Questions asked to SP... 1972: Difference between revisions
Visnu Murti (talk | contribs) (Created page with ' 2') |
m (Pywikibot v.2) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
*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. | |||
[[Category: Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada - By Years]] | |||
[[Category: | {{CategoryTOC | ||
| top = yes | |||
| numerals = no | |||
| uppercase = yes | |||
| lowercase = no | |||
| align = center | |||
}} | |||
[[Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes]] | |||
Latest revision as of 05:17, 26 June 2017
- 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... 1972"
The following 583 pages are in this category, out of 583 total.
A
- A devotee must work for everybody's liberation?
- A devotee who is very faithful reaches this stage (devotees are neither in the goodness, passion, or ignorance. They are transcendental to all these qualities)?
- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- After we die, what happens to our spirit?
- Also in Los Angeles they are buying press?
- And can one not directly surrender to Krsna through his own feelings and heart and...?
- And he (anybody) cannot change that (given lifespan)?
- And He (Lord Krsna) used to come here for herding the cows?
- And he (Syamasundara) is coming tomorrow?
- And health card (shall I take it)?
- And how does Krsna control a devotee?
- And Jiva Gosvami and Rupa, they drank from this well?
- And they (the Gosvamis) used to meet here daily?
- And we let the parents know how the children is progressing? Do we have responsibility to parents, to let them know, inform them about the progress of children?
- Any way how to make any progress, or have you any representation, for instance, in Russia?
- Are spirit souls alike, or are they different?
- Are the devotees in the mode of goodness?
- Are there some people who do not find Krsna attractive?
- Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?
- Are they equal and the same, or are they just equal (those who are actually learned, they do not see the outward covering, either human being or animal)?
- Are those rooms you live in, were they formerly inhabited by the Gosvamis, Jiva or Rupa Gosvami, those rooms you have now?
- Are we all part of Krsna?
- Are you acquainted with Swami Ranganathanandaji? You have met him?
- Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- As for the question about menstrual cycle...
- As for your question about celibacy...
- As for your question regarding the children, what can I do? I am not a teacher. You should ask Satsvarupa on all of these matters, he is the GBC, so everything small and big should be referred to Satsvarupa
- At that time Vrndavana was existing as a village or mostly open area?
- At what age may children be recommended for initiation?
B
- Because scientists cannot enter into the actual activity on the moon planet, technically, according to Bhagavata, they have not reached there?
- Because they promise something they don't deliver (the so-called religion, so-called economic development, so-called sense gratification, so-called liberation, they're all cheating)?
- Because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction
- Before I go, Your Grace, I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- Being a brahmana by birth, does it mean anything?
- Being in these modes determines your karma, is that correct?
- Bhagavad-gita teaches us that one should treat a piece of gold and a piece of stone alike. Is it practically considered?
- Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu was written here, in this place?
- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- Brain of who (the brain of Einstein)?
- But doesn't bondage give the incentive to live (good bondage, but it is bondage, after all. If you are prisoner, first-class prisoner or third-class prisoner, you are prisoner)?
- But how does this differ from the Hebrew scriptures? Hebrews also say the same thing, you know, that you have fallen down from the heaven and go back...?
- But is good bondage good?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- But one should pray, is that so?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- But they permit this kind of thing (Russian young boys are as good as Americans. By artificial means they have been checked. The Russian government is not good at all. Suppression. Simply suppression)?
- But to become learned, you go to so-called learned people, and you go to so-called learned people. How do you know that those so-called learned are...?
- But what I'm basically asking is what are these ksatriyas going to fight with?
- But why only the name Krsna?
- By brain what do you mean?
C
- Cadillac (first-class car must go to India)?
- Can a scientist teach the science of combining acid and alkaline and this kind of science with Krsna as its object?
- Can a true devotee come face-to-face with God through the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Christ?
- Can an animal be in the mode of goodness?
- Can Krsna be called by any other name?
- Can only a few pure devotees deliver others
- Can they (ksatriyas) still make spiritual advancement?
- Can we decide what we want to be in our next life?
- Can we get one picture of the group?
- Can we get some cymbals?
- Can you please describe the dress in which you are clothed?
- Can you really expect to change the whole society?
- Can you tell me again what intelligence is?
- Can you tell me some more about chanting Hare Krsna?
- Chanting His names, surrendering to Him, feeling love for Him, doing service. Is that not or would that not take one person to...?
- Christian..."Watchtower" (the idea is that marriage is not sacred. They think marriage is a legalized prostitution. They think like that, but marriage is not that. Even that Christian paper, what is that, "Watch...?"?
- Could I have been in my last life?
D
- Devotees, do we get sick because of our bad actions in the past?
- Did the Gosvamis drink from this well, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction?
- Do the animals have no consciousness of God?
- Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation
- Do we take these births in a human form all the time, or perhaps do we take a birth in perhaps an ant or a rat or a dog, or will it always be in the human form if we believe in Krsna consciousness now?
- Do you believe in a life after death for the body?
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Do you deal in percentages?
- Do you feel diseases and sickness? Is this a result of your past karma?
- Do you foresee that the devotees will grow in numbers in this country?
