Category:Questions On... Process of Krsna Consciousness - Bhakti-yoga
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- All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?
- All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?
- And a devotee is acting, but he's not getting any mental impression? From his activities?
- And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?
- And bhakti... (what is meant by bhakti-yoga?)?
- And if everybody became Krsna conscious?
- And is everybody able to take the nine processes?
- And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?
- And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?
- And what form does that direction take (the direction from Krsna)?
- And what is your relationship with the Ba'hai faith?... The Ba'hai faith that also preach Krsna consciousness?
- And what will it profit us if we get to know about Him (Krsna)?
- And you are sure this is the truth?
- And your actions are perfect actions (we are giving knowledge from Bhagavad-gita. This is perfect knowledge. You take it; you become perfect)?
- Any activities in Krsna consciousness... Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Are human beings the only creations that can have Krsna consciousness?
- Are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- 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 we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are we not training all classes of men? In Krsna consciousness...?
- Are we to take Krsna conscious dreams seriously or some illusion?
- Are you referring to self-realization when you mentioned that Krsna consciousness? Are you referring to self-realization, cosmic consciousness?
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
- At what stage could one say that a person is Krsna conscious? There must be a beginning stage...
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- Besides the chanting Hare Krsna and arousing this Krsna consciousness in the people, what else are you doing to establish the way...?
- Bhakti is really a process of decontaminating the mind?
- Brahman realization for the devotee in the beginning is just that he realizes his constitutional position as servant of Krsna?
- Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
- But does he (the pure devotee) focus his mind upon the two-armed...?
- But for happiness, or ananda, isn't bhakti essential, love, or ananda?
- But how can that (real process is devotion) be scientifically presented? How can we accept that scientifically?
- But how many of them (people in India) practice it (Krsna consciousness)?
- But if they're committing so many sinful activities, murdering their father and like this, then how will they get to that stage of being able to approach Krsna consciousness?
- But in our Krsna consciousness philosophy the ideas are not to be re-evaluated. Aren't they absolute, the philosophy of Krsna consciousness?
- But is that correct (in any position, if you worship Krsna, then it is all right)?
- But isn't the bhajana that you do for concentration?
- But sometimes the impersonalists, they say, Prabhupada, that this Krsna consciousness is just the beginning platform, that after Krsna consciousness then one can come to impersonal realization
- But then what is the stimulus? Why will they... (Krsna says, "Anyone who comes to Me, back to home, back to Godhead, he does not come again to this material world which is full of misery")?
- But what about people that are never exposed to Krsna consciousness?
- But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
- By details (in the beginning don't talk of these details) do you mean the rules and regulations?
- By elaborate you mean effective, is that? You mean effective by elaborate? I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate (well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate)?
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- Can a father impose on a child, something which he does not believe himself?
- Can a person become Krsna conscious only by renouncing, or can he do both, continue his life and also become Krsna conscious?
- Can a woman reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna?
- Can hatha-yoga hinder or help Krsna consciousness?
- Can one be in spiritual life if they're not worshiping the Deity?
- Can the Janata explosion be regarded as a division of Krsna consciousness or similar consciousness?
- Can we become Krsna consciousness right now?
- Can you become aware of this without Krsna consciousness (when one understands that this big machine (the body) is useless without the pilot (the soul))?
- Can you explain to me, then, perhaps finally, just some of the stages you go through in this spiritual life. Sort of, from somebody being a new devotee to Hare Krsna, what are the mental or the spiritual stages you go through?
- Can you make a child Krsna conscious if you yourself don't believe in Krsna consciousness?
- Can you tell me how your teaching relates to the Bible, to the Christian teaching?
- Can you tell me what is Krsna consciousness?
- Can you tell me what you believe, what is the philosophy of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Can you tell us a little bit about Krsna consciousness, what it does mean?
- Chanting His names, surrendering to Him, feeling love for Him, doing service. Is that not or would that not take one person to...?
- Chanting is devotional service?
- Christ consciousness and Krsna consciousness, the words are so similar. Please combine the words, explain how the words came to us
- Could you speak to us on giving thanks to the Lord?
- Could you tell me about the Hare Krsna mantra because it's so important to Krsna consciousness
- Could you think of yourself? And when you think, you are thinking of Krsna?
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- Did you mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out? The dormant Krsna consciousness, is that...
- Did you say that having a family necessarily interferes with Krsna consciousness?
- Do I have to join your movement to be happy? Can I just take Krsna consciousness outside your movement?
- Do I understand that the children in your school in Texas, that they're brought up in what you consider spiritual consciousness...?
- Do many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- Do the liberated souls also seek after this Krsna consciousness? Those who have become free
- Do these men get trained in mystic prayer, contemplation?
- Do we ever personally contact Krsna in Krsna consciousness?
- Do we have to liberate ourselves from karma in order to achieve Krsna?
- Do we take these births in a human form all the time, or perhaps do we take a birth in perhaps an ant or a rat or a dog, or will it always be in the human form if we believe in Krsna consciousness now?
- Do you believe that Hare Krsna is the only true faith?
- Do you consider that this kind of practice or the practicing this kind of culture is regimentated? A person has to come in and spend sometimes in the temple, and...?
- Do you find a place for romantic love within...?
- Do you mean every, the whole of India is Krsna conscious?
- Do you practice meditation in your center?
- Do you think that drugs would help attain the Krsna consciousness?
- 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 some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world?
