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- A person (Krsna)? Person in the ordinary sense of the word, or...?
- About a hundred hoods, how could Krsna manage all of those hoods?
- According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna?
- All such questions (Lord Jesus performed so many miracles. So what miracles did Krsna perform?). No sober questions
- All the symbols in Visnu's hand, are, all the symbols in Visnu's hand are weapons. How is the lotus a weapon?
- Although a devotee feels helpless in the hands of Krsna, still, in order to execute his duty, he must be very strong... How does he reconcile those two?
- Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
- And ah, this inside, it grows because of Krsna does it (anything you take, it grows from the Supreme)?
- And all Krsna's soldiers were killed?
- And He (Lord Krsna) used to come here for herding the cows?
- And how does Krsna control a devotee?
- And how is Krsna different from us?
- Are there some people who do not find Krsna attractive?
- Are we all part of Krsna?
- Are we even one millionth of what Krsna was?
- Are you against medical help? I mean, you want just to let Krsna do His way and not let the doctors help at all?
- As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana
- 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?
- Astakala-lila. What is that exactly? Eightfold lila or some...?
- At Bheda Dvaraka, that is the residential palace of Lord Krsna. And seven ranis of Lord Krsna. They show each building, their whole building. So what was that?
- At one of the programs, somebody raised the question that we cited that Lord Siva is worshiping Krsna, that he is a Vaisnava. So that person replied that Lord Rama also worshiped Siva. So he wanted to know the explanation
- At the end of the Krsna Book, when Krsna and Arjuna visit Lord Visnu and Visnu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Krsna appeared through Ksirodakasayi Visnu?
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- Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, Krsna came (Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days)?
- Because he (Arjuna in the beginning denied to fight, but he agreed to fight) was satisfied by his faith in Krsna?
- Before Krsna, who was?
- Before the birth of Lord Krsna, was God existing?
- But aren't we impure and He is pure?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But doesn't Krsna know if I will do it (misuse my independence)?
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- But if it's (independence) not good for me, if I will misuse it, why would Krsna give it to me anyway?
- But isn't it by force anyway (Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver, "You love me, otherwise I shall kill you.")? If we don't love Krsna, we suffer
- But it's not by Krsna's sex desire. What is the meaning of the words "Krsna's sex desire"? Krsna's satisfaction?
- But Krsna means... Who is He? Is He a personal or impersonal?
- But Krsna will always be there if we want to go back?
- But Krsna's disappearance, about having a maya body that He left behind. A maya body. Is that anything to do with Mayavadī?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?
- But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada?
- But then God in His essence is Atman, Brahman, not Krsna. Is that what you're saying?
- But they say, "Where did Krsna come from?"
- But this is Krsna's inferior energy, right (my body is also Krsna's energy. I am also Krsna's energy. I am always with Krsna. Simply I have forgotten it)?
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But why only the name Krsna?
- By His grace, Krsna will show Himself to you?
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- Caitanya was incarnation of Krsna? But was a disciple of someone who was not incarnation?
- Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?
- Can Krsna be called by any other name?
- Can Krsna give us the ability to someday remember every word that you are saying to us now?
- Can one be forgetful of Krsna eternally?
- Can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead that presents itself to man and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- Can we withdraw our independence, can we request Krsna to force us to surrender to Him, due to our conditioning?
- Can you explain why Lord Krsna encourages Arjuna to fight his own blood?
- Can you tell me who is Lord Krsna?
- Could you describe Krsna's pastimes as cowboy whenever He goes out in the morning with the cowherds boys?
- Could you elaborate a little bit on the point of debate of Krsna manifesting everything, and therefore He's attractive?
- Could you tell about Lord Caitanya asking where is Krsna and falling in the water?
- Could you tell me the names of these special foods? How do you know what Krsna eats and drinks, please?
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- Did He (Krsna) translate it into English?
- Did Krsna create us to serve Him? And to enjoy us?
- Did Krsna describe to Arjuna the disciplic succession?
- Did Krsna have children by the gopis?
- Did Krsna invent Radha for His own pleasure?
- Did Krsna play that (football)?
- Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna?
- Did you say once that sometimes Krsna will let you work off some of your karma in a dream (indistinct)?
- Didn't they (the residents of Vrndavana) know who Krsna was?
- Do we all originate from Krsna?
- Do you believe that Christ said that Krsna was his father?
- Do you believe that Jesus and Buddha and Krsna are manifestations of the same God?
- Do you ever feel Krsna's presence, or see Him?
- Do you expect Him (Krsna) to come again?
- Do you mean Krsna is Absolute, and Krsna is everything? Then why does Krsna have a specific form?
- Do you receive some knowledge directly from Krsna?
- Do you remember what you wrote about, which part? About Krsna's birth?
- Do you think if a person is to be a real believer in God he has to also worship Krsna or speak of Him?
- Does fortune mean it's the mercy of Krsna?
- Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu?
- Does it not mean, sir, that naham tesv avasthitah, "I am staying in Goloka"?
- Does Krsna create the universe or does He just make it possible to be created?
- Does Krsna desire we get a spiritual name?
- Does Krsna eat out of the fire?
