Category:Questions asked to SP... 1968
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- 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 God-brother brought up that he heard that Srila Bhaktivinode was at one time an impersonalist. Was he ever?
- 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 how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- About the eternally conditioned souls and eternally liberated souls. I'd like to know what's the meaning of eternal in both those statements?
- 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?
- All the Vedic literatures? Why would they be written down?
- And how does yoga...?
- 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 that's permitted to the grhasthas (they can simply ask help for the bare necessities of life)?
- And this (Gayatri) mantra. What's the purpose?
- And what of special foods and special drink?
- And your question about Bhisma deva, after he left this planet...
- 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
- Are Arjuna and Kunti Devi in Krishna Loka?
- Are great sages put under yogamaya or maya? Also are all the eternally liberated souls under yogamaya?
- Are not also the evil qualities in man existent in God too?
- Are there any books written about Krsna consciousness here available in Seattle or any other organizations besides the temple?
- Are there any formal rules that they agree to accept at this stage? Over and above the earlier...?
- Are there elephants available in India, Swamiji?
- Are there some qualifications of grhasthas, that grhasthas, they're required, like they are required to support the brahmanas, like that?
- Are we duty-bound to maintain our body?
- Are we to take Krsna conscious dreams seriously or some illusion?
- Are you in this world?
- Are you saying that there are people on the moon?
- 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?
- As the age of Kali progresses, will those people just eventually be diminished and wiped out because they already live so short?
- As the spirit soul is leaving the body, do you become older?
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- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can ice cream purchased from the market be offered?
- 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 give us the ability to someday remember every word that you are saying to us now?
- Can one say om instead of "Krsna" and gain the same benefit?
- Can the Bhagavad-gita be sung?
- Can you explain subordination again?
- Can you tell us what the program is for Hindu priests or Hindu holy man, swami?
- Chanting is devotional service?
- Christ consciousness and Krsna consciousness, the words are so similar. Please combine the words, explain how the words came to us
- Could we use alchemy to make gold for Krishna's altar?
- Could you describe your temple to me?
- 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 further, purification of the senses? You said that you had to purify your senses before you can see God
- Could you explain what you meant by knowledge? What? Spiritual knowledge or...?
- 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 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 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?
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- 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 I understand you to say the swami has no sex life?
- Did Krsna have children by the gopis?
- Did Lord Caitanya have women, householders traveling with Him when He went on sankirtana?
- Did Lord Caitanya take sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi?
- 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 you come with the purpose of spreading Krsna consciousness?
- Did you get formal training with a...?
- Did you say that having a family necessarily interferes with Krsna consciousness?
- 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?
- Do people come to the services who are not disciples and devotees?
- Do the disciples take on new injunctions and prohibitions at this time?
- Do the liberated souls also seek after this Krsna consciousness? Those who have become free
- Do they have a period of training or a program for the training of the swamis?
- Do we ever personally contact Krsna in Krsna consciousness?
- Do you believe in the blessed trinity?
- Do you believe that other religions have some truth to them because they all are...?
- Do you find a place for romantic love within...?
- 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 name that you call... are they called students?
- Do you have a temple here, Swami, or do you meet in libraries?
- Do you have altars?
- Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches?
- Do you have anything comparable to bishops and the hierarchy of the Christian faith and of other major faiths?
- Do you have certain dietary rules for which you do not eat? What do you not eat?
- Do you have children? You just left them?
- Do you have much of a following in India itself?
- Do you imagine in this life an attainment of a follower...?
- Do you know about Paramahamsa Yogananda?
- Do you mean the universe is likely to go on forever?
- 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 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 think that drugs would help attain the Krsna consciousness?
- 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 your movement has a chance to make it here in America?
- Do you use the word guru?
- Does it do atheists any good to chant your verses if they only want to be happy through chanting them?
- Does Jesus Christ reside in the Vaikunthas or Brahmaloka?
