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- A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it?
- A devotee is sometimes subject to hankering or lamentation. That is material though, isn't it?
- A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?
- A lot of devotees, they never read the books, but they're doing the chanting. It will progress them without reading the books, because they're the most important?
- A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement?
- A pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere, that He's never out of your vision, and at the same time in Siksastaka prayers Lord Caitanya explains that "Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be twelve years or more." Could you explain this?
- A statement was made some time ago in a conversation that somebody was looking for the Gita without the Rama. Could you explain what they might be meaning by that?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- According to the Bhagavatam, the sun is also 93,000,000 miles away from the earth?
- According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana?
- Actually, although the actual number of initiated devotees is still few, there is a growing, ever-growing number of sympathizers - So you make good supporter, then government is yours - Then it's all based on selling your books more and more?
- After if one becomes purified, is it possible when he becomes transferred to the spiritual world that he can meet Rupa Gosvami and other great...?
- After the Battle of Kuruksetra there were many men killed. How were all the young people and the women protected after so many millions of men were killed?
- After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?
- All over the entire world we find the Indian community, practically speaking. Is this part of Lord Caitanya's plan to help spread this Vedic culture?
- All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?
- Almost everyone, except me perhaps, is concerned about death. But how about the smaller obstacles which nevertheless can make people very depressed, neurotic? How do you recognize and live with them or eliminate them?
- Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now
- Although, Srila Prabhupada, it's somewhat easy for us to convince that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the summary study of all the Vedic literatures, how can we take that Bhagavad-gita is the summary study?
- Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- And also that man, that Sastri, the Ministry of Education? That man Mr. Sastri, in the Ministry of Education, the Ratri of Sanskrit-samsad, he bought fifty copies?
- And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?
- And during the recess what should they (Gurukula students) do?
- And for design of Gaura-Nitai and Radha-Krsna, we should just use the same design or we should make better?
- And how long are you going to stay there (Kashi), sir?
- And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?
- And how to surrender to God, how to do this?
- And if he (Blitz) was Krsna before, how is it he's disagreeing with what the Bhagavad-gita says?
- And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?
- And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?
- And now you will remain here in India for some time?
- And so that group of eighteen secretaries will choose another leader (he has appointed from all the disciples a group of secretaries. Each one is in charge of a different sector of the world... Presently there is eighteen)?
- And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?
- And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?
- And that's why the Krsna movement is separate (the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter)… Appears to be separated, that's the way you would put it. Well, is it separated?
- And the interpretation is by you yourself?
- And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused?
- And then he (Gopal) arranged programs, speaking programs?
- And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere?
- And then what is the program? Your Divine Grace is coming back to Delhi? From Vrndavana after three weeks?
- And then you went directly to Pennsylvania? By bus?
- And they should give us some facilities (a good person is one who is God conscious and lives according to the instruction of God. So there is instruction of God, we are presenting this all over the world)?
- And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
- And what about with people (we are maintaining animals, giving them food, giving them security of life in all our farms the animals are very free)?
- And what do you mean by surrendering, sir?
- And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows?
- And what is the gain?
- And what is the upasana you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jnana?
- And what is your program, sir?
- And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities?
- And when we understand that… (our movement begins when one understands that he is soul or something other than this body)?
- And where did you sleep? Was there a bed (I was paying seventy-two dollars a month)?
- And you are sure this is the truth?
- And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)?
- And you think it's more because of your age, I mean you've got used to a colder climate than India, have you?
- And your health was better?
- And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta?
- Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...?
- Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...?
- Anxiety for one's self is maya?
- Apart from Catholicity of the American church, what can be the other reasons of their indifference towards your positive ideas?
- Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being?
- Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know
- Are changes visible in Hinduism in its doctrinal content, mode of individual and collective worship as a result of Hinduism's contact with the West?
- Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?
- Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?
- Are the moon's phases due to the planet Rahu, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
- Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- Are there any other Deities besides Kaliya-Krsna you want us to make for Fiji?
- Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?
- Are there different prajapatis for the different species?
- Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)?
- Are there many decisions that people asked you to make, about whether the movement should do this, or should do that, or do they bother you of that now, or are you just busy writing and translating?
- Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?
- Are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Krsna consciousness path?
- Are these actually the tangible signs by which one can judge what is real religion?
- Are these bad conditions or ailments not part and parcel of God?
- Are they ("no sinful life." No more illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxicants) prerequisites to accepting your knowledge?
- Are they (our books) sold mainly in the Western countries?
- Are they going to start on Mayapur building this year?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are we closer to this practicality when we sleep (when you engage your physical senses in the service of the Lord, then the physical quality of the senses will be diminished or gone, your spiritual sense activities will begin. This is practical)?
- Are we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you also obliged to help animals, to help other human beings?
- Are you at all concerned about the, what seems to be an increasing number of gurus and swamis throughout the world?
- Are you ever going to stop traveling?
- Are you familiar with the writings of Descartes?
- Are you getting any opposition from the church?
- Are you happy with the way the Krsna movement is progressing throughout the world and particularly throughout Australia?
- Are you prepared to die?
- Are you retiring now?
- Are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time?
- Are you saying that this (Vedic) knowledge has appeared in many forms? Does it appear also in, let's say, Christianity, in Muslim, Mohammedanism?
- Are you speaking specifically about all animal killing, Your Excellency? Or, how do you speak of animal killing? In other words, vegetarian living, is that what you're speaking of?
- Are you suggesting then that what is taken to be liberty is actually enslavement? And what is assumed to be the pursuit of happiness is nothing more than a rat race in which you try to make the best of what you can?
- Are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- Are you surprised at the way this organization has prospered?
- Are you surprised to see the popularity of your teachings in the last few years?
- Are you there referring to references from the scriptures (that is explained very elaborately in the Bhagavad-gita: na jayate na mriyate va kadacin na hanyate hanyamane sarire)?
- Are you training people to become teachers in this school, this process of education?
- Are you, sir, writing off all scientists because they've failed to understand the spiritual dimension in life?
- Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
- Are your followers encouraged to visit with their... (all family members, children, husband, wife, they are present there. How do you say it is against family? Wrong criticism)?
- Aren't we the images of God?
- As (a man is supposed to be educated when he sees every woman as mother)?
- As a mother loves the child in pure love, does that help her to also find the pure love in the spiritual world?
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
- As the man's concentration through which progresses, how, in what forms he goes on seeing Him (you cannot see unlimited. That is His mercy, that He presents Himself before you in three dimension because you have no eyes to see Him)?
- As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes, atheist and theist, is it not advisable for all religions to come together, and what positive steps can be taken in this direction?
- Astakala-lila. What is that exactly? Eightfold lila or some...?
- At Bheda Dvaraka, that is the residential palace of Lord Krsna. And seven ranis of Lord Krsna. They show each building, their whole building. So what was that?
- At one time, you had instructed that all the children should attend the main class. They say that some of the very small children have trouble to keep their attention...
- At that time (end of the day of Brahma. End of fourteen Manus) is the earth destroyed, or is it simply covered by water?
- At the end of Manu's day, when there is flood (the whole thing would be filled up with water. So water course is very heavy. So it can turn even big, big rocks, mountains rolling)?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, there is a subtle reality that the subtle body enters into?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
- At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- Aurobindo? He always had some French people with him?
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- Bada? That means?
- Baka is a duck?
- Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, Krsna came (Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days)?
- Because I inquired with him that whether it is not something to do with CIA, wherefrom your money comes?
- Because there's no sacrifice, because people aren't performing sacrifices now, is it more difficult to live off the land? It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?
- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Beef bouillion (I saw that she (Sally) was feeding her child, one boy, meat powder)?
- Before I leave, can they just stand here and have darsana and then we go? Can they come in?... My sister and my brother-in-law.
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Before you went to America, in India, before 1965, were people coming at all, Indian people, to learn anything? Were they interested in any way?
- Bhagavad-gita's Battle of Kuruksetra fought, in which month?
- Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhu, Bhaktisiddhanta your spiritual master. How you spent the days, your young age, with Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Black is beautiful?
- Boy, was he skinny in those days! This is Brahmananda? And this is Kirtanananda Swami sitting down?
- Brahman realization for the devotee in the beginning is just that he realizes his constitutional position as servant of Krsna?
- Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
- Brainwash, accha. How you entered in their hearts?
- Buddha's name is also considered hari-nama?
- But are you asking people, if they accept your teachings, to retreat from the world, like for instance, the people who are surrounding us now?
- But aren't they also purified spiritually by doing this (distribute these books)?
- But aren't we impure and He is pure?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But by that time you had some kind of... organization going?
- But can't we bring chanting of japa into it? Mantra Yoga (regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vrndavana and Bombay)
- But do you think it's unusual, the fact that it's an Eastern, mysterious Eastern religion has an appeal to American young people?
- But do you think most of the Hare Krsna members will vote in the election in November?
- But do you think they (the dinosaurs) were on this planet?
- But do you think they (the Koran or the Bible or any other religious) are successful?
- But does this not imply - one ten-thousandth the size (the size of the soul) - does that not imply measurement, that it can be measured?
- But doesn't Krsna know if I will do it (misuse my independence)?
- But encouraging (to give money to the temple) is not recommended?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But even accepting their idea that things are produced from chemical reactions, who is creating the chemical reactions?
- But for what purpose and to what end? What's the final end (ultimate is that you are spirit soul, you are being materially engrossed, you are creating different situations and you are being transferred to different bodies. That is different situations)?
- But God can communicate differently?
- But how can so many cheat?… Together they all cheat, they all say they went to the moon. One thousand scientists, all together in one room? They all say, "We agree, this, they went to the moon, here's the..."
- But how has the cockroach been formed?
- But how to make the people realize importance of Bhagavad-gita?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But how would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- But I have never heard anything of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, and I wondered if you would tell me a little bit about him, if you would?
- But I mean they do, these men who are space travelers, they say "We did land on the moon." Now are they lying?
- But I'm trying to ask does he (the Presidential candidate) have to be Krsna conscious, involvement, in order to be God conscious?
- But if it's (independence) not good for me, if I will misuse it, why would Krsna give it to me anyway?
- But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?
- But if we don't make the research, then how will we ever solve these problems?
- But if we tried to do that, wouldn't it be sort of artificial (they go in the village for begging little food, that's all. Just like you can live in this forest. And what you will eat? Two capati. So you can go and beg. That's all)?
- But is it possible to understand Krsna directly?
- But is it the guru? Does the guru give him that sense (when one is actually in service, then he comes to.... "So I have enjoyed. Now, no I don't want. Now I want Krsna." That is voluntary)?
- But is that correct (in any position, if you worship Krsna, then it is all right)?
- But isn't it by force anyway (Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver, "You love me, otherwise I shall kill you.")? If we don't love Krsna, we suffer
- But it requires some emanation from a cockroach body in order to create another cockroach body. So how can a cockroach body be created from vapors without contact of another cockroach?
- But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that?
- But maybe he's taken (he's not sannyasi, he is householder), I don't know, I thought he had a danda, one of those staffs. I saw the little temple in the garden, Krsna and Radha, where they stay in bed. It's like a bed like this. You know the one?
- But now I'm wondering how this should be managed, who should take charge of this project (this one gentleman has already offered one house in Bangkok. He's put at our disposal, in the middle of the city. A very beautiful house)?
- But now we should not teach them any exercise at all?
- But on this one time should we bathe directly?
- But people in general you say are walking on the dead platform in live bodies (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- But sometimes the impersonalists, they say, Prabhupada, that this Krsna consciousness is just the beginning platform, that after Krsna consciousness then one can come to impersonal realization
- But suppose the government is atheistic (the leaders cannot control nature, so why don't they accept a supreme controller? That is the defect in society)?
- But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada?
- But that subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- But the body is important to the self isn't it?
- But the innocent souls, they're not surrendered to Krsna?
- But the question comes up that you have given a vow against fire at the time of marriage that the husband will look after the wife and the family. Then how does that fit in when you leave the family all of a sudden?
- But the Sanskrit wasn't give here?
- But the sheep has no sense of herd. What poor sheep can do?
- But then is that man that's hammering the bricks, isn't he going to quit hammering the bricks, too?
- But then there is an argument, if we were originally in the spiritual world, why don't we remember that and try to go back to the spiritual world?
- But then who created the creator?
- But then why do you fear this death of the physical body (the material body is the cause of pains and pleasure. So if you don't get the material body, if you remain in your spiritual body, that is real enjoyment)?
- But there are some very intelligent men who are not spiritually enlightened, perhaps even men who understand that they are not, or the body is not all, the body is dead and there is something else. Why aren't these men spiritually aware?
- But there must be different stages that you go through, is that not correct?… Can you tell me from your own experience some of these different stages you've been through
- But these religions are just material. These Hindu, Christian, Muslim, they're following these things because that is simply their destiny? They don't know how to please God, so that's simply part of their happiness and distress?
- But they have choice within maya. Isn't that a fact?... Choice what to do in the material world, many different fields. They will say that they can do this or that
- But they will be on the altar or they will be in front (and on the opening day the Deities will be on the altar or they will be in front when they're bathed? When the bathing is taking place in Bombay for the opening...)?
- But they'll actually manage the government (one day our men will be leaders of government? - Yes. Leaders means as soon as you make the public in your favor, you are leader)?
- But to a layman what would you preach?
- But ultimately you're basing all your faith factually, aren't you, on your reasoning?
- But wasn't that school (the gurukula school in Texas) moved to India?
- But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
- But what happens if you do die before you finish (I have taken up my translation work, Bhagavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation)?
- But what if they asked you, "What is this all about?" (they came... Naturally they came and joined me and began to dance, that's all. That is the beginning)
- But what is the breaking of the pot (you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with)?
- But what is the position now? Is it dying out or increasing?
- But what is the stage at which it is atma gets merged with Paramatma? If atma would get merged with Paramatma then...?
- But what was your experience of that saksaska?
- But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty... Then those karmas don't affect...?
- But why are we in the prison house?
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But why do you blame us for not surrendering when we see that even Krsna's devotees can't surrender to Him? They come to us and ask us for money for these books. Why don't they give them away?
- But why give names to Him? Why give names to that God?
- But you can come to God consciousness through a variety of paths?
- But you led a rather normal life - before this you were married. You were a businessman?
- But you might want to come back to the U.S.?
- But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
- But young men don't tend to be wise, do they (so at the early age, up to twenty-five, he's trained up. If he can, he can continue as brahmacari. He directly can take sannyasa)?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
- But, sir, if we are drop of the same ocean, why should we be impure at all?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, is this valid to conclude that spirit, spiritual world, or life is very complex?
- By elaborate you mean effective, is that? You mean effective by elaborate? I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate (well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate)?
- By His grace, Krsna will show Himself to you?
- By pleasing Lord, one does not please one's own ego also to some extent?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
- By the mercy of Supersoul, he (the pure devotee) can be present in many places at once?
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- Can a self exist without a body?
- Can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- Can anybody create anything with this mystic power, any idol of God or any idol of devotee or anything, and then turn them to..., just a good mission to turn them to God?
- Can anyone be said to be innocent in this world?
- Can he find the truth on his level, because he hasn't arrived at your level?
- Can I ask a question? Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- Can I ask one more question, Swamiji?… Some people are more inclined to worship Rama, saying Hare Rama, Hare Rama instead of Hare Rama, Hare Krsna, both?
- Can I ask one question? You were mentioning that you wanted to start local industries, casting Deities?
- Can I serve the devotees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Can it (aratiks) be three, can it be simple?
- Can one be in spiritual life if they're not worshiping the Deity?
- Can one develop determination gradually?
- Can one say that necessity for eating, sleeping, mating and defending is animal life? The necessity for God is advanced life?
- Can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
- Can the desire to go back to Godhead be sense gratification?
- Can the older boys be trained in a particular kind of devotional service? For example, press work?
- Can the seed extract anything without the spirit soul being present there?
- Can these things be understood theoretically, Srila Prabhupada, or is realization required?
- Can we drink date rasa? We are allowed to drink date rasa?
- Can we find it (truth) only in the scriptures, in following all the regulative principles we're following day after day, or can we find also that truth by following our own path, by keeping our own freedom to do whatever we like?
- Can we stop mental speculation immediately
- Can we, can you say a bit more of that, just for the tape? You were saying that religion is obeying the supreme controller
- Can you be completely perfect and follow the orders perfectly?
- Can you become aware of this without Krsna consciousness (when one understands that this big machine (the body) is useless without the pilot (the soul))?
- Can you briefly tell us what the difference, how your approach is different from the approaches of the other gurus who have come? You seen to have rather a unique place in...
- Can you explain to me just a bit more, if the soul is undying, does everybody's soul go to be with God when they die? Do you have a belief in a heaven or a hell?
- Can you explain to me then what difference it makes being a member of the Hare Krsna movement
- Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?
- Can you explain to me, then, perhaps finally, just some of the stages you go through in this spiritual life. Sort of, from somebody being a new devotee to Hare Krsna, what are the mental or the spiritual stages you go through?
- Can you give us the number how many temples are there in foreign countries?
- Can you point out any time in history when there existed such a perfect system (we are always hankering after happiness. So we do not like suffering. So if there is no suffering, that is perfect system)?
- Can you remember some of your first impressions of North American society when you came here? Did you feel it was ripe for Krsna consciousness at that time?
- Can you repeat why you said you have been successful where others have not?
- Can you see an age that you could live until? Could you predict how long you might live?
- Can you take inside? Is it allowed (I wanted both of you to take various detailed photographs of that Capitol)?
- Can you tell me a little bit about the future direction of the movement, how you plan to expand?
- Can you tell me how the Hare Krsna movement came to be founded?
- Can you tell me how you feel led, you know, how you are guided to do what you do?
- Can you tell me what this painting up here is?
- Can you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life, why do we exist in the first place?
- Can you tell me what you believe, what is the philosophy of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Can you tell us a little bit about Krsna consciousness, what it does mean?
- Can you tell us a little bit about the plans you have for your project in India
- Chanting in the temple increases the?
- Chanting, following the orders of the spiritual master... Is that considered offenseless chanting?
- China?
- Concerning your questions about tantric sastras
- Could I ask you another question? You've been hitting on some of the Ten Commandments tonight like "Thou shall not kill." Now, if you believe the Ten Commandments like that, it also says in there that you shouldn't worship idols, bow down to idols
- Could I ask you if you might sign... Put your name in... Autograph?
- Could it be that there may be different interpretations (if you do not accept the direction of the author, then what right you have got to say that you have understood Bhagavad-gita)?
- Could we just talk for a minute or two so that we could get all this set up? If you'd like, just to tell me. You're going to India tomorrow, is that correct?
- Could you go over each of the three functions you've been mentioning-eating, sleeping and sex - and tell me what specifically, what rules or hints that you would give people who are seeking spiritual enlightenment to aid in their lives in these ways
- Could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did...?
- Could you tell me something about your altar?
- Could you tell us a little about your spiritual master's life?
- Couldn't you get all the necessity you require from grains?
- Cyavana and his followers (two heavenly physicians, asvini-kumaras made him very nice beautiful-looking young man by taking him to a certain lake, and they dipped down and all of them became fresh young men, beautiful, very beautiful)?
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- Death is just like sleep. When we're sleeping we feel.... So why, then, we should be afraid of death?
- Defamation of our religious cult. Because we're recognized by scholars as being bona fide. It says here, "Ungodly face of Krsna cult." How is that ungodly?
- Devotees are doing very well in Moscow, Prabhupada? Is that right? They are distributing books there?
- Devotees, sometimes they feel that in ISKCON we're talking so much about the business of how to spread Krsna consciousness, but we're not talking enough about Krsna's pastimes, krsna-katha. Won't it purify them? That's what they say, "It will purify me"
- Dharma is for the envious?
- Did any of them come up here who are still with you now (alone I was doing that. And then gradually one or two boys began to come)?
- Did these dinosaurs exist, or is it just their imagination?
- Did they find a temple in Hamburg? In Hamburg. I was there once, but they just had a little tiny house, and they were trying to get another
- Did they go to some other planet (than the moon), Prabhupada?
- Did we fall in the material world to experience something which is higher?
- Did we fall in this material world to find some highest pleasure?
- Did you ever think at that time that you would be able to expand or...?
- Did you get some barley flour?
- Did you have to go there (to Dr. Mishra's apartment) to bathe also?
- Did you help to build that one?... Did you help to establish that Gaudiya Matha (In Allahabad)?
- Did you mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out? The dormant Krsna consciousness, is that...
- Did you meet any of them (the Soviet Union leaders)?
- Did you purchase any land at Kuruksetra yet, Prabhupada?
- Did you see the color printing inside? It's also very nice. They have done the same.... This was last year in Paris, when you received Bhagavad-gita
- Did you send copies to all the libraries (of the first Back to Godhead magazine)?
- Did you stand on street corners and chant?
- Did you then begin, after you finished the university, did you begin your writing?
- Did you want to go out into the garden tonight or not?
- Did you work out the spiritual disciplines for the group yourself? I mean about the morning chanting and the recital of the two thousand Hare Krsnas a day and... Did you work those out yourself?
- Didn't that Dr. Radhakrishnan go crazy at the end of life, Srila Prabhupada?
- Different Puranas have different Gitas, Prabhupada?
- Do any of them come now? Do any of them come now apart from Prabhakara?
- Do many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- Do monkeys have any use?
