Category:Questions asked to SP... 1968
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- Now Dan not only said that you said that if people try to land on the moon they would not be able to. Can you explain what you meant by that?
- Now do you say that the moon is, so to speak...? What should I say? Headquarters, where these demigods live?
- Now it's true that a soul must evolve through perhaps many lifetimes in order to reach the point at which he is ready to attempt renunciation. Right?
- Now, are you a guru?
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- Oh, a letter to the Pope. Did he answer it (now I have written one letter to Pope)?
- On Krishna loka are all of Krishna's pastimes with the living entities controlled by Krishna, or do the living entities have choice in this matter?
- Our mind gets distracted even while we're engaged in selling Back to Godhead, then how can we always, how can we always return to that point of remembering even though our senses are being dragged by billboard signs and so many...
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- Perhaps the battlefield in the Bhagavad-gita is the battlefield of Arjuna's mind, and Krsna is trying to push him to go into battle against the forces of his senses, as characterized by Duryodhana. What do you think about that?
- Prabhupada, a picture of Krsna is absolute, right? That is Krsna. Is the picture of a pure devotee absolute in the same way?
- Prabhupada, after Lord Caitanya took sannyasa, in the Teachings of Lord Caitanya it says He met His mother. I always thought that a sannyasi could not do that
- Prabhupada, can you explain mahamaya and yogamaya? Was Arjuna under yogamaya or mahamaya?
- Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?
- Prabhupada, even when the mind is cleared, does there not continue to be an objective temporary existence of material phenomena?
- Prabhupada, for one who worships Lord Buddha, is there a planet for him to go to?
- Prabhupada, how was it that Lord Jesus was called a son of God? If Krsna is usually the son, how come Jesus was the son?
- Prabhupada, I have heard from different sources that there is a vibration that is going on in the universe at all times. When they refer to this vibration, are they referring to the om, the sacred om vibration?
- Prabhupada, I read in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Volume Three, that when one becomes a liberated soul, he attains perfect freedom, and even sometimes that freedom is on the same level as Krsna or even more than Krsna
- Prabhupada, was the appearance of Lord Nrsimha-deva predicted in the sastras, in the Vedas, or does the Lord appear any time His devotees are in dire need for His protection?
- Prabhupada, what if we know we should serve and we want to serve, but the service is so bad?
- Prabhupada, what is a Manu, and how is Manu the father of mankind, as it is stated in Bhagavad-gita?
- Prabhupada, what is the nature of anger?
- Prabhupada, what was exactly predicted by Lord Caitanya when He predicted the Golden Age of Kali, the age in the Age of Kali when people would be chanting the Hare Krsna mantra?
- Prabhupada, when I'm serving you sometimes I feel very nice, but then when I think of how bad and imperfect this service is, I feel terrible. Which is right to feel?
- Prabhupada, when we're out on sankirtana, chanting, what would be the best way for us to engage the crowd to become participants in the chant with us?
- Prabhupada, when you say we must be honest in our dealings... If we have an advantage to, to take advantage of somebody else for Krsna, for Krsna consciousness, is this permissible?
- Prabhupada, why did Lord Jesus Christ eat meat?
- Prabhupada? How do we explain to impersonalists inductively the existence of the Personality of Godhead?
- Prabhupada? When the soul transmigrates from one body to another, the consciousness of that gross body, does the person retain some of the consciousness of his past lives with that transmigration?
- Prahlada Maharaja, his father becomes a demon, and he has to fight Nrsimha. That means it is the karma of a previous life, and he's praying. Or is it understood that he'll get the protection? So why this prayer?
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- Rather than to be a man, rather than to have to talk English alone or other languages? How to talk that one language?
- Regarding your inquiry into Japan for reprinting the book
- Regarding your question about Krishna recommending the chanting of His Holy Names...
- Regarding your question about the picture of Lord Caitanya with six arms...
- Regarding your question about the Prasadam recipes
- Regarding your question about Yogananda, you write to say that you "received the impression from his autobiography that he was a genuine saint who dedicated his life to serving God''
- Regarding your question as to obtain a house or a storefront for holding kirtanas...
