Christians would realize that. He was God conscious, wasn't he?
- I think it was Acarya Prafullacandra Raya, Srila Prabhupada, that starting of chemical industry in the Bengali...?
- I think people understand the analogy, they think hammering is the business. What do you think is the business?… The world thinks hammering is real business
- I think Radharani helps a man to reach Krsna, to hear, you know, the things...?
- I think that was the same stewardess (I asked her to supply one 7-up. And, "I have no key." She was so angry) who came in the back and asked us, "Why the Swamiji doesn't like women?"
- I think there was one great personality - I forget his name - he was going to live as long as how many millions of years that he had hairs in his head. What is that story?
- I think this story's in Raja-vidya, that small book. The one about the brahmana and the cobbler?
- I think we are of one of those four categories (catur-vidha bhajante mam). Or we are also mudha?
- I think you are meeting the officials of various organizations this evening?
- I think you were possibly wanting to stop in Tehran this year on the way back to India?
- I think you were saying that within the atom there's also a living entity. So when that living entity leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn't it?
- I think you've answered this question, but he wants to know how will Krsna consciousness affect all the religions and politics of the world at this time?
- I thought I heard it said that you are in this world without being a part of it?
- I thought Krsna was sixteen only?
- I thought you quoted Christianity. But as far as the Christian faith is concerned, don't they quote their scriptures?
- I told him about you. So he immediately grabbed the idea. He wants to come tomorrow, in the morning to have your blessings. But then is it possible that he could have the initiation?
- I tried to make a flute for Krsna because He doesn't have a flute. Is that okay?
- I understand in fact that you are a pure devotee of Krsna. What does this mean? What do you mean by being pure? Does it mean that you have seen Krsna?
- I understand that Christ is coming again at the end of this non-believing age in the world. Does that coincide with the son of God that you understand or is that a different sort of coming?
- I understand that Hare Krsna is a scientific movement. Do you think that there is a scientific explanation for the way in which personal enlightenment by simply chanting Hare Krsna?
- I understand that it is an offense to wear red or blue in the Krsna temple. Why is this true?
- I understand that our souls are also part of God, as a drop of water is part of that ocean. How... Is there any knowledge or information of how we incurred this first separation from God?
- I understand that this is an extension of Hindu religion. Is that not correct? No, it's not. Does it have any basic tenets of the Hindu religion?
- I understand that you only sleep about two or three hours a day. And do you usually sleep during the middle of the daytime as well?
- I understand that your goal is to have everybody becoming self-supporting in regards to food. But if everyone who is engaged in food production, who will be providing other things?
- I understand the principle of consciousness, but what is the exact meaning of the word "subconscious"?
- I understand what you're saying. You're saying you cannot do practices and commit sin, right?
- I understand you have further thoughts about that (moon landing) and you've even written a lot about it. I wonder if you could tell me, not at great length perhaps, but what your belief about those events is?
- I understand you sleep very little. You sleep three to four hours a night. Do you feel that this is what any person who is spiritually actualized will also realize?
- I want to ask you how can we possibly know that one has attained Krsna consciousness
- I want to know how I can see you as a person. What is the cure? What is the remedy? What is the solution?
- I want to know how I see someone as a person and not as an object. How do I do that? What is... You say that you can tell me how to see someone as a person
- I want to know if Krsna appeared on this planet five thousand years ago at a certain time, that means that immediately did He appear again in another universe?
- I want to know what it means, "If you touch the element, then you can be healed"
- I want to know whether the devotion of Hanuman was bhakti-yoga
- I want to know why Krsna is so unkind and He allows us to sin. The royal road of Krsna, Lord Krsna, should be very easier
- I want to know, when we serve Krsna, we have spiritual senses, then that satisfies our spiritual senses when we serve Krsna in Krsnaloka?
- I want to make sure I understood - that chanting this over a long time will also help affect where our body will go after we die, what form we'll come back in?
- 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?
- I want to read some books published by Swamiji. Can I get?
- I want to realize the soul. What is the shortest way?
- I want to see everyone as a person, not as an object. So how do I do that?
- I wanted to ask somebody to leave, but how does he leave? We have to buy him his ticket or something?
- I wanted to ask you about Krsna in the heart. Could you tell us something about His physiognomy?
- I wanted to know also what should we do once they are sixteen, because you said they should be trained in a Gurukula until they are sixteen? So once they are sixteen...
- I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you?
- I wanted to know what processes happen to the spiritual soul between a beast and human life
- I wanted to know what was that, the meaning of that mark you made... The fire, yes. Yes, oil and... Was it a third eye? That means you are dust and you become dust again, or what?
- I wanted to say this, Swamiji, that hell also is situated in this world itself, because where do you think that we can pay our debt?... The sin, the debt of our sin. Where do you think that we pay it? In the hell, which is not...
- I was a member of the Municipal Corporation of Bombay. I know that in ordinary course these rascals don't pass the plans for six and eight months. What do you say?
- I was always under impression or understanding from your teachings, that one never eats in front of the Deities. Can you please explain that?
- I was asked one day a question, "Why these Hare Krsna people dance in the streets?"
- I was discussing this with somebody and they said that reading of books silently is no good. Is this true? Does one have to recite aloud while one is reading?
- I was going to ask if the rose-colored light that we see around the food when it's being offered up...?
- I was going to ask you about that, (Western) civilization?
- I was going to ask you, Prabhupada, is that the moon planet that we see, is that the same moon planet that's mentioned in the sastras? The same planet?
- I was going to ask you, Swami, if the sacred cow was a symbol symbolizing compassion for all living creatures?
- I was going to go to Bombay for a wedding. Some friends are getting married. You know, I think you met Laksmi Shankar, lady singer? Her daughter, who is also a singer, Viji, Viji Sri Shankar, and she's marrying a South Indian violin player, L. Shankar
- I was helping the band a little bit. And I came to see you, and I was wondering what I should do to serve you. I should go back to Detroit?
- I was just wondering how one would be able to see who was acting in a certain way unless they were first engaged in something? They have to be doing some activity... so you can see what kind of quality they have
- I was just wondering if the spirit soul being in the spiritual world is eternally liberated, how can he return. By desire?
- I was just wondering what exactly the League of Devotees was?
- I was looking at the copy of the disciplic succession and where does Krsna instruct Arjuna? Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- I was recently told by one devotee that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee?
- I was taking the children in the land here and teaching them how to recognize the different plants. Is that useful, or should I not do that? here we have so many different plants growing, some medical plants, some that can be eaten. Is there any use?
- I was thinking that Narada has actually an all-spiritual body, and Brahma has a material form, material body. And yet Narada appears to Brahmaji to ask questions from him as spiritual master. How is that?
- I was thinking that sometimes the devotees engage in business, selling so many things to help the temples, and you were saying that we should not do that?
- I was told by one devotee, a person working for Lord Caitanya, Lord Caitanya will appear as Supersoul to him (indistinct) this happen?
- I was told in the beginning you asked the first disciples to chant 64 rounds?... Is that correct?
- I was told that one day you were told by Rupa Gosvami that you must go?
- I was wondering how Krsna consciousness would relate to this cosmic consciousness
- I was wondering if he had a successor to do... Do you have a successor to take your place when you die?... So what process would the Hare Krsnas...?
- I was wondering if it is within every conditioned soul's heart to be an impersonalist. Is it.... Does every conditioned soul have the propensity for impersonalism?
- I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharma?
- I was wondering if you could give me some idea what you want done, so I can also think about how to improve the magazine. Something is wrong in the magazine?
- I was wondering is she (Tulasi devi) was alive in human form while Krsna was on earth?
- I was wondering whether perhaps you would personally take a less active role?
- I was wondering why Krsna is always portrayed as being blue?
- I was wondering, is like earth still being manifested in living bodies from sound and so on, like the chemists...?
- I was wondering, some of those who have had the opportunity to take bath in Radhakunda, it seems though it may take some time (to immediately awakens his love for Krsna). I was wondering, is that because we don't see time in the proper perspective?
- I went to shake hands with everybody and I found that all your right hands were wrapped. What is the significance of that?
- I will speak for the while, huh?
- I wonder if anybody can spoil something that is not material?
- I wonder if I could ask you first of all to tell me what is the central point of the teaching of Bhagavad-gita?
- I wonder if you could tell me how you came to founding the movement here in the United States?
- I wondered what "Rama" meant when we say the mantra, Hare Rama, you see.
- I wondered whether you feel that it's right that you could perhaps issue a warning to people who are seeking some new spiritual life that they should take care to make sure they have a genuine guru to teach them
- I would have to become a member of the Krsna movement (in order to see Krsna)?
- I would like perhaps to hear some of your thoughts on the area of religious experience, God consciousness, how do you achieve that?
- I would like the reporter to assess the reaction from the masses here, whether Gurukula is sponsoring for the women liberation and equal rights...
- I would like to ask, Swami, would you pray for me?
- I would like to hear your explanation on how do you have seen the form of God, if you have had any enlightenment on this?
- I would like to know more about the, the soul in so far as, does it have beginning? Does it have end?
- I would like to know about what time... (Bhagavad-gita was spoken)?
- I would like to know how this movement started, what gave you the idea. What is the background? And why it was called the Krsna consciousness movement? Is it a return to something very fundamental?
- I would like to know if it is all right to play the Battle of Kuruksetra?
- I would like to know if the teachings of Krsna can be an assistance to an individual, who is interested in healing on a mass basis vibrations?
- I would like to know more about what do you think our society is doing wrong?
- I would like to know what divine grace impart unto Arjuna so that he could visualize the cosmic form of the Lord?
- I would like to know your beliefs concerning who Jesus Christ was
- I would like to know, being unborn, then how come that Lord Krsna was born as a human being or brought Himself to that position to form Himself as the Supreme Being?
- I would like to put a question about the relation between Krsna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Paramatma and Brahman. Which is the relation between these concepts?
- I would like you to explain the origin and significance of what you, what they call the Jagannatha car festival
- I would like you to tell us that I can put in our article here if you have one sentence, one paragraph, that you would like to say to the world, (laughter) what would you say?
- I wouldn't have given up my life to Him fifty-two years ago to be a Jesuit priest unless I loved God, would I?
- 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'd like to know the relation between Visnu and Krsna, how Visnu became Krsna?
- I'd like to know, this is your first visit to Washington? Is that right?... Who have you visited with while you've been here? Have you stayed here, or have you gone out and...?
- I'll be getting married the end of this summer... And the devotees say that the householders only have sex to conceive a child. And I cannot picture myself at all in such a position, and... What kind of sex life can one lead, living in the material world?
- I'll come over to Vrndavana on the 15th evening. 15th evening, I'll come over to Vrndavana?
- I'll give him the fruits now, Srila Prabhupada? I have some fruits. I can give him now (give facility for him, ten rupees... And some fruits… Uncut, yes)?
- I'll put a little oil on? It's against aching. This is all right… Upendra said. "Should I put a little?"
- I'm a bit puzzled about this, these entities that are born from perspiration, like that. It seems that there's no father and mother, yet like we were just using the argument that there must be a father and mother?
- I'm a sannyasi. If I have to start doing his business for him..., I don't think you would want me to do that, do you?
- I'm a servant of the government right now, and will it take more love of Krsna for me to be devotee, or what...?
- I'm doing also comparative studies between those in the Sanskrit and Tamil. Do you know Tamil?
- I'm familiar with the Krsna cookbook, but I do not see any suggested menus or nutritional information, and I'm wondering if there's any thought that's been worked on that. Is there any background of menus or nutritional information?
- I'm just asking the question whether or not the right question could be: "Who am I?"
- I'm just checking it out, but there's nothing to it, huh (I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?)?
- I'm just wondering what your judgment is on what... If you had to say to someone who was going to collect one small section of your work, what would you want them to collect?
- 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 if I heard you correctly. Did you say that Krsna could not be worshiped directly? Could not be?
- I'm not sure if I understand yet. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is svayam bhagavan. And the appearances of Krsna in all the other yugas is also called svayam bhagavan?
- I'm not sure that I understand the process by which one might be thinking of something in his mind, and how that soul is put into a body similar to what that thought is. In other words, how can the soul be subject to what the mind is thinking of?
- I'm not sure that I understand you. You mean that suicide is putting an end to suffering?
- I'm not thinking so much of the specific Cantos as the Srimad-Bhagavatam as a whole. Is that, for you, as you see it, more important than Bhagavad-gita?
- I'm not very familiar with the Hindu scriptures, but I have read some Upanisads, and there's the idea that somehow atman is Brahman? I don't understand that at all, so perhaps you could say something about that?
- I'm simply praying that Krsna in your stomach accepts everything, Srila Prabhupada. Would you like to lie down now, Srila Prabhupada?
- I'm speaking in terms of outer service to people who are not in your mission. Other than preaching the truth of Krsna, is there any other outer service to humanity?
- I'm still trying to understand what you mean by the species of human life. It's not clear to me. I don't understand what you mean by the different species of human life?
- I'm sure that you're aware that to many people in the West, in America, in New York City specifically, that your disciples seem strange because of the way they act on the streets. What about that?
- I'm trying to find out whether the consciousness lies within us, brought out...
- I'm very fine, Srila Prabhupada, but how are you feeling?
- I'm wondering if there's any similarity between meditation and hypnosis?
- I've always admired Rabindranath Tagore's very much, his poetic writings. Do people in India think much of him today?... If his writings are highly considered by people in India?
- I've been studying Russian Elders in the Orthodox Church... They seem to have found the divine. I guess that's religion too. It seems to me both are, but perhaps you have a better definition than that?
- I've been told then that we can have no more karmic reactions from our actions
- I've committed many sins in this lifetime. How can I make my peace?
- I've enjoyed it very much. It was very kind of you. Where are you going on Wednesday? Where are you going?
- I've got a good question. How can we get a God conscious leader in this country?
- I've had one person. He complained, "Why is there no purport for this verse, 'There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear'?"
- I've read about Hubbard's Scientology and a lot of the writings that Hubbard writes sound a lot like the theory of Hare Krsna. Is there any parallel at all between the two, or have you taken any opinion on side, both your cases?
- I've read some of the Upanisads where they say that atman is Brahman?
- I, being a servant of the senses, how to run away from the senses?
- Ideally it is the moral obligation of everyone to obey the moral command, but...?
- Identification will remain always (yes, param pada is just like you fly in the sky, go very high. So from here we cannot see that you are separately existing. But you are separately existing. It is my deficient eyes that I see that you are not separate)?
- If a brahmacari decides to get married and then enters into married life, should he be encouraged to maintain that responsibility throughout his life?
- If a brahmana is black?
- If a devotee has no appreciation for God but he has a little appreciation for pure devotee, than what kind of devotee is this?
- If a devotee step on the ant, does the ant receive some benefit?... If a devotee step on a ant by mistake, the ant...?
- If a devotee thinks that he likes, for example, Vrndavana more than he likes Mayapur, is that a wrong thinking, or is that his personal...?
- If a large section of the people don't want spiritual life, should this be forced on them if they don't want it?
- If a man become honest, if a man deals with others very nicely, moral, and so on, so on, so what is the use of becoming devotee, devotee of God?
- If a man does not understand God in this lifetime, is he still accepted by God?
- If a man feels empty, what he can offer?
- If a man reaches his maturity of years and leaves a western school, and he has the words which say "Know thyself," may he reject his family ties?
- If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?
- If a neophyte devotee is with determination endeavoring for purification but he were to meet with death as he is still influenced by the lower modes, although he is seriously trying, then does he take another birth or does he go to Krsna?
- If a person experiences difficulty attaining a level of consciousness of God, how to counteract that?
- If a person is married and they are interested in entering into Hare Krsna, Krsna consciousness, can they reach the ultimate?
- If a person says, "How do you find out? How we can find out other names (of God)?"
- If a person who wants to become rich prays to Krsna, will he become rich?
- If a person's senses are restrained by following regulative principles, but if his mind dwells in sense objects, is he becoming purified, or is he just a pretender?
