Category:Questions On... Devotees of the Hare Krsna Movement
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- 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 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 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?
- About how many followers would you say there are in the United States?
- 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?
- 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 this is prepared by these young men?
- And after they (people who) join it (Krsna consciousness)...?
- And are these married and...?
- And have you many participants in these fifty-five branches?
- And he (Syamasundara) is coming tomorrow?
- And how long do you think this takes to (become spiritualized)... for a young man or a young woman, beginning?
- And how many disciples you have in India itself? From three thousand, how many members of your community you have in India itself?
- And they told me also that this morning you had some brahminical initiation to the... Gayatri... How many people?
- And what about before they joined Krsna consciousness?
- 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 is the figure (of people joining) likely to be? Five a week, ten a week?
- And you're training them to lead?
- And, while we're on success, how many people in India are becoming like these?
- Are many people joining you?
- 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 there cases of..., which relapse? Persons who begin to withdraw from drugs...?
- Are there many Indian-born disciples abroad, or are they mainly Western disciples?
- Are they (your men) in Arabic countries also?
- Are they brahmanas (devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement)? Not by birth?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are we doing bhakti, Srila Prabhupada?
- Are you all becoming first-class men? You want to become first-class men?
- Are you saying that they (men in our society) do more work?
- Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Krsna or as the teacher of His teachings?
- 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)?
- Arjuna uvaca. These boys understand this, all of them?
- As for your question about celibacy...
- 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?
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- Being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- 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?
- Bharadvaja is here. He can sing any song you'd like to hear especially this morning. ... Is there some special request?
- Boy, was he skinny in those days! This is Brahmananda? And this is Kirtanananda Swami sitting down?
- 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 do you think most of the Hare Krsna members will vote in the election in November?
- 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 have they (devotees) met God?
- But how do they (disciples) know they're pleasing you, Srila Prabhupada?
- But if he's (indistinct), then where is he going to get the money for his food?
- But if you're actually followers of God, then why are you breaking up the families? Shouldn't you have love for everyone?
- But is there any special, specific person who wants to go to India immediately?... Who would like to have visa?
- 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 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 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 you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?
- 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...?
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- 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 one be a householder, I mean, with his normal worldly life, and at the same time be a...?
- Can the older boys be trained in a particular kind of devotional service? For example, press work?
- Can you explain to me then what difference it makes being a member of the Hare Krsna movement
- 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 tell me how many of those (who joins) actually stay?
- 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
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- 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, 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"
- 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)?
- Do many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- 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 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 (your followers) do anything like social work or other...?
- Do they have to practice every day?
- Do you foresee that the devotees will grow in numbers in this country?
- 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 lots of members?
- Do you have many Indian followers? Many Indian followers as well as foreign?
- Do you have women followers also in this movement?
- Do you imagine in this life an attainment of a follower...?
- Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now?
- 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 think it is possible, for instance, to have the husband being involved in this movement and not his wife?
- 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 they (west) are taking to it because it is novel?
- Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible?
- Does a devotee, who is working as a sudra, get second initiation?
- 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 one have to leave one's family? I think everybody lives in the temple, don't they?
- Does that mean he (a dedicated disciple) must give up his family, and come and live here?
- Does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Krsna consciousness they could not go on with their work?
- Does the devotee, I mean just like you are always enthusing us to push on...
- Don't followers of Krsna consciousness ever get angry?
- 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 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
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- For instance, not a student but a young worker or a young son of a farmer, he would abstain from his old life and he would be initiated and join your community into a given center. How he would entertain himself?
- For those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
- From which class of society in the United Sates do most of your disciples come?
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- 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)?
- Have there been dropouts, out of the movement, of the hundred that were initiated?
- Have they advanced beyond following the rules and regulations of ISKCON?
- 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 idea what the number of the people are nationally?
- Have you read the book of Satsvarupa Maharaja?
- He (Giriraja) is not married?
- He (Syamasundara) wants to give back some money?
- 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 to be disciple, do we have to know Sanskrit or to learn Sanskrit?
- 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 wants to know how he will be engaged. Who will tell him what to do?
- 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?
- How can these people be so sincere and so earnest?
- How can you make them (people) interested if they're not?
- How come we (your disciples) come to you (Srila Prabhupada)?
- 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 do we.... What do we do during the day? What are our activities?
- 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 teach your disciples to become aware of this force which is no matter that makes matter alive?
- How does it benefit the person who is selling the book, the devotee?… How is he benefited by selling books to others?
- 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 many disciples do you now have, sir, in the U.S.?
- 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 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 of your disciples would have seen the vision of God in the sense of seeing the Lord given in their heart?
- How many people are in the Krsna movement in the world, about?
- How many people are in the movement approximately?
- How many swamis do you initiated, American?
- 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 these devotees are finding salvation for others?
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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 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 assume that being an initiated member means that the individual has acquainted himself sufficiently with your teaching and gone through certain disciplines?
- I believe Jesus is coming back and not Krsna. And what are you guys going to do when you see Jesus?
- 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 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 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 mean supposing I wished to become an initiate. Wouldn't I have to come and live here?
