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A
- A man shipwrecked on an island alone, he is not in any sense taking part in illicit love. It doesn't mean that he is free from all desire for illicit love. Is it the exterior rather than the interior (that decides)?
- A pure devotee realizes it as Krsna's energy, but as a neophyte, how do we enjoy material energy in this aspect, the fresh air and the morning walk?
- Actually, I was concerned this morning about inflation. The government and the newspapers, they say the biggest problem today is inflation. From our Krsna conscious standpoint, how can we cure this problem of inflation?
- Adhyaki. What's that?
- After King Pariksit, then it divided up (Bharata-varsa), that soon after?
- All the living entities are completely satisfied?
- All this is prepared by these young men?
- Also you mentioned Mullik family in Calcutta to be your grandparents or someone?
- Always a different color though (the sea). Always a little different isn't it?
- Among the trees also, there are different grades of trees, Srila Prabhupada?
- An extra burden on the mind (when there is bunch of hair, we feel it is an extra burden)?... Makes it, weighs heavily on the mind?... So that's the reason why? It makes the mind lighter?
- And ah, this inside, it grows because of Krsna does it (anything you take, it grows from the Supreme)?
- And also this Ujjvala-nilamani?
- And are these married and...?
- And did you stay in the city (Moscow), or did...?
- And He (Bob Dylan) came to see Srila Prabhupada?
- And how long do you think this takes to (become spiritualized)... for a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- And if everybody became Krsna conscious?
- And in Goloka Vrndavana, are there still varieties? Are there still varieties in Vrndavana?
- And in India where is your asrama or something like that?
- And inside these people doing this work (modern science), is it Krsna? Or what is it makes them do the work?
- And it (Krsna Book) is just two volumes or...?
- And John Temple was here?
- And lastly, a very trivial question. The uniform, the haircut, why is that?
- And lot of people (in Bombay, Juhu Beach) can see you. And they bow down to you?
- And now, how...? Do they go through college (your children)?
- And the actual importance of the Hare Krsna chant, is that in saying the name?... Or is it a... continuous flow?
- And there are particular scriptural verses that speak about this (sraddha, faith)?
- And they told me also that this morning you had some brahminical initiation to the... Gayatri... How many people?
- And what about France (you have some disciples)? Is it...
- And what form does that direction take (the direction from Krsna)?
- And what will it profit us if we get to know about Him (Krsna)?
- Anitya is temporary, Prabhupada?
- Another question that raised itself, you'll see in the paper in fact, was the little mention in one of the books that I was reading, not from Krsna consciousness movement, just to get a bit of background, on Lord Caitanya, and it seems to have been...
- Are all spiritual bodies the same? I mean, is your spiritual body exactly the same as...
- Are Siddha-lokas like angels, Prabhupada?
- Are there Christian also, or Muslim also joining this (movement)?
- Are there not things about which in the mortal life one can have no clear idea?
- Are these (Srimad-Bhagavatam) going to be translated into Swedish too?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are you going to have any kirtana also tonight?
- Arjuna had to fight in the war, didn't he? In the Bhagavad-gita, he still had to... But it didn't matter him killing if it was Krsna's responsibility?
- As the Kali-yuga advances, the human beings will eat their children too. Srila Prabhupada?
- As you, yourself have said: What is talking? What is lies?
- As your students, we are trying to hear in that way. Now when we go and preach and we tell, if we tell a man, "First of all, you surrender before you'll be able to understand," then what, what question is there of preaching?
- At rebirth do we all return as a male if the previous existence was a male, or do we change
- At the beginning one, the word, and this word was God and this word was with God. So what is this word?
- At Vrndavana you studied at a later time, then, did you?
- At what stage could one say that a person is Krsna conscious? There must be a beginning stage...
- Avaroha process?
B
- Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul?
- Bhagavad-gita...is it the proper one?
- Birds have language? Animals have their language?
- Both (spirit and matter) come simultaneously?
- Boy. That's Visnu within their (birds) heart?
- But a Vaisnava would always offer his respects to a sannyasi. Is that not true?
- But as I understood it, you were encouraging death as a form of liberation. Isn't that my understanding? That that was the ideal?
- But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality (in future, everyone may fall and everyone may become elevated. But we have to take his present situation, what he is at present)?
- But do you think that really God love human beings and...?
- But for our plan to be put into action on big scale, big people must accept, who, who are presently, who presently have power to control the state... So is this to say that we must... replace them?
- But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
- But he (Gandhi) did not accept any post, you know that? At the same time...,
- But how problems of India... like poverty, and this lack of balance between rich and poor. How these problems can be solved?
- But how we can get them to come, to take prasadam?
- But I mean, how about in your view (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- But if he's (indistinct), then where is he going to get the money for his food?
- But if there's anything that you feel that you want to ask me or...?
- But if this energy (the spiritual energy, everything is ever-existing) was never created, then what is the need for a creator?
- But in all humility, Srila Prabhupada, supposing that they would succeed in actually creating the living cell artificially, what would we say?
- But is there any special, specific person who wants to go to India immediately?... Who would like to have visa?
- But it is possible to man without the helping of God to realize his perfection?
- But it's the same with Arjuna, wasn't it (clear word is there, "Thou shalt not kill." And why they're maintaining so many slaughterhouses?)?
- But Krsna's disappearance, about having a maya body that He left behind. A maya body. Is that anything to do with Mayavadī?
- But somebody asks, "How do I know a bird is not more highly advanced than a human being?"
- But Srila Prabhupada, the living entities, the jivatma within the..., and the Paramatma within, why the living entities suffering even the Paramatma is directing the living entity within?
- But the personality is changed (what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one)?
- But then what is the action for the... Practical action, practical... (when there is no more people following their sva-dharma)
- But there are in India other community of Visnu...?
- But there is no, no atheism, literate, some atheism, atheism, atheism, religious indifference, materialists exist in the towns, in the towns (in India)...?
- But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...?
- But they may say "Where did God come from?"
- But this is Krsna's inferior energy, right (my body is also Krsna's energy. I am also Krsna's energy. I am always with Krsna. Simply I have forgotten it)?
- But those devotees will eventually go there. Those kind of devotees like devotees of Sita-Rama, they will also attain the spiritual sky in their various positions?
- But to get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- But what are you going to do about your security? Can I talk to this about this, you know?
- But what do you see happening to (the future of) the actual world? Do you see any... You know, with Christianity and other religions? The world has... a beginning and an end
- But what if you are reincarnated into other planets? Is it less painful, or is it the same procedure?
- But what is the meaning of akarma?
- But why, why 1966 (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)? I mean what was there, what was there, special about the Sixties?
- But would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- But you, aren't you translating your books still?... Isn't that a great joy, a great joy to you?
- But, Guru Maharaja, if one has some original faith in Jesus Christ or Muhammad, would he...? They think they're sons of God or a messenger of God
- But, Guru Maharaja, one has to do her duty as advised?
- By argument you can convince a skeptic of the possibility of the existence of God, but the reality of Godhead can only be really realized... I mean has to be experienced or realized, does it not?
- By our desires we are pulled?
C
- Can a father impose on a child, something which he does not believe himself?
- Can a living entity ever lose his existence?
- Can a person become Krsna conscious only by renouncing, or can he do both, continue his life and also become Krsna conscious?
- Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
- Can he (this yogi who attains Vaikuntha) later go on from Vaikuntha to Goloka? Can that happen also?
- Can I get a copy (from the recorded tape) from you?
- Can I say about my concept of God and philosophy?
- Can the human consciousness transcend time?
- Can the name of God be pronounced, uttered?
- Can there be opposition in the spirit world? Conflict in the spirit world?
- Can they be in opposition (spirit in themselves, they are not opposition)?
- Can we hear a little bit from the Sankhya philosophy? Sankhya philosophy of Lord Kapiladeva? The creative elements
- Can we overcome that danger? We can try to overcome that danger (as soon as we give up this temple worship method, regulative principles, then we become, in the dress of so-called, we become victim of maya)
- Can you give any explanation about the spiritual, around the earth. If they are all luminous?
- Can you make a child Krsna conscious if you yourself don't believe in Krsna consciousness?
- Can you tell me the chant? Will you recite the chant to me? And then tell me why it's used so often by the followers?... The Krishna chant
- Can you tell me who is Lord Krsna?
- Can you tell me...? There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- Can you tell us the wonderful feeling of enlightenment to enter this spirit? We don't know how to exactly enter this spirit and travel as you travel
- Consciousness is also subject to body's changes, change of body?
- Could I ask please, if prana is the life force, isn't it? Is it the prana is the life force, isn't it?
- Could that go on and on forever, his not desiring (as soon as the living entity desires to unite with the Supreme Lord, he can become. And so long he does not desire, he'll have to continue this material existence. So that depends on him)?
- Couldn't we say that we as men are determined to freedom, determined to indeterminism, so to say, determined to take some responsibility?
