Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971
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- Karl Marx says, "The most persistent form of antagonism between the Jew and the Christian is religious antagonism." How has one solved an antagonism by... making it impossible?
- Krsna has exhibited His pastimes on every planet in the universe?
- Krsna knows everything in the past and everything in the future, so can we say it is predestined?
- Krsna knows everything we're thinking and He knows exactly when each of us will give up the material body, does that mean that everything is predestined?
- Ksirodakasayi-Visnu is in which category?
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- Laborers exploit (not only the capitalists exploit, the laborers also exploit)?
- Last night you said that what is the meaning of the word "nothing." That maya means "nothing"?
- Legally (married). And they will be living outside the temple for sure. Is that correct, Prabhupada (so we have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?)?
- Let us now praise famous men and our fathers who beget us as they oddly enough seem always to be... but I've never been able to understand why?
- Let's say a person has been involved in the Vietnam War due to his relation with the material world and has been drawn into this activity. And now he's in Krsna consciousness. How is he then relieved of the law of karma for his activity?
- Locke argues on behalf of private property given to man by God. That is to say a man may have a certain stewardship over a certain amount of property. Is this in compliance with the Isopanisadic version?
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- Maharaja Yudhisthira and Arjuna after Krsna left the earth, returned to the spiritual sky in this same body. Does that indicate that their bodies were so spiritual from spiritual activities that they no longer were material bodies?
- Materialistic pleasure, Freud says, serves the death instinct, but doesn't materialistic pleasure just bring out more craving for pleasure?
- May I ask you about, for example, we have Bahulasva. He's married, he has two children, twins. Now, how is the future as you foresee it, from now until his...?
- Moral qualities will follow? (all good qualifications will come automatically if he sticks to these four principles)
- My master, many people are interested to know something about you, and I found just not enough to know about you, and I could write volumes about your life. Could you (tell us) about your life?
- My master, what's your opinion on the Ramakrishna Mission? We have a Ramakrishna Mission in Chicago
- My question is, Prabhupada, that yes, maybe through speculation we can get knowledge, some knowledge
- My question is, what is the, why is that this particular movement is not emphasizing so-called meditation?
- My solution, Swamiji, most respectfully, is how do you judge that "I am correct"?
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- No, I want to say, like at the point of death we are also changing to another body. Do we feel that then?
- No, no. Stop this. Just try to understand. If you are not surrendered to me you have no right to ask me anything
- Not according to birth (the occupational duties are already there. The (indistinct) are already there. That is created by God. Now you can select one of them according to the price you can pay)?
- Not simply because of the increased population (India is faced with so many problems)?
- Now how was it that a great personality like Indra, with his mind, intelligence, and ego all intact, how is it he could become a toad?
- Now the reason is one thing, but intellection is another there... Intellection and reason you would call the same?... Intellection and reason and the Supersoul speaking from within?...That's something different?
- Now you said that from your very birth you knew that Krsna was the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Now does this mean that from your very birth you were acquainted with the name Krsna, or didn't your father have to at least say the word once?
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- Oh, after time. Oh (space is later created). And it creates the ultimate reality?
- Oh, that's the basis for morality (if you obey God, then all the laws are also included. That is the universal morality. " Just become My servitor, always think of Me, just offer obeisances unto Me," that is morality)?
- Oh, there's only one truth (servitude of the living entity is truth. But he is serving maya. That is untruth. If we take that there are two types of truth, there cannot be two kinds of truth. Truth is one. What we take as truth, that is maya)?
- On a social scale as well (the best method is to surrender unto Krsna, and all problems are solved)?
- One last statement from Aristotle. He states, in his Politics, he says, "The beauty of the body is seen, whereas the beauty of the soul is not seen." Is this true?
- One thing that puzzles me is if what is practical for one person is not practical for another person, then what is the criterion of truth? Is truth relative?
