Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976
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- A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it?
- A devotee is sometimes subject to hankering or lamentation. That is material though, isn't it?
- A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?
- A lot of devotees, they never read the books, but they're doing the chanting. It will progress them without reading the books, because they're the most important?
- A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement?
- A pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere, that He's never out of your vision, and at the same time in Siksastaka prayers Lord Caitanya explains that "Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be twelve years or more." Could you explain this?
- A statement was made some time ago in a conversation that somebody was looking for the Gita without the Rama. Could you explain what they might be meaning by that?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- According to the Bhagavatam, the sun is also 93,000,000 miles away from the earth?
- According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana?
- Actually, although the actual number of initiated devotees is still few, there is a growing, ever-growing number of sympathizers - So you make good supporter, then government is yours - Then it's all based on selling your books more and more?
- After if one becomes purified, is it possible when he becomes transferred to the spiritual world that he can meet Rupa Gosvami and other great...?
- After the Battle of Kuruksetra there were many men killed. How were all the young people and the women protected after so many millions of men were killed?
- After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?
- All over the entire world we find the Indian community, practically speaking. Is this part of Lord Caitanya's plan to help spread this Vedic culture?
- All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?
- Almost everyone, except me perhaps, is concerned about death. But how about the smaller obstacles which nevertheless can make people very depressed, neurotic? How do you recognize and live with them or eliminate them?
- Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now
- Although, Srila Prabhupada, it's somewhat easy for us to convince that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the summary study of all the Vedic literatures, how can we take that Bhagavad-gita is the summary study?
- Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- And also that man, that Sastri, the Ministry of Education? That man Mr. Sastri, in the Ministry of Education, the Ratri of Sanskrit-samsad, he bought fifty copies?
- And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?
- And during the recess what should they (Gurukula students) do?
- And for design of Gaura-Nitai and Radha-Krsna, we should just use the same design or we should make better?
- And how long are you going to stay there (Kashi), sir?
- And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?
- And how to surrender to God, how to do this?
- And if he (Blitz) was Krsna before, how is it he's disagreeing with what the Bhagavad-gita says?
- And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?
- And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?
- And now you will remain here in India for some time?
- And so that group of eighteen secretaries will choose another leader (he has appointed from all the disciples a group of secretaries. Each one is in charge of a different sector of the world... Presently there is eighteen)?
- And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?
- And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?
- And that's why the Krsna movement is separate (the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter)… Appears to be separated, that's the way you would put it. Well, is it separated?
- And the interpretation is by you yourself?
- And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused?
- And then he (Gopal) arranged programs, speaking programs?
- And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere?
- And then what is the program? Your Divine Grace is coming back to Delhi? From Vrndavana after three weeks?
- And then you went directly to Pennsylvania? By bus?
- And they should give us some facilities (a good person is one who is God conscious and lives according to the instruction of God. So there is instruction of God, we are presenting this all over the world)?
- And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
- And what about with people (we are maintaining animals, giving them food, giving them security of life in all our farms the animals are very free)?
- And what do you mean by surrendering, sir?
- And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows?
- And what is the gain?
- And what is the upasana you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jnana?
- And what is your program, sir?
- And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities?
- And when we understand that… (our movement begins when one understands that he is soul or something other than this body)?
- And where did you sleep? Was there a bed (I was paying seventy-two dollars a month)?
- And you are sure this is the truth?
- And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)?
- And you think it's more because of your age, I mean you've got used to a colder climate than India, have you?
- And your health was better?
- And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta?
- Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...?
- Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...?
- Anxiety for one's self is maya?
- Apart from Catholicity of the American church, what can be the other reasons of their indifference towards your positive ideas?
- Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being?
- Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know
- Are changes visible in Hinduism in its doctrinal content, mode of individual and collective worship as a result of Hinduism's contact with the West?
- Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?
- Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?
- Are the moon's phases due to the planet Rahu, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
- Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- Are there any other Deities besides Kaliya-Krsna you want us to make for Fiji?
- Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?
- Are there different prajapatis for the different species?
- Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)?
- Are there many decisions that people asked you to make, about whether the movement should do this, or should do that, or do they bother you of that now, or are you just busy writing and translating?
- Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?
- Are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Krsna consciousness path?
- Are these actually the tangible signs by which one can judge what is real religion?
- Are these bad conditions or ailments not part and parcel of God?
- Are they ("no sinful life." No more illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxicants) prerequisites to accepting your knowledge?
- Are they (our books) sold mainly in the Western countries?
- Are they going to start on Mayapur building this year?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are we closer to this practicality when we sleep (when you engage your physical senses in the service of the Lord, then the physical quality of the senses will be diminished or gone, your spiritual sense activities will begin. This is practical)?
- Are we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you also obliged to help animals, to help other human beings?
- Are you at all concerned about the, what seems to be an increasing number of gurus and swamis throughout the world?
- Are you ever going to stop traveling?
- Are you familiar with the writings of Descartes?
- Are you getting any opposition from the church?
- Are you happy with the way the Krsna movement is progressing throughout the world and particularly throughout Australia?
- Are you prepared to die?
- Are you retiring now?
- Are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time?
- Are you saying that this (Vedic) knowledge has appeared in many forms? Does it appear also in, let's say, Christianity, in Muslim, Mohammedanism?
- Are you speaking specifically about all animal killing, Your Excellency? Or, how do you speak of animal killing? In other words, vegetarian living, is that what you're speaking of?
- Are you suggesting then that what is taken to be liberty is actually enslavement? And what is assumed to be the pursuit of happiness is nothing more than a rat race in which you try to make the best of what you can?
- Are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- Are you surprised at the way this organization has prospered?
- Are you surprised to see the popularity of your teachings in the last few years?
- Are you there referring to references from the scriptures (that is explained very elaborately in the Bhagavad-gita: na jayate na mriyate va kadacin na hanyate hanyamane sarire)?
- Are you training people to become teachers in this school, this process of education?
- Are you, sir, writing off all scientists because they've failed to understand the spiritual dimension in life?
- Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
- Are your followers encouraged to visit with their... (all family members, children, husband, wife, they are present there. How do you say it is against family? Wrong criticism)?
- Aren't we the images of God?
- As (a man is supposed to be educated when he sees every woman as mother)?
- As a mother loves the child in pure love, does that help her to also find the pure love in the spiritual world?
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
- As the man's concentration through which progresses, how, in what forms he goes on seeing Him (you cannot see unlimited. That is His mercy, that He presents Himself before you in three dimension because you have no eyes to see Him)?
- As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes, atheist and theist, is it not advisable for all religions to come together, and what positive steps can be taken in this direction?
- Astakala-lila. What is that exactly? Eightfold lila or some...?
- At Bheda Dvaraka, that is the residential palace of Lord Krsna. And seven ranis of Lord Krsna. They show each building, their whole building. So what was that?
- At one time, you had instructed that all the children should attend the main class. They say that some of the very small children have trouble to keep their attention...
- At that time (end of the day of Brahma. End of fourteen Manus) is the earth destroyed, or is it simply covered by water?
- At the end of Manu's day, when there is flood (the whole thing would be filled up with water. So water course is very heavy. So it can turn even big, big rocks, mountains rolling)?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, there is a subtle reality that the subtle body enters into?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
- At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- Aurobindo? He always had some French people with him?
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- Bada? That means?
- Baka is a duck?
- Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, Krsna came (Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days)?
- Because I inquired with him that whether it is not something to do with CIA, wherefrom your money comes?
- Because there's no sacrifice, because people aren't performing sacrifices now, is it more difficult to live off the land? It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?
- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Beef bouillion (I saw that she (Sally) was feeding her child, one boy, meat powder)?
- Before I leave, can they just stand here and have darsana and then we go? Can they come in?... My sister and my brother-in-law.
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Before you went to America, in India, before 1965, were people coming at all, Indian people, to learn anything? Were they interested in any way?
- Bhagavad-gita's Battle of Kuruksetra fought, in which month?
- Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhu, Bhaktisiddhanta your spiritual master. How you spent the days, your young age, with Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Black is beautiful?
- Boy, was he skinny in those days! This is Brahmananda? And this is Kirtanananda Swami sitting down?
- Brahman realization for the devotee in the beginning is just that he realizes his constitutional position as servant of Krsna?
- Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
- Brainwash, accha. How you entered in their hearts?
- Buddha's name is also considered hari-nama?
- But are you asking people, if they accept your teachings, to retreat from the world, like for instance, the people who are surrounding us now?
- But aren't they also purified spiritually by doing this (distribute these books)?
- But aren't we impure and He is pure?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But by that time you had some kind of... organization going?
- But can't we bring chanting of japa into it? Mantra Yoga (regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vrndavana and Bombay)
- But do you think it's unusual, the fact that it's an Eastern, mysterious Eastern religion has an appeal to American young people?
- But do you think most of the Hare Krsna members will vote in the election in November?
- But do you think they (the dinosaurs) were on this planet?
- But do you think they (the Koran or the Bible or any other religious) are successful?
- But does this not imply - one ten-thousandth the size (the size of the soul) - does that not imply measurement, that it can be measured?
- But doesn't Krsna know if I will do it (misuse my independence)?
- But encouraging (to give money to the temple) is not recommended?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But even accepting their idea that things are produced from chemical reactions, who is creating the chemical reactions?
- But for what purpose and to what end? What's the final end (ultimate is that you are spirit soul, you are being materially engrossed, you are creating different situations and you are being transferred to different bodies. That is different situations)?
- But God can communicate differently?
- But how can so many cheat?… Together they all cheat, they all say they went to the moon. One thousand scientists, all together in one room? They all say, "We agree, this, they went to the moon, here's the..."
- But how has the cockroach been formed?
- But how to make the people realize importance of Bhagavad-gita?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But how would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- But I have never heard anything of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, and I wondered if you would tell me a little bit about him, if you would?
- But I mean they do, these men who are space travelers, they say "We did land on the moon." Now are they lying?
- But I'm trying to ask does he (the Presidential candidate) have to be Krsna conscious, involvement, in order to be God conscious?
- But if it's (independence) not good for me, if I will misuse it, why would Krsna give it to me anyway?
- But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?
- But if we don't make the research, then how will we ever solve these problems?
- But if we tried to do that, wouldn't it be sort of artificial (they go in the village for begging little food, that's all. Just like you can live in this forest. And what you will eat? Two capati. So you can go and beg. That's all)?
- But is it possible to understand Krsna directly?
- But is it the guru? Does the guru give him that sense (when one is actually in service, then he comes to.... "So I have enjoyed. Now, no I don't want. Now I want Krsna." That is voluntary)?
- But is that correct (in any position, if you worship Krsna, then it is all right)?
- But isn't it by force anyway (Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver, "You love me, otherwise I shall kill you.")? If we don't love Krsna, we suffer
- But it requires some emanation from a cockroach body in order to create another cockroach body. So how can a cockroach body be created from vapors without contact of another cockroach?