- Does Krsna eat out of the fire?
- 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 our line of succession go directly to Gaurakisora dasa Babaji or to Bhaktivinoda Thakura?
- 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 sundara, like "Gaurasundara," that sundara means beautiful?
- Does taking the initiation create a permanent bond between disciple and guru?
- Does the Lord go to sleep so early and before everyone, and wake up so late, after everybody?
- Does the swami, once he has been installed in office, does he wear a white long coat with a white hat?
- Does this make a difference, the opinion that one's fellow ksatriya would have of him?
- Does this mean that that rasa (relationship with Krsna as lover) is superior or better than the other rasas?
- 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?
- 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 perhaps bhakti-yoga isn't the way for everyone?
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- 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)?
- Have any of these demigod creatures visited the earth? Are they in human form?
- Have there been dropouts, out of the movement, of the hundred that were initiated?
- 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?
- He was asking how do we know what Krsna dictates, by what authority. How do we know how we can serve Krsna?
- 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
- 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 can the purification process, Prabhupada, be carried through the average life, twenty-four hours a day?
- How can we recognize yogamaya?
- 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 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 come a lotus flower is so great?
- 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 did Prakasananda Sarasvati see or think that Lord Caitanya was the Lord Narayana Himself when he only realized Brahman?
- How did that war of Kuruksetra differ from other wars?
- How did the gopis surrender unto Krsna? You said they surrendered everything. How did they do it?
- How did you become a disciple yourself?
- How do I serve the servants of the gopis?
- How do we enter into the modes of goodness?
- How do we render perfect service to Krsna?
- 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 apply the concept of consciousness and life to a God conceived of in the terms like this image here?
- How do you know how to follow the footsteps of the mahajanas?
- 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 when he's attained to Krsna consciousness?
- 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 relate the International Society for Krishna Consciousness to Hinduism?
- How do you teach Krsna consciousness to a five year old who is only a children? What it means to be a teacher?
- How does he (the sadhu) live in the woods without a spiritual master and learn?
- How does Krsna consciousness differ from samadhi?
- How does Krsna consciousness relate to Advaita philosophy?
- 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 interpret if the cause is great (if the cause if great, then killing is no sin)?
- How does one show such an impersonalist with absolute proof logically? I was told Srila Bhaktivinoda has such a proof
- How does one train the mind?
- How does the authority know to tell you?
- How does the devotee go about practicing this Krsna consciousness when he's asleep?
- 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 Mayadevi in such a distasteful position? How did she acquire her position?
- How is this (grhastha duties) connected with Vyasadeva and his situation?
- How Krishna is with the spirit soul in the spiritual world?
- 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 have you been here, sir?
- How many minutes do you recommend a day? How many minutes do you chant?
- How many other people are there on this planet who have made as much spiritual progress as you have?
- How many people are in the movement approximately?
- How many temples are there now?
- How many temples are there?
- How may we recognize yogamaya?
- 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 will it be possible, Prabhupada, for a man whose mind is clouded to constantly chant Hare Krsna?
- How would you describe these people that live there (on the moon)? Would they be invisible to us or visible?
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- 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 that why then you'd go to Visnu and not to Krsna if Krsna is higher?
- 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 always been taught since I was a little kid to love God and then I will love everything. Is God Krsna?
- 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 heard it said that you have perfect enlightenment. If this is true, I'd like to know what does that mean?
- I mean... We can't understand Krsna with our mind
- 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 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 remember reading that Krsna told Arjuna he can go to the sun planet by worshiping Him. Why does He say that?
- 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 thought I heard it said that you are in this world without being a part of it?
- I understand that it is an offense to wear red or blue in the Krsna temple. Why is this true?
- I want to know whether the devotion of Hanuman was bhakti-yoga
- 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 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, Swami, if the sacred cow was a symbol symbolizing compassion for all living creatures?
- I was wondering why Krsna is always portrayed as being blue?
