Category:Questions asked to SP... 1969
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
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- Was Narada there? Did Narada Muni come?
- We can go to Jagannatha Puri?
- We have no guarantee what our next birth will be. But, say, can't mystic yogis who perfect certain mystical powers, do they have any guarantee of a human birth in their next life?
- We should just reproduce that (take some photograph) as it is?
- We should say prayers in the morning at one hour and a half before sunrise?
- We will need a harmonium. Should I wait till we get to India to purchase one?
- Well, can we use, for instance, the glossary to your Srimad-Bhagavatam printed in India, can we use that as a model for...?... You have a glossary at the end of the first volume. Is that the type of glossary...?
- Well, I mean, what do you mean by serious student? Maybe everybody, all of us are serious anyway. I mean, we're born serious or born, you know, unserious
- Well, if God is the creator of everything and is so dear to everyone, why then has He caused so much suffering?
- Well, if Hare Krsna is the best one, what is the reason why we have to bother to even say anything else other than this one?
- Well, then even sexuality is spiritual?
- Well, what happens when I leave? Then if he's not here and I leave, what happens then?
- Well, which is the original (Bhagavad-gita)? It's the same as the Bible
- Were they liberated souls? The thief?
- What about any history? World history or American history or American literature or English literature?
- What about astronomy (should be taught)? Anything like that?... Any animal husbandry they can learn out there
- What about avataras, in reference to Christ or Buddha?
- What about celibacy?
- What about excerpts from your books? Is that all right?
- What about literatures (should be taught)? When they get older, of course. This would be for when they are older.
- What about Madhava-lati?
- What about quoting even Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated, like the Caitanya-caritamrta or cantos that you haven't translated?
- 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 taking the primers and changing the names of the people to people like Satyabhama and give them spiritual names. Would that be nice?
- What about writing down "kissing the lips of Krsna"?
- What are some of the things that Lord Caitanya did when He was a little boy? Some tricks or things?
- What are the specific principles that you would use in trying to determine whether it is absolutely necessary to fight?
- What are you reading? These are the commentaries? And this is the text?
- What chapter is this, Swamiji?
- What do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- What do you feel about man going to the moon?
- What do you mean by "channel"? Is it (lines of disciplic succession) through hereditary or what?
- What do you put in there (conchshell)? Ghee?
- What do you try and teach, sir?
- What does Madhumangala mean?
- What does Rama mean in Hare Rama? Is this Balarama or Lord Ramacandra?
- What does the Sanskrit sound like? Is Srimad-Bhagavatam to be chanted?
- What else would you like to tell us?
- What if we want to quote them (Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated) in some article?
- What is consciousness?
- What is gambling?
- What is God (1969)?
- What is it... misunderstand about Krsna's plenary expansion Visnu?
- What is Kalki's nature?
- What is recreation for a Krsna conscious person?
- What is the difference between a Mayavadi philosopher and a Krishna Conscious person?
- What is the difference between holy man and spiritual master?
- What is the difference between the spirit souls comprising the Brahmajyoti and the spirit souls here in Maya?
- What is the difference in full between the Spiritual Master, Krishna, and the devotee?
- What is the meaning of this chanting? If we're chanting all day long, do we have to reach a certain consciousness?
- What is the most attractive and suitable name (of God) here in this material country?
- What is the position of astrology in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the significance of the food that is eaten at ISKCON kirtanas?
- What is the soul's, the spirit soul's, relationship to actions performed both in material consciousness and in spiritual, in Krsna consciousness?
- What part do they play when a person's reached this higher level of consciousness? Is it more pleasurable?
- What position does Anandamayi Ma have now?
- What should one know about Krsna consciousness? Is it something mystical?
- What was Arjuna's relation to Krsna, I mean, as concise as you can put it?
- What was Arjuna's relationship to Krsna?
- What was the conclusion of Sankaracarya?
- What was the first sound, traditionally?
- What you are doing by chanting is kind of...?
- What's the future of a religious observance so technical as this? So complicated as this?
- What's the next evolutionary step for these flowers that we offer to Krsna?
- What's the trouble (with that painting)?
- When digging the pile (if I asked these karmis, "why you are digging? why you are piling? and why you are leaving?" then... can you say what will be the answer?)?
- When in the Bhagavad-gita it says that the maha-mantra cleanses the heart and soul, does that mean that when you just, like automatically say the word, will that cleanse your heart? Or should you try and remember Krsna with every word and every sound?
- When in the Gita it listed the different kinds of sacrifices, it said that sacrifices to the demigods can bring us to Krsna consciousness. How is this?
- When making arati offerings, is it proper to meditate on the different parts of the Lord's Body?
- When we sing bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya, we're saying "worship Sri Krsna Caitanya"—we say bhaja, so... And the motive for worshiping Him is for direction in devotional service?
- Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- Where is the origin of this image of the sun? Is this a Vedic sastric explanation?
- Whether it's a secret mantra or an open mantra, it's all the name of God. So it doesn't really make much difference, does it, which one you sing?
