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- Pardon me (could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did? Why shall I tell you?)? If you wish
- Perhaps finally, then, I could ask you, do you ever have any doubts?
- Perhaps you can speak for the representative of Krsna?
- Perhaps you could explain to me the different feelings that you've gone through in your life. Is that possible?
- Prabhupada, do you have any advice for ordinary Americans?
- Presumably you would encourage this movement of more people to find a spiritual life?
- Process as laid down in Gita ("Neither poverty is check nor material opulence is check. Anyone can understand if he follows the principle or process")?
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- Seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?
- Seems silly, doesn't it (do you think it is civilization? Mother who has given you milk in your childhood, and maintained your life, and because she is old, cutting throat. Is that good civilization?). Umm, I think are you keeping cows here?
- She must become dependent on her son because her husband would ideally become a sannyasi. Is that...?
- She said what do you think about the other gurus?
- She's asking why is three to four hours the amount that you sleep. How have you reached that standard?
- Sir, are we rightly understanding that by "Krsna" you mean some eternal principle?
- Sir, whom do you find more responsive to your movement, women or men?
- Sir, why are they sinful? Why are they (to take tea or coffee) sinful?
- Sir, would you like to give any message to the Indian people?
- So by looking at Him (Krsna) you are trying to rouse the interests of the people, or curiosity?
- So how would you define sin? What is impurities or to sin?
- So if we don't choose our leaders by popular election, how will society be governed?
- So in relation to your movement, where does Marxism stand?
- So is there anything obligatory or prescribed for all people who follow this religion, that a minimum observance that they must do?
- So that is within us (the dormant Krsna consciousness)?... And it needs to be brought out... And how is that brought out?
- So the solution for the world is Krsna consciousness?
- So then, is it true then that people who have this conception, they would not try for progress?
- So what are you doing now? You've come to England for a brief stay. I gather you travel a lot
- So what do you really mean by arousing the Krsna consciousness? What does it entail?
- So when people are taught, they will then understand. But what I'd also like to know, how would it affect the way they live? In sort of purely..., the way they go about their life
- So where does most of your money come from?
- So where does she fit (into this (four classes) social structure)?
- So would it be true to say that perhaps without George Harrison of the Beatles the religion wouldn't be as well known as it is today?
- So you completely write off anybody who says that there should be a step of faith. And would you, in other words... So you would say that science can prove that God exists?
- So you just chanted in Thompkins Park, and people came?
- So you never doubt any of this, anything at all?
- Some members the Parliament says, the movement is in some anti-Indian activities. What do you...?
- Some of the objections are that the followers of the Hare Krsna sect are, on the streets or in the airports, are bothering people
- Some young people were attracted to the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness. Is there a special reason? What explanation do you have why some?
- Srila Prabhupada, have you realized God?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the purpose of human life to realize God?
- Srila Prabhupada, one press man wanted to know what is this Rathayatra festival? Why is it going on over here in the western world?
- Supposing hundred pure saintly Krsna conscious people are meditating or discussing or just serving together, and there comes somebody, some dusta who drops a bomb, and at the end of all...?
- Swami, I saw a television program about your movement once, and they said that the men make the decisions and the women follow. Is that true?
- Swami, is there a chance that all your followers can realize the highest truth?
- Swamiji, a very personal question. How would you react when people give you a godly reception?
- Swamiji, can I ask a question? How old are you, or, maybe I should say, how young are you?
- Swamiji, can you please? Yes, please. Can you tell us what your purpose is in coming to New York at this time?
- Swamiji, could you please throw light on your four-point regulation which you suggest to your disciples?
- Swamiji, do you have certain farms also in America, gosala?
- Swamiji, does this chanting of mantra brings purity or following of your four instructions or regulations which you have told, or both?
- Swamiji, excuse me, is there any special significance of keeping this bead hidden from the public?
- Swamiji, how many asramas and things you have?
- Swamiji, I would like to know, that I feel that your society, the Hare Krsna consciousness society, has a very, very stable economy and that it is self-sufficient in itself. Is that so?
- Swamiji, what do you suggest to your disciples to arouse what you call Hare Krsna consciousness or God consciousness?
- Swamiji, when there was discussion in Parliament about the fabulous money that the movement has, society has, then who provided the answers?
- Swamiji, why do you prohibit this tea or coffee also?