- 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 should stay here with Subala Maharaja?
- 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 was asked one day a question, "Why these Hare Krsna people dance in the streets?"
- 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 would have to become a member of the Krsna movement (in order to see Krsna)?
- 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 in our society we say, "Srila Prabhupada wants some to be sudra..."
- 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 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 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 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's son comes to us to become devotee, I have experienced, the father and mother immediately come: "Oh, Swamiji, what you are doing?" But his son becomes hippie - he will tolerate
- If someone comes along and joins you, do they see Krsna?
- If tomorrow these boys say that you are incarnation of God, is it your fault?
- If we are not at the purified stage, then why is the temple president a representative of yourself?
- 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 just engage them in devotional service will they ultimately become purified?
- 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 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 our community, being as we're training up as Vaisnavas, how will we be able to make divisions in our society?
- In our temples, we have so many devotees. Should the devotees...?
- In that case (we are transcendental to all these material divisions. This is material division), in which of these four divisions are we (ISKCON)?
- Initiated devotee, and he follows those four regulative principles and chants sixteen rounds, will he go back to Godhead?
- Is everybody who is a devotee of Krsna, initiated, do they all have perfect enlightenment?
- Is he (Syamasundara's father is very rich man)?
- Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join?
- Is it so (every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya)?
- 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 the work you recommend your followers to do purely spiritual, or do you...?
- Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
- Is there any reason why that (there is not large number of American negroes in your movement) is so?
- Is there room in the movement for other persons who are indirectly serving Krsna rather than chanting Hare Krsna all day?
- 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 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?
- Isn't it difficult to belong to Krsna consciousness and exist in this world we must exist in?
- It (worldwide membership figure) is increasing?
- 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?
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- Many devotees were asking me if we could make a Deity of Your Divine Grace?
- Many of these boys must have taking tea in past. How they could stop it?
- 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?
- 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 leave the family to bear faith and devote myself to become a devotee of Krsna?
- May the temple be only one man left?
- 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?
- 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 relates to service to the outer world by your disciples?
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- 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 two priests of your temple in America have been arrested on certain charges as we read from the newspaper...?
- Now, do you think that's not cruel to them (we don't wish to send them to college. We have got sufficient books)?
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- 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 day our men will be leaders of government?
- 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
- Only when you went downtown did the permanent men come. No one was visiting you up here (seventy-second Street)? Hayagriva?... Mukunda?
- 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)?
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- People following you, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- People have to adopt to a different life-style altogether, you're asking for a very large commitment from people, and yet they do it. Are you saying that it's the strength of what you're preaching, or are they unhappy with what they've found otherwise?
- People told me that you have some two or three thousand disciples in the Western world?
- Prabhupada, 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, should everyone move to the temple?... Live here?
- Prabhupada, sometimes I've seen devotees say that they did not like to chant in the temple room with the opposite...
- Pradyumnaji. Pradyumna. You call him pandita?
- 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?
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- Regarding installing larger deities at the New Vrindaban farm temple, which is now exclusively for brahmacaris...
- Regarding jobs for householders
- Regarding your inquiry about your position
- Regarding your question how to engage yourself
- Regarding your question whether husband and wife should live together in the temple
- Regarding your question, about living alone
- Regarding your working hours
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- 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?
- She (Jagatarini) can come here?
- She wants to know what disciplines we have, what practices we have?
- Should Brahmananda and I try to get some visas also (for Manipur)?
- 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 ISKCON devotees live in each of these little villages?
- Should they (devotees in our temples) be trained in a particular...?
- Should we actually start to train up some of our men so they know how to fight?
- 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?
- Since we don't yet understand the supreme law, because we are young and just new to this, how can we speak about it?
- Sir, whom do you find more responsive to your movement, women or men?
- So far your question whether you should stay at New Vrindaban, or help Hayagriva at Columbus...
- 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 I call Narayana Maharaja, is there any need for Krsna dasa to come?
- So it doesn't matter if Narayana is successful?
- So shall we perform some kirtana, Srila Prabhupada? Hamsaduta Swami is here
- So this will be good for our, what is her name? That devotee?
- 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 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 have to give allowances to such people (the newcomers). We have to give allowance?
- 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 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, 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?
- Some group doctors? Some portion of the devotees medical knowledge?
- 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 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 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?
- 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 we receive letters from neophyte devotees questioning why they have fallen sick, although pursuing Krsna consciousness
- Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to...
- Srila Prabhupada, how does one associate with the devotees?
- 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 better for grhasthas to be self-supporting and living outside the temple?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it for the advanced devotees...?
- 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, what do you consider is Gaurasundara's position presently?
- 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? Nava-yogendra Maharaja has come from Africa to see you. Should he come over?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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 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 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...?
- Swami, is there a chance that all your followers can realize the highest truth?
- Swamiji, I see in the face of your students brightness. How you have created brightness?
- Swamiji, would it be all right for Cathy to become a devotee?
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- That doesn't mean that your disciples should think also, "I will remain aloof just as our Prabhupada..."?
- That means those who are to follow you are not liberated?
