Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971
- 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.
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- A man is finite. How can he do good for everyone?
- A man may evolve to a state like unto the demigods. Is that a possibility?
- A person (Krsna)? Person in the ordinary sense of the word, or...?
- A person who is not indulging in illicit sex life or intoxication and other things has to live a comparatively simpler life... One will live much simpler life, agreed. But at the same time, would it change some complex things?
- A priori we are not born with knowledge of what is right?
- According to the Vedic conception, is the king or the monarch above the law?
- After the festival, Prabhupada, are you going to Vrndavana?
- After you, is it any decision has been made who will take over?
- All new things are created out of necessity?
- All the people who are hoarding those grains, that economic procedure to produce famine. What is the way to check them?
- All they're (the scientists) doing is creating the conditions for the jiva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
- Am I conscious of... My body's being constantly changing?
- Am I separate from matter?
- And another thing I wanted to ask Your Divine Grace is this. This Bhagavad-gita, I would like to print it as it becomes finished chapter by chapter. Otherwise it will be a long time before we have a book
- And by origin you are from?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And it's the same spiritual body that we had before we came into the material world?
- And space (time is eternal. Reality. And therefore we take time as another feature of God)?
- And that is also practical (the absolute value is God. That is division. Satyam param dhimahi. That is our objective)?
- And that works (voluntarily accepting death so that immediately he can return back to the spiritual world)?
- And the purport (of the meaing of verse SB 10.14.58)?
- And what else would one have to give up (illicit sex and)?
- And what is the figure (of people joining) likely to be? Five a week, ten a week?
- And you think there's enough food (now, so far I have studied, that in America, in Africa, in Australia, there are so much vacant places that the present population of the world, if it is increased ten times, still there is enough food)?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- Are there lines of disciplic succession on planets all over the universe or only on these middle planets, like Earth?
- Are there many Indian-born disciples abroad, or are they mainly Western disciples?
- Are there not certain characteristics that are particularly male and certain characteristics that are particularly female?
- Are they brahmanas (devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement)? Not by birth?
- Are they less fallen (the jivas in brahmajyoti) because they are doing some service by lighting it up?
- Are we going to have any kirtana tonight? What is the program
- Aren't these desires given outlet in other ways? Do we channel the desires to some other field? Instead of seeing a beautiful woman, we see the beautiful form of Krsna, like that?
- Arjuna was praised as Gudakesa?
- As a practical result of his (Arjuna followed the decision of Krsna, so there is value. He became victorious, he enjoyed the kingdom, and he became a famous devotee) activities?
- As far as I can operate within my practicality, there are no purple men. I've never seen one; no one has ever seen purple men. So isn't this logical?
- As the yugas progress, the human body itself, doesn't it become more degraded?
- As we develop our experience, our life progresses, then we develop truth because we see that this idea works in my experience, so then it becomes true. Is this not the process?
- At that time were there only insects existing?
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- Because he (Arjuna in the beginning denied to fight, but he agreed to fight) was satisfied by his faith in Krsna?
- Because he has become devotee of a follower of Laksmi-Narayana, he may come to associate with Laksmi-Narayana?
- Because the guru is responsible for taking all of his disciples back to home, back to Godhead, I was wondering what was the position of Lord Jesus Christ?
- Before it can be printed, everything has to go through his hands because he is the chief translator. But at the present moment it's going so slowly. But one arrangement I proposed was to pay him some money?
- Before one has success, the kundalini must be opened. What do you think about this?
- Before the birth of Lord Krsna, was God existing?
- Being capable of action, is that a good definition of substance?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- Bijam, seed, "I am the seed of all existence" (Plato uses the word "idea" in order to denote a subject's primordial existence, or maybe it's archetype. I think that Krsna uses the word bijam)?
- But do the results of an idea have to be predictable?
- But for happiness, or ananda, isn't bhakti essential, love, or ananda?
- But how does someone prove that something exists beyond his..., beyond our senses?
- But how does that give us sense content (this is sense content, that sarvam khalv, "Everything is Brahman")? What does that mean to my sense observations?
- But in our Krsna consciousness philosophy the ideas are not to be re-evaluated. Aren't they absolute, the philosophy of Krsna consciousness?
- But is meditation in itself..., would that be sufficient to transcend these lower...?
- But is that true (training should be given from childhood)?
- But is this force (nature is forcing) irrational and blind? This is what he thinks
- But isn't the tendency there to exploit the man and take more profit (I have hired one man to work for me. I have to pay him and therefore I require profit)?
- But isn't the understanding of the white light composed of seven other colors, isn't that also a fact of direct sense perception?
- But it's not by Krsna's sex desire. What is the meaning of the words "Krsna's sex desire"? Krsna's satisfaction?
- But philosophy is meant to understand the ultimate goal of life. What does he say the ultimate goal of life is? What is his ultimate goal of life?
- But the extinct species are not all present at this particular moment on this planet, are they?
- But then what is the stimulus? Why will they... (Krsna says, "Anyone who comes to Me, back to home, back to Godhead, he does not come again to this material world which is full of misery")?
- But you can improve it (this world)?