D
- Defense (so material things, viṣaya, simply increasing the method of eating, sleeping, sex life and defense. This is material activity)?
- Delhi, some astrologer said (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Devotees are beginning more and more, Srila Prabhupada, under your instruction, to enter into politics. But the political leaders, they will claim, "Well you have no experience. How can you be qualified to...?"
- Did Gandhi reply to your request (this request I made to Gandhi That "You are..." People accepted him as a spiritual man all over the world. So if Gandhi would have taken this movement sincerely and scientifically, it would have grown thousand times)?
- Did you build a Maha-ratha?
- Did you tell everyone you were leaving, or you simply disappeared?
- Did you work for Jagadishacandra Bose too?
- Did you yourself study Sanskrit at Vrndavana or...?
- Didn't the Queen make some remarks about that? She said something to you… (Yes, she said, "How marvelous it would be to completely trust Krsna")?
- Do animals also have independence?
- Do people lose God consciousness as they grow older?
- Do they know the cause of cancer?
- Do we have a viewpoint on contraception?
- Do we have anything, Srila Prabhupada, in the reference, saying that all the living entities are already there?
- Do you accept the whole of the material world? Do you think there are some things in it which are wrong?
- Do you agree with that, Prabhupada? Isn't it? Prabhupada, Prabhupada? Do you agree with that, though, that it was not necessary to, say chant continually out in a doctor's surgery or...?
- Do you believe in the essential unity of religious paths in such a way that soon people will take to God and yoga?
- Do you believe that the origin of this creation is a sin?... A sin of man or is the love of God? What is the origin?
- Do you call it your temple or a church?
- Do you direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma
- Do you expect Him (Krsna) to come again?
- Do you find, uh, you must find it very, very difficult travelling all the time?
- Do you have a particular asrama there (in Vrndavana)?
- Do you have any sort of teachers in your centers, and how do they get their education if you have any teachers?
- Do you have classes on Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you have lots of members?
- Do you have the original here of the Bhagavata Purana?
- Do you have these temples in India?
- Do you have this, the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavatam?
- Do you initiate girls?
- Do you mean Krsna is Absolute, and Krsna is everything? Then why does Krsna have a specific form?
- Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you return to Vrndavana often?
- Do you sing any hymns, kirtanas in Bengali also?
- Do you specifically have a precept against telling a lie, or against hypocrisy?
- Do you take this throne (vyasasana) with you all the time?
- Do you think for instance, in this country, if somebody is a Protestant, or I mean a Christian and goes to church, this is also, you don't try to convert them away from that?
- Do you think it is possible, for instance, to have the husband being involved in this movement and not his wife?
- Do you think so (everyone is loving themselves)?
- Do you think that my father is in any way different in his parentage of me from God in His parentage of me?
- Do you think that the message of Krsna consciousness or Krsna Caitanya is very different from the message of realizing God which is promulgated in other religions, for instance the Saiva religion or...?
- Do you think that the, the poor Indians who are suffering because of this terrible drought in India... is their relief never going to be in this world? Is it only going to be when they die?
- Do you think that your mission is successful?
- Do you think you could do a little (recite Caitanya-caritamrta)?
- Do you think, this one (this book), do you think I could...?
- Do you travel much all over the world and...?
- Do you use any grammar, Sanskrit grammar, when you study Sanskrit?... How do they learn when they learn Sanskrit?
- Does faith develop from accepting (bhakti)?
- Does he (Lord Buddha) say so (He's personally Krsna), or you...?
- Does that mean the same amount of gold is here (if the large scale industry and trade becomes stopped, that is good for people)?
- Does the soul ever become weak or strong on account of its association and contact with material nature?
- Does there come a time Srila Prabhupada, when one misuses his independence, the independence is taken away?
- Does this (non-veg) food make effect on a human nature?
- Don't you find it extremely difficult to get the literal meaning from the Sanskrit to the English?
- Don't you think it's against the dharma-sastra (we are creating brahmanas in the western countries)?... Tell me why?
- Don't you think we are killing other living beings (there is a sect in the Orient that wears gauze over their mouth so as not to kill microbes while they breathe. But we are killing those microbes - So they are to satisfy everyone)?
- Due to a larger number of people, is it possible to return all these people to the real goal?
E
- Eight billion years one day of Brahma?
- English car, Prabhupada?
- Every time I make lot of rats, I'm asking for rat souls. Why then I can do it? When I can, or when I want them to be here, they will be here, not on the will of God
- Everybody is concerned with peace. Do people like Guruji, because they're such rascals... Like Guruji, this young boy, do they constitute a threat to peacefulness in society?
F
- Faith begins from the association of devotees?
- Family names, we said two family names, like Raya Chaudhuri, like Datta Gupta. How this happened?
- Fire? Fire, disease and debts (agni, vyadhi, disease. And ṛṇa, debts. You should not neglect it. You should finish it)
- For being in the Mohammedan service (these Mulliks they are also De. Their original title is De. This Mullik is their title)?
- For detachment, it's just constant austerities?
- For this machine (the only business is to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- From the U.S.A. Could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...?
- From this movement what has been, what is the plan?
- Frustrated (in the Western countries, unless they are hungry for spiritual consciousness, why they are hippies? They are frustrated. They are not going to live like their fathers and forefathers)?
G
- Gandhiji, he was politician, he was actually not devotee, and he could not understand Bhagavad-gita. But how the name of Rama has come when he died? The name of Rama, Hare Rama, has come from his last word. How it has come. It is, it is...
- Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika in which you, all the original svarupa of all the devotees are given?... So most of the Lord Caitanya's associates were gopis from the...
- George Harrison is your member?
- Goldsmith? He's a lawyer or something in Los Angeles?
- Goodness (so without knowing how to give service, sometimes we may be punished. What kind of service we shall give? (indistinct) example. So there are three kinds of services: goodness, passion, and ignorance)?
H
- Has God put the suffering here for us to experience so that we will want to give up material lives and get closer to Him? Is it punishment?
- Have you all seen Krsna?
- Have you been many times in France or not?
- Have you been to Kerala ever?
- Have you met Mother Theresa?
- Have you translated also the Bhakti-rasamta-sindhu?... All of it...? Or...
- He (God) doesn't supply his bread to everybody unless... People die, do they not?
- He (Jesus) is not Krsna?
- He (Krsna) has no these external senses?
- He asks: In our society do these four divisions also exist?
- He gets the body? Does he get the body (Krsna's pure devotee, he's not in the material world. In the spiritual world)?
- He has become a dog, Nehru?
- He is asking when you take birth again do you take birth as the same sex or do you change your sex?
- He says seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?... How should society be organized in order to achieve these goals?
- He says that he understands that we are talking of love meaning two people, but does that mean that... Why can't we think of love in terms of an exchange between man and everything, between man and the cosmos?
- He says the term "entering into silence" is a mystic term that means... it is undescribable because it's something that's arrived at inside through meditation. You can't really describe it in words?
- He sounded like this? He (Krsna) talked like that, like the birds talk?
- He thought the word (electricity) did not exist at the time?
- He wants to know how can we live in this material world without becoming entangled?
- He wants to know how he will be engaged. Who will tell him what to do?
- He wants to know how to find out how to please the spiritual master with one service
- He wants to know if Krsna is above Jesus Christ?
- He wants to know if you, if you think that you will be able to complete all the volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam which you have projected?
- He wants to know something about psychic phenomena
- He's asking if this religion is a matter of reason or is it a matter of feeling?
- He's asking you how to translate a French word, "au revoir."... How do you translate into English?
- His (Krsna's) senses are (spiritual)...?
- How about teaching them how to love themselves?
- How about the duality (relative means you cannot understand anything without the other. That is called relative. Suppose if I say "good man," I cannot understand a good man without having another man, bad man)?
- How about the one who picks up and he doesn't find the owner of the coins but he offers to Krsna?
- How can one reach the point where he knows that a particular type of service will please the spiritual master?
- How can we become intelligent or independent? In a money-orientated world?
- How can we get to Krsna? How do you get to Krsna?
- How can we surpass the misery?
- How can you convince that we are the real genuine people?
- How can you focus your mind on God before you know what He is?
- How do I come to know that Krsna is satisfied?
- How do I know that animals do not want to die?
- How do we attain our spiritual body?
- How do we bring them (the atheists) to their senses?
- How do we know he's a good doctor or not? By his credential or... (if you are suffering from some disease, you have to go to a doctor who knows how to treat)?
- How do we know that they're not (indistinct) (suppose someone is coming to stab you; you cannot jump. Therefore bird is more intelligent)?
- How do we know, then, what is the real fact (when everyone gives his own opinion)?
- How do you agree to this (to act according to the whims of Krsna)?
- How do you decide whether a place is sacred or not?
- How do you envisage one should act, if I may ask that?
