Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976
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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?