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- A Latin legal phrase: causa causam, the cause of the cause
- A man has to ask himself a simple and straightforward question. What really does he want to put his life to? Does he want suffering or peace?
- A very powerful organization, and their ambition is to take over the world
- Actually there is some good lessons to learn from them, because they were persecuted, they were killed by the government even. But they didn't give up their faith. They remained very faithful, the early Christians
- Actually these properties are the envy of all of India. They're the best properties in each place
- Actually you and your Guru Maharaja are the greatest enemies of modern civilization in this century, Srila Prabhupada
- Actually you're very well known for criticizing everybody else
- Actually, it seems that in your system of management, the basic principle is to depend on Krsna
- Actually, Prabhupada, that lust is a perverted expression of love. Krsna is creating out of love, and in the material world it becomes perverted. So in the material world lust is the cause
- Actually, Srila Prabhupada, it may not matter to yourself, but it matters too much for us and for the world. We don't want... We can't... You can't leave us now
- Actually, that is their philosophy, Srila Prabhupada. I've heard people say exactly that, "All the things I want to do are for the people that are going to hell, therefore I want to go to hell. Why should I go anywhere else?"
- Adolf Hitler adopted the idea of Aryan, but his criteria for Aryan was one who had blond hair and blue eyes
- All the instructions for the future - like you said that one day even we will have the government, how to run the government - everything is explained in your books
- All they could say was how Prabhupada, how he is empowered by Lord Gauranga
- Also, before he (Prabhupada) complained of the heaviness, he was feeling very cold, yet so many blankets and quilts, and he threw them all off
- And he has known 'missing link'? (before the caveman was the missing link)
- And second thing, the god among the dasavataras, Buddha accepted, supposed to be one avatara. Buddha never told any idol worship, or any Rama and Krsna worshiping. And particularly one avatara, another avatara and this avadhuta. Or holy place
- And then the materialist says, "If Krsna is all good, then how is there any evil?"
- Any name we have in India, any good name we have, is due to you
- Any worship we first worship Lord Ganesa, India
- Are you desiring to have some kirtana, Srila Prabhupada? Or would you like to rest for a while
- Arjuna was very lucky to have Krsna there to tell him what the plan was
- As you have explained, Lord Krsna forbade Arjuna to do this duty
- At least for five or six years now the system has been that no man and woman should live together in the same building as where the Deity is
- At the temple there is much maya and the people who live in the temple are phonies
- At the time of death some people becomes unconscious
- Attachment should be to Govinda, not to an organization
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- Because I want to become this, it doesn't mean that I am this. Because I want to become God's servant, it doesn't mean that I am God's servant
- Because it's right on the ground floor and just near the entrance of the gate, people don't mind coming from the outside. And I've noticed people, after they come and do their banking business, they go for darsana
- Believers in Sai Baba and other we believe in an incorporeal God, nirakara
- Bhagavad-gita speaks of war. It started out with a war
- Big scholars would write a commentary on the Gita if he, if it says in the Gita that you must belong to the disciplic succession in order to be able to understand it
- Bone or flesh, your body is divine, Srila Prabhupada
- Books can be wrong also
- Brahmacaris don't like to take the instructions from the elder devotees, and then they want to take sannyasa, so they think they can be independent and give orders themself and not listen
- But a snake, he doesn't have ears. The snake doesn't have ears
- But even (if we cannot fully understand Krsna)... Just like this book, this is for convincing people. This book is for convincing them to understand
- But it can also mean that He is not everywhere because...
- But sir, I often wonder that Jesus Christ was so wonderful, I mean brotherhood and all these things, and these, practically people following his creed are warring like this
- But Swamiji, mostly educated persons, Ph.D, D.Litt., M.A., postgraduates, they are the followers of this
- But the number of human bodies increase
- But the slaughterhouse becomes a temple of mercy given these conditions in which the animals are...
- But you give brahminical initiation to unmarried women
- By creating brahmanas from different social classes of society, really you deny the old prescription of Hindu script...
- By merging, we come to be all alone, one spirit
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- Call Tamala Krsna. Call Tamala Krsna. The doctor said that it should help the blood to go to the heart, so it should be always towards the heart. Prabhupada started telling him it should be towards the heart
- Come to the varnasrama-dharma system that he cannot be considered civilized. But Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "I am not brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra"
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- Devotees once told me you said that the demigods like this movement very much so that they're standing in line to take their birth in the Krsna consciousness movement
- Dhrstadyumna Maharaja will be coming tomorrow with his brother. And he has designed the very ideal plan for all of the varnas and asramas to live together
- Don't keep Indian culture airtight, and don't keep American money for sense gratification. Use it for Krsna. So they are doing that. And Krsna is giving them intelligence. Bhakti-yogam dadami tam
- Dvapara-yuga is two thousand years, and Kali-yuga is one thousand years
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- Even if there is one bhakta, that is Vrndavana
- Every time I've seen a reporter say, "Swamiji, what do you think about so and so?" you said, "I do not know about such persons"
- Everyone has a natural desire to have relationship with Krsna
- Everything is nice at Mayapur, Srila Prabhupada
- Except those who believe in Bhagavad-gita, sir. They don't believe in that. They believe caste by birth
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- First impression is the lasting impression. If one time a man comes and it is not good, he will never return
- First they say the songs are maya, then the tunes are maya. They have, behind my back I hear all kinds of things they are saying. So nobody takes my words seriously. Even though I may quote from any scripture right, they don't respect me
- Food is only one need of the living being, but there are many other needs in today's society
- For material men like us it is not possible to accept the Vedas. Because we do not know. I do not see. It may not be there. But all we can say that we are still in the dark or ignorant about the...
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- Generally it seems to me that this old varnasrama system to some extent practiced the nature of division of labor in ancient society. So now division of labor among people in any society is much more complicated and sophisticated
- Gita jnana itself is given by Lord incorporeal, not to Krsna. Krsna, it is told, at the time the jnana was given had a body which became divya Vedanta
- God is light and that, within us, inside of us
- God is the whole, and we are parts, and we are evolving to integrate ourselves with that whole
- God not merely is there to improve upon what you might say would be a natural goodness of man, but man has a natural deficiency he needs God to overcome. And as he overcomes, of course, he progresses further and he is enriched by God?
