Category:Questions On... Material Creation, Universe
Pages in category "Questions On... Material Creation, Universe"
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- A pure devotee realizes it as Krsna's energy, but as a neophyte, how do we enjoy material energy in this aspect, the fresh air and the morning walk?
- About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?
- According to the Bhagavatam, the sun is also 93,000,000 miles away from the earth?
- All new things are created out of necessity?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- Am I separate from matter?
- And it (the moon) does not go all around other planets?
- And it's the same spiritual body that we had before we came into the material world?
- And material is, nothing but the transformation of maya, is it not?
- And space (time is eternal. Reality. And therefore we take time as another feature of God)?
- And that machine (of nature) also makes distinction, doesn't it?
- Are there many universes, or only one?
- Are they (the stars) self-luminating like the moon?
- Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
- Aren't there coverings of the 8 elements?
- At the beginning one, the word, and this word was God and this word was with God. So what is this word?
- At the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species... They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?
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- Both (spirit and matter) come simultaneously?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But if all matter is Krsna?
- But if this energy (the spiritual energy, everything is ever-existing) was never created, then what is the need for a creator?
- But is there a great time period between the different divisions of the creation?
- But just because you have two different kinds of energies, why do you have to differentiate them (you cannot say that, that the temperature of the sun and the temperature of the sunshine is the same)?
- But Prabhupada, there are still such things as dead matter?
- But that subtle reality is just as real as this gross reality?
- But then who created the creator?
- But why are we in the prison house?
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- Diameter (of the universe)?
- Did we fall in this material world to find some highest pleasure?
- Do these demigods have the potency to show the universal form?
- Do you accept the whole of the material world? Do you think there are some things in it which are wrong?
- Do you believe that the origin of this creation is a sin?... A sin of man or is the love of God? What is the origin?
- Do you mean the universe is likely to go on forever?
- Does it have to do anything with the distance? As the sun is recorded first (nobody could answer, a simple question... According to Vedic astronomical calculations, sun is first)?
- Does it mean (because in the air there is sound. Therefore ether is there. It is a production of the ether... Air from the ether because when the air blows, you find the sound, sshhhh. That is ether) beyond the ether there's no sound?
- Does Krsna create the universe or does He just make it possible to be created?
- Does that (they appear to be other solar systems. Like they have a sun and planets around them) mean the material covering between the different brahmandas is invisible?
- Does that means all the planets are fixed in relationship to each other as well (Gita says, urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham. The pole-star in the... And we see at night everything is moving. As a bunch it is moving)?
- Does the heat of the sun increase or decrease through the ages?
- Does the human species come with the gradual evolution or is the human species created first?
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- Earth is a mixture of all these different elements?
- Ether. How does ether distinguish...?
- Even if you study the way the sun and the rain and so on combined to make this fruit ripe, you still have the question, "Well, why is there fruit in the first place?" Why is there fruit? Why has fruit appeared on this planet?
- Even when this universe ends, doesn't that (temporary) law carry on?
- Everything we conceived, that is wrong (take the version of Bhagavatam)?
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- Has the universe existed forever, or does soul have a beginning?
- He is saying that you have said that we have a material body and also a spiritual body. So he wants to know if the spirit and matter are born simultaneously or if the matter is born, the material body is born, and later the spirit comes
- How can I explain how the light and heat from the single sun in this universe is able to reach so far? Is it a question of the receptivity of different planets?
- How can we understand the difference between personality and individuality? And if God expands Himself in everything, then He must be inside all of His creation?
- How did the material covering begin? How did we fall into that?
- How do we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles...?
- How I was created, I created this universe (I am repeatedly saying that God does not create anything. Just like the same example. You created. Why do you blame)?
- How is ether distinct from air?
- How is Mayadevi in such a distasteful position? How did she acquire her position?
- How is the moon behind the sun?
- How long has this earth, we know, existed?
- How long would the planets float if it was put in the hands of a scientist?