- Do most human beings fall down into the animal species?
- Do the car companies make bicycles?
- Do the demigods sometimes forget their positions?
- Do the living entities who are born from perspiration require a mother and father?
- Do the number of demigods have something to do with the number of species, like there are thirty-three million demigods?... Do they belong to these species? They are also included in these eight million four hundred? These Gandharvas?
- Do these demigods have the potency to show the universal form?
- Do they have any temples of Lord Jagannatha there? They have any temples of Lord Jagannatha in Kuruksetra?
- Do they have many birds in Bhuvanesvara?
- Do they reject it because they (the politicians) cannot do it?
- Do we announce that you will give darsana on the stage for five minutes?
- Do we have to completely leave the world? We cannot stay within the world and sanctify ourselves?
- Do we recognize that any of those Christian saints were great devotees? Did they develop love of God? Or what's the comparison?
- Do you accept the supremacy of the Vedas, veda-pramanam?
- Do you attempt to speak with governments and city officials and that sort of thing to spread your message?
- Do you basically reject the modern civilization?
- Do you believe in a resurrection?
- Do you believe that Hare Krsna is the only true faith?
- Do you believe that the Gita should be followed as it is or interpretation...?
- Do you believe then that there is more than one way?
- Do you consider that your movement is basically more of an educational movement than a religious movement?
- Do you consider.... Is it your Deity? Do you consider that glorified?
- Do you defy by trying to learn His mayadhyaksena suyate prakrtih sa-caracaram (you defy Krsna)?
- Do you envisage or envision a different role for Hinduism in the Western countries where the influence of other great religions has been felt for centuries?
- Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you already?
- Do you feel also that if someone read the Bhagava...?... Bhagavad-gita and other books, that a person merely by reading these could attain knowledge of Krsna?
- Do you feel are you in good health now? You look it.
- Do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet?
- Do you find that in the translation from the thoughts and the Sanskrit to the English words, then from the English words to the mass of the people's heads, do you find that there is much loss?
- Do you find the English weather cold?
- Do you find, Swamiji, that the mood of the young people in North America is the same now as it was in '65, or has it changed?
- Do you have a large number of American negroes in your movement, Swamiji?
- Do you have any in training for second class?
- Do you have any opinion about Ted Patrick, who I guess you've probably heard of?
- Do you have any other source, like donations or something like that for your movement?
- Do you have any panditas in the Western movement?
- Do you have any plans of propagating your movement in India?
- Do you have any proposal to spread this movement in Communist countries?
- Do you have arrangements with hospitals in case somebody gets sick, and do you watch diet carefully and...?
- Do you have programs developed to educate mankind towards this God consciousness?
- Do you have women followers also in this movement?
- Do you hope to acquire school buildings for teaching school?
- Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- Do you know much of Mormonism?
- Do you know Professor Bimal Motilal came in during your discourse?
- Do you need to be involved in the Krsna movement to be God conscious?
- Do you plan to propagate your message in India?
- Do you read newspapers?
- Do you see America getting more God consciousness?
- Do you see hope for mankind in the future?
- Do you see that nations will fight too? That there will be wars, things like that?
- Do you separate the eternal world from the Paramatma? It is something, a world like our material world that we have got, physical world that we have got, is going to be out of, the eternal world?
- Do you spend your whole year traveling, or only part of the year?
- Do you think if a person is to be a real believer in God he has to also worship Krsna or speak of Him?
- Do you think if all men, let's say, all the religions could try to come together...?
- Do you think it is necessary for India to eschew religion?
- Do you think mankind is making some improvement?
- Do you think something could be written on this wall?
- Do you think that one of the attractions of Krsna consciousness is the rather exotic, Hindu, unusual customs in the West. These customs are unusual in the West and they have a sort of exotic appeal for young people?
- Do you think that some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world?
- Do you think that there is a special way that Hinduism looks upon man's place in the universe?
- Do you think that this concept (God means Supreme Controller) is the special insight of the Vedic?
- Do you think that this is because of the Western influence under which they have gone and you are... (nobody spoke that "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You worship Him." Nobody has said. This is the first time, I am saying)?
- Do you think the deep-rooted Indian culture and religion will ever have a sort of a re-creation, or will it continue?
- Do you think the India-originated religion is, serves its particular purpose in the Western society? I mean, does, is it of particular value in a rather technological society, the Hindu tradition?
- Do you think the same problem is here in India as in other countries (and now in India another danger is that so many rascals, they are declaring, "I am God." And this India, people have become so fallen down, they accept all these rascals as God)?
- Do you think the time will come when we will... (if they allow us to forward our movement, then we are satisfied. And when there is hindrance, the person who is hindering, finished. But don't do it now, (chuckles) then you will be finished)?
- Do you think the type of life that your devotees must lead... is in fact a happy one, getting up very early in the morning?
- Do you think there is a necessity to open a ministry of religion?
- Do you think there will always be a few who understand (God)?
- Do you think there's a difference between the various peoples of the world? In other words, do you think that Indians as opposed to Europeans have more of a tendency or are more likely to adhere to the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think they (west) are taking to it because it is novel?
- Do you think we should go straight to the minister?
- Do you think you could explain to me about the Deities and how it's different from idol worship?
- Do you think you'll be able to see the temple either today or tomorrow and give me some ideas on how to utilize the building? I can arrange it with Pusta Krsna? When you're available?
- Do you use the Judeo-Christian scriptures at all in your work?
- Do you want this to become a part of the educational system here?
- Do you want your hat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you watch TV yourself?
- Do you, in other words, do you believe that astronauts landed somewhere?
- Do.... Your lines of authority then come from you, or is it an elective authority?
- Does each temple operate by itself, or each division operate by itself?
- Does God speak to me, within me, whether I listen or not?
- Does it ever happen, Swamiji, that some disciples of yours may disagree with you in spiritual matters?
- Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first (nobody could answer, a simple question... According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first)?
- Does it matter what religion you believe? Does it matter which religion you believe? Would it matter if one was a devotee of Hare Krsna...?
- Does Krsna consciousness make you aware of this, though (actually knowledge begins from that point, that "I am not this body." Just like a big 747 plane is running on, but there is the intelligent pilot)?
- Does Krsna give beneficial instruction to someone and not to someone else, intuition in the heart to take or not to take the book?
- Does Krsna punish people who do not serve Him purely? Or do the people punish themselves when they do not serve Him purely?
- Does one have a better chance of reaching to the spiritual platform if he is performing pious activities?
- Does that apply then to other kinds of decisions and other kinds of activities as well (Krsna will tell directly. A devotee always consults Krsna and Krsna tells him, "Do like this." Not figuratively)?
- Does that involve a majority of the people, or... (so those who are working on the bodily platform, they are working on the dead platform)?
- Does that mean difficult to understand or difficult to practice?
- Does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- Does that mean that the atom is living entity?
- Does that mean that you assume or propose that the world would all become one in one religion?
- Does that mean to some extent that the soul is dependent on a material condition?
- Does that means all the planets are fixed in relationship to each other as well (Gita says, urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham. The pole-star in the... And we see at night everything is moving. As a bunch it is moving)?
- Does that take on a positive aspect as well so that by not only do I not kill animals and I don't kill men, do I, am I obliged under your system (we are not cruel to anyone. Either he's a man or animal or tree or bird), am I obliged to actively help...
- Does the devotee go through these levels of understanding Brahman then Paramatma then Bhagavan? Does the devotee gradually go through these levels, or does he immediately realize Brahman when his service is perfect?
- Does the devotee, I mean just like you are always enthusing us to push on...
- Does the group live a vegetarian life, without any meat? Is that what you're saying?
- Does the self exist without the body in this world?… In this life?… As a spirit apart from the body
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
- Does this mean that a person should turn his attention from the world, from his surrounding?
- Don't what, Prabhupada?
- Don't you find the whole Krsna movement more successful in an age and era when there is such laxity of moral standards and spiritual leadership and direction?
- Don't you have a gurukula in Texas?
- Don't you think it will be a bad thing, because there are some bad people in the world, like Hitler and Stalin and others, they may be the first people to use the technology to prolong their life?
- Down the fall (ice, flood, every second)?
- Dr. Agarwal was your sponsor?
- During this transformation, are we still ignorant? During this transformation from body to body.
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- Earth is a mixture of all these different elements?
- Eternal life (explain to them about eternal life)?
- Evam prasanna-manaso?
- Even a drop of water, when you take it from the glass and put it on this one. Another drop of water will come and when you put it in medicine won't come in water. Like that, atma, will it not merge with the Paramatma?
- Even good literature sanga is also sat-sanga, is it not?
- Even he doesn't consider material necessity (a devotee has to work sincerely to serve Krsna. Then everything is there)?
- Even in India, Muslims are taking to Krsna consciousness?
- Even nitya-siddha has guru?
- Even the basic of this (you were saying that the children should learn these three, geography and these things, and I wanted to know if they should also learn what they call biology, that is how the body is working, what are the bones and blood)?
- Even with all our philosophic and all our learning we have the sense of possession of this body which can't leave the moha in it. With all that, sir, then how can they do it?
- Even with this education, they (the children in Gurukula) still might not be intelligent, what you consider intelligent people. How, you know... Is it more likely that they will be what you would term intelligent, having been educated in this system?
- Everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys, or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
- Everyone has to learn from someone. Who has informed God of all knowledge?
- Everyone requires leader, yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- Excuse me, does that mean that people from other religions may..., it is not possible for them to achieve the highest perfection?
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- Falldown means deviation from the orders of the spiritual master?
- For boil also (I will give you so many formulas)?
- For eating (so we cannot pay more than five thousand (maintenance money for the devotees in ISKCON Vrndavana))?
- For making, you know, the wool, woolen garments like the cap and cadara... Sometimes it's made out of wool. They would get from sheep?
- For spreading this movement in India, are you hopeful it will be?
- For the abhiseka, do we require cow urine and cow dung and tail of cow?
- For the truth, since each one finds the truth in himself, does that mean that the truth is different for each person?
- From a distance (I saw (snow) in Kashmir, but that was not so white)?
- From the material point of view, though, people can live an irresponsible life, and they have some earnings. They feel that they can enjoy. What is the need for morality?
- From what I've seen in your writings - that there's an underlying truth behind all religion. Would you agree with that?
- From which class of society in the United Sates do most of your disciples come?
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- Gandhi said that Hitler change of heart that would be effective and not that punishment. That means punishment is a fault, and I would like your enlightenment on this paradox
- Give them milk?
- Go ahead and get the projector do you think, new projector?
- Going back to this sense question, where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?
- Governor of (during Jawaharlal Nehru's time)?
- Grace of God (the chance theory is the grace of God)?
- Gurukula. She's asking if you could tell her about the system of education you have established in America
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- Hari-vilasa's wife? Parijata (I told them two o'clock their time, I also told them not to make anything fancy but to make very simple)?
- Haridasa Thakura is following all the principles, but he's always feeling so fallen. So Lord Caitanya tells him, "Put away your excess humility." Is this what He is trying to teach him? That we should have assurance?
- Has anybody practiced this type of sex?
- Has God also devised the most perfect government?
- Has he seen our books?
- Has there been any official opposition to your movement in any country?
- Has there ever been debates on the authenticity of modern science, or is this the first time modern science has been challenged in the world?
- Have any of your Godbrothers translated anything?
- Have there been any complaints from Detroit?
- Have these books been reviewed in foreign papers?
- Have they (the chief minister) done (given land in Kuruksetra) so?
- Have you been troubled by any undesirable elements?
- Have you got them here?
- Have you studied other religions?
- Have you tried to compare with Gita written by Gyaneshvara, or by Vinoba Bhave or by somebody else?
- Have you wanted a businessman to come?
- He (a vrajavasi) has a spiritual master?
- He (Grnanatha) didn't stay here?
- He (Jackie Vaughn) says we're in the world, but how can we be aloof from it? How can we not be a part of it?
- He (Krsna) took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He (Prabhupada) has traveled the world sixteen times around?
- He (the pujari) comes on this side of the altar and blows the conchshell. Is that all right? It should be behind the curtain or in front of the curtain?
- He argues that Krsna knows everything, so Krsna knew that he would have trouble controlling his senses; therefore why did Krsna give him senses?
- He asked if you're pleased if your disciples do things like Sharma, if they, like, go to live in trees and do artificial renunciation?
- He does not speak krsna-katha, Prabhupada. So five thousand you have estimated for the Deities? For a month you have estimated last night five thousand?
- He holds your hand and gives that hand to God. That is guru. That is what I think. Am I right in a way?
- He is taking over there, you take here?
- He said in a letter, he just wrote a letter to you that... You laid a cornerstone in some temple? About three, four years ago?
- He says he takes Christianity as Krsna consciousness. What do you say?
- He took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He wants to know, is this consciousness within us (the soul means consciousness. It is just like sunshine. The soul is very small particle, but it is shining as consciousness)?
- He's asking a question, Srila Prabhupada: isn't it important to mold the activities of ourselves and also the children in coming to this movement; to mold them that so that we can become Krsna conscious?
- He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
- He's saying did you think of these things yourself, to chant on the beads and follow the program in the morning, have you made these up yourself?... Who originated those steps?
- He's talking about if you're married before you come to the movement and one person wants to join the movement and the other person is not very agreeable?
- He's the oldest devotee? Mukunda? He's the oldest devotee?
- Helped (I am very much indebted to them because they have helped me) in what sense?
- Her question is... Suppose someone has some faith in life after death, and he also may be an intelligent man by material standards. Why isn't he automatically...?
- Her question was, "Is your physical place important, surroundings"?
- Her soul is still alive, and she is still functioning spiritually, even though her brain is dead. Is that what...?
- Here (many monkeys were deported by the government but people protested. They were capturing monkeys...)?
- Here in Vrndavana the people also pay taxes?
- Hinduism has always renewed or revitalized itself according to the need of the times. In today's context, are any correctives called for, and if so, who will bring them about and how can they be brought about and made acceptable to all the masses?
- Hinduism has been defined as a way of life?
- Hing and what? Prepare with hing and?
- His idea.... His question, Prabhupada, is also, suppose someone wants to buy a farm or wants to do some new project. Do they ask your permission first?
- His question is that now the government is corrupt, so what can be immediately done?
- Hogs are there as well (in the spiritual world)?
- How about opening one temple in Ahmedabad?
- How about people who aren't first-class intelligence, people, as you mentioned, the foolish. What message...?
- How are they able to perpetuate such an enormous hoax (ask all scientists this simple question. Why, all over the world, Sunday, sun first and moon second? Why? And Saturday last. All of you could not answer this question)?
- How are those supported (the forty centers in the United States)? Do they support themselves?
- How are we going to fare in this court case?
- How are we to determine how much of our endeavor should be for our own personal progress?
- How can a person with all material desires develop desire to love Krsna?
- How can a spirit become so ignorant?
- How can all sections of Hindus be made to take an equal interest and have the same sense of belonging to the Hindu religion?
- How can any body live in the sun?
- How can God be controlled by His own energy, illusory energy?
- How can he be supreme if he can fall down?
- How can I give up attraction for woman?
- How can one come to have faith that there is life after one leaves his body?
- How can one establish faith in the principle of reincarnation? How can one come to believe in it?
- How can one strengthen the spiritual will to act plain and live the spiritual life?
- How can one understand God's love?
- How can she be sure that the spiritual master is bona fide?
- How can there be any truth separate from the Lord?
- How can they vote for human beings (the voters are pigs and asses and camel and dogs. So if these animal vote for somebody, then what he is)?
- How can this practically be applied to American society, this idea of trusting God? How would things change?
- How can we add (introduce classes where such laws of nature (dehino 'smin) and such-on scientific line, without giving it a Hindu or religious name) in innumerable, rather, uncountless schools and colleges?
- How can we best serve the movement? By joining it? I have joined it in a...
- How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- How can we make them understand they're being punished?
- How can we perfectly follow only what Krsna has said?
- How can we stop speculating?
- How can you make them (people) interested if they're not?
- How can you trust God if you don't know anything about Him? First you have to know something about God before you can trust Him.
- How close does one student usually, how close does he get to the master? How closely does he understand the master? Or he could interrelate himself to the master?
- How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?
- How could father feed even the child (they say they may become pregnant and have children, but the men should take care of the children, equally... They get milk from the mother, not from the father)?
- How could one choose when he himself is ignorant?
- How did you attract people? You landed in New York...
- How did you find the transition, or how did it affect you, the transition from leading a life in the business world?
- How did you manage to get your first Bhagavatams printed?
- How do I know that I am thinking properly?… I must know what I am meant for… That's what my question is, how does one know?
- How do the different seasons come about-winter, summer, spring?
- How do they make it (puffed rice) ?
- How do we explain that (I was telling my colleague that stratus, the layers so perfect that everywhere, say five inches, just like it appears somebody has laid down)?
- How do we handle these people who don't seem to want to carry their own weight, though, Prabhupada? The ones who don't want to work and help produce this food?
- How do we know that Vedavyasa is not defective like other living beings?
- How do we.... What do we do during the day? What are our activities?
- How do you awake that consciousness?
- How do you become informed as to certain events?
- How do you become qualified? How did you become qualified?
- How do you choose, you are responsible for the organization?… Are you the one who chooses who runs each center, who is responsible in each temple?
- How do you classify dreams?
- How do you determine what's an obstacle?
- How do you develop the strength to keep chanting even when maya is making you so attracted?
- How do you explain the advance that Marxism has made?
- How do you explain vrsninam vasudevo 'smi?
- How do you feel?
- How do you get the strength to follow the rules and regulations?
- How do you know if you have satisfied God?
- How do you know the animal has a soul?
- How do you like them (the ratha carts), Prabhupada?... Strong? Strong enough?
- How do you spend your days? You do an awful lot of traveling I understand
- How do you want India to take this movement?
- How does a man find out what his duty is?
- How does it attack (Rahu planet comes to attack the sun and the moon)?
- How does it benefit the person who is selling the book, the devotee?… How is he benefited by selling books to others?
- How does it matter what people call Krsna, whether they call Bhagavan or Visnu or what, Krsna? If it is just only one God. We are talking removing Krsna from Gita but putting Bhagavan there instead of Krsna. How does it matter?
- How does it react? Potassium cyanide? It blocks the oxygen path? That's what science says?
- How does krpa-siddhi work, Srila Prabhupada?
- How does Krsna support them (the forty centers in the United States)?… He mediates through physical things, does he?
- How does one distinguish between what is a false God...?
- How does one establish clearly (your studies of philosophy will be perfect when you establish, "Yes, there is God.")?
- How does one get to know the true spirit?
- How does one give up the fear of dying?
- How does one know when he has the understanding of the Bhagavad-gita?
- How does one surrender to Krsna?
- How does our love for Krsna somehow or other get transformed into lust?
- How does that come? (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession… Originally the order is from Krsna)?
- How does that fit in with the species of life, Srila Prabhupada, when they combine two different species, artificial?
- How does that work, that if somebody has the association of a pure devotee for only a lava, one-eleventh of a second, that he attains all perfection?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How far the study of the scriptures helps us in being Krsna conscious?
- How far would you carry Jagannatha (you used to take Jagannatha right through the streets)?
- How important is it to look after physical life?
- How important is the association with the devotees?
- How important is your physical environment to you? If this room is very lovely - it has light and space and air and flowers - is this important at all or would it be the same to you to be sitting out on the street?
- How in the Kali-yuga advancing can everyone become Krsna conscious?
- How is it benefiting (to automatically pass through all the different species) him (the living entity)?
- How is it possible to deceive so many people (you have made picture. I have not gone and seen that. How can I believe you? The same argument. You say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you)?
- How is it that Bhaktivinoda Thakura was not so strict in that regard, yet his son, who learned from him, became very strict, like a rod?
- How is it that the devotees who run the great temple of Jagannatha refuse to allow foreigners and certain low-caste people, when this was the favorite place of Lord Caitanya, who, like you say, advocated that it should be taught in every town and village?
- How is it that these men (Mayavadis like Vivekananda) are so attractive to the Indian people?
- How is it that we see the moon moving?
- How is that spiritual dimension realized (if you chant, then, gradually, you realize yourself that you are a spiritual being; you are not this body. Then his spiritual life begins. Actually human life is meant for spiritual realization)?
- How is the best way to do that (Prasada selling)?
- How is the Kuruksetra going?
- How is the response in the West?
- How is the school in Vrndavana? The school?... Have they started?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How is your path or your way different from (or) better than others?… It is the only way?
- How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
- How long does it take to purify ourself?
- How long does that period (Kali-yuga) last?
- How long have you been a Hare Krsna man?
- How long have you been in Australia?
- How long is it since you've been to the Radha-Damodara?
- How long you are going to be in Hyderabad?
- How long you are staying here?
- How many asramas do you have in India?
- How many brilliant stars are there in this Universe?
- How many centers in the United States?
- How many children do you have?
- How many days were you there (in Moscow)?
- How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- How many leaders have actually achieved this aim (the true aim of human life)?
- How many Life Members in India? Must have at least ten thousand
- How many members do you now have? How many followers?... Ten thousand? That is in this country or is that...?
- How many of us are scientists here?
- How many people are in the Krsna movement in the world, about?
- How old was his wife (Dr. Rajendra Prasada, the president, he was married when he was eight years old)?
- How old were you when you got married?
