Category:Questions asked to SP... 1969
- 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... 1969"
The following 130 pages are in this category, out of 512 total.
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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..?
C
- 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?
D
- 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?
E
- 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?
H
- 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?