- How many brilliant stars are there in this Universe?
- How will you prove it (the gas came from ether, and ether came from mind, and mind came from intelligence, and intelligence came from the soul)?
- How would you explain about eclipse which we get?
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- I also come across from Srila Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that the living entities, all the living entities, 8,400,000 species, they are simultaneously created?
- I am not clear about the life equal to matter?
- I asked him the purpose of God of creating men, and if He is all love, He is all, nothing happens without His will, what is His purpose in creating men, and then these men, which he created, and claimed to be beloved by Him, suffers?
- I don't quite understand what material world is?
- I have a question about evolution. Our position is that all the species have been established by Krsna, even before creation. But yet, in the creation, it comes about through an evolutionary process?
- I was wondering, is like earth still being manifested in living bodies from sound and so on, like the chemists...?
- If all living entities were delivered by the Krsna consciousness movement, what would happen then? The universe would be devoid of living entities
- If everything is created by God... Then what is this evil?
- If he gave us the material world to enjoy, then why do we have to suffer here?
- If Krsna has created the universe, then who has created Krsna? How did He acquire such immense powers?
- If Krsna knows that we will suffer here in this material world if we come here, why does He let us go?
- If the Lord's pastimes are manifested differently, are they manifested the same in one universe?... Are they different every time? In other words, is the Srimad-Bhagavatam a history of what took place once, and then it will be different next time?
- If the microphone is composed of Krsna's eight energies, why not the factory Krsna's energy too?
- If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?
- If they see that whenever there's intelligence, there must be a person, then why don't they conclude that behind the universe, there's so many wonderful things, that there must also be a person?
- If they've wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they're able to calculate these eclipses and whatever?
- If this is an illusion, then why is it here? What's it doing here (you are thinking that you'll be happy in this material world by adjustment, but you'll never be. That is called maya. So whatever you are struggling for, that is illusion)?
- If this mist of material nature is temporary, then why bother to disentangle oneself from something transitory?
- In each universe there is a Vrndavana and a Mayapur. That means in each universe there's a planet earth like this planet?
- In the material world there are instruments to measure different kinds of energy. How does one measure, what kind of instrument, how does he develop it, to measure the spiritual energy?
- In the material world, we are bound by maya, maha-maya. In the spiritual world, is there another relationship of yogamaya?
- In your teachings you say the sun is the only self-illuminous body in the universe, whereas the scientists say that there is many millions of stars that are in the sky that are also self-illuminous
- Is (the polestar) the center of the universe?
- Is earth near the edge of the universe?
- Is earth still being manifested from ether? Like the description in Bhagavatam is from sound and then through different elements finally down to earth. Is that still happening today?
- Is ether a gross element as well?
- Is it possible that man could ever make even a one-celled living being?
- Is it the living entity's choice, complete choice, to be demonic, against God, or is it a part of Krsna's energy to put demons, or to have created him that way?
- Is it the same living soul, Arjuna, in each universe, or a different living being may be taking that position?
- Is Ksirodakasayi Visnu present in non-living entities, like rocks, matter?
- Is past, present and future, in the material sense, a perverted reflection of the same...?
- Is pradhana subtle matter?
- Is that a feeling of unity with the universe?
- Is that a good example (of the space, then the thinner air, and the air, and the water, and the earth, and in between electricity...)?
- Is that differentiated (total material elements, mahat-tattva)?
- Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?
- Is the most subtle form of creation the desire of the living entity to enjoy this material world?
- Is the planetary system the universe, or is there something beyond the planetary system which it is situated in?
- Is the Srimad-Bhagavatam compiled in the same way in other universes? Vyasadeva compiles it like he does in this universe as well?
- Is the sun going around the earth?
- Is the water inside (my body) the same as the water in the ocean?
- Is their calculation for the distance of the sun wrong also?
- Is there a difference between...? Just like we have fire here, is it different from the glowing there (the sun)? You said the sun is not fire
- Is there a fixed number of souls or fixed number of spirits in the universe?