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- Tell me a little bit about Krsna consciousness, will you?
- Tell me about him (Jesus)?
- Tell me in fact what is the purpose of your visit to London?
- Ten years ago, when you first came to the United States, did you take a very active role in the organization, and I'm wondering whether you do much of that now?
- That (Brahmaloka) is actually a physical planet?
- That (my definition of God) is beside the point. I am asking the Swami who is God?
- That (woman requires protection by the man) goes against the thinking of a lot of people in America now. Do you know that?
- That's really what I was going to ask you. You must find life difficult preaching the values of brotherhood?
- The chanting of Krsna's name, the Hare Krsna mantra, seems to play a very important role in the profession of your religious belief. Right?
- The cow (third-class means they should engage themselves, how to produce food and give protection to the cow)?
- The Krsna consciousness movement has been what some people would consider sexist or racist because certain propensities for women and for blacks have been defined. And I wondered if you would comment on that
- 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 members of the movement… they've decided to dress differently, and they're dressing now in an Indian style. Is it necessary to do that, or could I carry on being a member of a radio station and still be a member of the Hare Krsna movement?
- The people who have gathered around you, younger people, is that deliberate on your part?
- The press reporters, they were asking me that we make distinction between man, woman, and black, white
- The residents of the moon live for a long time? Thousands of years?
- The situation is that other people think that it (Krsna consciousness) is negative, and therefore they feel negatively towards us. So how should we react to that?
- The smrtis are based on the srutis?
- The space uniform, you don't feel that is adequate?
- The spiritual organizations in India, all the spiritual teachings in India, have always put great emphasis on the fact that we are spiritual beings. So what was the necessity of creating another movement to say the same things?
- The ten-year-old boys who left Gurukula and went to Vrndavana and then went to Mayapur, what will they...? They will be trained in the divisions there and come back?
- The thing that worries me is that how do people begin to understand that their basic principle might be wrong?
- The traditional charge against Hinduism is that it is fatalistic, that it inhibits progress by making people slaves to the belief in the inevitability of what is to happen. How far is this charge true?
- The values of Western civilization have made that (articifial division). Therefore that's made living as children of God impossible?
- The whole nation is worker ("They want everyone should become a sudra, the Communists life, worker, "Work." And therefore they have not been successful. The whole nation is worker, and who will give the brain?")?
- The whole world has heard of the Maharishi Mahesh. Is he part of your order?
- Then what is the way to purity?
- There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness? Other way?
- There are many swamis and gurus and religious people throughout the world. How does one know which is the true guru?
- There are probably more people in the world now who are seeking some kind of spiritual new light than probably ever before, or at least, there's more evidence of it. And I wonder if you agreed with that, and if so can you tell me why it is?
- There are various samskaras prescribed in the life of a Hindu right from his birth to death... Many of these samskaras are not being observed today. Should they be revived?
- There is place for women in the religion too isn't?
- There must have been an element, though, of dissatisfaction then on your part, with the way God was being... Godhead was being professed in this part of the world before you came. Otherwise there would have been no sense in you coming here?
- There should be right surrender?
- 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?
- There's hope for our world today?
- There's no sermon as we would know in other churches?
- These Oriental philosophies generally and in particular the Krsna consciousness has found a lot of devotees in the western civilization. What is the main reason for this?
- They are all nationalities?
- They still have to go out and ask occasionally (but those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form - to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have)?
- This four-division society that you advocate is contrary to everything in American tradition. How can that be accepted in America?
- This is collective, national danger here. Have you anything to offer to us as a...?
- This is what you have tried to do. Why is it necessary to concentrate on this name, "Krsna"?
- This path of devotional yoga, bhakti-yoga, that is the path for this time, for this age?
- This thing about it (a big bunch of hair) actually weighing down on the mind, is that fair to say?
- Those (meat or wine) are all out. They have to be. And tobacco is...?
- Through what means do you train the human being to become, to achieve his ultimate goal in life?
- To get to something else, what do you do for fun when you're in New York?
- To know who is the driver of the car (purpose of the movement is to know who is the driver of the car)?... And who is that?
- Too much liquor and self-indulgence (are showing godlessness in our society)?
- Total membership for around the world?
- Twelve lakhs also in Delhi center only?
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- Was it difficult for you to give up what you had been doing in order to devote full time?
- Was it your aim to suggest that the daily life of ordinary people can be built on the foundations of your philosophy?