- Do you have any views that for the past fifty or hundred years people have been predicting that there is going to be like a second coming or a spiritual changeover which will have an effect on the whole planet
- Do you have many Indian followers? Many Indian followers as well as foreign?
- Do you have references about that (Jahnava-devi was controlling the whole Gaudiya Vaisnava community) in any of your books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you know how old she (Sumati Morarjee) is Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you not project this Krsna consciousness movement is an improvement over the whole...
- Do you receive some knowledge directly from Krsna?
- Do you see yourself then as the savior of American youth?
- Do you seek government help?
- Do you think, in a world so much caught up in material way of things... (indistinct) ...be able to penetrate?
- Do you want us to distribute this? Srila Prabhupada, this is special water from the Ganges if you want to drink some?
- Do you want us to make more zones now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Does a devotee lose some of his individuality in that...?
- Does evening arati vary according to the sunset?
- Does he have to be designated by the former spiritual master (a spiritual master)?
- Does it (just like these boys they are after Krsna's service) mean that we should leave the work and we should not work and...?
- Does it mean that the initiative from the human being is completely surrendered to the almighty God? And if you surrender, is there any initiative left for the human being?
- Does Krsna create the universe or does He just make it possible to be created?
- Does somebody forget his wife completely then?
- Does that (love towards relatives is also bondage) mean you should not love your parents?
- Does the devotee who surrenders keep his individual taste for different things? Does he keep his individual likes and dislikes?
- Does this apply to the brahmanas (you cannot see your wife being insulted before you. You must fight. You must kill him.That is the law. Aggressor)?
- Does this remind you of Vrndavana, Prabhupada?
- Does this take a whole lifetime to learn (process by which you can see the other world)?
- Doesn't Krsna say in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am the spiritual master"?
- Doesn't necessity mean plan?
- Dvaita-advaita?
E
- Even if they mix hydrogen and oxygen to get water, still, where does the hydrogen and oxygen come from?
- Excuse me ((one should pray, is that so?) that is his business)?
- Excuse me (because I take the version of the greatest scientist, therefore I am greatest scientist. I may be fool personally, but because I take the knowledge from the greatest scientist, I am greatest scientist. I have no difficulty)?
F
- Fifty pounds (suppose if you kill one cow, you get blood how much, how many pounds?)?
- Fight in a real..., sword, fight with swords (in these days, the same principles are there. Ksatriyas should fight for Krsna. That is his perfection of life… Then the question is whom shall we fight now? Those who are not Krsna conscious)?
- 500,000 dollars (so the price is 500,000 dollars)?
- For how long are you at the head of this movement?
- Fred Robinson has been forecasting doom to happen very shortly for the human race and says that it is far too hopeless to try and grab for the spiritual plane until one goes back to simple living. What would you say to that?
- From whom one should hear about Krsna?
G
- George is going to make any more records, recordings?
- Giriraja is a good man. I want your advice. So first day I called Giriraja, he came. I said, you I don't want. Where is that Syamasundara?
- God has taken the shape of a Narasimha Swami and then He finishes him by tearing his stomach. And then He takes all the intestines and pushes out. What is the significance and how this is actually, what it is meaning?
- God isn't something that can be sensed and He isn't something that can be grasped by the finite mind. The infinite, as you said... But how do we know God?
H
- Has this happened before, the material wealth that we have now? Has it happened in past ages? Technological advancement, scientific?
- Have you asked the government for money? President Nixon?
- Have you ever continued the correspondence with that heart surgeon?
- Have you ever seen Krsna?
- He (Dr. Rao) was not serious?
- He (Duke of Windsor's castle) is the king there, right? The queen's husband
- He (Duke of Windsor) also is the one who has the Windsor Palace?
- He (Giriraja) is not married?
- He wants to know if you believe that the Virgin Mary who is the mother of Jesus is the same as Parvati
- He wants to know more about those who are asleep and those who are awake in our eyes. What is a sleeper and who is awake?
- He's asking how can he be relieved from such sadness when his son has died? How do we evaluate death?
- Her (Sumati Morarjee) husband is alive?
- How a man such as yourself, in such a high position and such hierarchy was able to leave all this in order to bring this message to others?
- How about love between people? Just like this... Is that bondage also?
- How about love towards relatives? They say, "Love your parents," or "Love your wife and children." Isn't that also bondage?
- How about serving the parents?
- How are the references made?
- How are you to know that this act or that act is good or bad?
- How can I forget about myself so I can concentrate on other more important things?
- How can I know if I wasn't Krsna conscious in my last life?... Could I have been in my last life?
- How can I know with my inferior brain who has the best brain (we want to see who has got the best brain, who has got the best opulence, who has got the best beauty, who has got the best knowledge, who has got the best friend)?
- How can I serve you better?
- How can these people be so sincere and so earnest?
- How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness?
- How can we realize Krsna is satisfied?
- How can you separate out economics, politics...?
- How could God, who is perfect, be lonely?
- How do we know when God is pleased?
- How do you define a brahmana?
- How do you feel God inside you?
- How do you relate Christ with Krsna?
- How does a devotee know which food Krsna likes him to take?
