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- How many swamis do you initiated, American?
- How many temples are there?
- How many temples are there now?
- How many volumes is this one (Caitanya-caritamrta), when it's complete?
- How may a devotee arrive to this particular form (is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only)?
- How may one have a human body in this life and not have a human body in the next? Even great philosophers and scientists cannot account for the transferal of karma from one body to another
- How may we best expand our movement into the rural areas or into the country areas?
- How may we recognize yogamaya?
- How money can be dearer than life is indicated in this verse - SB 7.6.10
- How much a devotee has been favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be tested by the activities the devotee has performed
- How much a devotee is seriously attached to the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be understood from the statement of Maharaj Prthu
- How much a young man may have propensities for enjoying this material way of life! And when there is facilities. But how they have taken to it? This is the proof
- How much brain he has that he has created this universe, Brahma. He has created the demigods, he has created the planets
- How much devoted, beautiful. They are spiritual, they are not material. Their bodies are not material bodies. Krsna does not embrace a material woman
- How much foolish we are that we are getting a particular type of body, and the sukha-duhkha, happiness and distress, is already fixed up. That is called destiny. As soon as I get a particular type of body, my happiness and sufferings are all destined
- How much greater then are the brahmanas, the righteous, the devotees and saintly kings who in this temporary miserable world engage in loving service unto Me. BG 9.33 - 1972
- How much intelligence has got God, we can imagine. If we, our teeny brain, we are so intelligent . But unfortunately the rogues, having got a brain from God, they are denying God
- How much money?
- How much money did you carry with you (to America)?
- How much more difficult is it for one born in a family of nondevotees to become a devotee than a person who has been born in a family like Prabhupada's?
- How much more this is so of the righteous brahmanas, the devotees and the saintly kings. Therefore, having come to this temporary, miserable world, engage in loving service unto Me
- How much of a hindrance are hostility, greed, illusion, lamentation and too much attachment to material enjoyment
- How much of his time do you think should be spent preaching and traveling?
- How much one has advanced in Krsna consciousness one can test himself, that "How much I have become detestful, all this material way of life?" Everyone can test himself. If he has got still some inclination, then he is not fully Krsna conscious
- How much or how little brahmacaris should associate with the unmarried brahmacarinis in the temple?
- How much qualification you have acquired for seeing God? Seeing God is not very difficult, but at the same time it is very difficult
- How much the father and the government or the guru should be strong so that he can save his dependents from the clutches of death
- How much time it requires to surrender to Krsna? Immediately you can do that. Surrender means you surrender and work as Krsna says. That is surrender. What Krsna says to do? Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru. Four things
- How much would be expected of the students (of the Varnasrama College) as far as...? Would they live with us and follow the four principles? Like that? Or just come for classes or...?
- How much you are able to gratify your senses. That is civilization. How much you are given facilities to gratify your senses. This is the modern idea, hedonism. More eat, more drink-eat, drink, be merry, and enjoy. Sense gratification
- How much you are becoming detached to this material world, that is the test. If you are still attached to the material pleasures, that means you are not making progress in bhakti-yoga
- How much you making progress towards spiritual realization and real, real identity of pure consciousness
- How now one can see? He has to see through the parampara, succession. You have not seen your great-grandfather. How do you know that he was? How do you know? Great-grandfather or his father, you have not seen. How do you believe?
- How old? She (Prabhupada's daughter) must be forty-five years old?
- How old are the oldest of the Vedic scriptures?
- How old are you?
- How old is Caitanya now (second act of a play on Lord Caitanya) ?
- How old is He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) at this (when He visited the Jagannatha temple) point?
- How old is He here (in the sixth scene)? How old is Caitanya here? Maybe five, six?
- How old is Krsna?
- How old is this man (Prakasananda Sarasvati)?
- How old it is (the earth)?
- How old was his wife (Dr. Rajendra Prasada, the president, he was married when he was eight years old)?
- How old were you (when a man wanted Prabhupada to become his son)?
- How old were you when you got married?
- How old were you when you got your Radha-Krsna Deity?
