Category:Questions On... Human Beings, Other Species or Types of Living Entities
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- A man is finite. How can he do good for everyone?
- A man may evolve to a state like unto the demigods. Is that a possibility?
- A man shipwrecked on an island alone, he is not in any sense taking part in illicit love. It doesn't mean that he is free from all desire for illicit love. Is it the exterior rather than the interior (that decides)?
- A person who is a Negro, Chinese, Indian, etc. are they different species of life making up the 400,000 species?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- Also different planets (for the 400,000 different species of human life)?
- Among the trees also, there are different grades of trees, Srila Prabhupada?
- And we as human beings, are we part of that (God in three aspects) too?
- Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
- Are human beings the only creations that can have Krsna consciousness?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life?... Like the dog. Is he happy to be a dog?
- Are the lower human species responsible for sinful activities?
- Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
- Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings are staying? Why the information is not given about that? About the other earthly planets also (why not? In Bhagavata there is all information)?
- Are there different prajapatis for the different species?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are these living entities (within my body) constant? They don't change any?
- Are we even one millionth of what Krsna was?
- Are you also obliged to help animals, to help other human beings?
- Are you saying that you should never kill a cow but that you sometimes can kill a person?
- Are you speaking of ant-eater? They eat ants?
- Are you trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- 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 the Kali-yuga progresses the people are getting smaller. Does this mean that Krsna and His associates were much taller in stature than we are now?
- At that time were there only insects existing?
- At the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species... They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?
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- Baka is a duck?
- Birds have language? Animals have their language?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- Boy. That's Visnu within their (birds) heart?
- But do they (men living in other planets) not come here sometimes to visit us or we cannot go there?
- But do you think that really God love human beings and...?
- But do you think they (the dinosaurs) were on this planet?
- But how do you know it (egoism is there in ass also)?
- But how has the cockroach been formed?
- But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?
- But if the standard is happiness, and the hog is happy and the devotee is happy, then what is the distinction?
- But is each cell an individual living entity?
- But is it (that worship made by trees and other lower animals) voluntary or involuntary?
- But it requires some emanation from a cockroach body in order to create another cockroach body. So how can a cockroach body be created from vapors without contact of another cockroach?
- But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that?
- But somebody asks, "How do I know a bird is not more highly advanced than a human being?"
- But Srila Prabhupada, the living entities, the jivatma within the..., and the Paramatma within, why the living entities suffering even the Paramatma is directing the living entity within?
- But the extinct species are not all present at this particular moment on this planet, are they?
- But the sheep has no sense of herd. What poor sheep can do?
- But what do the hogs think (you rascal, you do not know what is pleasure. Just like the hog. He's also enjoying pleasure, eating stool. So your pleasure is like that. You eat stool and enjoy life. That is your standard of pleasure)?
- But why would God want to keep the living entities in darkness?
- But within each atom the living entity is present?
- But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
- By the frogs (kumbhaka; this art is known by the frogs also)?
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- Can a living entity ever lose his existence?
- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
- Can an animal be in the mode of goodness?
- Can the living entity perceive the situation at this time, when he's being transferred from one body to another?
- Can we call these trees (with no fruits and no flowers) demonic?
- Can we say that the living entity is present within the atom by consciousness?
- Can we say that the living entity is there, and that he is the one that makes the molecules and the atoms come together to form a body just like the scientists give explanation? No? We can't?
- Could that go on and on forever, his not desiring (as soon as the living entity desires to unite with the Supreme Lord, he can become. And so long he does not desire, he'll have to continue this material existence. So that depends on him)?
- Created a new species, Prabhupada?
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- Did someone put tilaka on the dog?
- Did these dinosaurs exist, or is it just their imagination?
- Dinosaurs also (were from a previous Kali-yuga )?
- Do animals also have independence?
- Do innate ideas have to be universal? Might not some living entities have some innate ideas and other living entities have others? Why does an innate idea have to be universal and apply to everyone?
