Category:Questions On... ISKCON - Temples and Centers
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- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- As a life member, I am suffering because of this reason that there is no construction of a temple, therefore I cannot develop spiritually. If I have got attraction for a particular temple, why I should be denied?
- At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?
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- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- But how that will affect the atmosphere and Krsna consciousness of the temple (that hall is made, constructed for making some money, then the money will not come if we don't rent out to the cinema actors, actresses)? It's not that the theater...
- But just like when we want to try and attract someone to Krsna consciousness now, the main theme is to try to get them to come and stay at the temple. But will that continue in the future?
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- Deity worship is temple worship?
- Do people come to the services who are not disciples and devotees?
- Do you call it your temple or a church?
- Do you have a temple here, Swami, or do you meet in libraries?
- Do you have any ideas where you would want (the facility to chant the holy name of God and distribute prasadam)?
- Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches?
- Do you have any sort of teachers in your centers, and how do they get their education if you have any teachers?
- Do you have more temples there (in India) than here (in the West)?
- Do you have these temples in India?
- Do you like that place, Swamiji? Where the disciples are now, on Glenville Avenue?
- Do you practice meditation in your center?
- Do you spend a certain amount of time in each center? Do you yourself travel from one center to another?
- Do you think something could be written on this wall?
- Do you think you'll be able to see the temple either today or tomorrow and give me some ideas on how to utilize the building? I can arrange it with Pusta Krsna? When you're available?
- Does each temple operate by itself, or each division operate by itself?
- Does one have to leave one's family? I think everybody lives in the temple, don't they?
- Does that mean he (a dedicated disciple) must give up his family, and come and live here?
- Don't you think that instead of building a temple, asramas in this brahmacari model would be...?
- Don't you think that the blame should not be, usually be laid on the Africans but on the whole...? The brahmanas who comes from our overseas temples here, it's their responsibility to see that the Africans follow properly
- During the aratiks here at the temple where should the women be standing?
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- For instance, not a student but a young worker or a young son of a farmer, he would abstain from his old life and he would be initiated and join your community into a given center. How he would entertain himself?
- For those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
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- Has that house (Bhaktivedanta Manor) been transferred actually yet?
- Have you many branches of your society everywhere? Where is your main center, and where are the branches?
- Having a temple and a farm?
- Hawaii. They have a new place (our Hawaii, tulasi grows very nice)?
- He asks if we have temple in France or if we do in apartment or if we do in conference, private conferences. How we are doing it?
- He said in a letter, he just wrote a letter to you that... You laid a cornerstone in some temple? About three, four years ago?
- He wants to bring the brahmanas to inaugurate the Bombay temple, Srila Prabhupada?
- He's (George Harrison) living in the temple?
- His idea.... His question, Prabhupada, is also, suppose someone wants to buy a farm or wants to do some new project. Do they ask your permission first?
- How about opening one temple in Ahmedabad?
- How are those supported (the forty centers in the United States)? Do they support themselves?
- How do you choose, you are responsible for the organization?… Are you the one who chooses who runs each center, who is responsible in each temple?
- How does Krsna support them (the forty centers in the United States)?… He mediates through physical things, does he?
- How many (ISKCON) branches in India?
- How many asramas do you have in India?
- How many centers are there now?
- How many centers in the United States?
- How many ksatriyas can I have on this farm? How many ksatriyas can we have on one farm?
- How many temples are there now?
- How many temples are there?
- How much or how little brahmacaris should associate with the unmarried brahmacarinis in the temple?
- How shall the worship be in the temple, Srila Prabhupada, the small temples. What shall they worship?
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- I mean supposing I wished to become an initiate. Wouldn't I have to come and live here?
- I read in the invitation that this center is not only a center as such but something more. It should also be an asrama and also a forest university in the tradition of the ancient times?
- 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 was thinking that sometimes the devotees engage in business, selling so many things to help the temples, and you were saying that we should not do that?
- If all it requires is chanting to be pure, then why do you require musical instruments, an altar, and flowers and things of this sort?
- If one attends the temple regularly and inquires from the devotees about the devotional principles, and because of some reason, it's not convenient for him to live in the temple at that time, and he is living with people?
- If one can achieve Krsna consciousness outside the temple?
- If we build in Puri, will we have Jagannatha?
- If you had a big house, a rich house. You would use that?
- In addition to providing flowers for the Deity, will people who visit the temple walk there, or it will be closed to them?
- In America, supposing a householder family pays for a room in our temple building. So they can have their sex life and family life?
- 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 Calcutta also there is a project?
- 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 India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
- In order to establish the asrama will you be spending part of the year here?
- In other words for those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- In our temples, we have so many devotees. Should the devotees...?
- In regard to Hyderabad, can we ask Mahmsa to send an account of how he uses the money that you give him?
- In some of our larger temples is it (kirtana going twenty-four hours a day) also advisable?
