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- A lot of people were unable to come. Do you think it will be possible for you to come back to Durban from Johannesburg, after your Johannesburg stay?
- A person might argue that the Indians weren't satisfied either; otherwise they wouldn't have taken up the English culture. So what's the difference?
- About how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- African? No other meaning to it? No other meaning?
- After King Pariksit, then it divided up (Bharata-varsa), that soon after?
- After the scattering of these Aryans, they have come different place. How is it that we brought all the cultural heritage in north, east and western countries?
- Also in Los Angeles they are buying press?
- Also you mentioned Mullik family in Calcutta to be your grandparents or someone?
- America (formerly the Aryans never touched these places. Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here)?
- America is living on advertisement. Right or wrong? I have been studying American, I mean, psychology
- And Chapkhanna cannot be very not good. Not very good. Your printing is wonderful. From where... Where is that place? From Japan?
- And did you stay in the city (Moscow), or did...?
- And how about in the south? Do you have many...?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- And in India where is your asrama or something like that?
- And now you will remain here in India for some time?
- And then go back to the States?
- And then what is the program? Your Divine Grace is coming back to Delhi? From Vrndavana after three weeks?
- And then you went directly to Pennsylvania? By bus?
- And what about France (you have some disciples)? Is it...
- And when did you go to the United States?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Any way how to make any progress, or have you any representation, for instance, in Russia?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- Are there any other Deities besides Kaliya-Krsna you want us to make for Fiji?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are you feeling the cold in Melbourne your grace?
- Are you happy with the way the Krsna movement is progressing throughout the world and particularly throughout Australia?
- Are you planning to go there, to Manipur?
- Are you welcome in Japan? People are interested, eh?
- Aren't they allowed to boil water in India? In boiling the water do you kill any little insects that are in the water?
- Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?
- As many as in the West, or more (many people in India are becoming spiritually successful)?
- At Vrndavana you studied at a later time, then, did you?
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- Beyond exclusive centers, how far beyond that can it go in the United States?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- Brazil (that Ravana's brother, Mahiravana, was in...)?
- But how many of them (people in India) practice it (Krsna consciousness)?
- But how problems of India... like poverty, and this lack of balance between rich and poor. How these problems can be solved?
- But how to engage these people who are desirous who have desire of serving Krsna in Bombay? If you are talking about a farm and other things
- But in India there are so many people. They're not disciples; they're not initiated by you. So are they in the same category (a brahmana woman who came to touch the feet of Lord Caitanya; immediately He went and jumped in the Ganges)?
- But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world?
- But Mahabharata describes all the continents even way before that, doesn't it (...the Vikings first discovered America, they said... From Scandanavia came, before Columbus)?
- But mostly they are in America. Also in that number in Japan (in one week, the books, total of books, was seven lakhs books in one week)?
- But Sagar Island, isn't that in the Bay?
- But there are in India other community of Visnu...?
- But there is no, no atheism, literate, some atheism, atheism, atheism, religious indifference, materialists exist in the towns, in the towns (in India)...?
- But wasn't that school (the gurukula school in Texas) moved to India?
- But you mentioned in Miami... This is the reason I'm bringing it up. In Miami we mentioned that we would be discussing at Mayapur. Something, you know, should be done so that...?
- But you might want to come back to the U.S.?
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- Can we take you some time all around Vrndavana? ... What about to Govardhana?
- Can you remember some of your first impressions of North American society when you came here? Did you feel it was ripe for Krsna consciousness at that time?
- Can you tell us a little bit about the plans you have for your project in India
- Catur-varnyam maya srstam: is it applicable to India alone, or the whole world?
- China?
- Could he (a merchant in India) spend that (a bunch of Indian notes printed in China) money?
- Could you estimate how many people in India have found true spirituality through Indian religion?
- Could you tell me how much you do derive from the airport solicitations in the United States?
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- Delhi, some astrologer said (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Devotees are doing very well in Moscow, Prabhupada? Is that right? They are distributing books there?
- Did the Greek civilization follow the Vedic culture?
- Did they (Englishmen) teach God consciousness (in India)?
- Did they find a temple in Hamburg? In Hamburg. I was there once, but they just had a little tiny house, and they were trying to get another
- Did you go to East Africa also?
- Did you go to the United States to found the Krsna consciousness?
- Did you purchase any land at Kuruksetra yet, Prabhupada?
- Did you see the color printing inside? It's also very nice. They have done the same.... This was last year in Paris, when you received Bhagavad-gita
- Did you talk with people there (in Moscow)? Were you permitted, were you allowed to talk with the people in the streets and so on?
