Category:Questions On... Sin, Morality, Good, Evil
Pages in category "Questions On... Sin, Morality, Good, Evil"
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- A devotee may have some demoniac qualities?
- A man is finite. How can he do good for everyone?
- A priori we are not born with knowledge of what is right?
- Am I my brother's keeper? Am I, am I responsible for my brother's actions?
- America (formerly the Aryans never touched these places. Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here)?
- And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?
- Another thing is they know they are taking body again and again. They are taking the body again and again after birth. Why they are committing again and again sins and which mode of nature...?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are the lower human species responsible for sinful activities?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- Are these people consciously cheating or raised in cheating so that they don't know the difference (in this material world, the more you are expert cheater, you are considered very able man. All over the world, so many expert cheaters are going on)?
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- Because of impiety the sun and the moon, people would not be able to see. So there would be no vegetation. And without vegetation, even animals cannot live. So eventually they would take to eating their own children. Is this what takes place?
- Because we do not know what sin is, wouldn't whatever the authority said be purely an idea to us?
- But because this is the age of Kali, even if the Krsna consciousness movement spreads and even captures governments, how can we stop individual people from doing this (sinful life)?
- But can't you have people doing good for the sake of goodness?
- 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 people know when they're doing evil, don't they?
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- Can anyone be said to be innocent in this world?
- Can it be understand that if a person, for instance, some Americans are very wealthy, that they... (pious family means automatically he gets chance to become Krsna conscious)?
- Can one develop determination gradually?
- Can we call these trees (with no fruits and no flowers) demonic?
- Can you explain the ways of papa-nirvanam?
- Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?
- Crime, Why and How to Solve It?
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- Did Jesus die on the cross to redeem all the sins of the world?
- Do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction?
- Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop?
- Do you accept the whole of the material world? Do you think there are some things in it which are wrong?
- Do you believe in some sort of universal but inherent deficiency in human nature, in other words, that man irrespective of his environment, irrespective of where he comes from, that he has, he is prone to evil?
- Do you believe that the origin of this creation is a sin?... A sin of man or is the love of God? What is the origin?
- Do you think that the young Indian boys in the future, they will become anywhere near as pious as their parents?
- Does that (we have got two selection, either to the path of hellish condition or to the path of back to Godhead) name, that the things such as, you mentioned smoking and alcohol and sex and meat, that all those things are material and therefore bad?
- Does that apply to all the rules of the Krsna movement?... For everyone. I mean rules about not drinking... Would that be a sin in a non-Krsna follower?
- Does this mean that by their activities that they're engaging in now their incentive is that they want to enjoy these four sinful activities...? And that really they're not looking for truth?
- Don't you find the whole Krsna movement more successful in an age and era when there is such laxity of moral standards and spiritual leadership and direction?
- Don't you think it is a contradiction that if a man is a bad throughout his life and only at the time of death he thinks of Krsna and gets...?
- Don't you think it will be a bad thing, because there are some bad people in the world, like Hitler and Stalin and others, they may be the first people to use the technology to prolong their life?
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- He (God) knows before creating people, they'll sin. Then why does He create them?
- He has not come now. There is no unrighteousness in this world?
- How about the duality (relative means you cannot understand anything without the other. That is called relative. Suppose if I say "good man," I cannot understand a good man without having another man, bad man)?
- How about the one who picks up and he doesn't find the owner of the coins but he offers to Krsna?
- How are you to know that this act or that act is good or bad?
- How can we know what is good and what is bad? How can we define them?
- How do we make ourselves bad?
- How do you envisage one should act, if I may ask that?
- How do you explain suicide?
- How do you regard suicide, and would there be any exceptional circumstances that might justify it?
- How does one interpret if the cause is great (if the cause if great, then killing is no sin)?
- How does transcendental knowledge burn to ashes the reactions of sinful...
- How far is samskara powerful like...?
- How is bad and good the same thing, Srila Prabhupada?