- If a spiritual seed sprouts, then whatever sprout is made is never lost. Right?
- If a yogi does attain a Vaikuntha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Krsna in Goloka...
- 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 living entities were delivered by the Krsna consciousness movement, what would happen then? The universe would be devoid of living entities
- 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 all the land belongs to God, then who decides who will distribute it to the people?
- If any of us here this morning wish to become followers what would we have to give or give up?
- If anyone can dress as he likes, then why do you all dress alike?
- If astronauts were able to land and return to the earth successfully (...) would you then interpret it that they were able to get the visa or to...?
- If at this platform we are not yet..., we are still desiring to depart from Krsna's service and enjoy, then we are not, we have not yet tasted devotional service, what is it that we have tasted that is keeping us temporarily connected to Krsna?
- If by our karma we desire a certain type of body but they create all the bodies to be the same, how is that? But men are tampering with the bodies.
- If by purifying ourselves we feel our relationship that we have with the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- 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 Christ comes back, what will be the position of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His Krsna consciousness movement?
- If Christ was the son of God, the good son, how is that he didn't, he never mentioned Krsna by name? Sometimes they criticize us like that: "Why is there no mention of Krsna in the Christian Bible?"
- If Christian religion is teaching to understand God and to become obedient to God, then it is all right. If it is not teaching that then it is useless. Simply by stamping, "I am Christian," what do you gain by that?
- If death is sure in any case, for the thinking man or for the nonthinking man, then why think about it?
- If destiny cannot be changed, what does Krsna mean when He says, "Be thou happy by this sacrifice"?
- If every moment we are killing in breathing and walking and doing so many things, and then it says, "Thou shalt not kill," so then hasn't God given us an instruction which is impossible?
- If everybody started chanting Hare Krsna, then how, how would we eat? Who would run the factories?
- If everyone became Krsna conscious, then how would the world go on?
- If everyone becomes Krsna conscious, then how will they make a living?
- If everyone is spirit soul, then isn't sex life also spiritual?
- If everything is created by God... Then what is this evil?
- If God Himself comes to teach to someone in this world, and if he has learned from God directly and he is satisfied that he has learned, can he, a few minutes afterwards, forget and depart in a very ridiculous way from what God has taught him?
- If God is a person with eyes, legs, He stays in one place?
- If God is all-good, why does He permit so many wars to go on?
- 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 God is everywhere, why His presence not felt by everybody?
- If God is known by many different names, though, is it not possible, then, to know God then in many different ways, in many different traditions?
- If God is meant to be propitiated, then why is it that we have so many things for our enjoyment? You say that everything is for God's enjoyment.
- If God is not an idea but He's substance, how do you mean that, substance? How do you define substance?
- If God is perfect, why didn't He make us perfect?
- If God is so powerful, why does He let me fall. Why doesn't He save me, save me from my own foolishness. Why doesn't He...?
- If God is to uplift the soul of all the persons, all the livings, why there is a chaotic situation?
- If God's energy is so perfect, then how does this ignorance come upon the living entity?
- If God, Krsna, desires the motor car to turn right, what makes the car turn left?
- If Hare Krsna is such a strong, powerful mantra, is there any reason to chant anything else?
- If he (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard) accepts Jesus as the perfection, why doesn't he, in the beginning when he was looking for a way of making decisions, why doesn't he follow Jesus's path of morality?
- If he accepts that he is imperfect, what experience qualifies him to talk about God?
- If he can do that (get a visa and then go right back in), is that best?
- If he gave us the material world to enjoy, then why do we have to suffer here?
- If He is giving us intelligence, why doesn't He give us enough intelligence so that we could be God conscious?
- If he is misled by other, by circumstances, this is... He has no fault of his own?
- If he is not conscious, how can he do work for Him (Krsna)?
- If he made a mistake and it's the wrong medicine, would you say he cheated you? Isn't that the point you were getting at?
- If he was unable to chant or to become a full-time devotee, that your program for a person in that condition of life, was something like… become a member and take books and read... Is that satisfactory, if they can do that much
- If I am not mistaken, I think I heard that Krsna reestablished religion, reestablished. Now who established before Krsna?
- If I am perfect, then why do I have to submit to imperfection?... That means actually I am not perfect. Therefore what qualification have I got to give truth?
- If I am satisfied? Can I rely that much on myself?
- If I call Krsna, I accept Krsna as Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then the question comes to me, "Why are you calling yourself Vaisnavas? Why not Krsnayas?"
- If I can summarize correctly your views on this, that it would be impossible for human beings to land on the moon planet? I wonder if you could explain how it would be impossible, to what extent?
- If I come in contact with Krsna movement now, will that in my next life get me a human body?
- If I go from birth, youth, old age, then what is to say that I am again going to youth? They will say, "What is that logic? How I will go again to youth? Simply I will go again and vanish away"
- If I go to some city and hold a program and advertise but only, say, four or five people come and yet they're interested, very interested-should that be considered successful or unsuccessful?
- If I have got a lot of foodstuffs, Srila Prabhupada, I wish to distribute, but I'm afraid it will go bad, how could I distribute very quickly, very quickly?
- If I have that idea of a golden mountain, that means that in the spiritual world that must exist? or I can form an idea that is not in the spiritual world. Am I understanding you?
- If I like everything you're saying, then why shouldn't I accept that?
- If I receive some action which I must do or some course of action becomes obvious, should I trust that, considering that you're communicating with me, or...?
- If I say, I pray to God, "O Lord Krsna, I surrender unto You." So is..., maya will not touch me? I will not be affected by this material infection?
- If I serve the Lord, do I lose that little bit of freedom?
- If I tell you how far I have been traveling, you will know into which coach to put me, yes?
- If I think the spacesuit is suitable and, say, if I am an astronaut and I land there, I can land there?
- If I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific basis… So where does religion come into it at all?
- If I understand you then correctly, sir, you would say that the emphasis should be returned to the religious aspects?
- If I understood you, I think you said that this approach, that you feel that it's appropriate to you because people are lax in their approach to spiritual problems
- If I was to remove myself from karmic influences, would our souls be the same or different?
- If I'm always worried about the future, how will anything get done now?
- If I'm trying to get people to chant, that's all I can do. And if that will purify them, then surrender will come. How can I force someone to surrender?
- If in our society we say, "Srila Prabhupada wants some to be sudra..."
- If in the Vaikunthas ecstatic love between Lord Narayana and His devotees and Lord Krishna Consciousness and His devotees on Krishna Loka is qualitatively the same, then what is the advantage of following the path of Krishna Consciousness...
- If it (if you cross a certain line, they have these rays of light, and if you break the ray of light, then automatically all machine guns start firing in the whole area) is for happiness, then why prevent people from leaving?
- If it is convenient (if a bullock cart is inconvenient, we may not keep)?
- If it is inconceivable, then they will say how we can conceive it (earth is round and flat both, together. First we should reply it is acintya. This should be the reply. Inconceivable)?
- If it is not too much a personal question, have you had a saksaska?
- If it is possible, should we go without eating at all?
- If it is so tasteless, why is it quenching?
- If it's offered, though (to Kali), who accepts it? Whose prasadam is it? Who takes it?
- If Krsna has created the universe, then who has created Krsna? How did He acquire such immense powers?
- If Krsna is all-good, why does He send us to this world full of miseries?
- If Krsna is the supreme consciousness, then why isn't anything we do or anyone we follow following or doing Krsna consciousness?
- If Krsna is unlimited, why did he not manifest Himself all over the world so that all living entities would have equal chance to go back home?
- If Krsna knows already what you're going to do in the future, then what is the question of your independence?
- If Krsna knows past, present and future, then where is the question of our independence? In other words, He knows already what we're going to desire?
- If Krsna knows that we will suffer here in this material world if we come here, why does He let us go?
- If Krsna was not born, then what is the significance of that word, that sambhavami, dharma-samstha...?
- If life is based on the desires of the living entities, and as you were mentioning that the material energy forms so many complex combinations, the material body is so complex, does that mean that the living entity is very much entangled?
- If LSD is a material attachment, then is not the sound, sabda, also a material attachment?
- If man be part and parcel of God, how do you explain the evil deeds of man?
- If man wasn't meant to eat meat, why in nature do the other animals kill to eat?
- If matter is inferior to the spirit soul, then isn't it correct to say that the spirit soul is more complex or sophisticated than matter? If matter is inferior?
- If maya takes a hold on one, what is the quickest way to go back to Krsna?
- If meditation without chanting was at one time successful, why is it now deficient?
- If music is important to us?
- If no one was thinking that they needed your presence, then how is it some have come and some have not come? What is the difference?
- If not even a blade of grass moves unless Krsna sanctions it, then why does someone have the opportunity to perform such ajnata-sukrti, another person not?
- If nothing is our property - in fact, everything is Krsna's property - why is there this desire to possess so many things?
- If one accepts initiation from a bona fide spiritual master but continues to perform material activities, are they still bound by the karma?
- If one arrange in this lifetime for others to render service to Krsna, but if the purpose is to simply maintain his family and if he's still attached to sense gratification, at the time of death, will he attain a birth in a family of Vaisnavas?
- If one attends the temple regularly and inquires from the devotees about the devotional principles, and because of some reason, it's not convenient for him to live in the temple at that time, and he is living with people?
- If one can achieve Krsna consciousness outside the temple?
- If one can engage one who is demonic in service by telling a lie...
- If one comes to value, existential value of a thing, through deduction... Is it possible or not only through intuition, through direct intuition of the reality of the whole?
- If one does not lose one's identity when one is returned to the Godhead, what is the nature of the relationship?
- If one has accepted a bona fide spiritual master and he did not receive much knowledge from him, can he change his spiritual master at later...?
- If one has difficulty becoming Krsna consciousness, is that suffering?
- If one has fallen so far that he has taken the body of a fly or a mosquito, can he still return to Krsna?
- If one has to obey the state and go to war, how is that the same as obeying God?
- If one is fortunate enough to revive his natural position in the spiritual sky, how can he keep from falling down again?
- If one is going to assume a dog's body, then does he go to hell before he assumes a dog's body?
- If one is not complete in their Krsna consciousness then what will happen?
- If one isn't eager, how can he become eager, Srila Prabhupada?
- If one of your brahmana initiated disciples falls from this platform, leaves the temple and commits offenses, then returns, demanding respect, should he be allowed to keep the sacred thread or should he...?
- If one realizes the impersonal Brahman, what progress can be made here from this?
- If one serves the higher devotees and shows compassion to less advanced devotees, then where is the question... for a position of an advanced devotee who is feeling himself to be the lowest? So is that distinction still there of higher and lower?
- If one simply goes on serving, engaging in all sorts of different activities for the satisfaction of Krsna, but he never, in this lifetime at least, has realization of Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan...?
- If one surrenders to a spiritual master, what then is their relationship to Krsna?
- If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
- If one takes a birth in a rich man family, rich man's family, how it is good?
- If one tries to praise the Creator by, directly, with his ability, what, how does he know what to...? By his work, I mean
- If one were to study, read Srimad-Bhagavatam who was not ready for this, not prepared for it, this might throw them into confusion then, or this would be...?
- If our chanting is a form of prayer?
- If our first concern should be to serve God, or Krsna, then why should there be a movement
- If our love for Krsna originally is perfect why should we have left?
- If our senses are imperfect, then with what sense do we perceive the Divine that underlies these laws of nature?
- If people say, "What is this Hare Krsna movement doing?"
- If Prahlada Maharaja is such a great devotee, and a devotee will always say, "Nothing is mine," then why does he say, "O my God"? Why does God become his?
- If President Nixon had written a commentary on the Bible, no one in America would accept it. Then why should they accept Radhakrishnan's?
- If some devotee has some trouble and does not eat a certain type of food. Like some devotees do not eat ghee because of liver trouble. So these devotees, should they take all the prasadam?
- If some scientist can change the genes so that the jiva can have a different kind of body, he still would have the previous desires?
- If somebody commits suicide, that is also preset?
- If somebody didn't go to the factory, you wouldn't, would you? Somebody has to go and do the work to make the food, keep the country running
- If somebody is following the instructions, but if there's attraction for maya...
- If somebody is in the movement for several years and feels that he's not making progress and leaves, is he looked upon as a sinner or enemy? How do the devotees feel about persons like that?
- If somebody lives an evil life but prays to become rich, they may still become rich?
- If somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
- If somebody picks up and takes it, he's a thief, and if somebody who just does not care he's also not good. And the one who takes up and says, "Whose coin is this?" Then he's good
- If somebody wants to preach. Is that the sign of advancement?
- If somebody's son comes to us to become devotee, I have experienced, the father and mother immediately come: "Oh, Swamiji, what you are doing?" But his son becomes hippie - he will tolerate
- If somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
- If someone accepts his dependence on God, then what is the second step?
- If someone cannot chant sixteen rounds a day...?
- If someone comes along and joins you, do they see Krsna?
- If someone develops the form of a boy, cowherds boy with Krsna, is that an expansion of his potency, of that living spirit soul's potency?
- If someone has a desire to do something for Krsna. But he begins to realize it's still tinged with a lot of personal gratification...?
- If someone has a natural ksatriya tendency, he cannot become a Vaisnava?
- If someone in all seriousness wishes to find the spiritual life and happens to finish up with the wrong guru, I mean should they beware?
- If someone is a sudra, how can you let him have his own money?
- If someone is doing some service which involves business, is he thinking of Krsna when he's thinking of that service?
- If someone is engaged in devotional service and he commits an offense at the feet of a pure devotee, whatever he has done up until that time is not lost? in his next life he gets...?
- If someone is in the spiritual world, he falls down into the material world and then he becomes again released. Is his understanding after release higher than the previous?
- If someone looks at the Deity of Krsna and thinks it's only stone or wood, for him it's still material?
- If someone said to us that "You are worshiping samadhi," what is the answer?
- If someone who does not believe in scriptures, um, what is his duty, and...?
- If stone is also Krsna, then why aren't we worshiping all stone?
- If such papa hoga, how one can expect betterment of the nation (they have legalized abortion. So the unborn fetus, after it's aborted, they're eating as food)?… Is there any way out?
- If that yogi quits his body in that condition (tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yogina), does he attain a Vaikuntha planet?
- If the activities is going on with the laws of nature, then how do you become Krsna consciousness?
- If the animals are happy and the human beings are unhappy, why not live like an animal?
- If the artistic inspiration, like the intuition, is also coming from Paramatma?
- If the Bhagavad-gita is in the Mahabharata - that's itihasa - how did it get the name Upanisad, Gitopanisad?
- If the brahma-jyotir is in the spiritual sky, how could we reach it in our mind? Is it in our mind also?
- If the conditions in the spiritual world are so nice and everything is spiritually, everything is spiritual, how is it that one can become envious of Krsna in such conditions?
- If the devotee is fearless, how is it Prahlada was expressing his fearfulness of the material nature?
- If the devotee is situated on the platform of the brahma-bhutah, but he may not necessarily see everything as Brahman, does that mean that his realization is by intelligence, and by his activity, or what does that mean?
- If the disciple is in ignorance before, how does he know which master to choose, because he doesn't have the knowledge to make a wise selection?
- If the essence of religion is to know God, how does He reveal Himself to you?
- If the government is giving them free homes and we're giving them free prasadam, why should they work?
- If the highest reality is Purusottama and Purusottama is manifested in many different ways in the world, can people come to Purusottama through various paths?
- If the impossible happened and they were able to safely land on the moon's surface do you feel they would have any difficulty or encounter any trouble with the beings that you say live there?
- If the king gives to you (the temple), what will we make there?
- If the laws of nature are the laws of God, then how is it that sometimes they're even crueler than the actions..., they are more violent than the actions which ordinary men do, than that of a tyrant or a murderer?
- If the Lord's pastimes are manifested differently, are they manifested the same in one universe?... Are they different every time? In other words, is the Srimad-Bhagavatam a history of what took place once, and then it will be different next time?
- If the mantra itself has such power, does it matter where you receive it, where you take it?