- How one awards fearlessness to his subordinate is mentioned in the Fifth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam
- How one becomes God? God is not manufactured by vote. There are definition who is God. God must be the proprietor of all the riches, aisvaryasya samagrasya. Samagra means all. Nobody can compete with Him
- How one becomes captivated by the association of one's dear wife is explained in this chapter (SB 4.25.62) by Narada Muni. Attraction for one's wife means attraction for the material qualities
- How one becomes intoxicated in devotional service is very nicely described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.2.40): evaḿ-vratah sva-priya-nama-kirtya, jatanurago druta-citta uccaih, hasaty atho roditi rauti gayaty, unmada-van nrtyati loka-bahyah
- How one can, unless one is spiritually advanced, how he can sacrifice his hard-earned money for Krsna? Everyone thinks, "Oh, I have earned this money working so hard. Why shall I spend it for Krsna? Let me keep it"
- How one can attain the highest devotional perfection of association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead has been thoroughly explained in this chapter. BG 1972 purports
- How one can attain to the supreme transcendental knowledge simply by the performance of transcendental service to the Personality of Godhead is explained in the twenty-fourth verse of the fourth chapter of Bhagavad-gita
- How one can be delivered from the miserable condition of hellish life. The nature's illusory methods are two kinds: one is covering energy, and another is throwing energy
- How one can be firmly fixed up unless he has got a taste for it? He relishes, "Yes, this chanting and dancing is very nice." That is called relish. Tato nistha tato rucih tathasaktih: then he becomes attached. He cannot give it up
- How one can be pacified fully? When he does not manufacture the fulfillment of desire. We manufacture. The whole material world is going on by manufacturing ideas
- How one can become free from reactions and reactions? Simply by acting for Krsna. Even externally it appears that you are doing some bad work, still, it will have no reaction. It does not mean that we shall entail our activities with some impious motive
- How one can become peaceful?
- How one can become this fortunate (to get helped from within by Krsna and from without by the spiritual master) can be seen in the life of Srila Narada Muni. In his previous life he was born of a maidservant
- How one can beget children according to one's own desire is practically unknown in the present age (Kali-yuga). In this regard the secret of success depends on the parents' acceptance of the various purificatory methods known as samskaras
- How one can execute God-centered activities is elaborately explained in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, by Srila Rupa Gosvami
- How one can get out of the bondage of material existence, vimocitam. But people do not know that "This is my business, how to get out of this entanglement." They do not know even what is that entanglement. Such foolish civilization is going on
- How one can get out of the miserable condition of material life is stated in Sankhya philosophy, and the Lord Himself is explaining this sublime system
- How one can know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- How one can know that given source of supposed spiritual truth is an actual truth? Is there any technique how one can get to it?
- How one can see? Suppose I am seeing this material sky. I cannot see what are there, not even the stars at the present moment, although we know there are millions and trillions of stars. So this is my power of seeing
- How one can stay in the transcendental position, even in this body, in full Krsna consciousness, is explained in this verse (BG 14.20). BG 1972 purports
- How one can supremely control all conditions that would free one from karmic reaction? How could they control the environment?
- How one can surrender to Krsna
- How one can tell that he is a devotee of Krsna (one should hear about Krsna from Krsna devotee, not a professional man)?
- How one can understand what is actual Absolute Truth, what is the religious path? The last instruction is mahajano yena gatah sa panthah (Cc. Madhya 17.186). Therefore you have to follow the footprints of authorities
- How one goes to the moon, how he comes back, etc., is a great story, and this is all described in the Vedic literature. It is not a very new process. But the aim of our Krsna consciousness society is different
- How one has become Krsna conscious, these are the symptoms, the brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na . . . (BG 18.54). We have to understand by the symptoms
- How one is spiritually advanced will be tested how he has acquired all the good qualities. Not that a yogi talking with a cigarette in hand
- How one man can manage the whole world affairs? This is my concern
- How one should start when he's completely ignorant of all these things (you must accept guru and learn. Why should you remain ignorant)?
- How one surrenders? What is meaning of surrender?
- How or why did this spiritual body become covered by the material body?
- How people are receiving this movement all over the world, even minister to the Communist party. They are trying to kill God, and we are putting God. We are the greatest enemy
- How people will be happy?
- How powerful is the illusory energy of Lord Visnu, by which the entire world is bound by affection for children
- How powerful is the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu! Without even inquiring about the King, the Lord made everything successful
- How rascal
- How regrettable it is for the government itself to cause a breach of trust and put the citizens in difficulty for political reasons
- How scientifically it is described: jalaja nava-laksani. First, because there is water for aquatics, then as land comes out, the trees come out. Sthavara laksa-vimsati. Sthavara means these trees and plants, they cannot move
- How serious would it be for me if I should miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?
- How seriously should they (the criminals) be punished?
- How shall I find real guru? That is very easy. How it is? Caitanya Mahaprabhu gives us direction. He says, "You become a guru." He asked everyone - not only the Indians, but everyone
- How shall I get them (material happiness)?" How? Kalena sarvatra gabhira-ramhasa: By the arrangement of eternal time, everything will come about in due course
- How shall I speak? Shall I beat your body?
- How shall the worship be in the temple, Srila Prabhupada, the small temples. What shall they worship?
- How should I meditate on You? In what various forms are You to be contemplated, O Blessed Lord? BG 10.17 - 1972
- How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadisa was saying?
- How should the relationship between a sannyasi and the temple president be?
- How should we do this in our ISKCON society with these young girls (the Indian system is that when the girl is utmost twelve years, not more than that, ten to twelve years, she must be married)?
