Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971
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A
- A man is finite. How can he do good for everyone?
- A man may evolve to a state like unto the demigods. Is that a possibility?
- A person (Krsna)? Person in the ordinary sense of the word, or...?
- 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?
- A priori we are not born with knowledge of what is right?
- According to the Vedic conception, is the king or the monarch above the law?
- After the festival, Prabhupada, are you going to Vrndavana?
- After you, is it any decision has been made who will take over?
- All new things are created out of necessity?
- All the people who are hoarding those grains, that economic procedure to produce famine. What is the way to check them?
- All they're (the scientists) doing is creating the conditions for the jiva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
- Am I conscious of... My body's being constantly changing?
- Am I separate from matter?
- And another thing I wanted to ask Your Divine Grace is this. This Bhagavad-gita, I would like to print it as it becomes finished chapter by chapter. Otherwise it will be a long time before we have a book
- And by origin you are from?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And it's the same spiritual body that we had before we came into the material world?
- And space (time is eternal. Reality. And therefore we take time as another feature of God)?
- And that is also practical (the absolute value is God. That is division. Satyam param dhimahi. That is our objective)?
- And that works (voluntarily accepting death so that immediately he can return back to the spiritual world)?
- And the purport (of the meaing of verse SB 10.14.58)?
- And what else would one have to give up (illicit sex and)?
- And what is the figure (of people joining) likely to be? Five a week, ten a week?
- And you think there's enough food (now, so far I have studied, that in America, in Africa, in Australia, there are so much vacant places that the present population of the world, if it is increased ten times, still there is enough food)?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- Are there lines of disciplic succession on planets all over the universe or only on these middle planets, like Earth?
- Are there many Indian-born disciples abroad, or are they mainly Western disciples?
- Are there not certain characteristics that are particularly male and certain characteristics that are particularly female?
- Are they brahmanas (devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement)? Not by birth?
- Are they less fallen (the jivas in brahmajyoti) because they are doing some service by lighting it up?
- Are we going to have any kirtana tonight? What is the program
- Aren't these desires given outlet in other ways? Do we channel the desires to some other field? Instead of seeing a beautiful woman, we see the beautiful form of Krsna, like that?
- Arjuna was praised as Gudakesa?
- As a practical result of his (Arjuna followed the decision of Krsna, so there is value. He became victorious, he enjoyed the kingdom, and he became a famous devotee) activities?
- As far as I can operate within my practicality, there are no purple men. I've never seen one; no one has ever seen purple men. So isn't this logical?
- As the yugas progress, the human body itself, doesn't it become more degraded?
- As we develop our experience, our life progresses, then we develop truth because we see that this idea works in my experience, so then it becomes true. Is this not the process?
- At that time were there only insects existing?
B
- Because he (Arjuna in the beginning denied to fight, but he agreed to fight) was satisfied by his faith in Krsna?
- Because he has become devotee of a follower of Laksmi-Narayana, he may come to associate with Laksmi-Narayana?
- Because the guru is responsible for taking all of his disciples back to home, back to Godhead, I was wondering what was the position of Lord Jesus Christ?
- Before it can be printed, everything has to go through his hands because he is the chief translator. But at the present moment it's going so slowly. But one arrangement I proposed was to pay him some money?
- Before one has success, the kundalini must be opened. What do you think about this?
- Before the birth of Lord Krsna, was God existing?
- Being capable of action, is that a good definition of substance?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- Bijam, seed, "I am the seed of all existence" (Plato uses the word "idea" in order to denote a subject's primordial existence, or maybe it's archetype. I think that Krsna uses the word bijam)?
- But do the results of an idea have to be predictable?
- But for happiness, or ananda, isn't bhakti essential, love, or ananda?
- But how does someone prove that something exists beyond his..., beyond our senses?
- But how does that give us sense content (this is sense content, that sarvam khalv, "Everything is Brahman")? What does that mean to my sense observations?
- But in our Krsna consciousness philosophy the ideas are not to be re-evaluated. Aren't they absolute, the philosophy of Krsna consciousness?
- But is meditation in itself..., would that be sufficient to transcend these lower...?
- But is that true (training should be given from childhood)?
- But is this force (nature is forcing) irrational and blind? This is what he thinks
- But isn't the tendency there to exploit the man and take more profit (I have hired one man to work for me. I have to pay him and therefore I require profit)?
- But isn't the understanding of the white light composed of seven other colors, isn't that also a fact of direct sense perception?
- But it's not by Krsna's sex desire. What is the meaning of the words "Krsna's sex desire"? Krsna's satisfaction?
- But philosophy is meant to understand the ultimate goal of life. What does he say the ultimate goal of life is? What is his ultimate goal of life?
- But the extinct species are not all present at this particular moment on this planet, are they?
- But then what is the stimulus? Why will they... (Krsna says, "Anyone who comes to Me, back to home, back to Godhead, he does not come again to this material world which is full of misery")?
- But you can improve it (this world)?
C
- Can a hydrogen molecule desire to become part of water and be given that body? Does it have the independence to desire something and take a body accordingly? The hydrogen molecule, does it have a life?
- 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 I see God by becoming a Christian?
- Can one be forgetful of Krsna eternally?
- Can the living entity perceive the situation at this time, when he's being transferred from one body to another?
- Can the scientists control that, the type of genes, the kinds of body, the child will get?
- Can there be an existence without a faith, sir?
- Can we see Him, just as we see Lalaji? But with these eyes or the... (so our knowledge is very easy. We don't make any research. Here is Krsna says that He is the Supreme Personality - we accept it. That's all. It is very simple)?
- Can you explain about taking a spiritual body after death?
- Can you explain about vaibhava and prabhava?
- Can you say what is God?
- Can you tell me how many of those (who joins) actually stay?
- Can you tell me what is Krsna consciousness?
- Can't we all be combined in a single person rather than dividing them into four, at least in the present age?
- Could a monarch use this argument, the argument of divine right, in order to discourage his subjects' rebelling under the pretense that they are communing directly with God? What guidelines are there to assure against this? Wasn't there one King Vena...?
- Could you explain a little bit about the position in which we were situated in the spiritual sky before coming to the material world?
- Could you recall the beginning of your first trip to USA and how you spread the message? I was told that you came here with six dollars?
D
- Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura take sannyasa in later years?
- Did you say once that sometimes Krsna will let you work off some of your karma in a dream (indistinct)?
- Different levels of consciousness?
- Do (the jivas in vegetables that are offered to Krsna) they just get liberation or do they go directly to Krsna? They go to Krsna or do they only get liberation? Do they go to Goloka Vrndavana? What kind of liberation?
- Do innate ideas have to be universal? Might not some living entities have some innate ideas and other living entities have others? Why does an innate idea have to be universal and apply to everyone?
- Do the fallen souls leave the spiritual world all at once or gradually?
- Do the rays of the sun actually take away our life?
- Do we all originate from Krsna?
- Do we offer any solution for socio-economic problems that you can...?
- Do you advocate sending the children to secular schools, or have you made arrangements with the government to...?
- Do you attribute accidents and disease to a desire for self-destruction?
- Do you claim then that your way of loving God is the way to love God?
- Do you come (to India) every year, or is this the first time you have come?
- Do you differentiate, as you would do, it's only a matter of attempting to comprehend the differences of things, the difference between thinking and feeling as rational functions?
- Do you do your printing in Japan and America?
- Do you find that the chant goes on in your heart?
- Do you find that you chant, it clarifies you?
- Do you have any children, family?
- Do you have any hope in the future that you, your movement, will involve printing a lot of books, making, building schools for your children?