- God's consciousness is absolute; mine is not
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- Hari-sauri looks like he can give a very good massage. He looks like he can give a very good massage
- He (God) is a nice master
- He (Sai Baba) says, "Rice is the equivalent of God in man while the husk can be compared to desire which reduces God to man"
- He doesn't have form. For me, and for my child, Krsna's here child life is very better
- He has said that we have given the name Krsna to God, but actually there are so many names of God, that it doesn't matter what the name of God is
- He has understood from what he thinks is Indian philosophy that you cannot give God a name because that would be limiting God
- He is not a bhakta, he is a scholar (Swami Akhandanandana)
- He is saying that actually there is no difference between, for example, chanting the words "tree, tree, tree" again and again or the chanting of Hare Krsna. It depends on the meaning that you put into the word
- He is telling that he's requesting repeatedly that Prabhupada doesn't talk too much. He says that the energy that he's building, the moment he starts talking, that he loses that energy
- He must have the integration of the gunas
- He said God means everything, and they say that God is everywhere
- He said if God is Krsna, then there would be some evidence in the Bible, but there is no evidence
- He said that in Christianity God has no name
- He said that you remarked that our society is not love-making society. But there are so many of these things are going on
- He said, if it were an absolute truth, it would be evident to everyone (yes. But everyone is not advanced in knowledge) He says the question remains because there are other, very spiritually advanced men who don't accept that idea
- He said, so I can understand that it's really God helps you
- He says but he doesn't sit on a throne and he doesn't ask people to pay obeisances in front of him
- He says it's always been difficult for him to keep walking or climbing up the stairs in the right direction
- He says that because he doesn't know what the transcendence is, there's no value for him. It's only a name. He doesn't know why to look for it
- He says that he is a fruitarian. He does not eat vegetables. He says that to be good consciousness in spiritual life, one must not eat any vegetables but only fruit
- He says that maya keeps making him full of material desires
- He says there are other sinful activities as well. For example, egoism and jealously
- He says there's a definite connection between the flesh and love, and you can't deny it, he said. I argued with him, but that was his viewpoint, that love is expressed through the flesh
- He says, "That may be so, but in the Bhagavad-gita Krsna orders Arjuna that 'You must kill.' "
- He should come and become a disciple of Srila Prabhupada
- He's impersonalist (Dr. Radhakrishnan). I read that Bhagavad-gita in school
- He's saying that by chanting it might be possible to get this result, to reach a higher consciousness, but it can happen that by, on account of chanting, I forget my neighbor and these problems and the things around me
- He's saying that he accepts that we can receive perfect knowledge, but then because I am imperfect I make an imperfect interpretation
- Here are flowers. This is a heater for the winter to keep the temperature up. We try to grow tomatoes for the Deities in the winter
- "Here we have a powerful and persuasive presentation in the bhakti tradition of this dearly beloved poem. The Swami's introduction makes clear at once where he stands as a leading exponent of Krsna consciousness." That is my actual
- Here you find Vietnam War, you find here Bangladesh, you find all suffering and they'll cry all around to God that "He will come and protect us," and there is no protection anywhere from this
- His argument is that "I should never be allowed to misuse my independence"
- Hm. No, but there is alternative always. There are available rooms and apartments just adjoining the temples
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- I also understand that we are not this body, we are spirit, soul. But if it wasn't for your body you are using now, you wouldn't be able to communicate this message to other people
- I am not qualified to worship Krsna, so let me just worship the Mother. She is part of Krsna, so let me just worship her
- I am thinking more in terms of the question, it is perhaps more suitable to make the question a question, not affirmation. "Who am I?" perhaps, is the best of the mantrams instead of affirming, "I am," because we cannot realize who I am
- I am very envious of them because they have got this guru's grace on them
- I asked one person, and he said "Everything." He said he was everything
- I believe that most of the westerners read the Bhagavad-gita, Upanisads... The Vedas. I believe that would have been a greater understanding of Krsna consciousness
- I can possess it if you give it to me
- I can understand how I can serve my own senses or how I can serve another man, but serving God...
- I could not see any open space in the park. Really, I was shocked. Even where there was a fountain, the whole fountain was filled with people; even where there was water, they were standing in the water
- I didn't know that God was Krsna. I thought He was love
- I disagree with hanging completely
- I don't like this philosophy, that if someone does some service they should get money for it. That's business
- I don't think that the spiritual activities which are external forms can really of themselves change the internal man
- I don't understand how materialistic people, if they have material minds, they can remember their past lives
- I don't understand how the intoxication of some type of wine would go along with the ruling of a country
- I don't understand that I have got a spiritual body really
- I fall so far away from you, you know, when you're not here
- I find an overall bad atmosphere in India. Resentment against many of the devotees. Party politics and different things like that are going on
- I found someone who will give us a big garage, but it's not a temple. A nice man
- I found that our devotees who engage in business, they become a little spiritually weakened because we're not that advanced yet
- I have a picture of it, Srila Prabhupada. I have a picture of that BBT godown
- I have heard there is a philosophy here amongst some of the devotees that if you chant Hare Krsna, you can go back to the spiritual world even if you do not give up your independence
- I have noticed when everybody touches their head to the floor. And this I find so disturbing
- I just want to clarify the meaning of dharma. Dharma always means, it always says the meaning, "That which cannot be changed"
- I know so many people, young people, that when they see us chanting on the street, I can see their eyes, that they really want to chant also, but something is stopping them
- I know when a person doesn't come to the temple, it's very difficult for him to maintain, especially if he maintains a full time job. It has an imperceptible effect on your consciousness
- I know, Prabhupada, that in Seattle you had me lecture on a newspaper clipping that in New Jersey they had opened up one home for alcoholic priests
- I might be influenced to try to live like Siva because richness doesn't appeal to me. But the problem is that in a country like this the winter is extremely cold, and if I try to live like Siva I would freeze to death
- I personally, I don't think that even Americans or Westerners would have accepted even your teachings, as clear as they are, without having your personal association and seeing your example. I think people would have thought that it's totally impossible
- I said, "Well, Prabhupada says that he's dead. Now he says he even feels practically dead." The kaviraja said, "He's not dead. I have seen worse cases even than this, and they could survive." He said, "But I have to work very, very carefully"
- I should be always chanting
- I think that some of the comments of Your Divine Grace, some of the purports of the Fourth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, if they come to the notice of the Indian government, it may give us some... They may seriously consider about banning
- I think that they have made a many mistakes in writing of the slokas
- I think the potency is all coming from you
- I think we think our stage has not yet come to that level because Bhagavad-gita only, still very few understand it
- I thought that in this age you can't meditate, but Lord Buddha, who was God's son, he meditated
- I want to follow my own aim and desire, my own morality. They say like that (college sturdents)
- I was reading in the newspaper that a few days ago India exploded a nuclear bomb, an atomic bomb, underground. This was the first step
- I was thinking if my vans get kicked out of the country because of the customs, that we would go to Bangladesh and take trunkloads of Gitar Gans and go to Dacca and Chittagong and some of the big cities
- I was thinking in terms of spiritual nature being real nature. When the person, by following his temporary nature, realizes he can't find satisfaction but he has to turn to spiritual nature...
