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- A brahmana priest would come (for the Vedic ceremonies)?
- A Deity of Krsna is carried on an elephant. At some of these big festivals there may be many non-Vaisnavas. Is it all right to show these people? Or should we only show Vaisnavas in this movie?
- A devotee becomes more surrendered because the influence of the modes, the three modes, becomes diminished, or is the influence just changed from ignorance and passion to goodness?
- A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it?
- A devotee is sometimes subject to hankering or lamentation. That is material though, isn't it?
- A devotee may have some demoniac qualities?
- A devotee must work for everybody's liberation?
- A devotee who is very faithful reaches this stage (devotees are neither in the goodness, passion, or ignorance. They are transcendental to all these qualities)?
- A devotee, he can be very poor, but is it okay if he's hankering after something for Krsna? Can a devotee think like that, "Why can't we get a nice house like these people for Krsna"? Is that all right?
- A devotee, how can he control his tongue?
- A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?
- A dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- A God-brother brought up that he heard that Srila Bhaktivinode was at one time an impersonalist. Was he ever?
- A lot of devotees, they never read the books, but they're doing the chanting. It will progress them without reading the books, because they're the most important?
- A lot of people were unable to come. Do you think it will be possible for you to come back to Durban from Johannesburg, after your Johannesburg stay?
- A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement?
- A 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 man shipwrecked on an island alone, he is not in any sense taking part in illicit love. It doesn't mean that he is free from all desire for illicit love. Is it the exterior rather than the interior (that decides)?
- A person (Krsna)? Person in the ordinary sense of the word, or...?
- A person might argue that the Indians weren't satisfied either; otherwise they wouldn't have taken up the English culture. So what's the difference?
- A person who is a Negro, Chinese, Indian, etc. are they different species of life making up the 400,000 species?
- 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?
- A pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere, that He's never out of your vision, and at the same time in Siksastaka prayers Lord Caitanya explains that "Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be twelve years or more." Could you explain this?
- A pure devotee realizes it as Krsna's energy, but as a neophyte, how do we enjoy material energy in this aspect, the fresh air and the morning walk?
- A statement was made some time ago in a conversation that somebody was looking for the Gita without the Rama. Could you explain what they might be meaning by that?
- A sudra, if he is working, he cannot take brahmana initiation, but he can take hari-nama, is that it?
- A thief commits theft repeatedly and is imprisoned repeatedly, and he has full knowledge of it - then what is the cause of his putting himself into miserable condition of prison life?
- A vipra means he has the twelve qualifications, and he also has the qualification of faith. I don't understand exactly what it means when Prahlada Maharaja says that I should be meditating on a follower who has no faith in God or God watching him
- About a hundred hoods, how could Krsna manage all of those hoods?
- About Guru dasa prabhu's point, when the heart transplant, the soul stays in the subtle body. Is that sound?
- About how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- About Lord Caitanya's civil disobedience. That is with the Kazi? His civil disobedience?
- About my birth?
- About religion, Swamiji. Religion is capable to stop death?
- About the apartment (these are one gentleman came to talk with me?)?
- About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?
- About the eternally conditioned souls and eternally liberated souls. I'd like to know what's the meaning of eternal in both those statements?
- About the shell which you are presently keeping in the temple
- Above the world or in the world (is there any hell)?
- Accepting that there is a eternal soul, how is the soul distinguished, then, from the body or from the machine since things like the senses, the mind, the intelligence, desire and hate, which people accept as the symptoms of the soul...
- According (What is the thesis of life?) to who?
- According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- According to Krsna consciousness philosophy, the first living being was Brahma, and in the Christian Bible it says Adam was the first man. So he wants to know if in Krsna consciousness scriptures there is any mention of Adam
- According to the Aquarian Gospel, Christ was in Jagannatha Puri?
- According to the Bhagavatam, the sun is also 93,000,000 miles away from the earth?
- According to the Vedic conception, is the king or the monarch above the law?
- According to their philosophy, if whether you practice or you don't practice you get the same result in the end, what's the use of doing anything? If at death everything merges back, what's the use of doing anything? Why not commit suicide?
- According to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate whether to eat meat, whether to eat the vegetables?
- According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible?
- According to Vedic theory, when did this yuga begin?
- According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana?
- Actually are devotees or how do they become demons? Are they devotees? Obviously Kaliya is... Just like Jaya and Vijaya, they were devotees. And due to some offense, then they became demons and they fought with Krsna to satisfy Krsna
- Actually, although the actual number of initiated devotees is still few, there is a growing, ever-growing number of sympathizers - So you make good supporter, then government is yours - Then it's all based on selling your books more and more?
- Actually, I was concerned this morning about inflation. The government and the newspapers, they say the biggest problem today is inflation. From our Krsna conscious standpoint, how can we cure this problem of inflation?
- Actually, you were asking if there were any examples of explosions happenning without material cause, and I was just wondering if you could explain how volcanoes explode
- Adhyaki. What's that?
- African? No other meaning to it? No other meaning?
- After all, it is not even one full day yet since you first took the medicine. How can we reject it so quickly?
- After death no death?
- After if one becomes purified, is it possible when he becomes transferred to the spiritual world that he can meet Rupa Gosvami and other great...?
- After King Pariksit, then it divided up (Bharata-varsa), that soon after?
- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- After taking birth again, how does one continue his spiritual progress?
- After taking sannyasa, though, He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) had sikha and Tulasi mala?
- After ten years? Then they (gurukulis) can do Deity worship?
- After that seven months of unconsciousness in the body, in the womb, what does that spirit soul experience from that time till it comes out?
- After the Battle of Kuruksetra there were many men killed. How were all the young people and the women protected after so many millions of men were killed?
- After the festival, Prabhupada, are you going to Vrndavana?
- After the scattering of these Aryans, they have come different place. How is it that we brought all the cultural heritage in north, east and western countries?
- After we die, what happens to our spirit?
- After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?
- After you, is it any decision has been made who will take over?
- Ah, but sir, what is lacking ("if you chant Rama, then gradually you will get attachment for Rama. Then how you can give it up?")?
- All activities done for sake of Krsna or God are the real...
- All classes of men should preach Krsna consciousness?
- All devotees are cultured?
- All new things are created out of necessity?
- All of the prasadam, or just sweets (order the foodstuff from confectioner)?
- All over the entire world we find the Indian community, practically speaking. Is this part of Lord Caitanya's plan to help spread this Vedic culture?
- All prophet is one?
- All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?
- All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?
- All the basic questions are asked, "What is life? What is this?" So many things
- All the devotees here are your disciples, Srila Prabhupada, eternal disciples, eternal servitors. But what if we have to take birth in the material world in the next life? How will we be able to render direct service unto you?
- All the living entities are completely satisfied?
- All the night or do you (sleep) at the day sometimes?
- All the other programs should be continued, and this program (varnasrama college) should be added?
- All the people who are hoarding those grains, that economic procedure to produce famine. What is the way to check them?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- All the symbols in Visnu's hand, are, all the symbols in Visnu's hand are weapons. How is the lotus a weapon?
- All the Vedic literatures? Why would they be written down?
- All the women, when Lord Caitanya was a baby, how did they feel about Him?
- All they're (the scientists) doing is creating the conditions for the jiva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
- All this is prepared by these young men?
- Almost everyone, except me perhaps, is concerned about death. But how about the smaller obstacles which nevertheless can make people very depressed, neurotic? How do you recognize and live with them or eliminate them?
- Also (this Oath of Allegiance should be signed by the presidents also)?
- Also based on karma, that one man is meant to have more than another of material things? Is that an argument against...?
- Also different planets (for the 400,000 different species of human life)?
- Also in Los Angeles they are buying press?
- Also our party is well equipped to do evening programs. So there will be lot of senior devotees, and advance party could arrange programs and do different big temples or different public meetings… You want that, Srila Prabhupada?
- Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now
- Also you mentioned Mullik family in Calcutta to be your grandparents or someone?
- Also, I have brought (indistinct) from the bazaar. In which subji should I put?
- Also, should this college have men and woman or just men (this is a union of various theological schools. So now in Berkeley we have this very nice building, and we can become a member of this Graduate Theological Union)?
- Although a devotee feels helpless in the hands of Krsna, still, in order to execute his duty, he must be very strong... How does he reconcile those two?
- Although we are conscious, our consciousness seems to be affected by different material arrangements... Is that simply the arrangement of the modes of nature?
- Although, Srila Prabhupada, it's somewhat easy for us to convince that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the summary study of all the Vedic literatures, how can we take that Bhagavad-gita is the summary study?
- Always a different color though (the sea). Always a little different isn't it?
- Am I conscious of... My body's being constantly changing?
- Am I keeping you too long now?
- Am I my brother's keeper? Am I, am I responsible for my brother's actions?
- Am I separate from matter?
- Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- America (formerly the Aryans never touched these places. Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here)?
- America is living on advertisement. Right or wrong? I have been studying American, I mean, psychology
- Americans, they are not allowed to see Jagannatha temple. What Prabhu Bhaktivedanta is doing? What he's doing for them?
- 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 the trees also, there are different grades of trees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Among two of the incarnations, there is Kapila and Buddha. And Kapila is practically, finally, the classical Sankhya-ist atheist. How could it be?
- An extra burden on the mind (when there is bunch of hair, we feel it is an extra burden)?... Makes it, weighs heavily on the mind?... So that's the reason why? It makes the mind lighter?
- And a devotee is acting, but he's not getting any mental impression? From his activities?
- And after the (atomic) war what will be the result?
- And after they (people who) join it (Krsna consciousness)...?
- And after you left the college, were you employed?
- And ah, this inside, it grows because of Krsna does it (anything you take, it grows from the Supreme)?
- And all Krsna's soldiers were killed?
- And also that man, that Sastri, the Ministry of Education? That man Mr. Sastri, in the Ministry of Education, the Ratri of Sanskrit-samsad, he bought fifty copies?
- And also this Ujjvala-nilamani?
- And also with that (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden) in the center? Island?
- 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 anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?
- And are these married and...?
- And bhakti... (what is meant by bhakti-yoga?)?
- And Bon Maharaja also has told he is a graduate. What is he?
- 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 by origin you are from?
- And can one not directly surrender to Krsna through his own feelings and heart and...?
- And Chapkhanna cannot be very not good. Not very good. Your printing is wonderful. From where... Where is that place? From Japan?
- 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 did you stay in the city (Moscow), or did...?
- And do they go out and make other disciples?
- And do you have a, what I may call a training in contemplation, in which you get...?
- And during the recess what should they (Gurukula students) do?
- And for design of Gaura-Nitai and Radha-Krsna, we should just use the same design or we should make better?
- And green (eucalyptus twigs). And as thick as the finger?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And he (anybody) cannot change that (given lifespan)?
- And He (Bob Dylan) came to see Srila Prabhupada?
- And He (God) comes in bodily form?
- And He (Lord Krsna) used to come here for herding the cows?
- And he (Syamasundara) is coming tomorrow?
- And he (this kaviraja) says very soon you'll be able to have the strength to actually do parikrama. So why are we throwing everything out the window, that we must go tomorrow? I cannot understand
- And health card (shall I take it)?
- And how about in the south? Do you have many...?
- And how do we get guru?
- And how does Krsna control a devotee?
- And how does yoga...?
- And how is Krsna different from us?
- And how long are you going to stay there (Kashi), sir?
- And how long do you think this takes to (become spiritualized)... for a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And how to surrender to God, how to do this?
- And I think, sir, even Sankaracarya has not meant that we must be short of that. He was also worshiping, was he not? He was worshiping Para-brahman
- And if everybody became Krsna conscious?
- And if he (Blitz) was Krsna before, how is it he's disagreeing with what the Bhagavad-gita says?
- And if it's finished nicely, are we prepared to give them money for that (Vrndavana gate)?
- And if the person rejects that love, does He (God) still love him?
- And if women were subordinate to men, it would solve all of our problems?
- And in Calcutta (where is your center)?
- And in Goloka Vrndavana, are there still varieties? Are there still varieties in Vrndavana?
- And in India where is your asrama or something like that?
- And in the way of hospitals (to serve the poor people in the way of welfare)?
- And inside these people doing this work (modern science), is it Krsna? Or what is it makes them do the work?
- And is everybody able to take the nine processes?
- And it (Krsna Book) is just two volumes or...?
- And it (the moon) does not go all around other planets?
- And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?
- And it's the same spiritual body that we had before we came into the material world?
- And Jiva Gosvami and Rupa, they drank from this well?
- And John Temple was here?
- And karma-yoga then (so you can perform bhakti-yoga by fighting, by cooking, by going to the office, everything, if that purpose is for Krsna. That is bhakti-yoga. Is it clear)?
- And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?
- And lastly, a very trivial question. The uniform, the haircut, why is that?
- And lot of people (in Bombay, Juhu Beach) can see you. And they bow down to you?
- And Maharaja, are they (the doctors) able to increase the life by a single moment?
- And material is, nothing but the transformation of maya, is it not?
- And Mayavadis, they do not attain that impersonal realization?
- 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 now you will remain here in India for some time?
- And now, how...? Do they go through college (your children)?
- And so that group of eighteen secretaries will choose another leader (he has appointed from all the disciples a group of secretaries. Each one is in charge of a different sector of the world... Presently there is eighteen)?
- And space (time is eternal. Reality. And therefore we take time as another feature of God)?
- And steady intelligence, that is acquired by hearing? We can keep our intelligence steady by hearing?
- And that (why you elect? Depend on God) comes through lack of spiritual knowledge, Swamiji?
- And that is also practical (the absolute value is God. That is division. Satyam param dhimahi. That is our objective)?
- And that machine (of nature) also makes distinction, doesn't it?
- And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?
- And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?
- And that works (voluntarily accepting death so that immediately he can return back to the spiritual world)?
- And that's permitted to the grhasthas (they can simply ask help for the bare necessities of life)?
- And that's why the Krsna movement is separate (the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter)… Appears to be separated, that's the way you would put it. Well, is it separated?
- And the actual importance of the Hare Krsna chant, is that in saying the name?... Or is it a... continuous flow?
- And the interpretation is by you yourself?
- And the part where you, which you said to preach Krsna's... to attain the satisfaction of..., but what you have already said, that one should first know himself first, basic...?
- And the pure devotee, does he see the Paramatma feature or does he see...?
- And the purport (of the meaing of verse SB 10.14.58)?
- And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused?
- And the swastika (where does it have it's place in Krsna consciousness?)?
- And then go back to the States?
- And then he (Gopal) arranged programs, speaking programs?
- And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere?
- And then what is the program? Your Divine Grace is coming back to Delhi? From Vrndavana after three weeks?
- And then you went directly to Pennsylvania? By bus?
- And then, then, then I want to make you talk. What will I do?
- And then, when he is physically fit, then he will do the needful. But first of all, by their prayers to Jagannatha, they should make him physically fit. Is that right, Srila Prabhupada?
- And there are particular scriptural verses that speak about this (sraddha, faith)?
- And these asexual people...?
- And they (the Gosvamis) used to meet here daily?
- And they should give us some facilities (a good person is one who is God conscious and lives according to the instruction of God. So there is instruction of God, we are presenting this all over the world)?
- And they told me also that this morning you had some brahminical initiation to the... Gayatri... How many people?
- And this (Gayatri) mantra. What's the purpose?
- And this (primary readings) is all right to use (for the New Vrndavana Gurukula)?
- And this is your first visit to this (Paris) center?
- And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
- And we as human beings, are we part of that (God in three aspects) too?
- And we let the parents know how the children is progressing? Do we have responsibility to parents, to let them know, inform them about the progress of children?
- And what about before they joined Krsna consciousness?
- And what about desires?
- And what about France (you have some disciples)? Is it...
- And what about with people (we are maintaining animals, giving them food, giving them security of life in all our farms the animals are very free)?
- And what are you doing now, sort of a meditation?
- And what do you mean by surrendering, sir?
- And what else would one have to give up (illicit sex and)?
- And what form does that direction take (the direction from Krsna)?
- And what if the brahmana starts to rule the world in their own interest?
- And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows?
- And what is the figure (of people joining) likely to be? Five a week, ten a week?
- And what is the fourth?
- And what is the gain?
- And what is the upasana you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jnana?
- And what is your program, sir?
- And what 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 what of special foods and special drink?
- And what was his (Prakasananda Sarasvati's) role again in the town? What was he... He was a Vedantist?
- And what were you in India before that? Did you have a religious background?
- And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities?
- And what will it profit us if we get to know about Him (Krsna)?
- And when did you go to the United States?
- And when I have been doing some other saguna puja, another is seen always... Suppose I am doing... Sankara pure puja then I am seeing er, Devi.... Like that it is happening. Secondly, so how to go to nirguna state? That is my difficulty
- And when we understand that… (our movement begins when one understands that he is soul or something other than this body)?
- And when you have these asramas and all, and how to serve the poor people in the way of welfare?
- And when you translate the texts that you use, they come from Caitanya?
- And where did it (the Krsna consciousness movement) first start, which country?
- And where did you sleep? Was there a bed (I was paying seventy-two dollars a month)?
- And who decides what is first class?
- And who is that (everyone is puffed up with his body. Nobody considers even that "When I say this finger, 'my finger, my head, my leg...'") "my"?... Who is that, saying it, "my"?
- And who sees to that ("I want to see, as the chairman of the BBT, that fifty percent is spent on printing and fifty percent is for constructing temples")? The GBC?
- And why should they object if we decide to surrender to one authority?
- And you are sure this is the truth?
- And you had not bad days all your life. Or you were quarreling? I am sorry to intrude
- And you had one house near (the Los Angeles black quarter temple)?
- And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)?
- And you think it's more because of your age, I mean you've got used to a colder climate than India, have you?
- And 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)?
- And you think they (gurukulis) can be taught typing, for instance? A skill like typing and how to use typewriter?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- And you'll continue to take the kaviraja's medicines?
- And you're training them to lead?
- And your actions are perfect actions (we are giving knowledge from Bhagavad-gita. This is perfect knowledge. You take it; you become perfect)?
- And your Godbrother Swami Bon?
- And your health was better?
- And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta?
- And your question about Bhisma deva, after he left this planet...
- And you’ve got another copy of this (book)?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Animals?
- Anitya is temporary, Prabhupada?
- Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...?
- Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...?
- Another question that raised itself, you'll see in the paper in fact, was the little mention in one of the books that I was reading, not from Krsna consciousness movement, just to get a bit of background, on Lord Caitanya, and it seems to have been...
- Another thing is they know they are taking body again and again. They are taking the body again and again after birth. Why they are committing again and again sins and which mode of nature...?
- Another thing that's stated in the Bible, in the Christians' philosophy, they say that God created man out of His own image. It's stated in the Bible. So therefore man has a form, why not God? Because it's stated there in the Bible
- Anxiety for one's self is maya?
- Anxious to learn from the spiritual master?
- Any activities in Krsna consciousness... Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Any difficulties?
- Any elaboration of what you refer to as vanaprastha college?
- Any English literature, American literature, English literature (should be taught)?
- Any Indian history (should be taught)?
- Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
- Any of the sciences at all (should be taught)?
- Any other type of concentration (meditation) you do?
- Any way how to make any progress, or have you any representation, for instance, in Russia?
- Any work you do, do it very nicely. That is expert. Don't do it haphazardly. To your best talent, to your best capacity, try to finish it very nicely, whatever it may be. You are entrusted with some work. Do it nicely. That is expert
- Anybody who comes to the farm has to agree to follow the four regulative principles? These people?
- Anything else in the second scene, fourth act (of a play about Lord Caitanya)?
- Anything else you would like tonight?
- Anything other than this (in Bhagavad-gita it is said, etat jnanam: This is knowledge, and all other things, they are not knowledge) is ignorance?
- Apart from (indistinct) quality of Lord Rama, are there a few other things which could be included while you are worshiping or devoting or meditating on...?
- Apart from Catholicity of the American church, what can be the other reasons of their indifference towards your positive ideas?
- Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being?
- Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know
- Are all religions following? There are so many sects
- Are all spiritual bodies the same? I mean, is your spiritual body exactly the same as...
- Are Arjuna and Kunti Devi in Krishna Loka?
- Are blood transfusions permissible, Swami?
- Are changes visible in Hinduism in its doctrinal content, mode of individual and collective worship as a result of Hinduism's contact with the West?
- Are disciplic successions from Brahma and from Arjuna different?
- Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?
- Are great sages put under yogamaya or maya? Also are all the eternally liberated souls under yogamaya?
- Are human beings the only creations that can have Krsna consciousness?
- Are many people joining you?
- Are men superior in your movement?... Are men regarded as superior to women?
- Are more souls falling all the time?
- Are not all the poor, and miserable, and the weak, God? Why not worship the living God first?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are people using the wrong things to live too sophisticated?
- Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?
- Are Siddha-lokas like angels, Prabhupada?
- Are Siddha-svarupananda Gosvami and Tusta-krsna Maharaja and their followers more advanced in their understanding of Krsna and the spiritual master than the other devotees in ISKCON?
- Are spirit souls alike, or are they different?
- Are sudras supposed to take sannyasa also?
- Are the (book) prices in here?
- Are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life?... Like the dog. Is he happy to be a dog?
- Are the devotees in the mode of goodness?
- Are the impersonalists better than the gross materialists?
- Are the lower human species responsible for sinful activities?
- Are the majority of citizens sudras? In a varnasrama society?
- Are the moon's phases due to the planet Rahu, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are the people (at Srinivasa's house) mainly young people like Himself (Lord Caitanya)?
- Are the people in this age lusty in the modes of ignorance or are they lusty in all three modes?
- Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
- Are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them?
- Are the teachings themself spiritual?
- Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?
- Are there any books written about Krsna consciousness here available in Seattle or any other organizations besides the temple?
- Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?
- Are there any formal rules that they agree to accept at this stage? Over and above the earlier...?
- Are there any local problems still surviving?
- Are there any moral guidelines to Krsna consciousness?
- Are there any murti, having (so I was thinking to take some Deities with me to worship wherever I go)?
- Are there any of the characters listed up here among the brahmanas who complained (to the magistrate)?
- Are there any other Deities besides Kaliya-Krsna you want us to make for Fiji?
- Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings are staying? Why the information is not given about that? About the other earthly planets also (why not? In Bhagavata there is all information)?
- Are there any other prophecies in the Bhavisya Maha-Purana or in any other scriptures telling more accurately Jesus Christ's birthday?
- Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?
- Are there any other, any other nice incidences between this time and when Lord Caitanya got married?
- Are there any prohibitions as to what type of work? For example, would a follower of yours work in a war industry?
- Are there cases of..., which relapse? Persons who begin to withdraw from drugs...?
- Are there Christian also, or Muslim also joining this (movement)?
- Are there different Kailasa-dhamas like is there any Kailasa-dhama in a particular universe also?
- Are there different paths that one can learn to love God?
- Are there different prajapatis for the different species?
- Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are there fundamental differences between, or is it simply a difference in approach between your awareness and interpretations and, for example, those of the people who are involved with Zen?
- Are there individuals in these bodies?
- Are there lines of disciplic succession on planets all over the universe or only on these middle planets, like Earth?
- Are there many decisions that people asked you to make, about whether the movement should do this, or should do that, or do they bother you of that now, or are you just busy writing and translating?
- Are there many Indian-born disciples abroad, or are they mainly Western disciples?
- Are there many living entities within the body?
- Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?
- Are there many songs in there?
- Are there many universes, or only one?
- Are there not certain characteristics that are particularly male and certain characteristics that are particularly female?
- Are there not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?
- Are there not things about which in the mortal life one can have no clear idea?
- Are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Krsna consciousness path?
- Are there other ways besides Krsna consciousness to reach that same goal? Or is that the only goal?
- Are there some people who do not find Krsna attractive?
- Are there some qualifications of grhasthas, that grhasthas, they're required, like they are required to support the brahmanas, like that?
- Are these (Srimad-Bhagavatam) going to be translated into Swedish too?
- Are these actually the tangible signs by which one can judge what is real religion?
- Are these astrological charts very much applicable for a devotee, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are these bad conditions or ailments not part and parcel of God?
- Are these living entities (within my body) constant? They don't change any?
- Are these people consciously cheating or raised in cheating so that they don't know the difference (in this material world, the more you are expert cheater, you are considered very able man. All over the world, so many expert cheaters are going on)?
- Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?
- Are they ("no sinful life." No more illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxicants) prerequisites to accepting your knowledge?
- Are they (our books) sold mainly in the Western countries?
- Are they (the stars) self-luminating like the moon?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are they able to increase the life by a single moment?
- Are they brahmanas (devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement)? Not by birth?
- Are they equal and the same, or are they just equal (those who are actually learned, they do not see the outward covering, either human being or animal)?
- Are they going to start on Mayapur building this year?
- Are they less fallen (the jivas in brahmajyoti) because they are doing some service by lighting it up?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are things bounded by space in the spiritual world?
- Are those rooms you live in, were they formerly inhabited by the Gosvamis, Jiva or Rupa Gosvami, those rooms you have now?
- Are we all part of Krsna and at the time of death if we think of Krsna, like we become what? Like meshed in with Krsna?
- Are we all part of Krsna?
- Are we closer to this practicality when we sleep (when you engage your physical senses in the service of the Lord, then the physical quality of the senses will be diminished or gone, your spiritual sense activities will begin. This is practical)?
- Are we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are we duty-bound to maintain our body?
- Are we even one millionth of what Krsna was?
- Are we giving the knowledge (of material science)?
- Are we going to have any kirtana tonight? What is the program
- Are we more conditioned than the people in the Satya-yuga?
- Are we not all one?
- Are we not observing this eclipse rituals, that, during the eclipse we stop aratis and all of this... And after the eclipse is over, take bath and then do the arati?
- Are we not training all classes of men? In Krsna consciousness...?
- Are we not, potentially, not to understand Bhagavad-gita, then (at least you do not understand. That's all)?
- Are we supposed to chant twenty-four hours?
- Are we to believe in that by chanting the holy name of Krsna that we can attain a higher conscious level on this earth and attain self-realization without going through all the rigors of the old Vedas, scriptures?
- Are we to take Krsna conscious dreams seriously or some illusion?
- Are you a Bhagavan?
- Are you a brahmana? By birth you're a brahmana, right?
- Are you acquainted with Swami Ranganathanandaji? You have met him?
- Are you against medical help? I mean, you want just to let Krsna do His way and not let the doctors help at all?
- Are you all becoming first-class men? You want to become first-class men?
- Are you also obliged to help animals, to help other human beings?
- Are you at all concerned about the, what seems to be an increasing number of gurus and swamis throughout the world?
- Are you attempting to form a college?
- Are you comfortable, Srila Prabhupada?… Little?… What is that "my," Srila Prabhupada?… Massage? Where, Srila Prabhupada? On your leg?? On your leg?… Both sides?… Here, Srila Prabhupada. Hm?…
- Are you ever going to stop traveling?
- Are you familiar with the writings of Descartes?
- Are you feeling any pain, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you feeling the cold in Melbourne your grace?
- Are you getting any opposition from the church?
- Are you God?
- Are you going to give some more instruction (you just show how to Deity worship, how you are doing that, and they will learn. Yes. She is doing that very nice. So you can, all of you, all girls, you take, her. See doing, how she is doing)?
- Are you going to have any kirtana also tonight?
- Are you going tomorrow?... Tomorrow at what time?
- Are you happy always in reflection?
- Are you happy with the way the Krsna movement is progressing throughout the world and particularly throughout Australia?
- Are you happy with the way the movement has really spread?
- Are you in this world?
- Are you interested to know how we produce anti-matter in our laboratories from...?
- Are you knowing people take diksa from many gurus?
- Are you leaving the decision up to me?
- Are you liking the massage, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you married, sir? You say you have no connection with your family? Why? To do this, did you have to divorce? When did you renounce your family? How are they managing without you? Do you ever see them at all?
- Are you perfect master?
- Are you planning to choose a successor?
- Are you planning to go there, to Manipur?
- Are you prepared to die?
- Are you referring to self-realization when you mentioned that Krsna consciousness? Are you referring to self-realization, cosmic consciousness?
- Are you retiring now?
- Are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time?
- Are you saying that our men should have more than one wife?
- Are you saying that there are people on the moon?
- Are you saying that they (men in our society) do more work?
- 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 speaking of ant-eater? They eat ants?
- Are you speaking specifically about all animal killing, Your Excellency? Or, how do you speak of animal killing? In other words, vegetarian living, is that what you're speaking of?
- Are you suggesting 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?
- Are you suggesting then that what is taken to be liberty is actually enslavement? And what is assumed to be the pursuit of happiness is nothing more than a rat race in which you try to make the best of what you can?
- Are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- Are you surprised to see the popularity of your teachings in the last few years?
- Are you talking about reincarnation, life after death?
- Are you there referring to references from the scriptures (that is explained very elaborately in the Bhagavad-gita: na jayate na mriyate va kadacin na hanyate hanyamane sarire)?
- Are you thinking of formal education now?
- Are you training a successor?
- Are you training people to become teachers in this school, this process of education?
- Are you trying to say that human beings are created for sacrifice of God from the beginning to the end
- Are you welcome in Japan? People are interested, eh?
- Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Krsna or as the teacher of His teachings?
- Are you, sir, writing off all scientists because they've failed to understand the spiritual dimension in life?
- Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
- Are your followers encouraged to visit with their... (all family members, children, husband, wife, they are present there. How do you say it is against family? Wrong criticism)?
- Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- Aren't there coverings of the 8 elements?
- 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?
- Aren't they allowed to boil water in India? In boiling the water do you kill any little insects that are in the water?
- Aren't we all the sons of God?
- Aren't we the images of God?
- Aren't you in a sense eating another soul too if you're eating vegetables? Not only if you're eating meat?
- Arithmetic should be taught (in Gurukula)?
- Arjuna had to fight in the war, didn't he? In the Bhagavad-gita, he still had to... But it didn't matter him killing if it was Krsna's responsibility?
- Arjuna uvaca. These boys understand this, all of them?
- Arjuna was praised as Gudakesa?
- Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?
- As (a man is supposed to be educated when he sees every woman as mother)?
- As a conclusive question, she asks what can we do to help the whole movement to continue to expand?
- As a life member, I am suffering because of this reason that there is no construction of a temple, therefore I cannot develop spiritually. If I have got attraction for a particular temple, why I should be denied?
- As a mother loves the child in pure love, does that help her to also find the pure love in the spiritual world?
- 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 Arjuna he (Nara-narayana) acts as an ordinary jiva?
- As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
- 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 for the question about menstrual cycle...
- As for your question about celibacy...
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- As for your question regarding the children, what can I do? I am not a teacher. You should ask Satsvarupa on all of these matters, he is the GBC, so everything small and big should be referred to Satsvarupa
- As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As many as in the West, or more (many people in India are becoming spiritually successful)?
- As soon as the modes of nature are no longer working on the spirit soul, then he experiences that he's no longer changing his body?
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
- As the age of Kali progresses, will those people just eventually be diminished and wiped out because they already live so short?
- As the Kali-yuga advances, the human beings will eat their children too. Srila Prabhupada?
- As the Kali-yuga progresses the people are getting smaller. Does this mean that Krsna and His associates were much taller in stature than we are now?
- As the man's concentration through which progresses, how, in what forms he goes on seeing Him (you cannot see unlimited. That is His mercy, that He presents Himself before you in three dimension because you have no eyes to see Him)?
- As the spirit soul is leaving the body, do you become older?
- As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes, atheist and theist, is it not advisable for all religions to come together, and what positive steps can be taken in this direction?
- 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?
- As You have explained in "Two Essays", that as body is covered by shirt and coat, similarly, soul is covered by mind, intelligence, and false ego - if it is so, then who are mind, intelligence and false ego? Who controls them?
- As you, yourself have said: What is talking? What is lies?
- As Your Divine Grace had said, that due to the sankirtana movement an auspicious atmosphere is being created all over the world. So is it not possible that at least for the time being things will improve?
- As your students, we are trying to hear in that way. Now when we go and preach and we tell, if we tell a man, "First of all, you surrender before you'll be able to understand," then what, what question is there of preaching?
- Asato ma sama grad? You said, Prabhupada?
- Assuming for example that Hare Krsna grew to gigantic proportions as Christianity has grown, would not they (the fringe areas, who professed to be the followers of the Hare Krsna) be the difficulty as the Christian is today?
- Astakala-lila. What is that exactly? Eightfold lila or some...?
- At Bheda Dvaraka, that is the residential palace of Lord Krsna. And seven ranis of Lord Krsna. They show each building, their whole building. So what was that?
- At night you're supposed to take tripolin, no?
- At noontime you seemed to be getting a little taste. Did you have a little?
- At one of the programs, somebody raised the question that we cited that Lord Siva is worshiping Krsna, that he is a Vaisnava. So that person replied that Lord Rama also worshiped Siva. So he wanted to know the explanation
- At one time, you had instructed that all the children should attend the main class. They say that some of the very small children have trouble to keep their attention...
- At Radha-Damodara, did you cook yourself?
- At rebirth do we all return as a male if the previous existence was a male, or do we change
- At that time (end of the day of Brahma. End of fourteen Manus) is the earth destroyed, or is it simply covered by water?
- At that time He acted like a magician, that God. How can He reduce it into writing?
- At that time Vrndavana was existing as a village or mostly open area?
- At that time were there only insects existing?
- At the beginning one, the word, and this word was God and this word was with God. So what is this word?
- At the end of Manu's day, when there is flood (the whole thing would be filled up with water. So water course is very heavy. So it can turn even big, big rocks, mountains rolling)?
- At the end of the Krsna Book, when Krsna and Arjuna visit Lord Visnu and Visnu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Krsna appeared through Ksirodakasayi Visnu?
- At the moment of pregnancy (as soon as one girl is pregnant, she should be separated)? From the moment of pregnancy one and a half years?
- At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?
- At the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species... They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?
- At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, there is a subtle reality that the subtle body enters into?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
- At this time should we try to introduce it (varnasrama) in our centers or not?
- At Vrndavana you studied at a later time, then, did you?
- At what age did you realize God?
- At what age may children be recommended for initiation?
- At what age should they (gurukulis) be taught to cook prasadam?
- At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- At what stage could one say that a person is Krsna conscious? There must be a beginning stage...
- At what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?
- Aurobindo? He always had some French people with him?
- Avaroha process?
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- Babar was also a minister of his (Akbar)?
- Back to the temple we'll be performing aratik to Your Divine Grace. And there was not very much time. I was wondering whether during the time we're performing aratik to you, whether it's proper to be giving out cookies to the children?
- Bacteriology, study of germs. So Srila Prabhupada, the reason one person gets a disease from a germ and another person doesn't get a disease, it is karma?
- Bada? That means?
- Baka is a duck?
- Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, Krsna came (Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days)?
- 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?
- Basically, what have you to offer that is different than the Christian ethos or the Jewish ethos?
- Because for me, God is merely a word. How can you explain God with a word?
- Because he (Arjuna in the beginning denied to fight, but he agreed to fight) was satisfied by his faith in Krsna?
- Because he (Hiranyakasipu) was standing still (his body was practically finished by the earthworm, what is called, moths and ants)?
- Because he has become devotee of a follower of Laksmi-Narayana, he may come to associate with Laksmi-Narayana?
- Because he was the spiritual master, would he be living in a very opulent house?
- Because I inquired with him that whether it is not something to do with CIA, wherefrom your money comes?
- Because of impiety the sun and the moon, people would not be able to see. So there would be no vegetation. And without vegetation, even animals cannot live. So eventually they would take to eating their own children. Is this what takes place?
- Because scientists cannot enter into the actual activity on the moon planet, technically, according to Bhagavata, they have not reached there?
- 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?
- Because there's no sacrifice, because people aren't performing sacrifices now, is it more difficult to live off the land? It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?
- Because they are materialists, so whether they live or die does not affect anything so much. But because you are a great transcendentalist, your presence means that so many thousands of people can be saved. How are you feeling, Srila Prabhupada?
- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Because they promise something they don't deliver (the so-called religion, so-called economic development, so-called sense gratification, so-called liberation, they're all cheating)?
- Because we do not know what sin is, wouldn't whatever the authority said be purely an idea to us?
- Because we get lots of that dahi. You drink it cool with a little sugar in it. I think it's good for digestion, dahi. How are you feeling today?
- Because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction
- Beef bouillion (I saw that she (Sally) was feeding her child, one boy, meat powder)?
- Before I go, Your Grace, I am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- Before I leave, can they just stand here and have darsana and then we go? Can they come in?... My sister and my brother-in-law.
- Before 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 Krsna, who was?
- Before one has success, the kundalini must be opened. What do you think about this?
- Before the birth of Lord Krsna, was God existing?
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Before you went to America, in India, before 1965, were people coming at all, Indian people, to learn anything? Were they interested in any way?
- Being a brahmana by birth, does it mean anything?
- Being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- Being capable of action, is that a good definition of substance?
- Being in these modes determines your karma, is that correct?
- Being influenced by different degrees of desires, would that influence each person's faith?
- Besides the chanting Hare Krsna and arousing this Krsna consciousness in the people, what else are you doing to establish the way...?
- Better to keep the temple open with the Deities there or can the...?
- Beyond exclusive centers, how far beyond that can it go in the United States?
- Bhagavad-gita did it take place? There was a battlefield of Kuruksetra?
- Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul?
- Bhagavad-gita teaches us that one should treat a piece of gold and a piece of stone alike. Is it practically considered?
- Bhagavad-gita's Battle of Kuruksetra fought, in which month?
- Bhagavad-gita...is it the proper one?
- Bhagavatam class in the morning?
- Bhakti is really a process of decontaminating the mind?
- Bhakti-caitanya Swami is the fit driver for your vehicles, Srila Prabhupada. Is that all right? I know he would want to come. Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bhakti-caru is just waiting to go and get the kaviraja in the front. Do you want me to bring him?
- Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu was written here, in this place?
- Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhu, Bhaktisiddhanta your spiritual master. How you spent the days, your young age, with Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust (and different name, you can purchase)?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust, or Charitable Trust? Which do you prefer, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bharadvaja is here. He can sing any song you'd like to hear especially this morning. ... Is there some special request?
- Bigger than Los Angeles (one very large church to see on Monday)?
- 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)?
- Billiards (What is called? That table?)?
- Biology (should be taught)?
- Birds have language? Animals have their language?
- Black is beautiful?
- Blind leaders and blind followers (another blind leader, so-called leader, he is blind himself. He does not know how to lead people. And the followers, followers are also blind. So what will be the result?)?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- Bol, Srila Prabhupada?… Soda water?
- Both (spirit and matter) come simultaneously?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- Both were the sons of Kasyapa... Kasyapa, gods and demons. By their behavior one sect became demons, no?
- Boy, was he skinny in those days! This is Brahmananda? And this is Kirtanananda Swami sitting down?
- Boy. That's Visnu within their (birds) heart?
- Brahman realization for the devotee in the beginning is just that he realizes his constitutional position as servant of Krsna?
- Brahmana can teach how to fight?
- Brahmana initiation should be strict (actually chanting sixteen rounds, following the regulative principles)... Those are the important...?
- Brahmana is not to accept any employment?
- Brahmananda Swami's proposals, top portion, we'll just add?
- Brain of who (the brain of Einstein)?
- Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
- Brainwash, accha. How you entered in their hearts?
- Brainwashing (to define brainwashing)?
- Brazil (that Ravana's brother, Mahiravana, was in...)?
- Buddha taught very similar things to what the Gita taught also, didn't he? Are there agreeances there, agreement in certain places what Buddha taught and what the Gita teaches?
- Buddha's name is also considered hari-nama?
- But a renunciation of something?
- But a Vaisnava would always offer his respects to a sannyasi. Is that not true?
- But are you asking people, if they accept your teachings, to retreat from the world, like for instance, the people who are surrounding us now?
- But are you feeling better, Swamiji?
- But are you not giving credit ("If you want little credit by experimenting, hydrogen, oxygen mixed together, then how much credit should be given who has created the vast Atlantic Ocean, not only one, millions! Why don't you give credit?")?
- But aren't they also purified spiritually by doing this (distribute these books)?
- But aren't we impure and He is pure?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But as I understood it, you were encouraging death as a form of liberation. Isn't that my understanding? That that was the ideal?
- But because this is the age of Kali, even if the Krsna consciousness movement spreads and even captures governments, how can we stop individual people from doing this (sinful life)?
- But by that time you had some kind of... organization going?
- But can all the masses of people become devotees?
- But can God be defined? We haven't got a definition of God. I challenge you... You cannot. Intellectually, you cannot analyse things
- But can God protect? Even Jesus Christ, he was killed
- But can they not come at the function?... He says some friends are coming at some time, so can you meet them? We can just go back and if you want to walk or something?
- But can you prove that ("This (Krsna consciousness movement) is the only association for understanding Krsna throughout the whole world"?
- But can't we bring chanting of japa into it? Mantra Yoga (regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vrndavana and Bombay)
- But can't you have people doing good for the sake of goodness?
- But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality (in future, everyone may fall and everyone may become elevated. But we have to take his present situation, what he is at present)?
- But did you hold any meetings or anything?
- But do the results of an idea have to be predictable?
- But do they (men living in other planets) not come here sometimes to visit us or we cannot go there?
- But do you accept the validity of other religion?
- 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 do You mean that up till now your excellency were giving the question of transmigration, field of science, and now you are also taking that subject of God in this sphere of science?
- But do you think it's unusual, the fact that it's an Eastern, mysterious Eastern religion has an appeal to American young people?
- But do you think most of the Hare Krsna members will vote in the election in November?
- But do you think that really God love human beings and...?
- But do you think they (the dinosaurs) were on this planet?
- But do you think they (the Koran or the Bible or any other religious) are successful?
- But does he (the pure devotee) focus his mind upon the two-armed...?
- But does He not say that "Whatever or whoever does it, it comes to Me" (the Mayavadi philosophers, they say that "We can chant anyone's name, either I chant of any demigod's name or any name")?
- But does it depend on knowledge? I mean, the final judgement that you make (then you must know what is distinction between Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan, if you are serious student)?
- But does that light (coming from the snakes which have got jewel on the head) also keep them healthy (the people in those seven other planets where the sunshine does not go)?
- But does this not imply - one ten-thousandth the size (the size of the soul) - does that not imply measurement, that it can be measured?
- But doesn't bondage give the incentive to live (good bondage, but it is bondage, after all. If you are prisoner, first-class prisoner or third-class prisoner, you are prisoner)?
- But doesn't it (faith) come first because of trust?
- But doesn't Krsna know if I will do it (misuse my independence)?
- But don't we do that also (Caitanya Mahaprabhu was interested only on the spiritual platform. He had no idea of material side. He rejected material side)?
- But don't you look upon him as a religious man? Gandhi, religious man?
- But encouraging (to give money to the temple) is not recommended?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But even accepting their idea that things are produced from chemical reactions, who is creating the chemical reactions?
- But for Brahmananda, he may remain sannyasi? Brahmananda?
- But for happiness, or ananda, isn't bhakti essential, love, or ananda?
- But for his actions other than just following the four regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds. He does so many other things during the day. Where does he derive his authority if he's not, let's say, living in the temple?
- But for our plan to be put into action on big scale, big people must accept, who, who are presently, who presently have power to control the state... So is this to say that we must... replace them?
- But for what purpose and to what end? What's the final end (ultimate is that you are spirit soul, you are being materially engrossed, you are creating different situations and you are being transferred to different bodies. That is different situations)?
- But from '65-'66 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- But God can communicate differently?
- But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
- But have they (devotees) met God?
- But he (Gandhi) did not accept any post, you know that? At the same time...,
- But he does it on your behalf (he's guru. He's guru)?
- But he has to be yogi at that time, isn't it?
- But how about the people living next door or the people...(everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra)?
- But how can so many cheat?… Together they all cheat, they all say they went to the moon. One thousand scientists, all together in one room? They all say, "We agree, this, they went to the moon, here's the..."
- But how can that (real process is devotion) be scientifically presented? How can we accept that scientifically?
- But how can they (scientists) prove the existence of the soul through experiment?
- But how can we understand all this science and technology just by understanding Krsna, just by one book?
- But how do they (disciples) know they're pleasing you, Srila Prabhupada?
- But how do we reconcile the fact that our doctors tell us we should eat meat because of the protein?
- But how do you know it (egoism is there in ass also)?
- But how do you know one authority from the other?... But what I mean is you use the word authority, saying why would he translate that into English without authority? Now, what is the authority and who has the authority?
- 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 how does this differ from the Hebrew scriptures? Hebrews also say the same thing, you know, that you have fallen down from the heaven and go back...?
- But how has the cockroach been formed?
- But how many of them (people in India) practice it (Krsna consciousness)?
- But how problems of India... like poverty, and this lack of balance between rich and poor. How these problems can be solved?
- But how so many things are working under the laws...?
- But how that will affect the atmosphere and Krsna consciousness of the temple (that hall is made, constructed for making some money, then the money will not come if we don't rent out to the cinema actors, actresses)? It's not that the theater...
- But how they have forgotten this is the greatest, I mean, mystery to me. Because the sadhus voluntarily, I mean, embrace poverty?
- But how to convince them (the Ramanuja and the Madhva)?
- But how to engage these people who are desirous who have desire of serving Krsna in Bombay? If you are talking about a farm and other things
- But how to make the people realize importance of Bhagavad-gita?
- But how we can get them to come, to take prasadam?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But how would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- But how would you know, anyway? How are you able to tell, anyway? I mean, for any of your disciples or us or anybody that goes to any spiritual master, how are we to tell... True master. How are we to tell one from the other?
- But how you can say he (the pope) is not the best Christian? He is the head of all the Christians?
- But I am God, right? I am God. You are God too
- But I have never heard anything of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, and I wondered if you would tell me a little bit about him, if you would?
- But I mean they do, these men who are space travelers, they say "We did land on the moon." Now are they lying?
- But I mean, how about in your view (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- But I'm going on the argument that his medicine is doing some good. So I don't want to see it stopped. So you have no objection if we consult the other kaviraja, do you?
- But I'm trying to ask does he (the Presidential candidate) have to be Krsna conscious, involvement, in order to be God conscious?
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- But if he's (indistinct), then where is he going to get the money for his food?
- But if I think I'm happy, isn't that enough?
- But if it's (independence) not good for me, if I will misuse it, why would Krsna give it to me anyway?
- But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?
- But if that energy (God's energy) is perfect, how can it violate?
- But if the standard is happiness, and the hog is happy and the devotee is happy, then what is the distinction?
- But if there's anything that you feel that you want to ask me or...?
- But if they (the faithless) take some prasadam, that will help them?
- But if they (the scientists) accept, do we have program ("be Krsna conscious and solve all the problems." This is our point)?
- But if they're committing so many sinful activities, murdering their father and like this, then how will they get to that stage of being able to approach Krsna consciousness?
- But if this energy (the spiritual energy, everything is ever-existing) was never created, then what is the need for a creator?
- But if we don't make the research, then how will we ever solve these problems?
- But if we tell that that there is no law of gravity, they will say that why is it that if you throw up a ball then it comes down?
- But if we tried to do that, wouldn't it be sort of artificial (they go in the village for begging little food, that's all. Just like you can live in this forest. And what you will eat? Two capati. So you can go and beg. That's all)?
- But if what you say is true, why don't more people know about it? There are so many teachers. There are spiritual teachers and...?
- But if you're actually followers of God, then why are you breaking up the families? Shouldn't you have love for everyone?
- But in all humility, Srila Prabhupada, supposing that they would succeed in actually creating the living cell artificially, what would we say?
- But in India there are so many people. They're not disciples; they're not initiated by you. So are they in the same category (a brahmana woman who came to touch the feet of Lord Caitanya; immediately He went and jumped in the Ganges)?
- But in our Krsna consciousness philosophy the ideas are not to be re-evaluated. Aren't they absolute, the philosophy of Krsna consciousness?
- But in the people in general, how can we engage them also in Krsna consciousness? How can we provide them a means to use their leisure time to perfect their lives?
- But is each cell an individual living entity?
- But is good bondage good?
- But is it (that worship made by trees and other lower animals) voluntary or involuntary?
- But is it not animal food?
- But is it not correct, Srila Prabhupada, that Paramatma is the (...) is behind?
- But is it possible to also learn spiritual truths from this..., from representatives on the subtle plane?
- But is it possible to lead the life of a grhastha and at the same time think of that (janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvatah)?
- But is it possible to understand Krsna directly?
- But is it the guru? Does the guru give him that sense (when one is actually in service, then he comes to.... "So I have enjoyed. Now, no I don't want. Now I want Krsna." That is voluntary)?
- But is meditation in itself..., would that be sufficient to transcend these lower...?
- But is that correct (in any position, if you worship Krsna, then it is all right)?
- But is that true (training should be given from childhood)?
- 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 is there a great time period between the different divisions of the creation?
- But is there any special, specific person who wants to go to India immediately?... Who would like to have visa?
- But is there anything wrong with accepting the fact that you are mortal, you die, you rot and you become nothing?
- But is there something else that you may know or that you may feel that you may be able to say that would assist us in a reduction less than the ideal?
- But is this force (nature is forcing) irrational and blind? This is what he thinks
- But isn't inflation possible even with coins? Even if you have gold coins, isn't inflation still possible?
- But isn't it better to give up all ego altogether?
- But isn't it by force anyway (Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver, "You love me, otherwise I shall kill you.")? If we don't love Krsna, we suffer
- But isn't the bhajana that you do for concentration?
- But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world?
- 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 (prapatti or surrender) is not yoga. It is different from yoga?
- But it is possible to man without the helping of God to realize his perfection?
- But it requires some emanation from a cockroach body in order to create another cockroach body. So how can a cockroach body be created from vapors without contact of another cockroach?
- But it's not by Krsna's sex desire. What is the meaning of the words "Krsna's sex desire"? Krsna's satisfaction?
- But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that?
- But it's the same with Arjuna, wasn't it (clear word is there, "Thou shalt not kill." And why they're maintaining so many slaughterhouses?)?
- But just because you have two different kinds of energies, why do you have to differentiate them (you cannot say that, that the temperature of the sun and the temperature of the sunshine is the same)?
- But just like when we want to try and attract someone to Krsna consciousness now, the main theme is to try to get them to come and stay at the temple. But will that continue in the future?
- But Krsna means... Who is He? Is He a personal or impersonal?
- But Krsna will always be there if we want to go back?
- But Krsna's disappearance, about having a maya body that He left behind. A maya body. Is that anything to do with Mayavadī?
- But Mahabharata describes all the continents even way before that, doesn't it (...the Vikings first discovered America, they said... From Scandanavia came, before Columbus)?
- But maybe he's taken (he's not sannyasi, he is householder), I don't know, I thought he had a danda, one of those staffs. I saw the little temple in the garden, Krsna and Radha, where they stay in bed. It's like a bed like this. You know the one?
- But most people are materialistically minded, aren't they? There's very few that aren't
- But mostly they are in America. Also in that number in Japan (in one week, the books, total of books, was seven lakhs books in one week)?
- But nobody off the street would go into the temple, would they (our business is to sell this book so that people may take advantage of it…. we have got fifty books like that… We are giving enough knowledge)?
- But nonviolence is not well in every case?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- 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 now I'm wondering how this should be managed, who should take charge of this project (this one gentleman has already offered one house in Bangkok. He's put at our disposal, in the middle of the city. A very beautiful house)?
- But now they are again becoming a mouse, the Americans? Now they are losing the favor of God?
- But now we should not teach them any exercise at all?
- But on the spiritual platform, everybody (on the material platform, nobody is prasannatma)?
- But on this one time should we bathe directly?
- But one must come to that point of being serious to recognize the problems of life? Before one can understand your books, the karmi must become serious to understand that he is in misery and that he must get out?
- But one should pray, is that so?
- But people are objecting that: If we cannot get divorced, then we are forced to live with each other even if we hate each other
- But people in general you say are walking on the dead platform in live bodies (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- But people know when they're doing evil, don't they?
- 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 Prabhupada, I'm still not quite clear. In other words, we'd teach, for example, like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam (on the varnasrama college)?
- But Prabhupada, there are still such things as dead matter?
- But Sagar Island, isn't that in the Bay?
- But she (woman) doesn't have any structure at all until marriage?
- But somebody asks, "How do I know a bird is not more highly advanced than a human being?"
- But sometimes the impersonalists, they say, Prabhupada, that this Krsna consciousness is just the beginning platform, that after Krsna consciousness then one can come to impersonal realization
- But Srila Prabhupada, the living entities, the jivatma within the..., and the Paramatma within, why the living entities suffering even the Paramatma is directing the living entity within?
- But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?
- But suppose the government is atheistic (the leaders cannot control nature, so why don't they accept a supreme controller? That is the defect in society)?
- But surely there is a practical point of view also. There is nothing to eat. What will happen?
- But that (Bhagavad-gita as it is) must be also a translation, mustn't it? Whoever puts it into English
- But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada?
- But that subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- But that would be the same if I could see a picture of you or I could see a...?
- But the body is important to the self isn't it?
- But the bones of those people that they've found, where are their bodies now? Have they gone to some other...?
- But the extinct species are not all present at this particular moment on this planet, are they?
- But the innocent souls, they're not surrendered to Krsna?
- But the intelligence is awarded from... Intelligence, according to the individual, is awarded according to pious activities?
- But the personality is changed (what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one)?
- But the question comes up that you have given a vow against fire at the time of marriage that the husband will look after the wife and the family. Then how does that fit in when you leave the family all of a sudden?
- But the Sanskrit wasn't give here?
- But the sheep has no sense of herd. What poor sheep can do?
- But the world will never all become Krsna conscious, will they? There will always be different scriptures
- But then God in His essence is Atman, Brahman, not Krsna. Is that what you're saying?
- But then is that man that's hammering the bricks, isn't he going to quit hammering the bricks, too?
- But then it is very bitter or... Because medicine will be a little bad tasting. Very much bitter, no, Srila Prabhupada?
- But then there is an argument, if we were originally in the spiritual world, why don't we remember that and try to go back to the spiritual world?
- But then what is the action for the... Practical action, practical... (when there is no more people following their sva-dharma)
- 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 then who created the creator?
- But then why do you fear this death of the physical body (the material body is the cause of pains and pleasure. So if you don't get the material body, if you remain in your spiritual body, that is real enjoyment)?
- But then, in the event that some present GBC member leaves, either leaves (how many GBC's are there already? So add him. GBC is not to be changed)?
- But there are in India other community of Visnu...?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- But there are some very intelligent men who are not spiritually enlightened, perhaps even men who understand that they are not, or the body is not all, the body is dead and there is something else. Why aren't these men spiritually aware?
- But there is no, no atheism, literate, some atheism, atheism, atheism, religious indifference, materialists exist in the towns, in the towns (in India)...?
- But there must be different stages that you go through, is that not correct?… Can you tell me from your own experience some of these different stages you've been through
- But there's no doubt it would be a big help if we could give Ph.D.s. Wouldn't it establish? Give some prestige?
- But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...?
- But these religions are just material. These Hindu, Christian, Muslim, they're following these things because that is simply their destiny? They don't know how to please God, so that's simply part of their happiness and distress?
- But they have choice within maya. Isn't that a fact?... Choice what to do in the material world, many different fields. They will say that they can do this or that
- But they may say "Where did God come from?"
- But they permit this kind of thing (Russian young boys are as good as Americans. By artificial means they have been checked. The Russian government is not good at all. Suppression. Simply suppression)?
- But they say, "Where did Krsna come from?"
- But they will be on the altar or they will be in front (and on the opening day the Deities will be on the altar or they will be in front when they're bathed? When the bathing is taking place in Bombay for the opening...)?
- But they'll actually manage the government (one day our men will be leaders of government? - Yes. Leaders means as soon as you make the public in your favor, you are leader)?
- But this is Krsna's inferior energy, right (my body is also Krsna's energy. I am also Krsna's energy. I am always with Krsna. Simply I have forgotten it)?
- 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 those devotees will eventually go there. Those kind of devotees like devotees of Sita-Rama, they will also attain the spiritual sky in their various positions?
- But to a layman what would you preach?
- But to become learned, you go to so-called learned people, and you go to so-called learned people. How do you know that those so-called learned are...?
- But to get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- But to whom did God give the seed (material nature is the mother, and God is the father)?
- But trained by others or trained by themselves (a certain man can be trained up as first-class man)?
- But ultimately you're basing all your faith factually, aren't you, on your reasoning?
- But wasn't that school (the gurukula school in Texas) moved to India?
- But we are so insignificant. Why should God waste His time talking with us?
- But we must all perform yajna?
- But we were all cheaters before we came to you, Srila Prabhupada. So how is it that we're not accepting a cheater? How is it that we cheaters have accepted some knowledge from you?
- But what about Lord Caitanya? He is a little rare
- But what about people that are never exposed to Krsna consciousness?
- But what about the cheating going on, big cheating, international cheating about the space flights?
- But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
- But what are you going to do about your security? Can I talk to this about this, you know?
- But what do the hogs think (you rascal, you do not know what is pleasure. Just like the hog. He's also enjoying pleasure, eating stool. So your pleasure is like that. You eat stool and enjoy life. That is your standard of pleasure)?
- But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- But what do you see happening to (the future of) the actual world? Do you see any... You know, with Christianity and other religions? The world has... a beginning and an end
- But what happens if you do die before you finish (I have taken up my translation work, Bhagavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation)?
- But what I'm basically asking is what are these ksatriyas going to fight with?
- But what if they asked you, "What is this all about?" (they came... Naturally they came and joined me and began to dance, that's all. That is the beginning)
- But what if they change later on in their life (you believe in free choice. So suppose the children grow up and they want to go to college. But you have not sent them to a public school. Therefore they are not eligible for going to college)?
- But what if you are reincarnated into other planets? Is it less painful, or is it the same procedure?
- But what is our inner things? How we know it? In our classical music, actually Lord Krsna is the main figure in all... In even Muslim classical music, they also pray Lord Krsna
- But what is that sun?
- But what is the breaking of the pot (you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with)?
- But what is the meaning of akarma?
- But what is the position now? Is it dying out or increasing?
- But what is the stage at which it is atma gets merged with Paramatma? If atma would get merged with Paramatma then...?
- But what is the use of having big strong body if now they're using airplanes and tanks and guns?
- But what of our efforts to conquer cancer and tuberculosis (no, we do not say that we are making progress like you. We are trying to make spiritual progress. We are servant of God. We never say that we are very big men)?
- But what was your experience of that saksaska?
- But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty... Then those karmas don't affect...?
- But when the body is finally finished, aren't the senses also finished?
- But where can I stay in the night?
- But whether Prabhupada will eat some? Prabhupada, you will try to eat the Gujarati ruti and dal?
- But who is to say... what is a perfect experience?
- But who sees all these things (mayavadi says zero, just like the sky. The sky is there, but it is zero. You cannot see the planet)? That is what...
- But who wants to make eggs (write in the paper that, Prabhupada was speaking like that, a challenge to the scientist: Is there any scientist who can make an egg which is put in the incubator and gradually it comes to become)?
- But who was responsible for bringing this body into existence? ... The owner?
- But why are we in the prison house?
- But why do they not follow if He is perfect leader?
- But why do you blame us for not surrendering when we see that even Krsna's devotees can't surrender to Him? They come to us and ask us for money for these books. Why don't they give them away?
- But why existence of all these things (I have already said that we have got our imperfect senses. We cannot understand. But we have to understand from a person who has got perfect knowledge)?
- But why give names to Him? Why give names to that God?
- But why is there no disease here? Why is there no symptoms (they argue that this Vedic philosophy is coming from India, and in India there is so much disease and so many problems, but here, where we have our science, there is no disease)?
- But why only the name Krsna?
- But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance?
- But why should we be callous to the sufferings of others?
- But why the samudra changes (phenomena is changeable, always changing. Just like this samudra - sometimes here, sometimes there)? We go into there, into deep depth of that...
- But why would God want to keep the living entities in darkness?
- But why, why 1966 (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)? I mean what was there, what was there, special about the Sixties?
- But within each atom the living entity is present?
- But without pain how can you experience pleasure?
- But would that mean that a person who is a pure devotee doesn't have to die?
- But would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- But you are me and I am you. We are both God. Right?
- But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?
- But you can come to God consciousness through a variety of paths?
- But you can improve it (this world)?
- But you don't find that the fact that your monks are wearing robes or shaving their heads is a difficulty in the West, where not many people...?
- But you don't require recognition of any court, do you?
- But you know Aldridge?
- But you led a rather normal life - before this you were married. You were a businessman?
- But you mentioned in Miami... This is the reason I'm bringing it up. In Miami we mentioned that we would be discussing at Mayapur. Something, you know, should be done so that...?
- But you might want to come back to the U.S.?
- But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
- But you, aren't you translating your books still?... Isn't that a great joy, a great joy to you?
- But young men don't tend to be wise, do they (so at the early age, up to twenty-five, he's trained up. If he can, he can continue as brahmacari. He directly can take sannyasa)?
- But your teaching, doesn't it offer a way of meeting these problems (no rain, no food, and government taxes)?
- But, Guru Maharaja, if one has some original faith in Jesus Christ or Muhammad, would he...? They think they're sons of God or a messenger of God
- But, Guru Maharaja, one has to do her duty as advised?
- But, of course, there are conflicting educations, aren't there (people should be educated that "If you do not perform this yajna, you will suffer")?
- But, Prabhupada, the point was, can there be more than one article (in the BTG) by yourself? Or only one..?
- But, sir, if we are drop of the same ocean, why should we be impure at all?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, don't you think that the medicine is working, is having some good effect?
- But, Srila Prabhupada, is this valid to conclude that spirit, spiritual world, or life is very complex?
- By a reintroduction, reintroducing Krsna consciousness, the tide can be turned in age of Kali?
- By argument you can convince a skeptic of the possibility of the existence of God, but the reality of Godhead can only be really realized... I mean has to be experienced or realized, does it not?
- By brain what do you mean?
- By details (in the beginning don't talk of these details) do you mean the rules and regulations?
- By elaborate you mean effective, is that? You mean effective by elaborate? I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate (well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate)?
- By His grace, Krsna will show Himself to you?
- By our desires we are pulled?
- By pleasing Lord, one does not please one's own ego also to some extent?
- By preaching Krsna consciousness would you condemn other people's beliefs?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
- By the frogs (kumbhaka; this art is known by the frogs also)?
- By the mercy of Supersoul, he (the pure devotee) can be present in many places at once?
- By this (there are degrees of light), you mean that those who adopt the teachings coming from the Koran or from the Bible is lesser light than from the Gita?
- By understanding this mantra, Hare Krsna, if you do not know any scriptures, you do not know srutis, mantras, anything, then has any effect at all?
- By who (their (the Marwari's) food is first class, there is no doubt. Yes... It is certified by Sir P. C. Raya), Srila Prabhupada?
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- Cadillac (first-class car must go to India)?
- Caitanya was incarnation of Krsna? But was a disciple of someone who was not incarnation?
- Call the sannyasis (to discuss about our preaching work)?
- Can a father impose on a child, something which he does not believe himself?
- 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 living entity ever lose his existence?
- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can a material calculation prove a spiritual fact?
- 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 a person become a brahmana?
- Can a person become Krsna conscious only by renouncing, or can he do both, continue his life and also become Krsna conscious?
- Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
- Can a scientist teach the science of combining acid and alkaline and this kind of science with Krsna as its object?
- Can a self exist without a body?
- Can a true devotee come face-to-face with God through the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Christ?
- Can a woman become sannyasi?
- Can a woman reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna?
- Can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- Can an animal be in the mode of goodness?
- Can anybody create anything with this mystic power, any idol of God or any idol of devotee or anything, and then turn them to..., just a good mission to turn them to God?
- Can anyone be said to be innocent in this world?
- Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?
- Can crops be grown anywhere in the world?
- Can drugs sometimes be used to help us for spiritual realization?
- Can hatha-yoga hinder or help Krsna consciousness?
- Can he (this yogi who attains Vaikuntha) later go on from Vaikuntha to Goloka? Can that happen also?
- Can he find the truth on his level, because he hasn't arrived at your level?
- Can he hear? We say "Rama, Rama." Can he hear that?
- Can I ask a question? Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- Can I ask is this a very special welcome for you, or is this a performance that you go through each day?
- Can I ask one more question, Swamiji?… Some people are more inclined to worship Rama, saying Hare Rama, Hare Rama instead of Hare Rama, Hare Krsna, both?
- Can I ask one question? You were mentioning that you wanted to start local industries, casting Deities?
- Can I ask you where you come from?
- Can I get a copy (from the recorded tape) from you?
- Can I put a question? Why do you always say, "From a perfect person"?
- Can I say about my concept of God and philosophy?
- Can I see God by becoming a Christian?
- Can I serve the devotees, Srila Prabhupada?
- Can I show you a copy (letterhead from France)?
- Can ice cream purchased from the market be offered?
- Can intelligence be created in an unintelligent person?
- Can it (aratiks) be three, can it be simple?
- Can it be understand that if a person, for instance, some Americans are very wealthy, that they... (pious family means automatically he gets chance to become Krsna conscious)?
- Can Krsna be called by any other name?
- Can Krsna give us the ability to someday remember every word that you are saying to us now?
- Can one assume that matter is a kind of energy?
- Can one be a householder, I mean, with his normal worldly life, and at the same time be a...?
- Can one be egoistic and be spiritual at the same time, I mean, be proud of himself, not as a body, but proud of his state of the spirit?
- Can one be forgetful of Krsna eternally?
- Can one be in spiritual life if they're not worshiping the Deity?
- Can one chant when working?
- Can one develop determination gradually?
- Can one perceive by their own senses what is that (the mercy of Lord Caitanya)...?
- Can one say om instead of "Krsna" and gain the same benefit?
- Can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead that presents itself to man and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- Can one say that necessity for eating, sleeping, mating and defending is animal life? The necessity for God is advanced life?
- Can one say that soul and life are identical?
- Can one say what qualities the atman has?
- Can only a few pure devotees deliver others
- Can our religion bring something more than other religions?
- Can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
- Can someone achieve self-realization without a guru or does he need a guru?
- Can someone outside, who does not follow these practices (give up certain habits such as one should not smoke and things), can he achieve perfection?
- Can Swamiji please explain how is it that Sanjaya is to Dhrtarastra and how it came to pass that Vyasadeva wrote the Bhagavad-gita?
- Can the Bhagavad-gita be sung?
- Can the desire to go back to Godhead be sense gratification?
- Can the human consciousness transcend time?
- Can the human heart feel compassion?... The human heart cannot take to compassion?
- Can the Janata explosion be regarded as a division of Krsna consciousness or similar consciousness?
- Can the living entity perceive the situation at this time, when he's being transferred from one body to another?
- Can the name of God be pronounced, uttered?
- Can the older boys be trained in a particular kind of devotional service? For example, press work?
- Can the profit of the manufacture of something which is manufactured purely for profit be turned to good?
- Can the scientists control that, the type of genes, the kinds of body, the child will get?
- Can the seed extract anything without the spirit soul being present there?
- Can the Vedas be taken symbolically as well as literally?
- Can there be an existence without a faith, sir?
- Can there be opposition in the spirit world? Conflict in the spirit world?
- Can these things be understood theoretically, Srila Prabhupada, or is realization required?
- Can they (ksatriyas) still make spiritual advancement?
- Can they be in opposition (spirit in themselves, they are not opposition)?
- Can they do Bengali work (simply they have to find a good press who can do the work. Press, Usha Press is nice)?
- Can this mantra also be chanted afterwards, in addition, also on the beads?
- Can we assume that energy itself, all three types of energy, are related to life?
- Can we become Krsna consciousness right now?
- Can we call these trees (with no fruits and no flowers) demonic?
- Can we decide what we want to be in our next life?
- Can we drink date rasa? We are allowed to drink date rasa?
- Can we eat cheese?
- Can we find it (truth) only in the scriptures, in following all the regulative principles we're following day after day, or can we find also that truth by following our own path, by keeping our own freedom to do whatever we like?
- Can we find the one in ourselves?
- Can we get one picture of the group?
- Can we get some cymbals?
- Can we hear a little bit from the Sankhya philosophy? Sankhya philosophy of Lord Kapiladeva? The creative elements
- Can we just have the chanting without instructions?
- Can we not also say that self and not self must separate, either in death involuntarily, or through destiny?
- Can we overcome that danger? We can try to overcome that danger (as soon as we give up this temple worship method, regulative principles, then we become, in the dress of so-called, we become victim of maya)
- Can we purchase the house (take to farming for supporting yourself) for our own staying?
- Can we say that the living entity is present within the atom by consciousness?
- Can we say that the living entity is there, and that he is the one that makes the molecules and the atoms come together to form a body just like the scientists give explanation? No? We can't?
- 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 we solve political problems with this religious basis?
- Can we stop mental speculation immediately
- Can we take you some time all around Vrndavana? ... What about to Govardhana?
- Can we touch your feet, Swamiji?
- Can we withdraw our independence, can we request Krsna to force us to surrender to Him, due to our conditioning?
- Can we, can you say a bit more of that, just for the tape? You were saying that religion is obeying the supreme controller
- Can you be completely perfect and follow the orders perfectly?
- Can you be interested directly in politics?
- Can you become aware of this without Krsna consciousness (when one understands that this big machine (the body) is useless without the pilot (the soul))?
- Can you briefly tell us what the difference, how your approach is different from the approaches of the other gurus who have come? You seen to have rather a unique place in...
- Can you ever lose your identity? Can I ever forget myself?
- Can you explain about taking a spiritual body after death?
- Can you explain about vaibhava and prabhava?
- Can you explain exactly what speculation means?
- Can you explain more about the Stita-dhi Muni, the undisturbed sage? In the purport you explain how he is neither attached nor detached. What is that, that he is neither one or the other?
- Can you explain subordination again?
- Can you explain the reason why yogis don't eat meat?
- Can you explain the ways of papa-nirvanam?
- Can you explain to me just a bit more, if the soul is undying, does everybody's soul go to be with God when they die? Do you have a belief in a heaven or a hell?
- Can you explain to me then what difference it makes being a member of the Hare Krsna movement
- Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?
- Can you explain to me, then, perhaps finally, just some of the stages you go through in this spiritual life. Sort of, from somebody being a new devotee to Hare Krsna, what are the mental or the spiritual stages you go through?
- Can you explain to us what time is?
- Can you explain what I read in one of your books, that the sound spoken either in chanting a mantra or when talking about God or Krsna is somehow transcendental sound, though it's spoken with the same voice?
- Can you explain why Lord Krsna encourages Arjuna to fight his own blood?
- Can you explain, Prabhupada, once again what action in action and inaction in action?
- Can you give any explanation about the spiritual, around the earth. If they are all luminous?
- Can you give us the number how many temples are there in foreign countries?
- Can you have perfect knowledge?
- Can you make a child Krsna conscious if you yourself don't believe in Krsna consciousness?
- Can you make them (the people) reasonable? If they're unreasonable, is there some way to make them reasonable?
- Can you not say that this knowledge is an atma-vidya, that we are trying to come to the knowledge of the atman (this is our main business, that is, jivasya tattva-jijnasa, to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- Can you please describe the dress in which you are clothed?
- Can you please explain that it is our only way out for salvation?
- Can you point out any time in history when there existed such a perfect system (we are always hankering after happiness. So we do not like suffering. So if there is no suffering, that is perfect system)?
- Can you really expect to change the whole society?
- Can you remember some of your first impressions of North American society when you came here? Did you feel it was ripe for Krsna consciousness at that time?
- Can you repeat why you said you have been successful where others have not?
- Can you satisfy equally as brahmacari or grhastha or sannyasi? Can you satisfy equally in whatever path you have chosen?
- Can you say exactly the point where Christians are not obedient. Do you see any points here by your visit to the Christian countries and you like to say for us? It is a help for us to say exactly the point
- Can you say something about the training for a brahmana (in the varnasrama college)?
- 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...?
- Can you say what is God?
- Can you see an age that you could live until? Could you predict how long you might live?
- Can you show me something about that visva-svarupa?
- Can you take inside? Is it allowed (I wanted both of you to take various detailed photographs of that Capitol)?
- Can you take little bit of ice cream or cold custard?
- Can you tell me a little bit about the future direction of the movement, how you plan to expand?
- Can you tell me again what intelligence is?
- Can you tell me how many of those (who joins) actually stay?
- Can you tell me how the Hare Krsna movement came to be founded?
- Can you tell me how you feel about this welcome that you got? Are you used to anything a little bit more serene?
- Can you tell me how you feel led, you know, how you are guided to do what you do?
- Can you tell me how your teaching relates to the Bible, to the Christian teaching?
- Can you tell me some more about chanting Hare Krsna?
- Can you tell me something about Caitanya's initiation in Vaisnava faith? When He was initiated?
- Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like?
- Can you tell me the chant? Will you recite the chant to me? And then tell me why it's used so often by the followers?... The Krishna chant
- Can you tell me what is Krsna consciousness?
- Can you tell me what this painting up here is?
- Can you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life, why do we exist in the first place?
- Can you tell me what you believe, what is the philosophy of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Can you tell me who is Lord Krsna?
- Can you tell me...? There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- Can you tell us a little bit about Krsna consciousness, what it does mean?
- Can you tell us a little bit about the plans you have for your project in India
- Can you tell us the wonderful feeling of enlightenment to enter this spirit? We don't know how to exactly enter this spirit and travel as you travel
- Can you tell us what the program is for Hindu priests or Hindu holy man, swami?
- Can't people be spiritual without dressing in this fashion and dancing in the street?
- Can't we all be combined in a single person rather than dividing them into four, at least in the present age?
- Cannot be done, then (take the chemicals and combine them together in a test tube so that a soul can enter into)?
- Catur-varnyam maya srstam: is it applicable to India alone, or the whole world?
- Cause passion will come you, when at times of anger gets temporarily the better of you, what is the guidance which can bring you back to normality?
- Certain sections, or just say all of these (the lawyer can present that "My client's defense statement is here in these books." "Defense statement." Don't say, "the books." "Defense statements are there")?
- Channa?
- Chanting His names, surrendering to Him, feeling love for Him, doing service. Is that not or would that not take one person to...?
- Chanting in the temple increases the?
- Chanting is devotional service?
- Chanting is mental concentration, is it?
- Chanting, following the orders of the spiritual master... Is that considered offenseless chanting?
- China?
- Christ consciousness and Krsna consciousness, the words are so similar. Please combine the words, explain how the words came to us
- Christ says that he's the Almighty. What is your opinion?
- Christ's general teaching was that they should not worry for anything because God is supplying to everyone, even the birds and beasts. So why should they (the preachers) worry? Just go out and preach. That was his basic teaching to his twelve apostles
- Christian priests, they asked me that "Why Christianity is dwindling? What we have done?" So I told them, "What you have not done?"
- Christian..."Watchtower" (the idea is that marriage is not sacred. They think marriage is a legalized prostitution. They think like that, but marriage is not that. Even that Christian paper, what is that, "Watch...?"?
- Christianity has to change their customs or the Christianity, Roman Catholic or Protestant, must return to the source?
- Cobbler (woman can take care of the milk products or spining (spinning). And sudras can be engaged for working as weaver, as a blacksmith, a goldsmith. There are so many things)?
- Coming back to this question of the western type of civilization, do you feel that the success of the movement in the western society is an indication of the need being felt by the western man that has been lacking in spiritual ideologies?
- Communists win, that will not stop our preaching?
- Completely (the sinful departments, illicit sex, meat-eating, this will be closed)?
- Concerning your questions about tantric sastras
- Conchshell. What is this for, Swamiji?
- Consciousness is also subject to body's changes, change of body?
- Consciousness movement in the West-like you said, the Western people are fed up with materialism. Is it that they are fed up only with materialism or with...?
- Contact labor? Labor contact (now we want to finish this. If you have got any good contact on labor?)?
- Costumes were good (play was very nice)?
- 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 a woman be a temple president?
- Could he (a merchant in India) spend that (a bunch of Indian notes printed in China) money?
- Could I ask please, if prana is the life force, isn't it? Is it the prana is the life force, isn't it?
- Could I ask you another question? You've been hitting on some of the Ten Commandments tonight like "Thou shall not kill." Now, if you believe the Ten Commandments like that, it also says in there that you shouldn't worship idols, bow down to idols
- Could I ask you if you might sign... Put your name in... Autograph?
- Could I have been in my last life?
- Could I permitted to take a Bengali class one hour daily, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust room for foreign and also Indian boys?
- Could it (chanting Hare Krsna) be called the true yoga of our time?
- Could it be that there may be different interpretations (if you do not accept the direction of the author, then what right you have got to say that you have understood Bhagavad-gita)?
- Could 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?
- Could that go on and on forever, his not desiring (as soon as the living entity desires to unite with the Supreme Lord, he can become. And so long he does not desire, he'll have to continue this material existence. So that depends on him)?
- Could the president of the Coca-Cola company find the way to Krsna, to serve Krsna?
- Could they (liberated souls) ever misuse it (their independence) ?
- Could we just talk for a minute or two so that we could get all this set up? If you'd like, just to tell me. You're going to India tomorrow, is that correct?
- Could we say that anyone who is engaged in glorifying the body is actually engaged in idol worship?
- Could we use alchemy to make gold for Krishna's altar?
- Could you accept me as your student until eternity?
- Could you describe Krsna's pastimes as cowboy whenever He goes out in the morning with the cowherds boys?
- Could you describe your temple to me?
- Could you discuss the various levels on the way to bliss consciousness? What happens to the body and the mind as one approaches bliss consciousness?
- Could you elaborate a little bit on the point of debate of Krsna manifesting everything, and therefore He's attractive?
- Could you estimate how many people in India have found true spirituality through Indian religion?
- Could you explain (illicit sex, do you think it is...? Not only outside marriage. Even in marriage, you cannot have sex as you like. You must have sex according to the regulative principle or religious principle)?
- 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 explain further, purification of the senses? You said that you had to purify your senses before you can see God
- Could you explain that (this women's liberation is just a trick by the men)?
- Could you explain what you meant by knowledge? What? Spiritual knowledge or...?
- Could you give me a brief rundown on their...? Are they devotee, they're devotees... (Srinivasa and Haridasa. Haridasa character is there?)
- Could you give them by name, the five kinds of liberation? In English?
- Could you go over each of the three functions you've been mentioning-eating, sleeping and sex - and tell me what specifically, what rules or hints that you would give people who are seeking spiritual enlightenment to aid in their lives in these ways
- Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well? Are the names important? Could you just count - one, two, three, four - and that would work just as well?
- Could you please tell me a little bit about your life and how you knew that you were the spiritual master for the Krsna consciousness movement?
- 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?
- Could you repeat that, Srila Prabhupada? I want to record it
- Could you say that prayer again of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "You chant Hare Krsna..."? I didn't understand that
- Could you speak to us on giving thanks to the Lord?
- Could you tell about Lord Caitanya asking where is Krsna and falling in the water?
- Could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did...?
- Could you tell me about the Hare Krsna mantra because it's so important to Krsna consciousness
- Could you tell me how much you do derive from the airport solicitations in the United States?
- Could you tell me how old you are?
- Could you tell me something about your altar?
- Could you tell me the names of these special foods? How do you know what Krsna eats and drinks, please?
- Could you tell me why at times it is dangerous to meditate on concentration on the astral world?
- Could you tell people how you are dressed today, what's the significance of your clothes?
- Could you tell us a little about your spiritual master's life?
- Could you tell us about something about Lord Caitanya's production of Vaisnava drama? Are there any of the plays that you know are still extant?
- Could you think of yourself? And when you think, you are thinking of Krsna?
- Couldn't we say that we as men are determined to freedom, determined to indeterminism, so to say, determined to take some responsibility?
- Couldn't you get all the necessity you require from grains?
- Cow dung chip is called kandi?
- Created a new species, Prabhupada?
- Crime, Why and How to Solve It?
- Cyavana and his followers (two heavenly physicians, asvini-kumaras made him very nice beautiful-looking young man by taking him to a certain lake, and they dipped down and all of them became fresh young men, beautiful, very beautiful)?
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- Daily how many times you'll utter the names of Lord Krsna?
- Death is just like sleep. When we're sleeping we feel.... So why, then, we should be afraid of death?
- Defamation of our religious cult. Because we're recognized by scholars as being bona fide. It says here, "Ungodly face of Krsna cult." How is that ungodly?
- Defense (so material things, viṣaya, simply increasing the method of eating, sleeping, sex life and defense. This is material activity)?
- Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara. Could it be said, then, that we are transmigrating even while in this life?
- Deity worship is temple worship?
- Delhi, some astrologer said (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Demigods are not liberated?
- Devotees are beginning more and more, Srila Prabhupada, under your instruction, to enter into politics. But the political leaders, they will claim, "Well you have no experience. How can you be qualified to...?"
- Devotees are doing very well in Moscow, Prabhupada? Is that right? They are distributing books there?
- Devotees, do we get sick because of our bad actions in the past?
- Devotees, sometimes they feel that in ISKCON we're talking so much about the business of how to spread Krsna consciousness, but we're not talking enough about Krsna's pastimes, krsna-katha. Won't it purify them? That's what they say, "It will purify me"
- Dharma is for the envious?
- Dharma there (sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam) means to the religious faith or duty?
- Diameter (of the universe)?
- Did all the souls that were in the spiritual sky fall out of the spiritual sky at once or at different times, or are there any souls that are always good, they're not foolish, they don't fall down?
- Did any of them come up here who are still with you now (alone I was doing that. And then gradually one or two boys began to come)?
- Did anyone tell you that, or you just know it from before (these kind of symptoms are seen when a man is poisoned. He said like that, not that I am poisoned)?
- Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura take sannyasa in later years?
- Did Bhismadeva get wounded by arrows at the battle of Kuruksetra, or did he simply chose to leave his mortal body and thus lay down for passing on a bed of arrows?
- Did Gandhi reply to your request (this request I made to Gandhi That "You are..." People accepted him as a spiritual man all over the world. So if Gandhi would have taken this movement sincerely and scientifically, it would have grown thousand times)?
- Did Hakeemji come? Did the doctor come? Hakeemji?
- Did He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) have a spiritual master?
- Did He (Krsna) translate it into English?
- Did I understand you to say the swami has no sex life?
- Did Jesus die on the cross to redeem all the sins of the world?
- Did Kamsa also achieve the grace? He was immediately transferred to the spiritual planets after he was killed?
- Did Krsna create us to serve Him? And to enjoy us?
- Did Krsna describe to Arjuna the disciplic succession?
- Did Krsna have children by the gopis?
- Did Krsna invent Radha for His own pleasure?
- Did Krsna play that (football)?
- Did Lord Caitanya have women, householders traveling with Him when He went on sankirtana?
- Did Lord Caitanya take sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi?
- Did Lord Caitanya worship Sarasvati?
- Did some time lapse between Vyasa's conception of the Srimad-Bhagavatam and the actual writing down of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Was it passed orally, or was written down by Vyasa Krsna himself?
- Did someone put tilaka on the dog?
- Did Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu have a dandi or a tridandi?
- Did that milk give you any mucus, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did the Chand Kazi stop this cow killing thereafter? After talking with Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- Did the Gosvamis drink from this well, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did the Greek civilization follow the Vedic culture?
- Did the people who said they went to the moon, did they go to another planet?
- Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna?
- Did these dinosaurs exist, or is it just their imagination?
- Did they (Englishmen) teach God consciousness (in India)?
- Did they (Scottish Churches College) teach in English or Bengali?
- Did they (the astronauts) actually get to the moon or not?
- Did they (the European professors from Scottish Churches College) come mostly for missionary work? Was that their purpose?
- Did they actually land on the moon, Srila Prabhupada?
- Did they find a temple in Hamburg? In Hamburg. I was there once, but they just had a little tiny house, and they were trying to get another
- Did they go to some other planet (than the moon), Prabhupada?
- Did they try to make you Christian? Like that?
- Did we fall in the material world to experience something which is higher?
- Did we fall in this material world to find some highest pleasure?
- Did you build a Maha-ratha?
- Did you come with the purpose of spreading Krsna consciousness?
- Did you ever think at that time that you would be able to expand or...?
- Did you get formal training with a...?
- Did you get some barley flour?
- Did you go to East Africa also?
- Did you go to the United States to found the Krsna consciousness?
- Did you have to go there (to Dr. Mishra's apartment) to bathe also?
- Did you help to build that one?... Did you help to establish that Gaudiya Matha (In Allahabad)?
- Did you know him (Sir Jagadish (this Marconi's theory is his theory)) ?
- Did you mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out? The dormant Krsna consciousness, is that...
- Did you meet any of them (the Soviet Union leaders)?
- Did you purchase any land at Kuruksetra yet, Prabhupada?
- Did you say once that sometimes Krsna will let you work off some of your karma in a dream (indistinct)?
- Did you say self-realization is realizing our identity with Brahma?
- 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
- Did you say that having a family necessarily interferes with Krsna consciousness?
- Did you say that illicit means sex between people who are not married?
- Did you say that Sri Krsna Caitanya was playing Radha?
- Did you say through a particular ritualistic process you can go there in your next life?
- Did you see the color printing inside? It's also very nice. They have done the same.... This was last year in Paris, when you received Bhagavad-gita
- Did you send copies to all the libraries (of the first Back to Godhead magazine)?
- Did you stand on street corners and chant?
- Did you talk with people there (in Moscow)? Were you permitted, were you allowed to talk with the people in the streets and so on?
- Did you tell everyone you were leaving, or you simply disappeared?
- Did you then begin, after you finished the university, did you begin your writing?
- Did you want to go out into the garden tonight or not?
- Did you want to know where that was, "Hallowed be Thy name."?... Were you asking where that was from?
- Did you work for Jagadishacandra Bose too?
- Did you work out the spiritual disciplines for the group yourself? I mean about the morning chanting and the recital of the two thousand Hare Krsnas a day and... Did you work those out yourself?
- Did you write all these books?
- Did you yourself study Sanskrit at Vrndavana or...?
- Didn't Bhaktivinoda Thakura do that (there are many who claim to become God. All of them should be brought into the court) once?
- Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to fight when he was lifting the chariot? Didn't Karna request Arjuna not to kill him?
- Didn't some Manipur devotees visit Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Jagannatha Puri sometimes?
- Didn't that Dr. Radhakrishnan go crazy at the end of life, Srila Prabhupada?
- Didn't the Queen make some remarks about that? She said something to you… (Yes, she said, "How marvelous it would be to completely trust Krsna")?
- Didn't they (the residents of Vrndavana) know who Krsna was?
- Different levels of consciousness?
- Different Puranas have different Gitas, Prabhupada?
- Different stages? Are there different stages?
- Dinosaurs also (were from a previous Kali-yuga )?
- Disease is not hopelessness. Otherwise why the people go for treatment to a physician? Similarly, out of ignorance you are now in this miserable condition, but if you become treated by bona fide spiritual master, then you'll be cured
- Distributing books (first-class brain, they should be engaged in studying sastras, writing books and in the worship of the Deity, lecturing enlightened people. This is brahmana. They haven't got to work as ksatriya, as vaisya)?
- Diwali is the 10th or 11th. I think the Marwari community, they celebrate on the 10th. So we expect him on the 11th or by the latest the 12th, which means one week from today. Do you mind waiting that long?
- 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 all spiritual paths lead to the same end?
- Do animals also have independence?
- Do any of them come now? Do any of them come now apart from Prabhakara?
- Do different spirit souls have different activities, spiritual activities?
- Do ghosts refer to categories of ghosts or particular famous?
- Do I have to join your movement to be happy? Can I just take Krsna consciousness outside your movement?
- Do I think it (one should only endeavor to go back to Godhead. That should be the mission of everyone's life." So this is our mission. We are propagating this) is all right? Well, it's a point of view
- Do I understand that the children in your school in Texas, that they're brought up in what you consider spiritual consciousness...?
- 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 many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- Do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction?
- Do monkeys have any use?
- Do most human beings fall down into the animal species?
- Do people come to the services who are not disciples and devotees?
- Do people lose God consciousness as they grow older?
- Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop?
- Do the animals have no consciousness of God?
- Do the car companies make bicycles?
- Do the demigods sometimes forget their positions?
- Do the disciples take on new injunctions and prohibitions at this time?
- Do the fallen souls leave the spiritual world all at once or gradually?
- Do the five direct rasas take place between jiva souls also when they are...?
- Do the laws of nature also make distinction, Prabhupada?
- Do the liberated souls also seek after this Krsna consciousness? Those who have become free
- Do the living entities who are born from perspiration require a mother and father?
- Do the needful? ... In what regard, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do the number of demigods have something to do with the number of species, like there are thirty-three million demigods?... Do they belong to these species? They are also included in these eight million four hundred? These Gandharvas?
- Do the rays of the sun actually take away our life?
- Do the rickshaw drivers in Letchmore Heath chant Hare Krsna?
- Do the same rules apply to women as to men?
- Do the Vedic histories refer to this planet only?
- Do these demigods have the potency to show the universal form?
- Do these men get trained in mystic prayer, contemplation?
- Do they (people who join) have to wear those clothes and shave their heads and chanting those things...?
- Do they (the sudra class) kill them in a slaughterhouse? The goats?
- Do they (the Vallabhites) worship in vatsalya-rasa or just show?
- Do they (your followers) do anything like social work or other...?
- Do they have a period of training or a program for the training of the swamis?
- Do they have any temples of Lord Jagannatha there? They have any temples of Lord Jagannatha in Kuruksetra?
- Do they have many birds in Bhuvanesvara?
- Do they have to practice every day?
- Do they know the cause of cancer?
- Do they reject it because they (the politicians) cannot do it?
- Do they speak Kashmiri language, the people, or is it Hindi?
- Do we accept the contour of the continents? Do we accept the general continents?
- Do we all originate from Krsna?
- Do we announce that you will give darsana on the stage for five minutes?
- Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation
- Do we consider ivory as something pure or impure?
- Do we ever personally contact Krsna in Krsna consciousness?
- Do we get a second chance if we don't make the most of this life? In other words, is reincarnation part of your...?
- Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye?
- Do we have a viewpoint on contraception?
- Do we have anything, Srila Prabhupada, in the reference, saying that all the living entities are already there?
- Do we have to completely leave the world? We cannot stay within the world and sanctify ourselves?
- Do we have to liberate ourselves from karma in order to achieve Krsna?
- Do we offer any solution for socio-economic problems that you can...?
- Do we recognize that any of those Christian saints were great devotees? Did they develop love of God? Or what's the comparison?
- Do we take these births in a human form all the time, or perhaps do we take a birth in perhaps an ant or a rat or a dog, or will it always be in the human form if we believe in Krsna consciousness now?
- Do we use machines and modern methods on our asramas and farms
- Do women fit into this (four classes) social structure? You keep referring to man
- Do you accept the supremacy of the Vedas, veda-pramanam?