- Do you know that story of Ekalavya?
- Do you need to have a name and address and occupation for God?
- Do you suppose that the British supported Darwin so that that would also help their political ambitions, by introducing...?
- Do you think if people had a deeper understanding of God... a spiritual consciousness...? Do you think it would solve the problems of...?
- Do you think people should beware (of false gurus)?
- Do you think that there will become a level of demigods, a race of demigods?
- Do you think those who are butcher are all criminals?
- Do you think your movement is the only way to come to know God?
- Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible?
- Do you want us to offer feast to your Guru Maharaja at noontime? A special plate of feast?
- Does he (Lord Brahma) become a pure devotee? Otherwise how he can see Krsna and reveal Brahma-samhita? Also he's the head of our disciplic succession. How can he be the head of our disciplic succession if he's not a pure devotee?
- Does Krsna desire we get a spiritual name?
- Does Krsna know beforehand everything?
- Does one have to leave one's family? I think everybody lives in the temple, don't they?
- Does someone who has been in prison and then he becomes free, does he appreciate his freedom more than someone who has always been free?
- Does that include all sex life or...? What is illicit?
- Does that mean that the spiritual body changes, Prabhupada?
- Does that mean they have no knowledge about leaves (Vedic scripture was there. They did not read. That's all)?
- Does that means they should not worship these demigods and goddesses?
- Does the condition of being entrapped, enhance the understanding of liberation?
- Does the hydrogen molecule have an independent desire?
- Does the Krsna movement recognize other types of service to human beings like the social workers?
- Does the mind play any part in the evolutionary process? The mind?
- Does the table have a jiva soul?
- Doesn't everyone derive strength (from God)?
- During the time when the living entity is transferred from one body to another, is he always fully conscious of the subtle facts?
E
- Either direct or indirect. But how can I experience that statement that "Everything is Brahman"?
- Even between the atoms of matter there is a spiritual life, spiritual force?
- Even if we see the seven colors in the laboratory with instruments, we still don't understand the even simpler facts of which that is composed. There may be seven colors, but how to understand those?
- Even if you study the way the sun and the rain and so on combined to make this fruit ripe, you still have the question, "Well, why is there fruit in the first place?" Why is there fruit? Why has fruit appeared on this planet?
- Even the mind occupies space and transpires in time. Mind occupies space and works in time. Is that also a fact?
- Even though several million years ago they find no evidence in the rocks...?
- Even when this universe ends, doesn't that (temporary) law carry on?
- Every successive teacher has added some interpretations of the knowledge, no?
- Everyone is born with this devotional spirit?
- Everything that exists wants to enjoy?
- Excuse me. Your honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?
F
- 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?
- For instance, there's no dinosaurs existing now. They're extinct now but where are they gone? Some other planets then?
- For meditation, which form should we (meditate upon)?
- For purpose of practice I am asking, when you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you?
- Forgetfulness is artificial?
- Freud put so much emphasis on children and the mentality and emotions of children - what one is experiencing, youth and so on - and it is all concocted, don't you think?
- From the Sanskrit (Christo and Krsna)?
- From the standpoint of the ingredients of this world, material ingredients, is this the best possible world with those ingredients?
H
- Has spirit no want?
- Have you been harassed in London at all?
- Have you been to Russia? They allowed you to preach?
- Have you got a particular mission for London?
- 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 Krsna?
- Haven't you come across some hostile attitude to your teaching from orthodox Hindu, from orthodox brahmanas in India itself?
- He (my ancestors) made no tools, or he had no house? But why weren't there any tools left behind for us to find, remnants?
- He mentions the point, what is that urge? Why do I want to improve? What is that urge that makes me want to...
- He says no one can hate God, but what about Kamsa and others?
- He says reason is by nature equal in all men. Now isn't reasoning power different in different men?
- He says, "It is not so much that God is in everything but rather that everything is in God."... What is this position?... Why should it be more one way than the other?
- Higher than the demigods (we are contaminated or conditioned on account of association with these three modes of material nature, and if we keep ourself aloof from the association of three modes then we are mukta, we are liberated)?
- His question is, do we concern ourselves with particular problems in the world, there's the war in Vietnam, there's racial discrimination? Do we make statements to condemn these things?
- How about the meaning of the chanting. You are insist on chanting?
- How are the individualities (of the spirit soul) accounted for?
- How are these conditions going to change (material condition is the four principles of bodily demands: eating, sleeping, sex and defense)?
- How are they going to change in order to bring about a profound spiritual transformation (formerly people used to live very humbly. Now they are living very, very big, big skyscraper building)?
- How can one see the spiritual master in darkness? If you are standing in a dark room...
- How could some people look at the seed of a tree and come to a different conclusion?
- How could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.
- How did you find Moscow?
- How do I create matter that is my body?
- How do they know it's not millions of years ago
- How do you develop a service attitude in Krsna consciousness?
- How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?
- How do you feel about Rabindranath Tagore, the poet?
- How do you feel about self-expression, art, as a path back to Godhead?
- How do you feel the modern world (have received Krsna consciousness)? What's your feeling?
- How do you get to the second stage by making your own decisions without God's..., without God's representative? In other words, how can you come to the platform of the third stage from the second stage?
- How do you have that assurance (this movement is the only way to know God)?
- How do you process to a right moment unless one is helped at the last minute of death?
- How do you recognize someone who has already a family and he's working and who wants to progress in Krsna consciousness? Is he, does he have to give up his job and shave his hair and wear robes?
- How do you stop that (greed)?
- How does one contact the spiritual master? Through a book can you contact the spiritual master?
- How does one learn to control the senses, overwhelming?
- How does our philosophy define mind and intelligence?
- How does that result in more women (the more the man will become attached to woman, the woman population will increase)?
- How does Vaisnava act? What are his...?
- How does worship of Visnu solve social problems? Just like in Calcutta there are more social problems than practically anywhere
- 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 foreign intervention will be dangerous to you if you are perfect (if your theory is perfect, why there should be foreign intervention?)?
- How is it that some men have no conception of God?
- How is Krsna different? How is He individual in each one of the atoms?
- How long does it take (to learn about God)? Well, can we do it? And what happens to me then?
- How long were you there (in Moscow)? With your disciple?
- How long will you be feeling bad from the injection?
- How long you are in India now?
- How many (ISKCON) branches in India?
- How many followers have you got now throughout the world or can you not count?
- How many swamis do you initiated, American?
- How old are you?
- How one can supremely control all conditions that would free one from karmic reaction? How could they control the environment?
- How the movement is growing? Can you give me any figures at all? I was speaking to one of your colleagues earlier who mentioned 150, but seventy-five approximately which were in London. Are the figures growing week by week?
- How this movement was formed when you came here. You are the father of this movement. How this idea was created within you?
- How to live in such a way where there is no dearth of thing as well as there is no continuing of that need that a man becomes lost?
- How was it possible for Ajamila to chant the name at the time of death?
- How will the spiritual master be pleased?
- How would I recognize a true follower of the Krsna consciousness movement by his behavior? What would his traits be? What would his outward expressions be?
- How would one tell that one had a genuine guru because one would be told to give up certain parts of...?
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- I asked him the purpose of God of creating men, and if He is all love, He is all, nothing happens without His will, what is His purpose in creating men, and then these men, which he created, and claimed to be beloved by Him, suffers?
- I don't know how geologists date earth layers but let's say the deepest layer is only five hundred years old, but still the ones on top are newer. So in the lowest layer, there are no chariots, cities?