- How is that, that this world is unreal? Why do we say that there is good thing and bad thing in the world?
- How to understand, how to measure (those who are habituated to act sinful)...?
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- I believe that there's God in everybody, but why are some people so evil?
- I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- 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 keep wondering how you're so sure you know what good is, particularly when it comes to war
- I mean a Roman, perhaps, has never heard of Krsna before. He breaks all your five rules, does he not, every day. Is that a sin in him? If he drinks wine...
- I understand what you're saying. You're saying you cannot do practices and commit sin, right?
- I want to know why Krsna is so unkind and He allows us to sin. The royal road of Krsna, Lord Krsna, should be very easier
- I've committed many sins in this lifetime. How can I make my peace?
- Ideally it is the moral obligation of everyone to obey the moral command, but...?
- If a man become honest, if a man deals with others very nicely, moral, and so on, so on, so what is the use of becoming devotee, devotee of God?
- If everything is created by God... Then what is this evil?
- If God is all-good, why does He permit so many wars to go on?
- If he (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard) accepts Jesus as the perfection, why doesn't he, in the beginning when he was looking for a way of making decisions, why doesn't he follow Jesus's path of morality?
- If Krsna is all-good, why does He send us to this world full of miseries?
- If man be part and parcel of God, how do you explain the evil deeds of man?
- If one can engage one who is demonic in service by telling a lie...
- If somebody lives an evil life but prays to become rich, they may still become rich?
- If somebody picks up and takes it, he's a thief, and if somebody who just does not care he's also not good. And the one who takes up and says, "Whose coin is this?" Then he's good
- If such papa hoga, how one can expect betterment of the nation (they have legalized abortion. So the unborn fetus, after it's aborted, they're eating as food)?… Is there any way out?
- If the natural tendency of the living entity is to want to exist, to live, then why is it they perform so many horrible acts that will destroy themselves?
- If they desire to commit sinful activities and before they became monkeys, but then they were doing it then. So whilst they're monkeys their desire must change. Or is it forced, that change forced upon them by the mercy of Krsna?
- If we chant Hare Krsna, all our sinful activities are washed away. Is that so even if we chant offensively?
- If we've been here lifetime after lifetime performing impious activities, does it mean that we have to be here lifetime after lifetime performing pious activities to balance out our sinful reactions?
- If you have misused the energy of the past and go on with the results of your misuse, are you still responsible for those forms?
- If you want to find peace, don't you have to believe that war is wrong, any kind of war?
- In college if they start to study biology or zoology, it involves killing animals, dissection. Is that a sin?
- In the fish body will he have to suffer for all his other sinful activities also?
- In the material world, sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right and sometimes use violence?
- In what respect I have created (sinful activities)?
- In what way is God concerned with the moral or immoral actions of man? Is God indifferent to them, or has He simply set the laws of nature in motion and allowed men to follow their own course and reap the fruit of their own karma?
- India is supposed to be a land of spirituality. How is it that there is so much moral degradation in our country? Is it the failure of our spiritual leaders?
- Is a Vaisnava, is he willing to maintain his body for the service of Lord Krsna even if he has to break regulative principles - if it is necessary?
- Is it all right to cheat the government?
- Is it possible for one person to be part demon and part devotee in the same person?
- Is it right to tell the suffering that "I am busy, at work for my salvation"?
- Is it that it depends on the restaurant or is that necessarily bad (they are young men. They have got all propensities. But they are so elevated, they have given up all these low propensities, going to the club, restaurant, and cinema or naked dance)?
- Is it the living entity's choice, complete choice, to be demonic, against God, or is it a part of Krsna's energy to put demons, or to have created him that way?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?
- Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?
- Is Krsna attractive to rascals?
- Is pious activity on the material platform?
- Is polygamy illicit?
- Is something wrong with tea?
- Is that (brahmana) good or bad?
- Is that actual freedom, though? (that a thief also has got the conscience, "Why shall I steal?")