- Does Krsna give beneficial instruction to someone and not to someone else, intuition in the heart to take or not to take the book?
- Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be foolish and fall?
- Does Krsna know beforehand everything?
- Does Krsna know that he will rebirth and then come to earth and to preach us and make all that?
- Does Krsna know the time, or does He direct the living entity at some certain time to surrender or is this the will of the living entity?
- 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 Krsna mean God?
- Does Krsna punish people who do not serve Him purely? Or do the people punish themselves when they do not serve Him purely?
- Does Krsna speak the Bhagavad-gita in the hellish planets?
- Does Lord Caitanya always appear just after Krsna? In every universe?
- Does Lord Jagannatha reside there any more (Jagannatha Puri)?
- Does that mean Krsna is beyond even spiritual?
- Does the word nirvana mean Krsna?
- Doesn't Krsna say in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am the spiritual master"?
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- Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
- Every time Lord Krsna appears, original Krsna appears, does Lord Caitanya appear on the following Kali-yuga?
- Everything is being controlled ultimately by Krsna. Either by inferior energy or superior energy. His activities (of the jiva) are never independent?
- Everything is Krsna's. How can you give anything? Even a leaf?
- Expansion or incarnation has the six opulences in full except for Krsna?
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- For them spiritual life is the prayer, salvation in Lord Jesus Christ. And they're not quite sure... They're interested in knowing what is our relationship with Krsna. Is it the same or...?
- 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?
- From whom one should hear about Krsna?
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- George's question that there is something beyond Krishna
- Gradually we are now developing, making drama, this, that. We are taking it just as if Krsna-lila itself is a fact. It is a theatrical thing?
- Gurudeva said the only aim of human being is to surrender to Sri Krsna, to the lotus feet of Sri Krsna. In India especially, there are so many temples and gods and goddesses...
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- Has anybody actually seen Krsna?
- Have you all seen Krsna?
- Have you seen Krsna?
- He (Jesus) is not Krsna?
- He (Krsna) has no these external senses?
- He (Krsna) took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He (Lord Krsna) displays His Vrndavana only on the earthly-like planet?
- He argues that Krsna knows everything, so Krsna knew that he would have trouble controlling his senses; therefore why did Krsna give him senses?
- He asked if anyone now has seen Krsna
- He has understood from Bhagavad-gita that Krsna says that "As you approach Me, I present Myself." So in that sense can this movement be compared to also the consciousness of Christ, Christ consciousness
- He is asking if it is possible for them to chant the name God, that in fact is not really a name, by the name Krsna, because according to what you are explaining, God is Krsna. So can they chant the name of Krsna?
- He is simply attached to serving Krsna (a devotee is always satisfied in any condition. He has no attachment or detachment)?
- He says that for Christians, this feeling of being with God comes from praying to Lord Jesus Christ. He's asking if Krsna has that same position for us?
- He says, "But then Krsna says, 'Why are you afraid to fight? After all, the soul is eternal, but the body is only temporary.' So isn't that a justification..."?
- He says, do we see Krsna as being a savior in the way that Christians see Christ as being the savior?
- He sounded like this? He (Krsna) talked like that, like the birds talk?
- He took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He wants to know if Krsna is above Jesus Christ?
- He was asking how do we know what Krsna dictates, by what authority. How do we know how we can serve Krsna?
- He would swoon whenever He heard Krsna's name? He would be swooning? Lord Caitanya would faint?
- His (Krsna's) senses are (spiritual)...?
- How and from where did the conditioned souls fall?... If someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down?
- How and why did we lose our awareness of our true love for Krsna in the beginning?
- How can Krishna be mother if He is the Supreme Male?
- How can we get to Krsna? How do you get to Krsna?
- How can we realize Krsna is satisfied?
- How did the gopis surrender unto Krsna? You said they surrendered everything. How did they do it?
- How do I come to know that Krsna is satisfied?
- How do we render perfect service to Krsna?
- How do you know that "Krsna" is a name of God?
- How do you know this Deity is Krsna, and this one isn't? Because each Deity looks a little different to the material eyes
- How do you relate Christ with Krsna?
- How does a devotee know which food Krsna likes him to take?
- How does He (Krsna) speak to you or to us?
- How does it matter what people call Krsna, whether they call Bhagavan or Visnu or what, Krsna? If it is just only one God. We are talking removing Krsna from Gita but putting Bhagavan there instead of Krsna. How does it matter?
- How does Krsna support them (the forty centers in the United States)?… He mediates through physical things, does he?
- How is it that after they (Devaki and Vasudeva) gave birth to Krsna this time they went back to Godhead?
- How is it that people are saying that He's so tiny that He may even be an ordinary man? How can they be so illusioned to think like that? Krsna is everything. How can they ignore Him?
- How is Krsna different? How is He individual in each one of the atoms?
- How is Krsna the greatest scientist?
- How is the lotus a weapon?
- How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
- How Krishna is with the spirit soul in the spiritual world?
- How long do you say it is before Krsna comes to this planet again in His physical, in human form?
- How old is Krsna?
- How one can know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- How strong is the power of Krsna?