- 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 know some of the devotees have had to sever relationships, so to speak, with their material world parents, and it gives them some degree of grief, because their parents don't understand. Now what do you tell them to kind of make this easier?
- I know you define that as civilization. It's just, I was trying to suggest that some societies, and indeed, some individual personalities, are avaricious seemingly by nature. How do you...?
- I mean supposing I wished to become an initiate. Wouldn't I have to come and live here?
- I mean what is an example of different species of man. What are they, for example, several species of men?
- I read somewhere that possibly you wanted to convert people who were politicians and businessmen. Why?
- I should now request you, Your Divine Grace, if God wills everything?
- I think Radharani helps a man to reach Krsna, to hear, you know, the things...?
- I understand in fact that you are a pure devotee of Krsna. What does this mean? What do you mean by being pure? Does it mean that you have seen Krsna?
- I understand the principle of consciousness, but what is the exact meaning of the word "subconscious"?
- I want to know how I can see you as a person. What is the cure? What is the remedy? What is the solution?
- I want to know how I see someone as a person and not as an object. How do I do that? What is... You say that you can tell me how to see someone as a person
- I want to see everyone as a person, not as an object. So how do I do that?
- I was discussing this with somebody and they said that reading of books silently is no good. Is this true? Does one have to recite aloud while one is reading?
- I was going to ask you about that, (Western) civilization?
- I wondered whether you feel that it's right that you could perhaps issue a warning to people who are seeking some new spiritual life that they should take care to make sure they have a genuine guru to teach them
- I would have to become a member of the Krsna movement (in order to see Krsna)?
- I'm still trying to understand what you mean by the species of human life. It's not clear to me. I don't understand what you mean by the different species of human life?
- I've enjoyed it very much. It was very kind of you. Where are you going on Wednesday? Where are you going?
- Ideally it is the moral obligation of everyone to obey the moral command, but...?
- If a man become honest, if a man deals with others very nicely, moral, and so on, so on, so what is the use of becoming devotee, devotee of God?
- If any of us here this morning wish to become followers what would we have to give or give up?
- If by our karma we desire a certain type of body but they create all the bodies to be the same, how is that? But men are tampering with the bodies.
- If Christian religion is teaching to understand God and to become obedient to God, then it is all right. If it is not teaching that then it is useless. Simply by stamping, "I am Christian," what do you gain by that?
- If God is not an idea but He's substance, how do you mean that, substance? How do you define substance?
- If he (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard) accepts Jesus as the perfection, why doesn't he, in the beginning when he was looking for a way of making decisions, why doesn't he follow Jesus's path of morality?
- If he made a mistake and it's the wrong medicine, would you say he cheated you? Isn't that the point you were getting at?
- If I am perfect, then why do I have to submit to imperfection?... That means actually I am not perfect. Therefore what qualification have I got to give truth?
- If I go from birth, youth, old age, then what is to say that I am again going to youth? They will say, "What is that logic? How I will go again to youth? Simply I will go again and vanish away"
- If I have got a lot of foodstuffs, Srila Prabhupada, I wish to distribute, but I'm afraid it will go bad, how could I distribute very quickly, very quickly?
- If I have that idea of a golden mountain, that means that in the spiritual world that must exist? or I can form an idea that is not in the spiritual world. Am I understanding you?
- If one accepts initiation from a bona fide spiritual master but continues to perform material activities, are they still bound by the karma?
- If one has accepted a bona fide spiritual master and he did not receive much knowledge from him, can he change his spiritual master at later...?
- If one realizes the impersonal Brahman, what progress can be made here from this?
- If one takes a birth in a rich man family, rich man's family, how it is good?
- If some scientist can change the genes so that the jiva can have a different kind of body, he still would have the previous desires?
- If somebody's son comes to us to become devotee, I have experienced, the father and mother immediately come: "Oh, Swamiji, what you are doing?" But his son becomes hippie - he will tolerate
- If someone develops the form of a boy, cowherds boy with Krsna, is that an expansion of his potency, of that living spirit soul's potency?
- If someone has a natural ksatriya tendency, he cannot become a Vaisnava?
- If someone in all seriousness wishes to find the spiritual life and happens to finish up with the wrong guru, I mean should they beware?
- If someone is engaged in devotional service and he commits an offense at the feet of a pure devotee, whatever he has done up until that time is not lost? in his next life he gets...?
- If someone is in the spiritual world, he falls down into the material world and then he becomes again released. Is his understanding after release higher than the previous?
- If the spiritual master, Prabhupada, worships God through a demigod, is he bona fide?
- If they try to stop us from printing, we can show them the copy of that letter that says they do not publish, and then what can they do?
- If we see a phenomenon like the rain falling or anything, and we want to apply the test that will prove that God is the cause of that phenomenon, what test do we apply?
- If you accept that there is an evolution, do you accept that the bodies change because of changing conditions of the natural surroundings?
- If you are unable to receive knowledge from a higher authority, could you still somehow have this knowledge inside? So one could understand about Krsna perhaps if he was unable to receive from outside?
- If you had a big house, a rich house. You would use that?
- If you make a scientific proposition that "Because I am, the body moves," that is your scientific proposition?
- If you must have a spiritual body in order to go back home, she asks, is it only with this Hare Krsna mantra and by taking prasada that we achieve that body?
- If you'd like to come to Germany, we can arrange a program for you in Heidelburg, and there, Pradyumna says, there are some big professors there that are important. If you like to come there?
- In a sense, the man is not really inventing a chair either. There is already an idea of chair previously existing. He's just discovering it, something which already exists. Is that correct?
- In a situation where there's a choice between say chanting and reading. Is chanting a better activity than reading?
- In God's temple, what human wants? And what type of life he wants so that he can be happy?
- In India (how is Krsna consciousness received)?
- In India, how many are Krsna conscious?
- In Krsna consciousness isn't knowledge rather than faith the basis for action?
- In other words, Krsna is the voice of your God then?
- In other words, that my ancestors had left impressions in my brain from the time of my birth, how to react according to their experiences. Is this true, that there is a collective experience which is passed on?
- In our world here, there are material scientists and they understand things in a particular way. They understand, for instance... Suppose, on the heavenly planets, there must also be a class of men who understand things...
- In reply to Jayadvaita's questions, regarding the policy for using diacritic markings
- In reply to your question whether TLC or the original cover of Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the authoritative picture of the hand symbols?
- In the Eleventh Chapter of the Gita the Lord has shown His virat-darsana. He has shown Brahma, Visnu, Mahesa, etc. They are all in Him. Subordinate to Him. They are subordinate to Him. Therefore (one should) meditate on Krsna, the only Hare Krsna?
- In the modern world, Swamiji, wouldn't you think that the same person has got to combine in himself the qualities traditionally ascribed to all the dharmas?
- In the part of the world where this particular philosophy and this particular belief originated, which is in India, in the Eastern part of the world, at least as we look at it. Is it successful there? Do you have a large following over there?
- In the Upanisads, as you know, there are many cases in which the brahmanas had to go to the ksatriyas for knowledge. You remember?
- In the Vedic age wouldn't everyone want to become a brahmana? Why train someone as a sudra?
- In what way did you think, that the teaching of the love of God which you are doing, is different and perhaps better than the teachings of which already were being conducted in this country and have been conducted in the Western world for centuries?
- In what way is God concerned with the moral or immoral actions of man? Is God indifferent to them, or has He simply set the laws of nature in motion and allowed men to follow their own course and reap the fruit of their own karma?
- In what way we will live in that spiritual form?
- Instead of just seeing black, white, this or that, I look for individual propensities, so I appreciate those individual propensities?