- Do you think there's a difference between the various peoples of the world? In other words, do you think that Indians as opposed to Europeans have more of a tendency or are more likely to adhere to the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you use the Judeo-Christian scriptures at all in your work?
- Do you worship to a person or what? To his doctrines or...?
- Does a devotee lose some of his individuality in that...?
- Does all desire ultimately have to go, including the desire to attain Krsna consciousness?
- Does any physical change take place in your body when you become Krsna conscious?
- Does devotion come before wakefulness, or does wakefulness come before devotion?
- Does faith develop from accepting (bhakti)?
- Does it (just like these boys they are after Krsna's service) mean that we should leave the work and we should not work and...?
- Does it matter how long it might take you? Can you become first-class men soon, within five years?
- Does it matter what the specific thing is, like not killing a cow or like chanting or are there many specific things that people can do for love of God and for discipline that will serve the same purpose?
- Does Krsna consciousness make you aware of this, though (actually knowledge begins from that point, that "I am not this body." Just like a big 747 plane is running on, but there is the intelligent pilot)?
- Does one function better in society as a result of affiliation with Krsna consciousness?
- Does that also apply to reading the words of a pure devotee (even a moment's association with a pure devotee - all success)? Even a little association with your books has the same effect?
- Does that mean difficult to understand or difficult to practice?
- Does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- Does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- Does the method include meditation? What... How do you go about this process?
- Does this mean that that rasa (relationship with Krsna as lover) is superior or better than the other rasas?
- Does this take a whole lifetime to learn (process by which you can see the other world)?
- Does your method include meditation, austerity of various sorts in addition to no alcohol, no drugs?
- Don't you think that by denying raja and jnana and some of the other yogas that you're denying the infinite aspect of mankind? Don't you think that by asserting bhakti-yoga as the only way that you're saying that...?
- Don't you think that perhaps bhakti-yoga isn't the way for everyone?
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- Especially Indian people, you know, they say, "Well, if I surrender to Krsna, who will feed me?"... But because in India people know that they should surrender to Krsna, no?
- Even a tulasi dala and a little water is not necessary?
- Even good literature sanga is also sat-sanga, is it not?
- Everyone is born with this devotional spirit?
- Everything is Krsna's. How can you give anything? Even a leaf?
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- Finally Swamiji, what is the relevance of Krsna consciousness in our modern society?
- First we have to believe it, and then we can see it?
- Follow Krsna consciousness very strictly and very seriously like, say, for the rest of our lives, is there a chance that we'll be able to see Radha and Krsna in this life?
- 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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- Going back to this sense question, where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?
- 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...
- Guruji, according to the bhakti-yoga, a person starting at least in the elementary way of bhakti-yoga...?
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- Has everyone the potential to accept Krsna?
- He said one thing is to understand theoretically the knowledge, and the other is to practice it. What is the method for...?
- He says he takes Christianity as Krsna consciousness. What do you say?
- He says if we practice Krsna consciousness and develop a spiritual body, is there also a... Which spirit animates the spiritual body?
- He says you must have in your teachings some higher knowledge which will permit everyone to do away with this nationalism, to do away with this false ego, and this pride. What is that knowledge?
- He says, "Does this Krsna consciousness message apply as well to the outcastes?"
- He still wants to go on with the same question he asked before: If we are content just to purify ourselves or if we also want to help the society?
- He wants to know how in the beginning, when we are starting to engage in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to God, can you develop enthusiasm and sincerity
- He wants to know what the doctrine of Krsna consciousness is
- He would like to become Krsna conscious, only wants to know if you believe in God?
- He's asking a question, Srila Prabhupada: isn't it important to mold the activities of ourselves and also the children in coming to this movement; to mold them that so that we can become Krsna conscious?
- He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
- He's asking if this religion is a matter of reason or is it a matter of feeling?
- He's asking, "Everyone in India (is Krsna conscious)?"
- He's saying did you think of these things yourself, to chant on the beads and follow the program in the morning, have you made these up yourself?... Who originated those steps?
- How about the one who picks up and he doesn't find the owner of the coins but he offers to Krsna?
- How are we to determine how much of our endeavor should be for our own personal progress?
- How can a person with all material desires develop desire to love Krsna?
- How can Catholic people, without rejecting their own religion, take to Krsna consciousness?
- How can I apply that (Krsna consciousness) in my factory?
- How can I forget about myself so I can concentrate on other more important things?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can I know if I wasn't Krsna conscious in my last life?... Could I have been in my last life?
- How can one serve Krsna in daily life?
- How can one strengthen the spiritual will to act plain and live the spiritual life?
- How can the purification process, Prabhupada, be carried through the average life, twenty-four hours a day?
- How can the world survive when people forget their karma and immerse themselves in Krsna consciousness? Won't it lead to inaction and a stand-still condition?
- How can we get this perfect knowledge and how can we practice it if we're like prisoners?
- How can we get to Krsna? How do you get to Krsna?
- How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness?
- How can we perfectly follow only what Krsna has said?
- How can we prove Krsna scientifically?
- How can you follow it (try to understand Krsna and go back to home, back to Godhead) if you've never been exposed to Krsna?
- How can you get back to Godhead...?
- How can you separate out economics, politics...?
- How can you use something in Krsna's service? What is the process to use things in Krsna's service?
- How could he use that for Krsna's service if he's expert in mathematics?
- How did Krsna consciousness develop?
- 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 I serve the servants of the gopis?