- How you explain the act of Krsna taking away the saris of the gopis?
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- I am son of God. And what about Krsna? He says...
- I believe Jesus is coming back and not Krsna. And what are you guys going to do when you see Jesus?
- I don't understand that why then you'd go to Visnu and not to Krsna if Krsna is higher?
- 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 have always been taught since I was a little kid to love God and then I will love everything. Is God Krsna?
- I remember reading that Krsna told Arjuna he can go to the sun planet by worshiping Him. Why does He say that?
- I still think of this problem why Lord Krsna had to have an incarnation like Buddha who was teaching atheist doctrine and no...?
- I think Radharani helps a man to reach Krsna, to hear, you know, the things...?
- I thought Krsna was sixteen only?
- I want to know if Krsna appeared on this planet five thousand years ago at a certain time, that means that immediately did He appear again in another universe?
- I want to know why Krsna is so unkind and He allows us to sin. The royal road of Krsna, Lord Krsna, should be very easier
- I want to know, when we serve Krsna, we have spiritual senses, then that satisfies our spiritual senses when we serve Krsna in Krsnaloka?
- I wanted to ask you about Krsna in the heart. Could you tell us something about His physiognomy?
- I was looking at the copy of the disciplic succession and where does Krsna instruct Arjuna? Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- I was wondering why Krsna is always portrayed as being blue?
- I would like to know, being unborn, then how come that Lord Krsna was born as a human being or brought Himself to that position to form Himself as the Supreme Being?
- I would like to put a question about the relation between Krsna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Paramatma and Brahman. Which is the relation between these concepts?
- I'd like to know the relation between Visnu and Krsna, how Visnu became Krsna?
- I'm not sure if I heard you correctly. Did you say that Krsna could not be worshiped directly? Could not be?
- If a person who wants to become rich prays to Krsna, will he become rich?
- If a yogi does attain a Vaikuntha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Krsna in Goloka...
- If by purifying ourselves we feel our relationship that we have with the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- If Christ was the son of God, the good son, how is that he didn't, he never mentioned Krsna by name? Sometimes they criticize us like that: "Why is there no mention of Krsna in the Christian Bible?"
- If God, Krsna, desires the motor car to turn right, what makes the car turn left?
- If I am not mistaken, I think I heard that Krsna reestablished religion, reestablished. Now who established before Krsna?
- If I call Krsna, I accept Krsna as Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then the question comes to me, "Why are you calling yourself Vaisnavas? Why not Krsnayas?"
- If I say, I pray to God, "O Lord Krsna, I surrender unto You." So is..., maya will not touch me? I will not be affected by this material infection?
- If Krsna has created the universe, then who has created Krsna? How did He acquire such immense powers?
- If Krsna is all-good, why does He send us to this world full of miseries?
- If Krsna is the supreme consciousness, then why isn't anything we do or anyone we follow following or doing Krsna consciousness?
- 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 Krsna knows already what you're going to do in the future, then what is the question of your independence?
- If Krsna knows past, present and future, then where is the question of our independence? In other words, He knows already what we're going to desire?
- If Krsna knows that we will suffer here in this material world if we come here, why does He let us go?
- If Krsna was not born, then what is the significance of that word, that sambhavami, dharma-samstha...?
- 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 surrenders to a spiritual master, what then is their relationship to Krsna?
- If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
- If our first concern should be to serve God, or Krsna, then why should there be a movement
- If somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
- If someone comes along and joins you, do they see Krsna?
- If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
- If the scientists of the world become little bit directed and they use their science to glorify Krsna, then they're actually practicing yoga?
- If there is a spiritual world, what is it like, and what are the activities of Krsna there?
- If we love our children, is that also loving Krsna?
- If we say that Krsna enters even within the atom, what is His business there?
- If we've never been with Krsna, if we've never been in Krsnaloka, then how is it that we start remembering His pastimes and His form?
- If you are unable to receive knowledge from a higher authority, could you still somehow have this knowledge inside? So one could understand about Krsna perhaps if he was unable to receive from outside?
- If you call Brahma the Absolute, how do you make a distinction between Brahma and Krsna?
- If you know the process, then the Deity becomes Krsna (so this Deity worship is not heathenism. It is actually worshiping God, provided you know the process)?
- In Dvaraka, did Krsna's queens play tennis?
- In Goloka there are no demons. But the sentiment of anxiety or fear for Krsna, is that sentiment in Goloka?
- In India the sun is very intense... Does that have something to do that Krsna appeared there?
- In India, there are many swamis who claim to be Krsna. How to detect them?
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- In other words, Krsna is the voice of your God then?
- In our literature we find Krsna has some transcendental pastimes of anger, but that He does not, it is man's own reaction activities, that bring upon destruction. How are these two...?
- In that illustration is Krsna the sunshine or is Krsna the sun?
- 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 Bhagavad-gita Krsna tells Arjuna there's more than one method of attaining consciousness of Him, and those methods are suited to various types of people. I wonder if you consider that the chanting method is just one or whether it's the only one
- In the Eleventh Chapter of the Gita the Lord has shown His virat-darsana. He has shown Brahma, Visnu, Mahesa, etc. They are all in Him. Subordinate to Him. They are subordinate to Him. Therefore (one should) meditate on Krsna, the only Hare Krsna?