- I was very happy when I heard, respectable gentlemen, out of love they are washing dishes. You know that? Atreya Rsi told me
- I'm not actually tired. I'm feeling completely rejuvenated just seeing you, Srila Prabhupada
- I'm saying the emphasis of marriage responsibility, I don't know if it's preached that strongly. Generally it's preached that one should not...
- I'm still puzzled about the relationship of the soul to God. If the soul is eternal, as God is, and yet some souls have the tendency to fall and others don't have that tendency...
- I've also been told that if we are serving someone, we can cause them to return to render us some service
- I've got the power of Jesus. (laughter) Cause I'm a Christian
- I've read some of your old Back to Godhead magazines, and actually you've been saying the same thing all along, with the same force also. Some of your critiques of Dr. Radhakrishnan's Bhagavad-gita and modern science
- If I didn't love the cow as equally with a child, then it is a personal love because I'm defining qualifications
- If I've never known happiness, I feel sure I've never known suffering either
- If I, I'm originally in the spiritual world, but even the potential to fall down is an imperfection in the creation
- If our seeing is imperfect we can see the change of body but we cannot see change, the transmigration of the soul
- If someone forces his mind, Srila Prabhupada, to think of Krsna...
- If the child is taken from the parents, he will cry, but he will stop
- If the scientists know that we are not this body, then definitely the whole outlook will be changed. They don't want to admit their failure
- If the temple president doesn't understand it, teach him
- If there's no vegetables you have to eat something
- If we are on the street and collecting money and we are thinking, "Oh, I am a very good collector; I am collecting so nicely"
- If we go wholeheartedly to God without proper understanding, there is also a flaw
- If we were to preach a little less vigorously, there might be less objection, but then again there would be the less benefit because we would not be preaching as vigorously. It's very hard to know sometimes just how forcefully to preach
- If you are spiritually satisfied you would sit down and do nothing and if everybody were doing that we should be rather back to where we started rather than have enough food or music or transport
- If you can appreciate krsna-prasadam without filling up to the neck...
- If you follow any one movement, then you automatically close your mind to other things
- If you need to relax, and you sit and listen to some music, it doesn't say praise God all the time, but in fact is, because it's beautiful
- If you proclaim that this is the real Hinduism, the people are getting fed up with Hinduism
- If you're a member, you have to practice the whole thing obviously
- In Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada, you are mentioning that prostitute is needed in the society
- In every city there are heroin addicts and all kinds of addicts, and they are very perplexed because there is no way to control
- In my readings of the Bhagavad-gita I haven't seen where Krsna deals with the social aspect of man, helping the man who is starving, say, to overcome his suffering or providing his material needs. Rather, the emphasis is on away from the material
- In other words, Srila Prabhupada, without practice of the method, it's very difficult to understand the philosophical concepts
- In other words, the matter cannot grow without a living force
- In our Hindu religion, there are gods and goddesses. There are so many
- In regards to the organization of the movement
- In Svarup Ganj there's one big astrologer. So he saw your photograph, and he said, "This is the face of the most powerful spiritual personality on the planet. I can tell from his face that he can make a house in which the whole world can live peacefully"
- In that way I was saying that we talk more of spiritualism here. I don't know whether they talk it in other countries or not. But we do here more
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna also, He says to Arjuna, "What need is there of all this knowledge? Just know that with one spark of My splendor I am pervading everything"
- In the Bible they say that the animals don't have soul; therefore it's not the same as killing
- In the Bible, Prabhupada, there is a statement that many people follow, saying that, where Jehovah says, "Man shall have dominion over the animals, over the fishes and..."
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta you wrote that Krsna has no arms or legs as we have arms and legs, and His spiritual body and the other is the same. The spiritual body and...
- In the Christian Bible it says that God created all of earth. He created the waters, he created the animals, but He created the human being in His image, which was the same
- In the Christian Bible it says that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and you can only get to God through him
- In the event of death or failure to act for any reason of any of the said trustees (of property trust) a successor trustee or trustees may be appointed by the remaining trustees, with never less than three or more than five trustees acting at one time
- In the West, our theologies have taught us that we no longer believe in heaven, we no longer believe in hell, we no longer believe in a soul. So I think that if you want to generate some sympathy, you had better change your tack
- In Washington Square a crowd of about three thousand, many of whom were there as part of the normal Sunday afternoon activities, heard Swami Prabhupada deliver a lecture
- It (a book of Srila Prabhupada) establishes itself as a Deity within a person's home
- It can be realized in small rural communities which acquire the necessary surface to have each member in the community to be self-sufficient. Like in the Middle Ages the monks were self-sufficient but outside this, the peasants were really always hungry
- It is always the home is the last one always, you know what happens with prophets. They are always respected more abroad
- It is not prakrti. It is purusa. It is purusa inside. Sankaracarya says, Sankaracarya says that...
- It is very dangerous. Analogy's awfully dangerous
- It is written in many scriptures that God is light
- It looked like he was beaten with boards. It looked criminal. So, I don't think uh, if it happened to me I would sue. If that happened to me. The boy's eye could be put out
- It says first-class, second-class and third-class devotees, they are pure devotees
- It seems like even though you're invalid, it gives us more opportunity to serve you
- It seems like that it's the nature of all living entities to be mad after something
- It seems like you are giving more stress to science in recent years than previously
- It seems to me that surrender, surrender is to be accompanied with revolt. The history of mankind has proved but by only revolt against some kind of surrender...
- It was only when your lotus feet touched Australia that it became worthwhile
- It would be easier for them if they didn't live in the cities, because the cities make it so hard for anybody to understand there is a God
- It's a lot of fun to drive fast cars and have sex and see movies and... This is fun you know. It's the only way to enjoy!
