Category:Questions asked to SP... 1969
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- About Lord Caitanya's civil disobedience. That is with the Kazi? His civil disobedience?
- About the shell which you are presently keeping in the temple
- According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna?
- According to the Aquarian Gospel, Christ was in Jagannatha Puri?
- According to Vedic theory, when did this yuga begin?
- After ten years? Then they (gurukulis) can do Deity worship?
- All the symbols in Visnu's hand, are, all the symbols in Visnu's hand are weapons. How is the lotus a weapon?
- All the women, when Lord Caitanya was a baby, how did they feel about Him?
- And this (primary readings) is all right to use (for the New Vrndavana Gurukula)?
- And you think they (gurukulis) can be taught typing, for instance? A skill like typing and how to use typewriter?
- Any English literature, American literature, English literature (should be taught)?
- Any Indian history (should be taught)?
- Any of the sciences at all (should be taught)?
- Are the people in this age lusty in the modes of ignorance or are they lusty in all three modes?
- Are there any other, any other nice incidences between this time and when Lord Caitanya got married?
- Are there any prohibitions as to what type of work? For example, would a follower of yours work in a war industry?
- Are there fundamental differences between, or is it simply a difference in approach between your awareness and interpretations and, for example, those of the people who are involved with Zen?
- Are there many songs in there?
- Are we not all one?
- Are you going to give some more instruction (you just show how to Deity worship, how you are doing that, and they will learn. Yes. She is doing that very nice. So you can, all of you, all girls, you take, her. See doing, how she is doing)?
- Are you happy always in reflection?
- Are you leaving the decision up to me?
- Are you married, sir? You say you have no connection with your family? Why? To do this, did you have to divorce? When did you renounce your family? How are they managing without you? Do you ever see them at all?
- Are you trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- Arithmetic should be taught (in Gurukula)?
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- At what age should they (gurukulis) be taught to cook prasadam?
B
- Being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- Beyond exclusive centers, how far beyond that can it go in the United States?
- Biology (should be taught)?
- Buddha taught very similar things to what the Gita taught also, didn't he? Are there agreeances there, agreement in certain places what Buddha taught and what the Gita teaches?
- But does it depend on knowledge? I mean, the final judgement that you make (then you must know what is distinction between Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan, if you are serious student)?
- But how do you know one authority from the other?... But what I mean is you use the word authority, saying why would he translate that into English without authority? Now, what is the authority and who has the authority?
- But how would you know, anyway? How are you able to tell, anyway? I mean, for any of your disciples or us or anybody that goes to any spiritual master, how are we to tell... True master. How are we to tell one from the other?
- But I am God, right? I am God. You are God too
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- But just because you have two different kinds of energies, why do you have to differentiate them (you cannot say that, that the temperature of the sun and the temperature of the sunshine is the same)?
- But that (Bhagavad-gita as it is) must be also a translation, mustn't it? Whoever puts it into English
- But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- But you are me and I am you. We are both God. Right?
- But, Prabhupada, the point was, can there be more than one article (in the BTG) by yourself? Or only one..?
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- Can a woman reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna?
- Can hatha-yoga hinder or help Krsna consciousness?
- Can I ask is this a very special welcome for you, or is this a performance that you go through each day?
- Can one chant when working?
- Can we eat cheese?
- Can we withdraw our independence, can we request Krsna to force us to surrender to Him, due to our conditioning?
- Can you explain the reason why yogis don't eat meat?
- Can you explain, Prabhupada, once again what action in action and inaction in action?
- Can you tell me something about Caitanya's initiation in Vaisnava faith? When He was initiated?
- Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like?
- Conchshell. What is this for, Swamiji?
- Could you accept me as your student until eternity?
- Could you describe Krsna's pastimes as cowboy whenever He goes out in the morning with the cowherds boys?
- Could you discuss the various levels on the way to bliss consciousness? What happens to the body and the mind as one approaches bliss consciousness?
- Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well? Are the names important? Could you just count - one, two, three, four - and that would work just as well?
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- Deity worship is temple worship?
- Did He (Krsna) translate it into English?
- Did Krsna describe to Arjuna the disciplic succession?
- Did Krsna invent Radha for His own pleasure?
- Did Lord Caitanya worship Sarasvati?
- Did the Chand Kazi stop this cow killing thereafter? After talking with Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to fight when he was lifting the chariot? Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to kill him?