- How do you know (that is a bogus)? Have you met him (Guru Maharaji)?
- How do you know that you know? May I ask this (we have to find out, we have to find out who can give the perfect knowledge)?
- How do you know whether you're using it for Krsna or not?
- How do you regard abortion? At what stage does the spirit enter into the womb?
- How do you regard suicide, and would there be any exceptional circumstances that might justify it?
- How does He (Krsna) speak to you or to us?
- How does he become conditioned when the jivatma is eternal full of bliss and knowledge?
- How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krsna or not?
- How does one practice to keep the mind from being restless?
- How does say that in your process, anybody has been made happy?
- How does transcendental knowledge burn to ashes the reactions of sinful...
- How important is formal initiation?
- How is it done (calculation of time from the atom, Srila Prabhupada. He is talking about Bhagavatam. By the light passing over the atom, you can calculate the time, the sunlight passing over the atomic particles)?
- How is it possible that Tulasi-devi is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant?
- How is it they can see continuity between baby's body and young boy's body and young man's body, they say, "Oh, he's still here," but they can see no continuity between this body and...?
- How is that they say that in some of the mantras they are cakras and all that?
- How is the soul degraded (by lust, anger and greed) when it is transcendental to the body? Doesn't that imply that the soul has changed?
- How long are you going to stay there?... In India, when you go?
- How long do you think this takes to (become pure)... For a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- How long does it take you to translate?
- How long has Krsna consciousness been in India, or were you...?
- How long has this earth, we know, existed?
- How long it will be (the age of Kali)?
- How long this movement has been started?
- How long will Your Divine Grace be here (Stockholm)?
- How many commentaries does this one... (Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavat Purana)?
- How many levels of initiation do you have?
- How many volumes is this one (Caitanya-caritamrta), when it's complete?
- How old it is (the earth)?
- How one should start when he's completely ignorant of all these things (you must accept guru and learn. Why should you remain ignorant)?
- How to measure it then (the soul)? What is the measurement?
- How to prove that the soul is eternal?
- How we can come over the ego?
- How we know about soul?
- How will the judgement be rendered (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- How will you prove it (the gas came from ether, and ether came from mind, and mind came from intelligence, and intelligence came from the soul)?
- How? Which authority is that?
I
- I agree for some people to, you especially, to think of this because you are a leader of your Vedic religion. But for everybody to do that, where would we be? We couldn't all sit down and think all the time
- I also come across from Srila Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that the living entities, all the living entities, 8,400,000 species, they are simultaneously created?
- I am a part and parcel of the almighty God. So when animals are butchered, why the butcher does not get pain?
- I am not clear about the life equal to matter?
- I am very distressed that none of these boys continue their education. What is going to happen to them when they are like you, when they're older, they have no talents?
- I could mention a lot of names that are still very close to God and brilliant men in science... Where would we be without our scientists, without our doctors, medicine? They all have to go to university and get a degree before they...
- I feel, but have no proof, that I have experienced in my, in the things I do, which lead me to believe that my experiences based on a memory I don't understand which, which belongs to previous lifetimes. Now is that, a fa...?
- I haven't remembered the four, but is one of those basic principles concerned with truth? Which one?
- I heard you also saying that Caitanya was disciple of Madhvan-dasa-pura?
- I know that our bodies are not eternal, and we have to leave them, and some are made male bodies and some are made female bodies. But our spirits, our souls, are there any difference?
- I may ask you, you see, that this foundation is a Christian foundation, and I wonder what is your personal opinion about the main figure in the Gospel, Jesus Christ
- I mean the mood of the time (the Sixties) might have been right then. I mean was there something about that age that made it especially attractive to the young people?
- I mean, how did I get my spiritual body?
- I might get the cooperation of somebody like George Harrison. What would you think about this? Do you think, with your knowledge of the young mind, particularly the young western mind, that this might be a good means through to the young people...?
- I see there are a lot of young children in the asrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all?
- I think it was a nun that asked you about the position of Jesus on this, and you quite rightly said, "Well, of course, Jesus never claimed to be God." I do wish that some Christians would realize that. He was God conscious, wasn't he?
- I think it was Acarya Prafullacandra Raya, Srila Prabhupada, that starting of chemical industry in the Bengali...?
- I told him about you. So he immediately grabbed the idea. He wants to come tomorrow, in the morning to have your blessings. But then is it possible that he could have the initiation?
- I understand that Christ is coming again at the end of this non-believing age in the world. Does that coincide with the son of God that you understand or is that a different sort of coming?
- I understand that Hare Krsna is a scientific movement. Do you think that there is a scientific explanation for the way in which personal enlightenment by simply chanting Hare Krsna?
- I want to know if Krsna appeared on this planet five thousand years ago at a certain time, that means that immediately did He appear again in another universe?
- I wanted to ask somebody to leave, but how does he leave? We have to buy him his ticket or something?
- I wanted to know what was that, the meaning of that mark you made... The fire, yes. Yes, oil and... Was it a third eye? That means you are dust and you become dust again, or what?
- I was wondering is she (Tulasi devi) was alive in human form while Krsna was on earth?
- I wonder if I could ask you first of all to tell me what is the central point of the teaching of Bhagavad-gita?
- I wondered what "Rama" meant when we say the mantra, Hare Rama, you see.
- I would like to put a question about the relation between Krsna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Paramatma and Brahman. Which is the relation between these concepts?
- I wouldn't have given up my life to Him fifty-two years ago to be a Jesuit priest unless I loved God, would I?
- I'm doing also comparative studies between those in the Sanskrit and Tamil. Do you know Tamil?
- I've always admired Rabindranath Tagore's very much, his poetic writings. Do people in India think much of him today?... If his writings are highly considered by people in India?
- I've committed many sins in this lifetime. How can I make my peace?
- I've read about Hubbard's Scientology and a lot of the writings that Hubbard writes sound a lot like the theory of Hare Krsna. Is there any parallel at all between the two, or have you taken any opinion on side, both your cases?
- If a man feels empty, what he can offer?
- If a man reaches his maturity of years and leaves a western school, and he has the words which say "Know thyself," may he reject his family ties?
- If a yogi does attain a Vaikuntha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Krsna in Goloka...
- If everybody started chanting Hare Krsna, then how, how would we eat? Who would run the factories?
- If everyone became Krsna conscious, then how would the world go on?
- If God is a person with eyes, legs, He stays in one place?
- If God is so powerful, why does He let me fall. Why doesn't He save me, save me from my own foolishness. Why doesn't He...?
- If I come in contact with Krsna movement now, will that in my next life get me a human body?
- If I go to some city and hold a program and advertise but only, say, four or five people come and yet they're interested, very interested-should that be considered successful or unsuccessful?
- If I serve the Lord, do I lose that little bit of freedom?
- If I tell you how far I have been traveling, you will know into which coach to put me, yes?
- If one has difficulty becoming Krsna consciousness, is that suffering?
- If one isn't eager, how can he become eager, Srila Prabhupada?
- If one tries to praise the Creator by, directly, with his ability, what, how does he know what to...? By his work, I mean
- If somebody didn't go to the factory, you wouldn't, would you? Somebody has to go and do the work to make the food, keep the country running
- If somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
- If somebody picks up and takes it, he's a thief, and if somebody who just does not care he's also not good. And the one who takes up and says, "Whose coin is this?" Then he's good
- If someone cannot chant sixteen rounds a day...?
- If someone comes along and joins you, do they see Krsna?
- If someone has a desire to do something for Krsna. But he begins to realize it's still tinged with a lot of personal gratification...?
- If someone looks at the Deity of Krsna and thinks it's only stone or wood, for him it's still material?
- If that yogi quits his body in that condition (tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yogina), does he attain a Vaikuntha planet?
- If the name of God is not material, how is it possible to pronounce it materially, with our material tongue?
- If the science is available to everyone without impediment, then there must be the proper teacher, isn't it?
- If the soul is eternal and passes through one body after another, how is not possible that it accepts, let's say, three, four, five bodies and then dies?
- If the Vedic scriptures were written about five thousand years ago then how is it just only five hundred years ago somebody came to impart what was written five thousand years ago?
- If this mist of material nature is temporary, then why bother to disentangle oneself from something transitory?
- If we are in the proper line, then our political activities also can become successful?
- If we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness. And the non-living, that has no consciousness?
- If we glorify God every day, all the time, then is God going to give us something back, something in return for our service?
- If we see a group of demons fighting, killing each other, should devotees go and try to stop them from killing each other?
- If we want we can come to the spiritual world and return? Fall down?
- If we were there and we could make one speech in front of that assembled Congress and Senate, the main government of the United States, what were the main points we would stress?
- If you hadn't been educated, father, well, how would you be able to have...?
- In any case, everything is controlled by the superior energy?
- In Bhagavad-gita, it says that the soul is immovable. In the Second Chapter there is a verse that says the soul is immovable. What does that mean exactly? Are we not moving?
