Category:Questions On... Other Religions, Religion in General
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- About religion, Swamiji. Religion is capable to stop death?
- And that is also practical (the absolute value is God. That is division. Satyam param dhimahi. That is our objective)?
- And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
- And what is your relationship with the Ba'hai faith?... The Ba'hai faith that also preach Krsna consciousness?
- And what is your relationship with, say, the Ramakrishna Mission?
- And when I have been doing some other saguna puja, another is seen always... Suppose I am doing... Sankara pure puja then I am seeing er, Devi.... Like that it is happening. Secondly, so how to go to nirguna state? That is my difficulty
- Are all religions following? There are so many sects
- Are changes visible in Hinduism in its doctrinal content, mode of individual and collective worship as a result of Hinduism's contact with the West?
- Are there Christian also, or Muslim also joining this (movement)?
- Are there different paths that one can learn to love God?
- Are there fundamental differences between, or is it simply a difference in approach between your awareness and interpretations and, for example, those of the people who are involved with Zen?
- Are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Krsna consciousness path?
- Are there other ways besides Krsna consciousness to reach that same goal? Or is that the only goal?
- Are these actually the tangible signs by which one can judge what is real religion?
- Are you saying that this (Vedic) knowledge has appeared in many forms? Does it appear also in, let's say, Christianity, in Muslim, Mohammedanism?
- Are you suggesting that every person, whether he is Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Jew or Parsi or anybody else for that matter, should accept the Hindu doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of soul?
- Are you trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
- As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes, atheist and theist, is it not advisable for all religions to come together, and what positive steps can be taken in this direction?
- Assuming for example that Hare Krsna grew to gigantic proportions as Christianity has grown, would not they (the fringe areas, who professed to be the followers of the Hare Krsna) be the difficulty as the Christian is today?
- At the beginning one, the word, and this word was God and this word was with God. So what is this word?
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- Basically, what have you to offer that is different than the Christian ethos or the Jewish ethos?
- But can God be defined? We haven't got a definition of God. I challenge you... You cannot. Intellectually, you cannot analyse things
- But do you accept the validity of other religion?
- But do you get benefits? Benefits there are but not the same (Siva is just like milk and yogurt. The yogurt is milk but it is not milk. You will not derive the benefit of milk from yogurt)?
- But do you think they (the Koran or the Bible or any other religious) are successful?
- But don't you look upon him as a religious man? Gandhi, religious man?
- But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
- But how does this differ from the Hebrew scriptures? Hebrews also say the same thing, you know, that you have fallen down from the heaven and go back...?
- But how to convince them (the Ramanuja and the Madhva)?
- But now do you not think that Christianity and Islam accept this (when he is on the platform of Brahman realization, then he becomes jubilant, prasannatma, na socati na kanksati. That life is required, Brahman realization. That is education) as well?
- But suppose the government is atheistic (the leaders cannot control nature, so why don't they accept a supreme controller? That is the defect in society)?
- But the world will never all become Krsna conscious, will they? There will always be different scriptures
- But there are in India other community of Visnu...?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- But there is no, no atheism, literate, some atheism, atheism, atheism, religious indifference, materialists exist in the towns, in the towns (in India)...?
- But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...?
- But these religions are just material. These Hindu, Christian, Muslim, they're following these things because that is simply their destiny? They don't know how to please God, so that's simply part of their happiness and distress?
- But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- But what do you see happening to (the future of) the actual world? Do you see any... You know, with Christianity and other religions? The world has... a beginning and an end
- But what is our inner things? How we know it? In our classical music, actually Lord Krsna is the main figure in all... In even Muslim classical music, they also pray Lord Krsna
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But you can come to God consciousness through a variety of paths?
- But, Guru Maharaja, if one has some original faith in Jesus Christ or Muhammad, would he...? They think they're sons of God or a messenger of God
- By preaching Krsna consciousness would you condemn other people's beliefs?
- By this (there are degrees of light), you mean that those who adopt the teachings coming from the Koran or from the Bible is lesser light than from the Gita?
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- Can a true devotee come face-to-face with God through the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Christ?
- Can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- Can one say that necessity for eating, sleeping, mating and defending is animal life? The necessity for God is advanced life?
- Can our religion bring something more than other religions?
- Can we solve political problems with this religious basis?
- Can we, can you say a bit more of that, just for the tape? You were saying that religion is obeying the supreme controller
- Can you tell us what the program is for Hindu priests or Hindu holy man, swami?
