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- A person who is not indulging in illicit sex life or intoxication and other things has to live a comparatively simpler life... One will live much simpler life, agreed. But at the same time, would it change some complex things?
- Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
- Among two of the incarnations, there is Kapila and Buddha. And Kapila is practically, finally, the classical Sankhya-ist atheist. How could it be?
- And Buddha (this sankhya philosophy which is known in Europe amongst the European scholars, that is the atheist Kapila. It is not the original Kapila)?
- And Christians, how do you present this? Suppose if someone was a Christian (this is our philosophy, to accept knowledge from the perfect person or his bona fide representative)?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And how about in the south? Do you have many...?
- And how is Krsna different from us?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- And it (Krsna Book) is just two volumes or...?
- And now divorce is getting easier too, isn't it (so by one instance I can understand that how in the Western countries people become out of social structure. The root cause is godlessness. Root cause)?
- And they told me also that this morning you had some brahminical initiation to the... Gayatri... How many people?
- And what is your relationship with the Ba'hai faith?... The Ba'hai faith that also preach Krsna consciousness?
- And what is your relationship with, say, the Ramakrishna Mission?
- And who decides what is first class?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- And you're training them to lead?
- And you’ve got another copy of this (book)?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Are the (book) prices in here?
- Are there Christian also, or Muslim also joining this (movement)?
- 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 not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?
- Are there other ways besides Krsna consciousness to reach that same goal? Or is that the only goal?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are you a brahmana? By birth you're a brahmana, right?
- Are you going to have any kirtana also tonight?
- 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 saying that you should never kill a cow but that you sometimes can kill a person?
- Are you suggesting that every person, whether he is Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Jew or Parsi or anybody else for that matter, should accept the Hindu doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of soul?
- As many as in the West, or more (many people in India are becoming spiritually successful)?
- At Vrndavana you studied at a later time, then, did you?
B
- Basically they and myself and others want to know how do we get this spirit into our own hearts and how does this then issue out into everyday living?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- But do you get benefits? Benefits there are but not the same (Siva is just like milk and yogurt. The yogurt is milk but it is not milk. You will not derive the benefit of milk from yogurt)?
- But don't you look upon him as a religious man? Gandhi, religious man?
- But how about the people living next door or the people...(everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra)?
- But is the converse true, that we chant very well and that we can love Krsna even when we cannot love our fellow people?
- But nonviolence is not well in every case?
- But now do you not think that Christianity and Islam accept this (when he is on the platform of Brahman realization, then he becomes jubilant, prasannatma, na socati na kanksati. That life is required, Brahman realization. That is education) as well?
- But then God in His essence is Atman, Brahman, not Krsna. Is that what you're saying?
- But this young boy who was asking what to do with the fascists the day before yesterday, he wanted precisely violence to fight against the fascists. You, remember...?
- But to get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- But trained by others or trained by themselves (a certain man can be trained up as first-class man)?
- But we must all perform yajna?
- But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
C
- Can a normal student from, for instance, from one of the best universities, who is attending lectures in normal way, etc., also be initiated and admitted to your community?
- Can you say that it is worse, the condition of the world is worse now than it used to be or is it relatively the same or...?
- Could I ask you if you might sign... Put your name in... Autograph?
- Could it (chanting Hare Krsna) be called the true yoga of our time?
- Could it be, Srila Prabhupada, that this sanction of wine drinking be from God? Could that sanction come from God? Do we think that is possible?
D
- Did you build a Maha-ratha?
- Did you say that for the atman, are part of the eternal? For the atman, it is... A need for the being is for the purpose, ananda
- Do you basically reject the modern civilization?
- Do you believe that Christ said that Krsna was his father?
- Do you equate then the impersonalists and the Mayavadis? Are they the same?
- Do you feel that those who've had genuine religious, spiritual understanding would not have that kind of argument?
- 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 any evidence ("what you say, you have no proof, but what I say I have got proof")?
- Do you have any panditas in the Western movement?
- Do you have classes on Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you have more temples there (in India) than here (in the West)?
- Do you have the original here of the Bhagavata Purana?
- Do you have this, the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavatam?
- Do you initiate girls?
- Do you know Professor Bimal Motilal came in during your discourse?