- In Bombay, you were having your own business then?
- In India is everybody lost, the Indian culture...?
- In India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
- In ISKCON, are there these four divisions?
- In order to achieve our goals, do we intend doing like the Christians tried to do, making everyone convert to their side. Is that what we want to do, make everyone convert to Krsna?
- In our literature we find Krsna has some transcendental pastimes of anger, but that He does not, it is man's own reaction activities, that bring upon destruction. How are these two...?
- In that case (we are transcendental to all these material divisions. This is material division), in which of these four divisions are we (ISKCON)?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that, you were lecturing that, that unless one performs the proper samskaras for the children, they will become degraded. They will not follow the regulative principles and such... They become unwanted population?
- In the course of your lecture this morning, you quoted that verse from the Tenth Chapter, dadami buddhi-yogam tam. When that knowledge comes, the devotee is qualified by some degree of advancement?
- In the past there was a lot of gold on the planet. What has happened to it? There used to be a lot of gold on the planet?
- In the scientific terminology the eternality of the soul can be compared with the conservation of energy?
- In the spiritual bodies aren't there also individualities?
- In the Vaikuntha planets, we get that all the inhabitants are four-handed forms of Narayana?
- In the wrong direction? They're inquiring (scientists)?
- In this time, modern science, you know, physics, chemistry, mathematics; is this all materialism?
- In what form (when this body will be changed, you'll exist in another body)?
- In what respect (now, the common sense is that can you distinguish between matter and spirit? Can you distinguish?)?
- In what respect do you consider yourself different from God?
- In what respect I have created (sinful activities)?
- In what sense is the First Canto His lotus feet?
- In your lectures you continually speak of the ten samskaras that children should have
- In your teachings you say the sun is the only self-illuminous body in the universe, whereas the scientists say that there is many millions of stars that are in the sky that are also self-illuminous
- Is (the aim of yoga) to realize God?
- Is a seed conscious, Prabhupada?
- Is darkness eternal, Prabhupada?
- Is he (Lord Buddha) allowed to say so (He's personally Krsna)?
- Is he allowed to associate with Krsna in the beginning?... As jiva, as jiva is...
- Is it a serious movement? If the Beatles are telling the truth, Hare Krsna is a little bit of a bluff
- Is it a waste of time then to present Krsna consciousness philosophy to someone who believes in doing your own thing? Do you think that that is a...?
- Is it all right to blame the government in public, Prabhupada, in India?
- Is it compulsory to have a full consciousness that he must shave his head?
- Is it like in mathematics, in chemistry, like they call formulas (the sutras)?
- Is it possible for a spirit soul never to regain the state of God consciousness?
- Is it possible for any spirit not ultimately, after his various transmigrations through bodies, is it possible for any spirit never to regain contact with the Lord?
- Is it so for a Krsna conscious man that Krsna is as much in the stone as in the Deity? But we order murtis all the way from India?
- Is it sometimes cold in the spiritual world?
- Is it to be taken, the references say to Putana, is this to be taken... physically or spiritually as a demonic power or what?... Where, is it the demoness Putana takes Krsna and Krsna sucks her breast?... Should it be taken literally or allegorically?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?
- Is Krsna consciousness genuine?
- Is Krsna consciousness the only method?
- Is looking for the medicine part of the medicine (if people take what is the actual goal of life by philosophy and logic, then their goal of life will be one. He must agree to take it just like the diseased man must agree to take the medicine)?
- Is modern science materialism, Prabhupada? Is it materialism?
- Is not a true Vaisnava also a sannyasi? Would you explain the difference between them?
- Is overpopulation, then, a more important problem?
- Is sacred the same as solitary?
- Is that buddhi (dadami buddhi-yogam tam), that intelligence manifested in some way, in his service, or in his thinking?
- Is that for one who is differentiating himself from this body? In other words, a person who has realized that there is field and there is knower, is he given that title or is the person who cannot make that distinction, is he also given that title?
- Is that personality within the atom Paramatma (even within the atom, you will find personality)?
- Is that to say that a stone has a living entity in it?
- Is that tree alive?... Has it got life?... Are you doing anything wrong when you cut it down...?
- Is that what it means by sarvam khalv idam brahma (everything is Bhagavan, but it appears like different)?
- Is that what you're trying to do in your movement?
- Is the God of love, does He punish man?
- Is the immortality that he (Jesus) has offered, for instance, me... I must talk in the first person. Is it a universal thing that's happened all through time or is it something that belongs to just when he died?
- Is the medicine in the seeking?
- Is the pure devotee more merciful than Krsna?
- Is the water inside (my body) the same as the water in the ocean?
- Is there a spirit opposed to the divine spirit?
- Is there any possible way of a balanced combination between spiritualism and materialism?
- Is there free will?
- Is there such a thing as a sincere atheist... who benefits by austerity?
- Is this (at the present moment) the later half of Brahma's life?
- Is this (vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah) in the Gita, in Bhagavad-gita?
- Is this a government-recognized college now (at Navadvipa)?
- Is this faithfulness, is it a product of the mode of goodness?
- Is this presumptuous, or is this right, to try to praise the creation by making sculpture?
- Is this your last body? If so, how do you know?
- Is Vallabhacarya, Prabhupada, in accordance with our philosophy?
- It is also not because of the development of consciousness (that because the mother was naked in the childhood, therefore she should not put on any garment. This is nagna-matrka-nyaya. We change according to the circumstances)
- It is first time you visit France?
- It is just like the concept that if God is all-merciful, why He is so impartial, somebody making happy, somebody making suffering?
- It is not difficult (to become Krsna's representative)?
- It is said that the soul glows with a light brighter than a thousand suns. In the Vedas. Yes?
- It is some sort of artificial transmigration (changing the heart)?
- It seems to me almost daily that the next processes in life are the much more interesting and exciting ones. But when I hear you speak of Bhagavad-gita and so on, I know nothing about these people. So now where do I start?
- It'd be no good at all being priest if you had smallpox, would it?
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- Just before her death she apparently was able to explain some of her past lifetimes to her mother, that she had formerly been a princess or of noble birth and that now she was being called. Is there some explanation for that?
- Just by our presence chanting then (they're all infected, the whole world. So by chanting you disinfect)?
- Just by selling books or... You must receive gifts as well (in Los Angeles we collect about eight hundred dollars daily. I think it must be about twenty thousand dollars a day, through the society)?
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- Krsna appears and performs His pastimes and then He disappears and then appears in another universe? Or He appears...?
- Krsna consciousness, it is a short-cut to eternal life?
- Krsna gains or speaks as a guru, guru-sisya-samudbhava. So here is as a guru?
- Krsna is telling to Arjuna where to act, and how to act, and what to act, that is "Fight." And at that moment He is telling to fight the Kauravas. Now, we are confused here, that what is our fight? What is our fight?
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- Last night Srila Prabhupada was mentioning about the (indistinct) explained by Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- Lately, we've been reading in Srimad-Bhagavatam how Arjuna's potency was gone. He was not even able to protect Krsna's wives. What was missing there?
- Laukiki and vaidi... (laukiki means material activities. And vaidiki means according to Vedic instruction. Whatever you do, if it is done for Krsna, then it is bhakti)?
- Like the example when Hitler killed the Jews. They will say, "Well, what should we do, just let Hitler go on killing the Jews because the Jews were sinful? Or should we try and stop Hitler?"
- Like the Vietnam, you mean (everything is bad when it is done for maya. That's all. So these wars are declared not for Krsna's sake; by the politicians' whims. So they must be responsible for this war)?
- Logic and argument (to understand the Absolute Truth)?
- Logic is arguing, isn't it?
- Lord Ramacandra's father (Janaka-raja, he was a king, but great saintly person)?
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- Magnet (He is absolute controller. But He is not controlled by anyone. Therefore He is absolute controller. Just like a, what is called? Magnetic stone?)?
- Making these houses, temporary houses (material bodies), is directed by Him?
- Mallika means owner, the owner?
- Mam here means Krsna? Or Brahma?
- Manufacturing (in Bombay, you were having your own business then)?
- Many devotees, they experience the difficulty that although they sincerely want to love God and serve Him, yet their body is almost like another dictator within them. Why?
- Mass opinion usually forms society. When a number of people think in a certain way?
- Matter can be converted to spirit?
- Matter is a part of life? Component?
- May I ask you a question?
- Merely knowing won't do also (if we spoil this life, living like cats and dogs, then we are missing the opportunity. This is the opportunity to understand Krsna, God)?
- Molecule has consciousness?
- My idea of God is on the consciousness of the whole world, of all that we could possibly envisage, its consciousness is, that's God, and we're the little bits of it. But would you tell me...?
- My question is how does one determine into which part he goes (the society must be divided into four classes)?
- My question was that when there is no more people following their sva-dharma, their true self...?