- Do you accept the whole of the material world? Do you think there are some things in it which are wrong?
- Do you advocate sending the children to secular schools, or have you made arrangements with the government to...?
- Do you agree with that, Prabhupada? Isn't it? Prabhupada, Prabhupada? Do you agree with that, though, that it was not necessary to, say chant continually out in a doctor's surgery or...?
- Do you agree with the work of the Ramakrishna Mission, Mahesh Yogi, and Divine Light Society that are working in America?
- Do you attempt to speak with governments and city officials and that sort of thing to spread your message?
- Do you attribute accidents and disease to a desire for self-destruction?
- Do you basically reject the modern civilization?
- Do you believe in a life after death for the body?
- Do you believe in a resurrection?
- Do you believe in love of God, and that God is a person? Some people say that God is not a person, and we say God is a person
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Do you believe in some sort of universal but inherent deficiency in human nature, in other words, that man irrespective of his environment, irrespective of where he comes from, that he has, he is prone to evil?
- Do you believe in the blessed trinity?
- Do you believe in the essential unity of religious paths in such a way that soon people will take to God and yoga?
- Do you believe in the Holy Bible?
- Do you believe in these (Hindi) and everything?
- Do you believe that Christ said that Krsna was his father?
- Do you believe that God is pleased by your prayer and helps the world because of your prayer?
- Do you believe that Hare Krsna is the only true faith?
- Do you believe that Jesus and Buddha and Krsna are manifestations of the same God?
- Do you believe that other religions have some truth to them because they all are...?
- Do you believe that the Gita should be followed as it is or interpretation...?
- Do you believe that the origin of this creation is a sin?... A sin of man or is the love of God? What is the origin?
- Do you believe that the soul and God is one as Ramanuja and Sankaracarya says, or as Madhvacarya says...
- Do you believe then that there is more than one way?
- Do you believe, I mean now from the point of view of facts, or events, not of ideas, of events, of reality, do you think there are many these men who are without spiritual ideas in the world of today?
- Do you call it your temple or a church?
- 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 consider that this kind of practice or the practicing this kind of culture is regimentated? A person has to come in and spend sometimes in the temple, and...?
- Do you consider that your movement is basically more of an educational movement than a religious movement?
- Do you consider.... Is it your Deity? Do you consider that glorified?
- Do you deal in percentages?
- Do you defy by trying to learn His mayadhyaksena suyate prakrtih sa-caracaram (you defy Krsna)?
- 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 direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma
- Do you do your printing in Japan and America?
- Do you envisage or envision a different role for Hinduism in the Western countries where the influence of other great religions has been felt for centuries?
- Do you equate then the impersonalists and the Mayavadis? Are they the same?
- Do you ever feel Krsna's presence, or see Him?
- Do you expect Him (Krsna) to come again?
- Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you already?
- Do you feel also that if someone read the Bhagava...?... Bhagavad-gita and other books, that a person merely by reading these could attain knowledge of Krsna?
- Do you feel any difficulty during urination?
- Do you feel are you in good health now? You look it.
- Do you feel diseases and sickness? Is this a result of your past karma?
- Do you feel like going on? I don't think I'm going to write these now. I'm just going to use this tape. When I go over a scene I'll just play it back. It's too much to write
- Do you feel like speaking and hearing about Bhagavatam?
- Do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet?
- Do you feel that he should come and prepare it (medicine) in your presence? You want to see him? Or can it be prepared in South and brought by the devotees?
- Do you feel that those who've had genuine religious, spiritual understanding would not have that kind of argument?
- Do you feel, sir, that it (education about God) is lacking only here in the United States?
- Do you find a place for romantic love within...?
- Do you find that in the translation from the thoughts and the Sanskrit to the English words, then from the English words to the mass of the people's heads, do you find that there is much loss?
- Do you find that the chant goes on in your heart?
- Do you find that you are having difficulty disassociating yourself (your group) with false prophets like the Guruji?
- Do you find that you chant, it clarifies you?
- Do you find the English weather cold?
- Do you find, Swamiji, that the mood of the young people in North America is the same now as it was in '65, or has it changed?
- Do you find, uh, you must find it very, very difficult travelling all the time?
- Do you foresee a time coming when people will realize... (it has already come, disaster). No, I mean a time coming when disaster is averted and people realize...
- Do you foresee a time when many people will receive that remedy (the instruction is there. Just like Bhagavad-gita says, "Produce food grain." The remedy is there. But you will not produce food grain; you will produce motorcar. Then you must suffer)?
- Do you foresee that the devotees will grow in numbers in this country?
- Do you give him permission to come visit you ("...with your permission we would like to come and visit you sometime later this year, as it has now been so long since I have had your personal association")?
- Do you go to this institute for a certain period of time (yes, there is a monastery. We have got institution, Gaudiya Math Institution. They have got hundreds of branches, yes)?
- Do you have a large number of American negroes in your movement, Swamiji?
- Do you have a name that you call... are they called students?
- Do you have a particular asrama there (in Vrndavana)?
- Do you have a temple here, Swami, or do you meet in libraries?
- Do you have altars?
- Do you have an opinion on the Hebrew scripture, the Kabbalah?
- Do you have any children, family?
- Do you have any evidence ("what you say, you have no proof, but what I say I have got proof")?
- Do you have any feeling about the crime here in the United States as opposed to the crime in your own land?
- 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 have any ideas where you would want (the facility to chant the holy name of God and distribute prasadam)?
- Do you have any in training for second class?
- Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches?
- Do you have any opinion about Ted Patrick, who I guess you've probably heard of?
- Do you have any other source, like donations or something like that for your movement?
- Do you have any panditas in the Western movement?
- Do you have any plans of propagating your movement in India?
- Do you have any proposal to spread this movement in Communist countries?
- Do you have any sort of teachers in your centers, and how do they get their education if you have any teachers?
- Do you have any views that for the past fifty or hundred years people have been predicting that there is going to be like a second coming or a spiritual changeover which will have an effect on the whole planet
- Do you have anything comparable to bishops and the hierarchy of the Christian faith and of other major faiths?
- Do you have arrangements with hospitals in case somebody gets sick, and do you watch diet carefully and...?
- Do you have certain dietary rules for which you do not eat? What do you not eat?
- Do you have children?
- Do you have children? You just left them?
- Do you have classes on Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you have lots of members?
- Do you have many Indian followers? Many Indian followers as well as foreign?
- Do you have more temples there (in India) than here (in the West)?
- Do you have much of a following in India itself?
- Do you have plans for other schools?
- Do you have plans, Srila Prabhupada, to comment on Ramayama in future?
- Do you have programs developed to educate mankind towards this God consciousness?
- Do you have references about that (Jahnava-devi was controlling the whole Gaudiya Vaisnava community) in any of your books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you have that photograph? I'll show you
- Do you have the original here of the Bhagavata Purana?
- Do you have the powers of Jesus? Can you say to a person, "Rise up and walk," when they're paralyzed?
- Do you have these temples in India?
- Do you have this, the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavatam?
- Do you have women followers also in this movement?
- Do you hope to acquire school buildings for teaching school?
- Do you imagine in this life an attainment of a follower...?
- Do you initiate girls?
- Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- Do you just keep changing bodies indefinitely or does it end?
- Do you know about Paramahamsa Yogananda?
- Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now?
- Do you know how old she (Sumati Morarjee) is Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you know much of Mormonism?
- Do you know Professor Bimal Motilal came in during your discourse?
- Do you know that story of Ekalavya?
- Do you know that? Do you know that for a fact? How do you know this is not illusion? How do you know that? Do we know anything for sure (this is cotton. This is cotton. Everyone knows. But if I give you a lump)?
- Do you know the prayer that the Russians use, the Jesus prayer?
- Do you know the Sufis are Muslims (indistinct)?
- Do you know their (Hawaii birds) names
- Do you know this man from a long time ago?… He wants some money for some temple?…Here in Vrndavana
- Do you like it (bitter melon), Prabhupada?
- Do you like that (there will be at least forty devotees going with Your Divine Grace to Mayapur - the devotees who go and the devotees who greet you there), Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you like that place, Swamiji? Where the disciples are now, on Glenville Avenue?
- Do you like this (painting) one, Prabhupada?
- Do you mean (in the sky there are millions of miles land of copper, gold) other planets, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you mean every, the whole of India is Krsna conscious?
- Do you mean Krsna is Absolute, and Krsna is everything? Then why does Krsna have a specific form?
- 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 that Siva is demigod?
- Do you mean the Kali-yuga exists all the time?
- Do you mean the perfectness is to become God or to become the man?
- Do you mean the universe is likely to go on forever?
- 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 need a car, Swamiji?
- Do you need to be involved in the Krsna movement to be God conscious?
- Do you need to have a name and address and occupation for God?
- Do you not project this Krsna consciousness movement is an improvement over the whole...
- Do you not think it's worth going to such places as Ireland and trying to talk to the people out there to stop warring?
- Do you plan to propagate your message in India?
- Do you practice meditation in your center?
- Do you prefer they go to a place where God is not known, where spiritual values are not estimated? Or they go also to places where God is loved and God is present?
- Do you read newspapers?
- Do you receive some knowledge directly from Krsna?
- Do you receive visitors most of the time, or do you do a lot of reading?
- Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you recognize that India does need some method at this point...?
- Do you regret having come back to India?
- Do you remember what you wrote about, which part? About Krsna's birth?
- Do you return to Vrndavana often?
- Do you rule out talking about the beings living on the moon planet?
- Do you say that God has nothing to do? But He has lots of energies, and it is the energy that creates beautiful things? How is the energy ordered?
- Do you see a difference or a conflict between being a devotee of Jesus and a devotee of Krsna? May one be both?
- Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
- Do you see America getting more God consciousness?
- Do you see hope for mankind in the future?
- Do you see that nations will fight too? That there will be wars, things like that?
- Do you see yourself then as the savior of American youth?
- Do you seek government help?
- Do you separate the eternal world from the Paramatma? It is something, a world like our material world that we have got, physical world that we have got, is going to be out of, the eternal world?
- Do you sing any hymns, kirtanas in Bengali also?
- Do you sit and meditate alone? What do you do with your mind as it wanders? Do you think of something? Do you put it on something or do you let it wander by itself?
- Do you specifically have a precept against telling a lie, or against hypocrisy?
- Do you spend a certain amount of time in each center? Do you yourself travel from one center to another?
- Do you spend your whole year traveling, or only part of the year?
- Do you suppose that the British supported Darwin so that that would also help their political ambitions, by introducing...?
- Do you take interest in the political happenings?
- Do you take rebirth in human form literally?
- Do you take this throne (vyasasana) with you all the time?
- Do you teach abstinence or moderation in the use of these things?
- Do you teach Gayatri mantra to your disciples also?
- Do you teach self-realization? Do you initiate? Then you are an authority on initiation?
- Do you think for instance, in this country, if somebody is a Protestant, or I mean a Christian and goes to church, this is also, you don't try to convert them away from that?
- Do you think he is a good doctor?
- Do you think I should set up a separate account for the records, so that all the profit is used for food distribution?
- 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 if people had a deeper understanding of God... a spiritual consciousness...? Do you think it would solve the problems of...?
- Do you think it is necessary for India to eschew religion?
- Do you think it is possible to live in say an education framework, or should it be something quite separate?
- Do you think it is possible, for instance, to have the husband being involved in this movement and not his wife?
- Do you think mankind is making some improvement?
- Do you think meditation is a way to see God inside yourself?
- Do you think modern man must get better and know God or he will destroy himself?
- Do you think Mrs. Gandhi's leadership has not been successful?
- Do you think of this in terms of a historical event that will occur in the lifetime of your disciples (all miscreants will be killed, and out of them, there must be some pious... They remain)?
- Do you think people should beware (of false gurus)?
- Do you think so (everyone is loving themselves)?
- Do you think something could be written on this wall?
- Do you think Swamiji, the scientists would be able to create life as they...?
- Do you think that all men can stand on the spiritual platform?
- Do you think that drugs would help attain the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think that every human being will become liberated?
- Do you think that I am inferior to you (by physiological condition (women are inferior to men). Just like you are. Your bodily features are different from the man's features. You cannot deny it)?
- Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group?
- Do you think that my father is in any way different in his parentage of me from God in His parentage of me?
- Do you think that one of the attractions of Krsna consciousness is the rather exotic, Hindu, unusual customs in the West. These customs are unusual in the West and they have a sort of exotic appeal for young people?
- Do you think that some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world?
- Do you think that some people could have best... better gift for healings, for temporary healings than other?
- Do you think that the great mystics down the ages have actually seen this spark?
- Do you think that the Hare Krsna chant could serve as an intermediary to link the religious tendencies of, both of Christianity and Muslim religions?
- Do you think that the message of Krsna consciousness or Krsna Caitanya is very different from the message of realizing God which is promulgated in other religions, for instance the Saiva religion or...?
- Do you think that the present democratic system will be able to impart a spiritual education?
- Do you think that the Russian society is not put off by this bhajana?
- Do you think that the Vedic sciences will be revived?
- Do you think that the young Indian boys in the future, they will become anywhere near as pious as their parents?
- Do you think that the, say astronauts that would land on the moon, do you think they would encounter any difficulty in going about and doing what they wanted to and then leaving?
- Do you think that the, the poor Indians who are suffering because of this terrible drought in India... is their relief never going to be in this world? Is it only going to be when they die?
- Do you think that there is a special way that Hinduism looks upon man's place in the universe?
- Do you think that there will become a level of demigods, a race of demigods?
- Do you think that this concept (God means Supreme Controller) is the special insight of the Vedic?
- Do you think that this is because of the Western influence under which they have gone and you are... (nobody spoke that "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You worship Him." Nobody has said. This is the first time, I am saying)?
- Do you think that this M. M. would try to cause any trouble in the future? Or is he so useless that he won't do that even?
- Do you think that this powder has been successful, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you think that we should make these marble here, on the side?
- Do you think that your mission is successful?
- Do you think that your movement has a chance to make it here in America?
- Do you think that, that stage (to be united on the spiritual platform) is possible within this generation?
- Do you think the deep-rooted Indian culture and religion will ever have a sort of a re-creation, or will it continue?
- Do you think the India-originated religion is, serves its particular purpose in the Western society? I mean, does, is it of particular value in a rather technological society, the Hindu tradition?
- Do you think the same problem is here in India as in other countries (and now in India another danger is that so many rascals, they are declaring, "I am God." And this India, people have become so fallen down, they accept all these rascals as God)?
- Do you think the social unrest...?
- Do you think the time will come when we will... (if they allow us to forward our movement, then we are satisfied. And when there is hindrance, the person who is hindering, finished. But don't do it now, (chuckles) then you will be finished)?
- Do you think the type of life that your devotees must lead... is in fact a happy one, getting up very early in the morning?
- Do you think then that that, that message is the most important message that you have to convey?
- Do you think there is a necessity to open a ministry of religion?
- Do you think there should be any sequel to this film? In other words, to carry on the philosophy?
- Do you think there will always be a few who understand (God)?
- Do you think there's a difference between the various peoples of the world? In other words, do you think that Indians as opposed to Europeans have more of a tendency or are more likely to adhere to the Krsna consciousness?
- Do you think they (west) are taking to it because it is novel?
- Do you think those who are butcher are all criminals?
- Do you think transcendental meditation is beginning to help...?
- Do you think we have too much for our needs?
- Do you think we should go straight to the minister?
- Do you think we're going to come right, then? Is that a possible question? Or is it just far too many people now who are purely in the body and in the world of the senses? Is the world going to come around?
- Do you think you could do a little (recite Caitanya-caritamrta)?
- Do you think you could explain to me about the Deities and how it's different from idol worship?
- Do you think you'll be able to see the temple either today or tomorrow and give me some ideas on how to utilize the building? I can arrange it with Pusta Krsna? When you're available?
- Do you think your movement is the only way to come to know God?
- Do you think your quality to change... A person, if that sould becomes fate or lift...?
- Do you think, in a world so much caught up in material way of things... (indistinct) ...be able to penetrate?
- Do you think, in your opinion, mayavada was a necessity to undo all the bad effect of the degenerated Buddhism? This followed some three, four or seven hundred years of after Gautama Buddha
- Do you think, Swamiji, that man can become perfect?
- Do you think, this one (this book), do you think I could...?
- Do you travel much all over the world and...?
- Do you understand your previous lives from the descriptions in authoritative texts, or from any introspective recollection of your own?
- Do you use any grammar, Sanskrit grammar, when you study Sanskrit?... How do they learn when they learn Sanskrit?
- Do you use Gayatri mantra also?
- Do you use the Judeo-Christian scriptures at all in your work?
- Do you use the word guru?
- Do you use your body when you speak?
- Do you want another cover, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want him (Mr. Myer) to be initiated just now or wait some time?
- Do you want the peanuts roasted in ghee or just dry roasting?
- Do you want these (cotton swabs)?
- Do you want this to become a part of the educational system here?
- Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible?
- Do you want to go further, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want to have responsive chanting?
- Do you want to hear the next letter?
- Do you want to keep the checks or give them to him (Kirtanananda)?
- Do you want to know more about the conference?
- Do you want to take rest, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want to walk?
- Do you want us to distribute this? Srila Prabhupada, this is special water from the Ganges if you want to drink some?
- Do you want us to make more zones now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want us to offer feast to your Guru Maharaja at noontime? A special plate of feast?
- Do you want your hat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you watch TV yourself?
- Do you wish me to take this (book) away or should I look at it here?
- Do you worship to a person or what? To his doctrines or...?
- Do you, in other words, do you believe that astronauts landed somewhere?
- Do you, in your creed, do you believe in metempsychosis, that is the soul going through one form of life and then if it lives badly, the person lives badly, it comes back in another form and so on? Do you believe in the metempsychosis?
- Do.... Your lines of authority then come from you, or is it an elective authority?
- Does a devotee lose some of his individuality in that...?
- Does a devotee, who is working as a sudra, get second initiation?
- Does a man then stop judging his actions (if the physician says that you take this medicine in such and such dose, you don't do this, and do this. If I follow, then I'm cured, perfect)?
- Does a person have to experience enough frustration to give up this process of...(chewing the chewed)?
- Does all desire ultimately have to go, including the desire to attain Krsna consciousness?
- Does an animal make that mistake? I thought the animals would not see the water that our eyes tell us that there is a mirage in the desert
- Does any physical change take place in your body when you become Krsna conscious?
- Does belief in any scripture whatsoever, such as the Bible or Koran...? Does belief in any scripture lead to salvation?
- Does devotion come before wakefulness, or does wakefulness come before devotion?
- Does each temple operate by itself, or each division operate by itself?
- Does evening arati vary according to the sunset?
- Does everyone go there (spiritual world) or only some?
- Does faith develop from accepting (bhakti)?
- Does fortune mean it's the mercy of Krsna?
- Does God need service?
- Does God speak to me, within me, whether I listen or not?
- Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu?
- 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 he (Lord Buddha) say so (He's personally Krsna), or you...?
- Does He (Lord Caitanya) meet any of these characters at the river?
- Does he have to be designated by the former spiritual master (a spiritual master)?
- Does ISKCON believe in reincarnation?
- Does it (just like these boys they are after Krsna's service) mean that we should leave the work and we should not work and...?
- Does it (victory for the communists) mean that they will also attack the Krsna consciousness?
- Does it do atheists any good to chant your verses if they only want to be happy through chanting them?
- Does it ever happen, Swamiji, that some disciples of yours may disagree with you in spiritual matters?
- Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first (nobody could answer, a simple question... According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first)?
- Does it matter how long it might take you? Can you become first-class men soon, within five years?
- Does it matter what religion you believe? Does it matter which religion you believe? Would it matter if one was a devotee of Hare Krsna...?
- Does 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 it matter who performs the Deity worship?
- Does it mean (because in the air there is sound. Therefore ether is there. It is a production of the ether... Air from the ether because when the air blows, you find the sound, sshhhh. That is ether) beyond the ether there's no sound?
- Does it mean that the initiative from the human being is completely surrendered to the almighty God? And if you surrender, is there any initiative left for the human being?
- Does it mean that Your Divine Grace will come on the experiment (Vrndavana parikrama), or we should go without Your Divine Grace and experiment?
- Does it mean we should use violence to spread Krsna consciousness then, Srila Prabhupada?
- Does it not mean, sir, that naham tesv avasthitah, "I am staying in Goloka"?
- Does it say somewhere in the Bhagavad-gita that we shouldn't eat meat?
- Does Jesus Christ reside in the Vaikunthas or Brahmaloka?
- Does karma-yoga mean to follow exactly the sastras?
- Does Krsna consciousness make you aware of this, though (actually knowledge begins from that point, that "I am not this body." Just like a big 747 plane is running on, but there is the intelligent pilot)?
- Does Krsna create the universe or does He just make it possible to be created?
- Does Krsna desire we get a spiritual name?
- Does Krsna eat out of the fire?
- Does Krsna give beneficial instruction to someone and not to someone else, intuition in the heart to take or not to take the book?
- Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be foolish and fall?
- Does Krsna know beforehand everything?
- Does Krsna know that he will rebirth and then come to earth and to preach us and make all that?
- Does Krsna know the time, or does He direct the living entity at some certain time to surrender or is this the will of the living entity?
- Does Krsna know when the living entities are going to surrender unto Him? If He knows, then how does the living entity have choice?
- Does Krsna makes us ignorant or are we ignorant?
- Does Krsna mean God?
- Does Krsna punish people who do not serve Him purely? Or do the people punish themselves when they do not serve Him purely?
- Does Krsna speak the Bhagavad-gita in the hellish planets?
- Does Lord Caitanya always appear just after Krsna? In every universe?
- Does Lord Jagannatha reside there any more (Jagannatha Puri)?
- Does Lord Jesus Christ appear in the spiritual sky with the body he manifested on the earth?
- Does Lord Rama or Lord Caitanya forget?
- Does Lord Siva have a wife, like, a consort?
- Does one attain a consciousness that is beyond words? Or, I dare say, is there a communication that is not the word itself but perhaps a vibration which is much like sound or sound itself? Is there something else beside the verbal? Talk?
- Does one become elevated by following the karma-yoga principles only?
- Does one experience the miseries of the gross body when one's in sattva-guna, in the mode of goodness? Does one experience hunger and thirst, those things like that?
- Does one function better in society as a result of affiliation with Krsna consciousness?
- Does one go into a subtle machine?
- Does one have a better chance of reaching to the spiritual platform if he is performing pious activities?
- Does one have to leave one's family? I think everybody lives in the temple, don't they?
- Does our line of succession go directly to Gaurakisora dasa Babaji or to Bhaktivinoda Thakura?
- Does religion or God, can give you eternal life?
- Does she (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mother) give Him her blessing finally?
- Does somebody forget his wife completely then?
- 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 straightforwardness, that arjavam quality of a brahmana, does that include making the truth palatable to someone who will not understand the truth directly?
- Does such a comet (comet Kohoutek) affect consciousness as well as matter?
- Does sundara, like "Gaurasundara," that sundara means beautiful?
- Does taking the initiation create a permanent bond between disciple and guru?
- Does that (it is said that sun is the source of everything within this universe) mean that Vivasvan is more powerful than Lord Brahma?
- Does that (it is stated in the Bhagavata, the moon is 1,600,000 miles...) mean that the earth is farther from the moon than from the sun?
- Does that (love towards relatives is also bondage) mean you should not love your parents?
- Does that (there is smaller particles than the atom) mean the electrons?
- Does that (they appear to be other solar systems. Like they have a sun and planets around them) mean the material covering between the different brahmandas is invisible?
- Does that (they think catching fish is great sport, great fun) mean that the people that catch the fish have to also become fish?
- Does that (they will come, after much trouble, much enquiry, they will come to the same conclusion, vasudevah sarvam iti) mean that everybody is ultimately on the way back home? Back to Godhead?
- Does that (we are inviting to the farm and giving food to the jobless in industry) mean we have to wait for the situation to arise where they are jobless?
- Does that (we have got two selection, either to the path of hellish condition or to the path of back to Godhead) name, that the things such as, you mentioned smoking and alcohol and sex and meat, that all those things are material and therefore bad?
- Does that also apply to reading the words of a pure devotee (even a moment's association with a pure devotee - all success)? Even a little association with your books has the same effect?
- Does that apply then to other kinds of decisions and other kinds of activities as well (Krsna will tell directly. A devotee always consults Krsna and Krsna tells him, "Do like this." Not figuratively)?
- Does that 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 include all sex life or...? What is illicit?
- Does that involve a majority of the people, or... (so those who are working on the bodily platform, they are working on the dead platform)?
- Does that mean a serious devotee should only pass stool once a day?
- Does that mean difficult to understand or difficult to practice?
- Does that mean he (a dedicated disciple) must give up his family, and come and live here?
- Does that mean Krsna is beyond even spiritual?
- Does that mean that he (one who is in the mode of goodness) is not... He's experiencing the subtle body inside of the gross body, or what does that mean exactly?
- Does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- Does that mean that the atom is living entity?
- Does that mean that the more one gets control over his senses, he becomes more lazy intelligent?
- Does that mean that the spiritual body changes, Prabhupada?
- Does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- Does that mean that you assume or propose that the world would all become one in one religion?
- Does that mean the same amount of gold is here (if the large scale industry and trade becomes stopped, that is good for people)?
- Does that mean they have no knowledge about leaves (Vedic scripture was there. They did not read. That's all)?
- Does that mean to say that you can't live a happy life without being religious?
- Does that mean to some extent that the soul is dependent on a material condition?
- Does that mean you are calling Jesus Christ a hypocrite (how can you support Christ that if he has done killing business himself and he instructs others not to kill)?
- Does that mean you go back to Sankaracarya?
- Does that means all the planets are fixed in relationship to each other as well (Gita says, urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham. The pole-star in the... And we see at night everything is moving. As a bunch it is moving)?
- Does that means they should not worship these demigods and goddesses?
- Does that sound right (and if for some reason it's not effective, then we have to trust simply in krsna-nama. That we're doing anyway, but that's... We'll have to do exclusively at that point), Srila Prabhupada?
- Does that take on a positive aspect as well so that by not only do I not kill animals and I don't kill men, do I, am I obliged under your system (we are not cruel to anyone. Either he's a man or animal or tree or bird), am I obliged to actively help...
- Does the condition of being entrapped, enhance the understanding of liberation?
- Does the devotee go through these levels of understanding Brahman then Paramatma then Bhagavan? Does the devotee gradually go through these levels, or does he immediately realize Brahman when his service is perfect?
- Does the devotee who surrenders keep his individual taste for different things? Does he keep his individual likes and dislikes?
- Does the devotee, I mean just like you are always enthusing us to push on...
- Does the group live a vegetarian life, without any meat? Is that what you're saying?
- Does the heat of the sun increase or decrease through the ages?
- Does the human species come with the gradual evolution or is the human species created first?
- 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 Lord go to sleep so early and before everyone, and wake up so late, after everybody?
- Does the method include meditation? What... How do you go about this process?
- Does the mind play any part in the evolutionary process? The mind?
- Does the self exist without the body in this world?… In this life?… As a spirit apart from the body
- Does the soul ever become weak or strong on account of its association and contact with material nature?
- Does the soul reincarnate?
- Does the soul suffer with the mind, or he's always enjoying?
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
- Does the swami, once he has been installed in office, does he wear a white long coat with a white hat?
- Does the table have a jiva soul?
- Does the word nirvana mean Krsna?
- Does there come a time Srila Prabhupada, when one misuses his independence, the independence is taken away?
- Does this (non-veg) food make effect on a human nature?
- Does this apply to the brahmanas (you cannot see your wife being insulted before you. You must fight. You must kill him.That is the law. Aggressor)?
- Does this make a difference, the opinion that one's fellow ksatriya would have of him?
- Does this mean that a person should turn his attention from the world, from his surrounding?
- Does this mean that by their activities that they're engaging in now their incentive is that they want to enjoy these four sinful activities...? And that really they're not looking for truth?
- Does this mean that that rasa (relationship with Krsna as lover) is superior or better than the other rasas?
- Does this organization (ISKCON) do social work?
- Does this remind you of Vrndavana, Prabhupada?
- Does this take a whole lifetime to learn (process by which you can see the other world)?
- Does your haircut have any particular significance?
- Does your method include meditation, austerity of various sorts in addition to no alcohol, no drugs?
- Doesn't everyone derive strength (from God)?
- Doesn't he (Mahatma Gandhi) know this, that he is not in the disciplic succession? And if this is so, why does he do this? Why does he make a translation?
- Doesn't Krsna say in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am the spiritual master"?
- Doesn't necessity mean plan?
- Doesn't Rama refer to a man that was born in India or somewhere, and Christ was born in Europe? Two different men, but still the same?
- Doesn't that make us a rather exclusive group of people? If only those who are completely pure can engage in service, that means only people like us who have time to sit and meditate...
- Dog is barking, but does he possess discriminative knowledge?
- Dogs, they are becoming attached to the human being. Are they becoming human beings in their next life?
- Don't followers of Krsna consciousness ever get angry?
- Don't they sometimes have to go to Yamaraja first for practice?
- Don't what, Prabhupada?
- Don't you find it extremely difficult to get the literal meaning from the Sanskrit to the English?
- Don't you find the whole Krsna movement more successful in an age and era when there is such laxity of moral standards and spiritual leadership and direction?
- Don't you have a gurukula in Texas?
- Don't you think it is a contradiction that if a man is a bad throughout his life and only at the time of death he thinks of Krsna and gets...?
- Don't you think it will be a bad thing, because there are some bad people in the world, like Hitler and Stalin and others, they may be the first people to use the technology to prolong their life?
- Don't you think it's against the dharma-sastra (we are creating brahmanas in the western countries)?... Tell me why?
- Don't you think that all the other chantings like in the Muslim religion and the Buddhist religion and the Japanese religion, their chantings, they are all the same thing?
- Don't you think that by denying raja and jnana and some of the other yogas that you're denying the infinite aspect of mankind? Don't you think that by asserting bhakti-yoga as the only way that you're saying that...?
- Don't you think that instead of building a temple, asramas in this brahmacari model would be...?
- Don't you think that perhaps bhakti-yoga isn't the way for everyone?
- Don't you think that the blame should not be, usually be laid on the Africans but on the whole...? The brahmanas who comes from our overseas temples here, it's their responsibility to see that the Africans follow properly
- Don't you think that the children should be given freedom to choose voluntarily?
- Don't you think that the scientists have done good things but people have...?
- Don't you think the people are lazy also?
- Don't you think this kind of reasoning (if there is a man, he must have a father) is a deductive logic rather than inductive?
- Don't you think we are killing other living beings (there is a sect in the Orient that wears gauze over their mouth so as not to kill microbes while they breathe. But we are killing those microbes - So they are to satisfy everyone)?
- Down the fall (ice, flood, every second)?
- Dr. Agarwal was your sponsor?
- Dr. Wolfe? Is he missing the evolution (he was speaking biological?) Yeah, I think he was not understanding it so well?
- Drinking tea and coffee also ("unless one gives up these four things he cannot understand what is God")?
- Due to a larger number of people, is it possible to return all these people to the real goal?
- Durga, she is in charge of... She is Krsna's agent, so what is the harm in worshiping Durga?
- During the aratiks here at the temple where should the women be standing?
- During the present day, sir, to whom we will treat as brahmana, ksatriya and vaisya and sudra?
- During the time when the living entity is transferred from one body to another, is he always fully conscious of the subtle facts?
- During this transformation, are we still ignorant? During this transformation from body to body.
- Dvaita-advaita?
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- Each second the body is a little different?
- Earth is a mixture of all these different elements?
- Eight billion years one day of Brahma?
- Either direct or indirect. But how can I experience that statement that "Everything is Brahman"?
- 11th. And coming back (to Bombay) about 17th?
- English car, Prabhupada?
- Equal in intelligence (woman is not equally intelligent as a man)?
- Especially Indian people, you know, they say, "Well, if I surrender to Krsna, who will feed me?"... But because in India people know that they should surrender to Krsna, no?
- Eternal life (explain to them about eternal life)?
- Eternally individual, so how do the impersonalists attaining their goal merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti?
- Ether. How does ether distinguish...?
- Evam prasanna-manaso?
- Even a drop of water, when you take it from the glass and put it on this one. Another drop of water will come and when you put it in medicine won't come in water. Like that, atma, will it not merge with the Paramatma?
- Even a tulasi dala and a little water is not necessary?
- Even all species of life it (we hear that woman is pregnant. We never heard the man is pregnant) is the same?
- Even between the atoms of matter there is a spiritual life, spiritual force?
- Even good literature sanga is also sat-sanga, is it not?
- Even he doesn't consider material necessity (a devotee has to work sincerely to serve Krsna. Then everything is there)?
- Even if it's a work which you have not yet translated yourself (we are doing other languages. If it is properly translated, it can be…)?
- Even if they mix hydrogen and oxygen to get water, still, where does the hydrogen and oxygen come from?
- Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
- 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 in India, Muslims are taking to Krsna consciousness?
- Even nitya-siddha has guru?
- Even the basic of this (you were saying that the children should learn these three, geography and these things, and I wanted to know if they should also learn what they call biology, that is how the body is working, what are the bones and blood)?
- Even the mind occupies space and transpires in time. Mind occupies space and works in time. Is that also a fact?
- Even those three days they have to attend the mangala-arati?
- 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?
- Even when you drink fruit juice there is cough?
- Even with all our philosophic and all our learning we have the sense of possession of this body which can't leave the moha in it. With all that, sir, then how can they do it?
- Even with this education, they (the children in Gurukula) still might not be intelligent, what you consider intelligent people. How, you know... Is it more likely that they will be what you would term intelligent, having been educated in this system?
- Eventually we should divide up our society in this way (if you are fit to become brahmana, become brahmana. If you are fit to become ksatriya, become ksatriya. If you are fit to become sudra, do it)?
- Every day she does some meditation, so before meditating, she wants to know, how many rounds should she chant?
- Every stone has life?
- Every successive teacher has added some interpretations of the knowledge, no?
- Every time I make lot of rats, I'm asking for rat souls. Why then I can do it? When I can, or when I want them to be here, they will be here, not on the will of God
- Every time Lord Krsna appears, original Krsna appears, does Lord Caitanya appear on the following Kali-yuga?
- Every, every word is important, Bhagavad-gita... Why one word?
- Everybody is concerned with peace. Do people like Guruji, because they're such rascals... Like Guruji, this young boy, do they constitute a threat to peacefulness in society?
- Everybody knows God, but what's His name and how can we tell that He's God?
- Everyone becomes Brahma first?
- Everyone has some special strategy if we don't want the total population the world is Communist. Should not there be a special strategy to enter in their own hearts?
- Everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys, or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
- Everyone has to learn from someone. Who has informed God of all knowledge?
- Everyone is born with this devotional spirit?
- Everyone requires leader, yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- Everyone should marry?
- Everything comes down to just another form of energy, another form of complexity, so that everything is suited to one thing and yet it's different?
- Everything he says must be done in perfect Sanskrit verses?
- Everything is being controlled ultimately by Krsna. Either by inferior energy or superior energy. His activities (of the jiva) are never independent?
- Everything is Krsna's. How can you give anything? Even a leaf?
- Everything is not God?
- Everything is occuring by explosions. In our mind an explosion occurs, and we start believing in God. So that is not that, sir. I think they (the scientists) are misguided. How can anything happen without a supreme power?
- Everything that exists wants to enjoy?
- Everything we conceived, that is wrong (take the version of Bhagavatam)?
- Except this Kimpurusa-varsa and other varsas in the mountain area, these are part of subtle world. So how we will mention it?
- Excuse me ((one should pray, is that so?) that is his business)?
- Excuse me (because I take the version of the greatest scientist, therefore I am greatest scientist. I may be fool personally, but because I take the knowledge from the greatest scientist, I am greatest scientist. I have no difficulty)?
- Excuse me if I insist on the first question I asked for. Your aim, your most important aim, if I understood it well, is to bring the faith and love for God to man. No? This is your first aim, to encourage man to be a...
- Excuse me, does that mean that people from other religions may..., it is not possible for them to achieve the highest perfection?
- Excuse me. Your honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?
- Expansion or incarnation has the six opulences in full except for Krsna?
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- Factual scientific study would mean to study all 8,400,000 species?
- Faith begins from the association of devotees?
- Faith is fixed by knowledge?
- Falldown means deviation from the orders of the spiritual master?
- Family names, we said two family names, like Raya Chaudhuri, like Datta Gupta. How this happened?
- Few scientists may be like that. That does not mean all scientists are like that. We are here. Half a dozen of us are scientists, aren't we here? How can I (Dr. Patel) not believe in God?
- Fifth scene (of a play on Lord Caitanya)... This is Haridasa Thakura?... At who's death? At Haridasa's death?
- Fifty pounds (suppose if you kill one cow, you get blood how much, how many pounds?)?
- Fight in a real..., sword, fight with swords (in these days, the same principles are there. Ksatriyas should fight for Krsna. That is his perfection of life… Then the question is whom shall we fight now? Those who are not Krsna conscious)?
- Finally Swamiji, what is the relevance of Krsna consciousness in our modern society?
- Finished with urine, Srila Prabhupada?
- Finished, Srila Prabhupada?
- Fire? Fire, disease and debts (agni, vyadhi, disease. And ṛṇa, debts. You should not neglect it. You should finish it)
- First we have to believe it, and then we can see it?
- 500,000 dollars (so the price is 500,000 dollars)?
- Follow Krsna consciousness very strictly and very seriously like, say, for the rest of our lives, is there a chance that we'll be able to see Radha and Krsna in this life?
- For being in the Mohammedan service (these Mulliks they are also De. Their original title is De. This Mullik is their title)?
- For boil also (I will give you so many formulas)?
- For detachment, it's just constant austerities?
- For eating (so we cannot pay more than five thousand (maintenance money for the devotees in ISKCON Vrndavana))?
- For example, for that boy who is chanting now in Egypt, he has his beads, but his chanting is effective even though he's still eating meat sometimes with his family?
- For example, if I become a teacher at varnasrama, say, the first teacher at the varnasrama college, then I have to also become expert at how to fight?
- For food relief or... (there was supposed to be some man who was going to give five thousand or ten thousand rupees)?
- For how long are you at the head of this movement?
- 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 making, you know, the wool, woolen garments like the cap and cadara... Sometimes it's made out of wool. They would get from sheep?
- For 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?
- For spreading this movement in India, are you hopeful it will be?
- For sterilization (the poor, these babajis, they were going to beg, and by force, once, twice, injection. So immediately, after one week…)?
- For that matter, Srila Prabhupada, when one comes to that stage, there is no difference between animate and inanimate. Is that true (we cannot distinguish now reality and non-reality because the heart is unclean. So we have to cleanse)?
- For the abhiseka, do we require cow urine and cow dung and tail of cow?
- For the cows (farmers, they do not produce food for human being. They produce food for the cows)?
- For the festival, is it all right for Them (Damodara Deities) to go on Lord Jagannatha's altar while He is gone? Is it all right to put the Deities on the altar in the temple, on Lord Jagannatha's altar while He's gone?
- For the truth, since each one finds the truth in himself, does that mean that the truth is different for each person?
- For them spiritual life is the prayer, salvation in Lord Jesus Christ. And they're not quite sure... They're interested in knowing what is our relationship with Krsna. Is it the same or...?
- For this machine (the only business is to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- For those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- For us, is the perfection to be absorbed in preaching to others, rather than thinking "I want to go and play with Krsna"?
- For your final question, should leaflets, which are destined to be thrown upon the ground, contain pictures of Krishna, Jagannatha, etc?
- Forgetfulness is artificial?
- Forgive me if I'm not using the right expression, but the caste system is written into the law of Godhead?
- Four kinds of…?… Births… What is that jaray…?… Womb… Womb is everyone. That comes... Sweat?
- Four sides, the steps (our lake in Mayapur we shall make like this, all sides clear and four sides, the steps, ghata, and garden)?
- Four times? That's all right. Three times around, into the temple, and one more time. That will be nice. Four times. Is that all right? Will that be all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Four what (purchase at least four vehicles), Srila Prabhupada?
- Fred Robinson has been forecasting doom to happen very shortly for the human race and says that it is far too hopeless to try and grab for the spiritual plane until one goes back to simple living. What would you say to that?
- 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 1965 to 1966 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you
- From a distance (I saw (snow) in Kashmir, but that was not so white)?
- From all scriptures you instructed us in Srimad-Bhagavatam that we should not jump from book to book, but I am so much attached to them that I read every book. Would that stop me to understand the philosophy?
- From America it (a very strong car) came?
- From libraries (can I take your books from any library)?
- From the ancient Vedic scriptures we learn that God is and He cannot be seen. However, in the Bhagavad-gita we learn that Lord Krsna is born as a human. Now, does this not work conflict to the ancient scriptures of the Vedic religion?
- From the level of application of his (Mahatma Gandhi`s) programs, is there some value?
- From the material point of view, though, people can live an irresponsible life, and they have some earnings. They feel that they can enjoy. What is the need for morality?
- From the modes of ignorance to the modes of passion to the modes of goodness is a very gradual process?
- 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?
- From the U.S.A. Could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...?
- From the very beginning we should teach Bhagavad-gita (in the varnasrama college)?
- From this movement what has been, what is the plan?
- From what I've seen in your writings - that there's an underlying truth behind all religion. Would you agree with that?
- From where does that tendency come, (to fall down)?
- From which class of society in the United Sates do most of your disciples come?
- From whom one should hear about Krsna?
- Frustrated (in the Western countries, unless they are hungry for spiritual consciousness, why they are hippies? They are frustrated. They are not going to live like their fathers and forefathers)?
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- Gandhi said that Hitler change of heart that would be effective and not that punishment. That means punishment is a fault, and I would like your enlightenment on this paradox
- Gandhi was born in...?
- Gandhiji (Gandhi has written in his life that while his father was dying he was enjoying sex with his wife)?
- Gandhiji, he was politician, he was actually not devotee, and he could not understand Bhagavad-gita. But how the name of Rama has come when he died? The name of Rama, Hare Rama, has come from his last word. How it has come. It is, it is...
- Garuda is from the jiva-tattva or he is an expansion?
- Garuda put some nectar on the tree to preserve it... Is it spiritual?
- Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika in which you, all the original svarupa of all the devotees are given?... So most of the Lord Caitanya's associates were gopis from the...
- Generally in colleges in the West, they charge some fee for going to the college. What is our position?
- George Harrison is your member?
- George Harrison? He has donated in cash for that building?
- George is going to make any more records, recordings?
- George's question that there is something beyond Krishna
- Giriraja is a good man. I want your advice. So first day I called Giriraja, he came. I said, you I don't want. Where is that Syamasundara?
- Giriraja is requesting to come, Srila Prabhupada. Is it all right?
- Giriraja, how you are earning fifty thousand rupees a month?
- Gita, Krsna, Caritamrta, and Bhagavatam. You have other texts?
- Give them milk?
- Give up this staying here (our real business is how to get out of the clutches of maya)?
- Go ahead and get the projector do you think, new projector?
- God (no, no, they must have some name of God. "I am" is not the name. That is false conception. -They say it's something very personal.- No. When you ask name, that is personal)?
- God created man?
- God has not created us imperfect?
- God has taken the shape of a Narasimha Swami and then He finishes him by tearing his stomach. And then He takes all the intestines and pushes out. What is the significance and how this is actually, what it is meaning?
- God has to go to burden this one (I will have to preach, bringing men from America and Europe. Nobody is coming here. Everyone is talking big, big) also?
- God is a state of mind?
- God is all-loving?
- God is independent?
- God is not love?
- God is person?
- God isn't something that can be sensed and He isn't something that can be grasped by the finite mind. The infinite, as you said... But how do we know God?
- God seems to depend on human history. God is not transcendental but is manifest in the world... But does the history of man necessarily make any sense? Hegel saw it as progressing, as man, here again is evolution...
- Going back to this sense question, where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?
- Golden Gate Park (this is the first time I come here)?
- Goldsmith? He's a lawyer or something in Los Angeles?
- Goodness (so without knowing how to give service, sometimes we may be punished. What kind of service we shall give? (indistinct) example. So there are three kinds of services: goodness, passion, and ignorance)?
- Goodness (the living entity is never born or it never dies. This is eternity. You change your body, but you eternal. Therefore he requires that sattva-guna)?
- Goru means (we are simply repeating the Krsna's word. That's all. Therefore guru. And as soon as I make addition or alteration, I am goru)?
- Governor of (during Jawaharlal Nehru's time)?
- Govinda told me that it started five hundred years ago in Western Bengal. Could you elucidate on this please?
- Grace of God (the chance theory is the grace of God)?
- Gradually we are now developing, making drama, this, that. We are taking it just as if Krsna-lila itself is a fact. It is a theatrical thing?
- Groving (throbbing)? What does that mean?
- Guru is there. Why don't they come?
- Guru means teacher?
- Guru-krpa only comes by pleasing the spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada?
- Gurudeva said the only aim of human being is to surrender to Sri Krsna, to the lotus feet of Sri Krsna. In India especially, there are so many temples and gods and goddesses...
- Gurudeva, the question I wish to ask is: where did we come, why are we here, and what is the true reason for our existence, and where are we going?
- Guruji, according to the bhakti-yoga, a person starting at least in the elementary way of bhakti-yoga...?
- Gurukula. She's asking if you could tell her about the system of education you have established in America
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- Had you met Gandhi?
- Hand machine (without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane)?
- Happens after death, where do we pick up?
- Hare Krsna means what? "Brahman, please remove from me the... " Isn't it?
- Hari-vilasa's wife? Parijata (I told them two o'clock their time, I also told them not to make anything fancy but to make very simple)?
- Haridasa Thakura is following all the principles, but he's always feeling so fallen. So Lord Caitanya tells him, "Put away your excess humility." Is this what He is trying to teach him? That we should have assurance?
- Has anybody actually seen Krsna?
- Has anybody practiced this type of sex?
- Has everyone the potential to accept Krsna?
- Has God also devised the most perfect government?
- Has God put the suffering here for us to experience so that we will want to give up material lives and get closer to Him? Is it punishment?
- Has he seen our books?
- Has my soul ever been liberated? If I was once liberated...
- Has spirit no want?
- Has that house (Bhaktivedanta Manor) been transferred actually yet?
- Has the movement involved itself in social philosophy?
- Has the name a special esoteric meaning? And is the technique of chanting the name, has this a special hidden purpose that the unenlightened...
- Has the universe existed forever, or does soul have a beginning?
- Has there been a fasting or other preparatory (all these boys present, they were, one year before, they were initiated for chanting, and now they are being second time initiated by mantra-diksa)?
- Has there been any official opposition to your movement in any country?
- Has there ever been debates on the authenticity of modern science, or is this the first time modern science has been challenged in the world?
- Has this happened before, the material wealth that we have now? Has it happened in past ages? Technological advancement, scientific?
- Has your movement arranged once any particular event which is a movement in a particular country?
- Have any of these demigod creatures visited the earth? Are they in human form?
- Have any of your Godbrothers translated anything?
- Have Muslims taken to this movement?
- Have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
- Have there been any complaints from Detroit?
- Have there been dropouts, out of the movement, of the hundred that were initiated?
- Have these books been reviewed in foreign papers?
- Have they (the chief minister) done (given land in Kuruksetra) so?
- Have they advanced beyond following the rules and regulations of ISKCON?
- Have they encountered any problems in, like out on the Hollywood Boulevard? Police action or telling them to move or...?
- Have we fallen from higher to lower or do we come from the very bottom of plant then to animal?
- Have we interested any of the leading French citizens in our movement?
- Have you all seen Krsna?
- Have you also members of your movement which are simply in their work, in the community, in the world?
- Have you any comment about the lawsuit that the sect here is involved in with regard to whether they should be allowed to sell literature and collect donations?
- Have you any idea what the number of the people are nationally?
- Have you any plans yet to go to England? Is anything definite?
- Have you any program for the common people?
- Have you any program of Swamiji for the common mass?
- Have you asked the government for money? President Nixon?
- Have you been harassed in London at all?
- Have you been in connection with Aurobindo?
- Have you been many times in France or not?
- Have you been to Kerala ever?
- Have you been to Puri for a long time?
- Have you been to Russia? They allowed you to preach?
- Have you been troubled by any undesirable elements?
- Have you ever been there (in Nepal), Srila Prabhupada?… You'd like to go sometime?
- Have you ever continued the correspondence with that heart surgeon?
- Have you ever found what you believe to be your self? Could you tell us what you found?
- Have you ever seen Krsna?
- Have you got a particular mission for London?
- Have you got any French literature of conception (indistinct)?
- Have you got books on the use of flick knives, like your brother-in-law's there?
- Have you got some points in common with the Christians?
- Have you got them here?
- Have you had a significant impact on the American society? The values you preach, have they influenced Americans to a certain degree?
- Have you had any difficulty in bringing this, which seems to have originated in India, into the West?
- Have you many branches of your society everywhere? Where is your main center, and where are the branches?
- Have you met Mother Theresa?
- Have you put any conditions (they may say that "Your Krsna; our this." No. That knowledge Krsna is giving for everyone. And it is accepted by everyone. They are Christians. How they are accepting? I am not bribing them)?
- 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 read the book of Satsvarupa Maharaja?
- Have you realized the highest truth yourself?
- Have you seen Krsna?
- Have you seen many people in Melbourne?
- Have you seen?
- Have you studied other religions?
- Have you translated also the Bhakti-rasamta-sindhu?... All of it...? Or...
- Have you tried to compare with Gita written by Gyaneshvara, or by Vinoba Bhave or by somebody else?
- Have you wandered around from village to village?
- Have you wanted a businessman to come?
- Have you written all of these books or are they by other philosophers of...?
- Haven't you come across some hostile attitude to your teaching from orthodox Hindu, from orthodox brahmanas in India itself?
- Haven't you given the copyright to them (Macmillan)?
- Having a temple and a farm?
- Hawaii. They have a new place (our Hawaii, tulasi grows very nice)?
- Hawaiians, they are not very much inclined to read. So does that mean we should distribute lots of prasadam here profusely?
- He (a devotee who works for Krsna yet doesn't follow the four regulatives principles) will fall down?
- He (a vrajavasi) has a spiritual master?
- He (Bon Maharaja) lived underneath the ground in one cell. You know that?
- He (cobblers, they eat this cows' flesh when the animal is dead, not living and we'll kill) dies his own natural death?
- He (Dr. Rao) was not serious?
- He (Dr. W. S. Urquhart) was the one who said that the woman's brain is thirty-six ounces?
- He (Duke of Windsor's castle) is the king there, right? The queen's husband
- He (Duke of Windsor) also is the one who has the Windsor Palace?
- He (Einstein) died in a leper colony, didn't he?
- He (Giriraja) is not married?
- He (God) doesn't get hungry or thirsty?
- He (God) doesn't supply his bread to everybody unless... People die, do they not?
- He (God) knows before creating people, they'll sin. Then why does He create them?
- He (Grnanatha) didn't stay here?
- He (Jackie Vaughn) says we're in the world, but how can we be aloof from it? How can we not be a part of it?
- He (Jawaharlal Nehru) accepted as spiritual master, some sort of... His teacher is Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi. So he was teaching him the same thing what he has learned. From here he learned all this knowledge which has spoiled our Indian culture?
- He (Jesus) is not Krsna?
- He (Krsna) has no these external senses?
- He (Krsna) took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He (Lord Caitanya) would sometimes eat clay?
- He (Lord Krsna) displays His Vrndavana only on the earthly-like planet?
- He (Maharaja Yayati) sent them (his two sons) there (to the European quarters) for conquering?
- He (Mahiravana) built the subway (to Brazil)?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother to Ceylon in the battle?
- He (Mahiravana) was called by his brother, wasn't he...?
- He (Meher Baba) died in motor accident?
- 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 (one Hindi gentleman) was serious? He was serious about the map (he presented a picture, India's map, and all the whole India is full of avataras: Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, this, that)?
- He (Prabhupada) has traveled the world sixteen times around?
- He (Ravana) was devotee of Lord Siva. Otherwise why Lord Siva gives him whatever he wants?
- He (Sanskrit scholar) does not want to learn (English) ?
- He (someone) has what?
- He (Srila Prabhupada's son) can come to Mayapur to see you?
- He (Syamasundara) wants to give back some money?
- He (the psychologist) didn't become angry (he is a good boy. Although I say, "You do not know anything")?
- He (the pujari) comes on this side of the altar and blows the conchshell. Is that all right? It should be behind the curtain or in front of the curtain?
- He (the yogi) doesn't see the Supersoul with the gross senses, does he?
- He (Tukarama) was the one who was initiated by Lord Caitanya?
- He (Vivasvan) will stay as long as the sun... He is present?
- He argues that Krsna knows everything, so Krsna knew that he would have trouble controlling his senses; therefore why did Krsna give him senses?
- He asked a question about... In Latin America there's much belief or superstition in this so-called lost city of Atlantis. It's very famous all around the western world that there was a lost civilization called Atlantis. It fell down into the ocean?
- He asked about heart transplants, where does the soul go in heart transplant, when they change the heart from one body to another body?
- He asked if anyone now has seen Krsna
- He asked if you're pleased if your disciples do things like Sharma, if they, like, go to live in trees and do artificial renunciation?
- He asks how many disciples there is in France?
- He asks if our students are Indian. He likes the paintings. He was wondering whether they were done by Indian students
- He asks if we have a school in France?
- He asks if we have temple in France or if we do in apartment or if we do in conference, private conferences. How we are doing it?
- He asks if we have to be disciple, do we have to know Sanskrit or to learn Sanskrit?
- He asks what are our political principles in Krsna consciousness. Do we have a program?
- He asks what language we use when we read Bhagavad-gita?
- He asks: In our society do these four divisions also exist?
- He can perceive that he has changed from child to old man, but he can't perceive what is going to happen after death. So who knows?
- He does not speak krsna-katha, Prabhupada. So five thousand you have estimated for the Deities? For a month you have estimated last night five thousand?
- He gets the body? Does he get the body (Krsna's pure devotee, he's not in the material world. In the spiritual world)?
- He has a very good cook. That day I don't know how he ran away, or... You striked him, no?
- He has become a dog, Nehru?
- He has not come now. There is no unrighteousness in this world?
- He has understood from Bhagavad-gita that Krsna says that "As you approach Me, I present Myself." So in that sense can this movement be compared to also the consciousness of Christ, Christ consciousness
- He holds your hand and gives that hand to God. That is guru. That is what I think. Am I right in a way?
- He is a sudra. Would we retrain him as a farmer?
- He is asking if he should not show this humility, attitude of humility, to all others?
- He is asking if it is possible for them to chant the name God, that in fact is not really a name, by the name Krsna, because according to what you are explaining, God is Krsna. So can they chant the name of Krsna?
- He is asking if they were actually covered in the spiritual world as well?
- He is asking if we are sure if we are right in what we are saying?
- He is asking when you take birth again do you take birth as the same sex or do you change your sex?
- He is making it in the mortar. Should you take it directly on the mortar?
- He is saying that you have said that we have a material body and also a spiritual body. So he wants to know if the spirit and matter are born simultaneously or if the matter is born, the material body is born, and later the spirit comes
- He is simply attached to serving Krsna (a devotee is always satisfied in any condition. He has no attachment or detachment)?
- He is still doing that (not staying anywhere more than three minutes)? Narada Muni?
- He is taking over there, you take here?
- He is telling that he's requesting repeatedly that Prabhupada doesn't talk too much. He says that the energy that he's building, the moment he starts talking, he loses that energy… Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- He is what (according to our philosophy, unless one has got perfect knowledge of his self-identification, he remains an animal)?
- He is wondering is it possible to spread Krsna consciousness in Yugoslavia?
- He likes syrup or tablets? Tablets will be difficult for swallowing?
- He loses all his self-control and he said, "I am going to throw myself in the fire. I have lost my son." Is that the action of a man who has heard God Himself speak to him?
- He mentions the point, what is that urge? Why do I want to improve? What is that urge that makes me want to...
- 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 in a letter, he just wrote a letter to you that... You laid a cornerstone in some temple? About three, four years ago?
- He said one thing is to understand theoretically the knowledge, and the other is to practice it. What is the method for...?
- He said, "In others words (if you don't follow, then you are not spiritualist; you are fool), is all humanity a fool then?"
- He says he takes Christianity as Krsna consciousness. What do you say?
- He says his understanding is that this living force inside all of us is the spirit of God that is in every one of us?... But there must be something more than just these words. There must be some way of experiencing that, of realizing that?
- He says if we practice Krsna consciousness and develop a spiritual body, is there also a... Which spirit animates the spiritual body?
- 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 seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?... How should society be organized in order to achieve these goals?
- He says that for Christians, this feeling of being with God comes from praying to Lord Jesus Christ. He's asking if Krsna has that same position for us?
- He says that he understands that we are talking of love meaning two people, but does that mean that... Why can't we think of love in terms of an exchange between man and everything, between man and the cosmos?
- He says that if God is a person, how can we understand, as there's a common saying that God is and also is not?
- He says that legions of sadhus, such white men, persons from West, become sadhus, then who will do this job of earning a living?
- He says that you cannot bring life, but you can bring death immediately. Why is that?
- He says the term "entering into silence" is a mystic term that means... it is undescribable because it's something that's arrived at inside through meditation. You can't really describe it in words?
- He says there must be some higher knowledge that you know that can actually liberate people. He is looking for that. He wants to know what is that
- 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 says you must have in your teachings some higher knowledge which will permit everyone to do away with this nationalism, to do away with this false ego, and this pride. What is that knowledge?
- He says, "But then Krsna says, 'Why are you afraid to fight? After all, the soul is eternal, but the body is only temporary.' So isn't that a justification..."?
- He says, "Does this Krsna consciousness message apply as well to the outcastes?"
- He says, "How is this, that the only thing we've talked about since we've gotten here has been eating of meat? Is that the only thing that the Bhagavad-gita teaches?"
- 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?
- He says, do we see Krsna as being a savior in the way that Christians see Christ as being the savior?
- He sounded like this? He (Krsna) talked like that, like the birds talk?
- 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 thought the word (electricity) did not exist at the time?
- He took the chariot wheel when Bhisma pitamaha was coming to Arjuna. Is that a fight?
- He wanted to know what is the relation between the Vedic culture of India and the cultures that originally were in Latin America. There seemed to be some similarity, cultures such as the different Indian cultures?
- He wants to bring the brahmanas to inaugurate the Bombay temple, Srila Prabhupada?
- He wants to know does the ant receive benefit (if a devotee step on a ant by mistake)?
- He wants to know exactly what is the form of the body. If spirit soul is nonmaterial, what is the form?
- He wants to know how can we live in this material world without becoming entangled?
- He wants to know how he will be engaged. Who will tell him what to do?
- He wants to know how in the beginning, when we are starting to engage in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to God, can you develop enthusiasm and sincerity
- He wants to know how to find out how to please the spiritual master with one service
- He wants to know if Krsna is above Jesus Christ?
- He wants to know if our reincarnations are progressive or regressive
- He wants to know if the greatest offense is to disobey the guru
- He wants to know if the senses, the material senses we now have, originally belong to the soul which has been covered by the material body
- He wants to know if to be able to talk in that way you have met God, you have seen God, and if God has given you the authority for being seated on this vyasasana and receiving the obeisances of your disciples?
- He wants to know if we are born good and then we learn the bad thing?
- He wants to know if within marriage it is possible to achieve perfection?
- He wants to know if you believe that the Virgin Mary who is the mother of Jesus is the same as Parvati
- He wants to know if you, if you think that you will be able to complete all the volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam which you have projected?
- He wants to know more about those who are asleep and those who are awake in our eyes. What is a sleeper and who is awake?
- He wants to know something about psychic phenomena
- He wants to know what are the characteristics of a person who has realized that he is not this body
- He wants to know what the doctrine of Krsna consciousness is
- He wants to know why Lord Caitanya is not mentioned in the Bhagavatam with the other incarnations
- He wants to know, is this consciousness within us (the soul means consciousness. It is just like sunshine. The soul is very small particle, but it is shining as consciousness)?
- He was a good professor? He was a good man (Mr. Cameron)?
- He was asking how do we know what Krsna dictates, by what authority. How do we know how we can serve Krsna?
- He was citing the instance of the four Kumaras who were traveling through the gates of the Vaikuntha world, but actually they were not completely God-realized...
- He was speaking in English (Aurobindo never preached in Hindi)?
- He would like to become Krsna conscious, only wants to know if you believe in God?
- He would like to know if to instruct young Christians to chant the name of Krsna will be helping them attain the highest perfection or if it is changing their religion?
- He would like to know what our opinion is of Jesus Christ?
- 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 would swoon whenever He heard Krsna's name? He would be swooning? Lord Caitanya would faint?
- He's (George Harrison) living in the temple?
- He's (God) not omniscient?
- He's asking a question, Srila Prabhupada: isn't it important to mold the activities of ourselves and also the children in coming to this movement; to mold them that so that we can become Krsna conscious?
- He's asking again about geographically, what will it be like (after 400,000 years) as far as temperatures and the different continents?
- He's asking how can he be relieved from such sadness when his son has died? How do we evaluate death?
- He's asking how can we prove our point (that body and soul are two things)?
- He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
- He's asking if this religion is a matter of reason or is it a matter of feeling?
- He's asking is the form of the soul material?
- He's asking that it states in part one of Srimad-Bhagavatam that one should not jump to the Tenth Canto without having read all the previous?
- He's asking whether Srila Prabhupada would like to take some dab water
- He's asking you how to translate a French word, "au revoir."... How do you translate into English?
- He's asking, "Everyone in India (is Krsna conscious)?"
- He's asking, "How do we see ourselves and how is it that we intentionally distinguish ourselves by dressing differently, by having a different presentation than the rest of society?"
- He's saying did you think of these things yourself, to chant on the beads and follow the program in the morning, have you made these up yourself?... Who originated those steps?
- He's saying if man is not meant to eat meat, then why is it that some animals eat meat? He's saying that we are animals also
- He's saying why are we dressing like that, like Indians?
- He's saying why do you say a perfect person instead of saying a perfect philosophy?
- He's talking about if you're married before you come to the movement and one person wants to join the movement and the other person is not very agreeable?
- He's the oldest devotee? Mukunda? He's the oldest devotee?
- Helped (I am very much indebted to them because they have helped me) in what sense?
- Her (Sumati Morarjee) husband is alive?
- Her question is... Suppose someone has some faith in life after death, and he also may be an intelligent man by material standards. Why isn't he automatically...?
- Her question was, "Is your physical place important, surroundings"?
- Her soul is still alive, and she is still functioning spiritually, even though her brain is dead. Is that what...?
- Here (many monkeys were deported by the government but people protested. They were capturing monkeys...)?
- Here in Vrndavana the people also pay taxes?
- Here it mentions Brahman, and as I understood omkara... My question is whether omkara is a representation...?
- Here too, in this country also, they're making butter from stool?
- Here's another one kind of on that line. How do you feel about women's lib?
- Here, Srila Prabhupada. Can you give me the verse (sa te 'ham yogah proktah puratanah. Puratanah. Find out)?
- 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)?
- Hindu College (is that St. Julia's College a Hindu College)?
- Hinduism has always renewed or revitalized itself according to the need of the times. In today's context, are any correctives called for, and if so, who will bring them about and how can they be brought about and made acceptable to all the masses?
- Hinduism has been defined as a way of life?
- Hing and what? Prepare with hing and?
- Hiranyaksa was taking the gold from the earth. Now they are taking the oil. So the weight, the oil makes weight in some parts of the globe, no?
- His (Krsna's) senses are (spiritual)...?
- His first question was regarding tilaka. What is the symbolism, significance?
- His idea.... His question, Prabhupada, is also, suppose someone wants to buy a farm or wants to do some new project. Do they ask your permission first?
- His question is that now the government is corrupt, so what can be immediately done?
- 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?
- His question was that can you take initiation by accepting the spiritual master in your heart without actually taking...?
- His question was when we take initiation from you, we understand that we become your eternal servitors. But if we have to come again to another birth...?
- Hogs are there as well (in the spiritual world)?
- Homeopathic doctor (that Ahmedabad, that gentleman in his house, you were guest, you were in Ahmedabad (they will make processes for eating the seaweed))?
- How a man such as yourself, in such a high position and such hierarchy was able to leave all this in order to bring this message to others?
- How about if a disciple wants to use the help of Visnu for the spiritual master?
- 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 about love between people? Just like this... Is that bondage also?
- How about love towards relatives? They say, "Love your parents," or "Love your wife and children." Isn't that also bondage?
- How about opening one temple in Ahmedabad?
- How about people who aren't first-class intelligence, people, as you mentioned, the foolish. What message...?
- How about Radha-Krsna also (let them worship Gaura-Nitai)?
- How about serving the parents?
- How about teaching them how to love themselves?
- How about the duality (relative means you cannot understand anything without the other. That is called relative. Suppose if I say "good man," I cannot understand a good man without having another man, bad man)?
- How about the meaning of the chanting. You are insist on chanting?
- How about the one who picks up and he doesn't find the owner of the coins but he offers to Krsna?
- How about the third and fourth-classes?
- How and from where did the conditioned souls fall?... If someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down?
- How and what relation can develop greater love for Krsna through conquering sleep?
- How and why did we lose our awareness of our true love for Krsna in the beginning?
- How are others doing?
- How are the boys and girls to learn these things in manners of decorum and manners from the sannyasis, for example. How are they to offer respects to their godbrothers?
- How are the individualities (of the spirit soul) accounted for?
- How are the references made?
- How are these conditions going to change (material condition is the four principles of bodily demands: eating, sleeping, sex and defense)?
- How are they able to perpetuate such an enormous hoax (ask all scientists this simple question. Why, all over the world, Sunday, sun first and moon second? Why? And Saturday last. All of you could not answer this question)?
- How are they feeling about it (temple), the Vrndavana Gosais?
- 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 are those supported (the forty centers in the United States)? Do they support themselves?
- How are we going to fare in this court case?
- How are we to determine how much of our endeavor should be for our own personal progress?
- How are we to tell one (true master) from the other (any spiritual master)?
- How are you feeling after it (massage)?
- How are you feeling this morning, Srila Prabhupada?
- How are you feeling this morning, Srila Prabhupada? You haven't passed any urine for quite awhile. What is the reason for that?
- How are you to know that this act or that act is good or bad?
- How are you trying?
- How are you?... You have carried a big load. What is... Will you be in a position to come to the conference?
- How can a devotee be free from being attracted to this worldliness?
- How can a man's intelligence be rectified? If intelligence is the...
- How can a person with all material desires develop desire to love Krsna?
- How can a spirit become so ignorant?
- How can all sections of Hindus be made to take an equal interest and have the same sense of belonging to the Hindu religion?
- How can an artificial kidney be expected to work like a real kidney? I mean, they want to hold back time…They think that they can defeat the time...
- How can any body live in the sun?
- How can any materialist manage more than a few wives without divorce?
- How can anybody say (that Kunti is as good as Arjuna or Bhima)?
- How can anyone in any part of the world understand that he is part of God?
- How can Catholic people, without rejecting their own religion, take to Krsna consciousness?
- How can darkness argue with the sunlight? Their trying to argue is just like darkness trying to argue with the sunlight (they said, "Everyone has a father, so who's God's father?")
- How can God be controlled by His own energy, illusory energy?
- How can God be localized?
- How can he (the Calcutta kaviraja) give strength? Just like makara-dhvaja is for giving strength
- How can he be supreme if he can fall down?
- How can I apply that (Krsna consciousness) in my factory?
- How can I explain how the light and heat from the single sun in this universe is able to reach so far? Is it a question of the receptivity of different planets?
- How can I forget about myself so I can concentrate on other more important things?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can I give up attraction for woman?
- How can I know if I wasn't Krsna conscious in my last life?... Could I have been in my last life?
- How can I know that (who is guru?)...?
- How can I know with my inferior brain who has the best brain (we want to see who has got the best brain, who has got the best opulence, who has got the best beauty, who has got the best knowledge, who has got the best friend)?
- How can I serve you better?
- 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 Krishna be mother if He is the Supreme Male?
- How can one be better equipped to tolerate these despairs and miseries of our human existence?
- How can one come to have faith that there is life after one leaves his body?
- How can one cut down his limited knowledge if he's habituated to material life?
- How can one discriminate what is a real authority and who is a blind person posing as an authority?... How can we tell a real authority?... As opposed to someone who is posing as an authority?
- How can one establish faith in the principle of reincarnation? How can one come to believe in it?
- How can one inquire of you how to know Krsna? What is the process? How does one inquire of the spiritual master?
- How can one reach the point where he knows that a particular type of service will please the spiritual master?
- How can one remain humble in executing his devotional service?
- How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant Hare Krsna yet is still being plagued by desire for sex?
- How can one see the spiritual master in darkness? If you are standing in a dark room...
- How can one serve Krsna in daily life?
- How can one strengthen the spiritual will to act plain and live the spiritual life?
- How can one understand God's love?
- How can she be sure that the spiritual master is bona fide?
- How can the four natural divisions of man be translated into American society?
- How can the living entities actually be happy?
- How can the people in general recognize when a devotee is pure?
- How can the position be reconciled if in Krsna consciousness one of the two, the husband or the wife, wants to enjoy sense gratification, but the other does not? Should there be separation then?
- How can the purification process, Prabhupada, be carried through the average life, twenty-four hours a day?
- How can the sun itself be different from it's energy?
- How can the Vedas be considered eternal since they contain many historical references?
- How can the world survive when people forget their karma and immerse themselves in Krsna consciousness? Won't it lead to inaction and a stand-still condition?
- How can there be any truth separate from the Lord?
- How can these people be so sincere and so earnest?
- How can they vote for human beings (the voters are pigs and asses and camel and dogs. So if these animal vote for somebody, then what he is)?
- How can this practically be applied to American society, this idea of trusting God? How would things change?
- How can we accept it (although Christ says, 'Thou shalt not kill,' I can neglect that." And then, if still he is captured, he will say, "Bible is very old.")?
- How can we achieve samadhi?
- How can we add (introduce classes where such laws of nature (dehino 'smin) and such-on scientific line, without giving it a Hindu or religious name) in innumerable, rather, uncountless schools and colleges?
- How can we be happy when you're not well?… We can't be happy if you're not well
- How can we become intelligent or independent? In a money-orientated world?
- How can we begin to serve you so that you'll be pleased?
- How can we best serve the movement? By joining it? I have joined it in a...
- How can we fast move in India to spread our Krsna consciousness?... How can we spread the Krsna consciousness?
- How can we feel the transmigration of the soul?
- How can we force the scientists to accept Bhagavad-gita?
- How can we get a God conscious leader (president) in this country?
- How can we get this perfect knowledge and how can we practice it if we're like prisoners?
- How can we get those people who are immersed in maya to become serious?
- How can we get to Krsna? How do you get to Krsna?
- How can we give a recommendation on this question (you cannot guarantee anything success. Maybe success, maybe failure. If kaviraja's suggestion, if it becomes success, that's very good. But if it is failure), Srila Prabhupada? I mean...
- How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- How can we increase our desire for sankirtana?
- How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness?
- How can we know that somebody is perfect?
- How can we know what is good and what is bad? How can we define them?
- How can we make them understand they're being punished?
- How can we perfectly follow only what Krsna has said?
- How can we prove Krsna scientifically?
- How can we realize Krsna is satisfied?
- How can we realize the omnipresence?
- How can we recognize yogamaya?
- How can we relieve ourselves of material pain and live in spiritual pleasure?
- How can we repay you?
- How can we say that to give people..., that the only real problem is to give knowledge. There are people who are starving; there are people who are sick; there are people who are in so much distress?
- How can we stop speculating?
- How can we surpass the misery?
- How can we understand the difference between personality and individuality? And if God expands Himself in everything, then He must be inside all of His creation?
- How can we understand the guru?
- How can you be sure you have realized yourself?
- How can you be sure you're free from all anxiety if you're incapable of perceiving happiness?
- How can you convince that we are the real genuine people?
- How can you deal with such a person without forcing him to contain himself in such a way that he will resent it? Or must he be allowed to expend his energy until he is convinced by experience?
- How can you drink milk when the cough is like this?
- How can you fight a war and then be nonviolent at the same time?... How is it possible to be nonviolent...
- How can you focus your mind on God before you know what He is?
- How can you follow it (try to understand Krsna and go back to home, back to Godhead) if you've never been exposed to Krsna?
- How can you get back to Godhead...?
- How can you make them (people) interested if they're not?
- How can you say this (this is all childish) when we have so much proof that we have gone to the moon?
- How can you separate out economics, politics...?
- How can you tell when your senses are getting purified?
- How can you trust God if you don't know anything about Him? First you have to know something about God before you can trust Him.
- How can you use something in Krsna's service? What is the process to use things in Krsna's service?
- How close does one student usually, how close does he get to the master? How closely does he understand the master? Or he could interrelate himself to the master?
- How come a lotus flower is so great?
- How come in the locational, archaeological and ontological records, Krsna consciousness is not mentioned by other religions?
- How come that if in this age of Kali people in general are less intelligent, in this particular age they've received the fullest revelation of knowledge? Why not in the Satya-yuga?
- How come we (your disciples) come to you (Srila Prabhupada)?
- How come you didn't cook your food where you were living?
- How could father feed even the child (they say they may become pregnant and have children, but the men should take care of the children, equally... They get milk from the mother, not from the father)?
- How could God, who is perfect, be lonely?
- How could he use that for Krsna's service if he's expert in mathematics?
- How could I know the unknown within the known?
- How could one choose when he himself is ignorant?
- How could some people look at the seed of a tree and come to a different conclusion?
- How could the mere repetition of words bring about God realization?
- How could they stop it (before they are taking anything)? By virtue of the strength of the mind. That man, if he has got no strength of mind, he should not...
- How could Visnu appear from the nostril of Brahma?
- How could we make a poor choice if we were part and parcel of Krsna? How could we have chosen the material world?
- How could we understand Srimati Radharani?
- How could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.
- How could you reconcile these two: He is formless, and He has form. He has form and yet infinite?
- How did Krsna consciousness develop?
- How did Prakasananda Sarasvati see or think that Lord Caitanya was the Lord Narayana Himself when he only realized Brahman?
- How did Subash Bose get from India to Germany?
- How did Sukdev Goswami hear Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- How did that war of Kuruksetra differ from other wars?
- How did the atman come into being?
- How did the gopis surrender unto Krsna? You said they surrendered everything. How did they do it?
- How did the material covering begin? How did we fall into that?
- How did you attract people? You landed in New York...
- How did you become a disciple yourself?
- How did you feel about Gandhiji spiritually?
- How did you feel about when they taught Darwin when you were in school?
- How did you find Moscow?
- How did you find the transition, or how did it affect you, the transition from leading a life in the business world?
- How did you like the pomegranate juice?
- How did you manage immediately after landing in USA?
- How did you manage to get your first Bhagavatams printed?
- How do I come to know that Krsna is satisfied?
- How do I create matter that is my body?
- How do I know that animals do not want to die?
- How do I know that I am thinking properly?… I must know what I am meant for… That's what my question is, how does one know?
- How do I know who is a perfect person?
- How do I know who is perfect?
- How do I serve the servants of the gopis?
- How do the different seasons come about-winter, summer, spring?
- How do they know it's not millions of years ago
- How do they live, then? The same example (the moon)
- How do they make it (puffed rice) ?
- How do they respond in China?
- How do we attain our spiritual body?
- How do we become free of envy?
- How do we bring them (the atheists) to their senses?
- How do we chant Hare Krsna?
- How do we develop devotion for service, desire for service?
- How do we enter into the modes of goodness?
- How do we explain that (I was telling my colleague that stratus, the layers so perfect that everywhere, say five inches, just like it appears somebody has laid down)?
- How do we finance our movement?
- How do we free ourself from maya?
- How do we give knowledge to the common masses of people?
- How do we handle these people who don't seem to want to carry their own weight, though, Prabhupada? The ones who don't want to work and help produce this food?
- How do we know he's a good doctor or not? By his credential or... (if you are suffering from some disease, you have to go to a doctor who knows how to treat)?
- How do we know if somebody else, Yogananda, Maharsi, and all these different people that have translated it, how are we to tell that their version isn't Krsna's word from your version?
- How do we know of the spiritual abodes since once going there no one returns?
- How do we know that the animals don't know all of these great truths?
- How do we know that the meaning (of Bhagavad-gita) is distorted?
- How do we know that they're not (indistinct) (suppose someone is coming to stab you; you cannot jump. Therefore bird is more intelligent)?
- How do we know that Vedavyasa is not defective like other living beings?
- How do we know that we're going to have a body in the next life?
- How do we know when God is pleased?
- How do we know when we should accept this (voluntary) adversity?
- How do we know which one of the meanings is used in this verse?
- How do we know, then, what is the real fact (when everyone gives his own opinion)?
- 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 we render perfect service to Krsna?
- How do we stop them from subletting? ... No, I mean supposing they were to move out completely and let someone else move in?
- How do we support our challenge to the scientists that they have not actually gone to the moon?
- How do we take the meaning of earthquakes and natural disasters which could destroy the lives of pure people as well as impure people?
- How do we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles...?
- How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?
- How do we.... What do we do during the day? What are our activities?
- How do you account for the fact that man sometimes takes animals and feeds them and protects them, whereas otherwise these animals might have died of starvation or exposure or something?
- How do you agree to this (to act according to the whims of Krsna)?
- How do you apply the concept of consciousness and life to a God conceived of in the terms like this image here?
- How do you awake that consciousness?
- How do you become informed as to certain events?
- How do you become qualified? How did you become qualified?
- How do you call devotion to the Lord?
- How do you choose, you are responsible for the organization?… Are you the one who chooses who runs each center, who is responsible in each temple?
- How do you classify dreams?
- How do you convince a person that they are suffering, when they're saying they are happy and not afraid to die?
- How do you deal with negativity?...The devotees encounter negativity every day, people that are not interested. How, not just on the outside world, but how does one deal with that within, how does one relieve oneself of that negativism?
- How do you decide whether a place is sacred or not?
- How do you define a brahmana?
- How do you determine what's an obstacle?
- How do you develop a service attitude in Krsna consciousness?
- How do you develop the strength to keep chanting even when maya is making you so attracted?
- How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?
- How do you envisage one should act, if I may ask that?
- How do you explain aham brahmasmi?
- How do you explain suicide?
- How do you explain the advance that Marxism has made?
- How do you explain the fact that Jesus said that "I am the way, the truth, and the light," and that "No man comes to the father but by me"? How can we explain that Jesus said he is the only way?
- How do you explain vrsninam vasudevo 'smi?
- How do you feel about Mao Tse-tung?
- 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 God inside you?
- How do you feel now? Do you like warm thing or cold thing?
- How do you feel that this kaviraja's medicine is affecting, Srila Prabhupada?
- How do you feel the modern world (have received Krsna consciousness)? What's your feeling?
- How do you feel?
- How do you find the taste (mint tea)?
- How do you get that direction moment by moment, hour by hour?
- How do you get the strength to follow the rules and regulations?
- 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 know (that is a bogus)? Have you met him (Guru Maharaji)?
- How do you know how to follow the footsteps of the mahajanas?
- How do you know if you have satisfied God?
- How do you know that "Krsna" is a name of God?
- How do you know that a name (of God) is approved?
- How do you know that person who wrote it was perfect? And who is the perfect man? How do you find out?
- How do you know that you know? May I ask this (we have to find out, we have to find out who can give the perfect knowledge)?
- How do you know the animal has a soul?
- How do you know there's a soul?
- How do you know this Deity is Krsna, and this one isn't? Because each Deity looks a little different to the material eyes
- How do you know when he's attained to Krsna consciousness?
- How do you know whether you're using it for Krsna or not?
- How do you like them (the ratha carts), Prabhupada?... Strong? Strong enough?
- How do you make everything that you say so simple to understand?
- How do you measure your liberation from the laws of nature?
- 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 regard abortion? At what stage does the spirit enter into the womb?
- How do you regard suicide, and would there be any exceptional circumstances that might justify it?
- How do you relate Christ with Krsna?
- How do you relate the International Society for Krishna Consciousness to Hinduism?
- How do you relate your strong interest in dairy products to modern thinking on cholestrol and similar problems?
- How do you see helping your fellow man?
- How do you spend your days? You do an awful lot of traveling I understand
- How do you stop that (greed)?
- How do you teach a varnasrama college? In varnasrama college if somebody comes in... They say, "I want to be ksatriya" or "I want to be vaisya." Is it like that?
- How do you teach Krsna consciousness to a five year old who is only a children? What it means to be a teacher?
- How do you teach your disciples to become aware of this force which is no matter that makes matter alive?
- How do you think about somebody in last few days defeated the existence of Mahabharata itself?
- How do you understand incarnation?
- How do you view the development of the potential for nuclear explosions in India?
- How do you want India to take this movement?
- How does a devotee know which food Krsna likes him to take?
- How does a man find out what his duty is?
- How does a preacher realize? How does a preacher come to realize?
- How does chance come about, if there is such a thing?
- How does He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) accept sannyasi?
- How does He (Krsna) speak to you or to us?
- How does he (the sadhu) live in the woods without a spiritual master and learn?
- How does he become conditioned when the jivatma is eternal full of bliss and knowledge?
- How does it attack (Rahu planet comes to attack the sun and the moon)?
- How does it benefit the person who is selling the book, the devotee?… How is he benefited by selling books to others?
- How does it matter what people call Krsna, whether they call Bhagavan or Visnu or what, Krsna? If it is just only one God. We are talking removing Krsna from Gita but putting Bhagavan there instead of Krsna. How does it matter?
- How does it react? Potassium cyanide? It blocks the oxygen path? That's what science says?
- How does krpa-siddhi work, Srila Prabhupada?
- How does Krsna consciousness differ from samadhi?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to Advaita philosophy?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to the Hindu religion? Because that is also based on the Bhagavad-gita
- How does Krsna support them (the forty centers in the United States)?… He mediates through physical things, does he?
- How does one become "bhagyavan"?
- How does one become humble and remain humble?
- How does one become strong?
- How does one contact the spiritual master? Through a book can you contact the spiritual master?
- How does one distinguish between what is a false God...?
- How does one establish clearly (your studies of philosophy will be perfect when you establish, "Yes, there is God.")?
- How does one feel called toward Krsna conscious? What demands are made upon him? How does he come into the frame of mind where he can accept Krsna consciousness?
- How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krsna or not?
- How does one get the experience of personal existence of God?
- How does one get to know the true spirit?
- How does one give up the fear of dying?
- How does one interpret if the cause is great (if the cause if great, then killing is no sin)?
- How does one know a bona fide spiritual master who can lead them?
- How does one know when he has the understanding of the Bhagavad-gita?
- How does one learn to control the senses, overwhelming?
- How does one practice to keep the mind from being restless?
- How does one sharpen one's senses?
- How does one show such an impersonalist with absolute proof logically? I was told Srila Bhaktivinoda has such a proof
- How does one surrender to Krsna?
- How does one surrender?
- How does one train the mind?
- How does our love for Krsna somehow or other get transformed into lust?
- How does our philosophy define mind and intelligence?
- How does repeating one word, "Krsna," or singing "Rama" and "Krsna" help achieving the way?
- How does say that in your process, anybody has been made happy?
- How does she get Krsna's instructions while chanting?
- How does that come? (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession… Originally the order is from Krsna)?
- How does that fit in with the species of life, Srila Prabhupada, when they combine two different species, artificial?
- How does that happen, when he becomes over-intelligent?
- How does that result in more women (the more the man will become attached to woman, the woman population will increase)?
- How does that work, that if somebody has the association of a pure devotee for only a lava, one-eleventh of a second, that he attains all perfection?
- How does the authority know to tell you?
- How does the cosmic force become ignorant of itself and fall into this condition? If before he was this form he was the cosmic energy, how he can fall down into ignorance and become an individual, limited, conditioned soul?
- How does the devotee go about practicing this Krsna consciousness when he's asleep?
- How does the jiva get out of the atom and take a gross body?
- How does the ksatriya build a palace for himself or something like that?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How does transcendental knowledge burn to ashes the reactions of sinful...
- 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 can a bullock cart travel in one day?
- How far is samskara powerful like...?
- How far should the orders of my duly appointed officers like GBC, etc., be obeyed and followed?
- How far the study of the scriptures helps us in being Krsna conscious?
- 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 far would you carry Jagannatha (you used to take Jagannatha right through the streets)?
- How foreign intervention will be dangerous to you if you are perfect (if your theory is perfect, why there should be foreign intervention?)?
- How has India improved by independence? What is the improvement? They are more godless than ever
- 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 he can live or how we can develop or how we can progress? Because the whole, whole progress is this, the progress of ego
- How high did he (Ravana) make it (a staircase to reach the heavenly planets)?
- How I was created, I created this universe (I am repeatedly saying that God does not create anything. Just like the same example. You created. Why do you blame)?
- How important is formal initiation?
- How important is it to look after physical life?
- How important is the association with the devotees?
- How important is your diet?
- How important is your physical environment to you? If this room is very lovely - it has light and space and air and flowers - is this important at all or would it be the same to you to be sitting out on the street?
- How in the beginning is it decided that somebody is working and he should be given or not given (let them (lazy people) become sudra. Let them become servant. No property. If you work, you can get food. Just like animal)?
- How in the Kali-yuga advancing can everyone become Krsna conscious?
- How is a human being going to continue in this world if it has to exist, and if the initiative is not left to the human being, as you say that God is there and God has to be accepted?
- How is bad and good the same thing, Srila Prabhupada?
- How is ether distinct from air?
- How is it benefiting (to automatically pass through all the different species) him (the living entity)?
- How is it done (calculation of time from the atom, Srila Prabhupada. He is talking about Bhagavatam. By the light passing over the atom, you can calculate the time, the sunlight passing over the atomic particles)?
- How is it opened, the eyes (naked soul is there, but you have no eyes to see it. Naked soul is there, but it is so small you cannot see it... But there is. There is no doubt about it)?
- How is it possible that Tulasi-devi is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant?
- How is it possible to deceive so many people (you have made picture. I have not gone and seen that. How can I believe you? The same argument. You say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you)?
- How is it possible to forget the subtle body?
- How is it possible, Srila Prabhupada? We're so tiny, one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair, and yet we can become so puffed-up as to think that even I am God or I am the controller of the material nature like the scientists are thinking?
- How is it that after they (Devaki and Vasudeva) gave birth to Krsna this time they went back to Godhead?
- How is it that Bhaktivinoda Thakura was not so strict in that regard, yet his son, who learned from him, became very strict, like a rod?
- How is it that devotees of Krsna like demigods can be fearful even if they see Visvarupa?
- How is it that I cannot explain my position (I can explain Krsna consciousness, but you cannot explain nirvana. That is the difficulty. I can explain my position but you cannot explain your position)?
- How is it that people are saying that He's so tiny that He may even be an ordinary man? How can they be so illusioned to think like that? Krsna is everything. How can they ignore Him?
- How is it that people who have done some pious activity, they get a nice birth in this statement, but usually people who are not wealthy or not so educated, sometimes they more or less take to worshiping Krsna or God?
- How is it that some men have no conception of God?
- How is it that the devotees who run the great temple of Jagannatha refuse to allow foreigners and certain low-caste people, when this was the favorite place of Lord Caitanya, who, like you say, advocated that it should be taught in every town and village?
- How is it that the soul is also a person?
- How is it that the soul wants different things and then the material body acts according to the desires of the soul?... What is the connection that spirit causes matter to do so many things?... How is that contact there?
- How is it that the trees and plants will be happy?
- How is it that there is so much material "advancement'' in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? Is a man after economic development automatically worshiping Lord Siva whether he is making Yajna or not?
- How is it that these men (Mayavadis like Vivekananda) are so attractive to the Indian people?
- How is it that they made such a big mistake (there are many planets invisible. So there is a Rahu planet which comes in front of the moon planet, and that is called eclipse. I think they are going to that Rahu planet, not to the moon planet)?
- How is it that we see the moon moving?
- How is it that when our coat, size of the coat, changes because the body grows bigger the size of the coat is bigger?
- How is it they can see continuity between baby's body and young boy's body and young man's body, they say, "Oh, he's still here," but they can see no continuity between this body and...?
- How is Krsna different? How is He individual in each one of the atoms?
- How is Krsna the greatest scientist?
- How is Mayadevi in such a distasteful position? How did she acquire her position?
- How is our movement doing in India?
- How is that (if you pour water on the root of the tree, the service reaches everywhere) manifesting?
- How is that (over-intelligent by so-called education)?
- How is that (trees have the abilitiy to see and hear)?
- How is that madness transferred to Krsna?
- How is that spiritual dimension realized (if you chant, then, gradually, you realize yourself that you are a spiritual being; you are not this body. Then his spiritual life begins. Actually human life is meant for spiritual realization)?
- How is that there are different types of religion in the world?
- How is that they say that in some of the mantras they are cakras and all that?
- How is that, that this world is unreal? Why do we say that there is good thing and bad thing in the world?
- How is the best way to do that (Prasada selling)?
- How is the Ganges flowing through the planetary systems?
- How is the human life better than the demigod?
- How is the Kuruksetra going?
- How is the lotus a weapon?
- How is the moon behind the sun?
- How is the response in the West?
- How is the school in Vrndavana? The school?... Have they started?
- How is the soul degraded (by lust, anger and greed) when it is transcendental to the body? Doesn't that imply that the soul has changed?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How is this (grhastha duties) connected with Vyasadeva and his situation?
- How is this godlessness showing itself in our society?
- How is your health now?
- How is your health?
- How is your path or your way different from (or) better than others?… It is the only way?
- How it is possible, how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmana?
- How it is? It's a line for a kite, and it's wound upon on a stick, and to make the kite go higher you unleash...?
- How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
- How Krishna is with the spirit soul in the spiritual world?
- How long a sankirtana to begin with, do you think?
- How long are you going to stay there?... In India, when you go?
- How long do you say it is before Krsna comes to this planet again in His physical, in human form?
- How long do you think this takes to (become pure)... For a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- How long do you want to work in Bombay?
- How long does it take (to learn about God)? Well, can we do it? And what happens to me then?
- How long does it take for anyone to achieve perfection? How many stages one must go through, or how many years, how many centuries?
- How long does it take to purify ourself?
- How long does it take you to translate?
- How long does that period (Kali-yuga) last?
- How long does this process of withdrawal (from drug or alcohol addiction) take?
- How long has Krsna consciousness been in India, or were you...?
- How long has this earth, we know, existed?
- How long has your group been in the United States?
- How long have you been a Hare Krsna man?
- How long have you been here, sir?
- How long have you been in Australia?
- How long have you been in this country? Did you come to found this society?
- How long is it since you've been to the Radha-Damodara?