- It's a process of negation for some yoga systems... Of feeling. Thinking, feeling, and willing
- It's kind of a philosophy that I have. I don't feel that I have to bow down to anybody and I don't feel anybody should bow down to me
- It's not something that's isolated here to the palace, but the devotees all over, they are just behaving on the level of sense gratification, and that's why there is so much rajas guna in the temples. So much rajas guna
- It's our duty in society to show everyone how to work for Krsna and become happy in life
- It's the great called Agape as opposed to the old other problem Eros
- It's very difficult to think of God
- Its a very interesting concept because often in Western civilization God is defined more as an idea
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- Karmis can't understand why a devotee doesn't want to go to the cinema
- Keep always engaged yourself in Krsna activity. That is wanted. Jaya
- Krsna consciousness is the oldest teaching of God, or Krsna. But the Gita was written about five thousand years ago
- Krsna is benevolent, and the material nature is not
- Krsna is doing it. He is taking the water from the sea and putting it up in the sky, and it becomes very pure
- Krsna is fully satisfied already
- Krsna is so easy that api cet su-duracarah, it means we must surrender in one way, but...
- Krsna means Christ. He's the whole spirit. We are in the body of man. That is the body of God
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- Last night you said that that man's claim was like a poor man saying, "Yes, I'll become a millionaire"
- Lately there has been some misunderstanding amongst our devotees about our Krishna Consciousness philosophy. Particularly there has been some confusion about the relationship between the Spiritual Master and Krishna
- Life started from life. It cannot start from matter
- Lord Jesus himself never claimed that he would be responsible. And then when he healed them, he invariably said after, he said, "Now go thou and sin no more lest the worst thing befall you"
- Lord Siva is the greatest Vaisnava
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- Many gurus and svamis have come to the West, but they have not established not one temple. And Prabhupada has established one hundred
- Many of the members are reading the books now, Srila Prabhupada. One man, he is coming tonight, he has read your Bhagavad-gita six times now. He is very enthusiastic. Now he is thinking that he has wasted his whole life. That's the way he talks
- Many people are acting more on emotions and feelings than on their mind
- Many revolutions have been victorious with a very small minority of people behind them because they're so well organized. Russia, Germany, all these revolutions
- Many times, the professors, they say that "If God, if god were actually all, all-good and all-perfect, then when He created us, we would also be all-good..."
- Material prosperity is not dependent upon duty
- Materialists may argue that "We can see that Sarasvati is changing from the time she was a little girl and now she is a little older, we have seen her both times, but at the time of death we have not seen the next body of anyone
- Maybe religion is simply imagination or a big business
- Maybe we should build a permanent house for Your Divine Grace also
- Men have written with symbolism, pointed things out through symbolism all through the ages
- Mental conditions are due to want
- Mental speculation alone is sterile
- Misery of life is to be like this only. To live like this without the divine knowledge or without...
- Most people say to us that "Because in America you have already enjoyed sense gratification, so now you are taking to this."
- Most people would go crazy if they didn't have any work
- Mr. N.C. Chatterji M.P. writes "...Your deep and penetrating study of the subject and your philosophic insight are reflected in this work. . . . You a are doing a great service to the cause of humanity''
- My organization is not directly concerned with giving people brains
- My point is, I don't wish to keep money in the bank. Invest in printing
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- No one in the world has seen that there is God?
- No one is getting any salary here (in New Mayapura), they are just working and taking...
- "No work in all Indian literature is more quoted. Because none is better loved in the West than the Bhagavad-gita. Translation of such work demands not only knowledge of Sanskrit but an inward sympathy with the theme and a verbal artistry"
- No, even in Ramayana and Mahabharata we find this kind of, Ekalavya was discriminated, Karna was discriminated
- Not in ISKCON. No, no it doesn't. They do not respect sannyasis
- Now we are being given a new training by you, Srila Prabhupada
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- Often the devotee thinks that he's more unhappy than the karmis because he knows he's unhappy
- One barrister, one of the top judges in England, a top man, top doctor, he said children should have sex life at fourteen. He said this in the newspaper two days ago. He said children at fourteen should be allowed to have sex life
- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth a day without a name
- One in million get a chance to get a real spiritual guide. There are so many in the name of spiritual guide. And he will false pray because his inner soul hankers and inner soul thinks that "This is my guru, and somehow I will accept whatever he says"
- One of the big ideas is the idea of "All life is divine, and divine compassion for all life"
- One of the central teachings of the Christian scriptures, is that if any man says he loves God and does not love his neighbor, then that man is a liar
- One of the things which this council handles is freedom of religion throughout the world
- One who understands Krsna consciousness should want to finish the business of material life
- Our magic is already there. Throughout the whole world we are chanting Hare Krsna. Is not that magic? Hmm? Foreign countries, foreign religion, and they are accepting Krsna and chanting Hare Krsna. Is not that magic?
- Our movement has changed in America in the past six years or so. Now devotees are not much seen on the streets chanting. So there's different feelings. Some say it is all right, because everyone is now distributing books more
- Out of desire to serve you, they carry out whatever you ask
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- People are always afraid of fear and love. It's almost as though it's something sissy or, you know, to get so mixed up with sentimentality
- People are speaking about our movement now. Many people say to us that "You are selling out, compromising your position"
- People become so much impelled or attracted when they hear of a great personality and his activities. It makes them want to link up with such a person. So this book will have preaching effect, no doubt, and it will be filled with philosophy also
- People don't know how they'll survive if they don't get money
- People in the past gave religion an enormous importance and science was practically unknown. Now they're going the other way around
- People like to have, or seem to like to have a religion
- People outside, she says, they find it difficult even to believe in God now
- People trying to please Krsna did it through misinterpretation
- People want to be flattered. They don't want to be told very strongly
- People, especially these days, they want to avoid making any kind of decisions, especially hippies
- Plus here in India we see that the sadhus are taking ganja
- Prabhupada once gave the analogy sometimes when the horse is sick, the doctor takes the pill in the hand, he puts it down the throat
- Prabhupada said this past week that in the future, historians will study this period of world history, how this movement has changed the world. He said in the future they will just note this period, how the world is being changed
- Prabhupada says by activating his muscles, by massaging, that will generate energy. That will bring appetite
- Prabhupada, he says he wants to have sex more than once a month
- Prabhupada, in the Adi-lila you wrote that the Communist movement is greater than the capitalist movement because there are more sudras than vaisyas, so that in a war between Communism and capitalism, the Communists would win
- Prabhupada, Jesus had a relationship with Krsna, or God, as his father
- Prabhupada, sometimes there may be differences between what is love of Godhead between Christian and Moslem, Moslem and Buddhist, Buddhist, Hindu. They may quarrel at what is love of Godhead
- Prabhupada, you were a chemist before, but I think you are the greatest alchemist to have taken so many leaden souls and turned them into golden Vaisnavas
- Prabhupada, your temples are the real spaceships. We can go to the other planets and to Krsnaloka from your temples
- Practically all of these devotees are so much dedicated to book distribution that they are going out now nearly seven days a week, without stoppage
- Practically, until now, no one except you has brought Indian culture out. No one has known before that they had high culture
- Prahlada Maharaja's father, he said that he would never come to Krsna consciousness
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- Sanka dasa, you know, in Bombay? He was in the CIA. And they..., when he was in Vietnam, they knocked him out one day and they brought him to a dentist and they took out three of his teeth, and they put in these little transistors
- Seems somehow we might be able to do something to attack those kinds of evils and suffering in the world, other than telling a man to chant Hare Krsna and the world will be solved
- Shakespeare writes in his books that marriage is nothing but legal prostitution
- She (Queen Elizabeth) said it (How marvelous to be able to give all responsibility to Krsna) with a beautiful smile
- She (Queen Elizabeth) said, "How marvelous to be able to give all responsibility to Krsna
- She said that these laws, these laws are only laws which exist in the human world, but that God doesn't have these laws
- She said, "Your Guruji is just like Nethaji. He went outside of India and organized army of Vaisnavas"
- She says she thinks that we are a little exploiting God...