- How do we develop devotion for service, desire for service?
- How do we render perfect service to Krsna?
- How do we.... What do we do during the day? What are our activities?
- How do you agree to this (to act according to the whims of Krsna)?
- How do you awake that consciousness?
- How do you call devotion to the Lord?
- How do you develop a service attitude in Krsna consciousness?
- How do you develop the strength to keep chanting even when maya is making you so attracted?
- How do you feel about self-expression, art, as a path back to Godhead?
- How do you feel the modern world (have received Krsna consciousness)? What's your feeling?
- How do you get the strength to follow the rules and regulations?
- How do you know how to follow the footsteps of the mahajanas?
- How do you know when he's attained to Krsna consciousness?
- How do you know whether you're using it for Krsna or not?
- How do you teach Krsna consciousness to a five year old who is only a children? What it means to be a teacher?
- How does Krsna consciousness differ from samadhi?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to Advaita philosophy?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to the Hindu religion? Because that is also based on the Bhagavad-gita
- How does one become strong?
- How does one feel called toward Krsna conscious? What demands are made upon him? How does he come into the frame of mind where he can accept Krsna consciousness?
- How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krsna or not?
- How does one practice to keep the mind from being restless?
- How does one surrender to Krsna?
- How does our philosophy define mind and intelligence?
- How does say that in your process, anybody has been made happy?
- How does the devotee go about practicing this Krsna consciousness when he's asleep?
- How does worship of Visnu solve social problems? Just like in Calcutta there are more social problems than practically anywhere
- How far the study of the scriptures helps us in being Krsna conscious?
- How in the Kali-yuga advancing can everyone become Krsna conscious?
- How is that (if you pour water on the root of the tree, the service reaches everywhere) manifesting?
- How is that madness transferred to Krsna?
- How is your path or your way different from (or) better than others?… It is the only way?
- How long does it take (to learn about God)? Well, can we do it? And what happens to me then?
- How long does it take for anyone to achieve perfection? How many stages one must go through, or how many years, how many centuries?
- How long has Krsna consciousness been in India, or were you...?
- How long this movement has been started?
- How may a devotee arrive to this particular form (is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only)?
- How this movement has helped in solving any specific issue, any special problem?
- How to attain this Krsna consciousness and to maintain it?
- How to know it (what Krsna wants)?
- How to please Krishna?
- How we can satisfy God?
- How would we define the word responsibility in Krsna consciousness?
- How would you describe that platform (the difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working (many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world))?
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- I believe, obviously, you would have ways, methods of becoming God conscious, Krsna conscious. What...? Sort of a meditation? Chanting? Or...?
- 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 don't understand. I don't see how man in one life can achieve a level of consciousness that he could sit with Krsna. Don't you have to go through a change, I mean, according to what you do in your life?
- I have already answered the most important question. How to please Krishna?
- I remember over five years ago you telling me about, "If you read the first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam, you become fully Krsna conscious." Would you kindly tell me what does it mean to be fully Krsna conscious?
- 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 Hare Krsna is a scientific movement. Do you think that there is a scientific explanation for the way in which personal enlightenment by simply chanting Hare Krsna?
- 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 understand what you're saying. You're saying you cannot do practices and commit sin, right?
- I want to ask you how can we possibly know that one has attained Krsna consciousness
- I want to know whether the devotion of Hanuman was bhakti-yoga
- I was wondering how Krsna consciousness would relate to this cosmic consciousness
- I would like perhaps to hear some of your thoughts on the area of religious experience, God consciousness, how do you achieve that?
- I would like to know how this movement started, what gave you the idea. What is the background? And why it was called the Krsna consciousness movement? Is it a return to something very fundamental?
- I would like to know if the teachings of Krsna can be an assistance to an individual, who is interested in healing on a mass basis vibrations?
- I'd like to know how physical things that are done, as chanting or dancing or... If you consider, as having any importance. How do these physical things affect our spiritual understanding?
- I've been told then that we can have no more karmic reactions from our actions
- 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 a devotee has no appreciation for God but he has a little appreciation for pure devotee, than what kind of devotee is this?
- If a man feels empty, what he can offer?
- If a person is married and they are interested in entering into Hare Krsna, Krsna consciousness, can they reach the ultimate?
- 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 all that is required is chanting Hare Krsna, why do we have the pictures and the clothes and the instruments and the altar and Lord Jagannatha?
- If at this platform we are not yet..., we are still desiring to depart from Krsna's service and enjoy, then we are not, we have not yet tasted devotional service, what is it that we have tasted that is keeping us temporarily connected to Krsna?
- If by purifying ourselves we feel our relationship that we have with the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- If Christ comes back, what will be the position of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His Krsna consciousness movement?
- If everyone became Krsna conscious, then how would the world go on?
- If everyone becomes Krsna conscious, then how will they make a living?
- If he is not conscious, how can he do work for Him (Krsna)?
- If I come in contact with Krsna movement now, will that in my next life get me a human body?
- If I serve the Lord, do I lose that little bit of freedom?
- If I understood you, I think you said that this approach, that you feel that it's appropriate to you because people are lax in their approach to spiritual problems
- If in the Vaikunthas ecstatic love between Lord Narayana and His devotees and Lord Krishna Consciousness and His devotees on Krishna Loka is qualitatively the same, then what is the advantage of following the path of Krishna Consciousness...
- If Krsna is the supreme consciousness, then why isn't anything we do or anyone we follow following or doing Krsna consciousness?