- Is there an atom for each (of the ninety-two elements)? Is there a copper atom?
- Is this isolation a characteristic only of the lower and middle planetary systems? In the higher planetary system, systems, is there so much isolation?
- Is this world a real place? According to what you were saying, it's illusion
- Isn't brahma-jyotir temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material world?
- Isn't nature material?
- It (Genesis) says the earth is square?
- It says in the Bhagavatam exactly what the distance (of the sun)?
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- Matter can be converted to spirit?
- Matter is a part of life? Component?
- May I put a question to the question of time, the meaning of time? I think there are two ways to look at time and to look at eternity?
- My position you mean in relation to Krsna or in relation to the world (you do not know anything. That is your position. You must know what is your position. Then your duty)?
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- Oh, after time. Oh (space is later created). And it creates the ultimate reality?
- Oh, he (Brahma) himself created it (male and female) from...?
- On this planet we have certain elements, like iron, water, or sand. Could there be other elements on other planets, new elements?
- Once this oxygen appeared, free oxygen, then the living entities began to appear slowly. That is the whole theory of this chemical evolution. The results for the chronology is just put it that dawn of Brahma is two billion years old?
- One devotee asked me, "If the scientists don't know anything about the universe, then how is it they can predict exactly when there is going to be an eclipse of the sun or the moon for hundreds of years in advance?"
- One is dependent on the other? Or the spirit is independent of matter?
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- Prabhupada, even when the mind is cleared, does there not continue to be an objective temporary existence of material phenomena?
- Prabhupada, in the Christian faith there is the idea that God made it possible for life to be created. He made it possible for the processes of the universe to continue. Is this the same with Krsna?
- Prabhupada, when the universes are emanated from the body of Maha-Visnu, they begin to expand... Is the universe still expanding?
- Prakrti means space?
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- Simply they're analyzing the creative material elements (sankhya philosophers)?
- So even the particle of matter is eternal?
- So how is material (material nature) forcing something spiritual (the spirit soul)?
- So is it that in order to maintain something in this material world also, there has to be the touch of the mode of goodness?
- So isn't that life coming from matter?
- So Rahu covers sometimes the sun and sometimes the moon?
- So that's how it goes back into the body of Maha-Visnu?
- So the sun is the center (of the universe) or the polestar?
- So the world is a school house or a school ground where we become educated...?
- So this earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- So we get frustrated, but where the first apple came. Where is seed of first apple planted on this earth planet?
- So what would you say, if Schopenhauer said this is the worst of all possible worlds? Because it is so full of frustration
- So why we are so involved in the material world that most of the human being don't have...?
- So why, in the material world, if our natural desire is to worship and to be a servant, why is it that in the material world everyone is looking for respect and to be worshiped?
- So, actually this entire world is spiritual?
- Some people would say, "If everything is a creation of God, then why do you have such a..., why do you present this body as such a horrible thing?"
- Somebody even asked me about what is material and what is spiritual, Prabhupada. I said that whatever is in connection with God is spiritual and whatever is not in connection with God is material. Is that right?
- Sometimes they question, "Why this material world is created?"
- Sound is the first element of creation?
- Srila Prabhupada, earth is also moving?
- Srila Prabhupada, I understand Krsna is the Personality of Godhead, and He is the one who create this material world. So my impression is Krsna, He didn't make this material world to be spiritual?
- Srila Prabhupada, if material nature is the absence of Krsna consciousness, then where is material?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it all right to include that, these ninety-two chemical elements as finer, er, finer form of earth?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it also not possible, say, at the time of creation, now those material bodies are going to be created, also possible not to manifest all of them but some are not still manifested?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there is actual difference between the material energy and the spiritual energy?
- Srila Prabhupada, the material world is a reflection of the spiritual world. So we have different variegatedness in the material world, different living entities. My question being, so they have all the variegatedness in the spiritual world?