- Do monkeys have any use?
- Do most human beings fall down into the animal species?
- Do the animals have no consciousness of God?
- Do the living entities who are born from perspiration require a mother and father?
- Do the number of demigods have something to do with the number of species, like there are thirty-three million demigods?... Do they belong to these species? They are also included in these eight million four hundred? These Gandharvas?
- Do they (the sudra class) kill them in a slaughterhouse? The goats?
- Do they have many birds in Bhuvanesvara?
- Do we have anything, Srila Prabhupada, in the reference, saying that all the living entities are already there?
- Do we take these births in a human form all the time, or perhaps do we take a birth in perhaps an ant or a rat or a dog, or will it always be in the human form if we believe in Krsna consciousness now?
- Do you believe in some sort of universal but inherent deficiency in human nature, in other words, that man irrespective of his environment, irrespective of where he comes from, that he has, he is prone to evil?
- Do you know their (Hawaii birds) names
- Do you mean the perfectness is to become God or to become the man?
- Do you rule out talking about the beings living on the moon planet?
- Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Do you take rebirth in human form literally?
- Do you think that all men can stand on the spiritual platform?
- Do you think that every human being will become liberated?
- Do you think there's a difference between the various peoples of the world? In other words, do you think that Indians as opposed to Europeans have more of a tendency or are more likely to adhere to the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think, Swamiji, that man can become perfect?
- Does an animal make that mistake? I thought the animals would not see the water that our eyes tell us that there is a mirage in the desert
- Does Krsna know when the living entities are going to surrender unto Him? If He knows, then how does the living entity have choice?
- Does Krsna makes us ignorant or are we ignorant?
- Does the human species come with the gradual evolution or is the human species created first?
- Dog is barking, but does he possess discriminative knowledge?
- Dogs, they are becoming attached to the human being. Are they becoming human beings in their next life?
- Don't you think we are killing other living beings (there is a sect in the Orient that wears gauze over their mouth so as not to kill microbes while they breathe. But we are killing those microbes - So they are to satisfy everyone)?
- During the time when the living entity is transferred from one body to another, is he always fully conscious of the subtle facts?
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- Even all species of life it (we hear that woman is pregnant. We never heard the man is pregnant) is the same?
- Even if you study the way the sun and the rain and so on combined to make this fruit ripe, you still have the question, "Well, why is there fruit in the first place?" Why is there fruit? Why has fruit appeared on this planet?
- Every time I make lot of rats, I'm asking for rat souls. Why then I can do it? When I can, or when I want them to be here, they will be here, not on the will of God
- Everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys, or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
- Everyone is born with this devotional spirit?
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- Factual scientific study would mean to study all 8,400,000 species?
- For instance, there's no dinosaurs existing now. They're extinct now but where are they gone? Some other planets then?
- For the cows (farmers, they do not produce food for human being. They produce food for the cows)?
- From the ancient Vedic scriptures we learn that God is and He cannot be seen. However, in the Bhagavad-gita we learn that Lord Krsna is born as a human. Now, does this not work conflict to the ancient scriptures of the Vedic religion?
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- He (God) knows before creating people, they'll sin. Then why does He create them?
- He (my ancestors) made no tools, or he had no house? But why weren't there any tools left behind for us to find, remnants?
- He has become a dog, Nehru?
- He said also, the doctrine of Buddha, that man has not person, doesn't exist as person. He's only some moving elements, physical and psychical and nothing else?
- He sounded like this? He (Krsna) talked like that, like the birds talk?
- He wants to know does the ant receive benefit (if a devotee step on a ant by mistake)?
- He's saying if man is not meant to eat meat, then why is it that some animals eat meat? He's saying that we are animals also
- Here (many monkeys were deported by the government but people protested. They were capturing monkeys...)?
- Hogs are there as well (in the spiritual world)?
- How can any body live in the sun?
- How can it be that we're advancing if we can become a dog in the next life, is that it, or something inferior? Where is the question of progress?