- Do you mean that (if you keep people in darkness - he does not know what is his future - then what is the use of education and university) the university should be abolished?
- Do you mean that healing is an illusion? Because healing is a fact (better, that is everyone is trying, that is... But there is no cure. If you think that temporary cure is better, that's nice, but there is no cure)
- Do you mean that nobody could be cured (you stop his death or you stop his birth, stop his disease. So point is when I say you cannot heal, that's a fact. That's a fact. You can heal one disease, another disease will appear. Therefore you cannot heal)?
- Do you mean to say that this (transcendence) is just a contemplative thing that doesn't really have a active influence upon the society to change the different...?
- Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you return to Vrndavana often?
- Do you see that nations will fight too? That there will be wars, things like that?
- Do you sing any hymns, kirtanas in Bengali also?
- 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 possible, for instance, to have the husband being involved in this movement and not his wife?
- Do you think that some people could have best... better gift for healings, for temporary healings than other?
- 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 your mission is successful?
- 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 then that that, that message is the most important message that you have to convey?
- Do you think there will always be a few who understand (God)?
- Do you think you could do a little (recite Caitanya-caritamrta)?
- Do you think, this one (this book), do you think I could...?
- Do you travel much all over the world and...?
- Do you use any grammar, Sanskrit grammar, when you study Sanskrit?... How do they learn when they learn Sanskrit?
- Does it matter how long it might take you? Can you become first-class men soon, within five years?
- Does it matter what the specific thing is, like not killing a cow or like chanting or are there many specific things that people can do for love of God and for discipline that will serve the same purpose?
- Does religion or God, can give you eternal life?
- Does that apply to all the rules of the Krsna movement?... For everyone. I mean rules about not drinking... Would that be a sin in a non-Krsna follower?
- Does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- Does this organization (ISKCON) do social work?
- Don't you have a gurukula in Texas?
- Don't you think it's against the dharma-sastra (we are creating brahmanas in the western countries)?... Tell me why?
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- For instance, not a student but a young worker or a young son of a farmer, he would abstain from his old life and he would be initiated and join your community into a given center. How he would entertain himself?
- From this movement what has been, what is the plan?
- From where does that tendency come, (to fall down)?
H
- Had you met Gandhi?
- Has the name a special esoteric meaning? And is the technique of chanting the name, has this a special hidden purpose that the unenlightened...
- Have you also members of your movement which are simply in their work, in the community, in the world?
- Have you been many times in France or not?
- Have you got some points in common with the Christians?
- Have you many branches of your society everywhere? Where is your main center, and where are the branches?
- Have you put into writing these three subjects somewhere (Vedic Concept of Communism, Knowledge by Authorized Tradition, Scientific Values of Scientific Classless Society)?
- Have you seen many people in Melbourne?
- Have you translated also the Bhakti-rasamta-sindhu?... All of it...? Or...
- Have you wandered around from village to village?
- Haven't you come across some hostile attitude to your teaching from orthodox Hindu, from orthodox brahmanas in India itself?
- He asks if our students are Indian. He likes the paintings. He was wondering whether they were done by Indian students
- He said also, the doctrine of Buddha, that man has not person, doesn't exist as person. He's only some moving elements, physical and psychical and nothing else?
- He said he noticed that there are only men here. Does that mean that women cannot become transcendental?
- He said one thing is to understand theoretically the knowledge, and the other is to practice it. What is the method for...?
- He says why do you put so much emphasis on the personalism after liberation because it seems like to him that the ideal perfect thing would be the unity rather than having something separate?
- He still wants to go on with the same question he asked before: If we are content just to purify ourselves or if we also want to help the society?
- He wants to know if we are born good and then we learn the bad thing?
- He would like to know what you think that Australia should help Asia with as far as making people more comfortable to live in this world and what Australia can imbibe from Asia?
- He's asking, "Everyone in India (is Krsna conscious)?"
- He's saying why do you say a perfect person instead of saying a perfect philosophy?
- How about Kabir (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching is the summary of all Vaisnava-Ramanuja, Ramananda, Madhvacarya, and Visnu Svami, Nimbarka. There are four sampradayas. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu follows everyone. There is no difference much)?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can I give up attraction for woman?
