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A
- A sudra, if he is working, he cannot take brahmana initiation, but he can take hari-nama, is that it?
- About a hundred hoods, how could Krsna manage all of those hoods?
- According to their philosophy, if whether you practice or you don't practice you get the same result in the end, what's the use of doing anything? If at death everything merges back, what's the use of doing anything? Why not commit suicide?
- According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible?
- Actually are devotees or how do they become demons? Are they devotees? Obviously Kaliya is... Just like Jaya and Vijaya, they were devotees. And due to some offense, then they became demons and they fought with Krsna to satisfy Krsna
- All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?
- All the night or do you (sleep) at the day sometimes?
- All the other programs should be continued, and this program (varnasrama college) should be added?
- Also based on karma, that one man is meant to have more than another of material things? Is that an argument against...?
- Although a devotee feels helpless in the hands of Krsna, still, in order to execute his duty, he must be very strong... How does he reconcile those two?
- America is living on advertisement. Right or wrong? I have been studying American, I mean, psychology
- Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
- Among two of the incarnations, there is Kapila and Buddha. And Kapila is practically, finally, the classical Sankhya-ist atheist. How could it be?
- And a devotee is acting, but he's not getting any mental impression? From his activities?
- And after the (atomic) war what will be the result?
- And Bon Maharaja also has told he is a graduate. What is he?
- And Buddha (this sankhya philosophy which is known in Europe amongst the European scholars, that is the atheist Kapila. It is not the original Kapila)?
- And Christians, how do you present this? Suppose if someone was a Christian (this is our philosophy, to accept knowledge from the perfect person or his bona fide representative)?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- And then go back to the States?
- And then, then, then I want to make you talk. What will I do?
- And this is your first visit to this (Paris) center?
- And what about desires?
- And you had not bad days all your life. Or you were quarreling? I am sorry to intrude
- Another thing that's stated in the Bible, in the Christians' philosophy, they say that God created man out of His own image. It's stated in the Bible. So therefore man has a form, why not God? Because it's stated there in the Bible
- Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
- Any other type of concentration (meditation) you do?
- Are Siddha-svarupananda Gosvami and Tusta-krsna Maharaja and their followers more advanced in their understanding of Krsna and the spiritual master than the other devotees in ISKCON?
- Are sudras supposed to take sannyasa also?
- Are the majority of citizens sudras? In a varnasrama society?
- Are the people (at Srinivasa's house) mainly young people like Himself (Lord Caitanya)?
- Are the teachings themself spiritual?
- Are there different Kailasa-dhamas like is there any Kailasa-dhama in a particular universe also?
- Are we giving the knowledge (of material science)?
- Are you against medical help? I mean, you want just to let Krsna do His way and not let the doctors help at all?
- Are you feeling the cold in Melbourne your grace?
- Are you God?
- Are you interested to know how we produce anti-matter in our laboratories from...?
- Are you saying that they (men in our society) do more work?
- Are you thinking of formal education now?
- Are you welcome in Japan? People are interested, eh?
- Arjuna uvaca. These boys understand this, all of them?
- As a life member, I am suffering because of this reason that there is no construction of a temple, therefore I cannot develop spiritually. If I have got attraction for a particular temple, why I should be denied?
- As Arjuna he (Nara-narayana) acts as an ordinary jiva?
- As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana
- As soon as the modes of nature are no longer working on the spirit soul, then he experiences that he's no longer changing his body?
- At Radha-Damodara, did you cook yourself?
- At the end of the Krsna Book, when Krsna and Arjuna visit Lord Visnu and Visnu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Krsna appeared through Ksirodakasayi Visnu?
B
- Because for me, God is merely a word. How can you explain God with a word?
- Bhakti is really a process of decontaminating the mind?
- Both were the sons of Kasyapa... Kasyapa, gods and demons. By their behavior one sect became demons, no?
- Brahmana can teach how to fight?
- Brahmana is not to accept any employment?
- But does He not say that "Whatever or whoever does it, it comes to Me" (the Mayavadi philosophers, they say that "We can chant anyone's name, either I chant of any demigod's name or any name")?
- But from '65-'66 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- But he has to be yogi at that time, isn't it?
- But how you can say he (the pope) is not the best Christian? He is the head of all the Christians?
- But in India there are so many people. They're not disciples; they're not initiated by you. So are they in the same category (a brahmana woman who came to touch the feet of Lord Caitanya; immediately He went and jumped in the Ganges)?
- But in the people in general, how can we engage them also in Krsna consciousness? How can we provide them a means to use their leisure time to perfect their lives?
- But is it not animal food?
- But is there anything wrong with accepting the fact that you are mortal, you die, you rot and you become nothing?
- But isn't the bhajana that you do for concentration?
- But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world?
- But it (prapatti or surrender) is not yoga. It is different from yoga?
- But nonviolence is not well in every case?
- But people are objecting that: If we cannot get divorced, then we are forced to live with each other even if we hate each other
- But Prabhupada, I'm still not quite clear. In other words, we'd teach, for example, like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam (on the varnasrama college)?
- But Prabhupada, there are still such things as dead matter?
- But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?
- But this young boy who was asking what to do with the fascists the day before yesterday, he wanted precisely violence to fight against the fascists. You, remember...?
- But who is to say... what is a perfect experience?
- But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance?
- By a reintroduction, reintroducing Krsna consciousness, the tide can be turned in age of Kali?
- By the frogs (kumbhaka; this art is known by the frogs also)?
C
- Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?
- Can crops be grown anywhere in the world?
- Can our religion bring something more than other religions?
- Can this mantra also be chanted afterwards, in addition, also on the beads?
- Can we call these trees (with no fruits and no flowers) demonic?
- Can we just have the chanting without instructions?
- Can we not also say that self and not self must separate, either in death involuntarily, or through destiny?
- Can you not say that this knowledge is an atma-vidya, that we are trying to come to the knowledge of the atman (this is our main business, that is, jivasya tattva-jijnasa, to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- Can you say exactly the point where Christians are not obedient. Do you see any points here by your visit to the Christian countries and you like to say for us? It is a help for us to say exactly the point
- Can you say something about the training for a brahmana (in the varnasrama college)?
- Can you say that it is worse, the condition of the world is worse now than it used to be or is it relatively the same or...?
- Christianity has to change their customs or the Christianity, Roman Catholic or Protestant, must return to the source?
- Consciousness movement in the West-like you said, the Western people are fed up with materialism. Is it that they are fed up only with materialism or with...?
- Could it be, Srila Prabhupada, that this sanction of wine drinking be from God? Could that sanction come from God? Do we think that is possible?
- Could we say that anyone who is engaged in glorifying the body is actually engaged in idol worship?
D
- Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara. Could it be said, then, that we are transmigrating even while in this life?
- Did Kamsa also achieve the grace? He was immediately transferred to the spiritual planets after he was killed?
- Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna?
- Did you talk with people there (in Moscow)? Were you permitted, were you allowed to talk with the people in the streets and so on?
- Did you want to know where that was, "Hallowed be Thy name."?... Were you asking where that was from?
- Did you write all these books?
- Do ghosts refer to categories of ghosts or particular famous?
- Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop?
- Do the rickshaw drivers in Letchmore Heath chant Hare Krsna?
- Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye?
- Do we use machines and modern methods on our asramas and farms
- Do you believe in love of God, and that God is a person? Some people say that God is not a person, and we say God is a person
- Do you believe in some sort of universal but inherent deficiency in human nature, in other words, that man irrespective of his environment, irrespective of where he comes from, that he has, he is prone to evil?
- Do you believe in the Holy Bible?
- Do you believe that the soul and God is one as Ramanuja and Sankaracarya says, or as Madhvacarya says...
- Do you believe, I mean now from the point of view of facts, or events, not of ideas, of events, of reality, do you think there are many these men who are without spiritual ideas in the world of today?
- Do you have an opinion on the Hebrew scripture, the Kabbalah?
- Do you have the powers of Jesus? Can you say to a person, "Rise up and walk," when they're paralyzed?
- Do you know the Sufis are Muslims (indistinct)?
- Do you like it (bitter melon), Prabhupada?
- Do you mean that healing is an illusion? Because healing is a fact (better, that is everyone is trying, that is... But there is no cure. If you think that temporary cure is better, that's nice, but there is no cure)
- Do you mean that nobody could be cured (you stop his death or you stop his birth, stop his disease. So point is when I say you cannot heal, that's a fact. That's a fact. You can heal one disease, another disease will appear. Therefore you cannot heal)?
- Do you mean the Kali-yuga exists all the time?
- Do you prefer they go to a place where God is not known, where spiritual values are not estimated? Or they go also to places where God is loved and God is present?
- Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Do you think meditation is a way to see God inside yourself?
- Do you think that every human being will become liberated?
- Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group?
- Do you think that some people could have best... better gift for healings, for temporary healings than other?
- Do you think that the Russian society is not put off by this bhajana?