- Is (this movement) growing all the time?
- Is conscious repression advisable? Of my basic instincts, my desires. Should I consciously strive to repress these desires?
- Is desire, desire is due to the material contamination, or is it...?
- Is getting the soul out from this awkward position of matter a higher understanding than understanding the soul by itself?
- Is it a very good omen to see in your sleep state person showing to do the Hare Krsna chant?
- Is it better to chant the Hare Krsna mantra loud or is it better hide the mantra?
- Is it confirmed that the similarities in symbolism and cultural relationships, which are similar in civilizations all over the world, can that be due to the fact that they are all coming from the same source? Five thousand years ago there was one culture?
- Is it not necessary today for each person to have knowledge of the dharma. He's got to have the capacity to act?
- Is it not that because our real nature is perfect that we're always striving to become perfect again? Striving to reach that point again?
- Is it possible for a conditioned living entity to perceive the suchness or essence of anything
- Is it possible for any entity to do something until the Lord hears him?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, that Krsna may like to be satisfied through the material life?
- Is it right to say that Krsna-prema is the perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- Is it the same you found in all over the world, everybody speak the language, English-speaking language, you went and you did the same thing, you went up there, chant, and with the miracle of Lord Krsna you received your devotees and disciples?
- Is Paramatma a person?
- Is that so ("it is certain that man surpasses women in accordance with a general law which prevails throughout the animal kingdom. If there were nothing else to do but to love, women would be supreme")?
- Is that spiritual master still guiding after the death?
- Is that true on every level of... chemical law (without conflict, you cannot make progress)?
- Is that true, Srila Prabhupada? That service to mankind is service God?
- Is the (living force) in the same quantity in every body, in every living body? I mean the energy, the amount of energy
- Is the body not to be treated with a certain amount of care, and even comfort, because it is the vehicle for our spiritual progress and so on?
- Is the body really affecting the soul? Does the body really have a causal influence on the soul?
- Is the fact that America is now the dominant nation also God's will?
- Is the Krsna consciousness belief or philosophy compatible with the Hindu religion?
- Is the result of our inquiry to change the external environment?
- Is there a single, simple stitch that you could give to people who don't know anything about Krsna consciousness to help them to understand it
- Is there any example of this ascension into heaven? Didn't Arjuna...
- Is there any such thing as innate knowledge?
- Is there room in the movement for other persons who are indirectly serving Krsna rather than chanting Hare Krsna all day?
- Is there some experience that shows me that that is a predictable result (just like we don't want death. So if I get the chance to come to a position not to die, is it not predictable?)?
- Is there some order of priority in service then? I mean, sixteen rounds is more important than anything else. And then following that, there's something else?
- Is thinking a necessary function of the soul? He says, well for instance an oyster. How does he know whether or not an oyster thinks?
- Is this devotional spirit the only necessary truth that one is born with, or are there others?
- Is this isolation a characteristic only of the lower and middle planetary systems? In the higher planetary system, systems, is there so much isolation?
- Is this kind of extinction the purpose behind chastity (voluntary and complete chastity is the first step in asceticism or the denial of the will to live. It thereby denies the assertion of the will)?
- Is this one of the main things that distinguishes a genuine guru from a fake guru (we do not want, depend on anyone's financial contributions. We depend on God, or Krsna)?
- Is this progress toward human immortality, is that a creative process?
- Is your spiritual master still alive?
- Isn't everything we see a product of experience? Don't all living things have experience?
- Isn't speech, which is the articulation of the intellect, the primary difference between man and the animals in the sense that is it not through words that one can come to understand God?
- Isn't that the same thing as jnana-yoga (wiping away all understanding and knowledge and beginning from the objects themselves, and reducing from those things, the essence of those things, to the truth)?
- Isn't the breaking of a promise a universal moral command, that one should never break his promise, whether it is here or other countries?
- Isn't there an absolute value?
- Isn't there motion (in the spiritual sky)?
- It appears that Schopenhauer recommends about eight hours of sleep a night, and Krsna says not too much or too little. But what is recommended in terms of sleep, just concretely?
- It can be changed, the age of Kali, by presence of the devotees of Krsna?
- It does require a certain price for them to pay as individuals. To sincerely try to find Him (Krsna)?
- It goes deeper and deeper (the chanting)?
- It is a question of eyes and knowing, sir? So, sir, how do we prepare eyes to see (Krsna)?
- It is because we desired something and we were always frustrated by that desire (anxiety shall continue so long as you are in material condition)?
- It is both, isn't it Srila Prabhupada, it is both material and spiritual. In essence it is spiritual?
- It is not (an accident) determined even by karma?
- It is the attitude with which one does it (tries to satisfy Krsna, that is important)?
- It is true that if there are certain laws, moral commandments, that I should follow them regardless of individual exception? There are no exceptions, regardless...
- It is written in Gita the soul never dies. When the soul does not die, where does it go after that?
- It isn't a negation of pleasure, but it's a higher pleasure?
- It says in the Bhagavad-gita that when, if one performs devotional service, then his result is never lost. Then how was it possible for Ajamila to lose all his devotional service to Visnu by associating with a prostitute?
- It seems that he believes in the Paramatma present within all beings but does not believe in the jiva along with Paramatma. Is this a typical impersonalist position?
- It seems that most of the devotees are young people, persons under thirty, under twenty-five. Why is this so? Why hasn't the movement spread? Is this a deliberate thing, or why do you feel it hasn't spread to parents or to older people?
- It seems to me, sir, that there is a very high emphasis placed on the relationship between the individual and God. But more emphasis on that relationship than on the relationship between one individual and another individual. Am I right in that?
- It's not that one has to develop them (moral qualities) independently?
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- Jati. So when you say 400,000 species of human life... It's different from what we think of as species?
- Jiva atma is also a person?
- Jnana means knowledge?
- Jung's understanding of religion is made considerably more difficult owing to the lack of explanations. Do you understand what you are reading?" And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?"
- Just like if five thousand years from now some archeologists came to Los Angeles, which is all covered over, who knows what they may dig up? What will they conclude from their findings? That all of Los Angeles was made up of monkeys?
- Just like if it suddenly got cold, the spirit soul would desire to be warm so he would evolve a body with hair?
- Just like the bird—whether the bird caused the fruit to fall, or whether the fruit happened to fall coincidentally. It doesn't matter. Is that the point?
- Just like the Visnudutas, they have their four-handed form. Does that mean that they will never rise up to the state of associating with Krsna in two-handed form?
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- Karl Marx says, "The most persistent form of antagonism between the Jew and the Christian is religious antagonism." How has one solved an antagonism by... making it impossible?
- Krsna has exhibited His pastimes on every planet in the universe?
- Krsna knows everything in the past and everything in the future, so can we say it is predestined?
- Krsna knows everything we're thinking and He knows exactly when each of us will give up the material body, does that mean that everything is predestined?
- Ksirodakasayi-Visnu is in which category?
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- Laborers exploit (not only the capitalists exploit, the laborers also exploit)?
- Last night you said that what is the meaning of the word "nothing." That maya means "nothing"?
- Legally (married). And they will be living outside the temple for sure. Is that correct, Prabhupada (so we have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?)?
- Let us now praise famous men and our fathers who beget us as they oddly enough seem always to be... but I've never been able to understand why?
- Let's say a person has been involved in the Vietnam War due to his relation with the material world and has been drawn into this activity. And now he's in Krsna consciousness. How is he then relieved of the law of karma for his activity?
- Locke argues on behalf of private property given to man by God. That is to say a man may have a certain stewardship over a certain amount of property. Is this in compliance with the Isopanisadic version?