- If the Mayavadi accepts the principle that bhakti is good, but at the end he throws it away, will he have a change of heart?
- If the Mayavadis don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then what is their explanation of reincarnation?
- If the microphone is composed of Krsna's eight energies, why not the factory Krsna's energy too?
- If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?
- If the name of God is not material, how is it possible to pronounce it materially, with our material tongue?
- If the natural tendency of the living entity is to want to exist, to live, then why is it they perform so many horrible acts that will destroy themselves?
- If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
- 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 the planets, they have always been floating, but the stones of Lord Ramacandra has put in the ocean, they are still not... Where are they?
- If the science is available to everyone without impediment, then there must be the proper teacher, isn't it?
- If the scientists of the world become little bit directed and they use their science to glorify Krsna, then they're actually practicing yoga?
- If the soul cannot be burnt, why does the desire to be burnt in the material world there?
- If the soul is eternal and passes through one body after another, how is not possible that it accepts, let's say, three, four, five bodies and then dies?
- If the soul is inside me, then should I be able to feel God inside me?
- If the soul is the active force, then at what stage are the activities of the soul realized as distinct from the activities of the body?
- If the soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart. Isn't it?
- If the space program, either the Russian or the American program, which have plans to try to land on the moon and return safely, if this is successful, do you think this accomplishment would hurt the Krsna movement in the United States?
- If the spiritual master gives you any instruction, should we look upon that as the same as life? How would we know if it's maya or not?
- If the spiritual master is not bona fide, then is the Deity also not bona fide?
- If the spiritual master, Prabhupada, worships God through a demigod, is he bona fide?
- If the United States or the Soviet Union were to attempt a landing and their spacecraft went down, what do you yourself expect...?
- If the Vedic culture was a superior culture, how come man gave up the Vedic culture to take to the materialistic life?
- If the Vedic scriptures were written about five thousand years ago then how is it just only five hundred years ago somebody came to impart what was written five thousand years ago?
- If their son was Vyasadeva, how could it be falldown?
- If there could be a Krsna conscious society, would this mean to stop the industry and technology?
- If there is a spiritual world, what is it like, and what are the activities of Krsna there?
- If there is God, how can there be suffering and disease
- If there is no God, then it doesn't matter what I do. But there is God, and He knows what I am going to do at every moment, then it doesn't matter what I do either. He knows what I am going to do, so what does it matter? I can do anything
- If there is question or not understanding in the course of a class, if the proper answer cannot be given, if one sincerely approaches you within the heart, then you will give understanding?
- If there's a certain criteria of proof or a certain evidence that we can know for certain that there actually is such transmigration of the soul?
- If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?
- If these animals (dinosaur or finosaur) were on this planet some millions of years ago, they are still here, is that correct?
- If they desire to commit sinful activities and before they became monkeys, but then they were doing it then. So whilst they're monkeys their desire must change. Or is it forced, that change forced upon them by the mercy of Krsna?
- If they have information that this is not the only life, then won't they automatically become more austere?
- If they see that whenever there's intelligence, there must be a person, then why don't they conclude that behind the universe, there's so many wonderful things, that there must also be a person?
- If they try to stop us from printing, we can show them the copy of that letter that says they do not publish, and then what can they do?
- If they wanted to, wouldn't Krsna have given them the opportunity (there may be many other Vaisnava acaryas or something in India, but they are not... By the fact that they are not preaching, it means they have not realized it)?
- If they've wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they're able to calculate these eclipses and whatever?
- If this body is pure soul, then why it gets engaged with worldly matter?
- 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 this mist of material nature is temporary, then why bother to disentangle oneself from something transitory?
- If tomorrow these boys say that you are incarnation of God, is it your fault?
- If two people are Krsna conscious, is their soul the same?
- If varnasrama is neglected, then how can there be proper functioning of society?
- If we accept that the senses, the body and the mind are not perfect, they're limited, then with what means are we to perceive God?
- If we agree with Buddhist consciousness?
- If we all do this, will that, for example, remove the problems that we do… (why not introduce, that every home, every factory, every community, every place, they should sit down at least for half an hour and chant the holy name of the Lord)?
- 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 are always under Krsna's direction, how is it we can use our individuality?
- If we are disgusted (I'll guide. Don't move me to the hospital. Better kill me here. But if you are disgusted, that is another thing)?
- If we are given charge of the society, we should dismantle all this industry, all these cities...?
- If we are in the proper line, then our political activities also can become successful?
- If we are not at the purified stage, then why is the temple president a representative of yourself?
- If we are originally full of pleasure, then why would we accept an inferior position?
- If we are so small, why is there a poison of the senses?
- If we are supposed to be spiritualists, then why do we have so many cars, why do we have so many watches, why do we have so many different things that they can see are there within the temple?
- If we as devotees in Krsna consciousness movement are transcendental to these modes, does that mean that we can...?
- If we be the parcels of God, then what about prarabdha? We are suffering from pain and pleasure...
- If we build in Puri, will we have Jagannatha?
- If we can become Krsna conscious without following the rules and regulations, why follow the rules and regulations? That's what I was thinking a while ago
- 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 chant Hare Krsna, all our sinful activities are washed away. Is that so even if we chant offensively?
- If we chant more than sixteen rounds, can we chant bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya in our japa?
- If we collect all the people together and put it in place and talk to them every day, continually for seven days or eight days... Yes. Don't you think so, Swamiji? I have proposed... Yes. We may build pandals also
- If we could take something which I believe you feel very strongly about, and that's some of the other Eastern cults and gurus… Can you explain to me why it is that...?
- If we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness. And the non-living, that has no consciousness?
- If we do not finish our Krsna consciousness in this lifetime and we have to take birth in material world, can we worship the same spiritual master as our previous birth?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we don't get protection from the government, then what can we do?
- If we don't know what Krsna is and we still get a bona fide spiritual master, then how do we call that? Our good fortune?
- If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case?
- If we get on Fifth Avenue, you'll come again (to Ratha-yatra in New York)?
- If we glorify God every day, all the time, then is God going to give us something back, something in return for our service?
- If we have a desire to keep these promises, but we have a hard time to do it...
- If we have not already achieved perfection, then how can the soul achieve the perfection? It seems that he has to reincarnate slowly in time to achieve the perfection
- If we have to read the literatures and experience these truths, it is not necessarily truth as such, but maybe the condition that we have been rendered to by listening?
- If we just engage them in devotional service will they ultimately become purified?
- If we love our children, is that also loving Krsna?
- If we love our godbrothers, is that also loving Krsna?
- If we put some cloth here, some dhoti... You have a dhoti?
- If we save the common people by giving them prasadam, how can we save the impersonalists?
- If we say that Krsna enters even within the atom, what is His business there?
- If we see a group of demons fighting, killing each other, should devotees go and try to stop them from killing each other?
- If we see a phenomenon like the rain falling or anything, and we want to apply the test that will prove that God is the cause of that phenomenon, what test do we apply?
- If we try to please Krsna with all of our service and activities, that automatically brings pleasure to the self?
- If we want we can come to the spiritual world and return? Fall down?
- If we were in plays and we are playing such great personalities, how should we be thinking?
- If we were there and we could make one speech in front of that assembled Congress and Senate, the main government of the United States, what were the main points we would stress?
- If we're always thinking of death, how can we enjoy life now?
- If we're in anxiety that we cannot perform devotional service nicely, that is all right?
- If we're performing devotional service and an insect is in the way, like if you're painting the walls and you find this ant and you must paint this wall to please the spiritual master, what is the attitude?
- If we're very attracted to reading Caitanya caritamrta now, but we haven't finished Srimad-Bhagavatam as yet, should we wait until we have studied Srimad-Bhagavatam thoroughly?
- If we've already committed so many offenses to chanting, now, at this point, how can we purify ourselves?
- If we've been here lifetime after lifetime performing impious activities, does it mean that we have to be here lifetime after lifetime performing pious activities to balance out our sinful reactions?
- 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 what he's saying has no value, then why should he speak?
- If when one comes to spiritual life, is he coming because of material exhaustion, so much pain in the material world, so therefore he's searching?
- If you accept that there is an evolution, do you accept that the bodies change because of changing conditions of the natural surroundings?
- If you advertise the maha-mantra gives some material benefit, isn't that an offense?
- If you are compassionate, you feel the pain. Then how does that go with even-mindedness?
- If you are to think about something, don't you first have to see that thing?
- If you are told that Mr. Nixon is the bona fide spiritual master, what do you do?
- If you are unable to receive knowledge from a higher authority, could you still somehow have this knowledge inside? So one could understand about Krsna perhaps if he was unable to receive from outside?
- If you become a servant of Krsna, will He provide a way for you to meet your physical needs?
- If you begin dressing things up, they change. And the size of the movement now? Is it a growing movement, Krsna consciousness?
- 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 cannot what (so already some machine idle. You had to spend so much, but they are lying idle. That is not good. That is the defect of machine. If you cannot ply it, then it is dead loss)?
- If you chant from the lips or if you chant just in your mind as you walk?
- If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and not follow the regulations, not reading your books, can you go back to Godhead?
- If you come to the Brahmaloka, do you have to come back to the earth planet?
- If you do not use any soap, the question has come up, how to wash cloth. By beating only? Sufficient?
- If you don't pronounce the Sanskrit prayers that are in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Would there be any effect if they're not pronounced properly?
- If you don't teach vaisyas for this gurukula then how do they do the accounts?
- If you follow rules, then isn't it obvious that you must be frustrated?
- If you follow the essence of any religion, is that the law of God?
- If you give us this wisdom, don't you meet now in the western world an opposition from the Christian side where the key word that this faith becomes a body, this faith becomes flesh?
- If you had a big house, a rich house. You would use that?
- If you had died before you had come to the United States, would that have been a tragedy?
- If you hadn't been educated, father, well, how would you be able to have...?
- If you have a child, and he murders someone, isn't he supposed to be punished? So if someone goes against the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even if you are a devotee, shouldn't Siva concur?
- If you have love for God, why you are coming to church?
- If you have misused the energy of the past and go on with the results of your misuse, are you still responsible for those forms?
- If you have no other suitable name, chant Krsna. That's Caitanya's...? Did He feel there were other suitable names?
- If you have something, if someone's given you something and someone else wants to use it, then let him. But don't you get into the stage and can't you get to the stage at times that for some reason or other you don't want him to use it?
- If you hear the truth, there is no need to make an experiment at all. Isn't it?
- If you know the process, then the Deity becomes Krsna (so this Deity worship is not heathenism. It is actually worshiping God, provided you know the process)?
- If you know who is God, accept it (you have to accept Krsna)?
- If you lie down, then it's (spasm in the heart) staying (if I lie down straight... Lie down means spasm). And if you sit up?
- If you make a scientific proposition that "Because I am, the body moves," that is your scientific proposition?
- If you must have a spiritual body in order to go back home, she asks, is it only with this Hare Krsna mantra and by taking prasada that we achieve that body?
- If you said, "Give me lots of money for Krsna," are you a miser?
- If you say Goloka is infinite we should be existing within Gokula. How is it that we are without Gokula?
- If you say this, based on Vedic literature, and other members of the Krsna movement heard this, and then if the feat were accomplished, would this not seem a contradiction?
- If you see only (if you see only to the flowers, you become invigorated)?
- If you take milk in other forms, like if you eat cheese, if you take curd or cheese, is it the same as drinking milk or ... ?
- If you take that logic and use it the other way... If you say the animal has no soul... then you'd have to say human beings would have no soul, wouldn't you?
- If you want to find peace, don't you have to believe that war is wrong, any kind of war?
- If you want your thoughts to be passed on to other people, why do you sell the books and make money out of them?
- 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 were only sponsored for one month, how is it that you were able to extend your visa all the time?
- If you'd like to come to Germany, we can arrange a program for you in Heidelburg, and there, Pradyumna says, there are some big professors there that are important. If you like to come there?
- If you're already in a good situation, why create a bad one?
- If you're devoted enough can you gain release from birth, death, and old age completely in one life?
- If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda Krsna, what of those people who identify love with the sabda Allah?
- If you're not very fixed up then should you still go out and preach?
- If you're rich, were you saying, if you're rich, you get knowledge, you get knowledge easier because you're rich?
- If your Guru Maharaja Sripada Madhava Maharaja fully cooperate with me in this adventure I am confident to come out successful in my attempt. You have asked me to correspond with him...
- If, say, the husband is not present, then the oldest son is supposed to be in charge and he is a brahmacari, in what way is the mother cared for?
- If, when we realize Krsna, then we have no more desire, then how can we desire...?
- Illusioned ("to err is human," therefore, it is called, that any, any man, however he may be great in the estimation of this world, he is sure to commit mistake. And another imperfection is that he is illusioned)?
- Immediately (after we die you get another body)?
- In 1968 I was questioned by the reporters, "What is your opinion about this moon?"
- In a sense, the man is not really inventing a chair either. There is already an idea of chair previously existing. He's just discovering it, something which already exists. Is that correct?
- In a situation where there's a choice between say chanting and reading. Is chanting a better activity than reading?
- In addition to providing flowers for the Deity, will people who visit the temple walk there, or it will be closed to them?
- In Ahmedabad?... You must have met last time?
- In America, does the government support the movement ?
- In America, supposing a householder family pays for a room in our temple building. So they can have their sex life and family life?
- In America. The art pages? Everything? It will be more expensive because in India they print on cheap paper. If we use the same cheap paper, they'll still have to pay more because it has to be shipped back to India. But I can check
- In answer to your question about the importance of initiation...
- In answer to your questions concerning sex life...
- In any case, everything is controlled by the superior energy?
- In Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- In Bhagavad-gita when it states that "Supersoul," in American terms is this known as your astral body?
- In Bhagavad-gita, it says that the soul is immovable. In the Second Chapter there is a verse that says the soul is immovable. What does that mean exactly? Are we not moving?
- In Bhuvanesvara you are going to have any plan for making a temple?
- In Bombay also you have got (a center)?
- In Bombay rather than Mayapur (if we organize our Bombay, then we shall regularly teach all the students from the very beginning)?
- In Bombay, you were having your own business then?
- In Calcutta also there is a project?
- In Calcutta. And when you were there in Calcutta, did you receive the training?
- In case they want to see what type of..., how we like to develop in the village scheme, should I keep the Mayapur program ready?
- In case we want to order them (Srila Prabhupada`s books) for our...?
- In Chapter Four in Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is said that Arjuna was present at the speaking of Bhagavad-gita to the sun-god so many years ago. What position did he have there?
- In college if they start to study biology or zoology, it involves killing animals, dissection. Is that a sin?
- In daily life, I mean, like our practical life, how saranagati could be...?
- In deep sleep it does not work, no (death means that this body stops working. But the subtle mind... Exactly in the same way. Just as while you are sleeping this gross body has stopped to work, but the subtle body is working)?
- In Denver here we have many businesses going on for you. We are going to them for laksmi in so many ways. How is it that this engages them, or does it engage them in Krsna's service? Do they make any benefit?
- In Dvaraka, did Krsna's queens play tennis?
- In each universe there is a Vrndavana and a Mayapur. That means in each universe there's a planet earth like this planet?
- In further reference to your question about the form of the spirit soul of the conditioned living entity...
- In God's temple, what human wants? And what type of life he wants so that he can be happy?
- In Goloka there are no demons. But the sentiment of anxiety or fear for Krsna, is that sentiment in Goloka?
- In Goloka there are no demons?
- In Hindu philosophy, what is the nature of the atman?
- In history there was the mystery of the sphinxes of Egypt, do these sphinxes carry any significance?... Is the pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt civilization are any mystic significance?
- In India (how is Krsna consciousness received)?
- In India (we got to get the books)?
- In India is everybody lost, the Indian culture...?
- In India isn't it the system that after they harvest the wheat they leave some on the ground for the others to come and pick?
- In India or the United States (where is your family)?
- In India the sun is very intense... Does that have something to do that Krsna appeared there?
- In India, how many are Krsna conscious?