- How should we have these Ratha-yatra festivals. Should they be big? Should they be big festivals? Should I plan on having three carts next year, just one, or a small cart?
- How should we know that he (the guru) knows about Krsna?
- How should we pray? Tat te 'nukampam susamiksamanah: (SB 10.14.8) "My dear Lord, it is Your great mercy that I have been put into this dangerous position." That is the viewpoint of a devotee
- How strange it is that one of us (Saryati and his associates) has attempted to do something wrong to Cyavana Muni, the son of Bhrgu. It certainly appears that someone among us has polluted this asrama
- How strong is it (the Hare Krsna Movement in India)?
- How strong is the power of Krsna?
- How subtle things are going on, that is described in the Sankhya philosophy presented by Kapiladeva, but we do not understand practically how things are going on
- How such a person (that indulges in killing animals) is punished is described herein. The word dambha-yajnesu in this verse (SB 5.26.25) is significant
- How such actions and reactions take place, what the different procedures are, and in what proportion they act are all subject matters of Maharaja Pariksit's inquiries from the great brahmana Sukadeva Gosvami
- How supremely glorified is the dynasty of King Yadu, and how virtuous is the land of Mathura, where the supreme leader (Krsna) of all living beings, the husband of the goddess of fortune, has taken His birth and wandered in His childhood
- How that consciousness acts? That "I am a servant of God. I am servant of Krsna." When this consciousness is firmly fixed up, this is called Krsna consciousness
- How that original source is for everything, that is explained in the Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavata also. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that - I am the source of everything. I am the source of happiness, I am the source of distress
- How the Deity will be kept from being mishandled or kept in a dirty place or even thrown away at the whim of the child? You cannot always check her. Therefore to such a small child the Deity of Lord Jagannatha should not be given
- How the Dr. Frog, will understand Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean? Can you estimate the length and breadth of the Atlantic, Pacific Ocean by speculation? So by speculation you cannot have
- How the Ganges water reaches the various planets from the top of the universe is explained herein (SB 5.17.4). Celestial airplanes carry the water from the planets of the sages to other planets
- How the Krsna consciousness movement can attract the attention of the whole world and how each and every man can feel pleasure in this Krsna consciousness is stated in the Padma Purana
- How the Lord acts is nicely explained in the Visnu Purana: fire is situated in one place, while the heat and light produced by the fire act in many different ways
- How the Mayavada philosophy was condemned by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His followers is described in Sri Caitanya-caritamṛta, Antya-lila, Second Chapter, verses 94 through 99
- How the Mayavadi thinks that he can..., that the material energy is false when at every step he's baffled by the material energy?
- How the Supreme Personality of Godhead remains as He is, never changing, is explained in the Isopanisad: purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate - Sri Isopanisad, Invocation
- How the Vedas can be 3,000 B. C. in age?
- How the body goes away?
- How the characteristics of the original source should be? The original source must be cognizant indirectly and directly of everything. The original Absolute Truth should be cognizant, abhijnah
- How the cows and asses can understand Krsna? They cannot understand. If you want to understand Krsna, then you should hear from Krsna and take it as it is. Then you'll understand. If you are fortunate enough, then you'll understand
- How the demigod had been obliged to accept the body of a lizard was not a secret to Lord Krsna, but still, for others' information, the Lord inquired
- How the eternal spirit soul becomes so completely absorbed that he completely forgets about the future and simply he becomes absorbed in some temporary sense gratification?
- How the evolutionary process is taking place? So that answer is also given in the Bhagavad-gita
- How the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead works within this material world is explained in this verse. Everything is happening by the energy of the Supreme Lord
- How the five great elements are a gross representation of the subtle false ego?
- How the government will be good? This is also bad. Mahaprabhu's name is Patita-pavana; He is delivering all bad men. In the Kali-yuga there is no good men at all - all bad. Strong you will have to become to deal with all bad men
- How the human being is born is described by Kapiladeva. The human being develops in the mother's abdomen and suffers there and comes out again
- How the impersonalists mistake the difference between the soul and the Supersoul?
- How the living entity becomes liberated from the modes of material nature after surrendering unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead is illustrated by the example of a sleeping man within a room
- How the living entity comes into contact with material nature, how he is delivered by the Supreme Lord through the different methods of fruitive activities, cultivation of knowledge, and the discharge of devotional service are explained. BG 1972 purports
- How the living entity falls down from the spiritual world
- How the material force is working cannot be explained just on the basis of chemical reaction. A suitable example in this connection is that of the potter and the potter's wheel
- How the matter has been simplified, that for attainment of spiritual life people have to undergo so many years under penance and regulation, and here is only, only thing is, that you simply chant the holy name of the Lord
- How the mind is acting - thinking, feeling and willing - that is called intelligence. Everything finer. You can see your senses, my senses, but everyone knows that you have got mind, I have got mind, but we cannot see the mind
- How the movement is growing? Can you give me any figures at all? I was speaking to one of your colleagues earlier who mentioned 150, but seventy-five approximately which were in London. Are the figures growing week by week?