- Do you think that, that stage (to be united on the spiritual platform) is possible within this generation?
- Do you wish me to take this (book) away or should I look at it here?
- Does a devotee, who is working as a sudra, get second initiation?
- Does God need service?
- Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu?
- Does karma-yoga mean to follow exactly the sastras?
- Does Krsna makes us ignorant or are we ignorant?
- Does such a comet (comet Kohoutek) affect consciousness as well as matter?
- Does that apply to all the rules of the Krsna movement?... For everyone. I mean rules about not drinking... Would that be a sin in a non-Krsna follower?
- Does that mean he (a dedicated disciple) must give up his family, and come and live here?
- Does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- Does that mean you are calling Jesus Christ a hypocrite (how can you support Christ that if he has done killing business himself and he instructs others not to kill)?
- Does the human species come with the gradual evolution or is the human species created first?
- Does the soul reincarnate?
- Does this mean that by their activities that they're engaging in now their incentive is that they want to enjoy these four sinful activities...? And that really they're not looking for truth?
- Doesn't that make us a rather exclusive group of people? If only those who are completely pure can engage in service, that means only people like us who have time to sit and meditate...
- Don't they sometimes have to go to Yamaraja first for practice?
- Don't you think that all the other chantings like in the Muslim religion and the Buddhist religion and the Japanese religion, their chantings, they are all the same thing?
- Drinking tea and coffee also ("unless one gives up these four things he cannot understand what is God")?
E
- Even a tulasi dala and a little water is not necessary?
- Every stone has life?
- Every time Lord Krsna appears, original Krsna appears, does Lord Caitanya appear on the following Kali-yuga?
- Every, every word is important, Bhagavad-gita... Why one word?
- Everything is Krsna's. How can you give anything? Even a leaf?
- Excuse me if I insist on the first question I asked for. Your aim, your most important aim, if I understood it well, is to bring the faith and love for God to man. No? This is your first aim, to encourage man to be a...
- Expansion or incarnation has the six opulences in full except for Krsna?
F
- For example, if I become a teacher at varnasrama, say, the first teacher at the varnasrama college, then I have to also become expert at how to fight?
- For that matter, Srila Prabhupada, when one comes to that stage, there is no difference between animate and inanimate. Is that true (we cannot distinguish now reality and non-reality because the heart is unclean. So we have to cleanse)?
- For them spiritual life is the prayer, salvation in Lord Jesus Christ. And they're not quite sure... They're interested in knowing what is our relationship with Krsna. Is it the same or...?
- For us, is the perfection to be absorbed in preaching to others, rather than thinking "I want to go and play with Krsna"?
- Forgive me if I'm not using the right expression, but the caste system is written into the law of Godhead?
- From 1965 to 1966 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- From the level of application of his (Mahatma Gandhi`s) programs, is there some value?
- From the very beginning we should teach Bhagavad-gita (in the varnasrama college)?
G
- Garuda is from the jiva-tattva or he is an expansion?
- Garuda put some nectar on the tree to preserve it... Is it spiritual?
- Generally in colleges in the West, they charge some fee for going to the college. What is our position?
- George Harrison? He has donated in cash for that building?
- Giriraja, how you are earning fifty thousand rupees a month?
- Give up this staying here (our real business is how to get out of the clutches of maya)?
- God is independent?
- God is not love?
H
- Has anybody actually seen Krsna?
- Has the movement involved itself in social philosophy?
- Has the name a special esoteric meaning? And is the technique of chanting the name, has this a special hidden purpose that the unenlightened...
- Have they advanced beyond following the rules and regulations of ISKCON?
- Have we interested any of the leading French citizens in our movement?
- Have you also members of your movement which are simply in their work, in the community, in the world?
- Have you been in connection with Aurobindo?
- Have you got any French literature of conception (indistinct)?
- Have you got books on the use of flick knives, like your brother-in-law's there?
- Have you got some points in common with the Christians?
- Have you seen?
- Haven't you given the copyright to them (Macmillan)?
- He (God) knows before creating people, they'll sin. Then why does He create them?
- He (Ravana) was devotee of Lord Siva. Otherwise why Lord Siva gives him whatever he wants?
- He (Sanskrit scholar) does not want to learn (English) ?
- He (Tukarama) was the one who was initiated by Lord Caitanya?
- He asked if anyone now has seen Krsna
- He asks how many disciples there is in France?
- He asks if our students are Indian. He likes the paintings. He was wondering whether they were done by Indian students
- He asks if we have a school in France?
- He asks if we have temple in France or if we do in apartment or if we do in conference, private conferences. How we are doing it?
- He asks if we have to be disciple, do we have to know Sanskrit or to learn Sanskrit?
- He asks what are our political principles in Krsna consciousness. Do we have a program?
- He asks what language we use when we read Bhagavad-gita?
- He can perceive that he has changed from child to old man, but he can't perceive what is going to happen after death. So who knows?
- He has a very good cook. That day I don't know how he ran away, or... You striked him, no?
- He is a sudra. Would we retrain him as a farmer?
- He is asking if he should not show this humility, attitude of humility, to all others?
- He is asking if it is possible for them to chant the name God, that in fact is not really a name, by the name Krsna, because according to what you are explaining, God is Krsna. So can they chant the name of Krsna?
- He is wondering is it possible to spread Krsna consciousness in Yugoslavia?
- He said also, the doctrine of Buddha, that man has not person, doesn't exist as person. He's only some moving elements, physical and psychical and nothing else?
- He says his understanding is that this living force inside all of us is the spirit of God that is in every one of us?... But there must be something more than just these words. There must be some way of experiencing that, of realizing that?
- He says that for Christians, this feeling of being with God comes from praying to Lord Jesus Christ. He's asking if Krsna has that same position for us?
- He says there must be some higher knowledge that you know that can actually liberate people. He is looking for that. He wants to know what is that
- He says you must have in your teachings some higher knowledge which will permit everyone to do away with this nationalism, to do away with this false ego, and this pride. What is that knowledge?
- He says, "But then Krsna says, 'Why are you afraid to fight? After all, the soul is eternal, but the body is only temporary.' So isn't that a justification..."?
- He says, "Does this Krsna consciousness message apply as well to the outcastes?"
- He says, "How is this, that the only thing we've talked about since we've gotten here has been eating of meat? Is that the only thing that the Bhagavad-gita teaches?"
- He says, do we see Krsna as being a savior in the way that Christians see Christ as being the savior?
- He wants to know how in the beginning, when we are starting to engage in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to God, can you develop enthusiasm and sincerity
- He wants to know if to be able to talk in that way you have met God, you have seen God, and if God has given you the authority for being seated on this vyasasana and receiving the obeisances of your disciples?
- He wants to know what the doctrine of Krsna consciousness is
- He would like to know if to instruct young Christians to chant the name of Krsna will be helping them attain the highest perfection or if it is changing their religion?
- He would like to know what our opinion is of Jesus Christ?
- He would like to know what you think that Australia should help Asia with as far as making people more comfortable to live in this world and what Australia can imbibe from Asia?
- He's (God) not omniscient?
- He's asking how can we prove our point (that body and soul are two things)?
- He's asking is the form of the soul material?
- He's asking, "How do we see ourselves and how is it that we intentionally distinguish ourselves by dressing differently, by having a different presentation than the rest of society?"
- He's saying why are we dressing like that, like Indians?
- Here too, in this country also, they're making butter from stool?
- His first question was regarding tilaka. What is the symbolism, significance?
- How are the boys and girls to learn these things in manners of decorum and manners from the sannyasis, for example. How are they to offer respects to their godbrothers?
- How can a devotee be free from being attracted to this worldliness?
- How can Catholic people, without rejecting their own religion, take to Krsna consciousness?
- How can I apply that (Krsna consciousness) in my factory?
- How can one be better equipped to tolerate these despairs and miseries of our human existence?
- How can one discriminate what is a real authority and who is a blind person posing as an authority?... How can we tell a real authority?... As opposed to someone who is posing as an authority?
- How can one remain humble in executing his devotional service?
- How can one serve Krsna in daily life?
- How can the Vedas be considered eternal since they contain many historical references?
- How can we accept it (although Christ says, 'Thou shalt not kill,' I can neglect that." And then, if still he is captured, he will say, "Bible is very old.")?
- How can we say that to give people..., that the only real problem is to give knowledge. There are people who are starving; there are people who are sick; there are people who are in so much distress?
- How can you use something in Krsna's service? What is the process to use things in Krsna's service?
- How could we understand Srimati Radharani?
- How did you manage immediately after landing in USA?
- How do they respond in China?
- How do we become free of envy?
- How do we know when we should accept this (voluntary) adversity?
- How do you explain aham brahmasmi?
- How do you explain the fact that Jesus said that "I am the way, the truth, and the light," and that "No man comes to the father but by me"? How can we explain that Jesus said he is the only way?