- We do not fight?
- We have talked to scientists who say that the size of the brain has nothing to do with intelligence. Do you believe that?
- We should always be patient to answer such newsmen's questions, they are very easy to answer, and so many people will see. For example, for the question about poverty...
- We've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live?
- Welcome, sir. What is Krsna consciousness?
- Well are you showing your devotees Krsna?
- Well do you think that the Eastern sun, meaning Hare Krsna, is appropriate in a culture that has a different religion traditionally?
- Well does that mean that the world, the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter (car is important so long it is moving and if it is not moving it has no importance, it is lump of matter)?
- Well how does it become scientific (as soon as you say that "We Christians, we believe," then it is misbelief. It is not scientific)?
- Well I understand you do a lot of work translating and that you only sleep two hours a day. Is that right?
- Well is it important to try to improve this life so that it won't be a prison?
- Well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate?
- Well is that what makes the people make this distinction between the life you are leading and the life of the world (those who identify on the bodily concept, because the body itself is dead without the soul, it is considered the dead platform)?
- Well, and they think how to sell literature and... Is that the way to God consciousness, by selling and soliciting (they say that they are representing some drug center)? Is that…?… How does that fit in?
- Well, are your Krsna members out of the, out of jail?
- Well, do you know very much about Jesus?
- Well, is the Krsna movement the driver or the car (first of all, understand the analogy. The car and the driver is always separated. The driver is not car, neither the car is the driver)?
- Well, perhaps you could continue where they left off. Could you tell me why you came to the United States in 1965. Did you feel that this was a mission that you had to fulfill?
- Well, since this dichotomy appears to be the case, I mean that there is, that the movement is sort of cut off from the world in general, does that not deprive the world of the service, of the usefulness of these people?
- Well, what do you hope to achieve by your short visit here to New Zealand, where you don't have a very big following at all?
- Well, what I was interested in is why is it necessary to live in such lavish situation as is shown here?
- Well, what is it that they particularly understand, misunderstand about the movement?
- Were there any followers before you came to this country?
- Were they (the Soviet Union leaders) receptive to what you...?
- Were you a businessman?
- Were you always in Moscow? What did, do they allow some lectures or... (no. I had meeting with Professor Kotovsky. That's all) Kotovsky only? That's all? He couldn't bring some people?
- Were you born in this country?
- What about (being "subordinate to the man" for) women who do not have children?
- What about (the leadership of) Mrs. Meir, president of Israel (being successful)?
- What about a future suit?
- What about adultery, Prabhupada? She wants to know what the Vedas say should be the... What is the reaction for adultery? How does one deal with an adulterer? If someone is an adulterer and he's caught, what should be the...
- What about being of material service. Material service, not just spiritual service?
- What about meditating?
- What about onions...?
- What about other artifacts of civilization like television and motorcars...(are they artificial needs)?
- What about other religion?
- What about other religions such as Christianity and...?
- What about people who believe in Jesus, God? I mean, what about Christians? It might not have the same effect on them
- What about sex and drugs, sex and alcohol?
- What about so many saints who are preaching yoga and religion all over the world?
- What about some of the other schools that have grown up, people like Ouspensky and Gurdjieff and people who've brought a message similar to yours to the West in the past?
- What about something very much nearer to ourselves here in this country, and that is a war or civil disturbance is going on... between Christians?
- 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 about the future? Is it possible to bring more people into Krsna consciousness? To expand?
- What about the men who surround you (everywhere the government, father and society are bad; and therefore we are producing bad men, and therefore there is no peace and prosperity)?
- What about the other kind (of meditation)?
- What about the United States government (every sane man should help this movement for the good of society)?
- What about the Western religions like Christianity? That's been with us now for two thousand years and doesn't seem to have helped people to become particularly (happy and prosperous)?
- What about the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement?
- What about women (woman's brain is smaller than a man's) who are leaders of countries such as your own country?
- What about women who are elected by the people?
- What about work, though? Does one have to give up one's job?
- What about yourself? How long have you had this understanding and awareness of God?
- What advice do you have to women who do not want to be subordinate to men?
- What are other major beliefs, besides love, to which you ascribe?
- What are some of the other, aside from...? I mean, I see people selling things. What other practices are involved?
- What are the basic beliefs of the Krsna religion?
