Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
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- A man 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?
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- 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?
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- 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?