- Is that called punya? Serving the poor?
- Is that tree alive?... Has it got life?... Are you doing anything wrong when you cut it down...?
- Is the social unrest in this country caused because... (these are sinful activities, to kill child in the womb. And take shelter of abortion. These are all sinful activities. One has to suffer for that)?
- Is there any stage at which these atheistic people have done anything good by accident?... Is there any step?
- Is there anything wrong when the woman works?
- Is there some way to find out good without following the rules and regulations laid down by the authorities?
- Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
- Is this progress toward human immortality, is that a creative process?
- Isn't laziness one of the demonic qualities, Srila Prabhupada?
- Isn't that (you cannot catch even nonpoisonous snake, and you are telling that 'I shall now catch cobra') "shooting the rhinoceros"?
- Isn't the breaking of a promise a universal moral command, that one should never break his promise, whether it is here or other countries?
- It (tea or coffee) is sinful?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It is true that if there are certain laws, moral commandments, that I should follow them regardless of individual exception? There are no exceptions, regardless...
- It is wrong to petition God?
- It's not that one has to develop them (moral qualities) independently?
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- Persons who are too much sinful... if they can't give up their sinful activities even after hearing about Krsna, are they in the envious class or the innocent class?
- Plato says, "men must be brought up from childhood to feel pleasure and pain at the proper things, for this is correct education." So how does this correspond to the Vedic view of education?
- Prabhupada, before this movement came here we were so caught up in sinful activities. How is it that we were so fortunate to be benedicted with this great Hare Krsna movement?
- Prabhupada, there are certain groups saying that there's a comet in the sky and there's going to be some very inauspicious effects because of that. Do you know anything about that?
- 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, you said that the greatest offense is to chant thinking that "My sins will be washed away" and commit sins, or wants to. So what is the result that that person gets if he dies in that condition?
- Practically, though, without God consciousness, isn't it that people see that whether they are moral or not moral, they still suffer?
R
- Regarding your question whether some small lies may be said in order to sell our books
- Regarding your question, do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction? The answer is no, they do not. We do not suffer for thinking something sinful. Not in this age. That is a special concession for Kali-yuga
S
- Sambodhana is to remove the evil, remove the bad part isn't it?
- Simplicity is not considered a bad quality?
- Sir, why are they sinful? Why are they (to take tea or coffee) sinful?
- So actually, we're removing people from danger, from evil, by making them Krsna conscious?
- So all those sinful activities of these people have been eradicted now by saying Hare Rama?
- So cheating and like that, what mode is that?
- So for one who gives up sinful activities, does his sense of God consciousness become awakened?
- So how would you define sin? What is impurities or to sin?
- So if one follows these moral guidelines (of Krsna consciousness), the result is certain, predictable?
- So many people who stop performing prescribed duty to engage in so-called meditation, actually they are committing sinful activity? Is this actually sinful activity to attempt such meditation like that?
- So one question I wanted to ask you in this connection, is that this Vinobha, fasting until death, until cow slaughter is stopped. So if he dies then he is guilty of murder. Is it correct. And if he's a brahmana, he is guilty of brahma-hatya?
- So pious activity is that activity which brings us to the spiritual world, and impious activity, activity which roots us here? Or are even the pious activities of the material world considered bad?
- So practicality has to be judged on the result, what is the result of that action?
- So that means jivatma, he is... responsible for any good or bad deeds for my life?
- 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 the values that are taught to us by history, are they not...?
- So they (certain species of human life) can perform, like, let's say for example, intoxication or meat-eating, and they won't receive any sinful reaction?
- So what is honesty?
- Some of our disciples, it is seems that in this life they did many sinful activities?
- Some people would say that the source of evil is individual consciousness, our consciousness as persons. Others would have other ways of answering. I was wondering how you yourself would say?
- 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?"
- Sometimes great souls, they will cheat people also for their own benefit?