- How can the living entities actually be happy?
- How do I know that animals do not want to die?
- How do they live, then? The same example (the moon)
- How do we know that the animals don't know all of these great truths?
- How do we know that they're not (indistinct) (suppose someone is coming to stab you; you cannot jump. Therefore bird is more intelligent)?
- How do you account for the fact that man sometimes takes animals and feeds them and protects them, whereas otherwise these animals might have died of starvation or exposure or something?
- How do you know the animal has a soul?
- How does that fit in with the species of life, Srila Prabhupada, when they combine two different species, artificial?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How is it that the trees and plants will be happy?
- How is that (trees have the abilitiy to see and hear)?
- How is the human life better than the demigod?
- How they (birds) turn all together and how do they communicate each other that "Yes, let's move out away"?
- How would he (the crocodile) have that loving feeling to hatch the baby?
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- I also come across from Srila Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that the living entities, all the living entities, 8,400,000 species, they are simultaneously created?
- I am asking the question whether dog knows that he is dog. Cow knows that she is cow?... Have they got the intelligence to know?
- I have a question about evolution. Our position is that all the species have been established by Krsna, even before creation. But yet, in the creation, it comes about through an evolutionary process?
- I mean what is an example of different species of man. What are they, for example, several species of men?
- I was going to ask you, Swami, if the sacred cow was a symbol symbolizing compassion for all living creatures?
- I'm still trying to understand what you mean by the species of human life. It's not clear to me. I don't understand what you mean by the different species of human life?
- If a devotee step on the ant, does the ant receive some benefit?... If a devotee step on a ant by mistake, the ant...?
- If all living entities were delivered by the Krsna consciousness movement, what would happen then? The universe would be devoid of living entities
- If God is to uplift the soul of all the persons, all the livings, why there is a chaotic situation?
- If God's energy is so perfect, then how does this ignorance come upon the living entity?
- If I can summarize correctly your views on this, that it would be impossible for human beings to land on the moon planet? I wonder if you could explain how it would be impossible, to what extent?
- If I come in contact with Krsna movement now, will that in my next life get me a human body?
- If Krsna is unlimited, why did he not manifest Himself all over the world so that all living entities would have equal chance to go back home?
- If life is based on the desires of the living entities, and as you were mentioning that the material energy forms so many complex combinations, the material body is so complex, does that mean that the living entity is very much entangled?
- If man be part and parcel of God, how do you explain the evil deeds of man?
- If man wasn't meant to eat meat, why in nature do the other animals kill to eat?
- If one has fallen so far that he has taken the body of a fly or a mosquito, can he still return to Krsna?
- If one is going to assume a dog's body, then does he go to hell before he assumes a dog's body?
- If the animals are happy and the human beings are unhappy, why not live like an animal?
- If the natural tendency of the living entity is to want to exist, to live, then why is it they perform so many horrible acts that will destroy themselves?
- If these animals (dinosaur or finosaur) were on this planet some millions of years ago, they are still here, is that correct?
- If they desire to commit sinful activities and before they became monkeys, but then they were doing it then. So whilst they're monkeys their desire must change. Or is it forced, that change forced upon them by the mercy of Krsna?
- If we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness. And the non-living, that has no consciousness?
- If you take that logic and use it the other way... If you say the animal has no soul... then you'd have to say human beings would have no soul, wouldn't you?
- In God's temple, what human wants? And what type of life he wants so that he can be happy?
- In Krsna Book and Bhagavad-gita both, you explain there are five states of consciousness, beginning with annamaya, manomaya, pranamaya, like that. Do these states of consciousness manifest in different species of life?
- In Krsnaloka are there asses?
- In our Christian faith the love of God is joined with the love for man. Are you also interested with this love for man, for our rivals?
- In punishing the intelligence of man, does he know the right from the wrong according to the karma? Does man have to pay one way to others in different forms of life?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says He creates the four varnas and asramas, so these four classes of men are everywhere... Is it correct to say that each man only finds his satisfaction performing a particular type of work according to his mode of nature?