- Could you estimate how many people in India have found true spirituality through Indian religion?
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- Dharma is for the envious?
- Dharma there (sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam) means to the religious faith or duty?
- Did they (Englishmen) teach God consciousness (in India)?
- Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end?
- Do you agree with the work of the Ramakrishna Mission, Mahesh Yogi, and Divine Light Society that are working in America?
- Do you believe in the essential unity of religious paths in such a way that soon people will take to God and yoga?
- Do you believe that Hare Krsna is the only true faith?
- Do you believe that Jesus and Buddha and Krsna are manifestations of the same God?
- Do you believe that other religions have some truth to them because they all are...?
- Do you believe then that there is more than one way?
- Do you claim then that your way of loving God is the way to love God?
- Do you consider that your movement is basically more of an educational movement than a religious movement?
- Do you envisage or envision a different role for Hinduism in the Western countries where the influence of other great religions has been felt for centuries?
- Do you equate then the impersonalists and the Mayavadis? Are they the same?
- Do you feel, sir, that it (education about God) is lacking only here in the United States?
- Do you have an opinion on the Hebrew scripture, the Kabbalah?
- Do you have anything comparable to bishops and the hierarchy of the Christian faith and of other major faiths?
- Do you know the Sufis are Muslims (indistinct)?
- Do you mean to say that this (transcendence) is just a contemplative thing that doesn't really have a active influence upon the society to change the different...?
- Do you think if a person is to be a real believer in God he has to also worship Krsna or speak of Him?
- Do you think if all men, let's say, all the religions could try to come together...?
- Do you think it is necessary for India to eschew religion?
- Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group?
- Do you think that one of the attractions of Krsna consciousness is the rather exotic, Hindu, unusual customs in the West. These customs are unusual in the West and they have a sort of exotic appeal for young people?
- Do you think that the Hare Krsna chant could serve as an intermediary to link the religious tendencies of, both of Christianity and Muslim religions?
- Do you think that the message of Krsna consciousness or Krsna Caitanya is very different from the message of realizing God which is promulgated in other religions, for instance the Saiva religion or...?
- Do you think that this concept (God means Supreme Controller) is the special insight of the Vedic?
- Do you think the deep-rooted Indian culture and religion will ever have a sort of a re-creation, or will it continue?
- Do you think the India-originated religion is, serves its particular purpose in the Western society? I mean, does, is it of particular value in a rather technological society, the Hindu tradition?
- Do you think the same problem is here in India as in other countries (and now in India another danger is that so many rascals, they are declaring, "I am God." And this India, people have become so fallen down, they accept all these rascals as God)?
- Do you think there is a necessity to open a ministry of religion?
- Do you think transcendental meditation is beginning to help...?
- Do you think your movement is the only way to come to know God?
- Do you think, in your opinion, mayavada was a necessity to undo all the bad effect of the degenerated Buddhism? This followed some three, four or seven hundred years of after Gautama Buddha
- Does belief in any scripture whatsoever, such as the Bible or Koran...? Does belief in any scripture lead to salvation?
- Does he (Lord Buddha) say so (He's personally Krsna), or you...?
- Does it do atheists any good to chant your verses if they only want to be happy through chanting them?
- Does it matter what religion you believe? Does it matter which religion you believe? Would it matter if one was a devotee of Hare Krsna...?
- Does religion or God, can give you eternal life?
- Does that mean that you assume or propose that the world would all become one in one religion?
- Does that mean to say that you can't live a happy life without being religious?
- Don't you think that all the other chantings like in the Muslim religion and the Buddhist religion and the Japanese religion, their chantings, they are all the same thing?
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- Few scientists may be like that. That does not mean all scientists are like that. We are here. Half a dozen of us are scientists, aren't we here? How can I (Dr. Patel) not believe in God?
- From what I've seen in your writings - that there's an underlying truth behind all religion. Would you agree with that?
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- Have Muslims taken to this movement?
- Have you studied other religions?
- 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?
- How can this practically be applied to American society, this idea of trusting God? How would things change?
- How come in the locational, archaeological and ontological records, Krsna consciousness is not mentioned by other religions?
- How do you apply the concept of consciousness and life to a God conceived of in the terms like this image here?
- How does one show such an impersonalist with absolute proof logically? I was told Srila Bhaktivinoda has such a proof
- How has India improved by independence? What is the improvement? They are more godless than ever
- How is that there are different types of religion in the world?
- How is your path or your way different from (or) better than others?… It is the only way?