- In the glorifications of Rg Veda, (indistinct) example of glorifications of Krsna there?
- In the human society the preacher is Krsna's most dear servant. What is the reason for that, Srila Prabhupada?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?
- In the two abodes of the plenary expansion of Krsna. What exists?
- In this maha-mantra that you publicize, Hare Krsna, it is Krsna that is emphasized. (indistinct) emphasis His Bhagavata and other things are popularized. Is it corresponding...?
- In what sense is the First Canto His lotus feet?
- In what way is the external manifestation of the guru different than the external manifestation of, let us say, Krsna or Caitanya when They come to earth?
- In your opinion, what is the relationship between Krsna and Christ?
- Is he (Lord Buddha) allowed to say so (He's personally Krsna)?
- Is he allowed to associate with Krsna in the beginning?... As jiva, as jiva is...
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it all right to desire Krsna?
- Is it because Krsna is situated in the spiritual sky, therefore the spiritual sky is the position where there is ultimate happiness to be found?
- Is it in that sense (as the creator) that He (Lord Visnu) is called Krsna?
- Is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting?
- Is it possible for us to know the source of Krsna?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, that Krsna may like to be satisfied through the material life?
- Is it simply the nature of the name Krsna that this particular name is the most powerful?
- Is it the living entity's choice, complete choice, to be demonic, against God, or is it a part of Krsna's energy to put demons, or to have created him that way?
- Is it true that Krsna has all these things (grains, sugar, milk and fruits) in each planet simply because of the presence of a pure devotee?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that Krsna is testing us every day?
- Is Krsna a person God?
- Is Krsna always seeking to engage us in His devotional service, and is He upset in some way if we reject His offer?
- Is Krsna attractive to rascals?
- Is Krsna directly controlling that (getting away from Him)?
- Is Krsna made out of atoms like we are? When He comes down and takes the food?
- Is Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita different from the one in Bhagavatam?
- Is Lord Siva a devotee of Lord Krsna?
- Is not Krsna a God of compassion?
- Is our rasa with Krsna already established? I mean, is it eternal?
- Is that an example of free will, that someone can choose Krsna and then turn away?
- Is that personality within the atom Paramatma (even within the atom, you will find personality)?
- Is that why (there is already name, Krsna. So why should Christ utter?) Christ didn't utter the name of Krsna?
- Is the pure devotee more merciful than Krsna?
- Is there a difference between Rama and Krsna?
- Is there a spiritual planet where Krsna plays the part of one's father?
- Is there any difference between Siva and Krsna?
- Is there some sort of relationship (with Jesus and) with Lord Krsna?
- Is this Krsna in this painting here?
- Is this life, this present life, is this also being within Krsna's pastimes, because Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement is Krsna's pastimes?
- It is said in the Bhagavad-gita that if one thinks at the time of death, if he thinks of Krsna, he goes to Krsna. What if one thinks of his spiritual master?
- It is that the problem, that Krsna is the original person of divine, but in, by Ramanuja or Visnu Purana it reverse Visnu is the highest?
- It's that "aham" is indicated to Who? The physical posture of Krsna which we know or the...?
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- Krsna and His friends would play sometimes, catch with fruits in the forest?
- Krsna appears and performs His pastimes and then He disappears and then appears in another universe? Or He appears...?
- Krsna believed that it was all right to kill the enemies of Arjuna because it was a righteous war. If you have a philosophy like that, can you find peace?
- Krsna controls everything, so how, how does Krsna control a nondevotee?
- Krsna explains that He is the taste of water, and in different chapters that He's the source of light in all luminous objects. So when we think like this, how should we think of Krsna? In His personal form?
- Krsna gains or speaks as a guru, guru-sisya-samudbhava. So here is as a guru?
- Krsna gives us five gross senses and He wants us to control them. How can we do this?
- Krsna had other brothers and sisters besides Balarama and Subhadra?
- Krsna has exhibited His pastimes on every planet in the universe?
- Krsna has not given you power as guru?
- Krsna is all-attractive because He is the source?
- Krsna is always playing the tune by which everyone is dancing?
- Krsna is always smiling, isn't He?
- Krsna is black? Sometimes He's depicted as blue
- Krsna is telling to Arjuna where to act, and how to act, and what to act, that is "Fight." And at that moment He is telling to fight the Kauravas. Now, we are confused here, that what is our fight? What is our fight?
- Krsna is the avatara of Visnu?
- Krsna is the friend of everyone. So why does He allow me to have this independence?
- Krsna knows everything in the past and everything in the future, so can we say it is predestined?
- Krsna knows everything we're thinking and He knows exactly when each of us will give up the material body, does that mean that everything is predestined?
- Krsna manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?
- Krsna must have been fifteen or twenty feet tall?
- Krsna only comes to this planet?
- Krsna says so many times, "You must surrender unto Me." Why do people say, "No, there's something else"
- Krsna says that karma is concluded yat karosi yad asnasi, jnana is concluded bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate, and yoga is concluded yoginam api sarvesam. Krsna says, concluding, sarva-dharman parityajya. Is there some conc...?