- She says that she sees it as a mantra, and from her point of view it seems like we're repeating this mantra over and over again, and it's something like hypnotism
- She says that to ask like the Christian asking for their daily bread, it is something very difficult, very painful, so it is very tragical
- She's saying that Christ said that "I am the way"
- So an interpretation of a scripture, whether it be Bible or Bhagavad-gita, cannot simply be an opinion, but it must be based on logic and reason
- So in order to understand what is God one has to leave his family and come to some...
- So much fear being preached it seems to be a reflection of individual consciousness more than the religion. They are preaching so much fear, it would seem to stem from their own activities, rather than the religion that Christ was teaching
- Some of our brahmacaris, they've been drafted into the army. We've lost several devotees like that, because it's very hard for them to maintain their Krsna consciousness in the army
- Some of us are Muslims, and in the Koran Mohammed says that eating meat is all right. In fact it is required to be a good Muslim, to eat meat
- Some people say that there is a worldwide conspiracy of bankers, that they can control any government. They can cause a depression. They say that the bankers caused the depression in the 1920s, 1930s, just to increase their power
- Some people use the argument, Srila Prabhupada, that by this advancement of technology, it will free us to think of philosophical
- Somebody was criticizing me that "Swamiji, you are introducing this Hare Krsna movement. People are becoming coward. They simply chant Hare Krsna"
- Someone asked me today what was Candra's function...
- Someone was thinking that Brahma is not a pure devotee. But at the same time, he appeared as Thakura Haridasa in this world. So Brahma, he appears as Thakura Haridasa with Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Sometimes a devotee thinks, "Oh, it is so difficult to be strict. Maybe I'll just take it easy and remain engaged in devotional service, then I'll take another birth as a devotee and maybe next time I'll finish up my business"
- Sometimes a materialist, he's thinking he's doing good but he's not
- Sometimes a question is arisen that devotees are working hard to serve Krsna, but sometimes they don't feel that they are working in love and devotion. They are doing the work, but sometimes...
- Sometimes devotees, they want to love Krsna, but they fall down, they can't seem to...
- Sometimes if we are faced with a service we think is beyond our means
- Sometimes people ask where Swami Prabhupada get his meanings for different words, because they would differ, they would disagree and pick some other word
- Sometimes people ask whether I have seen anything very powerful in Srila Prabhupada
- Sometimes the Christians they say that, "According to our scriptures that Christ is the only way. And unless one is worshiping God through Christ, that is heathenism"
- Sometimes the mother uses the method of fear to train her child. So similarly, according to the consciousness of the people the doctrine of love of God has to sometimes be preached with a little element of fear so that they'll accept it
- Sometimes there is some disagreement, that "Why one should not live outside the temple?"
- Sometimes when we ask someone to become a life member, they say: "Yes, sometime in future." We become very disappointed
- Sri Vallabhacaryaji, a devotee to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, wrote commentary on Srimad-Bhagavata, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected his commentary
- Srila Prabhupada, earlier you were speaking that Krsna means everything past, present and future
- Srila Prabhupada, from time immemorial we see that in India every time there has been a religious reform...
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Bible it says, "Thou shalt not kill", and the Christians say, "Yes, thou shalt not kill but you can kill animals"
- Srila Prabhupada, it mentions in The Nectar of Devotion that in the viddhi-marga there are many things we don't want to do but we must do in order to make advancement
- Srila Prabhupada, it's very difficult to control my mind when I chant. It wanders
- Srila Prabhupada, of course, in fact, we are fallen, and sometimes I would like every time to think about Krsna, and...
- Srila Prabhupada, one thing they're doing against us more and more in the West is taking the testimony of an ex-disciple of yours, and he will say, "I was a Hare Krsna..."
- Srila Prabhupada, Ramacandra also worshiped Durga
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we go preaching, people do not want to take Krsna consciousness. Sometimes they actually...
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes you say only a very small percentage can take to Krsna consciousness. But yesterday morning in your lecture you were saying it can expand to ten thousand, million, or ten million
- Srila Prabhupada, the way you deal with us simply deepens our attachment every moment
- Srila Prabhupada, you mentioned the principle of intuition, that this is coming from Krsna. There's another principle called conscience which means the feeling that something is right and something is wrong
- Srila Prabhupada, you said yesterday, or a few days ago, that this movement will go on unimpeded for ten thousand years...
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want us to give something towards repairing this Caitanya Mahaprabhu Mandir?