- One thing they (indistinct) Prabhupada, that we are thinking in terms of Vedic culture, and they say well, if this Vedic culture was previously existing, then why did it dissolve? Why did it fall apart and now we have to make a new one?
- Only difficulty, for instance, in socialist society of our country and a socialist society how can you distinguish productive group and workers?
- Original form... Which is the form of the body (he (the soul) has got his original form)?
- Otherwise where does the impersonal idea come from (God is there, but he is refusing to accept. Just like the impersonalist: unless you have got personal understanding, how will you try to make it impersonal? The first is personal)?
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- Para-tattva? Means?
- People are fascinated in the ritual things, the ara..., during the offering puja to the Deities and especially this initiation service. I would like to record the meaning of these ritual?
- Personality is there certainly, but is it continued? Is there a continuity of personality from the dead body to the new body?
- 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 has told us that even in the spiritual world there is desire to have the senses enjoy. Isn't that so?
- Prabhupada, can you explain a little more about Ratha-yatra? Anyone who takes part in Ratha-yatra, are they liberated?
- Prabhupada, if someone is hearing the holy name in the street, if the sankirtana party is chanting, and they are atheists, what benefit is it for them?
- Prabhupada, in case, for example some scientist makes a change, like if the scientist comes and cuts off my hand, that's also my karma. In that way he's not making a change. Everything that is happening is God's plan?
- Prabhupada, is the best method to read Bhagavad-gita?
- Prabhupada, what do you think about the German translation work? I know it must go on. But isn't there some way to increase it, to make it go more quickly?
- Prabhupada, you said that at the time of death, if one is Krsna conscious, he's given a spiritual body. Is the spiritual body... You said it has been created. Originally, we had a spiritual body, and then we fell under the...
- Prabhupada? When you were speaking of bhagavata-vidhi, you said that of the nine devotional methods, it includes... I didn't understand which ones it includes, up to what point?
- Prabhupada? You said Arjuna was lamenting, but pure devotees become... Superior qualities that all devotees possess... So why is this? So why did Krsna call him a fool?
- Prakrti means space?
- Presumably you would encourage this movement of more people to find a spiritual life?
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- Regarding $20,000 advanced to BTG account, you have asked seeking my instruction where to forward $5000 monthly check...
- Regarding whether the Brahmajoti should be painted rainbow colored
- Regarding your inquiry about deities
- Right now we have so many preachers, so many other kinds of preachers in India. Then how can they get rid of them just by chanting?
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- Sakti in original is Radha?
- Shall Sivananda come here to see you? He wants to know about his taking sannyasa. He can either go to Paris and meet you there or he can come here?
- Should we try to avoid getting injections as much as possible?
- Should we want to unite the world, or should we want to unite ourselves with Krsna?
- Sir, are we rightly understanding that by "Krsna" you mean some eternal principle?
- Sir, would you like to give any message to the Indian people?
- So a man can can never become Bhagavan?
- So actually, we're removing people from danger, from evil, by making them Krsna conscious?
- So all ideas can be traced back to the original substance which is Krsna?
- So by observing someone's individual propensity, then I can see him as a person?
- So even God cannot predict when the living entity will come back to Him?
- So even the particle of matter is eternal?
- So everything is art?
- So everything is coming from Krsna and going toward Krsna?
- So full will means to follow...?
- So God's plan is unfolding itself everywhere, whether we understand it or not?
- So how does he (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard) ever come to the point of religion if he wants men to make their own decisions? How can we make our own decisions according to him?
- So if I feel hungry, I become full of anxiety, "Where is food? Where is food?" He says that this anxiety...
- So if one follows these moral guidelines (of Krsna consciousness), the result is certain, predictable?
- So is the primary factor of the variation is how much advanced they are (species of humans) in Krsna consciousness, and how least advanced they are in Krsna consciousness?
- So may we offer you a special feasting?
- So one condition you say is that as soon as the body dies, then there is no more movement. But what is there to prove that the soul has left the body or that there was ever a soul in the body?