- Didn't some Manipur devotees visit Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Jagannatha Puri sometimes?
- Didn't they (the residents of Vrndavana) know who Krsna was?
- Do I understand that the children in your school in Texas, that they're brought up in what you consider spiritual consciousness...?
- Do the rickshaw drivers in Letchmore Heath chant Hare Krsna?
- Do they have any temples of Lord Jagannatha there? They have any temples of Lord Jagannatha in Kuruksetra?
- Do they have many birds in Bhuvanesvara?
- Do we accept the contour of the continents? Do we accept the general continents?
- Do you do your printing in Japan and America?
- Do you feel, sir, that it (education about God) is lacking only here in the United States?
- Do you find the English weather cold?
- Do you find, Swamiji, that the mood of the young people in North America is the same now as it was in '65, or has it changed?
- Do you foresee that the devotees will grow in numbers in this country?
- Do you have a particular asrama there (in Vrndavana)?
- Do you have any feeling about the crime here in the United States as opposed to the crime in your own land?
- Do you have any plans of propagating your movement in India?
- Do you have any proposal to spread this movement in Communist countries?
- Do you have more temples there (in India) than here (in the West)?
- Do you have much of a following in India itself?
- Do you have these temples in India?
- Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now?
- Do you mean every, the whole of India is Krsna conscious?
- Do you not think it's worth going to such places as Ireland and trying to talk to the people out there to stop warring?
- Do you plan to propagate your message in India?
- Do you recognize that India does need some method at this point...?
- Do you regret having come back to India?
- Do you return to Vrndavana often?
- Do you see America getting more God consciousness?
- Do you think it is necessary for India to eschew religion?
- Do you think that the Russian society is not put off by this bhajana?
- Do you think that the, the poor Indians who are suffering because of this terrible drought in India... is their relief never going to be in this world? Is it only going to be when they die?
- Do you think that your movement has a chance to make it here in America?
- Do you think the same problem is here in India as in other countries (and now in India another danger is that so many rascals, they are declaring, "I am God." And this India, people have become so fallen down, they accept all these rascals as God)?
- Does this remind you of Vrndavana, Prabhupada?
- Doesn't Rama refer to a man that was born in India or somewhere, and Christ was born in Europe? Two different men, but still the same?
- Don't you have a gurukula in Texas?
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- For example, for that boy who is chanting now in Egypt, he has his beads, but his chanting is effective even though he's still eating meat sometimes with his family?
- For spreading this movement in India, are you hopeful it will be?
- From America it (a very strong car) came?
- From the U.S.A. Could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...?
- From which class of society in the United Sates do most of your disciples come?
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- Have there been any complaints from Detroit?
- Have they (the chief minister) done (given land in Kuruksetra) so?
- Have you any plans yet to go to England? Is anything definite?
- Have you been harassed in London at all?
- Have you been many times in France or not?
- Have you been to Kerala ever?
- Have you been to Russia? They allowed you to preach?
- Have you ever been there (in Nepal), Srila Prabhupada?… You'd like to go sometime?
- Have you got a particular mission for London?
- Have you had a significant impact on the American society? The values you preach, have they influenced Americans to a certain degree?
- Have you seen many people in Melbourne?
- Hawaii. They have a new place (our Hawaii, tulasi grows very nice)?
- Hawaiians, they are not very much inclined to read. So does that mean we should distribute lots of prasadam here profusely?
- He (Duke of Windsor) also is the one who has the Windsor Palace?
- He (Mahiravana) built the subway (to Brazil)?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother to Ceylon in the battle?
- He asks how many disciples there is in France?
- He asks if we have a school in France?
- He is wondering is it possible to spread Krsna consciousness in Yugoslavia?
- He wanted to know what is the relation between the Vedic culture of India and the cultures that originally were in Latin America. There seemed to be some similarity, cultures such as the different Indian cultures?
- He would like to know what you think that Australia should help Asia with as far as making people more comfortable to live in this world and what Australia can imbibe from Asia?
- He's asking, "Everyone in India (is Krsna conscious)?"
- Here in Vrndavana the people also pay taxes?
- How about opening one temple in Ahmedabad?
- How can we fast move in India to spread our Krsna consciousness?... How can we spread the Krsna consciousness?
- How did Subash Bose get from India to Germany?
- How did you find Moscow?
- How do they respond in China?
- How do you view the development of the potential for nuclear explosions in India?
- How do you want India to take this movement?