- What are the big differences (with some of the other Eastern cults and gurus) that you seem to be...?
- What are the methods used in attaining Krsna consciousness?
- What are their main misunderstandings (so kindly put the matter properly because people misunderstand on account of their ignorance they misunderstand our, movement)?
- 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 are your views of the country? What do you think of it?
- What can an ordinary man do? I mean the Krsna consciousness movement involves shaving the head and wearing the saffron robe. What can the man who is caught up in family life do?
- What can appreciation of Krsna do for the Americans?
- What did you have to offer then. If you were chanting in the park and I said "What are you doing? Why are you chanting? What's your thing here?"
- What do you believe in?
- What do you call in Sanskrit, sir (when you cannot live without Krsna)?
- What do you do with a cow when it dies? Do you just bury it?
- What do you feel about man going to the moon?
- What do you find, you know, that when you impart this knowledge to Western disciples and when you talk to someone who are in India, what difference do you find?
- What do you offer to Krsna?
- What do you propose to do with criminals in your educational system? How will you reform them?
- What do you see as being the future of the world? What will happen? Will there be an end?
- What do you think about some of the other gurus, if you will, since you are yourself considered a guru? Do you study anybody else?
- What do you think of Jimmy Carter?
- What do you think of miracle saints? The saints who perform miracles?
- What do you think of young people who follow the Divine Light Movement?... Guru Maharaji
- What do you think our society is doing wrong?
- What do you think that you could add to the already living religious expression in this country by coming here and adding your own philosophy to it?
- What do you try and teach, sir?
- What does he (the first-class men) do?
- What does the Hare Krsna movement offer that other religions do not?
- What does this mean as far as whether women can do the same things that men can do, or whether women can lead people?
- What does your temple look like?
- What don't you like about travelling?
- What effect to the followers does chanting give?
- What else do you have over there besides gurukula schools and things?
- What else would you like to tell us?
- What exactly do you mean? Outside marriage, you mean (don't you see, illicit sex, what havoc it has done?)?
- What exactly is guru's role in your system?
- What had you been doing previously (actually I came here at the age of seventy years)?
- What happens in your temples. Do you have services like other religions?
- What happens when that inevitable time comes when a successor is needed?
- What happens when the machine stops?
- What happens when women are not subordinate to men?
- What happens when women support men?
- What I was trying to ask you a while ago, do you think that these particular Vedic disciplines and spiritual principles, concentration on the spirit instead of the body, has a particular usefulness in Western society nowadays?
- What I'm asking is why could he (Brahmananda) understand (the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness)?
- What I'm finding difficult is, for instance, we see on Oxford Street a lot of people who are handing out Hare Krsna literature… And you're really not concerned whether or not they join the Hare Krsna movement?
- What if somebody is using this as a cover-up?
- What impelled you personally, when you, at a fairly late stage in life, to come to the West to teach? And are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- What incentives can be given to harijanas to learn Sanskrit, the repository of Indian culture and religion?
- What is bad about eating, people who are eating beef? What is bad about it?
- What is it in your movement which has appealed to the Western world? I believe you have a sizable following in...
- What is it that he has offered that has turned out such an emotional response today?
- What is it that they particularly misunderstand about the movement?
- What is Krsna?
- What is not a secret thing?
- What is that mission (I have particular mission for the whole world)?
- What is the "renounced order"?
- What is the actual duty of the government?
- What is the answer (why young men are attracted to, they inquire? Why young men are attracted in this movement?)?
- What is the budget of the movement in the United States annually? How much do you need to operate?
- What is the condition prescribed for standing on the spiritual platform?
- What is the definition again of a first-class man?
- What is the difference between God consciousness and Krsna consciousness?
- What is the difference between Krsna consciousness and Christ consciousness?
- What is the future of Hinduism?
- What is the hand attire which you are wearing?
- What is the meaning of good children?
- What is the meaning of that (capale babale)?
- What is the meaning of that (machine changes)?
- What is the meaning of that (Yesam anta gatam papam jananam punya-karmanam, te dvandva-moha-nirmukta)?
- What is the most important part of it (it means to be fixed up in (indistinct) spiritual life. Just like in military there is training. You must have to do at this time this thing, this time, this time... So any training means regulated life)?
- What is the plan of the Hyderabad project?
- What is the procedure of the movement? Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- What is the purpose of the large carts and other things you use (Rathayatra festival)?