- But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that?
- But maybe he's taken (he's not sannyasi, he is householder), I don't know, I thought he had a danda, one of those staffs. I saw the little temple in the garden, Krsna and Radha, where they stay in bed. It's like a bed like this. You know the one?
- But now I'm wondering how this should be managed, who should take charge of this project (this one gentleman has already offered one house in Bangkok. He's put at our disposal, in the middle of the city. A very beautiful house)?
- But now we should not teach them any exercise at all?
- But on this one time should we bathe directly?
- But people in general you say are walking on the dead platform in live bodies (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- But sometimes the impersonalists, they say, Prabhupada, that this Krsna consciousness is just the beginning platform, that after Krsna consciousness then one can come to impersonal realization
- But suppose the government is atheistic (the leaders cannot control nature, so why don't they accept a supreme controller? That is the defect in society)?
- But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada?
- But that subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- But the body is important to the self isn't it?
- But the innocent souls, they're not surrendered to Krsna?
- But the question comes up that you have given a vow against fire at the time of marriage that the husband will look after the wife and the family. Then how does that fit in when you leave the family all of a sudden?
- But the Sanskrit wasn't give here?
- But the sheep has no sense of herd. What poor sheep can do?
- But then is that man that's hammering the bricks, isn't he going to quit hammering the bricks, too?
- But then there is an argument, if we were originally in the spiritual world, why don't we remember that and try to go back to the spiritual world?
- But then who created the creator?
- But then why do you fear this death of the physical body (the material body is the cause of pains and pleasure. So if you don't get the material body, if you remain in your spiritual body, that is real enjoyment)?
- But there are some very intelligent men who are not spiritually enlightened, perhaps even men who understand that they are not, or the body is not all, the body is dead and there is something else. Why aren't these men spiritually aware?
- But there must be different stages that you go through, is that not correct?… Can you tell me from your own experience some of these different stages you've been through
- But these religions are just material. These Hindu, Christian, Muslim, they're following these things because that is simply their destiny? They don't know how to please God, so that's simply part of their happiness and distress?
- But they have choice within maya. Isn't that a fact?... Choice what to do in the material world, many different fields. They will say that they can do this or that
- But they will be on the altar or they will be in front (and on the opening day the Deities will be on the altar or they will be in front when they're bathed? When the bathing is taking place in Bombay for the opening...)?
- But they'll actually manage the government (one day our men will be leaders of government? - Yes. Leaders means as soon as you make the public in your favor, you are leader)?
- But to a layman what would you preach?
- But ultimately you're basing all your faith factually, aren't you, on your reasoning?
- But wasn't that school (the gurukula school in Texas) moved to India?
- But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
- But what happens if you do die before you finish (I have taken up my translation work, Bhagavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation)?
- But what if they asked you, "What is this all about?" (they came... Naturally they came and joined me and began to dance, that's all. That is the beginning)
- But what is the breaking of the pot (you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with)?
- But what is the position now? Is it dying out or increasing?
- But what is the stage at which it is atma gets merged with Paramatma? If atma would get merged with Paramatma then...?
- But what was your experience of that saksaska?
- But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty... Then those karmas don't affect...?
- But why are we in the prison house?
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But why do you blame us for not surrendering when we see that even Krsna's devotees can't surrender to Him? They come to us and ask us for money for these books. Why don't they give them away?
- But why give names to Him? Why give names to that God?
- But you can come to God consciousness through a variety of paths?
- But you led a rather normal life - before this you were married. You were a businessman?
- But you might want to come back to the U.S.?
- But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
- But young men don't tend to be wise, do they (so at the early age, up to twenty-five, he's trained up. If he can, he can continue as brahmacari. He directly can take sannyasa)?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
- But, sir, if we are drop of the same ocean, why should we be impure at all?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, is this valid to conclude that spirit, spiritual world, or life is very complex?
- By elaborate you mean effective, is that? You mean effective by elaborate? I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate (well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate)?
- By His grace, Krsna will show Himself to you?
- By pleasing Lord, one does not please one's own ego also to some extent?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
- By the mercy of Supersoul, he (the pure devotee) can be present in many places at once?
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- Can a self exist without a body?
- Can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- Can anybody create anything with this mystic power, any idol of God or any idol of devotee or anything, and then turn them to..., just a good mission to turn them to God?
- Can anyone be said to be innocent in this world?
- Can he find the truth on his level, because he hasn't arrived at your level?
- Can I ask a question? Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- Can I ask one more question, Swamiji?… Some people are more inclined to worship Rama, saying Hare Rama, Hare Rama instead of Hare Rama, Hare Krsna, both?
- Can I ask one question? You were mentioning that you wanted to start local industries, casting Deities?
- Can I serve the devotees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Can it (aratiks) be three, can it be simple?
- Can one be in spiritual life if they're not worshiping the Deity?
- Can one develop determination gradually?
- Can one say that necessity for eating, sleeping, mating and defending is animal life? The necessity for God is advanced life?
- Can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
- Can the desire to go back to Godhead be sense gratification?
- Can the older boys be trained in a particular kind of devotional service? For example, press work?
- Can the seed extract anything without the spirit soul being present there?
- Can these things be understood theoretically, Srila Prabhupada, or is realization required?
- Can we drink date rasa? We are allowed to drink date rasa?
- Can we find it (truth) only in the scriptures, in following all the regulative principles we're following day after day, or can we find also that truth by following our own path, by keeping our own freedom to do whatever we like?
- Can we stop mental speculation immediately
- Can we, can you say a bit more of that, just for the tape? You were saying that religion is obeying the supreme controller
- Can you be completely perfect and follow the orders perfectly?
- Can you become aware of this without Krsna consciousness (when one understands that this big machine (the body) is useless without the pilot (the soul))?
- Can you briefly tell us what the difference, how your approach is different from the approaches of the other gurus who have come? You seen to have rather a unique place in...
- Can you explain to me just a bit more, if the soul is undying, does everybody's soul go to be with God when they die? Do you have a belief in a heaven or a hell?
- Can you explain to me then what difference it makes being a member of the Hare Krsna movement
- Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?
- Can you explain to me, then, perhaps finally, just some of the stages you go through in this spiritual life. Sort of, from somebody being a new devotee to Hare Krsna, what are the mental or the spiritual stages you go through?
- Can you give us the number how many temples are there in foreign countries?
- Can you point out any time in history when there existed such a perfect system (we are always hankering after happiness. So we do not like suffering. So if there is no suffering, that is perfect system)?
- Can you remember some of your first impressions of North American society when you came here? Did you feel it was ripe for Krsna consciousness at that time?
- Can you repeat why you said you have been successful where others have not?
- Can you see an age that you could live until? Could you predict how long you might live?
- Can you take inside? Is it allowed (I wanted both of you to take various detailed photographs of that Capitol)?
- Can you tell me a little bit about the future direction of the movement, how you plan to expand?
- Can you tell me how the Hare Krsna movement came to be founded?
- Can you tell me how you feel led, you know, how you are guided to do what you do?
- Can you tell me what this painting up here is?
- Can you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life, why do we exist in the first place?
- Can you tell me what you believe, what is the philosophy of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Can you tell us a little bit about Krsna consciousness, what it does mean?
- Can you tell us a little bit about the plans you have for your project in India
- Chanting in the temple increases the?
- Chanting, following the orders of the spiritual master... Is that considered offenseless chanting?
- China?
- Concerning your questions about tantric sastras
- Could I ask you another question? You've been hitting on some of the Ten Commandments tonight like "Thou shall not kill." Now, if you believe the Ten Commandments like that, it also says in there that you shouldn't worship idols, bow down to idols
- Could I ask you if you might sign... Put your name in... Autograph?
- Could it be that there may be different interpretations (if you do not accept the direction of the author, then what right you have got to say that you have understood Bhagavad-gita)?
- Could we just talk for a minute or two so that we could get all this set up? If you'd like, just to tell me. You're going to India tomorrow, is that correct?
- Could you go over each of the three functions you've been mentioning-eating, sleeping and sex - and tell me what specifically, what rules or hints that you would give people who are seeking spiritual enlightenment to aid in their lives in these ways
- Could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did...?
- Could you tell me something about your altar?
- Could you tell us a little about your spiritual master's life?
- Couldn't you get all the necessity you require from grains?
- Cyavana and his followers (two heavenly physicians, asvini-kumaras made him very nice beautiful-looking young man by taking him to a certain lake, and they dipped down and all of them became fresh young men, beautiful, very beautiful)?
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- Death is just like sleep. When we're sleeping we feel.... So why, then, we should be afraid of death?
- Defamation of our religious cult. Because we're recognized by scholars as being bona fide. It says here, "Ungodly face of Krsna cult." How is that ungodly?
- Devotees are doing very well in Moscow, Prabhupada? Is that right? They are distributing books there?
- Devotees, sometimes they feel that in ISKCON we're talking so much about the business of how to spread Krsna consciousness, but we're not talking enough about Krsna's pastimes, krsna-katha. Won't it purify them? That's what they say, "It will purify me"
- Dharma is for the envious?
- Did any of them come up here who are still with you now (alone I was doing that. And then gradually one or two boys began to come)?
- Did these dinosaurs exist, or is it just their imagination?
- Did they find a temple in Hamburg? In Hamburg. I was there once, but they just had a little tiny house, and they were trying to get another
- Did they go to some other planet (than the moon), Prabhupada?
- Did we fall in the material world to experience something which is higher?
- Did we fall in this material world to find some highest pleasure?
- Did you ever think at that time that you would be able to expand or...?
- Did you get some barley flour?
- Did you have to go there (to Dr. Mishra's apartment) to bathe also?
- Did you help to build that one?... Did you help to establish that Gaudiya Matha (In Allahabad)?
- Did you mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out? The dormant Krsna consciousness, is that...
- Did you meet any of them (the Soviet Union leaders)?
- Did you purchase any land at Kuruksetra yet, Prabhupada?
- Did you see the color printing inside? It's also very nice. They have done the same.... This was last year in Paris, when you received Bhagavad-gita
- Did you send copies to all the libraries (of the first Back to Godhead magazine)?
- Did you stand on street corners and chant?
- Did you then begin, after you finished the university, did you begin your writing?
- Did you want to go out into the garden tonight or not?
- Did you work out the spiritual disciplines for the group yourself? I mean about the morning chanting and the recital of the two thousand Hare Krsnas a day and... Did you work those out yourself?
- Didn't that Dr. Radhakrishnan go crazy at the end of life, Srila Prabhupada?
- Different Puranas have different Gitas, Prabhupada?
- Do any of them come now? Do any of them come now apart from Prabhakara?
- Do many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- Do monkeys have any use?
- Do most human beings fall down into the animal species?
- Do the car companies make bicycles?
- Do the demigods sometimes forget their positions?
- Do the living entities who are born from perspiration require a mother and father?