- How many different paths are there for self-realization?
- How will the judgement be rendered (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- How your preaching differs from various acaryas? Say, Sankara or Vallabha or Ramanuja?
- Hussein is his son. Ali is the cousin and the son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed. But can they feel the grace of Krsna within this framework?
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- I didn't quite understand why it was necessary that we have religion. You said that so that we can be different to cats and dogs?
- I don't call myself first-class, second-class, third-class. As you said, there are no first-class men, second-class men. But then how, apart from making them (my children) first class that they should follow the religious...?
- I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
- I have seen in other mathas, that present before God, it is the proper way to redress our sins. Is this correct? If not, will we not suffer for our sins committed here on earth, or after...?
- 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 you've answered this question, but he wants to know how will Krsna consciousness affect all the religions and politics of the world at this time?
- I understand that this is an extension of Hindu religion. Is that not correct? No, it's not. Does it have any basic tenets of the Hindu religion?
- I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharma?
- I would like perhaps to hear some of your thoughts on the area of religious experience, God consciousness, how do you achieve that?
- I've read about Hubbard's Scientology and a lot of the writings that Hubbard writes sound a lot like the theory of Hare Krsna. Is there any parallel at all between the two, or have you taken any opinion on side, both your cases?
- If God is known by many different names, though, is it not possible, then, to know God then in many different ways, in many different traditions?
- If I am not mistaken, I think I heard that Krsna reestablished religion, reestablished. Now who established before Krsna?
- If I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific basis… So where does religion come into it at all?
- If I understand you then correctly, sir, you would say that the emphasis should be returned to the religious aspects?
- If the essence of religion is to know God, how does He reveal Himself to you?
- If the highest reality is Purusottama and Purusottama is manifested in many different ways in the world, can people come to Purusottama through various paths?
- If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?
- If we agree with Buddhist consciousness?
- If we could take something which I believe you feel very strongly about, and that's some of the other Eastern cults and gurus… Can you explain to me why it is that...?
- If you follow the essence of any religion, is that the law of God?
- If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda Krsna, what of those people who identify love with the sabda Allah?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that those who are different modes of nature, they have different types of charity and different types of religion. So does this mean religions that are already established in the Vedas or...?
- 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 Vedic culture, are people allowed to follow any other belief? In a society where there is Krsna conscious king or president, say someone doesn't want to be a devotee. What happens to him?
- In what way did you think, that the teaching of the love of God which you are doing, is different and perhaps better than the teachings of which already were being conducted in this country and have been conducted in the Western world for centuries?
- In your introduction to the Bhagavad-gita you refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianism and other religious faiths as sectarian designations, but isn't Krsna consciousness just another kind of designation in order not to call it Krsna-ism, another ism?
- Is it possible (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right)?
- Is it possible for one to engage himself in bhakti-yoga without rendering service to Krsna? Let's say someone who is worshiping Lord Buddha or Lord Jesus
- Is it possible to achieve liberation with other religious...?
- Is it possible to find Krsna in the Christian tradition or in Islam?
- Is it, though? (laughter) (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right? - Is it possible? - Yes, if it is possible)
- Is Krsna consciousness connected with any other religion? Does it derive from Hinduism or Buddhism?
- Is Krsna consciousness the only method?
- Is religion a practical knowledge?
- Is that (he (Buddha) simply asked that you finish this material desire) not misleading?
- Is the Krsna consciousness belief or philosophy compatible with the Hindu religion?
- Is there any difference between...(Ramakrishna Society and ISKCON)?
- Is there any direct line of division between that which you would call knowledge and that what you call religion?
- Is there any philosophy, doctrine, creed, or, for that matter, ritual that can bring God down to the point of a human thought?
- Is there any reason why you teach your followers the Bhagavad-gita rather than the Bible?
- Is there anyone actually outside of sanatana-dharma then?
- Is there conflict with other Eastern religions, and if so, how far is this spread?
- Is there some mention not to eat many animals but eat one...?
- Is this (God's name the total summarization - "all-attractive.") the same name that is spoken of in the Bible where it says "the word of God"?
- Is this Hindu faith?
- Is your way the only way?
- It is possible to attain that affection of love for God... without taking part in this Krsna consciousness movement?
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- Married under what law? Under what religion? Under what religious law?
- May I know the distinction between Krsna consciousness and supramental consciousness described by Sri Aurobindo?
- Must one renounce his present religion?