- How does worship of Visnu solve social problems? Just like in Calcutta there are more social problems than practically anywhere
- How far this adaption of Krsna consciousness by many American boys would affect the politics of their attitude, for instance, to such a bearing problem of America as Vietnam War?
- How has India improved by independence? What is the improvement? They are more godless than ever
- How is it that there is so much material "advancement'' in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? Is a man after economic development automatically worshiping Lord Siva whether he is making Yajna or not?
- How is our movement doing in India?
- How is the Kuruksetra going?
- How is the school in Vrndavana? The school?... Have they started?
- How long are you going to stay there?... In India, when you go?
- How long do you want to work in Bombay?
- How long has Krsna consciousness been in India, or were you...?
- How long has your group been in the United States?
- How long have you been in Australia?
- How long were you there (in Moscow)? With your disciple?
- How long will you be here (in Iran)?... And then?
- How long will you be in England, sir?
- How long will you be staying in Melbourne?
- How long will you stay in Paris?
- How long will Your Divine Grace be here (Stockholm)?
- How long you are going to be in Hyderabad?
- How long you are in India now?
- How long you going to stay here (Bombay)? You have promised me to stay long, eh?
- How long you'll stay (in Mexico)?
- How many (ISKCON) branches in India?
- How many asramas do you have in India?
- How many centers in the United States?
- How many days were you there (in Moscow)?
- How many disciples do you now have, sir, in the U.S.?
- How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- How many Life Members in India? Must have at least ten thousand
- How many members in the United States? I'm told two thousand. Is that correct approximately?
- How much money did you carry with you (to America)?
- How this social order can be generated in India?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How you chose this America to be your first...?
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- I don't think you're finding any difficulty here (Vrndavana), are you?
- I guess when you started out down here in Greenwich Village in 1965 you didn't have any idea that your movement was going to become the rather large movement it is. Did you?
- I have heard or read somewhere that Christ had studied in India. Is this true?
- I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa (Nityananda Kananda. He was a minister in the central government, deputy minister) During when? Approximately?
- I think you were possibly wanting to stop in Tehran this year on the way back to India?
- I was a member of the Municipal Corporation of Bombay. I know that in ordinary course these rascals don't pass the plans for six and eight months. What do you say?
- I was going to go to Bombay for a wedding. Some friends are getting married. You know, I think you met Laksmi Shankar, lady singer? Her daughter, who is also a singer, Viji, Viji Sri Shankar, and she's marrying a South Indian violin player, L. Shankar
- I was helping the band a little bit. And I came to see you, and I was wondering what I should do to serve you. I should go back to Detroit?
- I'll come over to Vrndavana on the 15th evening. 15th evening, I'll come over to Vrndavana?
- I'm sure that you're aware that to many people in the West, in America, in New York City specifically, that your disciples seem strange because of the way they act on the streets. What about that?
- If a devotee thinks that he likes, for example, Vrndavana more than he likes Mayapur, is that a wrong thinking, or is that his personal...?
- If we build in Puri, will we have Jagannatha?
- If we get on Fifth Avenue, you'll come again (to Ratha-yatra in New York)?
- If you'd like to come to Germany, we can arrange a program for you in Heidelburg, and there, Pradyumna says, there are some big professors there that are important. If you like to come there?
- In Ahmedabad?... You must have met last time?
- In America, does the government support the movement ?
- In America. The art pages? Everything? It will be more expensive because in India they print on cheap paper. If we use the same cheap paper, they'll still have to pay more because it has to be shipped back to India. But I can check
- In Bhuvanesvara you are going to have any plan for making a temple?
- In Bombay also you have got (a center)?
- In Bombay rather than Mayapur (if we organize our Bombay, then we shall regularly teach all the students from the very beginning)?
- In Bombay, you were having your own business then?
- In Calcutta also there is a project?
- In Calcutta. And when you were there in Calcutta, did you receive the training?
- In Denver here we have many businesses going on for you. We are going to them for laksmi in so many ways. How is it that this engages them, or does it engage them in Krsna's service? Do they make any benefit?
- In each universe there is a Vrndavana and a Mayapur. That means in each universe there's a planet earth like this planet?
- In history there was the mystery of the sphinxes of Egypt, do these sphinxes carry any significance?... Is the pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt civilization are any mystic significance?
- In India (how is Krsna consciousness received)?
- In India (we got to get the books)?
- In India is everybody lost, the Indian culture...?
- In India isn't it the system that after they harvest the wheat they leave some on the ground for the others to come and pick?