- How one surrenders? What is meaning of surrender?
- How seriously should they (the criminals) be punished?
- How shall the worship be in the temple, Srila Prabhupada, the small temples. What shall they worship?
- How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadisa was saying?
- How should we do this in our ISKCON society with these young girls (the Indian system is that when the girl is utmost twelve years, not more than that, ten to twelve years, she must be married)?
- How should we have these Ratha-yatra festivals. Should they be big? Should they be big festivals? Should I plan on having three carts next year, just one, or a small cart?
- How the eternal spirit soul becomes so completely absorbed that he completely forgets about the future and simply he becomes absorbed in some temporary sense gratification?
- How these devotees are finding salvation for others?
- How they are going against it (Bhagavad-gita), Prabhupada?
- How this movement has helped in solving any specific issue, any special problem?
- How this social order can be generated in India?
- How To attain that knowledge then?
- How to attain this Krsna consciousness and to maintain it?
- How to find the...? How to get to the atman, the inner body?
- How to give up this bad habit (Krsna is not subjected to your thinking. You have to give up this bad habit first of all, that Krsna will be subordinate to your thinking. That is not God)?
- How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
- How to mend from lies?
- How to mend him (a Gurukula student) from lies? He speaks lies
- How to seek a master? How to find a master?
- How to stop it then (they accept any rascal as God)?
- How to surrender?
- How was the soul originally created?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How were you getting so much money (1944, the first copy. I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American… In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month)?
- How would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- How would you describe that platform (the difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working (many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world))?
- How would you get man to become aware of the situation so he could desire (God consciousness), even desire unconsciously?
- How would you prove that all of them (the single elements alone in the body do not have life) combined together don't have life? How would you prove that?
- How you explain the act of Krsna taking away the saris of the gopis?
- How your preaching differs from various acaryas? Say, Sankara or Vallabha or Ramanuja?
- How's that now (the persons in the jail are thinking "These people are not working for life in the jail," so they don't understand what we are doing)?
- Huns. They were considered like that (to be aborigines)?
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- I also wanted to ask a question, Srila Prabhupada, on dancing in the temple room during arati, especially mangala-arati. Is it not that the devotees should not turn their back while dancing to the Deity?
- I am the constant change, the process (you remember, that "I was a child." But the child body is no longer. So you remember or not remember, the body is changing. This is the answer. This is self-realization)?
- I am thinking about this, Swamiji, that your Guru Maharaja is preaching through you, and you are preaching through them?
- I asked about a man not knowing what his duty was, and you spoke of the highest duty of giving up all to Krsna and becoming detached from the fruits of your action. But suppose the question is What shall I become - a shopkeeper, a teacher, a carpenter?
- I beg your pardon (that is Krsna consciousness)?… The way they support themselves?… Krsna supports?
- I believe that Krsna is the Supreme God, so don't get me wrong, but since you mentioned Christ, was he an incarnation of Krsna? Was Jesus Christ sent here by Krsna from...
- I come from village, and I'm happy now as I have taken to holy name and prasada. So more, other villagers... Half of these boys are from villages?
- I don't know. I was thinking the trip.... We have that big Mercedes limousine. You rode in it last year. It was very comfortable, and the ride, I don't think you found it so difficult, did you? Last year
- I don't quite understand that in terms of my question about wearing street clothes and wigs instead of saffron robes and chanting and so forth?
- I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name?
- I guess when you started out down here in Greenwich Village in 1965 you didn't have any idea that your movement was going to become the rather large movement it is. Did you?
- I have a question, Srila Prabhupada. At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- I have a question, whether we should always give them khicuri or whether we should
- I have just opened it (7-UP). Is it cold enough?
- I have to, to contact them and find out how it was actually (published)... Should I write them a letter (they should be informed that without being passed by the authority, nobody should publish any literature)?
- I heard a story, Visvamitra once he grew people from trees. Is that correct?
- I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa (Nityananda Kananda. He was a minister in the central government, deputy minister) During when? Approximately?
- I mean (what do you mean by retired life?) are you giving up your position as spiritual leader?
- I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?
- I mean you say that people identify themselves, the body as the self... And that this is ignorance to identify the self with the body… But does that mean a sort of rejection of the body as unimportant?
- I met, I think, one of your master's other devotees, I forget his name. Gosvami, big, in Vrndavana, big, tall, with a staff, bald hair. Said you knew his name?
- I think he was fair, but he was very tall, very big, and you know, like this, huge size. You know that place where I stayed the night?
- I think he's asking a question also that sometimes comes up, that if one loves in this material love, for example one loves a child, or loves humanity, does this help to develop love of God?
- I think people understand the analogy, they think hammering is the business. What do you think is the business?… The world thinks hammering is real business
- I think this story's in Raja-vidya, that small book. The one about the brahmana and the cobbler?
- I think you were possibly wanting to stop in Tehran this year on the way back to India?
- I thought you quoted Christianity. But as far as the Christian faith is concerned, don't they quote their scriptures?
- I understand that our souls are also part of God, as a drop of water is part of that ocean. How... Is there any knowledge or information of how we incurred this first separation from God?
- I understand that this is an extension of Hindu religion. Is that not correct? No, it's not. Does it have any basic tenets of the Hindu religion?
- I understand that you only sleep about two or three hours a day. And do you usually sleep during the middle of the daytime as well?
- I understand you have further thoughts about that (moon landing) and you've even written a lot about it. I wonder if you could tell me, not at great length perhaps, but what your belief about those events is?
- I understand you sleep very little. You sleep three to four hours a night. Do you feel that this is what any person who is spiritually actualized will also realize?
- I wanted to know also what should we do once they are sixteen, because you said they should be trained in a Gurukula until they are sixteen? So once they are sixteen...
- I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you?
- I wanted to know what processes happen to the spiritual soul between a beast and human life
- I was going to go to Bombay for a wedding. Some friends are getting married. You know, I think you met Laksmi Shankar, lady singer? Her daughter, who is also a singer, Viji, Viji Sri Shankar, and she's marrying a South Indian violin player, L. Shankar
- I was just wondering what exactly the League of Devotees was?
- I was taking the children in the land here and teaching them how to recognize the different plants. Is that useful, or should I not do that? here we have so many different plants growing, some medical plants, some that can be eaten. Is there any use?
- I was told that one day you were told by Rupa Gosvami that you must go?
- I was wondering if he had a successor to do... Do you have a successor to take your place when you die?... So what process would the Hare Krsnas...?
- I was wondering if it is within every conditioned soul's heart to be an impersonalist. Is it.... Does every conditioned soul have the propensity for impersonalism?
- I was wondering whether perhaps you would personally take a less active role?
- I was wondering, is like earth still being manifested in living bodies from sound and so on, like the chemists...?
- I was wondering, some of those who have had the opportunity to take bath in Radhakunda, it seems though it may take some time (to immediately awakens his love for Krsna). I was wondering, is that because we don't see time in the proper perspective?
- I wonder if you could tell me how you came to founding the movement here in the United States?
- I would like perhaps to hear some of your thoughts on the area of religious experience, God consciousness, how do you achieve that?
- I would like to know more about the, the soul in so far as, does it have beginning? Does it have end?
- I would like to know about what time... (Bhagavad-gita was spoken)?
- I'd like to know, this is your first visit to Washington? Is that right?... Who have you visited with while you've been here? Have you stayed here, or have you gone out and...?
- I'll come over to Vrndavana on the 15th evening. 15th evening, I'll come over to Vrndavana?
- I'm a bit puzzled about this, these entities that are born from perspiration, like that. It seems that there's no father and mother, yet like we were just using the argument that there must be a father and mother?
- I'm a servant of the government right now, and will it take more love of Krsna for me to be devotee, or what...?
- I'm just checking it out, but there's nothing to it, huh (I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?)?
- I'm trying to find out whether the consciousness lies within us, brought out...
- Identification will remain always (yes, param pada is just like you fly in the sky, go very high. So from here we cannot see that you are separately existing. But you are separately existing. It is my deficient eyes that I see that you are not separate)?
- If a brahmana is black?
- If a devotee thinks that he likes, for example, Vrndavana more than he likes Mayapur, is that a wrong thinking, or is that his personal...?
- If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?
- If at this platform we are not yet..., we are still desiring to depart from Krsna's service and enjoy, then we are not, we have not yet tasted devotional service, what is it that we have tasted that is keeping us temporarily connected to Krsna?
- If destiny cannot be changed, what does Krsna mean when He says, "Be thou happy by this sacrifice"?
- If God is meant to be propitiated, then why is it that we have so many things for our enjoyment? You say that everything is for God's enjoyment.
- If he gave us the material world to enjoy, then why do we have to suffer here?
- If He is giving us intelligence, why doesn't He give us enough intelligence so that we could be God conscious?
- If he was unable to chant or to become a full-time devotee, that your program for a person in that condition of life, was something like… become a member and take books and read... Is that satisfactory, if they can do that much
- If I call Krsna, I accept Krsna as Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then the question comes to me, "Why are you calling yourself Vaisnavas? Why not Krsnayas?"
- If I say, I pray to God, "O Lord Krsna, I surrender unto You." So is..., maya will not touch me? I will not be affected by this material infection?
- If I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific basis… So where does religion come into it at all?
- If I'm trying to get people to chant, that's all I can do. And if that will purify them, then surrender will come. How can I force someone to surrender?
- If it is not too much a personal question, have you had a saksaska?
- If it is possible, should we go without eating at all?
- If life is based on the desires of the living entities, and as you were mentioning that the material energy forms so many complex combinations, the material body is so complex, does that mean that the living entity is very much entangled?
- If matter is inferior to the spirit soul, then isn't it correct to say that the spirit soul is more complex or sophisticated than matter? If matter is inferior?
- If no one was thinking that they needed your presence, then how is it some have come and some have not come? What is the difference?
- If not even a blade of grass moves unless Krsna sanctions it, then why does someone have the opportunity to perform such ajnata-sukrti, another person not?
- If one is not complete in their Krsna consciousness then what will happen?
- If one of your brahmana initiated disciples falls from this platform, leaves the temple and commits offenses, then returns, demanding respect, should he be allowed to keep the sacred thread or should he...?
- If one serves the higher devotees and shows compassion to less advanced devotees, then where is the question... for a position of an advanced devotee who is feeling himself to be the lowest? So is that distinction still there of higher and lower?
- If one simply goes on serving, engaging in all sorts of different activities for the satisfaction of Krsna, but he never, in this lifetime at least, has realization of Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan...?
- If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
- If our love for Krsna originally is perfect why should we have left?
- If somebody is following the instructions, but if there's attraction for maya...
- If somebody is in the movement for several years and feels that he's not making progress and leaves, is he looked upon as a sinner or enemy? How do the devotees feel about persons like that?
- If somebody wants to preach. Is that the sign of advancement?
- If somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
- If someone accepts his dependence on God, then what is the second step?
- If someone is doing some service which involves business, is he thinking of Krsna when he's thinking of that service?
- If the artistic inspiration, like the intuition, is also coming from Paramatma?
- If the Bhagavad-gita is in the Mahabharata - that's itihasa - how did it get the name Upanisad, Gitopanisad?
- If the conditions in the spiritual world are so nice and everything is spiritually, everything is spiritual, how is it that one can become envious of Krsna in such conditions?
- If the devotee is situated on the platform of the brahma-bhutah, but he may not necessarily see everything as Brahman, does that mean that his realization is by intelligence, and by his activity, or what does that mean?
- If the government is giving them free homes and we're giving them free prasadam, why should they work?
- If the Mayavadis don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then what is their explanation of reincarnation?
- If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?
- If the natural tendency of the living entity is to want to exist, to live, then why is it they perform so many horrible acts that will destroy themselves?
- If these animals (dinosaur or finosaur) were on this planet some millions of years ago, they are still here, is that correct?
- If they desire to commit sinful activities and before they became monkeys, but then they were doing it then. So whilst they're monkeys their desire must change. Or is it forced, that change forced upon them by the mercy of Krsna?
- If they've wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they're able to calculate these eclipses and whatever?
- If varnasrama is neglected, then how can there be proper functioning of society?
- If we are supposed to be spiritualists, then why do we have so many cars, why do we have so many watches, why do we have so many different things that they can see are there within the temple?
- If we can become Krsna conscious without following the rules and regulations, why follow the rules and regulations? That's what I was thinking a while ago
- If we could take something which I believe you feel very strongly about, and that's some of the other Eastern cults and gurus… Can you explain to me why it is that...?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we get on Fifth Avenue, you'll come again (to Ratha-yatra in New York)?
- If we say that Krsna enters even within the atom, what is His business there?
- If we try to please Krsna with all of our service and activities, that automatically brings pleasure to the self?
- If we're in anxiety that we cannot perform devotional service nicely, that is all right?
- If we're very attracted to reading Caitanya caritamrta now, but we haven't finished Srimad-Bhagavatam as yet, should we wait until we have studied Srimad-Bhagavatam thoroughly?
- If when one comes to spiritual life, is he coming because of material exhaustion, so much pain in the material world, so therefore he's searching?
- If you do not use any soap, the question has come up, how to wash cloth. By beating only? Sufficient?
- If you don't teach vaisyas for this gurukula then how do they do the accounts?
- If you had died before you had come to the United States, would that have been a tragedy?
- If you say Goloka is infinite we should be existing within Gokula. How is it that we are without Gokula?
- If you see only (if you see only to the flowers, you become invigorated)?
- If you take milk in other forms, like if you eat cheese, if you take curd or cheese, is it the same as drinking milk or ... ?
- If you take that logic and use it the other way... If you say the animal has no soul... then you'd have to say human beings would have no soul, wouldn't you?
- If you want your thoughts to be passed on to other people, why do you sell the books and make money out of them?
- If you were only sponsored for one month, how is it that you were able to extend your visa all the time?
- If you're already in a good situation, why create a bad one?
- If you're not very fixed up then should you still go out and preach?
- In Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- In Bhuvanesvara you are going to have any plan for making a temple?
- In Calcutta also there is a project?
- In Calcutta. And when you were there in Calcutta, did you receive the training?
- In each universe there is a Vrndavana and a Mayapur. That means in each universe there's a planet earth like this planet?
- In La Cienega?
- In Mayapur is a devotee free to, for example, enjoy the, all the scenery without...?
- In order for a candidate (Presidential candidate) to be God conscious, would he have to be part of the Hare Krsna movement?
- In order to establish the asrama will you be spending part of the year here?
- In other words, they are theorizing that "Death is a very peaceful state of sleeping. Why are we protesting so much"?
- In our experience we have no understanding how this can be practical, because we think that meat is good for our strength. How can we be strong?
- In our planetarium, Srila Prabhupada, we want to actually show the different qualities of life on the different planetary systems also?
- In some parts of the Bible it describes how things were being carried out, and they say that the activities were going on according to the will of God. Does that mean that there was a God conscious civilization then?
- In the beginning how does the spirit become ignorant, falls into ignorance?
- In the case of Maharaja Vena there was some recourse for the brahmanas. What can we do?
- In the case where a devotee is definitely sincerely following your instructions and applying himself to all these principles that Krsna has outlined, then when there's difficulty for him, how is he to understand that?
- In the family. Any formal?
- In the fish body will he have to suffer for all his other sinful activities also?
- In the glorifications of Rg Veda, (indistinct) example of glorifications of Krsna there?
- In the Kali-yuga, bhakti has been described as the most suitable and easiest of paths for God realization. Yet how is it that Vedantic teachings, with their accent on jnana, are being given the pride of place by noted savants or knowers?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the mode of ignorance, if he wishes to come to the platform of the mode of goodness, does he have to pass through the mode of passion to get to the mode of goodness? Or can you go directly from the mode of ignorance to the mode of goodness?
- In the park (…prohibited?)?
- In the park, Srila Prabhupada (I was coming here daily for cooking my food)?
- In the Sixth Canto of the Bhagavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in one of your purports, you mention that great scientists like Einstein, Newton and Chandra Bose had such great brains, but who has created their brain?
- In the two abodes of the plenary expansion of Krsna. What exists?
- In the vanaprastha asrama, after fifty years of age, what is the duty? Is it to live in the temple, or devote most of time to Krsna, or where the wife comes in then?
- In their evidences by which they base their dialectic discussions, have they regarded the Vedic scriptures?
- In these rocks the upper one is older according to their calculation by geological dating method and the younger one is at the bottom… So how do we explain these things? How do we explain from our point of view? The upside down of the rocks
- In this country (Pakistan) also they have taken (well, Muslim India or same India, those who are intelligent, they are taking to Krsna consciousness)?
- In this maha-mantra that you publicize, Hare Krsna, it is Krsna that is emphasized. (indistinct) emphasis His Bhagavata and other things are popularized. Is it corresponding...?
- In Vrndavana (Bombay is the center. So now we are having our temple, whenever you go, you can stay with us)?
- In what way would we develop it (Bhaktivinoda Thakura's birthplace)?
- In your opinion, is it impossible for somebody to be a scientist and not to believe in God?
- Initiated devotee, and he follows those four regulative principles and chants sixteen rounds, will he go back to Godhead?
- Initiation (of Srila Prabhupada) was held at that Gaudiya Matha in Allahabad?
- Insurance for what (they make insurance of life. So where is your insurance for these things? You do not want to die, but you are forced to die. Where is insurance? This is insurance, Krsna consciousness)?
- Is a devotee always in some anxiety to see others unhappy?
- Is a devotee required to work very hard for material necessities?
- Is a guru essential to one to enter the spiritual path and attain the goal, and how does one recognize one's guru?
- Is earth still being manifested from ether? Like the description in Bhagavatam is from sound and then through different elements finally down to earth. Is that still happening today?
- Is incense a form of intoxication?
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it actually possible for the demons to win?
- Is it an internal educational process or external (it is an educational movement to enlighten the people from gross ignorance to the highest enlightenment of spiritual understanding)?
- Is it because the Indians think that they know much about Bhagavad-gita (now all Indians, they should take Bhagavad-gita as it is and make their life fruitful. The Europeans and Americans, they are taking. Why Indians are not taking?)?
- Is it because they are killing the cows that this is happening, Srila Prabhupada (they've lost their religious sentiment, religious consciousness. They're just like rude, crude)?
- Is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple? Like somebody working all day and following the regulative principles?
- Is it better to do it the way you did it or to start from a very early age in the, er…?… In other words, some of our members are sannyasa at an earlier age
- Is it better to have a human body as a machine to use than a cat's body?
- Is it good to publicize these situations, Prabhupada, that we are encountering so much difficulty? Is it good to publicize that, in a film, say?
- Is it more beneficial for people to hear the Panca-tattva mantra than the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
- Is it more difficult to do this (your daily routine) when you're traveling a lot?
- Is it more favorable for spreading Krsna consciousness if there is some material problems, social problems? If there is a lack of God consciousness, then people become frustrated. Is that a more favorable situation for Krsna consciousness to take root?
- Is it more important to organize the women's book distribution or to work on College preaching?
- Is it more natural to love someone else? Is it more natural for someone else to enjoy or for ourselves to enjoy?
- Is it necessary and possible to outline certain basic minimum observances for all Hindus?
- Is it necessary from time to time to change the smrtis?
- Is it necessary that a person should pass through the three asramas, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, before coming to sannyasa?
- Is it necessary to get to know the true self before knowing God?
- Is it necessary to have a therapeutic system?
- Is it not as good to serve God as a Christian in a church?
- Is it not better to run than to stand still and sleep?
- Is it not possible for all sections of Hindus, be they Advaitans, Dvaitans, or visistadvaitans, to come together instead of remaining isolated as warring factions?
- Is it possible (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right)?
- Is it possible for a saint at certain stage of sadhana to perform miracles?
- Is it possible for one to know how many lifetimes it takes to reach spiritual perfection?
- Is it possible for people in the most animalistic conditions of life such as the Eskimos, who need meat to survive-is it possible for these people to become purified?
- Is it possible of making some experiments which would tend to indicate that life is not material? And this might be appealing to some of the people with scientific education, because they are used to such things, experiments
- Is it possible to do some experiments (everywhere there is living entity. It is impossible to conclude that on other planets there is no living entity. It is not possible)?
- Is it possible to escape the conditions of being in the body?
- Is it possible to live a household life and at the same time a spiritual life?
- Is it possible to talk and also to chant the mantra at the same time?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession?
- Is it recommended that a woman become a sannyasi?
- Is it right that if you come to Krsna consciousness, all the duties are automatically taken care of?
- Is it that people have confused materialism with happiness?
- Is it that they (the Mafia) see everyone as their enemy, and therefore everything has to be around them?
- Is it true or not true that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta said that failure is the pillar of success?
- Is it true that there are more young people now in the world that are giving more serious thought to what life is really all about?
- Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that Krsna is testing us every day?
- Is it, though? (laughter) (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right? - Is it possible? - Yes, if it is possible)
- Is Kali-yuga the age when desires become manifest like this?
- Is Krsna cons..., the Krsna movement, is it still growing?
- Is Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita different from the one in Bhagavatam?
- Is nature materialism? I mean, there are many things which are obvious, such as money, greed, etc. But how about nature, love?
- Is not Rama a God?
- Is number important in chanting? It has to be certain number, or you can just chant?
- Is religion a practical knowledge?
- Is service to the Supreme Lord the same as realization of the Absolute Truth?
- Is she Krsna conscious (your wife)?