- In India, now in the cities, wherever we go, there are so many big cinema houses being built. So if the young people are not yet tired of that, then how will we convince them of Krsna consciousness? They all go by the thousands to the cinema house?
- In India, there are many swamis who claim to be Krsna. How to detect them?
- In India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
- In India. Is much rice consumed?
- In ISKCON, are there these four divisions?
- In knowledge also we are individual (either you are in ignorance or in knowledge, both cases you are individual)?
- In Krsna Book and Bhagavad-gita both, you explain there are five states of consciousness, beginning with annamaya, manomaya, pranamaya, like that. Do these states of consciousness manifest in different species of life?
- In Krsna consciousness isn't knowledge rather than faith the basis for action?
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- In Krsnaloka are there asses?
- In La Cienega?
- In Mayapur (is it that Purusottama was supposed to be your Godbrother)?
- In Mayapur is a devotee free to, for example, enjoy the, all the scenery without...?
- In New Zealand we have a situation where the main industry is killing animals... Why is there such a nice atmosphere, nice rain?... Is that that they are innocent and they do not know and so Krsna is not punishing them so much?
- In one of the magazines I read that there was a saint who he didn't even construct a rug?
- In one of the purports in Bhagavatam you mention that first comes humility, then nonviolence and then tolerance... Is it also mentioned that in other places in our sastra?
- In one week (the total of books was seven lakhs books in one week)? That would be hundred thousand dollars
- In order for a body to perceive itself, it needs a mirror. But how does one body perceive its soul?
- In order for a candidate (Presidential candidate) to be God conscious, would he have to be part of the Hare Krsna movement?
- In order to achieve our goals, do we intend doing like the Christians tried to do, making everyone convert to their side. Is that what we want to do, make everyone convert to Krsna?
- In order to be involved in devotional service and execute devotional service in this life, we had to have some devotional service last life. So therefore, were you here last life too, to give us this devotional service?
- In order to chant the holy name purely, is it necessary to have feelings of separation?
- In order to establish the asrama will you be spending part of the year here?
- In other words for those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- In other words, if they want to donate something, they donate. Is that how the magazine is published (we allow everyone, "Come on, chant. Take prasadam")?
- In other words, Krsna is the voice of your God then?
- In other words, that my ancestors had left impressions in my brain from the time of my birth, how to react according to their experiences. Is this true, that there is a collective experience which is passed on?
- In other words, there's no set principle that only the works which you have already translated can be published by the BBT. If there is some worthy translation of a bona fide Vedic reference, if it's properly done, the BBT could publish it?
- In other words, they are theorizing that "Death is a very peaceful state of sleeping. Why are we protesting so much"?
- In our campaigning process, should we try to show them practical application of the philosophy for solving all their social problems, or should we preach philosophically?
- In our Christian faith the love of God is joined with the love for man. Are you also interested with this love for man, for our rivals?
- In our community, being as we're training up as Vaisnavas, how will we be able to make divisions in our society?
- In our community, when we grow things, or we have need of someone's services, how are these services distributed equally?
- In our experience we have no understanding how this can be practical, because we think that meat is good for our strength. How can we be strong?
- In our literature we find Krsna has some transcendental pastimes of anger, but that He does not, it is man's own reaction activities, that bring upon destruction. How are these two...?
- In our material contaminated state when we act in a foolishly or mad, then we call that tamas, or illusion, but in the spiritual sky when one is in his pure state of consciousness... Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In our next life we will be put in a situation immediately where we can take up Krsna consciousness again or will we have to suffer karma before we come into Krsna consciousness?
- In our planetarium, Srila Prabhupada, we want to actually show the different qualities of life on the different planetary systems also?
- In our temples, we have so many devotees. Should the devotees...?
- In our varnasrama college the students that come to our college, they follow the four principles?
- In our world here, there are material scientists and they understand things in a particular way. They understand, for instance... Suppose, on the heavenly planets, there must also be a class of men who understand things...
- In punishing the intelligence of man, does he know the right from the wrong according to the karma? Does man have to pay one way to others in different forms of life?
- In reference to Isopanisad mantra 15, should a devotee ask the Lord to reveal Himself?
- In regard to Hyderabad, can we ask Mahmsa to send an account of how he uses the money that you give him?
- In regard to Kardama Muni, how can a pure devotee become passionate for any amount of agitation?
- In reply to Jayadvaita's questions, regarding the policy for using diacritic markings
- In reply to your question whether TLC or the original cover of Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the authoritative picture of the hand symbols?
- In Satya-yuga or Treta-yuga they would not drill for petrol to use to make electricity or to make these gas lamps, so by what means did they use to light the palaces and the kingdoms? What was the natural resource utilized for that purpose?
- In Siddhaloka there are angels? That means angels?
- In society, the consumer society, (indistinct) miseries, what is the message you can bring people even in this day?
- In some of our larger temples is it (kirtana going twenty-four hours a day) also advisable?
- In some of our temples, 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?
- In some parts of the Bible it describes how things were being carried out, and they say that the activities were going on according to the will of God. Does that mean that there was a God conscious civilization then?
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam you have said that... It's stated that Vyasadeva was afraid when Suta Gosvami was born that he would leave home because he was already a liberated soul
- In that case (we are transcendental to all these material divisions. This is material division), in which of these four divisions are we (ISKCON)?
- In that illustration is Krsna the sunshine or is Krsna the sun?
- In the beginning how does the spirit become ignorant, falls into ignorance?
- In the beginning of the Srimad-Bhagavatam you did discuss the general story... If you had to say to someone who was going to collect one small section of your work, what would you want them to collect?
- In the beginning stage of devotional service when we are trying to make advancement, we have to tolerate the urges of the senses... Is there a stage after a person becomes completely purified...?
- 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 Bhagavad-gita it is stated that, 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?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that Brahma is the second spiritual master. I thought that all spiritual masters live forever; but Brahma doesn't live forever
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that those who are different modes of nature, they have different types of charity and different types of religion. So does this mean religions that are already established in the Vedas or...?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says He creates the four varnas and asramas, so these four classes of men are everywhere... Is it correct to say that each man only finds his satisfaction performing a particular type of work according to his mode of nature?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna tells Arjuna there's more than one method of attaining consciousness of Him, and those methods are suited to various types of people. I wonder if you consider that the chanting method is just one or whether it's the only one
- In the Bhagavad-gita, I'm told that there are some two hundred versions of that. Is that the case?
- In the Bhagavata Purana is there also provision for the Caitanya cult?
- In the Bhagavatam, it is mentioned, sarva-devamayo guruh. What is the meaning?
- In the bhakti way of doing things, this emotion and love are very closely entwined, aren't they?
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta it states that to understand Krsna and to improve our relationship with Him we must understand the spiritual master. What is the best way to understand him?
- In the case of Jaya and Vijaya, who fell down and took the role of demons, after three births as demons, they were supposed to go back to the spiritual world. So after the three births in this universe, were the same pastimes going on in other universes?
- In the case of Maharaja Vena there was some recourse for the brahmanas. What can we do?
- In the case where a devotee is definitely sincerely following your instructions and applying himself to all these principles that Krsna has outlined, then when there's difficulty for him, how is he to understand that?
- In the course of your lecture this morning, you quoted that verse from the Tenth Chapter, dadami buddhi-yogam tam. When that knowledge comes, the devotee is qualified by some degree of advancement?
- In the courtyard back at the temple I would like to grow one nim tree. Would that be nice?
- In the East. So there's been a crossover taking place... Do you see it like that?
- In the Eleventh Chapter of the Gita the Lord has shown His virat-darsana. He has shown Brahma, Visnu, Mahesa, etc. They are all in Him. Subordinate to Him. They are subordinate to Him. Therefore (one should) meditate on Krsna, the only Hare Krsna?
- In the family. Any formal?
- In the fish body will he have to suffer for all his other sinful activities also?
- In the Gita it is said that God helps those who help themselves. Now, how do we determine what we should...?
- In the glorifications of Rg Veda, (indistinct) example of glorifications of Krsna there?
- In the Hindu religion do they have a certain title for the holy man? Do they call the holy man swami?
- In the hot climate it is more difficult to digest?
- In the human society the preacher is Krsna's most dear servant. What is the reason for that, Srila Prabhupada?
- In the Indian places known as sacred places isn't it also a fact that there is more magnetism there because of the meeting of saints and more people...?
- In the Kali-yuga, bhakti has been described as the most suitable and easiest of paths for God realization. Yet how is it that Vedantic teachings, with their accent on jnana, are being given the pride of place by noted savants or knowers?
- In the Krsna conscious scheme there is also active struggle and activity?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the last fifty years or so that especially that the Indian culture has been squashed and perverted by the British... Is that because of mass communication, Prabhupada?
- In the list of qualifications of a devotee there is one qualification, expert. What does that mean in relation to the occupation?
- 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 the material world, sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right and sometimes use violence?
- In the material world, we are bound by maya, maha-maya. In the spiritual world, is there another relationship of yogamaya?
- In the mode of ignorance, if he wishes to come to the platform of the mode of goodness, does he have to pass through the mode of passion to get to the mode of goodness? Or can you go directly from the mode of ignorance to the mode of goodness?
- In the modern world the engineers are designing everything. So how can an engineer use his talent for Krsna?
- In the modern world, Swamiji, wouldn't you think that the same person has got to combine in himself the qualities traditionally ascribed to all the dharmas?
- In the Moon planet is there earth in their bodies or is their body made out of air?
- In the Moon planet, are there bodies like of a more subtle nature so that if they did go there, they wouldn't be able to see them? We could see them with our eyes?
- In the moon too there is fire? But it is cold, as the, our sages say
- In the name of looking for transcendence, there have been so many wars, hatred between men... He's saying, psychologically, that his brain tells him that in the name of searching after transcendence there has been so much bad, so how is this different?
- In the ocean they have air? In the ocean is there air? What is the chemical combination of water?
- In the park (…prohibited?)?
- In the park, Srila Prabhupada (I was coming here daily for cooking my food)?
- In the part of the world where this particular philosophy and this particular belief originated, which is in India, in the Eastern part of the world, at least as we look at it. Is it successful there? Do you have a large following over there?
- In the past there was a lot of gold on the planet. What has happened to it? There used to be a lot of gold on the planet?
- In the past, when there were men who practiced yoga, concentration on Krsna within the heart, when they perfected this were they rendering devotional service?
- In the pictures of the acaryas sometimes yourself and Bhaktisiddhanta has their left hand touching the ground. Is there any meaning to that?
- In the Sahara desert we can have life there, Swamiji?
- In the SB first chapter of the 2nd canto it says that the gross materialists can begin meditating on the syllable om and then try to contemplate the universal form. That is not recommended for this age, right?
- In the scientific terminology the eternality of the soul can be compared with the conservation of energy?
- In the Sixth Canto of the Bhagavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally
- In the spiritual bodies aren't there also individualities?
- In the spiritual path everyone has to be married?
- In the spiritual sky when the living entity is in his pure state of consciousness, what acts..., Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In the spiritual world, what are the factors which cause variety?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam you mentioned that the trees, they also can see, (in a) purport. So I was wondering, do all the various species of life, are they fully equipped in some fashion or another with all the various senses?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in one of your purports, you mention that great scientists like Einstein, Newton and Chandra Bose had such great brains, but who has created their brain?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?
- In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavata, there is a beautiful description of this rasa-lila, and some scholars think that there is some work(?), imagination, in that. So will you please comment upon this?
- In the things that you've written, where would that message come through most clearly?
- In the two abodes of the plenary expansion of Krsna. What exists?
- In the Upanisads, as you know, there are many cases in which the brahmanas had to go to the ksatriyas for knowledge. You remember?
- In the US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?
- In the Vaikuntha planets, we get that all the inhabitants are four-handed forms of Narayana?
- In the Vaikunthas, surrounding Narayana is Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha?
- In the vanaprastha asrama, after fifty years of age, what is the duty? Is it to live in the temple, or devote most of time to Krsna, or where the wife comes in then?
- In the Vedas the maha-mantra is repeated Hare Rama, Hare Krsna. What is the significance of changing the order?
- In the Vedic age wouldn't everyone want to become a brahmana? Why train someone as a sudra?
- In the Vedic culture, are people allowed to follow any other belief? In a society where there is Krsna conscious king or president, say someone doesn't want to be a devotee. What happens to him?
- In the villages (especially in Bengal, so many big, big palatial buildings, they are lying vacant)?
- In the wrong direction? They're inquiring (scientists)?
- In their evidences by which they base their dialectic discussions, have they regarded the Vedic scriptures?
- In these rocks the upper one is older according to their calculation by geological dating method and the younger one is at the bottom… So how do we explain these things? How do we explain from our point of view? The upside down of the rocks
- In this age of Kali when there is no social structure or varnasrama-dharma, how can one discriminate how he is utilizing his energies for his prescribed duties?
- In this brain weight matter, the sixty-four ounce and thirty-six ounce, is that every brain, male brain, is...?
- In this country (Pakistan) also they have taken (well, Muslim India or same India, those who are intelligent, they are taking to Krsna consciousness)?
- 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 this maha-mantra that you publicize, Hare Krsna, it is Krsna that is emphasized. (indistinct) emphasis His Bhagavata and other things are popularized. Is it corresponding...?
- In this movement, how can you or what can you expect, or what would you like to give as an enlightenment for ordinary people?
- In this time, modern science, you know, physics, chemistry, mathematics; is this all materialism?
- In this varnasrama college, is it true that there will be no need, for example, for teaching material history and mathematics and...?
- In those early days of colonization they were trying to sail to India by a quick route to get the spices, and it was the same time that Lord Caitanya's movement began. So is that just a coincidence, that they were trying to go to India at the same time?
- In Tibetan literature, there's a concept that there is 72,000 years allotted?
- In Vrndavana (Bombay is the center. So now we are having our temple, whenever you go, you can stay with us)?
- In Vrndavana (the babajis are making pregnant the widows, and they are going for abortion.There are many cases, similar, and there is American Hospital)?
- In Vrndavana (the government is trying to spoil this place also. Starting oil refinery)?
- In Vrndavana (where is Krsna playing flute)?
- In Vrndavana also Prabhupada there is one (everywhere. Navadvipa there is Manipur Mandir. Here also)? Which is that?
- In Vrndavana you were explaining about the sun, that the sun is not fire, but the living entities there have glowing bodies. So how do they glow?
- In Washington with Rupanuga Prabhu and the other scientists in our group for the Institute. So I have some papers to be signed by Your Divine Grace. So you'll read in the morning? Tomorrow?
- In what form (when this body will be changed, you'll exist in another body)?
- In what respect (now, the common sense is that can you distinguish between matter and spirit? Can you distinguish?)?
- In what respect do you consider yourself different from God?
- In what respect I have created (sinful activities)?
- In what sense are you feeling more vitality?
- In what sense is the First Canto His lotus feet?
- In what sense you use the concept "truth" here? Is it in the ontological sense, or is it in somehow in a more pragmatical human sense, refers to human beings or...?
- In what way (you have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task)?
- In what way can he support, or cooperate with your movement? In what way can he offer optimal benefit to your movement?
- In what way did you think, that the teaching of the love of God which you are doing, is different and perhaps better than the teachings of which already were being conducted in this country and have been conducted in the Western world for centuries?
- In what way is God concerned with the moral or immoral actions of man? Is God indifferent to them, or has He simply set the laws of nature in motion and allowed men to follow their own course and reap the fruit of their own karma?
- In what way is the external manifestation of the guru different than the external manifestation of, let us say, Krsna or Caitanya when They come to earth?
- In what way we will live in that spiritual form?
- In what way would they (alcohol and drug patients) cure?
- In what way would we develop it (Bhaktivinoda Thakura's birthplace)?
- In what way would we serve your movement by giving a clear explanation about the aims of your activity, for example, removing prejudices and supporting Sanskrit studies and the better distribution of the Bhagavad-gita in this form?
- In which country of Europe has the Hare Krsna movement been the most powerful or successful?