- How long it will be (the age of Kali)?
- How long this movement has been started?
- How long we have to surrender?
- How long were you there (in Moscow)? With your disciple?
- How long will you be feeling bad from the injection?
- How long will you be here (in Iran)?... And then?
- How long will you be in England, sir?
- How long will you be staying in Melbourne?
- How long will you stay in Paris?
- How long will Your Divine Grace be here (Stockholm)?
- How long would the planets float if it was put in the hands of a scientist?
- How long you are going to be in Hyderabad?
- How long you are in India now?
- How long you are staying here?
- How long you going to stay here (Bombay)? You have promised me to stay long, eh?
- How long you'll stay (in Mexico)?
- How many (ISKCON) branches in India?
- How many articles can we put in by you? These are the most important contributions we have, and, say, would it be too much material to put in, say, an essay by you and maybe a lecture?
- How many asramas do you have in India?
- How many births do we have?
- How many books are already finished, and how much is more to come in the future?
- How many brilliant stars are there in this Universe?
- How many centers are there now?
- How many centers in the United States?
- How many children do you have?
- How many commentaries does this one... (Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavat Purana)?
- How many days (you can go from Calcutta to Agra, nice road. And from Agra to Bombay)? Two days?
- How many days were you there (in Moscow)?
- How many different paths are there for self-realization?
- How many disciples do you now have, sir, in the U.S.?
- How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- How many followers do you have (1972)
- How many followers do you have throughout the world now?
- How many followers do you have?
- How many followers have you got now throughout the world or can you not count?
- How many full aratis should we perform, Srila Prabhupada?
- How many ksatriyas can I have on this farm? How many ksatriyas can we have on one farm?
- How many leaders have actually achieved this aim (the true aim of human life)?
- How many levels of initiation do you have?
- How many Life Members in India? Must have at least ten thousand
- How many manuscript pages?
- How many members do you now have? How many followers?... Ten thousand? That is in this country or is that...?
- How many members in the United States? I'm told two thousand. Is that correct approximately?
- How many minutes do you recommend a day? How many minutes do you chant?
- How many more years will Kali-yuga will stand?
- How many of us are scientists here?
- How many of your disciples would have seen the vision of God in the sense of seeing the Lord given in their heart?
- How many officials (?) are there?
- How many other people are there on this planet who have made as much spiritual progress as you have?
- How many paramparas are there?
- How many people are in the Krsna movement in the world, about?
- How many people are in the movement approximately?
- How many qualifications does a spiritual master have in terms of being a spiritual master?
- How many sticks of incense? Two?
- How many swamis do you initiated, American?
- How many temples are there now?
- How many temples are there?
- How many volumes is this one (Caitanya-caritamrta), when it's complete?
- How may a devotee arrive to this particular form (is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only)?
- How may we best expand our movement into the rural areas or into the country areas?
- How may we recognize yogamaya?
- How much money did you carry with you (to America)?
- How much money?
- How much more difficult is it for one born in a family of nondevotees to become a devotee than a person who has been born in a family like Prabhupada's?
- How much of his time do you think should be spent preaching and traveling?
- How much or how little brahmacaris should associate with the unmarried brahmacarinis in the temple?
- How much would be expected of the students (of the Varnasrama College) as far as...? Would they live with us and follow the four principles? Like that? Or just come for classes or...?
- How old are the oldest of the Vedic scriptures?
- How old are you?
- How old is Caitanya now (second act of a play on Lord Caitanya) ?
- How old is He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) at this (when He visited the Jagannatha temple) point?
- How old is He here (in the sixth scene)? How old is Caitanya here? Maybe five, six?
- How old is Krsna?
- How old is this man (Prakasananda Sarasvati)?
- How old it is (the earth)?
- How old was his wife (Dr. Rajendra Prasada, the president, he was married when he was eight years old)?
- How old were you (when a man wanted Prabhupada to become his son)?
- How old were you when you got married?
- How old were you when you got your Radha-Krsna Deity?
- How old? She (Prabhupada's daughter) must be forty-five years old?
- How one can become peaceful?
- How one can know that given source of supposed spiritual truth is an actual truth? Is there any technique how one can get to it?
- How one can know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- How one can supremely control all conditions that would free one from karmic reaction? How could they control the environment?
- How one can tell that he is a devotee of Krsna (one should hear about Krsna from Krsna devotee, not a professional man)?
- How one should start when he's completely ignorant of all these things (you must accept guru and learn. Why should you remain ignorant)?
- How one surrenders? What is meaning of surrender?
- How or why did this spiritual body become covered by the material body?
- How serious would it be for me if I should miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?
- How seriously should they (the criminals) be punished?
- How shall I speak? Shall I beat your body?
- How shall the worship be in the temple, Srila Prabhupada, the small temples. What shall they worship?
- How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadisa was saying?
- How should the relationship between a sannyasi and the temple president be?
- How should we do this in our ISKCON society with these young girls (the Indian system is that when the girl is utmost twelve years, not more than that, ten to twelve years, she must be married)?
- How should we have these Ratha-yatra festivals. Should they be big? Should they be big festivals? Should I plan on having three carts next year, just one, or a small cart?
- How should we know that he (the guru) knows about Krsna?
- How strong is it (the Hare Krsna Movement in India)?
- How strong is the power of Krsna?
- How the body goes away?
- How the eternal spirit soul becomes so completely absorbed that he completely forgets about the future and simply he becomes absorbed in some temporary sense gratification?
- How the five great elements are a gross representation of the subtle false ego?
- How the impersonalists mistake the difference between the soul and the Supersoul?
- How the Mayavadi thinks that he can..., that the material energy is false when at every step he's baffled by the material energy?
- 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 the simpler faith of a real Christian, that is not so advanced in knowledge of the Supreme Person, differs in ecstasy or the end result of God-consciousness?
- How the Vedas can be 3,000 B. C. in age?
- How these devotees are finding salvation for others?
- How they (birds) turn all together and how do they communicate each other that "Yes, let's move out away"?
- How they are going against it (Bhagavad-gita), Prabhupada?
- How they measured it (the life-span of atoms)?
- How they will believe that man didn't go to the moon?
- How this movement has helped in solving any specific issue, any special problem?
- How this movement was formed when you came here. You are the father of this movement. How this idea was created within you?
- How this social order can be generated in India?
- How to acquire the quality of patience?
- How to act when there is a choice of either attending Aratrik ceremony without bathing first or bathing and thus missing attendance at the Aratrik ceremony?
- How To attain that knowledge then?
- How to attain this Krsna consciousness and to maintain it?
- How to awaken kundalini, and how to have permanent state of awakened kundalini?
- How to come to that position (of goswami)?
- How to convince the young persons who are thinking that Meher Baba is an avatara?
- How to find the...? How to get to the atman, the inner body?
- How to from sa guna I do not know?
- How to give up this bad habit (Krsna is not subjected to your thinking. You have to give up this bad habit first of all, that Krsna will be subordinate to your thinking. That is not God)?
- How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
- How to identify a true learned man?
- How to know it (what Krsna wants)?
- 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 to measure it then (the soul)? What is the measurement?
- How to mend from lies?
- How to mend him (a Gurukula student) from lies? He speaks lies
- How to offer respects to Sannyasis?
- How to please God's representative?
- How to please Krishna?
- How to prove that the soul is eternal?
- How to realize Krsna?
- How to see Lord Krsna? Can anybody see Him by chanting the holy name Hare Krsna mantra? Is it possible for a human being in his short period of life?
- How to seek a master? How to find a master?
- How to stop it then (they accept any rascal as God)?
- How to surrender?
- How to understand, how to measure (those who are habituated to act sinful)...?
- How was it possible for Ajamila to chant the name at the time of death?
- How was the soul originally created?
- How we are getting that Australian ghee all the time?
- How we can come over the ego?
- How we can satisfy God?
- How we know about soul?
- How were the leaders, though, of India so weak when the British first occupied that they allowed this all to take place?
- How were you getting so much money (1944, the first copy. I get them from selling. Perhaps they had been, American… In those days I was spending three hundred rupees per month)?
- How will it be possible, Prabhupada, for a man whose mind is clouded to constantly chant Hare Krsna?
- How will the government decide what my gold is and what his gold is? How does the gold get distributed?
- How will the judgement be rendered (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- How will the spiritual master be pleased?
- How will you prove it (the gas came from ether, and ether came from mind, and mind came from intelligence, and intelligence came from the soul)?
- How will your movement give anybody brains?
- How would he (the crocodile) have that loving feeling to hatch the baby?
- How would His Grace see Jesus Christ?
- 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 it (varnasrama college) differ from gurukula?
- How would one tell that one had a genuine guru because one would be told to give up certain parts of...?
- How would the ksatriyas kill the animals (in the varnasrama college)? How would they kill? With guns or bow and arrow?
- How would they get it back from the moon?
- How would we define the word responsibility in Krsna consciousness?
- How would you adapt the Krsna chanting to Christianity?
- How would you be able to carry out your educational or book publishing program if you did not have a financial backing?
- How would you describe that platform (the difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working (many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world))?
- How would you describe these people that live there (on the moon)? Would they be invisible to us or visible?
- How would you explain about eclipse which we get?
- How would you get man to become aware of the situation so he could desire (God consciousness), even desire unconsciously?
- How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji?
- How would you prove that all of them (the single elements alone in the body do not have life) combined together don't have life? How would you prove that?
- How you chose this America to be your first...?
- How you explain the act of Krsna taking away the saris of the gopis?
- How your preaching differs from various acaryas? Say, Sankara or Vallabha or Ramanuja?
- How's that now (the persons in the jail are thinking "These people are not working for life in the jail," so they don't understand what we are doing)?
- How, then, can we advise them (envious people), Srila Prabhupada, if they are like serpents?
- How? I don't see that you're diminishing in your strength (so far I am thinking, I'm not improving in strength. And how can I improve by drinking little barley and milk and little fruit juice? I have no appetite for anything else)
- How? Which authority is that?
- Huns. They were considered like that (to be aborigines)?
- Hussein is his son. Ali is the cousin and the son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed. But can they feel the grace of Krsna within this framework?
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- I agree for some people to, you especially, to think of this because you are a leader of your Vedic religion. But for everybody to do that, where would we be? We couldn't all sit down and think all the time
- I agree with that (you cannot say wrong or right (unless we want to say that this kaviraja is absolutely wrong)). So we have to say, "in case." So what is your point, Srila Prabhupada? That in case you don't gain strength...
- I also come across from Srila Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that the living entities, all the living entities, 8,400,000 species, they are simultaneously created?
- I also wanted to ask a question, Srila Prabhupada, on dancing in the temple room during arati, especially mangala-arati. Is it not that the devotees should not turn their back while dancing to the Deity?
- I always want to ask whether if you met demigods or Indra or Brahma or...
- I am a part and parcel of the almighty God. So when animals are butchered, why the butcher does not get pain?
- 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 am employed in government service. Is it your wish that I resign?
- I am not clear about the life equal to matter?
- I am now trying to learn (indistinct) something, and I find that by doing bhakti, ah, what you call puja, saguna puja, whenever I come to your place, instead of seeing the Krsna murti, I always see the lingam, pure lingam. Why this phenomena going on?
- I am son of God. And what about Krsna? He says...
- I am the constant change, the process (you remember, that "I was a child." But the child body is no longer. So you remember or not remember, the body is changing. This is the answer. This is self-realization)?
- I am thinking about this, Swamiji, that your Guru Maharaja is preaching through you, and you are preaching through them?
- I am very distressed that none of these boys continue their education. What is going to happen to them when they are like you, when they're older, they have no talents?
- I ask you, Prabhu, what is that dharma-ksetra and kuru-ksetra?
- I ask, how could you meet the Supreme being by chanting...by chanting of worldly name, tuned on prayer...
- I asked about a man not knowing what his duty was, and you spoke of the highest duty of giving up all to Krsna and becoming detached from the fruits of your action. But suppose the question is What shall I become - a shopkeeper, a teacher, a carpenter?
- I asked earlier about the nature of atman, now the nature of Brahman?
- 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 assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- I beg your pardon (that is Krsna consciousness)?… The way they support themselves?… Krsna supports?
- I believe Jesus is coming back and not Krsna. And what are you guys going to do when you see Jesus?
- I believe that Krsna is the Supreme God, so don't get me wrong, but since you mentioned Christ, was he an incarnation of Krsna? Was Jesus Christ sent here by Krsna from...
- I believe that there's God in everybody, but why are some people so evil?
- I believe you once said that once a conditioned soul becomes perfected and gets out of the material world and he goes to Krsnaloka, there's no possibility of falling back
- I believe, obviously, you would have ways, methods of becoming God conscious, Krsna conscious. What...? Sort of a meditation? Chanting? Or...?
- I carry a picture of him, the leader of, in our movement. (indistinct) meditating on the master. And I try to live up to it, to the teachings. Would you like to see that picture?
- I come from village, and I'm happy now as I have taken to holy name and prasada. So more, other villagers... Half of these boys are from villages?
- I could mention a lot of names that are still very close to God and brilliant men in science... Where would we be without our scientists, without our doctors, medicine? They all have to go to university and get a degree before they...
- I didn't quite understand why it was necessary that we have religion. You said that so that we can be different to cats and dogs?
- I didn't understand that about one book?
- I don't call myself first-class, second-class, third-class. As you said, there are no first-class men, second-class men. But then how, apart from making them (my children) first class that they should follow the religious...?
- 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 don't know if I'm understanding your desires about all of these points (regarding Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity)?
- I don't know, but it may be more psychological, from laying in bed all the time. Naturally there is a feeling perhaps that one is... Weakness also means one's willpower becomes more weaker. Is that possible that that may be it?
- I don't know. I was thinking the trip.... We have that big Mercedes limousine. You rode in it last year. It was very comfortable, and the ride, I don't think you found it so difficult, did you? Last year
- I don't quite understand that in terms of my question about wearing street clothes and wigs instead of saffron robes and chanting and so forth?
- I don't quite understand what material world is?
- I don't think it's very painful to drink, is it? ... What is the reason you haven't been doing it the last few days?
- I don't think there's any need of taking any loan agreement or anything, is there? Is there any need?
- I don't think there's just one mantra, sir. I feel that the entire mantra would be Om. And so Hare Krsna Rama would be just one part of Om. Now, isn't that true?
- I don't think you're finding any difficulty here (Vrndavana), are you?
- I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
- I don't understand how is it that we forgot it... How can we remember...?
- I don't understand how it can be all right for a person to lie, even if he is a shopkeeper or a diplomat?
- I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name?
- I don't understand that why then you'd go to Visnu and not to Krsna if Krsna is higher?
- I don't understand what you... You want to pass urine without drinking?
- I don't understand. I don't see how man in one life can achieve a level of consciousness that he could sit with Krsna. Don't you have to go through a change, I mean, according to what you do in your life?
- I don't want you to be disturbed about it (some of the sannyasis and GBC's are choosing to go to Bhagatji's. But the conference people who are involved, they are all at the (science) conference). So should I go or not go, Srila Prabhupada, to Bhagatji's?
- 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 feel, but have no proof, that I have experienced in my, in the things I do, which lead me to believe that my experiences based on a memory I don't understand which, which belongs to previous lifetimes. Now is that, a fa...?
- I got a telegram from family in Manipur saying that the grandfather expired, and so they want me come back for few days to do the ceremonial rites. So do you think shall I go for a few days, Srila Prabhupada?
- I guess if you have the idea of prapatti, of surrender... this is a way to God directly?
- I guess when you started out down here in Greenwich Village in 1965 you didn't have any idea that your movement was going to become the rather large movement it is. Did you?
- I have a photograph. Should I bring it?
- I have a question about evolution. Our position is that all the species have been established by Krsna, even before creation. But yet, in the creation, it comes about through an evolutionary process?
- I have a question, Srila Prabhupada. At what point is a householder to know when he should leave his family or her family?
- I have a question, whether we should always give them khicuri or whether we should
- I have a question. If one wanted to redistribute Krsna's property by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, in doing so all you'd have to do is make maybe one or two false statements
- I have already answered the most important question. How to please Krishna?
- I have always been taught since I was a little kid to love God and then I will love everything. Is God Krsna?
- I have an outline with me. ... Of the ideas. Perhaps I could read some portion to you?
- I have heard or read somewhere that Christ had studied in India. Is this true?
- I have just opened it (7-UP). Is it cold enough?
- I have known some people who have meditated, and they don't know how to meditate, and they try to meditate, on the astral, and they contact the incarnate souls in the astral world. And sometimes they get ahold of the wrong one. How can one avoid this?
- I have noted your questions about the serving of prasadam...
- I have read in your Easy Journey to Other Planets that no matter how many endeavors they make, they will never reach these other planets. Is this...?
- I have seen in other mathas, that present before God, it is the proper way to redress our sins. Is this correct? If not, will we not suffer for our sins committed here on earth, or after...?
- I have thought of doing Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Brahma-samhita. Do you think we could serialize it maybe in three or four Back to Godheads? Or could we print it ourselves in a little pamphlet? Or which do you think would be better?
- I have to, to contact them and find out how it was actually (published)... Should I write them a letter (they should be informed that without being passed by the authority, nobody should publish any literature)?
- I haven't remembered the four, but is one of those basic principles concerned with truth? Which one?
- I heard a story, Visvamitra once he grew people from trees. Is that correct?
- I heard he (Subash Bose) took the dress of a Muslim?
- I heard it said that you have perfect enlightenment. If this is true, I'd like to know what does that mean?
- I heard that if you pass stool more than once a day you become a bhogi? You are called a bhogi?
- I heard you also saying that Caitanya was disciple of Madhvan-dasa-pura?
- I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa (Nityananda Kananda. He was a minister in the central government, deputy minister) During when? Approximately?
- I keep wondering how you're so sure you know what good is, particularly when it comes to war
- I know I will (die), but how can we realize that, come to the platform of realizing?
- I know I would take sometimes rice and plantain. It wouldn't have a good effect?
- I know Jiva Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, or Rupa, Sanatana. You know those other two also, what is their name? They were also very high up?
- 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 that our bodies are not eternal, and we have to leave them, and some are made male bodies and some are made female bodies. But our spirits, our souls, are there any difference?
- I know the translations themselves, they were somewhat changed in Bhagavad-gita As It Is as it came out in Macmillan. Did you like those translations?
- 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 may ask you, you see, that this foundation is a Christian foundation, and I wonder what is your personal opinion about the main figure in the Gospel, Jesus Christ
- I may have missed a point about the atheist. He sees God at the time of death. Does he see the form of Krsna at the time of death?
- I mean (what do you mean by retired life?) are you giving up your position as spiritual leader?
- I mean a Roman, perhaps, has never heard of Krsna before. He breaks all your five rules, does he not, every day. Is that a sin in him? If he drinks wine...
- I mean I wouldn't expect that you should be that much stronger, but I don't see why you should be weaker now. Do you think it may be psychologically that you're weaker? I mean, how would you know if you were weaker now?
- I mean supposing I wished to become an initiate. Wouldn't I have to come and live here?
- I mean the Kazi, he can be in the kirtana?
- I mean the mood of the time (the Sixties) might have been right then. I mean was there something about that age that made it especially attractive to the young people?
- I mean to my mind. It (the cause of nonretirement) may be another cause also. I don't know. What do you think? Lack of proper education?
- I mean what is an example of different species of man. What are they, for example, several species of men?
- I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?
- I mean you say that people identify themselves, the body as the self... And that this is ignorance to identify the self with the body… But does that mean a sort of rejection of the body as unimportant?
- I mean, but will the power of the ksatriyas will be in the hands of the Krsna conscious persons sometime during this Kali-yuga?
- I mean, how did I get my spiritual body?
- I mean, what is the idea in "Even if it goes slowly, it must begin"(so let them begin the foundation… Let it go on slowly, but it must begin)?
- I mean... We can't understand Krsna with our mind
- I met, I think, one of your master's other devotees, I forget his name. Gosvami, big, in Vrndavana, big, tall, with a staff, bald hair. Said you knew his name?
- I might get the cooperation of somebody like George Harrison. What would you think about this? Do you think, with your knowledge of the young mind, particularly the young western mind, that this might be a good means through to the young people...?
- I notice that most of your followers, at least in this temple, are young, like in the college age or in the teenage. Is it because Krsna doesn't attract the older generation, I mean, yourself excluded?
- I noticed that someone in the temple was reading a book, The Divine Name. Is it all right to read it?
- 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 a news report recently that you had said in Paris that you no longer taught your followers to chant simply the name of, the Hare Krsna mantra, because the name of God could be chanted in any form. Is that so?
- I read in a book sent from India that Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura was sent directly by Lord Sri Caitanya from the spiritual sky. I am not sure if the book was bona fide. Is the above true?
- 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 read somewhere that possibly you wanted to convert people who were politicians and businessmen. Why?
- I read too, Srila Prabhupada, that in the time of Maharaja Yudhisthira there was only rainfall in the nighttime. Is this true?
- I realize that we're all considered spirit souls. But can a woman be first-class if she...?
- I remember over five years ago you telling me about, "If you read the first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam, you become fully Krsna conscious." Would you kindly tell me what does it mean to be fully Krsna conscious?
- I remember reading that Krsna told Arjuna he can go to the sun planet by worshiping Him. Why does He say that?
- I remember, Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that all we require is some oxen, and the oxen can carry?
- I request, Swamiji, on what basis we can say that it is a different meaning or distorted meaning and not the meaning which the Gita says (but you understand in different way. That is difficulty. You create your own meaning)?
- I said, "If you are not going to bathe at least get out of bed and come to aratik." But he wouldn't even do that much. So what can you do under these conditions when you tell somebody, you can't physically twist their arm?
- I saw a card last night which said, "The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc." A friend of mine asked me why the word "Incorporated"?
- I saw your magazine (Back to Godhead). It's a beautiful magazine. Where is that done?
- I see there are a lot of young children in the asrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all?
- I see. Then how to understand it (the difficulty is you do not understand even a line of Bhagavad-gita. Still, you say that you are student of Bhagavad-gita. This is difficulty)?
- I should be very glad to know where I should go for my second trip. If you could inform me?
- I should just like to know how old you are
- I should make it (one capati), or Palika or...?
- I should now request you, Your Divine Grace, if God wills everything?
- I should stay here with Subala Maharaja?
- I still think of this problem why Lord Krsna had to have an incarnation like Buddha who was teaching atheist doctrine and no...?
- I tend to approach from the other side and ask "Who am I?" and "What is this thing that I call myself?"
- I think a little while later giving you full sponge bath and then changing the sheets. You want to do it now?
- I think Abraham Lincoln was the best of the whole presidents. What is your opinion, Abraham Lincoln?
- I think change is good also sometimes. So we should make that program (take Srila Prabhupada to Mayapura)?
- I think he (Mr. Nair) died before you completed the transaction. He died, no?
- I think he was fair, but he was very tall, very big, and you know, like this, huge size. You know that place where I stayed the night?
- I think he's asking a question also that sometimes comes up, that if one loves in this material love, for example one loves a child, or loves humanity, does this help to develop love of God?
- I think it was a nun that asked you about the position of Jesus on this, and you quite rightly said, "Well, of course, Jesus never claimed to be God." I do wish that some Christians would realize that. He was God conscious, wasn't he?
- I think it was Acarya Prafullacandra Raya, Srila Prabhupada, that starting of chemical industry in the Bengali...?
- I think people understand the analogy, they think hammering is the business. What do you think is the business?… The world thinks hammering is real business
- I think Radharani helps a man to reach Krsna, to hear, you know, the things...?
- I think that was the same stewardess (I asked her to supply one 7-up. And, "I have no key." She was so angry) who came in the back and asked us, "Why the Swamiji doesn't like women?"
- I think there was one great personality - I forget his name - he was going to live as long as how many millions of years that he had hairs in his head. What is that story?
- I think this story's in Raja-vidya, that small book. The one about the brahmana and the cobbler?
- I think we are of one of those four categories (catur-vidha bhajante mam). Or we are also mudha?
- I think you are meeting the officials of various organizations this evening?
- I think you were possibly wanting to stop in Tehran this year on the way back to India?
- I think you were saying that within the atom there's also a living entity. So when that living entity leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn't it?
- I think you've answered this question, but he wants to know how will Krsna consciousness affect all the religions and politics of the world at this time?
- I thought I heard it said that you are in this world without being a part of it?
- I thought Krsna was sixteen only?
- I thought you quoted Christianity. But as far as the Christian faith is concerned, don't they quote their scriptures?
- I told him about you. So he immediately grabbed the idea. He wants to come tomorrow, in the morning to have your blessings. But then is it possible that he could have the initiation?
- I tried to make a flute for Krsna because He doesn't have a flute. Is that okay?
- 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 that Christ is coming again at the end of this non-believing age in the world. Does that coincide with the son of God that you understand or is that a different sort of coming?
- I understand that Hare Krsna is a scientific movement. Do you think that there is a scientific explanation for the way in which personal enlightenment by simply chanting Hare Krsna?
- I understand that it is an offense to wear red or blue in the Krsna temple. Why is this true?
- I understand that our souls are also part of God, as a drop of water is part of that ocean. How... Is there any knowledge or information of how we incurred this first separation from God?
- I understand that this is an extension of Hindu religion. Is that not correct? No, it's not. Does it have any basic tenets of the Hindu religion?
- I understand that you only sleep about two or three hours a day. And do you usually sleep during the middle of the daytime as well?
- I understand that your goal is to have everybody becoming self-supporting in regards to food. But if everyone who is engaged in food production, who will be providing other things?
- I understand the principle of consciousness, but what is the exact meaning of the word "subconscious"?
- I understand what you're saying. You're saying you cannot do practices and commit sin, right?
- I understand you have further thoughts about that (moon landing) and you've even written a lot about it. I wonder if you could tell me, not at great length perhaps, but what your belief about those events is?
- I understand you sleep very little. You sleep three to four hours a night. Do you feel that this is what any person who is spiritually actualized will also realize?
- I want to ask you how can we possibly know that one has attained Krsna consciousness
- 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 know if Krsna appeared on this planet five thousand years ago at a certain time, that means that immediately did He appear again in another universe?
- I want to know what it means, "If you touch the element, then you can be healed"
- I want to know whether the devotion of Hanuman was bhakti-yoga
- I want to know why Krsna is so unkind and He allows us to sin. The royal road of Krsna, Lord Krsna, should be very easier
- I want to know, when we serve Krsna, we have spiritual senses, then that satisfies our spiritual senses when we serve Krsna in Krsnaloka?
- I want to make sure I understood - that chanting this over a long time will also help affect where our body will go after we die, what form we'll come back in?
- I want to please Srila Prabhupada. How does he know my progress and my service, when I'm so far away from him and if I don't write him?
- I want to read some books published by Swamiji. Can I get?
- I want to realize the soul. What is the shortest way?
- I want to see everyone as a person, not as an object. So how do I do that?
- I wanted to ask somebody to leave, but how does he leave? We have to buy him his ticket or something?
- I wanted to ask you about Krsna in the heart. Could you tell us something about His physiognomy?
- I wanted to know also what should we do once they are sixteen, because you said they should be trained in a Gurukula until they are sixteen? So once they are sixteen...
- I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you?
- I wanted to know what processes happen to the spiritual soul between a beast and human life
- I wanted to know what was that, the meaning of that mark you made... The fire, yes. Yes, oil and... Was it a third eye? That means you are dust and you become dust again, or what?
- I wanted to say this, Swamiji, that hell also is situated in this world itself, because where do you think that we can pay our debt?... The sin, the debt of our sin. Where do you think that we pay it? In the hell, which is not...
- I was a member of the Municipal Corporation of Bombay. I know that in ordinary course these rascals don't pass the plans for six and eight months. What do you say?
- I was always under impression or understanding from your teachings, that one never eats in front of the Deities. Can you please explain that?
- I was asked one day a question, "Why these Hare Krsna people dance in the streets?"
- 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 if the rose-colored light that we see around the food when it's being offered up...?
- I was going to ask you about that, (Western) civilization?
- I was going to ask you, Prabhupada, is that the moon planet that we see, is that the same moon planet that's mentioned in the sastras? The same planet?
- I was going to ask you, Swami, if the sacred cow was a symbol symbolizing compassion for all living creatures?
- I was going to go to Bombay for a wedding. Some friends are getting married. You know, I think you met Laksmi Shankar, lady singer? Her daughter, who is also a singer, Viji, Viji Sri Shankar, and she's marrying a South Indian violin player, L. Shankar
- I was helping the band a little bit. And I came to see you, and I was wondering what I should do to serve you. I should go back to Detroit?
- I was just wondering how one would be able to see who was acting in a certain way unless they were first engaged in something? They have to be doing some activity... so you can see what kind of quality they have
- I was just wondering if the spirit soul being in the spiritual world is eternally liberated, how can he return. By desire?
- I was just wondering what exactly the League of Devotees was?
- I was looking at the copy of the disciplic succession and where does Krsna instruct Arjuna? Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- I was recently told by one devotee that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee?
- I was taking the children in the land here and teaching them how to recognize the different plants. Is that useful, or should I not do that? here we have so many different plants growing, some medical plants, some that can be eaten. Is there any use?
- I was thinking that Narada has actually an all-spiritual body, and Brahma has a material form, material body. And yet Narada appears to Brahmaji to ask questions from him as spiritual master. How is that?
- I was thinking that sometimes the devotees engage in business, selling so many things to help the temples, and you were saying that we should not do that?
- I was told by one devotee, a person working for Lord Caitanya, Lord Caitanya will appear as Supersoul to him (indistinct) this happen?
- I was told in the beginning you asked the first disciples to chant 64 rounds?... Is that correct?
- I was told that one day you were told by Rupa Gosvami that you must go?
- I was wondering how Krsna consciousness would relate to this cosmic consciousness
- I was wondering if he had a successor to do... Do you have a successor to take your place when you die?... So what process would the Hare Krsnas...?
- I was wondering if it is within every conditioned soul's heart to be an impersonalist. Is it.... Does every conditioned soul have the propensity for impersonalism?
- I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharma?
- I was wondering if you could give me some idea what you want done, so I can also think about how to improve the magazine. Something is wrong in the magazine?
- I was wondering is she (Tulasi devi) was alive in human form while Krsna was on earth?
- I was wondering whether perhaps you would personally take a less active role?
- I was wondering why Krsna is always portrayed as being blue?
- I was wondering, is like earth still being manifested in living bodies from sound and so on, like the chemists...?
- I was wondering, some of those who have had the opportunity to take bath in Radhakunda, it seems though it may take some time (to immediately awakens his love for Krsna). I was wondering, is that because we don't see time in the proper perspective?
- I went to shake hands with everybody and I found that all your right hands were wrapped. What is the significance of that?
- I will speak for the while, huh?
- I wonder if anybody can spoil something that is not material?
- I wonder if I could ask you first of all to tell me what is the central point of the teaching of Bhagavad-gita?
- I wonder if you could tell me how you came to founding the movement here in the United States?
- I wondered what "Rama" meant when we say the mantra, Hare Rama, you see.
- 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 would like perhaps to hear some of your thoughts on the area of religious experience, God consciousness, how do you achieve that?
- I would like the reporter to assess the reaction from the masses here, whether Gurukula is sponsoring for the women liberation and equal rights...
- I would like to ask, Swami, would you pray for me?
- I would like to hear your explanation on how do you have seen the form of God, if you have had any enlightenment on this?
- I would like to know more about the, the soul in so far as, does it have beginning? Does it have end?
- I would like to know about what time... (Bhagavad-gita was spoken)?
- I would like to know how this movement started, what gave you the idea. What is the background? And why it was called the Krsna consciousness movement? Is it a return to something very fundamental?
- I would like to know if it is all right to play the Battle of Kuruksetra?
- I would like to know if the teachings of Krsna can be an assistance to an individual, who is interested in healing on a mass basis vibrations?
- I would like to know more about what do you think our society is doing wrong?
- I would like to know what divine grace impart unto Arjuna so that he could visualize the cosmic form of the Lord?
- I would like to know your beliefs concerning who Jesus Christ was
- I would like to know, being unborn, then how come that Lord Krsna was born as a human being or brought Himself to that position to form Himself as the Supreme Being?
- I would like to put a question about the relation between Krsna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Paramatma and Brahman. Which is the relation between these concepts?
- I would like you to explain the origin and significance of what you, what they call the Jagannatha car festival
- I would like you to tell us that I can put in our article here if you have one sentence, one paragraph, that you would like to say to the world, (laughter) what would you say?
- I wouldn't have given up my life to Him fifty-two years ago to be a Jesuit priest unless I loved God, would I?
- I'd like to know how physical things that are done, as chanting or dancing or... If you consider, as having any importance. How do these physical things affect our spiritual understanding?
- I'd like to know the relation between Visnu and Krsna, how Visnu became Krsna?
- I'd like to know, this is your first visit to Washington? Is that right?... Who have you visited with while you've been here? Have you stayed here, or have you gone out and...?
- I'll be getting married the end of this summer... And the devotees say that the householders only have sex to conceive a child. And I cannot picture myself at all in such a position, and... What kind of sex life can one lead, living in the material world?
- I'll come over to Vrndavana on the 15th evening. 15th evening, I'll come over to Vrndavana?
- I'll give him the fruits now, Srila Prabhupada? I have some fruits. I can give him now (give facility for him, ten rupees... And some fruits… Uncut, yes)?
- I'll put a little oil on? It's against aching. This is all right… Upendra said. "Should I put a little?"
- I'm a bit puzzled about this, these entities that are born from perspiration, like that. It seems that there's no father and mother, yet like we were just using the argument that there must be a father and mother?
- I'm a sannyasi. If I have to start doing his business for him..., I don't think you would want me to do that, do you?
- I'm a servant of the government right now, and will it take more love of Krsna for me to be devotee, or what...?
- I'm doing also comparative studies between those in the Sanskrit and Tamil. Do you know Tamil?
- I'm familiar with the Krsna cookbook, but I do not see any suggested menus or nutritional information, and I'm wondering if there's any thought that's been worked on that. Is there any background of menus or nutritional information?
- I'm just asking the question whether or not the right question could be: "Who am I?"
- I'm just checking it out, but there's nothing to it, huh (I mean you aren't leaving this country for good. You're a permanent resident, right?)?
- I'm 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 sure I understand what you mean by a spiritual body. When I look at you, it seems that you're...
- I'm not sure if I heard you correctly. Did you say that Krsna could not be worshiped directly? Could not be?
- I'm not sure if I understand yet. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is svayam bhagavan. And the appearances of Krsna in all the other yugas is also called svayam bhagavan?
- I'm not sure that I understand the process by which one might be thinking of something in his mind, and how that soul is put into a body similar to what that thought is. In other words, how can the soul be subject to what the mind is thinking of?
- I'm not sure that I understand you. You mean that suicide is putting an end to suffering?
- 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'm not very familiar with the Hindu scriptures, but I have read some Upanisads, and there's the idea that somehow atman is Brahman? I don't understand that at all, so perhaps you could say something about that?
- I'm simply praying that Krsna in your stomach accepts everything, Srila Prabhupada. Would you like to lie down now, Srila Prabhupada?
- I'm speaking in terms of outer service to people who are not in your mission. Other than preaching the truth of Krsna, is there any other outer service to humanity?
- 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'm sure that you're aware that to many people in the West, in America, in New York City specifically, that your disciples seem strange because of the way they act on the streets. What about that?
- I'm trying to find out whether the consciousness lies within us, brought out...
- I'm very fine, Srila Prabhupada, but how are you feeling?
- I'm wondering if there's any similarity between meditation and hypnosis?
- I've always admired Rabindranath Tagore's very much, his poetic writings. Do people in India think much of him today?... If his writings are highly considered by people in India?
- I've been studying Russian Elders in the Orthodox Church... They seem to have found the divine. I guess that's religion too. It seems to me both are, but perhaps you have a better definition than that?
- I've been told then that we can have no more karmic reactions from our actions
- I've committed many sins in this lifetime. How can I make my peace?
- I've enjoyed it very much. It was very kind of you. Where are you going on Wednesday? Where are you going?
- I've got a good question. How can we get a God conscious leader in this country?
- I've had one person. He complained, "Why is there no purport for this verse, 'There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear'?"
- I've read about Hubbard's Scientology and a lot of the writings that Hubbard writes sound a lot like the theory of Hare Krsna. Is there any parallel at all between the two, or have you taken any opinion on side, both your cases?
- I've read some of the Upanisads where they say that atman is Brahman?
- I, being a servant of the senses, how to run away from the senses?
- Ideally it is the moral obligation of everyone to obey the moral command, but...?
- Identification will remain always (yes, param pada is just like you fly in the sky, go very high. So from here we cannot see that you are separately existing. But you are separately existing. It is my deficient eyes that I see that you are not separate)?
- If a brahmacari decides to get married and then enters into married life, should he be encouraged to maintain that responsibility throughout his life?
- If a brahmana is black?
- If a devotee has no appreciation for God but he has a little appreciation for pure devotee, than what kind of devotee is this?
- If a devotee step on the ant, does the ant receive some benefit?... If a devotee step on a ant by mistake, the ant...?
- If a devotee thinks that he likes, for example, Vrndavana more than he likes Mayapur, is that a wrong thinking, or is that his personal...?
- If a large section of the people don't want spiritual life, should this be forced on them if they don't want it?
- 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 a man does not understand God in this lifetime, is he still accepted by God?
- If a man feels empty, what he can offer?
- If a man reaches his maturity of years and leaves a western school, and he has the words which say "Know thyself," may he reject his family ties?
- If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?
- If a neophyte devotee is with determination endeavoring for purification but he were to meet with death as he is still influenced by the lower modes, although he is seriously trying, then does he take another birth or does he go to Krsna?
- If a person experiences difficulty attaining a level of consciousness of God, how to counteract that?
- If a person is married and they are interested in entering into Hare Krsna, Krsna consciousness, can they reach the ultimate?
- If a person says, "How do you find out? How we can find out other names (of God)?"
- If a person who wants to become rich prays to Krsna, will he become rich?
- If a person's senses are restrained by following regulative principles, but if his mind dwells in sense objects, is he becoming purified, or is he just a pretender?
- If a spiritual seed sprouts, then whatever sprout is made is never lost. Right?
- If a yogi does attain a Vaikuntha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Krsna in Goloka...
- If all it requires is chanting to be pure, then why do you require musical instruments, an altar, and flowers and things of this sort?
- If all living entities were delivered by the Krsna consciousness movement, what would happen then? The universe would be devoid of living entities
- If all that is required is chanting Hare Krsna, why do we have the pictures and the clothes and the instruments and the altar and Lord Jagannatha?
- If all the land belongs to God, then who decides who will distribute it to the people?
- If any of us here this morning wish to become followers what would we have to give or give up?
- If anyone can dress as he likes, then why do you all dress alike?
- If astronauts were able to land and return to the earth successfully (...) would you then interpret it that they were able to get the visa or to...?
- If at this platform we are not yet..., we are still desiring to depart from Krsna's service and enjoy, then we are not, we have not yet tasted devotional service, what is it that we have tasted that is keeping us temporarily connected to Krsna?
- If 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 by purifying ourselves we feel our relationship that we have with the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- If chanting means out loud, how can you do it all day while you're working in so many different situations? How can you chant out loud?
- If Christ comes back, what will be the position of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His Krsna consciousness movement?
- If Christ was the son of God, the good son, how is that he didn't, he never mentioned Krsna by name? Sometimes they criticize us like that: "Why is there no mention of Krsna in the Christian Bible?"
- 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 death is sure in any case, for the thinking man or for the nonthinking man, then why think about it?
- If destiny cannot be changed, what does Krsna mean when He says, "Be thou happy by this sacrifice"?
- If every moment we are killing in breathing and walking and doing so many things, and then it says, "Thou shalt not kill," so then hasn't God given us an instruction which is impossible?
- If everybody started chanting Hare Krsna, then how, how would we eat? Who would run the factories?
- If everyone became Krsna conscious, then how would the world go on?
- If everyone becomes Krsna conscious, then how will they make a living?
- If everyone is spirit soul, then isn't sex life also spiritual?
- If everything is created by God... Then what is this evil?
- If God Himself comes to teach to someone in this world, and if he has learned from God directly and he is satisfied that he has learned, can he, a few minutes afterwards, forget and depart in a very ridiculous way from what God has taught him?
- If God is a person with eyes, legs, He stays in one place?
- If God is all-good, why does He permit so many wars to go on?
- If God is everything, then why don't you, not loving one by one? Why...(if you love God, then you can love everybody. Because God is everything)?
- If God is everywhere, why His presence not felt by everybody?
- 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 God is meant to be propitiated, then why is it that we have so many things for our enjoyment? You say that everything is for God's enjoyment.
- If God is not an idea but He's substance, how do you mean that, substance? How do you define substance?
- If God is perfect, why didn't He make us perfect?
- If God is so powerful, why does He let me fall. Why doesn't He save me, save me from my own foolishness. Why doesn't He...?
- If God is to uplift the soul of all the persons, all the livings, why there is a chaotic situation?
- If God's energy is so perfect, then how does this ignorance come upon the living entity?
- If God, Krsna, desires the motor car to turn right, what makes the car turn left?
- If Hare Krsna is such a strong, powerful mantra, is there any reason to chant anything else?
- 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 accepts that he is imperfect, what experience qualifies him to talk about God?
- If he can do that (get a visa and then go right back in), is that best?
- If he gave us the material world to enjoy, then why do we have to suffer here?
- If He is giving us intelligence, why doesn't He give us enough intelligence so that we could be God conscious?
- If he is misled by other, by circumstances, this is... He has no fault of his own?
- If he is not conscious, how can he do work for Him (Krsna)?
- 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 he was unable to chant or to become a full-time devotee, that your program for a person in that condition of life, was something like… become a member and take books and read... Is that satisfactory, if they can do that much
- If I am not mistaken, I think I heard that Krsna reestablished religion, reestablished. Now who established before Krsna?
- 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 am satisfied? Can I rely that much on myself?
- If I call Krsna, I accept Krsna as Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then the question comes to me, "Why are you calling yourself Vaisnavas? Why not Krsnayas?"
- If I can summarize correctly your views on this, that it would be impossible for human beings to land on the moon planet? I wonder if you could explain how it would be impossible, to what extent?
- If I come in contact with Krsna movement now, will that in my next life get me a human body?
- 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 go to some city and hold a program and advertise but only, say, four or five people come and yet they're interested, very interested-should that be considered successful or unsuccessful?
- 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 I like everything you're saying, then why shouldn't I accept that?
- If I receive some action which I must do or some course of action becomes obvious, should I trust that, considering that you're communicating with me, or...?
- If I say, I pray to God, "O Lord Krsna, I surrender unto You." So is..., maya will not touch me? I will not be affected by this material infection?
- If I serve the Lord, do I lose that little bit of freedom?
- If I tell you how far I have been traveling, you will know into which coach to put me, yes?
- If I think the spacesuit is suitable and, say, if I am an astronaut and I land there, I can land there?
- If I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific basis… So where does religion come into it at all?
- If I understand you then correctly, sir, you would say that the emphasis should be returned to the religious aspects?
- If I understood you, I think you said that this approach, that you feel that it's appropriate to you because people are lax in their approach to spiritual problems
- If I was to remove myself from karmic influences, would our souls be the same or different?
- If I'm always worried about the future, how will anything get done now?
- If I'm trying to get people to chant, that's all I can do. And if that will purify them, then surrender will come. How can I force someone to surrender?
- If in our society we say, "Srila Prabhupada wants some to be sudra..."
- If in the Vaikunthas ecstatic love between Lord Narayana and His devotees and Lord Krishna Consciousness and His devotees on Krishna Loka is qualitatively the same, then what is the advantage of following the path of Krishna Consciousness...
- If it (if you cross a certain line, they have these rays of light, and if you break the ray of light, then automatically all machine guns start firing in the whole area) is for happiness, then why prevent people from leaving?
- If it is convenient (if a bullock cart is inconvenient, we may not keep)?
- If it is inconceivable, then they will say how we can conceive it (earth is round and flat both, together. First we should reply it is acintya. This should be the reply. Inconceivable)?
- If it is not too much a personal question, have you had a saksaska?
- If it is possible, should we go without eating at all?
- If it is so tasteless, why is it quenching?
- If it's offered, though (to Kali), who accepts it? Whose prasadam is it? Who takes it?
- If Krsna has created the universe, then who has created Krsna? How did He acquire such immense powers?
- If Krsna is all-good, why does He send us to this world full of miseries?
- If Krsna is the supreme consciousness, then why isn't anything we do or anyone we follow following or doing Krsna consciousness?
- If Krsna is unlimited, why did he not manifest Himself all over the world so that all living entities would have equal chance to go back home?
- If Krsna knows already what you're going to do in the future, then what is the question of your independence?
- If Krsna knows past, present and future, then where is the question of our independence? In other words, He knows already what we're going to desire?
- If Krsna knows that we will suffer here in this material world if we come here, why does He let us go?
- If Krsna was not born, then what is the significance of that word, that sambhavami, dharma-samstha...?
- If life is based on the desires of the living entities, and as you were mentioning that the material energy forms so many complex combinations, the material body is so complex, does that mean that the living entity is very much entangled?
- If LSD is a material attachment, then is not the sound, sabda, also a material attachment?
- If man be part and parcel of God, how do you explain the evil deeds of man?
- If man wasn't meant to eat meat, why in nature do the other animals kill to eat?
- If matter is inferior to the spirit soul, then isn't it correct to say that the spirit soul is more complex or sophisticated than matter? If matter is inferior?
- If maya takes a hold on one, what is the quickest way to go back to Krsna?
- If meditation without chanting was at one time successful, why is it now deficient?
- If music is important to us?
- If no one was thinking that they needed your presence, then how is it some have come and some have not come? What is the difference?
- If not even a blade of grass moves unless Krsna sanctions it, then why does someone have the opportunity to perform such ajnata-sukrti, another person not?
- If nothing is our property - in fact, everything is Krsna's property - why is there this desire to possess so many things?
- 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 arrange in this lifetime for others to render service to Krsna, but if the purpose is to simply maintain his family and if he's still attached to sense gratification, at the time of death, will he attain a birth in a family of Vaisnavas?
- If one attends the temple regularly and inquires from the devotees about the devotional principles, and because of some reason, it's not convenient for him to live in the temple at that time, and he is living with people?
- If one can achieve Krsna consciousness outside the temple?
- If one can engage one who is demonic in service by telling a lie...
- 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 does not lose one's identity when one is returned to the Godhead, what is the nature of the relationship?
- 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 has difficulty becoming Krsna consciousness, is that suffering?
- If one has fallen so far that he has taken the body of a fly or a mosquito, can he still return to Krsna?
- If one has to obey the state and go to war, how is that the same as obeying God?
- If one is fortunate enough to revive his natural position in the spiritual sky, how can he keep from falling down again?
- If one is going to assume a dog's body, then does he go to hell before he assumes a dog's body?
- If one is not complete in their Krsna consciousness then what will happen?
- If one isn't eager, how can he become eager, Srila Prabhupada?
- If one of your brahmana initiated disciples falls from this platform, leaves the temple and commits offenses, then returns, demanding respect, should he be allowed to keep the sacred thread or should he...?
- If one realizes the impersonal Brahman, what progress can be made here from this?
- If one serves the higher devotees and shows compassion to less advanced devotees, then where is the question... for a position of an advanced devotee who is feeling himself to be the lowest? So is that distinction still there of higher and lower?
- If one simply goes on serving, engaging in all sorts of different activities for the satisfaction of Krsna, but he never, in this lifetime at least, has realization of Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan...?
- If one surrenders to a spiritual master, what then is their relationship to Krsna?
- If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
- If one takes a birth in a rich man family, rich man's family, how it is good?
- If one tries to praise the Creator by, directly, with his ability, what, how does he know what to...? By his work, I mean
- 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 our chanting is a form of prayer?
- If our first concern should be to serve God, or Krsna, then why should there be a movement
- If our love for Krsna originally is perfect why should we have left?
- If our senses are imperfect, then with what sense do we perceive the Divine that underlies these laws of nature?
- If people say, "What is this Hare Krsna movement doing?"
- If Prahlada Maharaja is such a great devotee, and a devotee will always say, "Nothing is mine," then why does he say, "O my God"? Why does God become his?
- If President Nixon had written a commentary on the Bible, no one in America would accept it. Then why should they accept Radhakrishnan's?
- If some devotee has some trouble and does not eat a certain type of food. Like some devotees do not eat ghee because of liver trouble. So these devotees, should they take all the prasadam?
- 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 commits suicide, that is also preset?
- If somebody didn't go to the factory, you wouldn't, would you? Somebody has to go and do the work to make the food, keep the country running
- If somebody is following the instructions, but if there's attraction for maya...
- If somebody is in the movement for several years and feels that he's not making progress and leaves, is he looked upon as a sinner or enemy? How do the devotees feel about persons like that?
- If somebody lives an evil life but prays to become rich, they may still become rich?
- If somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
- If somebody picks up and takes it, he's a thief, and if somebody who just does not care he's also not good. And the one who takes up and says, "Whose coin is this?" Then he's good
- If somebody wants to preach. Is that the sign of advancement?
- 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 somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
- If someone accepts his dependence on God, then what is the second step?
- If someone cannot chant sixteen rounds a day...?
- If someone comes along and joins you, do they see Krsna?
- 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 desire to do something for Krsna. But he begins to realize it's still tinged with a lot of personal gratification...?
- 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 a sudra, how can you let him have his own money?
- If someone is doing some service which involves business, is he thinking of Krsna when he's thinking of that service?
- 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 someone looks at the Deity of Krsna and thinks it's only stone or wood, for him it's still material?
- If someone said to us that "You are worshiping samadhi," what is the answer?
- If someone who does not believe in scriptures, um, what is his duty, and...?
- If stone is also Krsna, then why aren't we worshiping all stone?
- If such papa hoga, how one can expect betterment of the nation (they have legalized abortion. So the unborn fetus, after it's aborted, they're eating as food)?… Is there any way out?
- If that yogi quits his body in that condition (tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yogina), does he attain a Vaikuntha planet?
- If the activities is going on with the laws of nature, then how do you become Krsna consciousness?
- If the animals are happy and the human beings are unhappy, why not live like an animal?
- If the artistic inspiration, like the intuition, is also coming from Paramatma?
- If the Bhagavad-gita is in the Mahabharata - that's itihasa - how did it get the name Upanisad, Gitopanisad?
- If the brahma-jyotir is in the spiritual sky, how could we reach it in our mind? Is it in our mind also?
- If the conditions in the spiritual world are so nice and everything is spiritually, everything is spiritual, how is it that one can become envious of Krsna in such conditions?
- If the devotee is fearless, how is it Prahlada was expressing his fearfulness of the material nature?
- If the devotee is situated on the platform of the brahma-bhutah, but he may not necessarily see everything as Brahman, does that mean that his realization is by intelligence, and by his activity, or what does that mean?
- If the disciple is in ignorance before, how does he know which master to choose, because he doesn't have the knowledge to make a wise selection?
- If the essence of religion is to know God, how does He reveal Himself to you?
- If the government is giving them free homes and we're giving them free prasadam, why should they work?
- 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 the impossible happened and they were able to safely land on the moon's surface do you feel they would have any difficulty or encounter any trouble with the beings that you say live there?
- If the king gives to you (the temple), what will we make there?
- If the laws of nature are the laws of God, then how is it that sometimes they're even crueler than the actions..., they are more violent than the actions which ordinary men do, than that of a tyrant or a murderer?
- If the Lord's pastimes are manifested differently, are they manifested the same in one universe?... Are they different every time? In other words, is the Srimad-Bhagavatam a history of what took place once, and then it will be different next time?
- If the mantra itself has such power, does it matter where you receive it, where you take it?
- If the Mayavadi accepts the principle that bhakti is good, but at the end he throws it away, will he have a change of heart?
- If the Mayavadis don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then what is their explanation of reincarnation?
- If the microphone is composed of Krsna's eight energies, why not the factory Krsna's energy too?
- If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?
- If the name of God is not material, how is it possible to pronounce it materially, with our material tongue?
- If the natural tendency of the living entity is to want to exist, to live, then why is it they perform so many horrible acts that will destroy themselves?
- If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
- If the parents are good, then there is a remarkable possibility that the children may have a chance to be. Is that not true?
- If the planets, they have always been floating, but the stones of Lord Ramacandra has put in the ocean, they are still not... Where are they?
- If the science is available to everyone without impediment, then there must be the proper teacher, isn't it?
- If the scientists of the world become little bit directed and they use their science to glorify Krsna, then they're actually practicing yoga?
- If the soul cannot be burnt, why does the desire to be burnt in the material world there?
- If the soul is eternal and passes through one body after another, how is not possible that it accepts, let's say, three, four, five bodies and then dies?
- If the soul is inside me, then should I be able to feel God inside me?
- If the soul is the active force, then at what stage are the activities of the soul realized as distinct from the activities of the body?
- If the soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart. Isn't it?
- If the space program, either the Russian or the American program, which have plans to try to land on the moon and return safely, if this is successful, do you think this accomplishment would hurt the Krsna movement in the United States?
- If the spiritual master gives you any instruction, should we look upon that as the same as life? How would we know if it's maya or not?
- If the spiritual master is not bona fide, then is the Deity also not bona fide?
- If the spiritual master, Prabhupada, worships God through a demigod, is he bona fide?
- If the United States or the Soviet Union were to attempt a landing and their spacecraft went down, what do you yourself expect...?
- If the Vedic culture was a superior culture, how come man gave up the Vedic culture to take to the materialistic life?
- If the Vedic scriptures were written about five thousand years ago then how is it just only five hundred years ago somebody came to impart what was written five thousand years ago?
- If their son was Vyasadeva, how could it be falldown?
- If there could be a Krsna conscious society, would this mean to stop the industry and technology?
- If there is a spiritual world, what is it like, and what are the activities of Krsna there?
- If there is God, how can there be suffering and disease
- If there is no God, then it doesn't matter what I do. But there is God, and He knows what I am going to do at every moment, then it doesn't matter what I do either. He knows what I am going to do, so what does it matter? I can do anything
- If there is question or not understanding in the course of a class, if the proper answer cannot be given, if one sincerely approaches you within the heart, then you will give understanding?
- If there's a certain criteria of proof or a certain evidence that we can know for certain that there actually is such transmigration of the soul?
- If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?
- If these animals (dinosaur or finosaur) were on this planet some millions of years ago, they are still here, is that correct?
- If they desire to commit sinful activities and before they became monkeys, but then they were doing it then. So whilst they're monkeys their desire must change. Or is it forced, that change forced upon them by the mercy of Krsna?
- If they have information that this is not the only life, then won't they automatically become more austere?
- If they see that whenever there's intelligence, there must be a person, then why don't they conclude that behind the universe, there's so many wonderful things, that there must also be a person?
- 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 they wanted to, wouldn't Krsna have given them the opportunity (there may be many other Vaisnava acaryas or something in India, but they are not... By the fact that they are not preaching, it means they have not realized it)?
- If they've wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they're able to calculate these eclipses and whatever?
- If this body is pure soul, then why it gets engaged with worldly matter?
- If this is an illusion, then why is it here? What's it doing here (you are thinking that you'll be happy in this material world by adjustment, but you'll never be. That is called maya. So whatever you are struggling for, that is illusion)?
- If this mist of material nature is temporary, then why bother to disentangle oneself from something transitory?
- If tomorrow these boys say that you are incarnation of God, is it your fault?
- If two people are Krsna conscious, is their soul the same?
- If varnasrama is neglected, then how can there be proper functioning of society?
- If we accept that the senses, the body and the mind are not perfect, they're limited, then with what means are we to perceive God?
- If we agree with Buddhist consciousness?
- 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 we are acting, like preparing offerings for Krsna by our work, but while we are doing this work our mind is not engaged in Krsna all the time, thinking about Krsna all the time, we fall into maya, but we're still doing the work
- If we are always under Krsna's direction, how is it we can use our individuality?
- If we are disgusted (I'll guide. Don't move me to the hospital. Better kill me here. But if you are disgusted, that is another thing)?
- If we are given charge of the society, we should dismantle all this industry, all these cities...?
- If we are in the proper line, then our political activities also can become successful?
- If we are not at the purified stage, then why is the temple president a representative of yourself?
- If we are originally full of pleasure, then why would we accept an inferior position?
- If we are so small, why is there a poison of the senses?
- If we are supposed to be spiritualists, then why do we have so many cars, why do we have so many watches, why do we have so many different things that they can see are there within the temple?
- If we as devotees in Krsna consciousness movement are transcendental to these modes, does that mean that we can...?
- If we be the parcels of God, then what about prarabdha? We are suffering from pain and pleasure...
- If we build in Puri, will we have Jagannatha?
- If we can become Krsna conscious without following the rules and regulations, why follow the rules and regulations? That's what I was thinking a while ago
- If we can use everything in Krsna's service, then why is it that these four things are excluded and they can't be used?
- If we chant Hare Krsna, all our sinful activities are washed away. Is that so even if we chant offensively?
- If we chant more than sixteen rounds, can we chant bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya in our japa?
- If we collect all the people together and put it in place and talk to them every day, continually for seven days or eight days... Yes. Don't you think so, Swamiji? I have proposed... Yes. We may build pandals also
- If we could take something which I believe you feel very strongly about, and that's some of the other Eastern cults and gurus… Can you explain to me why it is that...?
- If we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness. And the non-living, that has no consciousness?
- If we do not finish our Krsna consciousness in this lifetime and we have to take birth in material world, can we worship the same spiritual master as our previous birth?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we don't get protection from the government, then what can we do?
- If we don't know what Krsna is and we still get a bona fide spiritual master, then how do we call that? Our good fortune?
- If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case?
- If we get on Fifth Avenue, you'll come again (to Ratha-yatra in New York)?
- If we glorify God every day, all the time, then is God going to give us something back, something in return for our service?
- If we have a desire to keep these promises, but we have a hard time to do it...
- If we have not already achieved perfection, then how can the soul achieve the perfection? It seems that he has to reincarnate slowly in time to achieve the perfection
- If we have to read the literatures and experience these truths, it is not necessarily truth as such, but maybe the condition that we have been rendered to by listening?
- If we just engage them in devotional service will they ultimately become purified?
- If we love our children, is that also loving Krsna?
- If we love our godbrothers, is that also loving Krsna?
- If we put some cloth here, some dhoti... You have a dhoti?
- If we save the common people by giving them prasadam, how can we save the impersonalists?
- If we say that Krsna enters even within the atom, what is His business there?
- If we see a group of demons fighting, killing each other, should devotees go and try to stop them from killing each other?
- 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 we try to please Krsna with all of our service and activities, that automatically brings pleasure to the self?
- If we want we can come to the spiritual world and return? Fall down?
- If we were in plays and we are playing such great personalities, how should we be thinking?
- If we were there and we could make one speech in front of that assembled Congress and Senate, the main government of the United States, what were the main points we would stress?
- If we're always thinking of death, how can we enjoy life now?
- If we're in anxiety that we cannot perform devotional service nicely, that is all right?
- If we're performing devotional service and an insect is in the way, like if you're painting the walls and you find this ant and you must paint this wall to please the spiritual master, what is the attitude?
- If we're very attracted to reading Caitanya caritamrta now, but we haven't finished Srimad-Bhagavatam as yet, should we wait until we have studied Srimad-Bhagavatam thoroughly?
- If we've already committed so many offenses to chanting, now, at this point, how can we purify ourselves?
- If we've been here lifetime after lifetime performing impious activities, does it mean that we have to be here lifetime after lifetime performing pious activities to balance out our sinful reactions?
- If we've never been with Krsna, if we've never been in Krsnaloka, then how is it that we start remembering His pastimes and His form?
- If what he's saying has no value, then why should he speak?
- If when one comes to spiritual life, is he coming because of material exhaustion, so much pain in the material world, so therefore he's searching?
- If you accept that there is an evolution, do you accept that the bodies change because of changing conditions of the natural surroundings?
- If you advertise the maha-mantra gives some material benefit, isn't that an offense?
- If you are compassionate, you feel the pain. Then how does that go with even-mindedness?
- If you are to think about something, don't you first have to see that thing?
- If you are told that Mr. Nixon is the bona fide spiritual master, what do you do?
- 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 become a servant of Krsna, will He provide a way for you to meet your physical needs?
- If you begin dressing things up, they change. And the size of the movement now? Is it a growing movement, Krsna consciousness?
- If you call Brahma the Absolute, how do you make a distinction between Brahma and Krsna?
- If you can just tell me what you, the best way to have a nice scene of Jagai and Madhai?
- If you cannot what (so already some machine idle. You had to spend so much, but they are lying idle. That is not good. That is the defect of machine. If you cannot ply it, then it is dead loss)?
- If you chant from the lips or if you chant just in your mind as you walk?
- If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and not follow the regulations, not reading your books, can you go back to Godhead?
- If you come to the Brahmaloka, do you have to come back to the earth planet?
- If you do not know what is God realization, then how you can ask this question (have I realized God), and how you will be satisfied by the answer? You do not know
- If you do not use any soap, the question has come up, how to wash cloth. By beating only? Sufficient?
- If you don't pronounce the Sanskrit prayers that are in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Would there be any effect if they're not pronounced properly?
- If you don't teach vaisyas for this gurukula then how do they do the accounts?
- If you follow rules, then isn't it obvious that you must be frustrated?
- If you follow the essence of any religion, is that the law of God?
- 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 had a big house, a rich house. You would use that?
- If you had died before you had come to the United States, would that have been a tragedy?
- If you hadn't been educated, father, well, how would you be able to have...?
- If you have a child, and he murders someone, isn't he supposed to be punished? So if someone goes against the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even if you are a devotee, shouldn't Siva concur?
- If you have love for God, why you are coming to church?
- If you have misused the energy of the past and go on with the results of your misuse, are you still responsible for those forms?
- If you have no other suitable name, chant Krsna. That's Caitanya's...? Did He feel there were other suitable names?
- If you have something, if someone's given you something and someone else wants to use it, then let him. But don't you get into the stage and can't you get to the stage at times that for some reason or other you don't want him to use it?
- If you hear the truth, there is no need to make an experiment at all. Isn't it?
- If you know the process, then the Deity becomes Krsna (so this Deity worship is not heathenism. It is actually worshiping God, provided you know the process)?
- If you know who is God, accept it (you have to accept Krsna)?
- If you lie down, then it's (spasm in the heart) staying (if I lie down straight... Lie down means spasm). And if you sit up?
- 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 said, "Give me lots of money for Krsna," are you a miser?
- If you say Goloka is infinite we should be existing within Gokula. How is it that we are without Gokula?
- If you say this, based on Vedic literature, and other members of the Krsna movement heard this, and then if the feat were accomplished, would this not seem a contradiction?
- If you see only (if you see only to the flowers, you become invigorated)?
- If you take milk in other forms, like if you eat cheese, if you take curd or cheese, is it the same as drinking milk or ... ?
- If you take that logic and use it the other way... If you say the animal has no soul... then you'd have to say human beings would have no soul, wouldn't you?
- If you want to find peace, don't you have to believe that war is wrong, any kind of war?
- If you want your thoughts to be passed on to other people, why do you sell the books and make money out of them?
- If you were American, how would you say the chant? In other words, I know it has many translations, but what would it mean to you? How would you say it in English?
- If you were only sponsored for one month, how is it that you were able to extend your visa all the time?
- 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?
- If you're already in a good situation, why create a bad one?
- If you're devoted enough can you gain release from birth, death, and old age completely in one life?
- If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda Krsna, what of those people who identify love with the sabda Allah?
- If you're not very fixed up then should you still go out and preach?
- If you're rich, were you saying, if you're rich, you get knowledge, you get knowledge easier because you're rich?
- If your Guru Maharaja Sripada Madhava Maharaja fully cooperate with me in this adventure I am confident to come out successful in my attempt. You have asked me to correspond with him...
- If, say, the husband is not present, then the oldest son is supposed to be in charge and he is a brahmacari, in what way is the mother cared for?
- If, when we realize Krsna, then we have no more desire, then how can we desire...?
- Illusioned ("to err is human," therefore, it is called, that any, any man, however he may be great in the estimation of this world, he is sure to commit mistake. And another imperfection is that he is illusioned)?
- Immediately (after we die you get another body)?
- In 1968 I was questioned by the reporters, "What is your opinion about this moon?"
- 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 addition to providing flowers for the Deity, will people who visit the temple walk there, or it will be closed to them?
- In Ahmedabad?... You must have met last time?
- In America, does the government support the movement ?
- In America, supposing a householder family pays for a room in our temple building. So they can have their sex life and family life?
- In America. The art pages? Everything? It will be more expensive because in India they print on cheap paper. If we use the same cheap paper, they'll still have to pay more because it has to be shipped back to India. But I can check
- In answer to your question about the importance of initiation...
- In answer to your questions concerning sex life...
- In any case, everything is controlled by the superior energy?
- In Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- In Bhagavad-gita when it states that "Supersoul," in American terms is this known as your astral body?
- In Bhagavad-gita, it says that the soul is immovable. In the Second Chapter there is a verse that says the soul is immovable. What does that mean exactly? Are we not moving?
- In Bhuvanesvara you are going to have any plan for making a temple?
- In Bombay also you have got (a center)?
- In Bombay rather than Mayapur (if we organize our Bombay, then we shall regularly teach all the students from the very beginning)?
- In Bombay, you were having your own business then?
- In Calcutta also there is a project?
- In Calcutta. And when you were there in Calcutta, did you receive the training?
- In case they want to see what type of..., how we like to develop in the village scheme, should I keep the Mayapur program ready?
- In case we want to order them (Srila Prabhupada`s books) for our...?
- In Chapter Four in Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is said that Arjuna was present at the speaking of Bhagavad-gita to the sun-god so many years ago. What position did he have there?
- In college if they start to study biology or zoology, it involves killing animals, dissection. Is that a sin?
- In daily life, I mean, like our practical life, how saranagati could be...?
- In deep sleep it does not work, no (death means that this body stops working. But the subtle mind... Exactly in the same way. Just as while you are sleeping this gross body has stopped to work, but the subtle body is working)?
- In Denver here we have many businesses going on for you. We are going to them for laksmi in so many ways. How is it that this engages them, or does it engage them in Krsna's service? Do they make any benefit?
- In Dvaraka, did Krsna's queens play tennis?
- In each universe there is a Vrndavana and a Mayapur. That means in each universe there's a planet earth like this planet?
- In further reference to your question about the form of the spirit soul of the conditioned living entity...
- In God's temple, what human wants? And what type of life he wants so that he can be happy?
- In Goloka there are no demons. But the sentiment of anxiety or fear for Krsna, is that sentiment in Goloka?
- In Goloka there are no demons?
- In Hindu philosophy, what is the nature of the atman?
- In history there was the mystery of the sphinxes of Egypt, do these sphinxes carry any significance?... Is the pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt civilization are any mystic significance?
- In India (how is Krsna consciousness received)?
- In India (we got to get the books)?
- In India is everybody lost, the Indian culture...?
- In India isn't it the system that after they harvest the wheat they leave some on the ground for the others to come and pick?
- In India or the United States (where is your family)?
- In India the sun is very intense... Does that have something to do that Krsna appeared there?
- In India, how many are Krsna conscious?
- In India, now in the cities, wherever we go, there are so many big cinema houses being built. So if the young people are not yet tired of that, then how will we convince them of Krsna consciousness? They all go by the thousands to the cinema house?
- In India, there are many swamis who claim to be Krsna. How to detect them?
- In India, where is your center? Do you have any headquarters or something like that...?
- In India. Is much rice consumed?
- In ISKCON, are there these four divisions?
- In knowledge also we are individual (either you are in ignorance or in knowledge, both cases you are individual)?
- In Krsna Book and Bhagavad-gita both, you explain there are five states of consciousness, beginning with annamaya, manomaya, pranamaya, like that. Do these states of consciousness manifest in different species of life?
- In Krsna consciousness isn't knowledge rather than faith the basis for action?
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- In Krsnaloka are there asses?
- In La Cienega?
- In Mayapur (is it that Purusottama was supposed to be your Godbrother)?
- In Mayapur is a devotee free to, for example, enjoy the, all the scenery without...?
- In New Zealand we have a situation where the main industry is killing animals... Why is there such a nice atmosphere, nice rain?... Is that that they are innocent and they do not know and so Krsna is not punishing them so much?
- In one of the magazines I read that there was a saint who he didn't even construct a rug?
- In one of the purports in Bhagavatam you mention that first comes humility, then nonviolence and then tolerance... Is it also mentioned that in other places in our sastra?
- In one week (the total of books was seven lakhs books in one week)? That would be hundred thousand dollars
- In order for a body to perceive itself, it needs a mirror. But how does one body perceive its soul?
- In order for a candidate (Presidential candidate) to be God conscious, would he have to be part of the Hare Krsna movement?
- In order to achieve our goals, do we intend doing like the Christians tried to do, making everyone convert to their side. Is that what we want to do, make everyone convert to Krsna?
- In order to be involved in devotional service and execute devotional service in this life, we had to have some devotional service last life. So therefore, were you here last life too, to give us this devotional service?
- In order to chant the holy name purely, is it necessary to have feelings of separation?
- In order to establish the asrama will you be spending part of the year here?
- In other words for those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- In other words, if they want to donate something, they donate. Is that how the magazine is published (we allow everyone, "Come on, chant. Take prasadam")?
- 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 other words, there's no set principle that only the works which you have already translated can be published by the BBT. If there is some worthy translation of a bona fide Vedic reference, if it's properly done, the BBT could publish it?
- In other words, they are theorizing that "Death is a very peaceful state of sleeping. Why are we protesting so much"?
- In our campaigning process, should we try to show them practical application of the philosophy for solving all their social problems, or should we preach philosophically?
- In our Christian faith the love of God is joined with the love for man. Are you also interested with this love for man, for our rivals?
- In our community, being as we're training up as Vaisnavas, how will we be able to make divisions in our society?
- In our community, when we grow things, or we have need of someone's services, how are these services distributed equally?
- In our experience we have no understanding how this can be practical, because we think that meat is good for our strength. How can we be strong?
- In our literature we find Krsna has some transcendental pastimes of anger, but that He does not, it is man's own reaction activities, that bring upon destruction. How are these two...?
- In our material contaminated state when we act in a foolishly or mad, then we call that tamas, or illusion, but in the spiritual sky when one is in his pure state of consciousness... Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In our next life we will be put in a situation immediately where we can take up Krsna consciousness again or will we have to suffer karma before we come into Krsna consciousness?
- In our planetarium, Srila Prabhupada, we want to actually show the different qualities of life on the different planetary systems also?
- In our temples, we have so many devotees. Should the devotees...?
- In our varnasrama college the students that come to our college, they follow the four principles?
- 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 punishing the intelligence of man, does he know the right from the wrong according to the karma? Does man have to pay one way to others in different forms of life?
- In reference to Isopanisad mantra 15, should a devotee ask the Lord to reveal Himself?
- In regard to Hyderabad, can we ask Mahmsa to send an account of how he uses the money that you give him?
- In regard to Kardama Muni, how can a pure devotee become passionate for any amount of agitation?
- 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 Satya-yuga or Treta-yuga they would not drill for petrol to use to make electricity or to make these gas lamps, so by what means did they use to light the palaces and the kingdoms? What was the natural resource utilized for that purpose?
- In Siddhaloka there are angels? That means angels?
- In society, the consumer society, (indistinct) miseries, what is the message you can bring people even in this day?
- In some of our larger temples is it (kirtana going twenty-four hours a day) also advisable?
- In some of our temples, the murti of Your Divine Grace has been installed and they are offering prasadam. So is it the same, that the prasadam is accepted by the guru?
- In some parts of the Bible it describes how things were being carried out, and they say that the activities were going on according to the will of God. Does that mean that there was a God conscious civilization then?
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam you have said that... It's stated that Vyasadeva was afraid when Suta Gosvami was born that he would leave home because he was already a liberated soul
- In that case (we are transcendental to all these material divisions. This is material division), in which of these four divisions are we (ISKCON)?
- In that illustration is Krsna the sunshine or is Krsna the sun?
- In the beginning how does the spirit become ignorant, falls into ignorance?
- In the beginning of the Srimad-Bhagavatam you did discuss the general story... 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?
- In the beginning stage of devotional service when we are trying to make advancement, we have to tolerate the urges of the senses... Is there a stage after a person becomes completely purified...?
- In the Bhagavad-gita I think you have references such as Arjuna being told not to become attached to the fruit of his actions, but act. Can you give us some idea of the principles which would guide one's action while trying to develop Krsna consciousness?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that, you were lecturing that, that unless one performs the proper samskaras for the children, they will become degraded. They will not follow the regulative principles and such... They become unwanted population?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that Brahma is the second spiritual master. I thought that all spiritual masters live forever; but Brahma doesn't live forever
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that those who are different modes of nature, they have different types of charity and different types of religion. So does this mean religions that are already established in the Vedas or...?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says He creates the four varnas and asramas, so these four classes of men are everywhere... Is it correct to say that each man only finds his satisfaction performing a particular type of work according to his mode of nature?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna tells Arjuna there's more than one method of attaining consciousness of Him, and those methods are suited to various types of people. I wonder if you consider that the chanting method is just one or whether it's the only one
- In the Bhagavad-gita, I'm told that there are some two hundred versions of that. Is that the case?
- In the Bhagavata Purana is there also provision for the Caitanya cult?
- In the Bhagavatam, it is mentioned, sarva-devamayo guruh. What is the meaning?
- In the bhakti way of doing things, this emotion and love are very closely entwined, aren't they?
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta it states that to understand Krsna and to improve our relationship with Him we must understand the spiritual master. What is the best way to understand him?
- In the case of Jaya and Vijaya, who fell down and took the role of demons, after three births as demons, they were supposed to go back to the spiritual world. So after the three births in this universe, were the same pastimes going on in other universes?
- In the case of Maharaja Vena there was some recourse for the brahmanas. What can we do?
- In the case where a devotee is definitely sincerely following your instructions and applying himself to all these principles that Krsna has outlined, then when there's difficulty for him, how is he to understand that?
- In the course of your lecture this morning, you quoted that verse from the Tenth Chapter, dadami buddhi-yogam tam. When that knowledge comes, the devotee is qualified by some degree of advancement?
- In the courtyard back at the temple I would like to grow one nim tree. Would that be nice?
- In the East. So there's been a crossover taking place... Do you see it like that?
- 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 family. Any formal?
- In the fish body will he have to suffer for all his other sinful activities also?
- In the Gita it is said that God helps those who help themselves. Now, how do we determine what we should...?
- In the glorifications of Rg Veda, (indistinct) example of glorifications of Krsna there?
- In the Hindu religion do they have a certain title for the holy man? Do they call the holy man swami?
- In the hot climate it is more difficult to digest?
- In the human society the preacher is Krsna's most dear servant. What is the reason for that, Srila Prabhupada?
- In the Indian places known as sacred places isn't it also a fact that there is more magnetism there because of the meeting of saints and more people...?
- In the Kali-yuga, bhakti has been described as the most suitable and easiest of paths for God realization. Yet how is it that Vedantic teachings, with their accent on jnana, are being given the pride of place by noted savants or knowers?
- In the Krsna conscious scheme there is also active struggle and activity?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the last fifty years or so that especially that the Indian culture has been squashed and perverted by the British... Is that because of mass communication, Prabhupada?
- In the list of qualifications of a devotee there is one qualification, expert. What does that mean in relation to the occupation?
- In the material world there are instruments to measure different kinds of energy. How does one measure, what kind of instrument, how does he develop it, to measure the spiritual energy?
- In the material world, sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right and sometimes use violence?
- In the material world, we are bound by maya, maha-maya. In the spiritual world, is there another relationship of yogamaya?
- In the mode of ignorance, if he wishes to come to the platform of the mode of goodness, does he have to pass through the mode of passion to get to the mode of goodness? Or can you go directly from the mode of ignorance to the mode of goodness?
- In the modern world the engineers are designing everything. So how can an engineer use his talent for 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 Moon planet is there earth in their bodies or is their body made out of air?
- In the Moon planet, are there bodies like of a more subtle nature so that if they did go there, they wouldn't be able to see them? We could see them with our eyes?
- In the moon too there is fire? But it is cold, as the, our sages say
- In the name of looking for transcendence, there have been so many wars, hatred between men... He's saying, psychologically, that his brain tells him that in the name of searching after transcendence there has been so much bad, so how is this different?
- In the ocean they have air? In the ocean is there air? What is the chemical combination of water?
- In the park (…prohibited?)?
- In the park, Srila Prabhupada (I was coming here daily for cooking my food)?
- 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 past there was a lot of gold on the planet. What has happened to it? There used to be a lot of gold on the planet?
- In the past, when there were men who practiced yoga, concentration on Krsna within the heart, when they perfected this were they rendering devotional service?
- In the pictures of the acaryas sometimes yourself and Bhaktisiddhanta has their left hand touching the ground. Is there any meaning to that?
- In the Sahara desert we can have life there, Swamiji?
- In the SB first chapter of the 2nd canto it says that the gross materialists can begin meditating on the syllable om and then try to contemplate the universal form. That is not recommended for this age, right?
- In the scientific terminology the eternality of the soul can be compared with the conservation of energy?
- In the Sixth Canto of the Bhagavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally
- In the spiritual bodies aren't there also individualities?
- In the spiritual path everyone has to be married?
- In the spiritual sky when the living entity is in his pure state of consciousness, what acts..., Does something act upon him to make him illusioned at that point also?
- In the spiritual world, what are the factors which cause variety?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam you mentioned that the trees, they also can see, (in a) purport. So I was wondering, do all the various species of life, are they fully equipped in some fashion or another with all the various senses?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in one of your purports, you mention that great scientists like Einstein, Newton and Chandra Bose had such great brains, but who has created their brain?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?
- In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavata, there is a beautiful description of this rasa-lila, and some scholars think that there is some work(?), imagination, in that. So will you please comment upon this?
- In the things that you've written, where would that message come through most clearly?
- In the two abodes of the plenary expansion of Krsna. What exists?
- 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 US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?
- In the Vaikuntha planets, we get that all the inhabitants are four-handed forms of Narayana?
- In the Vaikunthas, surrounding Narayana is Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha?
- In the vanaprastha asrama, after fifty years of age, what is the duty? Is it to live in the temple, or devote most of time to Krsna, or where the wife comes in then?
- In the Vedas the maha-mantra is repeated Hare Rama, Hare Krsna. What is the significance of changing the order?
- In the Vedic age wouldn't everyone want to become a brahmana? Why train someone as a sudra?
- In the Vedic culture, are people allowed to follow any other belief? In a society where there is Krsna conscious king or president, say someone doesn't want to be a devotee. What happens to him?
- In the villages (especially in Bengal, so many big, big palatial buildings, they are lying vacant)?
- In the wrong direction? They're inquiring (scientists)?
- In their evidences by which they base their dialectic discussions, have they regarded the Vedic scriptures?
- In these rocks the upper one is older according to their calculation by geological dating method and the younger one is at the bottom… So how do we explain these things? How do we explain from our point of view? The upside down of the rocks
- In this age of Kali when there is no social structure or varnasrama-dharma, how can one discriminate how he is utilizing his energies for his prescribed duties?
- In this brain weight matter, the sixty-four ounce and thirty-six ounce, is that every brain, male brain, is...?
- In this country (Pakistan) also they have taken (well, Muslim India or same India, those who are intelligent, they are taking to Krsna consciousness)?
- In this evolution, is it a natural evolution that you can teach people, you can guide people, you can show them the path, but the actual progress that one would make towards the supreme knowledge, is that a natural evolution or is it...?
- In this maha-mantra that you publicize, Hare Krsna, it is Krsna that is emphasized. (indistinct) emphasis His Bhagavata and other things are popularized. Is it corresponding...?
- In this movement, how can you or what can you expect, or what would you like to give as an enlightenment for ordinary people?
- In this time, modern science, you know, physics, chemistry, mathematics; is this all materialism?
- In this varnasrama college, is it true that there will be no need, for example, for teaching material history and mathematics and...?
- In those early days of colonization they were trying to sail to India by a quick route to get the spices, and it was the same time that Lord Caitanya's movement began. So is that just a coincidence, that they were trying to go to India at the same time?
- In Tibetan literature, there's a concept that there is 72,000 years allotted?
- In Vrndavana (Bombay is the center. So now we are having our temple, whenever you go, you can stay with us)?
- In Vrndavana (the babajis are making pregnant the widows, and they are going for abortion.There are many cases, similar, and there is American Hospital)?
- In Vrndavana (the government is trying to spoil this place also. Starting oil refinery)?
- In Vrndavana (where is Krsna playing flute)?
- In Vrndavana also Prabhupada there is one (everywhere. Navadvipa there is Manipur Mandir. Here also)? Which is that?
- In Vrndavana you were explaining about the sun, that the sun is not fire, but the living entities there have glowing bodies. So how do they glow?
- In Washington with Rupanuga Prabhu and the other scientists in our group for the Institute. So I have some papers to be signed by Your Divine Grace. So you'll read in the morning? Tomorrow?
- In what form (when this body will be changed, you'll exist in another body)?
- In what respect (now, the common sense is that can you distinguish between matter and spirit? Can you distinguish?)?
- In what respect do you consider yourself different from God?
- In what respect I have created (sinful activities)?
- In what sense are you feeling more vitality?
- In what sense is the First Canto His lotus feet?
- In what sense you use the concept "truth" here? Is it in the ontological sense, or is it in somehow in a more pragmatical human sense, refers to human beings or...?
- In what way (you have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task)?
- 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 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 is the external manifestation of the guru different than the external manifestation of, let us say, Krsna or Caitanya when They come to earth?
- In what way we will live in that spiritual form?
- In what way would they (alcohol and drug patients) cure?
- In what way would we develop it (Bhaktivinoda Thakura's birthplace)?
- 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?
- In which country of Europe has the Hare Krsna movement been the most powerful or successful?
- In which way one can engage oneself to the best service of Krsna, or best use one's time for Krsna?
- In which way will it be most helpful, in giving money personally or inducing others to give money? He will give money?
- In your books you say that the world is like a dream... How is it a dream?
- In your books you talk about Brahmaloka, which, I suppose is heaven
- In your introduction to the Bhagavad-gita you refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianism and other religious faiths as sectarian designations, but isn't Krsna consciousness just another kind of designation in order not to call it Krsna-ism, another ism?
- In your lecture you quoted Canakya Pandita that a man must see every woman other than his own wife as mother. How should a woman see other men?
- In your lectures you continually speak of the ten samskaras that children should have
- In your letter of April 11th you have asked me to insert "What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him?''....
- In your many visits around the world do you see a desire among many men to try to improve, to become first-class men?
- In your opinion, is it impossible for somebody to be a scientist and not to believe in God?
- In your opinion, what is the relationship between Krsna and Christ?
- In your rural communities, do you utilize the most modern techniques with fertilizers, with mechanical means for cultivating land?
- In your teachings you say the sun is the only self-illuminous body in the universe, whereas the scientists say that there is many millions of stars that are in the sky that are also self-illuminous
- Independence (you are perfect because you have got independence)?
- India also there is such tendency towards sense gratification?
- India is supposed to be a land of spirituality. How is it that there is so much moral degradation in our country? Is it the failure of our spiritual leaders?
- India will become Communist also?
- Indra's function is to carry water?
- Infected to (in our country 75%, at least, students are infected with syphilis)?
- Initiated devotee, and he follows those four regulative principles and chants sixteen rounds, will he go back to Godhead?
- Initiation (of Srila Prabhupada) was held at that Gaudiya Matha in Allahabad?
- Instead of just seeing black, white, this or that, I look for individual propensities, so I appreciate those individual propensities?
- Instead of sitting on the raised dais, Vyasasana, and dressing in robes of a monk, Krishnamurti would say, "Dress in Western clothes and sit on a chair." The question was, "What is our opinion of this?"
- Instead of taking the medicine, take a little of this prasadam. Is that all right?
- Insurance for what (they make insurance of life. So where is your insurance for these things? You do not want to die, but you are forced to die. Where is insurance? This is insurance, Krsna consciousness)?
- International Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in London, I shall try to see if there is any similar society here. But one thing I can suggest as you have asked me to give a thought to this problem
- Introduced starting with ISKCON community (varnasrama-dharma should be introduced all over the world)?
- 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 (polygamy) allowed?
- Is (the aim of yoga) to realize God?
- Is (the polestar) the center of the universe?
- Is (this movement) growing all the time?
- Is a devotee always in some anxiety to see others unhappy?
- Is a devotee required to work very hard for material necessities?
- Is a devotee seeking mental happiness as well?
- Is a guru essential to one to enter the spiritual path and attain the goal, and how does one recognize one's guru?
- Is a pure devotee eternally liberated and if so is he at any time a conditioned soul?
- Is a seed conscious, Prabhupada?
- Is a Vaisnava, is he willing to maintain his body for the service of Lord Krsna even if he has to break regulative principles - if it is necessary?
- Is any knowledge other than ultimate knowledge of the Supreme of any value at all? Is this material knowledge of any value?
- Is Arjuna described in disciplic succession?
- Is astrology of any importance to a way of life?
- Is Bhaktivinoda Thakura directly in succession from Lord Caitanya? And Gaurakisora dasa Babaji also?
- Is Canakya Pandita widely available in India?
- Is chanting absolutely necessary in the knowing (of God)...?
- Is chanting Hare Krsna such a yogic process for realizing this (not only in my heart, God is also within the atom. So this is the first information. And then, by yogic process you have to realize it. Paramatma realization) ?
- Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Is conscious repression advisable? Of my basic instincts, my desires. Should I consciously strive to repress these desires?
- Is darkness eternal, Prabhupada?
- Is desire a function of consciousness?
- Is desire, desire is due to the material contamination, or is it...?
- Is Dharmaraja King Yudhisthira?
- Is diet an important segment of the word?
- Is earth near the edge of the universe?
- Is earth still being manifested from ether? Like the description in Bhagavatam is from sound and then through different elements finally down to earth. Is that still happening today?
- Is ether a gross element as well?
- Is everybody who is a devotee of Krsna, initiated, do they all have perfect enlightenment?
- Is everything done in our movement for preaching? Everything that is done in our movement is done for preaching?
- Is faith in God more necessary than proper protection? In other words, is this process actually more necessary?
- Is first the metals mixed together (in Kaviraji, they make some medicine which is gold added by this process, makaradhvaja. Makaradhvaja, the medicine which is combination of tin and mercury, and it looks like gold)?
- Is getting the soul out from this awkward position of matter a higher understanding than understanding the soul by itself?
- Is God perfect?
- Is God the one energy you speak of?
- Is guru and swami the same thing?
- Is he (George) in town?
- Is He (God) a person?
- Is he (Lord Buddha) allowed to say so (He's personally Krsna)?
- Is he (Sanjay Gandhi) going to be put in prison for... (he has paid only one hundred rupees from his pocket, and he's everything, and he has squandered so much)?
- Is he (Sheik Abdullah) a chief minister or prime minister?
- Is he (Syamasundara's father is very rich man)?
- Is he (this man here) one of your old friends?
- Is he allowed to associate with Krsna in the beginning?... As jiva, as jiva is...
- Is He coming again (he has got many names. Still, He acts to teach us. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita. He's so kind, but as soon as He comes to teach us, we take Him as ordinary man)?
- Is he receiving a good interpretation from his disciplic succession or his bishop? Because there seems to be some kind of a discrepancy in the interpretation of the Bible. There's many different sects
- Is human birth superior in terms of self-realization? Is it superior to the demigods?
- Is incense a form of intoxication?
- Is interpretation necessary or not?
- Is it (at the present moment, after independence, Indians are very horribly situated) because of the people?
- Is it (Bhagavad-gita) that simple and clear for everybody (if they do not know this is a tape recorder. What is interpreting? Everyone knows that this is a tape recorder. So what is interpretation? Interpretation required when you do not understand)?
- Is it (bhakti) the same thing with hatha-yoga?
- Is it (I am not feeling very well) due to the heat, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is it (Mayapur we are constructing a big temple. And Vrndavana also. So, for maintenance of the temple perpetually, I want to purchase some property in Los Angeles, because here, Los Angeles, property gets nice income)?
- Is it (milk) like a by-product?
- Is it (the occupier of the body) transcendent?
- Is it (the smell of the baked bread) very agreeable?
- Is it (there is no love in this world. That is illusion) like service to parents without expecting anything from them because they have raised you, they have...?
- Is it (understanding God) possible for poverty-stricken people, those who have to earn bread and money by the sweat of their brow?
- Is it (who is a sudra) determined by jati, by birth?
- Is it (woman should be subordinate to the man, so that the man can take charge of the woman) true for all woman and all men?
- Is it a chemical state that some people are more covered than others by the modes of nature?
- Is it a question of just understanding it (recognition of the spirit soul within this body, that is first education. Unless one understands this simple fact, there is no question of spiritual advancement)?
- Is it a serious movement? If the Beatles are telling the truth, Hare Krsna is a little bit of a bluff
- Is it a very good omen to see in your sleep state person showing to do the Hare Krsna chant?
- Is it a waste of time then to present Krsna consciousness philosophy to someone who believes in doing your own thing? Do you think that that is a...?
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it actually possible for the demons to win?
- Is it all right for her to travel with us or better not to?
- Is it all right for the Deities' hair to show?
- Is it all right that Lord Siva's picture is in the new calendar that's come out?
- Is it all right that they are brought in, or should we talk to them?
- Is it all right to blame the government in public, Prabhupada, in India?
- Is it all right to cheat the government?
- Is it all right to desire Krsna?
- Is it all right to disturb the mind of the envious?
- Is it all right to finish rounds in the temple when there's nothing to do?
- Is it all right to use modern machines on our farms?
- Is it also good to chant the name of a person who is holy, who is one with God, not the name of God?
- Is it an internal educational process or external (it is an educational movement to enlighten the people from gross ignorance to the highest enlightenment of spiritual understanding)?
- Is it because Krsna is situated in the spiritual sky, therefore the spiritual sky is the position where there is ultimate happiness to be found?
- Is it because of our impurity that we can't convince them to stop cutting their throat?
- Is it because the Indians think that they know much about Bhagavad-gita (now all Indians, they should take Bhagavad-gita as it is and make their life fruitful. The Europeans and Americans, they are taking. Why Indians are not taking?)?
- Is it because the leaders are not following? Therefore the population is not following?
- Is it because they are killing the cows that this is happening, Srila Prabhupada (they've lost their religious sentiment, religious consciousness. They're just like rude, crude)?
- Is it because we have the desire to come in contact with such persons that we contact them, like Nitai contacting that Purusottama?
- Is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple? Like somebody working all day and following the regulative principles?