- Do the five direct rasas take place between jiva souls also when they are...?
- Do you just keep changing bodies indefinitely or does it end?
- Do you know that? Do you know that for a fact? How do you know this is not illusion? How do you know that? Do we know anything for sure (this is cotton. This is cotton. Everyone knows. But if I give you a lump)?
- Do you like that place, Swamiji? Where the disciples are now, on Glenville Avenue?
- Do you like this (painting) one, Prabhupada?
- Do you mean that Siva is demigod?
- Do you need a car, Swamiji?
- Do you not think it's worth going to such places as Ireland and trying to talk to the people out there to stop warring?
- Do you spend a certain amount of time in each center? Do you yourself travel from one center to another?
- Do you take rebirth in human form literally?
- Do you teach Gayatri mantra to your disciples also?
- Do you think of this in terms of a historical event that will occur in the lifetime of your disciples (all miscreants will be killed, and out of them, there must be some pious... They remain)?
- Do you think that the Hare Krsna chant could serve as an intermediary to link the religious tendencies of, both of Christianity and Muslim religions?
- Do you understand your previous lives from the descriptions in authoritative texts, or from any introspective recollection of your own?
- Do you use Gayatri mantra also?
- Do you use your body when you speak?
- Do you want to have responsive chanting?
- Does devotion come before wakefulness, or does wakefulness come before devotion?
- Does everyone go there (spiritual world) or only some?
- Does ISKCON believe in reincarnation?
- Does it matter who performs the Deity worship?
- Does Krsna mean God?
- Does Lord Jesus Christ appear in the spiritual sky with the body he manifested on the earth?
- Does the method include meditation? What... How do you go about this process?
- Does your method include meditation, austerity of various sorts in addition to no alcohol, no drugs?
- Don't followers of Krsna consciousness ever get angry?
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- Eternally individual, so how do the impersonalists attaining their goal merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti?
- Everything comes down to just another form of energy, another form of complexity, so that everything is suited to one thing and yet it's different?
- Everything he says must be done in perfect Sanskrit verses?
- Everything is being controlled ultimately by Krsna. Either by inferior energy or superior energy. His activities (of the jiva) are never independent?
- Everything is not God?
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- Have you any idea what the number of the people are nationally?
- Have you any plans yet to go to England? Is anything definite?
- Have you ever found what you believe to be your self? Could you tell us what you found?
- Hawaii. They have a new place (our Hawaii, tulasi grows very nice)?
- He (Lord Caitanya) would sometimes eat clay?
- He would swoon whenever He heard Krsna's name? He would be swooning? Lord Caitanya would faint?
- How are we to tell one (true master) from the other (any spiritual master)?
- How can I explain how the light and heat from the single sun in this universe is able to reach so far? Is it a question of the receptivity of different planets?
- How can one inquire of you how to know Krsna? What is the process? How does one inquire of the spiritual master?
- How can the living entities actually be happy?
- How can the sun itself be different from it's energy?
- How can we begin to serve you so that you'll be pleased?
- How did the material covering begin? How did we fall into that?
- How do we know if somebody else, Yogananda, Maharsi, and all these different people that have translated it, how are we to tell that their version isn't Krsna's word from your version?
- How do we know of the spiritual abodes since once going there no one returns?
- How do we know that we're going to have a body in the next life?
- How do you explain suicide?
- How do you know that person who wrote it was perfect? And who is the perfect man? How do you find out?
- How important is your diet?
- How is it that devotees of Krsna like demigods can be fearful even if they see Visvarupa?
- How is it that there is so much material "advancement'' in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? Is a man after economic development automatically worshiping Lord Siva whether he is making Yajna or not?
- How is the lotus a weapon?
- How long a sankirtana to begin with, do you think?
- How long have you been in this country? Did you come to found this society?
- How long will you be in England, sir?
- How many articles can we put in by you? These are the most important contributions we have, and, say, would it be too much material to put in, say, an essay by you and maybe a lecture?
- How many centers are there now?
- How many manuscript pages?
- How much of his time do you think should be spent preaching and traveling?
- How one can know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- How the impersonalists mistake the difference between the soul and the Supersoul?
- How to realize Krsna?
- How would you adapt the Krsna chanting to Christianity?
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- I assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- I don't understand how is it that we forgot it... How can we remember...?