- Do the number of demigods have something to do with the number of species, like there are thirty-three million demigods?... Do they belong to these species? They are also included in these eight million four hundred? These Gandharvas?
- Do these demigods have the potency to show the universal form?
- Do they have any temples of Lord Jagannatha there? They have any temples of Lord Jagannatha in Kuruksetra?
- Do they have many birds in Bhuvanesvara?
- Do they reject it because they (the politicians) cannot do it?
- Do we announce that you will give darsana on the stage for five minutes?
- Do we have to completely leave the world? We cannot stay within the world and sanctify ourselves?
- Do we recognize that any of those Christian saints were great devotees? Did they develop love of God? Or what's the comparison?
- Do you accept the supremacy of the Vedas, veda-pramanam?
- Do you attempt to speak with governments and city officials and that sort of thing to spread your message?
- Do you basically reject the modern civilization?
- Do you believe in a resurrection?
- Do you believe that Hare Krsna is the only true faith?
- Do you believe that the Gita should be followed as it is or interpretation...?
- Do you believe then that there is more than one way?
- Do you consider that your movement is basically more of an educational movement than a religious movement?
- Do you consider.... Is it your Deity? Do you consider that glorified?
- Do you defy by trying to learn His mayadhyaksena suyate prakrtih sa-caracaram (you defy Krsna)?
- Do you envisage or envision a different role for Hinduism in the Western countries where the influence of other great religions has been felt for centuries?
- Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you already?
- Do you feel also that if someone read the Bhagava...?... Bhagavad-gita and other books, that a person merely by reading these could attain knowledge of Krsna?
- Do you feel are you in good health now? You look it.
- Do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet?
- Do you find that in the translation from the thoughts and the Sanskrit to the English words, then from the English words to the mass of the people's heads, do you find that there is much loss?
- Do you find the English weather cold?
- Do you find, Swamiji, that the mood of the young people in North America is the same now as it was in '65, or has it changed?
- Do you have a large number of American negroes in your movement, Swamiji?
- Do you have any in training for second class?
- Do you have any opinion about Ted Patrick, who I guess you've probably heard of?
- Do you have any other source, like donations or something like that for your movement?
- Do you have any panditas in the Western movement?
- Do you have any plans of propagating your movement in India?
- Do you have any proposal to spread this movement in Communist countries?
- Do you have arrangements with hospitals in case somebody gets sick, and do you watch diet carefully and...?
- Do you have programs developed to educate mankind towards this God consciousness?
- Do you have women followers also in this movement?
- Do you hope to acquire school buildings for teaching school?
- Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- Do you know much of Mormonism?
- Do you know Professor Bimal Motilal came in during your discourse?
- Do you need to be involved in the Krsna movement to be God conscious?
- Do you plan to propagate your message in India?
- Do you read newspapers?
- Do you see America getting more God consciousness?
- Do you see hope for mankind in the future?
- Do you see that nations will fight too? That there will be wars, things like that?
- Do you separate the eternal world from the Paramatma? It is something, a world like our material world that we have got, physical world that we have got, is going to be out of, the eternal world?
- Do you spend your whole year traveling, or only part of the year?
- Do you think if a person is to be a real believer in God he has to also worship Krsna or speak of Him?
- Do you think if all men, let's say, all the religions could try to come together...?
- Do you think it is necessary for India to eschew religion?
- Do you think mankind is making some improvement?
- Do you think something could be written on this wall?
- Do you think that one of the attractions of Krsna consciousness is the rather exotic, Hindu, unusual customs in the West. These customs are unusual in the West and they have a sort of exotic appeal for young people?
- Do you think that some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world?
- Do you think that there is a special way that Hinduism looks upon man's place in the universe?
- Do you think that this concept (God means Supreme Controller) is the special insight of the Vedic?
- Do you think that this is because of the Western influence under which they have gone and you are... (nobody spoke that "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You worship Him." Nobody has said. This is the first time, I am saying)?
- Do you think the deep-rooted Indian culture and religion will ever have a sort of a re-creation, or will it continue?
- Do you think the India-originated religion is, serves its particular purpose in the Western society? I mean, does, is it of particular value in a rather technological society, the Hindu tradition?
- Do you think the same problem is here in India as in other countries (and now in India another danger is that so many rascals, they are declaring, "I am God." And this India, people have become so fallen down, they accept all these rascals as God)?
- Do you think the time will come when we will... (if they allow us to forward our movement, then we are satisfied. And when there is hindrance, the person who is hindering, finished. But don't do it now, (chuckles) then you will be finished)?
- Do you think the type of life that your devotees must lead... is in fact a happy one, getting up very early in the morning?
- Do you think there is a necessity to open a ministry of religion?
- Do you think there will always be a few who understand (God)?
- Do you think there's a difference between the various peoples of the world? In other words, do you think that Indians as opposed to Europeans have more of a tendency or are more likely to adhere to the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think they (west) are taking to it because it is novel?
- Do you think we should go straight to the minister?
- Do you think you could explain to me about the Deities and how it's different from idol worship?
- Do you think you'll be able to see the temple either today or tomorrow and give me some ideas on how to utilize the building? I can arrange it with Pusta Krsna? When you're available?
- Do you use the Judeo-Christian scriptures at all in your work?
- Do you want this to become a part of the educational system here?
- Do you want your hat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you watch TV yourself?
- Do you, in other words, do you believe that astronauts landed somewhere?
- Do.... Your lines of authority then come from you, or is it an elective authority?
- Does each temple operate by itself, or each division operate by itself?
- Does God speak to me, within me, whether I listen or not?
- Does it ever happen, Swamiji, that some disciples of yours may disagree with you in spiritual matters?
- Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first (nobody could answer, a simple question... According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first)?
- Does it matter what religion you believe? Does it matter which religion you believe? Would it matter if one was a devotee of Hare Krsna...?
- Does Krsna consciousness make you aware of this, though (actually knowledge begins from that point, that "I am not this body." Just like a big 747 plane is running on, but there is the intelligent pilot)?
- Does Krsna give beneficial instruction to someone and not to someone else, intuition in the heart to take or not to take the book?
- Does Krsna punish people who do not serve Him purely? Or do the people punish themselves when they do not serve Him purely?
- Does one have a better chance of reaching to the spiritual platform if he is performing pious activities?
- Does that apply then to other kinds of decisions and other kinds of activities as well (Krsna will tell directly. A devotee always consults Krsna and Krsna tells him, "Do like this." Not figuratively)?
- Does that involve a majority of the people, or... (so those who are working on the bodily platform, they are working on the dead platform)?
- Does that mean difficult to understand or difficult to practice?
- Does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- Does that mean that the atom is living entity?
- Does that mean that you assume or propose that the world would all become one in one religion?
- Does that mean to some extent that the soul is dependent on a material condition?
- Does that means all the planets are fixed in relationship to each other as well (Gita says, urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham. The pole-star in the... And we see at night everything is moving. As a bunch it is moving)?
- Does that take on a positive aspect as well so that by not only do I not kill animals and I don't kill men, do I, am I obliged under your system (we are not cruel to anyone. Either he's a man or animal or tree or bird), am I obliged to actively help...
- Does the devotee go through these levels of understanding Brahman then Paramatma then Bhagavan? Does the devotee gradually go through these levels, or does he immediately realize Brahman when his service is perfect?
- Does the devotee, I mean just like you are always enthusing us to push on...
- Does the group live a vegetarian life, without any meat? Is that what you're saying?
- Does the self exist without the body in this world?… In this life?… As a spirit apart from the body
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
- Does this mean that a person should turn his attention from the world, from his surrounding?
- Don't what, Prabhupada?
- Don't you find the whole Krsna movement more successful in an age and era when there is such laxity of moral standards and spiritual leadership and direction?
- Don't you have a gurukula in Texas?
- Don't you think it will be a bad thing, because there are some bad people in the world, like Hitler and Stalin and others, they may be the first people to use the technology to prolong their life?
- Down the fall (ice, flood, every second)?
- Dr. Agarwal was your sponsor?
- During this transformation, are we still ignorant? During this transformation from body to body.
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- Earth is a mixture of all these different elements?
- Eternal life (explain to them about eternal life)?
- Evam prasanna-manaso?
- Even a drop of water, when you take it from the glass and put it on this one. Another drop of water will come and when you put it in medicine won't come in water. Like that, atma, will it not merge with the Paramatma?
- Even good literature sanga is also sat-sanga, is it not?
- Even he doesn't consider material necessity (a devotee has to work sincerely to serve Krsna. Then everything is there)?
- Even in India, Muslims are taking to Krsna consciousness?
- Even nitya-siddha has guru?
- Even the basic of this (you were saying that the children should learn these three, geography and these things, and I wanted to know if they should also learn what they call biology, that is how the body is working, what are the bones and blood)?
- Even with all our philosophic and all our learning we have the sense of possession of this body which can't leave the moha in it. With all that, sir, then how can they do it?
- Even with this education, they (the children in Gurukula) still might not be intelligent, what you consider intelligent people. How, you know... Is it more likely that they will be what you would term intelligent, having been educated in this system?
- Everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys, or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
- Everyone has to learn from someone. Who has informed God of all knowledge?
- Everyone requires leader, yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- Excuse me, does that mean that people from other religions may..., it is not possible for them to achieve the highest perfection?
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- Falldown means deviation from the orders of the spiritual master?
- For boil also (I will give you so many formulas)?
- For eating (so we cannot pay more than five thousand (maintenance money for the devotees in ISKCON Vrndavana))?
- For making, you know, the wool, woolen garments like the cap and cadara... Sometimes it's made out of wool. They would get from sheep?
- For spreading this movement in India, are you hopeful it will be?
- For the abhiseka, do we require cow urine and cow dung and tail of cow?
- For the truth, since each one finds the truth in himself, does that mean that the truth is different for each person?
- From a distance (I saw (snow) in Kashmir, but that was not so white)?
- From the material point of view, though, people can live an irresponsible life, and they have some earnings. They feel that they can enjoy. What is the need for morality?
- From what I've seen in your writings - that there's an underlying truth behind all religion. Would you agree with that?
- From which class of society in the United Sates do most of your disciples come?
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- Gandhi said that Hitler change of heart that would be effective and not that punishment. That means punishment is a fault, and I would like your enlightenment on this paradox
- Give them milk?
- Go ahead and get the projector do you think, new projector?
- Going back to this sense question, where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?
- Governor of (during Jawaharlal Nehru's time)?
- Grace of God (the chance theory is the grace of God)?
- Gurukula. She's asking if you could tell her about the system of education you have established in America
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- Hari-vilasa's wife? Parijata (I told them two o'clock their time, I also told them not to make anything fancy but to make very simple)?
- Haridasa Thakura is following all the principles, but he's always feeling so fallen. So Lord Caitanya tells him, "Put away your excess humility." Is this what He is trying to teach him? That we should have assurance?
- Has anybody practiced this type of sex?
- Has God also devised the most perfect government?
- Has he seen our books?