- In the fish body will he have to suffer for all his other sinful activities also?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the spiritual sky when the living entity is in his pure state of consciousness, what acts..., Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam you mentioned that the trees, they also can see, (in a) purport. So I was wondering, do all the various species of life, are they fully equipped in some fashion or another with all the various senses?
- In the US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?
- In Vrndavana you were explaining about the sun, that the sun is not fire, but the living entities there have glowing bodies. So how do they glow?
- In what sense you use the concept "truth" here? Is it in the ontological sense, or is it in somehow in a more pragmatical human sense, refers to human beings or...?
- In what way is God concerned with the moral or immoral actions of man? Is God indifferent to them, or has He simply set the laws of nature in motion and allowed men to follow their own course and reap the fruit of their own karma?
- Is human birth superior in terms of self-realization? Is it superior to the demigods?
- Is it better to have a human body as a machine to use than a cat's body?
- Is it possible for a conditioned living entity to perceive the suchness or essence of anything
- Is it possible for any entity to do something until the Lord hears him?
- Is it possible for one person to be part demon and part devotee in the same person?
- Is it possible for us to communicate with plants?
- Is it possible to do some experiments (everywhere there is living entity. It is impossible to conclude that on other planets there is no living entity. It is not possible)?
- Is it that a man becomes a man after the death?
- Is it true that can a human body takes a form of a human body in the next birth?
- Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies?
- Is not eating vegetables killing a living entity also?
- Is that (the monkey is our forefather) true? Do you believe that?
- Is that (the trees and other lower animals abiding by the order of Krsna) considered worship?
- Is that counted as one of the 8,400,000 species? Is the atom counted among the different species?
- Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
- Is that to say that a stone has a living entity in it?
- Is that tree alive?... Has it got life?... Are you doing anything wrong when you cut it down...?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- Is there an animal soul, Swami?
- Is thinking a necessary function of the soul? He says, well for instance an oyster. How does he know whether or not an oyster thinks?
- Is this an association or this a vision (if I see every living being is son of God or Krsna, then that means I see God in every beings. Is there any difficulty to understand?)?
- Is this example proper, that a son is being well taken care of by the father, but sometimes he's thinking, "I can enjoy more some other way" (Krsna says, You give up all these nonsense plans. Come to Me)?
- Is woman in each one of these species (the different species of life making up the 400,000 species) another separate species?
- Isn't everything we see a product of experience? Don't all living things have experience?
- Isn't speech, which is the articulation of the intellect, the primary difference between man and the animals in the sense that is it not through words that one can come to understand God?
- Isn't that true that all living entities is man's neighbor?
- It comes also from the living entities on the moon (the moon's light)?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It's a big old tree (that courtyard is very beautiful. There is a tamale tree. That is a very valuable tree. The Bisanchand Seth asked me to cut)?
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- Of the 400,000 human species, what is the distinguishing characteristic that makes one different from another? How could we recognize them, or could we?
- On this side there is government sign, "No dogs," "No dogs." Dogs are not allowed. What is the reason?
- Once that happened to Indra, isn't it, Srila Prabhupada (are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life? Yes. Everyone is happy)?
- Once they (the cows) expire, how do you propose to expose of the body?
- Other living entities would play the part of Ravana in other universes?
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- Particular intelligence is given to human being?
- Physical world, this earth is there. Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings or other beings are staying other than spiritual beings?
- Prabhupada, are all living entities, always under the protection at all times of the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, at all times?
- Prabhupada, did you say that trees have the ability to see and hear in the Bhagavatam?
- Prabhupada, these people, dogs, mostly are atheist? Atheist, they take the birth as the dog?
- Prabhupada, when a living entity is in an animal body, and when he quits his body, there's no karma, he's just automatically promoted to a higher body?
- Pygmy men were from a previous Kali-yuga?