- I have thought of doing Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Brahma-samhita. Do you think we could serialize it maybe in three or four Back to Godheads? Or could we print it ourselves in a little pamphlet? Or which do you think would be better?
- I know the translations themselves, they were somewhat changed in Bhagavad-gita As It Is as it came out in Macmillan. Did you like those translations?
- I mean the Kazi, he can be in the kirtana?
- I noticed that someone in the temple was reading a book, The Divine Name. Is it all right to read it?
- I should just like to know how old you are
- I thought Krsna was sixteen only?
- I want to know what it means, "If you touch the element, then you can be healed"
- I was looking at the copy of the disciplic succession and where does Krsna instruct Arjuna? Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- I was wondering how Krsna consciousness would relate to this cosmic consciousness
- I wonder if anybody can spoil something that is not material?
- 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'm not sure I understand what you mean by a spiritual body. When I look at you, it seems that you're...
- I'm not sure that I understand you. You mean that suicide is putting an end to suffering?
- 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 chanting means out loud, how can you do it all day while you're working in so many different situations? How can you chant out loud?
- If God is everything, then why don't you, not loving one by one? Why...(if you love God, then you can love everybody. Because God is everything)?
- If Hare Krsna is such a strong, powerful mantra, is there any reason to chant anything else?
- If LSD is a material attachment, then is not the sound, sabda, also a material attachment?
- If the mantra itself has such power, does it matter where you receive it, where you take it?
- If the parents are good, then there is a remarkable possibility that the children may have a chance to be. Is that not true?
- If there is God, how can there be suffering and disease
- If this is an illusion, then why is it here? What's it doing here (you are thinking that you'll be happy in this material world by adjustment, but you'll never be. That is called maya. So whatever you are struggling for, that is illusion)?
- 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 can use everything in Krsna's service, then why is it that these four things are excluded and they can't be used?
- If we've never been with Krsna, if we've never been in Krsnaloka, then how is it that we start remembering His pastimes and His form?
- If you call Brahma the Absolute, how do you make a distinction between Brahma and Krsna?
- If you can just tell me what you, the best way to have a nice scene of Jagai and Madhai?
- If you have no other suitable name, chant Krsna. That's Caitanya's...? Did He feel there were other suitable names?
- If you were American, how would you say the chant? In other words, I know it has many translations, but what would it mean to you? How would you say it in English?
- If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda Krsna, what of those people who identify love with the sabda Allah?
- In answer to your questions concerning sex life...
- In further reference to your question about the form of the spirit soul of the conditioned living entity...
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- In regard to Kardama Muni, how can a pure devotee become passionate for any amount of agitation?
- 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 Gita it is said that God helps those who help themselves. Now, how do we determine what we should...?
- In the material world there are instruments to measure different kinds of energy. How does one measure, what kind of instrument, how does he develop it, to measure the spiritual energy?
- In this evolution, is it a natural evolution that you can teach people, you can guide people, you can show them the path, but the actual progress that one would make towards the supreme knowledge, is that a natural evolution or is it...?
- In which way will it be most helpful, in giving money personally or inducing others to give money? He will give money?
- Is Arjuna described in disciplic succession?
- Is astrology of any importance to a way of life?
- Is God the one energy you speak of?
- 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 for one to make it in this life? Is it possible that one falls down?
- Is it possible to find an American mantra?
- Is it that the Supersoul controls every movement in this world through the agency of Maya and the inferior energy according to the desires of the dreamer-jiva?
- 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 Kabir in the Vaisnava tradition?
- Is Kalki connected with the Kali-yuga cycle?
- Is Ksirodakasayi Visnu present in non-living entities, like rocks, matter?
- Is Subhadra, Lord Krishna's Sister, the same Durga or Maya?
- Is that one (painting) first-class there, Prabhupada?
- 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 chanting of Hare Krsna the answer to living successfully in today's world?
- Is the humorous direct or indirect? One in humor?
- Is the mode of life that you are proposing adaptable to many, many, many people?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- 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 any place in the movement for the drug addicts, a new class which has come...
- Is there individual complete choice?
- Is this an association or this a vision (if I see every living being is son of God or Krsna, then that means I see God in every beings. Is there any difficulty to understand?)?
- Is this singing essential to the sustenance of your faith?
- Is this understanding of verse 18, chap. 4, correct; that the sage sees material activities as zero (inaction in action) and sees the devotee seated chanting as eternally active (action in inaction)?