- Is it better to chant the Hare Krsna mantra loud or is it better hide the mantra?
- Is it better to do it the way you did it or to start from a very early age in the, er…?… In other words, some of our members are sannyasa at an earlier age
- Is it better to have a human body as a machine to use than a cat's body?
- Is it better to inquire directly a question to the spiritual master directly, or is it better to wait for the answer to come in an indirect, or in a less direct way?
- Is it by chance what you think of at the time of death or is... it dependent?
- Is it by prayer to God that you help the world?
- Is it cheating to teach that it is supposed that the sun is 93,000,000 miles away?
- Is it compulsory to have a full consciousness that he must shave his head?
- 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 considered a legal wedding ceremony in this country?
- Is it easier or better to be a Krsna bhakta than to be a Christian?
- Is it good to publicize these situations, Prabhupada, that we are encountering so much difficulty? Is it good to publicize that, in a film, say?
- Is it in that sense (as the creator) that He (Lord Visnu) is called Krsna?
- Is it like in mathematics, in chemistry, like they call formulas (the sutras)?
- Is it more beneficial for people to hear the Panca-tattva mantra than the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
- Is it more difficult to do this (your daily routine) when you're traveling a lot?
- Is it more favorable for spreading Krsna consciousness if there is some material problems, social problems? If there is a lack of God consciousness, then people become frustrated. Is that a more favorable situation for Krsna consciousness to take root?
- Is it more important to organize the women's book distribution or to work on College preaching?
- Is it more natural to love someone else? Is it more natural for someone else to enjoy or for ourselves to enjoy?
- Is it natural for a child to grow up and then shave his head and serve God, or is it just a form of socialization?
- Is it necessary and possible to outline certain basic minimum observances for all Hindus?
- Is it necessary for people to leave the cities and live in our varnasrama situations in order to become happy?
- Is it necessary from time to time to change the smrtis?
- Is it necessary that a person should pass through the three asramas, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, before coming to sannyasa?
- Is it necessary that God should be worshiped in particular form only?
- Is it necessary to get to know the true self before knowing God?
- Is it necessary to have a therapeutic system?
- Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join?
- Is it necessary to see the Deity regularly in order to remain strong?
- Is it nityah anityanam or nityah nityanam?
- Is it not as good to serve God as a Christian in a church?
- Is it not better to run than to stand still and sleep?
- Is it not necessary today for each person to have knowledge of the dharma. He's got to have the capacity to act?
- Is it not possible for all sections of Hindus, be they Advaitans, Dvaitans, or visistadvaitans, to come together instead of remaining isolated as warring factions?
- Is it not possible in this age for devotees to overthrow government?
- Is it not speculation to say that one knows God?
- 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 not true that by service I am with you?
- Is it not true that if you don't spend your life thinking of Krsna, it may be difficult at the time of death to remember Him because of attachment?
- Is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting?
- Is it permitted to use shells for making jewelry, crowns, etc., for Deities? Or is it to be considered as the bone of an animal?
- Is it possible (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right)?
- Is it possible for a conditioned living entity to perceive the suchness or essence of anything
- Is it possible for a dog-eater to become a first-class man?
- Is it possible for a person to return to the spiritual world without taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master?
- Is it possible for a saint at certain stage of sadhana to perform miracles?
- Is it possible for a spirit soul never to regain the state of God consciousness?
- Is it possible for any entity to do something until the Lord hears him?
- Is it possible for any spirit not ultimately, after his various transmigrations through bodies, is it possible for any spirit never to regain contact with the Lord?
- Is it possible for one person to be part demon and part devotee in the same person?
- Is it possible for one to engage himself in bhakti-yoga without rendering service to Krsna? Let's say someone who is worshiping Lord Buddha or Lord Jesus
- Is it possible for one to know how many lifetimes it takes to reach spiritual perfection?
- Is it possible for one to make it in this life? Is it possible that one falls down?
- Is it possible for people in the most animalistic conditions of life such as the Eskimos, who need meat to survive-is it possible for these people to become purified?
- Is it possible for the soul to enjoy the material nature?
- Is it possible for us to communicate with plants?
- Is it possible for us to know the source of Krsna?
- Is it possible of making some experiments which would tend to indicate that life is not material? And this might be appealing to some of the people with scientific education, because they are used to such things, experiments
- Is it possible on the spiritual platform?
- Is it possible that every man's life is directed by God, and you're born to do certain things, and you come to be prime minister or something?
- 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 that I live on my own and still be a devotee?
- Is it possible that man could ever make even a one-celled living being?
- Is it possible there's some difference as to the definition of what the moon planet is? They will say that the moon planet is that planet out there. Do we agree? At night?
- Is it possible through Krsna consciousness to, in the supreme state, to be able to remember all that you were?
- Is it possible to achieve liberation with other religious...?
- Is it possible to be brahmana for all?
- Is it possible to become a devotee without actually having personal association with you, just by reading your books?
- Is it possible to carry out that enquiry (about God) while you're engaged in activities?
- Is it possible to chant within one's mind?
- Is it possible to create a suitable environment for life to enter?
- Is it possible to develop such kind of psyche (wherein one can can learn the aim of life within half an hour)?
- Is it possible to do it all on your own, alone?
- Is it possible to do some experiments (everywhere there is living entity. It is impossible to conclude that on other planets there is no living entity. It is not possible)?
- Is it possible to escape the conditions of being in the body?
- Is it possible to find an American mantra?
- Is it possible to find Krsna in the Christian tradition or in Islam?
- Is it possible to have Krsna consciousness when you are asleep?
- Is it possible to jump from brahmacari to directly sannyasa?
- Is it possible to live a household life and at the same time a spiritual life?
- Is it possible to reform a person against their will?
- Is it possible to see the Supreme?... With our own eyes?
- Is it possible to sing the maha-mantra for someone else who has died, and will it have the same effect?
- Is it possible to talk and also to chant the mantra at the same time?
- Is it possible to train the body through the use of yoga to decrease the sleep period down to about three hours or two hours?
- Is it possible to visit other planets?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, that Krsna may like to be satisfied through the material life?
- Is it proper to say that your purports are getting better every day?
- Is it properly fixed up?
- Is it recommended that a woman become a sannyasi?
- Is it right that if you come to Krsna consciousness, all the duties are automatically taken care of?
- Is it right to say that Krsna-prema is the perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- Is it right to tell the suffering that "I am busy, at work for my salvation"?
- Is it safe to compare scientific advancement with Bhagavata, like Darwin and Bhagavatam?
- Is it simply the nature of the name Krsna that this particular name is the most powerful?
- Is it so (every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya)?
- Is it so for a Krsna conscious man that Krsna is as much in the stone as in the Deity? But we order murtis all the way from India?
- Is it so, that in Srimad-Bhagavata it is also written, many really great men want to be here in Kali-yuga, because it is easier to be for salvation?
- Is it sometimes cold in the spiritual world?
- Is it sometimes possible that a person is reborn in the same body?
- Is it still that there's greed and lust there, but he becomes transcendental to it? Or are the greed and lust...?
- Is it that a man becomes a man after the death?
- Is it that it depends on the restaurant or is that necessarily bad (they are young men. They have got all propensities. But they are so elevated, they have given up all these low propensities, going to the club, restaurant, and cinema or naked dance)?
- Is it that people have confused materialism with happiness?
- Is it that the Supersoul controls every movement in this world through the agency of Maya and the inferior energy according to the desires of the dreamer-jiva?
- Is it that they (people involved in this deprogramming) can't understand this philosophy even though they're reading it, or they just don't want to understand it?
- Is it that they (the Mafia) see everyone as their enemy, and therefore everything has to be around them?
- Is it the living entity's choice, complete choice, to be demonic, against God, or is it a part of Krsna's energy to put demons, or to have created him that way?
- Is it the nature of the Kali-yuga that mother and father always separate? Is it the nature of the Kali-yuga that this family separation is always happening?
- Is it the same living soul, Arjuna, in each universe, or a different living being may be taking that position?
- 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 it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?
- Is it to be taken, the references say to Putana, is this to be taken... physically or spiritually as a demonic power or what?... Where, is it the demoness Putana takes Krsna and Krsna sucks her breast?... Should it be taken literally or allegorically?
- Is it to be understood that once the yogi sees the Narayana Form, his desires for travel and material perfections cease? (as did the desires of Dhruva Maharaja) Or do the yogis still persist in desiring to do wonders even after seeing Narayana Form?
- Is it true that when you become more purified that you will see everything differently with your eyes and hear everything differently with your ears and all this?
- Is it true Narada has the same body in the spiritual world and when he comes into the material world?
- Is it true or not true that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta said that failure is the pillar of success?
- Is it true that can a human body takes a form of a human body in the next birth?
- Is it true that eventually by this process we'll become purified so we can become like sruti-dharas?
- Is it true that if I follow the regulative principles, the four, that I will be able to chant without offense?
- Is it true that if someone takes prasadam, they're guaranteed at least a human body in their next life?
- Is it true that in India sudras are kept more leniently than brahmanas are?
- Is it true that Krsna has all these things (grains, sugar, milk and fruits) in each planet simply because of the presence of a pure devotee?
- Is it true that the Sri Krsna Caitanya mantra is more powerful than the maha-mantra?
- Is it true that there are more young people now in the world that are giving more serious thought to what life is really all about?
- Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies?
- Is it true that when you die, when you're going to die, you get another life?
- Is it true that you once said something about the Supersoul being the size of the thumb? Where is that information or authority? He's the size of the thumb in human being?
- Is it true that you will end up converting people according to your own..., in other words, you convert people of your own caliber?
- Is it true when you said that the hill (Govardhana Hill), there is cracks?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that Krsna is testing us every day?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?
- Is it vital to follow certain eating habits?
- Is it warm (shawl from Satyabhama)?
- Is it worthwhile to try to prolong life?
- Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?
- Is it wrong to think of initiation then (if you cannot live in the temple)?
- Is it, just to satisfy their own ego that they (interpreters of bhagavad Gita who mislead people) are doing in this way?
- Is it, though? (laughter) (and to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? - I say if it is possible, then it is all right? - Is it possible? - Yes, if it is possible)
- Is Jesus in the parampara?
- Is Kabir in the Vaisnava tradition?
- Is Kali-yuga the age when desires become manifest like this?
- Is Kalki connected with the Kali-yuga cycle?
- Is knowing the end of seeking?
- Is knowledge sufficient to cause peace, or we must find out some matter first some way?
- Is Krsna a person God?
- Is Krsna always seeking to engage us in His devotional service, and is He upset in some way if we reject His offer?
- Is Krsna attractive to rascals?
- Is Krsna cons..., the Krsna movement, is it still growing?
- Is Krsna consciousness connected with any other religion? Does it derive from Hinduism or Buddhism?
- Is Krsna consciousness genuine?
- Is Krsna consciousness more easily accepted among Indians and among Far Eastern peoples than among the Western peoples?
- Is Krsna consciousness the knowing or the awareness of the Absolute?
- Is Krsna consciousness the only method?
- Is Krsna directly controlling that (getting away from Him)?
- Is Krsna made out of atoms like we are? When He comes down and takes the food?
- Is Ksirodakasayi Visnu present in non-living entities, like rocks, matter?
- Is looking for the medicine part of the medicine (if people take what is the actual goal of life by philosophy and logic, then their goal of life will be one. He must agree to take it just like the diseased man must agree to take the medicine)?
- Is Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita different from the one in Bhagavatam?
- Is Lord Siva a devotee of Lord Krsna?
- Is Mayadevi a pure devotee?
- Is meditation part of your philosophy?
- Is modern science materialism, Prabhupada? Is it materialism?
- Is nature materialism? I mean, there are many things which are obvious, such as money, greed, etc. But how about nature, love?
- Is not a true Vaisnava also a sannyasi? Would you explain the difference between them?
- Is not eating vegetables killing a living entity also?
- Is not Krsna a God of compassion?
- Is not Rama a God?
- Is number important in chanting? It has to be certain number, or you can just chant?
- Is our chanting a form of prayer?
- Is our goal to actually establish Vedic principles back into society again at large?
- Is our rasa with Krsna already established? I mean, is it eternal?
- Is overpopulation, then, a more important problem?
- Is Paramatma a person?
- Is past, present and future, in the material sense, a perverted reflection of the same...?
- Is Philadelphia your last stop in...?
- Is pious activity on the material platform?
- Is polygamy illicit?
- Is pradhana subtle matter?
- Is Rama synonymous with Jesus?
- Is religion a practical knowledge?
- Is sacred the same as solitary?
- Is second initiation necessary, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is secularism coming in way of spreading spiritual education?
- Is service to the Supreme Lord the same as realization of the Absolute Truth?
- Is she (Mrs. Gandhi) having problems because she is a woman, though?
- Is she Krsna conscious (your wife)?
- Is showing miracles like some swamis do the way to bring people back to spiritual life?
- Is Siva milk or dahi?
- Is smrti more than just rules of conduct?
- Is something wrong with tea?
- Is Subhadra, Lord Krishna's Sister, the same Durga or Maya?
- Is such an atomic war foretold in SB?
- Is taking prasadam one of the exchanges of love, where we accept food from a lover?
- Is that ("...we are one with God, but so far the power and position is concerned, He is too big, the great. We are subordinate. This is our position. That is the right conclusion") really the right conclusion?
- Is that ("if you don't stop meat-eating, you cannot understand what is spiritual life") the same for others...?
- Is that ("that university, there is one professor, Norman Brown. I met him. He was a very nice gentleman. He carried my bags to the bus station. He was very kind") when you went to speak in Philadelphia?
- Is that ("the chief minister who has sanctioned") Nayika?
- Is that ("you have fallen down? You must commit suicide. No more My association") the same as in the Bhagavad-gita where Krsna says, "For one who is honored, dishonor is worse than death"?
- Is that (all of your initiated disciples should chant twenty-five rounds minimum on ekadasi) a rule that we should all follow in our temples?
- Is that (atomic) war to occur in the recent future? Or is that a long way off?
- Is that (big, big swamis, they are advocating, "Eat meat.") right?
- Is that (brahmana) good or bad?
- Is that (brain substance in man is more than the woman) in the Vedas also?
- Is that (even abortion they (priests) are defending) because they have no standard?
- Is that (ghosts attack specially woman) because the women are weaker?
- Is that (he (Buddha) simply asked that you finish this material desire) not misleading?
- Is that (here your parents accusing me, and in India the caste brahmanas accusing me) why you keep traveling, Prabhupada, so they won't catch you?
- Is that (if you are not worried, that means you are animal. You are not human being.) like Prahlada Maharaja's prayer when he saw Lord Nrsimha-deva and he said, "I am not afraid of Your ferocious form, but I am afraid of this material world of samsara"
- Is that (if you take the proper way it can be increased) just up to our preaching?
- Is that (in the morning, as soon as you get up, you remember that you have to do so many things. That means it was already there) just like the impersonalists? They go up into the brahma-jyotir, but they have desire. So they have to come back down
- Is that (one who comes to Krsna consciousness, his karma is also changed) karma dovetailed?
- Is that (the indians have no equal rights in South Africa) also effected through karma maybe, Swamiji?
- Is that (the monkey is our forefather) true? Do you believe that?
- Is that (the moving of ISKCON Press) a GBC matter or BBT matter?
- Is that (the spiritual kingdom) where they (the souls) will all end up again when the universe comes to an end?
- Is that (the trees and other lower animals abiding by the order of Krsna) considered worship?
- Is that (this civilization means they are creating only dogs and cats) because they don't acknowledge that they're suffering?
- Is that (when then this man leaves this body and again enters in the womb of the body which he is destined to get) immediate?
- Is that a feeling of unity with the universe?
- Is that a good example (of the space, then the thinner air, and the air, and the water, and the earth, and in between electricity...)?
- Is that a guarantee for going home, if someone leaves their body in the dhama?
- Is that a qualification, is that part of the age of Kali-yuga? Flowers with no scent?
- Is that a science, Srila Prabhupada, that numbers (numerology)?
- Is that a teaching of the Bhagavad-gita, that one should not eat meat?
- Is that actual freedom, though? (that a thief also has got the conscience, "Why shall I steal?")
- Is that all right (my taking the medicine means I am passing urine)?
- Is that all right (that Atreya Rsi writes a final draft ot the Oath of Allegiance)? Should we go on (with reading of the Oath of Allegiance) while he's writing?
- Is that all right (to massage)?... This whole waist area? This whole area?
- Is that all right with you (it is like tenant house (ISKCON Bombay). So whoever pays to your satisfaction, you give him for one day), Srila Prabhupada?
- Is that all right? Yes? And they will take prasadam here, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is that an example of free will, that someone can choose Krsna and then turn away?
- 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 benefit coming in all suffering or only when it is given by Krsna (surgical operation is there, the knife is being used on the body, that means he is getting relief. It is not punishment)?
- Is that bhajananandi and gosthyanandi?
- Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? (they perform Radha-Krsna kalyana, marriage)
- Is that buddhi (dadami buddhi-yogam tam), that intelligence manifested in some way, in his service, or in his thinking?
- Is that called punya? Serving the poor?
- Is that called rtvik-acarya (yes. I shall recommend some of you. After this is settled up, I shall recommend some of you to act as officiating acaryas)?
- Is that cheating propensity (if the kanistha-adhikari thinks that "I have become uttama-adhikari," then he's a rascal)?
- Is that considered attempting to become Krsna conscious, simply to give up, say, material sense enjoyment?
- Is that counted as one of the 8,400,000 species? Is the atom counted among the different species?
- Is that described as raganuga-bhakti (when they take it as a serious thing in life, oh, everyone will be happy)?
- Is that differentiated (total material elements, mahat-tattva)?
- Is that faith (everyone knows the sun will appear, faithless or faith)?
- Is that for one who is differentiating himself from this body? In other words, a person who has realized that there is field and there is knower, is he given that title or is the person who cannot make that distinction, is he also given that title?
- Is that governing that Brahma does in the universe, he does that in relationship with all the other demigods like they are departmental heads? So he is not personally directing every single thing
- Is that immediately after one dies you transfer to another body, or later (you are associating with some modes of material nature. So according to that association, you'll get next body)?
- Is that just as healthy as nim leaves? Patola leaves?
- Is that kind of information given in the Vedas (a class of men, they are called vaidyas (doctors). They know all these herb, which herb is medicine for certain disease, and they sell in the market)?
- Is that one (painting) first-class there, Prabhupada?
- Is that part of your income, to run a...(publishing house)?
- Is that perfection possible in one life (our healthy life is to enjoy eternal life... So our human life should be utilized for attaining that perfectional stage)?
- Is that personality within the atom Paramatma (even within the atom, you will find personality)?
- Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
- Is that preordained, or is it by free choice (the men who surround you were raised in a bad society, but they have chosen to become good)?
- Is that Rahu planet closer than the moon to the earth?
- 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 special arrangement that they seem to be impoverished? Say like the villagers, they're not very wealthy.
- Is that spiritual master still guiding after the death?
- Is that tea? Is that tea that you're drinking?
- Is that the difference between jiva-tattva and Visnu-tattva (there is some soul who can come under influence of maya in the spiritual sky)?
- Is that the flat (one hundred, Seventy-second Street) that you were staying in that was broken into? Is that the place that was broken into?… That was where the typewriter was stolen?
- Is that the heart of the soul or the heart of the gross material body (you are our student. You are saying there is no heart (some of the insects don't even have hearts). That means you do not carefully read)?
- Is that the mayayapahrta-jnanah?
- Is that the same psychology that they, they only know of material body, so when they think of God, they think that God has material body also?
- Is that the significance, then, of the festival, to remind people of God?
- Is that to say that a stone has a living entity in it?
- Is that tree alive?... Has it got life?... Are you doing anything wrong when you cut it down...?
- 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 that what is meant when a man thinks when he dies (according to your desire, you'll get a body), at the moment...?
- Is that what it means by sarvam khalv idam brahma (everything is Bhagavan, but it appears like different)?
- Is that what you want?
- Is that what you're trying to do in your movement?
- Is that why (there is already name, Krsna. So why should Christ utter?) Christ didn't utter the name of Krsna?
- Is that why Bhagatji didn't leave Vrndavana? Is that (because that paramahamsa advised our Bhagatji, "Anyone going out of Vrndavana...") why he didn't want to leave?
- Is that why people are making these machines, because they can't remember? Is that a sign of Kali that there's more machines to help people?
- Is that why vegetarianism is...?
- Is that why we made that hall, for making money (what is called? Village house. Hm? The hall is called? When one pays, marriage ceremony... For making some money you have made)?
- Is the 'conscience' the symptom of the Supersoul?
- 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 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 brightness of a diamond because of the presence of a jiva?
- Is the Caitanya-Krsna ritual, as you have it here in this house and in the other asramas, is that something that a large mass of people can enter into?
- Is the chanting of Hare Krsna the answer to living successfully in today's world?
- Is the cloud in our mind or is the cloud in the sky also?
- Is the correct way of living merely a way of doing, actually, a sort of higher state of consciousness where you're experiencing something different to...?
- Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?
- Is the exterior clothing important?
- Is the exterior identification important?
- Is the fact that America is now the dominant nation also God's will?
- Is the final goal of transcendence, then, immortality?
- Is the God of love, does He punish man?
- Is the government discouraging...(opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern)?
- Is the human soul then limited or unlimited?
- Is the humorous direct or indirect? One in humor?
- Is the immortality that he (Jesus) has offered, for instance, me... I must talk in the first person. Is it a universal thing that's happened all through time or is it something that belongs to just when he died?
- Is the irregularity in the weather and...?
- Is the Krsna consciousness belief or philosophy compatible with the Hindu religion?
- Is the land in Vrndavana, is it in the city? Is it on the outside of Vrndavana, or is it in the city?
- Is the living entity in the area of the heart, in the heart, or in the lotus of the heart?
- Is the medicine in the seeking?
- Is the mode of life that you are proposing adaptable to many, many, many people?
- Is the most subtle form of creation the desire of the living entity to enjoy this material world?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- Is the only way to know Krsna through the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?
- Is the planetary system the universe, or is there something beyond the planetary system which it is situated in?
- Is the prayer communal, where all take part in the prayer, or is it individual?
- Is the pure devotee more merciful than Krsna?
- Is the real goal of life to know God?
- Is the result of our inquiry to change the external environment?
- Is the samadhi which is the perfection of this eightfold yoga system the same as the samadhi of bhakti-yoga?
- Is the seeing important?
- Is the social unrest in this country caused because... (these are sinful activities, to kill child in the womb. And take shelter of abortion. These are all sinful activities. One has to suffer for that)?
- Is the soul dependent upon the body for its existence?
- Is the spiritual master actually conscious of our activities?
- Is the Srimad-Bhagavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyasadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?
- Is the sun going around the earth?
- Is the sun to be considered a representation of God?
- Is the Superself a spirit?
- Is the sweet lemon juice giving some strength?
- Is the teacher always necessary?
- Is the thinking material?
- Is the time that I'm going to die, and everybody going to die, is this preset before they're born? Do I have, when I'm born, do I have a certain given lifespan?
- Is the water inside (my body) the same as the water in the ocean?
- Is the work you recommend your followers to do purely spiritual, or do you...?
- Is their calculation for the distance of the sun wrong also?
- Is there a basic conflict between a spiritual life and material living?
- Is there a center in Geneva where this literature...?
- Is there a Christ-loka?
- Is there a difference between Arjuna's body and his soul, and how does this apply to all Krishna's eternally liberated souls described in the scriptures. Is Arjuna always the same in his appearances with Krishna or is a new soul taking his body each time?
- Is there a difference between Rama and Krsna?
- Is there a difference between...? Just like we have fire here, is it different from the glowing there (the sun)? You said the sun is not fire
- Is there a difference in the quality of service between a person who is, just accepts outright Krsna, service to Krsna, and one who wants to scrutinize and inquire more and more about it?
- Is there a distinction between that mode of goodness described in the Eighteenth Chapter and the Fourteenth Chapter?
- Is there a fan? A fan. A fan?
- Is there a fixed number of souls or fixed number of spirits in the universe?
- Is there a GBC for Thailand?
- Is there a Hare Krsna Movement in India?
- Is there a jiva (a spirit soul) in every sperm cell? Does the spirit soul only come to a particular sperm cell, or is there one in every sperm cell, and the condition isn't right, so then it dies before, I mean, it leaves before it actually forms a body?
- Is there a minimum age for beginning such a college (varnasrama college)?
- Is there a minimum age for the man (a girl is married before puberty, she is not allowed to go to the husband until she has attained puberty... After attaining puberty there is another second marriage. Then the husband and wife live together)?
- Is there a movement to get this philosophy or science propagated in the colleges?
- Is there a process of training to become swami?
- Is there a relationship, he's asking, between these disturbances and this age (if you actually want freedom from material disturbances, you have to come to the spiritual platform and cultivate spiritual knowledge and be fixed up)?
- Is there a 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 a speciality in the Madhya Pradesh area?
- Is there a specific way to counteract this bad quality of enviousness?
- Is there a spirit opposed to the divine spirit?
- Is there a spiritual planet where Krsna plays the part of one's father?
- Is there a time limit for this spiritual growth?
- Is there a time when the subtle body ceases to exist?
- Is there a Vedic definition of science?
- Is there a way of knowing that the body you inhabited before was of a inferior quality than the one you're inhabiting now, or...?
- Is there a way of knowing whether you're on the way up or you're falling?
- Is there an animal soul, Swami?
- Is there an atom for each (of the ninety-two elements)? Is there a copper atom?
- Is there any benefit to the karmis that a devotee deals with because he engages in business activity with them? Do the karmis get benefit?
- Is there any chance of having a gurukula in Canada?
- Is there any chance of uniting with India again, Pakistan?
- Is there any chance to understand how the Absolute think?
- Is there any danger to us from her (Indira Gandhi) arresting so many people?
- Is there any difference between Siva and Krsna?
- Is there any difference between the ego of a person who is collecting money, or material things, all his life, or a person who is giving all the material things for the service of humanity at large? Is there any difference between the two?
- Is there any difference between...(Ramakrishna Society and ISKCON)?
- Is there any difference in (indistinct) when somebody is chanting japa under the tree and someone who is chanting japa in the temple?
- Is there any difficulty from the solid food?
- Is there any direct line of division between that which you would call knowledge and that what you call religion?
- Is there any example of this ascension into heaven? Didn't Arjuna...
- Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society for brahmana initiation?
- Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society to get first, hari-nama, initiated?
- Is there any instructions about this gosvami business that you have (the gosvamis of Vrndavana, that are agitated)?
- Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
- Is there any method for dissent within your movement? Or change?
- Is there any need to increase our prasadam distribution? Right now about a thousand people come
- Is there any 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 any other bhasya other than Baladeva-bhasya?
- Is there any other books before Bhagavad-gita?
- Is there any other information about Haridasa (and after burial there was distribution of prasadam and kirtana. Haridasa Ṭhakura. So here you have to show some talks with Haridasa, how feelingly)?
- Is there any particular reason why some spirit souls become directed toward Krsna Consciousness in the first place?
- Is there any philosophy, doctrine, creed, or, for that matter, ritual that can bring God down to the point of a human thought?
- Is there any place in the movement for the drug addicts, a new class which has come...
- Is there any plan to translate into English? Is there any plan to translate Jiva Gosvami's Jiva-bhasya?
- Is there any point in your practice do you consider yourself free from taking lower re-births?
- Is there any possible way of a balanced combination between spiritualism and materialism?
- Is there any real happiness?
- Is there any reason why that (there is not large number of American negroes in your movement) is so?
- Is there any reason why we are just distribute on a Saturday and Sunday (come over here. You are hungry, take prasadam. If I cannot supply daily, I'll supply at least two days, three days weekly)?
- Is there any reason why you don't, you prohibit people from eating meat?
- Is there any reason why you teach your followers the Bhagavad-gita rather than the Bible?
- Is there any result to chanting Krsna's name mechanically? Or must it be uttered with complete devotion?
- Is there any stage at which these atheistic people have done anything good by accident?... Is there any step?
- Is there any subject matter to contact atma, or self, what we call?
- Is there any such thing as innate knowledge?
- Is there any system for publishing works in the future that you may not see?… What would the system be to insure the parampara if you would not personally see these translations?
- Is there any way for a Christian, without the help of a spiritual master, to reach the spiritual sky through believing in the words of Jesus Christ and trying to follow his teachings?
- Is there any way I can prepare (suppose if God says that "You become a dog," can you check it?)?
- Is there anyone actually outside of sanatana-dharma then?
- Is there anyone similar to Joan of Arc in the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Is there anyone there? Any of these characters there? I'm trying to introduce these characters (Srinivasa and Haridasa)
- Is there anyone who is designated to succeed you as the primary teacher of the movement?
- Is there anything in the Vedic literature which supports Darwin's theory?
- Is there anything on earth that is God?
- Is there anything we can do about it (Jagannatha Puri's sanctity they are killing. The biggest panditas are all known meat-eaters also. Meat, fish, everything. Many also take all sorts of intoxication and they also go to the prostitute)?
- Is there anything wrong when the woman works?
- Is there are social act which this Hare Krsna movement has taken?
- Is there conflict with other Eastern religions, and if so, how far is this spread?
- Is there Deity worship on other planets?
- Is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- Is there ever a time when the subtle body dies?
- Is there false ego in different modes? Like false ego in the mode of ignorance, false in the mode of passion or goodness?
- Is there free will?
- Is there in India a licensing body by the state for people to preach?
- Is there individual complete choice?
- Is there much divorce in India?
- Is there not something to this idea of brain, of being spiritually controlled or spiritually directed?... What would you call it?
- Is there one for you, Srila Prabhupada (milk preparation)?
- Is there room in the movement for other persons who are indirectly serving Krsna rather than chanting Hare Krsna all day?
- Is there sex after death?
- Is there some bad effect to it that you feel, Srila Prabhupada, when you take that (Complan)?
- 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 gradual development in all those nine processes of devotional service, beginning from hearing?
- Is there some mention in the Bhagavatam about this, that the religious men will wear only the clothes to make a profit?
- Is there some mention not to eat many animals but eat one...?
- 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 there some other way we can argue with them (you say that you have gone to moon planet, but I have not seen that you have gone there. How can I believe you?), Prabhupada?
- Is there some part of Lord Siva that is there in between?
- Is there some sort of relationship (with Jesus and) with Lord Krsna?
- Is there some story related to the way in which Mayapur was found by Jagannatha dasa Babaji?
- Is there some verse in the Bhagavatam which states that the Bhagavatam reciter must be a very qualified person?
- Is there some way to find out good without following the rules and regulations laid down by the authorities?
- Is there some, any qualities, in the sense that some people have more receptivity towards the divine than other people?
- Is there something special you want me to do there (the ISKCON farm near Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prabhupada?
- Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
- Is there special significance during this period (Kumbha Mela)?
- Is there such a thing as a sincere atheist... who benefits by austerity?
- Is there such a thing as having pure spiritual desires in the soul or not?
- Is there time in the higher nature?
- 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 (if you have got some name which actually refers to God, then it is all right. But if you have got something, name, which refers to dog, then it is wrong) something that your followers can be aware of constantly?
- Is this ("you can see God in everywhere. But one must be Krsna conscious, God conscious. Then he'll see every moment, everywhere God, nothing but God") part of the God consciousness, that in everything is the God?
- Is this (at the present moment) the later half of Brahma's life?
- Is this (God's name the total summarization - "all-attractive.") the same name that is spoken of in the Bible where it says "the word of God"?
- Is this (the eyes are to be treated how to see) true also with your other senses?
- Is this (Those who are not accepting God in lifetime, they will meet God, death. Death is another form of God) something where we can sort of experience death while we are still alive?
- Is this (vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah) in the Gita, in Bhagavad-gita?
- Is this a government-recognized college now (at Navadvipa)?
- Is this an association or this a vision (if I see every living being is son of God or Krsna, then that means I see God in every beings. Is there any difficulty to understand?)?
- Is this an ideal solution or a practical one (the oxen will solve the problem of transport. That bullock cart. Just like Krsna, when He was transferred from Gokula to Nandagrama, so they took all the bullock carts)?
- Is this because the illusion that we see is a representation of the spiritual world in a sense (this material world is only suffering, but under illusion we are accepting suffering as enjoyment)?
- Is this building four or five hundred years old? This very room (this is the place for dining. The Gosvamis, they used to dine here, this room)?
- Is this continual reincarnation only occurring on this earth, or does it occur on other planets?
- Is this desire for material happiness the cause of material attachment?
- Is this devotional spirit the only necessary truth that one is born with, or are there others?
- Is this due to machines, do you think, to the prevalence of machines (you cannot find out an ideal character man)?
- Is this example proper, that a son is being well taken care of by the father, but sometimes he's thinking, "I can enjoy more some other way" (Krsna says, You give up all these nonsense plans. Come to Me)?
- Is this faithfulness, is it a product of the mode of goodness?
- Is this giving you a little relief, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is this God's plan or our plan?
- Is this Hindu faith?
- Is this his temple here, in Vrndavana (here also, Madhava Maharaja temple, nobody goes)?
- Is this immediate, the reception of perfect knowledge?
- 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 Krsna in this painting here?
- Is this life, this present life, is this also being within Krsna's pastimes, because Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement is Krsna's pastimes?
- Is this like a post? Mayadevi's?
- Is this manifestation (many of your followers dress in what for the West is an odd fashion) the only way to be spiritual, dressing in this fashion?
- Is this manifestation, dressing in this fashion, playing drums and dancing in the streets, the only way to be spiritual?
- Is this mattress hard for you, Srila Prabhupada?
- Is this near the temple (the planetarium)?
- 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 picture of He who is considered Krsna in the pine tree?
- Is this presumptuous, or is this right, to try to praise the creation by making sculpture?
- Is this progress toward human immortality, is that a creative process?
- Is this school (varnasrama college) for women also, or just for men?
- Is this singing essential to the sustenance of your faith?
- 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?
- Is this still possible (that the whole human society, it should be recruited and trained up... Then society will be all right), Swamiji? Is there still possibility that that can happen?
- Is this style acceptable to Prabhupada (they sent one sample, Bhaktivedanta Institute, the emblem. And they had wanted to include some Sanskrit slogan, perhaps, and you'd mentioned athato brahma jijnasa, so they have done that and decorated little bit)?
- Is this the ceremony which is often referred to as mantra-diksa?
- Is this the learned brahmana (so he asked his men to carry Him to his place and that will be the scene. Then after His departure His followers will come, and they will search in the temple that Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not there. Then one Gopinatha Acarya)?
- Is this the reason why others who have preceded yourself earlier on, is this the reason why they were not successful, because they were trying to judge the results (our business is to carry out the order, not to see success. Success is not so easy)?
- Is this understanding of verse 18, chap. 4, correct; that the sage sees material activities as zero (inaction in action) and sees the devotee seated chanting as eternally active (action in inaction)?
- Is this what Gandhi did (we don't prohibit that you don't mix with woman or you stop sex life. We don't say that. But we make everything regulated under Krsna consciousness. Their aim is higher. These are all secondary platform)?
- Is this world a real place? According to what you were saying, it's illusion
- Is this your first visit to Perth?
- Is this your last body? If so, how do you know?
- Is this your last trip to America?
- Is Vallabhacarya, Prabhupada, in accordance with our philosophy?
- Is woman in each one of these species (the different species of life making up the 400,000 species) another separate species?
- Is worshiping the idol a stepping stone?
- Is yoga part of meditation?
- Is yogurt as healthy as milk?
- Is your philosophy, your approach to consciousness, based on the Gita?
- Is your son in the cult?
- Is your spiritual master still alive?
- Is your way the only way?
- Is... This picture of Sri Visnu, it's the person who you worship or...?
- Isn't brahma-jyotir temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material world?
- Isn't Brahman the source of the light?
- Isn't everything we see a product of experience? Don't all living things have experience?
- Isn't he (Dr. Urquhart) the one who said the woman's brain is thirty-two...?
- Isn't he (Lord Brahma) a pure devotee?
- Isn't it (swimming) refreshing and...?
- Isn't it (unless one is pure, one will not have faith) is also like a child?
- Isn't it a simple idea to love life?
- Isn't it at the beginning Arjuna hesitates to kill his family and doesn't want to go to fight, and what he is taught, through Bhagavad-gita in some way is that he should not restrain and that...?
- Isn't it difficult to belong to Krsna consciousness and exist in this world we must exist in?
- Isn't it in the sense the material concept (and those who know (indistinct), he is not hankering after how to get out of the (indistinct). They do not care for)?
- Isn't it inevitable that it's going to occur, that the devolution occurs inevitably without anyone's being able to change it?
- Isn't it really a matter for the devotee, that one person may find Hare Krsna is more beneficial to his spiritual progress, and yet somebody else, some other mantra may be more beneficial? Isn't it like just a matter of taste? Like judging a flower
- Isn't it shells from the animals (from the rocks it is... They call it weathering. The weather makes it ground up from the rocks. This is their theory)?
- Isn't it when you drive for Krsna, doesn't it become para-vidya then?
- Isn't laziness one of the demonic qualities, Srila Prabhupada?
- Isn't nature material?
- Isn't Om the total expression sound of nature?
- 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 (they are sporting with the life of bull, and they are Christian trying to convert others as Christians) somewhat in the ksatriya spirit?
- Isn't that (you cannot catch even nonpoisonous snake, and you are telling that 'I shall now catch cobra') "shooting the rhinoceros"?
- Isn't that a mental manifestation, like if you feel that someone's Krsna conscious? It's not a physical manifestation, right?
- Isn't that a rather negative way to look at the work (that is knowledge, that is knowledge. When a prisoner understands that "This hammering business is not my real business, it is my punishment")?
- Isn't 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 that true that all living entities is man's neighbor?
- 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 the fact that we say that one should give up the cultivation of knowledge in conflict with the first six chapters of Gita which deal with cultivation of knowledge?
- Isn't the GBC supposed to be more trusted than the temple president?
- Isn't the ksatriya qualities that he is to be trustworthy?
- Isn't the sound, though, as good as the explanation (have the sound only. (Laughs) The explanation... I shall give you little explanation)?
- Isn't there a point, Prabhupada, at which, you know, you can expect that you've been doing the right things, so there should be some relief?
- Isn't there also individuality and difference (soul, as spirit soul, pure soul, they are all equal. Even in animal)?
- 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?
- Isn't there an absolute value?
- Isn't there motion (in the spiritual sky)?
- Isn't there room for both (economic development and spiritual advancement)? There would not be room for both?
- Isn't there some conditioning between the guru and sisya, that "The guru should be like this and a sisya should be like this"?
- Isn't there something more fundamental than that (actually understand Bhagavad-gita and distribute the knowledge. That is our aim)?
- Isn't yours a product of or derivative of Vedic?
- Isvara is different from Brahman?
- It (Bhagavad Gita) starts in Chapter Two with the question of what is atma?
- It (Calcutta) was bombed frequently, or just once or twice?
- It (death) is inevitable, isn't it?
- It (Genesis) says the earth is square?
- It (he (one very pious east Indian man who for many years has been worshiping Lord Siva) does not chant Hare Krsna, he chants om sivaya namah) is all right?
- It (Punar nava) is good medicinally?
- It (tea or coffee) is sinful?
- It (the drama was a drug-addicted boy killed some friend?) was the sailor who was killed? On the news?
- It (the farm in Hyderabad) can produce enough food to feed the whole society... Do you want me to take care of?
- It (the letter on that Blitz article (a mischievous article in which the newspaper accused us incorrectly), I wrote a reply and sent it to Krishna Modi, the member of Parliament) is okay?
- It (the moon) is a bigger planet?
- It (the moon) rotates?
- It (worldwide membership figure) is increasing?
- It appears that by taking to Krsna consciousness, one becomes less materially benefitted?
- 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 appears to me that one of the most difficult aspects of Krsna consciousness for someone to accept who's been brought up outside of that point of view is the Deities and the idea that they represent Krsna. Could you talk a little bit about that?
- It becomes a belief rather than a logic now, then, for when we think about the God. You were saying everybody has father, so why God, in exception, He hasn't got a father?
- It can be changed, the age of Kali, by presence of the devotees of Krsna?
- It can be done inside then (blowing the conchshell)?
- It comes also from the living entities on the moon (the moon's light)?
- It does require a certain price for them to pay as individuals. To sincerely try to find Him (Krsna)?
- It doesn't appeal more to the young ones than to the older people (the Hare Krsna movement)?
- It goes deeper and deeper (the chanting)?
- It had one for every verse (illustration)? Very good picture or simple?
- It is a fact though that the repository of Indian culture and religion is Sanskrit. So are you saying then that the harijanas or these class of people...?
- It is a question of eyes and knowing, sir? So, sir, how do we prepare eyes to see (Krsna)?
- It is against capitalism, this idea (varnasrama)?
- It is all coming from Krsna, though, isn't it (maya empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense)?
- It is also guru-purnima… Is there some special celebration or significance?
- It is also not because of the development of consciousness (that because the mother was naked in the childhood, therefore she should not put on any garment. This is nagna-matrka-nyaya. We change according to the circumstances)
- 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 better to perform one's duty, even though it may be imperfect, than to perform another's duty?
- It is both, isn't it Srila Prabhupada, it is both material and spiritual. In essence it is spiritual?
- It is correct that the illumination of the moon is caused by the movement of the vegetation on the surface?
- It is explained that the intelligence is the next door neighbor of the soul, can you explain exactly what that means, Srila Prabhupada?
- It is first time you visit France?
- It is just like the concept that if God is all-merciful, why He is so impartial, somebody making happy, somebody making suffering?
- It is knowledge, that we don't have the knowledge, or enlightenment that in that watermelon there is something which is worth, or it is only that we don't want to do it, or we don't want to take the trouble?
- It is more difficult to grow vegetables in Kali-yuga where there's no sacrifice?… Doesn't that make it more difficult to live? The weather's, everything's so disturbed?
- It is never burned (a Vaisnava acarya's body is never burned. It is entombed. They worship the body. But that is spiritual body)?
- It is not (an accident) determined even by karma?
- It is not difficult (to become Krsna's representative)?
- It is part of your plan to operate schools for this purpose (a college to learn how to become first-class men)?
- It is possible to attain that affection of love for God... without taking part in this Krsna consciousness movement?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It is said in the Bhagavad-gita that if one thinks at the time of death, if he thinks of Krsna, he goes to Krsna. What if one thinks of his spiritual master?
- It is said that once you achieve the Godhead, once you go back to Krsna, that you don't fall down. But it is also said that we come from there originally. If we came from there, how did we fall if we were already there?
- It is said that the karma-kanda in the Vedas has almost gone out of use, except for a few rites which remain in vogue for marriage, sraddhas, etc. Is it advisable to revive the karma-kanda with its stress on the performance of various yajnas?
- It is said that the soul glows with a light brighter than a thousand suns. In the Vedas. Yes?
- It is some sort of artificial transmigration (changing the heart)?
- 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 is the attitude with which one does it (tries to satisfy Krsna, that is important)?
- It is the Gita that you stress on or the Bhagavatam?
- It is the highest blasphemy, isn't it? If one says, "I am God."
- 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 what? Sarva-dharman parityajya?
- It is written in Gita the soul never dies. When the soul does not die, where does it go after that?
- It is wrong to petition God?
- It isn't a negation of pleasure, but it's a higher pleasure?
- It may be better you drink some barley water. Do you mind drinking it?
- It may take some time. Actually I haven't been to Bombay myself. I haven't seen the land at Juhu. Is there a suitable place for storing the car?
- It mentions dhyana and raja-yoga in that chapter (sixth chapter of Bhagavad-gita). Can you explain the meaning of these two yogas?
- It says here that a pure devotee like Haridasa Thakura would not fall victim to Mayadevi's temptations, but even Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, might fall victim. I always thought that they were pure devotees of the Lord
- It says in the Bhagavad-gita that the om sound, omkara, is a representation of Krsna. Is it different from the Hare Krsna mantra?
- 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 says in the Bhagavatam exactly what the distance (of the sun)?
- It seems now that it's the people from the West who want to hear. Why is that?
- 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 almost daily that the next processes in life are the much more interesting and exciting ones. But when I hear you speak of Bhagavad-gita and so on, I know nothing about these people. So now where do I start?
- It seems to me if they are to bring Krsna to the world that it would be an important thing for them to have news, to know, to be able to communicate with people. Is there some actual prohibition against (indistinct)?
- It seems to me that you chant, don't you, Hare Krsna?
- 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 seems, the more we strive to push the Krsna consciousness movement forward, the more maya puts obstacles in the way to stop us?
- It should be below the knees or... (Sukracarya's cloth)?
- It sounds like a beautiful project. That is near Bombay, now? ... Have they progressed much now?
- It sounds like Prabhupada wants a moat (on the land at Mayapura). Is that your idea, Srila Prabhupada?
- It understood that the St. Giles in the Field School is available on rent. Now you have asked my instructions in this connection...
- It was a big snake? Very big? And was it Sesa?
- It was after the heart attack that you came here (to Vrndavana)?
- It was some instruction that you got (there was two days I was attacked in heart on the ship. So hardship. (Then you had a dream?) The dream was I must come here)?
- It was too short. In the movie? It was too short how to prepare it (one thing you have missed: how we are preparing all these foodstuffs)?
- It'd be no good at all being priest if you had smallpox, would it?
- It's a big old tree (that courtyard is very beautiful. There is a tamale tree. That is a very valuable tree. The Bisanchand Seth asked me to cut)?
- It's a 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 a pity and we have to be very open and very friendly to them. I gather this. And your method is meditation and prayer, if I understand it well?
- It's all right that the women are dancing (I told him that you make some play for showing here in Vrndavana)?
- It's almost time for lunch, Prabhupada... Shall we go?
- It's been said sometimes, Prabhupada, that you have said that some rocks have life. Some rocks, some stones, are actually souls in them?
- It's considered offenseless if, chanting, if one follows the orders of the spiritual master carefully?
- It's difficult for people 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...?
- It's difficult for people to understand that God can speak to a man. They question, "How can God speak to some man?"
- It's fortunate to take birth in America or England?
- It's from the Bhagavatam (klisyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye tesam asau klesala eva sisyate nanyad yatha sthula-tusavaghatinam)?
- It's just evolution. There's no meaning. What's the meaning (I do not follow what is the meaning. The sun is rising half past six, exactly at the time. So there is no meaning?) We can't tell what the meaning is?
- It's just that it takes longer. So if that's all right with you, then we won't even request you to sit up when it's time to give you something to drink. Would that be all right? Okay. Can I give you some barley milk, Srila Prabhupada, now?
- It's more in this state (Bengal) than anywhere else, they don't cover their head. Is that due to her influence (wife of Ramakrishna)?
- It's mustard oil with spices, and I am not sure what the fruit is. It may be mango, I'm not sure… It's some kind of crude mango pickle… Do you want me to try to see what it is (why not take little?)?
- It's not a problem simply of the modern society but a problem of man, what are, more specifically, the problems, and how can we solve the problems (the modern society is not taking care of the driver; they are taking care of the car) ?
- It's not acting (makara-dhvaja)? How can you tell so soon?
- It's not being digested? ... Things like soup and vegetable juices?
- It's not dedicated to Krsna? The work is not dedicated to Krsna. How, specifically, how can you do this?
- It's not possible for a woman to become a sannyasī?
- It's not that one has to develop them (moral qualities) independently?
- It's not very painful to take the medicine, is it?… Does it taste bad, Srila Prabhupada, the medicine? Does it taste very bad?
- It's on this quotation from Bhagavata Purana that Caitanya built His system?
- It's only if you haven't got rid of these impurities that you have to return, take on another body?
- It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
- It's said that Narada Muni delivered the chant to the Earth. Was it here before he came? And how long ago did he come?
- It's that "aham" is indicated to Who? The physical posture of Krsna which we know or the...?
- It's true that people are getting disease and sicknesses as the result of their past activities, pious or sinful. Why is it that it appears that when there is a flu many people are inflicted with that flu? Practically everyone, indiscriminately
- It's very easy to convince some people that they're not their bodies, but it's not very easy to convince them that they're not their minds. Is there some way we can...?
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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?
- Jaya Srila Prabhupada. How many cc's is that, Bhakti-caru?… It's about forty… Forty. So give Prabhupada two more of those. Actually, usually you drink about 200 cc's of barley milk, and you've just drank about 50… Srila Prabhupada?
- Jayapataka Maharaja wanted to know whether the money that I (Tamala Krsna) want to give him can be used for purchasing a projector rather than the land purchase
- Jesus Christ and Muhammad? They were all the reincarnation of Krsna?
- Jesus Christ..., it is said that he made the miracle of the fish and ate. So why is it that one should not eat meat?
- Jiva atma is also a person?
- Jiva Gosvami was the guru of Mira?
- 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 as you have given an example of krodha by Lord Hanuman in burning Lanka, are there any such instances where lobha could also be personified Lord Krsna's desire?
- Just because there was a little inability for sleep, why should you give up all of the, you know, regimentations which they're prescribing?
- Just before her death she apparently was able to explain some of her past lifetimes to her mother, that she had formerly been a princess or of noble birth and that now she was being called. Is there some explanation for that?
- Just by distributing your books we can become self-realized?
- Just by our presence chanting then (they're all infected, the whole world. So by chanting you disinfect)?
- Just by saying "Krsna Book," he makes spiritual advancement?
- Just by selling books or... You must receive gifts as well (in Los Angeles we collect about eight hundred dollars daily. I think it must be about twenty thousand dollars a day, through the society)?
- Just getting off that, can I ask why you've come to Australia again?
- Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?
- 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 now we have come to the point where the different doctors are thinking very seriously of having this mercy killing passed in the courts. When a person becomes too much diseased, actually he would be happier if he was dead, so why not kill him?
- Just like one man, on this point about the books, he came up and said, "Where does it say in Hinduism that you should harass people to sell them a book?"
- 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 child, Srila Prabhupada, who was trying to find the sound within the drum, the material scientists are trying to find out the cause and effect of the material world. Is that not intelligence?
- 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?
- Just like, aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- Just now you said we are all part and parcel of God. What would you say is God?
- Just opposite the (Patala bhumi means just opposite the...)?
- Just read like this, Srila Prabhupada?
- Just recently (George. He showed me in Bombay. He came to see me in Bombay)?
- Just that one point. In my speaking to Ganesha's(?) also, even when we tell them we are bringing huge amounts of foreign exchange from abroad, they at once say, "But how do you get this money abroad?"
- Just try one more day. If all hope is frustrated, then what is the loss if we take that medicine one more day?
- Jyotirmayi is outside, and Yogesvara. We can have them come in? Is now the right time to ask? She has some questions on Gurukula. Is now okay?
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- Kalajam (is this java plum called Kalajam)?
- Kali-yuga will last for around 400,000 more years and then it will be finished and that the culture will gradually degrade, people will become very short and so on and so forth. So he's wondering if there will be geographical changes in the world?
- Kapiladeva speaks about the feeling of being lost. Is that what the psychologists say is craziness?
- 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?
- Karl Marx, Hagel and Engels and those people have got this nonsensical idea that interaction of matter itself produces what we call consciousness. This rascaldom is, I mean the basis is this: revolting against the tenets of Hindu teaching. No?
- Karma, is this a part of your religion?
- Kashmir?...Where was this (there was a historical excavation that Jesus Christ did not die, and he, after crucification, he was taken to Kashmir)? In a newspaper?
- Kavi means the one who knows present, past and future. Is it not?
- Kaviraji's medicine is what, Srila Prabhupada?
- Keep the palanquin on the cart?… What, Srila Prabhupada?… Where should we keep it? With us on the cart?
- Kindly let me know that what is desire. So long desire is there, we can't realize God. And realizing God is also a desire
- Kirata? Udha. Udha means?
- Kirtana party should be called?
- Kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?
- Kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?... Kirtana?… Would you like to have kirtana now?
- Kirtana? Do you want some kirtana?
- Kirtana?… It's just beginning again, Srila Prabhupada. You like the kirtana? For a few days we weren't having it… You want him (Hamsaduta) to chant again? Should he chant some more?
- Kirtiraja Prabhu bought this for your rocking chair... Should I put it on?
- Klim krsnaya govindaya gopijanavallabhaya namah. Is that not a very powerful Krsna mantra?
- Knowing God through sastras is one thing, but can a realization come in life as Arjuna had?
- Krsna and His friends would play sometimes, catch with fruits in the forest?
- Krsna appears and performs His pastimes and then He disappears and then appears in another universe? Or He appears...?
- Krsna believed that it was all right to kill the enemies of Arjuna because it was a righteous war. If you have a philosophy like that, can you find peace?
- Krsna book, first half, will be ready on August 8th, twenty-five thousand also… Would you like to see the design for the cover?
- Krsna book. Any particular part that you'd like to hear, Srila Prabhupada?
- Krsna cannot give the same permission for the animals ("this vegetables give Me. I shall eat, and you take the prasadam")?
- Krsna consciousness in grhastha asrama?
- Krsna consciousness what (in India one paper, Sunday, they have published a nice article about us: "Krsna Consciousness Catches On")?
- Krsna consciousness, it is a short-cut to eternal life?
- Krsna controls everything, so how, how does Krsna control a nondevotee?
- Krsna dasa? Who said that, Srila Prabhupada?
- Krsna explains that He is the taste of water, and in different chapters that He's the source of light in all luminous objects. So when we think like this, how should we think of Krsna? In His personal form?
- Krsna gains or speaks as a guru, guru-sisya-samudbhava. So here is as a guru?
- Krsna gives us five gross senses and He wants us to control them. How can we do this?
- Krsna had other brothers and sisters besides Balarama and Subhadra?
- Krsna has exhibited His pastimes on every planet in the universe?
- Krsna has not given you power as guru?
- Krsna is all-attractive because He is the source?
- Krsna is always playing the tune by which everyone is dancing?
- Krsna is always smiling, isn't He?
- Krsna is black? Sometimes He's depicted as blue
- Krsna is telling to Arjuna where to act, and how to act, and what to act, that is "Fight." And at that moment He is telling to fight the Kauravas. Now, we are confused here, that what is our fight? What is our fight?
- Krsna is the avatara of Visnu?
- Krsna is the friend of everyone. So why does He allow me to have this independence?
- 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?
- Krsna manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?
- Krsna must have been fifteen or twenty feet tall?
- Krsna only comes to this planet?
- Krsna says so many times, "You must surrender unto Me." Why do people say, "No, there's something else"
- Krsna says that "One who is always active within is very dear to Me." Does this mean we should struggle to keep our minds engaged all the time in Krsna's service?
- Krsna says that karma is concluded yat karosi yad asnasi, jnana is concluded bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate, and yoga is concluded yoginam api sarvesam. Krsna says, concluding, sarva-dharman parityajya. Is there some conc...?
- Krsna says that once you are in the spiritual world you are full of bliss. Why would someone choose to come to this material world?
- Krsna says to perform your sva-dharma, so how does one know what is his sva-dharma?
- Krsna says, "Those who repeat this message of Bhagavad-gita, are most dear friends to me, and there's no one more dear to Me than he..." Wouldn't that indicate that a preacher is higher than a worker?
- Krsna took the incarnation of Lord Ramacandra?
- Krsna treated the monkeys as a pet?
- Krsna was not born?
- Krsna was talking to Arjuna, and it said that Krsna said to Arjuna, "When you realize Me or when you realize God, or Krsna, you will see the whole of creation (sic:) withinside Me and withinside yourself." Is that a true translation?
- Krsna wears tilaka like we do?
- Krsna's energy is all-spiritual, then why in Bhagavad-gita does Krsna make a distinction - "My separated material energy"? Why does He say, "separated"?
- Krsna's mercy allows you to know this now (suppose if I say that this is a pencil. And if you say to him, "This is a pencil." And he says to another man, "This is a pencil." Then what is the difference between his instruction and my instruction?)?
- Krsna, he says, is an avatara of Visnu?
- Ksatriya marriage (He (Krsna) had to fight. Even He had to marry by fighting)?
- Ksatriyas should run the government?
- Ksatriyas used to take sannyasa too?
- Ksira-cora-gopinatha is going to put some of your lectures in English script Bengali so I can give lectures. Is that all right?
- Ksirodakasayi-Visnu is in which category?
- Kumbhakarna (was the name of Ravana's brother)?
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- Laborers exploit (not only the capitalists exploit, the laborers also exploit)?
- Last night in the television, one boy was asking me, "Swamiji, you are all after spiritualism. Why you are using this clay as tilaka and so many things you are using which is matter?"
- Last night Srila Prabhupada was mentioning about the (indistinct) explained by Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- Last night you said that what is the meaning of the word "nothing." That maya means "nothing"?
- Last night you said was havoc. Do you have any headache?
- Lately we have been singing Raghupati Raghava Rajarama. Is that part of your canon also?
- Lately, we've been reading in Srimad-Bhagavatam how Arjuna's potency was gone. He was not even able to protect Krsna's wives. What was missing there?
- Laukiki and vaidi... (laukiki means material activities. And vaidiki means according to Vedic instruction. Whatever you do, if it is done for Krsna, then it is bhakti)?
- Laying down (so if I eat here…?)?
- Leaving the four sinful activities. Then one can develop Krsna consciousness?
- 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?)?
- Lemon, can you take lemon?
- Let me ask you one more question. Why are you returning to India? Had you ever considered staying here in the United States?
- Let me ask you. If through technological means mankind is somewhat improved, in other words, the average man is much more intelligent, what you would consider now to be an intelligent man...
- 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?
- Let's say we grow cauliflower, we grow peas, we grow wheat. Is it that each family must be responsible and take only what he needs? How is it distributed?
- Life begins from water? How is that?
- Like any other revealed scripture, the Bible's teachings are absolute, but are they to be understood literally or symbolically, and are they applicable for all men?
- Like Kaliya. So then if they have performed so many pious activities, then obviously they have done something very mischievous in order to take this demon's body? There is some falldown?
- Like the example when Hitler killed the Jews. They will say, "Well, what should we do, just let Hitler go on killing the Jews because the Jews were sinful? Or should we try and stop Hitler?"
- Like the Vietnam, you mean (everything is bad when it is done for maya. That's all. So these wars are declared not for Krsna's sake; by the politicians' whims. So they must be responsible for this war)?
- Like to take a little rest now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Living entities in not non-manifested matter? Are there any living entities in non-mani...
- Local citizens (anything to be done should be considered first of all by the advisory board, and then if it should be sanctioned by the trustees, then it can be done. So some friends, we can make an advisory…)?
- 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?
- Logic and argument (to understand the Absolute Truth)?
- Logic is arguing, isn't it?
- Look at that picture, it's very clear. Should I read you this article ("East Meets West in Hare Krsna fete")
- Look at those spires! Prabhupada, do you see that spire? There's a spire at the top (of the ratha carts)
- Look up in the sky here and you can see all the different planets and stars. Can you also look up into the sky, the brahma-jyotir, and see all the different Vaikuntha planets?
- Lord Buddha is not an incarnation? I thought that Lord Buddha was supposed to be incarnation of Visnu
- Lord Buddha, he adopted a new type of religion, but those who were strict followers of Vedas, they would not accept him. Does that mean that there were still people who were following those beliefs, scriptures, at his time, or did he convert all of India?
- Lord Caitanya is always doing this on a planet in the material, some material universe?
- Lord Caitanya predicted the holy name will be preached in every town and village throughout the world, so to what extent will it be preached?
- Lord Caitanya used to eat a lot of food?
- Lord Caitanya used to stuff His ears up when anyone would refer to Him as God. He wants to be known as a devotee. But we worship Him as God, in the same line as Radha-Krsna. So how do we understand that?
- Lord Caitanya was very tall, Srila Prabhupada?
- Lord Caitanya, He was a different type of guru than you were?
- Lord Caitanya, He was not a guru, He was different than guru? Was He also an incarnation at the same...?
- Lord Caitanya, He would cry so that He could hear them chanting Hare Krsna to Him?
- Lord in the heart is the soul or is He a part of the soul?
- Lord Indra is saying that Krsna is so merciful that without punishing the offenses of the demons, that He devises means so that their false prestige is subdued. How is that? How does he devise means without punishment?
- Lord Jesus Christ said that "The only way to God is through me; just believe in me or surrender to me," and Lord Caitanya taught that hari-nama is the only means of spiritual realization in this age. Is there any contradiction?
- Lord Jesus Christ said that if you would see God, your eye must be single. Was he referring to that same statement that love of God is that single eye?
- Lord Krsna preached Bhagavad-gita in battlefield of Kuruksetra, and it is afterwards written by Vyasadeva. Did Vyasadeva got it out of his meditation, or how the actual thing which was conveyed to Arjuna again took a shape in Bhagavad-gita?
- Lord Krsna says, kama esa krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah. The kama... Where is the beginning of this kama?
- Lord Nityananda (if a woman is perfect in Krsna consciousness... Just like Jahnava-devi, Lord Nityananda's wife, she was acarya. She was acarya. She was controlling the whole Vaisnava community)?
- Lord Nityananda ever took sannyasa?
- Lord Ramacandra's father (Janaka-raja, he was a king, but great saintly person)?
- Lord Siva's relationship with Durga - does he have a relationship with Durga?
- Lots of kirtana and prasadam (whatever you have learned from Krsna, from your guru, just vomit it, that's all. There is no need of becoming very expert. Simply whatever you learned. That's all)?
- Lotus feet (to use small letter)?
- Lotus flower (to use small letter)?
- Love means never killing?
- LSD was invented by Indians, no?
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- Machine is?… To Mars (there was some news. Their machine has gone to Mars planet)?
- Madhusudana because He killed the demon Madhu. But who was that Madhu?
- Madhusudana Maharaja, Madhava Maharaja, they may decide for the Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust with the other five of us. ... Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Madhvacarya was not a incarnation of Krsna?
- Magnet (He is absolute controller. But He is not controlled by anyone. Therefore He is absolute controller. Just like a, what is called? Magnetic stone?)?
- Maha-Visnu? Expansion of the expansion?
- Mahanamavrata brahmacari. Which class of Vaisnavism he follow?
- 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?
- Maharaja Yudhisthira and his younger brothers all attained the spiritual world in the self-same body. Does this mean that they had their spiritual bodies while they were on the earth?
- Maharaja, did you show that article to... (yaj-jihvagre nama tubhyam. Aho bata svapa)?
- Maharaja, do the Western and Eastern societies respond differently to this call (in the Kali-yuga you cannot reform the whole population by any other means except this harer nama. Therefore we are introducing Hare Krsna movement everywhere)?
- Maharaja, do you think the West is being Hinduized?
- Maharaja, don't you think it's high time that our Indian philosophy or Indian religion, some classes should be started in schools like they used to have?
- Maharaja, it is indicated in Ramayana that God is coming to this world as kali-avatara. It is correct? What is the indication of His coming?
- Make a garland out of stone?
- Making these houses, temporary houses (material bodies), is directed by Him?
- Mallika means owner, the owner?
- Mam here means Krsna? Or Brahma?
- Man has forgotten and is serving maya, he's actually serving Krsna anyway then why is he miserable?
- Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto?
- Manu was on this planet. Now he's not?
- Manufacturing (in Bombay, you were having your own business then)?
- Many devotees were asking me if we could make a Deity of Your Divine Grace?
- Many devotees, they experience the difficulty that although they sincerely want to love God and serve Him, yet their body is almost like another dictator within them. Why?
- Many of the students at the Graduate Theological Union, they might want to come to our college (College of Vedic Science) to take just one or two courses. Would it be all right for them to do that?
- Many of them (young Gaudiya Math devotees who are unable to continue and keep the standard), they ask to join us even though they are initiated by others. So should we allow them to come or...?
- Many of these boys must have taking tea in past. How they could stop it?
- Many of these people can't take care of their children properly. I'm thinking when they see our boys they may want to give their sons. Is that a good program?
- Many of your followers dress in what for the West is an odd fashion and relate to the world in what for the West is an odd fashion. Can you respond to that? Why have you asked your followers to dress in this fashion and to play drums on the streets?
- Many people are wondering why we are making so much propaganda for our Krsna consciousness movement. Because usually India doesn't make propaganda for philosophy
- Many people find it very difficult to reconcile the spiritual way of life in the Krsna movement with the great financial resources the movement also has. Why do you need any great financial...?
- Many people say that Lord Krsna is the King of romance?
- Many people say that members of the International Krsna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world and therefore their contributions to the world are being lost to the world and I wondered how you felt about that?
- Many people say, "No one can become perfect." How can we help them understand that there is...?
- Many translations of the Bhagavad-gita and the Upanisads that professors or students have read are all impersonal. What is the best way to convince them that the Mayavada philosophy, or monism, is not the original Hindu tradition of understanding?
- Married under what law? Under what religion? Under what religious law?
- Mars is after the moon?
- Mass opinion usually forms society. When a number of people think in a certain way?
- Material power from Visnu?
- Material science as well as spiritual science (would be taught under a Krsna conscious goverment)?
- Materialistic pleasure, Freud says, serves the death instinct, but doesn't materialistic pleasure just bring out more craving for pleasure?
- Matter can be converted to spirit?
- Matter is a part of life? Component?
- May I ask a few questions now?
- May I ask a personal question?... I heard that you were a chemist before?
- May I ask the significance of the markings?
- May I ask this, Swami, as you said after. Have you yourself reached the superconscious state, or the Christ consciousness state?
- May I ask you a question?
- 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...?
- May I ask you what do you think about possibility of healing?
- May I ask you, Your Excellency, your own background? Were you born in India? Were you born in any other...?
- May I have the key to the almirah, put these books away?
- May I join the kirtana in the streets over the weekend? Dressed as I am?
- May I know the distinction between Krsna consciousness and supramental consciousness described by Sri Aurobindo?
- May I know why it is the living entity (indistinct) the separation from the supreme power, Lord Krsna?
- May I leave the family to bear faith and devote myself to become a devotee of Krsna?
- 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?
- May the temple be only one man left?
- May their (the scientists') theory be right? Like they say they come from amino acids and so many things
- May we ask questions about pronouncing the Sanskrit?
- May we go to the shop to buy something (everyone should stick to the temple and the principles. Why you should go to outside? That should be stopped. You cannot go outside)?
- May we take your leave, Srila Prabhupada?
- Maya has taken away their vision, their sense of understanding, sense of.... What do you call, sense of understanding or sense of...?
- Maya would help us... because the body is the maya, the mind is maya, and the very mind will help us, sir, that doesn't it help us to go towards Krsna?
- Mayapur is in East Bengal?
- Mayavada does not belong to one of the six sciences, do they?
- Mayavadis, are they thinking like that, Krsna is... (because you are rascal, you are thinking Krsna is like another rascal like you. That is poor fund of knowledge)?
- Mayavadis, sir, have been proved that if everything is zero, who sees the zero? Who sees the zero?
- Mayavadis, they say you can worship anything and it is all the same?
- Maybe around quarter to eleven, you'd like to come down and either participate in the bathing or give lecture at that time. And then afterwards the Deities will go back on the altar and we'll give the names outside. Is that all right?
- Maybe I should read some news to you? What would you like to do now, Srila Prabhupada
- Maybe some gentle massaging on the heart would be good… Gave you massage on the chest (morning he gave me a little massage. So there was little relief)?
- Maybe they should go in the procession though (the busses who carry the prasadam). That would look impressive, wouldn't it?
- Maybe we will show Lord Caitanya's marriage? Is that nice to show?
- Means what (mudha-mate means "You rascal" )?
- Means what is God and Krsna? Is there any difference?
- Medical work is it brahminical or sudric also?
- Meditation is not practical?
- Meek and humble will... What is that?
- Members of the Krsna society are not doing the jail work… He's not participating in jail life… What's he doing? He's trying to show them a different way? He's educating them to what? That this jail life is no good?
- Merely knowing won't do also (if we spoil this life, living like cats and dogs, then we are missing the opportunity. This is the opportunity to understand Krsna, God)?
- Metal (without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane? Hand machine)?
- Milk (for breakfast)?
- Mind is very, very powerful. How to make use of that? Actually mind is using the man; man is not using his mind
- Mint chutney. How do you make mint chutney?
- Misdirected society. Misdirected. So how will we change?
- Misri water. You like it?
- Mission (a man should not live like cats and dogs, because he has got a mission)?
- Molecule has consciousness?
- Money is nothing but paper, but with the paper I can buy food, so then why is it that we say that money is nothing but paper?
- Monsieur le President says that he has been to India, and he understands that one dresses like this in India. But why would the disciples dress in America or in Europe in this way? Is it necessary?
- Monsieur le President would like to know, if this movement gets bigger and bigger, won't it create problems in terms of working, the economy? Won't the economy suffer if our movement gets bigger and bigger?
- Moon planet is further (than the sun)?
- Moral qualities will follow? (all good qualifications will come automatically if he sticks to these four principles)
- More advanced than other races (the Aryans)?
- More chanting?
- Most probably diminish your strength (I'm not improving in strength. And how can I improve by drinking little barley and milk and little fruit juice? I have no appetite for anything else. In case I... Most probably, I am diminishing my strength)?
- Mr. Billy Graham makes people God conscious in a different way. Can you tell me what you think of him?
- Mr. Kalyana is the president. He came yesterday. He came yesterday. Mr. Kalyana. Well, they don't believe, as you say. This is philosophy. Welfare, is happiness, but not in your meaning, in my meaning. Well, this is only to ask, then you go to Japan?
- Mr. Mani is Sai Baba's bhakta... he is harassing, sending a letter..."Send to the member of ISKCON. They must leave"... can I mention that you must fit to see?
- Mr. Sindh. That jeweler from Calcutta (one gentleman, he has now become my disciple)?
- Mukti (the merging into the existence, this is called sayujya-mukti. Sayujya, to become one. Sayujya-mukti means liberation by becoming one with the Lord)?
- Mung dahl is all right? Mung dahl?
- Murti, simply that murti? Nothing else (but when we go to see God in the temple, we see God, nothing else. That experience you haven't got)
- Must a person believe in Krsna in order to chant?
- Must initiation be there, Srila Prabhupada?
- Must one renounce his present religion?
- My birth date?
- My humble prayer was that by doing japa, by doing meditation, by doing bhakti-marga, need we go to jnana-marga also, or bhakti-marga is enough by itself?
- My idea of God is on the consciousness of the whole world, of all that we could possibly envisage, its consciousness is, that's God, and we're the little bits of it. But would you tell me...?
- My kavi guru was a poet named William Blake. Do you know Blake?
- 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 next question is, I don't think God is opposed to sex
- My position you mean in relation to Krsna or in relation to the world (you do not know anything. That is your position. You must know what is your position. Then your duty)?
- My program now is I have ten brahmacaris in buses, and everything and we're distributing books. But if the people are in chaos, how they will be able to accept the knowledge in the books?
- My purports are liked by people because it is presented as practical experience
- My question has to do with karma-yoga in the outer world, for instance, in New York City. From what I understand, your disciples do not pursue the professions. Is that correct?
- My question is how does one determine into which part he goes (the society must be divided into four classes)?
- My question is how far can total Krsna devotion, act by act all day, spread? How many people can that encompass in a place like America?
- My question is whether the name Krsna existed prior to Dvapara-yuga
- My question is, Prabhupada, that yes, maybe through speculation we can get knowledge, some knowledge
- My question is, what is it that made you bring your movement into a culture and a religious ethos which is hostile to begin with, with most of your major assumptions?
- My question is, what is the, why is that this particular movement is not emphasizing so-called meditation?
- My question is: A pure devotee, when he comments Bhagavad-gita, someone who never sees him physically, but he just comes in contact with his commentary, explanation, is this the same thing?
- My question relates to service to the outer world by your disciples?
- My question was that how you selected America to be your...?
- My question was that when there is no more people following their sva-dharma, their true self...?
- My question, sir, was that at some point you have to be the servant of the God, you will have to be a servant of your family or the country or something to serve?
- My shirt and coat are dead (the body is dead. Body is dead. Just like your shirt. It is dead always. Either on your body or hanging on the hanger. Your shirt and coat, is it not?)?
- My solution, Swamiji, most respectfully, is how do you judge that "I am correct"?
- My soul is different than your soul?
- My weekly visits, that Jyoti Swami showed me that incident at Japan, and he asked me, "Have you seen...?"
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- Nagas come from Assam, no?
- Nandadulal? Why were you called like that?
- Nandaki, is it as good mechanically as a Mercedes?
- Nara-narayana Rsi is which (kind of avatara)?
- Narayana is another name for Siva?
- Nationalism (what is this nationalism? We said, there is no such thing as nationalism in the Vedic literature, no such thing)?
- Nature provides each species its foodstuff. But in other species other than man we see that it's immediately obtainable. But man has to work for it, and he has to wait for the fruits of his labor. Why is that nature's arrangement?
- Nehru (some astrologer has said. He has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Nehru started that slaughterhouse?
- Nepeansea Road downtown, it should be kept like a temple?
- New (indistinct), do you mean to say?
- Next I'll give you some barley and milk. Would you like to have some bati chachury, Srila Prabhupada? Bati chachury?
- Next time. When next you could come?
- Next you ask if I am present in my picture and form?
- Nim leaves (for cleaning teeth)?
- Nirakalpa-samadhi. But they must be getting some sort of condition of the mind, though temporary. That is why they must have turned to that (LSD), no?
- Nirvana means something different for them?
- Nirvisista means?
- Nistraigunya, traigunya-visaya veda nistraigunyo bhavarjuna. If there is a contradiction between the principles taught by Vedas and taught by Gita?
- No difficulty at all. But it doesn't happen, does it (everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra... Where is the difficulty)?
- No doubt, but what about the daily worship? Should we have Jagannatha deities if it's not possible for worshiping them? Should we have them just for the festival?
- No fighter? No fighting? They are not going to fight? They're not going to become warriors, not like the real ksatriyas?
- No government is placing obstacles?
- No medicine for the body?
- No peaches in India?
- No preaching work? Should they (all of your initiated disciples) go out for preaching (on ekadasi)?
- No, but do we offer the prayer first to Siva... (Lord Siva is not different from Visnu, but he's still not Visnu)?
- No, but that is not a specific thing (Krsna's business). But if somebody's carrying out a particular duty, does he have to renounce that...?
- No, but those who are freedom fighters, they are actually on the wrong path?
- No, but what I wanted to say is that why can't love of the God and love of matter go and rise up to...?
- No, but why are you comparing nature to a father and mother?
- No, but you are taking that medicine or...?
- No, he's asking that these rtvik-acaryas, they're officiating, giving diksa. Their... The people who they give diksa to, whose disciple are they?
- No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?
- No, I want to say, like at the point of death we are also changing to another body. Do we feel that then?
- No, if they just tell me that will take a week for them to get the answer (about free advertising space), then should I wait for a week before starting the advertising campaign?
- No, if we people go there at Kumbha Mela time, is it good?
- No, most of them, they have lived, a very short times. But still is it a fact that the soul is transplanted from one body to another body?
- No, no, but what power he has got (Satya Sai Baba) to produce just now...?
- No, no, have you given up the idea of Kuruksetra?
- No, no, I'm saying this is what really happened, right? So we were thinking that we could show one day, this is one day, one day of Brahma...
- No, no, what you call that (indistinct) that flower came?... White flower, fragrant flower, it is called Parajit
- No, no. Stop this. Just try to understand. If you are not surrendered to me you have no right to ask me anything
- No, that is what my question is, how to do that (if we work for Krsna, if the result is given to Krsna, that is our perfection). I mean, how in our day to day life...?
- No, where is our camp then (at the Kumbha-mela)?
- No, why do we at all enter into this circle (of changing bodies)?
- No, why do your followers chant the Hare Krsna chant in the street? What is the reason behind this?
- No, you explained that ("He accepted him as learned scholar, but He did not accept him as very highly realized soul.") before. His guru, Vallabhacarya's guru, is... He's in Madhavendra Puri's line?
- Nobody ever else sits upon that platform (vyasasana)?
- None of the tourists who are Westerners ever takes Jagannatha prasadam, do they?
- North India. You have here the center of your...?
- 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 desirable (that is (we're all praying to take some disease from you. We're all praying to take over your disease onto us) not desirable)?
- Not even beginning to get people thinking right (these bluffers, they say "meditation," but what is the subject matter of meditation they do not know. Simply bogus propaganda. You see?)?
- Not more than two or not more than one (article by yourself)?
- Not simply because of the increased population (India is faced with so many problems)?
- Not visualizing the presence of God everywhere?
- Nothing else (that little dal, daliya, bas)?
- Nothing else? No fruits (so for breakfast you can prepare that soup, the little. Just put vegetable soup)?
- Now Dan not only said that you said that if people try to land on the moon they would not be able to. Can you explain what you meant by that?
- Now do you find that in the United States there is the most active membership financially speaking. In terms of contributing to this movement, supporting the movement, is the best field America?
- Now do you say that the moon is, so to speak...? What should I say? Headquarters, where these demigods live?
- Now for, that is for Saturday and Sunday (every morning I speak on this Bhagavad-gita, if you find time you can come. At quarter past seven, I'm beginning, for one hour)?
- Now how do you classify these men, these Christian mystics, Protestant as well as Catholic?
- Now how old is Rupa Goswami? Is he an old man?
- 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 I understand exactly what the purpose of your movement is. I just wonder if you think the Western world is ready for this message?
- Now I understand you're the founder of the Hare Krsna movement. Can you tell me how it came to be founded?
- Now if he is not got (Krsna conscious), then what shall he do to become aware?
- Now in the second scene He visits another temple. And is there going to be another narration about how the temple was founded? I don't think that's... I don't know. (laughs) Do you think that will be all right?
- Now is that all of the fourth scene (of a Lord Caitanya play)? Anything else in the fourth scene?
- Now it's true that a soul must evolve through perhaps many lifetimes in order to reach the point at which he is ready to attempt renunciation. Right?
- Now Kali is depicted as a male. As male?
- Now say this person who is doing wrong... is very touchy about his being sudra?
- Now suppose we take so many chemicals from the earth and they may become a little depleted. Can those chemicals be replaced by the earth itself as the ongoing process of nature?
- Now that he has received Krsna consciousness, he would like to know from you how he should behave in his normal life, because he'll be living very far from the temple?
- Now the constables broke up a sankirtana carried on by Caitanya's friends. Any location here particular?
- Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture?
- 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 the second scene here, this is when Caitanya on the seashore, this is when He would walk around saying, "Where is Krsna?" Is that right?
- Now the second scene. Is that the end of the first (scene of Lord Caitanya's play)?
- Now there's been this degradation of human consciousness throughout the ages. So do you think it is possible now to stop this course of events, to stop this degradation in human consciousness?
- Now they give so much importance to the person who is able to transplant kidney from one body to the other, but how about the whole human being or the universe which has been created by God?
- Now they say if we are thinking of our members to be gentlemen, then why is it when they go to the airports they are bothering so many people?
- Now this third scene, meets Sanatana Gosvami, that's in Benares. And Sanatana is how old?
- Now two priests of your temple in America have been arrested on certain charges as we read from the newspaper...?
- Now we have the fourth scene. Does Advaita speak to anyone in the fourth scene or is that...?
- Now we've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live? What difference it makes to their life?
- Now what direct relationship does this (the Ksira-cora-gopinatha story) have to Lord Caitanya?
- Now would he have what is normally in the Western world called a theological degree?
- Now you are asking if Lord Jagannatha carries flute?
- Now you are in good relations. India and Russia probably for Indians it is easier than for Europeans or for some of our countries or for Americans. Are you... Have you this problem? Do you go into these areas, into these places?
- 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?
- Now, a question concerning the 8,400,000's of lives which man has to evolve through. A spiritual being, having entered, or placed, the way of man, can he ever gain a reincarnate in the kingdom of animals?
- Now, another point is, which we have put off until this (GBC) meeting, especially to be considered in this meeting, is the moving of the Press. The moving of ISKCON Press. Is that...?
- Now, are you a guru?
- Now, do you think that's not cruel to them (we don't wish to send them to college. We have got sufficient books)?
- 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, how would you decide, really, that brahmaṇas are always in a pure state that you speak of, that they would never turn into serpents?
- Now, how would you proceed in this training program?
- 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?
- Now, taking that person, when material things cease, what happens to him?
- Now, this American, Alpert, he came to a state of God consciousness, but he was very, very heavy on drugs. This can't be right, taking a drug?
- Now, we've had two readings from your scriptures. Where did these scriptures comes from? Can you explain that briefly?
- Now, while Bhismadeva was a devotee of Krsna, why he has taken the Kaurava side?
- Now, who said that (authority means one who has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Lord. Then he is authority)?
- Now, will you have blankets with you, or should we get everything there (at the Kumbhamela)? I'll talk to you about it later
- Now, you are not practicing the Vedic system, then, here, are you? Or are you?
- Now, you have answered all our inquiries so thoroughly in our books that to make inquiry at this point seems like..., you've already answered all the questions. So how may we... What is the proper relationship at that point to make inquiry?
- Now, your, the sexual abstinence does not include marriage, I gather?
- Now? Right away (call him (Braja Hari))?
- Now? We shall discuss now (how to solve all problems)?
- Number of religious meetings, they start off with the Gayatri mantra three times, and at the end of the meeting they have a santipat. Now is there any real necessity for a religious meeting to start off with the Gayatri mantra and end with santipat?
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- O.K. Now, is the Absolute internal or external?
- Of all the four pillars of sinful activity, is meat-eating the worst?
- Of Caitanya's. They all became devo...the King of Orissa?
- Of the 400,000 human species, what is the distinguishing characteristic that makes one different from another? How could we recognize them, or could we?
- Of the abridged edition (that Bhagavad-gita, abridged edition, we have 300,000?)?
- Of the things that you have written, what do you consider most important?
- Of what (so what do you think (so I went to Mathura and spoke to one farmer. He had a fairly big size cart and two strong bullocks, and he asked for a hundred rupees)?)?
- Offer food to an idol?
- Oh, a letter to the Pope. Did he answer it (now I have written one letter to Pope)?
- Oh, after time. Oh (space is later created). And it creates the ultimate reality?
- Oh, he (Brahma) himself created it (male and female) from...?
- Oh, how old should they (gurukulis) be before Deity worship, they do Deity worship?
- Oh, I see. Then why not here in Vrndavana (printing books)?
- 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, the recommendations (where is that professors? All these professors. Those who are purchasing our books)?
- 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)?
- Oh, we can go on? How (no, without finance we can go on)?
- Oh, when he (King George V) came to Calcutta?
- Oh, you came from India? Yeah? Oh. Which part? Ceylon?
- Oh, you mean before (the Southeast Asia and Australia if that were one zone, it would be alright. Make it. It wouldn't be too difficult. So write, write that. What one, two, three. What is the one zone, zone number one? Eastern U.S)?
- Oh, you mean one more story (this side is going to be constructed.This side? We have to get the plan sanctioned first of all. It is not sanctioned?)?
- Oh. Crosswords are gambling?
- Oh. Sampradayas (what are the inscriptions? Dvaitadvaita, I think. Nimbarka philosophy. What are these things? Gates or something? Yes, philosophy. They wanted to make it Vaisnava philosophy anyway. So these are different…)?
- Oh. When did you (see Lord Venkatesvara temple)?
- Okay, I was speaking in an analogical way. There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness?
- Okay, is it a mediated choice or is it a direct communication from Krsna, that's my question… He's asking whether we claim that God speaks to us directly?
- Okay, now Karen Ann Quinlan, you know her?
- Okay, there is God, and He has placed us in this world, and He has created the world also, and He has made these things very, very enjoyable, sex life, and this and that. So why not enjoy if God has created it?
- Okay, you present Bhagavad-gita as being the evidence for Krsna, but so many people interpret Bhagavad-gita. So where is the proof that it is miraculous if so many people debate it?
- Okay. So in that case, when would you like to come and visit (the arati, it is called sandhya arati. Sandhya arati means just in the evening. What is the time of sunset nowadays? 5:30, then one hour after. Then 6:30 is all right. 6:30 is all right)?
- On a social scale as well (the best method is to surrender unto Krsna, and all problems are solved)?
- On all the other auspicious days, just like Narottama dasa Thakura and others, should we also observe half-day fast? ... And Srimati Radharani?
- On all the Vaikunthas, Krsna is in His catur-bhuja, four-armed form?
- On carts (Janmastami, take Radha-Krsna procession)?
- On ekadasi, we can offer the Deity grains?
- On Krishna loka are all of Krishna's pastimes with the living entities controlled by Krishna, or do the living entities have choice in this matter?
- On one hand he says that we don't want to be delivered from this material ocean, we just want to serve. Then in one of the other slokas he pleads with Krsna to deliver him from this ocean of death and fix him up as one of the atoms of His lotus feet
- On one lecture tape you said that man is duracara, very difficult to... When he's misbehaved?
- On the 13th of September, Srila Bhaktivinoda's Appearance is there any special observance?
- On the fourth floor we're going to have doll projects. Doll exhibits. So there's an open balcony up there and I want to do something like that, see up there with the glass, the balcony?
- On the heart (there is spasm in the heart). Still?
- On the LIC Grounds (the government did not give us again that land. Yes. last time when we held that conference in Delhi)?
- On the news it's talking about the hook-up of the Soviets & Americans, in their capsules. And a large hook-up of these space ships in outer space for planning their moon project. We were wondering what your feelings are & your views are on all of this?
- On the platform of, on the dead platform (so we are working on that platform where the life is there. And people in general they are working on the platform of this body)? You say people in general...
- On the Viraja River? That is where Kailasa-dhama is
- On the way there should be progress, inner progress. How to realize that there is a progress?
- On this planet we have certain elements, like iron, water, or sand. Could there be other elements on other planets, new elements?
- On this side there is government sign, "No dogs," "No dogs." Dogs are not allowed. What is the reason?
- On what basis (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession)?
- Once a person is trained in one of the classes, can he move to another class once he's been trained as, say, a third-class man?
- Once again, many thanks for your tremendous cooperation and as I say I hope it won't put you to too much work. Obviously some of these things have already been met. To a certain extent we've done some of the work already, haven't we?
- Once in Vrndavana you were sitting in your room, and I had some bananas on the right-hand side. Do you remember this?
- Once one performs devotional service then he can't get away from Krsna. Can he still get away?
- Once that happened to Indra, isn't it, Srila Prabhupada (are the animals complacent with their hellish condition of life? Yes. Everyone is happy)?
- Once they (the cows) expire, how do you propose to expose of the body?
- Once this oxygen appeared, free oxygen, then the living entities began to appear slowly. That is the whole theory of this chemical evolution. The results for the chronology is just put it that dawn of Brahma is two billion years old?
- Once you surrender to God, will you still have to look for an authority to guide you, or Krsna helps you to find Him?
- One boy I recommended for second initiation, but during the fire ceremony he was away on traveling sankirtana for Vrndavana. Will he be able to take initiation from you and have the ceremony later, before you go?
- One boy in Sydney, he has been a devotee for a few years, three or four years, but now he has fallen away because of lusty association, I suppose, or bad association. So is this unwilling or willing, because he has become attracted to women again?
- One can understand the Supreme by studying himself. What does that mean? By analytical study of oneself one can understand the Supreme?
- One can't become a universal being, but he can see the whole universe. Can you explain how that is?
- One day our men will be leaders of government?
- One devotee asked me, "If the scientists don't know anything about the universe, then how is it they can predict exactly when there is going to be an eclipse of the sun or the moon for hundreds of years in advance?"
- One does not follow the instructions of guru?
- One has a choice to either be controlled by love or by force. One who actually understands the distinction, is it possible that he will still choose to be controlled by the material nature?
- One has to be sincere to understand this (that life is beyond this body)?
- One in this material world never escapes his karma completely?
- One is dependent on the other? Or the spirit is independent of matter?
- 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 maha-parikrama (I want simply once parikrama)?
- One may say that if there's no independence, then where is the question of initiative in the material world, taking initiative?
- One may say, "But I myself work hard. Should I support the man who is lazy, doing nothing? Some are lazy. Should I work hard?"
- One must approach a perfect spiritual master and he must become perfect disciple. Could you explain that?
- One must have certain qualifications to be able to come the service of Krsna? Even if one is in the complete mode of ignorance he can...
- One must understand Bhagavad-gita before Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- One of my prabhus told me that you once said that your Guru Maharaja said that Jesus Christ was a saktyavesavatara. Is that correct?
- One of our Godbrothers asked why the inductive knowledge is so successful, especially to scientists?
- One of the conditions is illicit sex... What exactly do you mean?
- One of the first questions I want to put: Visnu Purana, it's very similar and very coincidental to the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- One of the major issues always in political battles is how would you control inflation, how would you solve the inflation problem?
- One of the things that people say is that the devotees are asking for donations, not just distributing books but asking for money, that that's a bother
- One of the things you say is that "Religion without a rational basis is just sentiment." Can you explain that to us, and the converse of it, which...?
- One of their (Christians) points is that if Christ was actually the son of God, why didn't he talk about Krsna?
- One of your followers here mentioned that the university here in Toronto is teaching your books and so forth. Do you feel that any contact with your ideas?
- One other thing that interested me was the idea that Arjuna was in some way deliberately misguided, planned almost to be misguided in the Bhagavad-gita. How, how is this work, like?
- One problem that seems to be occurring more and more frequently is the appearance of terrorists
- One question is, Srila Prabhupada, "How do you view the spiritual change which is coming in America"?
- One should pray, is that so?
- One thing he's saying, this gentleman, and I would like to know, is your successor named or your successor will...?
- One thing that has always confused a lot of devotees is how is it possible to eat something in the spiritual world when that, the thing that you're eating is also spiritual?
- One thing 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?
- One thing though is, July is, like in Melbourne, it's wintertime there. So is it okay if they have the festival in summer months?
- One thing you can say. Prabhupada was saying that there was a little... Prabhupada, you said that there was a little trouble for passing urine today?… He said it's coming in installments… Is it painful or anything, Srila Prabhupada?
- One thing, New Zealand cities are passing bylaws which seek to ban the chanting of your disciples in the streets. Do you get much opposition like this?
- One thing, the other day they were saying that sometimes when they have this skim milk, and there's some excess after they've fed it to the cows, they throw it away, they use it for fertilizer. Should they do that? Is that all right to use that?
- One time when I was staying in the Krsna-Balarama mandira, I saw a man smoking a bidi in his room. If that happens - in the bedroom - should the managers go and say this is not permitted?
- One time you said that they criticized you when you were going to America because you did not know about the knife and the fork?
- One time you were explaining that Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was speaking with the Kazi, He convinced him about that the Koran does not actually advocate meat-eating
- One who arranges for chanting and dancing and taking prasadam, that is as good as preaching?
- One would think because there's land and room for vegetables and there are so many cows that there would be a plentiful supply of milk, but I understand that they (New Vrndavana) use powdered milk. The devotees use powdered milk there
- Only difficulty, for instance, in socialist society of our country and a socialist society how can you distinguish productive group and workers?