- Krsna says that once you are in the spiritual world you are full of bliss. Why would someone choose to come to this material world?
- Krsna says to perform your sva-dharma, so how does one know what is his sva-dharma?
- Krsna says, "Those who repeat this message of Bhagavad-gita, are most dear friends to me, and there's no one more dear to Me than he..." Wouldn't that indicate that a preacher is higher than a worker?
- Krsna took the incarnation of Lord Ramacandra?
- Krsna treated the monkeys as a pet?
- Krsna was not born?
- Krsna was talking to Arjuna, and it said that Krsna said to Arjuna, "When you realize Me or when you realize God, or Krsna, you will see the whole of creation (sic:) withinside Me and withinside yourself." Is that a true translation?
- Krsna wears tilaka like we do?
- Krsna's energy is all-spiritual, then why in Bhagavad-gita does Krsna make a distinction - "My separated material energy"? Why does He say, "separated"?
- Krsna's mercy allows you to know this now (suppose if I say that this is a pencil. And if you say to him, "This is a pencil." And he says to another man, "This is a pencil." Then what is the difference between his instruction and my instruction?)?
- Krsna, he says, is an avatara of Visnu?
- Ksirodakasayi-Visnu is in which category?
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- Lord Indra is saying that Krsna is so merciful that without punishing the offenses of the demons, that He devises means so that their false prestige is subdued. How is that? How does he devise means without punishment?
- Lord Krsna preached Bhagavad-gita in battlefield of Kuruksetra, and it is afterwards written by Vyasadeva. Did Vyasadeva got it out of his meditation, or how the actual thing which was conveyed to Arjuna again took a shape in Bhagavad-gita?
- Lord Krsna says, kama esa krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah. The kama... Where is the beginning of this kama?
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- Madhusudana because He killed the demon Madhu. But who was that Madhu?
- Maha-Visnu? Expansion of the expansion?
- Mam here means Krsna? Or Brahma?
- Many people say that Lord Krsna is the King of romance?
- Material power from Visnu?
- Mayavadis, are they thinking like that, Krsna is... (because you are rascal, you are thinking Krsna is like another rascal like you. That is poor fund of knowledge)?
- Means what is God and Krsna? Is there any difference?
- Must a person believe in Krsna in order to chant?
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- Person (is Krsna a person)?
- Picture of Krsna? Is His hair curly? How long should it be?
- Prabhupada, a picture of Krsna is absolute, right? That is Krsna. Is the picture of a pure devotee absolute in the same way?
- Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?
- Prabhupada, did Christ return to the spiritual planets then, when he left the earth, to be with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, either of those associations (guru's krpa and Krsna's krpa), which is the highest?
- Prabhupada, how was it that Lord Jesus was called a son of God? If Krsna is usually the son, how come Jesus was the son?
- Prabhupada, if Krsna is the reservoir of pleasure, then what does He need us for? If Krsna is all blissful, then what... We're so, it seems, incapable of pleasing Krsna. He is so magnanimous. What does He need us for?
- Prabhupada, who was the spiritual master of Lord Sri Krsna?
- Prabhupada, you said that Krsna has no limbs, no eyes, no form that we can comprehend. How then are we to understand the form of Krsna that's given to us in the pictures and the murtis?
- Prabhupada, you told us that wherever Krsna is, that is Vrndavana. What I was wondering is, if Krsna's present within our hearts, does that mean that within our heart is...
- Prabhupada? Is Krsna right here in the room?
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- Regarding your final question about Krishna being the cause of all causes
- Regarding your final question, I thought that Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Karanodakasayi Visnu are not divisions of Paramatma?
- Regarding your final question, is it a fact that when one is contact with Krishna, His Name, His Qualities, His Form, His Pastimes, he immediately becomes purified?
- Regarding your question about Krishna recommending the chanting of His Holy Names...
- Regarding your question about Krishna's associates...
- Regarding your question about Krishna's Name...
- Regarding your question about Lord Jagannatha and Lord Krsna
- Regarding your question about the relationship between the living entities and Krishna...
- Regarding your second question, have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
- Remember how Krsna received Sudama?... When he brought the...?
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- Say we say that Krsna is God. Right? Then do you believe that there are other ways, apart from the way that you're going, to get to Krsna?
- Should we love Krishna or love the spiritual master?
- Should we not be respectful to maya as the energy of Krsna?
- Since Krsna is the power that gives the demigods the ability to render everything, then why is it recommended in the Nectar of Devotion that a Vaisnava should worship Ganapati?
- Sir, are we rightly understanding that by "Krsna" you mean some eternal principle?
- So "Krsna, in person"?
- So all ideas can be traced back to the original substance which is Krsna?
- So do you mean to say that Krsna is also karma-bound?
- So everything is coming from Krsna and going toward Krsna?
- So how can they, the Krsna... (the real disease is there is no Krsna)?
- 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 the same way (that Jesus) Krsna also was appearing again during...?
- So it may seem like these other things are stepping-stones to Krsna, but is it necessarily so?
