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?
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- 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?