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- Say if a human being falls down into the animal species, after that, does he go through each and every one of these species successively? Even there are different types of dogs, he becomes each different type of dog?
- Skim milk should not be given to the calves? The calves should get?
- So a man can can never become Bhagavan?
- So all the different kinds of human beings actually were originated there ("India was the whole world")?
- So are they (cockroaches) coming from eggs, or how are they coming? Just the soul enters the dirt?
- So even God cannot predict when the living entity will come back to Him?
- So every man has his own world that he's living in?
- So is the primary factor of the variation is how much advanced they are (species of humans) in Krsna consciousness, and how least advanced they are in Krsna consciousness?
- So it's the whole bovine race that's protected, and not just the cows themselves, not just the female cows?
- So the cow which is untimely killed takes birth as a cow again?
- So the living entity who is in the lower body like insects or plants... And he passes through all the species?
- So the selective principle is there, but all species are already there?
- So there is life on the moon, Swamiji?
- So these bones that they have found of these gigantic animals, they were all living underneath the water?... Not on the land?
- So they (certain species of human life) can perform, like, let's say for example, intoxication or meat-eating, and they won't receive any sinful reaction?
- So they're (the ants) better than us?
- So what determines the different varieties of dogs and cats if they are just automatically being...?
- So why not show me where it is (life in the fire)?
- So, if ordinary man went to some other planet through his sputnik, would he be able to see the demigods?
- Some birds we see behave like a little influenced by the modes of goodness, though it is mixed… But some are like eagle, very passionate, wants to kill small birds as their food... Why? Is this possible just from the concept of molecular evolution?
- Some birds, Srila Prabhupada, like the minah...? They can be taught to say something. So if they are taught to chant Hare Krsna... this is a good service?
- Some people say that in our philosophy, if we do not wish to slaughter the animals, what about the trees?
- Some people say that trees may be very happy. How do we know?
- Some people say, "Why don't we see any giants any more today?"
- Sometimes people ask, Prabhupada, that if one falls down into lower species of life like plants or animals, how then do they come again to the human form of life?
- Sometimes questions are raised saying that how do we know that a bird is more intelligent than a human being?
- Srila Prabhupada, are these cannibalistic tribes, Amazons and whatever, are they classed as subhuman?
- Srila Prabhupada, I heard you ask earlier... You say that by... Animals, they have no inferior act. So after death, what kind of birth will they get?
- Srila Prabhupada, if meeting you here now would make sure that he would get a human form in his next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the human form is insignificant compared to demigods, but still, it is very much desired, this human form of life, even by the demigods?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Srimad-Bhagavatam it's stated that the Supersoul is measured from the end of the thumb to the end of the ring finger, how does this change take place in the different sizes of species of living entities in this material creation?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there some worship of God in the animal kingdom?
- Srila Prabhupada, when Krsna is perfect and complete in Himself, so why are there individual minute living entities? If Krsna is perfect, surely there would be no need for smaller living entities
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like to have an elephant to ride on one day?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying about misusing this human form of ours. Is there any gracious defense that makes a soul non-eternal?
- Suppose I feed these rats and I go on feeding them. Won't more and more rats come?
- Suppose if the individual soul falls down from the human platform, to some other lower species, but in the course of again evolutionary process, at some stage along the path he'll come to Krsna consciousness. Is this...?
- Swamiji, you mentioned that death is actually sleeping for seven months? Is this provided you take on a human form of life? If you take on a dog's body then it's still seven months?
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- That means there are some living entities, say for example, human beings. They come right away to the human platform without undergoing the...?
- The 400,000 different species of human life? There's one place in which you mention that different persons like carpenter or different tradesmen are different species. Is that...?
- The 8,400,000 species is for the whole universe or for each planet?
- The animal is completely under the modes, but the human being, the modes' influence is reduced sufficiently so that he can make this decision, from, whether to accept or reject Krsna?
- The argument is that how can an entity take birth in perspiration? His question. So how can a living entity take birth in the fire?