- How do you know this Deity is Krsna, and this one isn't? Because each Deity looks a little different to the material eyes
- How do you relate your strong interest in dairy products to modern thinking on cholestrol and similar problems?
- How do you teach a varnasrama college? In varnasrama college if somebody comes in... They say, "I want to be ksatriya" or "I want to be vaisya." Is it like that?
- How do you teach your disciples to become aware of this force which is no matter that makes matter alive?
- How do you understand incarnation?
- How do you view the development of the potential for nuclear explosions in India?
- How does one become "bhagyavan"?
- How does one get the experience of personal existence of God?
- How does one surrender?
- How does the cosmic force become ignorant of itself and fall into this condition? If before he was this form he was the cosmic energy, how he can fall down into ignorance and become an individual, limited, conditioned soul?
- How far can a bullock cart travel in one day?
- How he becomes aware in himself as an experience, not as conclusion, because I realize that on the inner way it becomes important more and more to feel deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper realities?
- How I was created, I created this universe (I am repeatedly saying that God does not create anything. Just like the same example. You created. Why do you blame)?
- How is bad and good the same thing, Srila Prabhupada?
- How is it possible to forget the subtle body?
- How is it possible, Srila Prabhupada? We're so tiny, one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair, and yet we can become so puffed-up as to think that even I am God or I am the controller of the material nature like the scientists are thinking?
- How is it that after they (Devaki and Vasudeva) gave birth to Krsna this time they went back to Godhead?
- How is it that I cannot explain my position (I can explain Krsna consciousness, but you cannot explain nirvana. That is the difficulty. I can explain my position but you cannot explain your position)?
- How is it that the soul is also a person?
- How is it that they made such a big mistake (there are many planets invisible. So there is a Rahu planet which comes in front of the moon planet, and that is called eclipse. I think they are going to that Rahu planet, not to the moon planet)?
- How is the Ganges flowing through the planetary systems?
- How long will you stay in Paris?
- How long you going to stay here (Bombay)? You have promised me to stay long, eh?
- How many more years will Kali-yuga will stand?
- How many of your disciples would have seen the vision of God in the sense of seeing the Lord given in their heart?
- How many officials (?) are there?
- How many paramparas are there?
- How many sticks of incense? Two?
- How much money did you carry with you (to America)?
- How much would be expected of the students (of the Varnasrama College) as far as...? Would they live with us and follow the four principles? Like that? Or just come for classes or...?
- How old are the oldest of the Vedic scriptures?
- How serious would it be for me if I should miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?
- How shall I speak? Shall I beat your body?
- How should the relationship between a sannyasi and the temple president be?
- How strong is it (the Hare Krsna Movement in India)?
- How strong is the power of Krsna?
- How the body goes away?
- How the Vedas can be 3,000 B. C. in age?
- How to acquire the quality of patience?
- How to understand, how to measure (those who are habituated to act sinful)...?
- How we can satisfy God?
- How would His Grace see Jesus Christ?
- How would it (varnasrama college) differ from gurukula?
- How would the ksatriyas kill the animals (in the varnasrama college)? How would they kill? With guns or bow and arrow?
I
- I believe Jesus is coming back and not Krsna. And what are you guys going to do when you see Jesus?
- I believe, obviously, you would have ways, methods of becoming God conscious, Krsna conscious. What...? Sort of a meditation? Chanting? Or...?
- I carry a picture of him, the leader of, in our movement. (indistinct) meditating on the master. And I try to live up to it, to the teachings. Would you like to see that picture?
- I guess if you have the idea of prapatti, of surrender... this is a way to God directly?
- I have a question about evolution. Our position is that all the species have been established by Krsna, even before creation. But yet, in the creation, it comes about through an evolutionary process?
- I mean a Roman, perhaps, has never heard of Krsna before. He breaks all your five rules, does he not, every day. Is that a sin in him? If he drinks wine...
- I only say is it not possible for things to be dedicated to God without actually being placed on the altar in that way?
- I read in the invitation that this center is not only a center as such but something more. It should also be an asrama and also a forest university in the tradition of the ancient times?
- I remember, Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that all we require is some oxen, and the oxen can carry?
- I said, "If you are not going to bathe at least get out of bed and come to aratik." But he wouldn't even do that much. So what can you do under these conditions when you tell somebody, you can't physically twist their arm?
- I should be very glad to know where I should go for my second trip. If you could inform me?
- I still think of this problem why Lord Krsna had to have an incarnation like Buddha who was teaching atheist doctrine and no...?
- I think Abraham Lincoln was the best of the whole presidents. What is your opinion, Abraham Lincoln?
- I think we are of one of those four categories (catur-vidha bhajante mam). Or we are also mudha?
- I understand that your goal is to have everybody becoming self-supporting in regards to food. But if everyone who is engaged in food production, who will be providing other things?
- I wanted to ask you about Krsna in the heart. Could you tell us something about His physiognomy?
- I was a member of the Municipal Corporation of Bombay. I know that in ordinary course these rascals don't pass the plans for six and eight months. What do you say?
- I will speak for the while, huh?
- I would like to know if the teachings of Krsna can be an assistance to an individual, who is interested in healing on a mass basis vibrations?
- If a person's senses are restrained by following regulative principles, but if his mind dwells in sense objects, is he becoming purified, or is he just a pretender?
- If God is all-good, why does He permit so many wars to go on?
- If I receive some action which I must do or some course of action becomes obvious, should I trust that, considering that you're communicating with me, or...?
- If it is so tasteless, why is it quenching?
- If Krsna is all-good, why does He send us to this world full of miseries?
- If Krsna knows already what you're going to do in the future, then what is the question of your independence?
- If Krsna knows past, present and future, then where is the question of our independence? In other words, He knows already what we're going to desire?
- If one has fallen so far that he has taken the body of a fly or a mosquito, can he still return to Krsna?
- If one is going to assume a dog's body, then does he go to hell before he assumes a dog's body?
- If someone said to us that "You are worshiping samadhi," what is the answer?
- If stone is also Krsna, then why aren't we worshiping all stone?
- If the devotee is fearless, how is it Prahlada was expressing his fearfulness of the material nature?
- If the Mayavadi accepts the principle that bhakti is good, but at the end he throws it away, will he have a change of heart?
- If the microphone is composed of Krsna's eight energies, why not the factory Krsna's energy too?
- If the scientists of the world become little bit directed and they use their science to glorify Krsna, then they're actually practicing yoga?
- If their son was Vyasadeva, how could it be falldown?
- If they have information that this is not the only life, then won't they automatically become more austere?
- If they see that whenever there's intelligence, there must be a person, then why don't they conclude that behind the universe, there's so many wonderful things, that there must also be a person?
- If tomorrow these boys say that you are incarnation of God, is it your fault?
- If we are not at the purified stage, then why is the temple president a representative of yourself?
- If we chant more than sixteen rounds, can we chant bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya in our japa?
- If we don't know what Krsna is and we still get a bona fide spiritual master, then how do we call that? Our good fortune?
- If we have a desire to keep these promises, but we have a hard time to do it...
- If we love our children, is that also loving Krsna?
- If we love our godbrothers, is that also loving Krsna?
- If you are to think about something, don't you first have to see that thing?
- If you are told that Mr. Nixon is the bona fide spiritual master, what do you do?
- If you give us this wisdom, don't you meet now in the western world an opposition from the Christian side where the key word that this faith becomes a body, this faith becomes flesh?
- If you have love for God, why you are coming to church?
- If you want to find peace, don't you have to believe that war is wrong, any kind of war?
- In Bombay also you have got (a center)?
- In deep sleep it does not work, no (death means that this body stops working. But the subtle mind... Exactly in the same way. Just as while you are sleeping this gross body has stopped to work, but the subtle body is working)?
- In Goloka there are no demons. But the sentiment of anxiety or fear for Krsna, is that sentiment in Goloka?
- In Goloka there are no demons?
- In history there was the mystery of the sphinxes of Egypt, do these sphinxes carry any significance?... Is the pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt civilization are any mystic significance?
- In India. Is much rice consumed?
- In knowledge also we are individual (either you are in ignorance or in knowledge, both cases you are individual)?
- In order to chant the holy name purely, is it necessary to have feelings of separation?
- In our campaigning process, should we try to show them practical application of the philosophy for solving all their social problems, or should we preach philosophically?
- In our Christian faith the love of God is joined with the love for man. Are you also interested with this love for man, for our rivals?
- In our community, when we grow things, or we have need of someone's services, how are these services distributed equally?
- In our temples, we have so many devotees. Should the devotees...?
- In our varnasrama college the students that come to our college, they follow the four principles?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that those who are different modes of nature, they have different types of charity and different types of religion. So does this mean religions that are already established in the Vedas or...?
- In the case of Jaya and Vijaya, who fell down and took the role of demons, after three births as demons, they were supposed to go back to the spiritual world. So after the three births in this universe, were the same pastimes going on in other universes?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?
- In the US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?
- In this varnasrama college, is it true that there will be no need, for example, for teaching material history and mathematics and...?
