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)?
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- Can a hydrogen molecule desire to become part of water and be given that body? Does it have the independence to desire something and take a body accordingly? The hydrogen molecule, does it have a life?
- Can a normal student from, for instance, from one of the best universities, who is attending lectures in normal way, etc., also be initiated and admitted to your community?
- Can I see God by becoming a Christian?
- Can one be forgetful of Krsna eternally?
- Can the living entity perceive the situation at this time, when he's being transferred from one body to another?
- Can the scientists control that, the type of genes, the kinds of body, the child will get?
- Can there be an existence without a faith, sir?
- Can we see Him, just as we see Lalaji? But with these eyes or the... (so our knowledge is very easy. We don't make any research. Here is Krsna says that He is the Supreme Personality - we accept it. That's all. It is very simple)?
- Can you explain about taking a spiritual body after death?
- Can you explain about vaibhava and prabhava?
- Can you say what is God?
- Can you tell me how many of those (who joins) actually stay?
- Can you tell me what is Krsna consciousness?
- Can't we all be combined in a single person rather than dividing them into four, at least in the present age?
- Could a monarch use this argument, the argument of divine right, in order to discourage his subjects' rebelling under the pretense that they are communing directly with God? What guidelines are there to assure against this? Wasn't there one King Vena...?
- Could you explain a little bit about the position in which we were situated in the spiritual sky before coming to the material world?
- Could you recall the beginning of your first trip to USA and how you spread the message? I was told that you came here with six dollars?
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- Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura take sannyasa in later years?
- Did you say once that sometimes Krsna will let you work off some of your karma in a dream (indistinct)?
- Different levels of consciousness?
- Do (the jivas in vegetables that are offered to Krsna) they just get liberation or do they go directly to Krsna? They go to Krsna or do they only get liberation? Do they go to Goloka Vrndavana? What kind of liberation?
- Do innate ideas have to be universal? Might not some living entities have some innate ideas and other living entities have others? Why does an innate idea have to be universal and apply to everyone?
- Do the fallen souls leave the spiritual world all at once or gradually?
- Do the rays of the sun actually take away our life?
- Do we all originate from Krsna?
- Do we offer any solution for socio-economic problems that you can...?
- Do you advocate sending the children to secular schools, or have you made arrangements with the government to...?
- Do you attribute accidents and disease to a desire for self-destruction?
- Do you claim then that your way of loving God is the way to love God?
- Do you come (to India) every year, or is this the first time you have come?
- Do you differentiate, as you would do, it's only a matter of attempting to comprehend the differences of things, the difference between thinking and feeling as rational functions?
- Do you do your printing in Japan and America?
- Do you find that the chant goes on in your heart?
- Do you find that you chant, it clarifies you?
- Do you have any children, family?
- Do you have any hope in the future that you, your movement, will involve printing a lot of books, making, building schools for your children?
- Do you know that story of Ekalavya?
- Do you need to have a name and address and occupation for God?
- Do you suppose that the British supported Darwin so that that would also help their political ambitions, by introducing...?
- Do you think if people had a deeper understanding of God... a spiritual consciousness...? Do you think it would solve the problems of...?
- Do you think people should beware (of false gurus)?
- Do you think that there will become a level of demigods, a race of demigods?
- Do you think those who are butcher are all criminals?
- Do you think your movement is the only way to come to know God?
- Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible?
- Do you want us to offer feast to your Guru Maharaja at noontime? A special plate of feast?
- Does he (Lord Brahma) become a pure devotee? Otherwise how he can see Krsna and reveal Brahma-samhita? Also he's the head of our disciplic succession. How can he be the head of our disciplic succession if he's not a pure devotee?
- Does Krsna desire we get a spiritual name?
- Does Krsna know beforehand everything?
- Does one have to leave one's family? I think everybody lives in the temple, don't they?
- Does someone who has been in prison and then he becomes free, does he appreciate his freedom more than someone who has always been free?
- Does that include all sex life or...? What is illicit?
- Does that mean that the spiritual body changes, Prabhupada?
- Does that mean they have no knowledge about leaves (Vedic scripture was there. They did not read. That's all)?
- Does that means they should not worship these demigods and goddesses?
- Does the condition of being entrapped, enhance the understanding of liberation?
- Does the hydrogen molecule have an independent desire?
- Does the Krsna movement recognize other types of service to human beings like the social workers?
- Does the mind play any part in the evolutionary process? The mind?
- Does the table have a jiva soul?
- Doesn't everyone derive strength (from God)?
- During the time when the living entity is transferred from one body to another, is he always fully conscious of the subtle facts?
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- Either direct or indirect. But how can I experience that statement that "Everything is Brahman"?
- Even between the atoms of matter there is a spiritual life, spiritual force?
- Even if we see the seven colors in the laboratory with instruments, we still don't understand the even simpler facts of which that is composed. There may be seven colors, but how to understand those?
- Even if you study the way the sun and the rain and so on combined to make this fruit ripe, you still have the question, "Well, why is there fruit in the first place?" Why is there fruit? Why has fruit appeared on this planet?
- Even the mind occupies space and transpires in time. Mind occupies space and works in time. Is that also a fact?
- Even though several million years ago they find no evidence in the rocks...?
- Even when this universe ends, doesn't that (temporary) law carry on?