- Is this world a real place? According to what you were saying, it's illusion
- Is your philosophy, your approach to consciousness, based on the Gita?
- Isn't it really a matter for the devotee, that one person may find Hare Krsna is more beneficial to his spiritual progress, and yet somebody else, some other mantra may be more beneficial? Isn't it like just a matter of taste? Like judging a flower
- Isn't the sound, though, as good as the explanation (have the sound only. (Laughs) The explanation... I shall give you little explanation)?
- It says in the Bhagavad-gita that the om sound, omkara, is a representation of Krsna. Is it different from the Hare Krsna mantra?
- It was a big snake? Very big? And was it Sesa?
- It's on this quotation from Bhagavata Purana that Caitanya built His system?
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- Lately we have been singing Raghupati Raghava Rajarama. Is that part of your canon also?
- Lord Caitanya is always doing this on a planet in the material, some material universe?
- Lord Caitanya used to eat a lot of food?
- Lord Caitanya, He would cry so that He could hear them chanting Hare Krsna to Him?
- Lotus feet (to use small letter)?
- Lotus flower (to use small letter)?
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- Manu was on this planet. Now he's not?
- Maybe we will show Lord Caitanya's marriage? Is that nice to show?
- Means what (mudha-mate means "You rascal" )?
- Mr. Billy Graham makes people God conscious in a different way. Can you tell me what you think of him?
- My kavi guru was a poet named William Blake. Do you know Blake?
- 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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- Narayana is another name for Siva?
- No, but what I wanted to say is that why can't love of the God and love of matter go and rise up to...?
- Not more than two or not more than one (article by yourself)?
- Now, how would you decide, really, that brahmaṇas are always in a pure state that you speak of, that they would never turn into serpents?
- Now, who said that (authority means one who has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Lord. Then he is authority)?
- Now, your, the sexual abstinence does not include marriage, I gather?
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- Oh, how old should they (gurukulis) be before Deity worship, they do Deity worship?
- On one hand he says that we don't want to be delivered from this material ocean, we just want to serve. Then in one of the other slokas he pleads with Krsna to deliver him from this ocean of death and fix him up as one of the atoms of His lotus feet
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- Prabhupada, about glossaries, the glossary? I have prepared a glossary...
- Prabhupada, are all living entities, always under the protection at all times of the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, at all times?
- Prabhupada, can you tell me what you want for prasadam today?
- Prabhupada, I have a question and it applies only to me, but it's important. A year ago you wrote me in a letter when I was..., said the editing was going slow, to pay more attention to managing the temple. So...
- Prabhupada, I heard it said that the spiritual master will always come back until his devotees, his disciples, have achieved God realization. Can you explain that?
- Prabhupada, in this Vedic verse, tat tvam asi, is this where the Mayavadis, have begin their impersonal philosophy, "Thou art that," or...?
- Prabhupada, Maharaja Pariksit was a great devotee of Krsna from his birth. So is he actually in need of these talks by Sukadeva, or is this for the benefit of others?
- Prabhupada, what does Balabhadra mean?
- Prabhupada, when the living entity, when the jiva leaves the body at death, is there any interim period before it takes up another body or does it happen immediately?
- Prabhupada, who was the spiritual master of Lord Sri Krsna?
- Prabhupada, you said that Krsna has no limbs, no eyes, no form that we can comprehend. How then are we to understand the form of Krsna that's given to us in the pictures and the murtis?
- Prabhupada, you told us that wherever Krsna is, that is Vrndavana. What I was wondering is, if Krsna's present within our hearts, does that mean that within our heart is...
- Prabhupada?... What does the sloka in Bhagavad-gita that says, action in inaction and inaction in action...?
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- Realization of the impersonal feature of the Absolute wouldn't be classified as a spiritual activity?
- Regarding crying
- Regarding Nityananda Prabhu breaking the sannyasi rod of Lord Caitanya
- Regarding Omkar
- Regarding responsive chanting
- Regarding the meter sung by Narada Muni
- Regarding the questions you have asked about the Radha-Krishna throne...
- Regarding the wife of the Spiritual Master being considered as mother
- Regarding you first question, when do we observe Ekadasi?
- Regarding your Draft Board questions
- Regarding your final question about Krishna being the cause of all causes
- Regarding your final question about Laksmiji, does she has conjugal relations with Lord Narayana?
- Regarding your final question, I thought that Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Karanodakasayi Visnu are not divisions of Paramatma?
