Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976
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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?