- In which way one can engage oneself to the best service of Krsna, or best use one's time for Krsna?
- In which way will it be most helpful, in giving money personally or inducing others to give money? He will give money?
- In your books you say that the world is like a dream... How is it a dream?
- In your books you talk about Brahmaloka, which, I suppose is heaven
- In your introduction to the Bhagavad-gita you refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianism and other religious faiths as sectarian designations, but isn't Krsna consciousness just another kind of designation in order not to call it Krsna-ism, another ism?
- In your lecture you quoted Canakya Pandita that a man must see every woman other than his own wife as mother. How should a woman see other men?
- In your lectures you continually speak of the ten samskaras that children should have
- In your letter of April 11th you have asked me to insert "What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him?''....
- In your many visits around the world do you see a desire among many men to try to improve, to become first-class men?
- In your opinion, is it impossible for somebody to be a scientist and not to believe in God?
- In your opinion, what is the relationship between Krsna and Christ?
- In your rural communities, do you utilize the most modern techniques with fertilizers, with mechanical means for cultivating land?
- In your teachings you say the sun is the only self-illuminous body in the universe, whereas the scientists say that there is many millions of stars that are in the sky that are also self-illuminous
- Independence (you are perfect because you have got independence)?
- India also there is such tendency towards sense gratification?
- India is supposed to be a land of spirituality. How is it that there is so much moral degradation in our country? Is it the failure of our spiritual leaders?
- India will become Communist also?
- Indra's function is to carry water?
- Infected to (in our country 75%, at least, students are infected with syphilis)?
- Initiated devotee, and he follows those four regulative principles and chants sixteen rounds, will he go back to Godhead?
- Initiation (of Srila Prabhupada) was held at that Gaudiya Matha in Allahabad?
- Instead of just seeing black, white, this or that, I look for individual propensities, so I appreciate those individual propensities?
- Instead of sitting on the raised dais, Vyasasana, and dressing in robes of a monk, Krishnamurti would say, "Dress in Western clothes and sit on a chair." The question was, "What is our opinion of this?"
- Instead of taking the medicine, take a little of this prasadam. Is that all right?
- Insurance for what (they make insurance of life. So where is your insurance for these things? You do not want to die, but you are forced to die. Where is insurance? This is insurance, Krsna consciousness)?
- International Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in London, I shall try to see if there is any similar society here. But one thing I can suggest as you have asked me to give a thought to this problem
- Introduced starting with ISKCON community (varnasrama-dharma should be introduced all over the world)?
- Is (past and future) concerned with this body. It is concerned, exactly, with this body and with this ego, with regard to which there is a before and an after, up and down. And if you take away this ego, what's there, what's left?
- Is (polygamy) allowed?
- Is (the aim of yoga) to realize God?
- Is (the polestar) the center of the universe?
- Is (this movement) growing all the time?
- Is a devotee always in some anxiety to see others unhappy?
- Is a devotee required to work very hard for material necessities?
- Is a devotee seeking mental happiness as well?
- Is a guru essential to one to enter the spiritual path and attain the goal, and how does one recognize one's guru?
- Is a pure devotee eternally liberated and if so is he at any time a conditioned soul?
- Is a seed conscious, Prabhupada?
- Is a Vaisnava, is he willing to maintain his body for the service of Lord Krsna even if he has to break regulative principles - if it is necessary?
- Is any knowledge other than ultimate knowledge of the Supreme of any value at all? Is this material knowledge of any value?
- Is Arjuna described in disciplic succession?
- Is astrology of any importance to a way of life?
- Is Bhaktivinoda Thakura directly in succession from Lord Caitanya? And Gaurakisora dasa Babaji also?
- Is Canakya Pandita widely available in India?
- Is chanting absolutely necessary in the knowing (of God)...?
- Is chanting Hare Krsna such a yogic process for realizing this (not only in my heart, God is also within the atom. So this is the first information. And then, by yogic process you have to realize it. Paramatma realization) ?
- Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Is conscious repression advisable? Of my basic instincts, my desires. Should I consciously strive to repress these desires?
- Is darkness eternal, Prabhupada?
- Is desire a function of consciousness?
- Is desire, desire is due to the material contamination, or is it...?
- Is Dharmaraja King Yudhisthira?
- Is diet an important segment of the word?
- Is earth near the edge of the universe?
- Is earth still being manifested from ether? Like the description in Bhagavatam is from sound and then through different elements finally down to earth. Is that still happening today?
- Is ether a gross element as well?
- Is everybody who is a devotee of Krsna, initiated, do they all have perfect enlightenment?
- Is everything done in our movement for preaching? Everything that is done in our movement is done for preaching?
- Is faith in God more necessary than proper protection? In other words, is this process actually more necessary?
- Is first the metals mixed together (in Kaviraji, they make some medicine which is gold added by this process, makaradhvaja. Makaradhvaja, the medicine which is combination of tin and mercury, and it looks like gold)?
- Is getting the soul out from this awkward position of matter a higher understanding than understanding the soul by itself?
- Is God perfect?
- Is God the one energy you speak of?
- Is guru and swami the same thing?
- Is he (George) in town?
- Is He (God) a person?
- Is he (Lord Buddha) allowed to say so (He's personally Krsna)?
- Is he (Sanjay Gandhi) going to be put in prison for... (he has paid only one hundred rupees from his pocket, and he's everything, and he has squandered so much)?
- Is he (Sheik Abdullah) a chief minister or prime minister?
- Is he (Syamasundara's father is very rich man)?
- Is he (this man here) one of your old friends?
- Is he allowed to associate with Krsna in the beginning?... As jiva, as jiva is...
- Is He coming again (he has got many names. Still, He acts to teach us. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita. He's so kind, but as soon as He comes to teach us, we take Him as ordinary man)?
- Is he receiving a good interpretation from his disciplic succession or his bishop? Because there seems to be some kind of a discrepancy in the interpretation of the Bible. There's many different sects
- Is human birth superior in terms of self-realization? Is it superior to the demigods?
- Is incense a form of intoxication?
- Is interpretation necessary or not?
- Is it (at the present moment, after independence, Indians are very horribly situated) because of the people?
- Is it (Bhagavad-gita) that simple and clear for everybody (if they do not know this is a tape recorder. What is interpreting? Everyone knows that this is a tape recorder. So what is interpretation? Interpretation required when you do not understand)?
- Is it (bhakti) the same thing with hatha-yoga?
- Is it (I am not feeling very well) due to the heat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is it (Mayapur we are constructing a big temple. And Vrndavana also. So, for maintenance of the temple perpetually, I want to purchase some property in Los Angeles, because here, Los Angeles, property gets nice income)?
- Is it (milk) like a by-product?
- Is it (the occupier of the body) transcendent?
- Is it (the smell of the baked bread) very agreeable?
- Is it (there is no love in this world. That is illusion) like service to parents without expecting anything from them because they have raised you, they have...?
- Is it (understanding God) possible for poverty-stricken people, those who have to earn bread and money by the sweat of their brow?
- Is it (who is a sudra) determined by jati, by birth?
- Is it (woman should be subordinate to the man, so that the man can take charge of the woman) true for all woman and all men?
- Is it a chemical state that some people are more covered than others by the modes of nature?
- Is it a question of just understanding it (recognition of the spirit soul within this body, that is first education. Unless one understands this simple fact, there is no question of spiritual advancement)?
- Is it a serious movement? If the Beatles are telling the truth, Hare Krsna is a little bit of a bluff
- Is it a very good omen to see in your sleep state person showing to do the Hare Krsna chant?
- Is it a waste of time then to present Krsna consciousness philosophy to someone who believes in doing your own thing? Do you think that that is a...?
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it actually possible for the demons to win?
- Is it all right for her to travel with us or better not to?
- Is it all right for the Deities' hair to show?
- Is it all right that Lord Siva's picture is in the new calendar that's come out?
- Is it all right that they are brought in, or should we talk to them?
- Is it all right to blame the government in public, Prabhupada, in India?
- Is it all right to cheat the government?
- Is it all right to desire Krsna?
- Is it all right to disturb the mind of the envious?
- Is it all right to finish rounds in the temple when there's nothing to do?
- Is it all right to use modern machines on our farms?
- Is it also good to chant the name of a person who is holy, who is one with God, not the name of God?
- Is it an internal educational process or external (it is an educational movement to enlighten the people from gross ignorance to the highest enlightenment of spiritual understanding)?
- Is it because Krsna is situated in the spiritual sky, therefore the spiritual sky is the position where there is ultimate happiness to be found?
- Is it because of our impurity that we can't convince them to stop cutting their throat?
- Is it because the Indians think that they know much about Bhagavad-gita (now all Indians, they should take Bhagavad-gita as it is and make their life fruitful. The Europeans and Americans, they are taking. Why Indians are not taking?)?
- Is it because the leaders are not following? Therefore the population is not following?
- Is it because they are killing the cows that this is happening, Srila Prabhupada (they've lost their religious sentiment, religious consciousness. They're just like rude, crude)?
- Is it because we have the desire to come in contact with such persons that we contact them, like Nitai contacting that Purusottama?
- Is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple? Like somebody working all day and following the regulative principles?
- Is it better to chant the Hare Krsna mantra loud or is it better hide the mantra?
- Is it better to do it the way you did it or to start from a very early age in the, er…?… In other words, some of our members are sannyasa at an earlier age
- Is it better to have a human body as a machine to use than a cat's body?
- Is it better to inquire directly a question to the spiritual master directly, or is it better to wait for the answer to come in an indirect, or in a less direct way?
- Is it by chance what you think of at the time of death or is... it dependent?
- Is it by prayer to God that you help the world?
- Is it cheating to teach that it is supposed that the sun is 93,000,000 miles away?
- Is it compulsory to have a full consciousness that he must shave his head?
- Is it confirmed that the similarities in symbolism and cultural relationships, which are similar in civilizations all over the world, can that be due to the fact that they are all coming from the same source? Five thousand years ago there was one culture?
- Is it considered a legal wedding ceremony in this country?
- Is it easier or better to be a Krsna bhakta than to be a Christian?
- Is it good to publicize these situations, Prabhupada, that we are encountering so much difficulty? Is it good to publicize that, in a film, say?
- Is it in that sense (as the creator) that He (Lord Visnu) is called Krsna?
- Is it like in mathematics, in chemistry, like they call formulas (the sutras)?
- Is it more beneficial for people to hear the Panca-tattva mantra than the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
- Is it more difficult to do this (your daily routine) when you're traveling a lot?
- Is it more favorable for spreading Krsna consciousness if there is some material problems, social problems? If there is a lack of God consciousness, then people become frustrated. Is that a more favorable situation for Krsna consciousness to take root?
- Is it more important to organize the women's book distribution or to work on College preaching?
- Is it more natural to love someone else? Is it more natural for someone else to enjoy or for ourselves to enjoy?
- Is it natural for a child to grow up and then shave his head and serve God, or is it just a form of socialization?
- Is it necessary and possible to outline certain basic minimum observances for all Hindus?
- Is it necessary for people to leave the cities and live in our varnasrama situations in order to become happy?
- Is it necessary from time to time to change the smrtis?
- Is it necessary that a person should pass through the three asramas, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, before coming to sannyasa?
- Is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only?
- Is it necessary to get to know the true self before knowing God?
- Is it necessary to have a therapeutic system?
- Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join?
- Is it necessary to see the Deity regularly in order to remain strong?
- Is it nityah anityanam or nityah nityanam?
- Is it not as good to serve God as a Christian in a church?
- Is it not better to run than to stand still and sleep?
- Is it not necessary today for each person to have knowledge of the dharma. He's got to have the capacity to act?
- Is it not possible for all sections of Hindus, be they Advaitans, Dvaitans, or visistadvaitans, to come together instead of remaining isolated as warring factions?
- Is it not possible in this age for devotees to overthrow government?
- Is it not speculation to say that one knows God?
- Is it not that because our real nature is perfect that we're always striving to become perfect again? Striving to reach that point again?
- Is it not true that by service I am with you?
- Is it not true that if you don't spend your life thinking of Krsna, it may be difficult at the time of death to remember Him because of attachment?
- Is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting?
- Is it permitted to use shells for making jewelry, crowns, etc., for Deities? Or is it to be considered as the bone of an animal?
- Is it possible (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right)?
- Is it possible for a conditioned living entity to perceive the suchness or essence of anything
- Is it possible for a dog-eater to become a first-class man?
- Is it possible for a person to return to the spiritual world without taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master?
- Is it possible for a saint at certain stage of sadhana to perform miracles?
- Is it possible for a spirit soul never to regain the state of God consciousness?
- Is it possible for any entity to do something until the Lord hears him?
- Is it possible for any spirit not ultimately, after his various transmigrations through bodies, is it possible for any spirit never to regain contact with the Lord?
- Is it possible for one person to be part demon and part devotee in the same person?
- 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 know how many lifetimes it takes to reach spiritual perfection?
- Is it possible for one to make it in this life? Is it possible that one falls down?
- Is it possible for people in the most animalistic conditions of life such as the Eskimos, who need meat to survive-is it possible for these people to become purified?
- Is it possible for the soul to enjoy the material nature?
- Is it possible for us to communicate with plants?
- Is it possible for us to know the source of Krsna?
- Is it possible of making some experiments which would tend to indicate that life is not material? And this might be appealing to some of the people with scientific education, because they are used to such things, experiments
- Is it possible on the spiritual platform?
- Is it possible that every man's life is directed by God, and you're born to do certain things, and you come to be prime minister or something?
- Is it possible that he could spend his whole life trying to find himself and at the end of his life not find himself and meanwhile he didn't help the society?
- Is it possible that I live on my own and still be a devotee?
- Is it possible that man could ever make even a one-celled living being?
- Is it possible there's some difference as to the definition of what the moon planet is? They will say that the moon planet is that planet out there. Do we agree? At night?
- Is it possible through Krsna consciousness to, in the supreme state, to be able to remember all that you were?
- Is it possible to achieve liberation with other religious...?
- Is it possible to be brahmana for all?
- Is it possible to become a devotee without actually having personal association with you, just by reading your books?
- Is it possible to carry out that enquiry (about God) while you're engaged in activities?
- Is it possible to chant within one's mind?
- Is it possible to create a suitable environment for life to enter?
- Is it possible to develop such kind of psyche (wherein one can can learn the aim of life within half an hour)?
- Is it possible to do it all on your own, alone?
- Is it possible to do some experiments (everywhere there is living entity. It is impossible to conclude that on other planets there is no living entity. It is not possible)?
- Is it possible to escape the conditions of being in the body?
- Is it possible to find an American mantra?
- Is it possible to find Krsna in the Christian tradition or in Islam?
- Is it possible to have Krsna consciousness when you are asleep?
- Is it possible to jump from brahmacari to directly sannyasa?
- Is it possible to live a household life and at the same time a spiritual life?
- Is it possible to reform a person against their will?
- Is it possible to see the Supreme?... With our own eyes?
- Is it possible to sing the maha-mantra for someone else who has died, and will it have the same effect?
- Is it possible to talk and also to chant the mantra at the same time?
- Is it possible to train the body through the use of yoga to decrease the sleep period down to about three hours or two hours?
- Is it possible to visit other planets?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, that Krsna may like to be satisfied through the material life?
- Is it proper to say that your purports are getting better every day?
- Is it properly fixed up?
- Is it recommended that a woman become a sannyasi?
- Is it right that if you come to Krsna consciousness, all the duties are automatically taken care of?
- Is it right to say that Krsna-prema is the perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- Is it right to tell the suffering that "I am busy, at work for my salvation"?
- Is it safe to compare scientific advancement with Bhagavata, like Darwin and Bhagavatam?
- Is it simply the nature of the name Krsna that this particular name is the most powerful?
- Is it so (every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya)?
- Is it so for a Krsna conscious man that Krsna is as much in the stone as in the Deity? But we order murtis all the way from India?
- Is it so, that in Srimad-Bhagavata it is also written, many really great men want to be here in Kali-yuga, because it is easier to be for salvation?