- How can it be that we're advancing if we can become a dog in the next life, is that it, or something inferior? Where is the question of progress?
- How can we get this perfect knowledge and how can we practice it if we're like prisoners?
- How can we know what is good and what is bad? How can we define them?
- How do I know who is a perfect person?
- How do I know who is perfect?
- How do we finance our movement?
- How do we make ourselves bad?
- How do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- How do you feel about Mao Tse-tung?
- How do you know if you have satisfied God?
- How do you know there's a soul?
- How do you teach your disciples to become aware of this force which is no matter that makes matter alive?
- 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 far this adaption of Krsna consciousness by many American boys would affect the politics of their attitude, for instance, to such a bearing problem of America as Vietnam War?
- How he becomes aware in himself as an experience, not as conclusion, because I realize that on the inner way it becomes important more and more to feel deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper realities?
- How is our movement doing in India?
- How long does it take you to translate?
- How long does that period (Kali-yuga) last?
- How long it will be (the age of Kali)?
- How long this movement has been started?
- How long will you stay in Paris?
- How many commentaries does this one... (Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavat Purana)?
- How many levels of initiation do you have?
- How many officials (?) are there?
- How many volumes is this one (Caitanya-caritamrta), when it's complete?
I
- I am asking the question whether dog knows that he is dog. Cow knows that she is cow?... Have they got the intelligence to know?
- I fear Swami, if I may say so, without disrespect, that in some ways you're preaching to the converted and you only make it more muddled to me by giving analogies, don't you feel that at times?
- I keep wondering how you're so sure you know what good is, particularly when it comes to war
- I only say is it not possible for things to be dedicated to God without actually being placed on the altar in that way?
- I read in the invitation that this center is not only a center as such but something more. It should also be an asrama and also a forest university in the tradition of the ancient times?
- I still think of this problem why Lord Krsna had to have an incarnation like Buddha who was teaching atheist doctrine and no...?
- I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you?
- I'm doing also comparative studies between those in the Sanskrit and Tamil. Do you know Tamil?
- I'm just wondering what your judgment is on what... If you had to say to someone who was going to collect one small section of your work, what would you want them to collect?
- I'm not thinking so much of the specific Cantos as the Srimad-Bhagavatam as a whole. Is that, for you, as you see it, more important than Bhagavad-gita?
- I've enjoyed it very much. It was very kind of you. Where are you going on Wednesday? Where are you going?
- If anyone can dress as he likes, then why do you all dress alike?
- If God is known by many different names, though, is it not possible, then, to know God then in many different ways, in many different traditions?
- If he accepts that he is imperfect, what experience qualifies him to talk about God?
- If music is important to us?
- If one comes to value, existential value of a thing, through deduction... Is it possible or not only through intuition, through direct intuition of the reality of the whole?
- If one were to study, read Srimad-Bhagavatam who was not ready for this, not prepared for it, this might throw them into confusion then, or this would be...?
- 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 the highest reality is Purusottama and Purusottama is manifested in many different ways in the world, can people come to Purusottama through various paths?
- If we all do this, will that, for example, remove the problems that we do… (why not introduce, that every home, every factory, every community, every place, they should sit down at least for half an hour and chant the holy name of the Lord)?
- If you give us this wisdom, don't you meet now in the western world an opposition from the Christian side where the key word that this faith becomes a body, this faith becomes flesh?
- If you know who is God, accept it (you have to accept Krsna)?
- In Calcutta also there is a project?
- In case we want to order them (Srila Prabhupada`s books) for our...?
- In India is everybody lost, the Indian culture...?
- In India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
- In other words, Krsna is the voice of your God then?
- In that illustration is Krsna the sunshine or is Krsna the sun?
- In the things that you've written, where would that message come through most clearly?
- In what way can he support, or cooperate with your movement? In what way can he offer optimal benefit to your movement?
- In what way would we serve your movement by giving a clear explanation about the aims of your activity, for example, removing prejudices and supporting Sanskrit studies and the better distribution of the Bhagavad-gita in this form?
- Is (past and future) concerned with this body. It is concerned, exactly, with this body and with this ego, with regard to which there is a before and an after, up and down. And if you take away this ego, what's there, what's left?