- If maya takes a hold on one, what is the quickest way to go back to Krsna?
- If one can achieve Krsna consciousness outside the temple?
- If one has difficulty becoming Krsna consciousness, is that suffering?
- If one is not complete in their Krsna consciousness then what will happen?
- If one isn't eager, how can he become eager, Srila Prabhupada?
- If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
- If our chanting is a form of prayer?
- If somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
- If someone accepts his dependence on God, then what is the second step?
- If someone is doing some service which involves business, is he thinking of Krsna when he's thinking of that service?
- If the activities is going on with the laws of nature, then how do you become Krsna consciousness?
- If the Mayavadi accepts the principle that bhakti is good, but at the end he throws it away, will he have a change of heart?
- If the science is available to everyone without impediment, then there must be the proper teacher, isn't it?
- If there could be a Krsna conscious society, would this mean to stop the industry and technology?
- If we all do this, will that, for example, remove the problems that we do… (why not introduce, that every home, every factory, every community, every place, they should sit down at least for half an hour and chant the holy name of the Lord)?
- If we are acting, like preparing offerings for Krsna by our work, but while we are doing this work our mind is not engaged in Krsna all the time, thinking about Krsna all the time, we fall into maya, but we're still doing the work
- If we as devotees in Krsna consciousness movement are transcendental to these modes, does that mean that we can...?
- If we can become Krsna conscious without following the rules and regulations, why follow the rules and regulations? That's what I was thinking a while ago
- If we do not finish our Krsna consciousness in this lifetime and we have to take birth in material world, can we worship the same spiritual master as our previous birth?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case?
- If we just engage them in devotional service will they ultimately become purified?
- If we try to please Krsna with all of our service and activities, that automatically brings pleasure to the self?
- If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and not follow the regulations, not reading your books, can you go back to Godhead?
- If you see only (if you see only to the flowers, you become invigorated)?
- If you're devoted enough can you gain release from birth, death, and old age completely in one life?
- In Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- In India, how many are Krsna conscious?
- In Krsna consciousness isn't knowledge rather than faith the basis for action?
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- 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 next life we will be put in a situation immediately where we can take up Krsna consciousness again or will we have to suffer karma before we come into Krsna consciousness?
- In reference to Isopanisad mantra 15, should a devotee ask the Lord to reveal Himself?
- In the Bhagavad-gita I think you have references such as Arjuna being told not to become attached to the fruit of his actions, but act. Can you give us some idea of the principles which would guide one's action while trying to develop Krsna consciousness?
- In the Bhagavata Purana is there also provision for the Caitanya cult?
- In the bhakti way of doing things, this emotion and love are very closely entwined, aren't they?
- In the case where a devotee is definitely sincerely following your instructions and applying himself to all these principles that Krsna has outlined, then when there's difficulty for him, how is he to understand that?
- In the Kali-yuga, bhakti has been described as the most suitable and easiest of paths for God realization. Yet how is it that Vedantic teachings, with their accent on jnana, are being given the pride of place by noted savants or knowers?
- In the Krsna conscious scheme there is also active struggle and activity?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the modern world the engineers are designing everything. So how can an engineer use his talent for Krsna?
- In the past, when there were men who practiced yoga, concentration on Krsna within the heart, when they perfected this were they rendering devotional service?
- 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 which way one can engage oneself to the best service of Krsna, or best use one's time for Krsna?
- Is it (bhakti) the same thing with hatha-yoga?
- Is it an internal educational process or external (it is an educational movement to enlighten the people from gross ignorance to the highest enlightenment of spiritual understanding)?
- Is it easier or better to be a Krsna bhakta than to be a Christian?
- Is it natural for a child to grow up and then shave his head and serve God, or is it just a form of socialization?
- Is it not true that if you don't spend your life thinking of Krsna, it may be difficult at the time of death to remember Him because of attachment?
- 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 through Krsna consciousness to, in the supreme state, to be able to remember all that you were?
- Is it possible to chant within one's mind?
- Is it possible to do it all on your own, alone?
- Is it possible to have Krsna consciousness when you are asleep?
- Is it possible to live a household life and at the same time a spiritual life?
- Is it right that if you come to Krsna consciousness, all the duties are automatically taken care of?
- Is it right to say that Krsna-prema is the perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- Is it true that eventually by this process we'll become purified so we can become like sruti-dharas?
- Is Krsna consciousness connected with any other religion? Does it derive from Hinduism or Buddhism?
- Is Krsna consciousness genuine?
- Is Krsna consciousness more easily accepted among Indians and among Far Eastern peoples than among the Western peoples?
- Is Krsna consciousness the knowing or the awareness of the Absolute?
- Is Krsna consciousness the only method?
- Is meditation part of your philosophy?
- Is that a guarantee for going home, if someone leaves their body in the dhama?
- Is that considered attempting to become Krsna conscious, simply to give up, say, material sense enjoyment?
- Is that described as raganuga-bhakti (when they take it as a serious thing in life, oh, everyone will be happy)?
- 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 Krsna consciousness belief or philosophy compatible with the Hindu religion?
- Is the mode of life that you are proposing adaptable to many, many, many people?
- Is the samadhi which is the perfection of this eightfold yoga system the same as the samadhi of bhakti-yoga?
- Is there a basic conflict between a spiritual life and material living?
- Is there a difference in the quality of service between a person who is, just accepts outright Krsna, service to Krsna, and one who wants to scrutinize and inquire more and more about it?