- So penance and austerity, that it is not really suffering? What does suffering involve?
- So Prabhupada, a neophyte devotee, he may think it might be very nice to be Krsna's friend, but he may actually be a blade of grass and he'll be fully satisfied when he comes to that stage?
- So practicality has to be judged on the result, what is the result of that action?
- So some progress is made from that conflict (conflict means if I don't agree with you and if you do not agree with me, that is conflict)?
- So that taste, eternal rasa, for associating with Krsna is fixed already?
- So that's a combination of thesis and antithesis into synthesis?
- 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 picture of reality is always changing? There are no set combinations?
- So the proof that one accepts for something which is beyond our sense is not necessarily scientific?
- So the selective principle is there, but all species are already there?
- So the values that are taught to us by history, are they not...?
- So the world is a school house or a school ground where we become educated...?
- So they say that if we are to verify this proposition, to prove that it is true, then we have to know what conditions under which it is true. What are those conditions under which it is true?
- So this idea that no progress is made in any..., except through conflict... How is that exactly?
- So this is a welfare activity (making people Krsna conscious) ?
- So those eternally liberated souls in the spiritual sky will never come here because they choose not to?
- So we are clarifying a scientific proposition with our philosophy?
- So what would you say, if Schopenhauer said this is the worst of all possible worlds? Because it is so full of frustration
- So when someone has integrity, you can see that they are one-minded?
- So why don't we remember everything?
- Some day one person will do the floor, and the next day another person? Is that all right?
- Some people have been said to have remembered events in their previous lives. How are these reminiscences or ideas different from innate ideas? How is it possible for one to recall events?
- Somehow or other, we create our own ignorance?
- Someone can know what the life force is going to do in the future, how it will manifest itself in the future?
- Soul will not merge into that light, Krsna's light?
- Spinoza writes, "The more we understand individual objects, the more we understand God." Is this the proper process? Wouldn't you say that the more we understand God the more we understand individual objects?
- Spiritual form is there but due to the bond man has taken this form?
- Srila Prabhupada, there was a fish on Laksmi's hand yesterday. The Deity in the temple, where Laksmi had her hand up like this, there was a fish here across her hand. What is this?
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean practically to surrender unto Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the actual cause of shame?
- Srila Prabhupada? If they were more intelligent in previous ages, then why didn't they take to the chanting process? Why did they do it, the more difficult method, if they were more intelligent?
- Sudras are not allowed to upanayana-samskara?
- Suffering sharpens the intelligence?
- Suppose for example questions are arising in my mind and I think to myself, "Oh, this question is a foolish question, so I shouldn't waste the spiritual master's time"
- Suppose for one who's not completely surrendered, how will he make choices? For example, suppose that there seem to be two different ways of serving Krsna...
- Suppose he wills nothing at the time of death?
- Suppose I am the first man on the planet, there has never existed any other house, then I get an idea to build a house, does that idea precede the substance?
- Suppose one is engaged for his livelihood for eight hours, or ten hours for material purposes. How he will link with Krsna during that period?
- Suppose someone is satisfied simply being related with the spiritual master?
- Suppose someone is situated as Visnuduta. He may change his taste?
- Suppose that was a beautiful landscape on its own, just the landscape, then it's worthless? But you accept that the temporary enjoyment is there, would you?
- Suppose, for example, last night. I was chanting, and then I thought to myself, "Oh, I'm not concentrating on the chanting any more. Now I should go to sleep."
- Supposing hundred pure saintly Krsna conscious people are meditating or discussing or just serving together, and there comes somebody, some dusta who drops a bomb, and at the end of all...?
- 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
- Svamsa is plenary. And vibhinnamsa is part of plenary. So the presence of Krsna in the atom, it is vibhinnamsa. Both of them (are there)? In the atom?
- Swamiji, can you tell us why we're in this material contamination? Why is it that the spirit soul has material contamination?