- Is chanting absolutely necessary in the knowing (of God)...?
- Is God perfect?
- Is it (the occupier of the body) transcendent?
- Is it (the smell of the baked bread) very agreeable?
- Is it easier or better to be a Krsna bhakta than to be a Christian?
- Is it possible that he could spend his whole life trying to find himself and at the end of his life not find himself and meanwhile he didn't help the society?
- Is it possible to find Krsna in the Christian tradition or in Islam?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession?
- Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?
- Is knowing the end of seeking?
- Is that a teaching of the Bhagavad-gita, that one should not eat meat?
- 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 what is meant when a man thinks when he dies (according to your desire, you'll get a body), at the moment...?
- Is the body, then, to be resisted? Is the body to be disciplined, to be resisted, to be ignored? Is that what you're suggesting?... How to treat the body?
- Is the final goal of transcendence, then, immortality?
- Is there any chance of having a gurukula in Canada?
- Is there any one, one of the translations or one of the purports or of a series of purports of the things that you've published that you think is more clear, more...?
- Is there time in the higher nature?
- Is this a government-recognized college now (at Navadvipa)?
- Is this statement (individual ego is eternal and also subordinate to that which is eternal), a statement of fact based on direct perception, or it is something what follows traditional belief and is just the axiomatic basis of your philosophy?
- Isn't there also this other one (eternity), when, for instance, Christ says, "I am before Abraham was," this "I am." There is one kind of eternity which has nothing to do with past and future at all, which is beyond past and future?
- It (Bhagavad Gita) starts in Chapter Two with the question of what is atma?
- It is that the problem, that Krsna is the original person of divine, but in, by Ramanuja or Visnu Purana it reverse Visnu is the highest?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It's a great difference to believe that you are the son of God and to feel it and to experience it. As long it's only a belief, it's well meaning doing. How to prepare the conditions by which disciples might feel it?
- It's a large city (the plan for Mayapur). Fifty thousand, did you say? People? How many people were there?
- It's difficult for people outside the society of Krsna consciousness to see what the purpose is. How would you understand the purpose? Simply to make God known? How would you state...?
M
- Mam here means Krsna? Or Brahma?
- May I ask a personal question?... I heard that you were a chemist before?
- May I ask you what do you think about possibility of healing?
- May I please ask, is there is also room for physical yoga exercises while chanting of the God's names?
- May I put a question to the question of time, the meaning of time? I think there are two ways to look at time and to look at eternity?
- Meditation is not practical?
N
- No difficulty at all. But it doesn't happen, does it (everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra... Where is the difficulty)?
- Now would he have what is normally in the Western world called a theological degree?
- Now, how can you be so sure of that (you can realize the transcendence. The dog cannot. That makes you distinct)? Have you ever been in a dog's mind?
- Now, in India more people are living in the western way, though, living in cities, working in factories and offices. Does this make them have the western state of mind, the western point of view? Or can they resist it?
O
- Of the things that you have written, what do you consider most important?
- On the way there should be progress, inner progress. How to realize that there is a progress?
- One of the first questions I want to put: Visnu Purana, it's very similar and very coincidental to the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Only difficulty, for instance, in socialist society of our country and a socialist society how can you distinguish productive group and workers?
- Out of stock? So they will print it (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) again, no?
P
- People following you, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- People have to adopt to a different life-style altogether, you're asking for a very large commitment from people, and yet they do it. Are you saying that it's the strength of what you're preaching, or are they unhappy with what they've found otherwise?
- People told me that you have some two or three thousand disciples in the Western world?
- Prabhupada, wouldn't it be better to say he (anyone who denies the existence of God) is blind, he is stupid?
- 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?
S
- She asks you where these hellish worlds are?
- So in Navadvipa, will the instruction be in English or in Bengali?
- So it's the complete text (the summary study of Srila Rupa Gosvami's Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu)?
- So Tukarama, you would say, is teaching the same thing as Caitanya?
- So you don't worry about...?
- So you would see no basic difference between Ramanuja's position and...(the Caitanya tradition)?
- Surely not as many (followers) as in the north, or as much?
- Swami, do you attach any significance to the fact that this temple is in a form of a Christian church?