- How does chance come about, if there is such a thing?
- How does repeating one word, "Krsna," or singing "Rama" and "Krsna" help achieving the way?
- How far is samskara powerful like...?
- How far should the orders of my duly appointed officers like GBC, etc., be obeyed and followed?
- How he can live or how we can develop or how we can progress? Because the whole, whole progress is this, the progress of ego
- How is a human being going to continue in this world if it has to exist, and if the initiative is not left to the human being, as you say that God is there and God has to be accepted?
- How is Krsna the greatest scientist?
- How is that madness transferred to Krsna?
- How is the human life better than the demigod?
- How long we have to surrender?
- How many days (you can go from Calcutta to Agra, nice road. And from Agra to Bombay)? Two days?
- How many disciples do you now have, sir, in the U.S.?
- How many followers do you have (1972)
- How many full aratis should we perform, Srila Prabhupada?
- How many qualifications does a spiritual master have in terms of being a spiritual master?
- How may a devotee arrive to this particular form (is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only)?
- How much or how little brahmacaris should associate with the unmarried brahmacarinis in the temple?
- How one can tell that he is a devotee of Krsna (one should hear about Krsna from Krsna devotee, not a professional man)?
- How to awaken kundalini, and how to have permanent state of awakened kundalini?
- How to identify a true learned man?
- How to please God's representative?
I
- I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- I am son of God. And what about Krsna? He says...
- I have seen in other mathas, that present before God, it is the proper way to redress our sins. Is this correct? If not, will we not suffer for our sins committed here on earth, or after...?
- I know Jiva Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, or Rupa, Sanatana. You know those other two also, what is their name? They were also very high up?
- I may have missed a point about the atheist. He sees God at the time of death. Does he see the form of Krsna at the time of death?
- I should stay here with Subala Maharaja?
- I tried to make a flute for Krsna because He doesn't have a flute. Is that okay?
- I want to know why Krsna is so unkind and He allows us to sin. The royal road of Krsna, Lord Krsna, should be very easier
- I want to realize the soul. What is the shortest way?
- I was always under impression or understanding from your teachings, that one never eats in front of the Deities. Can you please explain that?
- I was helping the band a little bit. And I came to see you, and I was wondering what I should do to serve you. I should go back to Detroit?
- I would like to hear your explanation on how do you have seen the form of God, if you have had any enlightenment on this?
- I'll be getting married the end of this summer... And the devotees say that the householders only have sex to conceive a child. And I cannot picture myself at all in such a position, and... What kind of sex life can one lead, living in the material world?
- I've been studying Russian Elders in the Orthodox Church... They seem to have found the divine. I guess that's religion too. It seems to me both are, but perhaps you have a better definition than that?
- If a devotee has no appreciation for God but he has a little appreciation for pure devotee, than what kind of devotee is this?
- If a person who wants to become rich prays to Krsna, will he become rich?
- If I was to remove myself from karmic influences, would our souls be the same or different?
- If one arrange in this lifetime for others to render service to Krsna, but if the purpose is to simply maintain his family and if he's still attached to sense gratification, at the time of death, will he attain a birth in a family of Vaisnavas?
- If one has to obey the state and go to war, how is that the same as obeying God?
- If our senses are imperfect, then with what sense do we perceive the Divine that underlies these laws of nature?
- If some devotee has some trouble and does not eat a certain type of food. Like some devotees do not eat ghee because of liver trouble. So these devotees, should they take all the prasadam?
- If somebody commits suicide, that is also preset?
- If somebody lives an evil life but prays to become rich, they may still become rich?
- If the king gives to you (the temple), what will we make there?
- If the soul is inside me, then should I be able to feel God inside me?
- If there is question or not understanding in the course of a class, if the proper answer cannot be given, if one sincerely approaches you within the heart, then you will give understanding?
- If two people are Krsna conscious, is their soul the same?
- If you know the process, then the Deity becomes Krsna (so this Deity worship is not heathenism. It is actually worshiping God, provided you know the process)?
- If, when we realize Krsna, then we have no more desire, then how can we desire...?
- Immediately (after we die you get another body)?
- In Bombay rather than Mayapur (if we organize our Bombay, then we shall regularly teach all the students from the very beginning)?
- In college if they start to study biology or zoology, it involves killing animals, dissection. Is that a sin?
- In daily life, I mean, like our practical life, how saranagati could be...?
- In society, the consumer society, (indistinct) miseries, what is the message you can bring people even in this day?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna tells Arjuna there's more than one method of attaining consciousness of Him, and those methods are suited to various types of people. I wonder if you consider that the chanting method is just one or whether it's the only one
- In the Krsna conscious scheme there is also active struggle and activity?
- In the material world, sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right and sometimes use violence?
- In the material world, we are bound by maya, maha-maya. In the spiritual world, is there another relationship of yogamaya?
- In the Moon planet is there earth in their bodies or is their body made out of air?
- In the Moon planet, are there bodies like of a more subtle nature so that if they did go there, they wouldn't be able to see them? We could see them with our eyes?
- In the spiritual world, what are the factors which cause variety?
- In this movement, how can you or what can you expect, or what would you like to give as an enlightenment for ordinary people?