- In India or the United States (where is your family)?
- In India the sun is very intense... Does that have something to do that Krsna appeared there?
- In India, how many are Krsna conscious?
- In India, now in the cities, wherever we go, there are so many big cinema houses being built. So if the young people are not yet tired of that, then how will we convince them of Krsna consciousness? They all go by the thousands to the cinema house?
- In India, there are many swamis who claim to be Krsna. How to detect them?
- In India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
- In India. Is much rice consumed?
- In La Cienega?
- In Mayapur is a devotee free to, for example, enjoy the, all the scenery without...?
- In New Zealand we have a situation where the main industry is killing animals... Why is there such a nice atmosphere, nice rain?... Is that that they are innocent and they do not know and so Krsna is not punishing them so much?
- In regard to Hyderabad, can we ask Mahmsa to send an account of how he uses the money that you give him?
- In the Indian places known as sacred places isn't it also a fact that there is more magnetism there because of the meeting of saints and more people...?
- In the part of the world where this particular philosophy and this particular belief originated, which is in India, in the Eastern part of the world, at least as we look at it. Is it successful there? Do you have a large following over there?
- In the US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?
- In the villages (especially in Bengal, so many big, big palatial buildings, they are lying vacant)?
- In this country (Pakistan) also they have taken (well, Muslim India or same India, those who are intelligent, they are taking to Krsna consciousness)?
- In Vrndavana (Bombay is the center. So now we are having our temple, whenever you go, you can stay with us)?
- In Vrndavana (the babajis are making pregnant the widows, and they are going for abortion.There are many cases, similar, and there is American Hospital)?
- In Vrndavana also Prabhupada there is one (everywhere. Navadvipa there is Manipur Mandir. Here also)? Which is that?
- In Washington with Rupanuga Prabhu and the other scientists in our group for the Institute. So I have some papers to be signed by Your Divine Grace. So you'll read in the morning? Tomorrow?
- In which country of Europe has the Hare Krsna movement been the most powerful or successful?
- India also there is such tendency towards sense gratification?
- India is supposed to be a land of spirituality. How is it that there is so much moral degradation in our country? Is it the failure of our spiritual leaders?
- India will become Communist also?
- Initiation (of Srila Prabhupada) was held at that Gaudiya Matha in Allahabad?
- Is Canakya Pandita widely available in India?
- Is it (at the present moment, after independence, Indians are very horribly situated) because of the people?
- Is it all right to blame the government in public, Prabhupada, in India?
- Is it true that in India sudras are kept more leniently than brahmanas are?
- Is Philadelphia your last stop in...?
- Is the fact that America is now the dominant nation also God's will?
- Is the land in Vrndavana, is it in the city? Is it on the outside of Vrndavana, or is it in the city?
- Is there a center in Geneva where this literature...?
- Is there a GBC for Thailand?
- Is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Is there a speciality in the Madhya Pradesh area?
- Is there any chance of having a gurukula in Canada?
- Is there any chance of uniting with India again, Pakistan?
- Is there in India a licensing body by the state for people to preach?
- Is there much divorce in India?
- Is there some story related to the way in which Mayapur was found by Jagannatha dasa Babaji?
- Is there something special you want me to do there (the ISKCON farm near Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prabhupada?
- Is this his temple here, in Vrndavana (here also, Madhava Maharaja temple, nobody goes)?
- Is this your first visit to Perth?
- Is this your last trip to America?
- It (Calcutta) was bombed frequently, or just once or twice?
- It is first time you visit France?
- It may take some time. Actually I haven't been to Bombay myself. I haven't seen the land at Juhu. Is there a suitable place for storing the car?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It was after the heart attack that you came here (to Vrndavana)?
- It's more in this state (Bengal) than anywhere else, they don't cover their head. Is that due to her influence (wife of Ramakrishna)?
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- Mayapur is in East Bengal?
- My master, what's your opinion on the Ramakrishna Mission? We have a Ramakrishna Mission in Chicago
- My question has to do with karma-yoga in the outer world, for instance, in New York City. From what I understand, your disciples do not pursue the professions. Is that correct?
- My question was that how you selected America to be your...?
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- Nagas come from Assam, no?
- Nehru (some astrologer has said. He has become a dog in Sweden)?
- No peaches in India?
- North India. You have here the center of your...?
- Now do you find that in the United States there is the most active membership financially speaking. In terms of contributing to this movement, supporting the movement, is the best field America?