- Swamiji, do you believe in reincarnation?
- Swamiji, I see in the face of your students brightness. How you have created brightness?
- Swamiji, if Isa is everywhere, isavasyam idam sarvam, then surely He is in the body also?
- Swamiji, material aspect in your understanding, they are one?
- Syamasundara Prabhu was asking about predicting about spiritual life. What is the qualification of the person who can make such predictions?
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- Tarzan?
- Tell me in fact what is the purpose of your visit to London?
- That (two plus two equals four) disappears when this universe disappears?
- That four-handed form is not complete perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- That has social effects that could change the world?
- That independence, if he (the living entity) exercises that independence from now on, forever, Krsna knows exactly how that independence is going to be used forever?
- That is the basic cause of anxiety-desire?
- That isn't possible to understand... (simply understanding green is not complete study of the leaf. The main questions are why it is green?)?
- That means like time is actually like presence (the past, present, future is relative according to the body. Otherwise time is eternal. Time has no past, present, future)?
- That means those who are to follow you are not liberated?
- That's actually susupti (living entity does not die; he remains unconscious for seven months)?
- That's due to too much sinful activity? Too much sinful activity that they can't think that there's some divine influence?
- That's really what I was going to ask you. You must find life difficult preaching the values of brotherhood?
- That's the cause of all falldown, committing offenses at the feet of a pure devotee?
- The administrative class, they are not following the strictly the rules and regulations. Therefore it is fallen ( Is this the result of a lack of education?)
- The beginning of the creation was when?
- The Bhagavad-gita - do you accept that as it's historically an historical fact?
- The body, or my form, it's pertaining to my consciousness, the development of my consciousness?
- The chanting of Krsna's name, the Hare Krsna mantra, seems to play a very important role in the profession of your religious belief. Right?
- The constitutional nature of the entities that naturally form brahma-jyotir is the same as the constitutional nature of the jivatmas that are forming the living entities?
- The cowherd boy with Krsna, he is also vibhinnamsa expansion. Correct?
- The description on the...? That last description. That the living entities are fragments of God's body...? But their individuality is not lost?
- The first thing is to get Krsna. The world can then be looked after later?
- The forgetful stage is never everlasting or eternal, is it?
- The government of India has not in any way helped this movement, has it?
- The Hindu nation has been broken up into so many parts. But he sees the religion basically as a religion of the denial of will. But does the religion have its foundation in the nature of man?
- The human society is degrading so fast. You can notice it the last twenty years. Is it... Is it the age of Kali or is it the...?
- The impersonalist in the brahma-jyotir, is his will in a dormant state also?
- The impersonalists improperly emphasize tat tvam asi over the original omkara. I was wondering what are the significance of these two vibrations and what is their relationship to Krsna? What is tat tvam asi?
- The individual soul has a little independence to choose? So we have no free will?
- The mercy of God is the love of God, isn't it?
- The mind and the intelligence, they are not material? ...But they don't die? They die also?
- The original form of Krsna, that is only on one planet in one day of Brahma. Is that correct?
- The person is the same but the false personality changes then (so soul continues with his reaction of past deeds, and even though he forgets what he has done in the past, Krsna is there. He reminds that "You wanted to do this. Do it now.")?
- The philosophy of Bhagavata is not purely conceptual, is it?
- The Pope didn't acknowledge your letter to him. His loss. When we have Krsna, who needs the Pope?
- 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 soul is eternally existing with God in some form?
- The soul is going on always, changing one body to another body, then how the soul is liberated?
- The twelve authorities, are they all pure devotees?
- The urge to advance is there in the human more developed. How does that...? We notice that in all human entities there is an urge to advance or improve oneself, to become something more
- The values of Western civilization have made that (articifial division). Therefore that's made living as children of God impossible?
- The Visnudutas, they had spiritual bodies, spiritual forms. Are they traveling through all the planets or only where there are devotees?