- In what way is the external manifestation of the guru different than the external manifestation of, let us say, Krsna or Caitanya when They come to earth?
- India will become Communist also?
- Is any knowledge other than ultimate knowledge of the Supreme of any value at all? Is this material knowledge of any value?
- Is chanting Hare Krsna such a yogic process for realizing this (not only in my heart, God is also within the atom. So this is the first information. And then, by yogic process you have to realize it. Paramatma realization) ?
- Is he (George) in town?
- Is he (Syamasundara's father is very rich man)?
- Is he (this man here) one of your old friends?
- Is it (Mayapur we are constructing a big temple. And Vrndavana also. So, for maintenance of the temple perpetually, I want to purchase some property in Los Angeles, because here, Los Angeles, property gets nice income)?
- Is it (milk) like a by-product?
- Is it (there is no love in this world. That is illusion) like service to parents without expecting anything from them because they have raised you, they have...?
- Is it all right for the Deities' hair to show?
- Is it cheating to teach that it is supposed that the sun is 93,000,000 miles away?
- Is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only?
- Is it possible for us to know the source of Krsna?
- Is it safe to compare scientific advancement with Bhagavata, like Darwin and Bhagavatam?
- Is it so (every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya)?
- Is it true that if I follow the regulative principles, the four, that I will be able to chant without offense?
- Is knowledge sufficient to cause peace, or we must find out some matter first some way?
- Is Krsna attractive to rascals?
- Is that (big, big swamis, they are advocating, "Eat meat.") right?
- Is that preordained, or is it by free choice (the men who surround you were raised in a bad society, but they have chosen to become good)?
- Is that the mayayapahrta-jnanah?
- Is the land in Vrndavana, is it in the city? Is it on the outside of Vrndavana, or is it in the city?
- Is the real goal of life to know God?
- Is the time that I'm going to die, and everybody going to die, is this preset before they're born? Do I have, when I'm born, do I have a certain given lifespan?
- Is there a movement to get this philosophy or science propagated in the colleges?
- Is there any philosophy, doctrine, creed, or, for that matter, ritual that can bring God down to the point of a human thought?
- Is there any subject matter to contact atma, or self, what we call?
- Is there anything on earth that is God?
- Is there sex after death?
- Is this building four or five hundred years old? This very room (this is the place for dining. The Gosvamis, they used to dine here, this room)?
- Isn't the fact that we say that one should give up the cultivation of knowledge in conflict with the first six chapters of Gita which deal with cultivation of knowledge?
- Isn't there also individuality and difference (soul, as spirit soul, pure soul, they are all equal. Even in animal)?
- It is the Gita that you stress on or the Bhagavatam?
J
K
- Kindly let me know that what is desire. So long desire is there, we can't realize God. And realizing God is also a desire
- Krsna controls everything, so how, how does Krsna control a nondevotee?
- Krsna is always playing the tune by which everyone is dancing?
- Krsna wears tilaka like we do?
- Krsna's mercy allows you to know this now (suppose if I say that this is a pencil. And if you say to him, "This is a pencil." And he says to another man, "This is a pencil." Then what is the difference between his instruction and my instruction?)?
L
- Lord Caitanya was very tall, Srila Prabhupada?
- Lord Caitanya, He was a different type of guru than you were?
- Lord Caitanya, He was not a guru, He was different than guru? Was He also an incarnation at the same...?
- Lord Krsna says, kama esa krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah. The kama... Where is the beginning of this kama?
- Lord Nityananda (if a woman is perfect in Krsna consciousness... Just like Jahnava-devi, Lord Nityananda's wife, she was acarya. She was acarya. She was controlling the whole Vaisnava community)?
M
- Maharaja, it is indicated in Ramayana that God is coming to this world as kali-avatara. It is correct? What is the indication of His coming?
- May I ask the significance of the markings?
- May I join the kirtana in the streets over the weekend? Dressed as I am?
- Mayavadis, are they thinking like that, Krsna is... (because you are rascal, you are thinking Krsna is like another rascal like you. That is poor fund of knowledge)?
- Mayavadis, they say you can worship anything and it is all the same?
- Mission (a man should not live like cats and dogs, because he has got a mission)?
- My soul is different than your soul?
N
- Next you ask if I am present in my picture and form?
- Nistraigunya, traigunya-visaya veda nistraigunyo bhavarjuna. If there is a contradiction between the principles taught by Vedas and taught by Gita?
- No fighter? No fighting? They are not going to fight? They're not going to become warriors, not like the real ksatriyas?
- No peaches in India?
- No, that is what my question is, how to do that (if we work for Krsna, if the result is given to Krsna, that is our perfection). I mean, how in our day to day life...?
O
- Oh, I see. Then why not here in Vrndavana (printing books)?
- Oh, you mean before (the Southeast Asia and Australia if that were one zone, it would be alright. Make it. It wouldn't be too difficult. So write, write that. What one, two, three. What is the one zone, zone number one? Eastern U.S)?
- On ekadasi, we can offer the Deity grains?
- On the 13th of September, Srila Bhaktivinoda's Appearance is there any special observance?