- Now two priests of your temple in America have been arrested on certain charges as we read from the newspaper...?
- Now, in India more people are living in the western way, though, living in cities, working in factories and offices. Does this make them have the western state of mind, the western point of view? Or can they resist it?
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- Oh, when he (King George V) came to Calcutta?
- Oh, you came from India? Yeah? Oh. Which part? Ceylon?
- On the LIC Grounds (the government did not give us again that land. Yes. last time when we held that conference in Delhi)?
- One question is, Srila Prabhupada, "How do you view the spiritual change which is coming in America"?
- One thing though is, July is, like in Melbourne, it's wintertime there. So is it okay if they have the festival in summer months?
- One thing, New Zealand cities are passing bylaws which seek to ban the chanting of your disciples in the streets. Do you get much opposition like this?
- Orissa will be nice (for the sankirtana party)?
- Our devotee, "What about in America there are so many people, they are chanting Hare Krsna?" So he (Ranganath of the Ramakrishna mission) says, "In America also there are many fools." So he is blaspheming like this, how can we cooperate with such people?
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- Prabhupada also got sick in India. Remember? Two years ago in Vrndavana
- Prabhupada, has there been an incarnation of Krsna outside India, somewhere else in another part of the world? Or does He always comes in India?
- Prabhupada? I was reading in a magazine that in Germany the people used to be pious, but after the Second World War...
- Printed in America (another thing, the Hindi photographic pages, if you send to Los Angeles, the books can be printed there)?... What language? Hindi?
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- Sell them and engage there in Mombassa. ... You mean those plates and things, Srila Prabhupada?
- Shall we do that (Vrndavana parikrama) immediately (so let us make experiment in Vrndavana)?
- She (Indira Gandhi) is from Allahabad?
- She lives in Milano and she would like, somehow or other, to help people through yoga. So she wants to know if she is able to do it or not?
- She wants to know if you're the first to come to New Zealand?
- She wants to know that even before Lord Caitanya's time, was it (Mayapur) also considered to be a holy place?
- She's going back to Milan, and she would like to spread the sun that's here present, and she wants to know if you have any advice how she should do it because she would like to go spread it
- Should I not go to the London zone at this time? I've been invited. They say they need a sannyasi in that zone, for years, so I've been invited. Do you think I should go now with Satsvarupa Maharaja, or go to London?
- Should we start printing Hindi books in Calcutta, Srila Prabhupada?
- So all the different kinds of human beings actually were originated there ("India was the whole world")?
- So from Mathura everyone went to Allahabad (For Srila Prabhupada's initiation)?
- So Germany is defeated, no?
- So if in India they want to glorify God by calling Him the All-attractive One, and that word is Krsna, then what is the wrong?
- So in Navadvipa, will the instruction be in English or in Bengali?
- So is that a fact, that he (Jesus Christ) went to India?
- So that piece of land is not exactly on the parikrama but off the parikrama. It's not so far from our property. You know the big park near Singhania's place?
- So that Pondicherry was Aurobindo's idea? What was the motive?
- So they will not make some objection if they think we are thinking we have come to preach Hinduism in a Buddhist country?
- So they'll be able to take care of the situation there by themselves?... In Hong Kong?
- So unless we get men from overseas, then for us to expand is very difficult. Just like for this Mombassa. We get this big house. Unless we have men to maintain it, then why should we take it?
- So what are you doing now? You've come to England for a brief stay. I gather you travel a lot
- So what is the purpose for very large temples in India?
- South of Paris? That one (and we have got another palace, what is that village?)?
- Srila Prabhupada, how does it feel to be back in New York again?
- Srila Prabhupada, I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa because I'm getting this retyped
- Srila Prabhupada, if they invite you to China, you'll go?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Mayapur we see so many pilgrims coming from Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. They're having this Vaisnava tilaka, Gaudiya-Vaisnava tilaka, and they also worship Caitanya Mahaprabhu. How is that influence also there?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Mayapur you were speaking about you wanted Mayapur to become a college for the University of Calcutta?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the United States' constitution there is a bill of rights that says that any religion can be practiced. Therefore anything goes, and people become atheistic?
- Srila Prabhupada, it always seems that there is some kind of inspiration for spiritual life there. Is that simply mental concoction, or is it actually a fact, the land itself?
- Srila Prabhupada, the Vaisnavas in general in Vrndavana, are they lamenting for the physical upkeep?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the advantage of going to India, to Vrndavana?