- Sometimes people ask that "If God is so great, then why doesn't He just come and destroy all the evil?"
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna has created everything and everything is submitted to Krsna's will, can we really say what is good or bad?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it true that our advancement in devotional services... Is it influenced a lot by our past karma, how many sinful activities we have committed?
- Srila Prabhupada, our parents in America teach us that we ought to be doing good things for other people. Should we be engaged for our fellow people?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the difference between an innocent person and an ignorant person?
- Srila Prabhupada, why has it taken so long for a pure devotee to come to the West? Has the West been so sinful that no pure devotee has come before Your Divine Grace?
- Srila Prabhupada, you have said that it's impossible to become rich unless one is a cheater. And yet we have our business, our Spiritual Sky business. So how is it possible to carry on business and not become a cheater?
- Srila Prabhupada? We live in this material world, and we're in so much ignorance that we don't know who it belongs to. Is that due to sinful activities?
- Suppose I am doing some sins? So how atma can be controlling. Suffering...?
- Supposing someone else is in danger and you go and rescue them. Isn't that being a hero? Or you decide not to and you go away
- Swami, many people also think that "If you're sinful, how can church help you? What is the use of going to church?"
- Swami? I have one question which is widely discussed everywhere, that eating of meat is sin. Now we see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
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- Take sex, how can that be considered...(bad)?
- That (to become a cheater is one of the conditions of material life) is also one of the qualities of bondage?
- That means they (people who are saying Hare Rama) will make more sinful activities?
- That's due to too much sinful activity? Too much sinful activity that they can't think that there's some divine influence?
- The different varieties of suffering within the animal species are due to the different varieties of sinful activities in the human life?
- The good man gets a better body or a good body?
- The governments today are supporting the most outrageous, sinful activities. So how is it possible to reform the general mass of people?
- The law in the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." But the federal law of the United States says you must go into the Army and kill. So which to follow? There is a difference. They both say opposite things
- The living entity cannot do anything without the sanction of God. So I am desiring certain sinful activities, but why is Krsna sanctioning it?
- The meat-eating also leads to many other sinful activities too, right?
- The moral standard was very good (in your university)?
- The police were helping the thieves?
- The rational way is the virtuous way. The virtuous way is the way of intellectual insight. There is a suggestion of sense control but no bhakti. So is it possible to obtain happiness simply by controlling the senses by the mind?
- The sinless people will survive?
- Then a man who is not, does not have a purified consciousness has no way of knowing what is good or bad?
- Then what is their reason for not becoming the biggest rascal? Why not become the biggest rascal? The pot's going to break anyway. What difference does it make? Why not become a big rascal and enjoy?
- There are many that tell about knowledge for being good, but how do you really know? Is it just a feeling?
- There is another question, Your Grace. I wear leather shoes, and I know they come from animals which have been slaughtered for this. Should I stop wearing leather shoes?
- There is no universal morality?
- There is some difference. When we do some good, we consider it as God-inspired, but when we do something bad, then we can't say that it is also God-inspired after we have done it?
- They (The Christians) say everyone is sinful; therefore what is the use?
- This suffering comes from our sinful activities?
- Towards the end of the Kali-yuga isn't there a description in the Bhagavatam that one will not be able to see the sun or the moon?... Because of the impiety. So there will be no vegetation. Is that description in Srimad-Bhagavatam?
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- Very much so. Very badly, very bad now, very bad. What do you do about that? And that's a serious question. Is it morally correct to be sitting here, for me to be sitting here...?
- Violence for a right cause is better than the so-called nonviolence. Now I wanted to ask, for instance, to find that nonviolence or like Gandhi, it was wrong...?
- Virtue and sin become the same in sama-darsinah?
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- We do not fight?
- We live in sin, so is it not speculation to consider a sinless state?
- We see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
- What about persons who die in their sleep? Is that a sinful death?
- What about the men who surround you (everywhere the government, father and society are bad; and therefore we are producing bad men, and therefore there is no peace and prosperity)?