- I went to shake hands with everybody and I found that all your right hands were wrapped. What is the significance of that?
- I would like to know if it is all right to play the Battle of Kuruksetra?
- I would like to know your beliefs concerning who Jesus Christ was
- I would like you to explain the origin and significance of what you, what they call the Jagannatha car festival
- 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 wondering if there's any similarity between meditation and hypnosis?
- 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 he is misled by other, by circumstances, this is... He has no fault of his own?
- 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 think the spacesuit is suitable and, say, if I am an astronaut and I land there, I can land there?
- 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 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 man wasn't meant to eat meat, why in nature do the other animals kill to eat?
- If maya takes a hold on one, what is the quickest way to go back to Krsna?
- If one can engage one who is demonic in service by telling a lie...
- If one surrenders to a spiritual master, what then is their relationship to Krsna?
- If our first concern should be to serve God, or Krsna, then why should there be a movement
- 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 the activities is going on with the laws of nature, then how do you become Krsna consciousness?
- 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 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 United States or the Soviet Union were to attempt a landing and their spacecraft went down, what do you yourself expect...?
- If we are always under Krsna's direction, how is it we can use our individuality?
- If we were in plays and we are playing such great personalities, how should we be thinking?
- If you come to the Brahmaloka, do you have to come back to the earth planet?
- 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 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 said, "Give me lots of money for Krsna," are you a miser?
- 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, 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?
- In answer to your question about the importance of initiation...
- 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 order for a body to perceive itself, it needs a mirror. But how does one body perceive its soul?
- 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 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 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 Hindu religion do they have a certain title for the holy man? Do they call the holy man swami?
- In the list of qualifications of a devotee there is one qualification, expert. What does that mean in relation to the occupation?
- 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 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 Tibetan literature, there's a concept that there is 72,000 years allotted?
- In which way one can engage oneself to the best service of Krsna, or best use one's time for Krsna?
- Indra's function is to carry water?
- Is a pure devotee eternally liberated and if so is he at any time a conditioned soul?
- Is Bhaktivinoda Thakura directly in succession from Lord Caitanya? And Gaurakisora dasa Babaji also?
- Is diet an important segment of the word?
- Is everybody who is a devotee of Krsna, initiated, do they all have perfect enlightenment?
- Is faith in God more necessary than proper protection? In other words, is this process actually more necessary?
- Is guru and swami the same thing?
- 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 it (bhakti) the same thing with hatha-yoga?
- Is it all right for her to travel with us or better not to?
- Is it all right that Lord Siva's picture is in the new calendar that's come out?
- 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 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 considered a legal wedding ceremony in this country?
- 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 to know of the Indian language when you join?
- Is it not true that by service I am with you?
- Is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting?
- Is it possible through Krsna consciousness to, in the supreme state, to be able to remember all that you were?
- Is it possible to have Krsna consciousness when you are asleep?
- 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 simply the nature of the name Krsna that this particular name is the most powerful?
- 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 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 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 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 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 Lord Siva a devotee of Lord Krsna?
- Is meditation part of your philosophy?
- Is not Krsna a God of compassion?
- Is our rasa with Krsna already established? I mean, is it eternal?
- Is past, present and future, in the material sense, a perverted reflection of the same...?
- Is pradhana subtle matter?
- Is Rama synonymous with Jesus?
- Is taking prasadam one of the exchanges of love, where we accept food from a lover?
- Is that (the spiritual kingdom) where they (the souls) will all end up again when the universe comes to an end?
- Is that a qualification, is that part of the age of Kali-yuga? Flowers with no scent?
- 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 the 'conscience' the symptom of the Supersoul?
- Is the cloud in our mind or is the cloud in the sky also?
- 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 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 fixed number of souls or fixed number of spirits in the universe?
- Is there a process of training to become swami?