- Is smrti more than just rules of conduct?
- Is that ("you have fallen down? You must commit suicide. No more My association") the same as in the Bhagavad-gita where Krsna says, "For one who is honored, dishonor is worse than death"?
- Is that (even abortion they (priests) are defending) because they have no standard?
- Is that (he (Buddha) simply asked that you finish this material desire) not misleading?
- Is that a teaching of the Bhagavad-gita, that one should not eat meat?
- Is that actual freedom, though? (that a thief also has got the conscience, "Why shall I steal?")
- Is that because of the age (the problems will be solved as soon as he surrenders to God. But that he'll not do)?
- Is that bhajananandi and gosthyanandi?
- Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? (they perform Radha-Krsna kalyana, marriage)
- Is that cheating propensity (if the kanistha-adhikari thinks that "I have become uttama-adhikari," then he's a rascal)?
- Is that counted as one of the 8,400,000 species? Is the atom counted among the different species?
- Is that differentiated (total material elements, mahat-tattva)?
- Is that immediately after one dies you transfer to another body, or later (you are associating with some modes of material nature. So according to that association, you'll get next body)?
- Is that just as healthy as nim leaves? Patola leaves?
- Is that kind of information given in the Vedas (a class of men, they are called vaidyas (doctors). They know all these herb, which herb is medicine for certain disease, and they sell in the market)?
- Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
- Is that special arrangement that they seem to be impoverished? Say like the villagers, they're not very wealthy.
- Is that the flat (one hundred, Seventy-second Street) that you were staying in that was broken into? Is that the place that was broken into?… That was where the typewriter was stolen?
- Is that the heart of the soul or the heart of the gross material body (you are our student. You are saying there is no heart (some of the insects don't even have hearts). That means you do not carefully read)?
- Is that what is meant when a man thinks when he dies (according to your desire, you'll get a body), at the moment...?
- Is that what you want?
- Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?
- Is the government discouraging...(opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern)?
- Is the only way to know Krsna through the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Is the prayer communal, where all take part in the prayer, or is it individual?
- Is the seeing important?
- Is the soul dependent upon the body for its existence?
- Is the Srimad-Bhagavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyasadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?
- Is the sun going around the earth?
- Is the Superself a spirit?
- Is there a relationship, he's asking, between these disturbances and this age (if you actually want freedom from material disturbances, you have to come to the spiritual platform and cultivate spiritual knowledge and be fixed up)?
- Is there a time limit for this spiritual growth?
- Is there an atom for each (of the ninety-two elements)? Is there a copper atom?
- Is there any chance of having a gurukula in Canada?
- Is there any difference between the ego of a person who is collecting money, or material things, all his life, or a person who is giving all the material things for the service of humanity at large? Is there any difference between the two?
- Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
- Is there any method for dissent within your movement? Or change?
- Is there any need to increase our prasadam distribution? Right now about a thousand people come
- Is there any other bhasya other than Baladeva-bhasya?
- Is there any plan to translate into English? Is there any plan to translate Jiva Gosvami's Jiva-bhasya?
- Is there any point in your practice do you consider yourself free from taking lower re-births?
- Is there any reason why that (there is not large number of American negroes in your movement) is so?
- Is there any stage at which these atheistic people have done anything good by accident?... Is there any step?
- Is there anyone actually outside of sanatana-dharma then?
- Is there anyone who is designated to succeed you as the primary teacher of the movement?
- Is there are social act which this Hare Krsna movement has taken?
- Is there Deity worship on other planets?
- Is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- Is there false ego in different modes? Like false ego in the mode of ignorance, false in the mode of passion or goodness?
- Is there not something to this idea of brain, of being spiritually controlled or spiritually directed?... What would you call it?
- Is there one for you, Srila Prabhupada (milk preparation)?
- Is there some mention not to eat many animals but eat one...?
- Is there some other way we can argue with them (you say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you?), Prabhupada?
- Is there time in the higher nature?
- Is this because the illusion that we see is a representation of the spiritual world in a sense (this material world is only suffering, but under illusion we are accepting suffering as enjoyment)?
- Is this God's plan or our plan?
- Is this Hindu faith?
- Is this near the temple (the planetarium)?
- Is this style acceptable to Prabhupada (they sent one sample, Bhaktivedanta Institute, the emblem. And they had wanted to include some Sanskrit slogan, perhaps, and you'd mentioned athato brahma jijnasa, so they have done that and decorated little bit)?
- Is this your last trip to America?
- Is your way the only way?
- Isn't it in the sense the material concept (and those who know (indistinct), he is not hankering after how to get out of the (indistinct). They do not care for)?
- Isn't it when you drive for Krsna, doesn't it become para-vidya then?
- Isn't laziness one of the demonic qualities, Srila Prabhupada?
- Isn't that a rather negative way to look at the work (that is knowledge, that is knowledge. When a prisoner understands that "This hammering business is not my real business, it is my punishment")?
- Isn't there a point, Prabhupada, at which, you know, you can expect that you've been doing the right things, so there should be some relief?
- It (Calcutta) was bombed frequently, or just once or twice?
- It (tea or coffee) is sinful?
- It (the farm in Hyderabad) can produce enough food to feed the whole society... Do you want me to take care of?
- It (the letter on that Blitz article (a mischievous article in which the newspaper accused us incorrectly), I wrote a reply and sent it to Krishna Modi, the member of Parliament) is okay?
- It can be done inside then (blowing the conchshell)?
- It comes also from the living entities on the moon (the moon's light)?
- It doesn't appeal more to the young ones than to the older people (the Hare Krsna movement)?
- It is a fact though that the repository of Indian culture and religion is Sanskrit. So are you saying then that the harijanas or these class of people...?
- It is all coming from Krsna, though, isn't it (maya empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense)?
- It is also guru-purnima… Is there some special celebration or significance?
- It is correct that the illumination of the moon is caused by the movement of the vegetation on the surface?
- It is explained that the intelligence is the next door neighbor of the soul, can you explain exactly what that means, Srila Prabhupada?
- It is knowledge, that we don't have the knowledge, or enlightenment that in that watermelon there is something which is worth, or it is only that we don't want to do it, or we don't want to take the trouble?
- It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?… Doesn't that make it more difficult to live? The weather's, everything's so disturbed?
- It is part of your plan to operate schools for this purpose (a college to learn how to become first-class men)?
- It is said that the karma-kanda in the Vedas has almost gone out of use, except for a few rites which remain in vogue for marriage, sraddhas, etc. Is it advisable to revive the karma-kanda with its stress on the performance of various yajnas?
- It is the highest blasphemy, isn't it? If one says, "I am God."
- It may take some time. Actually I haven't been to Bombay myself. I haven't seen the land at Juhu. Is there a suitable place for storing the car?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It was some instruction that you got (there was two days I was attacked in heart on the ship. So hardship. (Then you had a dream?) The dream was I must come here)?
- It was too short. In the movie? It was too short how to prepare it (one thing you have missed: how we are preparing all these foodstuffs)?
- It's a big old tree (that courtyard is very beautiful. There is a tamale tree. That is a very valuable tree. The Bisanchand Seth asked me to cut)?
- It's a large city (the plan for Mayapur). Fifty thousand, did you say? People? How many people were there?
- It's been said sometimes, Prabhupada, that you have said that some rocks have life. Some rocks, some stones, are actually souls in them?
- It's considered offenseless if, chanting, if one follows the orders of the spiritual master carefully?
- It's difficult for people to understand that God can speak to a man. They question, "How can God speak to some man?"
- It's from the Bhagavatam (klisyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye tesam asau klesala eva sisyate nanyad yatha sthula-tusavaghatinam)?
- It's just evolution. There's no meaning. What's the meaning (I do not follow what is the meaning. The sun is rising half past six, exactly at the time. So there is no meaning?) We can't tell what the meaning is?
- It's more in this state (Bengal) than anywhere else, they don't cover their head. Is that due to her influence (wife of Ramakrishna)?
- It's mustard oil with spices, and I am not sure what the fruit is. It may be mango, I'm not sure… It's some kind of crude mango pickle… Do you want me to try to see what it is (why not take little?)?
- It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
- It's that "aham" is indicated to Who? The physical posture of Krsna which we know or the...?
- It's true that people are getting disease and sicknesses as the result of their past activities, pious or sinful. Why is it that it appears that when there is a flu many people are inflicted with that flu? Practically everyone, indiscriminately
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- Jayapataka Maharaja wanted to know whether the money that I (Tamala Krsna) want to give him can be used for purchasing a projector rather than the land purchase
- Jiva Gosvami was the guru of Mira?
- Just getting off that, can I ask why you've come to Australia again?
- Jyotirmayi is outside, and Yogesvara. We can have them come in? Is now the right time to ask? She has some questions on Gurukula. Is now okay?
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- Kapiladeva speaks about the feeling of being lost. Is that what the psychologists say is craziness?
- Kirtiraja Prabhu bought this for your rocking chair... Should I put it on?
- Klim krsnaya govindaya gopijanavallabhaya namah. Is that not a very powerful Krsna mantra?
- Knowing God through sastras is one thing, but can a realization come in life as Arjuna had?
- Krsna book, first half, will be ready on August 8th, twenty-five thousand also… Would you like to see the design for the cover?
- Krsna consciousness what (in India one paper, Sunday, they have published a nice article about us: "Krsna Consciousness Catches On")?
- Krsna is the friend of everyone. So why does He allow me to have this independence?
- Krsna manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?
- Krsna says that karma is concluded yat karosi yad asnasi, jnana is concluded bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate, and yoga is concluded yoginam api sarvesam. Krsna says, concluding, sarva-dharman parityajya. Is there some conc...?
- Krsna says to perform your sva-dharma, so how does one know what is his sva-dharma?
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- Let me ask you one more question. Why are you returning to India? Had you ever considered staying here in the United States?
- Let me ask you. If through technological means mankind is somewhat improved, in other words, the average man is much more intelligent, what you would consider now to be an intelligent man...
- Look at that picture, it's very clear. Should I read you this article ("East Meets West in Hare Krsna fete")
- Look at those spires! Prabhupada, do you see that spire? There's a spire at the top (of the ratha carts)
- Lord Caitanya predicted the holy name will be preached in every town and village throughout the world, so to what extent will it be preached?
- Lots of kirtana and prasadam (whatever you have learned from Krsna, from your guru, just vomit it, that's all. There is no need of becoming very expert. Simply whatever you learned. That's all)?
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- Machine is?… To Mars (there was some news. Their machine has gone to Mars planet)?
- Maharaja, did you show that article to... (yaj-jihvagre nama tubhyam. Aho bata svapa)?
- Maharaja, don't you think it's high time that our Indian philosophy or Indian religion, some classes should be started in schools like they used to have?
- Many devotees were asking me if we could make a Deity of Your Divine Grace?
- Many of these people can't take care of their children properly. I'm thinking when they see our boys they may want to give their sons. Is that a good program?
- Many people find it very difficult to reconcile the spiritual way of life in the Krsna movement with the great financial resources the movement also has. Why do you need any great financial...?
- Many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world and therefore their contributions to the world are being lost to the world and I wondered how you felt about that?
- Mars is after the moon?
- Material power from Visnu?
- May I ask you, Your Excellency, your own background? Were you born in India? Were you born in any other...?
- Maya has taken away their vision, their sense of understanding, sense of.... What do you call, sense of understanding or sense of...?
- Maybe around quarter to eleven, you'd like to come down and either participate in the bathing or give lecture at that time. And then afterwards the Deities will go back on the altar and we'll give the names outside. Is that all right?
- Maybe they should go in the procession though (the busses who carry the prasadam). That would look impressive, wouldn't it?
- Members of the Krsna society are not doing the jail work… He's not participating in jail life… What's he doing? He's trying to show them a different way? He's educating them to what? That this jail life is no good?
- Mind is very, very powerful. How to make use of that? Actually mind is using the man; man is not using his mind
- Mint chutney. How do you make mint chutney?
- Mung dahl is all right? Mung dahl?
- Must initiation be there, Srila Prabhupada?
- My humble prayer was that by doing japa, by doing meditation, by doing bhakti-marga, need we go to jnana-marga also, or bhakti-marga is enough by itself?
- My position you mean in relation to Krsna or in relation to the world (you do not know anything. That is your position. You must know what is your position. Then your duty)?
- My question is whether the name Krsna existed prior to Dvapara-yuga
- My question is, what is it that made you bring your movement into a culture and a religious ethos which is hostile to begin with, with most of your major assumptions?
- My question, sir, was that at some point you have to be the servant of the God, you will have to be a servant of your family or the country or something to serve?
- My shirt and coat are dead (the body is dead. Body is dead. Just like your shirt. It is dead always. Either on your body or hanging on the hanger. Your shirt and coat, is it not?)?
- My weekly visits, that Jyoti Swami showed me that incident at Japan, and he asked me, "Have you seen...?"
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- Nandaki, is it as good mechanically as a Mercedes?
- New (indistinct), do you mean to say?
- No doubt, but what about the daily worship? Should we have Jagannatha deities if it's not possible for worshiping them? Should we have them just for the festival?
- No, but why are you comparing nature to a father and mother?
- No, no, but what power he has got (Satya Sai Baba) to produce just now...?
- No, no, have you given up the idea of Kuruksetra?
- No, no, I'm saying this is what really happened, right? So we were thinking that we could show one day, this is one day, one day of Brahma...
- No, why do your followers chant the Hare Krsna chant in the street? What is the reason behind this?
- Not visualizing the presence of God everywhere?
- Nothing else (that little dal, daliya, bas)?
- Nothing else? No fruits (so for breakfast you can prepare that soup, the little. Just put vegetable soup)?
- Now do you find that in the United States there is the most active membership financially speaking. In terms of contributing to this movement, supporting the movement, is the best field America?
- Now how do you classify these men, these Christian mystics, Protestant as well as Catholic?
- Now I understand you're the founder of the Hare Krsna movement. Can you tell me how it came to be founded?
- Now suppose we take so many chemicals from the earth and they may become a little depleted. Can those chemicals be replaced by the earth itself as the ongoing process of nature?
- Now that he has received Krsna consciousness, he would like to know from you how he should behave in his normal life, because he'll be living very far from the temple?
- Now two priests of your temple in America have been arrested on certain charges as we read from the newspaper...?
- Now we've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live? What difference it makes to their life?
- Now, how would you proceed in this training program?
- Now, we've had two readings from your scriptures. Where did these scriptures comes from? Can you explain that briefly?
- Now, you are not practicing the Vedic system, then, here, are you? Or are you?
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- Offer food to an idol?
- Oh, we can go on? How (no, without finance we can go on)?
- Oh. Crosswords are gambling?
- Okay, I was speaking in an analogical way. There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness?
- Okay, is it a mediated choice or is it a direct communication from Krsna, that's my question… He's asking whether we claim that God speaks to us directly?
- Okay, now Karen Ann Quinlan, you know her?
- Okay. So in that case, when would you like to come and visit (the arati, it is called sandhya arati. Sandhya arati means just in the evening. What is the time of sunset nowadays? 5:30, then one hour after. Then 6:30 is all right. 6:30 is all right)?
- On all the other auspicious days, just like Narottama dasa Thakura and others, should we also observe half-day fast? ... And Srimati Radharani?
- On carts (Janmastami, take Radha-Krsna procession)?
- On the fourth floor we're going to have doll projects. Doll exhibits. So there's an open balcony up there and I want to do something like that, see up there with the glass, the balcony?
- On the platform of, on the dead platform (so we are working on that platform where the life is there. And people in general they are working on the platform of this body)? You say people in general...
- On this planet we have certain elements, like iron, water, or sand. Could there be other elements on other planets, new elements?
- On what basis (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession)?
- Once they (the cows) expire, how do you propose to expose of the body?
- Once this oxygen appeared, free oxygen, then the living entities began to appear slowly. That is the whole theory of this chemical evolution. The results for the chronology is just put it that dawn of Brahma is two billion years old?
- Once you surrender to God, will you still have to look for an authority to guide you, or Krsna helps you to find Him?
- One boy I recommended for second initiation, but during the fire ceremony he was away on traveling sankirtana for Vrndavana. Will he be able to take initiation from you and have the ceremony later, before you go?
- One day our men will be leaders of government?
- One may say that if there's no independence, then where is the question of initiative in the material world, taking initiative?
- One must approach a perfect spiritual master and he must become perfect disciple. Could you explain that?
- One must understand Bhagavad-gita before Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- One of the major issues always in political battles is how would you control inflation, how would you solve the inflation problem?
- One of the things you say is that "Religion without a rational basis is just sentiment." Can you explain that to us, and the converse of it, which...?
- One of your followers here mentioned that the university here in Toronto is teaching your books and so forth. Do you feel that any contact with your ideas?
- One thing that has always confused a lot of devotees is how is it possible to eat something in the spiritual world when that, the thing that you're eating is also spiritual?
- One thing though is, July is, like in Melbourne, it's wintertime there. So is it okay if they have the festival in summer months?
- One thing, New Zealand cities are passing bylaws which seek to ban the chanting of your disciples in the streets. Do you get much opposition like this?
- One thing, the other day they were saying that sometimes when they have this skim milk, and there's some excess after they've fed it to the cows, they throw it away, they use it for fertilizer. Should they do that? Is that all right to use that?
- One time when I was staying in the Krsna-Balarama mandira, I saw a man smoking a bidi in his room. If that happens - in the bedroom - should the managers go and say this is not permitted?
- One time you said that they criticized you when you were going to America because you did not know about the knife and the fork?
- One time you were explaining that Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was speaking with the Kazi, He convinced him about that the Koran does not actually advocate meat-eating
- Only when you went downtown did the permanent men come. No one was visiting you up here (seventy-second Street)? Hayagriva?... Mukunda?
- Or you can stay here and go to Kumbha-mela straight?
- Otherwise, om is only given to sannyasis (if you keep Krsna, that "This pranava is the sound representation of Krsna," then it is all right. If you think it is separately powerful than Krsna, that is nama-aparadha)?
- Otherwise, why is it happening like that (you can understand, just the one grain of poison, potassium cyanide. You touch on your tongue, immediately whole body becomes poisoned. How the molecules spread immediately)?
- Outer cloth (the Western people, they do not know what is cleanliness. And therefore brahmana's another name is suci, always clean. Three times' bathing, three times' changing cloth. It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed)?
- Outer cloth? Dhoti, like that (brahmana's another name is suci, always clean. Three times' bathing, three times' changing cloth. It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed)?
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- Painting (female children should be taught how to become faithful to the husband, and to learn the arts of cooking, arts of painting - that should be their subject matter)?
- Pardon me (could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did? Why shall I tell you?)? If you wish
- Pardon me (you are not prepared (to die)? Why don't you answer?)?
- Passing the test means executing the order of the spiritual master?
- Pear also (banana is very good. And give me apples)?
- Perfume?
- Perhaps finally, then, I could ask you, do you ever have any doubts?
- Perhaps you could explain to me the different feelings that you've gone through in your life. Is that possible?
- Perhaps you would like to tell me on what level I should present our movement?
- Persons who are too much sinful... if they can't give up their sinful activities even after hearing about Krsna, are they in the envious class or the innocent class?
- Prabhu, how do you regard the detachment idea?
- Prabhu, Vivekananda also stated, "Awake. Arise. Stop not until the goal is reached." What goal did he preach?
- Prabhupada also got sick in India. Remember? Two years ago in Vrndavana
- Prabhupada, are the laws of karma written?
- Prabhupada, did Christ return to the spiritual planets then, when he left the earth, to be with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, did you want to tell another story?
- Prabhupada, even if a person is not willing to hear spiritual knowledge, when you come and speak, a person, you know, can develop faith in Krsna or God. So why doesn't Krsna come and make it easy?
- Prabhupada, if spiritual life and Krsna are stronger than maya, then how is it that religion was ever overcome to the extent it is now? In Kali-yuga it's so much neglected... How is it that maya got such a stronghold?
- Prabhupada, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?
- Prabhupada, in Vaisnava temples, asramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?
- Prabhupada, is it all right if I remain a sannyasi?
- Prabhupada, is it not so that so-called marital love and parental love is possessive?
- Prabhupada, is it possible that a living entity, a jiva soul, can have pastimes in relation to God?
- Prabhupada, on the one hand you say the scientists are rascals, and on the other you say not to condemn them?
- Prabhupada, they said that if Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted Krsna consciousness in the Western countries, why didn't He go there Himself? That's what they told us
- Prabhupada, we want to follow your instructions word by word, but sometime we can find some difficulty. In a case of difficulty, what should we do?
- Prabhupada, what about in the case where you have this ideal civilization with the brahmanas instructing, but the brahmanas don't agree? Just like in Bhagavad-gita, the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, there were many brahmanas, but they didn't agree
- Prabhupada, what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was invited to...?
- Prabhupada, when a living entity is in an animal body, and when he quits his body, there's no karma, he's just automatically promoted to a higher body?
- Prabhupada, when someone comes to the stage of being convinced like that, that there is no other business, what is that stage called?
- Prabhupada, who is that prostitute the gopis refer to...?
- Prabhupada? (very faint) ...petroleum demand, he takes out the blood of the earth and so the planet is going to sink (indistinct) said... So can we do something about it?
- Prabhupada? Buddha was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the incarnation of Krsna, right? Then why he has preached the impersonal form of God?