- The consciousness of those living cells are dependent on my consciousness?
- The constitutional nature of the entities that naturally form brahma-jyotir is the same as the constitutional nature of the jivatmas that are forming the living entities?
- The cows were running away?
- The description on the...? That last description. That the living entities are fragments of God's body...? But their individuality is not lost?
- The different varieties of suffering within the animal species are due to the different varieties of sinful activities in the human life?
- The dogs and monkeys, they feel grateful?
- The food and the sand looks exactly the same. So how they are immediately able to tell which is which?
- The governments today are supporting the most outrageous, sinful activities. So how is it possible to reform the general mass of people?
- The horse is the most beautiful...More beautiful than the cow?
- The human beings are there from the very beginning on the earth too?
- The human beings get dreams, and what's the lesson between the dreams and the actual life?
- The human stool is a stool for the human being. Does it not become a food for a stray dog?
- The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they're much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
- The living entity (is creating different body for different enjoyment)?
- The living entity can purify himself and become eligible to enter into the spiritual world and Krsna, but can he still fall as an expansion of the marginal energy?
- The living entity cannot do anything without the sanction of God. So I am desiring certain sinful activities, but why is Krsna sanctioning it?
- The living entity's desire has become very complex due to his association with material nature?
- The muni was there in the form of an insect?
- The next question, about the living entities falling down in this material world
- The plants have more consciousness, manifest consciousness, than aquatics?
- The platform of transmigration from the human platform, so it works, either it can go down or it can go up?
- The population of human being that is increasing, is it due to these wild animals and other they have done good deeds, so they are coming up as a human being?
- The smaller birds, they are eating something from sand?
- The urge to advance is there in the human more developed. How does that...? We notice that in all human entities there is an urge to advance or improve oneself, to become something more
- The varieties of living entities that we find in the material world, can we explain because of the desire of the living entities, to make..., to live in different houses?
- Their argument was because the dogs have homosex, therefore the man should have...?
- Their body have..., they have wings (there is Siddhaloka, they can go from one planet to another without any machine, without any vehicle. Siddhaloka means, just like the yogis, they can go)?
- Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?
- Then in what levels the man got to remain in a separate entity? Always in the same bhakta?
- There is a preordained karma that says some human being should come into existence or some spirit soul should take some body. How can you reconcile this birth control with that?
- There must be different kinds of taking of a body, because there are different kinds of bodies. The bodies of dogs and deers and things are not the same as the body of Krsna. Now, how do you take on this form of Krsna?
- There must be living entities then on the comet. Yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- There's one thing in the human nature, that he always thinks that he's the chief and around the world everything is running around him, and most probably he always can show off that "I am the leader of everything." Why is it so? In every person.
- There's something higher than human form?
- There's still, within all the different species, there are still different varieties. What accounts for all these varieties?
- They (people) will go down, down, down for 400,000 years?
- They (the scientists) can't create a machine that will act like a human?
- They are counted, what, as human beings (the thirty-three million demigods)?
- They are going to come up with the point that "How about dinosaurs?" They are going to ask like that
- They ask, "How are you so much sure about 8,400,000 species?"
- They can't even see that in an animal other than human there's soul. So how can they understand the Deity?
- They don't like nim? The flies?
- They eat (their own children, the snakes)?
- They have in India this tree also. That gives red flowers?
- They have those (Bul buli(?) birds) in India?
- They say for a plant, ground is necessary, water is necessary, seed is necessary, air is necessary, so why is it that there is only one cause?
- They say if it's advancement of knowledge, if they are advanced, why do they have to die? The animals are dying, and they're accepting that, and the human beings also die. But why does he have to die if he's advanced in knowledge?
- They say what is the difference between an animal and a plant?
- This ("agriculturists should give protection to the cows") doesn't apply to bulls and bullocks and male animals generally does it?
- This man's imitating the bird means that he will become a bird?