- 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 anyone similar to Joan of Arc in the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- Is there conflict with other Eastern religions, and if so, how far is this spread?
- Is there in India a licensing body by the state for people to preach?
- Is there much divorce in India?
- Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
- Is this continual reincarnation only occurring on this earth, or does it occur on other planets?
- Is this Krsna in this painting here?
- Is this like a post? Mayadevi's?
- Is this picture of He who is considered Krsna in the pine tree?
- Is this the ceremony which is often referred to as mantra-diksa?
- 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 yoga part of meditation?
- Isn't brahma-jyotir temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material world?
- Isn't it a simple idea to love life?
- Isn't it difficult to belong to Krsna consciousness and exist in this world we must exist in?
- 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 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's said that Narada Muni delivered the chant to the Earth. Was it here before he came? And how long ago did he come?
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- 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 Siva's relationship with Durga - does he have a relationship with Durga?
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- Maha-Visnu? Expansion of the expansion?
- Man has forgotten and is serving maya, he's actually serving Krsna anyway then why is he miserable?
- May I ask this, Swami, as you said after. Have you yourself reached the superconscious state, or the Christ consciousness state?
- Must one renounce his present religion?
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- 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 say that the moon is, so to speak...? What should I say? Headquarters, where these demigods live?
- 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, are you a guru?
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- Oh, a letter to the Pope. Did he answer it (now I have written one letter to Pope)?
- 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?
- 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...
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- 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?
- Prabhupada, a picture of Krsna is absolute, right? That is Krsna. Is the picture of a pure devotee absolute in the same way?
- 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, can you explain mahamaya and yogamaya? Was Arjuna under yogamaya or mahamaya?
- Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?
- 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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 the nature of anger?
- 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 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 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 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, why did Lord Jesus Christ eat meat?
- Prabhupada? How do we explain to impersonalists inductively the existence of the Personality of Godhead?
- 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?
- 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?
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- Rather than to be a man, rather than to have to talk English alone or other languages? How to talk that one language?
- Regarding your inquiry into Japan for reprinting the book
- Regarding your question about Krishna recommending the chanting of His Holy Names...
- Regarding your question about the picture of Lord Caitanya with six arms...
- Regarding your question about the Prasadam recipes
- 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 as to obtain a house or a storefront for holding kirtanas...
- Regarding your question of the planetary systems
- Regarding your question, about living alone
- 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 questions, how material things dissolve
- Regarding your questions, you want to offer something in the evening to Krishna besides fruit and milk
- 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)
- Right after the chanting, everyone bows, and that I don't understand, what they're doing
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- 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 we give them prasadam?
- 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?
- So far as your question about arranging time...
- So far your question whether you should stay at New Vrindaban, or help Hayagriva at Columbus...
- 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 that mind is part of the soul. It's just, it's polluted?
- 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?"
- 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 we forget to do our duty very attentively. By associating with Krsna through His name, then we can remember our duty?
- 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?
- Subhadra is the external energy? Is Subhadra in the spiritual world?
- Suppose a person is born in a very poor family. What does that mean?
- Swami, for my benefit, and perhaps everyone else's, can you tell us briefly what you mean by the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary?
- Swami, spiritual energy is situated in the heart as localized Paramatma. Is this also Krsna's personal feature?
- Swami, what is om?
- Swami, would you initiate me?
- 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, are the Hindus essentially vegetarian in the sense of the Seventh Day Adventist...?
- Swamiji, did you say that householders should not associate with brahmacaris?
- 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 think she means do you have to do any kind of breathing exercising besides chanting?
- Swamiji, I'm always confused by the term "serving God," "serving Krsna"
- 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, 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 the dream world the real world?
- Swamiji, is there higher devotional service than chanting?
- Swamiji, is there such thing as mind, intelligence, and ego in the spiritual realm?
- Swamiji, so the government, the present government in the world...?
- 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, 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, what's the meaning of "Thakura"?