- Is there any particular reason why some spirit souls become directed toward Krsna Consciousness in the first place?
- Is there any point in your practice do you consider yourself free from taking lower re-births?
- Is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- Is there some order of priority in service then? I mean, sixteen rounds is more important than anything else. And then following that, there's something else?
- Is this (if you have got some name which actually refers to God, then it is all right. But if you have got something, name, which refers to dog, then it is wrong) something that your followers can be aware of constantly?
- Is this devotional spirit the only necessary truth that one is born with, or are there others?
- Is this statement (individual ego is eternal and also subordinate to that which is eternal), a statement of fact based on direct perception, or it is something what follows traditional belief and is just the axiomatic basis of your philosophy?
- Is your philosophy, your approach to consciousness, based on the Gita?
- Is your way the only way?
- Isn't it difficult to belong to Krsna consciousness and exist in this world we must exist in?
- Isn't that a mental manifestation, like if you feel that someone's Krsna conscious? It's not a physical manifestation, right?
- Isn't there a point, Prabhupada, at which, you know, you can expect that you've been doing the right things, so there should be some relief?
- Isn't yours a product of or derivative of Vedic?
- It appears that by taking to Krsna consciousness, one becomes less materially benefitted?
- It appears to me that one of the most difficult aspects of Krsna consciousness for someone to accept who's been brought up outside of that point of view is the Deities and the idea that they represent Krsna. Could you talk a little bit about that?
- It doesn't appeal more to the young ones than to the older people (the Hare Krsna movement)?
- It is possible to attain that affection of love for God... without taking part in this Krsna consciousness movement?
- It is the attitude with which one does it (tries to satisfy Krsna, that is important)?
- It's difficult for people outside the society of Krsna consciousness to see what the purpose is. How would you understand the purpose? Simply to make God known? How would you state...?
- It's on this quotation from Bhagavata Purana that Caitanya built His system?
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- Leaving the four sinful activities. Then one can develop Krsna consciousness?
- Let's say a person has been involved in the Vietnam War due to his relation with the material world and has been drawn into this activity. And now he's in Krsna consciousness. How is he then relieved of the law of karma for his activity?
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- Many people find it very difficult to reconcile the spiritual way of life in the Krsna movement with the great financial resources the movement also has. Why do you need any great financial...?
- May I know the distinction between Krsna consciousness and supramental consciousness described by Sri Aurobindo?
- My humble prayer was that by doing japa, by doing meditation, by doing bhakti-marga, need we go to jnana-marga also, or bhakti-marga is enough by itself?
- My question is how far can total Krsna devotion, act by act all day, spread? How many people can that encompass in a place like America?
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- No difficulty at all. But it doesn't happen, does it (everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra... Where is the difficulty)?
- No, that is what my question is, how to do that (if we work for Krsna, if the result is given to Krsna, that is our perfection). I mean, how in our day to day life...?
- Now if he is not got (Krsna conscious), then what shall he do to become aware?
- Now that he has received Krsna consciousness, he would like to know from you how he should behave in his normal life, because he'll be living very far from the temple?
- Now we've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live? What difference it makes to their life?
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- People still tell us that You tell us the philosophy, we like the philosophy, but why do you go on sankirtana? So what were some of the arguments you presented to these type of people?
- Prabhupada you said that if one does not worship Panca-tattva, whatever actions he performs, even if he is so-called Krsna-bhakta, is to be considered offensive. Does this mean other sampradayas also?
- Prabhupada, if we follow these four regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds sincerely every day, all this nonsense knowledge will eventually be forgotten?
- Prabhupada, in Vaisnava temples, asramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?
- Prabhupada, one more question before we break for prasadam. That is, why do we practice bhakti-yoga instead of jnana-yoga?
- Prabhupada, we want to follow your instructions word by word, but sometime we can find some difficulty. In a case of difficulty, what should we do?
- Prabhupada, when you say we must be honest in our dealings... If we have an advantage to, to take advantage of somebody else for Krsna, for Krsna consciousness, is this permissible?
- Prabhupada? When you were speaking of bhagavata-vidhi, you said that of the nine devotional methods, it includes... I didn't understand which ones it includes, up to what point?
- Pure bhakti and karma-yoga considered to be exactly the same?
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- Raganuga-bhakti is also superior to karma-yoga then?
- Regarding the neophyte devotee who is unable to comprehend even the existence of God, how he shall ever become lover of God?
- Regarding your first question, the proof of Krishna Consciousness
- Regarding your question about Bhava Shakti developing into Prema...
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- She wants to know what disciplines we have, what practices we have?
- She would like to know if our religion can bring something more than the other religions
- Should we always endeavor in spite of pain to push ourselves in Krsna consciousness?
- Should we become detached from the results of our activities, or should we become simply attached to the Lotus Feet of Krishna?
- Sir, I have listened to your talk with very great interest. You're very clear and very lucid. But you're also very dogmatic, I feel. Is there any area of doubt in your own philosophy, or are you quite certain in every field?
- Smaranam. Not so much thinking of God's activities as just being really in His presence and open to receive love and to be active. Do you know what I mean?
- So actually such a program (for distributing the necessities - such as clothes and foodstuffs - for everyone in the community) can only be successful proportionately with the rise of Krsna consciousness of the people
- So far as your question about arranging time...