- Regarding your final question, is it a fact that when one is contact with Krishna, His Name, His Qualities, His Form, His Pastimes, he immediately becomes purified?
- Regarding your final question, once something is offered to the Deity, may it be offered again?
- Regarding your final question, what does marginal potency mean?
- Regarding your first question about annamoya...
- Regarding your first question, the proof of Krishna Consciousness
- Regarding your inquiry of when I left India
- Regarding your last question about the ecstatic symptoms of chanting Hare Krishna...
- Regarding your last question about the importance of chanting...
- Regarding your question about artist materials...
- Regarding your question about Bhava Shakti developing into Prema...
- Regarding your question about BTG containing more than one essay by me in certain issues...
- Regarding your question about closing the temple for a few hours during the day...
- Regarding your question about faith in devotees, faith must be there. But we should always take instruction from devotees who are considered to be elevated
- Regarding your question about feeling emotions during kirtana
- Regarding your question about Govinda Ganamrta...
- Regarding your question about guests being present at arati...
- Regarding your question about items being used in Krishna's service becoming spiritual...
- Regarding your question about keeping daily income and expenditure records...
- Regarding your question about kirtana...
- Regarding your question about Krishna's associates...
- Regarding your question about Krishna's Name...
- Regarding your question about Lord Jesus Christ...
- Regarding your question about Lord Siva and Thakura Haridasa, and their different response to sex agitation...
- Regarding your question about maintaining your body nicely...
- Regarding your question about Mantra 12 of Isopanisad...
- Regarding your question about marriage...
- Regarding your question about my never returning to Spiritual Sky...
- Regarding your question about offering camphor in aratrik...
- Regarding your question about offering Prasadam...
- Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani...
- Regarding your question about placing an effulgence around Krishna's head in all of these pictures
- Regarding your question about rasa with the Spiritual Master...
- Regarding your question about the 10 senses...
- Regarding your question about the Brahmajyoti...
- Regarding your question about the ceremony of offering Srimad-Bhagavatam and some coins to your child...
- Regarding your question about the difference between mind and soul...
- Regarding your question about the disciplic succession coming down from Arjuna
- Regarding your question about the husband becoming the Spiritual Master of the wife...
- Regarding your question about the individual soul becoming all-pervasive...
- Regarding your question about the other mantras you have been given...
- Regarding your question about the relationship between the living entities and Krishna...
- Regarding your question about the verse in the prayers to the Spiritual Master...
- Regarding your question about time
- Regarding your question about why we do not eat meat and yet we eat plant life...
- Regarding your question about why we dress the Deities in very opulent fashion and not as simple cowherds boy and girl
- Regarding your question about Yasoda and Devaki...
- Regarding your question about your sleep, you should sleep after noon prasadam, and when you are tired
- Regarding your questions about details for Deity worship...
- Regarding your questions about pujari...
- Regarding your questions about Sankirtana Party...
- Regarding your questions about sex life...
- Regarding your questions about the examinations to be given...
- Regarding your questions about various names of God...
- Regarding your questions, yes, a woman can certainly reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna. And the gopis of Vrndavana are the best example of this
- Regarding your second question about greeting karmis...
- Regarding your second question about Sanjaya
- Regarding your second question about the rasas in Narayana's Abode...
- Regarding your second question, concerning the 24 elements
- Regarding your working hours
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- She (Mira Bai) was a contemporary of Caitanya?
- Should one not try to purify one's heart first and personality?
- Should we not be respectful to maya as the energy of Krsna?
- Should we try to go fast when we chant, in order to get the rounds done?
- Since no one knows the Lord, how is it possible for the people to know how they are controlled?
- So chanting along with devotional service, performing our duties while concentrating on Krsna, is also part of the process, isn't it?
- So far as initiating disciples is concerned
- So far as your question about controversy amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja
- So far as your question about evolution...
- So far as your question about how to think of Radha-Krishna...
- So far as your question about the disciplic succession...
- So just now you've sent a Krsna tape. Should I, rather than do that, give it to Bhagavan?
- So Kalki comes at the end of the Kali-yuga?
- So maya is temporary, and the only thing that is eternal is Krsna and the spiritual energies?
- So what will be left? After ten thousand years?
- So who is Krsna?
- So who is the most perfect of the Vaisnava poets? That would be Mira?
- So you want Kirtanananda to be president?