- One in this material world never escapes his karma completely?
- One should pray, is that so?
- Only in Indian history or in Indian philosophy, only God's description is there. But whereabouts, in America or other places, in other continents, there is no description in their history at all
- Our soul is just like the controlling soul. Can you explain that (that the body is made up of many different entities. Living entities. That within each cell is like a living entity. The soul is just the controlling, or that each cell is a living entity)?
P
- People still tell us that You tell us the philosophy, we like the philosophy, but why do you go on sankirtana? So what were some of the arguments you presented to these type of people?
- Picture of Krsna? Is His hair curly? How long should it be?
- Prabhupada, can I offer you a fresh garland?
- Prabhupada, I've heard that every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya. Is it so?
- Prabhupada, in the Christian faith there is the idea that God made it possible for life to be created. He made it possible for the processes of the universe to continue. Is this the same with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, is Lord Caitanya always carrying on sankirtana in the spiritual world?
- Prabhupada, people that engage in religions, like these Jesus freaks and other people, they claim that Jesus is guiding them. Can this be so?
- Prarabdha-karma?
- Presently you do not receive information directly from Krsna. It comes through the succession from the books?
- Probably five thousand (five hundred or five thousand priests are in the hospital to cure of their drinking habit)?
R
- Really (he (George) has already made one record about our Hare Krsna movement)?
- Regarding the neophyte devotee who is unable to comprehend even the existence of God, how he shall ever become lover of God?
- Regarding your question about sufferings of master
- Regarding your question about thinking about sex, is that also one form of illicit sex or against our four principles?
- Regarding your question about writing songs about Krishna
- Regarding your question of dancing-show, whatever it may be, it may not deviate from the real Krishna Consciousness program
- Regarding your question whether grhastha couples can live together in the temple...
- Regarding your question whether husband and wife should live together in the temple
- Regarding your question whether some small lies may be said in order to sell our books
- Regarding your question, do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction? The answer is no, they do not. We do not suffer for thinking something sinful. Not in this age. That is a special concession for Kali-yuga
- Regarding your question, what is the difference between Krishna and the deity...
- Russians running it (I went to Moscow)?
S
- Say someone prepares something, like some prasadam for Krsna, but he does not make it so good?
- She wants to know if you're the first to come to New Zealand?
- She's asking if it was possible in her last life she was a Krsna's devotee, in her last life, and come back again? If you're a Krsna's devotee coming back again?
- She's asking if you are the first master, what you are teaching?
- Should force be used on children?
- Should I be able to feel God inside me because my soul is a part of God?
- Should it also be taught how you make water from hydrogen and oxygen?
- Should the British have been violently thrown out of India?
- Should the Deities be offered grains for breakfast?
- Should the devotee always speak the truth to everyone in all circumstances?
- Should the Jagannatha deity be bathed with water?
- Should the painters, should they paint such uh, this type of pictures?
- Should we become detached from the results of our activities, or should we become simply attached to the Lotus Feet of Krishna?
- Should we do that (you write on the car, "The Spiritual Master of USA.")?
- Should we love Krishna or love the spiritual master?
- Should we stick to formal positions, or is it all right to do informal pose, like just your head and your chest?
- Smith's... (Smith Stanstreet, they were also very good company)?
- So cheating and like that, what mode is that?
- So Christ's suffering was of that nature?
- So do you mean to say that Krsna is also karma-bound?
- So far your question about the Gopis...
- So far your question regarding Bhetnama
- So how does science fit in with all of this?
- So I should not respond (mother's letter)?
- So one who is mad after something else material, he must transfer his madness to Krsna. So how is that madness transferred?
- So only keep thirteen GBC at this point? Will Bali-mardana stay at the Press and be considered GBC?
- So shall I take your passport now, Srila Prabhupada?
- So shall we keep the number at thirteen, Srila Prabhupada?
- So somebody who is honest will be in the mode of goodness. Would that be correct?
- So that's how it goes back into the body of Maha-Visnu?
- So then why he (Dr. Rao) didn't scientifically try to find out more?
- So this earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- So we should take the Deity prasadam and our prasadam and go to all the houses?
- So what does he (president of Detroit) want?
- So what is honesty?
- So what is that incense?
- So what is the purpose for very large temples in India?
- So what is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- So what on earth is God? Is there anything on earth that is God?
- So which do you think is more important-this deal or the palace? I think the palace
- So you would have palaces and garden scenes and Lord Brahma perhaps on his throne?
- So, now what, what is your problem?
- So, should I ask you another question now?
- Some number (suppose if you kill one cow, you get blood how much, how many pounds?)?
- Some yogis harness energies and claim to use these energies to benefit humanity. Is there any value in their work? Is there any real consequence?
- Sometimes they question, "Why this material world is created?"
- Sometimes we are asked that "Why Krsna induced Arjuna to become violent?"
- Srila Prabhupada, I have one question. What is the purpose of service minus devotion?
- Srila Prabhupada, if she (mother) decides to leave her child at the school, what are the instructions to her? She should not write him, or she should come... How often can she come to visit him?