- Only for the women (playing tennis)?
- Only hell is located in one place or a prada(?) is located in another place? Do you think so, Swamiji?
- Only in Indian history or in Indian philosophy, only God's description is there. But whereabouts, in America or other places, in other continents, there is no description in their history at all
- Only then he's Krsna conscious person (he has no other business than to serve Krsna)?
- Only to the very determined and serious person we can ask them to give up meat-eating and things like this in this kind of countries?
- Only when you went downtown did the permanent men come. No one was visiting you up here (seventy-second Street)? Hayagriva?... Mukunda?
- Or are they (the people at Srinivasa's house) older brahmanas?
- Or shall we discuss more? We can start discussing
- Or you can stay here and go to Kumbha-mela straight?
- Original form... Which is the form of the body (he (the soul) has got his original form)?
- Originally when I came to the movement I asked you this (the recipe for gold), remember? And you gave lectures on the subject, and I asked you about it. And you asked me for what purpose I wanted it
- Orissa will be nice (for the sankirtana party)?
- Other living entities would play the part of Ravana in other universes?
- Others who have come before yourself, when they tried to preach in the Western countries, they were not successful because they were trying to judge the results?
- 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)?
- Otherwise, it's the same subtle body... (subtle body can be finished when you are liberated from material bondage)?
- Otherwise, om is only given to sannyasis (if you keep Krsna, that "This pranava is the sound representation of Krsna," then it is all right. If you think it is separately powerful than Krsna, that is nama-aparadha)?
- Otherwise, why is it happening like that (you can understand, just the one grain of poison, potassium cyanide. You touch on your tongue, immediately whole body becomes poisoned. How the molecules spread immediately)?
- Our advancement is the same (if you do not obey the authority, then there cannot be any discipline. Then everything will be topsy-turvy. If he is wrong. He will come out. So the steps will be taken by the spiritual master. Do not try to rectify)?
- Our aim of life should be the realization of God?
- Our answer will be because of the laws of nature (we are in misery)?
- Our desire to enjoy, we achieve these bodies; and our desire to achieve Krsna brings us to our natural position?
- Our devotee, "What about in America there are so many people, they are chanting Hare Krsna?" So he (Ranganath of the Ramakrishna mission) says, "In America also there are many fools." So he is blaspheming like this, how can we cooperate with such people?
- Our devotees abroad, should they who have children, should they be encouraged to send their sons to the Vrndavana gurukula?
- Our devotees are saying that (they get money sufficiently, and as soon as he is asked to spare some money for Krsna, "No, the law is that I should give money to my sons. The law is." Even our devotees are saying like that)?
- Our first question is about the GBC members. We want to know how long should they remain in office?
- Our Krsna consciousness movement, is there any different methods?
- Our mind gets distracted even while we're engaged in selling Back to Godhead, then how can we always, how can we always return to that point of remembering even though our senses are being dragged by billboard signs and so many...
- Our request is how best we can intimate the teachings of Gita in the spreading of this... How to intimate in our daily life...?
- Our soul is just like the controlling soul. Can you explain that (that the body is made up of many different entities. Living entities. That within each cell is like a living entity. The soul is just the controlling, or that each cell is a living entity)?
- Our temples, they are considered to have the same atmosphere?... To be just as potent as the holy places in India?
- Out of stock? So they will print it (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) again, no?
- Outer cloth (the Western people, they do not know what is cleanliness. And therefore brahmana's another name is suci, always clean. Three times' bathing, three times' changing cloth. It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed)?
- Outer cloth? Dhoti, like that (brahmana's another name is suci, always clean. Three times' bathing, three times' changing cloth. It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed)?
- Over-intelligent (the followers of the Christian religion became over-intelligent by so-called education)?
- Oxen can also grind, I think. Can oxen also (in India the practice was hand grind daily. The women will do that. That's exercise for them, and they keep their body fit and beautiful)?
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- Painting (female children should be taught how to become faithful to the husband, and to learn the arts of cooking, arts of painting - that should be their subject matter)?
- Para-tattva? Means?
- Pardon me (could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did? Why shall I tell you?)? If you wish
- Pardon me (you are not prepared (to die)? Why don't you answer?)?
- Parents who would give up their children to gurukula, they would never see them for about ten years?
- Particular intelligence is given to human being?
- Passing the test means executing the order of the spiritual master?
- Pear also (banana is very good. And give me apples)?
- People accept them (the rebirth cases in medical bulletins)?
- People are believing that at the end of life, there's just death. So why worry about anything else? Therefore we should just enjoy right now
- 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?
- People are following very strictly, how can we preach to them? Some of those people who are following these religions very strictly, how do we preach to them, those people?
- People argue that "God has placed us in this world, and that He's left us in darkness, so therefore He's played a trick on us." What is our argument against this?
- People following you, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- People have said, "Well, why should we stay with religion? These religious leaders themselves are eating meat, they have prostitution, they are cheating the people, taking their money, living very nicely..."?
- 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 like you can kindle them (the souls in a dormant stage )... Even our Samanja Acarya(?) or his guru, they were not able to carry this outside India... Is it not said that you are an incarnation of God or you are deputy of God, is it?
- People say about Uraya Karan Singh... of Kashmir, he's a very pious man, and because rich birth and he is a pious as well, is it?
- People still tell us that You tell us the philosophy, we like the philosophy, but why do you go on sankirtana? So what were some of the arguments you presented to these type of people?
- People stopped purchasing... (something happened, and everything was finished. That is Krsna's grace. Just like something has happened wonderful. So that is also Krsna's grace)?
- People told me that you have some two or three thousand disciples in the Western world?
- People would be interested to know our position on divorce. Here in Rome they just passed a divorce law?
- Per month (who has got nine thousand rupees' income)?
- Perfume?
- Perhaps finally, then, I could ask you, do you ever have any doubts?
- Perhaps the battlefield in the Bhagavad-gita is the battlefield of Arjuna's mind, and Krsna is trying to push him to go into battle against the forces of his senses, as characterized by Duryodhana. What do you think about that?
- Perhaps thoughts are more important than actions?
- Perhaps you can speak for the representative of Krsna?
- Perhaps you could explain to me the different feelings that you've gone through in your life. Is that possible?
- Perhaps you would like to tell me on what level I should present our movement?
- Person (is Krsna a person)?
- Personality is there certainly, but is it continued? Is there a continuity of personality from the dead body to the new body?
- Persons who are too much sinful... if they can't give up their sinful activities even after hearing about Krsna, are they in the envious class or the innocent class?
- Phew! You understood that from this discussion here with this man?
- Physical world, this earth is there. Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings or other beings are staying other than spiritual beings?
- Picture of Krsna? Is His hair curly? How long should it be?
- Pills are taken or not taken?
- Plastic mrdanga. Should we get some? He saw one in London. Do you want us to have plastic mrdangas for the parikrama?
- 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?
- Please clarify whether Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was a devotee of Krsna or is He Himself avatara?
- Plus interest of the... Of which money (they're not at all sorry about the price that they're paying. And it's a good income for our temple)?
- Position to criticize his Godbrothers, no matter what?
- Prabhu, how do you regard the detachment idea?
- Prabhu, Vivekananda also stated, "Awake. Arise. Stop not until the goal is reached." What goal did he preach?
- Prabhupada also got sick in India. Remember? Two years ago in Vrndavana
- Prabhupada has told us that even in the spiritual world there is desire to have the senses enjoy. Isn't that so?
- Prabhupada says how can they (scientists) see?
- Prabhupada you said that if one does not worship Panca-tattva, whatever actions he performs, even if he is so-called Krsna-bhakta, is to be considered offensive. Does this mean other sampradayas also?
- Prabhupada's supposed to take medicine now? He doesn't want to take? You don't want to take your medicine now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Prabhupada, a picture of Krsna is absolute, right? That is Krsna. Is the picture of a pure devotee absolute in the same way?
- Prabhupada, about glossaries, the glossary? I have prepared a glossary...
- Prabhupada, after Lord Caitanya took sannyasa, in the Teachings of Lord Caitanya it says He met His mother. I always thought that a sannyasi could not do that
- Prabhupada, Allahabad, where are you staying?
- Prabhupada, are all living entities, always under the protection at all times of the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, at all times?
- Prabhupada, are all one's efforts to serve Krsna virtually useless...?
- Prabhupada, are the laws of karma written?
- Prabhupada, before this movement came here we were so caught up in sinful activities. How is it that we were so fortunate to be benedicted with this great Hare Krsna movement?
- Prabhupada, buffalo, buffalo milk is as good as cow's milk?
- Prabhupada, can a person go back to a spiritual planet without initiation?
- Prabhupada, can I offer you a fresh garland?
- Prabhupada, can you explain a little more about Ratha-yatra? Anyone who takes part in Ratha-yatra, are they liberated?
- Prabhupada, can you explain mahamaya and yogamaya? Was Arjuna under yogamaya or mahamaya?
- Prabhupada, can you explain more about preyah and sreyah?
- Prabhupada, can you tell me what you want for prasadam today?
- Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?
- Prabhupada, did Christ return to the spiritual planets then, when he left the earth, to be with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, did Jesus read all those books?
- Prabhupada, did you have any problem with the stool today?
- Prabhupada, did you say that trees have the ability to see and hear in the Bhagavatam?
- Prabhupada, did you want to tell another story?
- Prabhupada, do you have any advice for ordinary Americans?
- Prabhupada, do you mean what we are serving the royal family?
- Prabhupada, do you think that the ISKCON will, this Krsna consciousness will become a major religion in any country?
- Prabhupada, either of those associations (guru's krpa and Krsna's krpa), which is the highest?
- Prabhupada, even if a person is not willing to hear spiritual knowledge, when you come and speak, a person, you know, can develop faith in Krsna or God. So why doesn't Krsna come and make it easy?
- Prabhupada, even when the mind is cleared, does there not continue to be an objective temporary existence of material phenomena?
- Prabhupada, for one who worships Lord Buddha, is there a planet for him to go to?
- Prabhupada, has there been an incarnation of Krsna outside India, somewhere else in another part of the world? Or does He always comes in India?
- Prabhupada, how can Lord Siva get intoxicated and be so pure?
- Prabhupada, how can one know whether he'll be going back home to Godhead in this life?
- Prabhupada, how can we cooperate with them?... The Chinmayananda and this sect
- Prabhupada, how can we know what type of service Krsna...?
- Prabhupada, how does one develop his desire, then, to get out of this body?
- Prabhupada, how was it that Lord Jesus was called a son of God? If Krsna is usually the son, how come Jesus was the son?
- Prabhupada, I have a question and it applies only to me, but it's important. A year ago you wrote me in a letter when I was..., said the editing was going slow, to pay more attention to managing the temple. So...
- Prabhupada, I have heard from different sources that there is a vibration that is going on in the universe at all times. When they refer to this vibration, are they referring to the om, the sacred om vibration?
- Prabhupada, I heard it said that the spiritual master will always come back until his devotees, his disciples, have achieved God realization. Can you explain that?
- Prabhupada, I read in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Volume Three, that when one becomes a liberated soul, he attains perfect freedom, and even sometimes that freedom is on the same level as Krsna or even more than Krsna
- Prabhupada, I would like to know if the Supersoul is, and the spirit soul, are they the same in the heart of...
- Prabhupada, I would like to know, if there is no birth in the spiritual world, how do we re-enter the spiritual world?
- Prabhupada, I've heard that every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya. Is it so?
- Prabhupada, if Krsna is the reservoir of pleasure, then what does He need us for? If Krsna is all blissful, then what... We're so, it seems, incapable of pleasing Krsna. He is so magnanimous. What does He need us for?
- Prabhupada, if our body should meet death while engaged in your service, will our transmigration be protected in the ultimate...?
- 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, if spiritual life and Krsna are stronger than maya, then how is it that religion was ever overcome to the extent it is now? In Kali-yuga it's so much neglected... How is it that maya got such a stronghold?
- Prabhupada, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?
- Prabhupada, if we follow these four regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds sincerely every day, all this nonsense knowledge will eventually be forgotten?
- 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, in one purport in the Bhagavad-gita, you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything... But how could he know...? What does that mean, "everything"?
- Prabhupada, in our movement there are so many sannyasis. If we see the sannyasi, same, so many times in one day, we should bow down every time we see him?
- Prabhupada, in the Christian faith there is the idea that God made it possible for life to be created. He made it possible for the processes of the universe to continue. Is this the same with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, in the movement there is sometimes difficulty, and...?
- Prabhupada, in this Vedic verse, tat tvam asi, is this where the Mayavadis, have begin their impersonal philosophy, "Thou art that," or...?
- Prabhupada, in Vaisnava temples, asramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?
- Prabhupada, is every jiva given a chance in the beginning to go in the spiritual world? Then he falls down, or... sometimes the jiva may choose directly...?
- Prabhupada, is it all right if I remain a sannyasi?
- Prabhupada, is it not so that so-called marital love and parental love is possessive?
- Prabhupada, is it possible that a living entity, a jiva soul, can have pastimes in relation to God?
- Prabhupada, is Lord Caitanya always carrying on sankirtana in the spiritual world?
- Prabhupada, is the best method to read Bhagavad-gita?
- Prabhupada, is this philosophy like karma-mimamsa which is described in the Krsna book? Is this the same principle, where they feel that simply by their endeavor things will come, without the sanction of God? Is this karma-mimamsa?
- Prabhupada, Lord Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that when there is decline of true religion and when evil increases in the world, that He manifests Himself. Is He here in the human form or is He still to come?
- Prabhupada, Maharaja Pariksit was a great devotee of Krsna from his birth. So is he actually in need of these talks by Sukadeva, or is this for the benefit of others?
- Prabhupada, on the one hand you say the scientists are rascals, and on the other you say not to condemn them?
- Prabhupada, one more question before we break for prasadam. That is, why do we practice bhakti-yoga instead of jnana-yoga?
- Prabhupada, people that engage in religions, like these Jesus freaks and other people, they claim that Jesus is guiding them. Can this be so?
- Prabhupada, should everyone move to the temple?... Live here?
- Prabhupada, sometimes during your lectures I hear you say yata mat tata mat?... What does that mean?
- Prabhupada, sometimes I've seen devotees say that they did not like to chant in the temple room with the opposite...
- Prabhupada, that, perhaps, contradicts with the theory of reincarnation?
- Prabhupada, the other day you mentioned that during the eating activities, during sex activity, there is increase of breathing. Now, when we do the kirtana, there is much increase of breathing. So what is the difference?
- Prabhupada, there are certain groups saying that there's a comet in the sky and there's going to be some very inauspicious effects because of that. Do you know anything about that?
- Prabhupada, these people, dogs, mostly are atheist? Atheist, they take the birth as the dog?
- Prabhupada, they said that if Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted Krsna consciousness in the Western countries, why didn't He go there Himself? That's what they told us
- Prabhupada, this morning you talked about astrology in your lecture. Is this accepted in the Vedic scripture and by the gurus?
- Prabhupada, was the appearance of Lord Nrsimha-deva predicted in the sastras, in the Vedas, or does the Lord appear any time His devotees are in dire need for His protection?
- Prabhupada, we want to follow your instructions word by word, but sometime we can find some difficulty. In a case of difficulty, what should we do?
- Prabhupada, what about in a case like myself. I'm a sannyasi, and I have a traveling sankirtana party. So can I handle that money?
- Prabhupada, what about in the case where you have this ideal civilization with the brahmanas instructing, but the brahmanas don't agree? Just like in Bhagavad-gita, the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, there were many brahmanas, but they didn't agree
- Prabhupada, what are the symptoms of purity?
- Prabhupada, what can you say to someone who says, "Lord Jesus fed thousands of people fish"? What can you tell them?
- 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, what does Balabhadra mean?
- Prabhupada, what does it mean to chant seriously?
- Prabhupada, what if we know we should serve and we want to serve, but the service is so bad?
- Prabhupada, what is a Manu, and how is Manu the father of mankind, as it is stated in Bhagavad-gita?
- Prabhupada, what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was invited to...?
- Prabhupada, What is the devotee's greatest enemy?
- Prabhupada, what is the meaning of the word Srila?
- Prabhupada, what is the nature of anger?
- Prabhupada, what is the plan? To send money or books?
- Prabhupada, what pleases you the most?
- Prabhupada, what was exactly predicted by Lord Caitanya when He predicted the Golden Age of Kali, the age in the Age of Kali when people would be chanting the Hare Krsna mantra?
- Prabhupada, when a living entity is in an animal body, and when he quits his body, there's no karma, he's just automatically promoted to a higher body?
- Prabhupada, when I'm serving you sometimes I feel very nice, but then when I think of how bad and imperfect this service is, I feel terrible. Which is right to feel?
- Prabhupada, when someone comes to the stage of being convinced like that, that there is no other business, what is that stage called?
- Prabhupada, when the living entity, when the jiva leaves the body at death, is there any interim period before it takes up another body or does it happen immediately?
- Prabhupada, when the universes are emanated from the body of Maha-Visnu, they begin to expand... Is the universe still expanding?
- Prabhupada, when they said they went to the moon and they showed films of them landing and walking on the moon, was this all a bluff?... They all made it up?
- Prabhupada, when we do our chanting, the chanting beads contain 108 beads. Why is this, and why do we chant sixteen rounds?
- Prabhupada, when we talk like this ( if you combine together on Krsna consciousness, there is no scarcity of food anywhere), is this to perhaps mean sometime in the future the movement will become so big that...?
- Prabhupada, when we try to explain to people that our philosophy of Krsna consciousness is authoritative and is coming from undisturbed men, learned men, that our spiritual master is not an ordinary man, what does it mean that he is not an ordinary man?
- Prabhupada, when we're chanting on the street and the people walk by and hear us chant or we give them prasadam or they give a small donation, to what extent is the benefit they receive?
- Prabhupada, when we're out on sankirtana, chanting, what would be the best way for us to engage the crowd to become participants in the chant with us?
- Prabhupada, when you are not present with us, how is it possible to receive instructions, for example, on questions that may arise?
- Prabhupada, when you leave this material world, will there be another spiritual master after you? Another pure soul?
- Prabhupada, when you say we must be honest in our dealings... If we have an advantage to, to take advantage of somebody else for Krsna, for Krsna consciousness, is this permissible?
- Prabhupada, who is that prostitute the gopis refer to...?
- Prabhupada, who was the spiritual master of Lord Sri Krsna?
- Prabhupada, why did Lord Jesus Christ eat meat?
- Prabhupada, why people are not able to understand this (one day, nature's law comes, gives him a slap: "Get out!" Finished)?
- Prabhupada, why we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds?
- Prabhupada, would you like to take your prasadam now?
- Prabhupada, wouldn't it be better to say he (anyone who denies the existence of God) is blind, he is stupid?
- Prabhupada, you know the scientist you quoted in Easy Journey? You quoted an article from the newspaper in Easy Journey about the two scientists who were studying anti-matter?
- 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, you said that devotees, after becoming fully pious, have to take another birth in the material world and in somewhere where Krsna is performing His pastimes, before going back to Vaikuntha?
- Prabhupada, you said that Krsna has no limbs, no eyes, no form that we can comprehend. How then are we to understand the form of Krsna that's given to us in the pictures and the murtis?
- Prabhupada, you said that the greatest offense is to chant thinking that "My sins will be washed away" and commit sins, or wants to. So what is the result that that person gets if he dies in that condition?
- Prabhupada, you told us that wherever Krsna is, that is Vrndavana. What I was wondering is, if Krsna's present within our hearts, does that mean that within our heart is...
- Prabhupada? (very faint) ...petroleum demand, he takes out the blood of the earth and so the planet is going to sink (indistinct) said... So can we do something about it?
- Prabhupada? Buddha was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the incarnation of Krsna, right? Then why he has preached the impersonal form of God?
- Prabhupada? For every animal except the cow, you said, like a..., does a person have to pay off a one-to-one ratio for the animal killed? He just has to come back one time for, like, killing a goat? Is it just one time then, instead of many times?
- Prabhupada? How do we explain to impersonalists inductively the existence of the Personality of Godhead?
- Prabhupada? I was reading in a magazine that in Germany the people used to be pious, but after the Second World War...
- Prabhupada? If we chant more than sixteen rounds, so how can we know whether we are imitating Haridasa Thakura or following his footsteps?
- Prabhupada? If you say that purity is required for faith to develop, what are the symptoms by which one can be said to be pure?
- Prabhupada? Is Krsna right here in the room?
- Prabhupada? Of course, it would be beneficial if we had such a big building, but why can't we do it with the present building?
- Prabhupada? When the soul transmigrates from one body to another, the consciousness of that gross body, does the person retain some of the consciousness of his past lives with that transmigration?
- 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? Why are the big authorities, like the government people...?
- Prabhupada? You haven't taken very much liquid today, only 200 cc's of juice, not counting the yamuna-jala. Would you like us to make you up some juice, pomegranate juice?
- 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?
- Prabhupada?... What does the sloka in Bhagavad-gita that says, action in inaction and inaction in action...?
- Practically one experiences that the heat in the body, the lusty desires increases heat within the body. So is there any correlation between fire within the body and the mode of passion?
- Practically, though, without God consciousness, isn't it that people see that whether they are moral or not moral, they still suffer?
- Practice and vairagya both are necessary, not only vairagya. No?
- Pradyumna is here, Srila Prabhupada. Would you like to hear Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Pradyumna told me that it's available in Bengali (Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada's surya-siddhanta), Srila Prabhupada?
- Pradyumnaji. Pradyumna. You call him pandita?
- Prahlada Maharaja, his father becomes a demon, and he has to fight Nrsimha. That means it is the karma of a previous life, and he's praying. Or is it understood that he'll get the protection? So why this prayer?
- Prakrti means space?
- Prarabdha-karma?
- Prasadam distribution is very important?
- Presently you do not receive information directly from Krsna. It comes through the succession from the books?
- Presumably you would encourage this movement of more people to find a spiritual life?
- Previously there was not such excessive cold on the planet?
- Printed in America (another thing, the Hindi photographic pages, if you send to Los Angeles, the books can be printed there)?... What language? Hindi?
- Probably five thousand (five hundred or five thousand priests are in the hospital to cure of their drinking habit)?
- Process as laid down in Gita ("Neither poverty is check nor material opulence is check. Anyone can understand if he follows the principle or process")?
- Professionals may translate, but one of our men may check?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know whether we cannot do one very small pocketbook edition that will sell very inexpensively?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know, would it not be more valuable if our men spoke Sanskrit and could translate directly from the Sanskrit into French?
- Protect your mind... Wed it to the soul and taken away from all extraneous things which are made up of maya, is that not the meaning?
- Purchase at least four vehicles. Right. I think some scientist should also come with us, Srila Prabhupada (laughter), in case we meet anyone very intelligent, we need a scientific mind to defeat them. So Svarupa Damodara can come with us?
- Pure bhakti and karma-yoga considered to be exactly the same?
- Put anything else in it (nim leave paste)?
- Pygmy men were from a previous Kali-yuga?
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- Radha-Govinda were the only Deities in the neighborhood?
- Raganuga-bhakti is also superior to karma-yoga then?
- Rahu planet, that's a hellish planet?
- Ramanuja sampradaya or also Madhva-sampradaya, they sometimes don't accept Panca-tattva as being supreme. So is their actions also considered offensive even if they are acting within sampradaya?
- Ramanuja sampradaya, do they have a chain of disciplic succession, bona fide chain, to this present day? And the other sampradayas also?
- Ramanujacarya is the biggest in line?
- Ramanujacarya is very well known in India, so why don't they read his commentary?
- Ramanujacarya's Vaisnava was not Vaisnava?
- Ranganatha temple is in Vrndavana or in south?
- Rather than to be a man, rather than to have to talk English alone or other languages? How to talk that one language?
- Real information about the moon from the Bhagavatam?
- Realization of spiritual life?
- Realization of the impersonal feature of the Absolute wouldn't be classified as a spiritual activity?
- Really (bhukti means karmi's business, "I shall enjoy." Bhukti. And mukti means "I shall become one with the Supreme." So these two things are described as pisaci)?
- Really (he (George) has already made one record about our Hare Krsna movement)?
- Really? (always, so long I live, I must come)
- Really? That ("We have got the "no objection" certificate") is for a skyscraper building or for the temple?
- Regarding $20,000 advanced to BTG account, you have asked seeking my instruction where to forward $5000 monthly check...
- Regarding asking me questions
- Regarding crying
- Regarding installing larger deities at the New Vrindaban farm temple, which is now exclusively for brahmacaris...
- Regarding jobs for householders
- Regarding Nityananda Prabhu breaking the sannyasi rod of Lord Caitanya
- Regarding Omkar
- Regarding responsive chanting
- Regarding sleeping, there is no need of confusion on this subject. At this stage, if we do not take sufficient rest, we shall fall ill. There is no need of forcing the matter. So one should take rest enough to keep in good health
- Regarding the end of devotees of Lord Jesus Christ
- Regarding the meter sung by Narada Muni
- Regarding the neophyte devotee who is unable to comprehend even the existence of God, how he shall ever become lover of God?
- Regarding the questions you have asked about the Radha-Krishna throne...
- Regarding the wife of the Spiritual Master being considered as mother
- Regarding this Candi-pat?
- Regarding whether the Brahmajoti should be painted rainbow colored
- Regarding you first question, when do we observe Ekadasi?
- Regarding you question about keeping open the Deity doors in the early morning...
- Regarding your Draft Board questions
- Regarding your fasting
- Regarding your final question about Krishna being the cause of all causes
- Regarding your final question about Laksmiji, does she has conjugal relations with Lord Narayana?
- Regarding your final question, I thought that Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Karanodakasayi Visnu are not divisions of Paramatma?
- Regarding your final question, is it a fact that when one is contact with Krishna, His Name, His Qualities, His Form, His Pastimes, he immediately becomes purified?
- Regarding your final question, once something is offered to the Deity, may it be offered again?
- Regarding your final question, what does marginal potency mean?
- Regarding your first question about annamoya...
- Regarding your first question to explain the statement of Sri Isopanisad that "even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance"
- Regarding your first question, the proof of Krishna Consciousness
- Regarding your inquiry about Aurobindo
- Regarding your inquiry about deities
- Regarding your inquiry about returning the stipend to Dalmia
- Regarding your inquiry about the individual soul present
- Regarding your inquiry about the valuable woodred you have secured
- Regarding your inquiry about your position
- Regarding your inquiry into Japan for reprinting the book
- Regarding your inquiry of when I left India
- Regarding your last question about the ecstatic symptoms of chanting Hare Krishna...
- Regarding your last question about the importance of chanting...
- Regarding your philosophical question, if the Bhagavad gita is part of Mahabharata which is considered smrti, how can we claim Bhagavad gita to be GITOPANISAD, or one of the Upanisads which are sruti?
- Regarding your question about annamoya, pranamoya, etc
- Regarding your question about artist materials...
- Regarding your question about Bhava Shakti developing into Prema...
- Regarding your question about BTG containing more than one essay by me in certain issues...
- Regarding your question about closing the temple for a few hours during the day...
- Regarding your question about collecting...
- Regarding your question about eternal spiritual and temporary spiritual...
- Regarding your question about faith in devotees, faith must be there. But we should always take instruction from devotees who are considered to be elevated
- Regarding your question about feeling emotions during kirtana
- Regarding your question about Govinda Ganamrta...
- Regarding your question about guests being present at arati...
- Regarding your question about instruction, spiritual life is different from material life. The instruction given in my books is supposed to be personal instruction
- Regarding your question about items being used in Krishna's service becoming spiritual...
- Regarding your question about keeping daily income and expenditure records...
- Regarding your question about kirtana...
- Regarding your question about Krishna recommending the chanting of His Holy Names...
- Regarding your question about Krishna's associates...
- Regarding your question about Krishna's Name...
- Regarding your question about Lord Caitanya's thinking himself lower than the grass, it should be understood spiritually
- Regarding your question about Lord Jagannatha and Lord Krsna
- Regarding your question about Lord Jesus Christ...
- Regarding your question about Lord Siva and Thakura Haridasa, and their different response to sex agitation...
- Regarding your question about maintaining your body nicely...
- Regarding your question about Mantra 12 of Isopanisad...
- Regarding your question about marriage...
- Regarding your question about my never returning to Spiritual Sky...
- Regarding your question about offering camphor in aratrik...
- Regarding your question about offering Prasadam...
- Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani...
- Regarding your question about placing an effulgence around Krishna's head in all of these pictures
- Regarding your question about rasa with the Spiritual Master...
- Regarding your question about sufferings of master
- Regarding your question about taking Gaura-Nitai Deities with you on travelling Kirtana...
- Regarding your question about the 10 senses...
- Regarding your question about the art department
- Regarding your question about the Brahmajyoti...
- Regarding your question about the ceremony of offering Srimad-Bhagavatam and some coins to your child...
- Regarding your question about the difference between mind and soul...
- Regarding your question about the disciplic succession coming down from Arjuna
- Regarding your question about the husband becoming the Spiritual Master of the wife...
- Regarding your question about the individual soul becoming all-pervasive...
- Regarding your question about the inhabitants of Vrajabhumi or Vrindaban...
- Regarding your question about the other mantras you have been given...
- Regarding your question about the picture of Lord Caitanya with six arms...
- Regarding your question about the Prasadam recipes
- Regarding your question about the relationship between the living entities and Krishna...
- Regarding your question about the term "unmanifest'' in the Bhagavad-gita
- Regarding your question about the verse in the prayers to the Spiritual Master...
- Regarding your question about thinking about sex, is that also one form of illicit sex or against our four principles?
- Regarding your question about time
- Regarding your question about why we do not eat meat and yet we eat plant life...
- Regarding your question about why we dress the Deities in very opulent fashion and not as simple cowherds boy and girl
- Regarding your question about writing songs about Krishna
- Regarding your question about Yasoda and Devaki...
- Regarding your question about Yogananda, you write to say that you "received the impression from his autobiography that he was a genuine saint who dedicated his life to serving God''
- Regarding your question about your sleep, you should sleep after noon prasadam, and when you are tired
- Regarding your question as to obtain a house or a storefront for holding kirtanas...
- Regarding your question as to when the soul leaves the body, it is when the heart stops beating
- Regarding your question how to carry your Deities to different places with you
- Regarding your question how to engage yourself
- Regarding your question is it all right to assign the entire sankirtana party for distributing books so that no one will be free for street chanting?
- Regarding your question of an initiated person falling prey to the maya...
- Regarding your question of dancing-show, whatever it may be, it may not deviate from the real Krishna Consciousness program
- Regarding your question of the planetary systems
- Regarding your question that "the devotees are more kind than the Lord because they understand the purpose of the Lord"...
- Regarding your question whether grhastha couples can live together in the temple...
- Regarding your question whether husband and wife should live together in the temple
- Regarding your question whether some small lies may be said in order to sell our books
- Regarding your question whether you may go to Rathayatra festival
- Regarding your question, about living alone
- Regarding your question, do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction? The answer is no, they do not. We do not suffer for thinking something sinful. Not in this age. That is a special concession for Kali-yuga
- Regarding your question, what is the difference between Krishna and the deity...
- Regarding your question: "about the six-armed Lord Caitanya you gave me (Krishna, Lord Caitanya, and Lord Rama combined.)... What do the Saivite-like tilakas on His arms signify?"
- Regarding your question: how can the spirit soul fall down if it is eternal and changeless?
- Regarding your questions about details for Deity worship...
- Regarding your questions about GBC and sannyasi
- Regarding your questions about pujari...
- Regarding your questions about Sankirtana Party...
- Regarding your questions about sex life...
- Regarding your questions about the difference between the picture of Krsna and the Deity
- Regarding your questions about the examinations to be given...
- Regarding your questions about Tulasidevi?
- Regarding your questions about various names of God...
- Regarding your questions concerning the spirit souls falling into Maya's influence
- Regarding your questions with reference to B.G. III,5, and the Vedic hymn quoted in the purport to B.g. 14.15 and the statement ". . . when the living entity is bewildered in his desires, the Lord allows him to fulfill those desires . . ."
- Regarding your questions, about the spiritual sky and Paramatma
- Regarding your questions, how material things dissolve
- Regarding your questions, yes, a woman can certainly reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna. And the gopis of Vrndavana are the best example of this
- Regarding your questions, you want to offer something in the evening to Krishna besides fruit and milk
- Regarding your questions: Hindu means the culture of the Indians
- Regarding your questions: Once prasadam (water, or foodstuffs) is offered to the Lord, His Plate should remain on the altar for about 15-20 minutes (while the portion in the pots may be taken by the devotees)
- Regarding your second question about greeting karmis...
- Regarding your second question about Sanjaya
- Regarding your second question about the rasas in Narayana's Abode...
- Regarding your second question, concerning the 24 elements
- Regarding your second question, have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
- Regarding your working hours
- Relationships between devotees are eternal?
- Religion, meaning trying to serve God, is any more right than another?
- Religious is automatically regulated sex life?
- Remember how Krsna received Sudama?... When he brought the...?
- Remember, I told you about him (Mr. Lord, from England), Srila Prabhupada?
- Rice water will give you a little extra strength?
- Right after the chanting, everyone bows, and that I don't understand, what they're doing
- 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?
- Right now would you like to have some mung water? ... And spinach water?
- Rigidity is again a relative term. Rigidity again... What is rigid?
- Roman Catholics don't agree with you on that (we are asking, "Chant the holy name of God"), do they? Roman Catholics have their own God
- Russians running it (I went to Moscow)?
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- So sometimes the attachment (so the Vaisnava son sometimes thinks of the father and mother. So they are getting the benefit) is beneficial, then?
- Sabda-brahman... One of the sources of knowledge or the only one?
- Sadhu-sanga, of course, is very important. Getting to take a dip in Ganges at that, during this period, has that got any particular significance apart from sadhu-sanga?
- Sakti in original is Radha?
- Sambodhana is to remove the evil, remove the bad part isn't it?
- Same, they (the child and the father) are different people aren't they?
- Samosa?
- San-khya means to count?
- Sanatana is eternal. It is eternal religion. It is the religion of the soul and not of the body, dies. Soul is eternal, so religion is eternal. I am right, sir?
- Sanskrit word for..., yajna?
- Say I have some outside job, I'm living outside, but I'm not giving 50% of my income. So then that work that I'm doing, is it actually under the authority of the guru?
- Say if a human being falls down into the animal species, after that, does he go through each and every one of these species successively? Even there are different types of dogs, he becomes each different type of dog?
- Say instead of Hare Rama Hare Rama, we say Visva ramane rahim, or something like that, will you have no objection to that?
- Say someone prepares something, like some prasadam for Krsna, but he does not make it so good?
- Say we say that Krsna is God. Right? Then do you believe that there are other ways, apart from the way that you're going, to get to Krsna?
- Science almost denies the existence of God in order to exist, doesn't it?
- Science is based on experimentation. They will argue, "So how can we experiment with the theories that you are putting forward?"
- Scientists say there's no soul?
- Scientists, they have their mental process, but what is our process to understand this knowledge?
- Second Avenue apartment?
- See this man here, Srila Prabhupada? He's emptied out all the wastepaper baskets all over the grass, and now he's searching through to see if there's anything of any value
- See, he actually went to Badrinath. When we call Narayana, Narayana, as our Lord, how is it Mayavada? How it comes into Mayavadi?
- Seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?
- Seems like he's mostly after money, Srila Prabhupada. Is that true?
- Seems silly, doesn't it (do you think it is civilization? Mother who has given you milk in your childhood, and maintained your life, and because she is old, cutting throat. Is that good civilization?). Umm, I think are you keeping cows here?
- Sell them and engage there in Mombassa. ... You mean those plates and things, Srila Prabhupada?
- Send one to Mayapur as well (you can send one, this cutting, to Mr. Bhajaj, "Fifth Avenue, Where East Meets West." Very good)?
- Separate quarters in the apartment. And the husband would not see his wife during the day?
- Service and reading are nondifferent?
- 7-UP? We'll have to send someone out for it
- 7-UP? You want 7-UP? I can get it
- Sexual intercourse after marriage is against law of Manu?
- Shall I come Monday at three o'clock and wake you up?
- Shall I get the report? You want me to get the report of the astrologer?
- Shall I read it?
- 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?
- Shall we chant some more?
- Shall we continue reading, Srila Prabhupada?
- Shall we do that (Vrndavana parikrama) immediately (so let us make experiment in Vrndavana)?
- Shall we get out and walk, Srila Prabhupada?
- Shall we go now?
- Shall we sell our land, then (when volcano is in smoke, that is dangerous. That is dangerous)?
- Shankar Kumar has brought the food and all these things to his place. So if you like you to afterwards or take here or what would you like?
- She (Gandhari) remained with the cloth wrapped for her whole life?
- She (Indira Gandhi) is from Allahabad?
- She (Jagatarini) can come here?
- She (Mira Bai) was a contemporary of Caitanya?
- She (whose husband is not at home) won't take bath?
- She asked if it (prasadam) was fattening. Would make her heavy?
- She asks for a definition of the word "occult." What is something that is occult, something occult or mystic? What is it?... Mystic. What is mysticism?
- She asks if by repeating the mantra, the name of God, it has more...?
- She asks what is the difference between our understanding of reincarnation and the Christian concept of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ said he would come again. Is there a difference? Is it the same thing?
- She asks whether it will come to a fight with the demons and the devotees like Arjuna, or is this question, in the future, she means, or is this question not important?
- She asks you where these hellish worlds are?
- She can keep him and teach him all the time? Until he's older and so on (he complained that "My boy is not being properly..." So I said that "You teach your son")?
- She has a husband, but they don't live together in the same ideas, spiritual ideas. So she wants to know what to do now. Should she go apart from the husband?
- She lives in Milano and she would like, somehow or other, to help people through yoga. So she wants to know if she is able to do it or not?
- She must become dependent on her son because her husband would ideally become a sannyasi. Is that...?
- She said that love can change dharma. You say that dharma cannot be changed
- She said that probably would be the first and last time she will see you, so she wants to know if she can continue to contact you?
- She said what do you think about the other gurus?
- She says she wants to know if you think it would be worthwhile for her to write a book, something similar to the one that was written in America. It was called "The Strange World of the Hare Krishna People." You've heard of it?
- She says that God is known as antaryami, the witness in the heart. Does that mean that we can have a direct experience of God without going through the scriptures?
- She says there are many gurus and many people go there because it has become popular. So what do they say?
- She says you cannot change the society? We want to produce a new society?
- She says, "Therefore does it mean that the solution has to come from India?"
- She wants to know how we know this (that the hellish worlds, are different planets)?
- She wants to know if it's the same thing to chant om or to chant "I am, I am"
- She wants to know if you're the first to come to New Zealand?
- She wants to know that even before Lord Caitanya's time, was it (Mayapur) also considered to be a holy place?
- She wants to know that there are many other gurus, and why do you feel that you have the truth?
- She wants to know what disciplines we have, what practices we have?
- She wants to know what's the best activity to perform to go back to Godhead
- She wants to meet you, Prabhupada. Can I bring her (the mother of Mahamsa) tomorrow?
- She would like to know exactly what you mean by modern society and exactly what you feel are the problems with the society...?
- She would like to know if our religion can bring something more than the other religions
- She would like to know what other societies there have been in history which did not have these problems (the modern society is not taking care of the driver; they are taking care of the car)?
- She's (Mrs. Marchand) asking what should a woman do if she is alone?
- She's (Mrs.Marchand) asking that since in these Western countries the families are so broken up and the women sometimes cannot find a qualified husband, what should she do?
- She's asking does that mean that one does not integrate himself with the whole when he becomes evolved?
- She's asking if it was possible in her last life she was a Krsna's devotee, in her last life, and come back again? If you're a Krsna's devotee coming back again?
- She's asking if you are the first master, what you are teaching?
- She's asking why is three to four hours the amount that you sleep. How have you reached that standard?
- She's going back to Milan, and she would like to spread the sun that's here present, and she wants to know if you have any advice how she should do it because she would like to go spread it
- She's the grand-daughter (of Subash Bose)? That Lalita Bose?
- Should a disciple go to his spiritual master directly to offer the respects at least three times, or offer them where he is?
- Should also this be the responsibility of the government to protect people from having to take dog body?
- Should BBT America pay for our expenses in that Book Fair? It will cost about three thousand dollars. It's a very good preaching opportunity. They can pay?
- Should Brahmananda and I try to get some visas also (for Manipur)?
- Should devotees be formally designated in a particular occupation?
- Should force be used on children?
- Should I be able to feel God inside me because my soul is a part of God?
- Should I bring him (Gopala)?
- Should I bring that coconut chutney also?
- Should I call him now (just see. This man did not even reply even)?
- Should I close these curtains or leave them open?
- Should I concentrate my time for this (pushing our books)?
- Should I cook if I still have this fever tomorrow?
- Should I develop that scheme (the farm) then?
- Should I go on reading, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should I go on?
- Should I just finish reading his article, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should I make this (with a letter that "Prabhupada says like this, that you print in the Hindi edition of Bhagavata-darsana so that everyone will see, and will judge how it is done nicely")?
- Should I not go to the London zone at this time? I've been invited. They say they need a sannyasi in that zone, for years, so I've been invited. Do you think I should go now with Satsvarupa Maharaja, or go to London?
- Should I read the translation (of "Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness") in Hindi?
- Should I read these out loud to you? Should I read these things to you? ... Pradyumna is here also. He's in the next room. Should I call him?
- Should I read this letter? It's from Tusta Krsna Swami
- Should I represent Kuvera?
- Should I turn on a light, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should ISKCON devotees live in each of these little villages?
- Should it affect the normal duties (if everybody became Krsna conscious)?
- Should it also be taught how you make water from hydrogen and oxygen?
- Should Krsna be dressed very, very opulently like this, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should non-Hindus who have adopted the Hindu way of life e.g. the followers of the Hare Krishna movement, be allowed to enter Hindu temples?
- Should one not try to purify one's heart first and personality?
- Should our children who are at gurukula, when they grow up, should they go to that varnasrama college, or...?
- Should the British have been violently thrown out of India?
- Should the Deities be offered grains for breakfast?
- Should the devotee always speak the truth to everyone in all circumstances?
- Should the devotees think that "Any moment, I can die"?
- Should the Jagannatha deity be bathed with water?
- Should the painters, should they paint such uh, this type of pictures?
- Should the young American faced with the war in Vietnam go forth to Vietnam realizing that the slayer and the slain are one and that all this slaughter, just slaughter karma, and follow the way of the sage
- Should there (varnasrama college) be any material subject matters taught like in gurukula?
- Should there be a college program in each temple? Or should everyone just work along with the BBT Library Party? Should there be a college program?
- Should there be kirtana, Srila Prabhupada? You like kirtana?
- Should there be some kind of a seal?
- Should they (devotees in our temples) be trained in a particular...?
- Should they advertise like that?
- Should vaisyas be taught business also?
- Should we actually start to train up some of our men so they know how to fight?
- Should we also try to introduce legislation immediately to close the slaughterhouses?
- Should we always endeavor in spite of pain to push ourselves in Krsna consciousness?
- Should we bathe only the small Krsna Deity?
- Should we become detached from the results of our activities, or should we become simply attached to the Lotus Feet of Krishna?
- Should we beg people to read these books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we cancel the trip this morning?
- Should we chant it now? ... All the Brahma-samhita? Or those two in particular?
- Should we chant japa now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we depict meat-eating or animal slaughter?
- Should we do that ("So I was given medicine by force in the spoon. Two men will catch me and my mother take me on the lap and then force and I shall take. I never agreed to take any medicine") now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we do that (you write on the car, "The Spiritual Master of USA.")?
- Should we give them prasadam?
- Should we go back to the bullock cart age?
- Should we go to such programs, Prabhupada?
- Should we go to the colleges and universities and make program?
- Should we have karmi photographs in our magazines?
- Should we have some chanting now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we have some program with these Mulliks sometimes, visit?
- Should we hold an abhisekha ceremony for Janmastami?
- Should we just completely devote all our time to studying the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and then progress from there, or should we continue our study of the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Should we love Krishna or love the spiritual master?
- Should we not be respectful to maya as the energy of Krsna?
- Should we now take the help from the political parties such as Shiv Sena?
- Should we plant one (java plum) on the land too?
- Should we put any little arch on this gate?
- Should we start printing Hindi books in Calcutta, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we stick to formal positions, or is it all right to do informal pose, like just your head and your chest?
- Should we tell all Christians like that, Srila Prabhupada? That they're killing?
- Should we try to avoid getting injections as much as possible?
- Should we try to go fast when we chant, in order to get the rounds done?
- Should we try to make an effort to have our householders go and live on the farms, a special effort? If it's ready to do that?
- Should we use that four lakhs for printing?
- Should we utilize the car, Srila Prabhupada, or go in the train?
- Should we want to unite the world, or should we want to unite ourselves with Krsna?
- Should you count every day how much japa you do?
- Shouldn't there be a balance between physical existence and spiritual existence? Like between body and spirit?
- Silicic acid (acid is liquid)?
- Simplicity is not considered a bad quality?
- Simply they're analyzing the creative material elements (sankhya philosophers)?
- Since Krsna is the power that gives the demigods the ability to render everything, then why is it recommended in the Nectar of Devotion that a Vaisnava should worship Ganapati?
- Since most of our presentation is done by lawyer, how can this practically be brought about that he introduces the books as our main defense? How can he present the books, a lawyer, if there's not a preacher?
- Since no one knows the Lord, how is it possible for the people to know how they are controlled?
- Since religion is one, do you think man will enter into a golden age in which he will accept one God?
- Since we don't yet understand the supreme law, because we are young and just new to this, how can we speak about it?
- Since you are following Bhagavad-gita, do you believe in dvaita philosophy or advaita philosophy?
- Sir, are we rightly understanding that by "Krsna" you mean some eternal principle?
- Sir, are you familiar with Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship and the practice of recruiting wealthy people as patrons for people who are sincerely interested in following a spiritual pursuit? Do you think that this hinders with their development?
- Sir, do you not consider it advisable to get the judgment that the Americans have translated into Indian so we can look?
- Sir, do you think that the wealth of the United States and some certain other countries would be a block to spiritual faith? Would wealth in itself be a block toward spiritual awareness?
- Sir, I have listened to your talk with very great interest. You're very clear and very lucid. But you're also very dogmatic, I feel. Is there any area of doubt in your own philosophy, or are you quite certain in every field?
- Sir, I want to ask a question. In Bhagavad-gita He says, "I am in them, and I am not in them also." That means, sir, both His, all the beings are in the...
- Sir, may I know the meaning of the divine name Hare Krsna and Hare Rama? The real meaning of the divine name Hare Krsna, Hare Rama?
- Sir, taking care of the society, of the countries, there is no difference?
- Sir, what is the difference between renunciation and surrender?
- Sir, what is the way to serve the Supreme?
- Sir, what is your idea about people following other religions?
- Sir, what is your opinion about Sai Baba?
- Sir, who initiated you into this movement?
- Sir, whom do you find more responsive to your movement, women or men?
- Sir, why are they sinful? Why are they (to take tea or coffee) sinful?
- Sir, would you like to give any message to the Indian people?
- Six and 1975 is seventy-nine years?
- Skim milk should not be given to the calves? The calves should get?
- Small black beads that the devotees are wearing from Radha-kunda. They have a string of beads made of clay from Radha-kunda Are they...? .... So it's all right to wear them?
- Smaranam. Not so much thinking of God's activities as just being really in His presence and open to receive love and to be active. Do you know what I mean?
- Smith's... (Smith Stanstreet, they were also very good company)?
- Smrti cannot be changed?
- So "Krsna, in person"?
- So a devotee is also by actions he can do it?
- So a letter came. One boy wrote me a letter. When I was going to go to China a while ago, before you told me not to, this boy was working with me. And his name is Jita-rati. So he went to China, and he's written a report. Should I read it to you?
- So a man can can never become Bhagavan?
- So a neophyte devotee who's following the principles of sadhana-bhakti is still considered pure devotee?
- So about in a half hour we can give you some juice maybe? Grape juice? Do you like grape juice?
- So according to different transcendental emotions, the mind will be agitated or calm or...?
- So actually such a program (for distributing the necessities - such as clothes and foodstuffs - for everyone in the community) can only be successful proportionately with the rise of Krsna consciousness of the people
- So actually, perfect kings, they may have eaten meat?
- So actually, they have not advanced technologically from the civilizations of Ravana's time?
- So actually, we're removing people from danger, from evil, by making them Krsna conscious?
- So Advaita is old too, isn't he (Haridasa should be a old man)? And Nivas (Srinivas)
- So all ideas can be traced back to the original substance which is Krsna?
- So all the different kinds of human beings actually were originated there ("India was the whole world")?
- So all those sinful activities of these people have been eradicted now by saying Hare Rama?
- So always your writing, people were attracted by?
- So are they (cockroaches) coming from eggs, or how are they coming? Just the soul enters the dirt?
- So as the Krsna consciousness movement increases its influence, then American culture will gradually change?
- So by joining this movement we come to the platform where we can take birth in India in a nice brahmana family?
- So by looking at Him (Krsna) you are trying to rouse the interests of the people, or curiosity?
- So by observing someone's individual propensity, then I can see him as a person?
- So by our behavior (indistinct) will determine what sort of body we will get when we return?
- So can all people have an equal interest in religion despite their different classifications?
- So can I know the reason why you are restraining the use of gobar gas now. I could not understand actual technical difficulty. Is there any difficulty?
- So chanting along with devotional service, performing our duties while concentrating on Krsna, is also part of the process, isn't it?
- So cheating and like that, what mode is that?
- So Christ's suffering was of that nature?
- So couldn't the scientists say that it's God's will that when there is a...?
- So did you say you didn't want Gopala to translate it, Srila Prabhupada? To publish it?
- So do I come with you, Srila Prabhupada?
- So do you mean to say that Krsna is also karma-bound?
- So do you want to quote this verse?
- So does it ("The India is membership, and the members, if they are dissatisfied, then? This is not good.") mean that the BBT should take charge of the Life Membership program or to see that they're supplied the books?
- So does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- So early in the moon's history... then there was the water in the atmosphere... But then, due to the atmosphere being dry, not being any atmosphere, now it's just rocks and dust… So if there was originally an atmosphere, why is it not there now?
- So even God cannot predict when the living entity will come back to Him?
- So even the particle of matter is eternal?
- So eventually destruction can come to this earth?
- So eventually we should divide up our society in this (guna-karma-vibhagasah) way?
- So every ksatriya had to have something to manage?
- So every man has his own world that he's living in?
- So everything is art?
- So everything is coming from Krsna and going toward Krsna?
- So faith comes from previous pious activities?
- So false ego is the base of all material activities, but I may be acting in a certain mode, contaminated in a certain way. Is that right?
- So far as initiating disciples is concerned
- So far as your question about arranging time...
- So far as your question about controversy amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja
- So far as your question about evolution...
- So far as your question about how to think of Radha-Krishna...
- So far as your question about the disciplic succession...
- So far the question of all Brahmas riding on swans...
- So far your question about the Gopis...
- So far your question regarding Bhetnama
- So far your question whether you should stay at New Vrindaban, or help Hayagriva at Columbus...
- So far your questions about Lord Jagannatha and Ratha-yatra Festival?
- So for one who gives up sinful activities, does his sense of God consciousness become awakened?
- So from Mathura everyone went to Allahabad (For Srila Prabhupada's initiation)?
- So full will means to follow...?
- So Germany is defeated, no?
- So God is an individual then?
- So God's plan is unfolding itself everywhere, whether we understand it or not?
- So how can it be that the karmi, who is after some material benefit, if he approaches Krsna, he can be better off than the jnani?
- So how can one be out of this cakra?
- So how can the scientists arrive at vasudevah sarvam iti?
- So how can they, the Krsna... (the real disease is there is no Krsna)?
- So how can we chalk out a program of, say, training of leaders from the villages...?
- So how can you prove that (the different planets' situation)?
- 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 how does science fit in with all of this?
- So how is it that Lord Brahma is a pure devotee?
- So how is material (material nature) forcing something spiritual (the spirit soul)?
- So how long this thing will continue now, Swamiji, the materialistic progress, the way they are carrying on today?
- So how we will expose it before scientists?
- So how would you define sin? What is impurities or to sin?
- So how would, for example, the government.... In a perfect society, how would the government check to see that the brahmanas are actually practicing, and how would...?
- So I can go on and read these (the responsibilities of the GBC men)...?
- So I do not know why you have asked about my previous life. Whether I was subjected to the laws of material nature?
- So I have a vehicle. They also could travel with us, and in the same town they will do nagara-sankirtana all day long and distribute books?
- So I have no other goal but to have the phala of past karmas. Or can I change my fate?
- So I look a fool and they'll become wise, all of them, eh?
- So I should not respond (mother's letter)?
- So I'll tell them our policy is changed. We don't keep any more money in fixed deposit because it's a losing bargain?
- So I'm wondering how Lord Caitanya's movement is going on on other planets other than this planet. Is there some organized sankirtana?
- So if a scientist or someone who has some degree in science comes to our movement, should we encourage him to try to prove through science the Krsna conscious principle of transmigration and eternal quality of the soul?
- So if he (Ramakrishna) had no appetite it means he was transcendentally situated?
- So if I call Narayana Maharaja, is there any need for Krsna dasa to come?
- So if I feel hungry, I become full of anxiety, "Where is food? Where is food?" He says that this anxiety...
- So if I have a fever I shouldn't cook for you? It's unhealthy for you? It won't bother me so much, but if it's unhealthy for you...
- So if in India they want to glorify God by calling Him the All-attractive One, and that word is Krsna, then what is the wrong?
- So if one follows these moral guidelines (of Krsna consciousness), the result is certain, predictable?
- So if somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
- So if someone wanted to be, say, a Christian in the Krsna conscious..., a society led by a Krsna conscious person, if someone wanted to be a Christian, would he be chastised?
- So if they follow Jesus Christ...?
- So if we don't choose our leaders by popular election, how will society be governed?
- So if we have time we can do that (yogasana)?
- So if we have to wake again, then there's no really.... Why should we have to stop birth and death?
- So if we increase the Krsna consciousness movement...?
- So if we're performing the Deity worship and we get in anxiety, how to make it nice?
- So if you fix one thing, another thing will just go bad?
- So in ISKCON, if someone falls down, it means that he should commit suicide?
- So in Navadvipa, will the instruction be in English or in Bengali?
- So in other words that means the pure devotees can be omniscient?
- So in parenthesis we write, "In Scientific Knowledge" (the title of the journal (of the Bhaktivedanta Institute) is Sa-vijnanam)
- So in relation to your movement, where does Marxism stand?
- So in the same way (that Jesus) Krsna also was appearing again during...?
- So is it (your health problem) affecting your translation work?
- So is it correct to say that if we're not Krsna conscious, then if it's not the grhastha problem, it would be some other problem?
- So is it necessary to be fixed up to take sannyasa, or one should take sannyasa to become fixed up?
- So is it that everything we do, are we trying to make some mental adjustment, that "We're taking prasadam..."?
- So is it that in order to maintain something in this material world also, there has to be the touch of the mode of goodness?
- So is it to be understood that a very simple person who has all kinds of material desires, if he approaches God...?
- So is subtle body ever finished?
- So is that a fact, that he (Jesus Christ) went to India?
- So is that according to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate in our eating?
- 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 is the spirit soul implicated in that decision in any way, or is it simply the three modes of material nature working?... So how is the spirit soul involved in it? Is the spirit soul choosing, or is the decision already made by his karma?
- So is there anything obligatory or prescribed for all people who follow this religion, that a minimum observance that they must do?
- So is there ever, for someone whose determination wavers and slackens here and there, is there ever a point where the neophyte devotee is in danger of just forgetting everything and falling, tumbling completely back?
- So is there some time that maybe somebody could stay here when he comes in that frame of consciousness?
- So is this (separate quarters in the apartment and the husband would not see his wife during the day) the standard we should develop in our movement?
- So is this all right (we'll wait here for another week to ten days, and… the kaviraja will give us medicine, and you can take it for another week or so. After a week's time he'll come back, and then, after a few days, he'll take you to Mayapur)?
- So is this conflict part of the spreading of Krsna consciousness?
- So isn't that life coming from matter?
- So it (Rahu planet) is bigger than the sun?
- So it doesn't matter if Narayana is successful?
- So it may seem like these other things are stepping-stones to Krsna, but is it necessarily so?
- So it will take a war to bring them to their senses a bit?
- So it's better to be in the mode of passion than the mode of ignorance?
- So it's not more practical to earn money by preaching?
- So it's not possible that anyone's happy? There is no possibility of anyone being happy
- So it's the complete text (the summary study of Srila Rupa Gosvami's Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu)?
- So it's the whole bovine race that's protected, and not just the cows themselves, not just the female cows?
- So just by becoming first-class men you can go to the heavenly planets?
- So just by meditating on the person Krsna, all other truths become known?
- So just now you've sent a Krsna tape. Should I, rather than do that, give it to Bhagavan?
- So Kalki comes at the end of the Kali-yuga?
- So let's say someone is in a very degraded condition of life, modes of ignorance, passion. Their mind is always disturbed. Is surrender to Krsna.... Is it possible that it can be independent even of the mind?
- So Lord Brahma's being attracted to his daughter, that is just as an example...?
- So Los Angeles center was opened on your arrival back from India. And up to that time there was New York and...?... And Montreal?
- So many people who stop performing prescribed duty to engage in so-called meditation, actually they are committing sinful activity? Is this actually sinful activity to attempt such meditation like that?
- So may we offer you a special feasting?
- So maya is temporary, and the only thing that is eternal is Krsna and the spiritual energies?
- So Mayavadis artificially think that (everything is spiritual, but due to our ignorance, we think it is material)?
- So normally we don't use mic at all, but sometimes the devotees don't know how to sing very sweetly. Whether we should use a small microphone for his voice?
- So now you'll have your bath, Srila Prabhupada?
- So now you've defined a perfect leader. What is a perfect system? What are the criterion for a perfect system?
- 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 one of the things we want to do is expose this cheating (the moon planet is also Arizona). Should we expose this kind of thing directly like this, or should we indirectly deal with it?
- So one question I wanted to ask you in this connection, is that this Vinobha, fasting until death, until cow slaughter is stopped. So if he dies then he is guilty of murder. Is it correct. And if he's a brahmana, he is guilty of brahma-hatya?
- So one who has surrendered, what is his thinking and acting, how he lives in the world?
- So one who is mad after something else material, he must transfer his madness to Krsna. So how is that madness transferred?
- So only keep thirteen GBC at this point? Will Bali-mardana stay at the Press and be considered GBC?
- So penance and austerity, that it is not really suffering? What does suffering involve?
- So pious activity is that activity which brings us to the spiritual world, and impious activity, activity which roots us here? Or are even the pious activities of the material world considered bad?
- 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 Prabhupada, is there something we should do to prepare ourselves for this disaster?
- So Prabhupada, it says that a sannyasi should live alone. That means only with devotees?
- So Prabhupada, you said belief is enough?
- So practicality has to be judged on the result, what is the result of that action?
- So Rahu covers sometimes the sun and sometimes the moon?
- So saguna is necessary for going to nirguna?
- So shall I take your passport now, Srila Prabhupada?
- So shall we also make protests?
- So shall we keep the number at thirteen, Srila Prabhupada?
- So shall we perform some kirtana, Srila Prabhupada? Hamsaduta Swami is here
- So should I send... I mean right now, there's any need to inform him (Srila Prabhupada's son) not to come here?
- So should we arrange for this April 5th, 4th, around that time, Srila Prabhupada?
- So simply suffering is not a qualification for becoming God conscious then?
- So sleeping is like temporary death?
- 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 somebody who is honest will be in the mode of goodness. Would that be correct?
- So Srila Prabhupada, if the sound is the same, does that mean that when you become fully purified you will also see the sound of an automobile horn as transcendental?
- So Srila Prabhupada, there's chanting party ready to do sankirtana. So may they come in?
- So starting tomorrow, we will go in front of Krsna-Balarama for a half hour every day?
- So that can go on the top of the certificate?
- So that is within us (the dormant Krsna consciousness)?... And it needs to be brought out... And how is that brought out?
- So that means jivatma, he is... responsible for any good or bad deeds for my life?
- So that means those mathas also are Krsna conscious... We can join them also?
- So that mind is part of the soul. It's just, it's polluted?
- So that piece of land is not exactly on the parikrama but off the parikrama. It's not so far from our property. You know the big park near Singhania's place?
- So that Pondicherry was Aurobindo's idea? What was the motive?
- So that should be standard (chanting 25 rounds) for our movement on ekadasi day?
- So that taste, eternal rasa, for associating with Krsna is fixed already?
- So that would be the title, Pujari Worship?
- So that's a combination of thesis and antithesis into synthesis?
- So that's how it goes back into the body of Maha-Visnu?
- So the activities of the lazy intelligent are jnana-vijnana?
- So the best position is just remain silent until realization comes?
- So the bona fide guru does not claim to be God, but he gives knowledge of God, and he only deals with God?
- So the cow which is untimely killed takes birth as a cow again?
- So the doctor there, he's prescribed some tablets and things. Do you want?
- So the evolution of life... Those who are coming to the lowest living entity, the organisms, smaller units, so once they come to that stage, then they have to pass through the stages stepwise?
- So the fact that Prabhupada is passing stool is very unnatural, at least for taking fruit juice. He's not eating anything, so how can he pass stool four times? What is the stool coming from if he's not eating?
- So the form in the spiritual sky is not absolute either? We can take different forms in the spiritual sky?
- So the honest ones (atheists) become devotees?
- So the incentive (in Vedic culture) is the happiness in society?
- So the jnanis are very rare though, aren't they?
- So the living entity who is in the lower body like insects or plants... And he passes through all the species?
- So the moon planet is said to be high planet, but sand is not as nice as vegetation. How is that?
- So the only way to beat that cycle is ajnata-sukrti?
- So the pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- 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 purport is that one must strictly follow the principles?
- So the saintly person tends to overlook the bad qualities and see the good ones?
- So the scientists' conception of atom is wrong?
- So the seed of.... The soul is within the vapor?
- So the selective principle is there, but all species are already there?
- So the service that we offer now, are we going to get it back in another life?
- So the solution for the world is Krsna consciousness?
- So the sun is the center (of the universe) or the polestar?
- So the transcendentalists are sreyah? And the karmis and others are...
- So the translation of it (sad gamaya)?
- 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 then how we can let them live together, man and woman?
- So then part of initiation means that you're prepared to do something more than simply chant and eat prasadam?
- So then the problems of life are more than simply those which we perceive (meditating means this subject matter: that I don't want death, why death is forced upon me? That is real meditation)?
- So then they want to know, is it all right to show the demons and the demigods standing right on the ocean?
- So then to love Krsna is unnatural?
- So then what is basic difference between human body, I mean man's body and woman's body, which attracts each other?
- So then why do they reject it?
- So then why he (Dr. Rao) didn't scientifically try to find out more?
- So then, is it true then that people who have this conception, they would not try for progress?
- So there are a lot of these people who do that, false knowledge?
- So there is a smaller group going in advance, and bigger group with you stays back
- So there is life on the moon, Swamiji?
- So there is no benefit to suffering unless it is connected with Krsna?
- So there is no possibility of me being Krsna conscious outside your movement?
- So there's no doubt that Lord Brahma is a pure devotee?
- So there's no end to the samsaras?
- So therefore it is good that we have so much Deity worship to do that we're very, very busy and we do not have any time?
- So therefore, from that point of view (of authority), it's very logical. Trying to do it the other way is impossible. From the... emprical process? Inductive reasoning? Deductive reasoning. Impossible
- So these bones that they have found of these gigantic animals, they were all living underneath the water?... Not on the land?
- So these scriptures have been in existence since we have, is what you're saying. What about other scriptures, other religions have got their scriptures. Do you believe, do you accept them?
- So these, what they think are spaceships, perhaps are demigods?
- So they (certain species of human life) can perform, like, let's say for example, intoxication or meat-eating, and they won't receive any sinful reaction?
- So they ask us, "Have you seen God?"
- So they break very easily? ... These plates, the silverware and things that people use?
- So they may also be considered your disciples (he's guru. He's guru… Yes. That is formality. Because in my presence one should not become guru, so on my behalf, on my order... Amara ajnaya guru hana. Be actually guru, but by my order)?
- So they may challenge, "Do you mean to say that you can feed the whole world without meat?"
- 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 they should get written permission for the ratha to stand there?
- So they will not make some objection if they think we are thinking we have come to preach Hinduism in a Buddhist country?
- So they'll be able to take care of the situation there by themselves?... In Hong Kong?
- So they're (the ants) better than us?
- So they're representatives (Guru Nanak, Muhammad, and other people)?
- So this body is temporary anyway, so aren't these senses temporary also?
- So this earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- So this experimental knowledge should be strictly kept in the scientific realm. You know, discussion...? Because you asked me before to write on...?
- 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 this will be good for our, what is her name? That devotee?
- So this, our science, is a science of maya. Not the science of spirit. Am I right?
- So those eternally liberated souls in the spiritual sky will never come here because they choose not to?
- So those who do not develop their Krsna consciousness fully must again take a birth?
- So to celebrate that, shouldn't Pisima do some cooking? ... And you'll taste a little of each thing?
- So Tukarama, you would say, is teaching the same thing as Caitanya?
- So unless we get men from overseas, then for us to expand is very difficult. Just like for this Mombassa. We get this big house. Unless we have men to maintain it, then why should we take it?
- So vaidhī-bhakti is considered superior to karma-yoga then?
- So we are clarifying a scientific proposition with our philosophy?
- So we are requesting if all the devotees can possibly go (this evening they are having one convention here, the Democratic National Convention… So we want to send all the devotees in the temple on sankirtana party there)?
- So we are trying to use their endorsements and then make it very specific that "Therefore to meditate using the Hare Krsna, this is healthy." So why are you attacking us?
- So we can bring the mind under control of Krsna?
- So we can convince them by pointing out...?
- So we can say "Sa-vijnanam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute." Is that all right?
- So we couldn't call the restaurant the "Hare Krsna Restaurant" because there were some restrictions in the block, so we were thinking we'd call it "Sankirtana." That's okay?
- So we do not accept this (they calculate that it's only 4.5 billion year old, the earth)?
- So we get frustrated, but where the first apple came. Where is seed of first apple planted on this earth planet?
- So we have a misunderstanding about what perfection is?
- So we have some guidelines in here about that (general reporting: "Yes, everyone is chanting," or "He is not chanting in spite of warning"). So should I go on with this?
- So we have to give allowances to such people (the newcomers). We have to give allowance?
- So we say that brahma-jijnasa is a standard. Is that okay?
- So we say that the soul is in the heart. So how can we convince the other doctors, for example, of the presence of the soul within the body and especially within the heart?
- So we should be careful from whom we accept charity?
- So we should simply try to understand Krsna?
- So we should take the Deity prasadam and our prasadam and go to all the houses?
- So we shouldn't do that in our field (Let the animals eat as much as they like)?
- So we will attract the scientists by saying that we are both fools?... Before we were saying that we were both fools. Is that the way to attract the scientists?
- So we would not be able to see any traces of a civilization (in heavenly planets)?
- So we'll tell the doctor to please wait?
- So what about the common man? If he accepts the Gurukula system he can also be spiritually advanced?
- So what are you doing now? You've come to England for a brief stay. I gather you travel a lot
- So what could be more charitable than feeding?
- So what determines the different varieties of dogs and cats if they are just automatically being...?
- So what do you really mean by arousing the Krsna consciousness? What does it entail?
- So what does he (president of Detroit) want?
- So what is honesty?
- So what is our answer to such persons (They don't accept Bhagavad-gita)?
- So what is that incense?
- So what is the choice (Krsna does not force you. He says the real, "You love me, you'll be happy. If you don't love, you suffer." But that is your business)?
- So what is the exact meaning of that verse, sraddha-sabde?
- So what is the position of tyagis, persons who are simply trying to renounce material life? Do they... Are they considered on the devotional path, or do they have to fall down into lower species of life?
- So what is the problem (if you are really scientist, you take the egg; analyze what chemicals are there. They are able to analyze, and they also have the chemicals)?
- So what is the purpose for very large temples in India?
- So what is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- So what is your opinion, Srila Prabhupada?
- So what on earth is God? Is there anything on earth that is God?
- So what will be left? After ten thousand years?
- So what would be the difference for the, in this case, that one who is identifying himself as Christian or one is identifying himself as devotee of Krsna?
- 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 did you come back again?
- So when Pakistan accused India, he became so shocked that he fainted?
- So when people are taught, they will then understand. But what I'd also like to know, how would it affect the way they live? In sort of purely..., the way they go about their life
- So when someone has integrity, you can see that they are one-minded?
- So when the jiva soul descends into the material world, it is like a hallucination?
- So when the Krsna consciousness movement becomes so powerful that it is in charge of the government, is it because of a small group of people or because of a mass?
- So when they are grhastha, they make advancement?
- So when this body is finished, why shall the soul be gone?
- So when we establish the theory of acintya-sakti...?
- So when we say that we have finished all responsibility by surrendering to Krsna, that doesn't mean that we've abandoned execution of duty, does it?
- So where does most of your money come from?
- So where does she fit (into this (four classes) social structure)?
- So where that is described in the Third Canto, Part Four, where it is described about devotional service in ignorance, passion, and goodness, and so forth, that has nothing to do with your disciples then?
- So where will we go tomorrow if we go (you said you want to make an experiment, so let us make an experiment with this hired bullock cart…)?
- So which do you think is more important-this deal or the palace? I think the palace
- So who is Krsna?
- So who is supreme, Lord Siva or Lord Rama?
- So who is the most perfect of the Vaisnava poets? That would be Mira?
- So who shall decide what the criteria is, to test (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- So why does He (Krsna) allow me to have this independence?
- So why don't we remember everything?
- So why is it, then, if it's a question of ajnata-sukrti... The Indians, from their birth they're watering tulasi, they're chanting Hare Krsna, they're doing so many activities, but mostly your disciples are foreigners?
- So why not eat, drink, and be merry because tomorrow you die?
- So why not show me where it is (life in the fire)?
- So why not start an authoritative group of Christians who chant Hare Krsna, who study the Bible and read the Bhagavad-gita?
- So why not stay for a longer time here?
- So why not we will take and we will take care?
- So why we are so involved in the material world that most of the human being don't have...?
- So why wouldn't, why couldn't they accept that such simple thing (accept Krsna as authority over Darwin)?
- So why, in the material world, if our natural desire is to worship and to be a servant, why is it that in the material world everyone is looking for respect and to be worshiped?
- So would it be true to say that perhaps without George Harrison of the Beatles the religion wouldn't be as well known as it is today?
- So you asked me the question, "Is there vitamins in the grass?" And obviously there's not such vitamins in grass that it produces milk. So the vitamins are coming from Krsna? Yes?
- So you can postpone your going tomorrow?
- So you completely write off anybody who says that there should be a step of faith. And would you, in other words... So you would say that science can prove that God exists?
- So you don't worry about...?
- So you feel a little hopeful?
- So you just chanted in Thompkins Park, and people came?
- So you mean to say, prabhu, truthfulness and honesty will come after chanting, chanting, chanting?
- So you never doubt any of this, anything at all?
- So you say that two kinds of people enjoy life, the paramahamsas and the great fools. So what's wrong with being a great fool? They're also enjoying
- So you think State Bank of India is the best?
- So you want Kirtanananda to be president?
- So you want me to bring them (doctors) here?
- So you want to change your sleep hours?
- So you want to sit up now, Srila Prabhupada, for bathing?
- So you would have palaces and garden scenes and Lord Brahma perhaps on his throne?
- So you would see no basic difference between Ramanuja's position and...(the Caitanya tradition)?
- So you'll cut off their education like that (they are now little children. But we don't wish to send them to college. We have got sufficient books)?
- So your question is whether one can enter this kingdom of God with this body?
- So, actually this entire world is spiritual?
- So, for instance, if it (the word pollution) is used to indicate air pollution... then how will the chanting will affect that?
- So, for somebody who is now a disciple of the Krsna consciousness movement, are we to understand if he is not born in a family of devotees and if he is not born in an aristocratic family, that he was not a yogi in his past life?
- So, if ordinary man went to some other planet through his sputnik, would he be able to see the demigods?
- So, now what, what is your problem?
- So, should I ask you another question now?
- So, Srila Prabhupada, isn't Lord Brahma the original spiritual master in our sampradaya?
- So, they should just keep the machines (from people who have entered in some coma) going?
- Some American gentleman?
- Some birds we see behave like a little influenced by the modes of goodness, though it is mixed… But some are like eagle, very passionate, wants to kill small birds as their food... Why? Is this possible just from the concept of molecular evolution?
- Some birds, Srila Prabhupada, like the minah...? They can be taught to say something. So if they are taught to chant Hare Krsna... this is a good service?
- Some class of men produce vegetables and grains, some class produce cows, some class produce clothes, some class produce necessities for building. How are these things distributed equally?
- Some day one person will do the floor, and the next day another person? Is that all right?
- Some devotees think that if they eat large quantities of milk, the more they eat, the more their brain will become big?
- Some group doctors? Some portion of the devotees medical knowledge?
- Some hair for him is all right?
- Some kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?
- Some members the Parliament says, the movement is in some anti-Indian activities. What do you...?
- Some number (suppose if you kill one cow, you get blood how much, how many pounds?)?
- Some of our artists make big sculpture out of metal?... Philosophically not possible?
- Some of our disciples, it is seems that in this life they did many sinful activities?
- Some of the devotees, they fall down although they're striving to be in the mode of goodness. If they're sincere, they still fall down?
- Some of the objections are that the followers of the Hare Krsna sect are, on the streets or in the airports, are bothering people
- Some of them must be non-greedy, not greedy, eh?
- Some of them will say some things that Krsna says, but they'll take from other places also. What is the position of such persons?
- Some other people, do you feel, possibly have had the truth as well, have they?
- 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?
- Some people offer the reason that according to the Ramayana we follow Rama and Sita as God. Can you just inform us the real or tell us who is our, the most of our...
- Some people say that in our philosophy, if we do not wish to slaughter the animals, what about the trees?
- Some people say that trees may be very happy. How do we know?
- Some people say they don't like to talk to Hare Krsna people because we're like that. We always say we know everything about everything. So how do we deal with that attitude if they're turned away by our...?
- Some people say, "Why don't we see any giants any more today?"
- Some people would say that the source of evil is individual consciousness, our consciousness as persons. Others would have other ways of answering. I was wondering how you yourself would say?
- Some people would say, "If everything is a creation of God, then why do you have such a..., why do you present this body as such a horrible thing?"
- Some yogis harness energies and claim to use these energies to benefit humanity. Is there any value in their work? Is there any real consequence?
- Some young people were attracted to the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness. Is there a special reason? What explanation do you have why some?
- Somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know that he is pleasing God or he's not pleasing God?
- Somebody asked me this question, "Swamiji, if a person is moral and dutiful and benevolent, all the good qualifications, so what is the use of worshiping God?"
- Somebody even asked me about what is material and what is spiritual, Prabhupada. I said that whatever is in connection with God is spiritual and whatever is not in connection with God is material. Is that right?
- Somebody told me that Bon Maharaja has returned to Vrndavana. Is there any reason to call him here?
- Somebody told me, Prabhupada, about Vallabhacarya, that he sometimes, he once went to Lord Caitanya and said that he wrote a better commentary than a previous acarya, and Lord... Caitanya chastised him?
- Somebody would not be honest without knowing God?
- Somehow or other, Bengalis and Gujaratis are akin. Why they have one living in West and other in East? What must be the cause of oneness even in thought and action, in every way
- Somehow or other, we create our own ignorance?
- Someone (to foreign country, but once they go they become disappointed and not second time) has gone?
- Someone can know what the life force is going to do in the future, how it will manifest itself in the future?
- Someone has said that (if they grow like this, in ten years the Hare Krishna will take the government)?
- Someone has said that the dhoti, the dhoti that the brahmacaris wear, is the dress that's worn in Vaikuntha. Is that correct?
- Someone in material consciousness cannot understand God? So then what of all these religions, for example, Muslim and Christian religion?
- Someone like Meher Baba who never spoke?
- Someone might say - But if one is surrendered why should Krsna give him trouble?
- Someone should come in?
- Someone who is endeavoring very hard for material necessities, is his position the same - faithless?
- Something to spread this Krsna consciousness?
- Sometimes devotees say, "Then how come he's (Lord Brahma) the head of our sampradaya if he's not a pure devotee?"
- Sometimes great souls, they will cheat people also for their own benefit?
- Sometimes I feel, what they call cakras. Like I feel very light over here, and I feel something swirling over here that I think they call the thousand-petalled lotus. Is this just my imagination, or are these things real?
- Sometimes I forget, I cannot remember the scriptures, so what would be the best clue to always defeat them (the impersonalists)?
- Sometimes in our practical dealings we have to make a decision and there is no possibility to refer to our authority. Shall we then try to understand what Krsna wants us to do?
- Sometimes in those mass killings pious men are killed also. At Kuruksetra many pious men were killed?
- Sometimes Krsna interferes in the free will?
- Sometimes people ask that "If God is so great, then why doesn't He just come and destroy all the evil?"
- Sometimes people ask what is, what is God's ultimate goal?
- Sometimes people ask, "If I surrender to God, give everything to God, then how will the state go on, how will the work, the factories, how would all that go on?
- Sometimes people ask, Prabhupada, that if one falls down into lower species of life like plants or animals, how then do they come again to the human form of life?
- Sometimes people ask, though, they say, "Why is it that even among the acaryas sometimes we find there is a difference of opinion?"
- Sometimes questions are raised saying that how do we know that a bird is more intelligent than a human being?
- Sometimes the devotees ask if they can take birth again distributing books for you
- Sometimes the members of the Krsna Consciousness Society are afraid of the impending danger of world war and ask what would happen to them if a war should occur?
- Sometimes the question is put before us: "You ask us not to eat meat, but you are eating vegetables. Do you think that is not violence?"
- Sometimes there's a question that I'm asked, that we say we're imperfect so we have to receive perfect knowledge, but they say if you're always imperfect, then how can you know that it's perfect, what you're hearing?
- Sometimes there's some discrepancy, two parties, they may both want to serve but they have different ways, different ideas how to execute the same order, so there may be some argument
- Sometimes they question, "Why this material world is created?"
- Sometimes they say, Srila Prabhupada, that if everybody chants Hare Krsna, what shape would the world be in?
- Sometimes we are asked that "Why Krsna induced Arjuna to become violent?"
- Sometimes we forget to do our duty very attentively. By associating with Krsna through His name, then we can remember our duty?
- Sometimes we meet people in our preaching activities. They may, of course, claim to be very devout Christian or Muslim, but at the same time they will blaspheme Krsna. Is it possible that such persons can actually be associates of God?
- Sometimes we receive letters from neophyte devotees questioning why they have fallen sick, although pursuing Krsna consciousness
- Sometimes we speak of the material energy as being different from the spiritual energy and other times we speak of all energies being ultimately spiritual, so what is the understanding?
- Sometimes we tell them that this life is only full of miseries, and they say, "What do you mean?"
- Sometimes when we are speaking, people say, in the questions they say, "Why do you say this is a science? It seems that this must be belief
- Sometimes you were doing business with them (doctors in Vrindavana)?
- Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to...
- Soul is already everywhere. But what do you say? Everywhere means only on the earth, not away from the earth, and then outer space. You want to say... Do you mean outer space also?
- Soul will not merge into that light, Krsna's light?
- Sound is the first element of creation?
- South of Paris? That one (and we have got another palace, what is that village?)?
- SP, in the Bhagavad-gita it says that if a man simply works for Krsna, he can come to the perfect stage... When he fixes his mind on Krsna... But... If a man simply works for Krsna for his whole life, yet he doesn't follow the regulative principles...?
- SP, we received news yesterday that one man in northern New South Wales is willing to sell us a farm, a great big farm out there in the southern tropics. Would this be a good place for engaging boys like the Indian, the Indian boy that came yesterday?
- Spectograph?... Has to do with 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?
- Spirit soul, it is also luminous like that (in the Vaikuntha, each and every planet is glowing)?
- Spiritual form is there but due to the bond man has taken this form?
- Spiritual master is the mercy of God?
- Spiritual thinking can be used to cure bodily sickness?
- Sravanam kirtanam visnou smaranam that any one of these principles, if executed, is sufficient. Now some devotees may take this to mean that they simply can chant Hare Krsna and don't have to do anything else like temple duties or readings or...?
- Sri Bhaktivedanta, how is it that the Absolute, which is so, at this point, for me, beyond human comprehension, how can it take this form of Krsna-Radha?
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and yourself (deities), Srila Prabhupada?... Just the same size as Vrndavana's?
- Srila Guru, I would like the name of the tenth avatara of Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York with only eight dollars? Forty dollars? How many dollars you had when you arrived in New York?
- Srila Prabhupada mentioned that everyone is looking for pleasure. So when one comes into devotional service, how is it possible to know if one is actually looking for his own pleasure or really in search of God
- Srila Prabhupada was in Scottish Church (College in Calcutta)?
- Srila Prabhupada, a man sees that his father has died - everyone is dying - why does he believe that he will not die?
- Srila Prabhupada, a question arose the other day in class if there was a difference between Brahman-realized yogi and a Mayavadi
- Srila Prabhupada, after first initiation, one has to wait one year to get second initiation?
- Srila Prabhupada, are the planets shaped liked balls or more like plates? Because they're called dvipas, "islands." Their roundness is the roundness of a plate or like a ball?
- Srila Prabhupada, are these astrologers, ah, are, can we believe in them, what they say? Called pseudo-science
- Srila Prabhupada, are these cannibalistic tribes, Amazons and whatever, are they classed as subhuman?
- Srila Prabhupada, are thoughts made of matter or spirit?
- Srila Prabhupada, are you finished passing urine?
- Srila Prabhupada, aren't you presenting Krsna consciousness according to time, place, and circumstances?
- Srila Prabhupada, at night, when we see in the sky that moon, that is the same moon that is above the sun?
- Srila Prabhupada, can drugs sometimes be used to help us for spiritual realization?
- Srila Prabhupada, can I ask you a question? My son likes pictures of Krsna. Is it all right to give him pictures to play with, or is that too offensive? They could be covered with plastic or something?
- Srila Prabhupada, can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
- Srila Prabhupada, can you make them reasonable? If they're unreasonable, is there some way to make them reasonable?
- Srila Prabhupada, can you tell us why you want to go on the parikrama?
- Srila Prabhupada, could I ask one more question about the records?
- Srila Prabhupada, could it be said that in a society where stress is placed on developing this understanding of God, people would naturally become disinclined for these so-called modern activities of sense gratification?
- Srila Prabhupada, did the people, in order to get valuable minerals and gold and things like that, did they mine underneath the ground?
- Srila Prabhupada, did you speak about Kant's philosophy in that book also?
- Srila Prabhupada, did you want him to translate, I mean, tomorrow?
- Srila Prabhupada, do we say that they've gone to Rahu simply to placate them?
- Srila Prabhupada, do you want it Bhaktivedanta Institute or Bhaktivedanta Swami?
- Srila Prabhupada, does (to push forward Krsna's name) please you more?
- Srila Prabhupada, does Krsna know that He's sitting in everyone's heart?
- Srila Prabhupada, does Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu also appear every day of Brahma?
- Srila Prabhupada, does spiritual life progress faster if one lives in the temple and goes on the sankirtana party?
- Srila Prabhupada, does the soul, the ghost, enter into the other man's body? The soul is occupying one body, and the ghost, as another soul, does he enter that body? There's two souls in the one body?
- Srila Prabhupada, earth is also moving?
- Srila Prabhupada, even if there is a life after death, I don't know what it's going to be like, so why should I worry about it now?
- Srila Prabhupada, have you been thinking about parikrama?
- Srila Prabhupada, have you realized God?
- Srila Prabhupada, he states about Africa, that the food..., that they do not know what to eat tomorrow, and in fact, that here it's very hard for them to understand Krsna consciousness. My question is which, what can we do which is...?
- Srila Prabhupada, how can one use marriage to reach back home, go back to Godhead? How can one use the sacrifice of marriage...?
- Srila Prabhupada, how can the position be reconciled if in Krsna consciousness one of the two, the husband or the wife, wants to enjoy sense gratification, but the other does not? Should there be separation then?
- Srila Prabhupada, how can we understand why the Krsna consciousness movement seems to attract so many young boys and young girls in the Western world?
- Srila Prabhupada, how did Chota Haridasa achieve perfection by killing himself after apparently pouring water on his devotional creeper by talking to a woman?
- Srila Prabhupada, how does it feel to be back in New York again?
- Srila Prabhupada, how does one associate with the devotees?
- Srila Prabhupada, how is it that they describe the soul, the impersonalists?
- Srila Prabhupada, how is one able to draw the distinction between working very hard for Krsna and over-endeavoring?
- Srila Prabhupada, how may we best approach the rulers and the leaders and the politicians to interest them in this?
- Srila Prabhupada, how should they set out to prove it, though? We've proved it by giving scriptural evidence. But how should a scientist do it?
- Srila Prabhupada, I can't understand why we should have an impure desire when we are already serving...
- Srila Prabhupada, I have one question. What is the purpose of service minus devotion?
- Srila Prabhupada, I heard on one lecture tape, you mentioned your Guru Maharaja has said that in the morning he had to beat the mind into submission. How can we do this?
- Srila Prabhupada, I heard you ask earlier... You say that by... Animals, they have no inferior act. So after death, what kind of birth will they get?
- Srila Prabhupada, I just want the name of the person who gave us that land in Orissa because I'm getting this retyped
- Srila Prabhupada, I once was distributing some of your literature to a library, and the librarian said, "If these are five thousand years old, where is the proof of this? Do we have the copies that were written down five thousand years ago?"
- Srila Prabhupada, I remember once I heard a tape where you told us that we should not try to read the books of previous acaryas
- Srila Prabhupada, I understand Krsna is the Personality of Godhead, and He is the one who create this material world. So my impression is Krsna, He didn't make this material world to be spiritual?
- Srila Prabhupada, I want to make sure the meaning of Tad apy aphalatam jatam. Tesam atmabhimaninam. Jata means the species?
- Srila Prabhupada, I wanted to ask you that in your lectures you continually speak of the ten samskaras that children should have?
- Srila Prabhupada, I was asked a question by a man. He asked that Lord Siva... Lord Ramacandra was praying to Lord Siva in the Ramayana, and so he's taking Lord Siva as being God. And we didn't have a clear answer to him
- Srila Prabhupada, I was going to ask is there any difference between acintya-sakti and mystic yoga power?
- Srila Prabhupada, I've got a letter here from Jayadvaita and from Jagannatha dasa regarding some corrections. These are two books that are in production right now. So would it be all right to ask you them?
- Srila Prabhupada, if a devotee fills his life with devotional service right from the time he is born, is that enough to attain the spiritual body?
- Srila Prabhupada, if a devotee gets sick, should he go and take medicine?
- Srila Prabhupada, if after finishing one's sixteen rounds of the maha-mantra...?
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna has created everything and everything is submitted to Krsna's will, can we really say what is good or bad?
- Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna is everywhere, why do we stress the importance of living a very strict life in the temple atmosphere?
- Srila Prabhupada, if material nature is the absence of Krsna consciousness, then where is material?
- Srila Prabhupada, if meeting you here now would make sure that he would get a human form in his next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, if one's life is achieved by one's consciousness, how is it one cannot remember one's previous life?
- Srila Prabhupada, if she (mother) decides to leave her child at the school, what are the instructions to her? She should not write him, or she should come... How often can she come to visit him?
- Srila Prabhupada, if someone has inquired about God, but can be so overpowered by maya...?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the earth is moving so fast, why isn't everything blown off?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the human form is insignificant compared to demigods, but still, it is very much desired, this human form of life, even by the demigods?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the kings were taught to govern the whole universe, does that mean all the worlds, all the worlds in the universe?
- Srila Prabhupada, if the knowledge was handed down by the saintly kings, evam parampara-praptam (BG 4.2), how is it that the knowledge was lost?
- Srila Prabhupada, if they invite you to China, you'll go?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we could prop you up for a few minutes you could clear all that mucus out. It would come out much easier. Can we do that?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we speak these things on television and the newspapers and people become angry, if all the people become angry like she does, is it still good propaganda for us?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we think about our spiritual master, is that as good as thinking about Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we're born each with a qualification, how is this qualification developed in our early years?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Bhagavad-gita it says that "Out of millions of men, only one may come to know Me, and of millions who know Me, only one can understand." What are ways...?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Mayapur we see so many pilgrims coming from Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. They're having this Vaisnava tilaka, Gaudiya-Vaisnava tilaka, and they also worship Caitanya Mahaprabhu. How is that influence also there?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Mayapur you were speaking about you wanted Mayapur to become a college for the University of Calcutta?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Nectar of Devotion you explain that there are three classes of devotees. And you say that the third-class devotee, he has belief but he cannot explain or give any support. This is like Christian...?
- Srila Prabhupada, in our fully developed state in the spiritual sky, are we still one ten-thousandth the size of a tip of a hair like we are now in conditioned state?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Sikhism there was Guru Nanak and Guru Granth Sahib. Is that actually a real scripture, and was Guru Nanak actually a devotee? Or is that not correct?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Srimad-Bhagavatam it's stated that the Supersoul is measured from the end of the thumb to the end of the ring finger, how does this change take place in the different sizes of species of living entities in this material creation?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Bhagavad-gita it says that happiness in the mode of goodness is in the beginning is like poison but at the end it is like nectar. Where does the poison end and where does the sweetness begin?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Sikh-dharma they say to chant the holy names of God, and so far I haven't encountered the name "Krsna" in the scriptures. I was wondering if you could comment on the Sikh-dharm?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Sri Isopanisad it is said that one must learn the process of nescience alongside with the process of self-realization... Pravrtti with nivrtti. How is that?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Srimad-Bhagavatam or the Krsna Book, you state that even clouds have souls. But then again they dissipate, in the rain they dissolve. Does that mean they die?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the United States' constitution there is a bill of rights that says that any religion can be practiced. Therefore anything goes, and people become atheistic?
- Srila Prabhupada, in this connection, this variegatedness in connection with life, can you take it as some sort of complex structures?
- Srila Prabhupada, in this country we have to do army training, and on a Sunday we have to attend a church service. We have to attend it. Is it all right to say that we won't attend it because we follow Krsna consciousness, or must we go anyway?
- Srila Prabhupada, in what sastra is that recipe given for gold?
