Category:Questions From... Journalists, Reporters, Writers
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
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- Yes, I've seen this morning's. Fairly similar, just to talk about the movement. Are you happy with the way it's going here?
- Yes, well, due to problems that do occur from time to time, we.... You know, what people consider to be the false guru, is that all right with you?
- Yes, what's the most important practice…He is asking whether one technique is more important than another?
- You accept to answer my questions?
- You always return as an animal?
- You and your movement tend to separate people from concern with what's going on in the world, like that's a Presidential election and Jimmy Carter is the democratic candidate... Isn't that an example of it?
- You are at this particular time then the head in the world of this movement? Would that be correct?
- You are in fact the spiritual leader of these students. What does that mean?
- You are in general, then, trying to increase the interest in God. Is that correct?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are not suggesting that all of that (if they stop manufacturing, there is unemployment. And if they increase car, there is power shortage. So this dilemma, this modern civilization will have to meet this dilemma) is just cut away completely...?
- You are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
- You are participating in it, are you not (he asks if you are going to participate in the Ratha-yatra Parade)?... Will you attend the one here in New York?
- You are saying at the present moment we are all suffering?
- You are selling your books in Moscow?
- You are the head of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Is it a church?
- You are travelling to India, I hear?... Are you establishing a university in India?... At Navadvipa?
- You arrange the marriages?
- You came here ten years ago, or eleven years ago. You were almost seventy at the time...?
- You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?
- You choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?
- You commented that, you gave the words "Never trust," if I understood you right, "never trust an old man and a politician (a woman or a politician)"?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You do perform wedding ceremonies?
- You encourage anybody who disagrees with aspects of your philosophy to argue with you?
- You expect that they would oppose?
- You feel that you can continue to make those serious travels?
- You founded the Krsna consciousness movement. How long ago was that?
- You founded this movement I think it was ten years ago, that's correct. Why was it that you left till you were so late in life before you founded it?
- You go for a prescribed course of study?
- You have a way to stop the crime?
- You see Him in three dimensions?
- You spoke of initiation. What is that initiation?
- You started this ten years ago. But why is it that when you were recognized..., you were recognized by others and not in this country?
- You support the ancient caste system?
- You think Mirabhai was a bhakta?
- You think we pay too much importance to money?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You were a chemist yourself, were you not, in secular life before you took up the position you have...?
- You were saying don't bother, you know, don't bring the scriptures in, use common sense. But what part do the scriptures have in your religion? How important are they?
- You were saying that you're not necessarily trying to get a large number of devotees, but you think there are a few people who are yet ready to accept?
- You were saying, minute before that the socialism, your socialism is that Krsna is your Marx, sort of... It will be my last question. What about you in that? Would you be, you are a spiritual chief. Would you be...?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You were there at the time (I published something about you a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- You'll be having certain industries for export also in Mayapur. Will they be manned by disciples, and if so, do you think that they would be in a much better position to look after these big gosalas and other things than, say, other, people would be?
- You're a citizen however, aren't you, a U.S. citizen?
- You're all vegetarians, are you?
- You're the leader of how many disciples or devotees throughout the world?
- You've got to get a visa (to Russia). How do you... How can you get?
- Your authority for this statement is based in the Vedic literature?
- Your devotees' health is looked after, then (so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all)… By who?
- Your Divine Grace, can I ask you how old you are now?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see meditation as a means to God realization?
- Your Divine Grace, do you think that chanting the Hare Krsna mantra is the only way to achieve liberation?
- Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Your Divine Grace, since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Your Divine Grace, what prompted you to start the Krsna movement?
- Your Divine Grace, would your message be exactly the same for, say, a starving man in India and a Westerner who's got everything that a person needs?
- Your family, your blood family, are they Krsna conscious as well?
- Your Grace, a great many of South Africa's church leaders from some of the big churches are fearful that South Africa is going to find itself in a situation, or find... What message would you give this country in terms of avoiding any...?
- Your Grace, can I start by asking you what do you think of South Africa?
- Your Grace, could I ask you, first, how you pronounce your name?
- Your Grace, have you been to New Zealand before?
- Your Grace, if we could perhaps go back over that just for a minute - you said nobody is free… But are you saying that if we live a good life we in some way determine our future as well?
- Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings?
- Your Grace, what stops so many people from becoming Krsna devotees?
- Your intention and aim is not merely to cater to the mind, cater to reason, cater to the intellect, but to effect a kind of transformation of man himself. Is this why you have introduced a whole way of living, a whole way of life, is it?
- Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries?
- Your movement, your consciousness of Krsna, engloves, takes all the direction of economics and political possibility... Can you speak, explain me about that?
- Your teachers are called spiritual masters?