- So just by meditating on the person Krsna, all other truths become known?
- So maya is temporary, and the only thing that is eternal is Krsna and the spiritual energies?
- So Prabhupada, a neophyte devotee, he may think it might be very nice to be Krsna's friend, but he may actually be a blade of grass and he'll be fully satisfied when he comes to that stage?
- So that's how it goes back into the body of Maha-Visnu?
- So there is no benefit to suffering unless it is connected with Krsna?
- So this earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- So we can bring the mind under control of Krsna?
- So what is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- So who is Krsna?
- So why does He (Krsna) allow me to have this independence?
- Sometimes Krsna interferes in the free will?
- Srila Prabhupada, does Krsna know that He's sitting in everyone's heart?
- Srila Prabhupada, I understand Krsna is the Personality of Godhead, and He is the one who create this material world. So my impression is Krsna, He didn't make this material world to be spiritual?
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna has created everything and everything is submitted to Krsna's will, can we really say what is good or bad?
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna is everywhere, why do we stress the importance of living a very strict life in the temple atmosphere?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we think about our spiritual master, is that as good as thinking about Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, is Krsna in our heart, in the heart of the body and in the heart of the spirit soul?
- Srila Prabhupada, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is controller of everything, whole universe, everything. So why He is having these demigods to help Him?
- 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, why do most people in this Kali-yuga worship Lord Siva instead of worshiping Lord Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, you are seeing Krsna at every moment. Does this mean you are seeing Krsna in His two-armed form playing the flute at every moment?
- Srila Prabhupada? Once one man asked why Krsna Himself comes in India only? Why not American countries?
- Srila Prabhupada? Trying to satisfy Krsna's senses and not our own senses, that is the principle of renunciation. How can one develop and cultivate renunciation
- Suppose a rascal remembers Krsna at the time of death
- Svamsa is plenary. And vibhinnamsa is part of plenary. So the presence of Krsna in the atom, it is vibhinnamsa. Both of them (are there)? In the atom?
- Swami, spiritual energy is situated in the heart as localized Paramatma. Is this also Krsna's personal feature?
- Swamiji, can you tell me about what you said, going through the spiritual master, not directly to Krsna, through the spiritual master?
- Swamiji, I don't understand when you say that you worship Krsna or Visnu. I don't understand if Krsna is Visnu or Visnu is Krsna
- Swamiji, if our rasa with Krsna is eternal, and we want to have the rasa of lover with Krsna, is it possible to change? If our rasa is like father to son, we can never become lover?
- Swamiji, in Bhagavad-gita we can see that Krsna said to Arjuna that "I will not fight for you, but I'll only drive your chariot." Why He refused to fight? Why He didn't fight?
- Swamiji, what is the color of Krsna? It is blue or black? Not according to sastra, but your experience
- Swamiji, you accept Krsna as the supreme glory?
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- That particular lila of Krsna is the most thrilling one. No?
- The atheistic people sometimes argue, "What does your Krsna do for the suffering people?"
- The Christians describe Krsna in a different way. Are they making mistakes?
- The cowherd boy with Krsna, he is also vibhinnamsa expansion. Correct?
- The cowherd boys, sometimes were they merciful to Krsna by not being too rough with Him?
- The godly qualities, they come from Krsna. Even the demoniac qualities?
- The original form of Krsna, that is only on one planet in one day of Brahma. Is that correct?
- The question was that Krsna had said that He would not take part in the Battle of Kuruksetra, but later on He did. So He had actually changed His word. So does the devotee also sometimes do that, say one thing but later on change his mind
- The reply to your question about Arjuna's relationship with Krsna...
- The sound krsna is not different from Krsna. Under all circumstances?
- The stories of Krsna's pastimes in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are they found in the Vedas also?
- The sunset; that is also Krsna's artistry?
- The thing is that because Krsna knows the future, past, present, and future, so He knew that we would fall down, so why didn't He help me?
- Then even Brahman has to be understood in relationship to Krsna?
- Then the last question. Rama, how do you relate?
- Then the responsibility for some is to Krsna; the responsibility of some is to the demigods?
- There (is the) idea of the unitary view that Krsna is everything, all and in all. And then at the same time that the world, there is this world of illusion which is somehow distinct from Krsna. Could you just explain this point to me?
- There are other kinds of bhaktas other than krsna-bhaktas?
- There is a very peculiar question that comes sometimes: "If Krsna knows that we were going to fall down, why didn't He save us?"
- There is also the unity of non-Krsna?
- 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's (with the affairs of Krsna and the gopis) never mention of lust or of any animal desire at all is there?
- Therefore Krsna recognizes by giving knowledge of Himself?
- They (Krsna and His associates) didn't go through any death of any sort?
- They (the so-called scientists) would say, "How can we believe Krsna?"
- They will say, "Well, how do we know that Krsna is God?"
- This Caitanya was incarnation of Krsna. Before Caitanya was who, Krsna or anyone in between?
- This earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- This mantra we chant for Krsna and Rama both, but this movement glorifies the Krsna's pastimes and not much of Rama
- To Krsna's ear, is praying louder than nonsense talk?