- How the nature's law is strong. Woman has to become pregnant, not the man. Why equal right? Let the man become pregnant once. Woman became pregnant once. The right. Where is that law? So why equal right?
- How the point of the hair can be divided into hundred. Kesagra-sata-bhagasya. Now, you take one part of that division and again divide into hundred. This is beyond your experience, beyond your power
- How the rascals, simply by little educational qualification, can understand Krsna
- How the sand is made? According to scientists?
- How the simpler faith of a real Christian, that is not so advanced in knowledge of the Supreme Person, differs in ecstasy or the end result of God-consciousness?
- How the sons of Pandu, the Pandavas, enjoy Krsna's association is described as follows, "When Sri Krsna arrived in Indraprastha, the capital of the Kurus, Maharaj Yudhisthira immediately came out to smell the flavor of Krsna's head"
- How the soul is being transferred. These things are all explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Just like we cannot see the flavor, but when the flavor passes through carried by the air, we can smell. Similarly, we can smell how the soul is being transferred
- How the spirit soul transmigrates from one type of body to another is nicely described here - SB 4.29.2
- How the transcendentalists realize their identity beyond birth and death, beyond the material body, and transfer themselves from the material universe to the spiritual universes are the subjects of the following chapters - of BBD - We Are Not These Bodies
- How then can He (God) be impersonal? His musical taste, artistic sense and standard intelligence, which is never fallible, are different signs of His supreme personality
- How then can the demons and atheists understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead? It is not possible. Therefore, to gain this understanding, the demigods, headed by Lord Brahma, offered their respectful obeisances to the Lord
- How then can the living entity become forgetful of his real identity as pure spirit soul and identify with matter unless influenced by something beyond himself? The conclusion is that the living entity is influenced by the avidya potency
- How then could Indra be killed when he is actually worshiped in the yajna and accepted as part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Therefore the priests requested King Prthu not to kill him
- How then could the same person (Prabodhananda) meet Him (Caitanya) as a member of the Sankara-sampradaya in 1435 Sakabda, two years later
- How then could we keep this boy home by binding him with ropes? It is not possible even for one's father to nullify the reactions of one's past activities
- How then does the living entity become subjected to ignorance and covered by the influence of maya? The Lord is the father and protector of every living entity, and He is known as the bhuta-bhrt, or the maintainer of the living entities
- How there can be peace? And they are after peace. They are making conference - "peace." By conference and passing resolution there can be peace? And the result is Naxalites, Communists
- How there can be solution because they are all uneducated, not educated? So if you want to be educated, make the solution of all the problems of the world, then you must take to this Krsna consciousness movement. This is the only solution
- How these European, American boys and girls, they are coming to Krsna consciousness? How? They have changed their quality. By the process, we have got this process. In this process we can change the quality
- How these devotees are finding salvation for others?
- How they're (who are in this material world) criminals? Because either one is rich or poor, he's subjected to the tribulations of this material nature. It does not mean that the rich man won't die, but everyone wants to live, either rich man or poor man
- How they're (who are in this material world) criminals? Because either one is rich or poor, he's subjected to the tribulations of this material nature. It is not that the rich man will not become old and the simply poor man will become old. No
- How they (Six Gosvamis) became gosvami or svami? Because they are not affected by these (sleeping, eating, sex and defense) demands. That is gosvami; that is svami. Svami means master. Gosvami means master of the senses
- How they (birds) turn all together and how do they communicate each other that "Yes, let's move out away"?
- How they (sannyasis) fall down? Sometimes they fall down, becomes a victim of a woman. Sometimes they fall down for this philanthropic work. Sometimes they fall down in the matter of opening hospitals
- How they (so-called scientists) suggest that the nature is doing automatically? Nature is wonderful machine, but the operator is Krsna. That is real knowledge
- How they (the Mayavadis) should hear and from whom is also explained by Sukadeva Gosvami. The difficulty is that the whole world is full of Mayavadis
- How they are going against it (Bhagavad-gita), Prabhupada?
- How they are spoiling the opportunity in the whole educational system, social system, political system. Let us do our duty. What can be done
- How they are worshiping Krsna. So Bhagavad-gita, main purpose is that. Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66). So who has preached this? Nobody spoke that, Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You worship Him
- How they can say: "This is not God"? Is it possible to say? We say: "Here is Krsna, God." Why not discuss this point for our preaching work
- How they can train up their children. Here is the prescription how to train up. So in this age, although it is very difficult task, at least if we teach our children to chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra, then everything is possible
- How they can worship? The worship is done by devotee. Unless you create devotee, where is the question of worshiping? Without devotee it is idol worship. There is no life. And without life, how can you pull on artificially?