T
- That (I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit) was at Calcutta University?
- That's (Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher) the same line (as your Guru Maharaja, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati), no?
- That's also "Not for sale in India" (the Tenth Canto of Bhagavatam, two volumes). Why?
- That's the whole idea of moksa (God, therefore, teaches us how to get out of this body)?
- The body is not part of God?
- The Christians describe Krsna in a different way. Are they making mistakes?
- The goal of life is not that (sleep at night or sex indulgence and at night earn money), but that from his childhood he's been trained in a certain way, and he has not been taught anything else, and how can he achieve a different way of life?
- The idea of the college that you have in mind, is this going to be an all-around college, in other words teaching not only, you might say, Vaisnavism, but also English and the other subjects?
- The progress of self-realization is a progress of inner experiences?
- The question in one sense is not whether it's Christian or Saivite or Vaisnavite but whether it is directed to a knowledge of God, a devotion to God or not. But you would feel that there, what, it is easier to reach that goal by worshiping Krsna?
- The Radha-Krsna center in Geneva, for instance, has there any connection with you, the Swami Nityabowa-badananda?
- The relationship of mind to the soul, how the mind comes to know that it has or that there is a soul
- The third one we are never talking about has to look to transparence of our body consciousness, to become transparent in a way that in our body and through our body we might look for the Absolute Truth?
- Then that was after the university (Vrndavana, I studied the Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, as I mentioned so many, Upanisads, Vedanta-sutra)?
- There are so many translations (of the Gita). How does one decide...?
- There's no such diversity of interpretation of the Bhagavad-gita?
- These (books) are introductory?
- They want to know: is God the transcendence?
- This (the ten tikas) is published?
- This divisions (of varnasrama) only in Hindus? Mohammedans also accept this divisions?
- This is also a translation of it (Nectar of Devotion. It is translation from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of Rupa Gosvami) or...?
- This is the first volume. Are you preparing more of them?
- This is your Paris establishment?
- This movement started all over the world now. How many countries for instance?
- Those that follow Siva are after more material gain?
- To get back more to the origins of the movement, why do you follow the teachings of Caitanya rather than say Vallabha or Ramanuja or Ramananda?
- To get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- To know what kind of body I am going to accept next will allow me to continue to improve... beyond... the normal sixty-five or seventy years that I might live in what I imagine to be this body?
W
- Was the place Slippery Rock, was that the first college...?
- We are all imperfect because we are imperfect. Right? So how can a master, a person who really understands or who claims to really understand be able to know perfection, to see the truth, how can he with his imperfect senses...?
- Well, are your book lists in here?
- Well, do you see that many people will die because there's not... (on account of scarcity of rainfall, food production will be reduced)?
- Well, how can a person not believe (in God)?
- What (other texts than the Gita, Krsna, Caritamrta, and Bhagavatam) do you recommend?
- What about (because Krsna is Bhagavan. Bhakti means our transaction with Bhagavan) those who would worship Rama, say?
- What about (because Krsna is Bhagavan. Bhakti means our transaction with Bhagavan) those who would worship Siva?
- What about certain other traditions; Ishnamadeva(?), Tukarama, some of the poet saints of Maharastra. Where...?
- What about Christians?
- What about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
- What are the specifications for your first-class man?
- What are your plans for India?
- What do you think about temporary healing?
- What do you think would be the remedy or solution to the problem (no rainfall)?
- What do you understand by that word God?
- What do you understand is man's place in nature? Should he invent, let's say, electricity? Should he invent machines? Do you think these are good or should he just leave those alone?
- What if he (a thief) is an alcoholic and he's hungry?
- What is His Divine Grace idea about Kali-yuga?
- What is our method to realize the highest truth, the absolute truth?
- What is the parampara from Caitanya?
- What is the place of Srimad-Bhagavatam here, in this movement?
- What is the purpose of there being a body?
- What is the solution (to spiritual enlightenment)? Devotion to God...?
- What is the value of the transcendence?
- What is your view of Sri Aurobindo? (loud laughter) Or should I have left well enough alone? He is not an impersonalist, he's not a Mayavadi
- What is your view towards Christianity?
- What was the attitude of the Indian colony in London (after Ratha-yatra, wherever our men went, they were received very well)?