- Somebody would not be honest without knowing God?
- Someone has said that the dhoti, the dhoti that the brahmacaris wear, is the dress that's worn in Vaikuntha. Is that correct?
- Sound is the first element of creation?
- Srimad-Bhagavatam (should be taught)?
- Swami? What does Nanda-kisora mean?
- Swamiji, can you tell me about what you said, going through the spiritual master, not directly to Krsna, through the spiritual master?
- Swamiji, if all things here are a reflection of what is perfect in the spiritual world, then shouldn't hate and frustration and despair and prejudice also appear in the spiritual world?
- 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, Janardana told me that from Vedic sources, you drew some conclusion that there are different universes visible? The stars are different universes?
- Swamiji, last night our window was broken. Was that maya striking at us?
- Swamiji, then the rascals could say, "If God is everything, why does He reject some things? If God is everything, why does He accept some things and reject other things"?
- Swamiji? Should we read just one chapter a day? No more?
- Swamiji? When we ring bells especially for the Deities at 6:30, does that put Them to sleep then?
- Swamiji? Why is it that in the mornings and the evenings we say bells before the Deity?
- Swamiji? You said that if you eat too much you will pay. But how about the devotee? How about when they eat too much prasada?
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- That being Krsna conscious, you're the most happiest person? You are?
- The answer to your Istagosthi questions (on the spiritual master) are as follows
- The Bhagavad-gita has stated that whatever one's consciousness is during his lifetime will be at the time of his death, and that will determine his next body. Now, one who is living very lustily during his lifetime, his mind will be on that body
- The Chand Kazi became a devotee?
- The less capitals, the better?
- The other question was, is the subject matter, as they're being done, is there any criticism or should it be changed? The paintings that have been finished thus far, should they be changed in some way?
- The people who have gathered around you, younger people, is that deliberate on your part?
- The purport of verse number forty-two, it divides spiritual activities into two. Is this first division Paramatma realization and the second division is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- The so-called love which goes on in the material world is simply a perverted form of dasya rasa
- The sound krsna is not different from Krsna. Under all circumstances?
- Then Lord Caitanya's wife, she died?
- Then why do you say that it's all right and all that? I mean is it a compromise or what?... I mean the fact that we are doing songwriting and all that. It's a waste of time, isn't it? Without Krsna
- There is nothing specificially objectionable?
- There is very little description from the age of 31 to Lord Caitanya's disappearance. Maybe you can tell me as much as you can of what happened?
- There were instances when the king wouldn't follow the brahmanas, so they were thrown out, weren't they?
- There will be no brain to understand God?
- There's a scene about Lord Caitanya embracing the leper Vasudeva. Is that a nice scene to perform?
- There's no value in keeping the body fit through exercise?
- These are all my sisters and brothers, Swamiji. Right?
- They (people) will go down, down, down for 400,000 years?
- They say something like "I am God." Some young people our age, they talk like that. Does this mean that we should become angry at them?
- Thirty manuscript pages, thirty book pages?
- This tends to show that trees have been once before in human form and then have really fallen. But is it also the case that there are, amongst the forms, many souls that are on the process of evolution and going upward in the same way?
- To give up matter through the chanting of Hare Krsna, to make this contact by using the words of matter, how...?
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- Was Narada there? Did Narada Muni come?
- We can go to Jagannatha Puri?
- We have no guarantee what our next birth will be. But, say, can't mystic yogis who perfect certain mystical powers, do they have any guarantee of a human birth in their next life?
- We should just reproduce that (take some photograph) as it is?
- We should say prayers in the morning at one hour and a half before sunrise?
- We will need a harmonium. Should I wait till we get to India to purchase one?
- Well, can we use, for instance, the glossary to your Srimad-Bhagavatam printed in India, can we use that as a model for...?... You have a glossary at the end of the first volume. Is that the type of glossary...?
- Well, I mean, what do you mean by serious student? Maybe everybody, all of us are serious anyway. I mean, we're born serious or born, you know, unserious
- Well, if God is the creator of everything and is so dear to everyone, why then has He caused so much suffering?
- Well, if Hare Krsna is the best one, what is the reason why we have to bother to even say anything else other than this one?
- Well, then even sexuality is spiritual?
- Well, what happens when I leave? Then if he's not here and I leave, what happens then?
- Well, which is the original (Bhagavad-gita)? It's the same as the Bible
- Were they liberated souls? The thief?