- How they measured it (the life-span of atoms)?
- How they speculate about God? If you cannot understand even a common man, maybe very big in the society, you cannot understand a common man by hearsay
- How they were happy, the inhabitants of Vrndavana with Krsna and living and cows. That I want to introduce. At any cost do it and... Don't bother about big, big buildings. It is not required. Useless waste of time. Produce. Make the whole field green
- How they will believe that man didn't go to the moon?
- How things should be done I have given you suggestion, but it is not possible for me to divert my attention. Then my real work will suffer
- How this (eagerly searching for Krsna being just as good as seeing Krsna face to face) is so cannot be explained, but it is factually realized by those who are pure devotees of the Lord
- How this body shall be kept in comfort, how the bodily relationship - wife, children, family, community, society - they are all expanded bodily concept of life. So in any conception of this material world if we live, then you are living like cats & dogs
- How this could be possible (to inundate the three worlds with nectar) was exhibited by Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and later by Thakura Narottama dasa and Syamananda Gosvami, who all represented the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- How this fighting spirit becomes developed? On account of illusion. What is that illusion? Accepting this body as self
- How this gigantic material manifestation can work independently? They have no sense. Therefore they say, "There is no pilot. It is moving automatically." This is asuric conclusion
- How this movement has helped in solving any specific issue, any special problem?
- How this movement was formed when you came here. You are the father of this movement. How this idea was created within you?
- How this purification is possible? Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau (Brs. 1.2.234): by engaging oneself in service of the Lord. And the first service begins from the tongue, jihvadau
- How this realization (spiritual) takes place? Not by academic education, but by sincerity. If one is very sincere, that he wants to know what is spiritual science, what is God, what is self, what is Superself, what is this world, what is spiritual world
- How this social order can be generated in India?
- How this transmigration of the soul takes place is very clearly explained in this verse of SB 10.1.40
- How to acquire the quality of patience?
- How to act when there is a choice of either attending Aratrik ceremony without bathing first or bathing and thus missing attendance at the Aratrik ceremony?
- How to attain this Krsna consciousness and to maintain it?
- How to awaken kundalini, and how to have permanent state of awakened kundalini?
- How to become completely free from all our attachment of this material world, that is being exemplified by Rsabhadeva. He doesn't take care even of the body
- How to become devotee. Adau gurvasrayam. One has to seek out a bona fide spiritual master. Just like Suta Gosvami has become disciple of a bona fide spiritual master, Sukadeva Gosvami
- How to become dhirah. It is not spiritual consciousness, it is not so easy thing that you can go. But by the grace of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, it is being easily distributed. That is the grace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- How to become free from the bondage of this material body and become free again in spiritual life, that is real problem of life. That they do not know
- How to become perfect human society, how to fulfill the mission of human society, for these things, there is no brain. So this Krsna consciousness movement is creating some brain of the human society
- How to behave
- How to chant the Narayana-kavaca shield
- How to come to that position (of goswami)?
- How to come to this bhava stage, that is Rupa Gosvami has described: adau sraddha (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.4.15). First of all little faith
- How to conclude what is the right path?
- How to control senses, that is the beginning of life. Not A-B-C-D learning and maybe your character may be less than an animal's, and you have got a degree of the university; you become a learned man. No. That is not accepted
- How to convince the young persons who are thinking that Meher Baba is an avatara?
- How to do this work (for the Supreme Lord) has already been explained in the fifty-fifth verse of the Eleventh Chapter. BG 1972 purports
- How to drive away maya, there are so many processes, how to become cleansed. Drive away maya means something phantasmagoria is covering my eyes; I have to cleanse. That is called ceto-darpana
- How to eat, how to sleep, that is not our problem. Our only problem is how to satisfy Krsna
- How to engage the senses, being freed from designation in the service of the Lord, that is Vrndavana life. If there is any other purpose than this, then it is very difficult to utilize the opportunity of living in Vrndavana. One has to be designationless
- How to enjoy according to the body, place, that complete intelligence is there. Lord Brahma has got that intelligence, and the small insect, he has got. And Krsna is giving everyone facility - All right, enjoy
- How to find the...? How to get to the atman, the inner body?
- How to from sa guna I do not know?
- How to get out of the clutches of maya is stated by Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita (14.26): One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman
- How to get out of this anartha, unwanted thing. That means is bhakti-yoga. People, though, do not know it. They are in the darkness of ignorance. Therefore this Srimad-Bhagavatam
- How to give up this bad habit (Krsna is not subjected to your thinking. You have to give up this bad habit first of all, that Krsna will be subordinate to your thinking. That is not God)?
- How to give up this material attachment and become attached to Krsna, developing Krsna attachment? The process is sadhu-sanga
- How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
- How to identify a true learned man?
