Category:Questions asked to SP... 1970
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
Pages in category "Questions asked to SP... 1970"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 144 total.
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- 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 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?
- 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?
- Are disciplic successions from Brahma and from Arjuna different?
- Are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them?
- 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?
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- Different stages? Are there different stages?
- Do the Vedic histories refer to this planet only?
- Do they have to practice every day?
- Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now?
- Do you practice meditation in your center?
- Do you think that the present democratic system will be able to impart a spiritual education?
- Do you want to hear the next letter?
- Does one become elevated by following the karma-yoga principles only?
- 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?
- Don't you think that instead of building a temple, asramas in this brahmacari model would be...?
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- Have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
- He says that legions of sadhus, such white men, persons from West, become sadhus, then who will do this job of earning a living?
- 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 it is possible, how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmana?
- How much money?
- How the five great elements are a gross representation of the subtle false ego?
- 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 convince the young persons who are thinking that Meher Baba is an avatara?
- How to offer respects to Sannyasis?
- How you chose this America to be your first...?
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- 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 told by one devotee, a person working for Lord Caitanya, Lord Caitanya will appear as Supersoul to him (indistinct) this happen?
- If a spiritual seed sprouts, then whatever sprout is made is never lost. Right?
- If the spiritual master is not bona fide, then is the Deity also not bona fide?
- If this body is pure soul, then why it gets engaged with worldly matter?
- If we chant Hare Krsna, all our sinful activities are washed away. Is that so even if we chant offensively?
- In reference to Isopanisad mantra 15, should a devotee ask the Lord to reveal Himself?
- In Siddhaloka there are angels? That means angels?
- 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 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?''....
- Is it all right to finish rounds in the temple when there's nothing to do?
- 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 true Narada has the same body in the spiritual world and when he comes into the material world?
- Is it true when you said that the hill (Govardhana Hill), there is cracks?
- Is secularism coming in way of spreading spiritual education?
- Is the planetary system the universe, or is there something beyond the planetary system which it is situated in?
- Is there a distinction between that mode of goodness described in the Eighteenth Chapter and the Fourteenth Chapter?
- Is there any particular reason why some spirit souls become directed toward Krsna Consciousness in the first place?
- 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 understood that the St. Giles in the Field School is available on rent. Now you have asked my instructions in this connection...
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- Lord Buddha is not an incarnation? I thought that Lord Buddha was supposed to be incarnation of Visnu
- Lord Buddha, he adopted a new type of religion, but those who were strict followers of Vedas, they would not accept him. Does that mean that there were still people who were following those beliefs, scriptures, at his time, or did he convert all of India?