- In what way can he support, or cooperate with your movement? In what way can he offer optimal benefit to your movement?
- In what way would we serve your movement by giving a clear explanation about the aims of your activity, for example, removing prejudices and supporting Sanskrit studies and the better distribution of the Bhagavad-gita in this form?
- In which country of Europe has the Hare Krsna movement been the most powerful or successful?
- In your books you say that the world is like a dream... How is it a dream?
- In your books you talk about Brahmaloka, which, I suppose is heaven
- In your lecture you quoted Canakya Pandita that a man must see every woman other than his own wife as mother. How should a woman see other men?
- In your rural communities, do you utilize the most modern techniques with fertilizers, with mechanical means for cultivating land?
- India is supposed to be a land of spirituality. How is it that there is so much moral degradation in our country? Is it the failure of our spiritual leaders?
- Instead of sitting on the raised dais, Vyasasana, and dressing in robes of a monk, Krishnamurti would say, "Dress in Western clothes and sit on a chair." The question was, "What is our opinion of this?"
- Is (past and future) concerned with this body. It is concerned, exactly, with this body and with this ego, with regard to which there is a before and an after, up and down. And if you take away this ego, what's there, what's left?
- Is a Vaisnava, is he willing to maintain his body for the service of Lord Krsna even if he has to break regulative principles - if it is necessary?
- Is Dharmaraja King Yudhisthira?
- Is it (the smell of the baked bread) very agreeable?
- Is it a chemical state that some people are more covered than others by the modes of nature?
- Is it nityah anityanam or nityah nityanam?
- Is it not possible in this age for devotees to overthrow government?
- Is it possible for the soul to enjoy the material nature?
- Is it possible to do it all on your own, alone?
- Is it that it depends on the restaurant or is that necessarily bad (they are young men. They have got all propensities. But they are so elevated, they have given up all these low propensities, going to the club, restaurant, and cinema or naked dance)?
- Is it the same living soul, Arjuna, in each universe, or a different living being may be taking that position?
- Is it true that if someone takes prasadam, they're guaranteed at least a human body in their next life?
- Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?
- Is Krsna a person God?
- Is such an atomic war foretold in SB?
- Is that ("if you don't stop meat-eating, you cannot understand what is spiritual life") the same for others...?
- Is that (atomic) war to occur in the recent future? Or is that a long way off?
- Is that (if you are not worried, that means you are animal. You are not human being.) like Prahlada Maharaja's prayer when he saw Lord Nrsimha-deva and he said, "I am not afraid of Your ferocious form, but I am afraid of this material world of samsara"
- Is that (in the morning, as soon as you get up, you remember that you have to do so many things. That means it was already there) just like the impersonalists? They go up into the brahma-jyotir, but they have desire. So they have to come back down
- Is that (when then this man leaves this body and again enters in the womb of the body which he is destined to get) immediate?
- Is that an example of free will, that someone can choose Krsna and then turn away?
- Is that benefit coming in all suffering or only when it is given by Krsna (surgical operation is there, the knife is being used on the body, that means he is getting relief. It is not punishment)?
- Is that called punya? Serving the poor?
- Is that perfection possible in one life (our healthy life is to enjoy eternal life... So our human life should be utilized for attaining that perfectional stage)?
- Is that the difference between jiva-tattva and Visnu-tattva (there is some soul who can come under influence of maya in the spiritual sky)?
- Is that the same psychology that they, they only know of material body, so when they think of God, they think that God has material body also?
- Is that why (there is already name, Krsna. So why should Christ utter?) Christ didn't utter the name of Krsna?
- Is the brightness of a diamond because of the presence of a jiva?
- Is the exterior clothing important?
- Is the exterior identification important?
- Is the human soul then limited or unlimited?
- Is the living entity in the area of the heart, in the heart, or in the lotus of the heart?
- Is the sun to be considered a representation of God?
- Is there a center in Geneva where this literature...?
- Is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Is there a minimum age for beginning such a college (varnasrama college)?
- Is there a spiritual planet where Krsna plays the part of one's father?
- Is there any instructions about this gosvami business that you have (the gosvamis of Vrndavana, that are agitated)?
- Is there anything in the Vedic literature which supports Darwin's theory?
- Is there some gradual development in all those nine processes of devotional service, beginning from hearing?
- Is there some part of Lord Siva that is there in between?
- Is there some sort of relationship (with Jesus and) with Lord Krsna?
- Is there some story related to the way in which Mayapur was found by Jagannatha dasa Babaji?
- Is there some, any qualities, in the sense that some people have more receptivity towards the divine than other people?
- Is this ("you can see God in everywhere. But one must be Krsna conscious, God conscious. Then he'll see every moment, everywhere God, nothing but God") part of the God consciousness, that in everything is the God?
- Is this an ideal solution or a practical one (the oxen will solve the problem of transport. That bullock cart. Just like Krsna, when He was transferred from Gokula to Nandagrama, so they took all the bullock carts)?
- Is this due to machines, do you think, to the prevalence of machines (you cannot find out an ideal character man)?
- Is this life, this present life, is this also being within Krsna's pastimes, because Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement is Krsna's pastimes?
- Is this school (varnasrama college) for women also, or just for men?
- Isn't it at the beginning Arjuna hesitates to kill his family and doesn't want to go to fight, and what he is taught, through Bhagavad-gita in some way is that he should not restrain and that...?
- Isn't it inevitable that it's going to occur, that the devolution occurs inevitably without anyone's being able to change it?
- Isn't that true that all living entities is man's neighbor?
- Isn't the ksatriya qualities that he is to be trustworthy?
- Isn't there also this other one (eternity), when, for instance, Christ says, "I am before Abraham was," this "I am." There is one kind of eternity which has nothing to do with past and future at all, which is beyond past and future?
- It appears that by taking to Krsna consciousness, one becomes less materially benefitted?
- It is against capitalism, this idea (varnasrama)?
- It is that the problem, that Krsna is the original person of divine, but in, by Ramanuja or Visnu Purana it reverse Visnu is the highest?
- It seems, the more we strive to push the Krsna consciousness movement forward, the more maya puts obstacles in the way to stop us?
- It was after the heart attack that you came here (to Vrndavana)?
- It's a great difference to believe that you are the son of God and to feel it and to experience it. As long it's only a belief, it's well meaning doing. How to prepare the conditions by which disciples might feel it?
- It's a pity and we have to be very open and very friendly to them. I gather this. And your method is meditation and prayer, if I understand it well?
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- Kashmir?...Where was this (there was a historical excavation that Jesus Christ did not die, and he, after crucification, he was taken to Kashmir)? In a newspaper?
- Kavi means the one who knows present, past and future. Is it not?
- Krsna cannot give the same permission for the animals ("this vegetables give Me. I shall eat, and you take the prasadam")?
- Krsna consciousness in grhastha asrama?
- Krsna had other brothers and sisters besides Balarama and Subhadra?
- Krsna is the avatara of Visnu?
- Krsna only comes to this planet?
- Krsna says that "One who is always active within is very dear to Me." Does this mean we should struggle to keep our minds engaged all the time in Krsna's service?
- Krsna says that once you are in the spiritual world you are full of bliss. Why would someone choose to come to this material world?
- Krsna says, "Those who repeat this message of Bhagavad-gita, are most dear friends to me, and there's no one more dear to Me than he..." Wouldn't that indicate that a preacher is higher than a worker?
- Krsna was talking to Arjuna, and it said that Krsna said to Arjuna, "When you realize Me or when you realize God, or Krsna, you will see the whole of creation (sic:) withinside Me and withinside yourself." Is that a true translation?
- Krsna, he says, is an avatara of Visnu?
- Ksatriyas should run the government?
- Ksatriyas used to take sannyasa too?
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- Let's say we grow cauliflower, we grow peas, we grow wheat. Is it that each family must be responsible and take only what he needs? How is it distributed?
- Like Kaliya. So then if they have performed so many pious activities, then obviously they have done something very mischievous in order to take this demon's body? There is some falldown?
- Living entities in not non-manifested matter? Are there any living entities in non-mani...
- Look up in the sky here and you can see all the different planets and stars. Can you also look up into the sky, the brahma-jyotir, and see all the different Vaikuntha planets?
- Lord Indra is saying that Krsna is so merciful that without punishing the offenses of the demons, that He devises means so that their false prestige is subdued. How is that? How does he devise means without punishment?
- LSD was invented by Indians, no?
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- Maharaja Yudhisthira and his younger brothers all attained the spiritual world in the self-same body. Does this mean that they had their spiritual bodies while they were on the earth?
- Make a garland out of stone?
- Many people are wondering why we are making so much propaganda for our Krsna consciousness movement. Because usually India doesn't make propaganda for philosophy
- May I ask you what do you think about possibility of healing?
- May I have the key to the almirah, put these books away?
- May I please ask, is there is also room for physical yoga exercises while chanting of the God's names?