- Srila Prabhupada, with your permission I would like to try to get that first building in New York in which you were, you started Krsna consciousness… Should we not acquire it, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? I had a question about the prasadam distribution money that I am hoping to get from the record sales... I would like to know if some of it can be used for distributing prasadam in America
- Srila Prabhupada? Just in Bombay, what you are constructing, the gate, are they going to be like another Indian temples, only gates? Will they look like a big temple?
- Srila Prabhupada? Long time ago, you wanted an exhibit in London. ... That would be better than Washington?
- Srila Prabhupada? Once one man asked why Krsna Himself comes in India only? Why not American countries?
- Sumeru is made of gold, Srila Prabhupada?
- Sumeru we cannot see. It's not on the earth?
- Surely not as many (followers) as in the north, or as much?
- Swami, what do you think accounts for the..., your popularity, popularity of the..., the Krsna consciousness movement sweeping America?
- Swamiji, can you please? Yes, please. Can you tell us what your purpose is in coming to New York at this time?
- Swamiji, do you have certain farms also in America, gosala?
- Swamiji, have you been there in eastern European countries?
- Swamiji, you generally spend more of your time here (in London)?
- Sydney festival is for how many days?
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- Take photographs where (and this moon planet going means Arizona. That is now disclosed. They take photographs in the Arizona. That's all)?
- Tell me in fact what is the purpose of your visit to London?
- That (Bhuvanesvara) is part of Jagannatha Puri dhama?
- That (Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the middle would dance and the four parties will chant Hare Krsna) only happened as long as He stayed there (Jagannatha Puri). Is that right?
- That (I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit) was at Calcutta University?
- That was in Vrndavana or Delhi (that you took sannyasa)?
- That was the first ratha cart? It was in New York?
- That's in the big building right on the side of Kesi-ghata (when I first came in Vrndavana I stayed in the Kesi-ghata)?
- That's the building (Watergate Hotel), Prabhupada?… Which floor did you live on?
- The Americans will win?
- The Arabic numerals came from India?
- The difficulty is that in India there's no other source of income besides the Life Membership. How they will maintain?
- The example that if God is supplying, then why doesn't He supply the underprivileged countries? Just like in some places like India people are starving. So why doesn't He supply places like that?
- The gopi-candana comes from the lake where they say the gopis drowned themselves, and that is near Dvaraka. Is that a true story?
- The Hare Krsna movement has started in the United States. Why did it start in the United States, rather than India?
- The Indians in Fiji will pay for the casting if we decide to cast in brass here?
- The land was together ("Africa was part of India")?
- The Pope is agreeing with you in Rome?… The Pope is agreeing?… In Rome. He is agreeing with Hare Krsna…?… With chanting and...
- The vyasasana. Like in Los Angeles, at the side? On the left-hand side?
- Then you will have two temples in Vrndavana?
- There are countless numbers in the United States of large facilities of the Christian faith, and, like you, they give the refreshment of the holy communion. Why does this not work? Why is this not cleansing the heart?
- There has to be some actual improvement before you should move. Otherwise you are already here in Vrndavana, so why move?
- There was trouble in Nabadwip, wasn't there, when he (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati) advised the pilgrims not to pay money to go into the temples?
- There's some countries in Europe where they have absolute laws against selling books in the street. In these countries do we have to make something secret to sell your books?
- They do not believe in God, the Russians?
- They feel they're getting something out of it. But how do you explain... I gather that most countries, in Britain and America and so on that there are many thousands... And now, how do you explain this? Why are people...? Why are...?
- They have in India this tree also. That gives red flowers?
- They have those (Bul buli(?) birds) in India?
- Thirteen or twenty years (that you lived in Allahabad)?
- This (Tukarama`s initiation by Lord Caitanya) was southern India?
- This four-division society that you advocate is contrary to everything in American tradition. How can that be accepted in America?
- This has come a long way from the Barrier Reef, the Pacific. These shells. The shells... From the Pacific. From the Barrier Reef, Australia. You know the Barrier Reef?
- This is your first visit to Australia?
- This is your Paris establishment?
- This man wants to know something about the Hare Krsna movement in Europe
- This movement started all over the world now. How many countries for instance?
- To get to something else, what do you do for fun when you're in New York?
- To what extent the Society has succeeded in India for propagating Krsna consciousness?
- Tomatoes don't grow in India?
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- Was that in Calcutta (we had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman)?
- Was the place Slippery Rock, was that the first college...?
- We are building such important establishments in India. Do we have any danger...?
- We can arrange to sell our books to them (libraries in Russia) at any cost?