- Has there been any official opposition to your movement in any country?
- Has there ever been debates on the authenticity of modern science, or is this the first time modern science has been challenged in the world?
- Have any of your Godbrothers translated anything?
- Have there been any complaints from Detroit?
- Have these books been reviewed in foreign papers?
- Have they (the chief minister) done (given land in Kuruksetra) so?
- Have you been troubled by any undesirable elements?
- Have you got them here?
- Have you studied other religions?
- Have you tried to compare with Gita written by Gyaneshvara, or by Vinoba Bhave or by somebody else?
- Have you wanted a businessman to come?
- He (a vrajavasi) has a spiritual master?
- He (Grnanatha) didn't stay here?
- He (Jackie Vaughn) says we're in the world, but how can we be aloof from it? How can we not be a part of it?
- He (Krsna) took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He (Prabhupada) has traveled the world sixteen times around?
- He (the pujari) comes on this side of the altar and blows the conchshell. Is that all right? It should be behind the curtain or in front of the curtain?
- He argues that Krsna knows everything, so Krsna knew that he would have trouble controlling his senses; therefore why did Krsna give him senses?
- He asked if you're pleased if your disciples do things like Sharma, if they, like, go to live in trees and do artificial renunciation?
- He does not speak krsna-katha, Prabhupada. So five thousand you have estimated for the Deities? For a month you have estimated last night five thousand?
- He holds your hand and gives that hand to God. That is guru. That is what I think. Am I right in a way?
- He is taking over there, you take here?
- He said in a letter, he just wrote a letter to you that... You laid a cornerstone in some temple? About three, four years ago?
- He says he takes Christianity as Krsna consciousness. What do you say?
- He took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He wants to know, is this consciousness within us (the soul means consciousness. It is just like sunshine. The soul is very small particle, but it is shining as consciousness)?
- He's asking a question, Srila Prabhupada: isn't it important to mold the activities of ourselves and also the children in coming to this movement; to mold them that so that we can become Krsna conscious?
- He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
- He's saying did you think of these things yourself, to chant on the beads and follow the program in the morning, have you made these up yourself?... Who originated those steps?
- He's talking about if you're married before you come to the movement and one person wants to join the movement and the other person is not very agreeable?
- He's the oldest devotee? Mukunda? He's the oldest devotee?
- Helped (I am very much indebted to them because they have helped me) in what sense?
- Her question is... Suppose someone has some faith in life after death, and he also may be an intelligent man by material standards. Why isn't he automatically...?
- Her question was, "Is your physical place important, surroundings"?
- Her soul is still alive, and she is still functioning spiritually, even though her brain is dead. Is that what...?
- Here (many monkeys were deported by the government but people protested. They were capturing monkeys...)?
- Here in Vrndavana the people also pay taxes?
- Hinduism has always renewed or revitalized itself according to the need of the times. In today's context, are any correctives called for, and if so, who will bring them about and how can they be brought about and made acceptable to all the masses?
- Hinduism has been defined as a way of life?
- Hing and what? Prepare with hing and?
- His idea.... His question, Prabhupada, is also, suppose someone wants to buy a farm or wants to do some new project. Do they ask your permission first?
- His question is that now the government is corrupt, so what can be immediately done?
- Hogs are there as well (in the spiritual world)?
- How about opening one temple in Ahmedabad?
- How about people who aren't first-class intelligence, people, as you mentioned, the foolish. What message...?
- How are they able to perpetuate such an enormous hoax (ask all scientists this simple question. Why, all over the world, Sunday, sun first and moon second? Why? And Saturday last. All of you could not answer this question)?
- How are those supported (the forty centers in the United States)? Do they support themselves?
- How are we going to fare in this court case?
- How are we to determine how much of our endeavor should be for our own personal progress?
- How can a person with all material desires develop desire to love Krsna?
- How can a spirit become so ignorant?
- How can all sections of Hindus be made to take an equal interest and have the same sense of belonging to the Hindu religion?
- How can any body live in the sun?
- How can God be controlled by His own energy, illusory energy?
- How can he be supreme if he can fall down?
- How can I give up attraction for woman?
- How can one come to have faith that there is life after one leaves his body?
- How can one establish faith in the principle of reincarnation? How can one come to believe in it?
- How can one strengthen the spiritual will to act plain and live the spiritual life?
- How can one understand God's love?
- How can she be sure that the spiritual master is bona fide?
- How can there be any truth separate from the Lord?
- How can they vote for human beings (the voters are pigs and asses and camel and dogs. So if these animal vote for somebody, then what he is)?
- How can this practically be applied to American society, this idea of trusting God? How would things change?
- How can we add (introduce classes where such laws of nature (dehino 'smin) and such-on scientific line, without giving it a Hindu or religious name) in innumerable, rather, uncountless schools and colleges?
- How can we best serve the movement? By joining it? I have joined it in a...
- How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- How can we make them understand they're being punished?
- How can we perfectly follow only what Krsna has said?
- How can we stop speculating?
- How can you make them (people) interested if they're not?
- How can you trust God if you don't know anything about Him? First you have to know something about God before you can trust Him.
- How close does one student usually, how close does he get to the master? How closely does he understand the master? Or he could interrelate himself to the master?
- How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?
- How could father feed even the child (they say they may become pregnant and have children, but the men should take care of the children, equally... They get milk from the mother, not from the father)?
- How could one choose when he himself is ignorant?
- How did you attract people? You landed in New York...
- How did you find the transition, or how did it affect you, the transition from leading a life in the business world?
- How did you manage to get your first Bhagavatams printed?
- How do I know that I am thinking properly?… I must know what I am meant for… That's what my question is, how does one know?
- How do the different seasons come about-winter, summer, spring?
- How do they make it (puffed rice) ?
- How do we explain that (I was telling my colleague that stratus, the layers so perfect that everywhere, say five inches, just like it appears somebody has laid down)?
- How do we handle these people who don't seem to want to carry their own weight, though, Prabhupada? The ones who don't want to work and help produce this food?
- How do we know that Vedavyasa is not defective like other living beings?
- How do we.... What do we do during the day? What are our activities?
- How do you awake that consciousness?
- How do you become informed as to certain events?
- How do you become qualified? How did you become qualified?
- How do you choose, you are responsible for the organization?… Are you the one who chooses who runs each center, who is responsible in each temple?
- How do you classify dreams?
- How do you determine what's an obstacle?
- How do you develop the strength to keep chanting even when maya is making you so attracted?
- How do you explain the advance that Marxism has made?
- How do you explain vrsninam vasudevo 'smi?
- How do you feel?
- How do you get the strength to follow the rules and regulations?
- How do you know if you have satisfied God?
- How do you know the animal has a soul?
- How do you like them (the ratha carts), Prabhupada?... Strong? Strong enough?
- How do you spend your days? You do an awful lot of traveling I understand
- How do you want India to take this movement?
- How does a man find out what his duty is?
- How does it attack (Rahu planet comes to attack the sun and the moon)?
- How does it benefit the person who is selling the book, the devotee?… How is he benefited by selling books to others?
- How does it matter what people call Krsna, whether they call Bhagavan or Visnu or what, Krsna? If it is just only one God. We are talking removing Krsna from Gita but putting Bhagavan there instead of Krsna. How does it matter?
- How does it react? Potassium cyanide? It blocks the oxygen path? That's what science says?
- How does krpa-siddhi work, Srila Prabhupada?
- How does Krsna support them (the forty centers in the United States)?… He mediates through physical things, does he?
- How does one distinguish between what is a false God...?
- How does one establish clearly (your studies of philosophy will be perfect when you establish, "Yes, there is God.")?
- How does one get to know the true spirit?
- How does one give up the fear of dying?
- How does one know when he has the understanding of the Bhagavad-gita?
- How does one surrender to Krsna?
- How does our love for Krsna somehow or other get transformed into lust?
- How does that come? (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession… Originally the order is from Krsna)?
- How does that fit in with the species of life, Srila Prabhupada, when they combine two different species, artificial?
- How does that work, that if somebody has the association of a pure devotee for only a lava, one-eleventh of a second, that he attains all perfection?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How far the study of the scriptures helps us in being Krsna conscious?
- How far would you carry Jagannatha (you used to take Jagannatha right through the streets)?
- How important is it to look after physical life?
- How important is the association with the devotees?
- How important is your physical environment to you? If this room is very lovely - it has light and space and air and flowers - is this important at all or would it be the same to you to be sitting out on the street?
- How in the Kali-yuga advancing can everyone become Krsna conscious?
- How is it benefiting (to automatically pass through all the different species) him (the living entity)?
- How is it possible to deceive so many people (you have made picture. I have not gone and seen that. How can I believe you? The same argument. You say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you)?
- How is it that Bhaktivinoda Thakura was not so strict in that regard, yet his son, who learned from him, became very strict, like a rod?
- How is it that the devotees who run the great temple of Jagannatha refuse to allow foreigners and certain low-caste people, when this was the favorite place of Lord Caitanya, who, like you say, advocated that it should be taught in every town and village?
- How is it that these men (Mayavadis like Vivekananda) are so attractive to the Indian people?
- How is it that we see the moon moving?
- How is that spiritual dimension realized (if you chant, then, gradually, you realize yourself that you are a spiritual being; you are not this body. Then his spiritual life begins. Actually human life is meant for spiritual realization)?
- How is the best way to do that (Prasada selling)?
- How is the Kuruksetra going?
- How is the response in the West?
- How is the school in Vrndavana? The school?... Have they started?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How is your path or your way different from (or) better than others?… It is the only way?
- How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
- How long does it take to purify ourself?
- How long does that period (Kali-yuga) last?
- How long have you been a Hare Krsna man?
- How long have you been in Australia?
- How long is it since you've been to the Radha-Damodara?
- How long you are going to be in Hyderabad?
- How long you are staying here?
- How many asramas do you have in India?
- How many brilliant stars are there in this Universe?
- How many centers in the United States?
- How many children do you have?
- How many days were you there (in Moscow)?
- How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- How many leaders have actually achieved this aim (the true aim of human life)?
- How many Life Members in India? Must have at least ten thousand
- How many members do you now have? How many followers?... Ten thousand? That is in this country or is that...?
- How many of us are scientists here?
- How many people are in the Krsna movement in the world, about?
- How old was his wife (Dr. Rajendra Prasada, the president, he was married when he was eight years old)?
- How old were you when you got married?
- How one surrenders? What is meaning of surrender?
- How seriously should they (the criminals) be punished?
- How shall the worship be in the temple, Srila Prabhupada, the small temples. What shall they worship?
- How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadisa was saying?
- How should we do this in our ISKCON society with these young girls (the Indian system is that when the girl is utmost twelve years, not more than that, ten to twelve years, she must be married)?
- How should we have these Ratha-yatra festivals. Should they be big? Should they be big festivals? Should I plan on having three carts next year, just one, or a small cart?