- May I put a question to the question of time, the meaning of time? I think there are two ways to look at time and to look at eternity?
- May we take your leave, Srila Prabhupada?
- Mayapur is in East Bengal?
- Medical work is it brahminical or sudric also?
- Monsieur le President says that he has been to India, and he understands that one dresses like this in India. But why would the disciples dress in America or in Europe in this way? Is it necessary?
- Monsieur le President would like to know, if this movement gets bigger and bigger, won't it create problems in terms of working, the economy? Won't the economy suffer if our movement gets bigger and bigger?
- Mr. Kalyana is the president. He came yesterday. He came yesterday. Mr. Kalyana. Well, they don't believe, as you say. This is philosophy. Welfare, is happiness, but not in your meaning, in my meaning. Well, this is only to ask, then you go to Japan?
- My program now is I have ten brahmacaris in buses, and everything and we're distributing books. But if the people are in chaos, how they will be able to accept the knowledge in the books?
- My question is: A pure devotee, when he comments Bhagavad-gita, someone who never sees him physically, but he just comes in contact with his commentary, explanation, is this the same thing?
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- Nara-narayana Rsi is which (kind of avatara)?
- Nirvisista means?
- No government is placing obstacles?
- Now there's been this degradation of human consciousness throughout the ages. So do you think it is possible now to stop this course of events, to stop this degradation in human consciousness?
- Now you are in good relations. India and Russia probably for Indians it is easier than for Europeans or for some of our countries or for Americans. Are you... Have you this problem? Do you go into these areas, into these places?
- Now, you have answered all our inquiries so thoroughly in our books that to make inquiry at this point seems like..., you've already answered all the questions. So how may we... What is the proper relationship at that point to make inquiry?
- Now? We shall discuss now (how to solve all problems)?
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- O.K. Now, is the Absolute internal or external?
- Of all the four pillars of sinful activity, is meat-eating the worst?
- Okay, you present Bhagavad-gita as being the evidence for Krsna, but so many people interpret Bhagavad-gita. So where is the proof that it is miraculous if so many people debate it?
- On the Viraja River? That is where Kailasa-dhama is
- On the way there should be progress, inner progress. How to realize that there is a progress?
- On this side there is government sign, "No dogs," "No dogs." Dogs are not allowed. What is the reason?
- One has a choice to either be controlled by love or by force. One who actually understands the distinction, is it possible that he will still choose to be controlled by the material nature?
- One of the first questions I want to put: Visnu Purana, it's very similar and very coincidental to the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- One problem that seems to be occurring more and more frequently is the appearance of terrorists
- Other living entities would play the part of Ravana in other universes?
- Our advancement is the same (if you do not obey the authority, then there cannot be any discipline. Then everything will be topsy-turvy. If he is wrong. He will come out. So the steps will be taken by the spiritual master. Do not try to rectify)?
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- Particular intelligence is given to human being?
- People are believing that at the end of life, there's just death. So why worry about anything else? Therefore we should just enjoy right now
- People would be interested to know our position on divorce. Here in Rome they just passed a divorce law?
- Perhaps thoughts are more important than actions?
- Position to criticize his Godbrothers, no matter what?
- Prabhupada you said that if one does not worship Panca-tattva, whatever actions he performs, even if he is so-called Krsna-bhakta, is to be considered offensive. Does this mean other sampradayas also?
- Prabhupada, how can one know whether he'll be going back home to Godhead in this life?
- Prabhupada, how can we know what type of service Krsna...?
- Prabhupada, how does one develop his desire, then, to get out of this body?
- Prabhupada, Lord Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that when there is decline of true religion and when evil increases in the world, that He manifests Himself. Is He here in the human form or is He still to come?
- Prabhupada, the other day you mentioned that during the eating activities, during sex activity, there is increase of breathing. Now, when we do the kirtana, there is much increase of breathing. So what is the difference?
- Prabhupada, there are certain groups saying that there's a comet in the sky and there's going to be some very inauspicious effects because of that. Do you know anything about that?
- Prabhupada, What is the devotee's greatest enemy?
- Prabhupada, when we're chanting on the street and the people walk by and hear us chant or we give them prasadam or they give a small donation, to what extent is the benefit they receive?
- Prabhupada, would you like to take your prasadam now?
- Prabhupada, you said that devotees, after becoming fully pious, have to take another birth in the material world and in somewhere where Krsna is performing His pastimes, before going back to Vaikuntha?
- Pure bhakti and karma-yoga considered to be exactly the same?
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- Raganuga-bhakti is also superior to karma-yoga then?
- Ramanuja sampradaya or also Madhva-sampradaya, they sometimes don't accept Panca-tattva as being supreme. So is their actions also considered offensive even if they are acting within sampradaya?
- Ramanuja sampradaya, do they have a chain of disciplic succession, bona fide chain, to this present day? And the other sampradayas also?
- Ramanujacarya's Vaisnava was not Vaisnava?
- Regarding asking me questions
- Regarding installing larger deities at the New Vrindaban farm temple, which is now exclusively for brahmacaris...
- Regarding you question about keeping open the Deity doors in the early morning...
- Regarding your inquiry about your position
- Regarding your philosophical question, if the Bhagavad gita is part of Mahabharata which is considered smrti, how can we claim Bhagavad gita to be GITOPANISAD, or one of the Upanisads which are sruti?
- Regarding your question about collecting...
- Regarding your question about eternal spiritual and temporary spiritual...
- Religious is automatically regulated sex life?
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- Sanskrit word for..., yajna?
- See, he actually went to Badrinath. When we call Narayana, Narayana, as our Lord, how is it Mayavada? How it comes into Mayavadi?
- Sexual intercourse after marriage is against law of Manu?
- Shall I come Monday at three o'clock and wake you up?
- She (whose husband is not at home) won't take bath?
- She asks if by repeating the mantra, the name of God, it has more...?
- She asks you where these hellish worlds are?
- She says that God is known as antaryami, the witness in the heart. Does that mean that we can have a direct experience of God without going through the scriptures?
- She wants to know how we know this (that the hellish worlds, are different planets)?
- She would like to know if our religion can bring something more than the other religions
- Should devotees be formally designated in a particular occupation?
- Should non-Hindus who have adopted the Hindu way of life e.g. the followers of the Hare Krishna movement, be allowed to enter Hindu temples?
- Should our children who are at gurukula, when they grow up, should they go to that varnasrama college, or...?
- Should there (varnasrama college) be any material subject matters taught like in gurukula?
- Should they (devotees in our temples) be trained in a particular...?
- Should vaisyas be taught business also?
- Should we also try to introduce legislation immediately to close the slaughterhouses?
- Should we depict meat-eating or animal slaughter?
- Should we go to such programs, Prabhupada?
- Should we now take the help from the political parties such as Shiv Sena?
- Simplicity is not considered a bad quality?
- Since Krsna is the power that gives the demigods the ability to render everything, then why is it recommended in the Nectar of Devotion that a Vaisnava should worship Ganapati?
- Since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Since you are following Bhagavad-gita, do you believe in dvaita philosophy or advaita philosophy?
- So actually such a program (for distributing the necessities - such as clothes and foodstuffs - for everyone in the community) can only be successful proportionately with the rise of Krsna consciousness of the people
- So it's the whole bovine race that's protected, and not just the cows themselves, not just the female cows?
- So shall we also make protests?
- So the purport is that one must strictly follow the principles?
- So there is no benefit to suffering unless it is connected with Krsna?
- So they should get written permission for the ratha to stand there?
- So those who do not develop their Krsna consciousness fully must again take a birth?
- So vaidhī-bhakti is considered superior to karma-yoga then?
- So we can convince them by pointing out...?
- So we say that brahma-jijnasa is a standard. Is that okay?
- Some class of men produce vegetables and grains, some class produce cows, some class produce clothes, some class produce necessities for building. How are these things distributed equally?
- Some devotees think that if they eat large quantities of milk, the more they eat, the more their brain will become big?
- Some of our disciples, it is seems that in this life they did many sinful activities?
- Some people say they don't like to talk to Hare Krsna people because we're like that. We always say we know everything about everything. So how do we deal with that attitude if they're turned away by our...?
- Some people would say that the source of evil is individual consciousness, our consciousness as persons. Others would have other ways of answering. I was wondering how you yourself would say?
- Someone might say - But if one is surrendered why should Krsna give him trouble?
- Something to spread this Krsna consciousness?
- Sometimes people ask what is, what is God's ultimate goal?
- Sometimes we tell them that this life is only full of miseries, and they say, "What do you mean?"
- Soul is already everywhere. But what do you say? Everywhere means only on the earth, not away from the earth, and then outer space. You want to say... Do you mean outer space also?
- Srila Prabhupada, aren't you presenting Krsna consciousness according to time, place, and circumstances?
- Srila Prabhupada, does (to push forward Krsna's name) please you more?
- Srila Prabhupada, have you realized God?