- Srila Prabhupada, in our fully developed state in the spiritual sky, are we still one ten-thousandth the size of a tip of a hair like we are now in conditioned state?
- Srila Prabhupada, today is the beginning of urja-vrata. Can you describe what that is, urja-vrata, how it should be observed?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the highest principle of the Gosvami's, by following which one will be sure of attaining love of Sri Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, which would you like to take?
- Srila Prabhupada? If they are really going there in the moon planet, then the bodies of the living entities are different than our bodies because the...?
- Srila Prabhupada? If while in the process of the studying of the book, there is some disagreement, one...?
- Srila Prabhupada? Since we are going to have three altars, then we should also have three different plates, a different plate for each altar?
- Srila Prabhupada? You asked for big, big, paintings to be sent to Mayapur and Vrndavana. When you say "big, big," do you mean like five feet and..., or six feet? That big?
- Srila Prabhupada? You said you want to present more philosophy in Back to Godhead magazine. Does that mean that we should make it more and more sophisticated? Or does that mean that we should try to present the philosophy in the easiest way?
- Srila Prabhupada? You were just saying that we are not fallen. Actually this is an illusion thinking that we are fallen?
- Such strict rules and regulations are being imposed upon these people, how long will they be able to follow them?
- Swami, what do you think accounts for the..., your popularity, popularity of the..., the Krsna consciousness movement sweeping America?
- Swamiji, the four principles you were telling about, are they for purposes of just other-worldliness or is it for material gains in this world or what?
- Swamiji, you accept Krsna as the supreme glory?
T
- Teach us what is the actually ultimate object of life, peace or knowledge?
- Tell us a little bit about the temple as we move?
- That chanting is not the stage you have to preserve all the time or practice all the time?
- That Gopala Krsna gave you (the pen)?
- That there is another world and that you go there or you come back and all. This is a belief, isn't it?
- That's all right (you can send news: "Mother, I'm all right." That's all)?
- The Deities should be woken up at five in the morning?
- The full arati will be in the morning, mangala-arati, there will be the noon arati, supposed to be one in the evening. When should the other full arati be?
- The guru should be accepted as representative of God?
- The Hare Krsna movement has started in the United States. Why did it start in the United States, rather than India?
- The one you've written, from the old Book Trust?
- The perfect person that is going to speak to me is God?
- The problem is that Gita was written down or dictated or recited about five thousand years back. So what was there before five thousand years back? Was there Krsna consciousness?
- The Rama-Krishna Mission says that (because everything is God, so whatever I take, that is God worship)?
- The seven planetary systems, do they correspond to the seven colors and the seven jewels of the yogi?
- The sister of who, of uh, His Divine Grace?
- The temple should always have some prasadam there?
- Then the question is whom shall we fight now?
- Then what was the necessity for the Pandavas to suffer when they had themselves surrendered to the Lord Krsna, and they have suffered?
- Then why varnasrama-dharma, there also, they are prevalent, that brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra?
- Then you will have two temples in Vrndavana?
- There are two more GBC appointments that have been made, Srila Prabhupada?
- There is another question, Your Grace. I wear leather shoes, and I know they come from animals which have been slaughtered for this. Should I stop wearing leather shoes?
- There is one question which many people have asked. You don't have to answer them but sometimes they say, "Why is it that Hare Krsna movement is so popular in this country, has so many centers, and not that many centers in India where Lord Krsna...?"
- There's something higher than human form?
- These demigods are what we call angels?
- They accept that Krsna is in every living entity, and therefore they say that by serving humanity and your fellow man, that that is serving Krsna. Is that correct?
- They said you wanted to see me (Gurudasa)?
- They were showing them (in our childhood we used to enjoy their play, Max Linder and Chaplin) in India?
- They're inquiring, "Is there sex after death?"
- They're separate energies?
- They're separate energies? Is it like a by-product?
- Thirty lakhs (the land is worth minimum 30,000,000 rupees)?
- This chanting process is directed to everyone, or just those who...?
- This earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- This feeling that we have, that we are fallen, that we are very fallen...?
- This is a ghata?
- This is a photograph we've received of your Guru Maharaja. Should the painters, should they paint this type of pictures?
- This is Krsna dasa Kaviraja's body?
- This is the original building?
- This is Yamuna River?
- Three-fifths of the earth's surface is ocean water. So that much is required to water two-fifths land?
- Through this I can feel not only God outside, but God inside?
- To Krsna's ear, is praying louder than nonsense talk?
- To read your books (our progress is how the student is becoming Krsna conscious. That is our point. And because he has to read nicely, he has to speak nicely, he must be literate, not illiterate)?
- To reduce it (sex life) over the stages of your life?
- To the children (to give some fruits). No, I will take this, you give me a piece of paper, can you?
- To what extent the Society has succeeded in India for propagating Krsna consciousness?
W
- Was he (Vivekananda) not realized?
- Was there any palace here of His (Lord Krsna's) parents?
- Wasn't it true that they, at that time even, had better economic development, when they were Krsna conscious?
- Way of life or aim of life (the real occupation-serving Krsna)?
- We have come to the world as the servant of Lord Krsna, but then why should we think, why should we think that we are Krsna's?