- How the eternal spirit soul becomes so completely absorbed that he completely forgets about the future and simply he becomes absorbed in some temporary sense gratification?
- How these devotees are finding salvation for others?
- How they are going against it (Bhagavad-gita), Prabhupada?
- How this movement has helped in solving any specific issue, any special problem?
- How this social order can be generated in India?
- How To attain that knowledge then?
- How to attain this Krsna consciousness and to maintain it?
- How to find the...? How to get to the atman, the inner body?
- How to give up this bad habit (Krsna is not subjected to your thinking. You have to give up this bad habit first of all, that Krsna will be subordinate to your thinking. That is not God)?
- How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
- How to mend from lies?
- How to mend him (a Gurukula student) from lies? He speaks lies
- How to seek a master? How to find a master?
- How to stop it then (they accept any rascal as God)?
- How to surrender?
- How was the soul originally created?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How were you getting so much money (1944, the first copy. I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American… In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month)?
- How would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- How would you describe that platform (the difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working (many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world))?
- How would you get man to become aware of the situation so he could desire (God consciousness), even desire unconsciously?
- How would you prove that all of them (the single elements alone in the body do not have life) combined together don't have life? How would you prove that?
- How you explain the act of Krsna taking away the saris of the gopis?
- How your preaching differs from various acaryas? Say, Sankara or Vallabha or Ramanuja?
- How's that now (the persons in the jail are thinking "These people are not working for life in the jail," so they don't understand what we are doing)?
- Huns. They were considered like that (to be aborigines)?
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- I also wanted to ask a question, Srila Prabhupada, on dancing in the temple room during arati, especially mangala-arati. Is it not that the devotees should not turn their back while dancing to the Deity?
- I am the constant change, the process (you remember, that "I was a child." But the child body is no longer. So you remember or not remember, the body is changing. This is the answer. This is self-realization)?
- I am thinking about this, Swamiji, that your Guru Maharaja is preaching through you, and you are preaching through them?
- I asked about a man not knowing what his duty was, and you spoke of the highest duty of giving up all to Krsna and becoming detached from the fruits of your action. But suppose the question is What shall I become - a shopkeeper, a teacher, a carpenter?
- I beg your pardon (that is Krsna consciousness)?… The way they support themselves?… Krsna supports?
- I believe that Krsna is the Supreme God, so don't get me wrong, but since you mentioned Christ, was he an incarnation of Krsna? Was Jesus Christ sent here by Krsna from...
- I come from village, and I'm happy now as I have taken to holy name and prasada. So more, other villagers... Half of these boys are from villages?
- I don't know. I was thinking the trip.... We have that big Mercedes limousine. You rode in it last year. It was very comfortable, and the ride, I don't think you found it so difficult, did you? Last year
- I don't quite understand that in terms of my question about wearing street clothes and wigs instead of saffron robes and chanting and so forth?
- I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name?
- I guess when you started out down here in Greenwich Village in 1965 you didn't have any idea that your movement was going to become the rather large movement it is. Did you?
- I have a question, Srila Prabhupada. At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- I have a question, whether we should always give them khicuri or whether we should
- I have just opened it (7-UP). Is it cold enough?
- I have to, to contact them and find out how it was actually (published)... Should I write them a letter (they should be informed that without being passed by the authority, nobody should publish any literature)?
- I heard a story, Visvamitra once he grew people from trees. Is that correct?
- I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa (Nityananda Kananda. He was a minister in the central government, deputy minister) During when? Approximately?
- I mean (what do you mean by retired life?) are you giving up your position as spiritual leader?
- I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?
- I mean you say that people identify themselves, the body as the self... And that this is ignorance to identify the self with the body… But does that mean a sort of rejection of the body as unimportant?
- I met, I think, one of your master's other devotees, I forget his name. Gosvami, big, in Vrndavana, big, tall, with a staff, bald hair. Said you knew his name?
- I think he was fair, but he was very tall, very big, and you know, like this, huge size. You know that place where I stayed the night?
- I think he's asking a question also that sometimes comes up, that if one loves in this material love, for example one loves a child, or loves humanity, does this help to develop love of God?
- I think people understand the analogy, they think hammering is the business. What do you think is the business?… The world thinks hammering is real business
- I think this story's in Raja-vidya, that small book. The one about the brahmana and the cobbler?
- I think you were possibly wanting to stop in Tehran this year on the way back to India?
- I thought you quoted Christianity. But as far as the Christian faith is concerned, don't they quote their scriptures?
- I understand that our souls are also part of God, as a drop of water is part of that ocean. How... Is there any knowledge or information of how we incurred this first separation from God?
- I understand that this is an extension of Hindu religion. Is that not correct? No, it's not. Does it have any basic tenets of the Hindu religion?
- I understand that you only sleep about two or three hours a day. And do you usually sleep during the middle of the daytime as well?
- I understand you have further thoughts about that (moon landing) and you've even written a lot about it. I wonder if you could tell me, not at great length perhaps, but what your belief about those events is?
- I understand you sleep very little. You sleep three to four hours a night. Do you feel that this is what any person who is spiritually actualized will also realize?
- I wanted to know also what should we do once they are sixteen, because you said they should be trained in a Gurukula until they are sixteen? So once they are sixteen...
- I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you?
- I wanted to know what processes happen to the spiritual soul between a beast and human life
- I was going to go to Bombay for a wedding. Some friends are getting married. You know, I think you met Laksmi Shankar, lady singer? Her daughter, who is also a singer, Viji, Viji Sri Shankar, and she's marrying a South Indian violin player, L. Shankar
- I was just wondering what exactly the League of Devotees was?
- I was taking the children in the land here and teaching them how to recognize the different plants. Is that useful, or should I not do that? here we have so many different plants growing, some medical plants, some that can be eaten. Is there any use?
- I was told that one day you were told by Rupa Gosvami that you must go?
- I was wondering if he had a successor to do... Do you have a successor to take your place when you die?... So what process would the Hare Krsnas...?
- I was wondering if it is within every conditioned soul's heart to be an impersonalist. Is it.... Does every conditioned soul have the propensity for impersonalism?
- I was wondering whether perhaps you would personally take a less active role?
- I was wondering, is like earth still being manifested in living bodies from sound and so on, like the chemists...?
- I was wondering, some of those who have had the opportunity to take bath in Radhakunda, it seems though it may take some time (to immediately awakens his love for Krsna). I was wondering, is that because we don't see time in the proper perspective?
- I wonder if you could tell me how you came to founding the movement here in the United States?
- I would like perhaps to hear some of your thoughts on the area of religious experience, God consciousness, how do you achieve that?
- I would like to know more about the, the soul in so far as, does it have beginning? Does it have end?
- I would like to know about what time... (Bhagavad-gita was spoken)?
- I'd like to know, this is your first visit to Washington? Is that right?... Who have you visited with while you've been here? Have you stayed here, or have you gone out and...?
- I'll come over to Vrndavana on the 15th evening. 15th evening, I'll come over to Vrndavana?
- I'm a bit puzzled about this, these entities that are born from perspiration, like that. It seems that there's no father and mother, yet like we were just using the argument that there must be a father and mother?
- I'm a servant of the government right now, and will it take more love of Krsna for me to be devotee, or what...?
- I'm just checking it out, but there's nothing to it, huh (I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?)?
- I'm trying to find out whether the consciousness lies within us, brought out...
- Identification will remain always (yes, param pada is just like you fly in the sky, go very high. So from here we cannot see that you are separately existing. But you are separately existing. It is my deficient eyes that I see that you are not separate)?
- If a brahmana is black?
- If a devotee thinks that he likes, for example, Vrndavana more than he likes Mayapur, is that a wrong thinking, or is that his personal...?
- If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?
- If at this platform we are not yet..., we are still desiring to depart from Krsna's service and enjoy, then we are not, we have not yet tasted devotional service, what is it that we have tasted that is keeping us temporarily connected to Krsna?
- If destiny cannot be changed, what does Krsna mean when He says, "Be thou happy by this sacrifice"?
- If God is meant to be propitiated, then why is it that we have so many things for our enjoyment? You say that everything is for God's enjoyment.
- If he gave us the material world to enjoy, then why do we have to suffer here?
- If He is giving us intelligence, why doesn't He give us enough intelligence so that we could be God conscious?
- If he was unable to chant or to become a full-time devotee, that your program for a person in that condition of life, was something like… become a member and take books and read... Is that satisfactory, if they can do that much
- If I call Krsna, I accept Krsna as Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then the question comes to me, "Why are you calling yourself Vaisnavas? Why not Krsnayas?"
- If I say, I pray to God, "O Lord Krsna, I surrender unto You." So is..., maya will not touch me? I will not be affected by this material infection?
- If I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific basis… So where does religion come into it at all?
- If I'm trying to get people to chant, that's all I can do. And if that will purify them, then surrender will come. How can I force someone to surrender?
- If it is not too much a personal question, have you had a saksaska?
- If it is possible, should we go without eating at all?
- If life is based on the desires of the living entities, and as you were mentioning that the material energy forms so many complex combinations, the material body is so complex, does that mean that the living entity is very much entangled?
- If matter is inferior to the spirit soul, then isn't it correct to say that the spirit soul is more complex or sophisticated than matter? If matter is inferior?
- If no one was thinking that they needed your presence, then how is it some have come and some have not come? What is the difference?
- If not even a blade of grass moves unless Krsna sanctions it, then why does someone have the opportunity to perform such ajnata-sukrti, another person not?
- If one is not complete in their Krsna consciousness then what will happen?
- If one of your brahmana initiated disciples falls from this platform, leaves the temple and commits offenses, then returns, demanding respect, should he be allowed to keep the sacred thread or should he...?
- If one serves the higher devotees and shows compassion to less advanced devotees, then where is the question... for a position of an advanced devotee who is feeling himself to be the lowest? So is that distinction still there of higher and lower?
- If one simply goes on serving, engaging in all sorts of different activities for the satisfaction of Krsna, but he never, in this lifetime at least, has realization of Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan...?
- If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
- If our love for Krsna originally is perfect why should we have left?
- If somebody is following the instructions, but if there's attraction for maya...
- If somebody is in the movement for several years and feels that he's not making progress and leaves, is he looked upon as a sinner or enemy? How do the devotees feel about persons like that?
- If somebody wants to preach. Is that the sign of advancement?
- If somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
- If someone accepts his dependence on God, then what is the second step?
- If someone is doing some service which involves business, is he thinking of Krsna when he's thinking of that service?
- If the artistic inspiration, like the intuition, is also coming from Paramatma?
- If the Bhagavad-gita is in the Mahabharata - that's itihasa - how did it get the name Upanisad, Gitopanisad?
- If the conditions in the spiritual world are so nice and everything is spiritually, everything is spiritual, how is it that one can become envious of Krsna in such conditions?
- If the devotee is situated on the platform of the brahma-bhutah, but he may not necessarily see everything as Brahman, does that mean that his realization is by intelligence, and by his activity, or what does that mean?