- Swamiji, would it be all right for Cathy to become a devotee?
- 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? 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?
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- That devotional service has to be causeless in order to be the perfect conductor?
- That disciplic succession from Lord Brahma, that was not broken?
- The answer to your question about the marginal energy...
- 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 final question which was asked by Tosana about the validity of the story of the sparrow and the ocean...
- The first mantra, Hare Krsna mantra, that's for, you say, that's to clean the mind of the material contam...?
- The Holy Bible is written by the holy spirit of mankind. Should we believe on the Bible or not?
- 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 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 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 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 residents of the moon live for a long time? Thousands of years?
- 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 space uniform, you don't feel that is adequate?
- The stories of Krsna's pastimes in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are they found in the Vedas also?
- The Vedas were from time immemorial?
- The whole world has heard of the Maharishi Mahesh. Is he part of your order?
- Then a man who is not, does not have a purified consciousness has no way of knowing what is good or bad?
- Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?
- 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 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's no sermon as we would know in other churches?
- 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?
- They could go to another planet?
- 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 rule, "No gambling," does this also include speculation?
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- Was Krsna born, and if so, where?
- 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 there always a kind of a movement?
- 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 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 could also have a passive relationship with Krsna, like a tree?
- We couldn't find any barley. What can we use instead?
- We have a spiritual body to serve Krsna?
- We saw a rose-colored light that was vibrating all around the food. Is this how He eats?
- 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, let's take the situation of an individual who is very deeply addicted to the senses, such as sexual...
- Well, then why a conference with men of other religions?
- Were there any followers before you came to this country?
- Were you born in this country?
- What about a future suit?
- What about people who have come since the Vedic literatures, since the time the Vedic literatures were written. What about them?
- 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 are other major beliefs, besides love, to which you ascribe?
- What are the basic beliefs of the Krsna religion?
- What are the good qualities you referred to not too long ago?
- 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 color is the ocean of milk?
- What determines our fortune?
- What distinguishes bhakti-yoga from karma-yoga?
- What do you believe in reference to Ramakrishna? He was in the Hindu faith
- What do you believe in?
- What do you do with your eyes (during meditation)? Close your eyes?
- 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 offer to Krsna?
- What do you think of kundalini or raja-yoga?
- What does that expert mean in the list of qualifications for a devotee?
- What does that mean, Swamiji, that new prayer?
- What does the word Krsna mean?
- 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 effect to the followers does chanting give?
- What exactly takes place when consciousness becomes purified?
- 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 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 is Balarama's relationship with Radha?
- What is God?
- What is it that you take with you (after death)?
- 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 maya? I know that it's attractive...
- What is meant by madness?
- What is our true identity?
- What is the "renounced order"?
- What is the correct sexual etiquette for a strict Grhastha; and what is spiritual family planning?
- What is the difference between an expansion and an incarnation?
- What is the difference between an incarnation and an avatara?
- What is the difference between bhava and prema?
- 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 hand attire which you are wearing?
- What is the outcome of continuous practice of the chant "Om?"
- What is the perfection of this life?
- What is the position of Lord Siva?
- 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 purpose of the robes and having your head shaved?
- What is the relationship between Lord Krsna and Lord Jesus Christ?
- 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 significance of using the barley and the sesame?
- What is the value of accepting this sacrifice for the human being? Can it be accepted as a kind of masochism?
- What is your explanation of the creation of the world?
- What is your opinion of yoga and Zen? Do you incorporate any of their principles? Such as meditation for example?
- What is your wedding ceremony like?
- What kind of a capacity is knowledge? Does that depend on the previous body of the soul?
- What kind of manifestation is time, of Krsna, kala? Kala, time. How is time a feature of Krsna?
- What should you be thinking about when you're chanting?
- 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 type of living entity is Mayadevi?
- What types of food, what types of things do you drink, such as juices or anything else do you drink?
- What were your activities after your initiation?