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- Nehru (some astrologer has said. He has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Nepeansea Road downtown, it should be kept like a temple?
- Nirvana means something different for them?
- No, but that is not a specific thing (Krsna's business). But if somebody's carrying out a particular duty, does he have to renounce that...?
- No, most of them, they have lived, a very short times. But still is it a fact that the soul is transplanted from one body to another body?
- No, no, what you call that (indistinct) that flower came?... White flower, fragrant flower, it is called Parajit
- Nobody ever else sits upon that platform (vyasasana)?
- North India. You have here the center of your...?
- Now for, that is for Saturday and Sunday (every morning I speak on this Bhagavad-gita, if you find time you can come. At quarter past seven, I'm beginning, for one hour)?
- Now I understand exactly what the purpose of your movement is. I just wonder if you think the Western world is ready for this message?
- Now if he is not got (Krsna conscious), then what shall he do to become aware?
- Now say this person who is doing wrong... is very touchy about his being sudra?
- Now you are asking if Lord Jagannatha carries flute?
- Now, a question concerning the 8,400,000's of lives which man has to evolve through. A spiritual being, having entered, or placed, the way of man, can he ever gain a reincarnate in the kingdom of animals?
- Now, do you think that's not cruel to them (we don't wish to send them to college. We have got sufficient books)?
- Now, in India more people are living in the western way, though, living in cities, working in factories and offices. Does this make them have the western state of mind, the western point of view? Or can they resist it?
- Now, taking that person, when material things cease, what happens to him?
- Now, while Bhismadeva was a devotee of Krsna, why he has taken the Kaurava side?
- Now? Right away (call him (Braja Hari))?
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- On all the Vaikunthas, Krsna is in His catur-bhuja, four-armed form?
- Once again, many thanks for your tremendous cooperation and as I say I hope it won't put you to too much work. Obviously some of these things have already been met. To a certain extent we've done some of the work already, haven't we?
- One is dependent on the other? Or the spirit is independent of matter?
- One other thing that interested me was the idea that Arjuna was in some way deliberately misguided, planned almost to be misguided in the Bhagavad-gita. How, how is this work, like?
- Only then he's Krsna conscious person (he has no other business than to serve Krsna)?
- Otherwise, it's the same subtle body... (subtle body can be finished when you are liberated from material bondage)?
- Our answer will be because of the laws of nature (we are in misery)?
- Our desire to enjoy, we achieve these bodies; and our desire to achieve Krsna brings us to our natural position?
- Out of stock? So they will print it (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) again, no?
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- People following you, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- People say about Uraya Karan Singh... of Kashmir, he's a very pious man, and because rich birth and he is a pious as well, is it?
- People stopped purchasing... (something happened, and everything was finished. That is Krsna's grace. Just like something has happened wonderful. So that is also Krsna's grace)?
- People told me that you have some two or three thousand disciples in the Western world?
- Perhaps you can speak for the representative of Krsna?
- Prabhupada, buffalo, buffalo milk is as good as cow's milk?
- Prabhupada, do you think that the ISKCON will, this Krsna consciousness will become a major religion in any country?
- Prabhupada, in our movement there are so many sannyasis. If we see the sannyasi, same, so many times in one day, we should bow down every time we see him?
- Prabhupada, is every jiva given a chance in the beginning to go in the spiritual world? Then he falls down, or... sometimes the jiva may choose directly...?
- Prabhupada, this morning you talked about astrology in your lecture. Is this accepted in the Vedic scripture and by the gurus?
- Prabhupada, what is the meaning of the word Srila?
- Prabhupada, when the universes are emanated from the body of Maha-Visnu, they begin to expand... Is the universe still expanding?
- Prabhupada, when we talk like this ( if you combine together on Krsna consciousness, there is no scarcity of food anywhere), is this to perhaps mean sometime in the future the movement will become so big that...?
- Prabhupada, when you are not present with us, how is it possible to receive instructions, for example, on questions that may arise?
- Prabhupada, you know the scientist you quoted in Easy Journey? You quoted an article from the newspaper in Easy Journey about the two scientists who were studying anti-matter?
- Pradyumnaji. Pradyumna. You call him pandita?
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- Really (bhukti means karmi's business, "I shall enjoy." Bhukti. And mukti means "I shall become one with the Supreme." So these two things are described as pisaci)?
- Regarding your question about instruction, spiritual life is different from material life. The instruction given in my books is supposed to be personal instruction
- Regarding your question about taking Gaura-Nitai Deities with you on travelling Kirtana...
- Regarding your question is it all right to assign the entire sankirtana party for distributing books so that no one will be free for street chanting?
- Religion, meaning trying to serve God, is any more right than another?
- Remember how Krsna received Sudama?... When he brought the...?
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- San-khya means to count?
- Say instead of Hare Rama Hare Rama, we say Visva ramane rahim, or something like that, will you have no objection to that?
- Say we say that Krsna is God. Right? Then do you believe that there are other ways, apart from the way that you're going, to get to Krsna?
- Science almost denies the existence of God in order to exist, doesn't it?
- Scientists say there's no soul?
- Scientists, they have their mental process, but what is our process to understand this knowledge?
- Seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?
- She asked if it (prasadam) was fattening. Would make her heavy?
- She asks for a definition of the word "occult." What is something that is occult, something occult or mystic? What is it?... Mystic. What is mysticism?
- She asks what is the difference between our understanding of reincarnation and the Christian concept of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ said he would come again. Is there a difference? Is it the same thing?
- She said that love can change dharma. You say that dharma cannot be changed
- Should also this be the responsibility of the government to protect people from having to take dog body?
- Should it affect the normal duties (if everybody became Krsna conscious)?
- Simply they're analyzing the creative material elements (sankhya philosophers)?
- So a devotee is also by actions he can do it?
- So by our behavior (indistinct) will determine what sort of body we will get when we return?
- So every ksatriya had to have something to manage?
- So far the question of all Brahmas riding on swans...
- So far your questions about Lord Jagannatha and Ratha-yatra Festival?
- So if somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
- So if they follow Jesus Christ...?
- So in Navadvipa, will the instruction be in English or in Bengali?
- So is subtle body ever finished?
- So it's the complete text (the summary study of Srila Rupa Gosvami's Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu)?
- So Mayavadis artificially think that (everything is spiritual, but due to our ignorance, we think it is material)?
- So Prabhupada, it says that a sannyasi should live alone. That means only with devotees?
- So the evolution of life... Those who are coming to the lowest living entity, the organisms, smaller units, so once they come to that stage, then they have to pass through the stages stepwise?
- So the honest ones (atheists) become devotees?
- So the pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- So the service that we offer now, are we going to get it back in another life?
- So there's no end to the samsaras?
- So they're representatives (Guru Nanak, Muhammad, and other people)?
- So we do not accept this (they calculate that it's only 4.5 billion year old, the earth)?
- So we will attract the scientists by saying that we are both fools?... Before we were saying that we were both fools. Is that the way to attract the scientists?
- So when this body is finished, why shall the soul be gone?
- So when we establish the theory of acintya-sakti...?
- So who shall decide what the criteria is, to test (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- So why wouldn't, why couldn't they accept that such simple thing (accept Krsna as authority over Darwin)?
- So you'll cut off their education like that (they are now little children. But we don't wish to send them to college. We have got sufficient books)?
- So, actually this entire world is spiritual?
- So, for instance, if it (the word pollution) is used to indicate air pollution... then how will the chanting will affect that?
- Some birds, Srila Prabhupada, like the minah...? They can be taught to say something. So if they are taught to chant Hare Krsna... this is a good service?
- Somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know that he is pleasing God or he's not pleasing God?
- Somebody even asked me about what is material and what is spiritual, Prabhupada. I said that whatever is in connection with God is spiritual and whatever is not in connection with God is material. Is that right?
- Somebody told me, Prabhupada, about Vallabhacarya, that he sometimes, he once went to Lord Caitanya and said that he wrote a better commentary than a previous acarya, and Lord... Caitanya chastised him?
- Sometimes great souls, they will cheat people also for their own benefit?
- Sometimes I forget, I cannot remember the scriptures, so what would be the best clue to always defeat them (the impersonalists)?
- Sometimes Krsna interferes in the free will?
- Sometimes people ask, "If I surrender to God, give everything to God, then how will the state go on, how will the work, the factories, how would all that go on?
- Sometimes questions are raised saying that how do we know that a bird is more intelligent than a human being?
- Sometimes when we ask someone to become a life member, they say: "Yes, sometime in future." We become very disappointed
- Spirit soul, it is also luminous like that (in the Vaikuntha, each and every planet is glowing)?
- Spiritual master is the mercy of God?
- Spiritual thinking can be used to cure bodily sickness?
- Sravanam kirtanam visnou smaranam that any one of these principles, if executed, is sufficient. Now some devotees may take this to mean that they simply can chant Hare Krsna and don't have to do anything else like temple duties or readings or...?