- Regarding your question of the planetary systems
- Regarding your question, about living alone
- Regarding your question: "about the six-armed Lord Caitanya you gave me (Krishna, Lord Caitanya, and Lord Rama combined.)... What do the Saivite-like tilakas on His arms signify?"
- Regarding your questions, how material things dissolve
- Regarding your questions, you want to offer something in the evening to Krishna besides fruit and milk
- Regarding your questions: Once prasadam (water, or foodstuffs) is offered to the Lord, His Plate should remain on the altar for about 15-20 minutes (while the portion in the pots may be taken by the devotees)
- Right after the chanting, everyone bows, and that I don't understand, what they're doing
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- Should the young American faced with the war in Vietnam go forth to Vietnam realizing that the slayer and the slain are one and that all this slaughter, just slaughter karma, and follow the way of the sage
- Should we give them prasadam?
- Should we just completely devote all our time to studying the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and then progress from there, or should we continue our study of the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- So far as your question about arranging time...
- So far your question whether you should stay at New Vrindaban, or help Hayagriva at Columbus...
- So many people who stop performing prescribed duty to engage in so-called meditation, actually they are committing sinful activity? Is this actually sinful activity to attempt such meditation like that?
- So that mind is part of the soul. It's just, it's polluted?
- Somebody asked me this question, "Swamiji, if a person is moral and dutiful and benevolent, all the good qualifications, so what is the use of worshiping God?"
- Sometimes I feel, what they call cakras. Like I feel very light over here, and I feel something swirling over here that I think they call the thousand-petalled lotus. Is this just my imagination, or are these things real?
- Sometimes we forget to do our duty very attentively. By associating with Krsna through His name, then we can remember our duty?
- Sri Bhaktivedanta, how is it that the Absolute, which is so, at this point, for me, beyond human comprehension, how can it take this form of Krsna-Radha?
- Subhadra is the external energy? Is Subhadra in the spiritual world?
- Suppose a person is born in a very poor family. What does that mean?
- Swami, for my benefit, and perhaps everyone else's, can you tell us briefly what you mean by the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary?
- Swami, spiritual energy is situated in the heart as localized Paramatma. Is this also Krsna's personal feature?
- Swami, what is om?
- Swami, would you initiate me?
- Swami? You say that Krsna consciousness is a system of purifying the senses. Does that mean that the senses become unlimited? Do the senses become unlimited when they're finally purified?
- Swamiji, are the Hindus essentially vegetarian in the sense of the Seventh Day Adventist...?
- Swamiji, did you say that householders should not associate with brahmacaris?
- Swamiji, I don't understand when you say that you worship Krsna or Visnu. I don't understand if Krsna is Visnu or Visnu is Krsna
- Swamiji, I think she means do you have to do any kind of breathing exercising besides chanting?
- Swamiji, I'm always confused by the term "serving God," "serving Krsna"
- Swamiji, if our rasa with Krsna is eternal, and we want to have the rasa of lover with Krsna, is it possible to change? If our rasa is like father to son, we can never become lover?
- Swamiji, in one of Professor Sanyal's books he says that the mind is an organ of the soul. Is that correct? I always thought the mind was part of the material, the subtle body, the subtle material body
- Swamiji, is the dream world the real world?
- Swamiji, is there higher devotional service than chanting?
- Swamiji, is there such thing as mind, intelligence, and ego in the spiritual realm?
- Swamiji, so the government, the present government in the world...?
- Swamiji, someone approached me and we were discussing about Krsna consciousness. And I said to approach Krsna one must be pure, but he said, "What is purity?" Could you explain that technically? What is purity?
- Swamiji, the other night you said that one who uses his body for the purpose of Krsna, then his body becomes spiritual. How then is the body still subject to change?
- Swamiji, what's the meaning of "Thakura"?
- Swamiji, would it be all right for Cathy to become a devotee?
- Swamiji, you mentioned that death is actually sleeping for seven months? Is this provided you take on a human form of life? If you take on a dog's body then it's still seven months?