- If the government is giving them free homes and we're giving them free prasadam, why should they work?
- If the Mayavadis don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then what is their explanation of reincarnation?
- If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?
- If the natural tendency of the living entity is to want to exist, to live, then why is it they perform so many horrible acts that will destroy themselves?
- If these animals (dinosaur or finosaur) were on this planet some millions of years ago, they are still here, is that correct?
- If they desire to commit sinful activities and before they became monkeys, but then they were doing it then. So whilst they're monkeys their desire must change. Or is it forced, that change forced upon them by the mercy of Krsna?
- If they've wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they're able to calculate these eclipses and whatever?
- If varnasrama is neglected, then how can there be proper functioning of society?
- If we are supposed to be spiritualists, then why do we have so many cars, why do we have so many watches, why do we have so many different things that they can see are there within the temple?
- If we can become Krsna conscious without following the rules and regulations, why follow the rules and regulations? That's what I was thinking a while ago
- If we could take something which I believe you feel very strongly about, and that's some of the other Eastern cults and gurus… Can you explain to me why it is that...?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we get on Fifth Avenue, you'll come again (to Ratha-yatra in New York)?
- If we say that Krsna enters even within the atom, what is His business there?
- If we try to please Krsna with all of our service and activities, that automatically brings pleasure to the self?
- If we're in anxiety that we cannot perform devotional service nicely, that is all right?
- If we're very attracted to reading Caitanya caritamrta now, but we haven't finished Srimad-Bhagavatam as yet, should we wait until we have studied Srimad-Bhagavatam thoroughly?
- If when one comes to spiritual life, is he coming because of material exhaustion, so much pain in the material world, so therefore he's searching?
- If you do not use any soap, the question has come up, how to wash cloth. By beating only? Sufficient?
- If you don't teach vaisyas for this gurukula then how do they do the accounts?
- If you had died before you had come to the United States, would that have been a tragedy?
- If you say Goloka is infinite we should be existing within Gokula. How is it that we are without Gokula?
- If you see only (if you see only to the flowers, you become invigorated)?
- If you take milk in other forms, like if you eat cheese, if you take curd or cheese, is it the same as drinking milk or ... ?
- If you take that logic and use it the other way... If you say the animal has no soul... then you'd have to say human beings would have no soul, wouldn't you?
- If you want your thoughts to be passed on to other people, why do you sell the books and make money out of them?
- If you were only sponsored for one month, how is it that you were able to extend your visa all the time?
- If you're already in a good situation, why create a bad one?
- If you're not very fixed up then should you still go out and preach?
- In Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- In Bhuvanesvara you are going to have any plan for making a temple?
- In Calcutta also there is a project?
- In Calcutta. And when you were there in Calcutta, did you receive the training?
- In each universe there is a Vrndavana and a Mayapur. That means in each universe there's a planet earth like this planet?
- In La Cienega?
- In Mayapur is a devotee free to, for example, enjoy the, all the scenery without...?
- In order for a candidate (Presidential candidate) to be God conscious, would he have to be part of the Hare Krsna movement?
- In order to establish the asrama will you be spending part of the year here?
- In other words, they are theorizing that "Death is a very peaceful state of sleeping. Why are we protesting so much"?
- In our experience we have no understanding how this can be practical, because we think that meat is good for our strength. How can we be strong?
- In our planetarium, Srila Prabhupada, we want to actually show the different qualities of life on the different planetary systems also?
- In some parts of the Bible it describes how things were being carried out, and they say that the activities were going on according to the will of God. Does that mean that there was a God conscious civilization then?
- In the beginning how does the spirit become ignorant, falls into ignorance?
- In the case of Maharaja Vena there was some recourse for the brahmanas. What can we do?
- In the case where a devotee is definitely sincerely following your instructions and applying himself to all these principles that Krsna has outlined, then when there's difficulty for him, how is he to understand that?
- In the family. Any formal?
- In the fish body will he have to suffer for all his other sinful activities also?
- In the glorifications of Rg Veda, (indistinct) example of glorifications of Krsna there?
- In the Kali-yuga, bhakti has been described as the most suitable and easiest of paths for God realization. Yet how is it that Vedantic teachings, with their accent on jnana, are being given the pride of place by noted savants or knowers?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the mode of ignorance, if he wishes to come to the platform of the mode of goodness, does he have to pass through the mode of passion to get to the mode of goodness? Or can you go directly from the mode of ignorance to the mode of goodness?
- In the park (…prohibited?)?
- In the park, Srila Prabhupada (I was coming here daily for cooking my food)?
- In the Sixth Canto of the Bhagavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in one of your purports, you mention that great scientists like Einstein, Newton and Chandra Bose had such great brains, but who has created their brain?
- In the two abodes of the plenary expansion of Krsna. What exists?
- In the vanaprastha asrama, after fifty years of age, what is the duty? Is it to live in the temple, or devote most of time to Krsna, or where the wife comes in then?
- In their evidences by which they base their dialectic discussions, have they regarded the Vedic scriptures?
- In these rocks the upper one is older according to their calculation by geological dating method and the younger one is at the bottom… So how do we explain these things? How do we explain from our point of view? The upside down of the rocks
- In this country (Pakistan) also they have taken (well, Muslim India or same India, those who are intelligent, they are taking to Krsna consciousness)?
- In this maha-mantra that you publicize, Hare Krsna, it is Krsna that is emphasized. (indistinct) emphasis His Bhagavata and other things are popularized. Is it corresponding...?
- In Vrndavana (Bombay is the center. So now we are having our temple, whenever you go, you can stay with us)?
- In what way would we develop it (Bhaktivinoda Thakura's birthplace)?
- In your opinion, is it impossible for somebody to be a scientist and not to believe in God?
- Initiated devotee, and he follows those four regulative principles and chants sixteen rounds, will he go back to Godhead?
- Initiation (of Srila Prabhupada) was held at that Gaudiya Matha in Allahabad?
- Insurance for what (they make insurance of life. So where is your insurance for these things? You do not want to die, but you are forced to die. Where is insurance? This is insurance, Krsna consciousness)?
- Is a devotee always in some anxiety to see others unhappy?
- Is a devotee required to work very hard for material necessities?
- Is a guru essential to one to enter the spiritual path and attain the goal, and how does one recognize one's guru?
- Is earth still being manifested from ether? Like the description in Bhagavatam is from sound and then through different elements finally down to earth. Is that still happening today?
- Is incense a form of intoxication?
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it actually possible for the demons to win?
- Is it an internal educational process or external (it is an educational movement to enlighten the people from gross ignorance to the highest enlightenment of spiritual understanding)?
- Is it because the Indians think that they know much about Bhagavad-gita (now all Indians, they should take Bhagavad-gita as it is and make their life fruitful. The Europeans and Americans, they are taking. Why Indians are not taking?)?
- Is it because they are killing the cows that this is happening, Srila Prabhupada (they've lost their religious sentiment, religious consciousness. They're just like rude, crude)?
- Is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple? Like somebody working all day and following the regulative principles?
- Is it better to do it the way you did it or to start from a very early age in the, er…?… In other words, some of our members are sannyasa at an earlier age
- Is it better to have a human body as a machine to use than a cat's body?
- Is it good to publicize these situations, Prabhupada, that we are encountering so much difficulty? Is it good to publicize that, in a film, say?
- Is it more beneficial for people to hear the Panca-tattva mantra than the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
- Is it more difficult to do this (your daily routine) when you're traveling a lot?
- Is it more favorable for spreading Krsna consciousness if there is some material problems, social problems? If there is a lack of God consciousness, then people become frustrated. Is that a more favorable situation for Krsna consciousness to take root?
- Is it more important to organize the women's book distribution or to work on College preaching?
- Is it more natural to love someone else? Is it more natural for someone else to enjoy or for ourselves to enjoy?
- Is it necessary and possible to outline certain basic minimum observances for all Hindus?
- Is it necessary from time to time to change the smrtis?
- Is it necessary that a person should pass through the three asramas, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, before coming to sannyasa?
- Is it necessary to get to know the true self before knowing God?
- Is it necessary to have a therapeutic system?
- Is it not as good to serve God as a Christian in a church?
- Is it not better to run than to stand still and sleep?
- Is it not possible for all sections of Hindus, be they Advaitans, Dvaitans, or visistadvaitans, to come together instead of remaining isolated as warring factions?
- Is it possible (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right)?
- Is it possible for a saint at certain stage of sadhana to perform miracles?
- Is it possible for one to know how many lifetimes it takes to reach spiritual perfection?
- Is it possible for people in the most animalistic conditions of life such as the Eskimos, who need meat to survive-is it possible for these people to become purified?
- Is it possible of making some experiments which would tend to indicate that life is not material? And this might be appealing to some of the people with scientific education, because they are used to such things, experiments
- Is it possible to do some experiments (everywhere there is living entity. It is impossible to conclude that on other planets there is no living entity. It is not possible)?
- Is it possible to escape the conditions of being in the body?
- Is it possible to live a household life and at the same time a spiritual life?
- Is it possible to talk and also to chant the mantra at the same time?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession?
- Is it recommended that a woman become a sannyasi?
- Is it right that if you come to Krsna consciousness, all the duties are automatically taken care of?
- Is it that people have confused materialism with happiness?
- Is it that they (the Mafia) see everyone as their enemy, and therefore everything has to be around them?
- Is it true or not true that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta said that failure is the pillar of success?
- Is it true that there are more young people now in the world that are giving more serious thought to what life is really all about?
- Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that Krsna is testing us every day?
- Is it, though? (laughter) (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right? - Is it possible? - Yes, if it is possible)
- Is Kali-yuga the age when desires become manifest like this?
- Is Krsna cons..., the Krsna movement, is it still growing?
- Is Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita different from the one in Bhagavatam?
- Is nature materialism? I mean, there are many things which are obvious, such as money, greed, etc. But how about nature, love?
- Is not Rama a God?
- Is number important in chanting? It has to be certain number, or you can just chant?
- Is religion a practical knowledge?
- Is service to the Supreme Lord the same as realization of the Absolute Truth?
- Is she Krsna conscious (your wife)?
- Is smrti more than just rules of conduct?
- Is that ("you have fallen down? You must commit suicide. No more My association") the same as in the Bhagavad-gita where Krsna says, "For one who is honored, dishonor is worse than death"?
- Is that (even abortion they (priests) are defending) because they have no standard?
- Is that (he (Buddha) simply asked that you finish this material desire) not misleading?
- Is that a teaching of the Bhagavad-gita, that one should not eat meat?
- Is that actual freedom, though? (that a thief also has got the conscience, "Why shall I steal?")
- Is that because of the age (the problems will be solved as soon as he surrenders to God. But that he'll not do)?
- Is that bhajananandi and gosthyanandi?
- Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? (they perform Radha-Krsna kalyana, marriage)
- Is that cheating propensity (if the kanistha-adhikari thinks that "I have become uttama-adhikari," then he's a rascal)?