- My master, what's your opinion on the Ramakrishna Mission? We have a Ramakrishna Mission in Chicago
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- One of the things you say is that "Religion without a rational basis is just sentiment." Can you explain that to us, and the converse of it, which...?
- One time you were explaining that Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was speaking with the Kazi, He convinced him about that the Koran does not actually advocate meat-eating
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- People are following very strictly, how can we preach to them? Some of those people who are following these religions very strictly, how do we preach to them, those people?
- People have said, "Well, why should we stay with religion? These religious leaders themselves are eating meat, they have prostitution, they are cheating the people, taking their money, living very nicely..."?
- Prabhupada, do you think that the ISKCON will, this Krsna consciousness will become a major religion in any country?
- Prabhupada, for one who worships Lord Buddha, is there a planet for him to go to?
- Prabhupada, if spiritual life and Krsna are stronger than maya, then how is it that religion was ever overcome to the extent it is now? In Kali-yuga it's so much neglected... How is it that maya got such a stronghold?
- Prabhupada, is this philosophy like karma-mimamsa which is described in the Krsna book? Is this the same principle, where they feel that simply by their endeavor things will come, without the sanction of God? Is this karma-mimamsa?
- Prabhupada? Buddha was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the incarnation of Krsna, right? Then why he has preached the impersonal form of God?
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- Sanatana is eternal. It is eternal religion. It is the religion of the soul and not of the body, dies. Soul is eternal, so religion is eternal. I am right, sir?
- 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?
- She would like to know if our religion can bring something more than the other religions
- Should we want to unite the world, or should we want to unite ourselves with Krsna?
- Since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Sir, what is your idea about people following other religions?
- So can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- So how can it be that the karmi, who is after some material benefit, if he approaches Krsna, he can be better off than the jnani?
- So the people will behave favorably, simply by performing these activities (eat peacefully, sleep peacefully and sense gratification peacefully and, making the mind peaceful, inquire about the Supreme Absolute)?
- So these scriptures have been in existence since we have, is what you're saying. What about other scriptures, other religions have got their scriptures. Do you believe, do you accept them?
- So they will not make some objection if they think we are thinking we have come to preach Hinduism in a Buddhist country?
- So who shall decide what the criteria is, to test (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- Somebody asked me this question, "Swamiji, if a person is moral and dutiful and benevolent, all the good qualifications, so what is the use of worshiping God?"
- Someone in material consciousness cannot understand God? So then what of all these religions, for example, Muslim and Christian religion?
- Sometimes people ask, "If I surrender to God, give everything to God, then how will the state go on, how will the work, the factories, how would all that go on?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Sikhism there was Guru Nanak and Guru Granth Sahib. Is that actually a real scripture, and was Guru Nanak actually a devotee? Or is that not correct?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Sikh-dharma they say to chant the holy names of God, and so far I haven't encountered the name "Krsna" in the scriptures. I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharm?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the United States' constitution there is a bill of rights that says that any religion can be practiced. Therefore anything goes, and people become atheistic?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there some worship of God in the animal kingdom?
- Srila Prabhupada, we don't know whether to be diplomatic towards these other so-called religious movements or whether to simply expose the philosophy which they are putting forward?
- Srila Prabhupada, when we are preaching to Christian people or to Muslim people, is there advantage in being familiar with their scriptures or simply Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Srila Prabhupada, why are there so many pseudo religions then?
- Swami, did you come across these Brahma-kumaris?
- Swami, what about those who practice one of the other religions in...?
- Swamiji, are the Hindus essentially vegetarian in the sense of the Seventh Day Adventist...?
- Swamiji, throughout the world the kind of religion that is practiced hasn't seemed to help to solve the problems. Do you think a movement of this type could solve the problem?
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- That man yesterday wanted to know if we collaborated with other groups?
- The Brahmavadis have some possibility of advancement?
- The idea (that everything belongs to God) has been there for thousands of years, until this idea is accepted and put into practice the way you said, what is to be done in the interim period? Because lot of people are dying in misery
- The question in one sense is not whether it's Christian or Saivite or Vaisnavite but whether it is directed to a knowledge of God, a devotion to God or not. But you would feel that there, what, it is easier to reach that goal by worshiping Krsna?
- The question is, why some people are feeling a necessity for God?
- The Rama-Krishna Mission says that (because everything is God, so whatever I take, that is God worship)?
- The real question between this statement of Mr. Professor and you is that what is religion and what is science? Unless the nature of science and religion defined...