- Srila Prabhupada was in Scottish Church (College in Calcutta)?
- Srila Prabhupada, are these astrologers, ah, are, can we believe in them, what they say? Called pseudo-science
- Srila Prabhupada, are thoughts made of matter or spirit?
- Srila Prabhupada, I once was distributing some of your literature to a library, and the librarian said, "If these are five thousand years old, where is the proof of this? Do we have the copies that were written down five thousand years ago?"
- Srila Prabhupada, I want to make sure the meaning of Tad apy aphalatam jatam. Tesam atmabhimaninam. Jata means the species?
- Srila Prabhupada, I wanted to ask you that in your lectures you continually speak of the ten samskaras that children should have?
- Srila Prabhupada, I was going to ask is there any difference between acintya-sakti and mystic yoga power?
- Srila Prabhupada, if material nature is the absence of Krsna consciousness, then where is material?
- Srila Prabhupada, if meeting you here now would make sure that he would get a human form in his next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, if one's life is achieved by one's consciousness, how is it one cannot remember one's previous life?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Srimad-Bhagavatam or the Krsna Book, you state that even clouds have souls. But then again they dissipate, in the rain they dissolve. Does that mean they die?
- Srila Prabhupada, isn't it so that we do not kill voluntarily. Because involuntarily, of course, we kill with every moment? We kill all the bacteria and we kill all the microbes and... we cannot help doing that
- Srila Prabhupada, my understanding of the evolution and the transmigration is that evolution is uni-directional, only in one direction. Whereas the transmigration can be both, in both directions. They can go up or can go down?
- Srila Prabhupada, the material world is a reflection of the spiritual world. So we have different variegatedness in the material world, different living entities. My question being, so they have all the variegatedness in the spiritual world?
- Srila Prabhupada, throughout the Western theology, there is a conception of the wrath of God, God's anger at man's disobedience or his unwillingness to follow God and live by God's commandments
- Srila Prabhupada, we have any specific reference for acintya in the Vedic reference?
- Srila Prabhupada, what about in mineralogy? Scientists have proven that, for example, mountains are growing by sedimentary activity
- Srila Prabhupada, what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one?
- Srila Prabhupada, what can we do to curb down these rascals?
- Srila Prabhupada, what do you think about the so-called primordial flux?... The primordial flux, they call it. That nature has supplied such nice samples, elements, like potassium, argon, and this...
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the difference between an innocent person and an ignorant person?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is your view of the future, the history, the future history?
- Srila Prabhupada, when someone is sick, he willingly goes to the doctor... So how we can get them to willingly come... to the guru?
- Srila Prabhupada, why has it taken so long for a pure devotee to come to the West? Has the West been so sinful that no pure devotee has come before Your Divine Grace?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like prasadam?
- Srila Prabhupada?... What do we mean by renunciation?
- Start with the godly?
- Still now the schools are respected now. Presidency College and Scottish Church College?
- Still you said one can see Krsna within the stone. And one can worship Him within the stone or within everything?
- Suppose a person thinks of God all his life and dies, and a person who doesn't think of God at all also dies. What is our life after death?
- Suppose if the individual soul falls down from the human platform, to some other lower species, but in the course of again evolutionary process, at some stage along the path he'll come to Krsna consciousness. Is this...?
- Suppose this yogi, he has not got full knowledge, he does not know of Krsna, and therefore he is meditating on Paramatma, and he attains Vaikuntha. Is it possible that because he hadn't got full knowledge...?
- Swamiji, have you been there in eastern European countries?
- Swamiji, you generally spend more of your time here (in London)?
- Swamiji? Tea and coffee's also included? And what about supari, Swamiji?
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- Taking that person, when material things cease, what happens to him?
- Talking a lot about in trusting in God. What is the Sanskrit for trust? What word would be used in the sastras
- Tell me a little bit about Krsna consciousness, will you?
- Tell me about him (Jesus)?
- Ten times bigger than each layer (of the universe), it increases?
- Tested (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- Thank you, very, very much. And now perhaps you can guide me and tell me what to do, which one, you know, that I ought to be concerned with?
- That (I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit) was at Calcutta University?
- That (it becomes one state, as it was formerly, five thousand years ago) requires getting some kind of political position perhaps? At least, if not us, someone else adopting the principles of Krsna consciousness, appreciating them, or...
- That (to become a cheater is one of the conditions of material life) is also one of the qualities of bondage?
- That is a yogic process?
- That means there are some living entities, say for example, human beings. They come right away to the human platform without undergoing the...?
- That's also "Not for sale in India" (the Tenth Canto of Bhagavatam, two volumes). Why?
- That's what, didn't Sankaracarya do that, divide up four parts?
- The action of force is necessary (to create)?
- The animal is completely under the modes, but the human being, the modes' influence is reduced sufficiently so that he can make this decision, from, whether to accept or reject Krsna?
- The beads, Swamiji. He wants the beads. We can get it from the office?
- The Bhagavad-gita says that Lord Brahma is a conditioned soul. Then how was it possible for him to impart the Vedas to a non-conditioned soul - Narada Muni?
- The cloudiness is created from the superior energy? So material is created from the superior?
- The evolution stops when the spirit soul reaches the eternal abode in the spiritual (world)?
- The fact that you are not drinking for a year doesn't mean to say that you have overcome the intoxicant urge if that is in you, although you know it is wrong. But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality?
- The five gods?... Is that by Sankaracarya, Prabhupada?... Where is it from, Prabhupada?... It is the Bhagavatam?
- The food and the sand looks exactly the same. So how they are immediately able to tell which is which?
- The human beings get dreams, and what's the lesson between the dreams and the actual life?
- The idea of the spiritual sky. I couldn't quite understand there was any form, any form at all of symbolism coming into the idea of the various stages of planets and so on, or whether, in fact, this was a very physical...?
- The literal meaning of sutra is a condensed statement, Prabhupada?
- The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they're much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
- The material world itself is temporary. So the scientists still make it much more temporary?
- The meat-eating also leads to many other sinful activities too, right?
- The modern scientific research means to increase the demands of the body, the bodily demands?
- The moral standard was very good (in your university)?
- The pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- The platform of transmigration from the human platform, so it works, either it can go down or it can go up?
- The pollution, is it to some extent the result of material activity, which will cease when the spiritual...?
- The question I have, Prabhupada is that before scientific advancement, many people would listen to, like, scriptural knowledge. But now they listen more to scientists
- The question is suppose this yogi, he has not got full knowledge, he does not know of Krsna, and therefore he is meditating on Paramatma, and he attains Vaikuntha. Is it possible that because he hadn't got full knowledge...
- The real knowledge is taken away by ignorance?
- The reply to your question about Arjuna's relationship with Krsna...
- The scientists would use the same argument. The scientists would say, "Well, since I have not experienced that I am eternal, therefore how can I accept that I am eternal?"
- The sea is wonderful, isn't it? You like the sea they tell me
- The smaller birds, they are eating something from sand?
- The spirit is eternal... in the sense that in the beginning all spirits were contained within the Deity,... and at the end all spirits will refind themselves in the Deity... Would you ever admit that a spirit could fail after his last chance...?
- The spirit soul must necessarily have a body, either spiritual or material?
- The supreme living entity, he doesn't have to practice yogic power?
- The two causes, are not very clear. The material and instrumental?
- The Vaisnava is superior to a sannyasi?
- The varieties of living entities that we find in the material world, can we explain because of the desire of the living entities, to make..., to live in different houses?
- The world will not end?
- The, the nature of the inferior and the superior energies are also described in the sankhya philosophy?
- Their statement that life started from matter can be disproved very easily?
- Then that was after the university (Vrndavana, I studied the Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, as I mentioned so many, Upanisads, Vedanta-sutra)?
- There are internal senses also... There are counterparts of senses also?
- There are many people who come like that to Krsna consciousness. They seem to experience a taste, and then they go away and everything seems to be lost. What is their... position, if they are not able to stick to it?
- There are many that tell about knowledge for being good, but how do you really know? Is it just a feeling?
- There are three factors: one, duty towards God, duty towards the family, duty towards the business, duty towards the country, duty towards the society. Then how is he to balance himself in these duties?
- There is a form of soul, according to you?
- There is no more body? No more body?
- There is some difference. When we do some good, we consider it as God-inspired, but when we do something bad, then we can't say that it is also God-inspired after we have done it?
- There must have been very many gurus. Were there many gurus then?
- There was one famous politician (Canakya Pandita) from India five hundred years ago, or...?
- There would be lastly a reference section which would include all addresses that they would find useful, a glossary of the terms used, and an index, etc... You like the idea, do you?
- There's (with the affairs of Krsna and the gopis) never mention of lust or of any animal desire at all is there?
