Category:Questions asked to SP... 1968
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
Pages in category "Questions asked to SP... 1968"
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- A devotee, he can be very poor, but is it okay if he's hankering after something for Krsna? Can a devotee think like that, "Why can't we get a nice house like these people for Krsna"? Is that all right?
- A God-brother brought up that he heard that Srila Bhaktivinode was at one time an impersonalist. Was he ever?
- A vipra means he has the twelve qualifications, and he also has the qualification of faith. I don't understand exactly what it means when Prahlada Maharaja says that I should be meditating on a follower who has no faith in God or God watching him
- About how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- About the eternally conditioned souls and eternally liberated souls. I'd like to know what's the meaning of eternal in both those statements?
- After that seven months of unconsciousness in the body, in the womb, what does that spirit soul experience from that time till it comes out?
- All the Vedic literatures? Why would they be written down?
- And how does yoga...?
- And karma-yoga then (so you can perform bhakti-yoga by fighting, by cooking, by going to the office, everything, if that purpose is for Krsna. That is bhakti-yoga. Is it clear)?
- And that's permitted to the grhasthas (they can simply ask help for the bare necessities of life)?
- And this (Gayatri) mantra. What's the purpose?
- And what of special foods and special drink?
- And your question about Bhisma deva, after he left this planet...
- Any work you do, do it very nicely. That is expert. Don't do it haphazardly. To your best talent, to your best capacity, try to finish it very nicely, whatever it may be. You are entrusted with some work. Do it nicely. That is expert
- Are Arjuna and Kunti Devi in Krishna Loka?
- Are great sages put under yogamaya or maya? Also are all the eternally liberated souls under yogamaya?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are there any books written about Krsna consciousness here available in Seattle or any other organizations besides the temple?
- Are there any formal rules that they agree to accept at this stage? Over and above the earlier...?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are there some qualifications of grhasthas, that grhasthas, they're required, like they are required to support the brahmanas, like that?
- Are we duty-bound to maintain our body?
- Are we to take Krsna conscious dreams seriously or some illusion?
- Are you in this world?
- Are you saying that there are people on the moon?
- Aren't they allowed to boil water in India? In boiling the water do you kill any little insects that are in the water?
- Aren't we all the sons of God?
- As the age of Kali progresses, will those people just eventually be diminished and wiped out because they already live so short?
- As the spirit soul is leaving the body, do you become older?
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- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can ice cream purchased from the market be offered?
- 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 Krsna give us the ability to someday remember every word that you are saying to us now?
- Can one say om instead of "Krsna" and gain the same benefit?
- Can the Bhagavad-gita be sung?
- Can you explain subordination again?
- Can you tell us what the program is for Hindu priests or Hindu holy man, swami?
- 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 we use alchemy to make gold for Krishna's altar?
- Could you describe your temple to me?
- Could you elaborate a little bit on the point of debate of Krsna manifesting everything, and therefore He's attractive?
- Could you estimate how many people in India have found true spirituality through Indian religion?
- Could you explain further, purification of the senses? You said that you had to purify your senses before you can see God
- Could you explain what you meant by knowledge? What? Spiritual knowledge or...?
- Could you repeat that, Srila Prabhupada? I want to record it
- Could you say that prayer again of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "You chant Hare Krsna..."? I didn't understand that
- Could you tell me the names of these special foods? How do you know what Krsna eats and drinks, please?
- Could you tell me why at times it is dangerous to meditate on concentration on the astral world?
- Could you tell people how you are dressed today, what's the significance of your clothes?
- Could you tell us about something about Lord Caitanya's production of Vaisnava drama? Are there any of the plays that you know are still extant?
- Could you think of yourself? And when you think, you are thinking of Krsna?
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- Did Bhismadeva get wounded by arrows at the battle of Kuruksetra, or did he simply chose to leave his mortal body and thus lay down for passing on a bed of arrows?
- Did I understand you to say the swami has no sex life?
- Did Krsna have children by the gopis?
- Did Lord Caitanya have women, householders traveling with Him when He went on sankirtana?
- Did Lord Caitanya take sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi?
- Did some time lapse between Vyasa's conception of the Srimad-Bhagavatam and the actual writing down of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Was it passed orally, or was written down by Vyasa Krsna himself?
- Did you come with the purpose of spreading Krsna consciousness?
- Did you get formal training with a...?
- Did you say that having a family necessarily interferes with Krsna consciousness?
- Did you say that Sri Krsna Caitanya was playing Radha?
- Did you say through a particular ritualistic process you can go there in your next life?
- Do people come to the services who are not disciples and devotees?
- Do the disciples take on new injunctions and prohibitions at this time?
- Do the liberated souls also seek after this Krsna consciousness? Those who have become free
- Do they have a period of training or a program for the training of the swamis?
- Do we ever personally contact Krsna in Krsna consciousness?
- Do you believe in the blessed trinity?
- Do you believe that other religions have some truth to them because they all are...?
- Do you find a place for romantic love within...?
- Do you go to this institute for a certain period of time (yes, there is a monastery. We have got institution, Gaudiya Math Institution. They have got hundreds of branches, yes)?
- Do you have a name that you call... are they called students?
- Do you have a temple here, Swami, or do you meet in libraries?
- Do you have altars?
- Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches?
- Do you have anything comparable to bishops and the hierarchy of the Christian faith and of other major faiths?
- Do you have certain dietary rules for which you do not eat? What do you not eat?
- Do you have children? You just left them?
- Do you have much of a following in India itself?
- Do you imagine in this life an attainment of a follower...?
- Do you know about Paramahamsa Yogananda?
- Do you mean the universe is likely to go on forever?
- Do you rule out talking about the beings living on the moon planet?
- Do you say that God has nothing to do? But He has lots of energies, and it is the energy that creates beautiful things? How is the energy ordered?
- Do you sit and meditate alone? What do you do with your mind as it wanders? Do you think of something? Do you put it on something or do you let it wander by itself?
- Do you think that drugs would help attain the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think that the, say astronauts that would land on the moon, do you think they would encounter any difficulty in going about and doing what they wanted to and then leaving?
- Do you think that your movement has a chance to make it here in America?
- Do you use the word guru?
- Does it do atheists any good to chant your verses if they only want to be happy through chanting them?
- Does Jesus Christ reside in the Vaikunthas or Brahmaloka?
- Does Krsna eat out of the fire?
- Does Lord Rama or Lord Caitanya forget?
- Does Lord Siva have a wife, like, a consort?
- Does one attain a consciousness that is beyond words? Or, I dare say, is there a communication that is not the word itself but perhaps a vibration which is much like sound or sound itself? Is there something else beside the verbal? Talk?
- Does our line of succession go directly to Gaurakisora dasa Babaji or to Bhaktivinoda Thakura?
- Does straightforwardness, that arjavam quality of a brahmana, does that include making the truth palatable to someone who will not understand the truth directly?
- Does sundara, like "Gaurasundara," that sundara means beautiful?
- Does taking the initiation create a permanent bond between disciple and guru?
- Does the Lord go to sleep so early and before everyone, and wake up so late, after everybody?
- Does the swami, once he has been installed in office, does he wear a white long coat with a white hat?
- Does this make a difference, the opinion that one's fellow ksatriya would have of him?
- Does this mean that that rasa (relationship with Krsna as lover) is superior or better than the other rasas?
- Doesn't Rama refer to a man that was born in India or somewhere, and Christ was born in Europe? Two different men, but still the same?
- 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?