- Srila Prabhupada? Sometimes we find a dilemma in preaching, in the sense that if we preach very vigorously we invoke the attention of the authorities
- Suppose when your, this shirt is torn, you have to purchase one shirt. Now, that shirt you have to purchase according to your price. If you have good price, then you get a good shirt. If you have no money, then you get a bad shirt. That's all
- Suppose you have a scientific knowledge shop or a place, and if this workshop or this scientific institution states, "This is not good. This is not good," a general body accepts, take it for granted, "Yes, scientific body has said so
- Swami, it says in the Gita that when Krsna comes, He comes to achieve a certain mission and then He leaves
- Swamiji, you said that the relationship with Krsna as lover contains all the other symptoms of the other relationships
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- Ten thousand loving salesmen
- That is completely in contradiction with Darwin's theory
- That is the principle of eternal hell that is used to make people surrender, fear of eternal hell
- That is their idea. They have created their own way to spread Krsna consciousness
- That is what they do now in the Vietnam. For God they are killing
- That life started from matter and is evolving from the uni-cellular organisms to the multi-cellular organisms. So that means they are saying that there was no higher species at the beginning of creation
- That Nobel Prize, the Nobel, he's the one who discovered the dynamite which has caused so much destruction in the world
- That question will start coming up in America. They will say, "Krsna is an ordinary man. He was killed by some hunter"
- That's a common philosophy. The Ten Commandments are there, but they're an ideal that no one can ever achieve
- That's very good for you, Srila Prabhupada, srikand
- That's what I was saying earlier on, the Krsna is very close to the Unitarian position in Christianity
- That's why I think it's better to accept that as it is rather than make analogies which are dangerous
- The argument could come that "If He is directing the wanderings of all living entities then I don't have to worry about surrendering. He will direct me to it"
- The argument is sometimes put forward that not everyone will be able to embrace Krsna consciousness fully. Therefore it may be better for them to accept some portion, like vegetarianism or hatha-yoga...
- The basic concept that you are preaching and teaching is the same as the basic content of Christianity, of Buddhism. If the people of the world would accept this basic principle, there would be no wars. Because the basic and the fundamental is love
- The body and owner of the body is the same
- The Buddhist thinks that everyone is God
- The Buddhists have a good compromise on this. They say you can eat meat...
- The Buddhists or other religionists who do not care for revealed scriptures sometimes say that there are many devotees of Lord Buddha who show devotional service to Lord Buddha, and who therefore should be considered devotees
- The child also have faith in the father, that the father will give him the proper answer
- The churches in this land seem to have forgotten that he (Jesus) never claimed to be God
- The definition of the conservation of energy is the energy cannot be created nor destroyed. That means that it is eternal
- The difference between the transcendentalists and the scientists is that they do not know the standard of research
- The foolish Darwin's theories, they also claim that monkey is our forefather
- The GBC suggested that he give it just to your Book Fund or else to pay for the around-the-world tour, to help pay for it
- The guiding principle should be that under no circumstance should anyone become lost
- The Krsna consciousness say, you cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it
- The library party said that everywhere in Delhi they went, they found that you had already placed your three volumes of Bhagavatam
- The majority believe that Christ is also God, not just His son, but he is God also
- The materialistic man will think, "Well, I am voluntarily giving up my clothing, but I'm involuntarily giving up my body"
- The meek shall inherit the earth
- The movement is very popular in the USA and few other countries. To my experience it is not quite popular... This is the country where originated... not so much in India
- The one on leg that you put that nim oil. That cleared up that cut in two days
- The origin from Christ may have been very pure, but its present manifestation appears to be lacking something. And the young people are seeing that
- The outcome of the battle is already decided. Just like in Bhagavad-gita, we've already won. We just have to keep fighting
- The photograph of a spiritual teacher can be very helpful to teach them to love him because the photograph of a spiritual teacher is not material value, but it symbolizes the truth from which the, he has come
- "The poem is a symphony in which God is seen in all things. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is, of course, profoundly sympathetic to the theme. He brings to it a special interpretative insight"
- The problem is that you only have the opportunity of hearing or reading what somebody else has said what they have said. So you're back again on the trouble of diversity of observation and opinion
- The process of hearing and then asking questions is the way to clarify our understanding, just like Krsna and Arjuna. So actually we must have some questions in our minds; otherwise we would all immediately surrender to Krsna
- The reason why we take the name of the God or anything is to achieve the supreme happiness
- The remote cause is Krsna
- The scientists do not know that there are two types of energies
- The seed is the origin of the whole tree, if I may say
- The smell we are getting now from burning the gas or coal is also one of the causes of cancer. The hydro-carbons
- The sun, you see, is a ball of fire. Nothing can exist there
- The thing that was bothering me when I thought of this, that the brahma-jyotir, if it is jivas, that they're all fallen souls
- The whole point is that the sannyasis must see that that standard is kept to the highest. That's their job. That's why you've taken...
- "The work done by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada toward the revivalism of Hindu culture and civilization is unsurpassable. His Holiness has done a great service to Indian culture by reinterpreting the concept enshrined in the Srimad-Bhagavatam"
- The world has never had anything like Krsna consciousness
- Their argument is that Krsna consciousness is just another kind of conditioning, that you leave one kind of conditioning, a material conditioning, but then you also enter into another kind of conditioning when you live in the temple
- Their measurement of happiness and distress is how much nice wife and children they get and how much money they get
- Their whole idea is that they want to violate the law but not suffer for it. That is the whole basis of their research work
- Then they will say, "Well, you are proselytizing by rice"
- There are so many children in the world that are suffering
- There are too many sections of religion, Hindu religion
- There is a heavy emphasis in the ten commandments on the relationships between one human being and another. "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not steal"
- There is an opinion that this varnasrama system was introduced into Indian society on the late stage of Vedic era but not from the beginning
- There is another way they can understand also. Just like in Christianity, they all believe Jesus was killed and then immediately he was alive again
- There is nothing against marriage
- There was a lot of chaos even in the old days when these (varnasrama) divisions were there. If you look at ancient history, it is one long story of massacres and wars and turmoil
- There was some trouble with your movement in America recently
- There's a lot more sins than just those four things. If you're irritated with somebody. Your mind can be filled with this kind of sin
- There's a principle difference of surrender to a king, to a person, or surrender to a society
- There's Muslims who go to the mosque in the morning just here. There's a mosque here, very big mosque. They go to the mosque for the five o'clock prayer and they come and have a wash
- There's some connection still. When the soul is..., when the body..., when you are dreaming, and the soul leaves the body, but still there must be some connection between the soul...
