Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971
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- We are having dinner later, of course. I thought maybe you would want something to start with (one glass of water will be fine). Only water? Only water, Swamiji? We have made a truly sattvic bhojana today so there is no problem
- We are speaking now. We are making pictures of reality as we speak with our language, with our words. Do these words have more content in themselves, or are they simply pictures of reality?
- We can't predict that the process of punishment will have permanent effect, can we? Can we predict that? Many prisoners leave the prison, but some come back
- We can't understand that it's green and that it grows (whatever nature is already there. Nature of the leaf is already there, but you cannot understand it by speculating)?
- We do not fight?
- We have made the statement that we attain a certain amount of bliss by engaging in this Krsna consciousness process. Do we deny the fact that other people have attained similar bliss from doing other things?
- We have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?
- We say that there's one mind, sometimes mental impressions come that are stored... but in that storage area of the consciousness, there is no thinking going on there. Is that correct? The unconsciousness mind is not thinking like the conscious mind
- We see that every great saint personality has surrendered to Krsna, even Mahatma Gandhi?
- We want to live and enjoy, therefore this universe and all these things. Now, in what perfect form? Because everywhere, in everything, there is a best. Now how everything should take?
- We would say there is no past, or is our perception of the past is false?
- Welcome, sir. What is Krsna consciousness?
- Well in this sense Fichte is closer to Krsna consciousness than most impersonalists, because most impersonalist advocate inaction and meditation on the void, but,... how can you have action without action directed toward a person or toward...?
- Well, a Beethoven symphony, for example, could you listen to that? (If it is) inspired by God, given by God?
- Well, what about before they had botanists? They didn't know anything about leaves before?
- 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?
- What about a meeting in the biggest hall of Heidelburg? Would you also be interested in that?
- What about a notion or a concept? How does that come into being if it has never existed before?
- What about a principle, like "Two plus two equals four"?
- What about activities in the spiritual sky, beyond...?
- What about brahmana (can become Krsna conscious)? Brahmana too? Someone who is naturally a (indistinct)
- What about if it accidentally fell off; a thunderbolt hit the rock and it moved, like that, or gravity made it fall?
- What about if someone can choose to become a doctor or a lawyer or a physician or anything like that?
- What about pleasures like listening to music? Could you listen to other peoples' music?
- What about something that cannot be tangibly seen, like a mathematical calculation or an equation?
- What about the body of a man? Is that punishment or gift?
- What about the children of new devotees now?
- What about the half-life of certain elements?
- What about the idea that God does not exist?
- What about the idea that God is evil?
- What about the statement that "Peace is stagnation"?
- What about the war between America and Germany, for instance? Neither one of them were God conscious
- 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 these men who perform great austerities, lash their bodies, starve, and...?
- What about this idea that nature, or evolution, is progressing?
- What about when you're not going to die... What about when you have some problems that's not fatal. Then who would we call?
- 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 about, for instance, people who are practicing sense gratification, and they find it very practical to gratify their senses. Does this mean that it is meaningful or real?
- What are the qualities of the holy name?
- What can I say? Then only when sadhus are attacked, then only (Krsna comes)?
- What did you just define by species? You mean different types of men?
- What do you call in Sanskrit, sir (when you cannot live without Krsna)?
- What do you expect from your disciple, basic thing?
- What do you suggest for me to put my energy on, and present beautiful picture, nicely...?
- 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 does it mean when Krsna has told Arjuna, in the battlefield that "Do you think either you or I were not there in the past? And you and I will not be...?"
- What does it mean, "mystic oneness with God"? What does mystic mean?
- What does it mean, "original form"?
- What does the name Vaisnavi mean?
- What does the peacock feather mean to Krsna? Is it a symbol of love, or what it is?
- What happens to a person if we just give him out on the street one Simply Wonderful or some prasadam, one piece of prasadam?
- What happens to the jiva souls who were fruits and vegetables that were offered to Krsna?
- What happens to your mind? What do you do with your mind when you chant?