- The devotees seem to be calm, serene. Where does that come from?
- The findings (laboratory test on all the devotees), even if they are published will not profit?
- 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 people who have gathered around you, younger people, is that deliberate on your part?
- 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 is place for women in the religion too isn't?
- 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 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?
- They (devotees) can believe in Him, but have they met Him?
- They (many people who live outside the temple) have to do full Deity worship to have these Deities? Dress the Deities every day?
- They (Why not employ one man to manfacture tulasi beads?) have to live here as devotee?
- They are all nationalities?
- They have to come to the temple to be trained up?
- They're mostly young people, (your followers) aren't they, or are they, you have all ages?
- 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 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?
- Those that are initiated, must they live in the temple?
- Those who have become Krsna conscious, they will see Krsna?
- To become God conscious do you think they have to become a devotee of Krsna consciousness?
- 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)?
- Total membership for around the world?
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- We are talking against material life, and why we are using microphones, tape recorders, airplanes?
- We do not fight?
- We have men who could teach this (varnasrama college) ? Do we have men...?
- We have some girls and they have asked us, they want to be married. What is our position?
- We may develop at least maybe half of your energy to continuously preach someday?
- We should dedicate our lives to preaching this message of Lord Caitanya?
- 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?
- Well are you showing your devotees Krsna?
- Well will they follow your example and not vote?
- Well, are your Krsna members out of the, out of jail?
- 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, what happens when suddenly one of you gets, very ill tomorrow morning?
- Well, you're educated, you see... Yes, but how many of these are?
- Were there any followers before you came to this country?
- What about Hayagriva?
- What about Madhava-lati?
- What about my position, Prabhupada?
- What about the children of new devotees now?
- What about the future? Is it possible to bring more people into Krsna consciousness? To expand?
- 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 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 those who are preaching, but imperfectly?
- 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 you're not going to die... What about when you have some problems that's not fatal. Then who would we call?
- What about work, though? Does one have to give up one's job?
- What are the ksatriyas of this order supposed to doing now?
- 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 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 determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?
- What do these people do for a living? Only grow food? And did you need money?
- What does being a devotee of Krsna involve? Does it...?
- What effect to the followers does chanting give?
- What I'm asking is why could he (Brahmananda) understand (the message and responded and joined Krsna consciousness)?
- What if everyone became like you devotees?
- What if he just goes on and he never asks pardon? Is he finished in...?
- What if the spouse is very antagonistic toward Krsna consciousness?
- 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 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 to become of those devotees that leave ISKCON and take to breaking the regulative principles, and stop chanting sixteen rounds?
- What is, sir, the number of your disciples round the world?
- What made these young people want to leave the affluent present society and join this...?
- What sort of people do you want to become students?
- What was Gargamuni doing?
- 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 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 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 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 join, do you assume a name? Do you change your name?
- 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?
- Where is the following the greatest? It is in America?
- Where will we get ksatriyas and...?
- Whew! Only?… Nothing else (at that time Kirtanananda Maharaja was taking one capati)?
- Who has the authority to say to somebody, "Please go," though?
- Who is there in Delhi, Prabhupada?
- Why (are) they attracted to Hare Rama, Hare Krsna?
- Why are Krsna students given spiritual name?
- Why is it that you seem to attract a large following of youth?
- Would he (your student) be paid to stay in that center?
- Would that person have to have contact with you and learn from you also?
- 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 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 to hear Giriraja's prayer?
- Would you say something about the place of women in your movement?
- Would you say the right way would have to be, let's say, to be a follower of Krsna?
- Wouldn't it be handy, though, to be able to fly around without having to use airplanes? Couldn't a devotee utilize that?
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- Yadubara wanted to film you translating. Is that all right?
- 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...
- Yesterday, you said that Krsna appreciates when a devotee accepts voluntary adversity. How do we know when we should accept this adversity?
- You are allowed to go freely, or there are restrictions for your movement?
- You ask one question about the nature of books I want you to write as my disciples?
- 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 have asked about Rupanuga
- You have asked for some men...
- You know his (Paramananda's) wife, mother Satyabhama? She sent you a gift. Do you want to see it?
- You mean I should leave everything and start a farm?
- You said you wanted to give certain titles for different categories?
- You want Jagadisa or Hari-sauri?
- You want them to go into the temple and perform kirtana?
- You want to see Bhakti-caru?
- You were saying that you're not necessarily trying to get a large number of devotees, but you think there are a few people who are yet ready to accept?
- You'll be having certain industries for export also in Mayapur. Will they be manned by disciples, and if so, do you think that they would be in a much better position to look after these big gosalas and other things than, say, other, people would be?
- You're all vegetarians, are you?
- You're the leader of how many disciples or devotees throughout the world?
- Your devotees' health is looked after, then (so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all)… By who?
- Your Grace, what stops so many people from becoming Krsna devotees?
- Your initiated disciples had some relationship with Lord Caitanya when He was on this earth?
- Your next question is if Visala Das will be your name eternally
- Your people have a serenity that many western people don't have. What, what is the secret of serenity? And is it... I gather you reject many material demands, materialism as such