- These books are very revolutionary. You are very strong. You have put everything in a very clear-cut, strong words. You have attacked everyone who is not Krsna conscious, as fools and rascals
- These evolutionists, they consider... They don't think there is a soul. They think that the cow is an organism, and we are just more advanced organisms. So we have the right to slaughter the cow because we are more advanced
- These two pujaris, the two brothers, they look like they're out of the Caitanya-caritamrta. They appear as two persons right out of that book. Vaikuntha men. Perfect team of brothers
- They (girls from the city) want the cinema and all of the other things. They don't want to work hard. Farm life means to work hard. You have to get out and milk the cows, so many things. They don't want to do this
- They (the scientists) will not say that they are taking from Krsna. They'll say that they have created. They will say that: "I have taken from the nature"
- They are accusing us that "By chanting, you are killing your brain"
- They are advertising that "These Hindus, they are so fool, they are worshiping an animal, a cow"
- They are gambling and eating flesh right in the churches, Srila Prabhupada
- They are preparing for installation of Radha-Krsna on September lst, (Radha-Gopinath) and otherwise the sankirtana is distributing Bhagavad-gitas, about fifteen hundred a week
- They are spending thousands and thousands of dollars and the person goes back to addiction after several years. No success. Our program costs nothing, and the politicians don't want to listen
- They are trying to make babies in a test tube
- They argue that this Vedic philosophy is coming from India, and in India there is so much disease and so many problems, but here, where we have our science, there is no disease
- They believe there may be life in Mars planet. So they are very hopeful...
- They can do, but the thing is that you have said that he is the chief and unless it goes through him, it can't be printed. Everything is bottle-necked around him
- They had another question, whether these sannyasis' widows, that they would like to engage them as, those who want to do it, as teachers. They think that would be a good
- They have fashioned a way for the spacemen that they can drink their own urine and eat their own stool
- They have got this prayer, "Lord Jesus have mercy on me, a miserable sinner." And she was showing me they have a, almost like japa beads
- They may criticize that "The bhaktas, the Vaisnavas, they have got slave mentality"
- They may say that we have arbitrarily given some specific duties to different people
- They must be punished, with such rogues and thieves. That is stated in the Bhagavatam. It is nature's punishment
- They say by doing pranayama you'll drop material stages, that you...
- They say energy cannot be created or destroyed, then life cannot be created or destroyed
- They say God's name should never be spoken out loud
- They say it is a rocket way to God, doing pranayama
- They say it is for the purpose of eating, fish (?) are created for the purpose of eating
- They say that God should have created us so that we...
- They say that this is, the body is made by God. Why cover it up? Nakedness is the work of God
- They say there is no difference between that life and that matter
- They say there is no evidences that that life is eternal
- They say there's a missing link
- They say, "parallel evolution." They say in the process of evolution some are advancing and some are remaining stable
- They used to pray to God before they used to go to commit theft, and they used to come back again to worship the God and to please Him that yes, they were not caught
- They were saying also that in this age, particularly now, there is a great fear of loving someone or something on the part of the large population
- They would say that, according to their observations, that nature of eternity only lasts one body
- They'll admit that, but they say the way of becoming perfect is through objective information and experience
- They've also brought you some gifts - one sweater and some warm socks and a scarf for the winter here in Vrndavana
- This Easy Journey to Other Planets (in German), has been in the process so long, it has so many times been reworked, that it's no longer palatable to them (devotees). They don't even read it. They'd rather have the English version
- This gentleman says that real wisdom is not manifested by any exterior show, and that it is interior, and the real sage cannot be seen
- This is a problem, I think, with many devotees. They have a difficulty distinguishing between their own speculation and the inspiration
- This is the conclusion of the whole of Gita
- This is the end of their knowledge. A pile of junk
- This is the neighborhood. It is a very rich neighborhood, Prabhupada. Very wealthy. This is the most wealthy neighborhood, practically all of America. The builders are putting up houses all in here, just like that house over there
- This is the reason, one of the reasons. Hm. I don't think many devotees think in terms of that, but this is a very practical point, that selling books, once you make the sale, that's it. The book will act
- This one man was challenging that "This Krsna is simply sex symbol, dancing with so many women, having so many queens"
- This subject matter is called "mind-body problem." The mind sometimes they compare as spirit or soul in some Western philosophical circles
- This will more or less revolutionize the way we're running our centers. If we introduce it, it will more or less revolutionize the way we're running our centers
- Thou shalt not kill. Honor thy mother and father. There is one about no adulteration
- To my understanding (Hinduism) it is not religion from European point of view. It is a really a way of life
- Transcendental meditation by the Maharishi is not a form of meditation under concentrating powers
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- We are about to install your murti in that temple
- We are all eager for the day when your books are recognized as the greatest masterpieces of all. We are all eager for the day when your books are the most demanded works in the library. We are sure that day is not far away
- We are born as human being with inherent weaknesses and shortcomings, like kama, krodha, moha, lobha...
- We are giving names; therefore we become confused because in our God incarnation...
- We are marginal energy
- We are not fulfilling our true dharma
- We are simply your puppets, Srila Prabhupada. You're giving us the books
- We believe that the holy spirit empowers artists and composers. And therefore we would say that a symphony was a creation of God
- We can persuade my family to my religion. Instead of worshiping...
- We cannot allow anyone else to cook for you
- We cannot be exactly Krsna. We can be like Krsna, but not exactly like Krsna by bhakti
- We develop our attraction for Hare Krsna; we lose our attraction for sex life
- We do not know what were our past karmas
- We do not want to rest until every home in Bengal has a copy of Gitar Gan and Bhagavatam
- We found that this year's course-it's the first year-has been tremendously helpful. We brought the boys... I can't think anybody was here, but we brought the boys up to the London temple
- We go to work in the office, which is equally hard, I can assure you. We go from morning till evening. I wish I could go to the field, in fact
- We have devotees like that. We also have devotees who spiritually have trouble coming to the programs and even chanting, but still, they like to give them service, so we engage them anyway
- We have in this material world we have the evolution
- We have nothing new to find out. We have no research to make. You've given us everything. We only have to carry out exactly how you've trained us up and taught us
- We have to tear all these vices that are connected with our body. That is our purpose of getting into bhakti. But in that way, if you talk from that, another way of ahankara and pride, then things cannot go far
- We just had a big kirtana, but I could chant more. I have come a long way to see you and chant for you. So if you allow, I will chant
- We live on the mercy and the guidance of the guru every moment
- We place a good deal of emphasis on religion in the ways it gets one man to deal with another man. The ethic of religion
- We should meet and make a program for going around Vrndavana
- We think in the present day, Indonesia's, we think about harmonizing spiritual and material aspects of life
- We were afraid that if we were to publish a picture that is not correct
- We were speaking about that the other day. It's changed from the original dancing that you showed us to something else. Too much like the modern dancing
- We who had this Vedic knowledge and all the things which you have just now said is the solution to all our problems, with all this knowledge, we have not been able to keep our society free from so many evils to come
- We're always feeling your presence very strongly, Srila Prabhupada, simply by your teachings and your instructions. We're always meditating on your instructions
- We're miserable. We never get satisfaction
- We've become happy. Actually, apart from the devotees, there are no happy people in the whole world
- We've been trying more and more, Srila Prabhupada, to make our techniques of distribution more honest and straightforward, not to cheat so much as some of these methods in the past
- We've got a great desire to distribute Back to Godhead magazines
- Well, I think the Bhagavad-gita also mentions that many ways lead to God
- Well, I thought that in this age you can't meditate, but Lord Buddha, who was God's son, he meditated
- Well, these welfare workers say, "We have a positive solution. We believe the answer is by providing food and shelter, clothing
- Well, they say "You are distributing food, and we are also distributing food. You are opening schools, and we are also opening schools."