- Srila Prabhupada, in your society, if sometimes householder devotee, they do very big, big job, I mean they are advanced then?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it all right to include that, these ninety-two chemical elements as finer, er, finer form of earth?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it also not possible, say, at the time of creation, now those material bodies are going to be created, also possible not to manifest all of them but some are not still manifested?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it for the advanced devotees...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it sometimes more appropriate to worship arca-murti of Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai than Sri Sri Radha and Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it that when a devotee is situated in the mode of goodness and that...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it true that our advancement in devotional services... Is it influenced a lot by our past karma, how many sinful activities we have committed?
- Srila Prabhupada, is Krsna in our heart, in the heart of the body and in the heart of the spirit soul?
- Srila Prabhupada, is maya especially empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense?
- Srila Prabhupada, is that what it means in the Bhagavad-gita when Krsna says that we have to go sruti-vipratipanna, we have to go beyond just hearing about these different...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the Bible..., we accept that as scripture, but is it all correct, or has it been mistranslated or...?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the purpose of human life to realize God?
- Srila Prabhupada, is the subtle bodies in the subtle world, are they made up of subtle atoms?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there a jiva, is there a spirit soul in every sperm cell?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there any instance when you were chastised by your spiritual master?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there is actual difference between the material energy and the spiritual energy?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there some worship of God in the animal kingdom?
- Srila Prabhupada, isn't it so that we do not kill voluntarily. Because involuntarily, of course, we kill with every moment? We kill all the bacteria and we kill all the microbes and... we cannot help doing that
- Srila Prabhupada, isn't Lord Brahma the original spiritual master in our sampradaya?
- Srila Prabhupada, it always seems that there is some kind of inspiration for spiritual life there. Is that simply mental concoction, or is it actually a fact, the land itself?
- Srila Prabhupada, it's 8:30. Want to finish up?
- Srila Prabhupada, just this objection was that in this statement of Bhagavad-gita doesn't clearly say no reason you should not have sex life outside married life, they say they state religious principles, but this is...?
- Srila Prabhupada, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is controller of everything, whole universe, everything. So why He is having these demigods to help Him?
- Srila Prabhupada, Lord Brahma created something called self-deception. Would self-deception mean that if I think I am forced to fall down, but actually I wanted to fall down, but I think, "Oh, I am forced"? Is that self-deception?
- Srila Prabhupada, may I talk to you about Vrindavan Candra?
- Srila Prabhupada, maybe you should rest now a little bit. Okay?
- Srila Prabhupada, my understanding of the evolution and the transmigration is that evolution is uni-directional, only in one direction. Whereas the transmigration can be both, in both directions. They can go up or can go down?
- Srila Prabhupada, once you said that to stop this transmigration, one has to become completely disgusted with this material world. What about Lord Caitanya who prayed that "I don't mind coming back again and again"?
- Srila Prabhupada, one press man wanted to know what is this Rathayatra festival? Why is it going on over here in the western world?
- Srila Prabhupada, one problem we face with students and scientists, when we present Krsna conscious philosophy, they say...?
- Srila Prabhupada, originally the desires come from the subtle body or from the soul?
- Srila Prabhupada, our parents in America teach us that we ought to be doing good things for other people. Should we be engaged for our fellow people?
- Srila Prabhupada, regarding karma. One does his job every day, and if he spends some time in the evening chanting Lord Krsna, do you approve this?
- Srila Prabhupada, Sastriji says that there must be some truth to it if you say that. So who is it that has poisoned?
- Srila Prabhupada, should devotees in ISKCON, should a certain section of devotees in ISKCON be trained as ksatriyas? Should they be specially trained?
- Srila Prabhupada, should I have resigned my membership with the Christian organization? Should I have? I did. Could I serve Krsna just as well and also through a Christian? I don't see how I could
- Srila Prabhupada, should the devotees take prasadam now?… It's about 1:30 now. After taking prasadam we can meet and chalk out a program for parikrama and tirtha-yatra. Is that all right? Okay
- Srila Prabhupada, should we be thinking in our minds that one day the Krsna consciousness movement will have to manage the cities and the nations of the world?
- Srila Prabhupada, should we call all the women "mother"?
- Srila Prabhupada, since presently we cannot see Krsna as He is as a person, how can we, how should we meditate on Him?
- Srila Prabhupada, since there is no distinction between "man" and "woman" - these are both designations - is it possible for a woman to become a brahmana?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes during arati, many bona fide bhajanas are sung, but not much Hare Krsna. Is that not a good tendency, that maybe just two or three minutes of Hare Krsna mantra and many other bhajanas?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes we try to meditate on Krsna, when we chant Hare Krsna, sinful memory from our past life is coming. How is this to be understood that Krsna says, "From Me the memory comes"
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we're preaching to people that we don't eat meat, fish or egg, they say,"Why not eggs? They're not actually living. It's just a, it hasn't been fertilized"
- Srila Prabhupada, that if God is, if He is actually wanting us to go back, then why is He causing suffering?
- Srila Prabhupada, the dhoti is not important then?
- Srila Prabhupada, the material scientists are so inquisitive, yet they are leading lives like cats and dogs, how can they come to...?
- Srila Prabhupada, the material world is a reflection of the spiritual world. So we have different variegatedness in the material world, different living entities. My question being, so they have all the variegatedness in the spiritual world?
- Srila Prabhupada, the pure devotee's spirit soul is not trapped by the gross and subtle bodies?
- Srila Prabhupada, the Vaisnavas in general in Vrndavana, are they lamenting for the physical upkeep?
- Srila Prabhupada, the way you've been describing our solutions to the problems of the world, they seem to be on two levels. One is the extended solution, that is to say, the ultimate solution of Krsna conscious?
- Srila Prabhupada, then if I have Krsna's name and I understand that it is Krsna, then can I take it and go to the forest?
- 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, there was one question. They would like to know why is it that the children are separated from their parents and sent to Gurukula?
- Srila Prabhupada, there's a sidewalk here. Would you prefer walking on the sidewalk or the sands?
- Srila Prabhupada, they can teach these people how to educate the youngsters. Is this right?
- Srila Prabhupada, they mightn't excuse him, but they mightn't treat him as harshly as they would treat somebody in knowledge. Is this the same with the activities that these people perform?
- Srila Prabhupada, they think that liberation means that you can do anything you like, that you are free from any moral or ethic... ?
- Srila Prabhupada, they want to know what will be the political effect of the Hare Krsna movement?
- Srila Prabhupada, throughout the Western theology, there is a conception of the wrath of God, God's anger at man's disobedience or his unwillingness to follow God and live by God's commandments
- Srila Prabhupada, today is the beginning of urja-vrata. Can you describe what that is, urja-vrata, how it should be observed?
- Srila Prabhupada, was this (chastisement) during a lecture by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta?
- Srila Prabhupada, we don't have to learn the activities of our spiritual body?
- Srila Prabhupada, we don't know whether to be diplomatic towards these other so-called religious movements or whether to simply expose the philosophy which they are putting forward?
- Srila Prabhupada, we have any specific reference for acintya in the Vedic reference?
- Srila Prabhupada, we're taking this from the Bhagavatam. Won't they just think that this is myth?
- Srila Prabhupada, were you hopeful about this medicine when you first took it?
- Srila Prabhupada, what about in mineralogy? Scientists have proven that, for example, mountains are growing by sedimentary activity
- Srila Prabhupada, what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one?
- Srila Prabhupada, what about, say, many of your Godbrothers? They also have disciples, and they also are properly initiated by a proper spiritual master, and they give the Hare Krsna mantra
- Srila Prabhupada, what are the qualifications of a perfect leader?
- Srila Prabhupada, what can we do to curb down these rascals?
- Srila Prabhupada, what do you consider is Gaurasundara's position presently?
- Srila Prabhupada, what do you think about the so-called primordial flux?... The primordial flux, they call it. That nature has supplied such nice samples, elements, like potassium, argon, and this...
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean practically to surrender unto Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean that the soul is immovable?
- Srila Prabhupada, what effects are the Krsna consciousness movement having on the Christian-Judaic culture or the traditional religious culture?
- Srila Prabhupada, what exactly do the... Do the vaisyas cultivate the fields or the sudras cultivate the fields?... Is it the duty of the vaisyas to cultivate the fields or...?
- Srila Prabhupada, what happens to the soul when you have an abortion, though? Where does it go?
- Srila Prabhupada, what if, ah, for instance, I'm too fallen to closely follow the regulative principles and I find myself in that way...?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is our fortune that we've come in contact with a qualified guru? What have we done to qualify to come in contact with you?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the actual cause of shame?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the advantage of going to India, to Vrndavana?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the difference between an innocent person and an ignorant person?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the exact benefit if a person just takes a Srimad-Bhagavatam on the street and gives some donation to help out the printing costs or whatever?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the highest principle of the Gosvami's, by following which one will be sure of attaining love of Sri Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the position of vrajavasis, those who are living in Vrndavana now? What happens to them next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the responsibility of some person towards the father who has given the material body to him?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the significance of the chant which everyone who has been around the Hare Krsna movement has heard? What is the significance of chanting Hare Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the value for the living entity to automatically pass through all these different species? Does he get any knowledge?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is your explanation why the sun changes colors?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is your view of the future, the history, the future history?
- Srila Prabhupada, what's the difference between a Brahmavadi and a Mayavadi?
- Srila Prabhupada, when I first came to this, to your movement, the first thing I was told is that Lord Caitanya's movement in this age will, like a moon, rise for ten thousand years. I was told that number, ten thousand years. Is that true?
- Srila Prabhupada, when it is cited in the scriptures that Lord Brahma rides on a swan, a hamsa, is this, are we to take this to mean it is a real swan, or is it something symbolic?
- Srila Prabhupada, when Krsna is perfect and complete in Himself, so why are there individual minute living entities? If Krsna is perfect, surely there would be no need for smaller living entities
- Srila Prabhupada, when someone is sick, he willingly goes to the doctor... So how we can get them to willingly come... to the guru?
- Srila Prabhupada, when the devotee is in the original relationship with Krsna, his siddha-deha, why is it that he sometimes changes his original rasa with Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, when the jiva soul desires to enter the material world, is that an illusory desire?
- Srila Prabhupada, when we are preaching to Christian people or to Muslim people, is there advantage in being familiar with their scriptures or simply Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Srila Prabhupada, when we speak of parts and parcels of God, does it mean that we were there with God before we came to this world?
- Srila Prabhupada, when would you like to speak to Dr. Judah about the college?
- Srila Prabhupada, which would you like to take?
- Srila Prabhupada, why are there so many pseudo religions then?
- Srila Prabhupada, why do most people in this Kali-yuga worship Lord Siva instead of worshiping Lord Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, why do we have this rascal propensity?
- Srila Prabhupada, why has it taken so long for a pure devotee to come to the West? Has the West been so sinful that no pure devotee has come before Your Divine Grace?
- Srila Prabhupada, why is it necessary for someone to come here and chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam?
- Srila Prabhupada, why is the material world made on the level of a jailhouse? It's made on the level of a jailhouse, that, I've been told, the attitude of a jail instead of the attitude
- Srila Prabhupada, will the Krsna consciousness movement will take over the world eventually?
- Srila Prabhupada, will you please explain the phrase "serving the lotus feet of the spiritual master"?
- Srila Prabhupada, with your permission I would like to try to get that first building in New York in which you were, you started Krsna consciousness… Should we not acquire it, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you be interested in hearing any of the Bhagavatam that they have edited?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you comment on opposition to the Hare Krsna movement in this country?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a fan that doesn't make so much noise perhaps?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a little soft chanting?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a little soft kirtana?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like prasadam?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like to do the next verse?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like to have an elephant to ride on one day?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like to take rest now?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like to take some now (makara-dhvaja)?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like us to have kirtana?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you please explain why Krsna consciousness hadn't come to the West until now, why it hasn't come earlier?
- Srila Prabhupada, you are seeing Krsna at every moment. Does this mean you are seeing Krsna in His two-armed form playing the flute at every moment?
- Srila Prabhupada, you called for me?
- Srila Prabhupada, you didn't pass any urine the first time. Do you want to try again? We can cleanse you now?
- Srila Prabhupada, you first began to distribute Back to Godhead magazine by yourself, right, in India? You would go to the shops?
- Srila Prabhupada, you gave that example: If you want to kill a mosquito, use a gun. What does that example show?
- Srila Prabhupada, you have said that it's impossible to become rich unless one is a cheater. And yet we have our business, our Spiritual Sky business. So how is it possible to carry on business and not become a cheater?
- Srila Prabhupada, you haven't had anything to drink for awhile. Would you like something?
- Srila Prabhupada, you haven't passed urine in some time. Would you like to try?
- Srila Prabhupada, you look well. Are you feeling well?
- Srila Prabhupada, you mentioned three states of identification. One was like the animals. What was the other two?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that our body was made by (indistinct). Why should we (indistinct)? But why should we come back?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that the demigods, they want to take birth in India, but is there not the same Vedic culture in the heavenly planets?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that this war will destroy the demonic civilization... Does that mean that it'll destroy all the cities and all the industries?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that you were not so much impressed by the saintly persons that were coming... Why was that?
- Srila Prabhupada, you say in your books so many times that somehow or other we have fallen into this material world due to our enviousness or our independence?... I can't seem to get a grasp on this at all?
- Srila Prabhupada, you spoke about the three stages of chanting? And you were speaking about the middle stage, the clearing stage?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying about misusing this human form of ours. Is there any gracious defense that makes a soul non-eternal?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that because the body has arms and legs, then the coat has a similar shape. Then does the spirit soul that's within our body have arms and legs like that?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were speaking of anarthas and one of the lesser age boys was wondering... He's asking why we shouldn't take tea?
- Srila Prabhupada, you'll go on the roof this morning?
- Srila Prabhupada, you're not really going to try and eat that khicuri are you?
- Srila Prabhupada. You're very, very regulated, almost down to the minute in your activities. This is also a big help in utilizing time?
- Srila Prabhupada? About two days ago you said that either the kaviraja should stay here or we should go with him. So why should we change that idea?
- Srila Prabhupada? Are there different meanings, this day of Brahma? Are there different creations and annihilations of species? Different Manus, they are sometimes flooding the whole earth
- Srila Prabhupada? Are you feeling a little relief now? Try and take some rest now, Srila Prabhupada
- Srila Prabhupada? Can I wash your face now and wash your mouth?
- Srila Prabhupada? Can you turn onto your back again so I can do your other leg and your arms?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you like to turn on one side? Would you like this side for a change, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you remember when Prabhavisnu was here you told him to go with "the courage of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother"? He remembers those word
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want a little more juice? Sit you up for a minute just to drink this juice? You want some more now, or a little later?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want anything tonight?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want to have kirtana?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want to take rest now for a while? Little rest. You want kirtana or anything?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want us to give something towards repairing this Caitanya Mahaprabhu Mandir?... Any amount in particular that you want to be given?... There's some maximum amount?
- Srila Prabhupada? For breakfast just fruits?
- Srila Prabhupada? For the Bombay opening, is it necessary to have those South Indian brahmanas?
- Srila Prabhupada? How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- Srila Prabhupada? How does one become free from that ghostly body?
- Srila Prabhupada? How would you like to drink something?
- Srila Prabhupada? I can give you the honey?
- Srila Prabhupada? I had a question about the prasadam distribution money that I am hoping to get from the record sales... I would like to know if some of it can be used for distributing prasadam in America
- Srila Prabhupada? I think we can... If you allow, Bhavananda Maharaja and I can sit you up for a minute to drink a little barley milk?… We're always taking a little warm milk at night. So you'll allow us to give you a little?
- Srila Prabhupada? I think you should take the medicine now. Can Bhakti-caru bring it to you?
- Srila Prabhupada? I was thinking to, if I had some free time, that I could work on writing some essay about nationalism
- Srila Prabhupada? I'm thinking to go today to the Radha-Damodara temple to see how things are going on. You told me regularly to check there whenever we're here?
- Srila Prabhupada? If they are really going there in the moon planet, then the bodies of the living entities are different than our bodies because the...?
- 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?
- Srila Prabhupada? If while in the process of the studying of the book, there is some disagreement, one...?
- Srila Prabhupada? Is there some... You're feeling some bad effect from these medicines that you want to reject them?
- Srila Prabhupada? Just in Bombay, what you are constructing, the gate, are they going to be like another Indian temples, only gates? Will they look like a big temple?
- Srila Prabhupada? Krsna das Babaji has come to see you. Shall we have him come in now?
- Srila Prabhupada? Long time ago, you wanted an exhibit in London. ... That would be better than Washington?
- Srila Prabhupada? Nava-yogendra Maharaja has come from Africa to see you. Should he come over?
- Srila Prabhupada? Once one man asked why Krsna Himself comes in India only? Why not American countries?
- Srila Prabhupada? Prabhavisnu has some Bengali articles. Should I call Bhakti-caru to read them?
- Srila Prabhupada? Pradyumna Prabhu is here. Would you like to hear some verse?
- Srila Prabhupada? Should not the temple be kept open earlier than six o'clock in the afternoon?
- Srila Prabhupada? Should we bathe your whole body now?
- Srila Prabhupada? Since we are going to have three altars, then we should also have three different plates, a different plate for each altar?
- Srila Prabhupada? Srila Prabhupada? It's time for massage?
- Srila Prabhupada? The spirit is supposed to be stronger than matter. The spirit is superior than matter... What happens when the body dies? Is the spirit forced to leave or does it leave on its own accord?
- Srila Prabhupada? There was a nice letter from Haridasa in Bombay. Should I read it to you?
- Srila Prabhupada? There's this editor from that Trans-India magazine downstairs, but also that..., the doctor is there as well. So would you like to see the doctor, or would you like to do another interview?
- Srila Prabhupada? They (Bon Maharaja and Krsna dasa Babaji) will take prasadam here, Srila Prabhupada?… They will take prasadam here? Bhakti-caru Maharaja cooks very, very first class Bengali prasadam
- Srila Prabhupada? This idea that he was discussing, how we naturally have a tendency to possess something.... If I don't possess the state, I possess the body. Is this the disease?
- Srila Prabhupada? This kirtana that's in the temple, can you hear it?
- Srila Prabhupada? This morning you would like to take your breakfast after the program or after resting?
- Srila Prabhupada? Today we did kirtana starting in the afternoon till the evening. So do you want more than that?
- Srila Prabhupada? Trying to satisfy Krsna's senses and not our own senses, that is the principle of renunciation. How can one develop and cultivate renunciation
- Srila Prabhupada? Upendra wanted to clean you a little bit. Is that all right? Then after about a half hour or so we'll come back. He's going to clean you now
- Srila Prabhupada? Wasn't it Lord Ramacandra's purpose to actually display by His activity how a perfect human being should act?
- Srila Prabhupada? We can also purchase in the name of Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust… Should we buy this land, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? We got a telegram from Nrsimha-Caitanya. You know, he's the boy who does library distribution? Should I read it to you?
- Srila Prabhupada? We got some news of some preaching. I was wondering what was a good time to read to you... Like to hear it, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? We have this twenty-four kirtana. I've requested everyone who comes to do at least one hour per day
- Srila Prabhupada? We live in this material world, and we're in so much ignorance that we don't know who it belongs to. Is that due to sinful activities?
- Srila Prabhupada? We'll just lift your shoulders a slight bit so that we can pull the sheet out? Then it won't bruise. If I just lift you... Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? What about the point, in certain places in Bhagavatam it distinctly says that the human being's food is creatures of four legs with cloven hoof?
- Srila Prabhupada? What are these beads?
- Srila Prabhupada? What is that ingredient or what is that thing which causes faith to develop in one?
- Srila Prabhupada? When people in the street hear Krsna's name, the chanting, or they get some literature, does that mean they will not take birth as an animal?
- Srila Prabhupada? When Upendra gives you your bath, there's some parts of your body he'd like to use soap on. Is that all right?
- Srila Prabhupada? When you took prasadam today did you find a little taste? Not yet. Did you have any avocado?
- Srila Prabhupada? Which is the most important chapter of the Bhagavad-gita?
- Srila Prabhupada? Why God gave to man free will if He knew the man would fall down in the material world?
- Srila Prabhupada? Why is it that some people, when they hear about Krsna consciousness, they take it, and some do not. And still, after that, some of those who take it, they stay, and some who take it take it for some time and then they fail?
- Srila Prabhupada? Would you like it (Bombay temple) to be opened on your Guru Maharaja's disappearance?
- Srila Prabhupada? Would you like soft kirtana now, or quiet?
- Srila Prabhupada? Would you like some mint tea now?
- Srila Prabhupada? You asked for big, big, paintings to be sent to Mayapur and Vrndavana. When you say "big, big," do you mean like five feet and..., or six feet? That big?
- Srila Prabhupada? You expected to immediately get some result by taking this makara-dhvaja?
- Srila Prabhupada? You said before that you..., that it is said that you were poisoned?
- Srila Prabhupada? You said you want to present more philosophy in Back to Godhead magazine. Does that mean that we should make it more and more sophisticated? Or does that mean that we should try to present the philosophy in the easiest way?
- Srila Prabhupada? You want to rest now? You've been talking for a long time. You want kīrtana or not now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Srila Prabhupada? You were just saying that we are not fallen. Actually this is an illusion thinking that we are fallen?
- Srila Prabhupada?... What do we mean by renunciation?
- Srimad-Bhagavatam (should be taught)?
- Srimad-Bhagavatam is the topmost theological science, therefore it can react on the layman as medicinal doses?
- Srimad-Bhagavatam, we are selling it to the libraries for forty-five rupees... The general price is higher. What's the U.S. registered price?
- Srinathji. So that Deity was eventually handed over?
- Srutakirti had offered my son two cookies... And I think you said, "Either one or three."?... Two or four?... Is there some reason behind this?
- St. Francis, the founder of this particular order which we have been invited to speak to, found God in the material world. And he used to address the aspects of the material world as "brother" and "sister." What is your view upon this?
- St. Xavier's College (long ago in 1917 perhaps, in our college, we saw one magazine)?
- Start with the godly?
- Still now the schools are respected now. Presidency College and Scottish Church College?
- Still you said one can see Krsna within the stone. And one can worship Him within the stone or within everything?
- Still, due to the British presence, isn't that the main reason why India has become so degraded now?... Because they introduced so many bad things?
- Stop breathing or lengthen it (by the yogic process they increase the duration of life because they stop breathing)?
- Stop it completely (makara-dhvaja)?
- Stopped doing what, Srila Prabhupada?
- Subhadra is the external energy? Is Subhadra in the spiritual world?
- Subhas Chandra Bose he was in, I think he was... Is that right?... Yes. And then he was in a plane crash? Or...?
- Such a transgression of the laws, it cannot... How much further can it go, Prabhupada?
- Such as what (you have created so many artificial needs)?
- Such devotees that they do service, they may be very big, they attract so many people, they are successful, kīrtana and everything, but we know they are not chanting japa. What can we do in that situation?
- Such strict rules and regulations are being imposed upon these people, how long will they be able to follow them?
- Sudras are not allowed to upanayana-samskara?
- Suffering and pain leads people to God, doesn't it?
- Suffering for whom (to remain ten months within the packed-up abdomen of the mother)?
- Suffering sharpens the intelligence?
- Sukadeva Gosvami is always bringing Maharaja Pariksit to the platform of "Why bother with all of this (about the creation and the universe)? Simply perform devotional service"?
- Sumeru is made of gold, Srila Prabhupada?
- Sumeru we cannot see. It's not on the earth?
- Support the right minority?
- Suppose a person is born in a very poor family. What does that mean?
- Suppose a person thinks of God all his life and dies, and a person who doesn't think of God at all also dies. What is our life after death?
- Suppose a rascal remembers Krsna at the time of death
- 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 (if somebody says, "Man dies," it is perfect knowledge) is reincarnated?
- Suppose he wills nothing at the time of death?
- Suppose I am doing some sins? So how atma can be controlling. Suffering...?
- 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 I feed these rats and I go on feeding them. Won't more and more rats come?
- Suppose I want to surrender to God, to Krsna. How I will do it?
- Suppose if the individual soul falls down from the human platform, to some other lower species, but in the course of again evolutionary process, at some stage along the path he'll come to Krsna consciousness. Is this...?
- Suppose if we don't follow it (the counting of number of rounds on japa), it's not beneficial?
- 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 she doesn't want to get married for the rest of her life, just wants to serve the Lord (Is it possible for a woman to become a brahmana)?
- Suppose someone is satisfied simply being related with the spiritual master?
- Suppose someone is situated as Visnuduta. He may change his taste?
- Suppose that they (scientists and teachers) acknowledge the fact that they do not know, but they challenge, "How do you know what you believe is right?"
- 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 this yogi, he has not got full knowledge, he does not know of Krsna, and therefore he is meditating on Paramatma, and he attains Vaikuntha. Is it possible that because he hadn't got full knowledge...?
- 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 any person, he renounces everything, his material property, and if he just came to Krsna consciousness. Can he live?
- Supposing half of those men that are in our movement are householders. Would it not be more beneficial that everyone engages in preaching work, or is that impractical?
- Supposing he doesn't subscribe, still will he be allowed to come and live?
- Supposing he prescribes and it has a reverse reaction, then if he's gone how will he see anything?
- 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
- Supposing there are bricks available, should they try to build?
- Supposing there is a person who is not Krsna conscious during his life, but at the time of death he becomes Krsna conscious. Then what his body...?
- Surely not as many (followers) as in the north, or as much?
- Surely, if we live naturally we will be obeying God's law?
- 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?
- Svarupa Damodara brought an article from The Statesman about the news of the conference that was held here in Vrndavana. ... You want to hear it?
- Swami, did you come across these Brahma-kumaris?
- Swami, do you attach any significance to the fact that this temple is in a form of a Christian church?
- Swami, for my benefit, and perhaps everyone else's, can you tell us briefly what you mean by the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Swami, I saw a television program about your movement once, and they said that the men make the decisions and the women follow. Is that true?
- Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary?
- Swami, is there a chance that all your followers can realize the highest truth?
- Swami, many people also think that "If you're sinful, how can church help you? What is the use of going to church?"
- Swami, spiritual energy is situated in the heart as localized Paramatma. Is this also Krsna's personal feature?
- Swami, what about those who practice one of the other religions in...?
- Swami, what do you think accounts for the..., your popularity, popularity of the..., the Krsna consciousness movement sweeping America?
- Swami, what is om?
- Swami, would you initiate me?
- Swami? I have one question which is widely discussed everywhere, that eating of meat is sin. Now we see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
- Swami? What does Nanda-kisora mean?
- Swami? You say that Krsna consciousness is a system of purifying the senses. Does that mean that the senses become unlimited? Do the senses become unlimited when they're finally purified?
- Swamiji will be staying here for another two months?
- Swamiji, a very personal question. How would you react when people give you a godly reception?
- Swamiji, are the Hindus essentially vegetarian in the sense of the Seventh Day Adventist...?
- Swamiji, as the ages progress, the population in the ages, are they more conditioned
- Swamiji, can I ask a question? How old are you, or, maybe I should say, how young are you?
- Swamiji, can you please? Yes, please. Can you tell us what your purpose is in coming to New York at this time?
- Swamiji, can you tell me about what you said, going through the spiritual master, not directly to Krsna, through the spiritual master?
- Swamiji, can you tell us why we're in this material contamination? Why is it that the spirit soul has material contamination?
- Swamiji, could you please throw light on your four-point regulation which you suggest to your disciples?
- Swamiji, could you speak a bit about the proper attitude of the child towards the father? Is it one of fear, respect, love?
- Swamiji, did you say that householders should not associate with brahmacaris?
- Swamiji, do you believe in reincarnation?
- Swamiji, do you have certain farms also in America, gosala?
- Swamiji, do you think that Bible, about the Adam, Adam is Brahma? It has been copied from the Indian philosophy to put it there in different name?
- Swamiji, does this chanting of mantra brings purity or following of your four instructions or regulations which you have told, or both?
- Swamiji, excuse me, is there any special significance of keeping this bead hidden from the public?
- Swamiji, have you been there in eastern European countries?
- Swamiji, how could you convince these Christian people that Christ was the son of God, or Krsna was the...
- Swamiji, how different is this Chapter Six different from the Patanjali's yoga-sastra and the raja-yoga?
- Swamiji, how many asramas and things you have?
- Swamiji, I don't understand when you say that you worship Krsna or Visnu. I don't understand if Krsna is Visnu or Visnu is Krsna
- Swamiji, I get two thoughts. Number one: having acquired a family, I am willing to renounce, but would I not be running away from the responsibility, in the name of Lord Krsna, for the bringing up and educating the children?
- Swamiji, I see in the face of your students brightness. How you have created brightness?
- Swamiji, I think she means do you have to do any kind of breathing exercising besides chanting?
- Swamiji, I want to question whether the Krsna consciousness is the same type of consciousness which is experienced by the devotees as that divine type of consciousness. Is it a divine consciousness?
- Swamiji, I wanted to know the importance of Kumbha Mela
- Swamiji, I would like to ask you one question, and that is in this time of Kali-yuga, is it possible that a layman could see the Paramatma with his naked eye?
- Swamiji, I would like to know from you whether or not it is necessary for a person to be a vegetarian or to have a special diet to be able to respond to your teachings?
- Swamiji, I would like to know, that I feel that your society, the Hare Krsna consciousness society, has a very, very stable economy and that it is self-sufficient in itself. Is that so?
- Swamiji, I'm always confused by the term "serving God," "serving Krsna"
- Swamiji, if all things here are a reflection of what is perfect in the spiritual world, then shouldn't hate and frustration and despair and prejudice also appear in the spiritual world?
- Swamiji, if Isa is everywhere, isavasyam idam sarvam, then surely He is in the body also?
- Swamiji, if our rasa with Krsna is eternal, and we want to have the rasa of lover with Krsna, is it possible to change? If our rasa is like father to son, we can never become lover?
- Swamiji, if you understand the message of Gita, that Krsna says, recommends even-mindedness and... Samata… And do not grieve because this body is meant for death. Now, I think also... Then also compassion will come in, yeah?
- Swamiji, in Bhagavad-gita we can see that Krsna said to Arjuna that "I will not fight for you, but I'll only drive your chariot." Why He refused to fight? Why He didn't fight?
- Swamiji, in last night's initiation you gave me my spiritual name. Could you tell me tonight what that name means?
- Swamiji, in one of Professor Sanyal's books he says that the mind is an organ of the soul. Is that correct? I always thought the mind was part of the material, the subtle body, the subtle material body
- Swamiji, is bhakti-marga enough to have liberation?
- Swamiji, is the dream world the real world?
- Swamiji, is the Krsna consciousness is a development of this, only of our Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Swamiji, is there any hell, or rather this is hell...?
- Swamiji, is there any truth in the belief that if two persons marry each other during a certain specific time of the year, their marriage will be more prosperous than would otherwise be the case?
- Swamiji, is there degrees of Krsna consciousness? I thought of an example of walking through a dark tunnel and it's getting lighter and lighter and all of a sudden you're out in light. Is there degrees of this?
- Swamiji, is there higher devotional service than chanting?
- Swamiji, is there such thing as mind, intelligence, and ego in the spiritual realm?
- Swamiji, Janardana told me that from Vedic sources, you drew some conclusion that there are different universes visible? The stars are different universes?
- Swamiji, last night our window was broken. Was that maya striking at us?
- Swamiji, material aspect in your understanding, they are one?
- Swamiji, my main question is although spiritualism is the Absolute Truth, can we not in some way make spiritualism in such a way, modify it in such a way, as to help the common people?
- Swamiji, one thing I want to know. This sloka, from where you have got it, this sloka, lavanyam kesa-dharanam?
- Swamiji, seeing as how sorrow and happiness are there by nature's law, wouldn't these be an impediment to our devotional service?
- Swamiji, Siva is not another name of God?
- Swamiji, so the government, the present government in the world...?
- Swamiji, so we can hear, but do we speak?
- Swamiji, some religions, the guru, if someone wants to be his disciple, he is being given a sort of beads by the guru himself. Is it possible to get beads through your worship?
- Swamiji, someone approached me and we were discussing about Krsna consciousness. And I said to approach Krsna one must be pure, but he said, "What is purity?" Could you explain that technically? What is purity?
- Swamiji, suppose one wants to become life member... They can't pay whole money in one charge. They want to pay in installments
- Swamiji, the four principles you were telling about, are they for purposes of just other-worldliness or is it for material gains in this world or what?
- Swamiji, the other night you said that one who uses his body for the purpose of Krsna, then his body becomes spiritual. How then is the body still subject to change?
- Swamiji, then the rascals could say, "If God is everything, why does He reject some things? If God is everything, why does He accept some things and reject other things"?
- Swamiji, there are some people... who are getting spiritual solace from people like Sai Baba or any of these other people who have interpreted the Vedas or who have followers? Do you think these followers are getting some amount of spiritual solace?
- Swamiji, there is a school of thought amongst Hindus that condemns idol worship and the concept of avatara. Would you kindly elaborate on these concepts?
- Swamiji, there is no salvation for this country?
- Swamiji, they read a lot that Bhagavata says that our body is a temple for the soul, and the soul is a temple for the spirit. Would you kindly enlighten us on this point?
- Swamiji, throughout the world the kind of religion that is practiced hasn't seemed to help to solve the problems. Do you think a movement of this type could solve the problem?
- Swamiji, to be of service to Godhead is it necessary to renounce the regular life?
- Swamiji, what do you suggest to your disciples to arouse what you call Hare Krsna consciousness or God consciousness?
- Swamiji, what is Krsna consciousness?
- Swamiji, what is the color of Krsna? It is blue or black? Not according to sastra, but your experience
- Swamiji, what's the meaning of "Thakura"?
- Swamiji, when there was discussion in Parliament about the fabulous money that the movement has, society has, then who provided the answers?
- Swamiji, why do you prohibit this tea or coffee also?
- Swamiji, would it be all right for Cathy to become a devotee?
- Swamiji, would you say something about the place of women in your movement?
- Swamiji, would you say that the soul is locked in the third eye?
- Swamiji, you accept Krsna as the supreme glory?
- Swamiji, you generally spend more of your time here (in London)?
- Swamiji, you have seen Krsna?
- Swamiji, you mentioned that death is actually sleeping for seven months? Is this provided you take on a human form of life? If you take on a dog's body then it's still seven months?
- Swamiji, You said that sleep is complete waste of time. What about dreaming?
- Swamiji, you think bhakti is the solution to the problem of the world today?
- Swamiji? Are there people living on the moon now or were they in other yugas living there?
- Swamiji? Is it possible for us to worship Krsna purely in this lifetime?
- Swamiji? Should we read just one chapter a day? No more?
- Swamiji? Tea and coffee's also included? And what about supari, Swamiji?
- Swamiji? When we ring bells especially for the Deities at 6:30, does that put Them to sleep then?
- Swamiji? Why is it that in the mornings and the evenings we say bells before the Deity?
- Swamiji? You said that if you eat too much you will pay. But how about the devotee? How about when they eat too much prasada?
- Swelling is reduced, Prabhupada?
- Syamasundara Prabhu was asking about predicting about spiritual life. What is the qualification of the person who can make such predictions?
- Sydney festival is for how many days?
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- The public relations (try to approach higher authorities. And what is that? We met yesterday?)?
- Take barley water now?
- Take photographs where (and this moon planet going means Arizona. That is now disclosed. They take photographs in the Arizona. That's all)?
- Take sex, how can that be considered...(bad)?
- Take that example of the habit, if someone is smoking out of habit. So again. So is he free in that smoking, or is it..., has he completely surrendered his freedom?
- Taking that person, when material things cease, what happens to him?
- Talking a lot about in trusting in God. What is the Sanskrit for trust? What word would be used in the sastras
- Tamala Krsna's money can be used for that (Prepare grills for all the windows)?
- Tarzan?
- Teach us what is the actually ultimate object of life, peace or knowledge?
- Tell me a little bit about Krsna consciousness, will you?
- Tell me about him (Jesus)?
- Tell me in fact what is the purpose of your visit to London?
- Tell me that knowledge by which I know everything, according to that..., that boy? In Upanisad?
- Tell us a little bit about the temple as we move?
- Ten lakhs. They can give the full amount?
- Ten times bigger than each layer (of the universe), it increases?
- Ten years ago, wasn't it (I came here (to New York) alone, without any shelter, I was loitering on the street)?
- Ten years ago, when you first came to the United States, did you take a very active role in the organization, and I'm wondering whether you do much of that now?
- Tested (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- Thank you, very, very much. And now perhaps you can guide me and tell me what to do, which one, you know, that I ought to be concerned with?
- That (...not less than one lakh of devotees, at least, so crowded) is on holy day, no?
- That (Bhuvanesvara) is part of Jagannatha Puri dhama?
- That (Brahmaloka) is actually a physical planet?
- That (Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the middle would dance and the four parties will chant Hare Krsna) only happened as long as He stayed there (Jagannatha Puri). Is that right?
- That (dharma means this varnasrama-dharma. So if the human society does not accept dharma, then he's as good as animal) which Srila Gandhi was working against?
- That (frustration) goes on perpetually until they receive the mercy of a pure devotee?
- That (Gandhi's marriage) was arranged by their parents, or they did it themselves?
- That (Genesis) is just some story. Why should we believe it? There's nothing else to believe. Why not believe this Darwin?
- That (his name was Arendranath(?)Sil) is a Hindu name?
- That (I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit) was at Calcutta University?
- That (if we simply think of the creation of God, we can appreciate how great He is) is why it's described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- That (in 1920's) transport was not so efficient as it is today, no?
- That (in India there's no other source of income besides the Life Membership. How they will maintain?) we can discuss afterwards?
- That (it becomes one state, as it was formerly, five thousand years ago) requires getting some kind of political position perhaps? At least, if not us, someone else adopting the principles of Krsna consciousness, appreciating them, or...
- That (most of the fruits here are poisonous except for one mango) yellow kind of campaka?
- That (my definition of God) is beside the point. I am asking the Swami who is God?
- That (our karma) is manifest sometimes in disease on your body?
- That (that is called ajñana. Mudha. He knows; still, he does) is why we originally fell down?
- That (the parikrama path) is available for...?
- That (the water) can be used for agriculture?
- That (then again I came back in Los Angeles, and then we took that house, La Cienega) was in '69?
- That (to become a cheater is one of the conditions of material life) is also one of the qualities of bondage?
- That (two plus two equals four) disappears when this universe disappears?
- That (Victoria Memorial) was built for, the king when he was coming?
- That (woman requires protection by the man) goes against the thinking of a lot of people in America now. Do you know that?
- That (you are not digesting food, so therefore there is some swelling in the hands and the legs) is due to the kidney?
- That Abhirama, that is the associate of Mahaprabhu?
- That being Krsna conscious, you're the most happiest person? You are?
- That book that Jayatirtha was making on Deity worship following from the Hari-bhakti-vilasa, he told me he is making on your order to make a standard of Deity worship. That is the standard we should be advising the temples to follow?
- That change is available to anyone to progress from santa to dasya?
- That chanting is not the stage you have to preserve all the time or practice all the time?
- That description of Brahma receiving knowledge through the heart, is that at the beginning of every day, or is that just at the beginning of the creation of the universe?
- That desire is simple (he does not desire. He desires, and the matter helps. In the material world)?
- That devotional service has to be causeless in order to be the perfect conductor?
- That dharma by which the soul becomes fully satisfied, can it be found anywhere else aside from Krsna conscious?
- That disciplic succession from Lord Brahma, that was not broken?
- That doesn't mean (in the spiritual world, it is full of variegatedness) that it is complex, Srila Prabhupada, yes?
- That doesn't mean that your disciples should think also, "I will remain aloof just as our Prabhupada..."?
- That force (by which sometimes you are forced to commit mistakes) is kama, lust?
- That four-handed form is not complete perfection of Krsna consciousness?
- That Gopala Krsna gave you (the pen)?
- That guy's a pakka Mayavadi. That Aurobindo man?
- That has social effects that could change the world?
- That idea (the bodily concept of life) just in the mind?
- That if you are not perfect, how can you interpret the truth?
- That if you have a good place, many people can be attracted, as many as moving around to many places… But do you think I should travel a lot, or what is the best thing?
- That indemnity bond? I think I can pack it away until New York City… I could take care of that, pack it away until we get to New York
- 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 a Vedic...(are things like Hiranyakasipu penances anywhere in the Vedas)?
- That is a yogic process?
- That is also the demigods (when there is some natural calamity)?
- That is called to make castles in the air (all the two, three pots he had were broken. Then he "Ohhh.")?
- That is faith, Prabhupada? If the woman has faith in the husband (suppose a girl is married. So she wants a child. It does not mean today she's married and next day child. It is not possible. Wait. You'll have child)...?
- That is right, Prabhupada, that the impersonalist is devoid of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- That is service in the mode of ignorance?
- That is the basic cause of anxiety-desire?
- That is the statement of the Supreme Lord. "And thou shalt have no strange gods before Me. You must not make images or idols to bow to or worship in any other way. You may worship no other god than Me?" Well, then how is it that...?
- 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 jiva comes along with the rain?
- That kaviraja felt pretty confident that if we wait this long, you will get some more strength. I think we should wait. Everyone is feeling that way. You're not unhappy here, are you?
- That last argument again? You're taking money?
- That later-on Ramayana has caused some havoc... That later-on interpretation?
- That man was the chief of the Benares school (he said "insurpassable." "Prabhupada's books are unsurpassable")?
- That man yesterday wanted to know if we collaborated with other groups?
- That man's logic is so tiny, pea brain, and God's logic is so great, so how can actually man discuss the logic of God?
- 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 that our attraction for Krsna must be spontaneous?
- That means the distance, then, from the earth (distance, whatever it may be. But the sun is first, then moon, then Mars, then Jupiter, then like that)?
- That means there are some living entities, say for example, human beings. They come right away to the human platform without undergoing the...?
- That means they (people who are saying Hare Rama) will make more sinful activities?
- That means this civilization must have felt the pangs of the modern sciences and then they must have lost it (three books: one is Akasa-patola, one is Kapota-vahi and Khapoda-vahi). No?
- That means those who are to follow you are not liberated?
- That one is making progress by how he feels, or should he just simply execute the order of the spiritual master and not worry about how he feels? How should... ?
- That particular lila of Krsna is the most thrilling one. No?
- That piece of land right here? When do you want to begin it?
- That should be done in front of Your Divine Grace (You discuss. Then I shall give my decision)? They should all come?
- That story is in the Eighth Canto, Srila Prabhupada (Bali Maharaja was asked for three feet of land)?
- That subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- That there can be an impurity of the soul?
- That there is another world and that you go there or you come back and all. This is a belief, isn't it?
- That these are the basic problems of most men?... Death, fears of death and disease... You too?
- That they will not take for what reason?
- That was (when you went to speak in Philadelphia) when Nikhilananda was there. Didn't you speak in his class?
- That was Churchill? Churchill's policy (separation of India)?
- That was found by Lord Caitanya, Prabhupada? The Brahma-samhita?
- That was in Vrndavana or Delhi (that you took sannyasa)?
- That was the first ratha cart? It was in New York?
- That was the same time that you took initiation (I preferred to hear him than go to parikrama. That he appreciated)?
- That was when he died? (Napoleon started with some ideal, conquering all over Europe, and at last he had to die drinking horse urine… It was, later on he was arrested by British, and when he was asking drinking water he was given horse urine)?
- That when a brahmana is engaged in the activities of plowing and cultivating, that he has become a vaisya?
- That will be it? The scientist and the egg?
- That word "mess," by that word he (Bhaktisiddhanta) meant eating, messing, eating?
- That would be a separate building from the temple (...spiritual world, material world, and so on, so on. Planetary..., succession of the planetary systems, everything. A building like that)?
- That's (actually we are trying to adjust. Only society. The thesis is the soul. The antithesis is the body. And synthesis is how to adjust the body and soul so that the soul be benefited from this entanglement) the varnasrama system?
- That's (if I have to purchase from the government store whatever nonsense thing they will supply, I will have to accept) not good?
- That's (Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher) the same line (as your Guru Maharaja, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati), no?
- That's a jivatma?
- That's a lot of bullshit. How do you explain your Rolls Royce, Dickey?
- That's actually susupti (living entity does not die; he remains unconscious for seven months)?
- That's all right (you can send news: "Mother, I'm all right." That's all)?
- That's also "Not for sale in India" (the Tenth Canto of Bhagavatam, two volumes). Why?
- That's because liver's not working?
- 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 elevating them. That faith is elevating them?
- That's exactly what you had, two hundred dollars. You had saved that money very carefully?
- That's for the kidney? Next one we'll keep. There'll be more. Prabhupada, you want to try for passing urine?
- That's how long it takes to go around Vrndavana by bullock cart. It takes three hours walking at a good pace, and it takes at least five or six hours, Lokanatha says, by bullock cart. How...? We couldn't even go a half hour just around this temple
- That's in the big building right on the side of Kesi-ghata (when I first came in Vrndavana I stayed in the Kesi-ghata)?
- That's quite a big experiment to make, going to Govardhana the first day, Srila Prabhupada. You feel confident that you can travel nine hours in a row on a bullock cart?
- That's really what I was going to ask you. You must find life difficult preaching the values of brotherhood?
- That's the building (Watergate Hotel), Prabhupada?… Which floor did you live on?
- That's the cause of all falldown, committing offenses at the feet of a pure devotee?
- That's the governor of Karnataka (he was very pleased and he said, "Yes, I will cancel Sai Baba's program and come to your program")?
- That's the point, what we have seen about this planet (you've explained that even if not here then it (dinosaurs) must be on another planet)?
- That's the third scene, the rasa dance. So Radharani appears in that?
- That's the varnasrama system?
- That's the whole idea of moksa (God, therefore, teaches us how to get out of this body)?
- That's what Srila Prabhupada said, "In Scientific Knowledge." I was wondering, if this, is this, sa, mean "in"?
- That's what, didn't Sankaracarya do that, divide up four parts?
- That's why they gave difficulty, the authorities, because the wheels broke?
- The 400,000 different species of human life? There's one place in which you mention that different persons like carpenter or different tradesmen are different species. Is that...?
- The 8,400,000 species is for the whole universe or for each planet?
- The ability to remember Krsna, that will also increase?
- The action of force is necessary (to create)?
- The activities of the lazy intelligent are jnana-vijnana?
- The activities of the materialistic man, then, no matter what he does, he will develop another material body for it. Is that right, Srila Prabhupada?
- The actual perception of the soul is not... (this is physical, but subtle (consciousness is not a physical phenomenon))?
- 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 Americans say he (Abraham Lincoln) acted with negroes just we have acted with the aboriginals, the Aryans. What have we done with the poor aboriginals of India?
- The Americans will win?
- The animal is completely under the modes, but the human being, the modes' influence is reduced sufficiently so that he can make this decision, from, whether to accept or reject Krsna?
- The answer to your Istagosthi questions (on the spiritual master) are as follows
- The answer to your question about the marginal energy...
- The Arabic numerals came from India?
- The argument is that "The cities are there with millions of people, and now what can we do?"
- The argument is that how can an entity take birth in perspiration? His question. So how can a living entity take birth in the fire?
- The article in Back to Godhead there was a question raised, that "What is purpose of life?" and it was stated that the purpose of life is to realize God. Could you kindly explain a little more on that?
- The atheistic people sometimes argue, "What does your Krsna do for the suffering people?"
- The atman, there is one to a person, or there is only one atman?
- The beads, Swamiji. He wants the beads. We can get it from the office?
- The beginning of the creation was when?
- The Bhagavad-gita - do you accept that as it's historically an historical fact?
- The Bhagavad-gita has stated that whatever one's consciousness is during his lifetime will be at the time of his death, and that will determine his next body. Now, one who is living very lustily during his lifetime, his mind will be on that body
- The Bhagavad-gita says that Lord Brahma is a conditioned soul. Then how was it possible for him to impart the Vedas to a non-conditioned soul - Narada Muni?
- The Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity trustees would fix that up?
- The body is matter, but still it is conscious as long as I am alive. So that means the life is consciousness?
- The body is not part of God?
- The body is the dress of the soul; so when the body falls off and dies, where does the soul go?
- The body, or my form, it's pertaining to my consciousness, the development of my consciousness?
- The bona fide spiritual master. If you have none, what do you do?
- The boys, they should learn how also to cook?
- The Brahmavadis have some possibility of advancement?
- The bruises? Where are you feeling them most? On your feet, Srila Prabhupada, or your legs?
- The bullock cart to Vrndavana. You were thinking to travel again, Srila Prabhupada?
- The buses, you know the windows, some of the windows are broken a little bit - you saw them. Do you think they will look good in the parade? It's all right if the windows are not all...
- The cement a certain, takes certain time to dry, no?
- The Chand Kazi became a devotee?
- 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 chief minister also came, Karan(?) Singh?
- The Christians always say that Christ was eating fish and drinking wine, so what problem have we got? Drinking a little alcohol, eating a little meat?
- The Christians describe Krsna in a different way. Are they making mistakes?
- The Christians don't become old men?
- The Christians say that there is soul, and they say that there is God, so then wouldn't our question be: "What is the relationship of the soul to God?"
- The cloudiness is created from the superior energy? So material is created from the superior?
- The comet doesn't really bring the bad effect. It simply is a symptom. Is that it?
- The communists asked to us what we do for the starving people?
- The consciousness of those living cells are dependent on my consciousness?
- 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 cow (third-class means they should engage themselves, how to produce food and give protection to the cow)?
- The cowherd boy with Krsna, he is also vibhinnamsa expansion. Correct?
- The cowherd boys, sometimes were they merciful to Krsna by not being too rough with Him?
- The cows were running away?
- The creation of the materialism is only one-fourth... What happened to the other three-fourths?
- The day that's the birth of the universe and night, the dissolution, is that also Brahma's day and night?
- The Deities should be woken up at five in the morning?
- The demigods (formerly when big, big sacrifices were done, they used to come and attend sacrifice). But in this earth body they can go to another planets?
- The description on the...? That last description. That the living entities are fragments of God's body...? But their individuality is not lost?
- The descriptions of Goloka Vrndavana, that even the dust is personal... So we have experience of personal form. Even Krsna's form is personal. How is the dust of Vrndavana personal? How is it individual living entity?
- The devotees seem to be calm, serene. Where does that come from?
- The devotees' prasada? Devotees' bhoga?
- The different varieties of suffering within the animal species are due to the different varieties of sinful activities in the human life?
- The difficulty in this Christian aspect is that they claim that it was created about five thousand years ago. Creationists preaches that? Five thousand years ago, literally? Do we want to make this comparison, Srila Prabhupada, or not?
- The difficulty is that in India there's no other source of income besides the Life Membership. How they will maintain?
- The dogs and monkeys, they feel grateful?
- The earth and the sun are always the same distance apart?
- The evolution stops when the spirit soul reaches the eternal abode in the spiritual (world)?
- The example of the king that wanted to enter the heavenly kingdom and was opposed, is this in this book also? And he was opposed by the demigods?
- The example that if God is supplying, then why doesn't He supply the underprivileged countries? Just like in some places like India people are starving. So why doesn't He supply places like that?
- The fact that you are not drinking for a year doesn't mean to say that you have overcome the intoxicant urge if that is in you, although you know it is wrong. But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality?
- The family of the person who is suffering, says that "Please don't apply these machines. Let the person die." But the medical doctors say "No, we'll keep him alive as long as we can go on." So this is a problem. So who's right? Is the family right, or...
- The father must have a father too, mustn't he?
- The fifth scene is renunciation of household life... This is at age...? This is considerably later then. This is about ten years later
- The final question which was asked by Tosana about the validity of the story of the sparrow and the ocean...
- The findings (laboratory test on all the devotees), even if they are published will not profit?
- The first mantra, Hare Krsna mantra, that's for, you say, that's to clean the mind of the material contam...?
- The first thing is to get Krsna. The world can then be looked after later?
- The five gods?... Is that by Sankaracarya, Prabhupada?... Where is it from, Prabhupada?... It is the Bhagavatam?
- The food and the sand looks exactly the same. So how they are immediately able to tell which is which?
- The forgetful stage is never everlasting or eternal, is it?
- The fountain or the garden should be in the center or in one corner?
- The friends of Caitanya. What are their names again?
- The full arati will be in the morning, mangala-arati, there will be the noon arati, supposed to be one in the evening. When should the other full arati be?
- The fundamental is the four things (principles). Please explain?
- The future of the Krsna consciousness movement. Should I see what it says under that?
- The gentleman is asking about the authenticity of Moses
- 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 godly qualities, they come from Krsna. Even the demoniac qualities?
- The good man gets a better body or a good body?
- The gopi-candana comes from the lake where they say the gopis drowned themselves, and that is near Dvaraka. Is that a true story?
- The gopis, they didn't like very much being instructed by Uddhava?
- The government is also giving land free to encourage agriculture. Simply that it has to be cleared. It's jungle land; it has to be cleared. Shall we try for something like that?
- The government of India has not in any way helped this movement, has it?
- The governments today are supporting the most outrageous, sinful activities. So how is it possible to reform the general mass of people?
- The guru should be accepted as representative of God?
- The Hare Krsna movement has started in the United States. Why did it start in the United States, rather than India?
- The Hare Krsna movement is a scientific movement?
- The higher planetary systems are closest to the sun?
- The highest is Satyaloka, no?
- 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 history of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday?
- The Holy Bible is written by the holy spirit of mankind. Should we believe on the Bible or not?
- The horse is the most beautiful...More beautiful than the cow?
- The householders on our farm, they should cooperate and produce the food centrally or every householder should produce his own food independently?
- The human beings are there from the very beginning on the earth too?
- The human beings get dreams, and what's the lesson between the dreams and the actual life?
- 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 human stool is a stool for the human being. Does it not become a food for a stray dog?
- The ice cream is not so good for you to take just now, so shall we keep it for you?
- The idea (that everything belongs to God) has been there for thousands of years, until this idea is accepted and put into practice the way you said, what is to be done in the interim period? Because lot of people are dying in misery
- 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 idea of the spiritual sky. I couldn't quite understand there was any form, any form at all of symbolism coming into the idea of the various stages of planets and so on, or whether, in fact, this was a very physical...?
- 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 Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, is he nice? Do you know Rabindranath Tagore? Is he a nice poet?
- The Indians in Fiji will pay for the casting if we decide to cast in brass here?
- The individual soul has a little independence to choose? So we have no free will?
- The jiva soul in the heart and the jiva soul within the cells, they are separate?
- The jivas inside the atom, are they like impersonalists who are in the Brahman?
- The jnani is also seeker?
- The karmi and the jnani are both within the material world. Is the jnani considered more elevated than the karmi?
- The karmis, they say "What is the matter with sense gratification?" They say they like sense gratification; it's very good
- The Krsna consciousness movement has been what some people would consider sexist or racist because certain propensities for women and for blacks have been defined. And I wondered if you would comment on that
- The Krsna consciousness, its Vedic literature, they have some of the same books or also holy books for what we call Hindu religions, aren't they?
- The ksatriyas make sure that people are correct, acting correctly, that no one is taking more than what they need?
- The land was together ("Africa was part of India")?
- The last point you have inquired the meaning of the name Jananivasa...
- The last time I saw him (Madana-Mohana Gosvami of Radha-Damodara temple), he said he wants Panchu to work for us... He says he will do anything?... Right now we have no work except construction. So what should I tell him when I see him?
- The law in the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." But the federal law of the United States says you must go into the Army and kill. So which to follow? There is a difference. They both say opposite things
- The less capitals, the better?
- The library party (are you anxious to receive report from them)?
- The life symptoms are maintained in the body still (when the seer has left the gross body)?
- The literal meaning of sutra is a condensed statement, Prabhupada?
- The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they're much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
- The living entity (is creating different body for different enjoyment)?
- The living entity can purify himself and become eligible to enter into the spiritual world and Krsna, but can he still fall as an expansion of the marginal energy?
- The living entity cannot do anything without the sanction of God. So I am desiring certain sinful activities, but why is Krsna sanctioning it?
- The living entity's desire has become very complex due to his association with material nature?
- The Lord's pastimes in Vrndavana and Dvaraka are passing through the universe just as the sun passes over the face of the earth... The same pastimes beginning from His birth up to mausala-lila... They are different in different universes?
- The man who is giving the father's what?
- The manager of a large factory comes to us and says, "Well, here is my problem. My workers are striking for higher pay and no one is satisfied So what can I do?"
- The material elements are described, the mind, intelligence, and false ego. What's the, what is that mind, you know, that material mind? In other words, there's a spiritual mind and a material mind?
- The material world itself is temporary. So the scientists still make it much more temporary?
- The maya that harasses the devotee is just mental concoction, then? He should concentrate on just serving?
- The meat-eating also leads to many other sinful activities too, right?
- The members of the movement… they've decided to dress differently, and they're dressing now in an Indian style. Is it necessary to do that, or could I carry on being a member of a radio station and still be a member of the Hare Krsna movement?
- The mercy of God is the love of God, isn't it?
- The milk has no taste or you have no taste?
- The mind and the intelligence, they are not material? ...But they don't die? They die also?
- The modern scientific research means to increase the demands of the body, the bodily demands?
- The modes don't exist in the spiritual world. Is that right?
- The moon (and this is also bogus, that such a brilliant illuminating planet, it is full of rocks and sand)?
- The moon's glowing is due to reflecting the sun or it is fiery just like the sun (but with a cooling atmosphere around it)?
- The moral standard was very good (in your university)?
- The more we understand Srimad-Bhagavatam, the more we'll understand the Caitanya-caritamrta?
- The most obvious sign that we see of the Hare Krsna movement is your chanting and reciting of the mantra. Are there other valid forms of reaching God consciousness?
- The most remarkable thing is these so-called scientists, is that they believe in the most unscientific statement. Like this long time period is the most unscientific. So how can they claim as scientists?
- The muni was there in the form of an insect?
- The name is power, and to utter name...?
- The name of the Delhi Deities is Radha-Parthasarathi. So how do we understand?
- The next question, about the living entities falling down in this material world
- The next question: the body of a pure devotee is all spiritual and He is not different from His body...
- The nirvana conception of life is just before Brahman?
- The old machine continues to change after the spirit soul leaves, it deteriorates?
- The one (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) who took your Nectar of Devotion?
- The one you've written, from the old Book Trust?
- The only bad effect is that you're having a little difficulty last night in sleeping. Is there any other bad effect?
- The only way of talking to the spiritual master to communicate is verbal talking, the only way in which one can communicate with his spiritual master?
- The only way to remove this darkness is through love. Is this what you are saying?
- The original form of Krsna, that is only on one planet in one day of Brahma. Is that correct?
- The other day you were asking me about the wages, labor
- The other morning Srila Prabhupada was mentioning about the Institute, the Bhaktivedanta Institute. So is there anything else that your Divine Grace wants to?
- The other question was, is the subject matter, as they're being done, is there any criticism or should it be changed? The paintings that have been finished thus far, should they be changed in some way?
- The owner of the body, is He responsible for this body also?
- The pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- The people who have gathered around you, younger people, is that deliberate on your part?
- The perfect person that is going to speak to me is God?
- 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 personal relationship, when established, takes you far ahead psychologically. Am I right, sir?
- The persons who would take part in such program (varnasrama college), they would have to be devotees in the first place. Is that...?
- The philosophy of Bhagavata is not purely conceptual, is it?
- The plants have more consciousness, manifest consciousness, than aquatics?
- The platform of transmigration from the human platform, so it works, either it can go down or it can go up?
- The pledge. Should I read the pledge (the Oath of Allegiance)? I have written it
- The point was that in Christianity everyone can become Christian whereas it seems in this only some can become brahmana. So he is interested what is the path to becoming brahmana. How does one become brahmana?
- The police were helping the thieves?
- The pollution, is it to some extent the result of material activity, which will cease when the spiritual...?
- The Pope didn't acknowledge your letter to him. His loss. When we have Krsna, who needs the Pope?
- The Pope is agreeing with you in Rome?… The Pope is agreeing?… In Rome. He is agreeing with Hare Krsna…?… With chanting and...
- The population of human being that is increasing, is it due to these wild animals and other they have done good deeds, so they are coming up as a human being?
- The powder massaging? Yes. Should we do it again? Can we put some just now? I can do?
- The prabhu is feeling that he likes to read all of your books and sometimes he reads one book and sometimes another book. Is that bad?
- The prasadam you're getting is all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- The precedence of our work, Srila Prabhupada, should definitely be that the message of Krsna consciousness is clearly understood by all, is that correct?
- The press reporters, they were asking me that we make distinction between man, woman, and black, white
- The price (for marriage) was blood, huh?
- The problem is that Gita was written down or dictated or recited about five thousand years back. So what was there before five thousand years back? Was there Krsna consciousness?
- The progress of self-realization is a progress of inner experiences?
- The purport of verse number forty-two, it divides spiritual activities into two. Is this first division Paramatma realization and the second division is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
- The purpose of having the Society is to show the devotees how they can always be twenty-four hours engaged according to your instruction?
- The quality of the chanting he's asking. How can we make the quality the best?
- The question also is there: the authority is the spiritual master, but the via media to the spiritual master... The difference between, like we were discussing in the automobile of siksa and diksa-guru
- The question I have, Prabhupada is that before scientific advancement, many people would listen to, like, scriptural knowledge. But now they listen more to scientists
- 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 question is most of the African people here are not educated in spite of their education
- The question is suppose this yogi, he has not got full knowledge, he does not know of Krsna, and therefore he is meditating on Paramatma, and he attains Vaikuntha. Is it possible that because he hadn't got full knowledge...
- The question is whether should it be played in the temple or not (western style songs recorded by devotees)?
- The question is, why some people are feeling a necessity for God?
- The question was that Krsna had said that He would not take part in the Battle of Kuruksetra, but later on He did. So He had actually changed His word. So does the devotee also sometimes do that, say one thing but later on change his mind
- The Radha-Krsna center in Geneva, for instance, has there any connection with you, the Swami Nityabowa-badananda?
- The Rama-Krishna Mission says that (because everything is God, so whatever I take, that is God worship)?
- The rascals are the ministers. Am I right or wrong?
- The rascals, under the dictation of maya, they are thinking, "I am God," that's all. They have no intelligence even, that - How I can be God
- 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 real knowledge is taken away by ignorance?
- The real question between this statement of Mr. Professor and you is that what is religion and what is science? Unless the nature of science and religion defined...
- The reason was that because whenever you come back to India, you always come back to Bombay first of all, so as soon as you come back to India, you'll have facility to use your car. Otherwise we should make arrangements for another car for Bombay also?
- The recommendation here (for first and second initiation), Srila Prabhupada, is that...?
- The relationship of mind to the soul, how the mind comes to know that it has or that there is a soul
- The reply to your question about Arjuna's relationship with Krsna...
- The representative (of Srila Prabhupada) may be there, but what is my personal relationship?
- The residents of the moon live for a long time? Thousands of years?
- The rocks also have offspring, if they're living?
- The sadhus in India who have long hair and wander in the woods and stuff, I guess, do they have spiritual teachers? The sadhus in India
- The same body, different stage in life...?
- The school in Vrndavana, is this, I assume this is to be out there in the yard that they were clearing. When do you anticipate that will be built?
- The scientists would use the same argument. The scientists would say, "Well, since I have not experienced that I am eternal, therefore how can I accept that I am eternal?"
- The scientists, they cannot understand the (indistinct), they can understand what is the relationship between the world of ideas, the world of names, and the world that they see. How can we explain what that means?
- The sea is wonderful, isn't it? You like the sea they tell me
- The seven planetary systems, do they correspond to the seven colors and the seven jewels of the yogi?
- The shaved head, he's asking?
- The simple version (of Bhagavad gita) is there also for a layman like us who do not know?
- The sinless people will survive?
- The sister of who, of uh, His Divine Grace?
- The situation is that other people think that it (Krsna consciousness) is negative, and therefore they feel negatively towards us. So how should we react to that?
- The slightest tinge of a material desire will force him to take another body. Is that it?
- The smaller birds, they are eating something from sand?
- The smrtis are based on the srutis?
- The so-called love which goes on in the material world is simply a perverted form of dasya rasa
- The soul is all-pervading, throughout the body?
- 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 sound krsna is not different from Krsna. Under all circumstances?
- The space uniform, you don't feel that is adequate?
- The spirit is eternal... in the sense that in the beginning all spirits were contained within the Deity,... and at the end all spirits will refind themselves in the Deity... Would you ever admit that a spirit could fail after his last chance...?
- The spirit is manufactured in the body, is it not, sir?
- The spirit soul must necessarily have a body, either spiritual or material?
- The spiritual organizations in India, all the spiritual teachings in India, have always put great emphasis on the fact that we are spiritual beings. So what was the necessity of creating another movement to say the same things?
- The statement here is that the material world is founded on lust. This is the asuric conception. The godly qualities, they come from Krsna. Even the demoniac qualities?
- The stories of Krsna's pastimes in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are they found in the Vedas also?
- The story of Mrgari and...?
- The stricture on the eating of meat, does that derive from the fact that animals have their lives which are accorded... What I'm asking is that because animals have a higher priority in life than vegetables?
- The sun doesn't change?
- The sun is a reflection of the brahma-jyotir?
- The sun is different than Vivasvan?
- The sunset; that is also Krsna's artistry?
- The supreme living entity, he doesn't have to practice yogic power?
- The svarna-sindhura is also similar in effect, for medicine, as medicine?
- The swelling is reduced. Isn't it, Srila Prabhupada? I mean, all of the signs, Srila Prabhupada, which the kaviraja wanted, are there… Did you hear what Bhakti-caru just said (as a matter of fact, he hasn't given any medicine to strengthen him up)?
- The system gives up. That's a marvelous solution. Because I feel very tired with the system myself. So there's something wrong with the system as being. So maybe you can give me some advice how to beat the system?
- The taste is all right (of your toothpaste)?
- The temple should always have some prasadam there?
- The ten-year-old boys who left Gurukula and went to Vrndavana and then went to Mayapur, what will they...? They will be trained in the divisions there and come back?
- The thing is that because Krsna knows the future, past, present, and future, so He knew that we would fall down, so why didn't He help me?
- The thing that worries me is that how do people begin to understand that their basic principle might be wrong?
- 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?
- The third-class would be what kind of typical worker?
- The traditional charge against Hinduism is that it is fatalistic, that it inhibits progress by making people slaves to the belief in the inevitability of what is to happen. How far is this charge true?
- The troubles that India is going through today, they were foreseeing over five thousand years ago, that the Muslims would invade, the Turks?
- The twelve authorities, are they all pure devotees?
- The two causes, are not very clear. The material and instrumental?
- The upper planetary systems, are they bigger than the lower ones? In other words, sun is bigger than the earth, the moon is bigger...
- 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 Vaisnava is superior to a sannyasi?
- The values of Western civilization have made that (articifial division). Therefore that's made living as children of God impossible?
- The varieties of living entities that we find in the material world, can we explain because of the desire of the living entities, to make..., to live in different houses?
- The Vedas were from time immemorial?
- The Vedic civilization is centered around villages, not cities?
- The vision of the eyes is imperfect. We have to see by intelligence, from the authority... Then one may ask, "Well, how do I recognize that this is the bona fide authority?"
- The Visnudutas, they had spiritual bodies, spiritual forms. Are they traveling through all the planets or only where there are devotees?
- The vyasasana. Like in Los Angeles, at the side? On the left-hand side?
- The war on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, that lasted for a period of eighteen days? And that happened five thousand years ago when Krsna was on earth. Is that happening now in some other material universe, the same battle?
- The Westerns are more unsure than the Easterns, or...?
- The whole nation is worker ("They want everyone should become a sudra, the Communists life, worker, "Work." And therefore they have not been successful. The whole nation is worker, and who will give the brain?")?
- The whole world has heard of the Maharishi Mahesh. Is he part of your order?
- The women today want the same rights as men. How can they be satisfied?
- The world will not end?
- The young children also (treat the spiritual disease)? What about young children?
- The, the nature of the inferior and the superior energies are also described in the sankhya philosophy?
- Their (scientists') theory may be right about how the body forms, but they're missing the soul?
- Their (Transcendental Meditation) philosophy is that "If you continue meditating, one day automatically you'll give up these things. So why do it prematurely?"
- Their argument was because the dogs have homosex, therefore the man should have...?
- Their body have..., they have wings (there is Siddhaloka, they can go from one planet to another without any machine, without any vehicle. Siddhaloka means, just like the yogis, they can go)?
- Their statement that life started from matter can be disproved very easily?
- Then (if he is actually repentant) he is not punished?
- Then (there must be one living force for the whole cosmic manifestation. So He is also individual; I am also individual. But He is great; I am small.) we can ask "What is that great?"
- Then (this is animal civilization. There is no spiritual knowledge. Simply like cats and dogs, they are working hard, eating, sleeping...) what should be the spirit of a man? How do you call him a man?
- Then a feast (for Balarama)?
- Then a man who is not, does not have a purified consciousness has no way of knowing what is good or bad?
- Then again he will not get material body?
- Then clothing is more? Clothing is more? Maintenance?
- Then even Brahman has to be understood in relationship to Krsna?
- Then from where does this impurity come?
- Then he is servant, always servant?
- Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?
- Then how is it that some people do finally come to accept Krsna?
- Then how to fight them (the majority are fools and rascals)?
- Then how to get free from those desires?
- Then how to throw out good leadership?
- Then how will I know what to follow?
- Then how yato mata tato patha, became so strong?
- Then in the Bible, the beginning of it says that God created the heavens and the earth, and yet they say, give the description in Genesis as the way God created the heaven and the earth. Does this not conform with Brahma's work?
- Then in what levels the man got to remain in a separate entity? Always in the same bhakta?
- Then isn't it sankhya?
- Then Lord Caitanya's wife, she died?
- Then our next question concerns initiations in the future, particularly at that time when you're no longer with us. We want to know how first and second initiation would be conducted?
- Then that one word as a mantra, is it not... the highest sort of word?
- Then that was after the university (Vrndavana, I studied the Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, as I mentioned so many, Upanisads, Vedanta-sutra)?
- Then the last question. Rama, how do you relate?
- Then the question is whom shall we fight now?
- Then the responsibility for some is to Krsna; the responsibility of some is to the demigods?
- 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 there's three hearts?
- Then they say that if this is the method, then how does Deity worship fit into the scheme?
- Then they say, "Why He give us independence, then?"
- Then they will say, "How do we know?"
- Then this monism and dualism, then what about the Visista-advaita?
- 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 we are giving them (everyone, cent percent godless, neither they have got intelligence to understand what is God) the intelligence as well as the answers? Because if they have no intelligence to understand...?
- Then we will ask, how do we know who is really guru?
- Then what does it mean gradual process, gradual advancement in transcendental realization?
- Then what is the aim of bhakti if you are not going to merge with Paramatma?
- Then what is the cause? No, what is the cause?
- Then what is the relationship of that person who gives the initiation and the… (yes. I shall recommend some of you. After this is settled up, I shall recommend some of you to act as officiating acaryas. Rtvik, yes)?
- Then what is the way to purity?
- Then what is their reason for not becoming the biggest rascal? Why not become the biggest rascal? The pot's going to break anyway. What difference does it make? Why not become a big rascal and enjoy?
- Then what to do (if one accepts that there is no happiness at all to be found in this world)?
- Then what was the necessity for the Pandavas to suffer when they had themselves surrendered to the Lord Krsna, and they have suffered?
- Then what would that be then? What would that be, that all perfection?
- Then what you'll surrender?
- Then who is the Gita-pracara?
- Then why do they (the Vallabhas) imitate?
- Then why do they mingle (followers of pseudo-religion) at all? Why do they even get involved?
- Then why do you say that it's all right and all that? I mean is it a compromise or what?... I mean the fact that we are doing songwriting and all that. It's a waste of time, isn't it? Without Krsna
- Then why doesn't he (Yogi Bhajan) go to Bhaktivedanta?
- Then why varnasrama-dharma, there also, they are prevalent, that brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra?
- Then why you'll understand that this is all humbug?
- Then you have to give up (trying to understand). Then just simply love Krsna?
- Then you will have two temples in Vrndavana?
- Theology or Theosophy?
- Theoretically yes, but practically, do you think they (the Buddhists) are atheistic, practically?
- 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 countless numbers in the United States of large facilities of the Christian faith, and, like you, they give the refreshment of the holy communion. Why does this not work? Why is this not cleansing the heart?
- There are different or many spiritual movements in the world. How can I know which one is right for me?
- There are different techniques for reaching Christ consciousness or God consciousness or self-realization. What test do you recommend for finding out which technique is the best?
- There are different way to express oneself or different languages one can learn. Similarly, I would think there would be different ways to get to consciousness? Other way?
- There are internal senses also... There are counterparts of senses also?
- There are many different levels of pure devotional service?
- There are many other planets on the earth level?
- There are many other things that we offer Krsna besides patram puspam phalam toyam. So similarly, why can't we offer meat? He doesn't say, "Don't offer me meat"
- There are many people who come like that to Krsna consciousness. They seem to experience a taste, and then they go away and everything seems to be lost. What is their... position, if they are not able to stick to it?
- There are many religions that speak of the light. How can we know we are actually facing the real light?
- There are many religious movements, how does Krsna consciousness take priority?
- There are many swamis and gurus and religious people throughout the world. How does one know which is the true guru?
- There are many swamis coming from India nowadays, and they are trying to confuse Westerners; being Indian, how we can help about this confusion?
- There are many that tell about knowledge for being good, but how do you really know? Is it just a feeling?
- There are many ways by which to know God, is it not?
- There are no changes in the higher nature?
- There are other kinds of bhaktas other than krsna-bhaktas?
- 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 six things such as anger, lust, false pride, envy. What are the other two?
- There are so many stories of Lord Caitanya converting so many rascals. By just His presence, they would chant Hare Krsna. How can we get His mercy so that we can help the people around us to chant Hare Krsna?
- There are so many translations (of the Gita). How does one decide...?
- There are some astronomers who have the correct understanding?
- 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 are three factors: one, duty towards God, duty towards the family, duty towards the business, duty towards the country, duty towards the society. Then how is he to balance himself in these duties?
- There are two more GBC appointments that have been made, Srila Prabhupada?
- There are two, two functions in the tongue, one is (indistinct) and one is (indistinct)? So which one (indistinct). Preaching is a form of tapasya?
- There are various samskaras prescribed in the life of a Hindu right from his birth to death... Many of these samskaras are not being observed today. Should they be revived?
- There has to be some actual improvement before you should move. Otherwise you are already here in Vrndavana, so why move?
- There is a form of soul, according to you?
- There is a preordained karma that says some human being should come into existence or some spirit soul should take some body. How can you reconcile this birth control with that?
- There is a question I have wanted to ask for many years now. The Vedic culture and the Islamic culture have many similarities
- There is a question I would like to ask. I do know that it is not the aim of life just to every morning keep your family, go to bed and have sex. But it is part of life?
- There is a very peculiar question that comes sometimes: "If Krsna knows that we were going to fall down, why didn't He save us?"
- There is a worldwide rise in prices of energy resources, like oil, coal, gas, and electricity. Naturally, there will be worldwide destruction of mankind and other living beings and materials in the near future. What are your views?
- There is also the demigods in charge of those different departments?
- There is also the unity of non-Krsna?
- There is another question, Your Grace. I wear leather shoes, and I know they come from animals which have been slaughtered for this. Should I stop wearing leather shoes?
- 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 descriptions of many demigods, and the karmis, they would generally worship these different demigods for material benefits. Why didn't they just try to get the material benefits without worshiping the demigods, like they are doing today?
- There is even spiritual space?
- There is no more body? No more body?
- There is no question of belief. The question is whether, what is the difference between religion and science?
- There is no special significance in it (Candi-pat)?
- There is no universal morality?
- There is nothing specificially objectionable?
- There is one difference between Eastern wisdom and Christian way to think that whereas in the Eastern way, we have to become rid of our body, to be liberate from our body, whereas Christian sense means to realize the spirit within the body?
- There is one Lord Chelmsford or anyone else...?
- There is one question which many people have asked. You don't have to answer them but sometimes they say, "Why is it that Hare Krsna movement is so popular in this country, has so many centers, and not that many centers in India where Lord Krsna...?"
- There is place for women in the religion too isn't?
- There is regularly puja in your community?
- There is so much envy in my heart, and when I'm chanting I'm understanding the envy is causing me so much distress. And yet I can't give it up. I cannot leave off these envious feelings. How is it that the spirit soul...?
- There is some difference. When we do some good, we consider it as God-inspired, but when we do something bad, then we can't say that it is also God-inspired after we have done it?
- There is some our acaryas. How about Christ or Muhammad and Zarathustra, all these people?
- There is something constant within the body though it changes. What is it? How come this is, changes body but still we can recognize someone from his youth to his old age
- There is statement like that, that one is put into the hellish condition for practicing little, and then he is put into the womb of such mother... Is that a long duration of practice or just..., very short?
- There is such a demand in Puri (Any time you can get one thousand man's eatables)?
- There is such a gotra as that (acyuta-gotra)?
- There is the idea that matter comes from life... I do not quite see how. I do not quite understand how matter can come from life?
- There is very little description from the age of 31 to Lord Caitanya's disappearance. Maybe you can tell me as much as you can of what happened?
- There must be a temple coming. Do you know?
- There must be different kinds of taking of a body, because there are different kinds of bodies. The bodies of dogs and deers and things are not the same as the body of Krsna. Now, how do you take on this form of Krsna?
- There must be living entities then on the comet. Yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- 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 must have been very many gurus. Were there many gurus then?
- There seems to be also a stage of not thinking. Is that... When one is chanting, should they not think or should they think of Krsna?
- There should be right surrender?
- There should not be any medical service in the building, new building, so what about there should be any other place on the land, or they should not...?
- There should not have been two people, a male and a female, to create everything?
- There was a newspaper article about a few weeks ago, and you had said that something could be written on this subject (nationalism). That's the only reason I... Is there any subject that would be good to write on?
- There was no Godbrothers helping at all?
- There was one famous politician (Canakya Pandita) from India five hundred years ago, or...?
- There was pictures of you riding on that ratha cart, that was a truck?
- There was trouble in Nabadwip, wasn't there, when he (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati) advised the pilgrims not to pay money to go into the temples?
- There were instances when the king wouldn't follow the brahmanas, so they were thrown out, weren't they?
- There will be no brain to understand God?
- There will be some devotees left at the end of Kali-yuga?
- There would be Kali-yuga. Then there will be Satya-yuga after. Is it not so, predicted?
- There would be lastly a reference section which would include all addresses that they would find useful, a glossary of the terms used, and an index, etc... You like the idea, do you?
- There're very few... How many color illustrations in it?
- There's (with the affairs of Krsna and the gopis) never mention of lust or of any animal desire at all is there?
- There's a lot of coughing today again?
- There's a scene about Lord Caitanya embracing the leper Vasudeva. Is that a nice scene to perform?
- There's a tendency for someone who hears this verse to think that one should become callous to the sufferings of others
- There's a very important question in my mind all the time. How a Godbrother should treat the Godbrother with great (indistinct) to produce more love of Godhead and to (indistinct) in them?
- There's also the story of that Maharaja Khatvanga, who found out that he only had a minute to live. What did he do, that he...? You say that he surrendered at once
- There's another article in here about the Bhaktivedanta Institute. Have you seen it?
- There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- 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 hope for our world today?
- There's no material father, though? In that case (with entities that are born from perspiration)?
- There's no question of independent liberation?
- There's no question of the making of gods?
- There's no rushing... He's not going to... Srila Prabhupada, what is the trouble to take more now? It's a botheration? But that's... At least you should take the same amount you were taking when you were sitting up
- There's no sermon as we would know in other churches?
- There's no such diversity of interpretation of the Bhagavad-gita?
- There's no value in keeping the body fit through exercise?
- There's no yajna, so there's no sun?
- There's one thing in the human nature, that he always thinks that he's the chief and around the world everything is running around him, and most probably he always can show off that "I am the leader of everything." Why is it so? In every person.
- There's some countries in Europe where they have absolute laws against selling books in the street. In these countries do we have to make something secret to sell your books?
- There's some park near here, he said? Indian gate?
- There's something higher than human form?
- There's still, within all the different species, there are still different varieties. What accounts for all these varieties?
- There's subtle and the gross has no realm in the subtle?
- There's this constant struggle with our lower nature? We are constantly fighting our desires even though we want to serve Krsna? This continues?
- Therefore ("Then why there is no solution?") she is asking you, "What is the solution?"
- Therefore (Brahma is the first creature in the universe, created by God), by himself he could create everything, Swamiji?
- Therefore (There is no "all religion." There is only one religion. One who deviates, he creates another religion. Religion means there is God and we should be obedient to God. This is religion) it is not necessary to go by one's special path?
- Therefore a sannyasi is always moving around, Srila Prabhupada?
- Therefore Krsna recognizes by giving knowledge of Himself?
- These (books) are introductory?
- These are all my sisters and brothers, Swamiji. Right?
- These Bible and Koran, how did they get here? They were just inventions or what?
- These books will be available where?
- These boys are our boys. Before accepting this movement, they were never coming to the church. They never inquired about God. And now they are mad after God. How it has happened? Why the Americans and the Germans are taking to this path?
- These children, they are coming from which place?
- These days there are so many men who claim to have found the Absolute, who claim to be spiritual masters in their own way. How does one tell who is a bona fide spiritual master?
- These demigods are what we call angels?
- These demons, Srila Prabhupada, all of them are dehatma-buddhi?
- These few questions only, the answers, that these are from you and these are there, then it will be a point of jump in the movement. It will be a big jump in the movement. And what can we do...?
- These forms that are here, are they actually eternal forms?
- These Italian women are complaining now that their husbands are abusing them, so why can they not get divorced?
- These jeweled boxes should be given to Radha-Vrndavanacandra?
- These Oriental philosophies generally and in particular the Krsna consciousness has found a lot of devotees in the western civilization. What is the main reason for this?
- These problems will take care of themselves if people develop Krsna consciousness?
- These qualities that you were talking about, saucam, do they develop naturally?
- These things, they are also in Manu-samhita?
- These traditions (shaved head and tilak) have existed for a long time, he's asking?
- These Turks are yavanas? Demons and yavanas?
- They (all these embassies and ambassadors) are what, Prabhupada?
- They (cashew is produced in India... big, big European companies for doing this business in Cochin) were set up by the British?
- They (devotees) can believe in Him, but have they met Him?
- They (God & Jesus) used him (Joseph Smith) as an instrument in restoring His true church. We believe this with all our heart. We feel that it's built upon the spirit & that it's through prayer & study that we've found this. What's your feeling about that?
- They (Harijanas) have their unions. How can we approach the union and talk to the leaders?
- They (Krsna and His associates) didn't go through any death of any sort?
- They (many people who live outside the temple) have to do full Deity worship to have these Deities? Dress the Deities every day?
- They (one who is under the control of maya, he speaks like ghostly-haunted man - all nonsense) are actually ghostly-haunted, or as if ghostly-haunted?
- They (other moons) are just planets?
- They (people) lack central happiness?
- They (people) say, though, that, for example, the sex urge and things like this, "If God has given us this sex urge why not satisfy it?"
- They (people) want to be cheated?
- They (people) will go down, down, down for 400,000 years?
- They (the babajis) say that (they don't care for. They say, "Bhagavad-gita is not for us")?
- They (the British) cut the thumbs of the weavers?
- They (the British) would make the people dependent upon them and then exploit them, yes?
- They (The Christians) say everyone is sinful; therefore what is the use?
- They (the Deities) should not be transported to another temple?
- They (the Germans) couldn't chant those mantras though, could they? If they tried... Even if they tried, they wouldn't be able to chant the mantras
- They (the paramahamsa) have got white? Do they wear white?
- They (the scientists) can't create a machine that will act like a human?
- They (the so-called scientists) would say, "How can we believe Krsna?"
- They (the vrajavasis) don't need a spiritual master?
- They (Why not employ one man to manfacture tulasi beads?) have to live here as devotee?
- They accept that Krsna is in every living entity, and therefore they say that by serving humanity and your fellow man, that that is serving Krsna. Is that correct?
- They all (the planets) move together?
- They are all nationalities?
- They are called langar?
- They are counted, what, as human beings (the thirty-three million demigods)?
- They are endorsing (the Indian government understands that this movement is turning the whole world towards Indian culture)?
- They are getting everyone in America to ask the question, "What is Hare Krsna?" Because of all their false propaganda, everyone is asking, "What is Hare Krsna? What is Hare Krsna?"
- They are going to come up with the point that "How about dinosaurs?" They are going to ask like that
- They are innocent. They are not... (one who does not know what is God, he is a Carvaka, that's all)?
- They are so dependent that if there is no electricity, where will they get water on the twentieth floor?
- They are thinking that the technology will free them... The technology cannot...?
- They are thinking, "What if the people want to be Communist? Why should we interfere?"
- They are what, Srila Prabhupada?
- They argue that all paths lead to Krsna. So why is one better than another?
- They ask, "How are you so much sure about 8,400,000 species?"
- They ask, "What is the force that combined matter and the atma, matter and life, matter and the jiva or atma? What is the force behind it?"
- They call it java plum... It's bitter fruit?
- They can chant (you are recommending sixteen as a minimum, and some devotees are choosing twenty as a minimum)?
- They can manufacture brass items?
- They can't even see that in an animal other than human there's soul. So how can they understand the Deity?
- They could go to another planet?
- They couldn't see the Lord face to face?
- They counter that if God is all-powerful, He can do anything. So why not He can create a soul and that soul can then be eternal from that point?
- They criticize this in ISKCON, that the leaders pick out husband and wife... And that they're not allowed to mix freely. They say, "Well how do you know who you want to marry unless you can mix with that person?"
- They did that (they destroyed an amusement park) to get insurance money?
- They do not believe in God, the Russians?
- They don't believe in Lord Caitanya, these sahajiyas in Vrndavana?
- They don't know their philosophy. So how can we defeat them?
- They don't like Madhavananda?
- They don't like nim? The flies?
- They don't see how they can have faith if they have no knowledge of God. And they argue, "Well, I don't know God. So how can I have faith in Him?"
- They don't take their pleasure in being there in the brahma-jyotir?
- They eat (their own children, the snakes)?
- They feel they're getting something out of it. But how do you explain... I gather that most countries, in Britain and America and so on that there are many thousands... And now, how do you explain this? Why are people...? Why are...?
- They get salt from here?
- They have accepted some of these gymnastic people as their guru. So they say, "Oh, our guruji is here. We have to go see our guruji," this, that. So how should we speak to them or how should we preach to them?
- They have farms, they call them sea farms and they specially grow the seaweed for cultivation... But the Vedic culture, I don't think they like this. They'll prefer this... Do you think Prabhupada?
- They have in India this tree also. That gives red flowers?
- They have no brain for understanding Krsna. That only comes from milk?
- They have so many people in boxes in the hospitals they are keeping alive. So the big battle is raging whether or not they should pull out the plug?
- They have stopped it (cow killing) because they see we are getting so much support?
- They have their own god, who is, they made a unique system, and someone else says, "No, we have our own unique system." Someone else says, "No, all those three systems we do not agree with." What's going to happen in that thing?
- They have those (Bul buli(?) birds) in India?
- They have tigers and serpents and everything like that?
- They have to come to the temple to be trained up?
- They have verandas on this building?... On the inside or the outside?
- They may say “What is the use of creating an egg?”
- They must know how to drive it (the car). That is knowledge. Why do you say no?
- They ought to thicken wall with a little under because this kacca wall foundation is there. They should make it... This wall. They should dress it up, the foundation, which is above. No? You are going away today?
- They put forward the argument sometimes, though, that it is very natural to try to enjoy. Everyone is doing it, so why should we fight the nature? People say like this
- They said that then if Christianity is complete, then what is the need of coming here? What is missing there that we would find here?
- They said you wanted to see me (Gurudasa)?
- They say at the time of death they will learn a lesson, but if, when they go into a new body, they forget, how will it help them?
- They say for a plant, ground is necessary, water is necessary, seed is necessary, air is necessary, so why is it that there is only one cause?
- They say he (the father) has passed away. But what is passed away?
- They say if it's advancement of knowledge, if they are advanced, why do they have to die? The animals are dying, and they're accepting that, and the human beings also die. But why does he have to die if he's advanced in knowledge?
- They say it is impossible for any man to know what will happen to him after death. It is not possible, so why think about it?
- They say something like "I am God." Some young people our age, they talk like that. Does this mean that we should become angry at them?
- They say that men are living longer now. The scientists, they say that there's less disease. They say that a hundred years ago people had more disease than... ?
- They say that we are also under the control of nature?
- They say what is the difference between an animal and a plant?
- They say why do you worry so much about death? We are living. We are enjoying life, why do you worry about death?
- They say, "But why should we accept any one of your authorities?"
- They say, "Oh, I've been inspired," and they create something beautiful by, automatically almost. What is that inspiration?
- They say, "Then my chanting is useless? So I should stop?" That's what they say
- They say, "We don't remember. We don't remember being a hog, so what is the harm?"
- They say, "We want to come together to serve the Lord." Is that excuse or is that...
- They see us distributing, and they don't like what we're doing, they get very angry, but still, they're thinking of Krsna all day. We often wondered how they are benefiting even though they maintain this very envious...?
- They speak of peace, such nonsense. How can they expect peace when they're slaughtering?
- They started almost at the same time (Presidency College and Scottish Churches College)?
- They still have to go out and ask occasionally (but those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form - to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have)?
- They still would not be allowed to do it (chant Hare Krishna) in school. There's a law against that, officially, in school... We should try to fight that?
- They think if they can make very palatable dishes, what is the need for God?
- They use flesh for curing diseases?
- They want to know: is God the transcendence?
- They wanted an Indian to be the leader (of ISKCON)?
- They were a little strict. They were strict (we had all European professors)?
- They were showing them (in our childhood we used to enjoy their play, Max Linder and Chaplin) in India?
- They were singing all the time at the Kumbhamela, "Give me this, give me that." What is that song?
- They were, I was told, associated with Gandhi. What's your relation with Mahatma Gandhi?
- They will always exist? Gradations will always exist?
- They will come forward and say, "Now, what practical can we do to help implement these in the government, in the world? What can we do practical?"
- They will give us a temple also? Where is that temple?
- They will naturally perform some tapasya?
- They will not listen logically (no body is finished. My childhood body is finished, but the soul is not finished) What can you do?
- They will say, "Well, how do we know that Krsna is God?"
- They wonder how is it possible that if there is soul, that there could be two souls within one body?
- They worship you, don't they?
- 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...
- They would say then, "Why don't you let the vegetables die naturally before you eat the vegetables?"
- They would say, How do you know God said that? Just because it is written in a book, how do you know?
- They'll ask what should be killed and what shouldn't be killed for eating? Where do we draw the line?
- They'll ask, though, "Where did the first egg come from?"
- They'll come here, anyway. We didn't give any address card (invitation cards to our temple). Do you think people will come anyway?
- They're forced to lead a very spartan way of life, though, aren't they? Why is this necessary?