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- Maharaja Yudhisthira and Arjuna after Krsna left the earth, returned to the spiritual sky in this same body. Does that indicate that their bodies were so spiritual from spiritual activities that they no longer were material bodies?
- Materialistic pleasure, Freud says, serves the death instinct, but doesn't materialistic pleasure just bring out more craving for pleasure?
- May I ask you about, for example, we have Bahulasva. He's married, he has two children, twins. Now, how is the future as you foresee it, from now until his...?
- Moral qualities will follow? (all good qualifications will come automatically if he sticks to these four principles)
- My master, many people are interested to know something about you, and I found just not enough to know about you, and I could write volumes about your life. Could you (tell us) about your life?
- My master, what's your opinion on the Ramakrishna Mission? We have a Ramakrishna Mission in Chicago
- My question is, Prabhupada, that yes, maybe through speculation we can get knowledge, some knowledge
- My question is, what is the, why is that this particular movement is not emphasizing so-called meditation?
- My solution, Swamiji, most respectfully, is how do you judge that "I am correct"?
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- No, I want to say, like at the point of death we are also changing to another body. Do we feel that then?
- No, no. Stop this. Just try to understand. If you are not surrendered to me you have no right to ask me anything
- Not according to birth (the occupational duties are already there. The (indistinct) are already there. That is created by God. Now you can select one of them according to the price you can pay)?
- Not simply because of the increased population (India is faced with so many problems)?
- Now how was it that a great personality like Indra, with his mind, intelligence, and ego all intact, how is it he could become a toad?
- Now the reason is one thing, but intellection is another there... Intellection and reason you would call the same?... Intellection and reason and the Supersoul speaking from within?...That's something different?
- Now you said that from your very birth you knew that Krsna was the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Now does this mean that from your very birth you were acquainted with the name Krsna, or didn't your father have to at least say the word once?
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- Oh, after time. Oh (space is later created). And it creates the ultimate reality?
- Oh, that's the basis for morality (if you obey God, then all the laws are also included. That is the universal morality. " Just become My servitor, always think of Me, just offer obeisances unto Me," that is morality)?
- Oh, there's only one truth (servitude of the living entity is truth. But he is serving maya. That is untruth. If we take that there are two types of truth, there cannot be two kinds of truth. Truth is one. What we take as truth, that is maya)?
- On a social scale as well (the best method is to surrender unto Krsna, and all problems are solved)?
- One last statement from Aristotle. He states, in his Politics, he says, "The beauty of the body is seen, whereas the beauty of the soul is not seen." Is this true?
- One thing that puzzles me is if what is practical for one person is not practical for another person, then what is the criterion of truth? Is truth relative?
- One thing they (indistinct) Prabhupada, that we are thinking in terms of Vedic culture, and they say well, if this Vedic culture was previously existing, then why did it dissolve? Why did it fall apart and now we have to make a new one?
- Only difficulty, for instance, in socialist society of our country and a socialist society how can you distinguish productive group and workers?
- Original form... Which is the form of the body (he (the soul) has got his original form)?
- Otherwise where does the impersonal idea come from (God is there, but he is refusing to accept. Just like the impersonalist: unless you have got personal understanding, how will you try to make it impersonal? The first is personal)?
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- Para-tattva? Means?
- People are fascinated in the ritual things, the ara..., during the offering puja to the Deities and especially this initiation service. I would like to record the meaning of these ritual?
- Personality is there certainly, but is it continued? Is there a continuity of personality from the dead body to the new body?
- Plato says, "men must be brought up from childhood to feel pleasure and pain at the proper things, for this is correct education." So how does this correspond to the Vedic view of education?
- Prabhupada has told us that even in the spiritual world there is desire to have the senses enjoy. Isn't that so?
- Prabhupada, can you explain a little more about Ratha-yatra? Anyone who takes part in Ratha-yatra, are they liberated?
- Prabhupada, if someone is hearing the holy name in the street, if the sankirtana party is chanting, and they are atheists, what benefit is it for them?
- Prabhupada, in case, for example some scientist makes a change, like if the scientist comes and cuts off my hand, that's also my karma. In that way he's not making a change. Everything that is happening is God's plan?
- Prabhupada, is the best method to read Bhagavad-gita?
- Prabhupada, what do you think about the German translation work? I know it must go on. But isn't there some way to increase it, to make it go more quickly?
- Prabhupada, you said that at the time of death, if one is Krsna conscious, he's given a spiritual body. Is the spiritual body... You said it has been created. Originally, we had a spiritual body, and then we fell under the...
- Prabhupada? When you were speaking of bhagavata-vidhi, you said that of the nine devotional methods, it includes... I didn't understand which ones it includes, up to what point?
- Prabhupada? You said Arjuna was lamenting, but pure devotees become... Superior qualities that all devotees possess... So why is this? So why did Krsna call him a fool?
- Prakrti means space?
- Presumably you would encourage this movement of more people to find a spiritual life?
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- Regarding $20,000 advanced to BTG account, you have asked seeking my instruction where to forward $5000 monthly check...
- Regarding whether the Brahmajoti should be painted rainbow colored
- Regarding your inquiry about deities
- Right now we have so many preachers, so many other kinds of preachers in India. Then how can they get rid of them just by chanting?
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- Sakti in original is Radha?
- Shall Sivananda come here to see you? He wants to know about his taking sannyasa. He can either go to Paris and meet you there or he can come here?
- Should we try to avoid getting injections as much as possible?
- Should we want to unite the world, or should we want to unite ourselves with Krsna?
- Sir, are we rightly understanding that by "Krsna" you mean some eternal principle?
- Sir, would you like to give any message to the Indian people?
- So a man can can never become Bhagavan?
- So actually, we're removing people from danger, from evil, by making them Krsna conscious?
- So all ideas can be traced back to the original substance which is Krsna?
- So by observing someone's individual propensity, then I can see him as a person?
- So even God cannot predict when the living entity will come back to Him?
- So even the particle of matter is eternal?
- So everything is art?
- So everything is coming from Krsna and going toward Krsna?
- So full will means to follow...?
- So God's plan is unfolding itself everywhere, whether we understand it or not?
- So how does he (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard) ever come to the point of religion if he wants men to make their own decisions? How can we make our own decisions according to him?
- So if I feel hungry, I become full of anxiety, "Where is food? Where is food?" He says that this anxiety...
- So if one follows these moral guidelines (of Krsna consciousness), the result is certain, predictable?
- So is the primary factor of the variation is how much advanced they are (species of humans) in Krsna consciousness, and how least advanced they are in Krsna consciousness?
- So may we offer you a special feasting?
- So one condition you say is that as soon as the body dies, then there is no more movement. But what is there to prove that the soul has left the body or that there was ever a soul in the body?
- So penance and austerity, that it is not really suffering? What does suffering involve?
- So Prabhupada, a neophyte devotee, he may think it might be very nice to be Krsna's friend, but he may actually be a blade of grass and he'll be fully satisfied when he comes to that stage?
- So practicality has to be judged on the result, what is the result of that action?
- So some progress is made from that conflict (conflict means if I don't agree with you and if you do not agree with me, that is conflict)?
- So that taste, eternal rasa, for associating with Krsna is fixed already?
- So that's a combination of thesis and antithesis into synthesis?
- So the people will behave favorably, simply by performing these activities (eat peacefully, sleep peacefully and sense gratification peacefully and, making the mind peaceful, inquire about the Supreme Absolute)?
- So the picture of reality is always changing? There are no set combinations?