- Srila Prabhupada, what do you think about the so-called primordial flux?... The primordial flux, they call it. That nature has supplied such nice samples, elements, like potassium, argon, and this...
- Srila Prabhupada, when the jiva soul desires to enter the material world, is that an illusory desire?
- Srila Prabhupada, why is the material world made on the level of a jailhouse? It's made on the level of a jailhouse, that, I've been told, the attitude of a jail instead of the attitude
- Srila Prabhupada, you say in your books so many times that somehow or other we have fallen into this material world due to our enviousness or our independence?... I can't seem to get a grasp on this at all?
- Srila Prabhupada? Are there different meanings, this day of Brahma? Are there different creations and annihilations of species? Different Manus, they are sometimes flooding the whole earth
- Srila Prabhupada? The spirit is supposed to be stronger than matter. The spirit is superior than matter... What happens when the body dies? Is the spirit forced to leave or does it leave on its own accord?
- Srila Prabhupada? We live in this material world, and we're in so much ignorance that we don't know who it belongs to. Is that due to sinful activities?
- Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary?
- Swamiji, can you tell us why we're in this material contamination? Why is it that the spirit soul has material contamination?
- Swamiji, Janardana told me that from Vedic sources, you drew some conclusion that there are different universes visible? The stars are different universes?
- Swamiji, material aspect in your understanding, they are one?
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- Ten times bigger than each layer (of the universe), it increases?
- That (if we simply think of the creation of God, we can appreciate how great He is) is why it's described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
- That (two plus two equals four) disappears when this universe disappears?
- That description of Brahma receiving knowledge through the heart, is that at the beginning of every day, or is that just at the beginning of the creation of the universe?
- That means the distance, then, from the earth (distance, whatever it may be. But the sun is first, then moon, then Mars, then Jupiter, then like that)?
- The 8,400,000 species is for the whole universe or for each planet?
- The action of force is necessary (to create)?
- The beginning of the creation was when?
- The body is matter, but still it is conscious as long as I am alive. So that means the life is consciousness?
- The cloudiness is created from the superior energy? So material is created from the superior?
- The creation of the materialism is only one-fourth... What happened to the other three-fourths?
- The day that's the birth of the universe and night, the dissolution, is that also Brahma's day and night?
- The earth and the sun are always the same distance apart?
- The higher planetary systems are closest to the sun?
- The material elements are described, the mind, intelligence, and false ego. What's the, what is that mind, you know, that material mind? In other words, there's a spiritual mind and a material mind?
- The material world itself is temporary. So the scientists still make it much more temporary?
- The next question, about the living entities falling down in this material world
- The so-called love which goes on in the material world is simply a perverted form of dasya rasa
- The statement here is that the material world is founded on lust. This is the asuric conception. The godly qualities, they come from Krsna. Even the demoniac qualities?
- The sun doesn't change?
- The two causes, are not very clear. The material and instrumental?
- Their statement that life started from matter can be disproved very easily?
- Then in the Bible, the beginning of it says that God created the heavens and the earth, and yet they say, give the description in Genesis as the way God created the heaven and the earth. Does this not conform with Brahma's work?
- Then using another example, that every apple on the tree will fall, but when it is ripe, it will fall to the ground. There is no man involved with that. What about that?
- There (is the) idea of the unitary view that Krsna is everything, all and in all. And then at the same time that the world, there is this world of illusion which is somehow distinct from Krsna. Could you just explain this point to me?
- There is the idea that matter comes from life... I do not quite see how. I do not quite understand how matter can come from life?
- There should not have been two people, a male and a female, to create everything?
- Therefore (Brahma is the first creature in the universe, created by God), by himself he could create everything, Swamiji?
- They all (the planets) move together?
- They ask, "What is the force that combined matter and the atma, matter and life, matter and the jiva or atma? What is the force behind it?"
- They'll ask, though, "Where did the first egg come from?"
- They're separate energies?
- They're separate energies? Is it like a by-product?
- This earth and all is made out of Krsna, but is not Krsna?