- Their (Transcendental Meditation) philosophy is that "If you continue meditating, one day automatically you'll give up these things. So why do it prematurely?"
- Then why do they (the Vallabhas) imitate?
- Then why do they mingle (followers of pseudo-religion) at all? Why do they even get involved?
- Theology or Theosophy?
- Theoretically yes, but practically, do you think they (the Buddhists) are atheistic, practically?
- There are different or many spiritual movements in the world. How can I know which one is right for me?
- There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness? Other way?
- There are many religions that speak of the light. How can we know we are actually facing the real light?
- There are many religious movements, how does Krsna consciousness take priority?
- There are many ways by which to know God, is it not?
- There is a question I have wanted to ask for many years now. The Vedic culture and the Islamic culture have many similarities
- There is no question of belief. The question is whether, what is the difference between religion and science?
- There must have been an element, though, of dissatisfaction then on your part, with the way God was being... Godhead was being professed in this part of the world before you came. Otherwise there would have been no sense in you coming here?
- Therefore (There is no "all religion." There is only one religion. One who deviates, he creates another religion. Religion means there is God and we should be obedient to God. This is religion) it is not necessary to go by one's special path?
- These Bible and Koran, how did they get here? They were just inventions or what?
- They argue that all paths lead to Krsna. So why is one better than another?
- They do not believe in God, the Russians?
- They have accepted some of these gymnastic people as their guru. So they say, "Oh, our guruji is here. We have to go see our guruji," this, that. So how should we speak to them or how should we preach to them?
- They have their own god, who is, they made a unique system, and someone else says, "No, we have our own unique system." Someone else says, "No, all those three systems we do not agree with." What's going to happen in that thing?
- They think if they can make very palatable dishes, what is the need for God?
- This divisions (of varnasrama) only in Hindus? Mohammedans also accept this divisions?
- This Mayavadi philosophy, is this...?
- Trivikrama Svami went to their monastery in Laguna Beach. So they were serving meat. Trivikrama said, "Why do you eat meat?" And they said, "That doesn't matter. What does it matter what you eat ?"
- Trust means to depend completely upon God?
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- 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 can also listen to the Mayavadis and then defeat them like that?
- Well, how can a person not believe (in God)?
- Well, then why a conference with men of other religions?
- Well, why is it, can I ask, perhaps, that the Krsna movement is the natural way of living against, say, other religions, other faiths?
- What about (because Krsna is Bhagavan. Bhakti means our transaction with Bhagavan) those who would worship Siva?
- What about a cow?... So they say like that (So if you kill one animal, camel, it is equal to fifty goats)?
- What about certain other traditions; Ishnamadeva(?), Tukarama, some of the poet saints of Maharastra. Where...?
- What about jnana-yogis?
- What about other religion?
- What about other religions such as Christianity and...?
- What about other religions?
- What about say a Buddhist who practices ahimsa... (in a Krsna conscious country, would he be chastised)?
- What about the war between America and Germany, for instance? Neither one of them were God conscious
- What about these men who perform great austerities, lash their bodies, starve, and...?
- What about these people that perform so-called bhakti-yoga but their aim is to merge?
- What about these rascals like Sai Baba? They use Krsna's philosophy, and then they twist it in such a way that it becomes Mayavada
- What about this Guru Grantha Saheb.(?) The philosophy which Guru Grantha Saheb has, what is that about?
- What are the big differences (with some of the other Eastern cults and gurus) that you seem to be...?
- 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 class of impersonalists are worshiping the universal form?
- What do they (Ramakrishna followers) do, Srila Prabhupada?
- What do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- What do you feel is the greatest order of God?
- What do you or the Krsna consciousness movement have to say to me that is different from the essence of any of the major religions of the world, say, Christianity?
- What do you think about Hebrew religion?
- What do you think of young people who follow the Divine Light Movement?... Guru Maharaji
- What does the Hare Krsna movement offer that other religions do not?
- What does the name Jehovah mean?
- What does theology say?
- What does your interpretation, or how does it differ in principle from the basic Jewish-Christian ethic of the Ten Commandments?
- What happens in your temples. Do you have services like other religions?
- What is it that Krsna consciousness has that offers people so much more than other religions do?
- What is sahajiya?
- What is that thing that enables them (the Brahmavadis) to advance?
- What is the difference between a Mayavadi philosopher and a Krishna Conscious person?
- What is the difference between an impersonalist and a Mayavadi?
- What is the God that these other religions believe in?
- What is the Krsna conscious outlook on other world religions?