- We can go to Jagannatha Puri?
- We don't have a very good reputation in India?
- We should occupy the L.I.C. grounds in Delhi with kirtana?
- We were talking about the importance of preaching. Does it make any difference whether it's in India or in the United States?
- Well, what do you hope to achieve by your short visit here to New Zealand, where you don't have a very big following at all?
- Went to America, what was your idea of what would be your program when you got there?
- Were all the races originated in India?
- Were you always in Moscow? What did, do they allow some lectures or... (no. I had meeting with Professor Kotovsky. That's all) Kotovsky only? That's all? He couldn't bring some people?
- What about (the leadership of) Mrs. Meir, president of Israel (being successful)?
- What about a meeting in the biggest hall of Heidelburg? Would you also be interested in that?
- What about England? London. How is your movement doing?
- What about Greece?
- What about in Jagannatha Puri (when you say Gauda-mandala-bhumi, that means any of the lila places of Lord Caitanya)?
- What about in Rome? What kind of... Do you think they're going... Well, they're asking about problems with the police and getting (indistinct)?
- What about India? I mean, do they believe, the villagers?
- What about Los Angeles?
- What about nationalism here in India?
- What are our activities in France?
- What are they (in India, we have got gypsies) called? Bauls? Bauls in Bengal?
- What are your impressions of the youth of this country?
- What are your plans for India?
- What are your views of the country? What do you think of it?
- What could England gain from the separation? What was their gain from dividing India and Pakistan?
- What do you find, you know, that when you impart this knowledge to Western disciples and when you talk to someone who are in India, what difference do you find?
- What do you think of Jagannatha Puri Beach?
- What else do you have over there besides gurukula schools and things?
- What hope is there for Krsna consciousness in these countries like Russia and China, where they are so rascal they... ?
- What is that conspiracy, sir, in America?
- What is the budget of the movement in the United States annually? How much do you need to operate?
- What is the effect on Russians, this Hare Krsna movement?
- What is the future of India regarding the KC? The people are so much demonic. It every time bothers me, day and night, that what will happen?... I can't understand that how we can change over to the Indian future about KC?
- What is the meaning, then, that America is the dominant nation?
- What is the most attractive and suitable name (of God) here in this material country?
- What is the plan of the Hyderabad project?
- What is the reason of that (the younger generation of India is very, very demonic and they don't believe God at all)?
- What is the response in India?
- What is the response in Iran?
- What is the response in the Islamic countries?
- What is the special significance of constructing Kaliya-Krsna temple in Fiji?
- What is the standard of Calcutta University, Srila Prabhupada, at the time when Srila Prabhupada was in the University?
- What is your idea about the secularism preached by our government of India and the policy of secularism? What do they mean by that? That means they say that there is no place for religion
- What is your message for Indian people?
- What kind of civilization was in South America at that time (two millions of years ago)?
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What should we do in the United States (in regards to women being subordinate to men)? We're trying to make women equal with men
- What was the attitude of the Indian colony in London (after Ratha-yatra, wherever our men went, they were received very well)?
- What will be the difference between the Vrndavana gurukula and this gurukula?
- What will be the future of India?
- What will you do in Philadelphia?
- What your goal, to plan Northern India? Your goal to plan Northern India? How long you will be staying and...?
- What's the economic position in Canada?... I think many Canadian young men, they come to America for jobs? No?
- What's the explanation then? They are slaughtering more cows in the United States, but there is still more fortunate situation there materially
- What's the future of Krsna Consciousness in India today?
- When did you go to Kanpur?
- When has this all begun, this fish-eating in Bengal? This was always going on?
- When I was in Africa I saw the people are looking for the name and chanting like you chant. But they have a complete different idea of thought. My question is how can I know what is the right thing? From where do you know this?
- When Ravana was on the earth, was the whole earth populated, like Brazil and also the other parts of the world?
- When will you be coming back to Melbourne?
- When you first went to London, didn't you stay for some time there? Just in that area?
- When you visited the Soviet Union, Swamiji, did you find the atmosphere worse than it is in Western countries?
- When you went to Hyderabad did you stay with Mr. Pithi again?
- When you went to some place in Gujarat, Sanand? It was reported that thousands of people will come. It was a small village
- Where did you go when you left Calcutta?
- Where in India did you come from originally?
- Where in the world do we find that people most understand us and join us?
- Where is Krsna consciousness most common in the world, and how widespread is it in India?
- Where is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Where is the main Yamuna?