- What's going to happen to you in the next life?
- When I was in Africa I saw the people are looking for the name and chanting like you chant. But they have a complete different idea of thought. My question is how can I know what is the right thing? From where do you know this?
- When the soul was in the spiritual sky, it also had a mind and an intelligence like here?
- When will you be coming back to Melbourne?
- Where and when did you learn English?
- Where do you have these eight commentaries? Are they found in this edition or...?
- Where in the world do we find that people most understand us and join us?
- Where is it (the ten tikas) printed?
- Where is your matha in Vrndavana? In Vrndavana proper?
- Where would this (Srimad-Bhagavatam) come in, a book like this, in the study course?
- Whether dog knows that he is dog?
- Which I think are generally quite good, his essays on the Gita themselves. Are there places there that you would strongly disagree with in his, what he (Sri Aurobindo) says?
- Which of your books do you consider to be the most important?
- While you were in the college or afterwards, did you participate in any political movements?
- Who decides whether a man, then, is..., fits into those criteria and becomes a first-class man? Who decides? Who is to say whether a man is first class or not?
- Who has written this (Hari hari bifale)?
- Who is God?
- Who is teaching there (at Navadvipa)?
- Who was the author of that reading, sir? Who wrote it?
- Why (at the present moment people are very, very much addicted to sinful life)?
- Why (did you like Gandhi's national movement)?
- Why do we want to transcend?
- Why do you think a large number of people followed Gandhi? Why did they like him?
- Why do you think you are so successful?
- Why does the soul come into the body in the first place?
- Why in the Rg Veda there is not even the name of Krsna?
- Why is that (Bhagavata meant for who is no more envious. Simply loving) more necessary for Srimad-Bhagavatam than for Bhagavad-gita?
- Why is that better than loving your fellow man in the traditional bhakti-marga?
- Why is that difference (the difference between you and dog) so important for you?
- Why not (Gandhi was not a mahatma)?
- Why not (we have no relationship. We don't accept them (the Ramakrishna Mission) as any authority)?
- Why...(Darwin was a number-one nonsense. Yes. Rascal. He has confused the whole world)?
- Will not transcendence be an illusion too?
- Will this center also be a place of learning for Sanskrit studies and allied topics?
- With more people in politics in India, are they able to keep the Vedic ideal? Or...?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would it be dangerous for someone who is not at that level to study Srimad-Bhagavatam, or would they simply not understand it?
- Would you say the right way would have to be, let's say, to be a follower of Krsna?
- Would you tell us your experiences in that (what I say, I have got greater authority) field?
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- Yadava Krsna spoke with Arjuna... It was the personal God Himself or it was an incarnation, this Krsna which is in Bhagavad-gita?
- Yeah, but people following you, could, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- Yes. Yes. Of course, that (I do not know what is my future. Then what is my education?) is one standpoint, isn't it?
- You are not organizing a yatra in Paris?
- You are of the same line of Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher, no?
- You are traveling all Latin America now?
- You belong to the Caitanya...?
- You did not begin to teach Srimad-Bhagavatam when you first came to the U.S.?
- You don't have the Bengali panditas teaching Sanskrit (at Navadvipa)?
- You don't think that somebody could be an instrument to help other?
- You had a yatra, I guess, in San Francisco, didn't you?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You see all these trends today to learn meditation. It's only one longing to feel something and not only to believe. That is the situation now very much in Germany, isn't it so?
- You should be violent (in order to punish a thief)?
- You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
- You think that all healers are fool?
- You think there is nobody like that (no one is prepared to become first-class man)?
- You think we can't help people?
- You were belonging to Bengal?
- You were in Butler, right?
- You were staying with somebody in Butler? Is he still there?
- You would accept their (of the Alavars of Tamil Nadu) teachings also?
- You would see the worshipers of Siva as impersonalists?
- You've heard of the Dalai Lama? Well, his position would be the same as yours. Wouldn't it? In religion?
- Your knowledge of Sanskrit, this is one of your basic interests?
- Your line is so very good in saying that the real evolution of man's mind has been his ability to produce more and more the functions of whatever the mind may be. We know what the brain is, but we don't know what the mind is?