- In the courtyard back at the temple I would like to grow one nim tree. Would that be nice?
- In the vanaprastha asrama, after fifty years of age, what is the duty? Is it to live in the temple, or devote most of time to Krsna, or where the wife comes in then?
- In Vrndavana (Bombay is the center. So now we are having our temple, whenever you go, you can stay with us)?
- Is it all right to use modern machines on our farms?
- Is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple? Like somebody working all day and following the regulative principles?
- Is that all right with you (it is like tenant house (ISKCON Bombay). So whoever pays to your satisfaction, you give him for one day), Srila Prabhupada?
- Is that why we made that hall, for making money (what is called? Village house. Hm? The hall is called? When one pays, marriage ceremony... For making some money you have made)?
- Is the Caitanya-Krsna ritual, as you have it here in this house and in the other asramas, is that something that a large mass of people can enter into?
- 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 any difference in (indistinct) when somebody is chanting japa under the tree and someone who is chanting japa in the temple?
- Is there something special you want me to do there (the ISKCON farm near Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prabhupada?
- Is this near the temple (the planetarium)?
- It (the farm in Hyderabad) can produce enough food to feed the whole society... Do you want me to take care of?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It sounds like Prabhupada wants a moat (on the land at Mayapura). Is that your idea, Srila Prabhupada?
- 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)?
- It's a large city (the plan for Mayapur). Fifty thousand, did you say? People? How many people were there?
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- Oh, I see. Then why not here in Vrndavana (printing books)?
- One time when I was staying in the Krsna-Balarama mandira, I saw a man smoking a bidi in his room. If that happens - in the bedroom - should the managers go and say this is not permitted?
- One would think because there's land and room for vegetables and there are so many cows that there would be a plentiful supply of milk, but I understand that they (New Vrndavana) use powdered milk. The devotees use powdered milk there
- Our temples, they are considered to have the same atmosphere?... To be just as potent as the holy places in India?
P
- Prabhupada, should everyone move to the temple?... Live here?
- Prabhupada, sometimes I've seen devotees say that they did not like to chant in the temple room with the opposite...
- Prabhupada? Of course, it would be beneficial if we had such a big building, but why can't we do it with the present building?
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- Really? That ("We have got the "no objection" certificate") is for a skyscraper building or for the temple?
- Regarding installing larger deities at the New Vrindaban farm temple, which is now exclusively for brahmacaris...
- Regarding your question about closing the temple for a few hours during the day...
- Regarding your question about guests being present at arati...
- Regarding your question as to obtain a house or a storefront for holding kirtanas...
- Regarding your question whether grhastha couples can live together in the temple...
- Regarding your question whether husband and wife should live together in the temple
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- Second Avenue apartment?
- Shall we sell our land, then (when volcano is in smoke, that is dangerous. That is dangerous)?
- Should I develop that scheme (the farm) then?
- So Los Angeles center was opened on your arrival back from India. And up to that time there was New York and...?... And Montreal?
- So starting tomorrow, we will go in front of Krsna-Balarama for a half hour every day?
- 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?
- South of Paris? That one (and we have got another palace, what is that village?)?
- SP, we received news yesterday that one man in northern New South Wales is willing to sell us a farm, a great big farm out there in the southern tropics. Would this be a good place for engaging boys like the Indian, the Indian boy that came yesterday?
- Srila Prabhupada, does spiritual life progress faster if one lives in the temple and goes on the sankirtana party?
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna is everywhere, why do we stress the importance of living a very strict life in the temple atmosphere?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Mayapur you were speaking about you wanted Mayapur to become a college for the University of Calcutta?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple?
- Srila Prabhupada, why is it necessary for someone to come here and chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam?
- 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? For the Bombay opening, is it necessary to have those South Indian brahmanas?
- 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? Should not the temple be kept open earlier than six o'clock in the afternoon?
- Srila Prabhupada? We can also purchase in the name of Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust… Should we buy this land, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? Would you like it (Bombay temple) to be opened on your Guru Maharaja's disappearance?
- Supposing there are bricks available, should they try to build?
- Swami, do you attach any significance to the fact that this temple is in a form of a Christian church?
- Swamiji, do you have certain farms also in America, gosala?
- Swamiji, how many asramas and things you have?
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- Tell us a little bit about the temple as we move?
- That if you have a good place, many people can be attracted, as many as moving around to many places… But do you think I should travel a lot, or what is the best thing?
- That piece of land right here? When do you want to begin it?
- That would be a separate building from the temple (...spiritual world, material world, and so on, so on. Planetary..., succession of the planetary systems, everything. A building like that)?
- The householders on our farm, they should cooperate and produce the food centrally or every householder should produce his own food independently?
- The question is whether should it be played in the temple or not (western style songs recorded by devotees)?
- The school in Vrndavana, is this, I assume this is to be out there in the yard that they were clearing. When do you anticipate that will be built?
- The temple should always have some prasadam there?