- So the proof that one accepts for something which is beyond our sense is not necessarily scientific?
- So the selective principle is there, but all species are already there?
- So the values that are taught to us by history, are they not...?
- So the world is a school house or a school ground where we become educated...?
- So they say that if we are to verify this proposition, to prove that it is true, then we have to know what conditions under which it is true. What are those conditions under which it is true?
- So this idea that no progress is made in any..., except through conflict... How is that exactly?
- So this is a welfare activity (making people Krsna conscious) ?
- So those eternally liberated souls in the spiritual sky will never come here because they choose not to?
- So we are clarifying a scientific proposition with our philosophy?
- So what would you say, if Schopenhauer said this is the worst of all possible worlds? Because it is so full of frustration
- So when someone has integrity, you can see that they are one-minded?
- So why don't we remember everything?
- Some day one person will do the floor, and the next day another person? Is that all right?
- Some people have been said to have remembered events in their previous lives. How are these reminiscences or ideas different from innate ideas? How is it possible for one to recall events?
- Somehow or other, we create our own ignorance?
- Someone can know what the life force is going to do in the future, how it will manifest itself in the future?
- Soul will not merge into that light, Krsna's light?
- Spinoza writes, "The more we understand individual objects, the more we understand God." Is this the proper process? Wouldn't you say that the more we understand God the more we understand individual objects?
- Spiritual form is there but due to the bond man has taken this form?
- Srila Prabhupada, there was a fish on Laksmi's hand yesterday. The Deity in the temple, where Laksmi had her hand up like this, there was a fish here across her hand. What is this?
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean practically to surrender unto Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the actual cause of shame?
- Srila Prabhupada? If they were more intelligent in previous ages, then why didn't they take to the chanting process? Why did they do it, the more difficult method, if they were more intelligent?
- Sudras are not allowed to upanayana-samskara?
- Suffering sharpens the intelligence?
- Suppose for example questions are arising in my mind and I think to myself, "Oh, this question is a foolish question, so I shouldn't waste the spiritual master's time"
- Suppose for one who's not completely surrendered, how will he make choices? For example, suppose that there seem to be two different ways of serving Krsna...
- Suppose he wills nothing at the time of death?
- Suppose I am the first man on the planet, there has never existed any other house, then I get an idea to build a house, does that idea precede the substance?
- Suppose one is engaged for his livelihood for eight hours, or ten hours for material purposes. How he will link with Krsna during that period?
- Suppose someone is satisfied simply being related with the spiritual master?
- Suppose someone is situated as Visnuduta. He may change his taste?
- Suppose that was a beautiful landscape on its own, just the landscape, then it's worthless? But you accept that the temporary enjoyment is there, would you?
- Suppose, for example, last night. I was chanting, and then I thought to myself, "Oh, I'm not concentrating on the chanting any more. Now I should go to sleep."
- Supposing hundred pure saintly Krsna conscious people are meditating or discussing or just serving together, and there comes somebody, some dusta who drops a bomb, and at the end of all...?
- Supposing someone else is in danger and you go and rescue them. Isn't that being a hero? Or you decide not to and you go away
- Svamsa is plenary. And vibhinnamsa is part of plenary. So the presence of Krsna in the atom, it is vibhinnamsa. Both of them (are there)? In the atom?
- Swamiji, can you tell us why we're in this material contamination? Why is it that the spirit soul has material contamination?
- Swamiji, do you believe in reincarnation?
- Swamiji, I see in the face of your students brightness. How you have created brightness?
- Swamiji, if Isa is everywhere, isavasyam idam sarvam, then surely He is in the body also?
- Swamiji, material aspect in your understanding, they are one?
- Syamasundara Prabhu was asking about predicting about spiritual life. What is the qualification of the person who can make such predictions?
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- Tarzan?
- Tell me in fact what is the purpose of your visit to London?
- That (two plus two equals four) disappears when this universe disappears?
- That four-handed form is not complete perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- That has social effects that could change the world?
- That independence, if he (the living entity) exercises that independence from now on, forever, Krsna knows exactly how that independence is going to be used forever?
- That is the basic cause of anxiety-desire?
- That isn't possible to understand... (simply understanding green is not complete study of the leaf. The main questions are why it is green?)?
- That means like time is actually like presence (the past, present, future is relative according to the body. Otherwise time is eternal. Time has no past, present, future)?
- That means those who are to follow you are not liberated?
- That's actually susupti (living entity does not die; he remains unconscious for seven months)?
- That's due to too much sinful activity? Too much sinful activity that they can't think that there's some divine influence?
- That's really what I was going to ask you. You must find life difficult preaching the values of brotherhood?
- That's the cause of all falldown, committing offenses at the feet of a pure devotee?
- The administrative class, they are not following the strictly the rules and regulations. Therefore it is fallen ( Is this the result of a lack of education?)
- The beginning of the creation was when?
- The Bhagavad-gita - do you accept that as it's historically an historical fact?
- The body, or my form, it's pertaining to my consciousness, the development of my consciousness?
- The chanting of Krsna's name, the Hare Krsna mantra, seems to play a very important role in the profession of your religious belief. Right?
- The constitutional nature of the entities that naturally form brahma-jyotir is the same as the constitutional nature of the jivatmas that are forming the living entities?
- The cowherd boy with Krsna, he is also vibhinnamsa expansion. Correct?
- The description on the...? That last description. That the living entities are fragments of God's body...? But their individuality is not lost?
- The first thing is to get Krsna. The world can then be looked after later?
- The forgetful stage is never everlasting or eternal, is it?
- The government of India has not in any way helped this movement, has it?
- The Hindu nation has been broken up into so many parts. But he sees the religion basically as a religion of the denial of will. But does the religion have its foundation in the nature of man?
- The human society is degrading so fast. You can notice it the last twenty years. Is it... Is it the age of Kali or is it the...?
- The impersonalist in the brahma-jyotir, is his will in a dormant state also?
- The impersonalists improperly emphasize tat tvam asi over the original omkara. I was wondering what are the significance of these two vibrations and what is their relationship to Krsna? What is tat tvam asi?
- The individual soul has a little independence to choose? So we have no free will?
- The mercy of God is the love of God, isn't it?
- The mind and the intelligence, they are not material? ...But they don't die? They die also?
- The original form of Krsna, that is only on one planet in one day of Brahma. Is that correct?
- The person is the same but the false personality changes then (so soul continues with his reaction of past deeds, and even though he forgets what he has done in the past, Krsna is there. He reminds that "You wanted to do this. Do it now.")?
- The philosophy of Bhagavata is not purely conceptual, is it?
- The Pope didn't acknowledge your letter to him. His loss. When we have Krsna, who needs the Pope?
- The rational way is the virtuous way. The virtuous way is the way of intellectual insight. There is a suggestion of sense control but no bhakti. So is it possible to obtain happiness simply by controlling the senses by the mind?
- The soul is eternally existing with God in some form?
- The soul is going on always, changing one body to another body, then how the soul is liberated?
- The twelve authorities, are they all pure devotees?
- The urge to advance is there in the human more developed. How does that...? We notice that in all human entities there is an urge to advance or improve oneself, to become something more
- The values of Western civilization have made that (articifial division). Therefore that's made living as children of God impossible?
- The Visnudutas, they had spiritual bodies, spiritual forms. Are they traveling through all the planets or only where there are devotees?
- Then again he will not get material body?
- Then the result of following these guidelines (moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness) is predictable results?
- Then there is some distinction, between the nature of the soul and the nature of the body?
- Then using another example, that every apple on the tree will fall, but when it is ripe, it will fall to the ground. There is no man involved with that. What about that?