- What about the platform of just not killing anyone? Is there any credit to that?
- What about the rascals who are not so nice?
- What are some of the important shastric references in regard to developing an article on cheating?
- What are the good qualities you referred to not too long ago?
- What are the specific principles that you would use in trying to determine whether it is absolutely necessary to fight?
- What do you mean by sinful activities?
- What have we done to make ourselves criminals? What criminal acts have we performed?
- What I didn't understand is how this (hypocrisy) is covered by your four pillars, the four... Which of these would cover lying?
- What if a person knows what he is doing is wrong, but he still commits? Is that still ignorance?
- What if he (a thief) is an alcoholic and he's hungry?
- What if he (the thief) breaks in because he's hungry?
- What if he just goes on and he never asks pardon? Is he finished in...?
- What if you avoid even choosing right or wrong, you simply drift without any decision of right or wrong?
- What is good and what is bad, what is sinful activity?
- What is the basis on which you decide whether a cause is right or wrong?
- What is the cosmic purpose for this and how should one come to terms with this prevailing, this increasingly prevailing notion that justice can be established in a material state or a material dimension?
- What is the definition of a cheat?
- What is the difference between killing a plant and eating it and killing an animal and eating it?
- What is the meaning of good citizen?
- What was this original sin?
- What would we do if a thief came in? In other words, would we be violent?
- When Krsna steals or does anything, we glorify it because He is absolute. So the Mayavadis, they say that the living entities are also absolute. Is that correct?
- When Lord say whatever the sins being committed are going to be committed all by only His will and wish, then why a person should be hated as a cruel person, and to kill him, and why God should take a other and do all these things?
- When one becomes sinless, would he then experience the indwelling of God?
- When they take the pill, the birth control pill, are they killing their children too?
- When we tell them to stop their sinful activities, they will say "What do you mean by sinful?"
- Where was the generosity (Abhimanyu's head was there, and Krsna was on the ground with his chariot, and Arjuna was about to kill him, and Krsna was directing him to kill: "There was no mercy with Abhimanyu, so therefore there will be no mercy now")?
- Who are these harijanas? What is their origin? What sins did they commit?
- Who is honest?
- Who is that (the sinless people who will survive the war)?
- Why (at the present moment people are very, very much addicted to sinful life)?
- Why are people cruel? Why do they persecute other human beings and torture them? How is it they are able to do this?
- Why are we evil? Why doesn't God make us good?
- Why doesn't He (God) force us to be good?
- Why God created sinful activities?
- Why I am put into this body which will be destroyed, which will become old, useless? And where is my freedom?" These things do not bother them, and they are reader of Bhagavad-gita... Is it the sin of some of the...?
- Why will they take advice? Will they actually be attracted to the virtues?
- Why you've not answered my question (about killing)?
- Without God consciousness, there's no question of morality?
- 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?
- Would you be justified in doing something that society would consider criminal, like… stealing for Krsna, or killing for Krsna... Something that is judged by, say, the US government as criminal, would be still do it if it was for Krsna?
- Would you say that because we - and I talk about myself - because I have meat and bacon and so on, I am a, does that make me sinful? If I didn't eat those, I would be less sinful?
- Would you say that He (God) loves the person that is doing wrong?
- Would you say that the lawyer can do good whether or not he believes in God?
- Would you say that there were times when, well, that there were marriages which were also illicit?
- Would you say the right way would have to be, let's say, to be a follower of Krsna?
- Would you say there are more sins than those four? Are there other sins? Are there other sins beside these four?
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- Yesterday you said that the spiritual master may have to suffer due to the sinful activities of his disciple. What do you mean by sinful activities?
- You were speaking in SB class about Ajamila and how by circumstances he fell down, and that because it wasn't intentional, Krsna forgave him. So, but still, at one point or another, he agreed to the desires of the prostitute. So isn't that free will?
- Your Grace? I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?