- Is that counted as one of the 8,400,000 species? Is the atom counted among the different species?
- Is that differentiated (total material elements, mahat-tattva)?
- Is that immediately after one dies you transfer to another body, or later (you are associating with some modes of material nature. So according to that association, you'll get next body)?
- Is that just as healthy as nim leaves? Patola leaves?
- Is that kind of information given in the Vedas (a class of men, they are called vaidyas (doctors). They know all these herb, which herb is medicine for certain disease, and they sell in the market)?
- Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
- Is that special arrangement that they seem to be impoverished? Say like the villagers, they're not very wealthy.
- Is that the flat (one hundred, Seventy-second Street) that you were staying in that was broken into? Is that the place that was broken into?… That was where the typewriter was stolen?
- Is that the heart of the soul or the heart of the gross material body (you are our student. You are saying there is no heart (some of the insects don't even have hearts). That means you do not carefully read)?
- Is that what is meant when a man thinks when he dies (according to your desire, you'll get a body), at the moment...?
- Is that what you want?
- Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?
- Is the government discouraging...(opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern)?
- Is the only way to know Krsna through the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Is the prayer communal, where all take part in the prayer, or is it individual?
- Is the seeing important?
- Is the soul dependent upon the body for its existence?
- Is the Srimad-Bhagavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyasadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?
- Is the sun going around the earth?
- Is the Superself a spirit?
- Is there a relationship, he's asking, between these disturbances and this age (if you actually want freedom from material disturbances, you have to come to the spiritual platform and cultivate spiritual knowledge and be fixed up)?
- Is there a time limit for this spiritual growth?
- Is there an atom for each (of the ninety-two elements)? Is there a copper atom?
- Is there any chance of having a gurukula in Canada?
- Is there any difference between the ego of a person who is collecting money, or material things, all his life, or a person who is giving all the material things for the service of humanity at large? Is there any difference between the two?
- Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
- Is there any method for dissent within your movement? Or change?
- Is there any need to increase our prasadam distribution? Right now about a thousand people come
- Is there any other bhasya other than Baladeva-bhasya?
- Is there any plan to translate into English? Is there any plan to translate Jiva Gosvami's Jiva-bhasya?
- Is there any point in your practice do you consider yourself free from taking lower re-births?
- Is there any reason why that (there is not large number of American negroes in your movement) is so?
- Is there any stage at which these atheistic people have done anything good by accident?... Is there any step?
- Is there anyone actually outside of sanatana-dharma then?
- Is there anyone who is designated to succeed you as the primary teacher of the movement?
- Is there are social act which this Hare Krsna movement has taken?
- Is there Deity worship on other planets?
- Is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- Is there false ego in different modes? Like false ego in the mode of ignorance, false in the mode of passion or goodness?
- Is there not something to this idea of brain, of being spiritually controlled or spiritually directed?... What would you call it?
- Is there one for you, Srila Prabhupada (milk preparation)?
- Is there some mention not to eat many animals but eat one...?
- Is there some other way we can argue with them (you say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you?), Prabhupada?
- Is there time in the higher nature?
- Is this because the illusion that we see is a representation of the spiritual world in a sense (this material world is only suffering, but under illusion we are accepting suffering as enjoyment)?
- Is this God's plan or our plan?
- Is this Hindu faith?
- Is this near the temple (the planetarium)?
- Is this style acceptable to Prabhupada (they sent one sample, Bhaktivedanta Institute, the emblem. And they had wanted to include some Sanskrit slogan, perhaps, and you'd mentioned athato brahma jijnasa, so they have done that and decorated little bit)?
- Is this your last trip to America?
- Is your way the only way?
- Isn't it in the sense the material concept (and those who know (indistinct), he is not hankering after how to get out of the (indistinct). They do not care for)?
- Isn't it when you drive for Krsna, doesn't it become para-vidya then?
- Isn't laziness one of the demonic qualities, Srila Prabhupada?
- Isn't that a rather negative way to look at the work (that is knowledge, that is knowledge. When a prisoner understands that "This hammering business is not my real business, it is my punishment")?
- Isn't there a point, Prabhupada, at which, you know, you can expect that you've been doing the right things, so there should be some relief?
- It (Calcutta) was bombed frequently, or just once or twice?
- It (tea or coffee) is sinful?
- It (the farm in Hyderabad) can produce enough food to feed the whole society... Do you want me to take care of?
- It (the letter on that Blitz article (a mischievous article in which the newspaper accused us incorrectly), I wrote a reply and sent it to Krishna Modi, the member of Parliament) is okay?
- It can be done inside then (blowing the conchshell)?
- It comes also from the living entities on the moon (the moon's light)?
- It doesn't appeal more to the young ones than to the older people (the Hare Krsna movement)?
- It is a fact though that the repository of Indian culture and religion is Sanskrit. So are you saying then that the harijanas or these class of people...?
- It is all coming from Krsna, though, isn't it (maya empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense)?
- It is also guru-purnima… Is there some special celebration or significance?
- It is correct that the illumination of the moon is caused by the movement of the vegetation on the surface?
- It is explained that the intelligence is the next door neighbor of the soul, can you explain exactly what that means, Srila Prabhupada?
- It is knowledge, that we don't have the knowledge, or enlightenment that in that watermelon there is something which is worth, or it is only that we don't want to do it, or we don't want to take the trouble?
- It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?… Doesn't that make it more difficult to live? The weather's, everything's so disturbed?
- It is part of your plan to operate schools for this purpose (a college to learn how to become first-class men)?
- It is said that the karma-kanda in the Vedas has almost gone out of use, except for a few rites which remain in vogue for marriage, sraddhas, etc. Is it advisable to revive the karma-kanda with its stress on the performance of various yajnas?
- It is the highest blasphemy, isn't it? If one says, "I am God."
- It may take some time. Actually I haven't been to Bombay myself. I haven't seen the land at Juhu. Is there a suitable place for storing the car?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It was some instruction that you got (there was two days I was attacked in heart on the ship. So hardship. (Then you had a dream?) The dream was I must come here)?
- It was too short. In the movie? It was too short how to prepare it (one thing you have missed: how we are preparing all these foodstuffs)?
- It's a big old tree (that courtyard is very beautiful. There is a tamale tree. That is a very valuable tree. The Bisanchand Seth asked me to cut)?
- It's a large city (the plan for Mayapur). Fifty thousand, did you say? People? How many people were there?
- It's been said sometimes, Prabhupada, that you have said that some rocks have life. Some rocks, some stones, are actually souls in them?
- It's considered offenseless if, chanting, if one follows the orders of the spiritual master carefully?
- It's difficult for people to understand that God can speak to a man. They question, "How can God speak to some man?"
- It's from the Bhagavatam (klisyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye tesam asau klesala eva sisyate nanyad yatha sthula-tusavaghatinam)?
- It's just evolution. There's no meaning. What's the meaning (I do not follow what is the meaning. The sun is rising half past six, exactly at the time. So there is no meaning?) We can't tell what the meaning is?
- It's more in this state (Bengal) than anywhere else, they don't cover their head. Is that due to her influence (wife of Ramakrishna)?
- It's mustard oil with spices, and I am not sure what the fruit is. It may be mango, I'm not sure… It's some kind of crude mango pickle… Do you want me to try to see what it is (why not take little?)?
- It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
- It's that "aham" is indicated to Who? The physical posture of Krsna which we know or the...?
- It's true that people are getting disease and sicknesses as the result of their past activities, pious or sinful. Why is it that it appears that when there is a flu many people are inflicted with that flu? Practically everyone, indiscriminately
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- Jayapataka Maharaja wanted to know whether the money that I (Tamala Krsna) want to give him can be used for purchasing a projector rather than the land purchase
- Jiva Gosvami was the guru of Mira?
- Just getting off that, can I ask why you've come to Australia again?
- Jyotirmayi is outside, and Yogesvara. We can have them come in? Is now the right time to ask? She has some questions on Gurukula. Is now okay?
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- Kapiladeva speaks about the feeling of being lost. Is that what the psychologists say is craziness?
- Kirtiraja Prabhu bought this for your rocking chair... Should I put it on?
- Klim krsnaya govindaya gopijanavallabhaya namah. Is that not a very powerful Krsna mantra?
- Knowing God through sastras is one thing, but can a realization come in life as Arjuna had?
- Krsna book, first half, will be ready on August 8th, twenty-five thousand also… Would you like to see the design for the cover?
- Krsna consciousness what (in India one paper, Sunday, they have published a nice article about us: "Krsna Consciousness Catches On")?
- Krsna is the friend of everyone. So why does He allow me to have this independence?
- Krsna manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?
- Krsna says that karma is concluded yat karosi yad asnasi, jnana is concluded bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate, and yoga is concluded yoginam api sarvesam. Krsna says, concluding, sarva-dharman parityajya. Is there some conc...?
- Krsna says to perform your sva-dharma, so how does one know what is his sva-dharma?
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- Let me ask you one more question. Why are you returning to India? Had you ever considered staying here in the United States?
- Let me ask you. If through technological means mankind is somewhat improved, in other words, the average man is much more intelligent, what you would consider now to be an intelligent man...
- Look at that picture, it's very clear. Should I read you this article ("East Meets West in Hare Krsna fete")
- Look at those spires! Prabhupada, do you see that spire? There's a spire at the top (of the ratha carts)
- Lord Caitanya predicted the holy name will be preached in every town and village throughout the world, so to what extent will it be preached?
- Lots of kirtana and prasadam (whatever you have learned from Krsna, from your guru, just vomit it, that's all. There is no need of becoming very expert. Simply whatever you learned. That's all)?
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- Machine is?… To Mars (there was some news. Their machine has gone to Mars planet)?
- Maharaja, did you show that article to... (yaj-jihvagre nama tubhyam. Aho bata svapa)?
- Maharaja, don't you think it's high time that our Indian philosophy or Indian religion, some classes should be started in schools like they used to have?
- Many devotees were asking me if we could make a Deity of Your Divine Grace?
- Many of these people can't take care of their children properly. I'm thinking when they see our boys they may want to give their sons. Is that a good program?
- Many people find it very difficult to reconcile the spiritual way of life in the Krsna movement with the great financial resources the movement also has. Why do you need any great financial...?
- Many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world and therefore their contributions to the world are being lost to the world and I wondered how you felt about that?
- Mars is after the moon?
- Material power from Visnu?
- May I ask you, Your Excellency, your own background? Were you born in India? Were you born in any other...?
- Maya has taken away their vision, their sense of understanding, sense of.... What do you call, sense of understanding or sense of...?
- Maybe around quarter to eleven, you'd like to come down and either participate in the bathing or give lecture at that time. And then afterwards the Deities will go back on the altar and we'll give the names outside. Is that all right?
- Maybe they should go in the procession though (the busses who carry the prasadam). That would look impressive, wouldn't it?