- What is the purpose of the movement, your Grace?
- What is the purpose of the robes and having your head shaved?
- What is the real relationship between Krsna consciousness and other religions? Is it that God has many names and...?
- What is the reason of the success of your mission in the foreign countries?
- What is the response in India?
- What is the response in Iran?
- What is the response in the Islamic countries?
- What is the role of rituals in religion? Are they to be discouraged as it is being advocated by some reformists or are they to be encouraged? If so, in what form? What is the role of rituals in religion?
- What is the role of women in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the secret to learning to love God?
- What is the test of a true guru?
- What is the ultimate (the flavor of a rose garden is carried by the air or the bad odor of a filthy place is also carried by the air, similarly, mind, intelligence carries me to a particular type of body as I was absorbed in thought at the time of death)?
- What is the ultimate aim of this Krsna consciousness?
- What is the ultimate goal of tapasya?
- What is the way you go about collecting money?
- What is the way you go about collecting money? Books are the only source of your... That means the devotees do not contribute to the... But do the devotees contribute in any way?
- What is unique about Krsna consciousness that separates it from other religions?
- What is your age now?
- What is your background? Are you from India?
- What is your day like, typical day? In the morning, what time you get up? Your day, how do you spend the day?
- What is your explanation of the creation of the world?
- What is your feeling in regard to Mrs. Gandhi's actions in India at the present time, particularly in relation to what you're saying about women? Is what's happening there because she has a thirty-six ounce brain and is incapable of ruling?
- What is your message for Indian people?
- What is your opinion of Guru Maharaj-ji?
- What is your opinion of what this movement should be doing in terms of world activities and world affairs that it isn't doing now? Are there some new areas that you may try to influence?
- What is your opinion of yoga and Zen? Do you incorporate any of their principles? Such as meditation for example?
- What is your view of predominant Western civilization, Sir?
- What is your view regarding proselytization or preaching?
- What is your view? Are there other paths to spirit consciousness? There are but not very what?... Not very good?
- What is your wedding ceremony like?
- What is, sir, the number of your disciples round the world?
- What kind of (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)?
- What made you change (you led a rather normal life) suddenly?
- What message would you give to people in terms of helping people, perhaps, to live better lives?
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What problems do you have in making God's word, His instructions reach the ears of everyone in the world?
- What proof do you have that a human being has a soul?
- What proof have you got, then, that a human being has got a soul?
- What purpose does the chanting serve?
- What should we do in the United States (in regards to women being subordinate to men)? We're trying to make women equal with men
- What sort of people do you want to become students?
- What special message would you have for people who don't know anything about your movement and would like to know something about it?
- What stops so many millions of people from doing it (becoming Krsna devotees)?
- What the Krsna movement is about and its origins, its following. This sort of thing?
- What transformations does one undergo on the path of Krsna consciousness?
- What types of food, what types of things do you drink, such as juices or anything else do you drink?
- What was the motivating force behind your coming to the United States?
- What was the necessity of creating this Krsna consciousness movement?
- What were you before that (a Hare Krsna man)?
- What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die?
- What will you do in Philadelphia?
- What's a man's qualification to be chosen… On what basis, though, can you tell me some of the things that…?
- What's it made of?
- What's the future of Krsna Consciousness in India today?
- What's the purpose of that rising? What's the purpose of that, the rising at 4:30, the chanting and study?
- What's your view of Judaism and Christianity?
- What, what were you doing, what did you do before this, before 1966?
- When did we stop becoming the monkey and start to become a man?
- When did you come to this country?
- When does this training (as "first-class, second-class, third-class...") begin? In the very youngest age or...?
- When was it that you arrived from India with $2?
- When we are emphasizing this Krsna consciousness, we are in danger of forgetting the social political dimension. So how to bring this...?
- When you came to Chicago last week you said you were going to tell us some of the solutions to our problems in this country. Can you tell me what some of those solutions are?
- When you join, do you assume a name? Do you change your name?
- When you visited the Soviet Union, Swamiji, did you find the atmosphere worse than it is in Western countries?
- Where did the money come from to print such lavish editions of your books?
- Where do women fit into these four classes?
- Where do you get these funds?
- Where do you train them in the western countries?
- Where does the money come from to print Godhead?
- Where have you been since then (I published something about You a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- 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 is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Where is the right balance in this modern world?