- Where is this (In India, Tirupati, that Deity is richer than many kings in the world. Daily, 100,000 rupees) temple?
- Where is your matha in Vrndavana? In Vrndavana proper?
- Where was the (Your) initiation ceremony?
- Where will you be in India when you go back to India?
- Whereabouts (we have got a very nice house in Detroit. If you sometimes go there…)?
- Whereabouts, exactly, is that place at Kesi-ghata?
- Which book would you like to have translated into Russian?
- Which problems (will be solved by spiritual consciousness)? The problems that exist in Ireland and India?
- Which way is India headed towards? The capitalists or the Communists?
- While we were there (in Vrndavana) I met one of your friends, I guess, a fellow named Mr. Dubhai?
- Who are the chief men in the temple committee of Jagannatha temple?
- Who are very much attracted to living in Mayapur, residing in Mayapur, after perfecting their lives, do they sometimes join Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement in Goloka Vrndavana?
- Who is teaching there (at Navadvipa)?
- Who is the representative in India? Of this...? In Delhi, of your organization? In Delhi?
- Who is there in Delhi, Prabhupada?
- Why are you returning to India? Had you ever considered staying here in the United States?
- Why did you choose to go to America and propagate the teachings of Lord Krsna in a western country?
- Why do the philosophers not study in India?
- Why is India not satisfied with its own culture?
- Why is that (Germany will be able to rise again. Englishmen will not be able to), Prabhupada?
- Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?
- Why there is a better response to Krsna consciousness in foreign countries than in India?
- Why you make me leave Vrndavana now?
- Why, instead of going, suppose, to South Africa where the majority, the great majority, are believers, you don't go to Japan?
- Will this war spread to many different countries and continents?
- Will we be someday in charge of those (Vrndavana and all these other lands)?
- Will you be meeting other spiritual leaders in South Africa?
- Will you be opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern?
- With more people in politics in India, are they able to keep the Vedic ideal? Or...?
- Would it be more practical if you write a separate booklet or a pamphlet for Russians who have never heard about God or the existence of God as Krsna?
- Would you comment on the current political situation in India, what's happening right now?
- Would you comment on the political situation in India now. What do you think about Mrs. Gandhi's...?
- Would you elaborate what you are doing as New Vrindaban? What is it you are establishing there?
- Would you say that the Americans are generally less tolerant than Londoners to you or more tolerant?
- Would you use the facility, then, as sort of a center for all over the United States?
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- Yesterday in Assam seven student have been killed, but is it the communists who killed them?
- Yet now there is a new controversy in America because during Christmas season our book distributors dress themselves up as Santa Claus. You've seen Santa Claus?
- You are going to have a temple there (South Africa)?
- You are in India today a religious life, or...?
- You are not organizing a yatra in Paris?
- You are selling your books in Moscow?
- You are traveling all Latin America now?
- You brought them (the Deities) from Jaipur?
- You don't pay ... in Bombay?
- You had a yatra, I guess, in San Francisco, didn't you?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have asked about Gaura Nitai deity worship by the householders in Los Angeles. That is for those who live far away from the temple and cannot attend
- You see all these trends today to learn meditation. It's only one longing to feel something and not only to believe. That is the situation now very much in Germany, isn't it so?
- You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
- You think you really want to go to Ann Arbor?
- You visited Italy, Italy yourself?
- You want to begin tomorrow morning (parikrama)?
- You want to stay in Bombay, stay until the... Is there any date until?
- You wanted them to take it? You were offering... (Many times in Vrndavana the monkeys have taken away from my hand foodstuff)
- You went back to India by boat?
- You went there (Jagannatha Temple) sometimes to take prasadam?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You went to Russia. What's your impression?
- You were belonging to Bengal?
- You were in Butler, right?
- You were planning to raise a temple in Kuruksetra?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You were staying with somebody in Butler? Is he still there?
- You were very well known in Vrndavana before you came? Because you were writing or…?… Or because of your ambition to come to the West?
- You'll be coming to America in about a month's time?
- You'll be visiting only Sweden this time?
- You're a citizen however, aren't you, a U.S. citizen?
- You're saying that America is the most important?
- You've heard of it (Pasu-pati-natha temple, which is the biggest temple in Nepal), Srila Prabhupada?
- Your base there is in Bombay?
- Your Divine Grace, how long are you staying in Vrndavana?
- Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- 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, have you been to New Zealand before?
- Your home base is in Los Angeles?
- Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries?
- Your plan here in America, then, is to set up centers so that those who are that concerned can pursue their studies and practice a ritual?