Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973
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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?
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- 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?
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- 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)?
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- 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)?
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- 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?
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- 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?