- This planet, where is it situated in the planetary system?
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- Was there a time when there was no material world?
- We can also appreciate Krsna's creation in that light? For example, this is very beautiful because it is Krsna's.
- We can have spiritual realization and still live in the material world?
- We see practically that the moon also moves, across the sky. Just like the sun does. So the sun has an orbit?… And the moon has an orbit also?
- Well situated? Even though there's no sun? (there are seven other planets; there sunshine does not go, but they are very well situated)
- Well, then they want to say that if nature can't be self-existing, how can God?
- What about if it accidentally fell off; a thunderbolt hit the rock and it moved, like that, or gravity made it fall?
- What about the half-life of certain elements?
- What about the scientists, Srila Prabhupada? They are very inquisitive, they are trying to find out the cause of the material world
- What are the stars exactly, they're other planets or...?
- What happens if the universe ends and there are some souls that have not yet transferred themselves to the other universe?
- What is the explanation of an eclipse?
- What is the fifth (element) besides earth, air, fire and water?
- What is the significance of this energy being separated from Krsna?
- What is this end of the world?
- What is your explanation of the creation of the world?
- What must he mean by "until such time as a profound change in the material conditions imposed on humanity by nature should permit in spiritual matters of a profound transformation?"
- What's it (the phases of the moon-quarter moon, half moon, full moon) due to, then?
- When Brahma creates the different species, they're not created one at a time. They're... All over the universe, there's different species which he creates?
- When Brahma creates, does he first of all create the aquatics, then the plants?
- When Krsna is the only God in the world, the creator of the whole universe, then why the existence of Jesus Christ and Allah? Why should not only one God for all? Why Christians and Muslims are not accepting Krsna as God?
- When Lord Brahma created this planet, did he immediately put all the species here?
- When raisin bread is in the oven, the raisins, they go further and further and further apart as the dough expands. So is this...?
- When the living entity comes to the material world, what is the state of the spiritual body? And then how does this spiritual body begin to develop?
- When the scientists say that the earth spins around this way very quickly, then his point is valid. Why we don't fall off or why we don't feel good?
- When we engage inferior energy, internal energy, in the service of Krsna, it becomes spiritualized, doesn't it?
- Where is that Sumeru (mountain) located?
- Where were the souls before the universe began?
- Where would the moon planet fit?
- Which of the three types of energy does matter come from?
- Who is controlling the moon?
- Who is responsible for the creation of this material world?
- Why (the production of the body in the cosmos is compulsory? Why it is not lila) compulsory?
- Why are they trying to transcend material, transcend material nature? Who is doing these miracles?
- Why at all this started? Why at all, say millions, trillions years back, how it started that God created this world?
- Why did He (Krsna) create suffering when He could have created a permanent paradise on earth?
- Why does all this exist? Why the challenge in the first place? Why maya?
- Why does the living entity try to enjoy material nature in such a way?
- Why is it sometimes there's only quarter moon, no moon, half moon, full moon?
- Why is it that a devotee falls down, that he wants to surrender to Krsna and again he falls back to the material world to become a false enjoyer?
- Why isn't it coming from several sources? Instead of one source, why not several sources?
- Why Krsna created this material energy which is so miserable condition?
- Why people say that it's the moon that covers the sun?
- Why the prison house is filled up?... With so many prisoners?
- Why there is so..., there is duality in this world?
- Within this universe are there other planets similar to the earthly planet where the inhabitants are getting the same, similar material bodies?
- Without life it's more complex, matter?
- Would it be beneficial to try to understand the process of production? Like the example of the earth coming from the water. Because the water evaporates, there is left over minerals and salts and all these things...
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- You were saying yesterday how foolish it is to think that God is creating planets without putting any life on them. The scientists are saying there is no life on any planet. Then why would He create a planet unless there was life on it?
- You're saying that "Something cannot come from nothing."... So therefore this explosion (big bang) came from God. But then where did God come from?