- Prabhupada? For every animal except the cow, you said, like a..., does a person have to pay off a one-to-one ratio for the animal killed? He just has to come back one time for, like, killing a goat? Is it just one time then, instead of many times?
- Prabhupada? I was reading in a magazine that in Germany the people used to be pious, but after the Second World War...
- Prabhupada? Is Krsna right here in the room?
- Practically one experiences that the heat in the body, the lusty desires increases heat within the body. So is there any correlation between fire within the body and the mode of passion?
- Practically, though, without God consciousness, isn't it that people see that whether they are moral or not moral, they still suffer?
- Pradyumna told me that it's available in Bengali (Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada's surya-siddhanta), Srila Prabhupada?
- Professionals may translate, but one of our men may check?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know whether we cannot do one very small pocketbook edition that will sell very inexpensively?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know, would it not be more valuable if our men spoke Sanskrit and could translate directly from the Sanskrit into French?
- Protect your mind... Wed it to the soul and taken away from all extraneous things which are made up of maya, is that not the meaning?
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- Radha-Govinda were the only Deities in the neighborhood?
- Ramanujacarya is very well known in India, so why don't they read his commentary?
- Ranganatha temple is in Vrndavana or in south?
- Realization of spiritual life?
- Really? (always, so long I live, I must come)
- Regarding your questions about Tulasidevi?
- Relationships between devotees are eternal?
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- Samosa?
- Sanatana is eternal. It is eternal religion. It is the religion of the soul and not of the body, dies. Soul is eternal, so religion is eternal. I am right, sir?
- Say if a human being falls down into the animal species, after that, does he go through each and every one of these species successively? Even there are different types of dogs, he becomes each different type of dog?
- Second Avenue apartment?
- See this man here, Srila Prabhupada? He's emptied out all the wastepaper baskets all over the grass, and now he's searching through to see if there's anything of any value
- Seems silly, doesn't it (do you think it is civilization? Mother who has given you milk in your childhood, and maintained your life, and because she is old, cutting throat. Is that good civilization?). Umm, I think are you keeping cows here?
- Send one to Mayapur as well (you can send one, this cutting, to Mr. Bhajaj, "Fifth Avenue, Where East Meets West." Very good)?
- Service and reading are nondifferent?
- 7-UP? We'll have to send someone out for it
- 7-UP? You want 7-UP? I can get it
- Shall I read it?
- Shankar Kumar has brought the food and all these things to his place. So if you like you to afterwards or take here or what would you like?
- She can keep him and teach him all the time? Until he's older and so on (he complained that "My boy is not being properly..." So I said that "You teach your son")?
- She said what do you think about the other gurus?
- She wants to know what's the best activity to perform to go back to Godhead
- She's (Mrs. Marchand) asking what should a woman do if she is alone?
- She's (Mrs.Marchand) asking that since in these Western countries the families are so broken up and the women sometimes cannot find a qualified husband, what should she do?
- She's asking why is three to four hours the amount that you sleep. How have you reached that standard?
- Should I concentrate my time for this (pushing our books)?
- Should I cook if I still have this fever tomorrow?
- Should I develop that scheme (the farm) then?
- Should I make this (with a letter that "Prabhupada says like this, that you print in the Hindi edition of Bhagavata-darsana so that everyone will see, and will judge how it is done nicely")?
- Should I not go to the London zone at this time? I've been invited. They say they need a sannyasi in that zone, for years, so I've been invited. Do you think I should go now with Satsvarupa Maharaja, or go to London?
- Should I read the translation (of "Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness") in Hindi?
- Should I represent Kuvera?
- Should ISKCON devotees live in each of these little villages?
- Should there be a college program in each temple? Or should everyone just work along with the BBT Library Party? Should there be a college program?
- Should we always endeavor in spite of pain to push ourselves in Krsna consciousness?
- Should we go to the colleges and universities and make program?
- Should we have some program with these Mulliks sometimes, visit?
- Should we put any little arch on this gate?
- Shouldn't there be a balance between physical existence and spiritual existence? Like between body and spirit?
- Sir, what is your opinion about Sai Baba?
- Sir, who initiated you into this movement?
- Sir, whom do you find more responsive to your movement, women or men?
- Sir, why are they sinful? Why are they (to take tea or coffee) sinful?
- Skim milk should not be given to the calves? The calves should get?
- Small black beads that the devotees are wearing from Radha-kunda. They have a string of beads made of clay from Radha-kunda Are they...? .... So it's all right to wear them?
- Smrti cannot be changed?
- So "Krsna, in person"?
- So a neophyte devotee who's following the principles of sadhana-bhakti is still considered pure devotee?
- So always your writing, people were attracted by?
- So are they (cockroaches) coming from eggs, or how are they coming? Just the soul enters the dirt?
- So can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- So can I know the reason why you are restraining the use of gobar gas now. I could not understand actual technical difficulty. Is there any difficulty?
- So do you want to quote this verse?
- So does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- So early in the moon's history... then there was the water in the atmosphere... But then, due to the atmosphere being dry, not being any atmosphere, now it's just rocks and dust… So if there was originally an atmosphere, why is it not there now?
- So every man has his own world that he's living in?
- So false ego is the base of all material activities, but I may be acting in a certain mode, contaminated in a certain way. Is that right?
- So for one who gives up sinful activities, does his sense of God consciousness become awakened?
- So from Mathura everyone went to Allahabad (For Srila Prabhupada's initiation)?
- So God is an individual then?
- So how can it be that the karmi, who is after some material benefit, if he approaches Krsna, he can be better off than the jnani?
- So how can one be out of this cakra?
- So how can they, the Krsna... (the real disease is there is no Krsna)?
- So how can we chalk out a program of, say, training of leaders from the villages...?
- So how would you define sin? What is impurities or to sin?
- So how would, for example, the government.... In a perfect society, how would the government check to see that the brahmanas are actually practicing, and how would...?
- So I have no other goal but to have the phala of past karmas. Or can I change my fate?
- So I look a fool and they'll become wise, all of them, eh?
- So I'll tell them our policy is changed. We don't keep any more money in fixed deposit because it's a losing bargain?
- So I'm wondering how Lord Caitanya's movement is going on on other planets other than this planet. Is there some organized sankirtana?
- So if he (Ramakrishna) had no appetite it means he was transcendentally situated?
- So if I have a fever I shouldn't cook for you? It's unhealthy for you? It won't bother me so much, but if it's unhealthy for you...
- So if we don't choose our leaders by popular election, how will society be governed?
- So if we have to wake again, then there's no really.... Why should we have to stop birth and death?
- So if we're performing the Deity worship and we get in anxiety, how to make it nice?
- So in ISKCON, if someone falls down, it means that he should commit suicide?
- So in other words that means the pure devotees can be omniscient?
- So in parenthesis we write, "In Scientific Knowledge" (the title of the journal (of the Bhaktivedanta Institute) is Sa-vijnanam)
- So in relation to your movement, where does Marxism stand?
- So is it correct to say that if we're not Krsna conscious, then if it's not the grhastha problem, it would be some other problem?
- So is it necessary to be fixed up to take sannyasa, or one should take sannyasa to become fixed up?
- So is it that everything we do, are we trying to make some mental adjustment, that "We're taking prasadam..."?
- So is it that in order to maintain something in this material world also, there has to be the touch of the mode of goodness?
- So is it to be understood that a very simple person who has all kinds of material desires, if he approaches God...?
- So is the spirit soul implicated in that decision in any way, or is it simply the three modes of material nature working?... So how is the spirit soul involved in it? Is the spirit soul choosing, or is the decision already made by his karma?
- So is there anything obligatory or prescribed for all people who follow this religion, that a minimum observance that they must do?
- So is there ever, for someone whose determination wavers and slackens here and there, is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- So is there some time that maybe somebody could stay here when he comes in that frame of consciousness?
- So isn't that life coming from matter?
- So it may seem like these other things are stepping-stones to Krsna, but is it necessarily so?
- So it's better to be in the mode of passion than the mode of ignorance?
- So let's say someone is in a very degraded condition of life, modes of ignorance, passion. Their mind is always disturbed. Is surrender to Krsna.... Is it possible that it can be independent even of the mind?
- So Los Angeles center was opened on your arrival back from India. And up to that time there was New York and...?... And Montreal?
- So now you've defined a perfect leader. What is a perfect system? What are the criterion for a perfect system?
- So one of the things we want to do is expose this cheating (the moon planet is also Arizona). Should we expose this kind of thing directly like this, or should we indirectly deal with it?
- So one question I wanted to ask you in this connection, is that this Vinobha, fasting until death, until cow slaughter is stopped. So if he dies then he is guilty of murder. Is it correct. And if he's a brahmana, he is guilty of brahma-hatya?
- So one who has surrendered, what is his thinking and acting, how he lives in the world?
- So pious activity is that activity which brings us to the spiritual world, and impious activity, activity which roots us here? Or are even the pious activities of the material world considered bad?
- So simply suffering is not a qualification for becoming God conscious then?
- So sleeping is like temporary death?
- So that is within us (the dormant Krsna consciousness)?... And it needs to be brought out... And how is that brought out?
- So that piece of land is not exactly on the parikrama but off the parikrama. It's not so far from our property. You know the big park near Singhania's place?
- So that should be standard (chanting 25 rounds) for our movement on ekadasi day?
- So the bona fide guru does not claim to be God, but he gives knowledge of God, and he only deals with God?
- So the form in the spiritual sky is not absolute either? We can take different forms in the spiritual sky?
- So the living entity who is in the lower body like insects or plants... And he passes through all the species?
- So the moon planet is said to be high planet, but sand is not as nice as vegetation. How is that?
- So the only way to beat that cycle is ajnata-sukrti?
- So the saintly person tends to overlook the bad qualities and see the good ones?
- So the scientists' conception of atom is wrong?
- So the seed of.... The soul is within the vapor?
- So then part of initiation means that you're prepared to do something more than simply chant and eat prasadam?
- So then the problems of life are more than simply those which we perceive (meditating means this subject matter: that I don't want death, why death is forced upon me? That is real meditation)?
- So then they want to know, is it all right to show the demons and the demigods standing right on the ocean?
- So then to love Krsna is unnatural?
- So then why do they reject it?
- So then, is it true then that people who have this conception, they would not try for progress?
- So there are a lot of these people who do that, false knowledge?
- So therefore it is good that we have so much Deity worship to do that we're very, very busy and we do not have any time?
- So these bones that they have found of these gigantic animals, they were all living underneath the water?... Not on the land?
- So these scriptures have been in existence since we have, is what you're saying. What about other scriptures, other religions have got their scriptures. Do you believe, do you accept them?
- So they (certain species of human life) can perform, like, let's say for example, intoxication or meat-eating, and they won't receive any sinful reaction?
- So they break very easily? ... These plates, the silverware and things that people use?
- So they will not make some objection if they think we are thinking we have come to preach Hinduism in a Buddhist country?
- So this, our science, is a science of maya. Not the science of spirit. Am I right?
- So we are requesting if all the devotees can possibly go (this evening they are having one convention here, the Democratic National Convention… So we want to send all the devotees in the temple on sankirtana party there)?
- So we can bring the mind under control of Krsna?
- So we can say "Sa-vijnanam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute." Is that all right?
- So we couldn't call the restaurant the "Hare Krsna Restaurant" because there were some restrictions in the block, so we were thinking we'd call it "Sankirtana." That's okay?
- So we get frustrated, but where the first apple came. Where is seed of first apple planted on this earth planet?
- So we should be careful from whom we accept charity?
- So we should simply try to understand Krsna?
- So we shouldn't do that in our field (Let the animals eat as much as they like)?
- So we'll tell the doctor to please wait?
- So what about the common man? If he accepts the Gurukula system he can also be spiritually advanced?
- So what are you doing now? You've come to England for a brief stay. I gather you travel a lot
- So what determines the different varieties of dogs and cats if they are just automatically being...?
- So what do you really mean by arousing the Krsna consciousness? What does it entail?
- So what is our answer to such persons (They don't accept Bhagavad-gita)?
- So what is the choice (Krsna does not force you. He says the real, "You love me, you'll be happy. If you don't love, you suffer." But that is your business)?
- So what is the exact meaning of that verse, sraddha-sabde?
- So what is your opinion, Srila Prabhupada?
- So what would be the difference for the, in this case, that one who is identifying himself as Christian or one is identifying himself as devotee of Krsna?
- So when did you come back again?
- So when people are taught, they will then understand. But what I'd also like to know, how would it affect the way they live? In sort of purely..., the way they go about their life
- So where does most of your money come from?
- So where that is described in the Third Canto, Part Four, where it is described about devotional service in ignorance, passion, and goodness, and so forth, that has nothing to do with your disciples then?
- So who is supreme, Lord Siva or Lord Rama?
- So why does He (Krsna) allow me to have this independence?
- So why is it, then, if it's a question of ajnata-sukrti... The Indians, from their birth they're watering tulasi, they're chanting Hare Krsna, they're doing so many activities, but mostly your disciples are foreigners?
- So why not stay for a longer time here?
- So why we are so involved in the material world that most of the human being don't have...?
- So would it be true to say that perhaps without George Harrison of the Beatles the religion wouldn't be as well known as it is today?
- So you asked me the question, "Is there vitamins in the grass?" And obviously there's not such vitamins in grass that it produces milk. So the vitamins are coming from Krsna? Yes?
- So you completely write off anybody who says that there should be a step of faith. And would you, in other words... So you would say that science can prove that God exists?
- So you just chanted in Thompkins Park, and people came?
- So you mean to say, prabhu, truthfulness and honesty will come after chanting, chanting, chanting?
- So you never doubt any of this, anything at all?
- So you think State Bank of India is the best?
- So your question is whether one can enter this kingdom of God with this body?
- So, for somebody who is now a disciple of the Krsna consciousness movement, are we to understand if he is not born in a family of devotees and if he is not born in an aristocratic family, that he was not a yogi in his past life?
- So, if ordinary man went to some other planet through his sputnik, would he be able to see the demigods?
- Some birds we see behave like a little influenced by the modes of goodness, though it is mixed… But some are like eagle, very passionate, wants to kill small birds as their food... Why? Is this possible just from the concept of molecular evolution?
- Some group doctors? Some portion of the devotees medical knowledge?
- Some members the Parliament says, the movement is in some anti-Indian activities. What do you...?
- Some of our artists make big sculpture out of metal?... Philosophically not possible?
- Some of them must be non-greedy, not greedy, eh?
- Some of them will say some things that Krsna says, but they'll take from other places also. What is the position of such persons?
- Some people would say, "If everything is a creation of God, then why do you have such a..., why do you present this body as such a horrible thing?"
- Someone in material consciousness cannot understand God? So then what of all these religions, for example, Muslim and Christian religion?
- Someone should come in?
- Someone who is endeavoring very hard for material necessities, is his position the same - faithless?
- Sometimes in our practical dealings we have to make a decision and there is no possibility to refer to our authority. Shall we then try to understand what Krsna wants us to do?
- Sometimes there's a question that I'm asked, that we say we're imperfect so we have to receive perfect knowledge, but they say if you're always imperfect, then how can you know that it's perfect, what you're hearing?
- Sometimes there's some discrepancy, two parties, they may both want to serve but they have different ways, different ideas how to execute the same order, so there may be some argument
- Sometimes we meet people in our preaching activities. They may, of course, claim to be very devout Christian or Muslim, but at the same time they will blaspheme Krsna. Is it possible that such persons can actually be associates of God?
- Sometimes we speak of the material energy as being different from the spiritual energy and other times we speak of all energies being ultimately spiritual, so what is the understanding?
- Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to...
- South of Paris? That one (and we have got another palace, what is that village?)?
- Spectograph?... Has to do with light?
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and yourself (deities), Srila Prabhupada?... Just the same size as Vrndavana's?
- Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York with only eight dollars? Forty dollars? How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- Srila Prabhupada mentioned that everyone is looking for pleasure. So when one comes into devotional service, how is it possible to know if one is actually looking for his own pleasure or really in search of God
- Srila Prabhupada, a man sees that his father has died - everyone is dying - why does he believe that he will not die?
- Srila Prabhupada, are the planets shaped liked balls or more like plates? Because they're called dvipas, "islands." Their roundness is the roundness of a plate or like a ball?
- Srila Prabhupada, can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
- Srila Prabhupada, could it be said that in a society where stress is placed on developing this understanding of God, people would naturally become disinclined for these so-called modern activities of sense gratification?
- Srila Prabhupada, earth is also moving?
- Srila Prabhupada, how can we understand why the Krsna consciousness movement seems to attract so many young boys and young girls in the Western world?
- Srila Prabhupada, how did Chota Haridasa achieve perfection by killing himself after apparently pouring water on his devotional creeper by talking to a woman?
- Srila Prabhupada, how does it feel to be back in New York again?
- Srila Prabhupada, I heard on one lecture tape, you mentioned your Guru Maharaja has said that in the morning he had to beat the mind into submission. How can we do this?
- Srila Prabhupada, I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa because I'm getting this retyped
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna has created everything and everything is submitted to Krsna's will, can we really say what is good or bad?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the earth is moving so fast, why isn't everything blown off?
- Srila Prabhupada, if they invite you to China, you'll go?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we're born each with a qualification, how is this qualification developed in our early years?
- Srila Prabhupada, in this connection, this variegatedness in connection with life, can you take it as some sort of complex structures?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it all right to include that, these ninety-two chemical elements as finer, er, finer form of earth?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it also not possible, say, at the time of creation, now those material bodies are going to be created, also possible not to manifest all of them but some are not still manifested?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple?
- Srila Prabhupada, is maya especially empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense?
- Srila Prabhupada, is that what it means in the Bhagavad-gita when Krsna says that we have to go sruti-vipratipanna, we have to go beyond just hearing about these different...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there is actual difference between the material energy and the spiritual energy?
- Srila Prabhupada, it's 8:30. Want to finish up?
- Srila Prabhupada, one problem we face with students and scientists, when we present Krsna conscious philosophy, they say...?
- Srila Prabhupada, should I have resigned my membership with the Christian organization? Should I have? I did. Could I serve Krsna just as well and also through a Christian? I don't see how I could
- Srila Prabhupada, since presently we cannot see Krsna as He is as a person, how can we, how should we meditate on Him?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes we try to meditate on Krsna, when we chant Hare Krsna, sinful memory from our past life is coming. How is this to be understood that Krsna says, "From Me the memory comes"
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we're preaching to people that we don't eat meat, fish or egg, they say,"Why not eggs? They're not actually living. It's just a, it hasn't been fertilized"
- Srila Prabhupada, that if God is, if He is actually wanting us to go back, then why is He causing suffering?
- Srila Prabhupada, the Vaisnavas in general in Vrndavana, are they lamenting for the physical upkeep?
- Srila Prabhupada, they think that liberation means that you can do anything you like, that you are free from any moral or ethic... ?
- Srila Prabhupada, we don't have to learn the activities of our spiritual body?
- Srila Prabhupada, we're taking this from the Bhagavatam. Won't they just think that this is myth?
- Srila Prabhupada, what about, say, many of your Godbrothers? They also have disciples, and they also are properly initiated by a proper spiritual master, and they give the Hare Krsna mantra
- Srila Prabhupada, what are the qualifications of a perfect leader?
- Srila Prabhupada, what happens to the soul when you have an abortion, though? Where does it go?
- Srila Prabhupada, what if, ah, for instance, I'm too fallen to closely follow the regulative principles and I find myself in that way...?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is our fortune that we've come in contact with a qualified guru? What have we done to qualify to come in contact with you?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the position of vrajavasis, those who are living in Vrndavana now? What happens to them next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the value for the living entity to automatically pass through all these different species? Does he get any knowledge?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is your explanation why the sun changes colors?
- Srila Prabhupada, when I first came to this, to your movement, the first thing I was told is that Lord Caitanya's movement in this age will, like a moon, rise for ten thousand years. I was told that number, ten thousand years. Is that true?
- Srila Prabhupada, when Krsna is perfect and complete in Himself, so why are there individual minute living entities? If Krsna is perfect, surely there would be no need for smaller living entities
- Srila Prabhupada, when the devotee is in the original relationship with Krsna, his siddha-deha, why is it that he sometimes changes his original rasa with Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, why are there so many pseudo religions then?
- Srila Prabhupada, why do we have this rascal propensity?
- Srila Prabhupada, why is the material world made on the level of a jailhouse? It's made on the level of a jailhouse, that, I've been told, the attitude of a jail instead of the attitude
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a fan that doesn't make so much noise perhaps?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you please explain why Krsna consciousness hadn't come to the West until now, why it hasn't come earlier?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that you were not so much impressed by the saintly persons that were coming... Why was that?
- Srila Prabhupada, you say in your books so many times that somehow or other we have fallen into this material world due to our enviousness or our independence?... I can't seem to get a grasp on this at all?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying about misusing this human form of ours. Is there any gracious defense that makes a soul non-eternal?
- Srila Prabhupada? Are there different meanings, this day of Brahma? Are there different creations and annihilations of species? Different Manus, they are sometimes flooding the whole earth
- Srila Prabhupada? How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- Srila Prabhupada? Just in Bombay, what you are constructing, the gate, are they going to be like another Indian temples, only gates? Will they look like a big temple?