- Members of the Krsna society are not doing the jail work… He's not participating in jail life… What's he doing? He's trying to show them a different way? He's educating them to what? That this jail life is no good?
- Mind is very, very powerful. How to make use of that? Actually mind is using the man; man is not using his mind
- Mint chutney. How do you make mint chutney?
- Mung dahl is all right? Mung dahl?
- Must initiation be there, Srila Prabhupada?
- My humble prayer was that by doing japa, by doing meditation, by doing bhakti-marga, need we go to jnana-marga also, or bhakti-marga is enough by itself?
- My position you mean in relation to Krsna or in relation to the world (you do not know anything. That is your position. You must know what is your position. Then your duty)?
- My question is whether the name Krsna existed prior to Dvapara-yuga
- My question is, what is it that made you bring your movement into a culture and a religious ethos which is hostile to begin with, with most of your major assumptions?
- My question, sir, was that at some point you have to be the servant of the God, you will have to be a servant of your family or the country or something to serve?
- My shirt and coat are dead (the body is dead. Body is dead. Just like your shirt. It is dead always. Either on your body or hanging on the hanger. Your shirt and coat, is it not?)?
- My weekly visits, that Jyoti Swami showed me that incident at Japan, and he asked me, "Have you seen...?"
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- Nandaki, is it as good mechanically as a Mercedes?
- New (indistinct), do you mean to say?
- No doubt, but what about the daily worship? Should we have Jagannatha deities if it's not possible for worshiping them? Should we have them just for the festival?
- No, but why are you comparing nature to a father and mother?
- No, no, but what power he has got (Satya Sai Baba) to produce just now...?
- No, no, have you given up the idea of Kuruksetra?
- No, no, I'm saying this is what really happened, right? So we were thinking that we could show one day, this is one day, one day of Brahma...
- No, why do your followers chant the Hare Krsna chant in the street? What is the reason behind this?
- Not visualizing the presence of God everywhere?
- Nothing else (that little dal, daliya, bas)?
- Nothing else? No fruits (so for breakfast you can prepare that soup, the little. Just put vegetable soup)?
- Now do you find that in the United States there is the most active membership financially speaking. In terms of contributing to this movement, supporting the movement, is the best field America?
- Now how do you classify these men, these Christian mystics, Protestant as well as Catholic?
- Now I understand you're the founder of the Hare Krsna movement. Can you tell me how it came to be founded?
- Now suppose we take so many chemicals from the earth and they may become a little depleted. Can those chemicals be replaced by the earth itself as the ongoing process of nature?
- Now that he has received Krsna consciousness, he would like to know from you how he should behave in his normal life, because he'll be living very far from the temple?
- Now two priests of your temple in America have been arrested on certain charges as we read from the newspaper...?
- Now we've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live? What difference it makes to their life?
- Now, how would you proceed in this training program?
- Now, we've had two readings from your scriptures. Where did these scriptures comes from? Can you explain that briefly?
- Now, you are not practicing the Vedic system, then, here, are you? Or are you?
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- Offer food to an idol?
- Oh, we can go on? How (no, without finance we can go on)?
- Oh. Crosswords are gambling?
- Okay, I was speaking in an analogical way. There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness?
- Okay, is it a mediated choice or is it a direct communication from Krsna, that's my question… He's asking whether we claim that God speaks to us directly?
- Okay, now Karen Ann Quinlan, you know her?
- Okay. So in that case, when would you like to come and visit (the arati, it is called sandhya arati. Sandhya arati means just in the evening. What is the time of sunset nowadays? 5:30, then one hour after. Then 6:30 is all right. 6:30 is all right)?
- On all the other auspicious days, just like Narottama dasa Thakura and others, should we also observe half-day fast? ... And Srimati Radharani?
- On carts (Janmastami, take Radha-Krsna procession)?
- On the fourth floor we're going to have doll projects. Doll exhibits. So there's an open balcony up there and I want to do something like that, see up there with the glass, the balcony?
- On the platform of, on the dead platform (so we are working on that platform where the life is there. And people in general they are working on the platform of this body)? You say people in general...
- On this planet we have certain elements, like iron, water, or sand. Could there be other elements on other planets, new elements?
- On what basis (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession)?
- Once they (the cows) expire, how do you propose to expose of the body?
- Once this oxygen appeared, free oxygen, then the living entities began to appear slowly. That is the whole theory of this chemical evolution. The results for the chronology is just put it that dawn of Brahma is two billion years old?
- Once you surrender to God, will you still have to look for an authority to guide you, or Krsna helps you to find Him?
- One boy I recommended for second initiation, but during the fire ceremony he was away on traveling sankirtana for Vrndavana. Will he be able to take initiation from you and have the ceremony later, before you go?
- One day our men will be leaders of government?
- One may say that if there's no independence, then where is the question of initiative in the material world, taking initiative?
- One must approach a perfect spiritual master and he must become perfect disciple. Could you explain that?
- One must understand Bhagavad-gita before Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- One of the major issues always in political battles is how would you control inflation, how would you solve the inflation problem?
- One of the things you say is that "Religion without a rational basis is just sentiment." Can you explain that to us, and the converse of it, which...?
- One of your followers here mentioned that the university here in Toronto is teaching your books and so forth. Do you feel that any contact with your ideas?
- One thing that has always confused a lot of devotees is how is it possible to eat something in the spiritual world when that, the thing that you're eating is also spiritual?
- One thing though is, July is, like in Melbourne, it's wintertime there. So is it okay if they have the festival in summer months?
- One thing, New Zealand cities are passing bylaws which seek to ban the chanting of your disciples in the streets. Do you get much opposition like this?
- One thing, the other day they were saying that sometimes when they have this skim milk, and there's some excess after they've fed it to the cows, they throw it away, they use it for fertilizer. Should they do that? Is that all right to use that?
- One time when I was staying in the Krsna-Balarama mandira, I saw a man smoking a bidi in his room. If that happens - in the bedroom - should the managers go and say this is not permitted?
- One time you said that they criticized you when you were going to America because you did not know about the knife and the fork?
- One time you were explaining that Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was speaking with the Kazi, He convinced him about that the Koran does not actually advocate meat-eating
- Only when you went downtown did the permanent men come. No one was visiting you up here (seventy-second Street)? Hayagriva?... Mukunda?
- Or you can stay here and go to Kumbha-mela straight?
- Otherwise, om is only given to sannyasis (if you keep Krsna, that "This pranava is the sound representation of Krsna," then it is all right. If you think it is separately powerful than Krsna, that is nama-aparadha)?
- Otherwise, why is it happening like that (you can understand, just the one grain of poison, potassium cyanide. You touch on your tongue, immediately whole body becomes poisoned. How the molecules spread immediately)?
- Outer cloth (the Western people, they do not know what is cleanliness. And therefore brahmana's another name is suci, always clean. Three times' bathing, three times' changing cloth. It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed)?
- Outer cloth? Dhoti, like that (brahmana's another name is suci, always clean. Three times' bathing, three times' changing cloth. It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed)?
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- Painting (female children should be taught how to become faithful to the husband, and to learn the arts of cooking, arts of painting - that should be their subject matter)?
- Pardon me (could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did? Why shall I tell you?)? If you wish
- Pardon me (you are not prepared (to die)? Why don't you answer?)?
- Passing the test means executing the order of the spiritual master?
- Pear also (banana is very good. And give me apples)?
- Perfume?
- Perhaps finally, then, I could ask you, do you ever have any doubts?
- Perhaps you could explain to me the different feelings that you've gone through in your life. Is that possible?
- Perhaps you would like to tell me on what level I should present our movement?
- Persons who are too much sinful... if they can't give up their sinful activities even after hearing about Krsna, are they in the envious class or the innocent class?
- Prabhu, how do you regard the detachment idea?
- Prabhu, Vivekananda also stated, "Awake. Arise. Stop not until the goal is reached." What goal did he preach?
- Prabhupada also got sick in India. Remember? Two years ago in Vrndavana
- Prabhupada, are the laws of karma written?
- Prabhupada, did Christ return to the spiritual planets then, when he left the earth, to be with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, did you want to tell another story?
- Prabhupada, even if a person is not willing to hear spiritual knowledge, when you come and speak, a person, you know, can develop faith in Krsna or God. So why doesn't Krsna come and make it easy?
- Prabhupada, if spiritual life and Krsna are stronger than maya, then how is it that religion was ever overcome to the extent it is now? In Kali-yuga it's so much neglected... How is it that maya got such a stronghold?
- Prabhupada, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?
- Prabhupada, in Vaisnava temples, asramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?
- Prabhupada, is it all right if I remain a sannyasi?
- Prabhupada, is it not so that so-called marital love and parental love is possessive?
- Prabhupada, is it possible that a living entity, a jiva soul, can have pastimes in relation to God?
- Prabhupada, on the one hand you say the scientists are rascals, and on the other you say not to condemn them?
- Prabhupada, they said that if Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted Krsna consciousness in the Western countries, why didn't He go there Himself? That's what they told us
- Prabhupada, we want to follow your instructions word by word, but sometime we can find some difficulty. In a case of difficulty, what should we do?
- Prabhupada, what about in the case where you have this ideal civilization with the brahmanas instructing, but the brahmanas don't agree? Just like in Bhagavad-gita, the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, there were many brahmanas, but they didn't agree
- Prabhupada, what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was invited to...?
- Prabhupada, when a living entity is in an animal body, and when he quits his body, there's no karma, he's just automatically promoted to a higher body?
- Prabhupada, when someone comes to the stage of being convinced like that, that there is no other business, what is that stage called?
- Prabhupada, who is that prostitute the gopis refer to...?
- Prabhupada? (very faint) ...petroleum demand, he takes out the blood of the earth and so the planet is going to sink (indistinct) said... So can we do something about it?
- Prabhupada? Buddha was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the incarnation of Krsna, right? Then why he has preached the impersonal form of God?
- Prabhupada? For every animal except the cow, you said, like a..., does a person have to pay off a one-to-one ratio for the animal killed? He just has to come back one time for, like, killing a goat? Is it just one time then, instead of many times?
- Prabhupada? I was reading in a magazine that in Germany the people used to be pious, but after the Second World War...
- Prabhupada? Is Krsna right here in the room?
- Practically one experiences that the heat in the body, the lusty desires increases heat within the body. So is there any correlation between fire within the body and the mode of passion?
- Practically, though, without God consciousness, isn't it that people see that whether they are moral or not moral, they still suffer?
- Pradyumna told me that it's available in Bengali (Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada's surya-siddhanta), Srila Prabhupada?
- Professionals may translate, but one of our men may check?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know whether we cannot do one very small pocketbook edition that will sell very inexpensively?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know, would it not be more valuable if our men spoke Sanskrit and could translate directly from the Sanskrit into French?
- Protect your mind... Wed it to the soul and taken away from all extraneous things which are made up of maya, is that not the meaning?