- How to increase sex desires. This is not civilization. Civilization is how to cut down sex desire and ultimately become free, paramahamsa. That is civilization according to Vedic culture
- How to know it (what Krsna wants)?
- How to learn from the spiritual master? "Inquire from him submissively." You don't approach a spiritual master whom you can challenge. Then your selection of spiritual master is wrong
- How to live in such a way where there is no dearth of thing as well as there is no continuing of that need that a man becomes lost?
- How to love God. That is Krsna consciousness
- How to love Krsna
- How to measure it then (the soul)? What is the measurement?
- How to mend from lies?
- How to mend him (a Gurukula student) from lies? He speaks lies
- How to offer respects to Sannyasis?
- How to please God's representative?
- How to please Krishna?
- How to please Krishna? - by following all the regulative principle that I have given you, chanting 16 rounds and reading my books scrutinizingly. Everyone must do these things, otherwise they cannot understand Krishna Consciousness
- How to protect the cows & how rich this community was are explained in these verses (SB 10.5.7). We can hardly imagine that cows, bulls & calves could be cared for so nicely & decorated so well with cloths & valuable golden ornaments. How happy they were
- How to prove that the soul is eternal?
- How to realize Krsna?
- How to see God
- How to see Lord Krsna? Can anybody see Him by chanting the holy name Hare Krsna mantra? Is it possible for a human being in his short period of life?
- How to seek a master? How to find a master?
- How to serve Krsna, how to disentangle ourselves from materialistic service, how to attain Krsna consciousness and become free from material designations is all taught as a science by Sri Krsna in Bhagavad-gita
- How to spend the money for Krsna, that is our policy. We do not want to keep money. We cannot keep, that is not possible. Somebody will take it. Ultimately the government will take. Better spend it for Krsna
- How to stop it then (they accept any rascal as God)?
- How to stop janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi (BG 13.9). That we forget. Minor duties we take prominent. That is the present situation. They do not know that there is life after death, and according to our karma, we are getting the next life
- How to surrender?
- How to take perfect knowledge? Tad viddhi. First of all you try to learn. Tad viddhi. How to learn? Where to learn? Pranipatena, fully surrendered. If you find somebody that he is somebody important where you can surrender fully, from him
- How to train
- How to understand, how to measure (those who are habituated to act sinful)...?
- How to understand Krsna? That is recommended, sevonmukhe hi jihvadau. You have to engage your tongue first of all in the service of the Lord. The Krsna realization begins from the tongue
- How unfortunate I am
- How vast (the Atlantic Ocean)? Is it double the size of this well? (the frog in well) - "Oh no, much much larger," his friend replied. "How much larger? Ten times the size?" In this way the frog went on calculating
- How was he (Srila Sukadeva, the son of Vyasa) recognized by the citizens when he entered the city of Hastinapura (now Delhi), after wandering in the provinces of Kuru and Jangala, appearing like a madman, dumb and retarded?
- How was it possible for Ajamila to chant the name at the time of death?
- How was it possible for Dhruva Maharaja to capture Brahman within his heart? This question has been very nicely answered by Jiva Gosvami
- How was it possible for Sisupala and Dantavakra in the presence of many exalted persons, to enter very easily into the body of Krsna, whose nature is difficult to attain
- How was it possible for the prayers of the elephant to be heard from such an unlimitedly distant place, and how could the Lord at once appear on the spot? These things cannot be calculated by human imagination
- How was the great emperor Pariksit, who was a highly intelligent and great devotee, born in that womb? How did his death take place, and what did he achieve after his death?
- How was the soul originally created?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How we are testing the purity of sodium chloride? From the books. Similarly, here is the characteristic of pure devotee. The characteristic. You test whether he's truthful, "He's not truthful, sir," then he's not pure devotee
- How we can accept a avatara, a saktyavesa avatara, whose names are not mentioned herein?
- How we can accept knowledge from a person who is liable to so many defects of life? Try to understand. Therefore our process of knowledge is not speculation. What we shall do by speculation?
- How we can be independent? We are teeny, very small. There is no question of independence. The so-called independence, as we fight for independence, that is maya
- How we can charge? We are servant of Krsna. Krsna says that "You speak," so we are speaking. That's all. Why should we charge? But if somebody, out of sympathy, gives us something, we don't refuse. But we have no cost
- How we can come over the ego?
- How we can expect good government? You become Krsna conscious, you elect your representative, Krsna conscious, and the government will be all right. You'll be happy
- How we can get that eternal life, eternal nature, eternal happiness and eternal knowledge - the Bhagavad-gita is meant for that purpose. If you are interested for eternity, then Bhagavad-gita is very congenial
- How we can guide the people? How we can become teacher? How we can become leader?