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- Was Krsna born, and if so, where?
- Was there any palace here of His (Lord Krsna's) parents?
- We also say that Krsna is fulfilling the desires of every living entity. So if we want to enjoy independent of Krsna, why doesn't He let us really enjoy independent of Him?
- 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 very small. One ten-thousandth part of a hair. Since we are unchangeable, does Krsna change His size to be the same size as us so that we can associate with Him when we go back to the spiritual world?
- We can also appreciate Krsna's creation in that light? For example, this is very beautiful because it is Krsna's.
- We don't deny that Krsna exists, but, well, you know... Can I see him?
- We say that Krsna is present within the spiritual, within the heart of the living entity. As a person or as an energy?
- Well, first we have to explain that Krsna has a transcendental body. If they don't understand that, then how can we explain Krsna's disappearance?
- Well, if the Vallabhas say that they only like Krsna before He was contaminated, so what is the specialty of Krsna? Everyone is uncontaminated in a young age
- What about a name meaning "all-powerful"?
- What can be said (in regards to the name of God being Krsna or Jehovah)?
- What can you enlighten us on this point, that why Krsna has given two different type of worships? One is the form worship; another is the formless worship, which He explains to Arjuna
- What does it mean in the Gita, Prabhupada, when Krsna says only the modes of material nature are acting?
- What does it mean when Krsna says "I am not in them"?
- What does it mean, "original form"?
- What does Krsna say about truth?
- What does the peacock feather mean to Krsna? Is it a symbol of love, or what it is?
- What does the word (Krsna) actually mean? Kr is the root for "making," isn't it?
- What does the word Krsna mean?
- What exactly does "Krsna" mean?
- What exists between the planet Gokula and the (indistinct) Krsna?
- What happens when he dreams of the spiritual master or Krsna?
- What He said? Avajananti ma mudhah
- What if there's some desire to make something beautiful to give to Krsna?
- What is it... misunderstand about Krsna's plenary expansion Visnu?
- What is Krsna consciousness in relation to other faiths, like, say, when you think of Krsna and you die, in a battle for Krsna or something? What if you believed in Jesus Christ and you died in battle for Jesus Christ?
- What is Krsna's purpose?
- What is Krsna?
- What is the connection then between Krsna and Siva?
- What is the difference between Jagannatha deities and Krishna Murti and why is the latter not fed and cared for as well as the former and why are Jagannathas more tolerant?
- What is the difference between Krishna and the deity?
- What is the difference in full between the Spiritual Master, Krishna, and the devotee?
- What is the relationship between Lord Krsna and Lord Jesus Christ?
- What is the relationship of the surabhi cow with Krsna?
- What is the role of Krsna in this, as the arranger of this cerebral mechanism?
- What is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- What is the word actually? "Kr" is the root for making, isn't it?
- What is this greatness, that, to know the divinity when Lord Krsna says that "Those who know that I am divine and..." Janma karma ca me divyam (BG 4.9). How... What is the real meaning of knowing it, I mean. I read it ten times
- What kind of manifestation is time, of Krsna, kala? Kala, time. How is time a feature of Krsna?
- What miracles did Krsna perform?" So your reply was so many miracles, killing Putana and so on. But that was five thousand years ago. Krsna's not here today. And people will ask, "Well we cannot see these miracles. So how can we accept Krsna?"
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What percentage of people today know about Krsna?
- What was Arjuna's relation to Krsna, I mean, as concise as you can put it?
- What was Arjuna's relationship to Krsna?
- What will happen to the souls who have not become Krsna consciousness at the end of Kali-yuga? What does Krsna do with them?
- What's the difference? I've heard terms like incarnation, expansion, and plenary expansion, like Krsna incarnates Himself, expands Himself...
- What's the relationship between Krsna and Radha? Radha is the energy of 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 chanting, you chant the name of Rama as well as Krsna. I do not see any photograph of Rama here. What is the thinking?
- When did he (Nanda Maharaja) know that He, Krsna was really the son of Devaki? I think after the... just now only
- When I pray faithfully and reverently, does Krsna hear me?
- When I'm looking at the picture, is Krsna right here?
- When Krsna appears in each of the four yugas, does each appearance of svayam bhagavan, personally He appearance?
- When Krsna came here, did He take a spiritual master too?
- When Krsna destroys demons, He does so without passion or without hatred?
- When Krsna disappeared from rasa, what they (the gopis) did?
- When Krsna doesn't come, then they are feeling separation?
- When Krsna is demonstrating work, He demonstrates in the form of Lord Visnu, not in His pastimes in Vrndavana but more in the form of Visnu, or how does He show?
- When Krsna is incarnating in His plenary incarnations like Varaha, Nrsimha... and sometimes devotees become devoted to those forms. Are there corresponding planets in Vaikuntha for those forms of incarnation? Is there a planet of Nrsimha or Nrsimha-loka?
- When Krsna is the only God in the world, the creator of the whole universe, then why the existence of Jesus Christ and Allah? Why should not only one God for all? Why Christians and Muslims are not accepting Krsna as God?