- Then again he will not get material body?
- Then the result of following these guidelines (moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness) is predictable results?
- Then there is some distinction, between the nature of the soul and the nature of the body?
- Then using another example, that every apple on the tree will fall, but when it is ripe, it will fall to the ground. There is no man involved with that. What about that?
- Then you have to give up (trying to understand). Then just simply love Krsna?
- There (is the) idea of the unitary view that Krsna is everything, all and in all. And then at the same time that the world, there is this world of illusion which is somehow distinct from Krsna. Could you just explain this point to me?
- There are probably more people in the world now who are seeking some kind of spiritual new light than probably ever before, or at least, there's more evidence of it. And I wonder if you agreed with that, and if so can you tell me why it is?
- There are some Christians who are actually sincere and they feel as though they are doing the proper thing. The churches are teaching the wrong thing, but they are sincere. Krsna will direct them the proper authority?
- There is also the demigods in charge of those different departments?
- There is at the same time the oneness is there, there is distinction, then, between the spirit... But still it's, not clear, but clear, there is some distinction...
- There is even spiritual space?
- There is no universal morality?
- There is place for women in the religion too isn't?
- There must have been an element, though, of dissatisfaction then on your part, with the way God was being... Godhead was being professed in this part of the world before you came. Otherwise there would have been no sense in you coming here?
- There should be right surrender?
- There's harmony at the beginning and harmony at the end (the child's body is harmonically changing into boy's body, harmonical changes, there is harmony)?
- There's no question of independent liberation?
- There's no question of the making of gods?
- These forms that are here, are they actually eternal forms?
- They (Krsna and His associates) didn't go through any death of any sort?
- They (the scientists) can't create a machine that will act like a human?
- They say he (the father) has passed away. But what is passed away?
- They were, I was told, associated with Gandhi. What's your relation with Mahatma Gandhi?
- They would posit that there's a mental functioning going on, a thinking functioning going on that we're not conscious of. I think we don't agree with that. Is that correct? We say that there's one mind, sometimes mental impressions come that are stored...
- This body of a table, it's not an individual personality is it? There's not one jiva soul in charge of this table?
- This is a continuation of Jung. Concerning whether or not karma is personal, Jung concludes, "Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution?"
- This is called utilitarian (called what?)
- This is collective, national danger here. Have you anything to offer to us as a...?
- This movement must have structure. Will you please tell us about the structure from the hierarchy on the top, and all the way down?
- To be man means to reach toward being God, or, if you prefer, man fundamentally is the desire to be God... He says that he prefers to set the question aside, but at the same time... how can you say let us just set it aside?
- To become God conscious do you think they have to become a devotee of Krsna consciousness?
- To my mind the nearest approach in the Christian religion is the Unitarian position, which I don't know if you studied?
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- We are having dinner later, of course. I thought maybe you would want something to start with (one glass of water will be fine). Only water? Only water, Swamiji? We have made a truly sattvic bhojana today so there is no problem
- We are speaking now. We are making pictures of reality as we speak with our language, with our words. Do these words have more content in themselves, or are they simply pictures of reality?
- We can't predict that the process of punishment will have permanent effect, can we? Can we predict that? Many prisoners leave the prison, but some come back
- We can't understand that it's green and that it grows (whatever nature is already there. Nature of the leaf is already there, but you cannot understand it by speculating)?
- We do not fight?
- We have made the statement that we attain a certain amount of bliss by engaging in this Krsna consciousness process. Do we deny the fact that other people have attained similar bliss from doing other things?
- We have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?
- We say that there's one mind, sometimes mental impressions come that are stored... but in that storage area of the consciousness, there is no thinking going on there. Is that correct? The unconsciousness mind is not thinking like the conscious mind
- We see that every great saint personality has surrendered to Krsna, even Mahatma Gandhi?
- We want to live and enjoy, therefore this universe and all these things. Now, in what perfect form? Because everywhere, in everything, there is a best. Now how everything should take?