- Swamiji, You said that sleep is complete waste of time. What about dreaming?
- Swamiji? Are there people living on the moon now or were they in other yugas living there?
- Swamiji? Is it possible for us to worship Krsna purely in this lifetime?
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- That devotional service has to be causeless in order to be the perfect conductor?
- That disciplic succession from Lord Brahma, that was not broken?
- The answer to your question about the marginal energy...
- The example of the king that wanted to enter the heavenly kingdom and was opposed, is this in this book also? And he was opposed by the demigods?
- The final question which was asked by Tosana about the validity of the story of the sparrow and the ocean...
- The first mantra, Hare Krsna mantra, that's for, you say, that's to clean the mind of the material contam...?
- The Holy Bible is written by the holy spirit of mankind. Should we believe on the Bible or not?
- The Krsna consciousness, its Vedic literature, they have some of the same books or also holy books for what we call Hindu religions, aren't they?
- The law in the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." But the federal law of the United States says you must go into the Army and kill. So which to follow? There is a difference. They both say opposite things
- The living entity can purify himself and become eligible to enter into the spiritual world and Krsna, but can he still fall as an expansion of the marginal energy?
- The material elements are described, the mind, intelligence, and false ego. What's the, what is that mind, you know, that material mind? In other words, there's a spiritual mind and a material mind?
- The residents of the moon live for a long time? Thousands of years?
- The sadhus in India who have long hair and wander in the woods and stuff, I guess, do they have spiritual teachers? The sadhus in India
- The space uniform, you don't feel that is adequate?
- The stories of Krsna's pastimes in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are they found in the Vedas also?
- The Vedas were from time immemorial?
- The whole world has heard of the Maharishi Mahesh. Is he part of your order?
- Then a man who is not, does not have a purified consciousness has no way of knowing what is good or bad?
- Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?
- There are different techniques for reaching Christ consciousness or God consciousness or self-realization. What test do you recommend for finding out which technique is the best?
- There are six things such as anger, lust, false pride, envy. What are the other two?
- There are so many stories of Lord Caitanya converting so many rascals. By just His presence, they would chant Hare Krsna. How can we get His mercy so that we can help the people around us to chant Hare Krsna?
- There's no sermon as we would know in other churches?
- These days there are so many men who claim to have found the Absolute, who claim to be spiritual masters in their own way. How does one tell who is a bona fide spiritual master?
- They could go to another planet?
- This is possible from the examples of great saintly persons and from literature we can find that one can be completely free from the four demands of the body, namely eating, sleeping, defending and mating
- This rule, "No gambling," does this also include speculation?
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- Was Krsna born, and if so, where?
- Was the chanting of the name of Krsna effective as it is in this age or is there another method prescribed as being more effective?
- Was there always a kind of a movement?
- We are eternally conditioned, but as soon as we surrender to Krishna do we then become eternally liberated?
- We are expansions of Radha?
- We are very small. One ten-thousandth part of a hair. Since we are unchangeable, does Krsna change His size to be the same size as us so that we can associate with Him when we go back to the spiritual world?
- We could also have a passive relationship with Krsna, like a tree?
- We couldn't find any barley. What can we use instead?
- We have a spiritual body to serve Krsna?
- We saw a rose-colored light that was vibrating all around the food. Is this how He eats?
- Well, I don't quite understand how you say you go to the moon planet and die. What about the space suits or living inside a spaceship on the moon
- Well, let's take the situation of an individual who is very deeply addicted to the senses, such as sexual...
- Well, then why a conference with men of other religions?
- Were there any followers before you came to this country?
- Were you born in this country?
- What about a future suit?
- What about people who have come since the Vedic literatures, since the time the Vedic literatures were written. What about them?
- What about the beings that live on the moon planet? Do you feel that they would interfere with any experiments or persons from earth landing there or trying to land there?
- What are other major beliefs, besides love, to which you ascribe?
- What are the basic beliefs of the Krsna religion?