- Then you have to give up (trying to understand). Then just simply love Krsna?
- There (is the) idea of the unitary view that Krsna is everything, all and in all. And then at the same time that the world, there is this world of illusion which is somehow distinct from Krsna. Could you just explain this point to me?
- There are probably more people in the world now who are seeking some kind of spiritual new light than probably ever before, or at least, there's more evidence of it. And I wonder if you agreed with that, and if so can you tell me why it is?
- There are some Christians who are actually sincere and they feel as though they are doing the proper thing. The churches are teaching the wrong thing, but they are sincere. Krsna will direct them the proper authority?
- There is also the demigods in charge of those different departments?
- There is at the same time the oneness is there, there is distinction, then, between the spirit... But still it's, not clear, but clear, there is some distinction...
- There is even spiritual space?
- There is no universal morality?
- There is place for women in the religion too isn't?
- There must have been an element, though, of dissatisfaction then on your part, with the way God was being... Godhead was being professed in this part of the world before you came. Otherwise there would have been no sense in you coming here?
- There should be right surrender?
- There's harmony at the beginning and harmony at the end (the child's body is harmonically changing into boy's body, harmonical changes, there is harmony)?
- There's no question of independent liberation?
- There's no question of the making of gods?
- These forms that are here, are they actually eternal forms?
- They (Krsna and His associates) didn't go through any death of any sort?
- They (the scientists) can't create a machine that will act like a human?
- They say he (the father) has passed away. But what is passed away?
- They were, I was told, associated with Gandhi. What's your relation with Mahatma Gandhi?
- They would posit that there's a mental functioning going on, a thinking functioning going on that we're not conscious of. I think we don't agree with that. Is that correct? We say that there's one mind, sometimes mental impressions come that are stored...
- This body of a table, it's not an individual personality is it? There's not one jiva soul in charge of this table?
- This is a continuation of Jung. Concerning whether or not karma is personal, Jung concludes, "Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution?"
- This is called utilitarian (called what?)
- This is collective, national danger here. Have you anything to offer to us as a...?
- This movement must have structure. Will you please tell us about the structure from the hierarchy on the top, and all the way down?
- To be man means to reach toward being God, or, if you prefer, man fundamentally is the desire to be God... He says that he prefers to set the question aside, but at the same time... how can you say let us just set it aside?
- To become God conscious do you think they have to become a devotee of Krsna consciousness?
- To my mind the nearest approach in the Christian religion is the Unitarian position, which I don't know if you studied?
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- We are having dinner later, of course. I thought maybe you would want something to start with (one glass of water will be fine). Only water? Only water, Swamiji? We have made a truly sattvic bhojana today so there is no problem
- We are speaking now. We are making pictures of reality as we speak with our language, with our words. Do these words have more content in themselves, or are they simply pictures of reality?
- We can't predict that the process of punishment will have permanent effect, can we? Can we predict that? Many prisoners leave the prison, but some come back
- We can't understand that it's green and that it grows (whatever nature is already there. Nature of the leaf is already there, but you cannot understand it by speculating)?
- We do not fight?
- We have made the statement that we attain a certain amount of bliss by engaging in this Krsna consciousness process. Do we deny the fact that other people have attained similar bliss from doing other things?
- We have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?
- We say that there's one mind, sometimes mental impressions come that are stored... but in that storage area of the consciousness, there is no thinking going on there. Is that correct? The unconsciousness mind is not thinking like the conscious mind
- We see that every great saint personality has surrendered to Krsna, even Mahatma Gandhi?
- We want to live and enjoy, therefore this universe and all these things. Now, in what perfect form? Because everywhere, in everything, there is a best. Now how everything should take?
- We would say there is no past, or is our perception of the past is false?
- Welcome, sir. What is Krsna consciousness?
- Well in this sense Fichte is closer to Krsna consciousness than most impersonalists, because most impersonalist advocate inaction and meditation on the void, but,... how can you have action without action directed toward a person or toward...?
- Well, a Beethoven symphony, for example, could you listen to that? (If it is) inspired by God, given by God?
- Well, what about before they had botanists? They didn't know anything about leaves before?
- Were you always in Moscow? What did, do they allow some lectures or... (no. I had meeting with Professor Kotovsky. That's all) Kotovsky only? That's all? He couldn't bring some people?
- What about a meeting in the biggest hall of Heidelburg? Would you also be interested in that?
- What about a notion or a concept? How does that come into being if it has never existed before?
- What about a principle, like "Two plus two equals four"?
- What about activities in the spiritual sky, beyond...?
- What about brahmana (can become Krsna conscious)? Brahmana too? Someone who is naturally a (indistinct)
- What about if it accidentally fell off; a thunderbolt hit the rock and it moved, like that, or gravity made it fall?
- What about if someone can choose to become a doctor or a lawyer or a physician or anything like that?
- What about pleasures like listening to music? Could you listen to other peoples' music?
- What about something that cannot be tangibly seen, like a mathematical calculation or an equation?
- What about the body of a man? Is that punishment or gift?
- What about the children of new devotees now?
- What about the half-life of certain elements?
- What about the idea that God does not exist?
- What about the idea that God is evil?
- What about the statement that "Peace is stagnation"?
- What about the war between America and Germany, for instance? Neither one of them were God conscious
- What about the Western religions like Christianity? That's been with us now for two thousand years and doesn't seem to have helped people to become particularly (happy and prosperous)?
- What about these men who perform great austerities, lash their bodies, starve, and...?
- What about this idea that nature, or evolution, is progressing?
- What about when you're not going to die... What about when you have some problems that's not fatal. Then who would we call?
- What about work, though? Does one have to give up one's job?
- What about yourself? How long have you had this understanding and awareness of God?
- What about, for instance, people who are practicing sense gratification, and they find it very practical to gratify their senses. Does this mean that it is meaningful or real?
- What are the qualities of the holy name?
- What can I say? Then only when sadhus are attacked, then only (Krsna comes)?
- What did you just define by species? You mean different types of men?
- What do you call in Sanskrit, sir (when you cannot live without Krsna)?
- What do you expect from your disciple, basic thing?
- What do you suggest for me to put my energy on, and present beautiful picture, nicely...?
- What do you think that you could add to the already living religious expression in this country by coming here and adding your own philosophy to it?
- What does it mean when Krsna has told Arjuna, in the battlefield that "Do you think either you or I were not there in the past? And you and I will not be...?"
- What does it mean, "mystic oneness with God"? What does mystic mean?
- What does it mean, "original form"?
- What does the name Vaisnavi mean?
- What does the peacock feather mean to Krsna? Is it a symbol of love, or what it is?
- What happens to a person if we just give him out on the street one Simply Wonderful or some prasadam, one piece of prasadam?
- What happens to the jiva souls who were fruits and vegetables that were offered to Krsna?
- What happens to your mind? What do you do with your mind when you chant?
- What I wanted, that if you will be able to help us in establishing, for example, that Gita meeting?
- What if he just goes on and he never asks pardon? Is he finished in...?
- What if someone deviates from your teaching?
- What if you avoid even choosing right or wrong, you simply drift without any decision of right or wrong?
- What is charka?
- What is fit for lay people? Which form should we meditate upon?
- What is going to happen to those who have left and yet they are committing offenses against you and against Krsna because they have become deranged?
- What is jata?
- What is masculine?
- What is one's prescribed duty?
- What is realization, Prabhupada? Realization belongs to the same category?
- What is that mission (I have particular mission for the whole world)?
- What is that root (when sastra fails, then according to sastra, there is sastra. Sastra means weapon. Both of them come from the sas-dhatu)?