- How we can increase our attachment for Krsna unless we know Krsna, at least something about Him? Just like a girl becomes attached to a young boy when she knows about something about that boy. The more she knows, she becomes attracted
- How we can manufacture God? That is not possible. So that is called mana-dharma. By mental concoction, mental speculation, we cannot create God
- How we can recognize God? Some supernatural power, evidence of authorities, scriptural evidence
- How we can satisfy God?
- How we can say there is no soul? No. This is foolishness. The whole world is going on under this foolishness. Not only now, before also. Like Carvaka Muni, he was atheist, he did not believe
- How we can see God? Not with these eyes. These eyes, but there must be some ointment. That is called prema. Just like a mother sees his child, although not very beautiful, very beautiful. Because he has, she has got love for the child
- How we can transfer into that kingdom of light? The whole human civilization is based on these principle
- How we can understand Bhagavan's energy, how we can understand His creative energy, and what is the potency of Bhagavan, how He is doing that, everything - that is also a great science. That is called Krsna science
- How we can understand Krsna? Krsna cannot understand Himself. Or Ananta cannot understand. So... Actually, that is the fact. We cannot understand Krsna
- How we have become the servant of our senses? On account of so many designation: "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am this," - I am that
- How we know about soul?
- How we shall exist - what kind of body, either demigod's body or dog's body or tree's body or fish's body - that will depend on my work. Or we go back to home, back to Godhead, Krsna, we get the spiritual body like Krsna. Everything is possible
- How were the leaders, though, of India so weak when the British first occupied that they allowed this all to take place?
- How were you getting so much money (1944, the first copy. I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American… In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month)?
- How will it be possible, Prabhupada, for a man whose mind is clouded to constantly chant Hare Krsna?
- How will my economic problem be solved? The answer is that happiness one desires from economic development will come automatically in due course of time. Tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah - SB 1.5.18
- How will the government decide what my gold is and what his gold is? How does the gold get distributed?
- How will the judgement be rendered (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- How will the spiritual master be pleased?
- How will these yavanas be delivered? To My great unhappiness, I do not see any way
- How will you prove it (the gas came from ether, and ether came from mind, and mind came from intelligence, and intelligence came from the soul)?
- How will your movement give anybody brains?
- How woman can become in equal with man? Of course, we are not going to study the social welfare activities or something like that, but purusa and prakrti, they are different. Purusa means enjoyer, and prakrti means enjoyed
- How wonderful Krsna is! His mind is captivated by the eyebrows of Candravali in a smiling spirit, His snake-like arms are on the shoulder of His friend, and at the same time He is roaring like a lion to encourage Vrsasura to fight with Him
- How wonderful are the powerful ksatriyas. They cannot tolerate even a slight infringement upon their prestige. Just imagine! This boy is only a small child, yet harsh words from his stepmother proved unbearable to him
- How wonderful it is! Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left His residence without opening the three strongly bolted doors
- How wonderful it is that I have never seen such a beautiful form! Although it is My own form, still, like Radharani, I am trying to embrace this form and enjoy celestial bliss
- How wonderful it is that although these women have not observed the strict principles of celibacy, have not undergone any austerities, nor philosophized upon the observance of all ritualistic ceremonies - they still have attained the favor of Krsna
- How wonderful it is that simply by residing in Mathura even for one day, one can achieve a transcendental loving attitude toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead! This land of Mathura must be more glorious than Vaikuntha-dhama, the kingdom of God
- How wonderful it is that the SPG, Krsna, who is sought by great, great sages for the sake of liberation and transcendental bliss, is acting as your best well-wisher, your friend, your cousin, your heart and soul, your worshipable director
- How wonderful it is that these women have attained such perfection, while we, although brahmanas who have performed all the reformatory activities, cannot attain to this advanced stage
- How would His Grace see Jesus Christ?
- How would I recognize a true follower of the Krsna consciousness movement by his behavior? What would his traits be? What would his outward expressions be?
- How would he (the crocodile) have that loving feeling to hatch the baby?
- How would it (varnasrama college) differ from gurukula?
- How would one tell that one had a genuine guru because one would be told to give up certain parts of...?
- How would the ksatriyas kill the animals (in the varnasrama college)? How would they kill? With guns or bow and arrow?
- How would they get it back from the moon?
- How would we define the word responsibility in Krsna consciousness?
- How would you adapt the Krsna chanting to Christianity?
- How would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- How would you describe that platform (the difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working (many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world))?
- How would you describe these people that live there (on the moon)? Would they be invisible to us or visible?
- How would you explain about eclipse which we get?
- How would you get man to become aware of the situation so he could desire (God consciousness), even desire unconsciously?
- How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji?
- How would you prove that all of them (the single elements alone in the body do not have life) combined together don't have life? How would you prove that?