- What are the good qualities you referred to not too long ago?
- What are your teachers called, those who teach the members of the community of Krsna consciousness? Are they also gurus or anything similar to the gurus of the Hindu faith?
- What color is the ocean of milk?
- What determines our fortune?
- What distinguishes bhakti-yoga from karma-yoga?
- What do you believe in reference to Ramakrishna? He was in the Hindu faith
- What do you believe in?
- What do you do with your eyes (during meditation)? Close your eyes?
- What do you know of this Maharishi Yogi that has become so world famous, and what could you tell us of his teachings by way of comparison?
- What do you offer to Krsna?
- What do you think of kundalini or raja-yoga?
- What does that expert mean in the list of qualifications for a devotee?
- What does that mean, Swamiji, that new prayer?
- What does the word Krsna mean?
- What does your interpretation, or how does it differ in principle from the basic Jewish-Christian ethic of the Ten Commandments?
- What does your temple look like?
- What effect to the followers does chanting give?
- What exactly takes place when consciousness becomes purified?
- What happens if the universe ends and there are some souls that have not yet transferred themselves to the other universe?
- What happens in your temples. Do you have services like other religions?
- What happens to the miscreants when they are vanquished?
- What happens to the Vaisnava if he is following the spiritual master and he's not successful in spiritual life? Does he also take birth on higher planets like it says in the Bhagavad-gita?
- What is Balarama's relationship with Radha?
- What is God?
- What is it that you take with you (after death)?
- What is Krsna consciousness in relation to other faiths, like, say, when you think of Krsna and you die, in a battle for Krsna or something? What if you believed in Jesus Christ and you died in battle for Jesus Christ?
- What is maya? I know that it's attractive...
- What is meant by madness?
- What is our true identity?
- What is the "renounced order"?
- What is the correct sexual etiquette for a strict Grhastha; and what is spiritual family planning?
- What is the difference between an expansion and an incarnation?
- What is the difference between an incarnation and an avatara?
- What is the difference between bhava and prema?
- What is the difference between Jagannatha deities and Krishna Murti and why is the latter not fed and cared for as well as the former and why are Jagannathas more tolerant?
- What is the hand attire which you are wearing?
- What is the outcome of continuous practice of the chant "Om?"
- What is the perfection of this life?
- What is the position of Lord Siva?
- What is the proper relationship of the devotee to Radharani?
- What is the proper spiritual attitude toward rodents, reptiles, and disease-bearing insects? What should be the proper spiritual attitude toward those?
- What is the purpose of the robes and having your head shaved?
- What is the relationship between Lord Krsna and Lord Jesus Christ?
- What is the relationship of sweethearts in Vaikuntha to each other and to Lord Narayana? Is conjugal love, parental affection, and unalloyed friendship there in the Vaikunthas?
- What is the relationship of the surabhi cow with Krsna?
- What is the significance of using the barley and the sesame?
- What is the value of accepting this sacrifice for the human being? Can it be accepted as a kind of masochism?
- What is your explanation of the creation of the world?
- What is your opinion of yoga and Zen? Do you incorporate any of their principles? Such as meditation for example?
- What is your wedding ceremony like?
- What kind of a capacity is knowledge? Does that depend on the previous body of the soul?
- What kind of manifestation is time, of Krsna, kala? Kala, time. How is time a feature of Krsna?
- What should you be thinking about when you're chanting?
- What then are the guides? Are they also masters of a sense? Spiritual guides
- What then is a master? Are there not many planes in mastership?
- What type of living entity is Mayadevi?
- What types of food, what types of things do you drink, such as juices or anything else do you drink?
- What were your activities after your initiation?
- What's the difference? I've heard terms like incarnation, expansion, and plenary expansion, like Krsna incarnates Himself, expands Himself...
- When a living entity becomes pure, purified, he is called sac-cid-ananda, he has perfect knowledge. And Krsna is also sac-cid-ananda. Is that knowledge the same?
- When did you come to this country?
- When do we begin to become attracted?