- Srila Prabhupada? There's this editor from that Trans-India magazine downstairs, but also that..., the doctor is there as well. So would you like to see the doctor, or would you like to do another interview?
- Srila Prabhupada? This idea that he was discussing, how we naturally have a tendency to possess something.... If I don't possess the state, I possess the body. Is this the disease?
- Srila Prabhupada? This morning you would like to take your breakfast after the program or after resting?
- Srila Prabhupada? Trying to satisfy Krsna's senses and not our own senses, that is the principle of renunciation. How can one develop and cultivate renunciation
- Srila Prabhupada? We have this twenty-four kirtana. I've requested everyone who comes to do at least one hour per day
- Srila Prabhupada? We live in this material world, and we're in so much ignorance that we don't know who it belongs to. Is that due to sinful activities?
- Srila Prabhupada? What about the point, in certain places in Bhagavatam it distinctly says that the human being's food is creatures of four legs with cloven hoof?
- Srila Prabhupada? Which is the most important chapter of the Bhagavad-gita?
- Srila Prabhupada? Why God gave to man free will if He knew the man would fall down in the material world?
- Srimad-Bhagavatam is the topmost theological science, therefore it can react on the layman as medicinal doses?
- St. Xavier's College (long ago in 1917 perhaps, in our college, we saw one magazine)?
- Still, due to the British presence, isn't that the main reason why India has become so degraded now?... Because they introduced so many bad things?
- Subhas Chandra Bose he was in, I think he was... Is that right?... Yes. And then he was in a plane crash? Or...?
- Such a transgression of the laws, it cannot... How much further can it go, Prabhupada?
- Suppose I want to surrender to God, to Krsna. How I will do it?
- Supposing he doesn't subscribe, still will he be allowed to come and live?
- Supposing there are bricks available, should they try to build?
- Swami, do you attach any significance to the fact that this temple is in a form of a Christian church?
- Swami? I have one question which is widely discussed everywhere, that eating of meat is sin. Now we see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
- Swamiji, could you please throw light on your four-point regulation which you suggest to your disciples?
- Swamiji, could you speak a bit about the proper attitude of the child towards the father? Is it one of fear, respect, love?
- Swamiji, do you have certain farms also in America, gosala?
- Swamiji, does this chanting of mantra brings purity or following of your four instructions or regulations which you have told, or both?
- Swamiji, excuse me, is there any special significance of keeping this bead hidden from the public?
- Swamiji, how could you convince these Christian people that Christ was the son of God, or Krsna was the...
- Swamiji, how different is this Chapter Six different from the Patanjali's yoga-sastra and the raja-yoga?
- Swamiji, how many asramas and things you have?
- Swamiji, I would like to know, that I feel that your society, the Hare Krsna consciousness society, has a very, very stable economy and that it is self-sufficient in itself. Is that so?
- Swamiji, in Bhagavad-gita we can see that Krsna said to Arjuna that "I will not fight for you, but I'll only drive your chariot." Why He refused to fight? Why He didn't fight?
- Swamiji, is bhakti-marga enough to have liberation?
- Swamiji, is the Krsna consciousness is a development of this, only of our Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Swamiji, there are some people... who are getting spiritual solace from people like Sai Baba or any of these other people who have interpreted the Vedas or who have followers? Do you think these followers are getting some amount of spiritual solace?
- Swamiji, to be of service to Godhead is it necessary to renounce the regular life?
- Swamiji, what do you suggest to your disciples to arouse what you call Hare Krsna consciousness or God consciousness?
- Swamiji, what is Krsna consciousness?
- Swamiji, what is the color of Krsna? It is blue or black? Not according to sastra, but your experience
- Swamiji, when there was discussion in Parliament about the fabulous money that the movement has, society has, then who provided the answers?
- Swamiji, why do you prohibit this tea or coffee also?
- Swamiji, would you say something about the place of women in your movement?
- Swamiji, you have seen Krsna?
- Swamiji, you think bhakti is the solution to the problem of the world today?
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- Take photographs where (and this moon planet going means Arizona. That is now disclosed. They take photographs in the Arizona. That's all)?
- Take that example of the habit, if someone is smoking out of habit. So again. So is he free in that smoking, or is it..., has he completely surrendered his freedom?
- Tamala Krsna's money can be used for that (Prepare grills for all the windows)?
- Ten years ago, wasn't it (I came here (to New York) alone, without any shelter, I was loitering on the street)?
- Ten years ago, when you first came to the United States, did you take a very active role in the organization, and I'm wondering whether you do much of that now?
- That (...not less than one lakh of devotees, at least, so crowded) is on holy day, no?
- That (Gandhi's marriage) was arranged by their parents, or they did it themselves?
- That (then again I came back in Los Angeles, and then we took that house, La Cienega) was in '69?
- That change is available to anyone to progress from santa to dasya?
- That desire is simple (he does not desire. He desires, and the matter helps. In the material world)?
- That doesn't mean (in the spiritual world, it is full of variegatedness) that it is complex, Srila Prabhupada, yes?
- That if you have a good place, many people can be attracted, as many as moving around to many places… But do you think I should travel a lot, or what is the best thing?
- That indemnity bond? I think I can pack it away until New York City… I could take care of that, pack it away until we get to New York
- That is also the demigods (when there is some natural calamity)?
- That is called to make castles in the air (all the two, three pots he had were broken. Then he "Ohhh.")?
- That is faith, Prabhupada? If the woman has faith in the husband (suppose a girl is married. So she wants a child. It does not mean today she's married and next day child. It is not possible. Wait. You'll have child)...?
- That is the statement of the Supreme Lord. "And thou shalt have no strange gods before Me. You must not make images or idols to bow to or worship in any other way. You may worship no other god than Me?" Well, then how is it that...?
- That last argument again? You're taking money?
- That man was the chief of the Benares school (he said "insurpassable." "Prabhupada's books are unsurpassable")?
- That man's logic is so tiny, pea brain, and God's logic is so great, so how can actually man discuss the logic of God?
- That means that our attraction for Krsna must be spontaneous?
- That means the distance, then, from the earth (distance, whatever it may be. But the sun is first, then moon, then Mars, then Jupiter, then like that)?
- That piece of land right here? When do you want to begin it?
- That story is in the Eighth Canto, Srila Prabhupada (Bali Maharaja was asked for three feet of land)?
- That subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- That these are the basic problems of most men?... Death, fears of death and disease... You too?
- That they will not take for what reason?
- That was in Vrndavana or Delhi (that you took sannyasa)?
- That was the first ratha cart? It was in New York?
- That was the same time that you took initiation (I preferred to hear him than go to parikrama. That he appreciated)?
- That was when he died? (Napoleon started with some ideal, conquering all over Europe, and at last he had to die drinking horse urine… It was, later on he was arrested by British, and when he was asking drinking water he was given horse urine)?
- That when a brahmana is engaged in the activities of plowing and cultivating, that he has become a vaisya?
- That would be a separate building from the temple (...spiritual world, material world, and so on, so on. Planetary..., succession of the planetary systems, everything. A building like that)?
- That's because liver's not working?
- That's elevating them. That faith is elevating them?
- That's in the big building right on the side of Kesi-ghata (when I first came in Vrndavana I stayed in the Kesi-ghata)?
- That's the building (Watergate Hotel), Prabhupada?… Which floor did you live on?
- That's the point, what we have seen about this planet (you've explained that even if not here then it (dinosaurs) must be on another planet)?
- That's the whole idea of moksa (God, therefore, teaches us how to get out of this body)?
- That's what Srila Prabhupada said, "In Scientific Knowledge." I was wondering, if this, is this, sa, mean "in"?
- That's why they gave difficulty, the authorities, because the wheels broke?
- The ability to remember Krsna, that will also increase?
- The actual perception of the soul is not... (this is physical, but subtle (consciousness is not a physical phenomenon))?
- The argument is that how can an entity take birth in perspiration? His question. So how can a living entity take birth in the fire?
- The article in Back to Godhead there was a question raised, that "What is purpose of life?" and it was stated that the purpose of life is to realize God. Could you kindly explain a little more on that?
- The atheistic people sometimes argue, "What does your Krsna do for the suffering people?"
- The boys, they should learn how also to cook?
- The buses, you know the windows, some of the windows are broken a little bit - you saw them. Do you think they will look good in the parade? It's all right if the windows are not all...
- The Christians don't become old men?
- The demigods (formerly when big, big sacrifices were done, they used to come and attend sacrifice). But in this earth body they can go to another planets?
- The different varieties of suffering within the animal species are due to the different varieties of sinful activities in the human life?
- The difficulty in this Christian aspect is that they claim that it was created about five thousand years ago. Creationists preaches that? Five thousand years ago, literally? Do we want to make this comparison, Srila Prabhupada, or not?
- The dogs and monkeys, they feel grateful?
- The earth and the sun are always the same distance apart?
- The example that if God is supplying, then why doesn't He supply the underprivileged countries? Just like in some places like India people are starving. So why doesn't He supply places like that?
- The family of the person who is suffering, says that "Please don't apply these machines. Let the person die." But the medical doctors say "No, we'll keep him alive as long as we can go on." So this is a problem. So who's right? Is the family right, or...
- The gopi-candana comes from the lake where they say the gopis drowned themselves, and that is near Dvaraka. Is that a true story?
- The gopis, they didn't like very much being instructed by Uddhava?
- The Indians in Fiji will pay for the casting if we decide to cast in brass here?
- The karmis, they say "What is the matter with sense gratification?" They say they like sense gratification; it's very good
- The life symptoms are maintained in the body still (when the seer has left the gross body)?
- The living entity cannot do anything without the sanction of God. So I am desiring certain sinful activities, but why is Krsna sanctioning it?
- The living entity's desire has become very complex due to his association with material nature?
- The man who is giving the father's what?
- The maya that harasses the devotee is just mental concoction, then? He should concentrate on just serving?
- The members of the movement… they've decided to dress differently, and they're dressing now in an Indian style. Is it necessary to do that, or could I carry on being a member of a radio station and still be a member of the Hare Krsna movement?
- The moon (and this is also bogus, that such a brilliant illuminating planet, it is full of rocks and sand)?
- The moon's glowing is due to reflecting the sun or it is fiery just like the sun (but with a cooling atmosphere around it)?
- The more we understand Srimad-Bhagavatam, the more we'll understand the Caitanya-caritamrta?
- The most remarkable thing is these so-called scientists, is that they believe in the most unscientific statement. Like this long time period is the most unscientific. So how can they claim as scientists?
- The muni was there in the form of an insect?
- The name of the Delhi Deities is Radha-Parthasarathi. So how do we understand?
- The other morning Srila Prabhupada was mentioning about the Institute, the Bhaktivedanta Institute. So is there anything else that your Divine Grace wants to?
- The personal relationship, when established, takes you far ahead psychologically. Am I right, sir?
- The police were helping the thieves?
- The precedence of our work, Srila Prabhupada, should definitely be that the message of Krsna consciousness is clearly understood by all, is that correct?
- The question is whether should it be played in the temple or not (western style songs recorded by devotees)?
- The question is, why some people are feeling a necessity for God?
- The question was that Krsna had said that He would not take part in the Battle of Kuruksetra, but later on He did. So He had actually changed His word. So does the devotee also sometimes do that, say one thing but later on change his mind
- The reason was that because whenever you come back to India, you always come back to Bombay first of all, so as soon as you come back to India, you'll have facility to use your car. Otherwise we should make arrangements for another car for Bombay also?
- The rocks also have offspring, if they're living?
- The school in Vrndavana, is this, I assume this is to be out there in the yard that they were clearing. When do you anticipate that will be built?
- The smrtis are based on the srutis?
- The spirit is manufactured in the body, is it not, sir?
- The stricture on the eating of meat, does that derive from the fact that animals have their lives which are accorded... What I'm asking is that because animals have a higher priority in life than vegetables?
- The thing is that because Krsna knows the future, past, present, and future, so He knew that we would fall down, so why didn't He help me?
- The traditional charge against Hinduism is that it is fatalistic, that it inhibits progress by making people slaves to the belief in the inevitability of what is to happen. How far is this charge true?
- The troubles that India is going through today, they were foreseeing over five thousand years ago, that the Muslims would invade, the Turks?
- The Vedic civilization is centered around villages, not cities?
- The vyasasana. Like in Los Angeles, at the side? On the left-hand side?
- Their body have..., they have wings (there is Siddhaloka, they can go from one planet to another without any machine, without any vehicle. Siddhaloka means, just like the yogis, they can go)?
- Then clothing is more? Clothing is more? Maintenance?
- Then even Brahman has to be understood in relationship to Krsna?
- Then from where does this impurity come?
- Then he is servant, always servant?
- Then how to fight them (the majority are fools and rascals)?
- Then how to get free from those desires?
- Then how to throw out good leadership?
- Then in the Bible, the beginning of it says that God created the heavens and the earth, and yet they say, give the description in Genesis as the way God created the heaven and the earth. Does this not conform with Brahma's work?
- Then in what levels the man got to remain in a separate entity? Always in the same bhakta?
- Then that one word as a mantra, is it not... the highest sort of word?
- Then there's three hearts?
- Then they say that if this is the method, then how does Deity worship fit into the scheme?
- Then they say, "Why He give us independence, then?"
- Then we will ask, how do we know who is really guru?
- Then what does it mean gradual process, gradual advancement in transcendental realization?
- Then what is the aim of bhakti if you are not going to merge with Paramatma?
- Then what is the cause? No, what is the cause?
- Then what is the way to purity?
- Then what is their reason for not becoming the biggest rascal? Why not become the biggest rascal? The pot's going to break anyway. What difference does it make? Why not become a big rascal and enjoy?
- Then who is the Gita-pracara?
- Then why do they mingle (followers of pseudo-religion) at all? Why do they even get involved?
- There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness? Other way?
- There are many different levels of pure devotional service?
- There are many other things that we offer Krsna besides patram puspam phalam toyam. So similarly, why can't we offer meat? He doesn't say, "Don't offer me meat"
- There are many swamis coming from India nowadays, and they are trying to confuse Westerners; being Indian, how we can help about this confusion?
- There are no changes in the higher nature?
- There are other kinds of bhaktas other than krsna-bhaktas?
- There are so many translations (of the Gita). How does one decide...?
- There are two, two functions in the tongue, one is (indistinct) and one is (indistinct)? So which one (indistinct). Preaching is a form of tapasya?
- There are various samskaras prescribed in the life of a Hindu right from his birth to death... Many of these samskaras are not being observed today. Should they be revived?
- There is a preordained karma that says some human being should come into existence or some spirit soul should take some body. How can you reconcile this birth control with that?
- There is a question I have wanted to ask for many years now. The Vedic culture and the Islamic culture have many similarities
- There is a very peculiar question that comes sometimes: "If Krsna knows that we were going to fall down, why didn't He save us?"
- There is a worldwide rise in prices of energy resources, like oil, coal, gas, and electricity. Naturally, there will be worldwide destruction of mankind and other living beings and materials in the near future. What are your views?
- There is so much envy in my heart, and when I'm chanting I'm understanding the envy is causing me so much distress. And yet I can't give it up. I cannot leave off these envious feelings. How is it that the spirit soul...?
- There is something constant within the body though it changes. What is it? How come this is, changes body but still we can recognize someone from his youth to his old age
- There is such a demand in Puri (Any time you can get one thousand man's eatables)?
- There is such a gotra as that (acyuta-gotra)?
- There was no Godbrothers helping at all?
- There was pictures of you riding on that ratha cart, that was a truck?
- There was trouble in Nabadwip, wasn't there, when he (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati) advised the pilgrims not to pay money to go into the temples?
- There's a very important question in my mind all the time. How a Godbrother should treat the Godbrother with great (indistinct) to produce more love of Godhead and to (indistinct) in them?
- There's no material father, though? In that case (with entities that are born from perspiration)?
- There's no such diversity of interpretation of the Bhagavad-gita?
- There's one thing in the human nature, that he always thinks that he's the chief and around the world everything is running around him, and most probably he always can show off that "I am the leader of everything." Why is it so? In every person.
- There's still, within all the different species, there are still different varieties. What accounts for all these varieties?
- These children, they are coming from which place?
- These demons, Srila Prabhupada, all of them are dehatma-buddhi?
- These few questions only, the answers, that these are from you and these are there, then it will be a point of jump in the movement. It will be a big jump in the movement. And what can we do...?
- These Turks are yavanas? Demons and yavanas?
- They (God & Jesus) used him (Joseph Smith) as an instrument in restoring His true church. We believe this with all our heart. We feel that it's built upon the spirit & that it's through prayer & study that we've found this. What's your feeling about that?
- They (The Christians) say everyone is sinful; therefore what is the use?
- They (the paramahamsa) have got white? Do they wear white?
- They (the vrajavasis) don't need a spiritual master?
- They (Why not employ one man to manfacture tulasi beads?) have to live here as devotee?
- They are counted, what, as human beings (the thirty-three million demigods)?
- They are going to come up with the point that "How about dinosaurs?" They are going to ask like that
- They are what, Srila Prabhupada?
- They can manufacture brass items?
- They couldn't see the Lord face to face?
- They counter that if God is all-powerful, He can do anything. So why not He can create a soul and that soul can then be eternal from that point?
- They don't believe in Lord Caitanya, these sahajiyas in Vrndavana?
- They don't like Madhavananda?
- They get salt from here?
- They have tigers and serpents and everything like that?
- They must know how to drive it (the car). That is knowledge. Why do you say no?
- They say at the time of death they will learn a lesson, but if, when they go into a new body, they forget, how will it help them?
- They say for a plant, ground is necessary, water is necessary, seed is necessary, air is necessary, so why is it that there is only one cause?
- They say if it's advancement of knowledge, if they are advanced, why do they have to die? The animals are dying, and they're accepting that, and the human beings also die. But why does he have to die if he's advanced in knowledge?
- They say it is impossible for any man to know what will happen to him after death. It is not possible, so why think about it?
- They say that men are living longer now. The scientists, they say that there's less disease. They say that a hundred years ago people had more disease than... ?
- They say why do you worry so much about death? We are living. We are enjoying life, why do you worry about death?
- They still have to go out and ask occasionally (but those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form - to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have)?
- They use flesh for curing diseases?
- They were singing all the time at the Kumbhamela, "Give me this, give me that." What is that song?
- They'll ask what should be killed and what shouldn't be killed for eating? Where do we draw the line?
- They'll ask, though, "Where did the first egg come from?"
- They'll come here, anyway. We didn't give any address card (invitation cards to our temple). Do you think people will come anyway?
- They're forced to lead a very spartan way of life, though, aren't they? Why is this necessary?
- They're selling tickets to go to the moon?
- This (people from all different parts of Bengal are coming to see your temple) never before has happened?
- This cloud on the movement in America, is that vanishing?
- This idea of freedom and independence, is it possible for anyone theoretically to surrender to Krsna at any time?
- This is called Tapke?
- This is comfortable seat?... Table is close enough?
- This is in connection with the churning of the ocean?
- This is possible to understand... but what is sometimes difficult to understand, where does... where does originally the soul come from?
- This is the first pamphlet that you ever printed?... I mean in the West?
- This is the play of maya, that we all know. But so long as we are in maya we have to play our part, haven't we?
- This one (fan)?
- This planet, where is it situated in the planetary system?
- This refers to someone who has attained Brahman realization, that he must fall down because he does not take shelter at Krsna's lotus feet. Does this also refer to someone who has attained Paramatma realization?
- This sankalpa-vikalpa is there as long as we have our independence, though. Even as devotees, that accepting and rejecting? That is there even in devotees?
- This Satya Sai Baba, he is also disciple of Krsna. How he produces...?
- This specific Vaisnava, that refers to Visnu? Worshipers of Visnu (Godhead means all visnu-tattva. They are not jiva-tattva. So therefore those who are devotee of God, they are called Vaisnava)?
- This surrender is made or it happens?
- This would be the prescription for all people?
- Those who come up from the animal species, do they automatically get a chance to contact Krsna consciousness, or do they, might be born in low family, or?
- Those who have become Krsna conscious, they will see Krsna?
- Tigers (even the tigers, they are also devotees)?
- To find sraddha, or faith to surrender. To surrender, one must have something to surrender to. What is that?
- To kill India's spiritual status?
- To know who is the driver of the car (purpose of the movement is to know who is the driver of the car)?... And who is that?
- To learn how to sing them nicely. To learn how to sing them (Each verse is a song. I wanted our students should do that)?
- To purify that desire we also have to be put into the fire?
- To visit all of our centers in the world?
- Tomatoes don't grow in India?
- Tomorrow (All right, let us go)?
- Total membership for around the world?
- Translation (read)?
- Travel agent (so he arranged with some professional what is called, host)?
- Travel on a coach like this, Srila Prabhupada?
- Trying to understand in my own way?
- Twelve lakhs also in Delhi center only?
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- Very big. But is that land available to us?
- Visakha was wondering who..., if you have any idea or choice who should do the Hindi translation or Bengali translation and speaking for the film like this. Did you have anyone in particular in mind, or inquiry should be made?
- Vrndavana is very cold in mid-February, Prabhupada?
- Vyasadeva is called tri-kala-jna - he sees past, present and future. How is it that he sees the future?
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- Want to go over it (the new mail) now? Shall we go over everything now?