- The vyasasana. Like in Los Angeles, at the side? On the left-hand side?
- Then you will have two temples in Vrndavana?
- There should not be any medical service in the building, new building, so what about there should be any other place on the land, or they should not...?
- They (the Deities) should not be transported to another temple?
- They have to come to the temple to be trained up?
- They will give us a temple also? Where is that temple?
- They'll come here, anyway. We didn't give any address card (invitation cards to our temple). Do you think people will come anyway?
- This (people from all different parts of Bengal are coming to see your temple) never before has happened?
- This country, what do you think is the best way of establishing the asrama, or the centers, and which way we can help in this matter?
- This is your Paris establishment?
- Those that are initiated, must they live in the temple?
- To visit all of our centers in the world?
- Twelve lakhs also in Delhi center only?
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- Was it a big house (that house was constructed fifty years ago at the cost of six million dollars, and we have got it very cheap. Three hundred thousand dollars)?… Colonial house?
- We also see Krsna is in temple. Does this mean also Allah is in the temple? And why are all these religions so different? Because essentially they are all the same
- We are building such important establishments in India. Do we have any danger...?
- We can get (that house)?
- We could rent it for wedding ceremonies, things like that also. ... What do you think, Srila Prabhupada?
- We have a nice banner which flies in front of the building also. I think you should park on the right side, Jayananda, unless... All right, park on the left. See the banner?
- We have some nice pictures here of your Palace. Can you... Do you feel like seeing them now, or would you rather wait till some other time?
- We should have a mosaic floor or a colored cement floor? What standard that should be?
- We were wondering, should we offer the food to the Deities in the temple or should we offer it in the restaurant?
- We're installing Krsna and Balarama there, Srila Prabhupada?
- What about England? London. How is your movement doing?
- What about Los Angeles?
- What about our city temples (in the future)?
- What about the idea that "You do not have to move into a temple, give up your family and everything, but you can actually chant Hare Krsna in your own home," that idea that "It is available to you..."?
- What about the possibility of opening more than one temple in this city? Just like if there's a good building on the East Side, if we can manage, what about the possibility of that?
- What about your old storefront, 26 Second Avenue (if that side we get some small house, so that after going, eight days Jagannatha can remain there and festival going on, and then in the next week return…)?
- What can I suggest?… That in regard to the three temples, Mayapur, Bombay and Vrndavana, you should designate who you want the trustees to be
- What does your temple look like?
- What else do you have over there besides gurukula schools and things?
- What happens in your temples. Do you have services like other religions?
- What is the plan of the Hyderabad project?
- What is the special significance of constructing Kaliya-Krsna temple in Fiji?
- What kind of sitting place? On the floor with mats, or benches and tables?
- What thought there is in bringing the temple and the farm closer together as one entity rather than two?
- What will happen to our temples in the cities? Will we keep them?
- What will the business of the trustees (for construction of Bombay) be?
- What will the sudras do in the big city temple, in all the temples?
- What's going to be the name of this asrama?
- When we come to a center, naturally there are certain men who want to go traveling. Not all men want to go traveling, but there are definitely some who want to go traveling. And if they come to me, what should I do? Tell them, "No, I'm sorry"?
- When will we begin?… The land is coming along? ("ISKCON plans to build in Mayapur a world center for Krsna consciousness. It will comprise an enormous…")?
- Where do you train them in the western countries?
- Where is your matha in Vrndavana? In Vrndavana proper?
- Where should we send (milk products)? To one center?
- Whereabouts (we have got a very nice house in Detroit. If you sometimes go there…)?
- Who (they promised to give you land for your program for Kuruksetra)?
- Who is in charge of a temple when you're not here?
- Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?
- Will there be preaching centers in every town and village, or will it just be a question of traveling through and preaching to the people and ticking off that we've been there?
- Will this center also be a place of learning for Sanskrit studies and allied topics?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would you elaborate what you are doing as New Vrindaban? What is it you are establishing there?
- Would you like to have a temple established in every village?
- Would you like to see the land that we have got here, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you use the facility, then, as sort of a center for all over the United States?
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- Yeah, well, when a person is attached to that group in the temple, isn't this, become a lust too? You see, being influenced by the group and also attached to the people...
- Yes, we can make. How many garages do you want?
- Yes. But if someone has a temple and he maintains a Deity for his personal sense gratification...
- You are going to have a temple there (South Africa)?
- You have a farm now?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have asked about construction plans in New Vrindaban...
- You mean like a community, spiritual community like Kirtanananda?
- You think one day, Prabhupada, maybe these big buildings will be our temples?
- You want them to go into the temple and perform kirtana?
- You want to start it now or in the new temple?
- You were asked whether this record (the new G.A.P. record: "A Change of Heart") could be played in the temples and you replied: "Why not in the temples" Hari Sauri thought you said, "not in the temples"?
- You were planning to raise a temple in Kuruksetra?
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