- Is it sometimes cold in the spiritual world?
- Is it sometimes possible that a person is reborn in the same body?
- Is it still that there's greed and lust there, but he becomes transcendental to it? Or are the greed and lust...?
- Is it that a man becomes a man after the death?
- Is it that it depends on the restaurant or is that necessarily bad (they are young men. They have got all propensities. But they are so elevated, they have given up all these low propensities, going to the club, restaurant, and cinema or naked dance)?
- Is it that people have confused materialism with happiness?
- 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 that they (people involved in this deprogramming) can't understand this philosophy even though they're reading it, or they just don't want to understand it?
- Is it that they (the Mafia) see everyone as their enemy, and therefore everything has to be around them?
- 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 it the nature of the Kali-yuga that mother and father always separate? Is it the nature of the Kali-yuga that this family separation is always happening?
- Is it the same living soul, Arjuna, in each universe, or a different living being may be taking that position?
- Is it the same you found in all over the world, everybody speak the language, English-speaking language, you went and you did the same thing, you went up there, chant, and with the miracle of Lord Krsna you received your devotees and disciples?
- Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?
- Is it to be taken, the references say to Putana, is this to be taken... physically or spiritually as a demonic power or what?... Where, is it the demoness Putana takes Krsna and Krsna sucks her breast?... Should it be taken literally or allegorically?
- Is it to be understood that once the yogi sees the Narayana Form, his desires for travel and material perfections cease? (as did the desires of Dhruva Maharaja) Or do the yogis still persist in desiring to do wonders even after seeing Narayana Form?
- Is it true that when you become more purified that you will see everything differently with your eyes and hear everything differently with your ears and all this?
- Is it true Narada has the same body in the spiritual world and when he comes into the material world?
- Is it true or not true that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta said that failure is the pillar of success?
- Is it true that can a human body takes a form of a human body in the next birth?
- Is it true that eventually by this process we'll become purified so we can become like sruti-dharas?
- Is it true that if I follow the regulative principles, the four, that I will be able to chant without offense?
- Is it true that if someone takes prasadam, they're guaranteed at least a human body in their next life?
- Is it true that in India sudras are kept more leniently than brahmanas are?
- Is it true that Krsna has all these things (grains, sugar, milk and fruits) in each planet simply because of the presence of a pure devotee?
- Is it true that the Sri Krsna Caitanya mantra is more powerful than the maha-mantra?
- Is it true that there are more young people now in the world that are giving more serious thought to what life is really all about?
- Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies?
- Is it true that when you die, when you're going to die, you get another life?
- Is it true that you once said something about the Supersoul being the size of the thumb? Where is that information or authority? He's the size of the thumb in human being?
- Is it true that you will end up converting people according to your own..., in other words, you convert people of your own caliber?
- Is it true when you said that the hill (Govardhana Hill), there is cracks?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that Krsna is testing us every day?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?
- Is it vital to follow certain eating habits?
- Is it warm (shawl from Satyabhama)?
- Is it worthwhile to try to prolong life?
- Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?
- Is it wrong to think of initiation then (if you cannot live in the temple)?
- Is it, just to satisfy their own ego that they (interpreters of bhagavad Gita who mislead people) are doing in this way?
- Is it, though? (laughter) (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right? - Is it possible? - Yes, if it is possible)
- Is Jesus in the parampara?
- Is Kabir in the Vaisnava tradition?
- Is Kali-yuga the age when desires become manifest like this?
- Is Kalki connected with the Kali-yuga cycle?
- Is knowing the end of seeking?
- Is knowledge sufficient to cause peace, or we must find out some matter first some way?
- Is Krsna a person God?
- Is Krsna always seeking to engage us in His devotional service, and is He upset in some way if we reject His offer?
- Is Krsna attractive to rascals?
- Is Krsna cons..., the Krsna movement, is it still growing?
- Is Krsna consciousness connected with any other religion? Does it derive from Hinduism or Buddhism?
- Is Krsna consciousness genuine?
- Is Krsna consciousness more easily accepted among Indians and among Far Eastern peoples than among the Western peoples?
- Is Krsna consciousness the knowing or the awareness of the Absolute?
- Is Krsna consciousness the only method?
- Is Krsna directly controlling that (getting away from Him)?
- Is Krsna made out of atoms like we are? When He comes down and takes the food?
- Is Ksirodakasayi Visnu present in non-living entities, like rocks, matter?
- Is looking for the medicine part of the medicine (if people take what is the actual goal of life by philosophy and logic, then their goal of life will be one. He must agree to take it just like the diseased man must agree to take the medicine)?
- Is Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita different from the one in Bhagavatam?
- Is Lord Siva a devotee of Lord Krsna?
- Is Mayadevi a pure devotee?
- Is meditation part of your philosophy?
- Is modern science materialism, Prabhupada? Is it materialism?
- Is nature materialism? I mean, there are many things which are obvious, such as money, greed, etc. But how about nature, love?
- Is not a true Vaisnava also a sannyasi? Would you explain the difference between them?
- Is not eating vegetables killing a living entity also?
- Is not Krsna a God of compassion?
- Is not Rama a God?
- Is number important in chanting? It has to be certain number, or you can just chant?
- Is our chanting a form of prayer?
- Is our goal to actually establish Vedic principles back into society again at large?
- Is our rasa with Krsna already established? I mean, is it eternal?
- Is overpopulation, then, a more important problem?
- Is Paramatma a person?
- Is past, present and future, in the material sense, a perverted reflection of the same...?
- Is Philadelphia your last stop in...?
- Is pious activity on the material platform?
- Is polygamy illicit?
- Is pradhana subtle matter?
- Is Rama synonymous with Jesus?
- Is religion a practical knowledge?
- Is sacred the same as solitary?
- Is second initiation necessary, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is secularism coming in way of spreading spiritual education?
- Is service to the Supreme Lord the same as realization of the Absolute Truth?
- Is she (Mrs. Gandhi) having problems because she is a woman, though?
- Is she Krsna conscious (your wife)?
- Is showing miracles like some swamis do the way to bring people back to spiritual life?
- Is Siva milk or dahi?
- Is smrti more than just rules of conduct?
- Is something wrong with tea?
- Is Subhadra, Lord Krishna's Sister, the same Durga or Maya?
- Is such an atomic war foretold in SB?
- Is taking prasadam one of the exchanges of love, where we accept food from a lover?
- Is that ("...we are one with God, but so far the power and position is concerned, He is too big, the great. We are subordinate. This is our position. That is the right conclusion") really the right conclusion?
- Is that ("if you don't stop meat-eating, you cannot understand what is spiritual life") the same for others...?
- Is that ("that university, there is one professor, Norman Brown. I met him. He was a very nice gentleman. He carried my bags to the bus station. He was very kind") when you went to speak in Philadelphia?
- Is that ("the chief minister who has sanctioned") Nayika?
- Is that ("you have fallen down? You must commit suicide. No more My association") the same as in the Bhagavad-gita where Krsna says, "For one who is honored, dishonor is worse than death"?
- Is that (all of your initiated disciples should chant twenty-five rounds minimum on ekadasi) a rule that we should all follow in our temples?
- Is that (atomic) war to occur in the recent future? Or is that a long way off?
- Is that (big, big swamis, they are advocating, "Eat meat.") right?
- Is that (brahmana) good or bad?
- Is that (brain substance in man is more than the woman) in the Vedas also?
- Is that (even abortion they (priests) are defending) because they have no standard?
- Is that (ghosts attack specially woman) because the women are weaker?
- Is that (he (Buddha) simply asked that you finish this material desire) not misleading?
- Is that (here your parents accusing me, and in India the caste brahmanas accusing me) why you keep traveling, Prabhupada, so they won't catch you?
- Is that (if you are not worried, that means you are animal. You are not human being.) like Prahlada Maharaja's prayer when he saw Lord Nrsimha-deva and he said, "I am not afraid of Your ferocious form, but I am afraid of this material world of samsara"
- Is that (if you take the proper way it can be increased) just up to our preaching?
- Is that (in the morning, as soon as you get up, you remember that you have to do so many things. That means it was already there) just like the impersonalists? They go up into the brahma-jyotir, but they have desire. So they have to come back down
- Is that (one who comes to Krsna consciousness, his karma is also changed) karma dovetailed?
- Is that (the indians have no equal rights in South Africa) also effected through karma maybe, Swamiji?
- Is that (the monkey is our forefather) true? Do you believe that?
- Is that (the moving of ISKCON Press) a GBC matter or BBT matter?
- Is that (the spiritual kingdom) where they (the souls) will all end up again when the universe comes to an end?
- Is that (the trees and other lower animals abiding by the order of Krsna) considered worship?
- Is that (this civilization means they are creating only dogs and cats) because they don't acknowledge that they're suffering?
- Is that (when then this man leaves this body and again enters in the womb of the body which he is destined to get) immediate?
- Is that a feeling of unity with the universe?
- Is that a good example (of the space, then the thinner air, and the air, and the water, and the earth, and in between electricity...)?
- Is that a guarantee for going home, if someone leaves their body in the dhama?
- Is that a qualification, is that part of the age of Kali-yuga? Flowers with no scent?
- Is that a science, Srila Prabhupada, that numbers (numerology)?
- Is that a teaching of the Bhagavad-gita, that one should not eat meat?
- Is that actual freedom, though? (that a thief also has got the conscience, "Why shall I steal?")
- Is that all right (my taking the medicine means I am passing urine)?
- Is that all right (that Atreya Rsi writes a final draft ot the Oath of Allegiance)? Should we go on (with reading of the Oath of Allegiance) while he's writing?
- Is that all right (to massage)?... This whole waist area? This whole area?
- Is that all right with you (it is like tenant house (ISKCON Bombay). So whoever pays to your satisfaction, you give him for one day), Srila Prabhupada?
- Is that all right? Yes? And they will take prasadam here, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is that an example of free will, that someone can choose Krsna and then turn away?
- Is that because of the age (the problems will be solved as soon as he surrenders to God. But that he'll not do)?
- Is that benefit coming in all suffering or only when it is given by Krsna (surgical operation is there, the knife is being used on the body, that means he is getting relief. It is not punishment)?
- Is that bhajananandi and gosthyanandi?
- Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? (they perform Radha-Krsna kalyana, marriage)
- Is that buddhi (dadami buddhi-yogam tam), that intelligence manifested in some way, in his service, or in his thinking?
- Is that called punya? Serving the poor?
- Is that called rtvik-acarya (yes. I shall recommend some of you. After this is settled up, I shall recommend some of you to act as officiating acaryas)?
- Is that cheating propensity (if the kanistha-adhikari thinks that "I have become uttama-adhikari," then he's a rascal)?
- Is that considered attempting to become Krsna conscious, simply to give up, say, material sense enjoyment?
- Is that counted as one of the 8,400,000 species? Is the atom counted among the different species?
- Is that described as raganuga-bhakti (when they take it as a serious thing in life, oh, everyone will be happy)?
- Is that differentiated (total material elements, mahat-tattva)?
- Is that faith (everyone knows the sun will appear, faithless or faith)?
- Is that for one who is differentiating himself from this body? In other words, a person who has realized that there is field and there is knower, is he given that title or is the person who cannot make that distinction, is he also given that title?
- Is that governing that Brahma does in the universe, he does that in relationship with all the other demigods like they are departmental heads? So he is not personally directing every single thing
- Is that immediately after one dies you transfer to another body, or later (you are associating with some modes of material nature. So according to that association, you'll get next body)?
- Is that just as healthy as nim leaves? Patola leaves?
- Is that kind of information given in the Vedas (a class of men, they are called vaidyas (doctors). They know all these herb, which herb is medicine for certain disease, and they sell in the market)?
- Is that one (painting) first-class there, Prabhupada?
- Is that part of your income, to run a...(publishing house)?
- Is that perfection possible in one life (our healthy life is to enjoy eternal life... So our human life should be utilized for attaining that perfectional stage)?
- Is that personality within the atom Paramatma (even within the atom, you will find personality)?
- Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
- Is that preordained, or is it by free choice (the men who surround you were raised in a bad society, but they have chosen to become good)?
- Is that Rahu planet closer than the moon to the earth?
- Is that so ("it is certain that man surpasses women in accordance with a general law which prevails throughout the animal kingdom. If there were nothing else to do but to love, women would be supreme")?
- Is that special arrangement that they seem to be impoverished? Say like the villagers, they're not very wealthy.
- Is that spiritual master still guiding after the death?
- Is that tea? Is that tea that you're drinking?
- Is that the difference between jiva-tattva and Visnu-tattva (there is some soul who can come under influence of maya in the spiritual sky)?
- Is that the flat (one hundred, Seventy-second Street) that you were staying in that was broken into? Is that the place that was broken into?… That was where the typewriter was stolen?
- Is that the heart of the soul or the heart of the gross material body (you are our student. You are saying there is no heart (some of the insects don't even have hearts). That means you do not carefully read)?
- Is that the mayayapahrta-jnanah?
- Is that the same psychology that they, they only know of material body, so when they think of God, they think that God has material body also?
- Is that the significance, then, of the festival, to remind people of God?
- Is that to say that a stone has a living entity in it?
- Is that tree alive?... Has it got life?... Are you doing anything wrong when you cut it down...?
- Is that true on every level of... chemical law (without conflict, you cannot make progress)?
- Is that true, Srila Prabhupada? That service to mankind is service God?
- Is that what is meant when a man thinks when he dies (according to your desire, you'll get a body), at the moment...?
- Is that what it means by sarvam khalv idam brahma (everything is Bhagavan, but it appears like different)?
- Is that what you want?
- Is that what you're trying to do in your movement?
- Is that why (there is already name, Krsna. So why should Christ utter?) Christ didn't utter the name of Krsna?
- Is that why Bhagatji didn't leave Vrndavana? Is that (because that paramahamsa advised our Bhagatji, "Anyone going out of Vrndavana...") why he didn't want to leave?
- Is that why people are making these machines, because they can't remember? Is that a sign of Kali that there's more machines to help people?
- Is that why vegetarianism is...?
- Is that why we made that hall, for making money (what is called? Village house. Hm? The hall is called? When one pays, marriage ceremony... For making some money you have made)?
- Is the 'conscience' the symptom of the Supersoul?
- Is the (living force) in the same quantity in every body, in every living body? I mean the energy, the amount of energy
- Is the body not to be treated with a certain amount of care, and even comfort, because it is the vehicle for our spiritual progress and so on?
- Is the body really affecting the soul? Does the body really have a causal influence on the soul?
- Is the body, then, to be resisted? Is the body to be disciplined, to be resisted, to be ignored? Is that what you're suggesting?... How to treat the body?
- Is the brightness of a diamond because of the presence of a jiva?
- 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 cloud in our mind or is the cloud in the sky also?
- Is the correct way of living merely a way of doing, actually, a sort of higher state of consciousness where you're experiencing something different to...?
- Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?
- Is the exterior clothing important?
- Is the exterior identification important?
- Is the fact that America is now the dominant nation also God's will?
- Is the final goal of transcendence, then, immortality?
- Is the God of love, does He punish man?
- Is the government discouraging...(opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern)?
- Is the human soul then limited or unlimited?
- Is the humorous direct or indirect? One in humor?
- Is the immortality that he (Jesus) has offered, for instance, me... I must talk in the first person. Is it a universal thing that's happened all through time or is it something that belongs to just when he died?
- Is the irregularity in the weather and...?
- Is the Krsna consciousness belief or philosophy compatible with the Hindu religion?
- Is the land in Vrndavana, is it in the city? Is it on the outside of Vrndavana, or is it in the city?
- Is the living entity in the area of the heart, in the heart, or in the lotus of the heart?
- Is the medicine in the seeking?
- Is the mode of life that you are proposing adaptable to many, many, many people?
- Is the most subtle form of creation the desire of the living entity to enjoy this material world?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- Is the only way to know Krsna through the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?
- Is the planetary system the universe, or is there something beyond the planetary system which it is situated in?