- Srila Prabhupada, how is one able to draw the distinction between working very hard for Krsna and over-endeavoring?
- Srila Prabhupada, I can't understand why we should have an impure desire when we are already serving...
- Srila Prabhupada, if after finishing one's sixteen rounds of the maha-mantra...?
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna is everywhere, why do we stress the importance of living a very strict life in the temple atmosphere?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Srimad-Bhagavatam it's stated that the Supersoul is measured from the end of the thumb to the end of the ring finger, how does this change take place in the different sizes of species of living entities in this material creation?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the purpose of human life to realize God?
- Srila Prabhupada, just this objection was that in this statement of Bhagavad-gita doesn't clearly say no reason you should not have sex life outside married life, they say they state religious principles, but this is...?
- Srila Prabhupada, once you said that to stop this transmigration, one has to become completely disgusted with this material world. What about Lord Caitanya who prayed that "I don't mind coming back again and again"?
- Srila Prabhupada, should devotees in ISKCON, should a certain section of devotees in ISKCON be trained as ksatriyas? Should they be specially trained?
- Srila Prabhupada, the way you've been describing our solutions to the problems of the world, they seem to be on two levels. One is the extended solution, that is to say, the ultimate solution of Krsna conscious?
- Srila Prabhupada, then if I have Krsna's name and I understand that it is Krsna, then can I take it and go to the forest?
- Srila Prabhupada, what do you consider is Gaurasundara's position presently?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the exact benefit if a person just takes a Srimad-Bhagavatam on the street and gives some donation to help out the printing costs or whatever?
- Srila Prabhupada, you mentioned three states of identification. One was like the animals. What was the other two?
- Srila Prabhupada, you spoke about the three stages of chanting? And you were speaking about the middle stage, the clearing stage?
- Srila Prabhupada. You're very, very regulated, almost down to the minute in your activities. This is also a big help in utilizing time?
- Srutakirti had offered my son two cookies... And I think you said, "Either one or three."?... Two or four?... Is there some reason behind this?
- St. Francis, the founder of this particular order which we have been invited to speak to, found God in the material world. And he used to address the aspects of the material world as "brother" and "sister." What is your view upon this?
- Such devotees that they do service, they may be very big, they attract so many people, they are successful, kīrtana and everything, but we know they are not chanting japa. What can we do in that situation?
- Support the right minority?
- Sydney festival is for how many days?
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- That (Brahmaloka) is actually a physical planet?
- That dharma by which the soul becomes fully satisfied, can it be found anywhere else aside from Krsna conscious?
- That idea (the bodily concept of life) just in the mind?
- That man yesterday wanted to know if we collaborated with other groups?
- That particular lila of Krsna is the most thrilling one. No?
- That there can be an impurity of the soul?
- That was found by Lord Caitanya, Prabhupada? The Brahma-samhita?
- That's (if I have to purchase from the government store whatever nonsense thing they will supply, I will have to accept) not good?
- That's a jivatma?
- That's a lot of bullshit. How do you explain your Rolls Royce, Dickey?
- The activities of the materialistic man, then, no matter what he does, he will develop another material body for it. Is that right, Srila Prabhupada?
- The Americans say he (Abraham Lincoln) acted with negroes just we have acted with the aboriginals, the Aryans. What have we done with the poor aboriginals of India?
- The body is the dress of the soul; so when the body falls off and dies, where does the soul go?
- The bona fide spiritual master. If you have none, what do you do?
- The comet doesn't really bring the bad effect. It simply is a symptom. Is that it?
- The communists asked to us what we do for the starving people?
- The consciousness of those living cells are dependent on my consciousness?
- The cowherd boys, sometimes were they merciful to Krsna by not being too rough with Him?
- The creation of the materialism is only one-fourth... What happened to the other three-fourths?
- The devotees seem to be calm, serene. Where does that come from?
- The fundamental is the four things (principles). Please explain?
- The gentleman is asking about the authenticity of Moses
- The highest is Satyaloka, no?
- The human beings are there from the very beginning on the earth too?
- The idea (that everything belongs to God) has been there for thousands of years, until this idea is accepted and put into practice the way you said, what is to be done in the interim period? Because lot of people are dying in misery
- The ksatriyas make sure that people are correct, acting correctly, that no one is taking more than what they need?
- The last time I saw him (Madana-Mohana Gosvami of Radha-Damodara temple), he said he wants Panchu to work for us... He says he will do anything?... Right now we have no work except construction. So what should I tell him when I see him?
- The manager of a large factory comes to us and says, "Well, here is my problem. My workers are striking for higher pay and no one is satisfied So what can I do?"
- The most obvious sign that we see of the Hare Krsna movement is your chanting and reciting of the mantra. Are there other valid forms of reaching God consciousness?
- The only way of talking to the spiritual master to communicate is verbal talking, the only way in which one can communicate with his spiritual master?
- The persons who would take part in such program (varnasrama college), they would have to be devotees in the first place. Is that...?
- The point was that in Christianity everyone can become Christian whereas it seems in this only some can become brahmana. So he is interested what is the path to becoming brahmana. How does one become brahmana?
- The population of human being that is increasing, is it due to these wild animals and other they have done good deeds, so they are coming up as a human being?
- The progress of self-realization is a progress of inner experiences?
- The question also is there: the authority is the spiritual master, but the via media to the spiritual master... The difference between, like we were discussing in the automobile of siksa and diksa-guru
- The Radha-Krsna center in Geneva, for instance, has there any connection with you, the Swami Nityabowa-badananda?
- The rascals are the ministers. Am I right or wrong?
- The shaved head, he's asking?
- The story of Mrgari and...?
- The sun is a reflection of the brahma-jyotir?
- The sunset; that is also Krsna's artistry?
- The system gives up. That's a marvelous solution. Because I feel very tired with the system myself. So there's something wrong with the system as being. So maybe you can give me some advice how to beat the system?
- The third one we are never talking about has to look to transparence of our body consciousness, to become transparent in a way that in our body and through our body we might look for the Absolute Truth?
- The third-class would be what kind of typical worker?
- The war on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, that lasted for a period of eighteen days? And that happened five thousand years ago when Krsna was on earth. Is that happening now in some other material universe, the same battle?
- The women today want the same rights as men. How can they be satisfied?
- Then (there must be one living force for the whole cosmic manifestation. So He is also individual; I am also individual. But He is great; I am small.) we can ask "What is that great?"
- Then isn't it sankhya?
- Then what you'll surrender?
- Then why you'll understand that this is all humbug?
- Theoretically yes, but practically, do you think they (the Buddhists) are atheistic, practically?
- There are many other planets on the earth level?
- There are many swamis and gurus and religious people throughout the world. How does one know which is the true guru?
- There is one difference between Eastern wisdom and Christian way to think that whereas in the Eastern way, we have to become rid of our body, to be liberate from our body, whereas Christian sense means to realize the spirit within the body?
- There is one Lord Chelmsford or anyone else...?
- There is regularly puja in your community?
- There is statement like that, that one is put into the hellish condition for practicing little, and then he is put into the womb of such mother... Is that a long duration of practice or just..., very short?
- There must be living entities then on the comet. Yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- There's no yajna, so there's no sun?
- Therefore (There is no "all religion." There is only one religion. One who deviates, he creates another religion. Religion means there is God and we should be obedient to God. This is religion) it is not necessary to go by one's special path?
- These Bible and Koran, how did they get here? They were just inventions or what?
- These boys are our boys. Before accepting this movement, they were never coming to the church. They never inquired about God. And now they are mad after God. How it has happened? Why the Americans and the Germans are taking to this path?
- These Italian women are complaining now that their husbands are abusing them, so why can they not get divorced?
- These things, they are also in Manu-samhita?
- These traditions (shaved head and tilak) have existed for a long time, he's asking?
- They (people) want to be cheated?
- They are thinking that the technology will free them... The technology cannot...?
- They argue that all paths lead to Krsna. So why is one better than another?
- They can't even see that in an animal other than human there's soul. So how can they understand the Deity?
- They don't see how they can have faith if they have no knowledge of God. And they argue, "Well, I don't know God. So how can I have faith in Him?"
- They feel they're getting something out of it. But how do you explain... I gather that most countries, in Britain and America and so on that there are many thousands... And now, how do you explain this? Why are people...? Why are...?
- They have no brain for understanding Krsna. That only comes from milk?
- They said that then if Christianity is complete, then what is the need of coming here? What is missing there that we would find here?
- They say that we are also under the control of nature?
- They still would not be allowed to do it (chant Hare Krishna) in school. There's a law against that, officially, in school... We should try to fight that?
- They will naturally perform some tapasya?
- They will say, "Well, how do we know that Krsna is God?"
- They worship you, don't they?
- They're mostly young people, (your followers) aren't they, or are they, you have all ages?
- This ("agriculturists should give protection to the cows") doesn't apply to bulls and bullocks and male animals generally does it?
- This ("Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.") is vandanam. Yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- This (tapasvino grama-vasah. "The so-called yogis, they'll live in the town.") is all from the Twelfth Canto?
- This (the ten tikas) is published?
- This (Tukarama`s initiation by Lord Caitanya) was southern India?
- This duty, is this duty to the self or duty to others or duty to the state?
- This gentleman asks if the disciples have to give up their religion, if, for example, they are Christian, they have to give up Christianity to be devotee?
- This government of Maharashtra has created an institution, government institution, which are feeding pigs for selling, meat, and poultry. It could have been done by any private institution outside. Why, eh?
- This is (the varnasrama college) the most auspicious work for now, is this remedial measure to stop the chaos in the world?
- This is just an example of a successful corporative enterprise which is... But would you speak something new which has not been tried before?
- This is on chanting hari-nama in the streets, chanting Hare Krsna in the streets with mrdangas and karatalas. It's a very important part of our program. Is that correct?
- This is your first visit to Australia?
- This is your Paris establishment?
- This lady heard your lecture about how the soul reincarnates in different kinds of bodies. So she wants to know how is this possible because in the West, our understanding is that the animal forms do not possess a soul
- This laghima siddhi is also being attained by the material scientists?
- This land we were looking at a few days ago? You suggested purchasing it for grazing
- This path of devotional yoga, bhakti-yoga, that is the path for this time, for this age?
- This school is for all ages or just for children?
- This way, if I understand what is personal and impersonal?
- Those special demons, are they are all like Jaya and Vijaya, are they all in that position?
- Through lecture? Through sound (hear from God personally)?
- To eat plants, is it not killing? To eat vegetables, is it not killing?
- To understand a mode. Is a mode a personality?
- Today, is it wise to practice this kind (fixing the life air between the eyebrows) of meditation?
- Transcendental means spiritual, does it?
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- Vallabhacarya is from North, no?
- Vedic culture, Srila Prabhupada, if there was illicit sex going on?... In Vedic culture, what would King Pariksit do?
- Very much so. Very badly, very bad now, very bad. What do you do about that? And that's a serious question. Is it morally correct to be sitting here, for me to be sitting here...?
- Violence for a right cause is better than the so-called nonviolence. Now I wanted to ask, for instance, to find that nonviolence or like Gandhi, it was wrong...?
- Vyaktim means?
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- Was that (for enjoyment they would even put two gladiators fighting each other, two men killing each other, and they would all watch) to the death?
- Was there always humans on this planet?
- We appreciate very much this affirmation of love of God for man... What do you think about this?
- We are in God, and God is in us?
- We are only neophytes. How we can know if our anxiety is still material when we feel anxiety in devotional service?
- We are talking against material life, and why we are using microphones, tape recorders, airplanes?
- We can keep horses? We can use horses?
- We can make our own cloth? Khadi
- We degenerated. So the Muslims degenerated. Americans will degenerate. Somebody else will degenerate. Is that sort of a will? No?
- We don't have a very good reputation in India?
- We have men who could teach this (varnasrama college) ? Do we have men...?
- We leave the universe. But then we are associating directly with Krsna and Arjuna?
- We read in the Bhagavatam how in King Pariksit's, under his rule, the people, there was no place for the personality of Kali to live even though it was Kali-yuga. So is this possible even today?
- We should observe this festival, Srila Prabhupada?
- We should occupy the L.I.C. grounds in Delhi with kirtana?
- We still have the zamindar system. We still have the system, and the rich people are exploiting. They do. Unless there is some kind of a revolution by which you can curb the power of the landlord, how can you be for land distribution?
- We were just discussing whether the Paramatma and the jivatma is still there even in the living cells?
- Well are you showing your devotees Krsna?
- Well, the basic question is how to handle the problem of modern education?
- Were you just waiting to finish your books?
- What about Greece?
- What about hell? How does the jīva soul go to hell?
- What about human milk?
- What about in Rome? What kind of... Do you think they're going... Well, they're asking about problems with the police and getting (indistinct)?
- What about other religions such as Christianity and...?
- What about our city temples (in the future)?
- What about persons who die in their sleep? Is that a sinful death?
- What about programs at schools and colleges?
- What are our activities in France?
- What are the Pitrloka, Martyaloka and this...?
- What class does the arts and crafts come under (in the varnasrama college)?
- What do these people do for a living? Only grow food? And did you need money?
- What do you define by person then?
- What do you know about the soul leaving the body? Maybe when the body leaves the soul, the soul also dies. I think it is same thing.
- What do you mean by "you"? What is this "you", who can't heal? I don't...
- What do you think about temporary healing?
- What do you think of Jagannatha Puri Beach?
- What does devotional service mean in that context (Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old and death, take refuge in Me in devotional service.) ?
- What does it mean when they say that failure is the pillar of success?
- What does it mean when we say, "Philosophy is for fools"?
- What does this mean, "thus he sees that beings are expanded everywhere"?
- What exactly is guru's role in your system?
- What he's questioning, Prabhupada, is whether or not bhakti-yoga is suitable for everyone in every instance?
- What if I don't know, I haven't understood? What if I think I have understood but I have actually not?
- What if the person cannot chant sixteen rounds a day? He says, "I can't..."
- What if the person working as sudra says, "I can do so much. I can...,"?
- What is exactly the position of the Vasus?
- What is God realization?
- What is gosvami?
- What is karma?
- What is Krsna's purpose?
- What is Krsna?
- What is my position if I am chanting Hare Krsna mantra and I'm living in the association of the devotees, or I'm taking prasada, but I lose a taste or I have no desire, but for lack of having anything else to do, I remain?
- What is our method to realize the highest truth, the absolute truth?
- What is our process for coming to know God?
- What is our solution to heat? Wood?
- What is perfection?
- What is realization of the spirit soul?
- What is sahajiya?
- What is that called, costume?
- What is that mithah?
- What is that Pitrloka actually?
- What is that samsiddhi noun?
- What is that sraddha?
- What is that standard of research?
- What is the benefit of such worship of Visnu? Jarasandha worship?
- What is the best way to gradually get them detached?
- What is the definition of a cheat?
- What is the difference between fish killing and goat killing?
- What is the difference between karma-yoga and... or bhakti because they also (indistinct) Krsna?
- What is the distinction between jnana and vijnana?
- What is the end result of taking to this process of Krsna consciousness?
- What is the explanation, what is the reason for which there is a degradation of the human consciousness through the four ages?
- What is the meaning of the different cakras?
- What is the meaning of the word atma?
- What is the method of seeing God?
- What is the origin of the black race?
- What is the parampara from Caitanya?
- What is the plan of the Hyderabad project?
- What is the standard of measurement? There are so many people saying they are the authority. How does one individually judge which one is the best or proper?
- What is the test of a true guru?
- What is the ultimate aim of this Krsna consciousness?
- What is the use of practice, if you practice or you don't practice you still get the same result?
- What is the use of that profit, Prabhupada Maharaja, when don't get even for eating, no clothing, no eating? Only profit... What profit will be beneficial?
- What is the Vedic explanation of the working principle of the brain, how our brain is working?
- What is the word actually? "Kr" is the root for making, isn't it?
- What is this life we should, we could not produce?
- What is vikarma?
- What is your attitude to Jesus?
- What is your opinion of Lord Jesus Christ?
- What is your view of communism, Your Grace?
- What kind of practical work could we engage them (the brahmanas who are in the varnasrama college) in?
- What kind of training is there for a sudra?
- What kind of wood is that?
- What merits a person coming back in human life? It seems like an elevated birth. How does mode of passion give one the opportunity of human life?
- What miracles did Krsna perform?" So your reply was so many miracles, killing Putana and so on. But that was five thousand years ago. Krsna's not here today. And people will ask, "Well we cannot see these miracles. So how can we accept Krsna?"
- What qualifications should the man have to take sannyasa?
- What should be done in relation to that (the technique of chanting the name of God) or, how it is formulated in that complete system of your reverent teachings?
- What should the ksatriyas be taught?
- What should the soul do if he cannot imitate God?
- What to do with the skim milk after the ghee has been produced?
- What was Mahatma Gandhi fighting in the House of Commons in England?
- What was the discussion about Laksmi?
- What was your connection with McGill? I heard... You published first with McGill?
- What will happen to our temples in the cities? Will we keep them?
- What will happen to the souls who have not become Krsna consciousness at the end of Kali-yuga? What does Krsna do with them?
- What will happen to us when He (Krsna) is not there?
- What would convince them that it is simply not another cheating?
- What would his (sudra) business be at that varnasrama college?
- What you might term the ongoing communication of God in revealing Himself and in further making known His will for man at different stages of his own life, say, in his spiritual life, and, in different stages of history and in different cultures?
- What your goal, to plan Northern India? Your goal to plan Northern India? How long you will be staying and...?
- What's happening at the time of death?
- What's the explanation then? They are slaughtering more cows in the United States, but there is still more fortunate situation there materially
- What's the name of that yogi who meditated for sixty thousand years?
- When Brahma creates the different species, they're not created one at a time. They're... All over the universe, there's different species which he creates?
- When did he (Nanda Maharaja) know that He, Krsna was really the son of Devaki? I think after the... just now only
- When did you go to Kanpur?
- When I was in Africa I saw the people are looking for the name and chanting like you chant. But they have a complete different idea of thought. My question is how can I know what is the right thing? From where do you know this?
- When Lord Brahma created this planet, did he immediately put all the species here?
- When one has fallen too low in the material life, how can he come back to his original condition?
- When one is too old and with too many responsibilities, what can one do?
- When the soul is entering, they are all complete?
- When there's talk of this religion of Krsna. Is it before Christ or more?... the question of religion, did it come before Christ or before Buddha?
- When they come to our (varnasrama) college, they have to follow the four regulative principles, also learn something about Bhagavad-gita and then, side by side, they learn a...?
- When they think of the savior, they're talking about the guru, the spiritual master. He's asking, is Krsna our guru?
- When we are having doubts, the only possible way, no matter what the indications are, are simply follow your instructions in all circumstances?
- When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down in the material world, because we are already serving Krsna?
- When we say Krsna, are we speaking about God or an incarnation of God? How to define it?
- When we see Krsna in us, in our hearts, the moment Krsna comes, the moment that the link takes place with Krsna in our hearts...?
- When we try to tell them that bhakti is the highest form of yoga, they say, "Why are you so sectarian?"
- When you address a woman do you use the word "Mataji"? Is that the right, proper word for her?
- When you become Krsna conscious, can you remember your past or see into the future?
- Where does human love enter into it?
- Where is it (the ten tikas) printed?
- Where is it written in Bhagavad-gita that sexual intercourse is only allowed in married life?
- Where is Krsna?
- Where is that sloka you were quoting last night from that ending gokala?
- Where is your matha in Vrndavana? In Vrndavana proper?
- Where will we get ksatriyas and...?
- Who are very much attracted to living in Mayapur, residing in Mayapur, after perfecting their lives, do they sometimes join Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement in Goloka Vrndavana?
- Who can understand that someone is blind or not blind? Who can judge?
- Who do you think Jesus Christ was?
- Who has told this "daridra-narayana"?
- Who has written that? Srila Vyasa
- Who has written the Bhagavad-gita?
- Who is author (of the book named - The Scientific Basis of Krishna Consciousness), Svarupa Damodara dasa?
- Who is Visnu?
- Who told God?
- Who was pressing the court case?
- Who was the author of that reading, sir? Who wrote it?
- Who will teach him to be a ksatriya or who will teach him to be a vaisya?
- Why are so many cows being killed in the slaughterhouse?
- Why are they so attracted to humanitarianism?
- Why did He (Krsna) create suffering when He could have created a permanent paradise on earth?
- Why did He (Krsna) want Arjuna to work?
- Why did Jesus eat fish?
- Why didn't anyone see Krsna's universal form before Arjuna? Krsna said no one has seen before Arjuna. Why is that?
- Why do we decorate the, a stone Deity?
- Why do we make the distinction between not killing animals and plants? Why do we kill plants?
- Why do we prefer pada and not the head or the hands? What is the rationale?
- Why do you dress in that way which is an Indian way and not the European way?
- Why do you not explain that about subtle being carried forward?
- Why do you send your disciples in these Christian countries to preach the love of God when the gospel of Jesus Christ is also preaching the love of God, God love?
- Why do you worry about it?
- Why does the living entity try to enjoy material nature in such a way?
- Why does the moon reflect? They say the moon is sandy, but this sand here is not reflecting
- Why does the soul forgets, forget his relation... with Krsna?
- Why has God permitted me to do such a horrible thing (destroy the earth)?
- Why in the Rg Veda there is not even the name of Krsna?
- Why Krsna created this material energy which is so miserable condition?
- Why mother nature doesn't let us draw water?
- Why not? Have I no right to read?
- Why shouldn't the word surrender be cancelled in the Bhagavad-gita where Krsna says to Arjuna, "You should give up all types of religion and surrender unto Me"? Why shouldn't this word be cancelled, the word surrender?
- Why talk about acaryas and why discuss these things?
- Why the four Vedas are written in a different type of sanskrit from classical?
- Why the Jesus says you offer the other cheek? Which is better? Is the choice of us to be violent or nonviolent?
- Why there is a better response to Krsna consciousness in foreign countries than in India?
- Why will they take advice? Will they actually be attracted to the virtues?
- Why would Buddha want to cheat people?
- Why, instead of going, suppose, to South Africa where the majority, the great majority, are believers, you don't go to Japan?
- Will the change in heart come about for such persons (Mayavadis) because they're somehow associated with Krsna?
- Will this center also be a place of learning for Sanskrit studies and allied topics?
- Won't the countryside be spoiled if there is an atomic war?
- Would God sanction activities in the factory, technological, scientific world?
- Would that be a young cow or a mother cow?
- Would the brahmanas learn Sanskrit (in the varnasrama college)?
- Would you have anything that would sort of correspond to a living interpretive voice or a living interpretation of the will of God irrespective of what God says to me as an individual in the recesses of my heart and soul?
- Would you like this blanket also, Srila Prabhupada?
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- Yadava Krsna spoke with Arjuna... It was the personal God Himself or it was an incarnation, this Krsna which is in Bhagavad-gita?
- Yes, but degradation is not...? Is it not a law of nature?
- Yes, but when you go out do you feel it (the cold)?
- Yes, seahorse. Did such an animal exist, seahorse? Or is this man's imagination?
- Yesterday in Assam seven student have been killed, but is it the communists who killed them?
- Yesterday you said when one becomes initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, his body changes?
- Yesterday, that film arrived?
- Yesterday, you said that Krsna appreciates when a devotee accepts voluntary adversity. How do we know when we should accept this adversity?
- You don't find it possible to achieve any absolute condition in our time?
- You don't think that people could have a gift for healing?
- You don't think that somebody could be an instrument to help other?
- You explained that we have three kinds of miseries: adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika. So adhyatmika is the misery also of the mind. How can I understand?
- You have asked about Gaura Nitai deity worship by the householders in Los Angeles. That is for those who live far away from the temple and cannot attend
- You have asked about Rupanuga
- You have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana. So you are asking how this can be so?
- You have asked if the Yadu dynasty has continued beyond Satasena
- You have come to a round visit to the west now?
- You have got a center established in Iran?
- You know, it sticks in the mind, about the leaders and the government, you said it. Is the duty of the leaders of the government to see the people are happy. In this context, how do you see the government of India?
- You may achieve recognition of the God that's in yourself, of that aspect... Without being pantheistic, you mean?
- You mean the lack of spiritual leadership has driven us to this state of affairs?
- You mentioned that eventually the communists will take over the capitalists. So how long do you think that will happen?
- You mentioned that there was nowhere any sanction by God for industry or business. So does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- You now come right from Vrndavana or...?
- You said before that the more hospitals they open that means the more people have to become sick?
- You say it's a real body (the Deity), but it appears to be stone?
- You say that if people die in the mode of passion, they come back in human life. (...) So the people today seem to be... Is it that they'll all come back as animals in their next life?
- You say that Krsna consciousness will solve all problems. But factually, there are so many problems in the world that aren't being solved. So what is the proof?
- You say that we have a choice, that either we can surrender to Krsna, or we can remain under the control of the external energy. Those in the mode of passion and ignorance, do they have any choice?
- You see all these trends today to learn meditation. It's only one longing to feel something and not only to believe. That is the situation now very much in Germany, isn't it so?
- You still have massages every day?
- You think people are doing something hospitals, that is for others?
- You think that all healers are fool?
- You think that men of God are a minority?
- You think we can't help people?
- You want some more vegetables and puris?
- You're comparing Krsna, Buddha, Muhammad to Jesus as the same, and Guru Maharaj-ji too, another Jesus. You're saying that?
- You're completely vegetarian, and not have meat of any kind and not eggs at all?
- Your base there is in Bombay?
- Your devotees say that you aim to get beyond the stage of material existence. I don't quite pick up what your process was for doing this, and could you tell me what the end result is once you do get beyond this
- Your Divine Grace, do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Your Divine Grace, do you see meditation as a means to God realization?
- Your Divine Grace, do you think that chanting the Hare Krsna mantra is the only way to achieve liberation?
- Your Divine Grace, is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Your Divine Grace, since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Your Divine Grace, when someone has a very little amount of God consciousness, he is a poor servant of God and doesn't love Him very much, do you see God as loving him still, and, say, wanting him to come to consciousness in helping him?
- Your internal potency You have set up the influence of maya. That is part of the internal potency?... Well, I thought it was the external potency?
- Your knowledge of Sanskrit, this is one of your basic interests?
- Your people have a serenity that many western people don't have. What, what is the secret of serenity? And is it... I gather you reject many material demands, materialism as such