- We may develop at least maybe half of your energy to continuously preach someday?
- We should always be patient to answer such newsmen's questions, they are very easy to answer, and so many people will see. For example, for the question about poverty...
- We should offer the plate after the arati?
- We were talking about the importance of preaching. Does it make any difference whether it's in India or in the United States?
- We've all experienced that. We've had so much bread. What did we get?
- Well, his question it is why must we do something to become God when we're already God?
- What about a name meaning "all-powerful"?
- What about Buddha? Would you say that he is good?
- What about England? London. How is your movement doing?
- What about intermarriage between all the castes?
- What about my position, Prabhupada?
- What about the future? Is it possible to bring more people into Krsna consciousness? To expand?
- What about the men who surround you (everywhere the government, father and society are bad; and therefore we are producing bad men, and therefore there is no peace and prosperity)?
- What about the people in the...the innocent people?
- What about the rascals who are not so nice?
- What about the statement: jnani tv atmaivam eva tvam?
- What about the United States government (every sane man should help this movement for the good of society)?
- What about this (picture) of Bhaktivinoda Thakura?
- What about when somebody helps another person?
- What are the ksatriyas of this order supposed to doing now?
- What are the senses, how to control the things to be done?
- What are they (Communistic government) doing with their wealth if they are not investing it in economic...?
- What are your instructions ... to the teachers as to how they treat parents? I have heard several parents sometimes complain that they don't get enough news about their children from the teachers. Should teacher let the parents know about the children?
- What are your qualifications for a sudra?
- What are your views about silent meditation on one's, in one's own self, and this japa, gayatri-mantra?
- What can appreciation of Krsna do for the Americans?
- What can you cure? What can you make better?
- What class of impersonalists are worshiping the universal form?
- What class of men did Lord Caitanya teach about?
- What determines, Srila Prabhupada, if one is serious or one is not serious?
- What did you do? Did you work?
- What do you mean by sinful activities?
- What do you or the Krsna consciousness movement have to say to me that is different from the essence of any of the major religions of the world, say, Christianity?
- What do you think of the future?
- What do you think of the Maharishi?
- What does chanting do?
- What does mellow mean?
- What does that mean (every living entity's business?)
- What events will occur in this age, according to the prediction?
- What happens to us immediately after our material body dies?
- What has been written about the future of civilization? Will we have a happy human family ever on the earth, or will there always be conflict between...
- What I want to know is who is Lord Siva, Visnu and Brahma? Whether these three of them are gods?
- What is being foolish?
- What is evolution, according to the Vedas? What is this evolution that is talked about by the scientists?
- What is meant by the mode of ignorance and the mode of goodness?
- What is that (xerox copy)?
- What is that again?
- What is the "we" that has to change? What is constant between one life to the next?
- What is the basis on which you decide whether a cause is right or wrong?
- What is the business of Krsna consciousness society?
- What is the definition of science?
- What is the difference between Krishna and the deity?
- What is the difference between Paramatma and atma?
- What is the difference between the jiva and soul? Is it good to learn the differences and understand the depth of these things?
- What is the difference between the service to the human being and the service to God?
- What is the explanation of split-personality?
- What is the form and what is the definition of soul, and how to know whether there is soul?
- What is the meaning of Rama?
- What is the meaning of Vedanta?
- What is the mentality of the demons who attacked New Vrndavana and why did this happen?
- What is the position of the women in Krishna Consciousness Movement?
- What is the present hope of the human society even beyond death?
- What is the proper duty of the teacher in society? Let's say a science teacher. What should he be doing in the classroom?
- What is the relationship between man and God?
- What is the role of women in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the science behind this kalpa-taru that it is able to produce the...?
- What is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- What is the speciality of Vedic injunction compared to Hebrew scriptures?
- What is the views of Krsna consciousness in regard to the people using drugs for spiritual enlightenment?
- What is this greatness, that, to know the divinity when Lord Krsna says that "Those who know that I am divine and..." Janma karma ca me divyam (BG 4.9). How... What is the real meaning of knowing it, I mean. I read it ten times
- What is your belief in eternal life, and how do you attain perfection to eternal life?
- What is your understanding of God? Is He something apart from us, or are we all together God? Do you know?
- What kind of charity is it when you give to, food to somebody who is hungry?
- What kind of sex life can one lead, living in the material world?
- What kind of yogic process must I do to find out, to feel this information, to feel the soul inside?
- What place in the divine scheme do such great names as Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad have?
- What problems do you have in making God's word, His instructions reach the ears of everyone in the world?
- What time was it (this boy was fighting with one man)?
- What will the business of the trustees (for construction of Bombay) be?
- What would the best devotee be doing? What does he do?
- What would you like to take for lunch today?
- What's that man's name who made your first record in New York?
- What's the future of Krsna Consciousness in India today?
- When a person gradually go along the path and have, in the process, have some achievements, don't you agree that chanting is not the only attachment, or rather to know Krsna?
- When he (Harayana) saw that picture, he said, "Why is the door closed in the Guru-Gauranga altar?"
- When I pray faithfully and reverently, does Krsna hear me?