- Is the prayer communal, where all take part in the prayer, or is it individual?
- Is the pure devotee more merciful than Krsna?
- Is the real goal of life to know God?
- Is the result of our inquiry to change the external environment?
- Is the samadhi which is the perfection of this eightfold yoga system the same as the samadhi of bhakti-yoga?
- Is the seeing important?
- Is the social unrest in this country caused because... (these are sinful activities, to kill child in the womb. And take shelter of abortion. These are all sinful activities. One has to suffer for that)?
- Is the soul dependent upon the body for its existence?
- Is the spiritual master actually conscious of our activities?
- Is the Srimad-Bhagavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyasadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?
- Is the sun going around the earth?
- Is the sun to be considered a representation of God?
- Is the Superself a spirit?
- Is the sweet lemon juice giving some strength?
- Is the teacher always necessary?
- Is the thinking material?
- Is the time that I'm going to die, and everybody going to die, is this preset before they're born? Do I have, when I'm born, do I have a certain given lifespan?
- Is the water inside (my body) the same as the water in the ocean?
- Is the work you recommend your followers to do purely spiritual, or do you...?
- Is their calculation for the distance of the sun wrong also?
- Is there a basic conflict between a spiritual life and material living?
- Is there a center in Geneva where this literature...?
- Is there a Christ-loka?
- Is there a difference between Arjuna's body and his soul, and how does this apply to all Krishna's eternally liberated souls described in the scriptures. Is Arjuna always the same in his appearances with Krishna or is a new soul taking his body each time?
- Is there a difference between Rama and Krsna?
- Is there a difference between...? Just like we have fire here, is it different from the glowing there (the sun)? You said the sun is not fire
- Is there a difference in the quality of service between a person who is, just accepts outright Krsna, service to Krsna, and one who wants to scrutinize and inquire more and more about it?
- Is there a distinction between that mode of goodness described in the Eighteenth Chapter and the Fourteenth Chapter?
- Is there a fan? A fan. A fan?
- Is there a fixed number of souls or fixed number of spirits in the universe?
- Is there a GBC for Thailand?
- Is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Is there a jiva (a spirit soul) in every sperm cell? Does the spirit soul only come to a particular sperm cell, or is there one in every sperm cell, and the condition isn't right, so then it dies before, I mean, it leaves before it actually forms a body?
- Is there a minimum age for beginning such a college (varnasrama college)?
- Is there a minimum age for the man (a girl is married before puberty, she is not allowed to go to the husband until she has attained puberty... After attaining puberty there is another second marriage. Then the husband and wife live together)?
- Is there a movement to get this philosophy or science propagated in the colleges?
- Is there a process of training to become swami?
- Is there a relationship, he's asking, between these disturbances and this age (if you actually want freedom from material disturbances, you have to come to the spiritual platform and cultivate spiritual knowledge and be fixed up)?
- Is there a single, simple stitch that you could give to people who don't know anything about Krsna consciousness to help them to understand it
- Is there a speciality in the Madhya Pradesh area?
- Is there a specific way to counteract this bad quality of enviousness?
- Is there a spirit opposed to the divine spirit?
- Is there a spiritual planet where Krsna plays the part of one's father?
- Is there a time limit for this spiritual growth?
- Is there a time when the subtle body ceases to exist?
- Is there a Vedic definition of science?
- Is there a way of knowing that the body you inhabited before was of a inferior quality than the one you're inhabiting now, or...?
- Is there a way of knowing whether you're on the way up or you're falling?
- Is there an animal soul, Swami?
- Is there an atom for each (of the ninety-two elements)? Is there a copper atom?
- Is there any benefit to the karmis that a devotee deals with because he engages in business activity with them? Do the karmis get benefit?
- Is there any chance of having a gurukula in Canada?
- Is there any chance of uniting with India again, Pakistan?
- Is there any chance to understand how the Absolute think?
- Is there any danger to us from her (Indira Gandhi) arresting so many people?
- Is there any difference between Siva and Krsna?
- Is there any difference between the ego of a person who is collecting money, or material things, all his life, or a person who is giving all the material things for the service of humanity at large? Is there any difference between the two?
- Is there any difference between...(Ramakrishna Society and ISKCON)?
- Is there any difference in (indistinct) when somebody is chanting japa under the tree and someone who is chanting japa in the temple?
- Is there any difficulty from the solid food?
- Is there any direct line of division between that which you would call knowledge and that what you call religion?
- Is there any example of this ascension into heaven? Didn't Arjuna...
- Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society for brahmana initiation?
- Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society to get first, hari-nama, initiated?
- Is there any instructions about this gosvami business that you have (the gosvamis of Vrndavana, that are agitated)?
- Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
- Is there any method for dissent within your movement? Or change?
- Is there any need to increase our prasadam distribution? Right now about a thousand people come
- Is there any one, one of the translations or one of the purports or of a series of purports of the things that you've published that you think is more clear, more...?
- Is there any other bhasya other than Baladeva-bhasya?
- Is there any other books before Bhagavad-gita?
- Is there any other information about Haridasa (and after burial there was distribution of prasadam and kirtana. Haridasa Ṭhakura. So here you have to show some talks with Haridasa, how feelingly)?
- Is there any particular reason why some spirit souls become directed toward Krsna Consciousness in the first place?
- Is there any philosophy, doctrine, creed, or, for that matter, ritual that can bring God down to the point of a human thought?
- Is there any place in the movement for the drug addicts, a new class which has come...
- Is there any plan to translate into English? Is there any plan to translate Jiva Gosvami's Jiva-bhasya?
- Is there any point in your practice do you consider yourself free from taking lower re-births?
- Is there any possible way of a balanced combination between spiritualism and materialism?
- Is there any real happiness?
- Is there any reason why that (there is not large number of American negroes in your movement) is so?
- Is there any reason why we are just distribute on a Saturday and Sunday (come over here. You are hungry, take prasadam. If I cannot supply daily, I'll supply at least two days, three days weekly)?
- Is there any reason why you don't, you prohibit people from eating meat?
- Is there any reason why you teach your followers the Bhagavad-gita rather than the Bible?
- Is there any result to chanting Krsna's name mechanically? Or must it be uttered with complete devotion?
- Is there any stage at which these atheistic people have done anything good by accident?... Is there any step?
- Is there any subject matter to contact atma, or self, what we call?
- Is there any such thing as innate knowledge?
- Is there any system for publishing works in the future that you may not see?… What would the system be to insure the parampara if you would not personally see these translations?
- Is there any way for a Christian, without the help of a spiritual master, to reach the spiritual sky through believing in the words of Jesus Christ and trying to follow his teachings?
- Is there any way I can prepare (suppose if God says that "You become a dog," can you check it?)?
- Is there anyone actually outside of sanatana-dharma then?
- Is there anyone similar to Joan of Arc in the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Is there anyone there? Any of these characters there? I'm trying to introduce these characters (Srinivasa and Haridasa)
- Is there anyone who is designated to succeed you as the primary teacher of the movement?
- Is there anything in the Vedic literature which supports Darwin's theory?
- Is there anything on earth that is God?
- Is there anything we can do about it (Jagannatha Puri's sanctity they are killing. The biggest panditas are all known meat-eaters also. Meat, fish, everything. Many also take all sorts of intoxication and they also go to the prostitute)?
- Is there anything wrong when the woman works?
- Is there are social act which this Hare Krsna movement has taken?
- Is there conflict with other Eastern religions, and if so, how far is this spread?
- Is there Deity worship on other planets?
- Is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- Is there ever a time when the subtle body dies?
- Is there false ego in different modes? Like false ego in the mode of ignorance, false in the mode of passion or goodness?
- Is there free will?
- Is there in India a licensing body by the state for people to preach?
- Is there individual complete choice?
- Is there much divorce in India?
- Is there not something to this idea of brain, of being spiritually controlled or spiritually directed?... What would you call it?
- Is there one for you, Srila Prabhupada (milk preparation)?
- Is there room in the movement for other persons who are indirectly serving Krsna rather than chanting Hare Krsna all day?
- Is there sex after death?
- Is there some bad effect to it that you feel, Srila Prabhupada, when you take that (Complan)?
- Is there some experience that shows me that that is a predictable result (just like we don't want death. So if I get the chance to come to a position not to die, is it not predictable?)?
- Is there some gradual development in all those nine processes of devotional service, beginning from hearing?
- Is there some mention in the Bhagavatam about this, that the religious men will wear only the clothes to make a profit?
- Is there some mention not to eat many animals but eat one...?
- Is there some order of priority in service then? I mean, sixteen rounds is more important than anything else. And then following that, there's something else?
- Is there some other way we can argue with them (you say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you?), Prabhupada?
- Is there some part of Lord Siva that is there in between?
- Is there some sort of relationship (with Jesus and) with Lord Krsna?
- Is there some story related to the way in which Mayapur was found by Jagannatha dasa Babaji?
- Is there some verse in the Bhagavatam which states that the Bhagavatam reciter must be a very qualified person?
- Is there some way to find out good without following the rules and regulations laid down by the authorities?
- Is there some, any qualities, in the sense that some people have more receptivity towards the divine than other people?
- Is there something special you want me to do there (the ISKCON farm near Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prabhupada?
- Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
- Is there special significance during this period (Kumbha Mela)?
- Is there such a thing as a sincere atheist... who benefits by austerity?
- Is there such a thing as having pure spiritual desires in the soul or not?
- Is there time in the higher nature?
- Is thinking a necessary function of the soul? He says, well for instance an oyster. How does he know whether or not an oyster thinks?
- Is this (if you have got some name which actually refers to God, then it is all right. But if you have got something, name, which refers to dog, then it is wrong) something that your followers can be aware of constantly?
- Is this ("you can see God in everywhere. But one must be Krsna conscious, God conscious. Then he'll see every moment, everywhere God, nothing but God") part of the God consciousness, that in everything is the God?
- Is this (at the present moment) the later half of Brahma's life?
- Is this (God's name the total summarization - "all-attractive.") the same name that is spoken of in the Bible where it says "the word of God"?
- Is this (the eyes are to be treated how to see) true also with your other senses?
- Is this (Those who are not accepting God in lifetime, they will meet God, death. Death is another form of God) something where we can sort of experience death while we are still alive?
- Is this (vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah) in the Gita, in Bhagavad-gita?
- Is this a government-recognized college now (at Navadvipa)?
- 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 an ideal solution or a practical one (the oxen will solve the problem of transport. That bullock cart. Just like Krsna, when He was transferred from Gokula to Nandagrama, so they took all the bullock carts)?
- Is this because the illusion that we see is a representation of the spiritual world in a sense (this material world is only suffering, but under illusion we are accepting suffering as enjoyment)?
- Is this building four or five hundred years old? This very room (this is the place for dining. The Gosvamis, they used to dine here, this room)?
- Is this continual reincarnation only occurring on this earth, or does it occur on other planets?
- Is this desire for material happiness the cause of material attachment?
- Is this devotional spirit the only necessary truth that one is born with, or are there others?
- Is this due to machines, do you think, to the prevalence of machines (you cannot find out an ideal character man)?
- Is this example proper, that a son is being well taken care of by the father, but sometimes he's thinking, "I can enjoy more some other way" (Krsna says, You give up all these nonsense plans. Come to Me)?
- Is this faithfulness, is it a product of the mode of goodness?
- Is this giving you a little relief, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is this God's plan or our plan?
- Is this Hindu faith?
- Is this his temple here, in Vrndavana (here also, Madhava Maharaja temple, nobody goes)?
- Is this immediate, the reception of perfect knowledge?
- Is this isolation a characteristic only of the lower and middle planetary systems? In the higher planetary system, systems, is there so much isolation?
- Is this kind of extinction the purpose behind chastity (voluntary and complete chastity is the first step in asceticism or the denial of the will to live. It thereby denies the assertion of the will)?
- Is this Krsna in this painting here?
- Is this life, this present life, is this also being within Krsna's pastimes, because Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement is Krsna's pastimes?
- Is this like a post? Mayadevi's?
- Is this manifestation (many of your followers dress in what for the West is an odd fashion) the only way to be spiritual, dressing in this fashion?
- Is this manifestation, dressing in this fashion, playing drums and dancing in the streets, the only way to be spiritual?
- Is this mattress hard for you, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is this near the temple (the planetarium)?
- Is this one of the main things that distinguishes a genuine guru from a fake guru (we do not want, depend on anyone's financial contributions. We depend on God, or Krsna)?
- Is this picture of He who is considered Krsna in the pine tree?
- Is this presumptuous, or is this right, to try to praise the creation by making sculpture?
- Is this progress toward human immortality, is that a creative process?
- Is this school (varnasrama college) for women also, or just for men?
- Is this singing essential to the sustenance of your faith?
- Is this statement (individual ego is eternal and also subordinate to that which is eternal), a statement of fact based on direct perception, or it is something what follows traditional belief and is just the axiomatic basis of your philosophy?
- Is this still possible (that the whole human society, it should be recruited and trained up... Then society will be all right), Swamiji? Is there still possibility that that can happen?
- Is this style acceptable to Prabhupada (they sent one sample, Bhaktivedanta Institute, the emblem. And they had wanted to include some Sanskrit slogan, perhaps, and you'd mentioned athato brahma jijnasa, so they have done that and decorated little bit)?
- Is this the ceremony which is often referred to as mantra-diksa?
- Is this the learned brahmana (so he asked his men to carry Him to his place and that will be the scene. Then after His departure His followers will come, and they will search in the temple that Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not there. Then one Gopinatha Acarya)?
- Is this the reason why others who have preceded yourself earlier on, is this the reason why they were not successful, because they were trying to judge the results (our business is to carry out the order, not to see success. Success is not so easy)?
- 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 what Gandhi did (we don't prohibit that you don't mix with woman or you stop sex life. We don't say that. But we make everything regulated under Krsna consciousness. Their aim is higher. These are all secondary platform)?
- Is this world a real place? According to what you were saying, it's illusion
- Is this your first visit to Perth?
- Is this your last body? If so, how do you know?
- Is this your last trip to America?
- Is Vallabhacarya, Prabhupada, in accordance with our philosophy?
- Is woman in each one of these species (the different species of life making up the 400,000 species) another separate species?
- Is worshiping the idol a stepping stone?
- Is yoga part of meditation?
- Is yogurt as healthy as milk?
- Is your philosophy, your approach to consciousness, based on the Gita?
- Is your son in the cult?
- Is your spiritual master still alive?
- Is your way the only way?
- Is... This picture of Sri Visnu, it's the person who you worship or...?
- Isn't brahma-jyotir temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material world?
- Isn't Brahman the source of the light?
- Isn't everything we see a product of experience? Don't all living things have experience?
- Isn't he (Dr. Urquhart) the one who said the woman's brain is thirty-two...?
- Isn't he (Lord Brahma) a pure devotee?
- Isn't it (swimming) refreshing and...?
- Isn't it (unless one is pure, one will not have faith) is also like a child?
- Isn't it a simple idea to love life?
- Isn't it at the beginning Arjuna hesitates to kill his family and doesn't want to go to fight, and what he is taught, through Bhagavad-gita in some way is that he should not restrain and that...?
- Isn't it difficult to belong to Krsna consciousness and exist in this world we must exist in?
- Isn't it in the sense the material concept (and those who know (indistinct), he is not hankering after how to get out of the (indistinct). They do not care for)?
- Isn't it inevitable that it's going to occur, that the devolution occurs inevitably without anyone's being able to change it?
- 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 it shells from the animals (from the rocks it is... They call it weathering. The weather makes it ground up from the rocks. This is their theory)?
- Isn't it when you drive for Krsna, doesn't it become para-vidya then?
- Isn't laziness one of the demonic qualities, Srila Prabhupada?
- Isn't nature material?
- Isn't Om the total expression sound of nature?
- Isn't speech, which is the articulation of the intellect, the primary difference between man and the animals in the sense that is it not through words that one can come to understand God?
- Isn't that (they are sporting with the life of bull, and they are Christian trying to convert others as Christians) somewhat in the ksatriya spirit?