- Was it a big house (that house was constructed fifty years ago at the cost of six million dollars, and we have got it very cheap. Three hundred thousand dollars)?… Colonial house?
- Was it difficult for you to give up what you had been doing in order to devote full time?
- Was it not true also Sankaracarya Swamiji who said vande krsna jagat-guru?
- Was it your aim to suggest that the daily life of ordinary people can be built on the foundations of your philosophy?
- Was Jiva Gosvami living in Vrndavana?
- Was long hair a sign of beauty in those days?
- Was lunch all right today? Lunch? Your lunch was all right?
- Was the place Slippery Rock, was that the first college...?
- We also say that Krsna is fulfilling the desires of every living entity. So if we want to enjoy independent of Krsna, why doesn't He let us really enjoy independent of Him?
- We also see Krsna is in temple. Does this mean also Allah is in the temple? And why are all these religions so different? Because essentially they are all the same
- We believe in the spiritual truth, but does that mean that our material truth does not exist?
- We can accept that the soul is not burned, but what about the body?
- We can also do it for the books also, Srila Prabhupada, isn't it? It will be published by BBT, but coming out from Bhaktivedanta Institute
- We can also listen to the Mayavadis and then defeat them like that?
- We can arrange to sell our books to them (libraries in Russia) at any cost?
- We can do that with film (we want to try make a film to prove this point that life comes from life)?
- We can even offer a drink of water to Krsna before we drink it, can't we?
- We can make such arrangement (big umbrella overhead)?
- We can publish that and also our refutation (another point about this journal is that we will present controversial things, and people may want to write something to refute what we have said)
- We had another practical consideration. We were thinking, could BBT publish the journal? BBT would publish the journal ("Sa-vijnanam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute")?
- We have a nice banner which flies in front of the building also. I think you should park on the right side, Jayananda, unless... All right, park on the left. See the banner?
- We have also causeless mercy, meeting the pure devotee. Is that a chance?
- We have Mandakini (who will cook)?
- We have other informations other than Srimad-Bhagavatam (I have got evidence, our Vedic literature)?
- We have some grapes. Shall I get them?
- We have, this temple has some daksina for you. How would you like me to do it? Today is Thursday. Would you like it in what form? Would you like us to invest it for you here, or give you the cash?
- We listen to you, but you don't listen. That is the misfortune of ours. Huh?
- We printed that little Bhagavad-gita, remember? That we've distributed twenty-five thousand. So seventy-five thousand Bhagavad-gita one year
- We say that Krsna is present within the spiritual, within the heart of the living entity. As a person or as an energy?
- We see practically that the moon also moves, across the sky. Just like the sun does. So the sun has an orbit?… And the moon has an orbit also?
- We see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
- We should buy some for you, Prabhupada?
- We should get deerskin also?
- We should have a mosaic floor or a colored cement floor? What standard that should be?
- We should have the lunch here?
- We should not get a tractor?
- We were hoping that you could give us another chance by coming back next year?
- We were lucky because when we joined all that we had were your Bhagavatams from India, those original Bhagavatams... Otherwise, what shall we do?
- We were wondering, should we offer the food to the Deities in the temple or should we offer it in the restaurant?
- We're so insignificant, but at the same time we become so puffed up? How is it possible for us...?
- We've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live?
- Well do you think that the Eastern sun, meaning Hare Krsna, is appropriate in a culture that has a different religion traditionally?
- Well does that mean that the world, the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter (car is important so long it is moving and if it is not moving it has no importance, it is lump of matter)?
- Well how does it become scientific (as soon as you say that "We Christians, we believe," then it is misbelief. It is not scientific)?
- Well I understand you do a lot of work translating and that you only sleep two hours a day. Is that right?
- Well is it important to try to improve this life so that it won't be a prison?
- Well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate?
- Well is that what makes the people make this distinction between the life you are leading and the life of the world (those who identify on the bodily concept, because the body itself is dead without the soul, it is considered the dead platform)?
- Well the next proposition is that if God is there, then let Him stay there, and we are here, let us stay here. Why do we have to be concerned with Him?
- Well will they follow your example and not vote?
- Well, and they think how to sell literature and... Is that the way to God consciousness, by selling and soliciting (they say that they are representing some drug center)? Is that…?… How does that fit in?
- Well, are your Krsna members out of the, out of jail?
- Well, do you see that many people will die because there's not... (on account of scarcity of rainfall, food production will be reduced)?
- Well, how do I find out?... Perhaps not. How do I find out that?... Can you tell me?
- Well, how do you see the person? By understanding?
- Well, is the Krsna movement the driver or the car (first of all, understand the analogy. The car and the driver is always separated. The driver is not car, neither the car is the driver)?
- Well, It's because of these things (as far as possible we do not go even to the doctor), that they're wondering well then, what do we do with the money?
- Well, perhaps you could continue where they left off. Could you tell me why you came to the United States in 1965. Did you feel that this was a mission that you had to fulfill?
- Well, since this dichotomy appears to be the case, I mean that there is, that the movement is sort of cut off from the world in general, does that not deprive the world of the service, of the usefulness of these people?
- Well, then, how is the individual soul eternal if it has a beginning?
- Well, to understand Krsna consciousness, do you not require adhikari?
- Well, what do you hope to achieve by your short visit here to New Zealand, where you don't have a very big following at all?
- Well, what happens to the rest of the money, though, that is collected in the streets?
- Well, what I was interested in is why is it necessary to live in such lavish situation as is shown here?
- Well, what is it that they particularly understand, misunderstand about the movement?
- Well, why is it, can I ask, perhaps, that the Krsna movement is the natural way of living against, say, other religions, other faiths?
- Went to America, what was your idea of what would be your program when you got there?
- Were they (the Soviet Union leaders) receptive to what you...?
- Were you a businessman?
- Western people want to think they're the body. Otherwise how can they enjoy all their technology?
- What about a cow?... So they say like that (So if you kill one animal, camel, it is equal to fifty goats)?
- What about a savior?
- What about adultery, Prabhupada? She wants to know what the Vedas say should be the... What is the reaction for adultery? How does one deal with an adulterer? If someone is an adulterer and he's caught, what should be the...
- What about electricity?
- What about like the cow, little goodness in it, mixed?... And the lion, little passion?
- What about miracles performed by so many people?
- What about mrdanga?
- What about on the hellish planets? Do they know they're suffering there?
- What about onions...?
- What about other religions?
- What about so many saints who are preaching yoga and religion all over the world?
- What about tamo-guna? Does tamo-guna have a relationship with the body?
- What about that chart you were working on comparing the ages, the Vedic ages and the scientists ages? Do you have that? Can we talk about that now? We should ask Srila Prabhupada if there's any real parallel there
- What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?
- What about the analogy that many rivers flow into the same sea and lose their individuality?
- What about the crystal? The crystal grows, but we don't say that the crystal has life in the usual sense of the term. Is the crystal also...
- What about the grhastha's duty toward his family, like looking after his family and children?
- What about the other atoms within me or the dog? Do you understand what I'm getting at? There are millions of atoms
- What about the plants and other smaller... (diva means demigods, they are in goodness. And human being in passion, and animals in ignorance. This is general division)?
- What about the poor, hungry, and the suffering bodies?
- What about the possibility of opening more than one temple in this city? Just like if there's a good building on the East Side, if we can manage, what about the possibility of that?
- What about the so-called gurus that take a little bit here and a little bit there?
- What about the verse in the Bhagavatam that says if a devotee falls down that he's not to be considered as the fruitive workers or the karmis, etcetera. ?
- What about these people that perform so-called bhakti-yoga but their aim is to merge?
- What about these pictures we have seen on the television showing them jumping on the moon?
- What about this Guru Grantha Saheb.(?) The philosophy which Guru Grantha Saheb has, what is that about?
- What about two people born in the same circumstance? Each has equal education and equal background, but one becomes rich and one remains poor. That's chance?
- What about when it happens amongst the community of devotees or some, hepatitis, or malaria, or something of that nature (it's true that people are getting disease and sicknesses as the result of their past activities, pious or sinful)?
- What about when someone goes to the hellish regions though? He actually suffers there?
- What about your old storefront, 26 Second Avenue (if that side we get some small house, so that after going, eight days Jagannatha can remain there and festival going on, and then in the next week return…)?
- What are some of the other, aside from...? I mean, I see people selling things. What other practices are involved?
- What are the aims of the Indian society. Although it's given birth to so much, it still doesn't take it as success. What is the weakness in the Indian society that they don't...?
- What are the big differences (with some of the other Eastern cults and gurus) that you seem to be...?
- What are the qualifications required for a person in working life like me, household like me, like myself, to get initiated?
- What are the, our Prime Minister's view regarding this movement?
- What are their main misunderstandings (so kindly put the matter properly because people misunderstand on account of their ignorance they misunderstand our, movement)?
- What are your plans for India?
- What can you do to still two voices inside yourself?
- What can you enlighten us on this point, that why Krsna has given two different type of worships? One is the form worship; another is the formless worship, which He explains to Arjuna
- What comprises the examination for bhaktivedanta and bhakti-sastri? What is the syllabus?
- What did Bali Maharaja reply ("rascal, if you give like that, where you will stay? He'll take everything!" Smarta brahmana. Simply considering "How I shall live?")?
- What did you have to offer then. If you were chanting in the park and I said "What are you doing? Why are you chanting? What's your thing here?"
- What do you call it (this dry shell became the tambura's... Like sound chamber)?
- What do you call that force?
- What do you define as real happiness?
- What do you do with a cow when it dies? Do you just bury it?
- What do you feel is the greatest order of God?
- What do you find, you know, that when you impart this knowledge to Western disciples and when you talk to someone who are in India, what difference do you find?
- What do you propose to do with criminals in your educational system? How will you reform them?
- What do you think about some of the other gurus, if you will, since you are yourself considered a guru? Do you study anybody else?
- What do you think about the human being's science?
- What do you think of Jimmy Carter?
- What do you think of miracle saints? The saints who perform miracles?
- What do you think would be the remedy or solution to the problem (no rainfall)?
- What do you understand by that word God?
- What do you understand is man's place in nature? Should he invent, let's say, electricity? Should he invent machines? Do you think these are good or should he just leave those alone?
- What does astronomy say? The modern astronomy?
- What does being a devotee of Krsna involve? Does it...?
- What does it mean when Krsna says "I am not in them"?
- What does it refer to, then, karmany evadhikaras te ma phalesu kadacana?
- What does that mean, "de bhagavan?"
- What does the Hare Krsna movement offer that other religions do not?
- What does the word "buddha" mean?
- What else do you have over there besides gurukula schools and things?
- What exists between the planet Gokula and the (indistinct) Krsna?
- What had you been doing previously (actually I came here at the age of seventy years)?
- What happens when he dreams of the spiritual master or Krsna?
- What happens when that inevitable time comes when a successor is needed?
- What has been done all these years?
- What has Hasur Mohammed Sahib said about 14th Century and why?
- What have we done to make ourselves criminals? What criminal acts have we performed?
- What hope is there for Krsna consciousness in these countries like Russia and China, where they are so rascal they... ?
- What I was trying to ask you a while ago, do you think that these particular Vedic disciplines and spiritual principles, concentration on the spirit instead of the body, has a particular usefulness in Western society nowadays?
- What I'm finding difficult is, for instance, we see on Oxford Street a lot of people who are handing out Hare Krsna literature… And you're really not concerned whether or not they join the Hare Krsna movement?
- What if one has material desire? How does he gain the desire for spiritual knowledge?
- What if one keeps falling down from following the regulative principles?
- What if somebody is using this as a cover-up?
- What if sometimes a disciple, he may go to preach, but he's not preaching in the exact same spirit of his spiritual master?
- What if the spouse is very antagonistic toward Krsna consciousness?
- What if they say it is not excellent (after marriage the girl comes to her father-in-law's house... The girl is to cook and distribute this food to all the relatives of her husband. If they say it is excellent, then she is accepted in this family)?
- What if they started to worship Gaura-Nitai?
- What if you hear but don't act accordingly in your practical life?
- What impelled you personally, when you, at a fairly late stage in life, to come to the West to teach? And are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- What incentives can be given to harijanas to learn Sanskrit, the repository of Indian culture and religion?
- What is bad about eating, people who are eating beef? What is bad about it?
- What is bitter melon?
- What is Eighth Canto like? What does Eighth Canto contain?
- What is good and what is bad, what is sinful activity?
- What is it in your movement which has appealed to the Western world? I believe you have a sizable following in...
- What is it that they particularly misunderstand about the movement?
- What is meant by the situation in this world?
- What is my insurance to save me?
- What is our definition of liberty, freedom, spiritual?
- What is real meditation?
- What is realization (of God)?
- What is realization?
- What is that (mistri)?
- What is that drying process?
- What is that six-pointed star significance?
- What is the actual benefit that a karmi will get when he takes prasada?
- What is the actual disagreement?
- What is the actual duty of the government?
- What is the answer (why young men are attracted to, they inquire? Why young men are attracted in this movement?)?
- What is the beauty of having emptiness?
- What is the biggest obstacle for people to overcome?
- What is the cosmic purpose for this and how should one come to terms with this prevailing, this increasingly prevailing notion that justice can be established in a material state or a material dimension?
- What is the difference between God consciousness and Krsna consciousness?
- What is the disease?
- What is the effect on Russians, this Hare Krsna movement?
- What is the explanation of an eclipse?
- What is the future of Hinduism?
- What is the goal once one understands what is spirit and what is matter, what is the goal past that?
- What is the God that these other religions believe in?
- What is the harm of selling cloth, Prabhupada?
- What is the highest devotion, the highest bhakti, please?
- What is the idea behind this shenai-playing early in the morning?
- What is the main purpose of meditation?
- What is the meaning of "as it is."?
- What is the meaning of apratihata?
- What is the meaning of good citizen?
- What is the method of attaining permanent and impermanent? Permanent ananda?
- What is the most important part of it (it means to be fixed up in (indistinct) spiritual life. Just like in military there is training. You must have to do at this time this thing, this time, this time... So any training means regulated life)?
- What is the mystery in that case of universe or divine bringing up this life?
- What is the point then (of a new picture of Mars), Prabhupada? Just to take money and use it some other way?
- What is the position of Dhruva Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the power and mystery of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, how he is doing so many things but yet he does not appear like these others yogis who are..., like Satya Sai Baba who is making magic and...?
- What is the procedure of the movement? Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- What is the purpose of so many nationalities on this earth?
- What is the purpose of the cheating?
- What is the purpose of the movement, your Grace?
- What is the purpose of there being a body?
- What is the purpose of this internal dialogue? Internal dialogue, we talk to ourselves all the time, we can't be silent.
- What is the quality of a person who is actually faithful?
- What is the reason for that law (So you cannot keep even bull privately. Must be killed. This is the law)?
- What is the reason of the success of your mission in the foreign countries?
- What is the response in India?
- What is the response in Iran?
- What is the response in the Islamic countries?
- What is the role of mercy if one takes or doesn't take?
- What is the role of rituals in religion? Are they to be discouraged as it is being advocated by some reformists or are they to be encouraged? If so, in what form? What is the role of rituals in religion?
- What is the special significance of constructing Kaliya-Krsna temple in Fiji?
- What is the true aim of human life?
- What is the ultimate (the flavor of a rose garden is carried by the air or the bad odor of a filthy place is also carried by the air, similarly, mind, intelligence carries me to a particular type of body as I was absorbed in thought at the time of death)?
- What is the use of becoming rich man? It is all fruitless
- What is the use of preaching?
- What is the Vedic explanation (about moon orbit), Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade?
- What is the way you go about collecting money?
- What is the way you go about collecting money? Books are the only source of your... That means the devotees do not contribute to the... But do the devotees contribute in any way?
- What is this scientific (young boy, young girl, they began to discuss on sex openly as scientific)?
- What is ultimate object of that bhakti?
- What is your attitude toward those who are handicapped in our society? How do you respond, how do you treat those?
- What is your further inquiry?
- What is your message for Indian people?
- What is your opinion of Guru Maharaj-ji?
- What is your opinion of what this movement should be doing in terms of world activities and world affairs that it isn't doing now? Are there some new areas that you may try to influence?
- What is your proof of what happened millions of years ago at the beginning of creation?
- What is your view regarding proselytization or preaching?
- What is your view towards Christianity?
- What is your view? Are there other paths to spirit consciousness? There are but not very what?... Not very good?
- What is, sir, the number of your disciples round the world?
- What kind of (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- What kind of fast is that (Balarama)?
- What kind of king (This great personality, why he is not accepted by other disciples)?
- What kind of liberation does the family of a pure devotee get?
- What kind of salvation?
- What kind of sitting place? On the floor with mats, or benches and tables?
- What kind of trouble (these rascals they may create some trouble)?
- What made you change (you led a rather normal life) suddenly?
- What of a boy who does the chanting nicely and the kirtana nicely but doesn't do the school work nicely?
- What originally caused us to lose our relationship with Lord Krsna? I understand it is due to our desires, but how is this desire manifest?
- What prompts the soul to misuse his independence or improperly use...?
- What proof do you have that a human being has a soul?
- What proof have you got, then, that a human being has got a soul?
- What purpose does the chanting serve?
- What should the boys be taught from ten to sixteen?
- What should we do with, like there's some sannyasis here, like Yasodanandana Swami and his party?
- What street did he (Dr. Mishra) live on?
- What suggestions or comments do you have about achieving spiritual understanding?
- What Swamiji? Gaudiya? Gaura Hari
- What system (allopathetic system of medicine)?
- What thought there is in bringing the temple and the farm closer together as one entity rather than two?
- What time would you like breakfast?
- What to do with the greedy people in the world, though?
- What type of species are extinct? Not all the species extinct. As it is during Brahma's day, that partial annihilation, devastation, now some species are extinct?
- What was his title before?... Ex-governor?
- What was it like there (where you were living (seventy-second Street))?
- What was it that was different about your way of thinking?
- What was the arrangement with Bharata Maharaja?
- What was the Vedic punishment if somebody broke these moral principles?
- What way should we dance, Srila Prabhupada? With our hands outstretched? Sometimes the devotees like to jump around. Is that all right?
- What were you before that (a Hare Krsna man)?
- What will be the technique to attract the Bengali educational class? To attract the Bengalis who are educated, what technique will be most effective?
- What would happen to the people that killed Christ on the cross? Very bad, it seems
- What would you attribute this to? What is the cause of this?
- What would you classify as demigods, then?
- What would you regard to be the essence of Bhagavad-gita?
- What's a man's qualification to be chosen… On what basis, though, can you tell me some of the things that…?
- What's going to be the name of this asrama?
- What's it (the phases of the moon-quarter moon, half moon, full moon) due to, then?
- What's it made of?
- What's the exact meaning of that word (Bokaloka)?
- What's the Hindi name of that drug that you were taking the other day? That plant?
- What's the main reason for your visit?
- What's the purpose of that rising? What's the purpose of that, the rising at 4:30, the chanting and study?
- What's your view of Judaism and Christianity?
- What, Prabhupada?
- When a devotee becomes very advanced, does that means that he should not feel a particular, an inclination to do a particular work but simply want to serve Krsna?
- When a person first comes and he still has that designation stage, but we still call that bhakti?
- When did you begin, Your Excellency?... The Krsna movement, in the Krsna movement.
- When do you usually write?
- When I go away and I come back and the wall is broken what can I do?
- When I was a young boy… I had to take the brahma-samana, which is the… taking of the oath in front of the Maharaja and the priest of the Srinathaji temple. Is that equal to initiation, or is that just a ceremony by itself?
- When I'm looking at the picture, is Krsna right here?
- When Mr. Ford comes willing, back on...? Is he coming back again?
- When one is surrendering to Krsna, how does he discriminate between being tactful and, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, compromising in his speech?
- When one takes to spiritual life, is it the result of material exhaustion, or is it simply the guru's mercy on him, and nothing else?
- When one's tasted the higher taste in devotional service how is it possible that he can fall back again in material sense gratification?
- When should the Gayatri be said?
- When somebody is dying and his external consciousness is completely absorbed in all kinds of terrible bodily symptoms, how is it that a devotee remembers Krsna? What is actually happening that he's able to remember Krsna?
- When someone is sleeping and dreaming, has the seer left the gross body?
- When the scientists say that the earth spins around this way very quickly, then his point is valid. Why we don't fall off or why we don't feel good?
- When there's difficulty for devotee, how is he to understand that?
- When they say there is no God, sometimes we say, "How do you know?"
- When we are distributing books, Srila Prabhupada, and we are not doing so good and we are in anxiety, that is also spiritual?
- When we come to a center, naturally there are certain men who want to go traveling. Not all men want to go traveling, but there are definitely some who want to go traveling. And if they come to me, what should I do? Tell them, "No, I'm sorry"?
- When we prepare a feast we should give and give and give, and when no one wants any more then...
- When we say four hundred thousand species of human beings, that doesn't include all the demigods then?
- When we say that Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that asked him to fight, kill his own relatives and friends and not to bother about the consequences of the action. Now this statement sometimes is difficult for people of the West to understand?
- When we surrender that means we don't ask any question. So when we are inquisitive, then we ask more questions. How do we blend these two things?
- When we take that which is not our quota, by using, wasting a lot of clean water, how is that perfect and complete, om purnam? How are things still perfectly complete even when we're wasting and destroying it?
- When will the dismantling begin?
