Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976
- Here we place the questions that were asked to Prabhupada as page titles and the answers he gives are inside the pages as headings written in the colour green.
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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?