- What is that wrong propaganda?
- What is the best method of making your children Krsna conscious? Teaching the sastra or...?
- What is the cause of man's physical, mental and spiritual deterioration in the succeeding yugas?
- What is the difference between bhakti-yoga and bhava-yoga?
- What is the difference between the Ganges water and the ordinary water to someone who doesn't know that the Ganges water is spiritual?
- What is the goal of this movement for the future? Is there any program set for the future?
- What is the meaning of God?
- What is the meaning, then, that America is the dominant nation?
- What is the method for doing it? What is the method of seeing someone as a person?
- What is the purpose of discussing him (Freud)?
- What is the purpose of the plan? Is there any ultimate...?
- What is the Radha category?
- What is the role of Krsna in this, as the arranger of this cerebral mechanism?
- What is the synthesis?
- What is the thing that will please you most, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is this little story, these two little things standing here? Some time back you called the drowning of the son of our teacher. Is this from the Bhagavatam?
- What is this yogic power? What does that mean?
- What is wrongly preached about Gita?
- What is your remedy for seeing everyone as persons?
- What is your view of predominant Western civilization, Sir?
- What kind of test do we apply to phenomena to see what is the cause?
- What must he mean by "until such time as a profound change in the material conditions imposed on humanity by nature should permit in spiritual matters of a profound transformation?"
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What sort of people do you want to become students?
- What was that now (Krsna is kalpana... )?
- What was the motivating force behind your coming to the United States?
- What was the purpose of this festival here?
- What was this original sin?
- What would happen if an animal came in contact with a pure devotee?
- What you said is that maya is the urge within nature to desire the next step of evolution. He wants this, he wants that. Is that right?
- When a man becomes Krsna conscious, could you say that he has become like a god or godlike?
- When I die, my deeds will follow along with me. That is how I imagine it... That's personal karma?
- When I'm in the spiritual sky I'm going to be a servant of Balarama directly?
- When Krsna destroys demons, He does so without passion or without hatred?
- When Krsna doesn't come, then they are feeling separation?
- When raisin bread is in the oven, the raisins, they go further and further and further apart as the dough expands. So is this...?
- When the living entity comes to the material world, what is the state of the spiritual body? And then how does this spiritual body begin to develop?
- When the scientists say "species," they mean different types of bodies?
- When we use the word "God," it has cash value?
- When you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you? Along with Radhe?
- When you chant, do you have to think what you're saying? How can you do other things?
- When you come into this movement, you come in from on the outside, in the material world and so on. Do you, as some monks do in monasteries, do you give all your wealth, all your possessions, everything, as it were, to the movement?
- When you come to the living entities, then the individual soul is also there?
- When you said that all the cells in our body, each one is a living entity with a small body. Each one of those living entities covers itself with ignorance? So then myself, I organize all these smaller cells. I organize them into my big body?
- Whenever there is perception coming into the mind, there is a conflict?
- Where does it have to be (the mind while chanting)? It has to be fixed?
- Where is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Which Lord is that (Caitanya)?
- Which problems (will be solved by spiritual consciousness)? The problems that exist in Ireland and India?
- Who controls, if one of the members becomes grasping, wants things for himself?
- Who is Siva? Siva is he not a god?
- Why are you discussing them (we don't accept either Mao or Marx. We don't accept anyone)?
- Why do some people want to approach Krsna in hatred?
- Why does Krsna expanded Himself as maya?
- Why don't they think like that (that Kruschev, he's not in that position. Why does he not think that "Any moment I'll be kicked out." And what is that enforcement that kicks out?), Prabhupada?
- Why is there soul and Supersoul in the body when soul is part and parcel of Krsna?
- Why it is that when the body is dead that the fingernails continue to grow?
- Why or how could the personality or the individual jiva soul return to a lower life-form? That is to say, how could a greater experience regress to a lesser experience?
- Why should one teach the world to become united with Krsna?
- Why there is so..., there is duality in this world?
- Will it come by itself (the socio-economic solution), or will it come through you?
- Will, willing something is more like desiring something, isn't it?
- Would even accidents between two automobiles, that would not really be an accident?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would I have to give any financial support? So I wouldn't have to give any money at all?
- Would it be better if we gave up eating vegetables?
- Would it not be better to say that the living entity is born with certain tendencies, rather than innate ideas, which carry over from a previous life?... And that he needs only meet with some stimulus in order for these tendencies to be manifest?
- Would that (greatest happiness be experienced) by all the senses - mind, intelligence...?
- Would you say that all world events, all phenomenon of the world are expressions of this world reason unfolding itself? There is a gradual development
- Would you say that the Americans are generally less tolerant than Londoners to you or more tolerant?
- Would you say that we are in a state of peace or a state of war?
- Would you say, for instance, someone who is less intelligent or more intelligent than I am is in a different species?
- Would you use, say, cars if it were given you?
- Wouldn't you say that pretty much, that this philosophy is guiding a lot of the figures, the youth...?
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- You (the actual head of the Krsna movement) have no successor when you move into another dimension; that from the masses, from the disciples that you have throughout the world, someone will rise to take your place when you move to another world?
- You are at this particular time then the head in the world of this movement? Would that be correct?
- You are in fact the spiritual leader of these students. What does that mean?
- You are in general, then, trying to increase the interest in God. Is that correct?
- You are intent to serve the Lord Krsna in the same method for ever?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are the founder of this movement. You are the founder?
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not?
- You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?
- You can't read or talk to someone (while chanting)?
- You cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You don't think it's possible to stop willing?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have asked for some men...
- You have asked for some song translations...
- You have asked that somebody go there to Fiji to assist you...
- You have been to Communist Russia, and was there any church worship? The Eastern Orthodox church used to be the standard Russian religion. Is there any church worship in Russia today?
- You have ten swamis. And outside of swamis, what's the lower?
- You know what a papi I am. I don't think the Krsna consciousness is so easy...?
- You mean by intuition can we understand?
- You mean if a person commits a murder, a sinner?
- You mean like Bengalis are a different species than Gujaratis? Something like that?
- You mean our High Commissioner? Why can he not (help your mission)?
- You mean the spirit has got subtle form, though it may be exact form?
- You meant for Kali-yuga (your way is the way)? For the time that we live in right now?
- You said that if you have some material desire and you take to Krsna consciousness, you get double benefit, that the material desire is fulfilled and also you get Krsna consciousness. If you have that material desire, does that slow up your advancement?
- You say a true devotee of Krsna, such a person need not go after the demigods?
- You say if there were high forms of, say Brahma, in Brahma's time or millions of years ago, there were also other high animals besides men?
- You say it's artificial to forget anything?
- You tell me that Rama and some other higher creatures lived on this planet so many millions of years ago, so I can expect some day to find evidence of that?
- You told us about that Bharati Maharaja. What was that?
- You very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the spirit soul then goes into the brahma-jyotir, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahma-jyotir is composed of fallen souls?
- You went there (to Russia)? When was this?
- You went to Russia. What's your impression?
- You were also telling me that Krsna is in the atom as the jiva expansion. Not as a plenary expansion, but a part of a plenary expansion?
- You were sent to this country, to the United States of America. This is your territory. Is that correct?
- You've got to get a visa (to Russia). How do you... How can you get?
- You've heard of the Dalai Lama? Well, his position would be the same as yours. Wouldn't it? In religion?
- Your Divine Grace, will you kindly explain the significance of Ratha-yatra festival?
- Your knowledge says that millions of years ago there were higher forms of living entities on this planet?
- 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?