- They're inquiring, "Is there sex after death?"
- They're mostly young people, (your followers) aren't they, or are they, you have all ages?
- They're selling tickets to go to the moon?
- They're separate energies?
- They're separate energies? Is it like a by-product?
- Thirteen or twenty years (that you lived in Allahabad)?
- Thirty lakhs (the land is worth minimum 30,000,000 rupees)?
- Thirty manuscript pages, thirty book pages?
- This ("agriculturists should give protection to the cows") doesn't apply to bulls and bullocks and male animals generally does it?
- This ("Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.") is vandanam. Yes, Srila Prabhupada?
- This (people from all different parts of Bengal are coming to see your temple) never before has happened?
- This (tapasvino grama-vasah. "The so-called yogis, they'll live in the town.") is all from the Twelfth Canto?
- This (the ten tikas) is published?
- This (the third-class devotee, he has belief but he cannot explain or give any support) is like Christian...?
- This (the whole India is under the impression that brahmana can be prepared..., brahmana is manufactured in India and the son of a brahmana is a brahmana) is propagated by the brahmanas themselves, isn't it?
- This (this side is going to be constructed) side?
- This (Tukarama`s initiation by Lord Caitanya) was southern India?
- This all, advertisement (to take as a loan)?
- This also shows the eternal nature of the spirit soul? Because I'm conscious?
- 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 body that we inherited, the bodies that we're in now, are the results of the behavior of our souls when we were in our previous... And then can we sort of, by looking at ourselves, can we get the sort of person we were when we were here before?
- This Caitanya was incarnation of Krsna. Before Caitanya was who, Krsna or anyone in between?
- This can be taken as food (China grass)?
- This chanting process is directed to everyone, or just those who...?
- This cloud on the movement in America, is that vanishing?
- This country, what do you think is the best way of establishing the asrama, or the centers, and which way we can help in this matter?
- This dark Rahu planet, this is closer?
- This desire to accumulate money, is this just like annamaya stage?
- This divisions (of varnasrama) only in Hindus? Mohammedans also accept this divisions?
- This duty, is this duty to the self or duty to others or duty to the state?
- This earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- This example is available in Bhagavatam, Prabhupada (frog in the well)?
- This feeling that we have, that we are fallen, that we are very fallen...?
- This four-division society that you advocate is contrary to everything in American tradition. How can that be accepted in America?
- This gentleman (give facility for him, ten rupees)?… Ten rupees?
- This gentleman asks if the disciples have to give up their religion, if, for example, they are Christian, they have to give up Christianity to be devotee?
- This gentleman who was asking you about people who are constantly being tested by all kinds of miserable circumstances. She asks: Is it not a sign of a soul that God has chosen to favor that he sends them such miserable conditions of material life?
- This government of Maharashtra has created an institution, government institution, which are feeding pigs for selling, meat, and poultry. It could have been done by any private institution outside. Why, eh?
- This has come a long way from the Barrier Reef, the Pacific. These shells. The shells... From the Pacific. From the Barrier Reef, Australia. You know the Barrier Reef?
- This idea of freedom and independence, is it possible for anyone theoretically to surrender to Krsna at any time?
- This is (the varnasrama college) the most auspicious work for now, is this remedial measure to stop the chaos in the world?
- 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 a French nun, and she wishes to know whether for us Christ is the son of God or is He God Himself or what is the identity of Lord Jesus Christ?
- This is a ghata?
- This is a photograph we've received of your Guru Maharaja. Should the painters, should they paint this type of pictures?
- This is a question that sometimes a devotee has asked me. If a yogi does attain a Vaikuntha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Krsna in Goloka...
- This is also a translation of it (Nectar of Devotion. It is translation from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of Rupa Gosvami) or...?
- This is called Tapke?
- This is called utilitarian (called what?)
- This is collective, national danger here. Have you anything to offer to us as a...?
- This is comfortable seat?... Table is close enough?
- This is glucose water. No taste?
- This is good propaganda (by Professor Judah and all others, that "How it is happening? There is something in the Hare Krsna movement.") with the governments also. This is good way to get the governments to support our movement more and more, isn't it?
- This is His determination to incarnate as Lord Caitanya?
- This is in connection with the churning of the ocean?
- This is just an example of a successful corporative enterprise which is... But would you speak something new which has not been tried before?
- This is Krsna dasa Kaviraja's body?
- This is not taking this yet?
- This is on chanting hari-nama in the streets, chanting Hare Krsna in the streets with mrdangas and karatalas. It's a very important part of our program. Is that correct?
- This is possible from the examples of great saintly persons and from literature we can find that one can be completely free from the four demands of the body, namely eating, sleeping, defending and mating
- This is possible to understand... but what is sometimes difficult to understand, where does... where does originally the soul come from?
- This is the big thing, isn't it? The teacher has got to be God conscious
- This is the first pamphlet that you ever printed?... I mean in the West?
- This is the first volume. Are you preparing more of them?
- This is the original building?
- This is the play of maya, that we all know. But so long as we are in maya we have to play our part, haven't we?
- This is the Sixth Chapter Bhagavad-gita? Is that what you're quoting (tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah)?
- This is used now for storing sand. That land or this?
- This is what you have tried to do. Why is it necessary to concentrate on this name, "Krsna"?
- This is what? Like a cheese (Sandesa)?
- This is when Maharaja Yudhisthira was retiring, or before?
- This is Yamuna River?
- This is your first visit to Australia?
- This is your Paris establishment?
- This is your yoga, right?
- This lady heard your lecture about how the soul reincarnates in different kinds of bodies. So she wants to know how is this possible because in the West, our understanding is that the animal forms do not possess a soul
- This laghima siddhi is also being attained by the material scientists?
- This land we were looking at a few days ago? You suggested purchasing it for grazing
- This man wants to know something about the Hare Krsna movement in Europe
- This man's imitating the bird means that he will become a bird?
- This mantra we chant for Krsna and Rama both, but this movement glorifies the Krsna's pastimes and not much of Rama
- This Mayavadi philosophy, is this...?
- This meeting right now is concerning ISKCON and the GBC, but are we going to have some kind of meeting regarding the BBT?
- This movement must have structure. Will you please tell us about the structure from the hierarchy on the top, and all the way down?
- This movement started all over the world now. How many countries for instance?
- This Oath of Allegiance is a legal document also, isn't it? It's both a legal document and a spiritual document
- This old fort? This is actually called "Old Fort" isn't it? This part is built around a commemoration to a very old military fort. British
- This one (fan)?
- This path of devotional yoga, bhakti-yoga, that is the path for this time, for this age?
- This planet, where is it situated in the planetary system?
- This refers to someone who has attained Brahman realization, that he must fall down because he does not take shelter at Krsna's lotus feet. Does this also refer to someone who has attained Paramatma realization?
- This rich birth is important for self-realization?
- This rule, "No gambling," does this also include speculation?
- This sankalpa-vikalpa is there as long as we have our independence, though. Even as devotees, that accepting and rejecting? That is there even in devotees?
- This Satya Sai Baba, he is also disciple of Krsna. How he produces...?
- This school is for all ages or just for children?
- This specific Vaisnava, that refers to Visnu? Worshipers of Visnu (Godhead means all visnu-tattva. They are not jiva-tattva. So therefore those who are devotee of God, they are called Vaisnava)?
- This suffering comes from our sinful activities?
- This suffering is all due to the desire of the individual souls?
- This surrender is made or it happens?
- This tends to show that trees have been once before in human form and then have really fallen. But is it also the case that there are, amongst the forms, many souls that are on the process of evolution and going upward in the same way?
- This thing about it (a big bunch of hair) actually weighing down on the mind, is that fair to say?
- This verse, Srila Prabhupada, vasudeva sata devam, is also written by him (Sankaracarya)?
- This way, if I understand what is personal and impersonal?
- This would be the prescription for all people?
- Those (meat or wine) are all out. They have to be. And tobacco is...?
- Those special demons, are they are all like Jaya and Vijaya, are they all in that position?
- Those that are initiated, must they live in the temple?
- Those that follow Siva are after more material gain?
- Those who come up from the animal species, do they automatically get a chance to contact Krsna consciousness, or do they, might be born in low family, or?
- Those who have become Krsna conscious, they will see Krsna?
- Thread (sutra means thread)?
- Three o'clock we'll meet. So we'll have our meeting, Srila Prabhupada, with Lokanatha also present… And then we'll begin tomorrow. Is that soon enough?… Should we depart for taking prasadam now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Three-fifths of the earth's surface is ocean water. So that much is required to water two-fifths land?
- Through lecture? Through sound (hear from God personally)?
- Through this I can feel not only God outside, but God inside?
- Through what means do you train the human being to become, to achieve his ultimate goal in life?
- Thunderbird? A big bird, big eagle, in the United States
- Tigers (even the tigers, they are also devotees)?
- Tirtha Maharaja's brother is active now?
- To achieve the goal of Krishna, should we pass our life through matter to spiritual life or direct to spiritual life?
- To answer your question regarding your names Balai, Lilasukha, Kancanbala, Indira and Ekayani...
- 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 bring people together on discussion there are different groups, no?
- To eat plants, is it not killing? To eat vegetables, is it not killing?
- To find sraddha, or faith to surrender. To surrender, one must have something to surrender to. What is that?
- 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 get to something else, what do you do for fun when you're in New York?
- To give up matter through the chanting of Hare Krsna, to make this contact by using the words of matter, how...?
- To Indira Gandhi (a letter)?
- To kill India's spiritual status?
- 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?
- To know who is the driver of the car (purpose of the movement is to know who is the driver of the car)?... And who is that?
- To Krsna's ear, is praying louder than nonsense talk?
- To learn how to sing them nicely. To learn how to sing them (Each verse is a song. I wanted our students should do that)?
- To love is very difficult, is it not? It is very difficult?
- To my mind the nearest approach in the Christian religion is the Unitarian position, which I don't know if you studied?
- To practically follow Jesus Christ for a sincere searcher of the truth who does not recognize and accept the external manifestations of the Krsna consciousness movement, is it possible to attain love of God?
- To purify that desire we also have to be put into the fire?
- To read your books (our progress is how the student is becoming Krsna conscious. That is our point. And because he has to read nicely, he has to speak nicely, he must be literate, not illiterate)?
- To reduce it (sex life) over the stages of your life?
- To the children (to give some fruits). No, I will take this, you give me a piece of paper, can you?
- To think in spatial terms, and it's possibly hang-ups from Christian theology, in a sense, that I wanted to persist with this questioning even further about, you know, the real nature, as far as the Bhagavad-gita gives it to us
- To understand a mode. Is a mode a personality?
- To visit all of our centers in the world?
- To what extent the Society has succeeded in India for propagating Krsna consciousness?
- Today in the evening you are at Rajasthan's house?
- Today the only time they use the word God is when they are swearing and they are calling on God to damn someone else. Why is such language there? Why are they doing like that?
- Today there's a little swelling in your... It seems to come and go… It seems to come and go. Is it bothering you?… Is it disturbing?... Really?
- Today, is it wise to practice this kind (fixing the life air between the eyebrows) of meditation?
- Tomato and cheese (for breakfast)?
- Tomatoes don't grow in India?
- Tomorrow (All right, let us go)?
- Tomorrow will you go on a walk, Srila Prabhupada? Will you be walking on the roof or down below? Which do you prefer?
- Tonight (to make idli)?
- Too much liquor and self-indulgence (are showing godlessness in our society)?
- Total membership for around the world?
- Towards the end of the Kali-yuga isn't there a description in the Bhagavatam that one will not be able to see the sun or the moon?... Because of the impiety. So there will be no vegetation. Is that description in Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Traitors. And what about the Vidura? Why he went away?
- Transcendental means spiritual, does it?
- Translation (read)?
- Travel agent (so he arranged with some professional what is called, host)?
- Travel on a coach like this, Srila Prabhupada?
- Trivikrama Svami went to their monastery in Laguna Beach. So they were serving meat. Trivikrama said, "Why do you eat meat?" And they said, "That doesn't matter. What does it matter what you eat ?"
- Trust means to depend completely upon God?
- Trying to understand in my own way?
- Tulsi das teaching (is) bona fide, Srila Prabhupada?
- Twelve lakhs also in Delhi center only?
- Twenty times (London. Guru Maharaja sending him regularly seven hundred rupees per month. In those days seven hundred means at least...)?
- Twenty-five percent of the produce?
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- Ultimately if we come to Krsna, there's no return. But nevertheless, Jagai, and..., the two gatekeepers, they returned?
- Ultimately isn't our idea that the city complexes shouldn't remain, that things should become more spread out to farm and rural areas?
- Ultimately Krsna is the cause, but what about the immediate cause?
- Unconsciousness also means no life?
- Under the threat of nuclear warfare wouldn't Krsna consciousness be more easy to spread?
- Under what conditions would Krsna sanction violence?
- Understand you (first thing is that if you are interested in our book, so, you read our books. You'll understand)?… Is that what you're saying?…Is that what he's saying?
- Understanding that each individual has a certain particular rasa with Krishna, how would one relate with another soul of a different rasa? Especially between that of the Guru and disciple?
- Understanding the philosophy, Monsieur de President does not understand why we find it necessary to dress differently, though
- Until you have arrived here, there was no possibility of liberation for humanity?
- Upendra and I would like to give you a massage. Is that all right? But to do good, full job, we have to lay you on your back. Is that all right?
- Upendra can cook for you? Just like Srutakirti, he used to use the cooker. He would put up the vegetables and then give massage. And then after massage he would just chaunce the vegetables. He was able to do everything himself
- Upendra is here now. Should we give him the kismis to make?
- Urine? You want to try for it? Okay. Should we again continue some kirtana Srila Prabhupada? Okay
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- Vacate them? To vacate them (but the difficulty will be how to maintain the tenants. To purchase the house is not difficult)
- Vallabhacarya is from North, no?
- Vasisthan karman vikarman? "Vi—" is generally used as to... a sort of bhaktya. To give the quality of the karma, quality of the action. Like vijnanam, jnanam vijnanam. Karman vikarman. So this a little, what is the root of the language? I don't...
- Vedic culture, Srila Prabhupada, if there was illicit sex going on?... In Vedic culture, what would King Pariksit do?
- Vedic statement or is it just preference (I don`t like the sunshine so much, only at the time of massage)?
- Very big. But is that land available to us?
- Very much so. Very badly, very bad now, very bad. What do you do about that? And that's a serious question. Is it morally correct to be sitting here, for me to be sitting here...?
- Very nice. So shall we arrange for it (Parikrama)?
- Very successful (George's record) even with one boy, you see. That's success, isn't it?
- Violence for a right cause is better than the so-called nonviolence. Now I wanted to ask, for instance, to find that nonviolence or like Gandhi, it was wrong...?
- Virtue and sin become the same in sama-darsinah?
- Visakha was wondering who..., if you have any idea or choice who should do the Hindi translation or Bengali translation and speaking for the film like this. Did you have anyone in particular in mind, or inquiry should be made?
- Visitors' book, to sign (you have got some visitors' book? To...?)?
- Visnu and Krsna-duta is same. Visnu and Krsna-duta is same thing or...?
- Visnu doesn't have to take any loan. Anybody who believes that means they don't know the philosophy. How can God be wanting?
- Vivasvan, he is... (glowing)?
- Vrndavana always remains like that, even there is, on the surface people are doing nonsense there?
- Vrndavana is very cold in mid-February, Prabhupada?
- Vyaktim means?
- Vyasadeva and Nara-Narayana, they are still in the Himalayas meditating, why don't they come and join our parties and help this Krsna consciousness movement by their...?
- Vyasadeva is called tri-kala-jna - he sees past, present and future. How is it that he sees the future?
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- Walking (no, I traveled (going around Vrndavana). It takes two hours in the morning)?
- Want some cold custard?
- Want to go over it (the new mail) now? Shall we go over everything now?
- Want to go this way, Srila Prabhupada?
- Want to turn that side? Or straight? ... Cover with light covering?
- Was he (Lord Buddha) preaching karma-kanda?
- Was he (Mr. Bose) very close to your father?
- Was he (Vivekananda) not realized?
- Was he paying for the foodstuffs?
- Was he that elderly man who would sleep sometimes when he was offering obeisances?
- Was it (the tea) introduced by the English?
- Was it a big house (that house was constructed fifty years ago at the cost of six million dollars, and we have got it very cheap. Three hundred thousand dollars)?… Colonial house?
- Was it argued on also (I was expecting to fight that case at least for some years, but by Krsna's grace he has given on the first day the judgment)?
- Was it difficult for you to give up what you had been doing in order to devote full time?
- Was it not true also Sankaracarya Swamiji who said vande krsna jagat-guru?
- Was it your aim to suggest that the daily life of ordinary people can be built on the foundations of your philosophy?
- Was Jiva Gosvami living in Vrndavana?
- Was Krsna born, and if so, where?
- Was long hair a sign of beauty in those days?
- Was lunch all right today? Lunch? Your lunch was all right?
- Was Mahiravana also a demon?
- Was Narada there? Did Narada Muni come?
- Was that (for enjoyment they would even put two gladiators fighting each other, two men killing each other, and they would all watch) to the death?
- Was that barrister (Mr. Allston) English?
- Was that in Calcutta (we had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman)?
- Was the chanting of the name of Krsna effective as it is in this age or is there another method prescribed as being more effective?
- Was the place Slippery Rock, was that the first college...?
- Was there a story? The Hindus always tell this story about I think Visvamitra Rsi eating a dog or something?
- Was there a time when there was no material world?
- Was there always a kind of a movement?
- Was there always humans on this planet?
- Was there any palace here of His (Lord Krsna's) parents?
- Wasn't it true that they, at that time even, had better economic development, when they were Krsna conscious?
- Wasn't that (Sir Jagadishacandra Bose) your father's friend?
- Way of life or aim of life (the real occupation-serving Krsna)?
- We also say that Krsna is fulfilling the desires of every living entity. So if we want to enjoy independent of Krsna, why doesn't He let us really enjoy independent of Him?
- We also see Krsna is in temple. Does this mean also Allah is in the temple? And why are all these religions so different? Because essentially they are all the same
- We always encourage chanting Hare Krsna, is that so?
- We appreciate Communism as it stands now or socialism, what they call it?
- We appreciate very much this affirmation of love of God for man... What do you think about this?
- 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...?
- We are both still boys aren't we?
- We are building such important establishments in India. Do we have any danger...?
- We are eternally conditioned, but as soon as we surrender to Krishna do we then become eternally liberated?
- We are expansions of Radha?
- 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 imperfect. How do we know what a perfect source is?
- We are in God, and God is in us?
- We are only neophytes. How we can know if our anxiety is still material when we feel anxiety in devotional service?
- 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 are talking against material life, and why we are using microphones, tape recorders, airplanes?
- We are very small. One ten-thousandth part of a hair. Since we are unchangeable, does Krsna change His size to be the same size as us so that we can associate with Him when we go back to the spiritual world?
- We believe in the spiritual truth, but does that mean that our material truth does not exist?
- We both are coming from Horir(?), leaving Delhi after... We are interested in this Gita-jayanti Mahotsava, and we shall be more interested in you also. You are coming...?
- We can accept that the soul is not burned, but what about the body?
- We can also appreciate Krsna's creation in that light? For example, this is very beautiful because it is Krsna's.
- We can also do it for the books also, Srila Prabhupada, isn't it? It will be published by BBT, but coming out from Bhaktivedanta Institute
- We can also listen to the Mayavadis and then defeat them like that?
- We can arrange to sell our books to them (libraries in Russia) at any cost?
- We can do that with film (we want to try make a film to prove this point that life comes from life)?
- We can even offer a drink of water to Krsna before we drink it, can't we?
- We can get (that house)?
- We can give you some now (Caranamrta). Would you like it now?
- We can go this way maybe? See the sugarcane?
- We can go to Jagannatha Puri?
- We can have spiritual realization and still live in the material world?
- We can ideally organize ourselves and then for the rest of the people all we can do is hope that they'll follow it?
- We can keep horses? We can use horses?
- We can make our own cloth? Khadi
- We can make such arrangement (big umbrella overhead)?
- We can pick up the bed and make it to face with your head towards Krsna-Balarama, which would be east. You have any objection?
- We can publish that and also our refutation (another point about this journal is that we will present controversial things, and people may want to write something to refute what we have said)
- We can see, Srila Prabhupada, by the distribution of wealth and minerals in each loka, in each planet, it is meant to be governed by one ruler. One place there is gold, one place grain to grow. Is this true?
- We can show these atomic rings?
- We can sit you up, Srila Prabhupada. That will make it easier to drink. Bhavananda Maharaja and myself are here. We can hold you up for a minute?… Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada? Should we hold you up for a minute?
- We can take care of cows, can't we?
- We can understand all of your instructions simply by reading your books?
- We can understand how Sri Advaita Acarya is the servant of Lord Caitanya, but how is Maha Visnu and the Visnu-catur-bhuja, how do They serve Krsna?
- We can write a letter to the secretary of that institution and meeting, telling them what we intend to do... I can do it, but do you want us to do it or should Surabhi's office do it?
- 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 cannot create anything?
- We chant, "Gaura Nityananda bol, haribol, haribol..."... "Gaura sri advaita..." Is it recommended by you? That is in our parampara? And what about "jaya jagannatha, jaya jagannatha"?
- We could also have a passive relationship with Krsna, like a tree?
- We could rent it for wedding ceremonies, things like that also. ... What do you think, Srila Prabhupada?
- We couldn't find any barley. What can we use instead?
- We degenerated. So the Muslims degenerated. Americans will degenerate. Somebody else will degenerate. Is that sort of a will? No?
- We do not fight?
- We don't deny that Krsna exists, but, well, you know... Can I see him?
- We don't have a very good reputation in India?
- We had another practical consideration. We were thinking, could BBT publish the journal? BBT would publish the journal ("Sa-vijnanam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute")?
- We have a display over here in the window of your books, Srila Prabhupada... Would you like to see?
- We have a nice banner which flies in front of the building also. I think you should park on the right side, Jayananda, unless... All right, park on the left. See the banner?
- We have a spiritual body to serve Krsna?
- We have already had a hog's body. So we didn't like it. Otherwise, why would we change?
- We have also causeless mercy, meeting the pure devotee. Is that a chance?
- We have been to Jagannatha Puri, and some jagannatha-prasada we have brought for you. Will you take some?
- We have come to the world as the servant of Lord Krsna, but then why should we think, why should we think that we are Krsna's?
- We have got our Punjabi samaj... You are already booked for Rajasthan? After that are you staying here?
- 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 Mandakini (who will cook)?
- We have men who could teach this (varnasrama college) ? Do we have men...?
- We have no guarantee what our next birth will be. But, say, can't mystic yogis who perfect certain mystical powers, do they have any guarantee of a human birth in their next life?
- We have other informations other than Srimad-Bhagavatam (I have got evidence, our Vedic literature)?
- We have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?
- We have some grapes. Shall I get them?
- We have some nice pictures here of your Palace. Can you... Do you feel like seeing them now, or would you rather wait till some other time?
- We have some specific topics that we wanted to have Srila Prabhupada's instruction about these things that we are going to write ("The Origin of Life and Matter"). So shall I discuss them very briefly?
- We have talked to scientists who say that the size of the brain has nothing to do with intelligence. Do you believe that?
- We have, this temple has some daksina for you. How would you like me to do it? Today is Thursday. Would you like it in what form? Would you like us to invest it for you here, or give you the cash?
- We leave the universe. But then we are associating directly with Krsna and Arjuna?
- We listen to you, but you don't listen. That is the misfortune of ours. Huh?
- We live in sin, so is it not speculation to consider a sinless state?
- We made a separate latrine for you and separate shower, etc. That is all enclosed. So what would you like? A big tent?
- We may develop at least maybe half of your energy to continuously preach someday?
- We printed that little Bhagavad-gita, remember? That we've distributed twenty-five thousand. So seventy-five thousand Bhagavad-gita one year
- We proceed to Mayapur, and Smara-hari can come back with the medicine to Mayapur. All right?
- We read in the Bhagavatam how in King Pariksit's, under his rule, the people, there was no place for the personality of Kali to live even though it was Kali-yuga. So is this possible even today?
- We saved twenty-five copies of that Times of India article about the court case in New York. Is there something you want done with those twenty-five articles?
- We saw a rose-colored light that was vibrating all around the food. Is this how He eats?
- We say that Krsna is present within the spiritual, within the heart of the living entity. As a person or as an energy?
- 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 in the cities it's not, but in the villages, do they still have more than one wife?
- We see practically that the moon also moves, across the sky. Just like the sun does. So the sun has an orbit?… And the moon has an orbit also?
- We see that every great saint personality has surrendered to Krsna, even Mahatma Gandhi?
- We see that while for our survival, while walking, while working we kill so many things, knowingly or unknowingly, is it not sin that?
- We shall not take any education from the university?
- We should also request kaviraja to come along (on Vrndavana parikrama)?
- We should always be patient to answer such newsmen's questions, they are very easy to answer, and so many people will see. For example, for the question about poverty...
- We should bring Krsna das Babaji here? Okay… Indu-mati Prabhu?
- We should buy some for you, Prabhupada?
- We should dedicate our lives to preaching this message of Lord Caitanya?
- We should do that, expose them (people who attack us)?
- We should get deerskin also?
- We should have a mosaic floor or a colored cement floor? What standard that should be?
- We should have some doctor. Is that all right?
- We should have the lunch here?
- We should hold it. And invite the men who contributed?
- We should just reproduce that (take some photograph) as it is?
- We should not get a tractor?
- We should observe this festival, Srila Prabhupada?
- We should occupy the L.I.C. grounds in Delhi with kirtana?
- We should offer the plate after the arati?
- We should say prayers in the morning at one hour and a half before sunrise?
- We should wait for sunrise to say our Gayatri?
- We shouldn't kill them. What about if they're biting you, right in the process of biting you?
- We still have the zamindar system. We still have the system, and the rich people are exploiting. They do. Unless there is some kind of a revolution by which you can curb the power of the landlord, how can you be for land distribution?
- 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 went out for distributing at some place and then we make them to chant Hare Krsna at that time. And then, if we leave them they forget. Did they become purified?
- We were also discussing with Mrs. Conan Doyle and a friend of hers, how is it, if I'm thinking I am happy, or I do not have love for God, nor do I want to have love for God, how will I cultivate it?
- We were discussing this morning about the species of life. We understood that there is actually all the species of life on this one planet, or some species don't exist here?
- We were hoping that you could give us another chance by coming back next year?
- We were just discussing whether the Paramatma and the jivatma is still there even in the living cells?
- We were lucky because when we joined all that we had were your Bhagavatams from India, those original Bhagavatams... Otherwise, what shall we do?
- We were talking about the importance of preaching. Does it make any difference whether it's in India or in the United States?
- We were wondering, should we offer the food to the Deities in the temple or should we offer it in the restaurant?
- We will need a harmonium. Should I wait till we get to India to purchase one?
- We won't see things the way we perceive them now, right?
- We would say there is no past, or is our perception of the past is false?
- We'd have to completely revise the whole system that we have now?
- We'll defeat them by giving them prasadam, right, Prabhupada?
- We'll stop the chanting for a little while?
- We'll wait for the bath?
- We're installing Krsna and Balarama there, Srila Prabhupada?
- We're so insignificant, but at the same time we become so puffed up? How is it possible for us...?
- We're talking of you. You have got the power. But people follow you because they believe in you. So you have the power to educate them. And you're not hippies, are you?
- We're very, very busy, Jayapataka and I, because the festival is coming up. Would it be all right if I stayed back? I make all the arrangements, but stay behind to supervise it?
- We've all experienced that. We've had so much bread. What did we get?
- We've talked for some time concerning spiritual matters and the philosophy of Hare Krsna. How does it affect the way people live?
- Welcome, sir. What is Krsna consciousness?
- Well are you showing your devotees Krsna?
- Well do you think that the Eastern sun, meaning Hare Krsna, is appropriate in a culture that has a different religion traditionally?
- Well does that mean that the world, the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter (car is important so long it is moving and if it is not moving it has no importance, it is lump of matter)?
- Well how does it become scientific (as soon as you say that "We Christians, we believe," then it is misbelief. It is not scientific)?
- Well I understand you do a lot of work translating and that you only sleep two hours a day. Is that right?
- 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 is it (the varieties of men) divided by country or within one country there are many species?
- Well is it important to try to improve this life so that it won't be a prison?
- Well is Krsna consciousness very elaborate?
- Well is that what makes the people make this distinction between the life you are leading and the life of the world (those who identify on the bodily concept, because the body itself is dead without the soul, it is considered the dead platform)?
- Well situated? Even though there's no sun? (there are seven other planets; there sunshine does not go, but they are very well situated)
- Well the next proposition is that if God is there, then let Him stay there, and we are here, let us stay here. Why do we have to be concerned with Him?
- Well will they follow your example and not vote?
- Well, a Beethoven symphony, for example, could you listen to that? (If it is) inspired by God, given by God?
- Well, according to every physician that we've consulted, Ayurvedic and allopathic, they say that that's very much required. Is it painful to pass urine?
- Well, and they think how to sell literature and... Is that the way to God consciousness, by selling and soliciting (they say that they are representing some drug center)? Is that…?… How does that fit in?
- Well, are your book lists in here?
- Well, are your Krsna members out of the, out of jail?
- Well, can we use, for instance, the glossary to your Srimad-Bhagavatam printed in India, can we use that as a model for...?... You have a glossary at the end of the first volume. Is that the type of glossary...?
- Well, do you know very much about Jesus?
- 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, doesn't it mean that someone has to worship that person to be able to attain the enlightenment or Krsna consciousness?
- Well, first we have to explain that Krsna has a transcendental body. If they don't understand that, then how can we explain Krsna's disappearance?
- Well, his question it is why must we do something to become God when we're already God?
- Well, how can a person not believe (in God)?
- Well, how do I find out?... Perhaps not. How do I find out that?... Can you tell me?
- Well, how do you see the person? By understanding?
- Well, I didn't mean yours in particular. I'm talking now of all of you. I'm not talking of you particularly. I'm talking of all of you. All your children, the married devotees... (do they go to school? Your children?)?
- Well, I don't quite understand how you say you go to the moon planet and die. What about the space suits or living inside a spaceship on the moon
- Well, I mean, what do you mean by serious student? Maybe everybody, all of us are serious anyway. I mean, we're born serious or born, you know, unserious
- Well, I'm going to go over to his house right now and just see, Srila Prabhupada. All right? And if Bhagatji's still home, I'll tell him that he should tell that to Balaram Misra. Either he does the puja here or don't do it at all. Is that all right?
- Well, if God is the creator of everything and is so dear to everyone, why then has He caused so much suffering?
- Well, if Hare Krsna is the best one, what is the reason why we have to bother to even say anything else other than this one?
- Well, if it (Lord Caitanya inquiring from Ramananda Raya) has to be rendered in the scene it's important. You want me to render the discussion?
- Well, if the Vallabhas say that they only like Krsna before He was contaminated, so what is the specialty of Krsna? Everyone is uncontaminated in a young age
- Well, is that (Lord Caitanya inquiring from Ramananda Raya) important? That's the scene about the meeting
- Well, is the Krsna movement the driver or the car (first of all, understand the analogy. The car and the driver is always separated. The driver is not car, neither the car is the driver)?
- Well, isn't God just a craftsman also?
- Well, It's because of these things (as far as possible we do not go even to the doctor), that they're wondering well then, what do we do with the money?
- Well, it's granted that we are all thinking about the future, but isn't it possible for us to take the best of what the material world has to offer and also make the best of what the spiritual world has to offer, simultaneously?
- Well, let's say someone gives the temple president some money, and he puts in an account with his name and the treasurer's name, and they both conspire and take the money. Then there's no...?
- Well, let's take the situation of an individual who is very deeply addicted to the senses, such as sexual...
- Well, origin, that is more on the theoretical side. It's a question, "Why?"
- Well, perhaps you could continue where they left off. Could you tell me why you came to the United States in 1965. Did you feel that this was a mission that you had to fulfill?
- Well, since this dichotomy appears to be the case, I mean that there is, that the movement is sort of cut off from the world in general, does that not deprive the world of the service, of the usefulness of these people?
- Well, Swamiji, if you want, you can answer this or not. Have you been to other planets?
- Well, tell me about the books you have translated. Are there some more to translate?... Well, one day you will die. Now who will translate them then? Continue the translating?
- Well, the basic question is how to handle the problem of modern education?
- Well, the diagnostic's not altogether clear to me how the chanting is going to affect the pollution. How do you see...?
- Well, the question was the satisfaction of the God, that we satisfy our Lord. Now, what are the means to satisfy the Lord?
- Well, then could not we say that by man's activity, then, things are happening?
- Well, then even sexuality is spiritual?
- Well, then they want to say that if nature can't be self-existing, how can God?
- Well, then they'll say, "Well, if you see somebody suffering, then why do anything about it, if it just what they..." They will say, "Why? If that's what they deserve, why try to stop it?"
- Well, then what, what is the check on fools? What is the check on fools?
- Well, then why a conference with men of other religions?
- Well, then, how is the individual soul eternal if it has a beginning?
- Well, to understand Krsna consciousness, do you not require adhikari?
- Well, vegetables are living entities also?
- Well, we can admit that we're not happy all the time, but what is the meaning of happiness without distress? If there's no distress, how can I be happy?
- Well, what about all these artificial divisions, "this nation," "that nation," "this land"?
- Well, what about before they had botanists? They didn't know anything about leaves before?
- Well, what actually is responsibility?
- Well, what can be done with animals?
- Well, what do you hope to achieve by your short visit here to New Zealand, where you don't have a very big following at all?
- Well, what happens to the rest of the money, though, that is collected in the streets?
- Well, what happens when I leave? Then if he's not here and I leave, what happens then?
- Well, what happens when suddenly one of you gets, very ill tomorrow morning?
- Well, what I was interested in is why is it necessary to live in such lavish situation as is shown here?
- Well, what is it that they particularly understand, misunderstand about the movement?
- Well, when you're chanting it's (the false ego) dissolved, actually... Forget yourself?
- Well, which is the original (Bhagavad-gita)? It's the same as the Bible
- Well, who is the supreme father's father?
- Well, why is it, can I ask, perhaps, that the Krsna movement is the natural way of living against, say, other religions, other faiths?
- Well, you'd laugh if you were ill and there was no doctor, wouldn't you?
- Well, you're educated, you see... Yes, but how many of these are?
- Well, you've got a good tape there now, haven't you?
- Well... Go on giving you juice and barley water, kirtana. Maybe eventually the situation will change. How can we stop trying to feed you and take care of you? Krsna can intercede at any moment
- Went to America, what was your idea of what would be your program when you got there?
- Were all the races originated in India?
- Were some of the animals destined to survive through the destruction of other animals?
- Were the Kumaras, before they became attracted to Visnu, were they Mayavadis?
- Were there any followers before you came to this country?
- Were they (the acaryas) not Krsna conscious?
- Were they (the Soviet Union leaders) receptive to what you...?
- Were they liberated souls? The thief?
- Were you a businessman?
- 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?
- Were you born in this country?
- Were you having the experience?
- Were you just waiting to finish your books?
- Western are all are like asses?
- Western people want to think they're the body. Otherwise how can they enjoy all their technology?
- Whale skeleton (in the ocean there are fishes. You cannot see them. Big fishes. From the skeleton I saw in Calcutta Museum...)?... Whales
- 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 (being "subordinate to the man" for) women who do not have children?
- What about (the leadership of) Mrs. Meir, president of Israel (being successful)?
- What about a cow?... So they say like that (So if you kill one animal, camel, it is equal to fifty goats)?
- What about a future suit?
- What about a meeting in the biggest hall of Heidelburg? Would you also be interested in that?
- What about a name meaning "all-powerful"?
- 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 a savior?
- What about activities in the spiritual sky, beyond...?
- What about adultery, Prabhupada? She wants to know what the Vedas say should be the... What is the reaction for adultery? How does one deal with an adulterer? If someone is an adulterer and he's caught, what should be the...
- What about all the sufferings of the body? Let's say one has a toothache or something like that
- What about Alphonso?
- What about any history? World history or American history or American literature or English literature?
- What about astronomy (should be taught)? Anything like that?... Any animal husbandry they can learn out there
- What about avataras, in reference to Christ or Buddha?
- What about being of material service. Material service, not just spiritual service?
- What about brahmana (can become Krsna conscious)? Brahmana too? Someone who is naturally a (indistinct)
- What about British devotees, British citizens? Would the British be asked to leave, British citizens? Commonwealth citizens?
- What about Buddha? Would you say that he is good?
- What about buying books? There are so many books with nonsense ideas. That will have to be controlled also
- What about celibacy?
- What about certain other traditions; Ishnamadeva(?), Tukarama, some of the poet saints of Maharastra. Where...?
- What about Christians?
- What about cross-breeding, when they change the (seeds)...? Cross-breeding
- What about eating or taking liquids?
- What about electricity?
- What about England? London. How is your movement doing?
- What about excerpts from your books? Is that all right?
- What about for a child, a newly born baby. Are they born into a material body because of their parents' bad doings?
- What about Gopala-murti?
- What about Greece?
- What about Hayagriva?
- What about hell? How does the jīva soul go to hell?
- What about her?… What about his (Sanjay Gandhi's) mother?
- What about human milk?
- 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 one is in the mode of goodness (it's not possible that one's happy?)?
- What about if someone can choose to become a doctor or a lawyer or a physician or anything like that?
- What about if you, at least, can approve the (GBC) agenda?
- What about in Jagannatha Puri (when you say Gauda-mandala-bhumi, that means any of the lila places of Lord Caitanya)?
- What about in Rome? What kind of... Do you think they're going... Well, they're asking about problems with the police and getting (indistinct)?
- What about India? I mean, do they believe, the villagers?
- What about intermarriage between all the castes?
- What about jnana-yogis?
- What about lazy people?
- What about like euthanasia, say. Isn't that nonacceptance of a material body? If by some, for some reason the child isn't allowed to be born?
- What about like Maharaja Bharata?
- What about like the case of Bhismadeva where he knew about Krsna in Goloka, and he went to Krsna as Partha-sarathi?
- What about like the cow, little goodness in it, mixed?... And the lion, little passion?
- What about literatures (should be taught)? When they get older, of course. This would be for when they are older.
- What about Los Angeles?
- What about Madhava-lati?
- What about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
- What about meditating?
- What about milk? He wants you to take milk also with the Complan?
- What about miracles performed by so many people?
- What about mrdanga?
- What about my position, Prabhupada?
- What about nationalism here in India?
- What about on the hellish planets? Do they know they're suffering there?
- What about onions...?
- What about other artifacts of civilization like television and motorcars...(are they artificial needs)?
- What about other religion?
- What about other religions such as Christianity and...?
- What about other religions?
- What about our city temples (in the future)?
- What about our promise, in the future also, that you go to Krsna in the future?
- What about people who believe in Jesus, God? I mean, what about Christians? It might not have the same effect on them
- What about people who have come since the Vedic literatures, since the time the Vedic literatures were written. What about them?
- What about persons who die in their sleep? Is that a sinful death?
- What about pleasures like listening to music? Could you listen to other peoples' music?
- What about programs at schools and colleges?
- What about quoting even Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated, like the Caitanya-caritamrta or cantos that you haven't translated?
- What about reincarnation, Srila Prabhupada? What about transmigration of the soul? 'Cause we were thinking to do that for a next film, because it seems like a very natural thing
- What about Sankara's cheating?
- What about say a Buddhist who practices ahimsa... (in a Krsna conscious country, would he be chastised)?
- What about sex and drugs, sex and alcohol?
- What about so many saints who are preaching yoga and religion all over the world?
- What about some of the other schools that have grown up, people like Ouspensky and Gurdjieff and people who've brought a message similar to yours to the West in the past?
- What about something that cannot be tangibly seen, like a mathematical calculation or an equation?
- What about something very much nearer to ourselves here in this country, and that is a war or civil disturbance is going on... between Christians?
- What about Sridhara Maharaja?
- What about taking the primers and changing the names of the people to people like Satyabhama and give them spiritual names. Would that be nice?
- What about tamo-guna? Does tamo-guna have a relationship with the body?
- What about that chart you were working on comparing the ages, the Vedic ages and the scientists ages? Do you have that? Can we talk about that now? We should ask Srila Prabhupada if there's any real parallel there
- What about that Janmastami? We observe all those things. What is the significance?
- What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?
- What about the actual ministers? Cabinet ministers?
- What about the analogy that many rivers flow into the same sea and lose their individuality?
- What about the beings that live on the moon planet? Do you feel that they would interfere with any experiments or persons from earth landing there or trying to land there?
- What about the body of a man? Is that punishment or gift?
- What about the busy intelligent? How does he behave?
- What about the children of new devotees now?
- What about the cows that they slaughter? Do they have to continue in a cow birth?
- What about the crystal? The crystal grows, but we don't say that the crystal has life in the usual sense of the term. Is the crystal also...
- What about the future? Is it possible to bring more people into Krsna consciousness? To expand?
- What about the grhastha's duty toward his family, like looking after his family and children?
- What about the half-life of certain elements?
- What about the idea that "You do not have to move into a temple, give up your family and everything, but you can actually chant Hare Krsna in your own home," that idea that "It is available to you..."?
- What about the idea that God does not exist?
- What about the idea that God is evil?
- What about the men who surround you (everywhere the government, father and society are bad; and therefore we are producing bad men, and therefore there is no peace and prosperity)?
- What about the other atoms within me or the dog? Do you understand what I'm getting at? There are millions of atoms
- What about the other kind (of meditation)?
- What about the people in the...the innocent people?
- What about the plants and other smaller... (diva means demigods, they are in goodness. And human being in passion, and animals in ignorance. This is general division)?
- What about the platform of just not killing anyone? Is there any credit to that?
- What about the poor, hungry, and the suffering bodies?
- What about the possibility of opening more than one temple in this city? Just like if there's a good building on the East Side, if we can manage, what about the possibility of that?
- What about the rascals who are not so nice?
- What about the scientists, Srila Prabhupada? They are very inquisitive, they are trying to find out the cause of the material world
- What about the so-called gurus that take a little bit here and a little bit there?
- What about the statement that "Peace is stagnation"?
- What about the statement: jnani tv atmaivam eva tvam?
- What about the United States government (every sane man should help this movement for the good of society)?
- What about the verse in the Bhagavatam that says if a devotee falls down that he's not to be considered as the fruitive workers or the karmis, etcetera. ?
- 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 the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement?
- What about these men who perform great austerities, lash their bodies, starve, and...?
- What about these people that perform so-called bhakti-yoga but their aim is to merge?
- What about these pictures we have seen on the television showing them jumping on the moon?
- What about these rascals like Sai Baba? They use Krsna's philosophy, and then they twist it in such a way that it becomes Mayavada
- What about these..., the artificial hearts that they are making?
- What about this (picture) of Bhaktivinoda Thakura?
- What about this Guru Grantha Saheb.(?) The philosophy which Guru Grantha Saheb has, what is that about?
- What about this idea that nature, or evolution, is progressing?
- What about this position of Valmiki or Ramayana?
- What about this svarupa-siddhi?
- What about this Vrndavana? Is he the oldest son?
- What about those who are just possessing enough to maintain their bodies?
- What about those who are preaching, but imperfectly?
- What about two people born in the same circumstance? Each has equal education and equal background, but one becomes rich and one remains poor. That's chance?
- What about we go and have the aratik first?
- What about when it happens amongst the community of devotees or some, hepatitis, or malaria, or something of that nature (it's true that people are getting disease and sicknesses as the result of their past activities, pious or sinful)?
- What about when somebody helps another person?
- What about when somebody is born with three arms or eight toes?
- What about when someone goes to the hellish regions though? He actually suffers there?
- 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 women (woman's brain is smaller than a man's) who are leaders of countries such as your own country?
- What about women who are elected by the people?
- What about work, though? Does one have to give up one's job?
- What about writing down "kissing the lips of Krsna"?
- What about your children? Where do they? Do they go to school?
- What about your old storefront, 26 Second Avenue (if that side we get some small house, so that after going, eight days Jagannatha can remain there and festival going on, and then in the next week return…)?
- 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 advice do you have to women who do not want to be subordinate to men?
- What advice you render them (Indians who are here and who have fallen to some extent in the materialistic world) so that they get out of these clutches and go back and serve here or in the country but they should be devotional to the Almighty God?
- What am I? Is the body itself matter, or spiritual soul, or a combination of both?
- What are other major beliefs, besides love, to which you ascribe?
- What are our activities in France?
- What are some of the important shastric references in regard to developing an article on cheating?
- What are some of the other, aside from...? I mean, I see people selling things. What other practices are involved?
- What are some of the things that Lord Caitanya did when He was a little boy? Some tricks or things?
- What are the activities of the soul when it unites with God?
- What are the aims of the Indian society. Although it's given birth to so much, it still doesn't take it as success. What is the weakness in the Indian society that they don't...?
- What are the basic beliefs of the Krsna religion?
- What are the big differences (with some of the other Eastern cults and gurus) that you seem to be...?
- What are the good qualities you referred to not too long ago?
- What are the inscriptions?
- What are the ksatriyas of this order supposed to doing now?
- What are the methods used in attaining Krsna consciousness?
- What are the Pitrloka, Martyaloka and this...?
- What are the qualifications required for a person in working life like me, household like me, like myself, to get initiated?
- What are the qualities of the holy name?
- What are the reasons why one should not hear from one who has got sufficient knowledge on Lord Krsna if he is not outwardly a Vaisnava? That means he's not having sikha or kunti
- What are the rules of the material nature? Again, from experience, I know that one year, I couldn't do something and then, with a certain amount of practice, the next year I could. And so the rule has changed. It no longer is out of my grasp
- What are the senses, how to control the things to be done?
- What are the specific principles that you would use in trying to determine whether it is absolutely necessary to fight?
- What are the specifications for your first-class man?
- What are the stars exactly, they're other planets or...?
- What are the, our Prime Minister's view regarding this movement?
- What are their main misunderstandings (so kindly put the matter properly because people misunderstand on account of their ignorance they misunderstand our, movement)?
- What are these things? Gates or something?
- What are they (Communistic government) doing with their wealth if they are not investing it in economic...?
- What are they (in India, we have got gypsies) called? Bauls? Bauls in Bengal?
- What are we going to do? What am I going to say (Tamala Krsna?… What you are going to say?)?
- What are you reading? These are the commentaries? And this is the text?
- What are your impressions of the youth of this country?
- What are your instructions ... to the teachers as to how they treat parents? I have heard several parents sometimes complain that they don't get enough news about their children from the teachers. Should teacher let the parents know about the children?
- What are your plans for India?
- What are your qualifications for a sudra?
- What are your teachers called, those who teach the members of the community of Krsna consciousness? Are they also gurus or anything similar to the gurus of the Hindu faith?
- What are your views about silent meditation on one's, in one's own self, and this japa, gayatri-mantra?
- What are your views of the country? What do you think of it?
- What body is that, Srila Prabhupada?
- What can an ordinary man do? I mean the Krsna consciousness movement involves shaving the head and wearing the saffron robe. What can the man who is caught up in family life do?
- What can appreciation of Krsna do for the Americans?
- What can be done with animals?
- What can be said (in regards to the name of God being Krsna or Jehovah)?
- What can be said about God realization?
- What can I say? Then only when sadhus are attacked, then only (Krsna comes)?
- What can I suggest (the system of management will go on as it is now. There is no need of changing… A few deposits, which is allowing some pension to the members of my former family, may not be touched. That's all, two points. Hm? What do you think?)?
- What can I suggest?… That in regard to the three temples, Mayapur, Bombay and Vrndavana, you should designate who you want the trustees to be
- What can one do to rectify his offenses?... But if a person is not willing to do that, is there any way...
- What can the state do? Should the state just leave the people alone?
- What can we do, Srila Prabhupada (we have become very, very weak. No appetite. The brain is not working. Brain is working, but body is not allowing... I am complete... Now it is up to Krsna to judge... I have no objection)?
- What can we say to Communists to attract them to Krsna consciousness?
- What can you cure? What can you make better?
- What can you do to still two voices inside yourself?
- What can you enlighten us on this point, that why Krsna has given two different type of worships? One is the form worship; another is the formless worship, which He explains to Arjuna
- What chapter is this, Swamiji?
- What class does the arts and crafts come under (in the varnasrama college)?
- What class of impersonalists are worshiping the universal form?
- What class of men did Lord Caitanya teach about?
- What color is the ocean of milk?
- What comprises the examination for bhaktivedanta and bhakti-sastri? What is the syllabus?
- What could England gain from the separation? What was their gain from dividing India and Pakistan?
- What country are you from?
- What determines our fortune?
- What determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?
- What determines, Srila Prabhupada, if one is serious or one is not serious?
- What did Bali Maharaja reply ("rascal, if you give like that, where you will stay? He'll take everything!" Smarta brahmana. Simply considering "How I shall live?")?
- What did Mr. Bajoria say about the Puri house?
- What did you cook?
- What did you do? Did you work?
- What did you have to offer then. If you were chanting in the park and I said "What are you doing? Why are you chanting? What's your thing here?"
- What did you just define by species? You mean different types of men?
- What did you say, Srila Prabhupada (trustees appointed by me. That's all. That will save)?
- What distinguishes bhakti-yoga from karma-yoga?
- What distinguishes the soul from the body? Because here we're mentioning everything that is the field of activity, but then what is the soul?
- What do the other classes do?
- What do these people do for a living? Only grow food? And did you need money?
- What do they (Ramakrishna followers) do, Srila Prabhupada?
- What do they use?... For cleaning teeth?
- What do we say that something is (that something is missing within the body, therefore it is dead)?
- What do we think of Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and other bogus persons and all these different messengers of God?
- What do you believe in reference to Ramakrishna? He was in the Hindu faith
- What do you believe in?
- What do you call in Sanskrit, sir (when you cannot live without Krsna)?
- What do you call it (this dry shell became the tambura's... Like sound chamber)?
- What do you call that force?
- What do you consider illicit sex?
- What do you define as real happiness?
- What do you define by person then?
- What do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center?
- What do you do with a cow when it dies? Do you just bury it?
- What do you do with your eyes (during meditation)? Close your eyes?
- What do you expect from your disciple, basic thing?
- What do you feel about man going to the moon?
- What do you feel is the greatest order of God?
- What do you find, you know, that when you impart this knowledge to Western disciples and when you talk to someone who are in India, what difference do you find?
- What do you know about the soul leaving the body? Maybe when the body leaves the soul, the soul also dies. I think it is same thing.
- What do you know of this Maharishi Yogi that has become so world famous, and what could you tell us of his teachings by way of comparison?
- What do you mean by "channel"? Is it (lines of disciplic succession) through hereditary or what?
- What do you mean by "you"? What is this "you", who can't heal? I don't...
- What do you mean by sinful activities?
- What do you mean He wouldn't address him because He was a sannyasi (Ramananda Raya was coming in procession, Caitanya Mahaprabhu understood that he is Ramananda Raya. But because He was sannyasi, He did not address him)?
- What do you offer to Krsna?
- What do you or the Krsna consciousness movement have to say to me that is different from the essence of any of the major religions of the world, say, Christianity?
- What do you propose to do with criminals in your educational system? How will you reform them?
- What do you put in there (conchshell)? Ghee?
- What do you see as being the future of the world? What will happen? Will there be an end?
- What do you see as the future of your movement?
- What do you suggest for me to put my energy on, and present beautiful picture, nicely...?
- What do you think about Hebrew religion?
- What do you think about some of the other gurus, if you will, since you are yourself considered a guru? Do you study anybody else?
- What do you think about temporary healing?
- What do you think about the factor in reincarnation? Do you think it has got any significance?
- What do you think about the human being's science?
- What do you think is the solution of these difficulties (physical life has become so difficult... the population has increased so much)?
- What do you think of Jagannatha Puri Beach?
- What do you think of Jimmy Carter?
- What do you think of kundalini or raja-yoga?
- What do you think of miracle saints? The saints who perform miracles?
- What do you think of the future?
- What do you think of the Maharishi?
- What do you think of the use of drugs as an aid?
- What do you think of young people who follow the Divine Light Movement?... Guru Maharaji
- What do you think our society is doing wrong?
- 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 do you think would be the remedy or solution to the problem (no rainfall)?
- What do you try and teach, sir?
- 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 do you want, Srila Prabhupada? The fan. You want it more?
- What do you want?
- What does astronomy say? The modern astronomy?
- What does being a devotee of Krsna involve? Does it...?
- What does chanting do?
- What does coldness stand for?
- What does devotional service mean in that context (Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old and death, take refuge in Me in devotional service.) ?
- What does he (the first-class men) do?
- What does it (Gandharvapur) mean?
- What does it mean in the Gita, Prabhupada, when Krsna says only the modes of material nature are acting?
- What does it mean that Christ died for us, in order that we may live. Or in other words, died for our sins. He wants to know, because he's going to live anyway, he's eternal anyway, what is the meaning of that statement? What is the meaning?
- What does it mean to serve God?
- 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 when Krsna says "I am not in them"?
- What does it mean when they say that failure is the pillar of success?
- What does it mean when we say, "Philosophy is for fools"?
- What does it mean, "mystic oneness with God"? What does mystic mean?
- What does it mean, "original form"?
- What does it mean: "We are all originally Krsna conscious entities"
- What does it refer to, then, karmany evadhikaras te ma phalesu kadacana?
- What does Krsna say about truth?
- What does Madhumangala mean?
- What does mellow mean?
- What does perfectness mean?
- What does Rama mean in Hare Rama? Is this Balarama or Lord Ramacandra?
- What does that do to his relationship with his own spiritual master?
- What does that expert mean in the list of qualifications for a devotee?
- What does that it (veriya dasan) mean?
- What does that mean (every living entity's business?)
- What does that mean, "de bhagavan?"
- What does that mean, equal vision ("the humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision the learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater (outcaste)")?
- What does that mean, Swamiji, that new prayer?
- What does that mean, then, when the yogis withdraw their senses from the objects like it says like the tortoise withdraws his limbs within the shell? What does that refer to then?
- What does that mean? The final inauspicious date?
- What does the government of India say about that (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden), any comment?
- What does the Hare Krsna movement offer that other religions do not?
- What does the kaviraja say about your chances, Srila Prabhupada? What does he say about your chances of surviving?
- What does the name Jehovah mean?
- 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 does the Sanskrit sound like? Is Srimad-Bhagavatam to be chanted?
- What does the word "buddha" mean?
- What does the word (Krsna) actually mean? Kr is the root for "making," isn't it?
- What does the word Krsna mean?
- What does the yogi perceive when he cuts off the outer senses? What does he experience when he cuts off the outer senses?
- What does theology say?
- What does this isabgol do?
- What does this mean as far as whether women can do the same things that men can do, or whether women can lead people?
- What does this mean, "thus he sees that beings are expanded everywhere"?
- What does this mean? "Ketu Mahadasa?" What is the meaning of that, Srila Prabhupada?
- What does this story (the story of the Gopala, Saksi) have to do with the temple? Lord Caitanya has entered this temple
- What does your interpretation, or how does it differ in principle from the basic Jewish-Christian ethic of the Ten Commandments?
- What does your temple look like?
- What don't you like about travelling?
- What effect to the followers does chanting give?
- What else do you have over there besides gurukula schools and things?
- What else would you like to tell us?
- What events will occur in this age, according to the prediction?
- What exactly do you mean? Outside marriage, you mean (don't you see, illicit sex, what havoc it has done?)?
- What exactly does "Krsna" mean?
- What exactly is a devotee?
- What exactly is guru's role in your system?
- What exactly takes place when consciousness becomes purified?
- What exists between the planet Gokula and the (indistinct) Krsna?
- What had you been doing previously (actually I came here at the age of seventy years)?
- What happened (I got so many good chances. But everything... Dr. Kartika Candra Bose he appreciated my activities, "Very intelligent boy." He certified to my father-in-law. This is the way of becoming rich man)?
- What happened to him (Mahiravana)?
- What happens if the universe ends and there are some souls that have not yet transferred themselves to the other universe?
- What happens in your temples. Do you have services like other religions?
- 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 his consciousness which he has achieved as a man during that time which he is in the animal kingdom?
- What happens to the jiva souls who were fruits and vegetables that were offered to Krsna?
- What happens to the mind, intelligence and false ego when the soul is liberated?
- What happens to the miscreants when they are vanquished?
- What happens to the Vaisnava if he is following the spiritual master and he's not successful in spiritual life? Does he also take birth on higher planets like it says in the Bhagavad-gita?
- What happens to them (the devotees)?
- What happens to us immediately after our material body dies?
- What happens to your mind? What do you do with your mind when you chant?
- What happens when he dreams of the spiritual master or Krsna?
- What happens when it (mercury) is directly heated?
- What happens when that inevitable time comes when a successor is needed?
- What happens when the machine stops?
- What happens when women are not subordinate to men?
- What happens when women support men?
- What has been done all these years?
- What has been written about the future of civilization? Will we have a happy human family ever on the earth, or will there always be conflict between...
- What has Hasur Mohammed Sahib said about 14th Century and why?
- What have the scientists got to gain by bluffing?
- What have we done to make ourselves criminals? What criminal acts have we performed?
- What He said? Avajananti ma mudhah
- What he wants to know is, when the soul leaves the body completely, what happens after that?
- What he's questioning, Prabhupada, is whether or not bhakti-yoga is suitable for everyone in every instance?
- What heading does book distribution come under?
- What hope is there for Krsna consciousness in these countries like Russia and China, where they are so rascal they... ?
- What I didn't understand is how this (hypocrisy) is covered by your four pillars, the four... Which of these would cover lying?
- What I want to know is what you feel your relationship to God is?
- What I want to know is who is Lord Siva, Visnu and Brahma? Whether these three of them are gods?
- What I wanted, that if you will be able to help us in establishing, for example, that Gita meeting?
- What I was trying to ask you a while ago, do you think that these particular Vedic disciplines and spiritual principles, concentration on the spirit instead of the body, has a particular usefulness in Western society nowadays?
- What I'm asking is how to bring the karma-yoga, the action, to transform the society, bring back into the...?
- What I'm asking is why could he (Brahmananda) understand (the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness)?
- What I'm finding difficult is, for instance, we see on Oxford Street a lot of people who are handing out Hare Krsna literature… And you're really not concerned whether or not they join the Hare Krsna movement?
- What if a person doesn't desire material enjoyment, but still, there is so much dirt?
- What if a person knows what he is doing is wrong, but he still commits? Is that still ignorance?
- What if everyone became like you devotees?
- What if he (a thief) is an alcoholic and he's hungry?
- What if he (the thief) breaks in because he's hungry?
- What if he just goes on and he never asks pardon? Is he finished in...?
- What if I don't know, I haven't understood? What if I think I have understood but I have actually not?
- What if I start my own community outside the movement?
- What if it's done in a culture where this is entirely different (the Indian culture, brahmacari, sannyasi and brahmana, they are allowed to beg alms)?
- What if one has material desire? How does he gain the desire for spiritual knowledge?
- What if one keeps falling down from following the regulative principles?
- What if somebody is using this as a cover-up?
- What if someone (amongst the unclean, smoking and drinking potential guests) is willing to follow the regulations?
- What if someone deviates from your teaching?
- What if someone says, "Siva is God"?
- What if sometimes a disciple, he may go to preach, but he's not preaching in the exact same spirit of his spiritual master?
- What if that fever is not being diminished?
- What if the Hindi Back to Godhead was in newspaper form? Would that be lowering the standard?
- What if the person cannot chant sixteen rounds a day? He says, "I can't..."
- What if the person working as sudra says, "I can do so much. I can...,"?
- What if the spouse is very antagonistic toward Krsna consciousness?
- What if there's some desire to make something beautiful to give to Krsna?
- What if they (the theologians) say, "We agree there's one God, but we do not agree that His name is Krsna" or "We do not agree..."
- What if they die in coma? What if they die in deep unconsciousness?
- What if they say Caitanya Mahaprabhu was a devotee, He worshiped the Supreme Lord, kirtana, but His disciples say He's God?
- What if they say it is not excellent (after marriage the girl comes to her father-in-law's house... The girl is to cook and distribute this food to all the relatives of her husband. If they say it is excellent, then she is accepted in this family)?
- What if they started to worship Gaura-Nitai?
- What if we mentioned how many copies of Bhagavad-gita have been sold in the last year?
- What if we want to quote them (Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated) in some article?
- What if we're going on sankirtana or something like that, how can we be sure that we won't fall down, we won't overendeavor? How can we be sure that we're not pushing ourselves too much?
- What if you avoid even choosing right or wrong, you simply drift without any decision of right or wrong?
- What if you hear but don't act accordingly in your practical life?
- What impelled you personally, when you, at a fairly late stage in life, to come to the West to teach? And are you surprised at the great success you've had?
- What in particular, Srila Prabhupada (from last night things have gone bad)?
- What incentives can be given to harijanas to learn Sanskrit, the repository of Indian culture and religion?
- What is a simple solution to understand soul? I would like to understand soul in a simplified form
- What is alternative? What do you do when...?
- What is an example of the throwing potency of maya?
- What is Avadhuta? How does such a person engage?
- What is bad about eating, people who are eating beef? What is bad about it?
- What is Balarama's relationship with Radha?
- What is basic difference between human body, I mean man's body and woman's body, which attracts each other?
- What is being foolish?
- What is bitter melon?
- What is charka?
- What is consciousness?
- What is dhira?
- What is Eighth Canto like? What does Eighth Canto contain?
- What is evolution, according to the Vedas? What is this evolution that is talked about by the scientists?
- What is exactly the position of the Vasus?
- What is fit for lay people? Which form should we meditate upon?
- What is gambling?
- What is God (1969)?
- What is God realization?
- What is God?
- What is God? Is it the Christian God? What is God? What is your definition of God? Is He a Christian God or pure?
- 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 good and what is bad, what is sinful activity?
- What is gosvami?
- What is happening materially is unimportant?
- What is Hare Krsna?
- What is His (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) age? I just want to keep checking on this, His age now. Is He twenty, in His twenties still?
- What is His Divine Grace idea about Kali-yuga?
- What is hope for them (atheists) then?
- What is inspiration then?
- What is it (life)? If it is nonphysical nonchemical, then what it is? They inquire
- What is it all leading to? A state of liberation from material things?
- What is it in your movement which has appealed to the Western world? I believe you have a sizable following in...
- What is it that he has offered that has turned out such an emotional response today?
- What is it that Krsna consciousness has that offers people so much more than other religions do?
- What is it that they particularly misunderstand about the movement?
- What is it that you take with you (after death)?
- What is it... misunderstand about Krsna's plenary expansion Visnu?
- What is Jao?
- What is jata?
- What is Kalki's nature?
- What is karma?
- What is Krsna consciousness in relation to other faiths, like, say, when you think of Krsna and you die, in a battle for Krsna or something? What if you believed in Jesus Christ and you died in battle for Jesus Christ?
- What is Krsna's purpose?
- What is Krsna?
- What is masculine?
- What is maya? I know that it's attractive...
- What is meant by absolute surrender? How are we to satisfy ourselves having done so?
- What is meant by an object regaining spiritual quality?
- What is meant by conditioned soul?
- What is meant by madness?
- What is meant by nonviolence?
- What is meant by the mode of ignorance and the mode of goodness?
- What is meant by the situation in this world?
- What is meant, "halo" and "effulgence"? That word meaning, "halo"? Prabha?
- What is my insurance to save me?
- What is my position if I am chanting Hare Krsna mantra and I'm living in the association of the devotees, or I'm taking prasada, but I lose a taste or I have no desire, but for lack of having anything else to do, I remain?
- What is neutrality then?
- What is not a secret thing?
- What is one's prescribed duty?
- What is our definition of liberty, freedom, spiritual?
- What is our method to realize the highest truth, the absolute truth?
- What is our policy towards these problems (the problem of overpopulation and food shortage in the world now when the world leaders are not willing to do anything)?
- What is our process for coming to know God?
- What is our solution to heat? Wood?
- What is our true identity?
- What is perfection?
- What is real meditation?
- What is realization (of God)?
- What is realization of the spirit soul?
- What is realization, Prabhupada? Realization belongs to the same category?
- What is realization?
- What is recreation for a Krsna conscious person?
- What is sahajiya?
- What is that (dirty water)?
- What is that (first thing is, any woman except one's own wife), Srila Prabhupada?
- What is that (humorous) story, Prabhupada?
- What is that (just like the sun is sarva-vyapaka. Is it not?)?
- What is that (mistri)?
- What is that (Punar navas) ?
- What is that (xerox copy)?
- What is that about tuberculosis?
- What is that again?
- What is that called, costume?
- What is that concept (of God) first, please?
- What is that conspiracy, sir, in America?
- What is that drying process?
- What is that experiment (make an experiment. Then we shall decide)?
- What is that in connection (the analogy of the mother)?
- What is that mission (I have particular mission for the whole world)?
- What is that mithah?
- What is that overburden?
- What is that Pitrloka actually?
- What is that process (analytical process), Srila Prabhupada?
- 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 samsiddhi noun?
- What is that six-pointed star significance?
- What is that sraddha?
- What is that standard of research?
- What is that thing that enables them (the Brahmavadis) to advance?
- What is that wrong propaganda?
- What is the "renounced order"?
- What is the "we" that has to change? What is constant between one life to the next?
- What is the actual benefit that a karmi will get when he takes prasada?
- What is the actual disagreement?
- What is the actual duty of the government?
- What is the actual meaning of the sacrifice of the cross, Jesus dying on the cross?
- What is the advantage of a tree, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the answer (why young men are attracted to, they inquire? Why young men are attracted in this movement?)?
- What is the any question of lost? How do you get disjoined with the God?
- What is the bank rate?
- What is the basis on which you decide whether a cause is right or wrong?
- What is the beauty of having emptiness?
- What is the benefit of such worship of Visnu? Jarasandha worship?
- What is the best method of making your children Krsna conscious? Teaching the sastra or...?
- What is the best way to deal with skepticism?
- What is the best way to gradually get them detached?
- What is the best way, Srila Prabhupada, to instill a little faith? How do we instill some faith in these people?
- What is the biggest obstacle for people to overcome?
- What is the budget of the movement in the United States annually? How much do you need to operate?
- What is the business of Krsna consciousness society?
- What is the cause of man's physical, mental and spiritual deterioration in the succeeding yugas?
- What is the completion of all becoming, final goal, for a human being and for matter in general?
- What is the condition of the soul, innumerable souls, within the body? Like the cells. All are living cells. These all contain individual souls... So what these individual souls are doing to support the bigger soul?
- What is the condition prescribed for standing on the spiritual platform?
- What is the connection then between Krsna and Siva?
- What is the correct sexual etiquette for a strict Grhastha; and what is spiritual family planning?
- What is the cosmic purpose for this and how should one come to terms with this prevailing, this increasingly prevailing notion that justice can be established in a material state or a material dimension?
- What is the cure (for ghostly-haunted people)?
- What is the daily income here? They would be interested to know the daily income for their own selves, daily income for the book sales
- What is the definition again of a first-class man?
- What is the definition of a cheat?
- What is the definition of science?
- What is the difference between a Mayavadi philosopher and a Krishna Conscious person?
- What is the difference between a pure Christian, or at least a sincere one, and a sincere devotee of Krsna?
- What is the difference between an expansion and an incarnation?
- What is the difference between an impersonalist and a Mayavadi?
- What is the difference between an incarnation and an avatara?
- What is the difference between animal and a man?
- What is the difference between bhakti-yoga and bhava-yoga?
- What is the difference between bhava and prema?
- What is the difference between fish killing and goat killing?
- What is the difference between God and ourselves and what is the relationship?
- What is the difference between God consciousness and Krsna consciousness?
- What is the difference between holy man and spiritual master?
- What is the difference between Jagannatha deities and Krishna Murti and why is the latter not fed and cared for as well as the former and why are Jagannathas more tolerant?
- What is the difference between jnanam and vijnanam?
- What is the difference between karma-yoga and bhakti-yoga?
- What is the difference between karma-yoga and... or bhakti because they also (indistinct) Krsna?
- What is the difference between killing a plant and eating it and killing an animal and eating it?
- What is the difference between Krishna and the deity?
- What is the difference between Krsna consciousness and Christ consciousness?
- What is the difference between mind and soul?
- What is the difference between Paramatma and atma?
- What is the difference between spiritual atoms and spiritual bodies? Or are they the same thing?
- What is the difference between spiritual body and spiritual atoms?
- 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 difference between the jiva and soul? Is it good to learn the differences and understand the depth of these things?
- What is the difference between the mind and the soul?
- What is the difference between the service to the human being and the service to God?
- What is the difference between the spirit souls comprising the Brahmajyoti and the spirit souls here in Maya?
- What is the difference in full between the Spiritual Master, Krishna, and the devotee?
- What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?
- What is the disease?
- What is the distinction between a culture and an education?
- What is the distinction between jnana and vijnana?
- What is the duties of the woman after the husband takes sannyasa?
- What is the easiest method of attaining moksa while in family life?
- What is the easiest way to see the Supreme Being with our own eyes?
- What is the Eastern or Indian understanding of utopia?
- What is the effect on Russians, this Hare Krsna movement?
- What is the end result of taking to this process of Krsna consciousness?
- What is the example of sound of God in this world?
- What is the explanation of an eclipse?
- What is the explanation of split-personality?
- What is the explanation, what is the reason for which there is a degradation of the human consciousness through the four ages?
- What is the fifth (element) besides earth, air, fire and water?
- What is the first stage of transformation like in the consciousness after one discovers chanting Hare Krsna mantra?
- What is the form and what is the definition of soul, and how to know whether there is soul?
- What is the function of the chanting?
- What is the future of Hinduism?
- What is the future of India regarding the KC? The people are so much demonic. It every time bothers me, day and night, that what will happen?... I can't understand that how we can change over to the Indian future about KC?
- What is the goal of this movement for the future? Is there any program set for the future?
- What is the goal once one understands what is spirit and what is matter, what is the goal past that?
- What is the God that these other religions believe in?
- What is the hand attire which you are wearing?
- What is the harm if I become an animal also?
- What is the harm in worshiping Durga?
- What is the harm of being a cat or a dog?
- What is the harm of selling cloth, Prabhupada?
- What is the highest devotion, the highest bhakti, please?
- What is the idea behind the movement?
- What is the idea behind this shenai-playing early in the morning?
- What is the implication of this cheating? What are the ramifications, the results?
- What is the importance of health in life, and how does Guruji advise people to maintain health, and how does it connect to your mission?
- What is the importance of prasadam?
- What is the instrument for measuring Krsna's spiritual energy?
- What is the Krsna conscious outlook on other world religions?
- What is the light?
- What is the main purpose of meditation?
- What is the maximum amount of years there can be difference (between husband and wife)?
- What is the meaning of "as it is."?
- What is the meaning of apratihata?
- What is the meaning of God?
- What is the meaning of good children?
- What is the meaning of good citizen?
- What is the meaning of Rama?
- What is the meaning of sac-cid-ananda?
- What is the meaning of that (capale babale)?
- What is the meaning of that (machine changes)?
- What is the meaning of that (Yesam anta gatam papam jananam punya-karmanam, te dvandva-moha-nirmukta)?
- What is the meaning of the different cakras?
- What is the meaning of the giving up of the fruition of action?
- What is the meaning of the word atma?
- What is the meaning of this chanting? If we're chanting all day long, do we have to reach a certain consciousness?
- What is the meaning of this mantra, Hare Krsna?
- What is the meaning of Vedanta?
- What is the meaning, then, that America is the dominant nation?
- What is the means by which we know what Gita says to us, Swamiji?
- What is the mentality of the demons who attacked New Vrndavana and why did this happen?
- What is the method for doing it? What is the method of seeing someone as a person?
- What is the method of attaining permanent and impermanent? Permanent ananda?
- What is the method of seeing God?
- What is the most attractive and suitable name (of God) here in this material country?
- What is the most important part of it (it means to be fixed up in (indistinct) spiritual life. Just like in military there is training. You must have to do at this time this thing, this time, this time... So any training means regulated life)?
- What is the most important thing in life?
- What is the mystery in that case of universe or divine bringing up this life?
- What is the nature of the jivatma?
- What is the necessity of renouncing everything?
- What is the need for any babaji to get sterilized, anyway?
- What is the origin of the black race?
- What is the outcome of continuous practice of the chant "Om?"
- What is the outcome of this (discussion of the Vedanta-sutra between Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya and Caitanya Mahaprabhu) now? Final outcome?
- What is the parampara from Caitanya?
- What is the perfection of this life?
- What is the place of Srimad-Bhagavatam here, in this movement?
- What is the plan of the Hyderabad project?
- What is the point then (of a new picture of Mars), Prabhupada? Just to take money and use it some other way?
- What is the Pope doing, then (there is no religion in the world except Krsna consciousness. All bogus)?
- What is the position of a person who takes to devotional service with the idea of liberation?
- What is the position of a soul that's in a sacred tree like a fig tree?
- What is the position of astrology in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the position of Dhruva Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the position of Lord Siva?
- What is the position of one who has such theoretical knowledge (to know that he is not this body, he is different from body) but doesn't apply it?
- What is the position of people like Guru Nanak, Muhammad, and other people?
- What is the position of the women in Krishna Consciousness Movement?
- What is the power and mystery of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, how he is doing so many things but yet he does not appear like these others yogis who are..., like Satya Sai Baba who is making magic and...?
- What is the present hope of the human society even beyond death?
- What is the procedure of the movement? Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- What is the proper duty of the teacher in society? Let's say a science teacher. What should he be doing in the classroom?
- What is the proper relationship of the devotee to Radharani?
- What is the proper spiritual attitude toward rodents, reptiles, and disease-bearing insects? What should be the proper spiritual attitude toward those?
- What is the punishment if one doesn't fast (if a sannyasi is not offered respect, the punishment is that he should fast one day. That is sastric injunction)?
- What is the purpose of Deity worship?
- What is the purpose of discussing him (Freud)?
- What is the purpose of Lord for creating human life or animal life or so many things? Why...?
- What is the purpose of so many nationalities on this earth?
- What is the purpose of the cheating?
- What is the purpose of the large carts and other things you use (Rathayatra festival)?
- What is the purpose of the movement, your Grace?
- What is the purpose of the plan? Is there any ultimate...?
- What is the purpose of the robes and having your head shaved?
- What is the purpose of there being a body?
- What is the purpose of this internal dialogue? Internal dialogue, we talk to ourselves all the time, we can't be silent.
- What is the purpose? What is the sense, if there is any, or does the very question (Why anything exists?) make sense?
- What is the purpose?... To meet Prabhupada's relative, I think?
- What is the qualification for understanding?
- What is the quality of a person who is actually faithful?
- What is the Radha category?
- What is the real meaning of religion?
- What is the real relationship between Krsna consciousness and other religions? Is it that God has many names and...?
- What is the reason for that law (So you cannot keep even bull privately. Must be killed. This is the law)?
- What is the reason of that (the younger generation of India is very, very demonic and they don't believe God at all)?
- What is the reason of the success of your mission in the foreign countries?
- What is the reason of this (indistinct) "anything"?
- What is the relationship between Lord Krsna and Lord Jesus Christ?
- What is the relationship between man and God?
- What is the relationship of sweethearts in Vaikuntha to each other and to Lord Narayana? Is conjugal love, parental affection, and unalloyed friendship there in the Vaikunthas?
- What is the relationship of the surabhi cow with Krsna?
- What is the response in India?
- What is the response in Iran?
- What is the response in the Islamic countries?
- What is the role of Krsna in this, as the arranger of this cerebral mechanism?
- What is the role of mercy if one takes or doesn't take?
- What is the role of rituals in religion? Are they to be discouraged as it is being advocated by some reformists or are they to be encouraged? If so, in what form? What is the role of rituals in religion?
- What is the role of women in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the science behind this kalpa-taru that it is able to produce the...?
- What is the secret to learning to love God?
- What is the sign that someone is actually having change in heart?
- What is the significance of the food that is eaten at ISKCON kirtanas?
- What is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- What is the significance of using the barley and the sesame?
- What is the significance of... What is this (a ghostly haunted man)?
- What is the solution (to spiritual enlightenment)? Devotion to God...?
- What is the soul's, the spirit soul's, relationship to actions performed both in material consciousness and in spiritual, in Krsna consciousness?
- What is the source of life?
- What is the special quality that makes one a spiritual master to describe the infinite when God is beyond speculation?
- What is the special significance of constructing Kaliya-Krsna temple in Fiji?
- What is the speciality of Vedic injunction compared to Hebrew scriptures?
- What is the standard of Calcutta University, Srila Prabhupada, at the time when Srila Prabhupada was in the University?
- What is the standard of measurement? There are so many people saying they are the authority. How does one individually judge which one is the best or proper?
- What is the story (about Gopala Saksi)? A short little story?
- What is the symbol of the staff here? There's a symbol of that, is there?
- What is the synthesis?
- What is the test of a true guru?
- What is the thing that will please you most, Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the true aim of human life?
- What is the ultimate (the flavor of a rose garden is carried by the air or the bad odor of a filthy place is also carried by the air, similarly, mind, intelligence carries me to a particular type of body as I was absorbed in thought at the time of death)?
- What is the ultimate aim of this Krsna consciousness?
- What is the ultimate goal of tapasya?
- What is the use of action?
- What is the use of becoming rich man? It is all fruitless
- What is the use of practice, if you practice or you don't practice you still get the same result?
- What is the use of preaching?
- What is the use of that profit, Prabhupada Maharaja, when don't get even for eating, no clothing, no eating? Only profit... What profit will be beneficial?
- What is the value of accepting this sacrifice for the human being? Can it be accepted as a kind of masochism?
- What is the value of the transcendence?
- What is the Vedic explanation (about moon orbit), Srila Prabhupada?
- What is the Vedic explanation of the working principle of the brain, how our brain is working?
- What is the views of Krsna consciousness in regard to the people using drugs for spiritual enlightenment?
- What is the way for controlling our desires?
- What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade?
- What is the way you go about collecting money?
- What is the way you go about collecting money? Books are the only source of your... That means the devotees do not contribute to the... But do the devotees contribute in any way?
- What is the word actually? "Kr" is the root for making, isn't it?
- What is this ("The Bible is not the complete authority?") in relation, to this discussion? I just walked in
- What is this Abhiras? Abhira?
- What is this book?
- What is this end of the world?
- What is this greatness, that, to know the divinity when Lord Krsna says that "Those who know that I am divine and..." Janma karma ca me divyam (BG 4.9). How... What is the real meaning of knowing it, I mean. I read it ten times
- What is this life we should, we could not produce?
- 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 personality? It is not the same as our personality. In which way do you use the concept of personality?
- What is this scientific (young boy, young girl, they began to discuss on sex openly as scientific)?
- What is this second scene? This is another temple
- What is this soap powder (for toothpaste)?
- What is this yogic power? What does that mean?
- What is to be done now? In regard to that Trust?... In regard to what were you asking?
- What is to become of those devotees that leave ISKCON and take to breaking the regulative principles, and stop chanting sixteen rounds?
- What is to world Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolence or...?
- What is ultimate object of that bhakti?
- What is unique about Krsna consciousness that separates it from other religions?
- What is vikarma?
- What is wrongly preached about Gita?
- What is your age now?
- What is your attitude to Jesus?
- What is your attitude toward those who are handicapped in our society? How do you respond, how do you treat those?
- What is your background? Are you from India?
- What is your belief in eternal life, and how do you attain perfection to eternal life?
- What is your conception of God?
- What is your correlation between belief and science?
- What is your day like, typical day? In the morning, what time you get up? Your day, how do you spend the day?
- What is your desire for that (is Prajapati going to do any play?), Prabhupada?
- What is your explanation of the creation of the world?
- What is your feeling in regard to Mrs. Gandhi's actions in India at the present time, particularly in relation to what you're saying about women? Is what's happening there because she has a thirty-six ounce brain and is incapable of ruling?
- What is your further inquiry?
- What is your idea about the secularism preached by our government of India and the policy of secularism? What do they mean by that? That means they say that there is no place for religion
- What is your message for Indian people?
- What is your opinion of Guru Maharaj-ji?
- What is your opinion of Lord Jesus Christ?
- What is your opinion of what this movement should be doing in terms of world activities and world affairs that it isn't doing now? Are there some new areas that you may try to influence?
- What is your opinion of yoga and Zen? Do you incorporate any of their principles? Such as meditation for example?
- What is your proof of what happened millions of years ago at the beginning of creation?
- What is your remedy for seeing everyone as persons?
- What is your understanding of God? Is He something apart from us, or are we all together God? Do you know?
- What is your view of communism, Your Grace?
- What is your view of predominant Western civilization, Sir?
- 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 regarding proselytization or preaching?
- What is your view towards Christianity?
- What is your view? Are there other paths to spirit consciousness? There are but not very what?... Not very good?
- What is your wedding ceremony like?
- What is, sir, the number of your disciples round the world?
- What it is (if a man is beaten with shoes, that is not his lila)?
- What kind (of juice) would you like to have?
- What kind of (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- What kind of a capacity is knowledge? Does that depend on the previous body of the soul?
- What kind of a sect are you?
- What kind of charity is it when you give to, food to somebody who is hungry?
- What kind of civilization was in South America at that time (two millions of years ago)?
- What kind of dahl would you like today?
- What kind of fast is that (Balarama)?
- What kind of jala? ... Is that the one with musk in it?
- What kind of king (This great personality, why he is not accepted by other disciples)?
- What kind of liberation does the family of a pure devotee get?
- What kind of manifestation is time, of Krsna, kala? Kala, time. How is time a feature of Krsna?
- What kind of party (I give you idea. Where is Lokanatha?… What is called? Front party)?
- What kind of practical work could we engage them (the brahmanas who are in the varnasrama college) in?
- What kind of salvation?
- What kind of sex life can one lead, living in the material world?
- What kind of sitting place? On the floor with mats, or benches and tables?
- What kind of test do we apply to phenomena to see what is the cause?
- What kind of training is there for a sudra?
- What kind of trouble (these rascals they may create some trouble)?
- What kind of wood is that?
- What kind of yogic process must I do to find out, to feel this information, to feel the soul inside?
- What language, master, was your books originally written in?
- What made the soul take birth in the very beginning?
- What made these young people want to leave the affluent present society and join this...?
- What made you change (you led a rather normal life) suddenly?
- What means do you suggest for purifying it (the pollution)?
- What merits a person coming back in human life? It seems like an elevated birth. How does mode of passion give one the opportunity of human life?
- What message would you give to people in terms of helping people, perhaps, to live better lives?
- What miracles did Krsna perform?" So your reply was so many miracles, killing Putana and so on. But that was five thousand years ago. Krsna's not here today. And people will ask, "Well we cannot see these miracles. So how can we accept Krsna?"
- 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 of a boy who does the chanting nicely and the kirtana nicely but doesn't do the school work nicely?
- What originally caused us to lose our relationship with Lord Krsna? I understand it is due to our desires, but how is this desire manifest?
- What part do they play when a person's reached this higher level of consciousness? Is it more pleasurable?
- What part of Krsna (is India forgetting)? Or just part of His life?
- What percentage of people today know about Krsna?
- What place in the divine scheme do such great names as Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad have?
- What position does Anandamayi Ma have now?
- What problems do you have in making God's word, His instructions reach the ears of everyone in the world?
- What prompts the soul to misuse his independence or improperly use...?
- What proof do you have that a human being has a soul?
- What proof have you got, then, that a human being has got a soul?
- What purpose does the chanting serve?
- What qualifications should the man have to take sannyasa?
- What rules (no, first principle is that you have to follow the rules)?… Which rules are for me?
- What should be done in relation to that (the technique of chanting the name of God) or, how it is formulated in that complete system of your reverent teachings?
- What should be the first step to become a devotee?
- What should I do if I'd like to preach more and become free from my family entanglements?
- What should one know about Krsna consciousness? Is it something mystical?
- What should the boys be taught from ten to sixteen?
- What should the ksatriyas be taught?
- What should the scientists' role?
- What should the soul do if he cannot imitate God?
- What should we do in the United States (in regards to women being subordinate to men)? We're trying to make women equal with men
- What should we do with, like there's some sannyasis here, like Yasodanandana Swami and his party?
- What should we do?
- What should you be thinking about when you're chanting?
- What situation did they do that (devotees fighting)?
- What sort of body we have been in in the past?
- What sort of people do you want to become students?
- What special message would you have for people who don't know anything about your movement and would like to know something about it?
- What stops so many millions of people from doing it (becoming Krsna devotees)?
- What street did he (Dr. Mishra) live on?
- What students can do? In the topic of... (the different interpretations of Bhagavad Gita), what students can do?
- What suggestions or comments do you have about achieving spiritual understanding?
- What Swamiji? Gaudiya? Gaura Hari
- What system (allopathetic system of medicine)?
- What the goat does not eat? Is that?
- What the Krsna movement is about and its origins, its following. This sort of thing?
- What then are the guides? Are they also masters of a sense? Spiritual guides
- What then is a master? Are there not many planes in mastership?
- What thought there is in bringing the temple and the farm closer together as one entity rather than two?
- What time (are you giving her initiation tomorrow)?
- What time is good, Srila Prabhupada? Ten o'clock?… Good time? Is that all right with you, Srila Prabhupada?
- What time was it (this boy was fighting with one man)?
- What time would you like breakfast?
- What to do with the greedy people in the world, though?
- What to do with the skim milk after the ghee has been produced?
- What transformations does one undergo on the path of Krsna consciousness?
- What type of fruit is the best?
- What type of living entity is Mayadevi?
- What type of piety is required to understand God?
- What type of species are extinct? Not all the species extinct. As it is during Brahma's day, that partial annihilation, devastation, now some species are extinct?
- What types of food, what types of things do you drink, such as juices or anything else do you drink?
- What was Arjuna's relation to Krsna, I mean, as concise as you can put it?
- What was Arjuna's relationship to Krsna?
- What was Gargamuni doing?
- What was his defense?
- What was his name (Prabhupada's uncle)?
- What was his title before?... Ex-governor?
- What was it like there (where you were living (seventy-second Street))?
- What was it that was different about your way of thinking?
- What was Mahatma Gandhi fighting in the House of Commons in England?
- What was particularly nice about his devotional quality?
- What was proof (that is the proof, that it (Jagannatha Puri) was not in order this year), Srila Prabhupada?
- What was that now (Krsna is kalpana... )?
- What was that story of Caesar (scissors)?
- What was the arrangement with Bharata Maharaja?
- What was the attitude of the Indian colony in London (after Ratha-yatra, wherever our men went, they were received very well)?
- What was the cause?
- What was the conclusion of Sankaracarya?
- What was the discussion about Laksmi?
- What was the first sound, traditionally?
- What was the idea?
- What was the meaning of the bag you wear on your hand?
- What was the motivating force behind your coming to the United States?
- What was the necessity of creating this Krsna consciousness movement?
- What was the penalty that he (Bhaktivinoda Thakura)...?
- What was the purpose of this festival here?
- What was the Vedic punishment if somebody broke these moral principles?
- What was this original sin?
- What was your connection with McGill? I heard... You published first with McGill?
- What way should we dance, Srila Prabhupada? With our hands outstretched? Sometimes the devotees like to jump around. Is that all right?
- What were you before that (a Hare Krsna man)?
- What were your activities after your initiation?
- What will be the difference between the Vrndavana gurukula and this gurukula?
- What will be the future of India?
- What will be the position with the Chinese if the Russians and Americans fight?
- What will be the technique to attract the Bengali educational class? To attract the Bengalis who are educated, what technique will be most effective?
- What will happen to our temples in the cities? Will we keep them?
- What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die?
- What will happen to the souls who have not become Krsna consciousness at the end of Kali-yuga? What does Krsna do with them?
- What will happen to this generation after ten, twenty years?
- What will happen to us when He (Krsna) is not there?
- What will stop (this devil's workshop will stop)?
- What will the business of the trustees (for construction of Bombay) be?
- What will the sudras do in the big city temple, in all the temples?
- What will you do in Philadelphia?
- What would an example of unconscious falldown be?
- What would be the mechanism or process to get this perfect knowledge and to purify our senses?
- What would be the result if all the people became devotees of Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
- What would be your advice to her (Mrs. Gandhi)?
- What would convince them that it is simply not another cheating?
- What would happen if an animal came in contact with a pure devotee?
- What would happen to the people that killed Christ on the cross? Very bad, it seems
- What would his (sudra) business be at that varnasrama college?
- What would people do who live in areas where things are not grown so easily, like in the colder areas?
- What would the best devotee be doing? What does he do?
- What would we do if a thief came in? In other words, would we be violent?
- What would you attribute this to? What is the cause of this?
- What would you classify as demigods, then?
- What would you do with it (the carbon)?
- What would you have us identify with? How would you have us identify?
- What would you like to take for lunch today?
- What would you like, Srila Prabhupada?
- What would you like? Turning over?
- What would you regard to be the essence of Bhagavad-gita?
- What you are doing by chanting is kind of...?
- What you are trying to say? What symbolically it means, very small (the soul). Is that what it means?
- What you might term the ongoing communication of God in revealing Himself and in further making known His will for man at different stages of his own life, say, in his spiritual life, and, in different stages of history and in different cultures?
- What you people say is what is ideal to you is not ideal to somebody else?
- 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?
- What your goal, to plan Northern India? Your goal to plan Northern India? How long you will be staying and...?
- What's a man's qualification to be chosen… On what basis, though, can you tell me some of the things that…?
- What's going to be the name of this asrama?
- What's going to happen to you in the next life?
- What's happening at the time of death?
- What's it (the phases of the moon-quarter moon, half moon, full moon) due to, then?
- What's it made of?
- What's that man's name who made your first record in New York?
- What's the difference between a sadhu and a guru? Sadhu means authorities like Vyasa?
- What's the difference between grace and mercy?
- What's the difference? I've heard terms like incarnation, expansion, and plenary expansion, like Krsna incarnates Himself, expands Himself...
- What's the economic position in Canada?... I think many Canadian young men, they come to America for jobs? No?
- What's the exact meaning of that word (Bokaloka)?
- What's the explanation then? They are slaughtering more cows in the United States, but there is still more fortunate situation there materially
- What's the future of a religious observance so technical as this? So complicated as this?
- What's the future of Krsna Consciousness in India today?
- What's the Hindi name of that drug that you were taking the other day? That plant?
- What's the location again (in the sixth scene of a play on Lord Caitanya)?
- What's the main reason for your visit?
- What's the meaning of surrender and how one should do it?
- What's the name of that yogi who meditated for sixty thousand years?
- What's the next evolutionary step for these flowers that we offer to Krsna?
- What's the purpose of deep sleep as one of the bases of our life?