- When Krsna used to come here, was His home in Gokula at that time, or Mathura?
- When Lord Brahma, when he became angry at the four Kumaras he created Lord Siva from between his eyebrows. So he is always situated on his lotus, but at that time should we paint him on his planet?
- When Lord say whatever the sins being committed are going to be committed all by only His will and wish, then why a person should be hated as a cruel person, and to kill him, and why God should take a other and do all these things?
- When one becomes sinless, would he then experience the indwelling of God?
- When one is removed from karmic influence does he still get sick?
- When should we read the Krsna book?
- When you say, sir, you were advertised with the Beatles, do you have any connection with the Maharishi?
- Where can you be reached? Anyplace?
- Where did you go when you left Calcutta?
- Where is the main Yamuna?
- Where were you born?
- Where will I go at the time of death if I am thinking of my spiritual master?
- Which one (paper)?
- Which place did you come?
- Who created maya, man or God?
- Who is a real brahmana?
- Who is honest?
- Who is our mother?
- Who is that man (he has given me for fourteen lakhs)?
- Who is that?
- Who will carry on this movement after you?
- Whom are they (ksatriyas) fighting? Whom are they going to fight?
- Whose business (his business is listening)?
- Why are some people remembering and some people are forgetting Him?
- Why aren't we able to recall when we were in the womb?
- Why Brahman temples are not existing, and is there any Sanskrit reason or is...?
- Why does all this exist? Why the challenge in the first place? Why maya?
- Why don't they (scientists) search for real knowledge?
- Why is it that this mahamantra is so attractive to Western countries?
- Why is maya so strong if our purpose is to be with God?
- Why is that (anything who is intimately related with Krsna, worship of that thing is better than worship of Visnu, Krsna)?
- Why not the original?
- Why there is so-called discrepancy between the views of Bhagavat and modern scientists regarding the moon and other planets, and whether Hitler is good or bad man?
- Why was it (Hindu-Muslim unity) the programs failed?
- Why you make me leave Vrndavana now?
- Why, if the devotee is struggling very hard to be free of the clutches of Maya, then how can he not be interested in such liberation?
- Why... When you said ananya, is there a conflict between a devotee of Lord Krsna when he chants Lord Rama's name...?
- Will they (men of character, knowledge, sincerity, God conscious) be able to function in a society as working individuals?
- Will we be someday in charge of those (Vrndavana and all these other lands)?
- With talking on it (Hare Krsna record), vocal?
- With the question regarding whether prospectus or magazine is better...
- Without perfect knowledge, can I not teach some things?
- Would you have any instructions as to how I could serve you better?
- Would you like myself or Hamsaduta to stay here and help with this building?
Y
- Yes. But if someone has a temple and he maintains a Deity for his personal sense gratification...
- Yesterday you said that the spiritual master may have to suffer due to the sinful activities of his disciple. What do you mean by sinful activities?
- You are saying that man shouldn't have bondage?
- You ask one question about the nature of books I want you to write as my disciples?
- You belong to West Bengal?
- You brought them (the Deities) from Jaipur?
- You conclude that when you become enlightened, you will see the God in form of human nature?
- You don't pay ... in Bombay?
- You encourage anybody who disagrees with aspects of your philosophy to argue with you?
- You enquire about the mode of goodness, and why such people do not worship Krishna
- You have asked about "chemical changes of consciousness" or drugs, and if these may ever be utilized in Krishna's service
- You have asked for the translation to the Text 63, chapter 1, Fourth Canto...
- You have asked me if the spiritual master is ultimately Krishna
- You have sour cherries too?
- You may come back?
- You must please God for Him to reveal, is that correct?
- You said ... our relationship to Krsna is as children. But, I've also read that our relationship is also as, as Krsna as our son?
- You said that a person progresses through the three levels of God realization from Brahman realization. Is that true also for a Vaisnava? Does he first attain Brahman realization and then Paramatma, or does he...
- You said that it is possible to see God eye-to-eye. How can this be done?
- You said that sometimes you feel pain, some sickness, due to the sinful activities of your devotees?
- You say in Vaikuntha everything is the same as here in the material world. So there are families. The children... Do the children grow...?
- You say that we have eternal relationships with the Supreme?
- You speak of knowing the creator. Jesus Christ said that "No man comes to the father" - and I always understood by this he speaks of the creator - "but by me." What do you think of Jesus Christ?
- You use that example of the cow and the market?
- You will go from London to Bombay?
- You will take this car with you wherever you go?
- Your Divine Grace, is this also true that every species of life... For instance, plants and trees, don't appear to be breathing as we do, but they breathe through their...?
- Your Divine Grace, you referred to the body as simply matter. Do you believe in a life after death for the body, the human body?
- Your Grace, how many times do you recommend that I chant on my beads? How many rounds?
- Your Grace, you said I needn't give up my job, but may I look forward to the time when I may give up my job?
- Your Guru Maharaja wanted twelve originally?
- Your home base is in Los Angeles?
- Your next question was about the free will, whether we have it or not?
- Your question about travelling SKP parties in other zones...
- Your question is whether you can utilize your inclination to play the guitar and write songs about Krishna in devotional manner of activity