- When a person becomes very old, he should be very intelligent
- When I went to Paris, they had gotten all confused. Someone was thinking that Brahma, Lord Brahma is not a pure devotee
- When the Buddha preached his atheistic philosophy... That's why he was termed a nastika, a wasala. We do not believe in a god
- When the schools allow outside professional teachers into the institutions, then they seem to go down
- When there is bhajana singing. Then crying, tear comes from my face, and laughing, very instant laughing
- When they tried to contact other professors, none of them wanted to come because they said, more or less, that we are like fanatics and we wouldn't actually discuss things in a philosophic way, that we would just use the conference to proselytize
- When you originally were speaking about Vrndavana, you mentioned that Vrndavana would be a place for those people who have become a little disturbed in KC, or burned out, we call it, from so much activity, that he comes here and gets rejuvenated here
- Whenever the Congress tries to pass a law to control the purchasing of guns, it is always defeated. They want the people to be able to have guns. They make a lot of money, also, selling guns
- Whenever they make some report about India, they always make some joke about how the people will think the animals are sacred and how this is actually the real problem
- Women, children, they are different. After all, they have not done anything
- Would you please mention something about the meaning of the ritual of the initiation. They put their hand in the oil and the burning of the fire...
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- Yes, but they don't seem to be improving society. When they do come and go, society doesn't seem to improve on the way
- Yes, Srila Prabhupada. We understand very well. We apologize that we were taking too lightly
- Yes, they're getting pinched. You have really come as an aggressor, Prabhupada. (Prabhupada laughs) Actually I think we are the most dangerous revolutionaries in the whole world
- Yes. I am also..., can see that I was trying to become God
- You are more merciful than any of them, Prabhupada. You have come to the western countries
- You are the greatest teacher in recorded history, Prabhupada, because your movement is so well founded in these books, more so than any religious teacher-Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus Christ. Your movement is perfectly founded even during your own lifetime
- You are the perfect father, Srila Prabhupada. You provide everything for us-place to live, food to eat, everything. And you've trained us up with spiritual knowledge
- You are the sun, Srila Prabhupada. We are just reflecting your light
- You call that Krsna. But God is God. God's name is God, not Krsna. You may call Him Krsna if you want
- You can't preach until you are purified
- You cannot go beyond the philosophy. Philosophy must be there
- You consider that as a material. Only bhakti-yoga is more... That's true
- You have done something very extraordinary
- You have given the analogy that when a person turns his back to the sun he creates his shadow. And as he turns towards the sun the shadow disappears
- You have performed a miracle. God, Krsna, has performed miracle through you. It's just very amazing, greatest miracle on earth. I just feel so strongly about it
- You have said many times that if a small percentage of the Americans become Krsna conscious, then the whole country can gradually become Krsna conscious
- You know how to spread Krsna consciousness; therefore I follow. I don't even know what Krsna is. I'm just trying to follow. Therefore that will be successful
- You know, your religion is not the only one which teaches this particular precept
- You mentioned that the gopas, Krsna's friends, are playing with Him and they are said to have done very much pious deeds in their past lives. I understand that they are eternal associates...
- You must be higher than the paramahamsa stage, Prabhupada... You are so beautiful. You are paramahamsa, but still, you are preaching to us
- You questioned about contraception method, not the birth. The world is not composed not entirely of brahmanas. There are sudras, too, who are oriented exclusively towards kama
- You said in that article in the BTG that women's liberation means that they get more exploited
- You said in your lecture that everybody... I think that's what you said, that everybody in the material world is...in maya. But you can't be in maya
- You said that researches are all right, but there has to be a standard
- You said that the animals are not subject to the laws of the state, that if they steal something, they are not punished. But in our country, even if a person has a mouse in his house, a little mouse, he sets some trap and he kills him
- You said that when I say, "I am," and when you say, "I am," they are different. But she understands that the essence of everyone is the same
- You said that yoga means to connect with the Supreme, and then you said by that we concentrate our mind on God, and then after that you said Paramatma
- You say or members of the society say that "I am not this body," and in Christianity this is my body and this is my blood
- You say that because the earth isn't too hot or too cold. But they say that just by chance it came into this order
- You say that the way we hear from God is through words. And if these words are printed by the men that are making you fight, I have no assurance that it's the word of God unless every movement is God movement
- You see Him through sastra and the teachings of the spiritual master and His arca-vigraha
- You told Madhudvisa Swami once in Sydney a few years ago that actually you're the biggest cheater, because you're stealing away all our maya
- You were saying already that only people who were kind or gentle perhaps would find it easy to start. There are obviously, as you were saying, lots of people who are not so kind or gentle and presumably would find it more difficult (to find Krsna)
- You were saying that by intelligence one can just accept what the father says will be good for him and he'll do it, but most people have such a bad experience in the material world, they get cheated so often...
- You're the world's greatest revolutionary
- You're using materialist words, Swami. You're using materialist words, greater and smaller
- You've always said to us, at least whatever we have, maintain it
- You've given all the major policies for the future government, Krsna consciousness government
- You, of course, have been so merciful that sometimes you would take prasada cooked by so many different people
- Your calculation of the world. If it is preached anywhere, that is preached on the world. It was not spread, you can say, but it was preached
- 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 movement has spread with tremendous rapidity
- Your order is our business to follow, even at the risk of our life. So we are not going to take you to the hospital under any condition
- Your purports have such wonderful realization. They are completely nectar to read and hear
- Your spirituality is in a Rolls Royce and you're all into money, you Krsnas. You rip off people in the streets. When you said "Violence with violence," that's what you believe. Jesus turned the other cheek
- Your suggestion about pouring water on the root. We do get leaves from India, we pour water on them and we make that delicious drink, tea, which is one of those drinks which are used for inculcating the brotherhood of man