- We would say there is no past, or is our perception of the past is false?
- Welcome, sir. What is Krsna consciousness?
- Well in this sense Fichte is closer to Krsna consciousness than most impersonalists, because most impersonalist advocate inaction and meditation on the void, but,... how can you have action without action directed toward a person or toward...?
- Well, a Beethoven symphony, for example, could you listen to that? (If it is) inspired by God, given by God?
- Well, what about before they had botanists? They didn't know anything about leaves before?
- Were you always in Moscow? What did, do they allow some lectures or... (no. I had meeting with Professor Kotovsky. That's all) Kotovsky only? That's all? He couldn't bring some people?
- What about a meeting in the biggest hall of Heidelburg? Would you also be interested in that?
- What about a notion or a concept? How does that come into being if it has never existed before?
- What about a principle, like "Two plus two equals four"?
- What about activities in the spiritual sky, beyond...?
- What about brahmana (can become Krsna conscious)? Brahmana too? Someone who is naturally a (indistinct)
- What about if it accidentally fell off; a thunderbolt hit the rock and it moved, like that, or gravity made it fall?
- What about if someone can choose to become a doctor or a lawyer or a physician or anything like that?
- What about pleasures like listening to music? Could you listen to other peoples' music?
- What about something that cannot be tangibly seen, like a mathematical calculation or an equation?
- What about the body of a man? Is that punishment or gift?
- What about the children of new devotees now?
- What about the half-life of certain elements?
- What about the idea that God does not exist?
- What about the idea that God is evil?
- What about the statement that "Peace is stagnation"?
- What about the war between America and Germany, for instance? Neither one of them were God conscious
- What about the Western religions like Christianity? That's been with us now for two thousand years and doesn't seem to have helped people to become particularly (happy and prosperous)?
- What about these men who perform great austerities, lash their bodies, starve, and...?
- What about this idea that nature, or evolution, is progressing?
- What about when you're not going to die... What about when you have some problems that's not fatal. Then who would we call?
- What about work, though? Does one have to give up one's job?
- What about yourself? How long have you had this understanding and awareness of God?
- What about, for instance, people who are practicing sense gratification, and they find it very practical to gratify their senses. Does this mean that it is meaningful or real?
- What are the qualities of the holy name?
- What can I say? Then only when sadhus are attacked, then only (Krsna comes)?
- What did you just define by species? You mean different types of men?
- What do you call in Sanskrit, sir (when you cannot live without Krsna)?
- What do you expect from your disciple, basic thing?
- What do you suggest for me to put my energy on, and present beautiful picture, nicely...?
- What do you think that you could add to the already living religious expression in this country by coming here and adding your own philosophy to it?
- What does it mean when Krsna has told Arjuna, in the battlefield that "Do you think either you or I were not there in the past? And you and I will not be...?"
- What does it mean, "mystic oneness with God"? What does mystic mean?
- What does it mean, "original form"?
- What does the name Vaisnavi mean?
- What does the peacock feather mean to Krsna? Is it a symbol of love, or what it is?
- What happens to a person if we just give him out on the street one Simply Wonderful or some prasadam, one piece of prasadam?
- What happens to the jiva souls who were fruits and vegetables that were offered to Krsna?
- What happens to your mind? What do you do with your mind when you chant?
- What I wanted, that if you will be able to help us in establishing, for example, that Gita meeting?
- What if he just goes on and he never asks pardon? Is he finished in...?
- What if someone deviates from your teaching?
- What if you avoid even choosing right or wrong, you simply drift without any decision of right or wrong?
- What is charka?
- What is fit for lay people? Which form should we meditate upon?
- What is going to happen to those who have left and yet they are committing offenses against you and against Krsna because they have become deranged?
- What is jata?
- What is masculine?
- What is one's prescribed duty?
- What is realization, Prabhupada? Realization belongs to the same category?