- What I wanted, that if you will be able to help us in establishing, for example, that Gita meeting?
- What if he just goes on and he never asks pardon? Is he finished in...?
- What if someone deviates from your teaching?
- What if you avoid even choosing right or wrong, you simply drift without any decision of right or wrong?
- What is charka?
- What is fit for lay people? Which form should we meditate upon?
- What is going to happen to those who have left and yet they are committing offenses against you and against Krsna because they have become deranged?
- What is jata?
- What is masculine?
- What is one's prescribed duty?
- What is realization, Prabhupada? Realization belongs to the same category?
- What is that mission (I have particular mission for the whole world)?
- What is that root (when sastra fails, then according to sastra, there is sastra. Sastra means weapon. Both of them come from the sas-dhatu)?
- What is that wrong propaganda?
- What is the best method of making your children Krsna conscious? Teaching the sastra or...?
- What is the cause of man's physical, mental and spiritual deterioration in the succeeding yugas?
- What is the difference between bhakti-yoga and bhava-yoga?
- What is the difference between the Ganges water and the ordinary water to someone who doesn't know that the Ganges water is spiritual?
- What is the goal of this movement for the future? Is there any program set for the future?
- What is the meaning of God?
- What is the meaning, then, that America is the dominant nation?
- What is the method for doing it? What is the method of seeing someone as a person?
- What is the purpose of discussing him (Freud)?
- What is the purpose of the plan? Is there any ultimate...?
- What is the Radha category?
- What is the role of Krsna in this, as the arranger of this cerebral mechanism?
- What is the synthesis?
- What is the thing that will please you most, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is this little story, these two little things standing here? Some time back you called the drowning of the son of our teacher. Is this from the Bhagavatam?
- What is this yogic power? What does that mean?
- What is wrongly preached about Gita?
- What is your remedy for seeing everyone as persons?
- What is your view of predominant Western civilization, Sir?
- What kind of test do we apply to phenomena to see what is the cause?
- What must he mean by "until such time as a profound change in the material conditions imposed on humanity by nature should permit in spiritual matters of a profound transformation?"
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What sort of people do you want to become students?
- What was that now (Krsna is kalpana... )?
- What was the motivating force behind your coming to the United States?
- What was the purpose of this festival here?
- What was this original sin?
- What would happen if an animal came in contact with a pure devotee?
- What you said is that maya is the urge within nature to desire the next step of evolution. He wants this, he wants that. Is that right?
- When a man becomes Krsna conscious, could you say that he has become like a god or godlike?
- When I die, my deeds will follow along with me. That is how I imagine it... That's personal karma?
- When I'm in the spiritual sky I'm going to be a servant of Balarama directly?
- When Krsna destroys demons, He does so without passion or without hatred?
- When Krsna doesn't come, then they are feeling separation?
- When raisin bread is in the oven, the raisins, they go further and further and further apart as the dough expands. So is this...?
- When the living entity comes to the material world, what is the state of the spiritual body? And then how does this spiritual body begin to develop?
- When the scientists say "species," they mean different types of bodies?
- When we use the word "God," it has cash value?
- When you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you? Along with Radhe?
- When you chant, do you have to think what you're saying? How can you do other things?
- When you come into this movement, you come in from on the outside, in the material world and so on. Do you, as some monks do in monasteries, do you give all your wealth, all your possessions, everything, as it were, to the movement?
- When you come to the living entities, then the individual soul is also there?
- When you said that all the cells in our body, each one is a living entity with a small body. Each one of those living entities covers itself with ignorance? So then myself, I organize all these smaller cells. I organize them into my big body?
- Whenever there is perception coming into the mind, there is a conflict?
- Where does it have to be (the mind while chanting)? It has to be fixed?
- Where is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Which Lord is that (Caitanya)?
- 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 is Siva? Siva is he not a god?
- Why are you discussing them (we don't accept either Mao or Marx. We don't accept anyone)?
- Why do some people want to approach Krsna in hatred?
- Why does Krsna expanded Himself as maya?