- Thunderbird? A big bird, big eagle, in the United States
- To be man means to reach toward being God, or, if you prefer, man fundamentally is the desire to be God... He says that he prefers to set the question aside, but at the same time... how can you say let us just set it aside?
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- Was there always humans on this planet?
- We can keep horses? We can use horses?
- We have already had a hog's body. So we didn't like it. Otherwise, why would we change?
- We say that Krsna is present within the spiritual, within the heart of the living entity. As a person or as an energy?
- We were discussing this morning about the species of life. We understood that there is actually all the species of life on this one planet, or some species don't exist here?
- We were just discussing whether the Paramatma and the jivatma is still there even in the living cells?
- Well is it (the varieties of men) divided by country or within one country there are many species?
- Well, vegetables are living entities also?
- Well, what about before they had botanists? They didn't know anything about leaves before?
- Well, what can be done with animals?
- Were some of the animals destined to survive through the destruction of other animals?
- Whale skeleton (in the ocean there are fishes. You cannot see them. Big fishes. From the skeleton I saw in Calcutta Museum...)?... Whales
- What about a cow?... So they say like that (So if you kill one animal, camel, it is equal to fifty goats)?
- What about cross-breeding, when they change the (seeds)...? Cross-breeding
- What about like the cow, little goodness in it, mixed?... And the lion, little passion?
- What about the cows that they slaughter? Do they have to continue in a cow birth?
- What about the plants and other smaller... (diva means demigods, they are in goodness. And human being in passion, and animals in ignorance. This is general division)?
- What can be done with animals?
- What did you just define by species? You mean different types of men?
- What do you do with a cow when it dies? Do you just bury it?
- What does that mean (every living entity's business?)
- What is the advantage of a tree, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the difference between animal and a man?
- What is the difference between fish killing and goat killing?
- What is the difference between God and ourselves and what is the relationship?
- What is the harm if I become an animal also?
- What is the harm of being a cat or a dog?
- What is the position of a soul that's in a sacred tree like a fig tree?
- What is the proper spiritual attitude toward rodents, reptiles, and disease-bearing insects? What should be the proper spiritual attitude toward those?
- What is the purpose of Lord for creating human life or animal life or so many things? Why...?
- What is the relationship between man and God?
- What is the source of life?
- What is your understanding of God? Is He something apart from us, or are we all together God? Do you know?
- What merits a person coming back in human life? It seems like an elevated birth. How does mode of passion give one the opportunity of human life?
- What proof do you have that a human being has a soul?
- What proof have you got, then, that a human being has got a soul?
- What the goat does not eat? Is that?
- What type of species are extinct? Not all the species extinct. As it is during Brahma's day, that partial annihilation, devastation, now some species are extinct?
- What would happen if an animal came in contact with a pure devotee?
- What's the next evolutionary step for these flowers that we offer to Krsna?
- When a living entity becomes pure, purified, he is called sac-cid-ananda, he has perfect knowledge. And Krsna is also sac-cid-ananda. Is that knowledge the same?
- When a spirit soul first falls from the spiritual sky into the material world, does he first go to the lowest of the 8,400,000 species of life, and then gradually come up, or can he fall to the middle or anywhere?
- When Brahma creates the different species, they're not created one at a time. They're... All over the universe, there's different species which he creates?
- When Brahma creates, does he first of all create the aquatics, then the plants?
- When did we stop becoming the monkey and start to become a man?
- When Krsna steals or does anything, we glorify it because He is absolute. So the Mayavadis, they say that the living entities are also absolute. Is that correct?
- When Lord Brahma created this planet, did he immediately put all the species here?
- When some new animal or person is born, is the soul always a reincarnation of some previous soul?
- When the living entity comes to the human platform, though he is conditioned, but still, by practice of yoga he can develop some of the powers which cannot be developed by other living entities, like for example, fish?
- When the living entity comes to the material world, what is the state of the spiritual body? And then how does this spiritual body begin to develop?
- When the man is fishing with the hook, the fish that takes the hook...?