- What is the real meaning of religion?
- What is the real relationship between Krsna consciousness and other religions? Is it that God has many names and...?
- What is the role of rituals in religion? Are they to be discouraged as it is being advocated by some reformists or are they to be encouraged? If so, in what form? What is the role of rituals in religion?
- What is the speciality of Vedic injunction compared to Hebrew scriptures?
- What is the use of practice, if you practice or you don't practice you still get the same result?
- What is the value of the transcendence?
- What is unique about Krsna consciousness that separates it from other religions?
- What is your idea about the secularism preached by our government of India and the policy of secularism? What do they mean by that? That means they say that there is no place for religion
- What is your opinion of yoga and Zen? Do you incorporate any of their principles? Such as meditation for example?
- What is your view? Are there other paths to spirit consciousness? There are but not very what?... Not very good?
- What kind of a sect are you?
- What percentage of people today know about Krsna?
- What was the conclusion of Sankaracarya?
- What's your view of Judaism and Christianity?
- 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 there's talk of this religion of Krsna. Is it before Christ or more?... the question of religion, did it come before Christ or before Buddha?
- When they say there is no God, sometimes we say, "How do you know?"
- When they think of the savior, they're talking about the guru, the spiritual master. He's asking, is Krsna our guru?
- When you become Krsna conscious, does it mean you come into the chapel, or can you lead the sort of life that we lead and still...?
- Which religion (I am sex life which is not contrary to religious principles), which religious principle?
- Who determines the regulative principles of religion that people should follow?
- Who said that (that "Before Krsna was contaminated, in His childhood, we worship that Krsna")?
- Who's got the gold?… Who has the gold?
- Why all the present religions and spiritual systems came into existence, contradicting each other when humanity is meant to follow only one religion?
- Why do we have to think of God? Why do we have to forget about the material world?
- Why do you feel that the younger people today are turning more and more toward the eastern-oriented religions?
- Why have all the present religions and spiritual systems come into existence, contradicting each other when humanity is meant to follow only one religion?
- Why is it that the younger people or people in general, are disenchanted, are trying to go towards the eastern-oriented religion if their aim or premise is the same as the western?
- Why not (we have no relationship. We don't accept them (the Ramakrishna Mission) as any authority)?
- Why should one pray to God?
- Why was it (Hindu-Muslim unity) the programs failed?
- Why, instead of going, suppose, to South Africa where the majority, the great majority, are believers, you don't go to Japan?
- With due respect, I want to know what is the line of demarcation between science and religion?
- Without religious, scientific, practical God consciousness, how can there be a civilization? How can anyone know that there's a difference between right and wrong or morality unless there is God consciousness?
- Worshiping Visnu is also material?
- Would it be possible to say that all the religions are, as it were, aspects of the personality of Krsna?
- Would it matter if I worship any other? Would it matter whether I worship Krsna or Siva or Christ or Buddha? Would it matter?
- Would you explain something of the religious experience of God consciousness?
- Would you say that the lawyer can do good whether or not he believes in God?
- Wouldn't that sort of peace be a precursor to a return to religion? Must we not first have peace?
- Wow. Just like "No dogs allowed." Are you serious about that (you can have signboard: "No Mayavadis visit here"), Srila Prabhupada?
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- Yes, but how can a psychologist judge a religion? That's not his field. They have to bring in scholars whose field is religion
- Yet you say that there are several processes for knowing God. Is that right? That are written? And that only one can be used now?
- You can love God and be near God and train to be a medical man. Why don't you let some of your boys be trained to be medical men? Why do you say no?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You started this explanation by saying, "But who will take it?" So is this to say that this religion that you're speaking of is not trying to be made acceptable to the masses, or is it only for those who will take it?
- You talk about different yogas reaching different platforms, like one the twenty-fifth, one the fiftieth, and one the eightieth. Does each one really reach the same point?
- You talk about the service of Lord Krsna. How does service of our fellow man come in?
- You think that men of God are a minority?
- You were saying Lord Buddha gave impetus to Buddhism by converting the Emperor Ashoka. What is...?
- You're comparing Krsna, Buddha, Muhammad to Jesus as the same, and Guru Maharaj-ji too, another Jesus. You're saying that?
- You're not supposed to ask from God anything for yourself. So you can ask from God maybe things to help improve your consciousness?
- You've heard of the Dalai Lama? Well, his position would be the same as yours. Wouldn't it? In religion?
- Your Divine Grace, since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?