- Isn't that (you cannot catch even nonpoisonous snake, and you are telling that 'I shall now catch cobra') "shooting the rhinoceros"?
- Isn't that a mental manifestation, like if you feel that someone's Krsna conscious? It's not a physical manifestation, right?
- Isn't that a rather negative way to look at the work (that is knowledge, that is knowledge. When a prisoner understands that "This hammering business is not my real business, it is my punishment")?
- Isn't that the same thing as jnana-yoga (wiping away all understanding and knowledge and beginning from the objects themselves, and reducing from those things, the essence of those things, to the truth)?
- Isn't that true that all living entities is man's neighbor?
- Isn't the breaking of a promise a universal moral command, that one should never break his promise, whether it is here or other countries?
- Isn't the fact that we say that one should give up the cultivation of knowledge in conflict with the first six chapters of Gita which deal with cultivation of knowledge?
- Isn't the GBC supposed to be more trusted than the temple president?
- Isn't the ksatriya qualities that he is to be trustworthy?
- Isn't the sound, though, as good as the explanation (have the sound only. (Laughs) The explanation... I shall give you little explanation)?
- Isn't there a point, Prabhupada, at which, you know, you can expect that you've been doing the right things, so there should be some relief?
- Isn't there also individuality and difference (soul, as spirit soul, pure soul, they are all equal. Even in animal)?
- Isn't there also this other one (eternity), when, for instance, Christ says, "I am before Abraham was," this "I am." There is one kind of eternity which has nothing to do with past and future at all, which is beyond past and future?
- Isn't there an absolute value?
- Isn't there motion (in the spiritual sky)?
- Isn't there room for both (economic development and spiritual advancement)? There would not be room for both?
- Isn't there some conditioning between the guru and sisya, that "The guru should be like this and a sisya should be like this"?
- Isn't there something more fundamental than that (actually understand Bhagavad-gita and distribute the knowledge. That is our aim)?
- Isn't yours a product of or derivative of Vedic?
- Isvara is different from Brahman?
- It (Bhagavad Gita) starts in Chapter Two with the question of what is atma?
- It (Calcutta) was bombed frequently, or just once or twice?
- It (death) is inevitable, isn't it?
- It (Genesis) says the earth is square?
- It (he (one very pious east Indian man who for many years has been worshiping Lord Siva) does not chant Hare Krsna, he chants om sivaya namah) is all right?
- It (Punar nava) is good medicinally?
- It (tea or coffee) is sinful?
- It (the drama was a drug-addicted boy killed some friend?) was the sailor who was killed? On the news?
- It (the farm in Hyderabad) can produce enough food to feed the whole society... Do you want me to take care of?
- It (the letter on that Blitz article (a mischievous article in which the newspaper accused us incorrectly), I wrote a reply and sent it to Krishna Modi, the member of Parliament) is okay?
- It (the moon) is a bigger planet?
- It (the moon) rotates?
- It (worldwide membership figure) is increasing?
- It appears that by taking to Krsna consciousness, one becomes less materially benefitted?
- It appears that Schopenhauer recommends about eight hours of sleep a night, and Krsna says not too much or too little. But what is recommended in terms of sleep, just concretely?
- It appears to me that one of the most difficult aspects of Krsna consciousness for someone to accept who's been brought up outside of that point of view is the Deities and the idea that they represent Krsna. Could you talk a little bit about that?
- It becomes a belief rather than a logic now, then, for when we think about the God. You were saying everybody has father, so why God, in exception, He hasn't got a father?
- It can be changed, the age of Kali, by presence of the devotees of Krsna?
- It can be done inside then (blowing the conchshell)?
- It comes also from the living entities on the moon (the moon's light)?
- It does require a certain price for them to pay as individuals. To sincerely try to find Him (Krsna)?
- It doesn't appeal more to the young ones than to the older people (the Hare Krsna movement)?
- It goes deeper and deeper (the chanting)?
- It had one for every verse (illustration)? Very good picture or simple?
- It is a fact though that the repository of Indian culture and religion is Sanskrit. So are you saying then that the harijanas or these class of people...?
- It is a question of eyes and knowing, sir? So, sir, how do we prepare eyes to see (Krsna)?
- It is against capitalism, this idea (varnasrama)?
- It is all coming from Krsna, though, isn't it (maya empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense)?
- It is also guru-purnima… Is there some special celebration or significance?
- It is also not because of the development of consciousness (that because the mother was naked in the childhood, therefore she should not put on any garment. This is nagna-matrka-nyaya. We change according to the circumstances)
- It is because we desired something and we were always frustrated by that desire (anxiety shall continue so long as you are in material condition)?
- It is better to perform one's duty, even though it may be imperfect, than to perform another's duty?
- It is both, isn't it Srila Prabhupada, it is both material and spiritual. In essence it is spiritual?
- It is correct that the illumination of the moon is caused by the movement of the vegetation on the surface?
- It is explained that the intelligence is the next door neighbor of the soul, can you explain exactly what that means, Srila Prabhupada?
- It is first time you visit France?
- It is just like the concept that if God is all-merciful, why He is so impartial, somebody making happy, somebody making suffering?
- It is knowledge, that we don't have the knowledge, or enlightenment that in that watermelon there is something which is worth, or it is only that we don't want to do it, or we don't want to take the trouble?
- It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?… Doesn't that make it more difficult to live? The weather's, everything's so disturbed?
- It is never burned (a Vaisnava acarya's body is never burned. It is entombed. They worship the body. But that is spiritual body)?
- It is not (an accident) determined even by karma?
- It is not difficult (to become Krsna's representative)?
- It is part of your plan to operate schools for this purpose (a college to learn how to become first-class men)?
- It is possible to attain that affection of love for God... without taking part in this Krsna consciousness movement?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It is said in the Bhagavad-gita that if one thinks at the time of death, if he thinks of Krsna, he goes to Krsna. What if one thinks of his spiritual master?
- It is said that once you achieve the Godhead, once you go back to Krsna, that you don't fall down. But it is also said that we come from there originally. If we came from there, how did we fall if we were already there?
- It is said that the karma-kanda in the Vedas has almost gone out of use, except for a few rites which remain in vogue for marriage, sraddhas, etc. Is it advisable to revive the karma-kanda with its stress on the performance of various yajnas?
- It is said that the soul glows with a light brighter than a thousand suns. In the Vedas. Yes?
- It is some sort of artificial transmigration (changing the heart)?
- It is that the problem, that Krsna is the original person of divine, but in, by Ramanuja or Visnu Purana it reverse Visnu is the highest?
- It is the attitude with which one does it (tries to satisfy Krsna, that is important)?
- It is the Gita that you stress on or the Bhagavatam?
- It is the highest blasphemy, isn't it? If one says, "I am God."
- It is true that if there are certain laws, moral commandments, that I should follow them regardless of individual exception? There are no exceptions, regardless...
- It is what? Sarva-dharman parityajya?
- It is written in Gita the soul never dies. When the soul does not die, where does it go after that?
- It is wrong to petition God?
- It isn't a negation of pleasure, but it's a higher pleasure?
- It may be better you drink some barley water. Do you mind drinking it?
- It may take some time. Actually I haven't been to Bombay myself. I haven't seen the land at Juhu. Is there a suitable place for storing the car?
- It mentions dhyana and raja-yoga in that chapter (sixth chapter of Bhagavad-gita). Can you explain the meaning of these two yogas?
- It says here that a pure devotee like Haridasa Thakura would not fall victim to Mayadevi's temptations, but even Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, might fall victim. I always thought that they were pure devotees of the Lord
- 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 says in the Bhagavad-gita that when, if one performs devotional service, then his result is never lost. Then how was it possible for Ajamila to lose all his devotional service to Visnu by associating with a prostitute?
- It says in the Bhagavatam exactly what the distance (of the sun)?
- It seems now that it's the people from the West who want to hear. Why is that?
- It seems that he believes in the Paramatma present within all beings but does not believe in the jiva along with Paramatma. Is this a typical impersonalist position?
- It seems that most of the devotees are young people, persons under thirty, under twenty-five. Why is this so? Why hasn't the movement spread? Is this a deliberate thing, or why do you feel it hasn't spread to parents or to older people?
- It seems to me almost daily that the next processes in life are the much more interesting and exciting ones. But when I hear you speak of Bhagavad-gita and so on, I know nothing about these people. So now where do I start?
- It seems to me if they are to bring Krsna to the world that it would be an important thing for them to have news, to know, to be able to communicate with people. Is there some actual prohibition against (indistinct)?
- It seems to me that you chant, don't you, Hare Krsna?
- It seems to me, sir, that there is a very high emphasis placed on the relationship between the individual and God. But more emphasis on that relationship than on the relationship between one individual and another individual. Am I right in that?
- It seems, the more we strive to push the Krsna consciousness movement forward, the more maya puts obstacles in the way to stop us?
- It should be below the knees or... (Sukracarya's cloth)?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It sounds like Prabhupada wants a moat (on the land at Mayapura). Is that your idea, Srila Prabhupada?
- It understood that the St. Giles in the Field School is available on rent. Now you have asked my instructions in this connection...
- It was a big snake? Very big? And was it Sesa?
- It was after the heart attack that you came here (to Vrndavana)?
- It was some instruction that you got (there was two days I was attacked in heart on the ship. So hardship. (Then you had a dream?) The dream was I must come here)?
- It was too short. In the movie? It was too short how to prepare it (one thing you have missed: how we are preparing all these foodstuffs)?
- It'd be no good at all being priest if you had smallpox, would it?
- It's a big old tree (that courtyard is very beautiful. There is a tamale tree. That is a very valuable tree. The Bisanchand Seth asked me to cut)?
- It's a great difference to believe that you are the son of God and to feel it and to experience it. As long it's only a belief, it's well meaning doing. How to prepare the conditions by which disciples might feel it?
- It's a large city (the plan for Mayapur). Fifty thousand, did you say? People? How many people were there?
- It's a pity and we have to be very open and very friendly to them. I gather this. And your method is meditation and prayer, if I understand it well?
- It's all right that the women are dancing (I told him that you make some play for showing here in Vrndavana)?
- It's almost time for lunch, Prabhupada... Shall we go?
- It's been said sometimes, Prabhupada, that you have said that some rocks have life. Some rocks, some stones, are actually souls in them?
- It's considered offenseless if, chanting, if one follows the orders of the spiritual master carefully?
- It's difficult for people outside the society of Krsna consciousness to see what the purpose is. How would you understand the purpose? Simply to make God known? How would you state...?
- It's difficult for people to understand that God can speak to a man. They question, "How can God speak to some man?"
- It's fortunate to take birth in America or England?
- It's from the Bhagavatam (klisyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye tesam asau klesala eva sisyate nanyad yatha sthula-tusavaghatinam)?
- It's just evolution. There's no meaning. What's the meaning (I do not follow what is the meaning. The sun is rising half past six, exactly at the time. So there is no meaning?) We can't tell what the meaning is?
- It's just that it takes longer. So if that's all right with you, then we won't even request you to sit up when it's time to give you something to drink. Would that be all right? Okay. Can I give you some barley milk, Srila Prabhupada, now?
- It's more in this state (Bengal) than anywhere else, they don't cover their head. Is that due to her influence (wife of Ramakrishna)?
- It's mustard oil with spices, and I am not sure what the fruit is. It may be mango, I'm not sure… It's some kind of crude mango pickle… Do you want me to try to see what it is (why not take little?)?
- It's not a problem simply of the modern society but a problem of man, what are, more specifically, the problems, and how can we solve the problems (the modern society is not taking care of the driver; they are taking care of the car) ?
- It's not acting (makara-dhvaja)? How can you tell so soon?
- It's not being digested? ... Things like soup and vegetable juices?
- It's not dedicated to Krsna? The work is not dedicated to Krsna. How, specifically, how can you do this?
- It's not possible for a woman to become a sannyasī?
- It's not that one has to develop them (moral qualities) independently?
- It's not very painful to take the medicine, is it?… Does it taste bad, Srila Prabhupada, the medicine? Does it taste very bad?
- It's on this quotation from Bhagavata Purana that Caitanya built His system?
- It's only if you haven't got rid of these impurities that you have to return, take on another body?
- It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
- It's said that Narada Muni delivered the chant to the Earth. Was it here before he came? And how long ago did he come?
- It's that "aham" is indicated to Who? The physical posture of Krsna which we know or the...?
- It's true that people are getting disease and sicknesses as the result of their past activities, pious or sinful. Why is it that it appears that when there is a flu many people are inflicted with that flu? Practically everyone, indiscriminately
- It's very easy to convince some people that they're not their bodies, but it's not very easy to convince them that they're not their minds. Is there some way we can...?
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- Jati. So when you say 400,000 species of human life... It's different from what we think of as species?
- Jaya Srila Prabhupada. How many cc's is that, Bhakti-caru?… It's about forty… Forty. So give Prabhupada two more of those. Actually, usually you drink about 200 cc's of barley milk, and you've just drank about 50… Srila Prabhupada?
- Jayapataka Maharaja wanted to know whether the money that I (Tamala Krsna) want to give him can be used for purchasing a projector rather than the land purchase
- Jesus Christ and Muhammad? They were all the reincarnation of Krsna?
- Jesus Christ..., it is said that he made the miracle of the fish and ate. So why is it that one should not eat meat?
- Jiva atma is also a person?
- Jiva Gosvami was the guru of Mira?
- Jnana means knowledge?
- Jung's understanding of religion is made considerably more difficult owing to the lack of explanations. Do you understand what you are reading?" And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?"
- Just as you have given an example of krodha by Lord Hanuman in burning Lanka, are there any such instances where lobha could also be personified Lord Krsna's desire?
- Just because there was a little inability for sleep, why should you give up all of the, you know, regimentations which they're prescribing?
- Just before her death she apparently was able to explain some of her past lifetimes to her mother, that she had formerly been a princess or of noble birth and that now she was being called. Is there some explanation for that?
- Just by distributing your books we can become self-realized?
- Just by our presence chanting then (they're all infected, the whole world. So by chanting you disinfect)?
- Just by saying "Krsna Book," he makes spiritual advancement?
- Just by selling books or... You must receive gifts as well (in Los Angeles we collect about eight hundred dollars daily. I think it must be about twenty thousand dollars a day, through the society)?
- Just getting off that, can I ask why you've come to Australia again?
- Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?
- Just like if five thousand years from now some archeologists came to Los Angeles, which is all covered over, who knows what they may dig up? What will they conclude from their findings? That all of Los Angeles was made up of monkeys?
- Just like if it suddenly got cold, the spirit soul would desire to be warm so he would evolve a body with hair?
- Just like now we have come to the point where the different doctors are thinking very seriously of having this mercy killing passed in the courts. When a person becomes too much diseased, actually he would be happier if he was dead, so why not kill him?
- Just like one man, on this point about the books, he came up and said, "Where does it say in Hinduism that you should harass people to sell them a book?"
- Just like the bird—whether the bird caused the fruit to fall, or whether the fruit happened to fall coincidentally. It doesn't matter. Is that the point?
- Just like the child, Srila Prabhupada, who was trying to find the sound within the drum, the material scientists are trying to find out the cause and effect of the material world. Is that not intelligence?
- Just like the Visnudutas, they have their four-handed form. Does that mean that they will never rise up to the state of associating with Krsna in two-handed form?
- Just like, aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- Just now you said we are all part and parcel of God. What would you say is God?
- Just opposite the (Patala bhumi means just opposite the...)?
- Just read like this, Srila Prabhupada?
- Just recently (George. He showed me in Bombay. He came to see me in Bombay)?
- Just that one point. In my speaking to Ganesha's(?) also, even when we tell them we are bringing huge amounts of foreign exchange from abroad, they at once say, "But how do you get this money abroad?"
- Just try one more day. If all hope is frustrated, then what is the loss if we take that medicine one more day?
- Jyotirmayi is outside, and Yogesvara. We can have them come in? Is now the right time to ask? She has some questions on Gurukula. Is now okay?