- What is that mission (I have particular mission for the whole world)?
- What is that root (when sastra fails, then according to sastra, there is sastra. Sastra means weapon. Both of them come from the sas-dhatu)?
- What is that wrong propaganda?
- What is the best method of making your children Krsna conscious? Teaching the sastra or...?
- What is the cause of man's physical, mental and spiritual deterioration in the succeeding yugas?
- What is the difference between bhakti-yoga and bhava-yoga?
- What is the difference between the Ganges water and the ordinary water to someone who doesn't know that the Ganges water is spiritual?
- What is the goal of this movement for the future? Is there any program set for the future?
- What is the meaning of God?
- What is the meaning, then, that America is the dominant nation?
- What is the method for doing it? What is the method of seeing someone as a person?
- What is the purpose of discussing him (Freud)?
- What is the purpose of the plan? Is there any ultimate...?
- What is the Radha category?
- What is the role of Krsna in this, as the arranger of this cerebral mechanism?
- What is the synthesis?
- What is the thing that will please you most, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is this little story, these two little things standing here? Some time back you called the drowning of the son of our teacher. Is this from the Bhagavatam?
- What is this yogic power? What does that mean?
- What is wrongly preached about Gita?
- What is your remedy for seeing everyone as persons?
- What is your view of predominant Western civilization, Sir?
- What kind of test do we apply to phenomena to see what is the cause?
- What must he mean by "until such time as a profound change in the material conditions imposed on humanity by nature should permit in spiritual matters of a profound transformation?"
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What sort of people do you want to become students?
- What was that now (Krsna is kalpana... )?
- What was the motivating force behind your coming to the United States?
- What was the purpose of this festival here?
- What was this original sin?
- What would happen if an animal came in contact with a pure devotee?
- What you said is that maya is the urge within nature to desire the next step of evolution. He wants this, he wants that. Is that right?
- When a man becomes Krsna conscious, could you say that he has become like a god or godlike?
- When I die, my deeds will follow along with me. That is how I imagine it... That's personal karma?
- When I'm in the spiritual sky I'm going to be a servant of Balarama directly?
- When Krsna destroys demons, He does so without passion or without hatred?
- When Krsna doesn't come, then they are feeling separation?
- When raisin bread is in the oven, the raisins, they go further and further and further apart as the dough expands. So is this...?
- When the living entity comes to the material world, what is the state of the spiritual body? And then how does this spiritual body begin to develop?
- When the scientists say "species," they mean different types of bodies?
- When we use the word "God," it has cash value?
- When you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you? Along with Radhe?
- When you chant, do you have to think what you're saying? How can you do other things?
- When you come into this movement, you come in from on the outside, in the material world and so on. Do you, as some monks do in monasteries, do you give all your wealth, all your possessions, everything, as it were, to the movement?
- When you come to the living entities, then the individual soul is also there?
- When you said that all the cells in our body, each one is a living entity with a small body. Each one of those living entities covers itself with ignorance? So then myself, I organize all these smaller cells. I organize them into my big body?
- Whenever there is perception coming into the mind, there is a conflict?
- Where does it have to be (the mind while chanting)? It has to be fixed?
- Where is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Which Lord is that (Caitanya)?
- Which problems (will be solved by spiritual consciousness)? The problems that exist in Ireland and India?
- Who controls, if one of the members becomes grasping, wants things for himself?
- Who is Siva? Siva is he not a god?
- Why are you discussing them (we don't accept either Mao or Marx. We don't accept anyone)?
- Why do some people want to approach Krsna in hatred?
- Why does Krsna expanded Himself as maya?
- Why don't they think like that (that Kruschev, he's not in that position. Why does he not think that "Any moment I'll be kicked out." And what is that enforcement that kicks out?), Prabhupada?
- Why is there soul and Supersoul in the body when soul is part and parcel of Krsna?
- Why it is that when the body is dead that the fingernails continue to grow?