- 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 is it correct to say that if we're not Krsna conscious, then if it's not the grhastha problem, it would be some other problem?
- So is it that everything we do, are we trying to make some mental adjustment, that "We're taking prasadam..."?
- So is it to be understood that a very simple person who has all kinds of material desires, if he approaches God...?
- So is the primary factor of the variation is how much advanced they are (species of humans) in Krsna consciousness, and how least advanced they are in Krsna consciousness?
- So is there anything obligatory or prescribed for all people who follow this religion, that a minimum observance that they must do?
- So one who is mad after something else material, he must transfer his madness to Krsna. So how is that madness transferred?
- So that is within us (the dormant Krsna consciousness)?... And it needs to be brought out... And how is that brought out?
- So that means those mathas also are Krsna conscious... We can join them also?
- So that taste, eternal rasa, for associating with Krsna is fixed already?
- So the solution for the world is Krsna consciousness?
- So then to love Krsna is unnatural?
- So then, is it true then that people who have this conception, they would not try for progress?
- So there is no possibility of me being Krsna conscious outside your movement?
- So vaidhī-bhakti is considered superior to karma-yoga then?
- So we are trying to use their endorsements and then make it very specific that "Therefore to meditate using the Hare Krsna, this is healthy." So why are you attacking us?
- So what do you really mean by arousing the Krsna consciousness? What does it entail?
- So when we say that we have finished all responsibility by surrendering to Krsna, that doesn't mean that we've abandoned execution of duty, does it?
- So you never doubt any of this, anything at all?
- Some people say that in our philosophy, if we do not wish to slaughter the animals, what about the trees?
- Sometimes when we are speaking, people say, in the questions they say, "Why do you say this is a science? It seems that this must be belief
- Sravanam kirtanam visnou smaranam that any one of these principles, if executed, is sufficient. Now some devotees may take this to mean that they simply can chant Hare Krsna and don't have to do anything else like temple duties or readings or...?
- Srila Prabhupada, I have one question. What is the purpose of service minus devotion?
- Srila Prabhupada, if material nature is the absence of Krsna consciousness, then where is material?
- Srila Prabhupada, if someone has inquired about God, but can be so overpowered by maya...?
- Srila Prabhupada, in this country we have to do army training, and on a Sunday we have to attend a church service. We have to attend it. Is it all right to say that we won't attend it because we follow Krsna consciousness, or must we go anyway?
- Srila Prabhupada, regarding karma. One does his job every day, and if he spends some time in the evening chanting Lord Krsna, do you approve this?
- Srila Prabhupada, the way you've been describing our solutions to the problems of the world, they seem to be on two levels. One is the extended solution, that is to say, the ultimate solution of Krsna conscious?
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean practically to surrender unto Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what effects are the Krsna consciousness movement having on the Christian-Judaic culture or the traditional religious culture?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the highest principle of the Gosvami's, by following which one will be sure of attaining love of Sri Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you please explain why Krsna consciousness hadn't come to the West until now, why it hasn't come earlier?
- Suppose if the individual soul falls down from the human platform, to some other lower species, but in the course of again evolutionary process, at some stage along the path he'll come to Krsna consciousness. Is this...?
- Suppose one is engaged for his livelihood for eight hours, or ten hours for material purposes. How he will link with Krsna during that period?
- Swami? You say that Krsna consciousness is a system of purifying the senses. Does that mean that the senses become unlimited? Do the senses become unlimited when they're finally purified?
- Swamiji, I want to question whether the Krsna consciousness is the same type of consciousness which is experienced by the devotees as that divine type of consciousness. Is it a divine consciousness?
- Swamiji, I would like to know from you whether or not it is necessary for a person to be a vegetarian or to have a special diet to be able to respond to your teachings?
- Swamiji, is bhakti-marga enough to have liberation?
- Swamiji, is the Krsna consciousness is a development of this, only of our Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Swamiji, is there degrees of Krsna consciousness? I thought of an example of walking through a dark tunnel and it's getting lighter and lighter and all of a sudden you're out in light. Is there degrees of this?
- Swamiji, someone approached me and we were discussing about Krsna consciousness. And I said to approach Krsna one must be pure, but he said, "What is purity?" Could you explain that technically? What is purity?
- Swamiji, what do you suggest to your disciples to arouse what you call Hare Krsna consciousness or God consciousness?
- Swamiji, what is Krsna consciousness?
- Swamiji, you think bhakti is the solution to the problem of the world today?
- Swamiji? Is it possible for us to worship Krsna purely in this lifetime?
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- Talking a lot about in trusting in God. What is the Sanskrit for trust? What word would be used in the sastras
- Tell me a little bit about Krsna consciousness, will you?
- That being Krsna conscious, you're the most happiest person? You are?
- That devotional service has to be causeless in order to be the perfect conductor?
- That dharma by which the soul becomes fully satisfied, can it be found anywhere else aside from Krsna conscious?
- That four-handed form is not complete perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- That means that our attraction for Krsna must be spontaneous?
- The ability to remember Krsna, that will also increase?
- The first thing is to get Krsna. The world can then be looked after later?
- The Hare Krsna movement is a scientific movement?
- The Krsna consciousness, its Vedic literature, they have some of the same books or also holy books for what we call Hindu religions, aren't they?
- The situation is that other people think that it (Krsna consciousness) is negative, and therefore they feel negatively towards us. So how should we react to that?
- Then the result of following these guidelines (moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness) is predictable results?