- There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- There's this constant struggle with our lower nature? We are constantly fighting our desires even though we want to serve Krsna? This continues?
- These qualities that you were talking about, saucam, do they develop naturally?
- They (the so-called scientists) would say, "How can we believe Krsna?"
- They do not believe in God, the Russians?
- They eat (their own children, the snakes)?
- They have their own god, who is, they made a unique system, and someone else says, "No, we have our own unique system." Someone else says, "No, all those three systems we do not agree with." What's going to happen in that thing?
- They say what is the difference between an animal and a plant?
- They say, "But why should we accept any one of your authorities?"
- They say, "Oh, I've been inspired," and they create something beautiful by, automatically almost. What is that inspiration?
- They started almost at the same time (Presidency College and Scottish Churches College)?
- They will always exist? Gradations will always exist?
- They will come forward and say, "Now, what practical can we do to help implement these in the government, in the world? What can we do practical?"
- They will not listen logically (no body is finished. My childhood body is finished, but the soul is not finished) What can you do?
- They wonder how is it possible that if there is soul, that there could be two souls within one body?
- This also shows the eternal nature of the spirit soul? Because I'm conscious?
- This body that we inherited, the bodies that we're in now, are the results of the behavior of our souls when we were in our previous... And then can we sort of, by looking at ourselves, can we get the sort of person we were when we were here before?
- This can be taken as food (China grass)?
- This divisions (of varnasrama) only in Hindus? Mohammedans also accept this divisions?
- This example is available in Bhagavatam, Prabhupada (frog in the well)?
- This gentleman who was asking you about people who are constantly being tested by all kinds of miserable circumstances. She asks: Is it not a sign of a soul that God has chosen to favor that he sends them such miserable conditions of material life?
- This has come a long way from the Barrier Reef, the Pacific. These shells. The shells... From the Pacific. From the Barrier Reef, Australia. You know the Barrier Reef?
- This is a French nun, and she wishes to know whether for us Christ is the son of God or is He God Himself or what is the identity of Lord Jesus Christ?
- This is also a translation of it (Nectar of Devotion. It is translation from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of Rupa Gosvami) or...?
- This is the big thing, isn't it? The teacher has got to be God conscious
- This is the first volume. Are you preparing more of them?
- This is the Sixth Chapter Bhagavad-gita? Is that what you're quoting (tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah)?
- This is your yoga, right?
- This man wants to know something about the Hare Krsna movement in Europe
- This movement started all over the world now. How many countries for instance?
- This rich birth is important for self-realization?
- This suffering comes from our sinful activities?
- This suffering is all due to the desire of the individual souls?
- This thing about it (a big bunch of hair) actually weighing down on the mind, is that fair to say?
- Thread (sutra means thread)?
- To get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- To love is very difficult, is it not? It is very difficult?
- To think in spatial terms, and it's possibly hang-ups from Christian theology, in a sense, that I wanted to persist with this questioning even further about, you know, the real nature, as far as the Bhagavad-gita gives it to us
- Today the only time they use the word God is when they are swearing and they are calling on God to damn someone else. Why is such language there? Why are they doing like that?
- Traitors. And what about the Vidura? Why he went away?
- Trivikrama Svami went to their monastery in Laguna Beach. So they were serving meat. Trivikrama said, "Why do you eat meat?" And they said, "That doesn't matter. What does it matter what you eat ?"
- Trust means to depend completely upon God?
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- Vasisthan karman vikarman? "Vi—" is generally used as to... a sort of bhaktya. To give the quality of the karma, quality of the action. Like vijnanam, jnanam vijnanam. Karman vikarman. So this a little, what is the root of the language? I don't...
- Very successful (George's record) even with one boy, you see. That's success, isn't it?
- Visitors' book, to sign (you have got some visitors' book? To...?)?
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- Was he (Lord Buddha) preaching karma-kanda?
- Was that in Calcutta (we had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman)?
- Wasn't that (Sir Jagadishacandra Bose) your father's friend?
- We are both still boys aren't we?
- We are imperfect. How do we know what a perfect source is?
- We can also appreciate Krsna's creation in that light? For example, this is very beautiful because it is Krsna's.
- We can have spiritual realization and still live in the material world?
- We cannot create anything?
- We don't deny that Krsna exists, but, well, you know... Can I see him?
- We were also discussing with Mrs. Conan Doyle and a friend of hers, how is it, if I'm thinking I am happy, or I do not have love for God, nor do I want to have love for God, how will I cultivate it?
- We'll defeat them by giving them prasadam, right, Prabhupada?
- We're talking of you. You have got the power. But people follow you because they believe in you. So you have the power to educate them. And you're not hippies, are you?
- Well, do you know very much about Jesus?
- Well, I didn't mean yours in particular. I'm talking now of all of you. I'm not talking of you particularly. I'm talking of all of you. All your children, the married devotees... (do they go to school? Your children?)?
- Well, tell me about the books you have translated. Are there some more to translate?... Well, one day you will die. Now who will translate them then? Continue the translating?
- Well, the diagnostic's not altogether clear to me how the chanting is going to affect the pollution. How do you see...?
- Well, then they'll say, "Well, if you see somebody suffering, then why do anything about it, if it just what they..." They will say, "Why? If that's what they deserve, why try to stop it?"
- Well, vegetables are living entities also?
- Well, what happens when suddenly one of you gets, very ill tomorrow morning?
- Well, you'd laugh if you were ill and there was no doctor, wouldn't you?
- Well, you're educated, you see... Yes, but how many of these are?
- Well, you've got a good tape there now, haven't you?
- What about India? I mean, do they believe, the villagers?
- What about like the case of Bhismadeva where he knew about Krsna in Goloka, and he went to Krsna as Partha-sarathi?
- What about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
- What about meditating?
- What about people who believe in Jesus, God? I mean, what about Christians? It might not have the same effect on them
- What about Sankara's cheating?
- What about the other kind (of meditation)?
- What about the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement?
- What about this position of Valmiki or Ramayana?
- What about those who are preaching, but imperfectly?
- What about your children? Where do they? Do they go to school?
- What are they (in India, we have got gypsies) called? Bauls? Bauls in Bengal?
- What do we say that something is (that something is missing within the body, therefore it is dead)?
- What do you see as being the future of the world? What will happen? Will there be an end?
- What do you think is the solution of these difficulties (physical life has become so difficult... the population has increased so much)?
- What do you think of young people who follow the Divine Light Movement?... Guru Maharaji
- What does it mean that Christ died for us, in order that we may live. Or in other words, died for our sins. He wants to know, because he's going to live anyway, he's eternal anyway, what is the meaning of that statement? What is the meaning?
- What does it mean to serve God?
- What does the government of India say about that (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden), any comment?
- What don't you like about travelling?
- What exactly is a devotee?
- What happened (I got so many good chances. But everything... Dr. Kartika Candra Bose he appreciated my activities, "Very intelligent boy." He certified to my father-in-law. This is the way of becoming rich man)?
- What happens to his consciousness which he has achieved as a man during that time which he is in the animal kingdom?
- What I didn't understand is how this (hypocrisy) is covered by your four pillars, the four... Which of these would cover lying?
- What I want to know is what you feel your relationship to God is?
- What I'm asking is how to bring the karma-yoga, the action, to transform the society, bring back into the...?
- What if there's some desire to make something beautiful to give to Krsna?
- What is Hare Krsna?
- What is His Divine Grace idea about Kali-yuga?
- What is inspiration then?
- What is meant by conditioned soul?
- What is that in connection (the analogy of the mother)?
- What is the condition of the soul, innumerable souls, within the body? Like the cells. All are living cells. These all contain individual souls... So what these individual souls are doing to support the bigger soul?
- What is the connection then between Krsna and Siva?
- What is the place of Srimad-Bhagavatam here, in this movement?
- What is the position of people like Guru Nanak, Muhammad, and other people?
- What is the purpose of Lord for creating human life or animal life or so many things? Why...?
- What is the real relationship between Krsna consciousness and other religions? Is it that God has many names and...?
- What is the standard of Calcutta University, Srila Prabhupada, at the time when Srila Prabhupada was in the University?
- What is this personality? It is not the same as our personality. In which way do you use the concept of personality?
- What language, master, was your books originally written in?
- What percentage of people today know about Krsna?
- What should be the first step to become a devotee?
- What sort of body we have been in in the past?
- What type of fruit is the best?
- What was the attitude of the Indian colony in London (after Ratha-yatra, wherever our men went, they were received very well)?
- What you are trying to say? What symbolically it means, very small (the soul). Is that what it means?
- What's the difference between a sadhu and a guru? Sadhu means authorities like Vyasa?
- What, what were you doing, what did you do before this, before 1966?
- When Krsna is incarnating in His plenary incarnations like Varaha, Nrsimha... and sometimes devotees become devoted to those forms. Are there corresponding planets in Vaikuntha for those forms of incarnation? Is there a planet of Nrsimha or Nrsimha-loka?