- When the scientists say "species," they mean different types of bodies?
- When there are several living entities within a close area of space or there are several living entities...?
- When we say four hundred thousand species of human beings, that doesn't include all the demigods then?
- When we see fire here it is also living in that way (as the fiery bodies of the living entities on the sun) of the person? Some living entity?
- When we speak about the transmigration of the soul, we speak about 8,400,000 species. Does that include the inanimate objects as well, within those 8,400,000?
- When you come to the living entities, then the individual soul is also there?
- When you say taking on the body of a dog or a cat or a pig or whatever, is this also... Do you mean literally a body like a pig, or do you mean the nature of a pig or dog or cat?
- When you say that they're (bugs and germs) born from perspiration like cockroaches, does that mean that the eggs are laid by the female and then the atmosphere of perspiration enables the eggs to be hatched? Like that?
- When you take Krsna prasadam, the living entities which are within our body, they're also taking prasadam?
- Where are the spirit souls coming from that are taking microbe bodies?
- Where are those living entities (the men that were living so many thousands of years ago) now? Where they have gone?
- Whether dog knows that he is dog?
- Who created maya, man or God?
- Why a dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- Why are people cruel? Why do they persecute other human beings and torture them? How is it they are able to do this?
- Why are so many cows being killed in the slaughterhouse?
- Why do so many humans, Srila Prabhupada, they do not use their propensity to ask the questions?
- Why do we make the distinction between not killing animals and plants? Why do we kill plants?
- Why does Krsna provide the living entities with these sinful pleasures?
- Why does the living entity try to enjoy material nature in such a way?
- Why does the living entity wish to speculate in this way?
- Why God make some animals who eat other animals? There is a fault in the creation because... It is a fault in the creation?
- Why is it all right to kill any plants? How are they different from animals?
- Why is it that the man cannot be tamed and the unintelligent animal can be tamed?
- Why is that difference (the difference between you and dog) so important for you?
- Why is the cow sacred and not the other animals?
- Why should one be distinguished from another if they are both eternal (as God is eternal, so you are also eternal)?
- Why should we accept that the living entity will not die?
- Why would God want to keep the living entities in darkness?
- Why would we take birth as an animal?
- Why, then, Srila Prabhupada, is a person given a human body then, if they...?
- Will that extend to animals also? According to our Hindu philosophy, I understand everything has a soul
- With due respect, I want to know the God knows that He is God and dog knows he is dog?
- Within this universe are there other planets similar to the earthly planet where the inhabitants are getting the same, similar material bodies?
- Would it not be better to say that the living entity is born with certain tendencies, rather than innate ideas, which carry over from a previous life?... And that he needs only meet with some stimulus in order for these tendencies to be manifest?
- Would the prior life have to be an animal life?... Or could the prior life also be human life?
- Would the spirit soul that is within, say, a cow's body, is in a different shape?
- Would you say, for instance, someone who is less intelligent or more intelligent than I am is in a different species?
- Would you think that their souls are of different value, the soul of the dog...?
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- Yes, seahorse. Did such an animal exist, seahorse? Or is this man's imagination?
- Yet no two (flowers) are the same, are they?
- You could explain something of what the scientists are always talking about, mutation and variation, and how one species evolves from another species?
- You wanted them to take it? You were offering... (Many times in Vrndavana the monkeys have taken away from my hand foodstuff)
- You were saying how one can take birth as a dog even, so she's wondering how long does this go on. How many births does one take like this?
- You were saying yesterday how foolish it is to think that God is creating planets without putting any life on them. The scientists are saying there is no life on any planet. Then why would He create a planet unless there was life on it?
- You've just said a few minutes ago there are eight million different kinds of life. Would you agree that the potato, the cabbage... and what have you also has a life?
- Your Divine Grace, are we all equal in sight of God?
- Your Divine Grace, is this also true that every species of life... For instance, plants and trees, don't appear to be breathing as we do, but they breathe through their...?