- Where is your main home?
- Where would the moon planet fit?
- Which Lord is that (Caitanya)?
- Which particular teachings do you find so uplifting and ennobling for a man?
- Which problems (will be solved by spiritual consciousness)? The problems that exist in Ireland and India?
- Who controls, if one of the members becomes grasping, wants things for himself?
- Who created maya, man or God?
- Who decides who's natural? And what's natural?
- Who determines the regulative principles of religion that people should follow?
- Who has published them (all these books)?
- Who is God? Who is God?
- Who is in charge of a temple when you're not here?
- Who is to decide whether a person is first-class, if they are a brahmana or whether they are ksatriya or vaisya
- Who's got the gold?… Who has the gold?
- Why (would you say that women are inferior to men?)
- Why a dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- Why are you here, Srila Prabhupada? He asked why are you here?
- Why did you choose to go to America and propagate the teachings of Lord Krsna in a western country?
- 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 do you think a growing number of young Americans are attracted to the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Why do you use the technology that you use? You didn't have cars in those days, this television. Things have changed since 1920
- Why does all this exist? Why the challenge in the first place? Why maya?
- Why does the Hare Krsna movement not engage in social protest?
- Why does this mean that women have to be subordinate?... just because they bear children and men can't?
- Why have you written Bhagavad-gita as it really is? Why?
- Why is everything always taped at all the...?
- Why is it (Krsna consciousness) so popular among young people?
- Why is it necessary to live in such comfort as this for the spiritual...?
- Why is it that the Hare Krsna movement has in the last couple of years attempted to make itself a little bit more respectable in the public's eyes by having members wear street clothes and wigs and so forth, while they are soliciting?
- 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 it that you seem to attract a large following of youth?
- Why is that, do you think (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...)?
- Why is work in the world necessarily suffering? It is, it has, a mixture of pain and joy but it's negative to look on it as useless work. Huh?
- Why not meat?
- Why there is a better response to Krsna consciousness in foreign countries than in India?
- Why was that (teenagers, they take it very nicely)? I mean what was there, was there something special about the 1960's that made it more likely that people would go for (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)...?
- Will it come by itself (the socio-economic solution), or will it come through you?
- Will mantras lose their sanctity if they are not in Sanskrit?
- Will such a stand be acceptable to all sections of Hindus, and if so, how can the new smrtis come into being and who will give them sanction and sanctity?
- Will the fundamental values of Hinduism be in any way affected by the eradication of castism, towards which a concerted effort is now being made at all levels?
- Will there be one spiritual leader, though?
- Will they (men of character, knowledge, sincerity, God conscious) be able to function in a society as working individuals?
- Will they (the children in your school in Texas) be virtually living outside...?
- Will you be meeting other spiritual leaders in South Africa?
- Will you be opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern?
- With these truths, with these basic truths, do you think that is helping people realize themselves, or do they have to go into a more?
- Working on the driver of the body. On the spirit, right (people are generally working on the body. And we are working on the driver of the body. That is the difference)?
- 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 I have to give any financial support? So I wouldn't have to give any money at all?
- Would that person have to have contact with you and learn from you also?
- Would the flight that was just completed, that doesn't contradict with anything in this book?
- Would you accept conclusions from science that..., only if it agreed with the Vedic scriptures?
- Would you be justified in doing something that society would consider criminal, like… stealing for Krsna, or killing for Krsna... Something that is judged by, say, the US government as criminal, would be still do it if it was for Krsna?
- Would you call yourself a guru?
- Would you comment on the current political situation in India, what's happening right now?
- Would you comment on the political situation in India now. What do you think about Mrs. Gandhi's...?
- Would you count Jesus Christ as gold (gold cannot be Muslim gold or Hindu gold or Christian gold. We are concerned with gold, not the country where the gold is produced. That is not very important thing. Whether it is gold, that is our business)?
- 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 help the sick people?
- 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 say that there were times when, well, that there were marriages which were also illicit?
- Would you say that this is a return to this Bhagavad-gita?
- Would you say that women are inferior to men?
- 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, I've seen this morning's. Fairly similar, just to talk about the movement. Are you happy with the way it's going here?
- Yes, well, due to problems that do occur from time to time, we.... You know, what people consider to be the false guru, is that all right with you?
- Yes, what's the most important practice…He is asking whether one technique is more important than another?