- Then what is the aim of bhakti if you are not going to merge with Paramatma?
- Then you have to give up (trying to understand). Then just simply love Krsna?
- There are different techniques for reaching Christ consciousness or God consciousness or self-realization. What test do you recommend for finding out which technique is the best?
- There are many religious movements, how does Krsna consciousness take priority?
- There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- These Oriental philosophies generally and in particular the Krsna consciousness has found a lot of devotees in the western civilization. What is the main reason for this?
- These problems will take care of themselves if people develop Krsna consciousness?
- This is your yoga, right?
- This path of devotional yoga, bhakti-yoga, that is the path for this time, for this age?
- Those who come up from the animal species, do they automatically get a chance to contact Krsna consciousness, or do they, might be born in low family, or?
- Those who have become Krsna conscious, they will see Krsna?
- Through what means do you train the human being to become, to achieve his ultimate goal in life?
- To achieve the goal of Krishna, should we pass our life through matter to spiritual life or direct to spiritual life?
- To purify that desire we also have to be put into the fire?
- To what extent the Society has succeeded in India for propagating Krsna consciousness?
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- Was it your aim to suggest that the daily life of ordinary people can be built on the foundations of your philosophy?
- Was there always a kind of a movement?
- Wasn't it true that they, at that time even, had better economic development, when they were Krsna conscious?
- Way of life or aim of life (the real occupation-serving Krsna)?
- We are only neophytes. How we can know if our anxiety is still material when we feel anxiety in devotional service?
- We have made the statement that we attain a certain amount of bliss by engaging in this Krsna consciousness process. Do we deny the fact that other people have attained similar bliss from doing other things?
- We were also discussing with Mrs. Conan Doyle and a friend of hers, how is it, if I'm thinking I am happy, or I do not have love for God, nor do I want to have love for God, how will I cultivate it?
- We've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live?
- Welcome, sir. What is Krsna consciousness?
- Well do you think that the Eastern sun, meaning Hare Krsna, is appropriate in a culture that has a different religion traditionally?
- Well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate?
- Well, doesn't it mean that someone has to worship that person to be able to attain the enlightenment or Krsna consciousness?
- Well, to understand Krsna consciousness, do you not require adhikari?
- Well, why is it, can I ask, perhaps, that the Krsna movement is the natural way of living against, say, other religions, other faiths?
- Were they (the acaryas) not Krsna conscious?
- What about India? I mean, do they believe, the villagers?
- What about our promise, in the future also, that you go to Krsna in the future?
- What about these people that perform so-called bhakti-yoga but their aim is to merge?
- What are other major beliefs, besides love, to which you ascribe?
- What are some of the other, aside from...? I mean, I see people selling things. What other practices are involved?
- What are the basic beliefs of the Krsna religion?
- What are the methods used in attaining Krsna consciousness?
- What can appreciation of Krsna do for the Americans?
- What can you cure? What can you make better?
- What did you have to offer then. If you were chanting in the park and I said "What are you doing? Why are you chanting? What's your thing here?"
- What distinguishes bhakti-yoga from karma-yoga?
- What do you believe in?
- What do you find, you know, that when you impart this knowledge to Western disciples and when you talk to someone who are in India, what difference do you find?
- What do you 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 try and teach, sir?
- What does being a devotee of Krsna involve? Does it...?
- What does it mean: "We are all originally Krsna conscious entities"
- What does mellow mean?
- What does the Hare Krsna movement offer that other religions do not?
- What does your interpretation, or how does it differ in principle from the basic Jewish-Christian ethic of the Ten Commandments?
- What exactly is guru's role in your system?
- What happens in your temples. Do you have services like other religions?
- What he's questioning, Prabhupada, is whether or not bhakti-yoga is suitable for everyone in every instance?
- What hope is there for Krsna consciousness in these countries like Russia and China, where they are so rascal they... ?
- What if the spouse is very antagonistic toward Krsna consciousness?
- What if there's some desire to make something beautiful to give to Krsna?
- What if you hear but don't act accordingly in your practical life?
- What is inspiration then?
- What is it that Krsna consciousness has that offers people so much more than other religions do?
- 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 our method to realize the highest truth, the absolute truth?
- What is our process for coming to know God?
- What is the best method of making your children Krsna conscious? Teaching the sastra or...?
- What is the business of Krsna consciousness society?
- What is the difference between a Mayavadi philosopher and a Krishna Conscious person?
- What is the difference between a pure Christian, or at least a sincere one, and a sincere devotee of Krsna?
- What is the difference between bhakti-yoga and bhava-yoga?
- What is the difference between bhava and prema?
- What is the difference between God consciousness and Krsna consciousness?
- What is the difference between karma-yoga and bhakti-yoga?
- What is the difference between karma-yoga and... or bhakti because they also (indistinct) Krsna?
- What is the difference between Krsna consciousness and Christ consciousness?
- What is the effect on Russians, this Hare Krsna movement?
- What is the end result of taking to this process of Krsna consciousness?
- What is the highest devotion, the highest bhakti, please?
- What is the importance of health in life, and how does Guruji advise people to maintain health, and how does it connect to your mission?
- What is the Krsna conscious outlook on other world religions?
- What is the method of seeing God?
- What is the position of astrology in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the real relationship between Krsna consciousness and other religions? Is it that God has many names and...?
- What is the role of women in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the solution (to spiritual enlightenment)? Devotion to God...?