- What's the difference? I've heard terms like incarnation, expansion, and plenary expansion, like Krsna incarnates Himself, expands Himself...
- 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 did you come to this country?
- When do we begin to become attracted?
- 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 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 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 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 Lord Christ appeared he seemed to be conditioned in his growth. Was he a specific incarnation or a conditioned soul who became liberated?
- 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 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 some new animal or person is born, is the soul always a reincarnation of some previous soul?
- When there are several living entities within a close area of space or there are several living entities...?
- 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 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 was it that you arrived from India with $2?
- When was it written, the Bhagavad-gita?
- When we engage inferior energy, internal energy, in the service of Krsna, it becomes spiritualized, doesn't it?
- 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 learn to love Krsna, do we transcend goodness?
- When we serve Krsna, even though we don't have a material body...?
- 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 you had that heart attack, did you feel the pain?
- 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 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 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 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...?
- Where does the money come from to print Godhead?
- Where in India did you come from originally?
- Where is Krsna consciousness most common in the world, and how widespread is it in India?
- Where were the souls before the universe began?
- Where would the moon planet fit?
- 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?
- Who is in charge of a temple when you're not here?
- Who is the author of Mahabharata?
- Who provides you with money?
- Who was Jesus's father?
- Why am I forced to death?
- Why are they trying to transcend material, transcend material nature? Who is doing these miracles?
- Why Bali Maharaja is considered a Mahajana?
- 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 people in the past ages sacrifice animals, and how did Krsna put a stop to this?
- Why did you come here?
- Why do you feel that the younger people today are turning more and more toward the eastern-oriented religions?
- Why is everything always taped at all the...?
- 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 Lord Caitanya carrying a forked stick?
- Why is this human life in such a diseased condition with war, pestilence, and famine?
- Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?
- 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 you take less than Krsna? If Krsna is cent percent, why take less?
- Will the Swami give another service in the Arlington Street Church any time in the future?
- 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 always be our spiritual master?
- Will you be our spiritual master for eternity?
- Will you please explain about the 28th mahayuga of this Manu, in which the treta and Dvapara yugas are reversed?
- 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 the flight that was just completed, that doesn't contradict with anything in this book?
- Would you consider the caste system as designations?
- 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 give me a background, the history and origin of Krsna consciousness?
- Would you like a plate, Swamiji?
- 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 tell me something of your own background? That is, where you were educated, how you became a disciple of Krsna
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- Yes, but we in Krsna consciousness, we aren't interested in that Paramatma, are we?
- 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 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 the head of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Is it a church?
- You do perform wedding ceremonies?
- You expect that they would oppose?
- You go for a prescribed course of study?
- 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 printing of Srimad-Bhagavatam...
- You have asked as to where is the ocean of love?
- You have asked if I found it difficult to carry on devotional service when in my household life...
- You have asked me about sassafras...
- You have asked me to let you know about the concrete plan for Bombay...
- You have asked my permission whether you can stay in San Francisco...
- You have asked whether you may use charcoals to use for fuel during the winter...
- You have very frankly inquired from me about householder life, especially in the matter of sex relationship
- You know from Meher Baba?
- 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 met a gentleman by the name of Harvey Cohen?
- 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 said that as the age of Kali-yuga progresses there'll be no more butter?
- 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 if people try to land on the moon they would not be able to. Can you explain what you meant by that?
- 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 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 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 we should lose the designations. Now, would you consider the caste system as designations?
- 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 spoke of initiation. What is that initiation?
- 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 want to film the Bhagavad-gita, Swamiji?
- You're not supposed to ask from God anything for yourself. So you can ask from God maybe things to help improve your consciousness?
- Your authority for this statement is based in the Vedic literature?
- Your Grace, what is the basis of your teachings?
- Your question about will and the individual and the difference between them...
- Your second question about falling down from the brahma-jyotir...
- Your teachers are called spiritual masters?