- When householder women raise their children in Krsna consciousness, this seems to be an indirect service for Krsna, or is raising children and just having the household function, is that enough service?
- When I say Christ consciousness, to get your mind on the same level as the atoms, and on a higher level, beyond the atoms as pure spirit - are these two levels of consciousness?
- When it says "duty," does that mean you don't have to do anything at all?
- When Krsna appears in each of the four yugas, does each appearance of svayam bhagavan, personally He appearance?
- When Krsna came here, did He take a spiritual master too?
- When Krsna lifted up Govardhana Hill, nobody said that was a miracle. But when Jesus Christ made so many things, they say it's a miracle. How is that?
- When Lord Christ appeared he seemed to be conditioned in his growth. Was he a specific incarnation or a conditioned soul who became liberated?
- When one has become pure enough, Krishna conscious, does one take regular dictation from one's Guru Maharaja? I know you to confirm yes, but how is this so?
- When people realize, when there's no more butter will people realize they've made a mistake or will they get attached to something else?
- When some new animal or person is born, is the soul always a reincarnation of some previous soul?
- When there are several living entities within a close area of space or there are several living entities...?
- When they go back to Godhead, some people can remember their past lives? In the mind? I thought the mind was left behind
- When they perform these miracles, (indistinct) that is with their material body?
- When they say they have a surplus of grains now, they are burning these great mounds of grains, this means that in the future there will be no grains for this country to eat?
- When was it that you arrived from India with $2?
- When was it written, the Bhagavad-gita?
- When we engage inferior energy, internal energy, in the service of Krsna, it becomes spiritualized, doesn't it?
- When we get the next body does our mind retain much of what is learned in the life before? At least the general principles? Or does it start all over again and live within that body and gain its knowledge through that body?
- When we learn to love Krsna, do we transcend goodness?
- When we serve Krsna, even though we don't have a material body...?
- When we use the word "natural," though we usually refer to it as "according to the laws of nature," but a person who's also "natural," would he not come to Krsna consciousness or would he not pursue Krsna consciousness?
- When we're dreaming, when we're asleep, are we in maya? Even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters?
- When you had that heart attack, did you feel the pain?
- When you join, do you assume a name? Do you change your name?
- When you said that a brahmana is... Do you mean, when you say brahmana, do you mean... I mean are they... the devotees who are not pure but...
- When you succumb to Krsna consciousness, or to Krsna, do you still have any obligation to, say, the worldly affairs, in making, say, the world a better place?
- When you talk about Lord Siva and you shouldn't imitate him and people do imitate him and then they say "Oh, we smoke marijuana because Siva does it." Is it all right to say, "Oh? You want to imitate him. Then you must also drink an ocean of poison"?
- When your spiritual master was a little boy, did he do things like Lord Caitanya did like when He went to the water and all girls were asking for...?
- Where does the money come from to print Godhead?
- Where in India did you come from originally?
- Where is Krsna consciousness most common in the world, and how widespread is it in India?
- Where were the souls before the universe began?
- Where would the moon planet fit?
- While we are chanting our rounds, or while we are chanting out loud in kirtana, is it all right to be engaging our mind in thinking?
- Who is in charge of a temple when you're not here?
- Who is the author of Mahabharata?
- Who provides you with money?
- Who was Jesus's father?
- Why am I forced to death?
- Why are they trying to transcend material, transcend material nature? Who is doing these miracles?
- Why Bali Maharaja is considered a Mahajana?
- Why did Arjuna ask Krishna to go to His four armed form rather than His two armed form after Krishna had showed Arjuna His Visvarupa?
- Why did people in the past ages sacrifice animals, and how did Krsna put a stop to this?
- Why did you come here?
- Why do you feel that the younger people today are turning more and more toward the eastern-oriented religions?
- Why is everything always taped at all the...?
- Why is it that the younger people or people in general, are disenchanted, are trying to go towards the eastern-oriented religion if their aim or premise is the same as the western?
- Why is Lord Caitanya carrying a forked stick?
- Why is this human life in such a diseased condition with war, pestilence, and famine?
- Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?
- Why would someone take less? Why would someone choose Visnu and not Krsna if they know that Krsna is cent percent and Visnu is ninety-four percent?
- Why would you take less than Krsna? If Krsna is cent percent, why take less?
- Will the Swami give another service in the Arlington Street Church any time in the future?
- Will we know Krsna as well by thinking always how can we spread this Krsna consciousness? ... As much as if you study thoroughly the Vedas?
- Will you always be our spiritual master?
- Will you be our spiritual master for eternity?
- Will you please explain about the 28th mahayuga of this Manu, in which the treta and Dvapara yugas are reversed?
- Would a spacesuit substitute for that (with this body you cannot go there (to the moon). You have to prepare a similar body which is suitable for living condition there)?
- Would the flight that was just completed, that doesn't contradict with anything in this book?
- Would you consider the caste system as designations?
- Would you describe where Krsna consciousness started and why you have come to the Western world?
- Would you discuss your dancing with me please and explain something of it?
- Would you give me a background, the history and origin of Krsna consciousness?
- Would you like a plate, Swamiji?
- Would you say that the western-oriented church's message is not relevant or that they have failed to present their message properly?
- Would you tell me something of your own background? That is, where you were educated, how you became a disciple of Krsna
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- Yes, but we in Krsna consciousness, we aren't interested in that Paramatma, are we?
- Yet you say that there are several processes for knowing God. Is that right? That are written? And that only one can be used now?
- You are finding some difficulty with sex desire and have asked guidance from me to instruct you how to handle this problem of the material body
- You are the head of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Is it a church?
- You do perform wedding ceremonies?
- You expect that they would oppose?
- You go for a prescribed course of study?
- You have asked about singing the prayers of Narottama Thakura...
- You have asked about the compiler of Sri Brahma Samhita...
- You have asked about the printing of Srimad-Bhagavatam...
- You have asked as to where is the ocean of love?
- You have asked if I found it difficult to carry on devotional service when in my household life...
- You have asked me about sassafras...
- You have asked me to let you know about the concrete plan for Bombay...
- You have asked my permission whether you can stay in San Francisco...
- You have asked whether you may use charcoals to use for fuel during the winter...
- You have very frankly inquired from me about householder life, especially in the matter of sex relationship
- You know from Meher Baba?
- You mentioned new bodies. Does this embrace reincarnation? That is, when we leave the physical body we have now on death, do you mean that consciousness goes on
- You met a gentleman by the name of Harvey Cohen?
- You referred earlier to some proofs of after-life. I wonder are these available in writing in English, and do people here know of them?
- You said that as the age of Kali-yuga progresses there'll be no more butter?
- You said that everybody who has laws should live under them. Does an individual have a right to choose his own laws?
- You said that if people try to land on the moon they would not be able to. Can you explain what you meant by that?
- You said we're not supposed to tolerate any blaspheming of the Lord, not of His name or in any way. How are we supposed to not tolerate that?
- You say that Krsna consciousness people should start at an early age, but does that mean we should consider ourselves at age of a very small child towards beginning Krsna consciousness?
- You say the chanting cleans the dust from the mirror of the mind. What does mirror mean? How does it mean mirror? What is it reflecting?
- You say we should lose the designations. Now, would you consider the caste system as designations?
- You say, in your essay, Super Consciousness, that the topmost is to see Narayana Form and take dictation. In short the question is, is it true that the yogi who is travelling to planets and performing siddhis - has never seen Narayana?
- You spoke of initiation. What is that initiation?
- You stated that the reason that we forget is that we change, the body changes. Now when we chant, we remember. I wish you could sort of elaborate on why we forget. I don't completely understand
- You want to film the Bhagavad-gita, Swamiji?
- You're not supposed to ask from God anything for yourself. So you can ask from God maybe things to help improve your consciousness?
- Your authority for this statement is based in the Vedic literature?
- Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings?
- Your question about will and the individual and the difference between them...
- Your second question about falling down from the brahma-jyotir...
- Your teachers are called spiritual masters?