- Why don't they think like that (that Kruschev, he's not in that position. Why does he not think that "Any moment I'll be kicked out." And what is that enforcement that kicks out?), Prabhupada?
- Why is there soul and Supersoul in the body when soul is part and parcel of Krsna?
- Why it is that when the body is dead that the fingernails continue to grow?
- Why or how could the personality or the individual jiva soul return to a lower life-form? That is to say, how could a greater experience regress to a lesser experience?
- Why should one teach the world to become united with Krsna?
- Why there is so..., there is duality in this world?
- Will it come by itself (the socio-economic solution), or will it come through you?
- Will, willing something is more like desiring something, isn't it?
- Would even accidents between two automobiles, that would not really be an accident?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would I have to give any financial support? So I wouldn't have to give any money at all?
- Would it be better if we gave up eating vegetables?
- Would it not be better to say that the living entity is born with certain tendencies, rather than innate ideas, which carry over from a previous life?... And that he needs only meet with some stimulus in order for these tendencies to be manifest?
- Would that (greatest happiness be experienced) by all the senses - mind, intelligence...?
- Would you say that all world events, all phenomenon of the world are expressions of this world reason unfolding itself? There is a gradual development
- Would you say that the Americans are generally less tolerant than Londoners to you or more tolerant?
- Would you say that we are in a state of peace or a state of war?
- Would you say, for instance, someone who is less intelligent or more intelligent than I am is in a different species?
- Would you use, say, cars if it were given you?
- Wouldn't you say that pretty much, that this philosophy is guiding a lot of the figures, the youth...?
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- You (the actual head of the Krsna movement) have no successor when you move into another dimension; that from the masses, from the disciples that you have throughout the world, someone will rise to take your place when you move to another world?
- 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 intent to serve the Lord Krsna in the same method for ever?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are the founder of this movement. You are the founder?
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not?
- 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 can't read or talk to someone (while chanting)?
- You cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You don't think it's possible to stop willing?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have asked for some men...
- You have asked for some song translations...
- You have asked that somebody go there to Fiji to assist you...
- You have been to Communist Russia, and was there any church worship? The Eastern Orthodox church used to be the standard Russian religion. Is there any church worship in Russia today?
- You have ten swamis. And outside of swamis, what's the lower?
- You know what a papi I am. I don't think the Krsna consciousness is so easy...?
- You mean by intuition can we understand?
- You mean if a person commits a murder, a sinner?
- You mean like Bengalis are a different species than Gujaratis? Something like that?
- You mean our High Commissioner? Why can he not (help your mission)?
- You mean the spirit has got subtle form, though it may be exact form?
- You meant for Kali-yuga (your way is the way)? For the time that we live in right now?
- You said that if you have some material desire and you take to Krsna consciousness, you get double benefit, that the material desire is fulfilled and also you get Krsna consciousness. If you have that material desire, does that slow up your advancement?
- You say a true devotee of Krsna, such a person need not go after the demigods?
- You say if there were high forms of, say Brahma, in Brahma's time or millions of years ago, there were also other high animals besides men?
- You say it's artificial to forget anything?
- You tell me that Rama and some other higher creatures lived on this planet so many millions of years ago, so I can expect some day to find evidence of that?
- You told us about that Bharati Maharaja. What was that?
- You very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the spirit soul then goes into the brahma-jyotir, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahma-jyotir is composed of fallen souls?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You went to Russia. What's your impression?
- You were also telling me that Krsna is in the atom as the jiva expansion. Not as a plenary expansion, but a part of a plenary expansion?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You've got to get a visa (to Russia). How do you... How can you get?
- You've heard of the Dalai Lama? Well, his position would be the same as yours. Wouldn't it? In religion?
- Your Divine Grace, will you kindly explain the significance of Ratha-yatra festival?
- Your knowledge says that millions of years ago there were higher forms of living entities on this planet?
- Your line is so very good in saying that the real evolution of man's mind has been his ability to produce more and more the functions of whatever the mind may be. We know what the brain is, but we don't know what the mind is?