- What about any history? World history or American history or American literature or English literature?
- What about astronomy (should be taught)? Anything like that?... Any animal husbandry they can learn out there
- What about avataras, in reference to Christ or Buddha?
- What about celibacy?
- What about excerpts from your books? Is that all right?
- What about literatures (should be taught)? When they get older, of course. This would be for when they are older.
- What about Madhava-lati?
- What about quoting even Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated, like the Caitanya-caritamrta or cantos that you haven't translated?
- What about something very much nearer to ourselves here in this country, and that is a war or civil disturbance is going on... between Christians?
- What about taking the primers and changing the names of the people to people like Satyabhama and give them spiritual names. Would that be nice?
- What about writing down "kissing the lips of Krsna"?
- What are some of the things that Lord Caitanya did when He was a little boy? Some tricks or things?
- What are the specific principles that you would use in trying to determine whether it is absolutely necessary to fight?
- What are you reading? These are the commentaries? And this is the text?
- What chapter is this, Swamiji?
- What do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- What do you feel about man going to the moon?
- What do you mean by "channel"? Is it (lines of disciplic succession) through hereditary or what?
- What do you put in there (conchshell)? Ghee?
- What do you try and teach, sir?
- What does Madhumangala mean?
- What does Rama mean in Hare Rama? Is this Balarama or Lord Ramacandra?
- What does the Sanskrit sound like? Is Srimad-Bhagavatam to be chanted?
- What else would you like to tell us?
- What if we want to quote them (Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated) in some article?
- What is consciousness?
- What is gambling?
- What is God (1969)?
- What is it... misunderstand about Krsna's plenary expansion Visnu?
- What is Kalki's nature?
- What is recreation for a Krsna conscious person?
- What is the difference between a Mayavadi philosopher and a Krishna Conscious person?
- What is the difference between holy man and spiritual master?
- What is the difference between the spirit souls comprising the Brahmajyoti and the spirit souls here in Maya?
- What is the difference in full between the Spiritual Master, Krishna, and the devotee?
- What is the meaning of this chanting? If we're chanting all day long, do we have to reach a certain consciousness?
- What is the most attractive and suitable name (of God) here in this material country?
- What is the position of astrology in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the significance of the food that is eaten at ISKCON kirtanas?
- What is the soul's, the spirit soul's, relationship to actions performed both in material consciousness and in spiritual, in Krsna consciousness?
- What part do they play when a person's reached this higher level of consciousness? Is it more pleasurable?
- What position does Anandamayi Ma have now?
- What should one know about Krsna consciousness? Is it something mystical?
- What was Arjuna's relation to Krsna, I mean, as concise as you can put it?
- What was Arjuna's relationship to Krsna?
- What was the conclusion of Sankaracarya?
- What was the first sound, traditionally?
- What you are doing by chanting is kind of...?
- What's the future of a religious observance so technical as this? So complicated as this?
- What's the next evolutionary step for these flowers that we offer to Krsna?
- What's the trouble (with that painting)?
- When digging the pile (if I asked these karmis, "why you are digging? why you are piling? and why you are leaving?" then... can you say what will be the answer?)?
- When in the Bhagavad-gita it says that the maha-mantra cleanses the heart and soul, does that mean that when you just, like automatically say the word, will that cleanse your heart? Or should you try and remember Krsna with every word and every sound?
- 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 making arati offerings, is it proper to meditate on the different parts of the Lord's Body?
- When we sing bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya, we're saying "worship Sri Krsna Caitanya"—we say bhaja, so... And the motive for worshiping Him is for direction in devotional service?
- Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- Where is the origin of this image of the sun? Is this a Vedic sastric explanation?
- Whether it's a secret mantra or an open mantra, it's all the name of God. So it doesn't really make much difference, does it, which one you sing?
- Who is the original authority of Bhagavad-gita?
- Whose list is that? Is that an old list or have you made that up for young Americans?
- Why are Krsna students given spiritual name?
- Why are there apparent time-gaps in the line of disciplic succession as listed in the Bhagavad-gita? Is Arjuna an instructor Spiritual Master and not an initiator Spiritual Master and therefore not listed?
- Why are you teaching Radha-Krsna consciousness?
- Why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka?
- Why can't two people be in charge? Why can't we both...?
- Why do we say chant, but not sing?
- Why does Krsna have an external energy?