- When Krsna lifted up Govardhana Hill, nobody said that was a miracle. But when Jesus Christ made so many things, they say it's a miracle. How is that?
- 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 Krsna used to come here, was His home in Gokula at that time, or Mathura?
- When Krsna was born, who was born before Krsna?
- When one breaks the principles, can Krsna forgive him?
- When one is surrendering to Krsna, how does he discriminate between being tactful and, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, compromising in his speech?
- When they think of the savior, they're talking about the guru, the spiritual master. He's asking, is Krsna our guru?
- When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down in the material world, because we are already serving Krsna?
- When we say Krsna, are we speaking about God or an incarnation of God? How to define it?
- When we say that Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that asked him to fight, kill his own relatives and friends and not to bother about the consequences of the action. Now this statement sometimes is difficult for people of the West to understand?
- Where does it say that Visnu..., I mean Krsna, is the source of Visnu from the srutis?
- Where does Krsna fit into it? Where does Krsna fit into the yoga?
- Where is Krsna?
- Who said that (that "Before Krsna was contaminated, in His childhood, we worship that Krsna")?
- Whose disciple was Krsna?
- Why did Arjuna ask Krishna to go to His four armed form rather than His two armed form after Krishna had showed Arjuna His Visvarupa?
- Why did He (Krsna) create suffering when He could have created a permanent paradise on earth?
- Why did He (Krsna) want Arjuna to work?
- Why did Krsna have all the demigod worship put in the Vedas?... Vyasadeva put all the demigod worship in the Vedas
- Why did people in the past ages sacrifice animals, and how did Krsna put a stop to this?
- Why didn't anyone see Krsna's universal form before Arjuna? Krsna said no one has seen before Arjuna. Why is that?
- Why didn't Jesus Christ say all these things about Krsna?
- Why didn't Krsna kill everybody at the Battle of Kuruksetra?
- Why do some people want to approach Krsna in hatred?
- Why does Krsna allow us to commit mistakes and later punishes us?
- Why does Krsna expanded Himself as maya?
- Why does Krsna have an external energy?
- Why does Krsna provide the living entities with these sinful pleasures?
- Why doesn't Krsna protect us from that desire (even in the Vaikuntha, if I desire that "Why shall I serve Krsna? Why not become Krsna?" I immediately fall down)?
- Why has He (Krsna) given us that independence if in that independence we...?
- Why in the Rg Veda there is not even the name of Krsna?
- Why is it so difficult to see Krsna? Why can't each of us see Him within?
- Why is that (anything who is intimately related with Krsna, worship of that thing is better than worship of Visnu, Krsna)?
- Why is there soul and Supersoul in the body when soul is part and parcel of Krsna?
- Why Krsna created this material energy which is so miserable condition?
- Why Krsna? I want to know why (concentrate your mind on) Krsna in particular
- Why should He (Krsna) require us to go through austerities like...?
- Why should one accept this Krsna as God?
- Why should they accept Krsna as authority over Darwin authority?
- Why this trying to understand Krsna? Why not try to understand one's self? Krsna passed 5000 years ago. Now ashes are there in our hands. Why not... ?
- Why would someone take less? Why would someone choose Visnu and not Krsna if they know that Krsna is cent percent and Visnu is ninety-four percent?
- Why would you take less than Krsna? If Krsna is cent percent, why take less?
- Will Krsna not fulfill your desire (to complete the Bhagavatam)?
- Will the change in heart come about for such persons (Mayavadis) because they're somehow associated with Krsna?
- With Krsna can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead, which presents itself to man, and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- Won't Krsna feel embarrassed to stand between Radha and Rukmini at the same time? Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? It's not rasabhasa?
- Would it be possible to say that all the religions are, as it were, aspects of the personality of Krsna?
- Would you be justified in doing something that society would consider criminal, like… stealing for Krsna, or killing for Krsna... Something that is judged by, say, the US government as criminal, would be still do it if it was for Krsna?
- Would you say that Krsna is God or Krsna is love?
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- Yadava Krsna spoke with Arjuna... It was the personal God Himself or it was an incarnation, this Krsna which is in Bhagavad-gita?
- Yes, why doesn't Krsna come and do it (they want historical evidence for everything) now?
- Yesterday, you said that Krsna appreciates when a devotee accepts voluntary adversity. How do we know when we should accept this adversity?
- You also said if you decorate Krsna, make Krsna beautiful, your heart will become beautiful ?
- You choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?
- You have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana. So you are asking how this can be so?
- You have asked me if the spiritual master is ultimately Krishna
- You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krishna
- You were also telling me that Krsna is in the atom as the jiva expansion. Not as a plenary expansion, but a part of a plenary expansion?
- You were saying, minute before that the socialism, your socialism is that Krsna is your Marx, sort of... It will be my last question. What about you in that? Would you be, you are a spiritual chief. Would you be...?
- You're comparing Krsna, Buddha, Muhammad to Jesus as the same, and Guru Maharaj-ji too, another Jesus. You're saying that?
- Your teachings are based on the assumption that Sri Krsna who lived for that period of time is the perfect person. But how do you fundamentally assure that what He has said is correct? How do you reconcile the two points?