- When will we begin?… The land is coming along? ("ISKCON plans to build in Mayapur a world center for Krsna consciousness. It will comprise an enormous…")?
- When you become Krsna conscious, does it mean you come into the chapel, or can you lead the sort of life that we lead and still...?
- When you said the person who is involved with Krsna consciousness makes the best use of a bad bargain, were you referring to life?... This physical life?
- When you say surrender, it means surrender of fruits of the action?
- When you say that they're (bugs and germs) born from perspiration like cockroaches, does that mean that the eggs are laid by the female and then the atmosphere of perspiration enables the eggs to be hatched? Like that?
- When you say that we don't find any progress, do you mean just on account of Pradyumna's testimony? Or do you see beyond that, also, that there's no progress.
- When you try to realize Para-brahman, that is personal God; Brahman is impersonal God. Right, sir?
- When you visited the Soviet Union, Swamiji, did you find the atmosphere worse than it is in Western countries?
- When you went to some place in Gujarat, Sanand? It was reported that thousands of people will come. It was a small village
- When you went to Vrndavana, you'd given up the idea of coming to the West or...?
- Where are you spending your...?
- Where did the astronauts go?
- Where did the money come from to print such lavish editions of your books?
- Where did you... Did you sleep on the floor (no, there was bed. There is toilet and water, but no bath and no cooking)?
- Where do you get these funds?
- Where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?... Yes, like painting, or music, or literature, poetry, like that
- Where do you.... You might think this unusual. Where does it come from, though?... What goes into this?
- Where does it say that Visnu..., I mean Krsna, is the source of Visnu from the srutis?
- Where is that at (...not less than one lakh of devotees, at least, so crowded), Srila Prabhupada?
- Where is the profit? Into distributing more books (where the profit is going?)?
- Where is this (tandula-vrscika-nyaya), Srila Prabhupada? Is it in...
- Where is your main home?
- Where was the (Your) initiation ceremony?
- Where will you be in India when you go back to India?
- Whereabouts (we have got a very nice house in Detroit. If you sometimes go there…)?
- Whereabouts, exactly, is that place at Kesi-ghata?
- Whew! Only?… Nothing else (at that time Kirtanananda Maharaja was taking one capati)?
- Which is the exact path to attain this aim (the true aim of human life)?
- Which particular teachings do you find so uplifting and ennobling for a man?
- Which way is India headed towards? The capitalists or the Communists?
- While asleep the life symptoms are maintained in the body still?
- While it's living, is matter generated and annihilated within that body during the time of life?... Does it generate matter, so say the body could get heavier or lighter because of that?
- While we were there (in Vrndavana) I met one of your friends, I guess, a fellow named Mr. Dubhai?
- White-washed, you thought it was white-washed (I came here in the evening, with umbrella and in the morning I saw the whole street is white)?
- Who (they promised to give you land for your program for Kuruksetra)?
- Who asked you (I was family man. I retired in 1954. My Guru Maharaja asked me to take this task seriously when I was twenty-five years old)?
- Who came yesterday. Sanskrit, he (Dr. Sharma) knows Sanskrit well? From Hardwar?
- Who determines the regulative principles of religion that people should follow?
- Who did this (They made a, what is called, conspiracy to kill Bhaktisiddhanta)?
- Who gives this asura-buddhi? From where this filth grows?
- Who has done this (the Chinese Bhagavad-gita), Srila Prabhupada?
- Who is that, Srila Prabhupada (cigarette is, I think, advertised, "Nobody is lower than me." That means no other cigarette is lower in poisonous effect. In a different way it is advertised. "Nobody is lower than me." Humble)?
- Who made the decision for Arjuna to fight or not to fight?
- Who questions the Gita and the Upanisads?
- Who was the original founder, Your Excellency? The original founder of the group?... This group, your group, Krsna movement.
- Who were the aborigines they (Aryans) associated with?
- Who's got the gold?… Who has the gold?
- Why (although Krsna and omkara is not different, but you'll not like Krsna. In your present position you'll not like Krsna's name)?
- Why all the present religions and spiritual systems came into existence, contradicting each other when humanity is meant to follow only one religion?
- Why are people cruel? Why do they persecute other human beings and torture them? How is it they are able to do this?
- Why are you returning to India? Had you ever considered staying here in the United States?
- Why at all this started? Why at all, say millions, trillions years back, how it started that God created this world?
- Why bother with something that is available even to the hogs?
- Why can't we offer meat?
- Why couldn't spirits grow without taking this body? Why couldn't spirits grow in the spiritual world without taking this material body.
- Why didn't Krsna kill everybody at the Battle of Kuruksetra?
- Why didn't they eat it (this was aristocracy. They'll not eat, they will simply see and appreciate, "Oh, you have so many varieties, very nice." Then they'll go. And the household servants and others, they eat it)?
- Why do some misuse it (independence) and some never misuse it?
- Why do they say "sala"? Why is that abominable?
- Why do you say we are not very much liked? The movement is spreading.
- Why do you use in the Krsna consciousness the Hindu caste marks?
- Why does he depend upon our going there to become important?
- Why does the demoniac mentality, that they feel happy if they see someone else in distress?
- Why does the soul come into the body in the first place?
- Why doesn't he come to his senses there and then that "What have I done? Why don't I become God conscious?"
- Why doesn't He save me from thinking like that (He's protecting. He says, "You rascal, don't desire, surrender unto Me." But you are rascal, you do not do this)?
- Why doesn't Krsna protect us from that desire (even in the Vaikuntha, if I desire that "Why shall I serve Krsna? Why not become Krsna?" I immediately fall down)?
- Why doesn't life come from the concrete then (the scientists don't accept our proof that God exists as being any more conclusive than their proof that He doesn't exist)?
- Why don't they teach this in our schools and colleges?
- Why has He (Krsna) given us that independence if in that independence we...?
- Why have all the present religions and spiritual systems come into existence, contradicting each other when humanity is meant to follow only one religion?
- Why have we chosen this? This seems so irrelevant...
- Why have you said Cinmayananda, atheist?
- Why I mean is from the time that you start, has it got deadline or something?
- Why is it any better to grow castor seed than to dig oil?
- Why is it necessary to live in such comfort as this for the spiritual...?
- Why is it so difficult to see Krsna? Why can't each of us see Him within?
- Why is it sometimes if we are sincerely trying to serve Krsna we still make mistakes? We make in our service some mistakes. Does that mean that our mistakes come from the false ego?
- Why is it sometimes there's only quarter moon, no moon, half moon, full moon?
- Why is it that a devotee falls down, that he wants to surrender to Krsna and again he falls back to the material world to become a false enjoyer?
- Why is it that the Hare Krsna movement has in the last couple of years attempted to make itself a little bit more respectable in the public's eyes by having members wear street clothes and wigs and so forth, while they are soliciting?
- Why is it that we're so insignificant, but at the same time we become so puffed up?
- Why is it that you seem to attract a large following of youth?
- Why is the sea salty?
- Why is work in the world necessarily suffering? It is, it has, a mixture of pain and joy but it's negative to look on it as useless work. Huh?
- Why isn't it coming from several sources? Instead of one source, why not several sources?
- Why should one be distinguished from another if they are both eternal (as God is eternal, so you are also eternal)?
- Why should we have to cheat them?
- Why the Indian population is so slack in spiritual life?
- Why they don't approach a spiritual master for religious knowledge? Why do they think they can do it by themselves?
- Why this trying to understand Krsna? Why not try to understand one's self? Krsna passed 5000 years ago. Now ashes are there in our hands. Why not... ?
- Why we should sacrifice everything to Him?
- Why would someone who is not Krsna conscious have one hundred children? For example, why would someone like Dhrtarastra, who is not particularly Krsna conscious...?
- Why would you want to stop nature's law acting in its natural way?
- Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much?
- Will mantras lose their sanctity if they are not in Sanskrit?
- Will such a stand be acceptable to all sections of Hindus, and if so, how can the new smrtis come into being and who will give them sanction and sanctity?
- Will Swamiji discourse this evening?
- Will that be the first part of their falldown, to be in Vaikuntha and think of personal lust with Krsna's associates?
- Will the fundamental values of Hinduism be in any way affected by the eradication of castism, towards which a concerted effort is now being made at all levels?
- Will there be one spiritual leader, though?
- Will there be preaching centers in every town and village, or will it just be a question of traveling through and preaching to the people and ticking off that we've been there?
- Will this movement take over the world, Prabhupada?
- Will we have readings or would you like to talk with them?
- Will you agree with this point, that we are not perfect?
- Will you be here a good long while?
- Will you be opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern?
- With all these disqualifications, how can the general mass of people take to Krsna consciousness?
- With the siddhis... One who has attained all these siddhis, all these powers, do they harm humanity sometimes?
- With these truths, with these basic truths, do you think that is helping people realize themselves, or do they have to go into a more?
- With Visvambhara you have discussed?
- Without life it's more complex, matter?
- Without religious, scientific, practical God consciousness, how can there be a civilization? How can anyone know that there's a difference between right and wrong or morality unless there is God consciousness?
- Without the consciousness, what happens to the soul when the body dies?
- Won't it help to have your books in their homes though? And maybe future generations will, you know, be benefited, they'll read your books?
- Won't Krsna feel embarrassed to stand between Radha and Rukmini at the same time? Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? It's not rasabhasa?
- Working on the driver of the body. On the spirit, right (people are generally working on the body. And we are working on the driver of the body. That is the difference)?
- Would it be improper to say Vijnana only? Would that be improper? I was thinking in terms of making the title as short as possible. Vijnanam or sa-vijnanam, both nice, but I was thinking...
- Would it be possible to say that all the religions are, as it were, aspects of the personality of Krsna?
- Would it help if someone took the Bible and wrote a Vaisnava purport or tried to simplify it so that people could understand it? The language is difficult for the common man now to understand
- Would that also be due to that soul's karma, that he has gone from being aborted on to another body?
- Would that person have to have contact with you and learn from you also?
- Would the prior life have to be an animal life?... Or could the prior life also be human life?
- Would you accept conclusions from science that..., only if it agreed with the Vedic scriptures?
- Would you be justified in doing something that society would consider criminal, like… stealing for Krsna, or killing for Krsna... Something that is judged by, say, the US government as criminal, would be still do it if it was for Krsna?
- Would you be more comfortable inside, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you count Jesus Christ as gold (gold cannot be Muslim gold or Hindu gold or Christian gold. We are concerned with gold, not the country where the gold is produced. That is not very important thing. Whether it is gold, that is our business)?
- Would you explain something of the religious experience of God consciousness?
- Would you help the sick people?
- Would you know whether people who joined the movement in their older years are more likely to stay on than those who join when they are younger?
- Would you like me to do anything? What would you like me to do?
- Would you like them to stop it (that disturbing sound) until you left?
- Would you like to give your views on psychiatry?
- Would you like to go for a walk soon? I'll get everything ready. The palanquin was nice?
- Would you like to include Gandhi also in that?
- Would you like to take fruit now, or prasadam as regular?
- Would you say something about the place of women in your movement?
- Would you say the right way would have to be, let's say, to be a follower of Krsna?
- Would, say, the cutting down of a plant, vegetable.... You are killing the growth there. Is that a living matter?
- Wouldn't it be handy, though, to be able to fly around without having to use airplanes? Couldn't a devotee utilize that?
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- Yes, I've seen this morning's. Fairly similar, just to talk about the movement. Are you happy with the way it's going here?
- Yes, that means I am not the body, I am something beyond body. And what is that beyond body?
- Yes, we have lost. That is right. And we are gaining it again. The heaven is lost; heaven may be regained. (laughs) What is that, Milton's?
- Yes, well, due to problems that do occur from time to time, we.... You know, what people consider to be the false guru, is that all right with you?
- Yes, what's the most important practice…He is asking whether one technique is more important than another?
- Yesterday you gave an example of a man who was lying asleep in bed, and he is transported somewhere in dream, walking on the beach. What is the full analogy?
- You all have moved your school out of Texas. Is that correct?... Why was that done?
- You also said if you decorate Krsna, make Krsna beautiful, your heart will become beautiful ?
- You and your movement tend to separate people from concern with what's going on in the world, like that's a Presidential election and Jimmy Carter is the democratic candidate... Isn't that an example of it?
- You are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
- You are participating in it, are you not (he asks if you are going to participate in the Ratha-yatra Parade)?... Will you attend the one here in New York?
- You are saying at the present moment we are all suffering?
- You are selling your books in Moscow?
- You arrange the marriages?
- You asked earlier about our program for educating society; are you still interested in this?
- You believe you can transmit that to other planets?
- You came here not too many years ago. Did you ever expect that it would grow into what it has over the years?
- You came here ten years ago, or eleven years ago. You were almost seventy at the time...?
- You choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?
- You do agree that there are many people who do try and cheat?
- You feel that you can continue to make those serious travels?
- You first made ice cream in New York, Srila Prabhupada? Someone told me that in 26 Second Avenue, did you make..., you made them ice cream when it was very hot?
- You founded this movement I think it was ten years ago, that's correct. Why was it that you left till you were so late in life before you founded it?
- You go to Detroit from here?
- You have asked how you can thank me
- You have got such chelas there (disciples from Islamic countries)?
- You have priced these books very high comparatively for the poorer countries. Do you have any plans to reduce...?
- You have said that India should take this movement seriously. How do you want India to take this movement?
- You have seen (Niagara Falls)? How do you like it?
- You have some project here. Can you kindly explain what is that?
- You hired a sankirtana party?
- You indicated in..., before you came here (Washington), that you were interested in meeting some leaders in the city. Have you met any of them?
- You just sleep a couple of hours, then (in the evening Srila Prabhupada goes to bed at ten o'clock and gets up at eleven-thirty to begin translating)?
- You know him (Mr. Dubhai), and Himavati. I told them I'd see you pretty soon. I thought maybe you might be interested in seeing a few pictures?
- You know, Prabhupada, I really feel like I should concentrate lot of my preaching here in New York… What do you think?
- You made a good point about why although now thousands of American boys and girls are coming to India, no one is going to the Ramakrishna Mission, so what kind of impact has he had?
- You made the statement in your purport that the moon is giving life to the vegetation on this planet. So how it can be a desert?
- You mean a mortar and pestle?
- You mean about the Eastern and Western (they are thinking that they are body. "I am Muhammadan, I am Christian, I am American, I am Eastern, I am Western," all bodily conceptions)?
- You mean ice is covering the fire?
- You mean in a rich country like this, why should anyone be on the street?
- You mean the Bhagavad-gita, he must know that or what (you may take part in the movement or not but he must know the science)?
- You mean the spirit? Food? Does the spirit require food (so the car requires petrol. Does it mean the driver also requires petrol?)?
- You mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out?
- You mean to say eternally there is a soul and... This atma and Paramatma will remain separate?
- You mean to say that any system that doesn't subscribe to this movement has no future at all?
- You mean to say that this should become part, an integral part of the educational system?
- You mean you're not working for the jail life (we're not working to keep people in the jail conception of life. So that's why they cannot understand what we are doing)?
- You mentioned once that most of the parikrama devotees, they wanted to go on parikrama but he was speaking?
- You mentioned that soon there will not be so much use for automobiles. What will be our means of spreading the sankirtana movement?
- You mentioned that Vrndavana would be a place for those people who have become a little disturbed in Krsna consciousness, or burned out, we call it, from so much activity, that he comes here and gets rejuvenated. Is that still...?
- You never saw snow?… Even in the Himalayas?
- You once said there is a gross and subtle part of the moon planet. Is that so? No
- You rented a room there (it was an office room. That building is meant for office, not for residences)?
- You run farms as well, do you not?... What do they... Are they working farms, producing farms?
- You said before that with respect to achieving Krsna consciousness, that the end was most important… Would that ever allow you to or any one of the devotees, to engage in practices that would be considered unjust or criminal in a broader society?
- You said that if we serve Krsna we will enjoy, and if we serve maya then we suffer. How can we get over our desire to serve maya and enjoy separately from Krsna?
- You said that Krsna speaking through intuition. Is it therefore possible to follow Krsna by following the intuition?
- You said that the samskaras should be revived to the lowest?
- You said that Vasudeva, it was known fact that he was homosex?
- You said we can't understand Brahman unless we understand Krsna?
- You said you had some plan? For the land here? When we came in, you were saying you had some plan for the land
- You say it works (the means may be different. So that means is justified by the end. If at the end, you do not come to God consciousness, then whatever process you have, that is bogus. That is not bona fide)?
- You say it's the simplest one (to chant Hare Krsna). Are there presumably other chants that maybe you yourself use?
- You say not separating but liberating?
- You say that people kill cows only out of envy. I was wondering if you could give a definition of what envy is. I don't understand why they would kill animals out of envy
- You see Him in three dimensions?
- You started this explanation by saying, "But who will take it?" So is this to say that this religion that you're speaking of is not trying to be made acceptable to the masses, or is it only for those who will take it?
- You support the ancient caste system?
- You think one day, Prabhupada, maybe these big buildings will be our temples?
- You think there is nobody like that (no one is prepared to become first-class man)?
- You think you really want to go to Ann Arbor?
- You told to that gentleman that the scientists, they thought that they have been on the moon planet, but does that actually mean they went to another planet than the moon planet?
- You took your cooker with you? Is that the same one?
- You used to take Jagannatha right through the streets?
- You want Gopala Krsna to print in India or you want us to print in Los Angeles?
- You want Jagadisa or Hari-sauri?
- You want me to take care of it? Your rooms at Radha-Damodara? You want me to take care that they're cleaned and kept?
- You want to do like seven verses a day?
- You want to hear what they wrote? Should I read to you what they said (we haven't gotten all of the newspapers yet, but we did get some of them. This is the very popular Daily News)?
- You want to keep this?
- You want to start it now or in the new temple?
- You wanted them to take it? You were offering... (Many times in Vrndavana the monkeys have taken away from my hand foodstuff)
- You went back to India by boat?
- You went there (Jagannatha Temple) sometimes to take prasadam?
- You were a chemist yourself, were you not, in secular life before you took up the position you have...?
- You were asked whether this record (the new G.A.P. record: "A Change of Heart") could be played in the temples and you replied: "Why not in the temples" Hari Sauri thought you said, "not in the temples"?
- You were in Butler, right?
- You were planning to raise a temple in Kuruksetra?
- You were purchasing here (Westend Superette)?
- You were saying don't bother, you know, don't bring the scriptures in, use common sense. But what part do the scriptures have in your religion? How important are they?
- You were saying that the children should learn these three, geography and these things, and I wanted to know if they should also learn what they call biology, that is how the body is working, what are the bones and blood and...
- You were saying that you're not necessarily trying to get a large number of devotees, but you think there are a few people who are yet ready to accept?
- You were staying with somebody in Butler? Is he still there?
- You were talking about the higher planets?
- You were very well known in Vrndavana before you came? Because you were writing or…?… Or because of your ambition to come to the West?
- You were widely respected in India before you came to the United States?
- You would like electric fan or hand pulled. Hand pulled?
- You would like some growing?
- You would like to hear something (Krsna-kanti and Mangalananda asked you if they could do this contemporary style music with Krsna lyrics. So this is the very first copy)?
- You would like to see growing in your garden a little sabji?
- You would like to stay a little longer this year?
- You would walk on this street (seventy-second Street)?
- You'd like to meet him (when I was in Radha-Damodara temple, there was a khol manufacturer here)?
- You'll be coming to America in about a month's time?
- You'll be having certain industries for export also in Mayapur. Will they be manned by disciples, and if so, do you think that they would be in a much better position to look after these big gosalas and other things than, say, other, people would be?
- You're a citizen however, aren't you, a U.S. citizen?
- You're planning to leave Wednesday?… Maybe you'll be better tomorrow
- You're the leader of how many disciples or devotees throughout the world?
- Your devotees' health is looked after, then (so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all)… By who?
- Your Divine Grace, can I ask you how old you are now?
- Your Divine Grace, how long are you staying in Vrndavana?
- Your Divine Grace, there is Mukunda-mala-stotra by Kulasekhara Maharaja. Are there any translations of that in the English and other languages? (indistinct) ...slokas with you (indistinct) Krsna mantra?
- Your Divine Grace, what prompted you to start the Krsna movement?
- Your Divine Grace, would your message be exactly the same for, say, a starving man in India and a Westerner who's got everything that a person needs?
- Your family, your blood family, are they Krsna conscious as well?
- Your father would give him (one Mayavadi sannyasi in Kalighata) ganja?
- Your father would not let you go any farther than this?
- Your Grace, could I ask you, first, how you pronounce your name?
- Your Grace, do you keep in touch with the world through television or newspapers or the media?
- Your Grace, have you been to New Zealand before?
- Your Grace, if we could perhaps go back over that just for a minute - you said nobody is free… But are you saying that if we live a good life we in some way determine our future as well?
- Your Grace? How can a person tell what his or her occupation or duty is supposed to be?
- Your Grace? I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- Your intention and aim is not merely to cater to the mind, cater to reason, cater to the intellect, but to effect a kind of transformation of man himself. Is this why you have introduced a whole way of living, a whole way of life, is it?
- Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries?
- Your teachings are based on the assumption that Sri Krsna who lived for that period of time is the perfect person. But how do you fundamentally assure that what He has said is correct? How do you reconcile the two points?
- Your volumes are dealing with each chapter of Gita?