- Why don't you write some purports to that?... To Bhaktisiddhanta's Brahma-samhita?
- Why not (you are me and I am you. We are both God)?
- Why the Yadu dynasty completely destroyed itself?
- Why would they practice yoga at a time when everybody was pure already?
- Will people still be chanting Hare Krsna in 400,000...?
- Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa, if we try to concentrate, if we sit erect while chanting?
- Will you excuse me?
- Would it matter if I worship any other? Would it matter whether I worship Krsna or Siva or Christ or Buddha? Would it matter?
- Would it not be better for them to leave the father and devote their status, instead, to the Lord?
- Would you elaborate what you are doing as New Vrindaban? What is it you are establishing there?
- Would you like to hear one of the Blake songs?
- Would you say something about Christ and his relation to Krsna consciousness?
- Would you say that Krsna is God or Krsna is love?
- Would you say that there were times when, well, that there were marriages which were also illicit?
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- You asked if we will remember the earth, when in Vrindaban...
- You gave some diet that we should follow. We shouldn't have meat, eggs, fish, and chicken. Can we eat cheese? Is there anything else we should not eat in our diet?
- You have a farm now?
- You have asked about construction plans in New Vrindaban...
- You have asked about my travelling schedule...
- You have asked about the management of our society, and the position is that management should be done in such a way that people may not break away. That is the first business of management
- You have asked about the specialness of the month of Karatieya
- You have asked about where you will get the money for bookbinding equipment...
- You have asked how the Sankirtana activities become more relishable every day...
- You have asked if it is true that the Spiritual Master remains in the material universe until all of His disciples are transferred to the Spiritual Sky?
- You have asked in your letter to Purusottama if you should observe the lists of 44 offenses and 44 regulations for deity worship...
- You have asked me about my plans...
- You have asked me for suggestions of what to say to different persons on Sankirtana Party...
- You have asked me some questions about the functions of sex life in Krishna Consciousness
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest" as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest'' as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me to assign you to some duty...
- You have asked me to tell you everything that you should know...
- You have asked me what are the formalities that you have to observe for recruiting Krishna devotees in India...
- You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krishna
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky...
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky?
- You have inquired about the Jagannatha Car...
- You have inquired if you should learn the German language...
- You have inquired why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka. But perhaps you have missed the point
- You mean actually Krsna is in here?
- You once said that in case of a strong rush of sex desire to think of the Gopis, the Dearmost to Lord Krishna. Is there another help in case of anger or harshness?
- You said it takes an intelligent person to become Krsna consciousness, but it's obvious that are not so many intelligent people. Whose choice is it? If a person isn't intelligent, is it because he wants to enjoy that makes him ignorant?
- You said Prahlada Maharaja, he heard Narada Muni speaking in the womb
- You said that as long as one is engaging in sex life one cannot become a yogi?
- You said that Hare Krsna is the most superpowerful word, and if that is true, then why do you bother to utter any other words?... is it necessary? And why do you encourage us, saying that we're songwriters and all, ... to write any song but Hare Krsna?
- You said that spirit soul is one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair. In the spiritual sky, is the spirit soul still just that big?
- You said that with the payments, that the society can take up some of these? How would that be managed, and when would it be put into effect?
- You said that your followers may not drink? What about the drug picture, marijuana, LSD, and those?
- You said two or three pages. Maybe four pages would be all...?
- You say there's pure joy in achieving the transcendental platform. Why? Why necessarily joy and not sorrow?
- You talk about different yogas reaching different platforms, like one the twenty-fifth, one the fiftieth, and one the eightieth. Does each one really reach the same point?
- You talk about the service of Lord Krsna. How does service of our fellow man come in?
- You want me to do Nectar of Devotion and then Krsna and then Bhagavad-gita, in that order?
- Your final question is how can you become a pure devotee, and the answer to this is given in Bhagavad-gita
- Your fourth question, about the "life force'' mentioned in Chap. 4 of the Bhagavad-gita...
- Your message is similar in some ways to the message of evangelical or fundamentalist teachers in Christianity, who are taking the name of Jesus Christ and excluding everything other than complete devotion to Christ. Would you comment on this?
- Your next question is if Visala Das will be your name eternally
- Your next question, whether the Spiritual Master was formerly a conditioned soul...
- Your plan here in America, then, is to set up centers so that those who are that concerned can pursue their studies and practice a ritual?
- Your question about not chanting while attending class...