- Who is the original authority of Bhagavad-gita?
- Whose list is that? Is that an old list or have you made that up for young Americans?
- Why are Krsna students given spiritual name?
- Why are there apparent time-gaps in the line of disciplic succession as listed in the Bhagavad-gita? Is Arjuna an instructor Spiritual Master and not an initiator Spiritual Master and therefore not listed?
- Why are you teaching Radha-Krsna consciousness?
- Why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka?
- Why can't two people be in charge? Why can't we both...?
- Why do we say chant, but not sing?
- Why does Krsna have an external energy?
- Why don't you write some purports to that?... To Bhaktisiddhanta's Brahma-samhita?
- Why not (you are me and I am you. We are both God)?
- Why the Yadu dynasty completely destroyed itself?
- Why would they practice yoga at a time when everybody was pure already?
- Will people still be chanting Hare Krsna in 400,000...?
- Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa, if we try to concentrate, if we sit erect while chanting?
- Will you excuse me?
- Would it matter if I worship any other? Would it matter whether I worship Krsna or Siva or Christ or Buddha? Would it matter?
- Would it not be better for them to leave the father and devote their status, instead, to the Lord?
- Would you elaborate what you are doing as New Vrindaban? What is it you are establishing there?
- Would you like to hear one of the Blake songs?
- Would you say something about Christ and his relation to Krsna consciousness?
- Would you say that Krsna is God or Krsna is love?
- Would you say that there were times when, well, that there were marriages which were also illicit?
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- You asked if we will remember the earth, when in Vrindaban...
- You gave some diet that we should follow. We shouldn't have meat, eggs, fish, and chicken. Can we eat cheese? Is there anything else we should not eat in our diet?
- You have a farm now?
- You have asked about construction plans in New Vrindaban...
- You have asked about my travelling schedule...
- You have asked about the management of our society, and the position is that management should be done in such a way that people may not break away. That is the first business of management
- You have asked about the specialness of the month of Karatieya
- You have asked about where you will get the money for bookbinding equipment...
- You have asked how the Sankirtana activities become more relishable every day...
- You have asked if it is true that the Spiritual Master remains in the material universe until all of His disciples are transferred to the Spiritual Sky?
- You have asked in your letter to Purusottama if you should observe the lists of 44 offenses and 44 regulations for deity worship...
- You have asked me about my plans...
- You have asked me for suggestions of what to say to different persons on Sankirtana Party...
- You have asked me some questions about the functions of sex life in Krishna Consciousness
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest" as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest'' as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me to assign you to some duty...
- You have asked me to tell you everything that you should know...
- You have asked me what are the formalities that you have to observe for recruiting Krishna devotees in India...
- You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krishna
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky...
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky?
- You have inquired about the Jagannatha Car...
- You have inquired if you should learn the German language...
- You have inquired why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka. But perhaps you have missed the point
- You mean actually Krsna is in here?
- You once said that in case of a strong rush of sex desire to think of the Gopis, the Dearmost to Lord Krishna. Is there another help in case of anger or harshness?
- You said it takes an intelligent person to become Krsna consciousness, but it's obvious that are not so many intelligent people. Whose choice is it? If a person isn't intelligent, is it because he wants to enjoy that makes him ignorant?
- You said Prahlada Maharaja, he heard Narada Muni speaking in the womb
- You said that as long as one is engaging in sex life one cannot become a yogi?
- You said that Hare Krsna is the most superpowerful word, and if that is true, then why do you bother to utter any other words?... is it necessary? And why do you encourage us, saying that we're songwriters and all, ... to write any song but Hare Krsna?
- You said that spirit soul is one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair. In the spiritual sky, is the spirit soul still just that big?
- You said that with the payments, that the society can take up some of these? How would that be managed, and when would it be put into effect?
- You said that your followers may not drink? What about the drug picture, marijuana, LSD, and those?
- You said two or three pages. Maybe four pages would be all...?
- You say there's pure joy in achieving the transcendental platform. Why? Why necessarily joy and not sorrow?
- You talk about different yogas reaching different platforms, like one the twenty-fifth, one the fiftieth, and one the eightieth. Does each one really reach the same point?
- You talk about the service of Lord Krsna. How does service of our fellow man come in?
- You want me to do Nectar of Devotion and then Krsna and then Bhagavad-gita, in that order?
- Your final question is how can you become a pure devotee, and the answer to this is given in Bhagavad-gita
- Your fourth question, about the "life force'' mentioned in Chap. 4 of the Bhagavad-gita...
- Your message is similar in some ways to the message of evangelical or fundamentalist teachers in Christianity, who are taking the name of Jesus Christ and excluding everything other than complete devotion to Christ. Would you comment on this?
- Your next question is if Visala Das will be your name eternally
- Your next question, whether the Spiritual Master was formerly a conditioned soul...
- Your plan here in America, then, is to set up centers so that those who are that concerned can pursue their studies and practice a ritual?
- Your question about not chanting while attending class...