- Why or how could the personality or the individual jiva soul return to a lower life-form? That is to say, how could a greater experience regress to a lesser experience?
- Why should one teach the world to become united with Krsna?
- Why there is so..., there is duality in this world?
- Will it come by itself (the socio-economic solution), or will it come through you?
- Will, willing something is more like desiring something, isn't it?
- Would even accidents between two automobiles, that would not really be an accident?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would I have to give any financial support? So I wouldn't have to give any money at all?
- Would it be better if we gave up eating vegetables?
- Would it not be better to say that the living entity is born with certain tendencies, rather than innate ideas, which carry over from a previous life?... And that he needs only meet with some stimulus in order for these tendencies to be manifest?
- Would that (greatest happiness be experienced) by all the senses - mind, intelligence...?
- Would you say that all world events, all phenomenon of the world are expressions of this world reason unfolding itself? There is a gradual development
- Would you say that the Americans are generally less tolerant than Londoners to you or more tolerant?
- Would you say that we are in a state of peace or a state of war?
- Would you say, for instance, someone who is less intelligent or more intelligent than I am is in a different species?
- Would you use, say, cars if it were given you?
- Wouldn't you say that pretty much, that this philosophy is guiding a lot of the figures, the youth...?
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- You (the actual head of the Krsna movement) have no successor when you move into another dimension; that from the masses, from the disciples that you have throughout the world, someone will rise to take your place when you move to another world?
- You are at this particular time then the head in the world of this movement? Would that be correct?
- You are in fact the spiritual leader of these students. What does that mean?
- You are in general, then, trying to increase the interest in God. Is that correct?
- You are intent to serve the Lord Krsna in the same method for ever?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are the founder of this movement. You are the founder?
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not?
- You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?
- You can't read or talk to someone (while chanting)?
- You cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You don't think it's possible to stop willing?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have asked for some men...
- You have asked for some song translations...
- You have asked that somebody go there to Fiji to assist you...
- You have been to Communist Russia, and was there any church worship? The Eastern Orthodox church used to be the standard Russian religion. Is there any church worship in Russia today?
- You have ten swamis. And outside of swamis, what's the lower?
- You know what a papi I am. I don't think the Krsna consciousness is so easy...?
- You mean by intuition can we understand?
- You mean if a person commits a murder, a sinner?
- You mean like Bengalis are a different species than Gujaratis? Something like that?
- You mean our High Commissioner? Why can he not (help your mission)?
- You mean the spirit has got subtle form, though it may be exact form?
- You meant for Kali-yuga (your way is the way)? For the time that we live in right now?
- You said that if you have some material desire and you take to Krsna consciousness, you get double benefit, that the material desire is fulfilled and also you get Krsna consciousness. If you have that material desire, does that slow up your advancement?
- You say a true devotee of Krsna, such a person need not go after the demigods?
- You say if there were high forms of, say Brahma, in Brahma's time or millions of years ago, there were also other high animals besides men?
- You say it's artificial to forget anything?
- You tell me that Rama and some other higher creatures lived on this planet so many millions of years ago, so I can expect some day to find evidence of that?
- You told us about that Bharati Maharaja. What was that?
- You very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the spirit soul then goes into the brahma-jyotir, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahma-jyotir is composed of fallen souls?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You went to Russia. What's your impression?
- You were also telling me that Krsna is in the atom as the jiva expansion. Not as a plenary expansion, but a part of a plenary expansion?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You've got to get a visa (to Russia). How do you... How can you get?
- You've heard of the Dalai Lama? Well, his position would be the same as yours. Wouldn't it? In religion?
- Your Divine Grace, will you kindly explain the significance of Ratha-yatra festival?
- Your knowledge says that millions of years ago there were higher forms of living entities on this planet?
- Your line is so very good in saying that the real evolution of man's mind has been his ability to produce more and more the functions of whatever the mind may be. We know what the brain is, but we don't know what the mind is?