Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1971
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- A Latin legal phrase: causa causam, the cause of the cause
- Actually, that is their philosophy, Srila Prabhupada. I've heard people say exactly that, "All the things I want to do are for the people that are going to hell, therefore I want to go to hell. Why should I go anywhere else?"
- Any worship we first worship Lord Ganesa, India
- Arjuna was very lucky to have Krsna there to tell him what the plan was
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- Believers in Sai Baba and other we believe in an incorporeal God, nirakara
- But even (if we cannot fully understand Krsna)... Just like this book, this is for convincing people. This book is for convincing them to understand
- By creating brahmanas from different social classes of society, really you deny the old prescription of Hindu script...
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- Generally it seems to me that this old varnasrama system to some extent practiced the nature of division of labor in ancient society. So now division of labor among people in any society is much more complicated and sophisticated
- Gita jnana itself is given by Lord incorporeal, not to Krsna. Krsna, it is told, at the time the jnana was given had a body which became divya Vedanta
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- He doesn't have form. For me, and for my child, Krsna's here child life is very better
- He is not a bhakta, he is a scholar (Swami Akhandanandana)
- He must have the integration of the gunas
- Here you find Vietnam War, you find here Bangladesh, you find all suffering and they'll cry all around to God that "He will come and protect us," and there is no protection anywhere from this
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- I can possess it if you give it to me
- I know when a person doesn't come to the temple, it's very difficult for him to maintain, especially if he maintains a full time job. It has an imperceptible effect on your consciousness
- I know, Prabhupada, that in Seattle you had me lecture on a newspaper clipping that in New Jersey they had opened up one home for alcoholic priests
- I think that they have made a many mistakes in writing of the slokas
- If our seeing is imperfect we can see the change of body but we cannot see change, the transmigration of the soul
- If there's no vegetables you have to eat something
- If you are spiritually satisfied you would sit down and do nothing and if everybody were doing that we should be rather back to where we started rather than have enough food or music or transport
- If you need to relax, and you sit and listen to some music, it doesn't say praise God all the time, but in fact is, because it's beautiful
- If you proclaim that this is the real Hinduism, the people are getting fed up with Hinduism
- If you're a member, you have to practice the whole thing obviously
- In that way I was saying that we talk more of spiritualism here. I don't know whether they talk it in other countries or not. But we do here more
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna also, He says to Arjuna, "What need is there of all this knowledge? Just know that with one spark of My splendor I am pervading everything"
- It is always the home is the last one always, you know what happens with prophets. They are always respected more abroad
- It is very dangerous. Analogy's awfully dangerous
- It seems to me that surrender, surrender is to be accompanied with revolt. The history of mankind has proved but by only revolt against some kind of surrender...
- It's the great called Agape as opposed to the old other problem Eros
- It's very difficult to think of God
- Its a very interesting concept because often in Western civilization God is defined more as an idea
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- People are always afraid of fear and love. It's almost as though it's something sissy or, you know, to get so mixed up with sentimentality
- People in the past gave religion an enormous importance and science was practically unknown. Now they're going the other way around
- People like to have, or seem to like to have a religion
- People outside, she says, they find it difficult even to believe in God now
- People, especially these days, they want to avoid making any kind of decisions, especially hippies
- Plus here in India we see that the sadhus are taking ganja
- Practically, until now, no one except you has brought Indian culture out. No one has known before that they had high culture
- Prahlada Maharaja's father, he said that he would never come to Krsna consciousness
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- So much fear being preached it seems to be a reflection of individual consciousness more than the religion. They are preaching so much fear, it would seem to stem from their own activities, rather than the religion that Christ was teaching
- Someone was thinking that Brahma is not a pure devotee. But at the same time, he appeared as Thakura Haridasa in this world. So Brahma, he appears as Thakura Haridasa with Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Sometimes the Christians they say that, "According to our scriptures that Christ is the only way. And unless one is worshiping God through Christ, that is heathenism"
- Sometimes the mother uses the method of fear to train her child. So similarly, according to the consciousness of the people the doctrine of love of God has to sometimes be preached with a little element of fear so that they'll accept it
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Bible it says, "Thou shalt not kill", and the Christians say, "Yes, thou shalt not kill but you can kill animals"