- When people are starving and they have no clothing, then how can they take to Krsna consciousness? First give them food, then clothing and education, and then Krsna consciousness
- When the living entity comes to the human platform, though he is conditioned, but still, by practice of yoga he can develop some of the powers which cannot be developed by other living entities, like for example, fish?
- When the man is fishing with the hook, the fish that takes the hook...?
- When the Paramatma and the jivatma are within the same material living body, so the...?
- When they release the atomic energy, where does that energy come from?
- When they take the pill, the birth control pill, are they killing their children too?
- When this time comes when all physical things end, will any of the spirits fail to reunite with the Godhead?
- When we are emphasizing this Krsna consciousness, we are in danger of forgetting the social political dimension. So how to bring this...?
- When we feel pain or discomfort, that is covering also?
- When we sleep, when we dream, are we carried away by the three subtle elements, mind, intelligence?
- When we speak about the transmigration of the soul, we speak about 8,400,000 species. Does that include the inanimate objects as well, within those 8,400,000?
- When we tell them to stop their sinful activities, they will say "What do you mean by sinful?"
- When you say Brahma, you mean Supreme or the...?
- When you take Krsna prasadam, the living entities which are within our body, they're also taking prasadam?
- Where did we lose the contact with God?
- Where do you have these eight commentaries? Are they found in this edition or...?
- Where does Krsna fit into it? Where does Krsna fit into the yoga?
- Where does your perfect knowledge come from and how do you recognize it?
- Where have you been since then (I published something about You a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- Where is He (God)?
- Which is more important, to go back to Godhead or spread Krsna consciousness?
- Who are those three, jnanis... and karm...?
- Who has the authority to say to somebody, "Please go," though?
- Who has written this (Hari hari bifale)?
- Who is controlling the moon?
- Who is Crazy?... That's a new book?
- Who is in charge of this publication? Who is the leader?
- Who is teaching there (at Navadvipa)?
- Who is the representative in India? Of this...? In Delhi, of your organization? In Delhi?
- Who is this Dr. Bose, Srila Prabhupada?
- Who went out of India (so he went out of India and joined with Hitler, and Tojo, Japanese)?
- Who's conception (no, out of conception, he (George Washington) had no power to do it. He had no power to do it)?
- Why are they so very puffed up and proud even with these defects, Srila Prabhupada (the four defects: He must commit mistake, he must be illusioned, and he must cheat, and his senses are imperfect)?
- Why are we talking about the Rama in this mantra?
- Why do we choose the dark? Why are we all in the dark, most of us?
- Why God created sinful activities?
- Why God make some animals who eat other animals? There is a fault in the creation because... It is a fault in the creation?
- Why have you written Bhagavad-gita as it really is? Why?
- Why is it (Krsna consciousness) so popular among young people?
- Why is it in the Vaivarta Purana, after traveling 8,400,000 species of life, we get this human form of life? Is that contradiction with the desire of the spirit soul?
- Why is it then, that one person accepts it (Bhakti-marga) and another rejects it? That is from a spiritual position, his basic disposition?
- Why is that, do you think (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- Why is there a bodily difference?
- Why Krsna? I want to know why (concentrate your mind on) Krsna in particular
- Why not (the personality is not changed after a heart transplant)?
- Why should He (Krsna) require us to go through austerities like...?
- Why should they accept Krsna as authority over Darwin authority?
- Why should we think that birth and death is so painful, Srila Prabhupada, because wherever we are, we can think about Krsna...?
- Why shouldn't consciousness also be conserved?
- Why there are three words, karma, vikarma, akarma? There are three
- Why was Lord Rama letting Ravana live in Lanka?... Why was He permitting him to live there? He was irreligious. He did not trust in God. Why was Lord Rama letting him...?
- Why was that (teenagers, they take it very nicely)? I mean what was there, was there something special about the 1960's that made it more likely that people would go for (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)...?
- Why we did not have a world with universal brotherhood, universal love?
- Why we use light bulbs?
- Why were we created free?
- Why you've not answered my question (about killing)?
- Why, is it a faith or belief (first of all you have to understand that there is life after death)?
- Why...(Darwin was a number-one nonsense. Yes. Rascal. He has confused the whole world)?
- Will I ever, in another life, will I feel my "I," my ego? Will I feel that again?
- Will that extend to animals also? According to our Hindu philosophy, I understand everything has a soul
- Will this be possible, to reform these leaders, Srila Prabhupada?
- With more people in politics in India, are they able to keep the Vedic ideal? Or...?
- Without God consciousness, there's no question of morality?
- Without the proper guidance...?
- Worshiping Visnu is also material?
- Would you say that because we - and I talk about myself - because I have meat and bacon and so on, I am a, does that make me sinful? If I didn't eat those, I would be less sinful?
- Would you say there are more sins than those four? Are there other sins? Are there other sins beside these four?
- Would you think it is possible to hate the Deity?
- Would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- Wouldn't it be more sincere if these people, these scientists said, "We don't want to be taken out of this dream, that with our senses and with all the machines built on senses we will be able to make it"? But they don't want to be taken out of that dream
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- Yeah, but people following you, could, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- Yes, but if you say fact (it is not belief, it is fact), how do you prove?
- Yes, I accept that view (if you are unable to give perfect knowledge, then what is the use of taking knowledge from you). But how do you prove that a man...?
- Yes, I would most certainly like to come back if I may. What is the best time?
- Yes. Can you scientifically prove this, sir (you'll get next body according to that mentality)? I mean is it purely a matter of belief or...
- Yet no two (flowers) are the same, are they?
- You accept to answer my questions?
- You are a cultured man. You're educated... Did you not learn...? Who gave you the talent to translate your Vedic scriptures?... Who gave you the talent, father?
- You are in India today a religious life, or...?
- You are not organizing a yatra in Paris?
- You are travelling to India, I hear?... Are you establishing a university in India?... At Navadvipa?
- You ask how you can become free of envy
- You belong to the Caitanya...?
- You can love God and be near God and train to be a medical man. Why don't you let some of your boys be trained to be medical men? Why do you say no?
- You can see the Deity as too strong, repressive, taking away your freedom, your own wishes and so you can come to hate the Deity
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You don't have the Bengali panditas teaching Sanskrit (at Navadvipa)?
- You don't think, Prabhupada, they have reached the moon?
- You had a yatra, I guess, in San Francisco, didn't you?
- You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the Sankirtana Movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the Sankirtana Movement
- You have asked what is meant by illicit sex. Sex should be used only in marriage for begetting nice children to raise in Krsna Consciousness
- You have got a school, a Krsna school?
- You have started that school? Yes. Could you sometime tell me about that school. They teach Sanskrit, English?
- You have the temple of Krsna?... You have a community in Paris?
- You have, that letter has a return address from Mandalibhadra?
- You haven't heard of it (the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement)?
- You mean the subtle body or the soul, the same thing?
- You said that if we are performing some activity, that activity must be tested to see if Lord Krsna is pleased. But what is the test?
- You said that the four pillars that you follow are outward manifestations. They belong to a material person...?
- You say that our souls are..., we will always go on. But you are getting more and more people. No, we are getting more people, aren't we?
- You spoke about transmigration of souls, and reincarnation. If you believe in it, could you answer me by telling me how someone who has entered a new body and a new life doesn't remember anything of the past?
- You teach your children, don't you? No, I didn't mean disciples. I meant children, little ones. They understand, do they not?
- You think he (Gandhi) has gone to heaven or some, what is his position?
- You think Mirabhai was a bhakta?
- You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
- You visited Italy, Italy yourself?
- You were lecturing that, that unless one performs the proper samskaras for the children, they will become degraded. They will not follow the regulative principles and such. They become unwanted population?
- You were saying, minute before that the socialism, your socialism is that Krsna is your Marx, sort of... It will be my last question. What about you in that? Would you be, you are a spiritual chief. Would you be...?
- You were there at the time (I published something about you a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- You'll be visiting only Sweden this time?
- You're not giving us any sort of answer. You're just sort of saying, "Believe in us, assume that you believe in us." So why don't you give us an answer?
- You're saying that "Something cannot come from nothing."... So therefore this explosion (big bang) came from God. But then where did God come from?
- You're saying that America is the most important?
- You've just said a few minutes ago there are eight million different kinds of life. Would you agree that the potato, the cabbage... and what have you also has a life?
- You've, said that our society ISKCON is like a sample of the spiritual world?
- You, you dreaming (and I was dreaming also, Guru Maharaja, asking me, "Come on." So I was going. So I was, "Oh, I have to go? I have to take sannyasa?")?
- Your first question, shall Srimati Radharani's feet be showing?
- Your movement, your consciousness of Krsna, engloves, takes all the direction of economics and political possibility... Can you speak, explain me about that?
- Your question in regard to marriage