- You accept to answer my questions?
- You always return as an animal?
- You and your movement tend to separate people from concern with what's going on in the world, like that's a Presidential election and Jimmy Carter is the democratic candidate... Isn't that an example of it?
- You are at this particular time then the head in the world of this movement? Would that be correct?
- You are in fact the spiritual leader of these students. What does that mean?
- You are in general, then, trying to increase the interest in God. Is that correct?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are not suggesting that all of that (if they stop manufacturing, there is unemployment. And if they increase car, there is power shortage. So this dilemma, this modern civilization will have to meet this dilemma) is just cut away completely...?
- You are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
- You are participating in it, are you not (he asks if you are going to participate in the Ratha-yatra Parade)?... Will you attend the one here in New York?
- You are saying at the present moment we are all suffering?
- You are selling your books in Moscow?
- You are the head of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Is it a church?
- You are travelling to India, I hear?... Are you establishing a university in India?... At Navadvipa?
- You arrange the marriages?
- You came here ten years ago, or eleven years ago. You were almost seventy at the time...?
- You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?
- You choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?
- You commented that, you gave the words "Never trust," if I understood you right, "never trust an old man and a politician (a woman or a politician)"?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You do perform wedding ceremonies?
- You encourage anybody who disagrees with aspects of your philosophy to argue with you?
- You expect that they would oppose?
- You feel that you can continue to make those serious travels?
- You founded the Krsna consciousness movement. How long ago was that?
- You founded this movement I think it was ten years ago, that's correct. Why was it that you left till you were so late in life before you founded it?
- You go for a prescribed course of study?
- You have a way to stop the crime?
- You see Him in three dimensions?
- You spoke of initiation. What is that initiation?
- You started this ten years ago. But why is it that when you were recognized..., you were recognized by others and not in this country?
- You support the ancient caste system?
- You think Mirabhai was a bhakta?
- You think we pay too much importance to money?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You were a chemist yourself, were you not, in secular life before you took up the position you have...?
- You were saying don't bother, you know, don't bring the scriptures in, use common sense. But what part do the scriptures have in your religion? How important are they?
- You were saying that you're not necessarily trying to get a large number of devotees, but you think there are a few people who are yet ready to accept?
- You were saying, minute before that the socialism, your socialism is that Krsna is your Marx, sort of... It will be my last question. What about you in that? Would you be, you are a spiritual chief. Would you be...?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You were there at the time (I published something about you a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- You'll be having certain industries for export also in Mayapur. Will they be manned by disciples, and if so, do you think that they would be in a much better position to look after these big gosalas and other things than, say, other, people would be?
- You're a citizen however, aren't you, a U.S. citizen?
- You're all vegetarians, are you?
- You're the leader of how many disciples or devotees throughout the world?
- You've got to get a visa (to Russia). How do you... How can you get?
- Your authority for this statement is based in the Vedic literature?
- Your devotees' health is looked after, then (so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all)… By who?
- Your Divine Grace, can I ask you how old you are now?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see meditation as a means to God realization?
- Your Divine Grace, do you think that chanting the Hare Krsna mantra is the only way to achieve liberation?
- Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Your Divine Grace, since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Your Divine Grace, what prompted you to start the Krsna movement?
- Your Divine Grace, would your message be exactly the same for, say, a starving man in India and a Westerner who's got everything that a person needs?
- Your family, your blood family, are they Krsna conscious as well?
- Your Grace, a great many of South Africa's church leaders from some of the big churches are fearful that South Africa is going to find itself in a situation, or find... What message would you give this country in terms of avoiding any...?
- Your Grace, can I start by asking you what do you think of South Africa?
- Your Grace, could I ask you, first, how you pronounce your name?
- Your Grace, have you been to New Zealand before?
- Your Grace, if we could perhaps go back over that just for a minute - you said nobody is free… But are you saying that if we live a good life we in some way determine our future as well?
- Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings?
- Your Grace, what stops so many people from becoming Krsna devotees?
- Your intention and aim is not merely to cater to the mind, cater to reason, cater to the intellect, but to effect a kind of transformation of man himself. Is this why you have introduced a whole way of living, a whole way of life, is it?
- Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries?
- Your movement, your consciousness of Krsna, engloves, takes all the direction of economics and political possibility... Can you speak, explain me about that?
- Your teachers are called spiritual masters?