- Srila Prabhupada, Ramacandra also worshiped Durga
- Suppose you have a scientific knowledge shop or a place, and if this workshop or this scientific institution states, "This is not good. This is not good," a general body accepts, take it for granted, "Yes, scientific body has said so
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- That is the principle of eternal hell that is used to make people surrender, fear of eternal hell
- That's what I was saying earlier on, the Krsna is very close to the Unitarian position in Christianity
- That's why I think it's better to accept that as it is rather than make analogies which are dangerous
- The body and owner of the body is the same
- The Buddhist thinks that everyone is God
- The GBC suggested that he give it just to your Book Fund or else to pay for the around-the-world tour, to help pay for it
- The Krsna consciousness say, you cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it
- The materialistic man will think, "Well, I am voluntarily giving up my clothing, but I'm involuntarily giving up my body"
- The meek shall inherit the earth
- The movement is very popular in the USA and few other countries. To my experience it is not quite popular... This is the country where originated... not so much in India
- The problem is that you only have the opportunity of hearing or reading what somebody else has said what they have said. So you're back again on the trouble of diversity of observation and opinion
- The reason why we take the name of the God or anything is to achieve the supreme happiness
- The seed is the origin of the whole tree, if I may say
- The thing that was bothering me when I thought of this, that the brahma-jyotir, if it is jivas, that they're all fallen souls
- There is a heavy emphasis in the ten commandments on the relationships between one human being and another. "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not steal"
- There is an opinion that this varnasrama system was introduced into Indian society on the late stage of Vedic era but not from the beginning
- There was a lot of chaos even in the old days when these (varnasrama) divisions were there. If you look at ancient history, it is one long story of massacres and wars and turmoil
- There's a lot more sins than just those four things. If you're irritated with somebody. Your mind can be filled with this kind of sin
- There's a principle difference of surrender to a king, to a person, or surrender to a society
- These evolutionists, they consider... They don't think there is a soul. They think that the cow is an organism, and we are just more advanced organisms. So we have the right to slaughter the cow because we are more advanced
- They are gambling and eating flesh right in the churches, Srila Prabhupada
- They can do, but the thing is that you have said that he is the chief and unless it goes through him, it can't be printed. Everything is bottle-necked around him
- They have got this prayer, "Lord Jesus have mercy on me, a miserable sinner." And she was showing me they have a, almost like japa beads
- They were saying also that in this age, particularly now, there is a great fear of loving someone or something on the part of the large population
- This Easy Journey to Other Planets (in German), has been in the process so long, it has so many times been reworked, that it's no longer palatable to them (devotees). They don't even read it. They'd rather have the English version
- Thou shalt not kill. Honor thy mother and father. There is one about no adulteration
- To my understanding (Hinduism) it is not religion from European point of view. It is a really a way of life
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- We are giving names; therefore we become confused because in our God incarnation...
- We are not fulfilling our true dharma
- We can persuade my family to my religion. Instead of worshiping...
- We go to work in the office, which is equally hard, I can assure you. We go from morning till evening. I wish I could go to the field, in fact
- We have to tear all these vices that are connected with our body. That is our purpose of getting into bhakti. But in that way, if you talk from that, another way of ahankara and pride, then things cannot go far
- We place a good deal of emphasis on religion in the ways it gets one man to deal with another man. The ethic of religion
- We've got a great desire to distribute Back to Godhead magazines
- When I went to Paris, they had gotten all confused. Someone was thinking that Brahma, Lord Brahma is not a pure devotee
- Women, children, they are different. After all, they have not done anything
- Would you please mention something about the meaning of the ritual of the initiation. They put their hand in the oil and the burning of the fire...
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- Yes, but they don't seem to be improving society. When they do come and go, society doesn't seem to improve on the way
- You can't preach until you are purified
- You know, your religion is not the only one which teaches this particular precept
- You see Him through sastra and the teachings of the spiritual master and His arca-vigraha
- You were saying already that only people who were kind or gentle perhaps would find it easy to start. There are obviously, as you were saying, lots of people who are not so kind or gentle and presumably would find it more difficult (to find Krsna)
- You're using materialist words, Swami. You're using materialist words, greater and smaller
- Your movement has spread with tremendous rapidity
- Your suggestion about pouring water on the root. We do get leaves from India, we pour water on them and we make that delicious drink, tea, which is one of those drinks which are used for inculcating the brotherhood of man