- What is the soul's, the spirit soul's, relationship to actions performed both in material consciousness and in spiritual, in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the ultimate aim of this Krsna consciousness?
- What is the views of Krsna consciousness in regard to the people using drugs for spiritual enlightenment?
- What is ultimate object of that bhakti?
- What is unique about Krsna consciousness that separates it from other religions?
- What should be the first step to become a devotee?
- What should one know about Krsna consciousness? Is it something mystical?
- What the Krsna movement is about and its origins, its following. This sort of thing?
- What transformations does one undergo on the path of Krsna consciousness?
- What was it that was different about your way of thinking?
- 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 future of a religious observance so technical as this? So complicated as this?
- What's the future of Krsna Consciousness in India today?
- When a man becomes Krsna conscious, could you say that he has become like a god or godlike?
- When a person first comes and he still has that designation stage, but we still call that bhakti?
- When did you become the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness?
- When did you begin, Your Excellency?... The Krsna movement, in the Krsna movement.
- When I was lecturing in Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- When in the Gita it listed the different kinds of sacrifices, it said that sacrifices to the demigods can bring us to Krsna consciousness. How is this?
- When one takes to spiritual life, is it the result of material exhaustion, or is it simply the guru's mercy on him, and nothing else?
- When people are starving and they have no clothing, then how can they take to Krsna consciousness? First give them food, then clothing and education, and then Krsna consciousness
- When we are emphasizing this Krsna consciousness, we are in danger of forgetting the social political dimension. So how to bring this...?
- When we learn to love Krsna, do we transcend goodness?
- When we try to tell them that bhakti is the highest form of yoga, they say, "Why are you so sectarian?"
- When we use the word "natural," though we usually refer to it as "according to the laws of nature," but a person who's also "natural," would he not come to Krsna consciousness or would he not pursue Krsna consciousness?
- When you become Krsna conscious, can you remember your past or see into the future?
- 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...?
- When you become Krsna conscious, is it not a state of ecstasy?
- When you're actually Krsna conscious, do you just exist and know all and enjoy all, or do you have any activities at that time?
- Where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?... Yes, like painting, or music, or literature, poetry, like that
- Where does human love enter into it?
- Where does it (Omkara) have it's place in Krsna consciousness?
- Where is Krsna consciousness most common in the world, and how widespread is it in India?
- Why are you teaching Radha-Krsna consciousness?
- Why can't people understand to depend on Krsna?
- Why do some people want to approach Krsna in hatred?
- Why do you use in the Krsna consciousness the Hindu caste marks?
- Why is it (Krsna consciousness) so popular among young people?
- Why is it then, that one person accepts it (Bhakti-marga) and another rejects it? That is from a spiritual position, his basic disposition?
- Why is that better than loving your fellow man in the traditional bhakti-marga?
- Why should we do that (give up Krsna consciousness)?
- Why should we join your movement? Why should we give up studying such beautiful music and art and literature?
- Why should we think that birth and death is so painful, Srila Prabhupada, because wherever we are, we can think about Krsna...?
- Why would someone who is not Krsna conscious have one hundred children? For example, why would someone like Dhrtarastra, who is not particularly Krsna conscious...?
- With all these disqualifications, how can the general mass of people take to Krsna consciousness?
- With open eyes, why we cannot do the prayers and the bhakti-yoga? What is the...
- Within Vedic culture, what is meant by bhakti-yoga?
- Would there be more benefit, would there be more of an influence, or would there be more of a strengthening if it were in an area of affluence rather than an area of poverty or vice versa?
- Would you describe where Krsna consciousness started and why you have come to the Western world?
- Would you give me a background, the history and origin of Krsna consciousness?
- Would you have anything that would sort of correspond to a living interpretive voice or a living interpretation of the will of God irrespective of what God says to me as an individual in the recesses of my heart and soul?
- Would you say something about Christ and his relation to Krsna consciousness?
- Would you say that this is a return to this Bhagavad-gita?
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- Yes, but we in Krsna consciousness, we aren't interested in that Paramatma, are we?
- Yes, what's the most important practice…He is asking whether one technique is more important than another?
- You always point out that sometimes people say that bhakti is sentimental, but where is there more scientific person than Jiva Gosvami, more philosophical?
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You have asked how the Sankirtana activities become more relishable every day...
- You say that Krsna consciousness people should start at an early age, but does that mean we should consider ourselves at age of a very small child towards beginning Krsna consciousness?
- You say that Krsna consciousness solves the problem of death. Does it mean that we won't die?
- You say that Krsna consciousness will solve all problems. But factually, there are so many problems in the world that aren't being solved. So what is the proof?
- You say that we have eternal relationships with the Supreme?
- You were saying don't bother, you know, don't bring the scriptures in, use common sense. But what part do the scriptures have in your religion? How important are they?
- Your devotees say that you aim to get beyond the stage of material existence. I don't quite pick up what your process was for doing this, and could you tell me what the end result is once you do get beyond this
- Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Your Divine Grace, when someone has a very little amount of God consciousness, he is a poor servant of God and doesn't love Him very much, do you see God as loving him still, and, say, wanting him to come to consciousness in helping him?
- Your family, your blood family, are they Krsna conscious as well?
- Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings?
- Your movement, your consciousness of Krsna, engloves, takes all the direction of economics and political possibility... Can you speak, explain me about that?
- Your philosophy seems very clear cut... Are you well satisfied with that, that there is no area of doubt?
- 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?