- How you are advancing in Krsna consciousness, that will be tested at the time of your death. The examination will be at that time
- How you are becoming KC, that you'll be tested at your time of death - That is wanted. If we practice throughout whole life "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna," then there is good chance of chanting HK, because at the time of death everything becomes disordered
- How you can achieve Krsna? Krsna does not require any service from you but the love
- How you can approach God with sinful life? That is not possible. That is simply bogus thing, that you keep your sinful life, at the same time you want to see God, you want to talk with God. That is not possible
- How you can become representative of Krsna? That is explained by Caitanya Mahaprabhu: yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa, amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa
- How you can become svami? Because we are falsely thinking that "I am the proprietor. I am the enjoyer. I am the leader. I am the friend of my family, my society, my nation," so many ways, you have to convert these things
- How you can deny the living force behind this gigantic mechanical arrangement? Call it material world, material machine or whatever you may call. How you can deny? At least from your practical experience you cannot deny
- How you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America - land. Then I worked - labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it
- How you can expect good society, good management? If you want good society, good management, people happy in this life and next, then you have to adopt the principles given by Sri Krsna Himself in the Bhagavad-gita
- How you can finish Bhagavatam in seven days? You cannot finish even one word. My Guru Maharaja explained Srimad-Bhagavatam, the first verse, janmady asya yatah (SB 1.1.1), in Dacca, for three months. Actually it is so profound
- How you can get freedom life. This is the movement. This Krsna consciousness movement is for that purpose; otherwise, what is the utility of this movement? It is not an "ism" just to make some temporary appeasement
- How you can make classless society? There must be divisions. There must be classes, color, colorful. So it has to be scientifically arranged, how all classes can cooperate for one purpose and they develop very nicely in Krsna consciousness
- How you can say God is dead? God is not dead, but we are dead to appreciate the function of God. We are dead
- How you can say God is dead? If there is some mismanagement, you can say there is no government, but if there is nice management, how you can say there is no government? So God is there. You do not know God
- How you can say that God is dead? What is your reason? No. God is not dead. God is alive, and you can meet also God because He is a person and you are a person
- How you can say that whatever you see, it is perfect? I am seeing now things under certain condition; next moment I will see things under certain other condition. So as the condition changes, therefore my sight also changes in different ways
- How you can say that without the control of the Supreme Lord this material world has come into being? There is no sufficient reasoning. They say because they are not very intelligent. Therefore Krsna says mudha
- How you can say you are not dependent on God? You are dependent. But because you are a rascal fraud, you want to cheat and become a Freud, that's all
- How you can stop war? Because you are animal, you fight, you can give some name, either on religious ground or this philosophical ground. But because you are animal you will fight. You can give a different name. That is different thing
- How you can think of Krsna always? That is not possible unless you become too much addicted. Just like if you love somebody, then you can think of him always
- How you can think of Krsna unless you develop love for Krsna?
- How you can trace out the history of Vedas? Vedas means knowledge. Vedas means knowledge. So first of all find out from which date knowledge began. Then you find out the date of the Vedas
- How you can understand the subtle laws of God? You are dull brain, with cow dung. You cannot understand
- How you chose this America to be your first...?
- How you explain the act of Krsna taking away the saris of the gopis?
- How you have practiced your bhajana, sadhana, this will be examined at the time of death
- How you know that the moon planet or sun planet or this planet or that planet have got so many things, this or that? It is from the books. You have never gone to the moon planet, but you learn it from the books, authorized books
- How you will feel separation unless you love? And you simply worship the Supreme in a feeling of separation, then that is perfection. Then that is perfection
- How your love for God can be still more intensified. That is Caitanya-caritamrta. So Bhagavad-gita is the preliminary book: to understand God and surrender
- How your preaching differs from various acaryas? Say, Sankara or Vallabha or Ramanuja?
- How your problem is solved? The real problem is that I am forced to accept different types of body. Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi (BG 13.9). And as soon as I accept body, I have to be under the tribulation of material nature
- Howard wants one of the Mimeograph machine here so that copies of Back to Godhead required here may be printed here. What is the weight of the machine and what will be cost of transport charges
- However, Krsna was not leaving the Pandavas, just as He never left Vrndavana. In the sastra, the Vedic literature, it is said, vrndavanam parityajya padam na gacchati: Krsna never goes even one step from Vrndavana
- However, Svarupa Damodara stopped them, and the shopkeepers returned to their shops and sat down with their baskets
- However, according to the statements of Srila Rupa Gosvami in this verse, an American gosvami and a gosvami in a family of acaryas are nondifferent
- However, after the appearance of the great stalwart teacher, Sankaracarya, this Buddhism was driven out beyond the border of India
- However, although King Barhisman understood everything, he was still not prepared to give up his engagements. As the following verses will show, the King was contemplating sending for his sons, who were away from home executing austerities and penances
- However, although the Supreme Person, the Paramatma, is also one, He is present as an individual in all the different bodies
- However, as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu points out, we are so unfortunate that we are not even attracted to chanting the maha-mantra - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare