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- A devotee may have some demoniac qualities?
- A devotee, how can he control his tongue?
- A dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- A lot of people were unable to come. Do you think it will be possible for you to come back to Durban from Johannesburg, after your Johannesburg stay?
- A person might argue that the Indians weren't satisfied either; otherwise they wouldn't have taken up the English culture. So what's the difference?
- A person who is a Negro, Chinese, Indian, etc. are they different species of life making up the 400,000 species?
- About Guru dasa prabhu's point, when the heart transplant, the soul stays in the subtle body. Is that sound?
- About my birth?
- About religion, Swamiji. Religion is capable to stop death?
- About the apartment (these are one gentleman came to talk with me?)?
- About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?
- Above the world or in the world (is there any hell)?
- Accepting that there is a eternal soul, how is the soul distinguished, then, from the body or from the machine since things like the senses, the mind, the intelligence, desire and hate, which people accept as the symptoms of the soul...
- According (What is the thesis of life?) to who?
- According to Krsna consciousness philosophy, the first living being was Brahma, and in the Christian Bible it says Adam was the first man. So he wants to know if in Krsna consciousness scriptures there is any mention of Adam
- According to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate whether to eat meat, whether to eat the vegetables?
- Actually, you were asking if there were any examples of explosions happenning without material cause, and I was just wondering if you could explain how volcanoes explode
- African? No other meaning to it? No other meaning?
- After death no death?
- After taking birth again, how does one continue his spiritual progress?
- After taking sannyasa, though, He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) had sikha and Tulasi mala?
- Ah, but sir, what is lacking ("if you chant Rama, then gradually you will get attachment for Rama. Then how you can give it up?")?
- All classes of men should preach Krsna consciousness?
- All devotees are cultured?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- Also (this Oath of Allegiance should be signed by the presidents also)?
- Also different planets (for the 400,000 different species of human life)?
- Also, should this college have men and woman or just men (this is a union of various theological schools. So now in Berkeley we have this very nice building, and we can become a member of this Graduate Theological Union)?
- Although we are conscious, our consciousness seems to be affected by different material arrangements... Is that simply the arrangement of the modes of nature?
- Am I keeping you too long now?
- America (formerly the Aryans never touched these places. Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here)?
- And after they (people who) join it (Krsna consciousness)...?
- And after you left the college, were you employed?
- And all Krsna's soldiers were killed?
- And also with that (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden) in the center? Island?
- And bhakti... (what is meant by bhakti-yoga?)?
- And Chapkhanna cannot be very not good. Not very good. Your printing is wonderful. From where... Where is that place? From Japan?
- And do they go out and make other disciples?
- And do you have a, what I may call a training in contemplation, in which you get...?
- And green (eucalyptus twigs). And as thick as the finger?
- And He (God) comes in bodily form?
- And how about in the south? Do you have many...?
- And how is Krsna different from us?
- And if the person rejects that love, does He (God) still love him?
- And if women were subordinate to men, it would solve all of our problems?
- And in the way of hospitals (to serve the poor people in the way of welfare)?
- And is everybody able to take the nine processes?
- And it (the moon) does not go all around other planets?
- And material is, nothing but the transformation of maya, is it not?
- And Mayavadis, they do not attain that impersonal realization?
- And now divorce is getting easier too, isn't it (so by one instance I can understand that how in the Western countries people become out of social structure. The root cause is godlessness. Root cause)?
- And steady intelligence, that is acquired by hearing? We can keep our intelligence steady by hearing?
- And that (why you elect? Depend on God) comes through lack of spiritual knowledge, Swamiji?
- And that machine (of nature) also makes distinction, doesn't it?
- And the part where you, which you said to preach Krsna's... to attain the satisfaction of..., but what you have already said, that one should first know himself first, basic...?
- And the pure devotee, does he see the Paramatma feature or does he see...?
- And the swastika (where does it have it's place in Krsna consciousness?)?
- And we as human beings, are we part of that (God in three aspects) too?
- And what about before they joined Krsna consciousness?
- And what are you doing now, sort of a meditation?
- And what if the brahmana starts to rule the world in their own interest?
- And what is your relationship with the Ba'hai faith?... The Ba'hai faith that also preach Krsna consciousness?
- And what is your relationship with, say, the Ramakrishna Mission?
- And what were you in India before that? Did you have a religious background?
- And when did you go to the United States?
- And when I have been doing some other saguna puja, another is seen always... Suppose I am doing... Sankara pure puja then I am seeing er, Devi.... Like that it is happening. Secondly, so how to go to nirguna state? That is my difficulty
- And when you have these asramas and all, and how to serve the poor people in the way of welfare?
- And when you translate the texts that you use, they come from Caitanya?
- And where did it (the Krsna consciousness movement) first start, which country?
- And who decides what is first class?
- And who is that (everyone is puffed up with his body. Nobody considers even that "When I say this finger, 'my finger, my head, my leg...'") "my"?... Who is that, saying it, "my"?
- And who sees to that ("I want to see, as the chairman of the BBT, that fifty percent is spent on printing and fifty percent is for constructing temples")? The GBC?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- And you're training them to lead?
- And your actions are perfect actions (we are giving knowledge from Bhagavad-gita. This is perfect knowledge. You take it; you become perfect)?
- And your Godbrother Swami Bon?
- And you’ve got another copy of this (book)?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Animals?
- Another thing is they know they are taking body again and again. They are taking the body again and again after birth. Why they are committing again and again sins and which mode of nature...?
- Any activities in Krsna consciousness... Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Any elaboration of what you refer to as vanaprastha college?
- Anybody who comes to the farm has to agree to follow the four regulative principles? These people?
- Anything other than this (in Bhagavad-gita it is said, etat jnanam: This is knowledge, and all other things, they are not knowledge) is ignorance?
- Apart from (indistinct) quality of Lord Rama, are there a few other things which could be included while you are worshiping or devoting or meditating on...?
- Are all religions following? There are so many sects
- Are blood transfusions permissible, Swami?
- Are human beings the only creations that can have Krsna consciousness?
- Are many people joining you?
- Are men superior in your movement?... Are men regarded as superior to women?
- Are more souls falling all the time?
- Are not all the poor, and miserable, and the weak, God? Why not worship the living God first?
- Are people using the wrong things to live too sophisticated?
- Are the (book) prices in here?
- Are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life?... Like the dog. Is he happy to be a dog?
- Are the impersonalists better than the gross materialists?
- Are the lower human species responsible for sinful activities?
- Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings are staying? Why the information is not given about that? About the other earthly planets also (why not? In Bhagavata there is all information)?
- Are there cases of..., which relapse? Persons who begin to withdraw from drugs...?
- Are there different paths that one can learn to love God?
- Are there many living entities within the body?
- Are there many universes, or only one?
- Are there not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?
- Are there other ways besides Krsna consciousness to reach that same goal? Or is that the only goal?
- Are these living entities (within my body) constant? They don't change any?
- Are they (the stars) self-luminating like the moon?
- Are we not observing this eclipse rituals, that, during the eclipse we stop aratis and all of this... And after the eclipse is over, take bath and then do the arati?
- Are we not training all classes of men? In Krsna consciousness...?
- Are we to believe in that by chanting the holy name of Krsna that we can attain a higher conscious level on this earth and attain self-realization without going through all the rigors of the old Vedas, scriptures?
- Are you a brahmana? By birth you're a brahmana, right?
- Are you all becoming first-class men? You want to become first-class men?
- Are you attempting to form a college?
- Are you going tomorrow?... Tomorrow at what time?
- Are you perfect master?
- Are you planning to choose a successor?
- Are you saying that our men should have more than one wife?
- Are you saying that you should never kill a cow but that you sometimes can kill a person?
- Are you suggesting that every person, whether he is Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Jew or Parsi or anybody else for that matter, should accept the Hindu doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of soul?
- Are you talking about reincarnation, life after death?
- Are you training a successor?
- Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Krsna or as the teacher of His teachings?
- Aren't there coverings of the 8 elements?
- Aren't you in a sense eating another soul too if you're eating vegetables? Not only if you're eating meat?
- As a conclusive question, she asks what can we do to help the whole movement to continue to expand?
- As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
- As many as in the West, or more (many people in India are becoming spiritually successful)?
- As the Kali-yuga progresses the people are getting smaller. Does this mean that Krsna and His associates were much taller in stature than we are now?
- Assuming for example that Hare Krsna grew to gigantic proportions as Christianity has grown, would not they (the fringe areas, who professed to be the followers of the Hare Krsna) be the difficulty as the Christian is today?
- At night you're supposed to take tripolin, no?
- At one of the programs, somebody raised the question that we cited that Lord Siva is worshiping Krsna, that he is a Vaisnava. So that person replied that Lord Rama also worshiped Siva. So he wanted to know the explanation
- At that time He acted like a magician, that God. How can He reduce it into writing?
- At the moment of pregnancy (as soon as one girl is pregnant, she should be separated)? From the moment of pregnancy one and a half years?
- At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?
- At the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species... They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?
- At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
- At what age did you realize God?
- At what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?
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- Babar was also a minister of his (Akbar)?
- Back to the temple we'll be performing aratik to Your Divine Grace. And there was not very much time. I was wondering whether during the time we're performing aratik to you, whether it's proper to be giving out cookies to the children?
- Bacteriology, study of germs. So Srila Prabhupada, the reason one person gets a disease from a germ and another person doesn't get a disease, it is karma?
- Basically they and myself and others want to know how do we get this spirit into our own hearts and how does this then issue out into everyday living?
- Because he (Hiranyakasipu) was standing still (his body was practically finished by the earthworm, what is called, moths and ants)?
- Because of impiety the sun and the moon, people would not be able to see. So there would be no vegetation. And without vegetation, even animals cannot live. So eventually they would take to eating their own children. Is this what takes place?
- Because we do not know what sin is, wouldn't whatever the authority said be purely an idea to us?
- Being influenced by different degrees of desires, would that influence each person's faith?
- Better to keep the temple open with the Deities there or can the...?
- Blind leaders and blind followers (another blind leader, so-called leader, he is blind himself. He does not know how to lead people. And the followers, followers are also blind. So what will be the result?)?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- Brahmana initiation should be strict (actually chanting sixteen rounds, following the regulative principles)... Those are the important...?
- Brahmananda Swami's proposals, top portion, we'll just add?
- Brazil (that Ravana's brother, Mahiravana, was in...)?
- But are you not giving credit ("If you want little credit by experimenting, hydrogen, oxygen mixed together, then how much credit should be given who has created the vast Atlantic Ocean, not only one, millions! Why don't you give credit?")?
- But can God be defined? We haven't got a definition of God. I challenge you... You cannot. Intellectually, you cannot analyse things
- But can God protect? Even Jesus Christ, he was killed
- But can they not come at the function?... He says some friends are coming at some time, so can you meet them? We can just go back and if you want to walk or something?
- But can you prove that ("This (Krsna consciousness movement) is the only association for understanding Krsna throughout the whole world"?
- But can't you have people doing good for the sake of goodness?
- But did you hold any meetings or anything?
- But do they (men living in other planets) not come here sometimes to visit us or we cannot go there?
- But do you accept the validity of other religion?
- But do you get benefits? Benefits there are but not the same (Siva is just like milk and yogurt. The yogurt is milk but it is not milk. You will not derive the benefit of milk from yogurt)?
- But do You mean that up till now your excellency were giving the question of transmigration, field of science, and now you are also taking that subject of God in this sphere of science?
- But does he (the pure devotee) focus his mind upon the two-armed...?
- But does that light (coming from the snakes which have got jewel on the head) also keep them healthy (the people in those seven other planets where the sunshine does not go)?
- But doesn't it (faith) come first because of trust?
- But don't you look upon him as a religious man? Gandhi, religious man?
- But for his actions other than just following the four regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds. He does so many other things during the day. Where does he derive his authority if he's not, let's say, living in the temple?
- But have they (devotees) met God?
- But how about the people living next door or the people...(everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra)?
- But how can that (real process is devotion) be scientifically presented? How can we accept that scientifically?
- But how can they (scientists) prove the existence of the soul through experiment?
- But how can we understand all this science and technology just by understanding Krsna, just by one book?
- But how do they (disciples) know they're pleasing you, Srila Prabhupada?
- But how do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- But how do you know it (egoism is there in ass also)?
- But how many of them (people in India) practice it (Krsna consciousness)?
- But how so many things are working under the laws...?
- But how they have forgotten this is the greatest, I mean, mystery to me. Because the sadhus voluntarily, I mean, embrace poverty?
- But how to convince them (the Ramanuja and the Madhva)?
- But if I think I'm happy, isn't that enough?
- But if that energy (God's energy) is perfect, how can it violate?
- But if the standard is happiness, and the hog is happy and the devotee is happy, then what is the distinction?
- But if they (the faithless) take some prasadam, that will help them?
- But if they're committing so many sinful activities, murdering their father and like this, then how will they get to that stage of being able to approach Krsna consciousness?
- But if we tell that that there is no law of gravity, they will say that why is it that if you throw up a ball then it comes down?
- But if what you say is true, why don't more people know about it? There are so many teachers. There are spiritual teachers and...?
- But is each cell an individual living entity?
- But is it (that worship made by trees and other lower animals) voluntary or involuntary?
- But is it possible to lead the life of a grhastha and at the same time think of that (janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvatah)?
- But is the converse true, that we chant very well and that we can love Krsna even when we cannot love our fellow people?
- But is there a great time period between the different divisions of the creation?
- But is there something else that you may know or that you may feel that you may be able to say that would assist us in a reduction less than the ideal?
- But isn't it better to give up all ego altogether?
- But Mahabharata describes all the continents even way before that, doesn't it (...the Vikings first discovered America, they said... From Scandanavia came, before Columbus)?
- But most people are materialistically minded, aren't they? There's very few that aren't
- But nobody off the street would go into the temple, would they (our business is to sell this book so that people may take advantage of it…. we have got fifty books like that… We are giving enough knowledge)?
- But now do you not think that Christianity and Islam accept this (when he is on the platform of Brahman realization, then he becomes jubilant, prasannatma, na socati na kanksati. That life is required, Brahman realization. That is education) as well?
- But now they are again becoming a mouse, the Americans? Now they are losing the favor of God?
- But on the spiritual platform, everybody (on the material platform, nobody is prasannatma)?
- But one must come to that point of being serious to recognize the problems of life? Before one can understand your books, the karmi must become serious to understand that he is in misery and that he must get out?
- But people know when they're doing evil, don't they?
- But she (woman) doesn't have any structure at all until marriage?
- But surely there is a practical point of view also. There is nothing to eat. What will happen?
- But that would be the same if I could see a picture of you or I could see a...?
- But the bones of those people that they've found, where are their bodies now? Have they gone to some other...?
- But the world will never all become Krsna conscious, will they? There will always be different scriptures
- But then God in His essence is Atman, Brahman, not Krsna. Is that what you're saying?
- But they say, "Where did Krsna come from?"
- But to whom did God give the seed (material nature is the mother, and God is the father)?
- But trained by others or trained by themselves (a certain man can be trained up as first-class man)?
- But we are so insignificant. Why should God waste His time talking with us?
- But we must all perform yajna?
- But we were all cheaters before we came to you, Srila Prabhupada. So how is it that we're not accepting a cheater? How is it that we cheaters have accepted some knowledge from you?
- But what about Lord Caitanya? He is a little rare
- But what about people that are never exposed to Krsna consciousness?
- But what do the hogs think (you rascal, you do not know what is pleasure. Just like the hog. He's also enjoying pleasure, eating stool. So your pleasure is like that. You eat stool and enjoy life. That is your standard of pleasure)?
- But what is our inner things? How we know it? In our classical music, actually Lord Krsna is the main figure in all... In even Muslim classical music, they also pray Lord Krsna
- But what is that sun?
- But what of our efforts to conquer cancer and tuberculosis (no, we do not say that we are making progress like you. We are trying to make spiritual progress. We are servant of God. We never say that we are very big men)?
- But when the body is finally finished, aren't the senses also finished?
- But who sees all these things (mayavadi says zero, just like the sky. The sky is there, but it is zero. You cannot see the planet)? That is what...
- But who wants to make eggs (write in the paper that, Prabhupada was speaking like that, a challenge to the scientist: Is there any scientist who can make an egg which is put in the incubator and gradually it comes to become)?
- But why existence of all these things (I have already said that we have got our imperfect senses. We cannot understand. But we have to understand from a person who has got perfect knowledge)?
- But why is there no disease here? Why is there no symptoms (they argue that this Vedic philosophy is coming from India, and in India there is so much disease and so many problems, but here, where we have our science, there is no disease)?
- But why the samudra changes (phenomena is changeable, always changing. Just like this samudra - sometimes here, sometimes there)? We go into there, into deep depth of that...
- But within each atom the living entity is present?
- But without pain how can you experience pleasure?
- But would that mean that a person who is a pure devotee doesn't have to die?
- But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?
- But you don't find that the fact that your monks are wearing robes or shaving their heads is a difficulty in the West, where not many people...?
- But you know Aldridge?
- But you mentioned in Miami... This is the reason I'm bringing it up. In Miami we mentioned that we would be discussing at Mayapur. Something, you know, should be done so that...?
- But, of course, there are conflicting educations, aren't there (people should be educated that "If you do not perform this yajna, you will suffer")?
- By details (in the beginning don't talk of these details) do you mean the rules and regulations?
- By preaching Krsna consciousness would you condemn other people's beliefs?
- By this (there are degrees of light), you mean that those who adopt the teachings coming from the Koran or from the Bible is lesser light than from the Gita?
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- Call the sannyasis (to discuss about our preaching work)?
- Can a material calculation prove a spiritual fact?
- Can a person become a brahmana?
- Can a woman become sannyasi?
- Can drugs sometimes be used to help us for spiritual realization?
- Can he hear? We say "Rama, Rama." Can he hear that?
- Can I ask you where you come from?
- Can I put a question? Why do you always say, "From a perfect person"?
- Can intelligence be created in an unintelligent person?
- Can one assume that matter is a kind of energy?
- Can one be egoistic and be spiritual at the same time, I mean, be proud of himself, not as a body, but proud of his state of the spirit?
- Can one perceive by their own senses what is that (the mercy of Lord Caitanya)...?
- Can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead that presents itself to man and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- Can one say that soul and life are identical?
- Can one say what qualities the atman has?
- Can someone achieve self-realization without a guru or does he need a guru?
- Can someone outside, who does not follow these practices (give up certain habits such as one should not smoke and things), can he achieve perfection?
- Can Swamiji please explain how is it that Sanjaya is to Dhrtarastra and how it came to pass that Vyasadeva wrote the Bhagavad-gita?
- Can the profit of the manufacture of something which is manufactured purely for profit be turned to good?
- Can the Vedas be taken symbolically as well as literally?
- Can we assume that energy itself, all three types of energy, are related to life?
- Can we become Krsna consciousness right now?
- Can we purchase the house (take to farming for supporting yourself) for our own staying?
- Can we say that the living entity is present within the atom by consciousness?
- Can we say that the living entity is there, and that he is the one that makes the molecules and the atoms come together to form a body just like the scientists give explanation? No? We can't?
- Can we touch your feet, Swamiji?
- Can you be interested directly in politics?
- Can you explain exactly what speculation means?
- Can you explain more about the Stita-dhi Muni, the undisturbed sage? In the purport you explain how he is neither attached nor detached. What is that, that he is neither one or the other?
- Can you explain the ways of papa-nirvanam?
- Can you explain what I read in one of your books, that the sound spoken either in chanting a mantra or when talking about God or Krsna is somehow transcendental sound, though it's spoken with the same voice?
- Can you explain why Lord Krsna encourages Arjuna to fight his own blood?
- Can you have perfect knowledge?
- Can you make them (the people) reasonable? If they're unreasonable, is there some way to make them reasonable?
- Can you satisfy equally as brahmacari or grhastha or sannyasi? Can you satisfy equally in whatever path you have chosen?
- Can you show me something about that visva-svarupa?
- Can you tell me how you feel about this welcome that you got? Are you used to anything a little bit more serene?
- Can you tell me how your teaching relates to the Bible, to the Christian teaching?
- Can't people be spiritual without dressing in this fashion and dancing in the street?
- Cannot be done, then (take the chemicals and combine them together in a test tube so that a soul can enter into)?
- Catur-varnyam maya srstam: is it applicable to India alone, or the whole world?
- Channa?
- Christian priests, they asked me that "Why Christianity is dwindling? What we have done?" So I told them, "What you have not done?"
- Cobbler (woman can take care of the milk products or spining (spinning). And sudras can be engaged for working as weaver, as a blacksmith, a goldsmith. There are so many things)?
- Coming back to this question of the western type of civilization, do you feel that the success of the movement in the western society is an indication of the need being felt by the western man that has been lacking in spiritual ideologies?
- Communists win, that will not stop our preaching?
- Contact labor? Labor contact (now we want to finish this. If you have got any good contact on labor?)?
- Could a woman be a temple president?
- Could he (a merchant in India) spend that (a bunch of Indian notes printed in China) money?
- Could I permitted to take a Bengali class one hour daily, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust room for foreign and also Indian boys?
- Could it (chanting Hare Krsna) be called the true yoga of our time?
- Could the president of the Coca-Cola company find the way to Krsna, to serve Krsna?
- Could you please tell me a little bit about your life and how you knew that you were the spiritual master for the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Could you speak to us on giving thanks to the Lord?
- Could you tell me about the Hare Krsna mantra because it's so important to Krsna consciousness
- Could you tell me how much you do derive from the airport solicitations in the United States?
- Could you tell me how old you are?
- Created a new species, Prabhupada?
- Crime, Why and How to Solve It?
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- Dharma there (sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam) means to the religious faith or duty?
- Diameter (of the universe)?
- Did all the souls that were in the spiritual sky fall out of the spiritual sky at once or at different times, or are there any souls that are always good, they're not foolish, they don't fall down?
- Did Krsna play that (football)?
- Did someone put tilaka on the dog?
- Did Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu have a dandi or a tridandi?
- Did the Greek civilization follow the Vedic culture?
- Did the people who said they went to the moon, did they go to another planet?
- Did they (Englishmen) teach God consciousness (in India)?
- Did they (Scottish Churches College) teach in English or Bengali?
- Did they (the astronauts) actually get to the moon or not?
- Did they (the European professors from Scottish Churches College) come mostly for missionary work? Was that their purpose?
- Did they actually land on the moon, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did you go to East Africa also?
- Did you go to the United States to found the Krsna consciousness?
- Did you say that for the atman, are part of the eternal? For the atman, it is... A need for the being is for the purpose, ananda
- Did you say that illicit means sex between people who are not married?
- Didn't Bhaktivinoda Thakura do that (there are many who claim to become God. All of them should be brought into the court) once?
- Dinosaurs also (were from a previous Kali-yuga )?
- Distributing books (first-class brain, they should be engaged in studying sastras, writing books and in the worship of the Deity, lecturing enlightened people. This is brahmana. They haven't got to work as ksatriya, as vaisya)?
- Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end?
- Do I have to join your movement to be happy? Can I just take Krsna consciousness outside your movement?
- Do I think it (one should only endeavor to go back to Godhead. That should be the mission of everyone's life." So this is our mission. We are propagating this) is all right? Well, it's a point of view
- Do I understand that the children in your school in Texas, that they're brought up in what you consider spiritual consciousness...?
- Do the laws of nature also make distinction, Prabhupada?
- Do the same rules apply to women as to men?
- Do these men get trained in mystic prayer, contemplation?
- Do they (people who join) have to wear those clothes and shave their heads and chanting those things...?
- Do they (the sudra class) kill them in a slaughterhouse? The goats?
- Do they (the Vallabhites) worship in vatsalya-rasa or just show?
- Do they (your followers) do anything like social work or other...?
- Do we consider ivory as something pure or impure?
- Do we get a second chance if we don't make the most of this life? In other words, is reincarnation part of your...?
- Do we have to liberate ourselves from karma in order to achieve Krsna?
- Do women fit into this (four classes) social structure? You keep referring to man
- Do you agree with the work of the Ramakrishna Mission, Mahesh Yogi, and Divine Light Society that are working in America?
- Do you believe in these (Hindi) and everything?
- Do you believe that Christ said that Krsna was his father?
- Do you believe that God is pleased by your prayer and helps the world because of your prayer?
- Do you believe that Jesus and Buddha and Krsna are manifestations of the same God?
- Do you consider that this kind of practice or the practicing this kind of culture is regimentated? A person has to come in and spend sometimes in the temple, and...?
- Do you equate then the impersonalists and the Mayavadis? Are they the same?
- Do you ever feel Krsna's presence, or see Him?
- Do you feel that those who've had genuine religious, spiritual understanding would not have that kind of argument?
- Do you feel, sir, that it (education about God) is lacking only here in the United States?
- Do you find that you are having difficulty disassociating yourself (your group) with false prophets like the Guruji?
- Do you foresee a time coming when people will realize... (it has already come, disaster). No, I mean a time coming when disaster is averted and people realize...
- Do you foresee a time when many people will receive that remedy (the instruction is there. Just like Bhagavad-gita says, "Produce food grain." The remedy is there. But you will not produce food grain; you will produce motorcar. Then you must suffer)?
- Do you have any evidence ("what you say, you have no proof, but what I say I have got proof")?
- Do you have any feeling about the crime here in the United States as opposed to the crime in your own land?
- Do you have any ideas where you would want (the facility to chant the holy name of God and distribute prasadam)?
- Do you have children?
- Do you have more temples there (in India) than here (in the West)?
- Do you have plans for other schools?
- Do you have plans, Srila Prabhupada, to comment on Ramayama in future?
- Do you know the prayer that the Russians use, the Jesus prayer?
- Do you know their (Hawaii birds) names
- Do you mean (in the sky there are millions of miles land of copper, gold) other planets, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you mean every, the whole of India is Krsna conscious?
- Do you mean that (if you keep people in darkness - he does not know what is his future - then what is the use of education and university) the university should be abolished?
- Do you mean the perfectness is to become God or to become the man?
- Do you mean to say that this (transcendence) is just a contemplative thing that doesn't really have a active influence upon the society to change the different...?
- Do you recognize that India does need some method at this point...?
- Do you remember what you wrote about, which part? About Krsna's birth?
- Do you see a difference or a conflict between being a devotee of Jesus and a devotee of Krsna? May one be both?
- Do you teach abstinence or moderation in the use of these things?
- Do you think it is possible to live in say an education framework, or should it be something quite separate?
- Do you think modern man must get better and know God or he will destroy himself?
- Do you think Mrs. Gandhi's leadership has not been successful?
- Do you think Swamiji, the scientists would be able to create life as they...?
- Do you think that all men can stand on the spiritual platform?
- Do you think that I am inferior to you (by physiological condition (women are inferior to men). Just like you are. Your bodily features are different from the man's features. You cannot deny it)?
- Do you think that the great mystics down the ages have actually seen this spark?
- Do you think that the young Indian boys in the future, they will become anywhere near as pious as their parents?
- Do you think that we should make these marble here, on the side?
- Do you think the social unrest...?
- Do you think then that that, that message is the most important message that you have to convey?
- Do you think transcendental meditation is beginning to help...?
- Do you think we have too much for our needs?
- Do you think we're going to come right, then? Is that a possible question? Or is it just far too many people now who are purely in the body and in the world of the senses? Is the world going to come around?
- Do you think your quality to change... A person, if that sould becomes fate or lift...?
- Do you think, in your opinion, mayavada was a necessity to undo all the bad effect of the degenerated Buddhism? This followed some three, four or seven hundred years of after Gautama Buddha
- Do you think, Swamiji, that man can become perfect?
- Do you want another cover, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want these (cotton swabs)?
- Do you want to go further, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want to walk?
- Do you worship to a person or what? To his doctrines or...?
- Do you, in your creed, do you believe in metempsychosis, that is the soul going through one form of life and then if it lives badly, the person lives badly, it comes back in another form and so on? Do you believe in the metempsychosis?
- Does a man then stop judging his actions (if the physician says that you take this medicine in such and such dose, you don't do this, and do this. If I follow, then I'm cured, perfect)?
- Does a person have to experience enough frustration to give up this process of...(chewing the chewed)?
- Does all desire ultimately have to go, including the desire to attain Krsna consciousness?
- Does fortune mean it's the mercy of Krsna?
- Does it (victory for the communists) mean that they will also attack the Krsna consciousness?
- Does it matter how long it might take you? Can you become first-class men soon, within five years?
- Does it matter what the specific thing is, like not killing a cow or like chanting or are there many specific things that people can do for love of God and for discipline that will serve the same purpose?
- Does it mean (because in the air there is sound. Therefore ether is there. It is a production of the ether... Air from the ether because when the air blows, you find the sound, sshhhh. That is ether) beyond the ether there's no sound?
- Does it mean we should use violence to spread Krsna consciousness then, Srila Prabhupada?
- Does it not mean, sir, that naham tesv avasthitah, "I am staying in Goloka"?
- Does it say somewhere in the Bhagavad-gita that we shouldn't eat meat?
- Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be foolish and fall?
- Does Krsna know that he will rebirth and then come to earth and to preach us and make all that?
- Does Krsna know the time, or does He direct the living entity at some certain time to surrender or is this the will of the living entity?
- Does Krsna know when the living entities are going to surrender unto Him? If He knows, then how does the living entity have choice?
- Does Krsna speak the Bhagavad-gita in the hellish planets?
- Does Lord Caitanya always appear just after Krsna? In every universe?
- Does one experience the miseries of the gross body when one's in sattva-guna, in the mode of goodness? Does one experience hunger and thirst, those things like that?
- Does one function better in society as a result of affiliation with Krsna consciousness?
- Does one go into a subtle machine?
- Does religion or God, can give you eternal life?
- Does that (it is said that sun is the source of everything within this universe) mean that Vivasvan is more powerful than Lord Brahma?
- Does that (it is stated in the Bhagavata, the moon is 1,600,000 miles...) mean that the earth is farther from the moon than from the sun?
- Does that (there is smaller particles than the atom) mean the electrons?
- Does that (they appear to be other solar systems. Like they have a sun and planets around them) mean the material covering between the different brahmandas is invisible?
- Does that (they think catching fish is great sport, great fun) mean that the people that catch the fish have to also become fish?
- Does that (they will come, after much trouble, much enquiry, they will come to the same conclusion, vasudevah sarvam iti) mean that everybody is ultimately on the way back home? Back to Godhead?
- Does that (we have got two selection, either to the path of hellish condition or to the path of back to Godhead) name, that the things such as, you mentioned smoking and alcohol and sex and meat, that all those things are material and therefore bad?
- Does that mean a serious devotee should only pass stool once a day?
- Does that mean that he (one who is in the mode of goodness) is not... He's experiencing the subtle body inside of the gross body, or what does that mean exactly?
- Does that mean that the more one gets control over his senses, he becomes more lazy intelligent?
- Does that mean to say that you can't live a happy life without being religious?
- Does that mean you go back to Sankaracarya?
- Does the heat of the sun increase or decrease through the ages?
- Does the soul suffer with the mind, or he's always enjoying?
- Does the word nirvana mean Krsna?
- Does this organization (ISKCON) do social work?
- Does your haircut have any particular significance?
- Dog is barking, but does he possess discriminative knowledge?
- Dogs, they are becoming attached to the human being. Are they becoming human beings in their next life?
- Don't you think that the blame should not be, usually be laid on the Africans but on the whole...? The brahmanas who comes from our overseas temples here, it's their responsibility to see that the Africans follow properly
- Don't you think that the scientists have done good things but people have...?
- Don't you think the people are lazy also?
- Don't you think this kind of reasoning (if there is a man, he must have a father) is a deductive logic rather than inductive?
- Dr. Wolfe? Is he missing the evolution (he was speaking biological?) Yeah, I think he was not understanding it so well?
- During the aratiks here at the temple where should the women be standing?
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- Each second the body is a little different?
- Equal in intelligence (woman is not equally intelligent as a man)?
- Especially Indian people, you know, they say, "Well, if I surrender to Krsna, who will feed me?"... But because in India people know that they should surrender to Krsna, no?
- Ether. How does ether distinguish...?
- Even all species of life it (we hear that woman is pregnant. We never heard the man is pregnant) is the same?
- Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
- Eventually we should divide up our society in this way (if you are fit to become brahmana, become brahmana. If you are fit to become ksatriya, become ksatriya. If you are fit to become sudra, do it)?
- Everybody knows God, but what's His name and how can we tell that He's God?
- Everyone becomes Brahma first?
- Everyone should marry?
- Everything is occuring by explosions. In our mind an explosion occurs, and we start believing in God. So that is not that, sir. I think they (the scientists) are misguided. How can anything happen without a supreme power?
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- Factual scientific study would mean to study all 8,400,000 species?
- Faith is fixed by knowledge?
- Few scientists may be like that. That does not mean all scientists are like that. We are here. Half a dozen of us are scientists, aren't we here? How can I (Dr. Patel) not believe in God?
- Finally Swamiji, what is the relevance of Krsna consciousness in our modern society?
- First we have to believe it, and then we can see it?
- Follow Krsna consciousness very strictly and very seriously like, say, for the rest of our lives, is there a chance that we'll be able to see Radha and Krsna in this life?
- For the cows (farmers, they do not produce food for human being. They produce food for the cows)?
- For the festival, is it all right for Them (Damodara Deities) to go on Lord Jagannatha's altar while He is gone? Is it all right to put the Deities on the altar in the temple, on Lord Jagannatha's altar while He's gone?
- For those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- Four sides, the steps (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden)?
- From all scriptures you instructed us in Srimad-Bhagavatam that we should not jump from book to book, but I am so much attached to them that I read every book. Would that stop me to understand the philosophy?
- From the ancient Vedic scriptures we learn that God is and He cannot be seen. However, in the Bhagavad-gita we learn that Lord Krsna is born as a human. Now, does this not work conflict to the ancient scriptures of the Vedic religion?
- From where does that tendency come, (to fall down)?
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- Gandhiji (Gandhi has written in his life that while his father was dying he was enjoying sex with his wife)?
- Gita, Krsna, Caritamrta, and Bhagavatam. You have other texts?
- God (no, no, they must have some name of God. "I am" is not the name. That is false conception. -They say it's something very personal.- No. When you ask name, that is personal)?
- God created man?
- God has not created us imperfect?
- God has to go to burden this one (I will have to preach, bringing men from America and Europe. Nobody is coming here. Everyone is talking big, big) also?
- God is all-loving?
- Golden Gate Park (this is the first time I come here)?
- Goodness (the living entity is never born or it never dies. This is eternity. You change your body, but you eternal. Therefore he requires that sattva-guna)?
- Goru means (we are simply repeating the Krsna's word. That's all. Therefore guru. And as soon as I make addition or alteration, I am goru)?
- Groving (throbbing)? What does that mean?
- Guru is there. Why don't they come?
- Guru-krpa only comes by pleasing the spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada?
- Gurudeva, the question I wish to ask is: where did we come, why are we here, and what is the true reason for our existence, and where are we going?
- Guruji, according to the bhakti-yoga, a person starting at least in the elementary way of bhakti-yoga...?
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- Had you met Gandhi?
- Hand machine (without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane)?
- Happens after death, where do we pick up?
- Has everyone the potential to accept Krsna?
- Has your movement arranged once any particular event which is a movement in a particular country?
- Have you any comment about the lawsuit that the sect here is involved in with regard to whether they should be allowed to sell literature and collect donations?
- Have you any program for the common people?
- Have you any program of Swamiji for the common mass?
- Have you had a significant impact on the American society? The values you preach, have they influenced Americans to a certain degree?
- Have you had any difficulty in bringing this, which seems to have originated in India, into the West?
- Have you realized the highest truth yourself?
- Have you seen many people in Melbourne?
- Have you wandered around from village to village?
- Have you written all of these books or are they by other philosophers of...?
- Hawaiians, they are not very much inclined to read. So does that mean we should distribute lots of prasadam here profusely?
- He (a devotee who works for Krsna yet doesn't follow the four regulatives principles) will fall down?
- He (Bon Maharaja) lived underneath the ground in one cell. You know that?
- He (cobblers, they eat this cows' flesh when the animal is dead, not living and we'll kill) dies his own natural death?
- He (Dr. W. S. Urquhart) was the one who said that the woman's brain is thirty-six ounces?
- He (God) doesn't get hungry or thirsty?
- He (Jawaharlal Nehru) accepted as spiritual master, some sort of... His teacher is Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi. So he was teaching him the same thing what he has learned. From here he learned all this knowledge which has spoiled our Indian culture?
- He (Lord Krsna) displays His Vrndavana only on the earthly-like planet?
- He (Maharaja Yayati) sent them (his two sons) there (to the European quarters) for conquering?
- He (Mahiravana) built the subway (to Brazil)?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother to Ceylon in the battle?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother, wasn't he...?
- He (Meher Baba) died in motor accident?
- He (someone) has what?
- He (the psychologist) didn't become angry (he is a good boy. Although I say, "You do not know anything")?
- He (the yogi) doesn't see the Supersoul with the gross senses, does he?
- He (Vivasvan) will stay as long as the sun... He is present?
- He asked a question about... In Latin America there's much belief or superstition in this so-called lost city of Atlantis. It's very famous all around the western world that there was a lost civilization called Atlantis. It fell down into the ocean?
- He asked about heart transplants, where does the soul go in heart transplant, when they change the heart from one body to another body?
- He has not come now. There is no unrighteousness in this world?
- He has understood from Bhagavad-gita that Krsna says that "As you approach Me, I present Myself." So in that sense can this movement be compared to also the consciousness of Christ, Christ consciousness
- He is asking if they were actually covered in the spiritual world as well?
- He is asking if we are sure if we are right in what we are saying?
- He is saying that you have said that we have a material body and also a spiritual body. So he wants to know if the spirit and matter are born simultaneously or if the matter is born, the material body is born, and later the spirit comes
- He is simply attached to serving Krsna (a devotee is always satisfied in any condition. He has no attachment or detachment)?
- He is still doing that (not staying anywhere more than three minutes)? Narada Muni?
- He is what (according to our philosophy, unless one has got perfect knowledge of his self-identification, he remains an animal)?
- He loses all his self-control and he said, "I am going to throw myself in the fire. I have lost my son." Is that the action of a man who has heard God Himself speak to him?
- He said he noticed that there are only men here. Does that mean that women cannot become transcendental?
- He said one thing is to understand theoretically the knowledge, and the other is to practice it. What is the method for...?
- He said, "In others words (if you don't follow, then you are not spiritualist; you are fool), is all humanity a fool then?"
- He says if we practice Krsna consciousness and develop a spiritual body, is there also a... Which spirit animates the spiritual body?
- He says that if God is a person, how can we understand, as there's a common saying that God is and also is not?
- He says that you cannot bring life, but you can bring death immediately. Why is that?
- He says why do you put so much emphasis on the personalism after liberation because it seems like to him that the ideal perfect thing would be the unity rather than having something separate?
- He still wants to go on with the same question he asked before: If we are content just to purify ourselves or if we also want to help the society?
- He wanted to know what is the relation between the Vedic culture of India and the cultures that originally were in Latin America. There seemed to be some similarity, cultures such as the different Indian cultures?
- He wants to know does the ant receive benefit (if a devotee step on a ant by mistake)?
- He wants to know exactly what is the form of the body. If spirit soul is nonmaterial, what is the form?
- He wants to know if our reincarnations are progressive or regressive
- He wants to know if the greatest offense is to disobey the guru
- He wants to know if the senses, the material senses we now have, originally belong to the soul which has been covered by the material body
- He wants to know if we are born good and then we learn the bad thing?
- He wants to know if within marriage it is possible to achieve perfection?
- He wants to know what are the characteristics of a person who has realized that he is not this body
- He wants to know why Lord Caitanya is not mentioned in the Bhagavatam with the other incarnations
- He was citing the instance of the four Kumaras who were traveling through the gates of the Vaikuntha world, but actually they were not completely God-realized...
- He would like to become Krsna conscious, only wants to know if you believe in God?
- He's (George Harrison) living in the temple?
- He's asking again about geographically, what will it be like (after 400,000 years) as far as temperatures and the different continents?
- He's asking that it states in part one of Srimad-Bhagavatam that one should not jump to the Tenth Canto without having read all the previous?
- He's asking, "Everyone in India (is Krsna conscious)?"
- He's saying why do you say a perfect person instead of saying a perfect philosophy?
- Here it mentions Brahman, and as I understood omkara... My question is whether omkara is a representation...?
- Here's another one kind of on that line. How do you feel about women's lib?
- Hiranyaksa was taking the gold from the earth. Now they are taking the oil. So the weight, the oil makes weight in some parts of the globe, no?
- His question was that can you take initiation by accepting the spiritual master in your heart without actually taking...?
- His question was when we take initiation from you, we understand that we become your eternal servitors. But if we have to come again to another birth...?
- Homeopathic doctor (that Ahmedabad, that gentleman in his house, you were guest, you were in Ahmedabad (they will make processes for eating the seaweed))?
- How about if a disciple wants to use the help of Visnu for the spiritual master?
- How about Kabir (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching is the summary of all Vaisnava-Ramanuja, Ramananda, Madhvacarya, and Visnu Svami, Nimbarka. There are four sampradayas. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu follows everyone. There is no difference much)?
- How about the third and fourth-classes?
- How are you?... You have carried a big load. What is... Will you be in a position to come to the conference?
- How can a man's intelligence be rectified? If intelligence is the...
- How can anyone in any part of the world understand that he is part of God?
- How can darkness argue with the sunlight? Their trying to argue is just like darkness trying to argue with the sunlight (they said, "Everyone has a father, so who's God's father?")
- How can God be localized?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can I know that (who is guru?)...?
- How can it be that we're advancing if we can become a dog in the next life, is that it, or something inferior? Where is the question of progress?
- How can one cut down his limited knowledge if he's habituated to material life?
- How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant Hare Krsna yet is still being plagued by desire for sex?
- How can the four natural divisions of man be translated into American society?
- How can the people in general recognize when a devotee is pure?
- How can the position be reconciled if in Krsna consciousness one of the two, the husband or the wife, wants to enjoy sense gratification, but the other does not? Should there be separation then?
- How can the world survive when people forget their karma and immerse themselves in Krsna consciousness? Won't it lead to inaction and a stand-still condition?
- How can we achieve samadhi?
- How can we fast move in India to spread our Krsna consciousness?... How can we spread the Krsna consciousness?
- How can we feel the transmigration of the soul?
- How can we get a God conscious leader (president) in this country?
- How can we get this perfect knowledge and how can we practice it if we're like prisoners?
- How can we get those people who are immersed in maya to become serious?
- How can we increase our desire for sankirtana?
- How can we know that somebody is perfect?
- How can we know what is good and what is bad? How can we define them?
- How can we prove Krsna scientifically?
- How can we relieve ourselves of material pain and live in spiritual pleasure?
- How can we repay you?
- How can we understand the difference between personality and individuality? And if God expands Himself in everything, then He must be inside all of His creation?
- How can we understand the guru?
- How can you follow it (try to understand Krsna and go back to home, back to Godhead) if you've never been exposed to Krsna?
- How can you get back to Godhead...?
- How can you say this (this is all childish) when we have so much proof that we have gone to the moon?
- How can you tell when your senses are getting purified?
- How come in the locational, archaeological and ontological records, Krsna consciousness is not mentioned by other religions?
- How come we (your disciples) come to you (Srila Prabhupada)?
- How could he use that for Krsna's service if he's expert in mathematics?
- How could the mere repetition of words bring about God realization?
- How could they stop it (before they are taking anything)? By virtue of the strength of the mind. That man, if he has got no strength of mind, he should not...
- How could you reconcile these two: He is formless, and He has form. He has form and yet infinite?
- How did Krsna consciousness develop?
- How did Sukdev Goswami hear Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- How did the atman come into being?
- How did you feel about Gandhiji spiritually?
- How do I know who is a perfect person?
- How do I know who is perfect?
- How do they live, then? The same example (the moon)
- How do we chant Hare Krsna?
- How do we develop devotion for service, desire for service?
- How do we finance our movement?
- How do we free ourself from maya?
- How do we give knowledge to the common masses of people?
- How do we know that the animals don't know all of these great truths?
- How do we know which one of the meanings is used in this verse?
- How do we make ourselves bad?
- How do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- How do we support our challenge to the scientists that they have not actually gone to the moon?
- How do we take the meaning of earthquakes and natural disasters which could destroy the lives of pure people as well as impure people?
- How do we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles...?
- How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?
- How do you convince a person that they are suffering, when they're saying they are happy and not afraid to die?
- How do you deal with negativity?...The devotees encounter negativity every day, people that are not interested. How, not just on the outside world, but how does one deal with that within, how does one relieve oneself of that negativism?
- How do you feel about Mao Tse-tung?
- How do you know there's a soul?
- How do you see helping your fellow man?
- How do you think about somebody in last few days defeated the existence of Mahabharata itself?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to the Hindu religion? Because that is also based on the Bhagavad-gita
- How does one become humble and remain humble?
- How does one become strong?
- How does one know a bona fide spiritual master who can lead them?
- How does one sharpen one's senses?
- How does that happen, when he becomes over-intelligent?
- How does the jiva get out of the atom and take a gross body?
- How does the ksatriya build a palace for himself or something like that?
- How high did he (Ravana) make it (a staircase to reach the heavenly planets)?
- How in the beginning is it decided that somebody is working and he should be given or not given (let them (lazy people) become sudra. Let them become servant. No property. If you work, you can get food. Just like animal)?
- How is ether distinct from air?
- How is it that people are saying that He's so tiny that He may even be an ordinary man? How can they be so illusioned to think like that? Krsna is everything. How can they ignore Him?
- How is it that the soul wants different things and then the material body acts according to the desires of the soul?... What is the connection that spirit causes matter to do so many things?... How is that contact there?
- How is it that the trees and plants will be happy?
- How is it that when our coat, size of the coat, changes because the body grows bigger the size of the coat is bigger?
- How is our movement doing in India?
- How is that (if you pour water on the root of the tree, the service reaches everywhere) manifesting?
- How is that (over-intelligent by so-called education)?
- How is that (trees have the abilitiy to see and hear)?
- How is that there are different types of religion in the world?
- How is that, that this world is unreal? Why do we say that there is good thing and bad thing in the world?
- How is the moon behind the sun?
- How is this godlessness showing itself in our society?
- How it is? It's a line for a kite, and it's wound upon on a stick, and to make the kite go higher you unleash...?
- How long do you say it is before Krsna comes to this planet again in His physical, in human form?
- How long does this process of withdrawal (from drug or alcohol addiction) take?
- How long has your group been in the United States?
- How long will you be here (in Iran)?... And then?
- How long will you be staying in Melbourne?
- How long would the planets float if it was put in the hands of a scientist?
- How long you'll stay (in Mexico)?
- How many births do we have?
- How many books are already finished, and how much is more to come in the future?
- How many different paths are there for self-realization?
- How many followers do you have throughout the world now?
- How many followers do you have?
- How many ksatriyas can I have on this farm? How many ksatriyas can we have on one farm?
- How many members in the United States? I'm told two thousand. Is that correct approximately?
- How may we best expand our movement into the rural areas or into the country areas?
- How much more difficult is it for one born in a family of nondevotees to become a devotee than a person who has been born in a family like Prabhupada's?
- How old is Krsna?
- How one can become peaceful?
- How one can know that given source of supposed spiritual truth is an actual truth? Is there any technique how one can get to it?
- How or why did this spiritual body become covered by the material body?
- How they (birds) turn all together and how do they communicate each other that "Yes, let's move out away"?
- How they measured it (the life-span of atoms)?
- How to from sa guna I do not know?
- How to please Krishna?
- How to see Lord Krsna? Can anybody see Him by chanting the holy name Hare Krsna mantra? Is it possible for a human being in his short period of life?
- How were the leaders, though, of India so weak when the British first occupied that they allowed this all to take place?
- How will the government decide what my gold is and what his gold is? How does the gold get distributed?
- How would they get it back from the moon?
- How would we define the word responsibility in Krsna consciousness?
- How would you explain about eclipse which we get?
- How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji?
- How, then, can we advise them (envious people), Srila Prabhupada, if they are like serpents?
- Hussein is his son. Ali is the cousin and the son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed. But can they feel the grace of Krsna within this framework?
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- I always want to ask whether if you met demigods or Indra or Brahma or...
- I am asking the question whether dog knows that he is dog. Cow knows that she is cow?... Have they got the intelligence to know?
- I am now trying to learn (indistinct) something, and I find that by doing bhakti, ah, what you call puja, saguna puja, whenever I come to your place, instead of seeing the Krsna murti, I always see the lingam, pure lingam. Why this phenomena going on?
- I ask, how could you meet the Supreme being by chanting...by chanting of worldly name, tuned on prayer...
- I asked earlier about the nature of atman, now the nature of Brahman?
- I believe that there's God in everybody, but why are some people so evil?
- I didn't quite understand why it was necessary that we have religion. You said that so that we can be different to cats and dogs?
- I don't call myself first-class, second-class, third-class. As you said, there are no first-class men, second-class men. But then how, apart from making them (my children) first class that they should follow the religious...?
- I have already answered the most important question. How to please Krishna?
- I heard that if you pass stool more than once a day you become a bhogi? You are called a bhogi?
- I keep wondering how you're so sure you know what good is, particularly when it comes to war
- I know I will (die), but how can we realize that, come to the platform of realizing?
- I mean to my mind. It (the cause of nonretirement) may be another cause also. I don't know. What do you think? Lack of proper education?
- I mean, but will the power of the ksatriyas will be in the hands of the Krsna conscious persons sometime during this Kali-yuga?
- I read a news report recently that you had said in Paris that you no longer taught your followers to chant simply the name of, the Hare Krsna mantra, because the name of God could be chanted in any form. Is that so?
- I read too, Srila Prabhupada, that in the time of Maharaja Yudhisthira there was only rainfall in the nighttime. Is this true?
- I realize that we're all considered spirit souls. But can a woman be first-class if she...?
- I remember over five years ago you telling me about, "If you read the first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam, you become fully Krsna conscious." Would you kindly tell me what does it mean to be fully Krsna conscious?
- I tend to approach from the other side and ask "Who am I?" and "What is this thing that I call myself?"
- I think he (Mr. Nair) died before you completed the transaction. He died, no?
- I think that was the same stewardess (I asked her to supply one 7-up. And, "I have no key." She was so angry) who came in the back and asked us, "Why the Swamiji doesn't like women?"
- I think there was one great personality - I forget his name - he was going to live as long as how many millions of years that he had hairs in his head. What is that story?
- I think you are meeting the officials of various organizations this evening?
- I think you were saying that within the atom there's also a living entity. So when that living entity leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn't it?
- I think you've answered this question, but he wants to know how will Krsna consciousness affect all the religions and politics of the world at this time?
- I understand what you're saying. You're saying you cannot do practices and commit sin, right?
- I want to ask you how can we possibly know that one has attained Krsna consciousness
- I want to please Srila Prabhupada. How does he know my progress and my service, when I'm so far away from him and if I don't write him?
- I wanted to say this, Swamiji, that hell also is situated in this world itself, because where do you think that we can pay our debt?... The sin, the debt of our sin. Where do you think that we pay it? In the hell, which is not...
- I was asked one day a question, "Why these Hare Krsna people dance in the streets?"
- I was going to ask you, Prabhupada, is that the moon planet that we see, is that the same moon planet that's mentioned in the sastras? The same planet?
- I was just wondering how one would be able to see who was acting in a certain way unless they were first engaged in something? They have to be doing some activity... so you can see what kind of quality they have
- I was just wondering if the spirit soul being in the spiritual world is eternally liberated, how can he return. By desire?
- I was recently told by one devotee that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee?
- I was thinking that sometimes the devotees engage in business, selling so many things to help the temples, and you were saying that we should not do that?
- I was told in the beginning you asked the first disciples to chant 64 rounds?... Is that correct?
- I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharma?
- I would like the reporter to assess the reaction from the masses here, whether Gurukula is sponsoring for the women liberation and equal rights...
- I would like to ask, Swami, would you pray for me?
- I would like to know more about what do you think our society is doing wrong?
- I would like to know what divine grace impart unto Arjuna so that he could visualize the cosmic form of the Lord?
- I would like to know, being unborn, then how come that Lord Krsna was born as a human being or brought Himself to that position to form Himself as the Supreme Being?
- I would like you to tell us that I can put in our article here if you have one sentence, one paragraph, that you would like to say to the world, (laughter) what would you say?
- I'd like to know the relation between Visnu and Krsna, how Visnu became Krsna?
- I'm familiar with the Krsna cookbook, but I do not see any suggested menus or nutritional information, and I'm wondering if there's any thought that's been worked on that. Is there any background of menus or nutritional information?
- I'm just asking the question whether or not the right question could be: "Who am I?"
- I'm just wondering what your judgment is on what... If you had to say to someone who was going to collect one small section of your work, what would you want them to collect?
- I'm not thinking so much of the specific Cantos as the Srimad-Bhagavatam as a whole. Is that, for you, as you see it, more important than Bhagavad-gita?
- I'm not very familiar with the Hindu scriptures, but I have read some Upanisads, and there's the idea that somehow atman is Brahman? I don't understand that at all, so perhaps you could say something about that?
- I'm speaking in terms of outer service to people who are not in your mission. Other than preaching the truth of Krsna, is there any other outer service to humanity?
- I'm sure that you're aware that to many people in the West, in America, in New York City specifically, that your disciples seem strange because of the way they act on the streets. What about that?
- I've got a good question. How can we get a God conscious leader in this country?
- I've had one person. He complained, "Why is there no purport for this verse, 'There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear'?"
- I've read some of the Upanisads where they say that atman is Brahman?
- If a devotee step on the ant, does the ant receive some benefit?... If a devotee step on a ant by mistake, the ant...?
- If a large section of the people don't want spiritual life, should this be forced on them if they don't want it?
- If a man does not understand God in this lifetime, is he still accepted by God?
- If a neophyte devotee is with determination endeavoring for purification but he were to meet with death as he is still influenced by the lower modes, although he is seriously trying, then does he take another birth or does he go to Krsna?
- If a person says, "How do you find out? How we can find out other names (of God)?"
- If all the land belongs to God, then who decides who will distribute it to the people?
- If anyone can dress as he likes, then why do you all dress alike?
- If by purifying ourselves we feel our relationship that we have with the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- If Christ was the son of God, the good son, how is that he didn't, he never mentioned Krsna by name? Sometimes they criticize us like that: "Why is there no mention of Krsna in the Christian Bible?"
- If death is sure in any case, for the thinking man or for the nonthinking man, then why think about it?
- If every moment we are killing in breathing and walking and doing so many things, and then it says, "Thou shalt not kill," so then hasn't God given us an instruction which is impossible?
- If everyone becomes Krsna conscious, then how will they make a living?
- If everyone is spirit soul, then isn't sex life also spiritual?
- If everything is created by God... Then what is this evil?
- If God Himself comes to teach to someone in this world, and if he has learned from God directly and he is satisfied that he has learned, can he, a few minutes afterwards, forget and depart in a very ridiculous way from what God has taught him?
- If God is known by many different names, though, is it not possible, then, to know God then in many different ways, in many different traditions?
- If God is perfect, why didn't He make us perfect?
- If God's energy is so perfect, then how does this ignorance come upon the living entity?
- If God, Krsna, desires the motor car to turn right, what makes the car turn left?
- If he accepts that he is imperfect, what experience qualifies him to talk about God?
- If I am satisfied? Can I rely that much on myself?
- If I understand you then correctly, sir, you would say that the emphasis should be returned to the religious aspects?
- If I'm always worried about the future, how will anything get done now?
- If it (if you cross a certain line, they have these rays of light, and if you break the ray of light, then automatically all machine guns start firing in the whole area) is for happiness, then why prevent people from leaving?
- If it's offered, though (to Kali), who accepts it? Whose prasadam is it? Who takes it?
- If Krsna has created the universe, then who has created Krsna? How did He acquire such immense powers?
- If Krsna is unlimited, why did he not manifest Himself all over the world so that all living entities would have equal chance to go back home?
- If Krsna knows that we will suffer here in this material world if we come here, why does He let us go?
- If man be part and parcel of God, how do you explain the evil deeds of man?
- If music is important to us?
- If nothing is our property - in fact, everything is Krsna's property - why is there this desire to possess so many things?
- If one attends the temple regularly and inquires from the devotees about the devotional principles, and because of some reason, it's not convenient for him to live in the temple at that time, and he is living with people?
- If one can achieve Krsna consciousness outside the temple?
- If one comes to value, existential value of a thing, through deduction... Is it possible or not only through intuition, through direct intuition of the reality of the whole?
- If one does not lose one's identity when one is returned to the Godhead, what is the nature of the relationship?
- If one is fortunate enough to revive his natural position in the spiritual sky, how can he keep from falling down again?
- If one were to study, read Srimad-Bhagavatam who was not ready for this, not prepared for it, this might throw them into confusion then, or this would be...?
- If our chanting is a form of prayer?
- If the animals are happy and the human beings are unhappy, why not live like an animal?
- If the essence of religion is to know God, how does He reveal Himself to you?
- If the highest reality is Purusottama and Purusottama is manifested in many different ways in the world, can people come to Purusottama through various paths?
- If the laws of nature are the laws of God, then how is it that sometimes they're even crueler than the actions..., they are more violent than the actions which ordinary men do, than that of a tyrant or a murderer?
- If the Lord's pastimes are manifested differently, are they manifested the same in one universe?... Are they different every time? In other words, is the Srimad-Bhagavatam a history of what took place once, and then it will be different next time?
- If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
- If the planets, they have always been floating, but the stones of Lord Ramacandra has put in the ocean, they are still not... Where are they?
- If the soul cannot be burnt, why does the desire to be burnt in the material world there?
- If the soul is the active force, then at what stage are the activities of the soul realized as distinct from the activities of the body?
- If the soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart. Isn't it?
- If the Vedic culture was a superior culture, how come man gave up the Vedic culture to take to the materialistic life?
- If there could be a Krsna conscious society, would this mean to stop the industry and technology?
- If there is a spiritual world, what is it like, and what are the activities of Krsna there?
- If there is no God, then it doesn't matter what I do. But there is God, and He knows what I am going to do at every moment, then it doesn't matter what I do either. He knows what I am going to do, so what does it matter? I can do anything
- If there's a certain criteria of proof or a certain evidence that we can know for certain that there actually is such transmigration of the soul?
- If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?
- If we agree with Buddhist consciousness?
- If we all do this, will that, for example, remove the problems that we do… (why not introduce, that every home, every factory, every community, every place, they should sit down at least for half an hour and chant the holy name of the Lord)?
- If we are given charge of the society, we should dismantle all this industry, all these cities...?
- If we are originally full of pleasure, then why would we accept an inferior position?
- If we are so small, why is there a poison of the senses?
- If we as devotees in Krsna consciousness movement are transcendental to these modes, does that mean that we can...?
- If we collect all the people together and put it in place and talk to them every day, continually for seven days or eight days... Yes. Don't you think so, Swamiji? I have proposed... Yes. We may build pandals also
- If we do not finish our Krsna consciousness in this lifetime and we have to take birth in material world, can we worship the same spiritual master as our previous birth?
- If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case?
- If we have not already achieved perfection, then how can the soul achieve the perfection? It seems that he has to reincarnate slowly in time to achieve the perfection
- If we have to read the literatures and experience these truths, it is not necessarily truth as such, but maybe the condition that we have been rendered to by listening?
- If we just engage them in devotional service will they ultimately become purified?
- If we save the common people by giving them prasadam, how can we save the impersonalists?
- If we're always thinking of death, how can we enjoy life now?
- If we're performing devotional service and an insect is in the way, like if you're painting the walls and you find this ant and you must paint this wall to please the spiritual master, what is the attitude?
- If we've already committed so many offenses to chanting, now, at this point, how can we purify ourselves?
- If we've been here lifetime after lifetime performing impious activities, does it mean that we have to be here lifetime after lifetime performing pious activities to balance out our sinful reactions?
- If you begin dressing things up, they change. And the size of the movement now? Is it a growing movement, Krsna consciousness?
- If you cannot what (so already some machine idle. You had to spend so much, but they are lying idle. That is not good. That is the defect of machine. If you cannot ply it, then it is dead loss)?
- If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and not follow the regulations, not reading your books, can you go back to Godhead?
- If you follow rules, then isn't it obvious that you must be frustrated?
- If you follow the essence of any religion, is that the law of God?
- If you have a child, and he murders someone, isn't he supposed to be punished? So if someone goes against the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even if you are a devotee, shouldn't Siva concur?
- If you have something, if someone's given you something and someone else wants to use it, then let him. But don't you get into the stage and can't you get to the stage at times that for some reason or other you don't want him to use it?
- If you hear the truth, there is no need to make an experiment at all. Isn't it?
- If you know who is God, accept it (you have to accept Krsna)?
- If you're devoted enough can you gain release from birth, death, and old age completely in one life?
- In 1968 I was questioned by the reporters, "What is your opinion about this moon?"
- In Ahmedabad?... You must have met last time?
- In Bhagavad-gita when it states that "Supersoul," in American terms is this known as your astral body?
- In case they want to see what type of..., how we like to develop in the village scheme, should I keep the Mayapur program ready?
- In case we want to order them (Srila Prabhupada`s books) for our...?
- In Denver here we have many businesses going on for you. We are going to them for laksmi in so many ways. How is it that this engages them, or does it engage them in Krsna's service? Do they make any benefit?
- In Dvaraka, did Krsna's queens play tennis?
- In Hindu philosophy, what is the nature of the atman?
- In India (we got to get the books)?
- In India isn't it the system that after they harvest the wheat they leave some on the ground for the others to come and pick?
- In India or the United States (where is your family)?
- In India the sun is very intense... Does that have something to do that Krsna appeared there?
- In India, now in the cities, wherever we go, there are so many big cinema houses being built. So if the young people are not yet tired of that, then how will we convince them of Krsna consciousness? They all go by the thousands to the cinema house?
- In India, there are many swamis who claim to be Krsna. How to detect them?
- In Krsna Book and Bhagavad-gita both, you explain there are five states of consciousness, beginning with annamaya, manomaya, pranamaya, like that. Do these states of consciousness manifest in different species of life?
- In Krsnaloka are there asses?
- In New Zealand we have a situation where the main industry is killing animals... Why is there such a nice atmosphere, nice rain?... Is that that they are innocent and they do not know and so Krsna is not punishing them so much?
- In one of the magazines I read that there was a saint who he didn't even construct a rug?
- In one of the purports in Bhagavatam you mention that first comes humility, then nonviolence and then tolerance... Is it also mentioned that in other places in our sastra?
- In order to be involved in devotional service and execute devotional service in this life, we had to have some devotional service last life. So therefore, were you here last life too, to give us this devotional service?
- In other words for those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- In our material contaminated state when we act in a foolishly or mad, then we call that tamas, or illusion, but in the spiritual sky when one is in his pure state of consciousness... Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In our next life we will be put in a situation immediately where we can take up Krsna consciousness again or will we have to suffer karma before we come into Krsna consciousness?
- In punishing the intelligence of man, does he know the right from the wrong according to the karma? Does man have to pay one way to others in different forms of life?
- In some of our larger temples is it (kirtana going twenty-four hours a day) also advisable?
- In some of our temples, the murti of Your Divine Grace has been installed and they are offering prasadam. So is it the same, that the prasadam is accepted by the guru?
- In that illustration is Krsna the sunshine or is Krsna the sun?
- In the beginning of the Srimad-Bhagavatam you did discuss the general story... If you had to say to someone who was going to collect one small section of your work, what would you want them to collect?
- In the beginning stage of devotional service when we are trying to make advancement, we have to tolerate the urges of the senses... Is there a stage after a person becomes completely purified...?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says He creates the four varnas and asramas, so these four classes of men are everywhere... Is it correct to say that each man only finds his satisfaction performing a particular type of work according to his mode of nature?
- In the Bhagavad-gita, I'm told that there are some two hundred versions of that. Is that the case?
- In the Bhagavatam, it is mentioned, sarva-devamayo guruh. What is the meaning?
- In the bhakti way of doing things, this emotion and love are very closely entwined, aren't they?
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta it states that to understand Krsna and to improve our relationship with Him we must understand the spiritual master. What is the best way to understand him?
- In the courtyard back at the temple I would like to grow one nim tree. Would that be nice?
- In the East. So there's been a crossover taking place... Do you see it like that?
- In the hot climate it is more difficult to digest?
- In the last fifty years or so that especially that the Indian culture has been squashed and perverted by the British... Is that because of mass communication, Prabhupada?
- In the modern world the engineers are designing everything. So how can an engineer use his talent for Krsna?
- In the moon too there is fire? But it is cold, as the, our sages say
- In the name of looking for transcendence, there have been so many wars, hatred between men... He's saying, psychologically, that his brain tells him that in the name of searching after transcendence there has been so much bad, so how is this different?
- In the ocean they have air? In the ocean is there air? What is the chemical combination of water?
- In the pictures of the acaryas sometimes yourself and Bhaktisiddhanta has their left hand touching the ground. Is there any meaning to that?
- In the Sahara desert we can have life there, Swamiji?
- In the spiritual path everyone has to be married?
- In the spiritual sky when the living entity is in his pure state of consciousness, what acts..., Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam you mentioned that the trees, they also can see, (in a) purport. So I was wondering, do all the various species of life, are they fully equipped in some fashion or another with all the various senses?
- In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavata, there is a beautiful description of this rasa-lila, and some scholars think that there is some work(?), imagination, in that. So will you please comment upon this?
- In the things that you've written, where would that message come through most clearly?
- In the Vaikunthas, surrounding Narayana is Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha?
- In the Vedas the maha-mantra is repeated Hare Rama, Hare Krsna. What is the significance of changing the order?
- In the villages (especially in Bengal, so many big, big palatial buildings, they are lying vacant)?
- In this brain weight matter, the sixty-four ounce and thirty-six ounce, is that every brain, male brain, is...?
- In those early days of colonization they were trying to sail to India by a quick route to get the spices, and it was the same time that Lord Caitanya's movement began. So is that just a coincidence, that they were trying to go to India at the same time?
- In Vrndavana (the government is trying to spoil this place also. Starting oil refinery)?
- In Vrndavana (where is Krsna playing flute)?
- In Vrndavana you were explaining about the sun, that the sun is not fire, but the living entities there have glowing bodies. So how do they glow?
- In what sense you use the concept "truth" here? Is it in the ontological sense, or is it in somehow in a more pragmatical human sense, refers to human beings or...?
- In what way (you have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task)?
- In what way would they (alcohol and drug patients) cure?
- In your many visits around the world do you see a desire among many men to try to improve, to become first-class men?
- In your opinion, what is the relationship between Krsna and Christ?
- Independence (you are perfect because you have got independence)?
- India also there is such tendency towards sense gratification?
- Infected to (in our country 75%, at least, students are infected with syphilis)?
- Is (polygamy) allowed?
- Is (the polestar) the center of the universe?
- Is a devotee seeking mental happiness as well?
- Is Canakya Pandita widely available in India?
- Is chanting absolutely necessary in the knowing (of God)...?
- Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Is desire a function of consciousness?
- Is earth near the edge of the universe?
- Is ether a gross element as well?
- Is everything done in our movement for preaching? Everything that is done in our movement is done for preaching?
- Is first the metals mixed together (in Kaviraji, they make some medicine which is gold added by this process, makaradhvaja. Makaradhvaja, the medicine which is combination of tin and mercury, and it looks like gold)?
- Is God perfect?
- Is He (God) a person?
- Is it (at the present moment, after independence, Indians are very horribly situated) because of the people?
- Is it (I am not feeling very well) due to the heat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is it (the occupier of the body) transcendent?
- Is it (understanding God) possible for poverty-stricken people, those who have to earn bread and money by the sweat of their brow?
- Is it (who is a sudra) determined by jati, by birth?
- Is it (woman should be subordinate to the man, so that the man can take charge of the woman) true for all woman and all men?
- Is it a question of just understanding it (recognition of the spirit soul within this body, that is first education. Unless one understands this simple fact, there is no question of spiritual advancement)?
- Is it all right to use modern machines on our farms?
- Is it also good to chant the name of a person who is holy, who is one with God, not the name of God?
- Is it because of our impurity that we can't convince them to stop cutting their throat?
- Is it because the leaders are not following? Therefore the population is not following?
- Is it by chance what you think of at the time of death or is... it dependent?
- Is it by prayer to God that you help the world?
- Is it easier or better to be a Krsna bhakta than to be a Christian?
- Is it in that sense (as the creator) that He (Lord Visnu) is called Krsna?
- Is it necessary for people to leave the cities and live in our varnasrama situations in order to become happy?
- Is it necessary to see the Deity regularly in order to remain strong?
- Is it not speculation to say that one knows God?
- Is it possible for a dog-eater to become a first-class man?
- Is it possible for a person to return to the spiritual world without taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master?
- Is it possible for one person to be part demon and part devotee in the same person?
- Is it possible for us to communicate with plants?
- Is it possible on the spiritual platform?
- Is it possible that every man's life is directed by God, and you're born to do certain things, and you come to be prime minister or something?
- Is it possible that he could spend his whole life trying to find himself and at the end of his life not find himself and meanwhile he didn't help the society?
- Is it possible that I live on my own and still be a devotee?
- Is it possible there's some difference as to the definition of what the moon planet is? They will say that the moon planet is that planet out there. Do we agree? At night?
- Is it possible to achieve liberation with other religious...?
- Is it possible to be brahmana for all?
- Is it possible to become a devotee without actually having personal association with you, just by reading your books?
- Is it possible to carry out that enquiry (about God) while you're engaged in activities?
- Is it possible to chant within one's mind?
- Is it possible to create a suitable environment for life to enter?
- Is it possible to develop such kind of psyche (wherein one can can learn the aim of life within half an hour)?
- Is it possible to find Krsna in the Christian tradition or in Islam?
- Is it possible to jump from brahmacari to directly sannyasa?
- Is it possible to reform a person against their will?
- Is it possible to see the Supreme?... With our own eyes?
- Is it possible to sing the maha-mantra for someone else who has died, and will it have the same effect?
- Is it possible to visit other planets?
- Is it proper to say that your purports are getting better every day?
- Is it sometimes possible that a person is reborn in the same body?
- Is it still that there's greed and lust there, but he becomes transcendental to it? Or are the greed and lust...?
- Is it that a man becomes a man after the death?
- Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?
- Is it true that when you become more purified that you will see everything differently with your eyes and hear everything differently with your ears and all this?
- Is it true that can a human body takes a form of a human body in the next birth?
- Is it true that eventually by this process we'll become purified so we can become like sruti-dharas?
- Is it true that if someone takes prasadam, they're guaranteed at least a human body in their next life?
- Is it true that when you die, when you're going to die, you get another life?
- Is it true that you will end up converting people according to your own..., in other words, you convert people of your own caliber?
- Is it vital to follow certain eating habits?
- Is it worthwhile to try to prolong life?
- Is it wrong to think of initiation then (if you cannot live in the temple)?
- Is Jesus in the parampara?
- Is knowing the end of seeking?
- Is Krsna always seeking to engage us in His devotional service, and is He upset in some way if we reject His offer?
- Is Krsna consciousness connected with any other religion? Does it derive from Hinduism or Buddhism?
- Is Krsna directly controlling that (getting away from Him)?
- Is not eating vegetables killing a living entity also?
- Is our chanting a form of prayer?
- Is Philadelphia your last stop in...?
- Is pious activity on the material platform?
- Is polygamy illicit?
- Is second initiation necessary, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is she (Mrs. Gandhi) having problems because she is a woman, though?
- Is showing miracles like some swamis do the way to bring people back to spiritual life?
- Is Siva milk or dahi?
- Is that ("...we are one with God, but so far the power and position is concerned, He is too big, the great. We are subordinate. This is our position. That is the right conclusion") really the right conclusion?
- Is that ("that university, there is one professor, Norman Brown. I met him. He was a very nice gentleman. He carried my bags to the bus station. He was very kind") when you went to speak in Philadelphia?
- Is that ("the chief minister who has sanctioned") Nayika?
- Is that (all of your initiated disciples should chant twenty-five rounds minimum on ekadasi) a rule that we should all follow in our temples?
- Is that (brain substance in man is more than the woman) in the Vedas also?
- Is that (ghosts attack specially woman) because the women are weaker?
- Is that (here your parents accusing me, and in India the caste brahmanas accusing me) why you keep traveling, Prabhupada, so they won't catch you?
- Is that (if you take the proper way it can be increased) just up to our preaching?
- Is that (one who comes to Krsna consciousness, his karma is also changed) karma dovetailed?
- Is that (the indians have no equal rights in South Africa) also effected through karma maybe, Swamiji?
- Is that (the monkey is our forefather) true? Do you believe that?
- Is that (the moving of ISKCON Press) a GBC matter or BBT matter?
- Is that (the trees and other lower animals abiding by the order of Krsna) considered worship?
- Is that (this civilization means they are creating only dogs and cats) because they don't acknowledge that they're suffering?
- Is that a good example (of the space, then the thinner air, and the air, and the water, and the earth, and in between electricity...)?
- Is that all right (that Atreya Rsi writes a final draft ot the Oath of Allegiance)? Should we go on (with reading of the Oath of Allegiance) while he's writing?
- Is that considered attempting to become Krsna conscious, simply to give up, say, material sense enjoyment?
- Is that faith (everyone knows the sun will appear, faithless or faith)?
- Is that governing that Brahma does in the universe, he does that in relationship with all the other demigods like they are departmental heads? So he is not personally directing every single thing
- Is that part of your income, to run a...(publishing house)?
- Is that Rahu planet closer than the moon to the earth?
- Is that tea? Is that tea that you're drinking?
- Is that the significance, then, of the festival, to remind people of God?
- Is the body, then, to be resisted? Is the body to be disciplined, to be resisted, to be ignored? Is that what you're suggesting?... How to treat the body?
- Is the correct way of living merely a way of doing, actually, a sort of higher state of consciousness where you're experiencing something different to...?
- Is the final goal of transcendence, then, immortality?
- Is the irregularity in the weather and...?
- Is the most subtle form of creation the desire of the living entity to enjoy this material world?
- Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?
- Is the social unrest in this country caused because... (these are sinful activities, to kill child in the womb. And take shelter of abortion. These are all sinful activities. One has to suffer for that)?
- Is the teacher always necessary?
- Is the thinking material?
- Is the work you recommend your followers to do purely spiritual, or do you...?
- Is their calculation for the distance of the sun wrong also?
- Is there a difference between...? Just like we have fire here, is it different from the glowing there (the sun)? You said the sun is not fire
- Is there a fan? A fan. A fan?
- Is there a jiva (a spirit soul) in every sperm cell? Does the spirit soul only come to a particular sperm cell, or is there one in every sperm cell, and the condition isn't right, so then it dies before, I mean, it leaves before it actually forms a body?
- Is there a specific way to counteract this bad quality of enviousness?
- Is there a time when the subtle body ceases to exist?
- Is there a Vedic definition of science?
- Is there a way of knowing that the body you inhabited before was of a inferior quality than the one you're inhabiting now, or...?
- Is there a way of knowing whether you're on the way up or you're falling?
- Is there an animal soul, Swami?
- Is there any benefit to the karmis that a devotee deals with because he engages in business activity with them? Do the karmis get benefit?
- Is there any chance to understand how the Absolute think?
- Is there any danger to us from her (Indira Gandhi) arresting so many people?
- Is there any difference between Siva and Krsna?
- Is there any difference between...(Ramakrishna Society and ISKCON)?
- Is there any difference in (indistinct) when somebody is chanting japa under the tree and someone who is chanting japa in the temple?
- Is there any direct line of division between that which you would call knowledge and that what you call religion?
- Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society for brahmana initiation?
- Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society to get first, hari-nama, initiated?
- Is there any one, one of the translations or one of the purports or of a series of purports of the things that you've published that you think is more clear, more...?
- Is there any other books before Bhagavad-gita?
- Is there any real happiness?
- Is there any reason why you don't, you prohibit people from eating meat?
- Is there any reason why you teach your followers the Bhagavad-gita rather than the Bible?
- Is there any result to chanting Krsna's name mechanically? Or must it be uttered with complete devotion?
- Is there any way I can prepare (suppose if God says that "You become a dog," can you check it?)?
- Is there anything wrong when the woman works?
- Is there ever a time when the subtle body dies?
- Is there some way to find out good without following the rules and regulations laid down by the authorities?
- Is there such a thing as having pure spiritual desires in the soul or not?
- Is this (if you have got some name which actually refers to God, then it is all right. But if you have got something, name, which refers to dog, then it is wrong) something that your followers can be aware of constantly?
- Is this (God's name the total summarization - "all-attractive.") the same name that is spoken of in the Bible where it says "the word of God"?
- Is this (the eyes are to be treated how to see) true also with your other senses?
- Is this (Those who are not accepting God in lifetime, they will meet God, death. Death is another form of God) something where we can sort of experience death while we are still alive?
- Is this desire for material happiness the cause of material attachment?
- Is this example proper, that a son is being well taken care of by the father, but sometimes he's thinking, "I can enjoy more some other way" (Krsna says, You give up all these nonsense plans. Come to Me)?
- Is this immediate, the reception of perfect knowledge?
- Is this manifestation (many of your followers dress in what for the West is an odd fashion) the only way to be spiritual, dressing in this fashion?
- Is this manifestation, dressing in this fashion, playing drums and dancing in the streets, the only way to be spiritual?
- Is this statement (individual ego is eternal and also subordinate to that which is eternal), a statement of fact based on direct perception, or it is something what follows traditional belief and is just the axiomatic basis of your philosophy?
- Is this still possible (that the whole human society, it should be recruited and trained up... Then society will be all right), Swamiji? Is there still possibility that that can happen?
- Is this the reason why others who have preceded yourself earlier on, is this the reason why they were not successful, because they were trying to judge the results (our business is to carry out the order, not to see success. Success is not so easy)?
- Is this your first visit to Perth?
- Is woman in each one of these species (the different species of life making up the 400,000 species) another separate species?
- Is yogurt as healthy as milk?
- Is your son in the cult?
- Is... This picture of Sri Visnu, it's the person who you worship or...?
- Isn't he (Lord Brahma) a pure devotee?
- Isn't it (swimming) refreshing and...?
- Isn't it (unless one is pure, one will not have faith) is also like a child?
- Isn't it shells from the animals (from the rocks it is... They call it weathering. The weather makes it ground up from the rocks. This is their theory)?
- Isn't nature material?
- Isn't that (they are sporting with the life of bull, and they are Christian trying to convert others as Christians) somewhat in the ksatriya spirit?
- Isn't that (you cannot catch even nonpoisonous snake, and you are telling that 'I shall now catch cobra') "shooting the rhinoceros"?
- Isn't the GBC supposed to be more trusted than the temple president?
- Isn't there room for both (economic development and spiritual advancement)? There would not be room for both?
- Isn't there some conditioning between the guru and sisya, that "The guru should be like this and a sisya should be like this"?
- Isn't yours a product of or derivative of Vedic?
- It (Bhagavad Gita) starts in Chapter Two with the question of what is atma?
- It (death) is inevitable, isn't it?
- It (Genesis) says the earth is square?
- It (he (one very pious east Indian man who for many years has been worshiping Lord Siva) does not chant Hare Krsna, he chants om sivaya namah) is all right?
- It (the drama was a drug-addicted boy killed some friend?) was the sailor who was killed? On the news?
- It (the moon) is a bigger planet?
- It (the moon) rotates?
- It (worldwide membership figure) is increasing?
- It appears to me that one of the most difficult aspects of Krsna consciousness for someone to accept who's been brought up outside of that point of view is the Deities and the idea that they represent Krsna. Could you talk a little bit about that?
- It becomes a belief rather than a logic now, then, for when we think about the God. You were saying everybody has father, so why God, in exception, He hasn't got a father?
- It is better to perform one's duty, even though it may be imperfect, than to perform another's duty?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It is said in the Bhagavad-gita that if one thinks at the time of death, if he thinks of Krsna, he goes to Krsna. What if one thinks of his spiritual master?
- It is wrong to petition God?
- It says in the Bhagavatam exactly what the distance (of the sun)?
- It seems to me if they are to bring Krsna to the world that it would be an important thing for them to have news, to know, to be able to communicate with people. Is there some actual prohibition against (indistinct)?
- It seems to me that you chant, don't you, Hare Krsna?
- It's all right that the women are dancing (I told him that you make some play for showing here in Vrndavana)?
- It's almost time for lunch, Prabhupada... Shall we go?
- It's difficult for people outside the society of Krsna consciousness to see what the purpose is. How would you understand the purpose? Simply to make God known? How would you state...?
- It's not a problem simply of the modern society but a problem of man, what are, more specifically, the problems, and how can we solve the problems (the modern society is not taking care of the driver; they are taking care of the car) ?
- It's not possible for a woman to become a sannyasī?
- It's only if you haven't got rid of these impurities that you have to return, take on another body?
- It's very easy to convince some people that they're not their bodies, but it's not very easy to convince them that they're not their minds. Is there some way we can...?
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- Just by distributing your books we can become self-realized?
- Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?
- Just like now we have come to the point where the different doctors are thinking very seriously of having this mercy killing passed in the courts. When a person becomes too much diseased, actually he would be happier if he was dead, so why not kill him?
- Just like the child, Srila Prabhupada, who was trying to find the sound within the drum, the material scientists are trying to find out the cause and effect of the material world. Is that not intelligence?
- Just now you said we are all part and parcel of God. What would you say is God?
- Just opposite the (Patala bhumi means just opposite the...)?
- Just recently (George. He showed me in Bombay. He came to see me in Bombay)?
- Just that one point. In my speaking to Ganesha's(?) also, even when we tell them we are bringing huge amounts of foreign exchange from abroad, they at once say, "But how do you get this money abroad?"
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- Kalajam (is this java plum called Kalajam)?
- Kali-yuga will last for around 400,000 more years and then it will be finished and that the culture will gradually degrade, people will become very short and so on and so forth. So he's wondering if there will be geographical changes in the world?
- Karl Marx, Hagel and Engels and those people have got this nonsensical idea that interaction of matter itself produces what we call consciousness. This rascaldom is, I mean the basis is this: revolting against the tenets of Hindu teaching. No?
- Kirata? Udha. Udha means?
- Krsna and His friends would play sometimes, catch with fruits in the forest?
- Krsna explains that He is the taste of water, and in different chapters that He's the source of light in all luminous objects. So when we think like this, how should we think of Krsna? In His personal form?
- Krsna gives us five gross senses and He wants us to control them. How can we do this?
- Krsna has not given you power as guru?
- Krsna is always smiling, isn't He?
- Krsna must have been fifteen or twenty feet tall?
- Krsna's energy is all-spiritual, then why in Bhagavad-gita does Krsna make a distinction - "My separated material energy"? Why does He say, "separated"?
- Ksatriya marriage (He (Krsna) had to fight. Even He had to marry by fighting)?
- Kumbhakarna (was the name of Ravana's brother)?
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- Leaving the four sinful activities. Then one can develop Krsna consciousness?
- Lord Caitanya used to stuff His ears up when anyone would refer to Him as God. He wants to be known as a devotee. But we worship Him as God, in the same line as Radha-Krsna. So how do we understand that?
- Lord in the heart is the soul or is He a part of the soul?
- Lord Nityananda ever took sannyasa?
- Love means never killing?
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- Madhusudana because He killed the demon Madhu. But who was that Madhu?
- Many of the students at the Graduate Theological Union, they might want to come to our college (College of Vedic Science) to take just one or two courses. Would it be all right for them to do that?
- Many of them (young Gaudiya Math devotees who are unable to continue and keep the standard), they ask to join us even though they are initiated by others. So should we allow them to come or...?
- Many of these boys must have taking tea in past. How they could stop it?
- Many of your followers dress in what for the West is an odd fashion and relate to the world in what for the West is an odd fashion. Can you respond to that? Why have you asked your followers to dress in this fashion and to play drums on the streets?
- Many people say that Lord Krsna is the King of romance?
- Many people say, "No one can become perfect." How can we help them understand that there is...?
- Many translations of the Bhagavad-gita and the Upanisads that professors or students have read are all impersonal. What is the best way to convince them that the Mayavada philosophy, or monism, is not the original Hindu tradition of understanding?
- Married under what law? Under what religion? Under what religious law?
- May I ask a few questions now?
- May I ask a personal question?... I heard that you were a chemist before?
- May I know why it is the living entity (indistinct) the separation from the supreme power, Lord Krsna?
- May I leave the family to bear faith and devote myself to become a devotee of Krsna?
- May the temple be only one man left?
- May their (the scientists') theory be right? Like they say they come from amino acids and so many things
- May we ask questions about pronouncing the Sanskrit?
- May we go to the shop to buy something (everyone should stick to the temple and the principles. Why you should go to outside? That should be stopped. You cannot go outside)?
- Maya would help us... because the body is the maya, the mind is maya, and the very mind will help us, sir, that doesn't it help us to go towards Krsna?
- Mayavada does not belong to one of the six sciences, do they?
- Mayavadis, sir, have been proved that if everything is zero, who sees the zero? Who sees the zero?
- Meditation is not practical?
- Meek and humble will... What is that?
- Metal (without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane? Hand machine)?
- Milk (for breakfast)?
- Money is nothing but paper, but with the paper I can buy food, so then why is it that we say that money is nothing but paper?
- Moon planet is further (than the sun)?
- More advanced than other races (the Aryans)?
- Mr. Mani is Sai Baba's bhakta... he is harassing, sending a letter..."Send to the member of ISKCON. They must leave"... can I mention that you must fit to see?
- Murti, simply that murti? Nothing else (but when we go to see God in the temple, we see God, nothing else. That experience you haven't got)
- Must a person believe in Krsna in order to chant?
- My birth date?
- My question has to do with karma-yoga in the outer world, for instance, in New York City. From what I understand, your disciples do not pursue the professions. Is that correct?
- My question relates to service to the outer world by your disciples?
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- Nationalism (what is this nationalism? We said, there is no such thing as nationalism in the Vedic literature, no such thing)?
- Nature provides each species its foodstuff. But in other species other than man we see that it's immediately obtainable. But man has to work for it, and he has to wait for the fruits of his labor. Why is that nature's arrangement?
- Nehru started that slaughterhouse?
- Next time. When next you could come?
- Nim leaves (for cleaning teeth)?
- Nirakalpa-samadhi. But they must be getting some sort of condition of the mind, though temporary. That is why they must have turned to that (LSD), no?
- No difficulty at all. But it doesn't happen, does it (everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra... Where is the difficulty)?
- No preaching work? Should they (all of your initiated disciples) go out for preaching (on ekadasi)?
- No, but do we offer the prayer first to Siva... (Lord Siva is not different from Visnu, but he's still not Visnu)?
- No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?
- No, you explained that ("He accepted him as learned scholar, but He did not accept him as very highly realized soul.") before. His guru, Vallabhacarya's guru, is... He's in Madhavendra Puri's line?
- Not even beginning to get people thinking right (these bluffers, they say "meditation," but what is the subject matter of meditation they do not know. Simply bogus propaganda. You see?)?
- Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture?
- Now would he have what is normally in the Western world called a theological degree?
- Now, another point is, which we have put off until this (GBC) meeting, especially to be considered in this meeting, is the moving of the Press. The moving of ISKCON Press. Is that...?
- Now, how can you be so sure of that (you can realize the transcendence. The dog cannot. That makes you distinct)? Have you ever been in a dog's mind?
- Now, this American, Alpert, he came to a state of God consciousness, but he was very, very heavy on drugs. This can't be right, taking a drug?
- Number of religious meetings, they start off with the Gayatri mantra three times, and at the end of the meeting they have a santipat. Now is there any real necessity for a religious meeting to start off with the Gayatri mantra and end with santipat?
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- Of the 400,000 human species, what is the distinguishing characteristic that makes one different from another? How could we recognize them, or could we?
- Of the things that you have written, what do you consider most important?
- Oh, he (Brahma) himself created it (male and female) from...?
- Oh, the recommendations (where is that professors? All these professors. Those who are purchasing our books)?
- Oh, when he (King George V) came to Calcutta?
- Oh, you came from India? Yeah? Oh. Which part? Ceylon?
- Oh, you mean one more story (this side is going to be constructed.This side? We have to get the plan sanctioned first of all. It is not sanctioned?)?
- Oh. Sampradayas (what are the inscriptions? Dvaitadvaita, I think. Nimbarka philosophy. What are these things? Gates or something? Yes, philosophy. They wanted to make it Vaisnava philosophy anyway. So these are different…)?
- Oh. When did you (see Lord Venkatesvara temple)?
- Okay, there is God, and He has placed us in this world, and He has created the world also, and He has made these things very, very enjoyable, sex life, and this and that. So why not enjoy if God has created it?
- On one lecture tape you said that man is duracara, very difficult to... When he's misbehaved?
- On the LIC Grounds (the government did not give us again that land. Yes. last time when we held that conference in Delhi)?
- On the news it's talking about the hook-up of the Soviets & Americans, in their capsules. And a large hook-up of these space ships in outer space for planning their moon project. We were wondering what your feelings are & your views are on all of this?
- Once a person is trained in one of the classes, can he move to another class once he's been trained as, say, a third-class man?
- Once in Vrndavana you were sitting in your room, and I had some bananas on the right-hand side. Do you remember this?
- Once one performs devotional service then he can't get away from Krsna. Can he still get away?
- Once that happened to Indra, isn't it, Srila Prabhupada (are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life? Yes. Everyone is happy)?
- One boy in Sydney, he has been a devotee for a few years, three or four years, but now he has fallen away because of lusty association, I suppose, or bad association. So is this unwilling or willing, because he has become attracted to women again?
- One can understand the Supreme by studying himself. What does that mean? By analytical study of oneself one can understand the Supreme?
- One can't become a universal being, but he can see the whole universe. Can you explain how that is?
- One devotee asked me, "If the scientists don't know anything about the universe, then how is it they can predict exactly when there is going to be an eclipse of the sun or the moon for hundreds of years in advance?"
- One does not follow the instructions of guru?
- One has to be sincere to understand this (that life is beyond this body)?
- One must have certain qualifications to be able to come the service of Krsna? Even if one is in the complete mode of ignorance he can...
- One of our Godbrothers asked why the inductive knowledge is so successful, especially to scientists?
- One of the things that people say is that the devotees are asking for donations, not just distributing books but asking for money, that that's a bother
- One of their (Christians) points is that if Christ was actually the son of God, why didn't he talk about Krsna?
- One question is, Srila Prabhupada, "How do you view the spiritual change which is coming in America"?
- One thing he's saying, this gentleman, and I would like to know, is your successor named or your successor will...?
- One who arranges for chanting and dancing and taking prasadam, that is as good as preaching?
- One would think because there's land and room for vegetables and there are so many cows that there would be a plentiful supply of milk, but I understand that they (New Vrndavana) use powdered milk. The devotees use powdered milk there
- Only for the women (playing tennis)?
- Only hell is located in one place or a prada(?) is located in another place? Do you think so, Swamiji?
- Originally when I came to the movement I asked you this (the recipe for gold), remember? And you gave lectures on the subject, and I asked you about it. And you asked me for what purpose I wanted it
- Orissa will be nice (for the sankirtana party)?
- Others who have come before yourself, when they tried to preach in the Western countries, they were not successful because they were trying to judge the results?
- Our aim of life should be the realization of God?
- Our devotee, "What about in America there are so many people, they are chanting Hare Krsna?" So he (Ranganath of the Ramakrishna mission) says, "In America also there are many fools." So he is blaspheming like this, how can we cooperate with such people?
- Our devotees are saying that (they get money sufficiently, and as soon as he is asked to spare some money for Krsna, "No, the law is that I should give money to my sons. The law is." Even our devotees are saying like that)?
- Our Krsna consciousness movement, is there any different methods?
- Our temples, they are considered to have the same atmosphere?... To be just as potent as the holy places in India?
- Over-intelligent (the followers of the Christian religion became over-intelligent by so-called education)?
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- Parents who would give up their children to gurukula, they would never see them for about ten years?
- People are following very strictly, how can we preach to them? Some of those people who are following these religions very strictly, how do we preach to them, those people?
- People argue that "God has placed us in this world, and that He's left us in darkness, so therefore He's played a trick on us." What is our argument against this?
- People have said, "Well, why should we stay with religion? These religious leaders themselves are eating meat, they have prostitution, they are cheating the people, taking their money, living very nicely..."?
- People have to adopt to a different life-style altogether, you're asking for a very large commitment from people, and yet they do it. Are you saying that it's the strength of what you're preaching, or are they unhappy with what they've found otherwise?
- People like you can kindle them (the souls in a dormant stage )... Even our Samanja Acarya(?) or his guru, they were not able to carry this outside India... Is it not said that you are an incarnation of God or you are deputy of God, is it?
- Physical world, this earth is there. Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings or other beings are staying other than spiritual beings?
- Please clarify whether Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was a devotee of Krsna or is He Himself avatara?
- Prabhupada says how can they (scientists) see?
- Prabhupada, are all one's efforts to serve Krsna virtually useless...?
- Prabhupada, before this movement came here we were so caught up in sinful activities. How is it that we were so fortunate to be benedicted with this great Hare Krsna movement?
- Prabhupada, can a person go back to a spiritual planet without initiation?
- Prabhupada, did Jesus read all those books?
- Prabhupada, did you say that trees have the ability to see and hear in the Bhagavatam?
- Prabhupada, either of those associations (guru's krpa and Krsna's krpa), which is the highest?
- Prabhupada, has there been an incarnation of Krsna outside India, somewhere else in another part of the world? Or does He always comes in India?
- Prabhupada, how can Lord Siva get intoxicated and be so pure?
- Prabhupada, how can we cooperate with them?... The Chinmayananda and this sect
- Prabhupada, I would like to know if the Supersoul is, and the spirit soul, are they the same in the heart of...
- Prabhupada, I would like to know, if there is no birth in the spiritual world, how do we re-enter the spiritual world?
- Prabhupada, if Krsna is the reservoir of pleasure, then what does He need us for? If Krsna is all blissful, then what... We're so, it seems, incapable of pleasing Krsna. He is so magnanimous. What does He need us for?
- Prabhupada, if our body should meet death while engaged in your service, will our transmigration be protected in the ultimate...?
- Prabhupada, if we follow these four regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds sincerely every day, all this nonsense knowledge will eventually be forgotten?
- Prabhupada, in one purport in the Bhagavad-gita, you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything... But how could he know...? What does that mean, "everything"?
- Prabhupada, in the movement there is sometimes difficulty, and...?
- Prabhupada, is this philosophy like karma-mimamsa which is described in the Krsna book? Is this the same principle, where they feel that simply by their endeavor things will come, without the sanction of God? Is this karma-mimamsa?
- Prabhupada, one more question before we break for prasadam. That is, why do we practice bhakti-yoga instead of jnana-yoga?
- Prabhupada, should everyone move to the temple?... Live here?
- Prabhupada, sometimes during your lectures I hear you say yata mat tata mat?... What does that mean?
- Prabhupada, sometimes I've seen devotees say that they did not like to chant in the temple room with the opposite...
- Prabhupada, that, perhaps, contradicts with the theory of reincarnation?
- Prabhupada, these people, dogs, mostly are atheist? Atheist, they take the birth as the dog?
- Prabhupada, what about in a case like myself. I'm a sannyasi, and I have a traveling sankirtana party. So can I handle that money?
- Prabhupada, what are the symptoms of purity?
- Prabhupada, what can you say to someone who says, "Lord Jesus fed thousands of people fish"? What can you tell them?
- Prabhupada, what does it mean to chant seriously?
- Prabhupada, what is the plan? To send money or books?
- Prabhupada, what pleases you the most?
- Prabhupada, when they said they went to the moon and they showed films of them landing and walking on the moon, was this all a bluff?... They all made it up?
- Prabhupada, when we do our chanting, the chanting beads contain 108 beads. Why is this, and why do we chant sixteen rounds?
- Prabhupada, when we try to explain to people that our philosophy of Krsna consciousness is authoritative and is coming from undisturbed men, learned men, that our spiritual master is not an ordinary man, what does it mean that he is not an ordinary man?
- Prabhupada, when you leave this material world, will there be another spiritual master after you? Another pure soul?
- Prabhupada, why we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds?
- Prabhupada, wouldn't it be better to say he (anyone who denies the existence of God) is blind, he is stupid?
- Prabhupada? If we chant more than sixteen rounds, so how can we know whether we are imitating Haridasa Thakura or following his footsteps?
- Prabhupada? If you say that purity is required for faith to develop, what are the symptoms by which one can be said to be pure?
- Prabhupada? Of course, it would be beneficial if we had such a big building, but why can't we do it with the present building?
- Prabhupada? Why are the big authorities, like the government people...?
- Practice and vairagya both are necessary, not only vairagya. No?
- Prasadam distribution is very important?
- Previously there was not such excessive cold on the planet?
- Process as laid down in Gita ("Neither poverty is check nor material opulence is check. Anyone can understand if he follows the principle or process")?
- Put anything else in it (nim leave paste)?
- Pygmy men were from a previous Kali-yuga?
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- Rahu planet, that's a hellish planet?
- Ramanujacarya is the biggest in line?
- Real information about the moon from the Bhagavatam?
- Really? That ("We have got the "no objection" certificate") is for a skyscraper building or for the temple?
- Regarding this Candi-pat?
- Regarding your fasting
- Regarding your problem of not being able to get married, this is not the proper type of question to place before your spiritual master
- Rigidity is again a relative term. Rigidity again... What is rigid?
- Roman Catholics don't agree with you on that (we are asking, "Chant the holy name of God"), do they? Roman Catholics have their own God
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- So sometimes the attachment (so the Vaisnava son sometimes thinks of the father and mother. So they are getting the benefit) is beneficial, then?
- Sabda-brahman... One of the sources of knowledge or the only one?
- Same, they (the child and the father) are different people aren't they?
- Say I have some outside job, I'm living outside, but I'm not giving 50% of my income. So then that work that I'm doing, is it actually under the authority of the guru?
- Science is based on experimentation. They will argue, "So how can we experiment with the theories that you are putting forward?"
- Separate quarters in the apartment. And the husband would not see his wife during the day?
- Shall we get out and walk, Srila Prabhupada?
- Shall we go now?
- Shall we sell our land, then (when volcano is in smoke, that is dangerous. That is dangerous)?
- She (Gandhari) remained with the cloth wrapped for her whole life?
- She (Jagatarini) can come here?
- She asks whether it will come to a fight with the demons and the devotees like Arjuna, or is this question, in the future, she means, or is this question not important?
- She must become dependent on her son because her husband would ideally become a sannyasi. Is that...?
- She says she wants to know if you think it would be worthwhile for her to write a book, something similar to the one that was written in America. It was called "The Strange World of the Hare Krishna People." You've heard of it?
- She says there are many gurus and many people go there because it has become popular. So what do they say?
- She says you cannot change the society? We want to produce a new society?
- She says, "Therefore does it mean that the solution has to come from India?"
- She wants to know that even before Lord Caitanya's time, was it (Mayapur) also considered to be a holy place?
- She wants to know that there are many other gurus, and why do you feel that you have the truth?
- She wants to know what disciplines we have, what practices we have?
- She would like to know exactly what you mean by modern society and exactly what you feel are the problems with the society...?
- She would like to know what other societies there have been in history which did not have these problems (the modern society is not taking care of the driver; they are taking care of the car)?
- She's asking does that mean that one does not integrate himself with the whole when he becomes evolved?
- Should the devotees think that "Any moment, I can die"?
- Should they advertise like that?
- Should we bathe only the small Krsna Deity?
- Should we beg people to read these books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we cancel the trip this morning?
- Should we do that ("So I was given medicine by force in the spoon. Two men will catch me and my mother take me on the lap and then force and I shall take. I never agreed to take any medicine") now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we go back to the bullock cart age?
- Should we hold an abhisekha ceremony for Janmastami?
- Should we plant one (java plum) on the land too?
- Should we tell all Christians like that, Srila Prabhupada? That they're killing?
- Sir, are you familiar with Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship and the practice of recruiting wealthy people as patrons for people who are sincerely interested in following a spiritual pursuit? Do you think that this hinders with their development?
- Sir, do you think that the wealth of the United States and some certain other countries would be a block to spiritual faith? Would wealth in itself be a block toward spiritual awareness?
- Sir, I have listened to your talk with very great interest. You're very clear and very lucid. But you're also very dogmatic, I feel. Is there any area of doubt in your own philosophy, or are you quite certain in every field?
- Sir, I want to ask a question. In Bhagavad-gita He says, "I am in them, and I am not in them also." That means, sir, both His, all the beings are in the...
- Six and 1975 is seventy-nine years?
- Smaranam. Not so much thinking of God's activities as just being really in His presence and open to receive love and to be active. Do you know what I mean?
- So according to different transcendental emotions, the mind will be agitated or calm or...?
- So actually, perfect kings, they may have eaten meat?
- So actually, they have not advanced technologically from the civilizations of Ravana's time?
- So all the different kinds of human beings actually were originated there ("India was the whole world")?
- So all those sinful activities of these people have been eradicted now by saying Hare Rama?
- So by joining this movement we come to the platform where we can take birth in India in a nice brahmana family?
- So couldn't the scientists say that it's God's will that when there is a...?
- So does it ("The India is membership, and the members, if they are dissatisfied, then? This is not good.") mean that the BBT should take charge of the Life Membership program or to see that they're supplied the books?
- So eventually destruction can come to this earth?
- So eventually we should divide up our society in this (guna-karma-vibhagasah) way?
- So faith comes from previous pious activities?
- So Germany is defeated, no?
- So how can the scientists arrive at vasudevah sarvam iti?
- So how can you prove that (the different planets' situation)?
- So how is it that Lord Brahma is a pure devotee?
- So how is material (material nature) forcing something spiritual (the spirit soul)?
- So how long this thing will continue now, Swamiji, the materialistic progress, the way they are carrying on today?
- So I can go on and read these (the responsibilities of the GBC men)...?
- So if a scientist or someone who has some degree in science comes to our movement, should we encourage him to try to prove through science the Krsna conscious principle of transmigration and eternal quality of the soul?
- So if we have time we can do that (yogasana)?
- So if we increase the Krsna consciousness movement...?
- So if you fix one thing, another thing will just go bad?
- So is that a fact, that he (Jesus Christ) went to India?
- So is that according to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate in our eating?
- So is this (separate quarters in the apartment and the husband would not see his wife during the day) the standard we should develop in our movement?
- So it (Rahu planet) is bigger than the sun?
- So it doesn't matter if Narayana is successful?
- So it will take a war to bring them to their senses a bit?
- So it's not more practical to earn money by preaching?
- So it's not possible that anyone's happy? There is no possibility of anyone being happy
- So just by becoming first-class men you can go to the heavenly planets?
- So just by meditating on the person Krsna, all other truths become known?
- So Lord Brahma's being attracted to his daughter, that is just as an example...?
- So Prabhupada, is there something we should do to prepare ourselves for this disaster?
- So Prabhupada, you said belief is enough?
- So Rahu covers sometimes the sun and sometimes the moon?
- So saguna is necessary for going to nirguna?
- So Srila Prabhupada, if the sound is the same, does that mean that when you become fully purified you will also see the sound of an automobile horn as transcendental?
- So that means jivatma, he is... responsible for any good or bad deeds for my life?
- So that means those mathas also are Krsna conscious... We can join them also?
- So the activities of the lazy intelligent are jnana-vijnana?
- So the best position is just remain silent until realization comes?
- So the cow which is untimely killed takes birth as a cow again?
- So the incentive (in Vedic culture) is the happiness in society?
- So the jnanis are very rare though, aren't they?
- So the solution for the world is Krsna consciousness?
- So the sun is the center (of the universe) or the polestar?
- So then what is basic difference between human body, I mean man's body and woman's body, which attracts each other?
- So there is life on the moon, Swamiji?
- So there is no possibility of me being Krsna conscious outside your movement?
- So there's no doubt that Lord Brahma is a pure devotee?
- So therefore, from that point of view (of authority), it's very logical. Trying to do it the other way is impossible. From the... emprical process? Inductive reasoning? Deductive reasoning. Impossible
- So these, what they think are spaceships, perhaps are demigods?
- So they'll be able to take care of the situation there by themselves?... In Hong Kong?
- So this body is temporary anyway, so aren't these senses temporary also?
- So this experimental knowledge should be strictly kept in the scientific realm. You know, discussion...? Because you asked me before to write on...?
- So this will be good for our, what is her name? That devotee?
- So Tukarama, you would say, is teaching the same thing as Caitanya?
- So we have a misunderstanding about what perfection is?
- So we have some guidelines in here about that (general reporting: "Yes, everyone is chanting," or "He is not chanting in spite of warning"). So should I go on with this?
- So we would not be able to see any traces of a civilization (in heavenly planets)?
- So what is the position of tyagis, persons who are simply trying to renounce material life? Do they... Are they considered on the devotional path, or do they have to fall down into lower species of life?
- So what is the problem (if you are really scientist, you take the egg; analyze what chemicals are there. They are able to analyze, and they also have the chemicals)?
- So when the jiva soul descends into the material world, it is like a hallucination?
- So when they are grhastha, they make advancement?
- So when we say that we have finished all responsibility by surrendering to Krsna, that doesn't mean that we've abandoned execution of duty, does it?
- So where does she fit (into this (four classes) social structure)?
- So why not eat, drink, and be merry because tomorrow you die?
- So why not start an authoritative group of Christians who chant Hare Krsna, who study the Bible and read the Bhagavad-gita?
- So why, in the material world, if our natural desire is to worship and to be a servant, why is it that in the material world everyone is looking for respect and to be worshiped?
- So you can postpone your going tomorrow?
- So you don't worry about...?
- So you say that two kinds of people enjoy life, the paramahamsas and the great fools. So what's wrong with being a great fool? They're also enjoying
- So you would see no basic difference between Ramanuja's position and...(the Caitanya tradition)?
- So, Srila Prabhupada, isn't Lord Brahma the original spiritual master in our sampradaya?
- So, they should just keep the machines (from people who have entered in some coma) going?
- Some of the devotees, they fall down although they're striving to be in the mode of goodness. If they're sincere, they still fall down?
- Some of the objections are that the followers of the Hare Krsna sect are, on the streets or in the airports, are bothering people
- Some other people, do you feel, possibly have had the truth as well, have they?
- Some people offer the reason that according to the Ramayana we follow Rama and Sita as God. Can you just inform us the real or tell us who is our, the most of our...
- Some people say that in our philosophy, if we do not wish to slaughter the animals, what about the trees?
- Some people say that trees may be very happy. How do we know?
- Some people say, "Why don't we see any giants any more today?"
- Some young people were attracted to the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness. Is there a special reason? What explanation do you have why some?
- Somehow or other, Bengalis and Gujaratis are akin. Why they have one living in West and other in East? What must be the cause of oneness even in thought and action, in every way
- Someone (to foreign country, but once they go they become disappointed and not second time) has gone?
- Someone like Meher Baba who never spoke?
- Sometimes devotees say, "Then how come he's (Lord Brahma) the head of our sampradaya if he's not a pure devotee?"
- Sometimes in those mass killings pious men are killed also. At Kuruksetra many pious men were killed?
- Sometimes people ask that "If God is so great, then why doesn't He just come and destroy all the evil?"
- Sometimes people ask, Prabhupada, that if one falls down into lower species of life like plants or animals, how then do they come again to the human form of life?
- Sometimes people ask, though, they say, "Why is it that even among the acaryas sometimes we find there is a difference of opinion?"
- Sometimes the devotees ask if they can take birth again distributing books for you
- Sometimes they say, Srila Prabhupada, that if everybody chants Hare Krsna, what shape would the world be in?
- Sometimes when we are speaking, people say, in the questions they say, "Why do you say this is a science? It seems that this must be belief
- SP, in the Bhagavad-gita it says that if a man simply works for Krsna, he can come to the perfect stage... When he fixes his mind on Krsna... But... If a man simply works for Krsna for his whole life, yet he doesn't follow the regulative principles...?
- SP, we received news yesterday that one man in northern New South Wales is willing to sell us a farm, a great big farm out there in the southern tropics. Would this be a good place for engaging boys like the Indian, the Indian boy that came yesterday?
- Srila Guru, I would like the name of the tenth avatara of Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, a question arose the other day in class if there was a difference between Brahman-realized yogi and a Mayavadi
- Srila Prabhupada, after first initiation, one has to wait one year to get second initiation?
- Srila Prabhupada, are these cannibalistic tribes, Amazons and whatever, are they classed as subhuman?
- Srila Prabhupada, at night, when we see in the sky that moon, that is the same moon that is above the sun?
- Srila Prabhupada, can drugs sometimes be used to help us for spiritual realization?
- Srila Prabhupada, can I ask you a question? My son likes pictures of Krsna. Is it all right to give him pictures to play with, or is that too offensive? They could be covered with plastic or something?
- Srila Prabhupada, can you make them reasonable? If they're unreasonable, is there some way to make them reasonable?
- Srila Prabhupada, did the people, in order to get valuable minerals and gold and things like that, did they mine underneath the ground?
- Srila Prabhupada, did you speak about Kant's philosophy in that book also?
- Srila Prabhupada, do we say that they've gone to Rahu simply to placate them?
- Srila Prabhupada, does Krsna know that He's sitting in everyone's heart?
- Srila Prabhupada, does Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu also appear every day of Brahma?
- Srila Prabhupada, does spiritual life progress faster if one lives in the temple and goes on the sankirtana party?
- Srila Prabhupada, does the soul, the ghost, enter into the other man's body? The soul is occupying one body, and the ghost, as another soul, does he enter that body? There's two souls in the one body?
- Srila Prabhupada, even if there is a life after death, I don't know what it's going to be like, so why should I worry about it now?
- Srila Prabhupada, he states about Africa, that the food..., that they do not know what to eat tomorrow, and in fact, that here it's very hard for them to understand Krsna consciousness. My question is which, what can we do which is...?
- Srila Prabhupada, how can one use marriage to reach back home, go back to Godhead? How can one use the sacrifice of marriage...?
- Srila Prabhupada, how can the position be reconciled if in Krsna consciousness one of the two, the husband or the wife, wants to enjoy sense gratification, but the other does not? Should there be separation then?
- Srila Prabhupada, how does one associate with the devotees?
- Srila Prabhupada, how is it that they describe the soul, the impersonalists?
- Srila Prabhupada, how may we best approach the rulers and the leaders and the politicians to interest them in this?
- Srila Prabhupada, how should they set out to prove it, though? We've proved it by giving scriptural evidence. But how should a scientist do it?
- Srila Prabhupada, I heard you ask earlier... You say that by... Animals, they have no inferior act. So after death, what kind of birth will they get?
- Srila Prabhupada, I remember once I heard a tape where you told us that we should not try to read the books of previous acaryas
- Srila Prabhupada, I understand Krsna is the Personality of Godhead, and He is the one who create this material world. So my impression is Krsna, He didn't make this material world to be spiritual?
- Srila Prabhupada, I was asked a question by a man. He asked that Lord Siva... Lord Ramacandra was praying to Lord Siva in the Ramayana, and so he's taking Lord Siva as being God. And we didn't have a clear answer to him
- Srila Prabhupada, if a devotee fills his life with devotional service right from the time he is born, is that enough to attain the spiritual body?
- Srila Prabhupada, if a devotee gets sick, should he go and take medicine?
- Srila Prabhupada, if someone has inquired about God, but can be so overpowered by maya...?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the human form is insignificant compared to demigods, but still, it is very much desired, this human form of life, even by the demigods?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the kings were taught to govern the whole universe, does that mean all the worlds, all the worlds in the universe?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the knowledge was handed down by the saintly kings, evam parampara-praptam (BG 4.2), how is it that the knowledge was lost?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we speak these things on television and the newspapers and people become angry, if all the people become angry like she does, is it still good propaganda for us?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we think about our spiritual master, is that as good as thinking about Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Bhagavad-gita it says that "Out of millions of men, only one may come to know Me, and of millions who know Me, only one can understand." What are ways...?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Mayapur you were speaking about you wanted Mayapur to become a college for the University of Calcutta?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Nectar of Devotion you explain that there are three classes of devotees. And you say that the third-class devotee, he has belief but he cannot explain or give any support. This is like Christian...?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Sikhism there was Guru Nanak and Guru Granth Sahib. Is that actually a real scripture, and was Guru Nanak actually a devotee? Or is that not correct?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Bhagavad-gita it says that happiness in the mode of goodness is in the beginning is like poison but at the end it is like nectar. Where does the poison end and where does the sweetness begin?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Sikh-dharma they say to chant the holy names of God, and so far I haven't encountered the name "Krsna" in the scriptures. I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharm?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Sri Isopanisad it is said that one must learn the process of nescience alongside with the process of self-realization... Pravrtti with nivrtti. How is that?
- Srila Prabhupada, in this country we have to do army training, and on a Sunday we have to attend a church service. We have to attend it. Is it all right to say that we won't attend it because we follow Krsna consciousness, or must we go anyway?
- Srila Prabhupada, in what sastra is that recipe given for gold?
- Srila Prabhupada, in your society, if sometimes householder devotee, they do very big, big job, I mean they are advanced then?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it for the advanced devotees...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it sometimes more appropriate to worship arca-murti of Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai than Sri Sri Radha and Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it that when a devotee is situated in the mode of goodness and that...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it true that our advancement in devotional services... Is it influenced a lot by our past karma, how many sinful activities we have committed?
- Srila Prabhupada, is Krsna in our heart, in the heart of the body and in the heart of the spirit soul?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the Bible..., we accept that as scripture, but is it all correct, or has it been mistranslated or...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the subtle bodies in the subtle world, are they made up of subtle atoms?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there a jiva, is there a spirit soul in every sperm cell?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there any instance when you were chastised by your spiritual master?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there some worship of God in the animal kingdom?
- Srila Prabhupada, isn't Lord Brahma the original spiritual master in our sampradaya?
- Srila Prabhupada, it always seems that there is some kind of inspiration for spiritual life there. Is that simply mental concoction, or is it actually a fact, the land itself?
- Srila Prabhupada, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is controller of everything, whole universe, everything. So why He is having these demigods to help Him?
- Srila Prabhupada, Lord Brahma created something called self-deception. Would self-deception mean that if I think I am forced to fall down, but actually I wanted to fall down, but I think, "Oh, I am forced"? Is that self-deception?
- Srila Prabhupada, one press man wanted to know what is this Rathayatra festival? Why is it going on over here in the western world?
- Srila Prabhupada, originally the desires come from the subtle body or from the soul?
- Srila Prabhupada, our parents in America teach us that we ought to be doing good things for other people. Should we be engaged for our fellow people?
- Srila Prabhupada, regarding karma. One does his job every day, and if he spends some time in the evening chanting Lord Krsna, do you approve this?
- Srila Prabhupada, should we call all the women "mother"?
- Srila Prabhupada, since there is no distinction between "man" and "woman" - these are both designations - is it possible for a woman to become a brahmana?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes during arati, many bona fide bhajanas are sung, but not much Hare Krsna. Is that not a good tendency, that maybe just two or three minutes of Hare Krsna mantra and many other bhajanas?
- Srila Prabhupada, the dhoti is not important then?
- Srila Prabhupada, the material scientists are so inquisitive, yet they are leading lives like cats and dogs, how can they come to...?
- Srila Prabhupada, the pure devotee's spirit soul is not trapped by the gross and subtle bodies?
- Srila Prabhupada, there was one question. They would like to know why is it that the children are separated from their parents and sent to Gurukula?
- Srila Prabhupada, there's a sidewalk here. Would you prefer walking on the sidewalk or the sands?
- Srila Prabhupada, they can teach these people how to educate the youngsters. Is this right?
- Srila Prabhupada, they mightn't excuse him, but they mightn't treat him as harshly as they would treat somebody in knowledge. Is this the same with the activities that these people perform?
- Srila Prabhupada, they want to know what will be the political effect of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Srila Prabhupada, was this (chastisement) during a lecture by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Srila Prabhupada, we don't know whether to be diplomatic towards these other so-called religious movements or whether to simply expose the philosophy which they are putting forward?
- Srila Prabhupada, what did Bhaktivinoda Thakura mean when he said, "I am going, my work unfinished"?
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean that the soul is immovable?
- Srila Prabhupada, what effects are the Krsna consciousness movement having on the Christian-Judaic culture or the traditional religious culture?
- Srila Prabhupada, what exactly do the... Do the vaisyas cultivate the fields or the sudras cultivate the fields?... Is it the duty of the vaisyas to cultivate the fields or...?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the advantage of going to India, to Vrndavana?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the significance of the chant which everyone who has been around the Hare Krsna movement has heard? What is the significance of chanting Hare Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what's the difference between a Brahmavadi and a Mayavadi?
- Srila Prabhupada, when it is cited in the scriptures that Lord Brahma rides on a swan, a hamsa, is this, are we to take this to mean it is a real swan, or is it something symbolic?
- Srila Prabhupada, when the jiva soul desires to enter the material world, is that an illusory desire?
- Srila Prabhupada, when we are preaching to Christian people or to Muslim people, is there advantage in being familiar with their scriptures or simply Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Srila Prabhupada, when we speak of parts and parcels of God, does it mean that we were there with God before we came to this world?
- Srila Prabhupada, when would you like to speak to Dr. Judah about the college?
- Srila Prabhupada, why do most people in this Kali-yuga worship Lord Siva instead of worshiping Lord Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, why is it necessary for someone to come here and chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam?
- Srila Prabhupada, will the Krsna consciousness movement will take over the world eventually?
- Srila Prabhupada, will you please explain the phrase "serving the lotus feet of the spiritual master"?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you comment on opposition to the Hare Krsna movement in this country?
- Srila Prabhupada, you are seeing Krsna at every moment. Does this mean you are seeing Krsna in His two-armed form playing the flute at every moment?
- Srila Prabhupada, you first began to distribute Back to Godhead magazine by yourself, right, in India? You would go to the shops?
- Srila Prabhupada, you have said that it's impossible to become rich unless one is a cheater. And yet we have our business, our Spiritual Sky business. So how is it possible to carry on business and not become a cheater?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that our body was made by (indistinct). Why should we (indistinct)? But why should we come back?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that the demigods, they want to take birth in India, but is there not the same Vedic culture in the heavenly planets?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that this war will destroy the demonic civilization... Does that mean that it'll destroy all the cities and all the industries?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that because the body has arms and legs, then the coat has a similar shape. Then does the spirit soul that's within our body have arms and legs like that?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were speaking of anarthas and one of the lesser age boys was wondering... He's asking why we shouldn't take tea?
- Srila Prabhupada? For breakfast just fruits?
- Srila Prabhupada? How does one become free from that ghostly body?
- Srila Prabhupada? Should not the temple be kept open earlier than six o'clock in the afternoon?
- Srila Prabhupada? The spirit is supposed to be stronger than matter. The spirit is superior than matter... What happens when the body dies? Is the spirit forced to leave or does it leave on its own accord?
- Srila Prabhupada? Wasn't it Lord Ramacandra's purpose to actually display by His activity how a perfect human being should act?
- Srila Prabhupada? What is that ingredient or what is that thing which causes faith to develop in one?
- Srila Prabhupada? When people in the street hear Krsna's name, the chanting, or they get some literature, does that mean they will not take birth as an animal?
- Srila Prabhupada? Why is it that some people, when they hear about Krsna consciousness, they take it, and some do not. And still, after that, some of those who take it, they stay, and some who take it take it for some time and then they fail?
- Srinathji. So that Deity was eventually handed over?
- Such as what (you have created so many artificial needs)?
- Suffering and pain leads people to God, doesn't it?
- Suffering for whom (to remain ten months within the packed-up abdomen of the mother)?
- Sukadeva Gosvami is always bringing Maharaja Pariksit to the platform of "Why bother with all of this (about the creation and the universe)? Simply perform devotional service"?
- Sumeru is made of gold, Srila Prabhupada?
- Sumeru we cannot see. It's not on the earth?
- Suppose a rascal remembers Krsna at the time of death
- Suppose he (if somebody says, "Man dies," it is perfect knowledge) is reincarnated?
- Suppose I am doing some sins? So how atma can be controlling. Suffering...?
- Suppose she doesn't want to get married for the rest of her life, just wants to serve the Lord (Is it possible for a woman to become a brahmana)?
- Suppose that they (scientists and teachers) acknowledge the fact that they do not know, but they challenge, "How do you know what you believe is right?"
- Supposing half of those men that are in our movement are householders. Would it not be more beneficial that everyone engages in preaching work, or is that impractical?
- Surely not as many (followers) as in the north, or as much?
- Surely, if we live naturally we will be obeying God's law?
- Swami, I saw a television program about your movement once, and they said that the men make the decisions and the women follow. Is that true?
- Swami, is there a chance that all your followers can realize the highest truth?
- Swami, what about those who practice one of the other religions in...?
- Swamiji will be staying here for another two months?
- Swamiji, a very personal question. How would you react when people give you a godly reception?
- Swamiji, can I ask a question? How old are you, or, maybe I should say, how young are you?
- Swamiji, can you please? Yes, please. Can you tell us what your purpose is in coming to New York at this time?
- Swamiji, do you think that Bible, about the Adam, Adam is Brahma? It has been copied from the Indian philosophy to put it there in different name?
- Swamiji, I want to question whether the Krsna consciousness is the same type of consciousness which is experienced by the devotees as that divine type of consciousness. Is it a divine consciousness?
- Swamiji, I would like to ask you one question, and that is in this time of Kali-yuga, is it possible that a layman could see the Paramatma with his naked eye?
- Swamiji, I would like to know from you whether or not it is necessary for a person to be a vegetarian or to have a special diet to be able to respond to your teachings?
- Swamiji, is there any hell, or rather this is hell...?
- Swamiji, is there any truth in the belief that if two persons marry each other during a certain specific time of the year, their marriage will be more prosperous than would otherwise be the case?
- Swamiji, my main question is although spiritualism is the Absolute Truth, can we not in some way make spiritualism in such a way, modify it in such a way, as to help the common people?
- Swamiji, one thing I want to know. This sloka, from where you have got it, this sloka, lavanyam kesa-dharanam?
- Swamiji, Siva is not another name of God?
- Swamiji, some religions, the guru, if someone wants to be his disciple, he is being given a sort of beads by the guru himself. Is it possible to get beads through your worship?
- Swamiji, there is a school of thought amongst Hindus that condemns idol worship and the concept of avatara. Would you kindly elaborate on these concepts?
- Swamiji, throughout the world the kind of religion that is practiced hasn't seemed to help to solve the problems. Do you think a movement of this type could solve the problem?
- Swamiji, would you say that the soul is locked in the third eye?
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- The public relations (try to approach higher authorities. And what is that? We met yesterday?)?
- Take sex, how can that be considered...(bad)?
- Tell me that knowledge by which I know everything, according to that..., that boy? In Upanisad?
- That (dharma means this varnasrama-dharma. So if the human society does not accept dharma, then he's as good as animal) which Srila Gandhi was working against?
- That (frustration) goes on perpetually until they receive the mercy of a pure devotee?
- That (Genesis) is just some story. Why should we believe it? There's nothing else to believe. Why not believe this Darwin?
- That (his name was Arendranath(?)Sil) is a Hindu name?
- That (if we simply think of the creation of God, we can appreciate how great He is) is why it's described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- That (in India there's no other source of income besides the Life Membership. How they will maintain?) we can discuss afterwards?
- That (most of the fruits here are poisonous except for one mango) yellow kind of campaka?
- That (my definition of God) is beside the point. I am asking the Swami who is God?
- That (our karma) is manifest sometimes in disease on your body?
- That (that is called ajñana. Mudha. He knows; still, he does) is why we originally fell down?
- That (Victoria Memorial) was built for, the king when he was coming?
- That (woman requires protection by the man) goes against the thinking of a lot of people in America now. Do you know that?
- That force (by which sometimes you are forced to commit mistakes) is kama, lust?
- That if you are not perfect, how can you interpret the truth?
- That later-on Ramayana has caused some havoc... That later-on interpretation?
- That means they (people who are saying Hare Rama) will make more sinful activities?
- That means this civilization must have felt the pangs of the modern sciences and then they must have lost it (three books: one is Akasa-patola, one is Kapota-vahi and Khapoda-vahi). No?
- That one is making progress by how he feels, or should he just simply execute the order of the spiritual master and not worry about how he feels? How should... ?
- That was (when you went to speak in Philadelphia) when Nikhilananda was there. Didn't you speak in his class?
- That will be it? The scientist and the egg?
- That's (actually we are trying to adjust. Only society. The thesis is the soul. The antithesis is the body. And synthesis is how to adjust the body and soul so that the soul be benefited from this entanglement) the varnasrama system?
- That's (Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher) the same line (as your Guru Maharaja, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati), no?
- That's the governor of Karnataka (he was very pleased and he said, "Yes, I will cancel Sai Baba's program and come to your program")?
- That's the varnasrama system?
- The 400,000 different species of human life? There's one place in which you mention that different persons like carpenter or different tradesmen are different species. Is that...?
- The 8,400,000 species is for the whole universe or for each planet?
- The activities of the lazy intelligent are jnana-vijnana?
- The Americans will win?
- The Arabic numerals came from India?
- The argument is that "The cities are there with millions of people, and now what can we do?"
- The atman, there is one to a person, or there is only one atman?
- The body is not part of God?
- The Brahmavadis have some possibility of advancement?
- The cement a certain, takes certain time to dry, no?
- The Christians always say that Christ was eating fish and drinking wine, so what problem have we got? Drinking a little alcohol, eating a little meat?
- The Christians describe Krsna in a different way. Are they making mistakes?
- The Christians say that there is soul, and they say that there is God, so then wouldn't our question be: "What is the relationship of the soul to God?"
- The cow (third-class means they should engage themselves, how to produce food and give protection to the cow)?
- The descriptions of Goloka Vrndavana, that even the dust is personal... So we have experience of personal form. Even Krsna's form is personal. How is the dust of Vrndavana personal? How is it individual living entity?
- The devotees' prasada? Devotees' bhoga?
- The difficulty is that in India there's no other source of income besides the Life Membership. How they will maintain?
- The father must have a father too, mustn't he?
- The findings (laboratory test on all the devotees), even if they are published will not profit?
- The goal of life is not that (sleep at night or sex indulgence and at night earn money), but that from his childhood he's been trained in a certain way, and he has not been taught anything else, and how can he achieve a different way of life?
- The godly qualities, they come from Krsna. Even the demoniac qualities?
- The good man gets a better body or a good body?
- The governments today are supporting the most outrageous, sinful activities. So how is it possible to reform the general mass of people?
- The Hare Krsna movement is a scientific movement?
- The higher planetary systems are closest to the sun?
- The history of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday?
- The horse is the most beautiful...More beautiful than the cow?
- The householders on our farm, they should cooperate and produce the food centrally or every householder should produce his own food independently?
- The human stool is a stool for the human being. Does it not become a food for a stray dog?
- The idea of the college that you have in mind, is this going to be an all-around college, in other words teaching not only, you might say, Vaisnavism, but also English and the other subjects?
- The jiva soul in the heart and the jiva soul within the cells, they are separate?
- The jivas inside the atom, are they like impersonalists who are in the Brahman?
- The karmi and the jnani are both within the material world. Is the jnani considered more elevated than the karmi?
- The Krsna consciousness movement has been what some people would consider sexist or racist because certain propensities for women and for blacks have been defined. And I wondered if you would comment on that
- The land was together ("Africa was part of India")?
- The living entity (is creating different body for different enjoyment)?
- The Lord's pastimes in Vrndavana and Dvaraka are passing through the universe just as the sun passes over the face of the earth... The same pastimes beginning from His birth up to mausala-lila... They are different in different universes?
- The old machine continues to change after the spirit soul leaves, it deteriorates?
- The one (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) who took your Nectar of Devotion?
- The only way to remove this darkness is through love. Is this what you are saying?
- The plants have more consciousness, manifest consciousness, than aquatics?
- The pledge. Should I read the pledge (the Oath of Allegiance)? I have written it
- The prabhu is feeling that he likes to read all of your books and sometimes he reads one book and sometimes another book. Is that bad?
- The prasadam you're getting is all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- The press reporters, they were asking me that we make distinction between man, woman, and black, white
- The price (for marriage) was blood, huh?
- The purpose of having the Society is to show the devotees how they can always be twenty-four hours engaged according to your instruction?
- The quality of the chanting he's asking. How can we make the quality the best?
- The question in one sense is not whether it's Christian or Saivite or Vaisnavite but whether it is directed to a knowledge of God, a devotion to God or not. But you would feel that there, what, it is easier to reach that goal by worshiping Krsna?
- The question is most of the African people here are not educated in spite of their education
- The real question between this statement of Mr. Professor and you is that what is religion and what is science? Unless the nature of science and religion defined...
- The recommendation here (for first and second initiation), Srila Prabhupada, is that...?
- The relationship of mind to the soul, how the mind comes to know that it has or that there is a soul
- The representative (of Srila Prabhupada) may be there, but what is my personal relationship?
- The same body, different stage in life...?
- The scientists, they cannot understand the (indistinct), they can understand what is the relationship between the world of ideas, the world of names, and the world that they see. How can we explain what that means?
- The sinless people will survive?
- The situation is that other people think that it (Krsna consciousness) is negative, and therefore they feel negatively towards us. So how should we react to that?
- The slightest tinge of a material desire will force him to take another body. Is that it?
- The soul is all-pervading, throughout the body?
- The spiritual organizations in India, all the spiritual teachings in India, have always put great emphasis on the fact that we are spiritual beings. So what was the necessity of creating another movement to say the same things?
- The statement here is that the material world is founded on lust. This is the asuric conception. The godly qualities, they come from Krsna. Even the demoniac qualities?
- The sun doesn't change?
- The sun is different than Vivasvan?
- The ten-year-old boys who left Gurukula and went to Vrndavana and then went to Mayapur, what will they...? They will be trained in the divisions there and come back?
- The thing that worries me is that how do people begin to understand that their basic principle might be wrong?
- The upper planetary systems, are they bigger than the lower ones? In other words, sun is bigger than the earth, the moon is bigger...
- The vision of the eyes is imperfect. We have to see by intelligence, from the authority... Then one may ask, "Well, how do I recognize that this is the bona fide authority?"
- The Westerns are more unsure than the Easterns, or...?
- The whole nation is worker ("They want everyone should become a sudra, the Communists life, worker, "Work." And therefore they have not been successful. The whole nation is worker, and who will give the brain?")?
- The young children also (treat the spiritual disease)? What about young children?
- Their (scientists') theory may be right about how the body forms, but they're missing the soul?
- Their argument was because the dogs have homosex, therefore the man should have...?
- Then (if he is actually repentant) he is not punished?
- Then (this is animal civilization. There is no spiritual knowledge. Simply like cats and dogs, they are working hard, eating, sleeping...) what should be the spirit of a man? How do you call him a man?
- Then a feast (for Balarama)?
- Then how is it that some people do finally come to accept Krsna?
- Then the responsibility for some is to Krsna; the responsibility of some is to the demigods?
- Then they will say, "How do we know?"
- Then we are giving them (everyone, cent percent godless, neither they have got intelligence to understand what is God) the intelligence as well as the answers? Because if they have no intelligence to understand...?
- Then what to do (if one accepts that there is no happiness at all to be found in this world)?
- Then what would that be then? What would that be, that all perfection?
- Then why doesn't he (Yogi Bhajan) go to Bhaktivedanta?
- Theology or Theosophy?
- There are countless numbers in the United States of large facilities of the Christian faith, and, like you, they give the refreshment of the holy communion. Why does this not work? Why is this not cleansing the heart?
- There are different or many spiritual movements in the world. How can I know which one is right for me?
- There are many religions that speak of the light. How can we know we are actually facing the real light?
- There are many religious movements, how does Krsna consciousness take priority?
- There are many ways by which to know God, is it not?
- There are some astronomers who have the correct understanding?
- There is a question I would like to ask. I do know that it is not the aim of life just to every morning keep your family, go to bed and have sex. But it is part of life?
- There is also the unity of non-Krsna?
- There is descriptions of many demigods, and the karmis, they would generally worship these different demigods for material benefits. Why didn't they just try to get the material benefits without worshiping the demigods, like they are doing today?
- There is no question of belief. The question is whether, what is the difference between religion and science?
- There is no special significance in it (Candi-pat)?
- There is some our acaryas. How about Christ or Muhammad and Zarathustra, all these people?
- There is the idea that matter comes from life... I do not quite see how. I do not quite understand how matter can come from life?
- There must be a temple coming. Do you know?
- There should not be any medical service in the building, new building, so what about there should be any other place on the land, or they should not...?
- There should not have been two people, a male and a female, to create everything?
- There will be some devotees left at the end of Kali-yuga?
- There's a tendency for someone who hears this verse to think that one should become callous to the sufferings of others
- There's also the story of that Maharaja Khatvanga, who found out that he only had a minute to live. What did he do, that he...? You say that he surrendered at once
- There's hope for our world today?
- There's some countries in Europe where they have absolute laws against selling books in the street. In these countries do we have to make something secret to sell your books?
- There's some park near here, he said? Indian gate?
- There's subtle and the gross has no realm in the subtle?
- Therefore ("Then why there is no solution?") she is asking you, "What is the solution?"
- Therefore (Brahma is the first creature in the universe, created by God), by himself he could create everything, Swamiji?
- Therefore a sannyasi is always moving around, Srila Prabhupada?
- Therefore Krsna recognizes by giving knowledge of Himself?
- These (books) are introductory?
- These Oriental philosophies generally and in particular the Krsna consciousness has found a lot of devotees in the western civilization. What is the main reason for this?
- They (all these embassies and ambassadors) are what, Prabhupada?
- They (cashew is produced in India... big, big European companies for doing this business in Cochin) were set up by the British?
- They (devotees) can believe in Him, but have they met Him?
- They (many people who live outside the temple) have to do full Deity worship to have these Deities? Dress the Deities every day?
- They (other moons) are just planets?
- They (people) lack central happiness?
- They (people) say, though, that, for example, the sex urge and things like this, "If God has given us this sex urge why not satisfy it?"
- They (the British) cut the thumbs of the weavers?
- They (the British) would make the people dependent upon them and then exploit them, yes?
- They (the Deities) should not be transported to another temple?
- They (the Germans) couldn't chant those mantras though, could they? If they tried... Even if they tried, they wouldn't be able to chant the mantras
- They all (the planets) move together?
- They are innocent. They are not... (one who does not know what is God, he is a Carvaka, that's all)?
- They are so dependent that if there is no electricity, where will they get water on the twentieth floor?
- They ask, "How are you so much sure about 8,400,000 species?"
- They call it java plum... It's bitter fruit?
- They can chant (you are recommending sixteen as a minimum, and some devotees are choosing twenty as a minimum)?
- They did that (they destroyed an amusement park) to get insurance money?
- They don't know their philosophy. So how can we defeat them?
- They don't like nim? The flies?
- They have accepted some of these gymnastic people as their guru. So they say, "Oh, our guruji is here. We have to go see our guruji," this, that. So how should we speak to them or how should we preach to them?
- They have farms, they call them sea farms and they specially grow the seaweed for cultivation... But the Vedic culture, I don't think they like this. They'll prefer this... Do you think Prabhupada?
- They have in India this tree also. That gives red flowers?
- They have so many people in boxes in the hospitals they are keeping alive. So the big battle is raging whether or not they should pull out the plug?
- They have those (Bul buli(?) birds) in India?
- They have to come to the temple to be trained up?
- They have verandas on this building?... On the inside or the outside?
- They may say “What is the use of creating an egg?”
- They ought to thicken wall with a little under because this kacca wall foundation is there. They should make it... This wall. They should dress it up, the foundation, which is above. No? You are going away today?
- They put forward the argument sometimes, though, that it is very natural to try to enjoy. Everyone is doing it, so why should we fight the nature? People say like this
- They say, "Then my chanting is useless? So I should stop?" That's what they say
- They say, "We don't remember. We don't remember being a hog, so what is the harm?"
- They say, "We want to come together to serve the Lord." Is that excuse or is that...
- They see us distributing, and they don't like what we're doing, they get very angry, but still, they're thinking of Krsna all day. We often wondered how they are benefiting even though they maintain this very envious...?
- They think if they can make very palatable dishes, what is the need for God?
- They want to know: is God the transcendence?
- They would say then, "Why don't you let the vegetables die naturally before you eat the vegetables?"
- This (the third-class devotee, he has belief but he cannot explain or give any support) is like Christian...?
- This (the whole India is under the impression that brahmana can be prepared..., brahmana is manufactured in India and the son of a brahmana is a brahmana) is propagated by the brahmanas themselves, isn't it?
- This (this side is going to be constructed) side?
- This country, what do you think is the best way of establishing the asrama, or the centers, and which way we can help in this matter?
- This dark Rahu planet, this is closer?
- This desire to accumulate money, is this just like annamaya stage?
- This four-division society that you advocate is contrary to everything in American tradition. How can that be accepted in America?
- This is a question that sometimes a devotee has asked me. If a yogi does attain a Vaikuntha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Krsna in Goloka...
- This is good propaganda (by Professor Judah and all others, that "How it is happening? There is something in the Hare Krsna movement.") with the governments also. This is good way to get the governments to support our movement more and more, isn't it?
- This is not taking this yet?
- This is used now for storing sand. That land or this?
- This is what? Like a cheese (Sandesa)?
- This man's imitating the bird means that he will become a bird?
- This mantra we chant for Krsna and Rama both, but this movement glorifies the Krsna's pastimes and not much of Rama
- This Mayavadi philosophy, is this...?
- This meeting right now is concerning ISKCON and the GBC, but are we going to have some kind of meeting regarding the BBT?
- This Oath of Allegiance is a legal document also, isn't it? It's both a legal document and a spiritual document
- This old fort? This is actually called "Old Fort" isn't it? This part is built around a commemoration to a very old military fort. British
- This verse, Srila Prabhupada, vasudeva sata devam, is also written by him (Sankaracarya)?
- Those (meat or wine) are all out. They have to be. And tobacco is...?
- Those that are initiated, must they live in the temple?
- Those that follow Siva are after more material gain?
- Through what means do you train the human being to become, to achieve his ultimate goal in life?
- Thunderbird? A big bird, big eagle, in the United States
- To get back more to the origins of the movement, why do you follow the teachings of Caitanya rather than say Vallabha or Ramanuja or Ramananda?
- To get to something else, what do you do for fun when you're in New York?
- To Indira Gandhi (a letter)?
- To know what kind of body I am going to accept next will allow me to continue to improve... beyond... the normal sixty-five or seventy years that I might live in what I imagine to be this body?
- Today in the evening you are at Rajasthan's house?
- Tomato and cheese (for breakfast)?
- Too much liquor and self-indulgence (are showing godlessness in our society)?
- Towards the end of the Kali-yuga isn't there a description in the Bhagavatam that one will not be able to see the sun or the moon?... Because of the impiety. So there will be no vegetation. Is that description in Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Tulsi das teaching (is) bona fide, Srila Prabhupada?
- Twenty-five percent of the produce?
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- Under the threat of nuclear warfare wouldn't Krsna consciousness be more easy to spread?
- Until you have arrived here, there was no possibility of liberation for humanity?
- Upendra can cook for you? Just like Srutakirti, he used to use the cooker. He would put up the vegetables and then give massage. And then after massage he would just chaunce the vegetables. He was able to do everything himself
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- Vedic statement or is it just preference (I don`t like the sunshine so much, only at the time of massage)?
- Vivasvan, he is... (glowing)?
- Vyasadeva and Nara-Narayana, they are still in the Himalayas meditating, why don't they come and join our parties and help this Krsna consciousness movement by their...?
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- Was Mahiravana also a demon?
- Was that barrister (Mr. Allston) English?
- Was there a story? The Hindus always tell this story about I think Visvamitra Rsi eating a dog or something?
- Was there a time when there was no material world?
- We are all imperfect because we are imperfect. Right? So how can a master, a person who really understands or who claims to really understand be able to know perfection, to see the truth, how can he with his imperfect senses...?
- We are building such important establishments in India. Do we have any danger...?
- We can go this way maybe? See the sugarcane?
- We can see, Srila Prabhupada, by the distribution of wealth and minerals in each loka, in each planet, it is meant to be governed by one ruler. One place there is gold, one place grain to grow. Is this true?
- We can understand all of your instructions simply by reading your books?
- We can understand how Sri Advaita Acarya is the servant of Lord Caitanya, but how is Maha Visnu and the Visnu-catur-bhuja, how do They serve Krsna?
- We chant, "Gaura Nityananda bol, haribol, haribol..."... "Gaura sri advaita..." Is it recommended by you? That is in our parampara? And what about "jaya jagannatha, jaya jagannatha"?
- We have a display over here in the window of your books, Srila Prabhupada... Would you like to see?
- We have already had a hog's body. So we didn't like it. Otherwise, why would we change?
- We have got our Punjabi samaj... You are already booked for Rajasthan? After that are you staying here?
- We have some specific topics that we wanted to have Srila Prabhupada's instruction about these things that we are going to write ("The Origin of Life and Matter"). So shall I discuss them very briefly?
- We have talked to scientists who say that the size of the brain has nothing to do with intelligence. Do you believe that?
- We live in sin, so is it not speculation to consider a sinless state?
- We should dedicate our lives to preaching this message of Lord Caitanya?
- We went out for distributing at some place and then we make them to chant Hare Krsna at that time. And then, if we leave them they forget. Did they become purified?
- We were discussing this morning about the species of life. We understood that there is actually all the species of life on this one planet, or some species don't exist here?
- We won't see things the way we perceive them now, right?
- Well is it (the varieties of men) divided by country or within one country there are many species?
- Well situated? Even though there's no sun? (there are seven other planets; there sunshine does not go, but they are very well situated)
- Well, are your book lists in here?
- Well, doesn't it mean that someone has to worship that person to be able to attain the enlightenment or Krsna consciousness?
- Well, how can a person not believe (in God)?
- Well, isn't God just a craftsman also?
- Well, it's granted that we are all thinking about the future, but isn't it possible for us to take the best of what the material world has to offer and also make the best of what the spiritual world has to offer, simultaneously?
- Well, let's say someone gives the temple president some money, and he puts in an account with his name and the treasurer's name, and they both conspire and take the money. Then there's no...?
- Well, origin, that is more on the theoretical side. It's a question, "Why?"
- Well, Swamiji, if you want, you can answer this or not. Have you been to other planets?
- Well, the question was the satisfaction of the God, that we satisfy our Lord. Now, what are the means to satisfy the Lord?
- Well, then could not we say that by man's activity, then, things are happening?
- Well, then they want to say that if nature can't be self-existing, how can God?
- Well, then what, what is the check on fools? What is the check on fools?
- Well, we can admit that we're not happy all the time, but what is the meaning of happiness without distress? If there's no distress, how can I be happy?
- Well, what actually is responsibility?
- Well, what can be done with animals?
- Well, who is the supreme father's father?
- Were all the races originated in India?
- Were some of the animals destined to survive through the destruction of other animals?
- Were the Kumaras, before they became attracted to Visnu, were they Mayavadis?
- Were they (the acaryas) not Krsna conscious?
- Were you having the experience?
- What (other texts than the Gita, Krsna, Caritamrta, and Bhagavatam) do you recommend?
- What about (because Krsna is Bhagavan. Bhakti means our transaction with Bhagavan) those who would worship Rama, say?
- What about (because Krsna is Bhagavan. Bhakti means our transaction with Bhagavan) those who would worship Siva?
- What about (being "subordinate to the man" for) women who do not have children?
- What about (the leadership of) Mrs. Meir, president of Israel (being successful)?
- What about all the sufferings of the body? Let's say one has a toothache or something like that
- What about being of material service. Material service, not just spiritual service?
- What about British devotees, British citizens? Would the British be asked to leave, British citizens? Commonwealth citizens?
- What about certain other traditions; Ishnamadeva(?), Tukarama, some of the poet saints of Maharastra. Where...?
- What about Christians?
- What about cross-breeding, when they change the (seeds)...? Cross-breeding
- What about for a child, a newly born baby. Are they born into a material body because of their parents' bad doings?
- What about if one is in the mode of goodness (it's not possible that one's happy?)?
- What about if you, at least, can approve the (GBC) agenda?
- What about jnana-yogis?
- What about lazy people?
- What about like euthanasia, say. Isn't that nonacceptance of a material body? If by some, for some reason the child isn't allowed to be born?
- What about like Maharaja Bharata?
- What about other artifacts of civilization like television and motorcars...(are they artificial needs)?
- What about other religion?
- What about sex and drugs, sex and alcohol?
- What about some of the other schools that have grown up, people like Ouspensky and Gurdjieff and people who've brought a message similar to yours to the West in the past?
- What about the busy intelligent? How does he behave?
- What about the scientists, Srila Prabhupada? They are very inquisitive, they are trying to find out the cause of the material world
- What about these rascals like Sai Baba? They use Krsna's philosophy, and then they twist it in such a way that it becomes Mayavada
- What about those who are just possessing enough to maintain their bodies?
- What about we go and have the aratik first?
- What about when somebody is born with three arms or eight toes?
- What about women (woman's brain is smaller than a man's) who are leaders of countries such as your own country?
- What about women who are elected by the people?
- What advice do you have to women who do not want to be subordinate to men?
- What advice you render them (Indians who are here and who have fallen to some extent in the materialistic world) so that they get out of these clutches and go back and serve here or in the country but they should be devotional to the Almighty God?
- What are the inscriptions?
- What are the methods used in attaining Krsna consciousness?
- What are the specifications for your first-class man?
- What are the stars exactly, they're other planets or...?
- What are these things? Gates or something?
- What are your views of the country? What do you think of it?
- What body is that, Srila Prabhupada?
- What can an ordinary man do? I mean the Krsna consciousness movement involves shaving the head and wearing the saffron robe. What can the man who is caught up in family life do?
- What can be done with animals?
- What can be said about God realization?
- What can we say to Communists to attract them to Krsna consciousness?
- What country are you from?
- What distinguishes the soul from the body? Because here we're mentioning everything that is the field of activity, but then what is the soul?
- What do the other classes do?
- What do they (Ramakrishna followers) do, Srila Prabhupada?
- What do they use?... For cleaning teeth?
- What do we think of Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and other bogus persons and all these different messengers of God?
- What do you consider illicit sex?
- What do you see as the future of your movement?
- What do you think about Hebrew religion?
- What do you think about the factor in reincarnation? Do you think it has got any significance?
- What do you think of the use of drugs as an aid?
- What do you think our society is doing wrong?
- What does he (the first-class men) do?
- What does it (Gandharvapur) mean?
- What does it mean in the Gita, Prabhupada, when Krsna says only the modes of material nature are acting?
- What does Krsna say about truth?
- What does perfectness mean?
- What does that it (veriya dasan) mean?
- What does that mean, equal vision ("the humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision the learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater (outcaste)")?
- What does that mean, then, when the yogis withdraw their senses from the objects like it says like the tortoise withdraws his limbs within the shell? What does that refer to then?
- What does the name Jehovah mean?
- What does the word (Krsna) actually mean? Kr is the root for "making," isn't it?
- What does the yogi perceive when he cuts off the outer senses? What does he experience when he cuts off the outer senses?
- What does theology say?
- What does this mean as far as whether women can do the same things that men can do, or whether women can lead people?
- What exactly does "Krsna" mean?
- What happened to him (Mahiravana)?
- What happens to the mind, intelligence and false ego when the soul is liberated?
- What happens to them (the devotees)?
- What happens when it (mercury) is directly heated?
- What happens when women are not subordinate to men?
- What happens when women support men?
- What have the scientists got to gain by bluffing?
- What He said? Avajananti ma mudhah
- What he wants to know is, when the soul leaves the body completely, what happens after that?
- What I'm asking is why could he (Brahmananda) understand (the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness)?
- What if a person doesn't desire material enjoyment, but still, there is so much dirt?
- What if everyone became like you devotees?
- What if he (a thief) is an alcoholic and he's hungry?
- What if he (the thief) breaks in because he's hungry?
- What if I start my own community outside the movement?
- What if someone says, "Siva is God"?
- What if that fever is not being diminished?
- What if the Hindi Back to Godhead was in newspaper form? Would that be lowering the standard?
- What if they (the theologians) say, "We agree there's one God, but we do not agree that His name is Krsna" or "We do not agree..."
- What if they die in coma? What if they die in deep unconsciousness?
- What if they say Caitanya Mahaprabhu was a devotee, He worshiped the Supreme Lord, kirtana, but His disciples say He's God?
- What if we're going on sankirtana or something like that, how can we be sure that we won't fall down, we won't overendeavor? How can we be sure that we're not pushing ourselves too much?
- What is alternative? What do you do when...?
- What is an example of the throwing potency of maya?
- What is basic difference between human body, I mean man's body and woman's body, which attracts each other?
- What is God? Is it the Christian God? What is God? What is your definition of God? Is He a Christian God or pure?
- What is happening materially is unimportant?
- What is hope for them (atheists) then?
- What is it all leading to? A state of liberation from material things?
- What is it that he has offered that has turned out such an emotional response today?
- What is it that Krsna consciousness has that offers people so much more than other religions do?
- What is meant by absolute surrender? How are we to satisfy ourselves having done so?
- What is meant, "halo" and "effulgence"? That word meaning, "halo"? Prabha?
- What is neutrality then?
- What is our policy towards these problems (the problem of overpopulation and food shortage in the world now when the world leaders are not willing to do anything)?
- What is that (dirty water)?
- What is that (first thing is, any woman except one's own wife), Srila Prabhupada?
- What is that (humorous) story, Prabhupada?
- What is that (just like the sun is sarva-vyapaka. Is it not?)?
- What is that concept (of God) first, please?
- What is that thing that enables them (the Brahmavadis) to advance?
- What is the advantage of a tree, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the any question of lost? How do you get disjoined with the God?
- What is the best way to deal with skepticism?
- What is the best way, Srila Prabhupada, to instill a little faith? How do we instill some faith in these people?
- What is the budget of the movement in the United States annually? How much do you need to operate?
- What is the condition prescribed for standing on the spiritual platform?
- What is the definition again of a first-class man?
- What is the difference between an impersonalist and a Mayavadi?
- What is the difference between animal and a man?
- What is the difference between God and ourselves and what is the relationship?
- What is the difference between jnanam and vijnanam?
- What is the difference between killing a plant and eating it and killing an animal and eating it?
- What is the difference between Krsna consciousness and Christ consciousness?
- What is the difference between the mind and the soul?
- What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?
- What is the distinction between a culture and an education?
- What is the duties of the woman after the husband takes sannyasa?
- What is the easiest method of attaining moksa while in family life?
- What is the easiest way to see the Supreme Being with our own eyes?
- What is the Eastern or Indian understanding of utopia?
- What is the example of sound of God in this world?
- What is the fifth (element) besides earth, air, fire and water?
- What is the first stage of transformation like in the consciousness after one discovers chanting Hare Krsna mantra?
- What is the future of India regarding the KC? The people are so much demonic. It every time bothers me, day and night, that what will happen?... I can't understand that how we can change over to the Indian future about KC?
- What is the harm if I become an animal also?
- What is the harm of being a cat or a dog?
- What is the idea behind the movement?
- What is the Krsna conscious outlook on other world religions?
- What is the meaning of sac-cid-ananda?
- What is the meaning of this mantra, Hare Krsna?
- What is the necessity of renouncing everything?
- What is the Pope doing, then (there is no religion in the world except Krsna consciousness. All bogus)?
- What is the position of a person who takes to devotional service with the idea of liberation?
- What is the position of a soul that's in a sacred tree like a fig tree?
- What is the position of one who has such theoretical knowledge (to know that he is not this body, he is different from body) but doesn't apply it?
- What is the punishment if one doesn't fast (if a sannyasi is not offered respect, the punishment is that he should fast one day. That is sastric injunction)?
- What is the purpose of Deity worship?
- What is the purpose of the large carts and other things you use (Rathayatra festival)?
- What is the purpose? What is the sense, if there is any, or does the very question (Why anything exists?) make sense?
- What is the purpose?... To meet Prabhupada's relative, I think?
- What is the real meaning of religion?
- What is the reason of that (the younger generation of India is very, very demonic and they don't believe God at all)?
- What is the reason of this (indistinct) "anything"?
- What is the secret to learning to love God?
- What is the sign that someone is actually having change in heart?
- What is the significance of... What is this (a ghostly haunted man)?
- What is the solution (to spiritual enlightenment)? Devotion to God...?
- What is the special quality that makes one a spiritual master to describe the infinite when God is beyond speculation?
- What is the symbol of the staff here? There's a symbol of that, is there?
- What is the ultimate goal of tapasya?
- What is the use of action?
- What is the value of the transcendence?
- What is the way for controlling our desires?
- What is this ("The Bible is not the complete authority?") in relation, to this discussion? I just walked in
- What is this Abhiras? Abhira?
- What is this book?
- What is this soap powder (for toothpaste)?
- What is to become of those devotees that leave ISKCON and take to breaking the regulative principles, and stop chanting sixteen rounds?
- What is unique about Krsna consciousness that separates it from other religions?
- What is your age now?
- What is your background? Are you from India?
- What is your correlation between belief and science?
- What is your desire for that (is Prajapati going to do any play?), Prabhupada?
- What is your feeling in regard to Mrs. Gandhi's actions in India at the present time, particularly in relation to what you're saying about women? Is what's happening there because she has a thirty-six ounce brain and is incapable of ruling?
- What is your idea about the secularism preached by our government of India and the policy of secularism? What do they mean by that? That means they say that there is no place for religion
- What is your view of Sri Aurobindo? (loud laughter) Or should I have left well enough alone? He is not an impersonalist, he's not a Mayavadi
- What it is (if a man is beaten with shoes, that is not his lila)?
- What kind of a sect are you?
- What kind of civilization was in South America at that time (two millions of years ago)?
- What made the soul take birth in the very beginning?
- What means do you suggest for purifying it (the pollution)?
- What message would you give to people in terms of helping people, perhaps, to live better lives?
- What should I do if I'd like to preach more and become free from my family entanglements?
- What should the scientists' role?
- What should we do in the United States (in regards to women being subordinate to men)? We're trying to make women equal with men
- What should we do?
- What special message would you have for people who don't know anything about your movement and would like to know something about it?
- What stops so many millions of people from doing it (becoming Krsna devotees)?
- What the goat does not eat? Is that?
- What the Krsna movement is about and its origins, its following. This sort of thing?
- What transformations does one undergo on the path of Krsna consciousness?
- What type of piety is required to understand God?
- What was the meaning of the bag you wear on your hand?
- What was the necessity of creating this Krsna consciousness movement?
- What was the penalty that he (Bhaktivinoda Thakura)...?
- What will be the position with the Chinese if the Russians and Americans fight?
- What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die?
- What will stop (this devil's workshop will stop)?
- What will you do in Philadelphia?
- What would an example of unconscious falldown be?
- What would be the mechanism or process to get this perfect knowledge and to purify our senses?
- What would be the result if all the people became devotees of Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- What would be your advice to her (Mrs. Gandhi)?
- What would people do who live in areas where things are not grown so easily, like in the colder areas?
- What would we do if a thief came in? In other words, would we be violent?
- What you people say is what is ideal to you is not ideal to somebody else?
- What's going to happen to you in the next life?
- What's the economic position in Canada?... I think many Canadian young men, they come to America for jobs? No?
- What's the subtle body like?
- Whatever the spiritual master says, that is also perfect?
- When a disciple takes initiation, does he first take initiation within the heart?
- When a heart is transplanted does the soul stay in the heart?
- When a person dies, his soul will take another body? Then why is the population today increasing?
- When a spirit soul first falls from the spiritual sky into the material world, does he first go to the lowest of the 8,400,000 species of life, and then gradually come up, or can he fall to the middle or anywhere?
- When Balavanta Prabhu was running for office you were saying that it'd be very difficult to get our present-day leaders to take to Krsna consciousness. I'd just like to try to understand further, whether it is the masses or the leaders?
- When Brahma creates, does he first of all create the aquatics, then the plants?
- When Buddha came, did most people follow Him?
- When Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, His guru offered Him one name, but He refused and preferred to keep the name Krsna Caitanya which is a brahmacari name. Why was this?
- When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if these rounds are sincere... How can we be sure?
- When did they start to go to the moon?
- When did we stop becoming the monkey and start to become a man?
- When did you become the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness?
- When does this training (as "first-class, second-class, third-class...") begin? In the very youngest age or...?
- When Krsna is demonstrating work, He demonstrates in the form of Lord Visnu, not in His pastimes in Vrndavana but more in the form of Visnu, or how does He show?
- When Krsna is the only God in the world, the creator of the whole universe, then why the existence of Jesus Christ and Allah? Why should not only one God for all? Why Christians and Muslims are not accepting Krsna as God?
- When Krsna steals or does anything, we glorify it because He is absolute. So the Mayavadis, they say that the living entities are also absolute. Is that correct?
- When one breaks the principles, can Krsna forgive him?
- When one is aware of that fact, that he is not the body?
- When one is feeling very weak, fallen, how can he get going spiritually?
- When our soul gets out from our body, it goes to the hell or... hemisphere or it take birth immediately afterwards?
- When Ravana was on the earth, was the whole earth populated, like Brazil and also the other parts of the world?
- When the a-h with the dot is in the middle of the verse should it always be pronounced clearly, a-ha. Adhi-yajña-ha, or is it more like adhi-yajña?
- When the Aryan civilization was there in the past, Swamiji, were there also such kind of economic problems?
- When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, does that mean that also that the real form changes?
- When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, how is it...? When our coat, size of the coat changes because our body grows bigger, the size of the coat is bigger. Shirt is bigger
- When the body dies, the body is finished, but what about the soul?
- When the devotees are chanting their rounds and when they think of their spiritual master they feel a type of ecstasy. So why are they feeling this ecstasy?
- When the soul was in the spiritual sky, it also had a mind and an intelligence like here?
- When the spirit soul leaves the body, the body continues to change, it deteriorates?
- When they (the people) ask us about Lord Caitanya, "Who is this Lord Caitanya?" what may we tell them?
- When was that (It has been confirmed in the court that this Deity belongs to Gaudiya Vaisnavas) court case?
- When we chant japa in front of the Deity, does that correspond to this verse of meditating on the Lord limb by limb?
- When we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?
- When we fell down we were thinking, we could enjoy like that, in the same way?
- When we get to the spiritual sky, we'll always be able to remember how horrible it is down here? We'll always be able to remember how terrible it is in the material world?
- When we offer something to you, for example, your picture, he wants to know if the person, if, simply by his act of offering does he become purified, or if the spiritual master is actually aware of the offering
- When we see fire here it is also living in that way (as the fiery bodies of the living entities on the sun) of the person? Some living entity?
- When will you be coming back to Melbourne?
- When you came to Chicago last week you said you were going to tell us some of the solutions to our problems in this country. Can you tell me what some of those solutions are?
- When you have a question put to you, you are very clear what the answer shall be. (devotees chuckle) Have you any doubts yourself that have not appeared to us?
- When you said that everyone is destined to a particular goal, then where is the question of preaching Krsna consciousness?
- When you say "He descends," does it mean "got down"?
- When you were sick, that fever is there, you were having fever... When you went to Vrndavana? Some...
- Where and when did you learn English?
- Where are those living entities (the men that were living so many thousands of years ago) now? Where they have gone?
- Where are those thousands of disciples of these other swamis?
- Where do they send that (pregnant) mother?... If the man sends the woman away, where does she...?
- Where do women fit into these four classes?
- Where do you train them in the western countries?
- Where does it (Omkara) have it's place in Krsna consciousness?
- Where does someone derive his authority...?
- Where does that will (you are perfect, but willfully you become imperfect) come from?
- Where in the world do we find that people most understand us and join us?
- Where is that Sumeru (mountain) located?
- Where is the right balance in this modern world?
- Where is their (Christian) method for changing the status quo?
- Where is this (In India, Tirupati, that Deity is richer than many kings in the world. Daily, 100,000 rupees) temple?
- Where it says that "by selling my books I am bringing foreign exchange," it's for India's development? ... Whether there should be any word that also signifies that we have local support also?
- Where was the generosity (Abhimanyu's head was there, and Krsna was on the ground with his chariot, and Arjuna was about to kill him, and Krsna was directing him to kill: "There was no mercy with Abhimanyu, so therefore there will be no mercy now")?
- Where would Basavana fit in?
- Where would this (Srimad-Bhagavatam) come in, a book like this, in the study course?
- Where? Here this Vrndavana (as soon as they will not get tea, they will go away)?
- Whether dog knows that he is dog?
- Which college (educated you)?
- Which I think are generally quite good, his essays on the Gita themselves. Are there places there that you would strongly disagree with in his, what he (Sri Aurobindo) says?
- Which of the three types of energy does matter come from?
- Which of your books do you consider to be the most important?
- Which one? That Kamani Hall (I think they allow dancing by renting the halls, no? What is that?)?
- Which religion (I am sex life which is not contrary to religious principles), which religious principle?
- Which Sita Ram?
- Which sloka from Gita, it is from Gita? Bhagavad-gita (sa gunan samatityaitan)?
- While you were in the college or afterwards, did you participate in any political movements?
- Who are the chief men in the temple committee of Jagannatha temple?
- Who are we, why are we here and where are we going?
- Who decides whether a man, then, is..., fits into those criteria and becomes a first-class man? Who decides? Who is to say whether a man is first class or not?
- Who decides who's natural? And what's natural?
- Who has control of the money?
- Who has published them (all these books)?
- Who is a sudra? Is it determined by jati?
- Who is Brahma?
- Who is God's father?
- Who is God?
- Who is God? Who is God?
- Who is in charge of giving us our next body?
- Who is that ("I (Prabhupada) can give you a very first-class man, but he won't charge anything.")?
- Who is that (the sinless people who will survive the war)?
- Who is that calling "my"?
- Who is the supreme father's father?
- Who is to decide whether a person is first-class, if they are a brahmana or whether they are ksatriya or vaisya
- Who is to say there is not a higher standard of happiness, higher than what we think is the ultimate happiness?
- Who prevents them, sir? maya (the cows, calves, animals and peacock - everyone is attracted to Krsna. The water is attracted to Krsna. That is Vrndavana. And here in the material world nobody is attracted by Krsna)
- Who represented the Gaudiya (in the court case that decided this Deity belongs to Gaudiya Vaisnavas)...?
- Who was Meher Baba?
- Who was that, Romaharsana Muni?
- Who was the originator of Sri-sampradaya?
- Who was the son He (God) sent?
- Who would be the king today? If we establish such a system (parampara), who would become the king?
- Who's chanting free from the offenses?
- Why (at the present moment people are very, very much addicted to sinful life)?
- Why (did you like Gandhi's national movement)?
- Why (the production of the body in the cosmos is compulsory? Why it is not lila) compulsory?
- Why (would you say that women are inferior to men?)
- Why a dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- Why anything exists?
- Why are the so-called scientists trying to make the common people believe that...?
- Why are we evil? Why doesn't God make us good?
- Why are you here, Srila Prabhupada? He asked why are you here?
- Why aren't they doing it (manufacturing gold by combination of metals)?
- Why at the time of death, the name of God does not come?
- Why can't people understand to depend on Krsna?
- Why can't we have sense gratification and God also at the same time?
- Why did God arrange for the pleasures of sense gratification if He wants us to go back to home, back to Godhead?
- Why did God create death in order to stop our enjoyment?
- Why did Krsna allow the Muslims to enter and do so much damage to the Vedic culture?
- Why did Krsna have all the demigod worship put in the Vedas?... Vyasadeva put all the demigod worship in the Vedas
- Why did Lord Siva try to protect Banasura?
- Why did Nityananda Prabhu break His (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) danda?
- Why did you choose to go to America and propagate the teachings of Lord Krsna in a western country?
- Why do people use spiritual things for material enjoyment when material enjoyment is available by itself?
- Why do so many humans, Srila Prabhupada, they do not use their propensity to ask the questions?
- Why do the philosophers not study in India?
- Why do they (the so-called scientists) want to fool the people?
- Why do we want to transcend?
- Why do you think a large number of people followed Gandhi? Why did they like him?
- Why do you think you are so successful?
- Why do you use the technology that you use? You didn't have cars in those days, this television. Things have changed since 1920
- Why does Krsna allow us to commit mistakes and later punishes us?
- Why does Krsna provide the living entities with these sinful pleasures?
- Why does that (identical twins born together) happen, if there are two brothers who are identically looking the same in features?
- Why does the Hare Krsna movement not engage in social protest?
- Why does the living entity wish to speculate in this way?
- Why does this mean that women have to be subordinate?... just because they bear children and men can't?
- Why doesn't God force me to surrender?
- Why doesn't He (God) force us to be good?
- Why doesn't the Krsna conscious movement stop cow slaughter?
- Why don't the people revolt if they're so unhappy?
- Why don't we go back to Vedas, and then we will know the Bhagavad-gita also?
- Why don't we serve man instead of chanting Hare Krsna?
- Why I (Dr. Patel) come so early and all that. Shall I say, sir?
- Why I am put into this body which will be destroyed, which will become old, useless? And where is my freedom?" These things do not bother them, and they are reader of Bhagavad-gita... Is it the sin of some of the...?
- Why is India not satisfied with its own culture?
- Why is it all right to kill any plants? How are they different from animals?
- Why is it necessary for man to have to discover the origin of everything?
- Why is it recommended, chanting in this age particularly?
- Why is it that in the modern day good people, they don't come into public office? Good people. In previous ages there were rajarsis, great kings, very pious kings. Why is it that only rogues are aspiring today?
- Why is it that people are so disinclined to listen to our authority - that they all take the scientists' authority - if it's just one authority or another?
- Why is it that people are thinking they are happy?
- Why is it that the man cannot be tamed and the unintelligent animal can be tamed?
- Why is it we are again getting breaks now and then and we trace back our steps?
- Why is it, Prabhupada, that in earlier parts of the Kali-yuga no one like yourself came throughout the rest of the world and preached Krsna consciousness?
- Why is Om not figured in your play?
- Why is that (Bhagavata meant for who is no more envious. Simply loving) more necessary for Srimad-Bhagavatam than for Bhagavad-gita?
- Why is that (Germany will be able to rise again. Englishmen will not be able to), Prabhupada?
- Why is that (progress means when you conquer death) the only progress?
- Why is that better than loving your fellow man in the traditional bhakti-marga?
- Why is that difference (the difference between you and dog) so important for you?
- Why is the cow sacred and not the other animals?
- Why it seems that when the soul comes into contact with material nature it becomes contaminated?
- Why it took Parasurama twenty-one times to defeat?
- Why not (eating) animals?
- Why not (Gandhi was not a mahatma)?
- Why not (we have no relationship. We don't accept them (the Ramakrishna Mission) as any authority)?
- Why not just make one big sun, big scientists?
- Why not less or more (we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds)?
- Why not meat?
- Why not speak on what we're trying to speak about instead of overly indulging in that which is beyond debate actually?
- Why not start an authoritative group of Christians who chant Hare Krsna, who study the Bible and read the Bhagavad-gita?
- Why not we just let things take their natural course of events if everyone's going back to Godhead ultimately?
- Why people say that it's the moon that covers the sun?
- Why should I strive for something so difficult, such a philosophical understanding, when I can live very happily with this body?
- Why should one accept this Krsna as God?
- Why should one pray to God?
- Why should we accept that the living entity will not die?
- Why should we adore the idol if God has no form?
- Why should we do that (give up Krsna consciousness)?
- Why should we enjoy sense gratification like gentlemen?
- Why should we go and tire ourself or make effort? If we are in trouble, oh, just wait for the God to come down to the earth and He will help us and do what we need or defend us?
- Why should we join your movement? Why should we give up studying such beautiful music and art and literature?
- Why should we live anymore? We're not getting any pleasure out of life. There's no future. Why should... People are happy to die these days, because there is no pleasure
- Why that (we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds) sixteen minimum?
- Why the Germans are good Sanskrit scholars? Why (they couldn't chant those mantras, of theses three books: one is Akasa-patola, one is Kapota-vahi and Khapoda-vahi)?
- Why the information is not given about that?
- Why the prison house is filled up?... With so many prisoners?
- Why the Swamiji doesn't like women?
- Why there is so much human suffering?
- Why we are so fortunate to have such a nice genuine spiritual master as you, and some others have bogus spiritual master. Is it something of karma or is this the pure mercy of yourself?
- Why we shouldn't take tea?
- Why would we take birth as an animal?
- Why, then, Srila Prabhupada, is a person given a human body then, if they...?
- Why? Because that (the principles of Arya-samaj) is a principle?
- Will not transcendence be an illusion too?
- Will that (next war will come very soon) help our preaching, Prabhupada?
- Will there come a time when all these conditioned souls will become liberated?
- Will they (the children in your school in Texas) be virtually living outside...?
- Will this war spread to many different countries and continents?
- Will you be meeting other spiritual leaders in South Africa?
- With due respect, I want to know the God knows that He is God and dog knows he is dog?
- With due respect, I want to know what is the line of demarcation between science and religion?
- With Krsna can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead, which presents itself to man, and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- With open eyes, why we cannot do the prayers and the bhakti-yoga? What is the...
- With the present state of the world as it is - it seems to be in a pretty mess - what would you say we are actually advancing spiritually?
- Within this universe are there other planets similar to the earthly planet where the inhabitants are getting the same, similar material bodies?
- Within Vedic culture, what is meant by bhakti-yoga?
- Without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane?
- Would a Vedic king try to prohibit the fifth-class men from eating the animals?
- Would it be beneficial to try to understand the process of production? Like the example of the earth coming from the water. Because the water evaporates, there is left over minerals and salts and all these things...
- Would it be dangerous for someone who is not at that level to study Srimad-Bhagavatam, or would they simply not understand it?
- Would it be possible for them (scientists) to make a body and have a living entity enter into it?
- Would it be possible to run scientific tests on the chanting, the sound of Hare Krsna, to make a distinction between that sound and the sound of an automobile's horn? Would that be perceptible?
- Would one see gross form on a subtle planet?... Like the moon planet is heavenly planet. They're supposed to have subtle bodies there. So would there be any gross forms?
- Would the intellect be helpful in knowing God?
- Would the spirit soul that is within, say, a cow's body, is in a different shape?
- Would there be more benefit, would there be more of an influence, or would there be more of a strengthening if it were in an area of affluence rather than an area of poverty or vice versa?
- Would you comment on the current political situation in India, what's happening right now?
- Would you comment on the political situation in India now. What do you think about Mrs. Gandhi's...?
- Would you like some? We can bring you some nim leaves?
- Would you like to go back to the temple now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to have a temple established in every village?
- Would you like to see the land that we have got here, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to sit for some time here, Prabhupada?
- Would you like to walk further, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to walk on the other beach, or...?
- Would you like your gloves, SrIla Prabhupada?
- Would you say something about the mercy of Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement?
- Would you say that He (God) loves the person that is doing wrong?
- Would you say that it should be done in an area of affluence or an area of poverty to begin with?
- Would you say that the lawyer can do good whether or not he believes in God?
- Would you say that women are inferior to men?
- Would you tell us your experiences in that (what I say, I have got greater authority) field?
- Would you think that their souls are of different value, the soul of the dog...?
- Would you use the facility, then, as sort of a center for all over the United States?
- Wouldn't that sort of peace be a precursor to a return to religion? Must we not first have peace?
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- Yamunacarya was sisya or guru of Ramanujacarya?... Ramanujacarya was guru or sisya?
- Yeah, well, when a person is attached to that group in the temple, isn't this, become a lust too? You see, being influenced by the group and also attached to the people...
- Yeah, within one material life (gain release from birth, death, and old age)? You necessarily don't have to return?
- Yes (if you require car, you have a bullock cart. That's all. Why should you hanker after petrol, mobile, oil, machine, this, that, so many things. Why?), but don't you think that it would be impossible for you to come mostly?
- Yes, and if they receive-they'll take anything, they are so renounced. So isn't that more spiritual?
- Yes, that the president's recommendation is overseeing, is scrutinized, by GBC, so that when Your Divine Grace gets a recommendation, it's been, by someone else, it's been checked. Do you think it's unnecessary?
- Yes, there may be God, but what does it matter what I do? He is controlling everything. What do I have to say?
- Yes, we can make. How many garages do you want?
- Yes, why doesn't Krsna come and do it (they want historical evidence for everything) now?
- Yes. Till (Balarama's. So fasting) noon?
- Yes. We eat that (kalmisan). We shouldn't let it grow in the pukkur? It's growing in one little corner of the pukkur
- Yes. Yes. Of course, that (I do not know what is my future. Then what is my education?) is one standpoint, isn't it?
- Yesterday I met a devotee from New York who said that there were many people present at the festival from other planets and that you could see them. Is that true?
- You (Srila Prabhupada) accept our (his disciples) karma also. Is that correct?
- You always return as an animal?
- You are accepting to you questions put by a young man. Will you still kindly answer all questions put by an old?
- You are enjoying death and old age?
- You are going to have a temple there (South Africa)?
- You are leaving tomorrow morning? Only today you have got time?
- You are not suggesting that all of that (if they stop manufacturing, there is unemployment. And if they increase car, there is power shortage. So this dilemma, this modern civilization will have to meet this dilemma) is just cut away completely...?
- You are of the same line of Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher, no?
- You are traveling all Latin America now?
- You can have more than one (ksatriya)?
- You commented that, you gave the words "Never trust," if I understood you right, "never trust an old man and a politician (a woman or a politician)"?
- You could explain something of what the scientists are always talking about, mutation and variation, and how one species evolves from another species?
- You did not begin to teach Srimad-Bhagavatam when you first came to the U.S.?
- You don't allow the tea here in the...?
- You don't feel the cold in the nighttime here?
- You don't think the patients have any mind of their own?
- You don't think there's some irony in that (boys and girls undressed themselves and got in the mud and they just played with the hogs. Dirty, just living like the hogs, which they worship)?
- You don't want to go to Krsna?
- You founded the Krsna consciousness movement. How long ago was that?
- You go to bed at two-thirty?
- You got a report?
- You have a way to stop the crime?
- You have asked me what I feel is the best engagement for you at this time
- You have asked your spiritual children to leave the outer world in the West and to go deep within the heart of ISKCON, within your heart and the heart of the Supreme, to accomplish what you've set as their goal. What about outer service to humanity?
- You have centers all over the world?
- You have different schools for men and women, is that correct?
- You have given the example that one has to give up certain habits such as one should not smoke and things, but is it true that that is not the ultimate goal of transcendence?
- You have had so much to do with bringing the dharma to the West. What is your idea? What is your mission? It seems to me, in many ways there is a transfer of the essential spirit going West, because the interest is there
- You have mentioned many authorities, beginning with the Veda, Brahma-sutra, Bhagavad-gita or wisdom of the Mahabharata. Do you accept all truth?
- You have mentioned pain within the body. What is the origin of pain and the origin of imperfection?
- You have said simply by eating prasadam this is controlling the tongue. But still, we have tendency when there is a big feast to eat very much prasadam. Is this a good thing, or...?
- You have said that you have nullified the law of gravity, but how can we explain that everything is falling down?
- You have said, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God." Is not God eternal, therefore how was there a beginning? And if the beginning was the word, who was it spoken by or how was it spoken if it was the beginning?
- You have seen (the Niagara Falls)?
- You have seen that letter (from Aldridge)?
- You have so many disciples, thousands, and one devotee was asking me yesterday, "I want to please Srila Prabhupada. How does he know my progress and my service when I'm so far away from him and if I don't write him?"
- You have taken that tablet for passing more urine?
- You have to spend (before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task)?
- You have written that Maha-Visnu has some attraction to the material world?
- You indicated that the creation of this universe takes place in stages. Darwin's theory also says that first there was water, then vegetation came up, and then gradually every species evolved. Is there correlation?
- You know that book Rupanuga's putting together?
- You know the Cardinal that you spoke with in Paris? You know how he died?
- You know the Cardinal that you spoke with in Paris?... You know how he died?
- You like with peanuts (Rice Krispies)?
- You like with peas (Rice Krispies)?
- You live in New York?
- You mean ("This is required?") the part about the books ("I shall follow the instructions of the books..."), Srila Prabhupada?
- You mean he (Bon Maharaja) has been corresponding with professors in America?
- You mean He (Krsna) eats fire in His representation as the fire-god?
- You mean she's not qualified as first, second, or third-class until she marries?
- You mean Swamiji then that all scientific efforts, whatever they are, should be stopped altogether?
- You mean these things (meat, wine and tobacco) just reinforce body consciousness?
- You mean this movement in the world ("Try to understand and broadcast it. It is not a sectarian, so-called religious movement")?
- You mean you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something?
- You mean your future (which body I am going to accept, there is no education. So I am kept in darkness. So what is the value of my education?)?
- You means you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something? And those who relapse, can they be treated again?
- You never feel any intense separation from your spiritual master?
- You refer to Ramanujacarya as an important person... Where does he fit into your, the Caitanya tradition? He's accepted as an authority. His, the Sri Bhasya is studied, accepted...?
- You said that by committing sinful activities one has to be punished by the laws of nature. So if one is repentant is he still punished?
- You said that if we fast and we can't do our work and we become weak, than this is not so good... So, our devotional service comes first?
- You said that it (God) is person ultimately. What does that mean ultimately?
- You said that Lord Krsna has many opulences, but in Chapter Thirteen verse fifteen he says that He is nirguna. How to reconcile this statement?
- You said there are four classes and the first-class is to rule?
- You said we have to approach a perfect person, but that means we have to accept so many restrictions and this is actually impossible. It cannot be done... Why should the knowledge be so limited?
- You said: "I want a different body. Immediately nature supplies." Even within this body?
- You say in these times (five things are not allowed in this age, Kali-yuga). How recent is this?
- You say is back to Godhead. But when one is situated in pure, transcendental love of Krsna, then that's, then wherever he may be, that's back to Godhead. Isn't it?
- You say like "Mother Rukmini"? There's a devotee named Rukmini. You say, "Mother Rukmini"? How do you address a woman? Do you say, "Mother," and then the name of the devotee?
- You say that Krsna consciousness solves the problem of death. Does it mean that we won't die?
- You say the Americans might have to leave. What about the British?
- You seem to be placing a lot of emphasis on books. Are you following any particular path of yoga, niyama-yoga...?
- You should be violent (in order to punish a thief)?
- You stated that a statue of yourself is not the same as you, and yet in some of our temples, such as Vrndavana, the murti of Your Divine Grace has been installed and they are offering prasadam. So is it the same, that the prasadam is accepted by the guru?
- You think we pay too much importance to money?
- You want (the verse) about the about the ksatriya or the brahmanas?
- You want the translation to it (Bg 2.13)?
- You want to say that the astronomers are the mistaken. The astronomers have been mistaken to say all these things?
- You wanted the colleges named the Vedic Theological College?
- You wanted to go and visit Puri?
- You were belonging to Bengal?
- You were getting seasick?
- You were saying about Eisenhower and Nehru? Nehru was trying to hide the villages
- You were saying everyone is inquisitive for happiness, but shouldn't that be purified? Shouldn't we give up all desire for happiness?
- You were saying how one can take birth as a dog even, so she's wondering how long does this go on. How many births does one take like this?
- You were saying that all the scientists are fools and rascals but they may challenge, "How has your knowledge benefited you?"
- You were saying that when one is in the mode of goodness, that he is on the mental platform?
- You were saying yesterday how foolish it is to think that God is creating planets without putting any life on them. The scientists are saying there is no life on any planet. Then why would He create a planet unless there was life on it?
- You were speaking in SB class about Ajamila and how by circumstances he fell down, and that because it wasn't intentional, Krsna forgave him. So, but still, at one point or another, he agreed to the desires of the prostitute. So isn't that free will?
- You were speaking about the blind person who is thinking that he can see. He is in illusion. How can we best convince him that he is not able to see?
- You were worshiping Jagannatha, weren't you?
- You would accept their (of the Alavars of Tamil Nadu) teachings also?
- You would go to different libraries and colleges?
- You would punish yourself? What would you do? Would you start attacking him (the thief)?
- You would see the worshipers of Siva as impersonalists?
- You're all vegetarians, are you?
- You're really talking about the atman? Aren't you?
- Your Divine Grace, are we all equal in sight of God?
- Your good sir, if you describe the following of Bharata Maharaja, Bharata-varsa. I'd like to be enlightened on that, how the Bharata-varsa is derived?
- Your Grace, a great many of South Africa's church leaders from some of the big churches are fearful that South Africa is going to find itself in a situation, or find... What message would you give this country in terms of avoiding any...?
- Your Grace, can I start by asking you what do you think of South Africa?
- Your Grace, what stops so many people from becoming Krsna devotees?
- Your Guru Maharaja, he was an astronomer?
- Your initiated disciples had some relationship with Lord Caitanya when He was on this earth?
- Your knee is hurt. Is that enjoying?
- Your philosophy seems very clear cut... Are you well satisfied with that, that there is no area of doubt?
- Your representatives, the presidents and GBC may be there, but what is my personal relationship with you?
- Your visa from here (I am very much in anxiety when the government says, "Now you go away. Your visa is finished")?