- Every successive teacher has added some interpretations of the knowledge, no?
- Everyone is born with this devotional spirit?
- Everything that exists wants to enjoy?
- Excuse me. Your honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?
F
- For instance, not a student but a young worker or a young son of a farmer, he would abstain from his old life and he would be initiated and join your community into a given center. How he would entertain himself?
- For instance, there's no dinosaurs existing now. They're extinct now but where are they gone? Some other planets then?
- For meditation, which form should we (meditate upon)?
- For purpose of practice I am asking, when you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you?
- Forgetfulness is artificial?
- Freud put so much emphasis on children and the mentality and emotions of children - what one is experiencing, youth and so on - and it is all concocted, don't you think?
- From the Sanskrit (Christo and Krsna)?
- From the standpoint of the ingredients of this world, material ingredients, is this the best possible world with those ingredients?
H
- Has spirit no want?
- Have you been harassed in London at all?
- Have you been to Russia? They allowed you to preach?
- Have you got a particular mission for London?
- Have you many branches of your society everywhere? Where is your main center, and where are the branches?
- Have you put into writing these three subjects somewhere (Vedic Concept of Communism, Knowledge by Authorized Tradition, Scientific Values of Scientific Classless Society)?
- Have you seen Krsna?
- Haven't you come across some hostile attitude to your teaching from orthodox Hindu, from orthodox brahmanas in India itself?
- He (my ancestors) made no tools, or he had no house? But why weren't there any tools left behind for us to find, remnants?
- He mentions the point, what is that urge? Why do I want to improve? What is that urge that makes me want to...
- He says no one can hate God, but what about Kamsa and others?
- He says reason is by nature equal in all men. Now isn't reasoning power different in different men?
- He says, "It is not so much that God is in everything but rather that everything is in God."... What is this position?... Why should it be more one way than the other?
- Higher than the demigods (we are contaminated or conditioned on account of association with these three modes of material nature, and if we keep ourself aloof from the association of three modes then we are mukta, we are liberated)?
- His question is, do we concern ourselves with particular problems in the world, there's the war in Vietnam, there's racial discrimination? Do we make statements to condemn these things?
- How about the meaning of the chanting. You are insist on chanting?
- How are the individualities (of the spirit soul) accounted for?
- How are these conditions going to change (material condition is the four principles of bodily demands: eating, sleeping, sex and defense)?
- How are they going to change in order to bring about a profound spiritual transformation (formerly people used to live very humbly. Now they are living very, very big, big skyscraper building)?
- How can one see the spiritual master in darkness? If you are standing in a dark room...
- How could some people look at the seed of a tree and come to a different conclusion?
- How could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.
- How did you find Moscow?
- How do I create matter that is my body?
- How do they know it's not millions of years ago
- How do you develop a service attitude in Krsna consciousness?
- How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?
- How do you feel about Rabindranath Tagore, the poet?
- How do you feel about self-expression, art, as a path back to Godhead?
- How do you feel the modern world (have received Krsna consciousness)? What's your feeling?
- How do you get to the second stage by making your own decisions without God's..., without God's representative? In other words, how can you come to the platform of the third stage from the second stage?
- How do you have that assurance (this movement is the only way to know God)?
- How do you process to a right moment unless one is helped at the last minute of death?
- How do you recognize someone who has already a family and he's working and who wants to progress in Krsna consciousness? Is he, does he have to give up his job and shave his hair and wear robes?
- How do you stop that (greed)?
- How does one contact the spiritual master? Through a book can you contact the spiritual master?
- How does one learn to control the senses, overwhelming?
- How does our philosophy define mind and intelligence?
- How does that result in more women (the more the man will become attached to woman, the woman population will increase)?
- How does Vaisnava act? What are his...?
- How does worship of Visnu solve social problems? Just like in Calcutta there are more social problems than practically anywhere
- How far this adaption of Krsna consciousness by many American boys would affect the politics of their attitude, for instance, to such a bearing problem of America as Vietnam War?
- How foreign intervention will be dangerous to you if you are perfect (if your theory is perfect, why there should be foreign intervention?)?
- How is it that some men have no conception of God?
- How is Krsna different? How is He individual in each one of the atoms?
- How long does it take (to learn about God)? Well, can we do it? And what happens to me then?
- How long were you there (in Moscow)? With your disciple?
- How long will you be feeling bad from the injection?
- How long you are in India now?
- How many (ISKCON) branches in India?
- How many followers have you got now throughout the world or can you not count?
- How many swamis do you initiated, American?
- How old are you?
- How one can supremely control all conditions that would free one from karmic reaction? How could they control the environment?
- How the movement is growing? Can you give me any figures at all? I was speaking to one of your colleagues earlier who mentioned 150, but seventy-five approximately which were in London. Are the figures growing week by week?
- How this movement was formed when you came here. You are the father of this movement. How this idea was created within you?
- How to live in such a way where there is no dearth of thing as well as there is no continuing of that need that a man becomes lost?
- How was it possible for Ajamila to chant the name at the time of death?
- How will the spiritual master be pleased?
- How would I recognize a true follower of the Krsna consciousness movement by his behavior? What would his traits be? What would his outward expressions be?
- How would one tell that one had a genuine guru because one would be told to give up certain parts of...?