- What's the purpose of that rising? What's the purpose of that, the rising at 4:30, the chanting and study?
- What's the relationship between Krsna and Radha? Radha is the energy of Krsna?
- What's the subtle body like?
- What's the trouble (with that painting)?
- What's your view of Judaism and Christianity?
- What, Prabhupada?
- What, Srila Prabhupada (his father was sannyasi. He's the first sannyasi of Gaudiya Matha)?
- What, Srila Prabhupada (if something along the way happens... Now, not being here, we'll have to depend upon this assistant in case something changes. If nothing changes, then there's no harm. But if something should suddenly alter…)?
- What, Srila Prabhupada (what you know?)?
- What, Srila Prabhupada? Wherever you are kept?
- What, what were you doing, what did you do before this, before 1966?
- Whatever the spiritual master says, that is also perfect?
- When a devotee becomes very advanced, does that means that he should not feel a particular, an inclination to do a particular work but simply want to serve Krsna?
- When a disciple takes initiation, does he first take initiation within the heart?
- When a heart is transplanted does the soul stay in the heart?
- When a living entity becomes pure, purified, he is called sac-cid-ananda, he has perfect knowledge. And Krsna is also sac-cid-ananda. Is that knowledge the same?
- When a man becomes Krsna conscious, could you say that he has become like a god or godlike?
- When a person becomes Bhagavan realized, is Supersoul in his heart (indistinct) form?
- When a person dies, his soul will take another body? Then why is the population today increasing?
- When a person first comes and he still has that designation stage, but we still call that bhakti?
- When a person gradually go along the path and have, in the process, have some achievements, don't you agree that chanting is not the only attachment, or rather to know Krsna?
- When a spirit soul first falls from the spiritual sky into the material world, does he first go to the lowest of the 8,400,000 species of life, and then gradually come up, or can he fall to the middle or anywhere?
- When Balavanta Prabhu was running for office you were saying that it'd be very difficult to get our present-day leaders to take to Krsna consciousness. I'd just like to try to understand further, whether it is the masses or the leaders?
- When Brahma creates the different species, they're not created one at a time. They're... All over the universe, there's different species which he creates?
- When Brahma creates, does he first of all create the aquatics, then the plants?
- When Buddha came, did most people follow Him?
- When Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, His guru offered Him one name, but He refused and preferred to keep the name Krsna Caitanya which is a brahmacari name. Why was this?
- When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if these rounds are sincere... How can we be sure?
- When chanting, you chant the name of Rama as well as Krsna. I do not see any photograph of Rama here. What is the thinking?
- When did he (Nanda Maharaja) know that He, Krsna was really the son of Devaki? I think after the... just now only
- When did they start to go to the moon?
- When did we stop becoming the monkey and start to become a man?
- When did you become the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness?
- When did you begin, Your Excellency?... The Krsna movement, in the Krsna movement.
- When did you come to this country?
- When did you go to Kanpur?
- When digging the pile (if I asked these karmis, "why you are digging? why you are piling? and why you are leaving?" then... can you say what will be the answer?)?
- When do we begin to become attracted?
- When do you usually write?
- When do you want it done?… After you wake up? Take rest now
- When does this training (as "first-class, second-class, third-class...") begin? In the very youngest age or...?
- When earthen pots are cooked with, they are finished afterwards?
- When finally man comes to the conclusion that his mind is chaotic - there is no order - when he admits this to himself and he looks to find a way to purify his mind, will not the spiritual sadhana open up naturally?
- When has this all begun, this fish-eating in Bengal? This was always going on?
- When he (Harayana) saw that picture, he said, "Why is the door closed in the Guru-Gauranga altar?"
- When householder women raise their children in Krsna consciousness, this seems to be an indirect service for Krsna, or is raising children and just having the household function, is that enough service?
- When I die, my deeds will follow along with me. That is how I imagine it... That's personal karma?
- When I go away and I come back and the wall is broken what can I do?
- When I pray faithfully and reverently, does Krsna hear me?
- When I say Christ consciousness, to get your mind on the same level as the atoms, and on a higher level, beyond the atoms as pure spirit - are these two levels of consciousness?
- When I was a young boy… I had to take the brahma-samana, which is the… taking of the oath in front of the Maharaja and the priest of the Srinathaji temple. Is that equal to initiation, or is that just a ceremony by itself?
- 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 I was lecturing in Berkeley University, one Indian student asked me, "Swamiji, what this Hare Krsna movement will benefit? We require technology"
- When I'm in the spiritual sky I'm going to be a servant of Balarama directly?
- When I'm looking at the picture, is Krsna right here?
- When in the Bhagavad-gita it says that the maha-mantra cleanses the heart and soul, does that mean that when you just, like automatically say the word, will that cleanse your heart? Or should you try and remember Krsna with every word and every sound?
- When in the Gita it listed the different kinds of sacrifices, it said that sacrifices to the demigods can bring us to Krsna consciousness. How is this?
- When it says "duty," does that mean you don't have to do anything at all?
- When Krsna appears in each of the four yugas, does each appearance of svayam bhagavan, personally He appearance?
- When Krsna came here, did He take a spiritual master too?
- When Krsna destroys demons, He does so without passion or without hatred?
- When Krsna disappeared from rasa, what they (the gopis) did?
- When Krsna doesn't come, then they are feeling separation?
- When Krsna is demonstrating work, He demonstrates in the form of Lord Visnu, not in His pastimes in Vrndavana but more in the form of Visnu, or how does He show?
- When Krsna is incarnating in His plenary incarnations like Varaha, Nrsimha... and sometimes devotees become devoted to those forms. Are there corresponding planets in Vaikuntha for those forms of incarnation? Is there a planet of Nrsimha or Nrsimha-loka?
- When Krsna is the only God in the world, the creator of the whole universe, then why the existence of Jesus Christ and Allah? Why should not only one God for all? Why Christians and Muslims are not accepting Krsna as God?
- When Krsna lifted up Govardhana Hill, nobody said that was a miracle. But when Jesus Christ made so many things, they say it's a miracle. How is that?
- When Krsna steals or does anything, we glorify it because He is absolute. So the Mayavadis, they say that the living entities are also absolute. Is that correct?
- When Krsna used to come here, was His home in Gokula at that time, or Mathura?
- When Krsna was born, who was born before Krsna?
- When Lord Brahma created this planet, did he immediately put all the species here?
- When Lord Brahma, when he became angry at the four Kumaras he created Lord Siva from between his eyebrows. So he is always situated on his lotus, but at that time should we paint him on his planet?
- When Lord Christ appeared he seemed to be conditioned in his growth. Was he a specific incarnation or a conditioned soul who became liberated?
- When Lord say whatever the sins being committed are going to be committed all by only His will and wish, then why a person should be hated as a cruel person, and to kill him, and why God should take a other and do all these things?
- When making arati offerings, is it proper to meditate on the different parts of the Lord's Body?
- When Mr. Ford comes willing, back on...? Is he coming back again?
- When one becomes sinless, would he then experience the indwelling of God?
- When one breaks the principles, can Krsna forgive him?
- When one has become pure enough, Krishna conscious, does one take regular dictation from one's Guru Maharaja? I know you to confirm yes, but how is this so?
- When one has fallen too low in the material life, how can he come back to his original condition?
- When one is aware of that fact, that he is not the body?
- When one is feeling very weak, fallen, how can he get going spiritually?
- When one is removed from karmic influence does he still get sick?
- When one is surrendering to Krsna, how does he discriminate between being tactful and, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, compromising in his speech?
- When one is too old and with too many responsibilities, what can one do?
- When one takes to spiritual life, is it the result of material exhaustion, or is it simply the guru's mercy on him, and nothing else?
- When one's tasted the higher taste in devotional service how is it possible that he can fall back again in material sense gratification?
- When our soul gets out from our body, it goes to the hell or... hemisphere or it take birth immediately afterwards?
- When people are starving and they have no clothing, then how can they take to Krsna consciousness? First give them food, then clothing and education, and then Krsna consciousness
- When people realize, when there's no more butter will people realize they've made a mistake or will they get attached to something else?
- 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 Ravana was on the earth, was the whole earth populated, like Brazil and also the other parts of the world?
- When should the Gayatri be said?
- When should we read the Krsna book?
- When some new animal or person is born, is the soul always a reincarnation of some previous soul?
- When somebody is dying and his external consciousness is completely absorbed in all kinds of terrible bodily symptoms, how is it that a devotee remembers Krsna? What is actually happening that he's able to remember Krsna?
- When someone is sleeping and dreaming, has the seer left the gross body?
- When Swamiji says, "The Supreme Personality says," where is the doubt and where is the questioning also?
- When that promotion comes, Srila Prabhupada, they are not immediately born into a society like American or...?
- When the a-h with the dot is in the middle of the verse should it always be pronounced clearly, a-ha. Adhi-yajña-ha, or is it more like adhi-yajña?
- When the Aryan civilization was there in the past, Swamiji, were there also such kind of economic problems?
- When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, does that mean that also that the real form changes?
- When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, how is it...? When our coat, size of the coat changes because our body grows bigger, the size of the coat is bigger. Shirt is bigger
- When the body dies, the body is finished, but what about the soul?
- When the boys are going village to village, if they get subscriptions, it's good?
- When the devotees are chanting their rounds and when they think of their spiritual master they feel a type of ecstasy. So why are they feeling this ecstasy?
- When the fruit comes, should we give it up?
- When the fruit comes, we cannot distinguish whether it is ripened one or the wrong one. How to distinguish?
- When the living entity comes to the human platform, though he is conditioned, but still, by practice of yoga he can develop some of the powers which cannot be developed by other living entities, like for example, fish?
- 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 man is fishing with the hook, the fish that takes the hook...?
- When the Paramatma and the jivatma are within the same material living body, so the...?
- When the scientists say "species," they mean different types of bodies?
- When the scientists say that the earth spins around this way very quickly, then his point is valid. Why we don't fall off or why we don't feel good?
- When the soul is entering, they are all complete?
- When the soul was in the spiritual sky, it also had a mind and an intelligence like here?
- When the souls that were never conditioned at all..., do they also have the independence?
- When the spirit soul leaves the body, the body continues to change, it deteriorates?
- When there are several living entities within a close area of space or there are several living entities...?
- When there's difficulty for devotee, how is he to understand that?
- When there's talk of this religion of Krsna. Is it before Christ or more?... the question of religion, did it come before Christ or before Buddha?
- When they (the people) ask us about Lord Caitanya, "Who is this Lord Caitanya?" what may we tell them?
- When they agree at this young age (marriage), they should wait till they get older, right?
- When they come to our (varnasrama) college, they have to follow the four regulative principles, also learn something about Bhagavad-gita and then, side by side, they learn a...?
- When they go back to Godhead, some people can remember their past lives? In the mind? I thought the mind was left behind
- When they perform these miracles, (indistinct) that is with their material body?
- When they release the atomic energy, where does that energy come from?
- When they say there is no God, sometimes we say, "How do you know?"
- When they say they have a surplus of grains now, they are burning these great mounds of grains, this means that in the future there will be no grains for this country to eat?
- When they take the pill, the birth control pill, are they killing their children too?
- When they think of the savior, they're talking about the guru, the spiritual master. He's asking, is Krsna our guru?
- When this time comes when all physical things end, will any of the spirits fail to reunite with the Godhead?
- When was it that you arrived from India with $2?
- When was it written, the Bhagavad-gita?
- When was that (It has been confirmed in the court that this Deity belongs to Gaudiya Vaisnavas) court case?
- When was the railway first built?
- When we are distributing books, Srila Prabhupada, and we are not doing so good and we are in anxiety, that is also spiritual?
- When we are emphasizing this Krsna consciousness, we are in danger of forgetting the social political dimension. So how to bring this...?
- When we are having doubts, the only possible way, no matter what the indications are, are simply follow your instructions in all circumstances?
- When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down in the material world, because we are already serving Krsna?
- When we chant japa in front of the Deity, does that correspond to this verse of meditating on the Lord limb by limb?
- When we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?
- When we come to a center, naturally there are certain men who want to go traveling. Not all men want to go traveling, but there are definitely some who want to go traveling. And if they come to me, what should I do? Tell them, "No, I'm sorry"?
- When we engage inferior energy, internal energy, in the service of Krsna, it becomes spiritualized, doesn't it?
- When we feel pain or discomfort, that is covering also?
- When we fell down we were thinking, we could enjoy like that, in the same way?
- When we get the next body does our mind retain much of what is learned in the life before? At least the general principles? Or does it start all over again and live within that body and gain its knowledge through that body?
- When we get to the spiritual sky, we'll always be able to remember how horrible it is down here? We'll always be able to remember how terrible it is in the material world?
- When we learn to love Krsna, do we transcend goodness?
- When we offer something to you, for example, your picture, he wants to know if the person, if, simply by his act of offering does he become purified, or if the spiritual master is actually aware of the offering
- When we prepare a feast we should give and give and give, and when no one wants any more then...
- When we print this book (Brahma-samhita), should we distribute it freely? Should we distribute this book to the masses?
- When we say four hundred thousand species of human beings, that doesn't include all the demigods then?
- When we say Krsna, are we speaking about God or an incarnation of God? How to define it?
- When we say that Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that asked him to fight, kill his own relatives and friends and not to bother about the consequences of the action. Now this statement sometimes is difficult for people of the West to understand?
- When we see fire here it is also living in that way (as the fiery bodies of the living entities on the sun) of the person? Some living entity?
- When we see Krsna in us, in our hearts, the moment Krsna comes, the moment that the link takes place with Krsna in our hearts...?
- When we serve Krsna, even though we don't have a material body...?
- When we sing bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya, we're saying "worship Sri Krsna Caitanya"—we say bhaja, so... And the motive for worshiping Him is for direction in devotional service?
- When we sleep, when we dream, are we carried away by the three subtle elements, mind, intelligence?
- When we speak about the transmigration of the soul, we speak about 8,400,000 species. Does that include the inanimate objects as well, within those 8,400,000?
- When we surrender that means we don't ask any question. So when we are inquisitive, then we ask more questions. How do we blend these two things?
- When we take that which is not our quota, by using, wasting a lot of clean water, how is that perfect and complete, om purnam? How are things still perfectly complete even when we're wasting and destroying it?
- When we tell them to stop their sinful activities, they will say "What do you mean by sinful?"
- When we try to tell them that bhakti is the highest form of yoga, they say, "Why are you so sectarian?"
- When we use the word "God," it has cash value?
- When we use the word "natural," though we usually refer to it as "according to the laws of nature," but a person who's also "natural," would he not come to Krsna consciousness or would he not pursue Krsna consciousness?
- When we're dreaming, when we're asleep, are we in maya? Even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters?
- When will the dismantling begin?
- When will we begin?… The land is coming along? ("ISKCON plans to build in Mayapur a world center for Krsna consciousness. It will comprise an enormous…")?
- When will you be coming back to Melbourne?
- When you address a woman do you use the word "Mataji"? Is that the right, proper word for her?
- When you become Krsna conscious, can you remember your past or see into the future?
- When you become Krsna conscious, does it mean you come into the chapel, or can you lead the sort of life that we lead and still...?
- When you become Krsna conscious, is it not a state of ecstasy?
- When you came to Chicago last week you said you were going to tell us some of the solutions to our problems in this country. Can you tell me what some of those solutions are?
- 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 first went to London, didn't you stay for some time there? Just in that area?
- When you had that heart attack, did you feel the pain?
- When you have a question put to you, you are very clear what the answer shall be. (devotees chuckle) Have you any doubts yourself that have not appeared to us?
- When you join, do you assume a name? Do you change your name?
- When you said that a brahmana is... Do you mean, when you say brahmana, do you mean... I mean are they... the devotees who are not pure but...
- 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?
- When you said that everyone is destined to a particular goal, then where is the question of preaching Krsna consciousness?
- When you said the person who is involved with Krsna consciousness makes the best use of a bad bargain, were you referring to life?... This physical life?
- When you say "He descends," does it mean "got down"?
- When you say Brahma, you mean Supreme or the...?
- When you say it's natural to render service. I suspect you mean this is how the machine works. Is there any reason why it works that way, or is it just that way?
- When you say surrender, it means surrender of fruits of the action?
- When you say taking on the body of a dog or a cat or a pig or whatever, is this also... Do you mean literally a body like a pig, or do you mean the nature of a pig or dog or cat?
- When you say that they're (bugs and germs) born from perspiration like cockroaches, does that mean that the eggs are laid by the female and then the atmosphere of perspiration enables the eggs to be hatched? Like that?
- When you say that we don't find any progress, do you mean just on account of Pradyumna's testimony? Or do you see beyond that, also, that there's no progress.
- When you say, sir, you were advertised with the Beatles, do you have any connection with the Maharishi?
- When you see that Deity, are you... Do you call it Syamasundara or Govinda?
- When you succumb to Krsna consciousness, or to Krsna, do you still have any obligation to, say, the worldly affairs, in making, say, the world a better place?
- When you take Krsna prasadam, the living entities which are within our body, they're also taking prasadam?
- When you talk about Lord Siva and you shouldn't imitate him and people do imitate him and then they say "Oh, we smoke marijuana because Siva does it." Is it all right to say, "Oh? You want to imitate him. Then you must also drink an ocean of poison"?
- When you try to realize Para-brahman, that is personal God; Brahman is impersonal God. Right, sir?
- When you visited the Soviet Union, Swamiji, did you find the atmosphere worse than it is in Western countries?
- When you went to Hyderabad did you stay with Mr. Pithi again?
- When you went to some place in Gujarat, Sanand? It was reported that thousands of people will come. It was a small village
- When you went to Vrndavana, you'd given up the idea of coming to the West or...?
- When you were sick, that fever is there, you were having fever... When you went to Vrndavana? Some...
- When you're actually Krsna conscious, do you just exist and know all and enjoy all, or do you have any activities at that time?
- When you're typing, should you think of Krsna first and your typing second?
- When your spiritual master was a little boy, did he do things like Lord Caitanya did like when He went to the water and all girls were asking for...?
- Whenever there is perception coming into the mind, there is a conflict?
- Where and when did you learn English?
- Where are the spirit souls coming from that are taking microbe bodies?
- Where are those living entities (the men that were living so many thousands of years ago) now? Where they have gone?
- Where are those thousands of disciples of these other swamis?
- Where are you spending your...?
- Where can you be reached? Anyplace?
- Where did the astronauts go?
- Where did the money come from to print such lavish editions of your books?
- Where did we lose the contact with God?
- Where did you go when you left Calcutta?
- Where did you... Did you sleep on the floor (no, there was bed. There is toilet and water, but no bath and no cooking)?
- Where do they do this (tantrika-yoga)?
- Where do they send that (pregnant) mother?... If the man sends the woman away, where does she...?
- Where do women fit into these four classes?
- Where do you get these funds?
- Where do you have these eight commentaries? Are they found in this edition or...?
- Where do you think the scheme of art fits into Krsna conscious life?... Yes, like painting, or music, or literature, poetry, like that
- Where do you train them in the western countries?
- Where do you.... You might think this unusual. Where does it come from, though?... What goes into this?
- Where does human love enter into it?
- Where does it (Omkara) have it's place in Krsna consciousness?
- Where does it have to be (the mind while chanting)? It has to be fixed?
- Where does it say that Visnu..., I mean Krsna, is the source of Visnu from the srutis?
- Where does Krsna fit into it? Where does Krsna fit into the yoga?
- Where does someone derive his authority...?
- Where does that will (you are perfect, but willfully you become imperfect) come from?
- Where does the money come from to print Godhead?
- Where does the spiritual life lead us? How should people recognize whether we do take birth in our next life or not?
- Where does your perfect knowledge come from and how do you recognize it?
- Where have you been since then (I published something about You a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- Where in India did you come from originally?
- Where in our scriptures is there mention of Lord Jesus Christ as recognized and what is the purport?
- Where in the world do we find that people most understand us and join us?
- Where is gayatri-mantra? Thread (where is gayatri-mantra sheet?)?
- Where is He (God)?
- Where is it (the ten tikas) printed?
- Where is it written in Bhagavad-gita that sexual intercourse is only allowed in married life?
- Where is Krsna consciousness most common in the world, and how widespread is it in India?
- Where is Krsna?
- Where is that at (...not less than one lakh of devotees, at least, so crowded), Srila Prabhupada?
- Where is that sloka you were quoting last night from that ending gokala?
- Where is that Sumeru (mountain) located?
- Where is the disciplic succession broken?
- Where is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Where is the main Yamuna?
- Where is the mention of that ten thousand years?
- Where is the origin of this image of the sun? Is this a Vedic sastric explanation?
- Where is the profit? Into distributing more books (where the profit is going?)?
- Where is the right balance in this modern world?
- Where is the soul and where does it come from?
- Where is their (Christian) method for changing the status quo?
- Where is this (In India, Tirupati, that Deity is richer than many kings in the world. Daily, 100,000 rupees) temple?
- Where is this (tandula-vrscika-nyaya), Srila Prabhupada? Is it in...
- Where is this consciousness of surrender come in human life? At what stage it can come?
- Where is your main home?
- Where is your matha in Vrndavana? In Vrndavana proper?
- Where it says that "by selling my books I am bringing foreign exchange," it's for India's development? ... Whether there should be any word that also signifies that we have local support also?
- Where should I massage you especially? Which part?
- Where should we send (milk products)? To one center?
- Where was the (Your) initiation ceremony?
- Where was the generosity (Abhimanyu's head was there, and Krsna was on the ground with his chariot, and Arjuna was about to kill him, and Krsna was directing him to kill: "There was no mercy with Abhimanyu, so therefore there will be no mercy now")?
- Where were the souls before the universe began?
- Where were you born?
- Where will I go at the time of death if I am thinking of my spiritual master?
- Where will we get ksatriyas and...?
- Where will we introduce the varnasrama system, then?
- Where will you be in India when you go back to India?
- Where would Basavana fit in?
- Where would the moon planet fit?
- Where would this (Srimad-Bhagavatam) come in, a book like this, in the study course?
- Where? Here this Vrndavana (as soon as they will not get tea, they will go away)?
- Whereabouts (we have got a very nice house in Detroit. If you sometimes go there…)?
- Whereabouts, exactly, is that place at Kesi-ghata?
- Whether dog knows that he is dog?
- Whether it's a secret mantra or an open mantra, it's all the name of God. So it doesn't really make much difference, does it, which one you sing?
- Whether or not it is possible for the soul to exist without having this external gross and subtle body covering it?
- Whether to attain that Brahman you should follow that Brahman which is qualityless and shapeless?
- Whew! Only?… Nothing else (at that time Kirtanananda Maharaja was taking one capati)?
- Which book would you like to have translated into Russian?
- Which college (educated you)?
- Which holy places you would like to visit, Srila Prabhupada?
- 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 is more important, to go back to Godhead or spread Krsna consciousness?
- Which is the exact path to attain this aim (the true aim of human life)?
- Which Lord is that (Caitanya)?
- Which of the three types of energy does matter come from?
- Which of your books do you consider to be the most important?
- Which one (paper)?
- Which one? That Kamani Hall (I think they allow dancing by renting the halls, no? What is that?)?
- Which particular teachings do you find so uplifting and ennobling for a man?
- Which place did you come?
- Which problems (will be solved by spiritual consciousness)? The problems that exist in Ireland and India?
- Which religion (I am sex life which is not contrary to religious principles), which religious principle?
- Which Sita Ram?
- Which sloka from Gita, it is from Gita? Bhagavad-gita (sa gunan samatityaitan)?
- Which way is India headed towards? The capitalists or the Communists?
- Which would you like (we shall chant our beads or read book?)?
- While asleep the life symptoms are maintained in the body still?
- While it's living, is matter generated and annihilated within that body during the time of life?... Does it generate matter, so say the body could get heavier or lighter because of that?
- While we are chanting our rounds, or while we are chanting out loud in kirtana, is it all right to be engaging our mind in thinking?
- While we were there (in Vrndavana) I met one of your friends, I guess, a fellow named Mr. Dubhai?
- While you were in the college or afterwards, did you participate in any political movements?
- White-washed, you thought it was white-washed (I came here in the evening, with umbrella and in the morning I saw the whole street is white)?
- Who (he has paid only one hundred rupees from his pocket, and he's everything, and he has squandered so much)?
- Who (they promised to give you land for your program for Kuruksetra)?
- Who are the chief men in the temple committee of Jagannatha temple?
- Who are these harijanas? What is their origin? What sins did they commit?
- Who are those three, jnanis... and karm...?
- Who are very much attracted to living in Mayapur, residing in Mayapur, after perfecting their lives, do they sometimes join Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement in Goloka Vrndavana?
- Who are we, why are we here and where are we going?
- Who asked you (I was family man. I retired in 1954. My Guru Maharaja asked me to take this task seriously when I was twenty-five years old)?
- Who came yesterday. Sanskrit, he (Dr. Sharma) knows Sanskrit well? From Hardwar?
- Who can understand that someone is blind or not blind? Who can judge?
- Who controls, if one of the members becomes grasping, wants things for himself?
- Who created maya, man or God?
- 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 decides who's natural? And what's natural?
- Who determines the regulative principles of religion that people should follow?
- Who did this (They made a, what is called, conspiracy to kill Bhaktisiddhanta)?
- Who do you think Jesus Christ was?
- Who gives this asura-buddhi? From where this filth grows?
- Who has control of the money?
- Who has done this (the Chinese Bhagavad-gita), Srila Prabhupada?
- Who has published them (all these books)?
- Who has the authority to say to somebody, "Please go," though?
- Who has told this "daridra-narayana"?
- Who has written that? Srila Vyasa
- Who has written the Bhagavad-gita?
- Who has written this (Hari hari bifale)?
- Who is "you" (the soul)?
- Who is a real brahmana?
- Who is a sudra? Is it determined by jati?
- Who is author (of the book named - The Scientific Basis of Krishna Consciousness), Svarupa Damodara dasa?
- Who is Brahma?
- Who is controlling the moon?
- Who is Crazy?... That's a new book?
- Who is God's father?
- Who is God?
- Who is God? Who is God?
- Who is honest?
- Who is in charge of a temple when you're not here?
- Who is in charge of giving us our next body?
- Who is in charge of this publication? Who is the leader?
- Who is Jagannatha Misra's wife again?
- Who is our mother?
- Who is responsible for the creation of this material world?
- Who is Siva? Siva is he not a god?
- Who is teaching there (at Navadvipa)?
- Who is that ("I (Prabhupada) can give you a very first-class man, but he won't charge anything.")?
- Who is that (the sinless people who will survive the war)?
- Who is that calling "my"?
- Who is that man (he has given me for fourteen lakhs)?
- Who is that, Srila Prabhupada (cigarette is, I think, advertised, "Nobody is lower than me." That means no other cigarette is lower in poisonous effect. In a different way it is advertised. "Nobody is lower than me." Humble)?
- Who is that?
- Who is the author of Mahabharata?
- Who is the original authority of Bhagavad-gita?
- Who is the representative in India? Of this...? In Delhi, of your organization? In Delhi?
- Who is the speaker of Isopanisad?
- Who is the supreme father's father?
- Who is there in Delhi, Prabhupada?
- Who is this (Prakasananda Sarasvati)?
- Who is this Dr. Bose, Srila Prabhupada?
- Who is to decide whether a person is first-class, if they are a brahmana or whether they are ksatriya or vaisya
- Who is to say there is not a higher standard of happiness, higher than what we think is the ultimate happiness?
- Who is Visnu?
- Who made the decision for Arjuna to fight or not to fight?
- Who needs it (money in the bank)?
- Who prevents them, sir? maya (the cows, calves, animals and peacock - everyone is attracted to Krsna. The water is attracted to Krsna. That is Vrndavana. And here in the material world nobody is attracted by Krsna)
- Who provides you with money?
- Who questions the Gita and the Upanisads?
- Who represented the Gaudiya (in the court case that decided this Deity belongs to Gaudiya Vaisnavas)...?
- Who said that (that "Before Krsna was contaminated, in His childhood, we worship that Krsna")?
- Who told God?
- Who was Jesus's father?
- Who was Meher Baba?
- Who was pressing the court case?
- Who was that, Romaharsana Muni?
- Who was the author of that reading, sir? Who wrote it?
- Who was the original founder, Your Excellency? The original founder of the group?... This group, your group, Krsna movement.
- Who was the originator of Sri-sampradaya?
- Who was the son He (God) sent?
- Who went out of India (so he went out of India and joined with Hitler, and Tojo, Japanese)?
- Who were the aborigines they (Aryans) associated with?
- Who will be president? Of the institute (Bhaktivedanta Institute), Srila Prabhupada?
- Who will carry on this movement after you?
- Who will decide who will be king?
- Who will teach him to be a ksatriya or who will teach him to be a vaisya?
- Who would be the king today? If we establish such a system (parampara), who would become the king?
- Who wrote the other Lord Caitanya? That other play?
- Who's chanting free from the offenses?
- Who's conception (no, out of conception, he (George Washington) had no power to do it. He had no power to do it)?
- Who's got the gold?… Who has the gold?
- Whom are they (ksatriyas) fighting? Whom are they going to fight?
- Whose business (his business is listening)?
- Whose disciple was Krsna?
- Whose list is that? Is that an old list or have you made that up for young Americans?
- Why (although Krsna and omkara is not different, but you'll not like Krsna. In your present position you'll not like Krsna's name)?
- Why (are) they attracted to Hare Rama, Hare Krsna?
- Why (at the present moment people are very, very much addicted to sinful life)?
- Why (did you like Gandhi's national movement)?
- Why (the production of the body in the cosmos is compulsory? Why it is not lila) compulsory?
- Why (would you say that women are inferior to men?)
- Why a dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- Why all the present religions and spiritual systems came into existence, contradicting each other when humanity is meant to follow only one religion?
- Why am I forced to death?
- Why anything exists?
- Why are Krsna students given spiritual name?
- Why are people cruel? Why do they persecute other human beings and torture them? How is it they are able to do this?
- Why are so many cows being killed in the slaughterhouse?
- Why are some people remembering and some people are forgetting Him?
- Why are the so-called scientists trying to make the common people believe that...?
- Why are there apparent time-gaps in the line of disciplic succession as listed in the Bhagavad-gita? Is Arjuna an instructor Spiritual Master and not an initiator Spiritual Master and therefore not listed?
- Why are they so attracted to humanitarianism?
- Why are they so very puffed up and proud even with these defects, Srila Prabhupada (the four defects: He must commit mistake, he must be illusioned, and he must cheat, and his senses are imperfect)?
- Why are they trying to transcend material, transcend material nature? Who is doing these miracles?
- Why are we evil? Why doesn't God make us good?
- Why are we talking about the Rama in this mantra?
- Why are you discussing them (we don't accept either Mao or Marx. We don't accept anyone)?
- Why are you here, Srila Prabhupada? He asked why are you here?
- Why are you returning to India? Had you ever considered staying here in the United States?
- Why are you teaching Radha-Krsna consciousness?
- Why aren't they doing it (manufacturing gold by combination of metals)?
- Why aren't we able to recall when we were in the womb?
- Why at all this started? Why at all, say millions, trillions years back, how it started that God created this world?
- Why at the time of death, the name of God does not come?
- Why Bali Maharaja is considered a Mahajana?
- Why bother with something that is available even to the hogs?
- Why Brahman temples are not existing, and is there any Sanskrit reason or is...?
- Why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka?
- Why can't people understand to depend on Krsna?
- Why can't two people be in charge? Why can't we both...?
- Why can't we have sense gratification and God also at the same time?
- Why can't we offer meat?
- Why can't you give us your old age?
- Why couldn't spirits grow without taking this body? Why couldn't spirits grow in the spiritual world without taking this material body.
- Why did Arjuna ask Krishna to go to His four armed form rather than His two armed form after Krishna had showed Arjuna His Visvarupa?
- Why did God arrange for the pleasures of sense gratification if He wants us to go back to home, back to Godhead?
- Why did God create death in order to stop our enjoyment?
- Why did He (Krsna) create suffering when He could have created a permanent paradise on earth?
- Why did He (Krsna) want Arjuna to work?
- Why did Jesus eat fish?
- Why did Krsna allow the Muslims to enter and do so much damage to the Vedic culture?
- Why did Krsna have all the demigod worship put in the Vedas?... Vyasadeva put all the demigod worship in the Vedas
- Why did Lord Siva try to protect Banasura?
- Why did Nityananda Prabhu break His (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) danda?
- Why did people in the past ages sacrifice animals, and how did Krsna put a stop to this?
- Why did they depose him (Krushchev)?
- Why did they want us to leave the room? They wanted us to leave the room. They wanted us to go out when they were talking to you
- Why did we left Sri Krsna and came to this world? What was the cause?
- Why did you choose to go to America and propagate the teachings of Lord Krsna in a western country?
- Why did you come here?
- Why didn't anyone see Krsna's universal form before Arjuna? Krsna said no one has seen before Arjuna. Why is that?
- Why didn't Jesus Christ say all these things about Krsna?
- Why didn't Krsna kill everybody at the Battle of Kuruksetra?
- Why didn't they eat it (this was aristocracy. They'll not eat, they will simply see and appreciate, "Oh, you have so many varieties, very nice." Then they'll go. And the household servants and others, they eat it)?
- Why do people use spiritual things for material enjoyment when material enjoyment is available by itself?
- Why do so many humans, Srila Prabhupada, they do not use their propensity to ask the questions?
- Why do some misuse it (independence) and some never misuse it?
- Why do some people want to approach Krsna in hatred?
- Why do the philosophers not study in India?
- Why do they (the so-called scientists) want to fool the people?
- Why do they say "sala"? Why is that abominable?
- Why do we bother to preach? Why not just sit and do our bhajana?
- Why do we choose the dark? Why are we all in the dark, most of us?
- Why do we decorate the, a stone Deity?
- Why do we have to think of God? Why do we have to forget about the material world?
- Why do we make the distinction between not killing animals and plants? Why do we kill plants?
- Why do we prefer pada and not the head or the hands? What is the rationale?
- Why do we say chant, but not sing?
- Why do we want to transcend?
- Why do you dress in that way which is an Indian way and not the European way?
- Why do you feel that the younger people today are turning more and more toward the eastern-oriented religions?
- Why do you not explain that about subtle being carried forward?
- Why do you say we are not very much liked? The movement is spreading.
- Why do you send your disciples in these Christian countries to preach the love of God when the gospel of Jesus Christ is also preaching the love of God, God love?
- Why do you think a growing number of young Americans are attracted to the Krsna consciousness movement?
- 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 do you use in the Krsna consciousness the Hindu caste marks?
- Why do you use the technology that you use? You didn't have cars in those days, this television. Things have changed since 1920
- Why do you worry about it?
- Why does all this exist? Why the challenge in the first place? Why maya?
- Why does he depend upon our going there to become important?
- Why does it strike you particularly?
- Why does it take us so long to learn?
- Why does Krsna allow us to commit mistakes and later punishes us?
- Why does Krsna expanded Himself as maya?
- Why does Krsna have an external energy?
- Why does Krsna provide the living entities with these sinful pleasures?
- Why does Srila Narada Muni condemn Srila Vyasadeva for compiling the Vedic Scriptures?
- Why does that (identical twins born together) happen, if there are two brothers who are identically looking the same in features?
- Why does the demoniac mentality, that they feel happy if they see someone else in distress?
- Why does the Hare Krsna movement not engage in social protest?
- Why does the living entity try to enjoy material nature in such a way?
- Why does the living entity wish to speculate in this way?
- Why does the moon appear in pictures of Krsna yet the abode of Krsna is described as having no need of sunlight or moonlight?
- Why does the moon reflect? They say the moon is sandy, but this sand here is not reflecting
- Why does the soul come into the body in the first place?
- Why does the soul forgets, forget his relation... with Krsna?
- Why does this mean that women have to be subordinate?... just because they bear children and men can't?
- Why doesn't God force me to surrender?
- Why doesn't He (God) force us to be good?
- Why doesn't he come to his senses there and then that "What have I done? Why don't I become God conscious?"
- Why doesn't He save me from thinking like that (He's protecting. He says, "You rascal, don't desire, surrender unto Me." But you are rascal, you do not do this)?
- Why doesn't Krsna protect us from that desire (even in the Vaikuntha, if I desire that "Why shall I serve Krsna? Why not become Krsna?" I immediately fall down)?
- Why doesn't life come from the concrete then (the scientists don't accept our proof that God exists as being any more conclusive than their proof that He doesn't exist)?
- Why doesn't the Krsna conscious movement stop cow slaughter?
- Why don't the people revolt if they're so unhappy?
- Why don't they (scientists) search for real knowledge?
- Why don't they teach this in our schools and colleges?
- 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 don't we go back to Vedas, and then we will know the Bhagavad-gita also?
- Why don't we see what the kaviraja thinks, Srila Prabhupada. Should we call him?
- Why don't we serve man instead of chanting Hare Krsna?
- Why don't you still take advantage?
- Why don't you tell people who you actually are? Why don't you say you're a Hare Krsna?
- Why don't you write some purports to that?... To Bhaktisiddhanta's Brahma-samhita?
- Why God created sinful activities?
- Why God make some animals who eat other animals? There is a fault in the creation because... It is a fault in the creation?
- Why has God permitted me to do such a horrible thing (destroy the earth)?
- Why has He (Krsna) given us that independence if in that independence we...?
- Why have all the present religions and spiritual systems come into existence, contradicting each other when humanity is meant to follow only one religion?
- Why have we chosen this? This seems so irrelevant...
- Why have you said Cinmayananda, atheist?
- Why have you written Bhagavad-gita as it really is? Why?
- Why I (Dr. Patel) come so early and all that. Shall I say, sir?
- Why I am put into this body which will be destroyed, which will become old, useless? And where is my freedom?" These things do not bother them, and they are reader of Bhagavad-gita... Is it the sin of some of the...?
- Why I mean is from the time that you start, has it got deadline or something?
- Why in the Rg Veda there is not even the name of Krsna?
- Why is everything always taped at all the...?
- Why is India not satisfied with its own culture?
- Why is it (Krsna consciousness) so popular among young people?
- Why is it all right to kill any plants? How are they different from animals?
- Why is it any better to grow castor seed than to dig oil?
- Why is it in the Vaivarta Purana, after traveling 8,400,000 species of life, we get this human form of life? Is that contradiction with the desire of the spirit soul?
- Why is it necessary for man to have to discover the origin of everything?
- Why is it necessary to live in such comfort as this for the spiritual...?
- Why is it recommended, chanting in this age particularly?
- Why is it seen that they (impersonalists) are making spiritual advancement?
- Why is it so difficult to see Krsna? Why can't each of us see Him within?
- Why is it sometimes if we are sincerely trying to serve Krsna we still make mistakes? We make in our service some mistakes. Does that mean that our mistakes come from the false ego?
- Why is it sometimes there's only quarter moon, no moon, half moon, full moon?
- Why is it that a devotee falls down, that he wants to surrender to Krsna and again he falls back to the material world to become a false enjoyer?
- Why is it that in the modern day good people, they don't come into public office? Good people. In previous ages there were rajarsis, great kings, very pious kings. Why is it that only rogues are aspiring today?
- Why is it that people are so disinclined to listen to our authority - that they all take the scientists' authority - if it's just one authority or another?
- Why is it that people are thinking they are happy?
- Why is it that the Hare Krsna movement has in the last couple of years attempted to make itself a little bit more respectable in the public's eyes by having members wear street clothes and wigs and so forth, while they are soliciting?
- Why is it that the man cannot be tamed and the unintelligent animal can be tamed?
- Why is it that the younger people or people in general, are disenchanted, are trying to go towards the eastern-oriented religion if their aim or premise is the same as the western?
- Why is it that this mahamantra is so attractive to Western countries?
- Why is it that we're so insignificant, but at the same time we become so puffed up?
- Why is it that you seem to attract a large following of youth?
- Why is it then, that one person accepts it (Bhakti-marga) and another rejects it? That is from a spiritual position, his basic disposition?
- Why is it we are again getting breaks now and then and we trace back our steps?
- Why is it, Prabhupada, that in earlier parts of the Kali-yuga no one like yourself came throughout the rest of the world and preached Krsna consciousness?
- Why is Lord Caitanya carrying a forked stick?
- Why is maya so strong if our purpose is to be with God?
- Why is Om not figured in your play?
- Why is that (anything who is intimately related with Krsna, worship of that thing is better than worship of Visnu, 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 (Germany will be able to rise again. Englishmen will not be able to), Prabhupada?
- Why is that (progress means when you conquer death) the only progress?
- 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 is that the best thing, Srila Prabhupada? Why is that the best thing (the best thing is no medicine and kindly give me some (sic:) circumambulation and leave me to the fate)?
- Why is that, do you think (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- Why is the cow sacred and not the other animals?
- Why is the sea salty?
- Why is there a bodily difference?
- Why is there no emphasis?
- Why is there soul and Supersoul in the body when soul is part and parcel of Krsna?
- Why is this human life in such a diseased condition with war, pestilence, and famine?
- Why is work in the world necessarily suffering? It is, it has, a mixture of pain and joy but it's negative to look on it as useless work. Huh?
- Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?
- Why isn't it coming from several sources? Instead of one source, why not several sources?
- Why it is that when the body is dead that the fingernails continue to grow?
- Why it seems that when the soul comes into contact with material nature it becomes contaminated?
- Why it took Parasurama twenty-one times to defeat?
- Why Krsna created this material energy which is so miserable condition?
- Why Krsna? I want to know why (concentrate your mind on) Krsna in particular
- Why listen to his testimony? We can say, "Why listen to his testimony?"
- Why Lord Siva was ordered to appear as Sankaracarya and teach the Mayavada philosophy to turn the people to atheism and thus increase the population?
- Why mother nature doesn't let us draw water?
- Why no other newspaper carried the story?
- Why not (eating) animals?
- Why not (Gandhi was not a mahatma)?
- Why not (the personality is not changed after a heart transplant)?
- Why not (we have no relationship. We don't accept them (the Ramakrishna Mission) as any authority)?
- Why not (you are me and I am you. We are both God)?
- Why not just make one big sun, big scientists?
- Why not less or more (we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds)?
- Why not let us try to find out some man locally here in Bombay?
- Why not live for six or seven years and then go on parikrama and die? If the parikrama can always be done, why not put it off for six or seven more years of preaching?
- Why not meat?
- Why not speak on what we're trying to speak about instead of overly indulging in that which is beyond debate actually?
- Why not start an authoritative group of Christians who chant Hare Krsna, who study the Bible and read the Bhagavad-gita?
- Why not take barley water instead of milk? I mean is milk better than barley water?
- Why not the original?
- Why not we just let things take their natural course of events if everyone's going back to Godhead ultimately?
- Why not? Have I no right to read?
- 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 people say that it's the moon that covers the sun?
- Why should He (Krsna) require us to go through austerities like...?
- Why should I strive for something so difficult, such a philosophical understanding, when I can live very happily with this body?
- Why should one accept this Krsna as God?
- Why should one be distinguished from another if they are both eternal (as God is eternal, so you are also eternal)?
- Why should one pray to God?
- Why should one teach the world to become united with Krsna?
- Why should there be a conflict between the two (body and soul)?
- Why should they accept Krsna as authority over Darwin authority?
- Why should we accept that the living entity will not die?
- Why should we accept that there will be a next life?
- Why should we adore the idol if God has no form?
- Why should we be after something which is adulterated? Why not preach genuine, if at all we preach?
- Why should we do that (give up Krsna consciousness)?
- Why should we enjoy sense gratification like gentlemen?
- Why should we go and tire ourself or make effort? If we are in trouble, oh, just wait for the God to come down to the earth and He will help us and do what we need or defend us?
- Why should we have to cheat them?
- Why should we join your movement? Why should we give up studying such beautiful music and art and literature?
- Why should we live anymore? We're not getting any pleasure out of life. There's no future. Why should... People are happy to die these days, because there is no pleasure
- Why should we think that birth and death is so painful, Srila Prabhupada, because wherever we are, we can think about Krsna...?
- Why should you stop taking this medicine, Srila Prabhupada?
- Why shouldn't consciousness also be conserved?
- Why shouldn't the word surrender be cancelled in the Bhagavad-gita where Krsna says to Arjuna, "You should give up all types of religion and surrender unto Me"? Why shouldn't this word be cancelled, the word surrender?
- Why talk about acaryas and why discuss these things?
- Why that (we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds) sixteen minimum?
- Why the brahmanas of the Jagannatha temple are not allowing foreigners?
- Why the four Vedas are written in a different type of sanskrit from classical?
- Why the Germans are good Sanskrit scholars? Why (they couldn't chant those mantras, of theses three books: one is Akasa-patola, one is Kapota-vahi and Khapoda-vahi)?
- Why the Indian population is so slack in spiritual life?
- Why the information is not given about that?
- Why the Jesus says you offer the other cheek? Which is better? Is the choice of us to be violent or nonviolent?
- Why the prison house is filled up?... With so many prisoners?
- Why the Swamiji doesn't like women?
- Why the Vedas allow us to eat the meat of goat and other animals?
- Why the Yadu dynasty completely destroyed itself?
- Why there are three words, karma, vikarma, akarma? There are three
- Why there is a better response to Krsna consciousness in foreign countries than in India?
- Why there is so much human suffering?
- Why there is so-called discrepancy between the views of Bhagavat and modern scientists regarding the moon and other planets, and whether Hitler is good or bad man?
- Why there is so..., there is duality in this world?
- Why they don't approach a spiritual master for religious knowledge? Why do they think they can do it by themselves?
- Why this trying to understand Krsna? Why not try to understand one's self? Krsna passed 5000 years ago. Now ashes are there in our hands. Why not... ?
- Why was it (Hindu-Muslim unity) the programs failed?
- Why was Lord Rama letting Ravana live in Lanka?... Why was He permitting him to live there? He was irreligious. He did not trust in God. Why was Lord Rama letting him...?
- Why was that (teenagers, they take it very nicely)? I mean what was there, was there something special about the 1960's that made it more likely that people would go for (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)...?
- Why we are so fortunate to have such a nice genuine spiritual master as you, and some others have bogus spiritual master. Is it something of karma or is this the pure mercy of yourself?
- Why we cannot eat meat - to answer this question the straight reply is, "because Krishna does not eat meat''
- Why we cannot eat meat?
- Why we did not have a world with universal brotherhood, universal love?
- Why we should sacrifice everything to Him?
- Why we shouldn't take tea?
- Why we use light bulbs?
- Why were we created free?
- Why will they take advice? Will they actually be attracted to the virtues?
- Why would Buddha want to cheat people?
- Why would God want to keep the living entities in darkness?
- Why would someone take less? Why would someone choose Visnu and not Krsna if they know that Krsna is cent percent and Visnu is ninety-four percent?
- Why would someone who is not Krsna conscious have one hundred children? For example, why would someone like Dhrtarastra, who is not particularly Krsna conscious...?
- Why would they practice yoga at a time when everybody was pure already?
- Why would we take birth as an animal?
- Why would you take less than Krsna? If Krsna is cent percent, why take less?
- Why would you want to stop nature's law acting in its natural way?
- Why you are forbidding sex life?
- Why you have come to America?
- Why you make me leave Vrndavana now?
- Why you're not drinking anything, Srila Prabhupada? ... You don't feel thirsty at all?
- Why you've not answered my question (about killing)?
- Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much?
- Why, if the devotee is struggling very hard to be free of the clutches of Maya, then how can he not be interested in such liberation?
- Why, instead of going, suppose, to South Africa where the majority, the great majority, are believers, you don't go to Japan?
- Why, is it a faith or belief (first of all you have to understand that there is life after death)?
- Why, then, do the learned sages go to flatter those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth?
- Why, then, Srila Prabhupada, is a person given a human body then, if they...?
- Why... When you said ananya, is there a conflict between a devotee of Lord Krsna when he chants Lord Rama's name...?
- Why...(Darwin was a number-one nonsense. Yes. Rascal. He has confused the whole world)?
- Why? Because that (the principles of Arya-samaj) is a principle?
- Will I ever, in another life, will I feel my "I," my ego? Will I feel that again?
- Will it come by itself (the socio-economic solution), or will it come through you?
- Will Krsna not fulfill your desire (to complete the Bhagavatam)?
- Will mantras lose their sanctity if they are not in Sanskrit?
- Will not transcendence be an illusion too?
- Will people still be chanting Hare Krsna in 400,000...?
- Will such a stand be acceptable to all sections of Hindus, and if so, how can the new smrtis come into being and who will give them sanction and sanctity?
- Will Swamiji discourse this evening?
- Will that (next war will come very soon) help our preaching, Prabhupada?
- Will that be the first part of their falldown, to be in Vaikuntha and think of personal lust with Krsna's associates?
- Will that extend to animals also? According to our Hindu philosophy, I understand everything has a soul
- Will the change in heart come about for such persons (Mayavadis) because they're somehow associated with Krsna?
- Will the fundamental values of Hinduism be in any way affected by the eradication of castism, towards which a concerted effort is now being made at all levels?
- Will the Swami give another service in the Arlington Street Church any time in the future?
- Will there be one spiritual leader, though?
- Will there be preaching centers in every town and village, or will it just be a question of traveling through and preaching to the people and ticking off that we've been there?
- Will there come a time when all these conditioned souls will become liberated?
- Will they (men of character, knowledge, sincerity, God conscious) be able to function in a society as working individuals?
- Will they (the children in your school in Texas) be virtually living outside...?
- Will things get physically violent?
- Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa, if we try to concentrate, if we sit erect while chanting?
- Will this be possible, to reform these leaders, Srila Prabhupada?
- Will this center also be a place of learning for Sanskrit studies and allied topics?
- Will this movement take over the world, Prabhupada?
- Will this war spread to many different countries and continents?
- Will we be someday in charge of those (Vrndavana and all these other lands)?
- Will we have readings or would you like to talk with them?
- Will we know Krsna as well by thinking always how can we spread this Krsna consciousness? ... As much as if you study thoroughly the Vedas?
- Will you agree with this point, that we are not perfect?
- Will you always be our spiritual master?
- Will you be going for a walk this morning, Srila Prabhupada? It's quarter to seven. If you want to go now, we could go
- Will you be here a good long while?
- Will you be meeting other spiritual leaders in South Africa?
- Will you be opening certain schools in India on gurukula pattern?
- Will you be our spiritual master for eternity?
- Will you excuse me?
- Will you please explain about the 28th mahayuga of this Manu, in which the treta and Dvapara yugas are reversed?
- Will, willing something is more like desiring something, isn't it?
- With all these disqualifications, how can the general mass of people take to Krsna consciousness?
- With due respect, I want to know the God knows that He is God and dog knows he is dog?
- With due respect, I want to know what is the line of demarcation between science and religion?
- With Krsna can one say that Krsna is the form that presents itself, of Godhead, which presents itself to man, and Bhagavan is the essential aspect?
- With more people in politics in India, are they able to keep the Vedic ideal? Or...?
- With open eyes, why we cannot do the prayers and the bhakti-yoga? What is the...
- With talking on it (Hare Krsna record), vocal?
- With the present state of the world as it is - it seems to be in a pretty mess - what would you say we are actually advancing spiritually?
- With the question regarding whether prospectus or magazine is better...
- With the siddhis... One who has attained all these siddhis, all these powers, do they harm humanity sometimes?
- With these truths, with these basic truths, do you think that is helping people realize themselves, or do they have to go into a more?
- With Visvambhara you have discussed?
- Within the courtyard (aristocratic family, they would have lake within the house)?
- Within this universe are there other planets similar to the earthly planet where the inhabitants are getting the same, similar material bodies?
- Within Vedic culture, what is meant by bhakti-yoga?
- Without a machine how can you make sugar from the cane?
- Without God consciousness, there's no question of morality?
- Without life it's more complex, matter?
- Without perfect knowledge, can I not teach some things?
- Without religious, scientific, practical God consciousness, how can there be a civilization? How can anyone know that there's a difference between right and wrong or morality unless there is God consciousness?
- Without taking diksa from the guru also utters the name of Lord Krsna with devotion?
- Without the consciousness, what happens to the soul when the body dies?
- Without the proper guidance...?
- Won't it help to have your books in their homes though? And maybe future generations will, you know, be benefited, they'll read your books?
- Won't Krsna feel embarrassed to stand between Radha and Rukmini at the same time? Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? It's not rasabhasa?
- Won't the countryside be spoiled if there is an atomic war?
- Working on the driver of the body. On the spirit, right (people are generally working on the body. And we are working on the driver of the body. That is the difference)?
- Worshiping Visnu is also material?
- Would a spacesuit substitute for that (with this body you cannot go there (to the moon). You have to prepare a similar body which is suitable for living condition there)?
- Would a Vedic king try to prohibit the fifth-class men from eating the animals?
- Would even accidents between two automobiles, that would not really be an accident?
- Would God sanction activities in the factory, technological, scientific world?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would he be cursing with the right or left hand?
- Would I have to give any financial support? So I wouldn't have to give any money at all?
- Would it be all right to open the window?
- Would it be beneficial to try to understand the process of production? Like the example of the earth coming from the water. Because the water evaporates, there is left over minerals and salts and all these things...
- Would it be better if we gave up eating vegetables?
- Would it be dangerous for someone who is not at that level to study Srimad-Bhagavatam, or would they simply not understand it?
- Would it be improper to say Vijnana only? Would that be improper? I was thinking in terms of making the title as short as possible. Vijnanam or sa-vijnanam, both nice, but I was thinking...
- Would it be more practical if you write a separate booklet or a pamphlet for Russians who have never heard about God or the existence of God as Krsna?
- Would it be possible for them (scientists) to make a body and have a living entity enter into it?
- Would it be possible to run scientific tests on the chanting, the sound of Hare Krsna, to make a distinction between that sound and the sound of an automobile's horn? Would that be perceptible?
- Would it be possible to say that all the religions are, as it were, aspects of the personality of Krsna?
- Would it help if someone took the Bible and wrote a Vaisnava purport or tried to simplify it so that people could understand it? The language is difficult for the common man now to understand
- Would it matter if I worship any other? Would it matter whether I worship Krsna or Siva or Christ or Buddha? Would it matter?
- Would it not be better for them to leave the father and devote their status, instead, to the Lord?
- 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 one see gross form on a subtle planet?... Like the moon planet is heavenly planet. They're supposed to have subtle bodies there. So would there be any gross forms?
- Would that (greatest happiness be experienced) by all the senses - mind, intelligence...?
- Would that also be due to that soul's karma, that he has gone from being aborted on to another body?
- Would that be a young cow or a mother cow?
- Would that be all right? If we sit you up and put pillows behind you, will you be able?
- Would that person have to have contact with you and learn from you also?
- Would the blacksmiths do the puja to Visvakarma, or brahmanas?
- Would the brahmanas learn Sanskrit (in the varnasrama college)?
- Would the flight that was just completed, that doesn't contradict with anything in this book?
- Would the intellect be helpful in knowing God?
- Would the prior life have to be an animal life?... Or could the prior life also be human life?
- Would the spirit soul that is within, say, a cow's body, is in a different shape?
- Would there be more benefit, would there be more of an influence, or would there be more of a strengthening if it were in an area of affluence rather than an area of poverty or vice versa?
- Would you accept conclusions from science that..., only if it agreed with the Vedic scriptures?
- Would you agree that God is just a concept?
- Would you be justified in doing something that society would consider criminal, like… stealing for Krsna, or killing for Krsna... Something that is judged by, say, the US government as criminal, would be still do it if it was for Krsna?
- Would you be more comfortable inside, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you call yourself a guru?
- Would you comment on the current political situation in India, what's happening right now?
- Would you comment on the political situation in India now. What do you think about Mrs. Gandhi's...?
- Would you consider the caste system as designations?
- Would you count Jesus Christ as gold (gold cannot be Muslim gold or Hindu gold or Christian gold. We are concerned with gold, not the country where the gold is produced. That is not very important thing. Whether it is gold, that is our business)?
- Would you describe where Krsna consciousness started and why you have come to the Western world?
- Would you discuss your dancing with me please and explain something of it?
- Would you elaborate what you are doing as New Vrindaban? What is it you are establishing there?
- Would you explain something of the religious experience of God consciousness?
- Would you give me a background, the history and origin of Krsna consciousness?
- Would you have agreed to stay with him?
- Would you have any instructions as to how I could serve you better?
- Would you have anything that would sort of correspond to a living interpretive voice or a living interpretation of the will of God irrespective of what God says to me as an individual in the recesses of my heart and soul?
- Would you help the sick people?
- Would you know whether people who joined the movement in their older years are more likely to stay on than those who join when they are younger?
- Would you like a little kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like a little water, Prabhupada?
- Would you like a plate, Swamiji?
- Would you like Bharadvaja to sing a little?
- Would you like Hamsaduta to chant some more?
- Would you like me to do anything? What would you like me to do?
- Would you like myself or Hamsaduta to stay here and help with this building?
- Would you like some chanting?
- Would you like some fruit juice now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like some more kirtana, Srila Prabhupada? Lokanatha can lead. Lokanatha, you lead
- Would you like some pomegranate, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like some? We can bring you some nim leaves?
- Would you like them to stop it (that disturbing sound) until you left?
- Would you like this blanket also, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to do that, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to give your views on psychiatry?
- Would you like to go back to the temple now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to go for a walk soon? I'll get everything ready. The palanquin was nice?
- Would you like to have a temple established in every village?
- Would you like to hear a little bit of one of the books? We'll read some more of the Teachings of Lord Kapila that we were reading yesterday to you? In this way we can pass the time very nicely
- Would you like to hear Giriraja's prayer?
- Would you like to hear Hari Haraye Namah? Should he play with harmonium? Okay. And we'll all accompany?
- Would you like to hear one of the Blake songs?
- Would you like to hear some reading now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to hear some special kirtana?
- Would you like to hear Tenth Canto, Volume Two, Srila Prabhupada, a little bit? Or more of Kapiladeva? Kapiladeva would be nice. Ten, two?
- Would you like to include Gandhi also in that?
- Would you like to return?
- Would you like to see him (Satadhanya Maharaja), Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to see the land that we have got here, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to see those advertisements?
- Would you like to sit for some time here, Prabhupada?
- Would you like to take fruit now, or prasadam as regular?
- Would you like to take something, Srila Prabhupada? Drinking?
- Would you like to walk further, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would you like to walk on the other beach, or...?
- Would you like us to bring that chair over to the pond to carry you up to the pond?
- Would you like your gloves, SrIla Prabhupada?
- Would you say something about Christ and his relation to Krsna consciousness?
- Would you say something about the mercy of Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement?
- Would you say something about the place of women in your movement?
- 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 because we - and I talk about myself - because I have meat and bacon and so on, I am a, does that make me sinful? If I didn't eat those, I would be less sinful?
- Would you say that He (God) loves the person that is doing wrong?
- Would you say that it should be done in an area of affluence or an area of poverty to begin with?
- Would you say that Krsna is God or Krsna is love?
- Would you say that the Americans are generally less tolerant than Londoners to you or more tolerant?
- Would you say that the lawyer can do good whether or not he believes in God?
- Would you say that the western-oriented church's message is not relevant or that they have failed to present their message properly?
- Would you say that there were times when, well, that there were marriages which were also illicit?
- Would you say that this is a return to this Bhagavad-gita?
- Would you say that we are in a state of peace or a state of war?
- Would you say that women are inferior to men?
- Would you say the right way would have to be, let's say, to be a follower of Krsna?
- Would you say there are more sins than those four? Are there other sins? Are there other sins beside these four?
- Would you say, for instance, someone who is less intelligent or more intelligent than I am is in a different species?
- Would you tell me something of your own background? That is, where you were educated, how you became a disciple of Krsna
- Would you tell us your experiences in that (what I say, I have got greater authority) field?
- Would you think it is possible to hate the Deity?
- Would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- Would you think that their souls are of different value, the soul of the dog...?
- Would you use the facility, then, as sort of a center for all over the United States?
- Would you use, say, cars if it were given you?
- Would your Guru Maharaja tell a lot of Bengali proverbs, Srila Prabhupada?
- Would, say, the cutting down of a plant, vegetable.... You are killing the growth there. Is that a living matter?
- Wouldn't it be better just to take some fresh leaf?
- Wouldn't it be handy, though, to be able to fly around without having to use airplanes? Couldn't a devotee utilize that?
- Wouldn't it be more sincere if these people, these scientists said, "We don't want to be taken out of this dream, that with our senses and with all the machines built on senses we will be able to make it"? But they don't want to be taken out of that dream
- Wouldn't that sort of peace be a precursor to a return to religion? Must we not first have peace?
- Wouldn't you say that pretty much, that this philosophy is guiding a lot of the figures, the youth...?
- Wow. Just like "No dogs allowed." Are you serious about that (you can have signboard: "No Mayavadis visit here"), Srila Prabhupada?
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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?
- Yadubara wanted to film you translating. Is that all right?
- Yamunacarya was sisya or guru of Ramanujacarya?... Ramanujacarya was guru or sisya?
- Yeah, but do they have any prohibition about these religious discourses?
- Yeah, but people following you, could, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- Yeah, well, when a person is attached to that group in the temple, isn't this, become a lust too? You see, being influenced by the group and also attached to the people...
- Yeah, within one material life (gain release from birth, death, and old age)? You necessarily don't have to return?
- Yes (if you require car, you have a bullock cart. That's all. Why should you hanker after petrol, mobile, oil, machine, this, that, so many things. Why?), but don't you think that it would be impossible for you to come mostly?
- Yes (we do not approve anything which is not actually beneficial). But what about certain technological advancements like airplanes and automobiles?
- Yes, and if they receive-they'll take anything, they are so renounced. So isn't that more spiritual?
- Yes, but degradation is not...? Is it not a law of nature?
- Yes, but how can a psychologist judge a religion? That's not his field. They have to bring in scholars whose field is religion
- Yes, but if you say fact (it is not belief, it is fact), how do you prove?
- Yes, but we in Krsna consciousness, we aren't interested in that Paramatma, are we?
- Yes, but when you go out do you feel it (the cold)?
- Yes, fried portal also. Would you like to have some capati with that, Srila Prabhupada? Capati? Or some rice?
- Yes, I accept that view (if you are unable to give perfect knowledge, then what is the use of taking knowledge from you). But how do you prove that a man...?
- Yes, I would most certainly like to come back if I may. What is the best time?
- Yes, I've seen this morning's. Fairly similar, just to talk about the movement. Are you happy with the way it's going here?
- Yes, seahorse. Did such an animal exist, seahorse? Or is this man's imagination?
- Yes, Srila Prabhupada... So why don't you develop?
- Yes, that means I am not the body, I am something beyond body. And what is that beyond body?
- Yes, that the president's recommendation is overseeing, is scrutinized, by GBC, so that when Your Divine Grace gets a recommendation, it's been, by someone else, it's been checked. Do you think it's unnecessary?
- Yes, there may be God, but what does it matter what I do? He is controlling everything. What do I have to say?
- Yes, we can make. How many garages do you want?
- Yes, we have lost. That is right. And we are gaining it again. The heaven is lost; heaven may be regained. (laughs) What is that, Milton's?
- Yes, well, due to problems that do occur from time to time, we.... You know, what people consider to be the false guru, is that all right with you?
- Yes, what's the most important practice…He is asking whether one technique is more important than another?
- Yes, why doesn't Krsna come and do it (they want historical evidence for everything) now?
- Yes. But if someone has a temple and he maintains a Deity for his personal sense gratification...
- Yes. Can you scientifically prove this, sir (you'll get next body according to that mentality)? I mean is it purely a matter of belief or...
- Yes. Till (Balarama's. So fasting) noon?
- Yes. We eat that (kalmisan). We shouldn't let it grow in the pukkur? It's growing in one little corner of the pukkur
- Yes. Yes. Of course, that (I do not know what is my future. Then what is my education?) is one standpoint, isn't it?
- Yesterday I met a devotee from New York who said that there were many people present at the festival from other planets and that you could see them. Is that true?
- Yesterday in Assam seven student have been killed, but is it the communists who killed them?
- Yesterday you gave an example of a man who was lying asleep in bed, and he is transported somewhere in dream, walking on the beach. What is the full analogy?
- Yesterday you said that the spiritual master may have to suffer due to the sinful activities of his disciple. What do you mean by sinful activities?
- Yesterday you said when one becomes initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, his body changes?
- Yesterday you took dal and ruti? ... How was it tasting?
- Yesterday, that film arrived?
- Yesterday, you said that Krsna appreciates when a devotee accepts voluntary adversity. How do we know when we should accept this adversity?
- Yet no two (flowers) are the same, are they?
- Yet now there is a new controversy in America because during Christmas season our book distributors dress themselves up as Santa Claus. You've seen Santa Claus?
- Yet you say that there are several processes for knowing God. Is that right? That are written? And that only one can be used now?
- You (Srila Prabhupada) accept our (his disciples) karma also. Is that correct?
- 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 accept to answer my questions?
- You all have moved your school out of Texas. Is that correct?... Why was that done?
- You also said if you decorate Krsna, make Krsna beautiful, your heart will become beautiful ?
- You always point out that sometimes people say that bhakti is sentimental, but where is there more scientific person than Jiva Gosvami, more philosophical?
- You always return as an animal?
- You and your movement tend to separate people from concern with what's going on in the world, like that's a Presidential election and Jimmy Carter is the democratic candidate... Isn't that an example of it?
- You are a cultured man. You're educated... Did you not learn...? Who gave you the talent to translate your Vedic scriptures?... Who gave you the talent, father?
- You are accepting to you questions put by a young man. Will you still kindly answer all questions put by an old?
- You are allowed to go freely, or there are restrictions for your movement?
- You are at this particular time then the head in the world of this movement? Would that be correct?
- You are enjoying death and old age?
- You are finding some difficulty with sex desire and have asked guidance from me to instruct you how to handle this problem of the material body
- You are going by plane or by car?
- You are going to have a temple there (South Africa)?
- You are going to Kumbha Mela tomorrow?
- 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 in India today a religious life, or...?
- You are intent to serve the Lord Krsna in the same method for ever?
- You are just beginning that (yogendra-rasa) now, of course. Tomorrow you might give it up. Then what will be our position?
- You are leaving tomorrow morning? Only today you have got time?
- You are not escapists?
- You are not organizing a yatra in Paris?
- You are not particularly interested in what particular name this God has?
- You are not suggesting that all of that (if they stop manufacturing, there is unemployment. And if they increase car, there is power shortage. So this dilemma, this modern civilization will have to meet this dilemma) is just cut away completely...?
- You are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
- You are of the same line of Purusottama Sarasvati, the great philosopher, no?
- You are participating in it, are you not (he asks if you are going to participate in the Ratha-yatra Parade)?... Will you attend the one here in New York?
- You are ready for bathing, Srila Prabhupada?
- You are saying at the present moment we are all suffering?
- You are saying that man shouldn't have bondage?
- You are selling your books in Moscow?
- You are the founder of this movement. You are the founder?
- You are the head of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Is it a church?
- You are traveling all Latin America now?
- You are travelling to India, I hear?... Are you establishing a university in India?... At Navadvipa?
- You arrange the marriages?
- You ask how you can become free of envy
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not?
- You ask one question about the nature of books I want you to write as my disciples?
- You asked earlier about our program for educating society; are you still interested in this?
- You asked if we will remember the earth, when in Vrindaban...
- You believe you can transmit that to other planets?
- You belong to the Caitanya...?
- You belong to West Bengal?
- You brought them (the Deities) from Jaipur?
- You came here not too many years ago. Did you ever expect that it would grow into what it has over the years?
- You came here ten years ago, or eleven years ago. You were almost seventy at the time...?
- You 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 do it in two hours, but by bullock cart it will take five hours. We have... You had difficulty even doing a half-hour parikrama around this temple. You became very faint. Whether you think that you can go five hours in a row?
- You can feel that it's still loose. How long will it remain like that?
- You can feel things deteriorated? In what respect, Srila Prabhupada?
- You can have more than one (ksatriya)?
- You can love God and be near God and train to be a medical man. Why don't you let some of your boys be trained to be medical men? Why do you say no?
- You can see the Deity as too strong, repressive, taking away your freedom, your own wishes and so you can come to hate the Deity
- You can't read or talk to someone (while chanting)?
- You cannot do anything unless the Lord desires it?
- You choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?
- You commented that, you gave the words "Never trust," if I understood you right, "never trust an old man and a politician (a woman or a politician)"?
- You conclude that when you become enlightened, you will see the God in form of human nature?
- You could accept the idea of God in another manner than your church?
- You could explain something of what the scientists are always talking about, mutation and variation, and how one species evolves from another species?
- You did not begin to teach Srimad-Bhagavatam when you first came to the U.S.?
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You do agree that there are many people who do try and cheat?
- You do perform wedding ceremonies?
- You don't allow the tea here in the...?
- You don't feel the cold in the nighttime here?
- You don't find it possible to achieve any absolute condition in our time?
- You don't have the Bengali panditas teaching Sanskrit (at Navadvipa)?
- You don't like fruit juice?
- You don't mind those steps going up?
- You don't pay ... in Bombay?
- You don't think it's possible to stop willing?
- You don't think that people could have a gift for healing?
- You don't think that somebody could be an instrument to help other?
- You don't think the patients have any mind of their own?
- You don't think there's some irony in that (boys and girls undressed themselves and got in the mud and they just played with the hogs. Dirty, just living like the hogs, which they worship)?
- You don't think, Prabhupada, they have reached the moon?
- You don't try to convert people from other religions?
- You don't want the card, do you?
- You don't want them (peanuts) heating or anything?
- You don't want to drink anything today?
- You don't want to go to Krsna?
- You don't want to take those pills the other doctor gave you? You don't want to take those pills for your urine?
- You encourage anybody who disagrees with aspects of your philosophy to argue with you?
- You enquire about the mode of goodness, and why such people do not worship Krishna
- You expect him to pay that money back, or not necessarily?
- You expect that they would oppose?
- You explained that we have three kinds of miseries: adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika. So adhyatmika is the misery also of the mind. How can I understand?
- You feel that you can continue to make those serious travels?
- You feel weaker?
- You first made ice cream in New York, Srila Prabhupada? Someone told me that in 26 Second Avenue, did you make..., you made them ice cream when it was very hot?
- You founded the Krsna consciousness movement. How long ago was that?
- You founded this movement I think it was ten years ago, that's correct. Why was it that you left till you were so late in life before you founded it?
- You gave some diet that we should follow. We shouldn't have meat, eggs, fish, and chicken. Can we eat cheese? Is there anything else we should not eat in our diet?
- You go for a prescribed course of study?
- You go to bed at two-thirty?
- You go to Detroit from here?
- You got a copy, eh, Easy Journey to Other Planets?
- You got a report?
- You had a paternal guru?
- You had a yatra, I guess, in San Francisco, didn't you?
- You have a farm now?
- You have a taste for nim?
- You have a temple (in London)?
- You have a way to stop the crime?
- You have asked about "chemical changes of consciousness" or drugs, and if these may ever be utilized in Krishna's service
- You have asked about construction plans in New Vrindaban...
- You have asked about Gaura Nitai deity worship by the householders in Los Angeles. That is for those who live far away from the temple and cannot attend
- You have asked about my travelling schedule...
- You have asked about Rupanuga
- You have asked about singing the prayers of Narottama Thakura...
- You have asked about the compiler of Sri Brahma Samhita...
- You have asked about the management of our society, and the position is that management should be done in such a way that people may not break away. That is the first business of management
- You have asked about the printing of Srimad-Bhagavatam...
- You have asked about the specialness of the month of Karatieya
- You have asked about where you will get the money for bookbinding equipment...
- You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the Sankirtana Movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the Sankirtana Movement
- You have asked as to where is the ocean of love?
- You have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana. So you are asking how this can be so?
- You have asked for some men...
- You have asked for some song translations...
- You have asked for the translation to the Text 63, chapter 1, Fourth Canto...
- You have asked how the Sankirtana activities become more relishable every day...
- You have asked how you can thank me
- You have asked if I found it difficult to carry on devotional service when in my household life...
- You have asked if it is true that the Spiritual Master remains in the material universe until all of His disciples are transferred to the Spiritual Sky?
- You have asked if the Yadu dynasty has continued beyond Satasena
- You have asked in your letter to Purusottama if you should observe the lists of 44 offenses and 44 regulations for deity worship...
- You have asked me - Prabhupada (Letters)
- You have asked me about my plans...
- You have asked me about sassafras...
- You have asked me for suggestions of what to say to different persons on Sankirtana Party...
- You have asked me how many hours you should work?
- You have asked me if the spiritual master is ultimately Krishna
- You have asked me some questions about the functions of sex life in Krishna Consciousness
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest" as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me the meaning of the word "non-manifest'' as it appears in the Bhagavad-gita...
- You have asked me to assign you to some duty...
- You have asked me to disclose my dream about John
- You have asked me to let you know about the concrete plan for Bombay...
- You have asked me to send you a check for $4,500, but this is for the first time you have asked me to pay on account of BTG...
- You have asked me to tell you everything that you should know...
- You have asked me to tell you whether you are right or carry one by the following the foolish advice of Kirtanananda...
- You have asked me to write something about Mr Paul...
- You have asked me what are the formalities that you have to observe for recruiting Krishna devotees in India...
- You have asked me what I feel is the best engagement for you at this time
- You have asked my permission whether you can stay in San Francisco...
- You have asked some specific mantra...
- You have asked that somebody go there to Fiji to assist you...
- You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krishna
- You have asked what is a brahmacari's work?
- You have asked what is meant by illicit sex. Sex should be used only in marriage for begetting nice children to raise in Krsna Consciousness
- You have asked whether you may use charcoals to use for fuel during the winter...
- You have asked your spiritual children to leave the outer world in the West and to go deep within the heart of ISKCON, within your heart and the heart of the Supreme, to accomplish what you've set as their goal. What about outer service to humanity?
- You have asked... (Letters)
- 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 centers all over the world?
- You have come to a round visit to the west now?
- You have different schools for men and women, is that correct?
- You have given the example that one has to give up certain habits such as one should not smoke and things, but is it true that that is not the ultimate goal of transcendence?
- You have got a center established in Iran?
- You have got a copy?… If I could have access to it?
- You have got a school, a Krsna school?
- You have got such chelas there (disciples from Islamic countries)?
- You have had so much to do with bringing the dharma to the West. What is your idea? What is your mission? It seems to me, in many ways there is a transfer of the essential spirit going West, because the interest is there
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky...
- You have inquired about how we leave our body and enter into the Spiritual Sky?
- You have inquired about my books...
- You have inquired about the Jagannatha Car...
- You have inquired about the quality number 63 of Krishna that He is surrounded by loving devotees...
- You have inquired if you should learn the German language...
- You have inquired why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka. But perhaps you have missed the point
- You have mentioned many authorities, beginning with the Veda, Brahma-sutra, Bhagavad-gita or wisdom of the Mahabharata. Do you accept all truth?
- You have mentioned pain within the body. What is the origin of pain and the origin of imperfection?
- You have pain in that hip, Srila Prabhupada?
- You have priced these books very high comparatively for the poorer countries. Do you have any plans to reduce...?
- You have said simply by eating prasadam this is controlling the tongue. But still, we have tendency when there is a big feast to eat very much prasadam. Is this a good thing, or...?
- You have said that India should take this movement seriously. How do you want India to take this movement?
- You have said that you have nullified the law of gravity, but how can we explain that everything is falling down?
- You have said, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God." Is not God eternal, therefore how was there a beginning? And if the beginning was the word, who was it spoken by or how was it spoken if it was the beginning?
- You have seen (Niagara Falls)? How do you like it?
- You have seen (the Niagara Falls)?
- You have seen that letter (from Aldridge)?
- You have so many disciples, thousands, and one devotee was asking me yesterday, "I want to please Srila Prabhupada. How does he know my progress and my service when I'm so far away from him and if I don't write him?"
- You have some project here. Can you kindly explain what is that?
- You have sour cherries too?
- You have started that school? Yes. Could you sometime tell me about that school. They teach Sanskrit, English?
- You have taken that tablet for passing more urine?
- You have ten swamis. And outside of swamis, what's the lower?
- You have the temple of Krsna?... You have a community in Paris?
- You have to spend (before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task)?
- You have very frankly inquired from me about householder life, especially in the matter of sex relationship
- You have written that Maha-Visnu has some attraction to the material world?
- You have, that letter has a return address from Mandalibhadra?
- You haven't heard of it (the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement)?
- You hired a sankirtana party?
- You indicated in..., before you came here (Washington), that you were interested in meeting some leaders in the city. Have you met any of them?
- You indicated that the creation of this universe takes place in stages. Darwin's theory also says that first there was water, then vegetation came up, and then gradually every species evolved. Is there correlation?
- You just sleep a couple of hours, then (in the evening Srila Prabhupada goes to bed at ten o'clock and gets up at eleven-thirty to begin translating)?
- You knew him before?
- You know from Meher Baba?
- You know him (Mr. Dubhai), and Himavati. I told them I'd see you pretty soon. I thought maybe you might be interested in seeing a few pictures?
- You know his (Paramananda's) wife, mother Satyabhama? She sent you a gift. Do you want to see it?
- You know that book Rupanuga's putting together?
- You know the Cardinal that you spoke with in Paris? You know how he died?
- You know the Cardinal that you spoke with in Paris?... You know how he died?
- You know the story (of the tortoise and the hare)?
- You know what a papi I am. I don't think the Krsna consciousness is so easy...?
- You know, it sticks in the mind, about the leaders and the government, you said it. Is the duty of the leaders of the government to see the people are happy. In this context, how do you see the government of India?
- You know, Prabhupada, I really feel like I should concentrate lot of my preaching here in New York… What do you think?
- You like with peanuts (Rice Krispies)?
- You like with peas (Rice Krispies)?
- You live in New York?
- You made a good point about why although now thousands of American boys and girls are coming to India, no one is going to the Ramakrishna Mission, so what kind of impact has he had?
- You made the statement in your purport that the moon is giving life to the vegetation on this planet. So how it can be a desert?
- You may achieve recognition of the God that's in yourself, of that aspect... Without being pantheistic, you mean?
- You may come back?
- You mean ("This is required?") the part about the books ("I shall follow the instructions of the books..."), Srila Prabhupada?
- You mean a mortar and pestle?
- You mean about the Eastern and Western (they are thinking that they are body. "I am Muhammadan, I am Christian, I am American, I am Eastern, I am Western," all bodily conceptions)?
- You mean actually Krsna is in here?
- You mean by intuition can we understand?
- You mean he (Bon Maharaja) has been corresponding with professors in America?
- You mean He (Krsna) eats fire in His representation as the fire-god?
- You mean I experience the seven months of being in a sleeping state?
- You mean I should leave everything and start a farm?
- You mean ice is covering the fire?
- You mean if a person commits a murder, a sinner?
- You mean in a rich country like this, why should anyone be on the street?
- You mean like a community, spiritual community like Kirtanananda?
- 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 she's not qualified as first, second, or third-class until she marries?
- You mean Swamiji then that all scientific efforts, whatever they are, should be stopped altogether?
- You mean the Bhagavad-gita, he must know that or what (you may take part in the movement or not but he must know the science)?
- You mean the lack of spiritual leadership has driven us to this state of affairs?
- You mean the spirit has got subtle form, though it may be exact form?
- You mean the spirit? Food? Does the spirit require food (so the car requires petrol. Does it mean the driver also requires petrol?)?
- You mean the subtle body or the soul, the same thing?
- You mean these things (meat, wine and tobacco) just reinforce body consciousness?
- You mean they never were conditioned at any time or... You said there were millions of souls...?
- You mean this movement in the world ("Try to understand and broadcast it. It is not a sectarian, so-called religious movement")?
- You mean to ask whether the ultimate state of consciousness is within us that has to be brought out?
- You mean to say eternally there is a soul and... This atma and Paramatma will remain separate?
- You mean to say that any system that doesn't subscribe to this movement has no future at all?
- You mean to say that this should become part, an integral part of the educational system?
- You mean you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something?
- You mean you're not working for the jail life (we're not working to keep people in the jail conception of life. So that's why they cannot understand what we are doing)?
- You mean your future (which body I am going to accept, there is no education. So I am kept in darkness. So what is the value of my education?)?
- You means you have ten thousand students who used to be addicted to something? And those who relapse, can they be treated again?
- You meant for Kali-yuga (your way is the way)? For the time that we live in right now?
- You mentioned about how like, if you meditate a lot and you really, well, you feel something, that you should do something...?
- You mentioned new bodies. Does this embrace reincarnation? That is, when we leave the physical body we have now on death, do you mean that consciousness goes on
- You mentioned once that most of the parikrama devotees, they wanted to go on parikrama but he was speaking?
- You mentioned something about Caitanya dancing with Haridasa?
- You mentioned that eventually the communists will take over the capitalists. So how long do you think that will happen?
- You mentioned that soon there will not be so much use for automobiles. What will be our means of spreading the sankirtana movement?
- You mentioned that there was nowhere any sanction by God for industry or business. So does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- You mentioned that Vrndavana would be a place for those people who have become a little disturbed in Krsna consciousness, or burned out, we call it, from so much activity, that he comes here and gets rejuvenated. Is that still...?
- You mentioned this morning that when you sit up you feel a little stronger now. I think it's good that you're not taxing yourself in any way. That's important. Would you like to do something specific right now, Srila Prabhupada?
- You met a gentleman by the name of Harvey Cohen?
- You must please God for Him to reveal, is that correct?
- You never feel any intense separation from your spiritual master?
- You never saw snow?… Even in the Himalayas?
- You now come right from Vrndavana or...?
- You once said that in case of a strong rush of sex desire to think of the Gopis, the Dearmost to Lord Krishna. Is there another help in case of anger or harshness?
- You once said there is a gross and subtle part of the moon planet. Is that so? No
- You refer to Ramanujacarya as an important person... Where does he fit into your, the Caitanya tradition? He's accepted as an authority. His, the Sri Bhasya is studied, accepted...?
- You referred earlier to some proofs of after-life. I wonder are these available in writing in English, and do people here know of them?
- You remember you went to that Kuruksetra meeting?
- You rented a room there (it was an office room. That building is meant for office, not for residences)?
- You run farms as well, do you not?... What do they... Are they working farms, producing farms?
- You said ... our relationship to Krsna is as children. But, I've also read that our relationship is also as, as Krsna as our son?
- You said before that the more hospitals they open that means the more people have to become sick?
- You said before that with respect to achieving Krsna consciousness, that the end was most important… Would that ever allow you to or any one of the devotees, to engage in practices that would be considered unjust or criminal in a broader society?
- You said it takes an intelligent person to become Krsna consciousness, but it's obvious that are not so many intelligent people. Whose choice is it? If a person isn't intelligent, is it because he wants to enjoy that makes him ignorant?
- You said Prahlada Maharaja, he heard Narada Muni speaking in the womb
- You said that a person progresses through the three levels of God realization from Brahman realization. Is that true also for a Vaisnava? Does he first attain Brahman realization and then Paramatma, or does he...
- You said that after leaving this body, this body is gone, you'll part with Krsna consciousness and go to a higher place?
- You said that as long as one is engaging in sex life one cannot become a yogi?
- You said that as the age of Kali-yuga progresses there'll be no more butter?
- You said that by committing sinful activities one has to be punished by the laws of nature. So if one is repentant is he still punished?
- You said that everybody who has laws should live under them. Does an individual have a right to choose his own laws?
- You said that Hare Krsna is the most superpowerful word, and if that is true, then why do you bother to utter any other words?... is it necessary? And why do you encourage us, saying that we're songwriters and all, ... to write any song but Hare Krsna?
- You said that if people try to land on the moon they would not be able to. Can you explain what you meant by that?
- You said that if we are performing some activity, that activity must be tested to see if Lord Krsna is pleased. But what is the test?
- You said that if we fast and we can't do our work and we become weak, than this is not so good... So, our devotional service comes first?
- You said that if we serve Krsna we will enjoy, and if we serve maya then we suffer. How can we get over our desire to serve maya and enjoy separately from Krsna?
- You said that 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 said that it (God) is person ultimately. What does that mean ultimately?
- You said that it is possible to see God eye-to-eye. How can this be done?
- You said that Krsna speaking through intuition. Is it therefore possible to follow Krsna by following the intuition?
- You said that Lord Krsna has many opulences, but in Chapter Thirteen verse fifteen he says that He is nirguna. How to reconcile this statement?
- You said that monarchy and democracy, both are systems which cannot help this cause. Then...?
- You said that sometimes you feel pain, some sickness, due to the sinful activities of your devotees?
- You said that spirit soul is one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair. In the spiritual sky, is the spirit soul still just that big?
- You said that the four pillars that you follow are outward manifestations. They belong to a material person...?
- You said that the pictures they draw of the men with wings, that is not bona fide pictures?
- You said that the purpose of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust was for development of Gaura-mandala-bhumi. ... It should be just for Gaura-mandala-bhumi or general?
- You said that the samskaras should be revived to the lowest?
- You said that Vasudeva, it was known fact that he was homosex?
- You said that with the payments, that the society can take up some of these? How would that be managed, and when would it be put into effect?
- You said that your followers may not drink? What about the drug picture, marijuana, LSD, and those?
- You said that, one time, that brahma-jyotir is like the pure light, and it's filtered in the material world through the modes?
- You said there are four classes and the first-class is to rule?
- You said two or three pages. Maybe four pages would be all...?
- You said we can't understand Brahman unless we understand Krsna?
- You said we have to approach a perfect person, but that means we have to accept so many restrictions and this is actually impossible. It cannot be done... Why should the knowledge be so limited?
- You said we're not supposed to tolerate any blaspheming of the Lord, not of His name or in any way. How are we supposed to not tolerate that?
- You said you had some plan? For the land here? When we came in, you were saying you had some plan for the land
- You said you wanted to give certain titles for different categories?
- You said you wanted to shave and have your head shaved today?
- You said you're losing your willpower?… Don't you think there has been a slight improvement, Srila Prabhupada? Over last few days there has been a little improvement?
- You said: "I want a different body. Immediately nature supplies." Even within this body?
- 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 in these times (five things are not allowed in this age, Kali-yuga). How recent is this?
- You say in Vaikuntha everything is the same as here in the material world. So there are families. The children... Do the children grow...?
- You say is back to Godhead. But when one is situated in pure, transcendental love of Krsna, then that's, then wherever he may be, that's back to Godhead. Isn't it?
- You say it works (the means may be different. So that means is justified by the end. If at the end, you do not come to God consciousness, then whatever process you have, that is bogus. That is not bona fide)?
- You say it's a real body (the Deity), but it appears to be stone?
- You say it's artificial to forget anything?
- You say it's the simplest one (to chant Hare Krsna). Are there presumably other chants that maybe you yourself use?
- You say like "Mother Rukmini"? There's a devotee named Rukmini. You say, "Mother Rukmini"? How do you address a woman? Do you say, "Mother," and then the name of the devotee?
- You say not separating but liberating?
- You say that if people die in the mode of passion, they come back in human life. (...) So the people today seem to be... Is it that they'll all come back as animals in their next life?
- You say that in every issue there should be at least one picture, painting, of Krsna?
- You say that Krsna consciousness people should start at an early age, but does that mean we should consider ourselves at age of a very small child towards beginning Krsna consciousness?
- You say that Krsna consciousness solves the problem of death. Does it mean that we won't die?
- You say that Krsna consciousness will solve all problems. But factually, there are so many problems in the world that aren't being solved. So what is the proof?
- You say that our souls are..., we will always go on. But you are getting more and more people. No, we are getting more people, aren't we?
- You say that people kill cows only out of envy. I was wondering if you could give a definition of what envy is. I don't understand why they would kill animals out of envy
- You say that we have a choice, that either we can surrender to Krsna, or we can remain under the control of the external energy. Those in the mode of passion and ignorance, do they have any choice?
- You say that we have eternal relationships with the Supreme?
- You say the Americans might have to leave. What about the British?
- You say the chanting cleans the dust from the mirror of the mind. What does mirror mean? How does it mean mirror? What is it reflecting?
- You say there's pure joy in achieving the transcendental platform. Why? Why necessarily joy and not sorrow?
- You say we should lose the designations. Now, would you consider the caste system as designations?
- You say you do know, so why don't you produce it (soul) and put it back in the body and make it work?
- You say, in your essay, Super Consciousness, that the topmost is to see Narayana Form and take dictation. In short the question is, is it true that the yogi who is travelling to planets and performing siddhis - has never seen Narayana?
- 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 see Him in three dimensions?
- You seem to be placing a lot of emphasis on books. Are you following any particular path of yoga, niyama-yoga...?
- You should be violent (in order to punish a thief)?
- You slept many, many, many hours. How do you feel?
- You speak of knowing the creator. Jesus Christ said that "No man comes to the father" - and I always understood by this he speaks of the creator - "but by me." What do you think of Jesus Christ?
- You spoke about transmigration of souls, and reincarnation. If you believe in it, could you answer me by telling me how someone who has entered a new body and a new life doesn't remember anything of the past?
- You spoke of initiation. What is that initiation?
- You started this explanation by saying, "But who will take it?" So is this to say that this religion that you're speaking of is not trying to be made acceptable to the masses, or is it only for those who will take it?
- You started this ten years ago. But why is it that when you were recognized..., you were recognized by others and not in this country?
- You stated that a statue of yourself is not the same as you, and yet in some of our temples, such as Vrndavana, the murti of Your Divine Grace has been installed and they are offering prasadam. So is it the same, that the prasadam is accepted by the guru?
- You stated that the reason that we forget is that we change, the body changes. Now when we chant, we remember. I wish you could sort of elaborate on why we forget. I don't completely understand
- You still have massages every day?
- You support the ancient caste system?
- You take rest usually from..., up to two o'clock?
- You talk about different yogas reaching different platforms, like one the twenty-fifth, one the fiftieth, and one the eightieth. Does each one really reach the same point?
- You talk about the service of Lord Krsna. How does service of our fellow man come in?
- You teach your children, don't you? No, I didn't mean disciples. I meant children, little ones. They understand, do they not?
- 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 think he (Gandhi) has gone to heaven or some, what is his position?
- You think Mirabhai was a bhakta?
- You think one day, Prabhupada, maybe these big buildings will be our temples?
- You think people are doing something hospitals, that is for others?
- You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
- You think that all healers are fool?
- You think that men of God are a minority?
- You think there is nobody like that (no one is prepared to become first-class man)?
- You think we can't help people?
- You think we pay too much importance to money?
- You think you really want to go to Ann Arbor?
- You told to that gentleman that the scientists, they thought that they have been on the moon planet, but does that actually mean they went to another planet than the moon planet?
- You told us about that Bharati Maharaja. What was that?
- You took your cooker with you? Is that the same one?
- You use that example of the cow and the market?
- You used to take Jagannatha right through the streets?