Category:Questions On... Prabhupada's Books, BBT and BTG
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- 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?
- 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?
- And also that man, that Sastri, the Ministry of Education? That man Mr. Sastri, in the Ministry of Education, the Ratri of Sanskrit-samsad, he bought fifty copies?
- And another thing I wanted to ask Your Divine Grace is this. This Bhagavad-gita, I would like to print it as it becomes finished chapter by chapter. Otherwise it will be a long time before we have a book
- And Chapkhanna cannot be very not good. Not very good. Your printing is wonderful. From where... Where is that place? From Japan?
- And it (Krsna Book) is just two volumes or...?
- And the interpretation is by you yourself?
- And the purport (of the meaing of verse SB 10.14.58)?
- And when you translate the texts that you use, they come from Caitanya?
- And who sees to that ("I want to see, as the chairman of the BBT, that fifty percent is spent on printing and fifty percent is for constructing temples")? The GBC?
- Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know
- Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?
- Are there any books written about Krsna consciousness here available in Seattle or any other organizations besides the temple?
- Are these (Srimad-Bhagavatam) going to be translated into Swedish too?
- Are they (our books) sold mainly in the Western countries?
- As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana
- At the end of the Krsna Book, when Krsna and Arjuna visit Lord Visnu and Visnu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Krsna appeared through Ksirodakasayi Visnu?
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- Bhagavatam class in the morning?
- But how can we understand all this science and technology just by understanding Krsna, just by one book?
- But that (Bhagavad-gita as it is) must be also a translation, mustn't it? Whoever puts it into English
- But the Sanskrit wasn't give here?
- But what happens if you do die before you finish (I have taken up my translation work, Bhagavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation)?
- But you, aren't you translating your books still?... Isn't that a great joy, a great joy to you?
- But, Prabhupada, the point was, can there be more than one article (in the BTG) by yourself? Or only one..?
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- Can they do Bengali work (simply they have to find a good press who can do the work. Press, Usha Press is nice)?
- Certain sections, or just say all of these (the lawyer can present that "My client's defense statement is here in these books." "Defense statement." Don't say, "the books." "Defense statements are there")?
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- Did you see the color printing inside? It's also very nice. They have done the same.... This was last year in Paris, when you received Bhagavad-gita
- Did you send copies to all the libraries (of the first Back to Godhead magazine)?
- Did you then begin, after you finished the university, did you begin your writing?
- Did you write all these books?
- Do many people follow Krsna consciousness by reading books in this method?
- Do you do your printing in Japan and America?
- Do you feel like speaking and hearing about Bhagavatam?
- Do you find that in the translation from the thoughts and the Sanskrit to the English words, then from the English words to the mass of the people's heads, do you find that there is much loss?
- Do you have any hope in the future that you, your movement, will involve printing a lot of books, making, building schools for your children?
- Do you have classes on Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you have plans, Srila Prabhupada, to comment on Ramayama in future?
- Do you have references about that (Jahnava-devi was controlling the whole Gaudiya Vaisnava community) in any of your books, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you have the original here of the Bhagavata Purana?
- Do you have this, the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavatam?
- Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Do you remember what you wrote about, which part? About Krsna's birth?
- Do you think you could do a little (recite Caitanya-caritamrta)?
- Do you think, this one (this book), do you think I could...?
- Do you wish me to take this (book) away or should I look at it here?
- Does that also apply to reading the words of a pure devotee (even a moment's association with a pure devotee - all success)? Even a little association with your books has the same effect?
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- Has he seen our books?
- Have these books been reviewed in foreign papers?
- Have you put into writing these three subjects somewhere (Vedic Concept of Communism, Knowledge by Authorized Tradition, Scientific Values of Scientific Classless Society)?
- Have you translated also the Bhakti-rasamta-sindhu?... All of it...? Or...
- Have you written all of these books or are they by other philosophers of...?
- Haven't you given the copyright to them (Macmillan)?
- He wants to know if you, if you think that you will be able to complete all the volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam which you have projected?
- How are the references made?
- How did you manage to get your first Bhagavatams printed?
- How do we know if somebody else, Yogananda, Maharsi, and all these different people that have translated it, how are we to tell that their version isn't Krsna's word from your version?
- How does one contact the spiritual master? Through a book can you contact the spiritual master?
- How long does it take you to translate?
- How many articles can we put in by you? These are the most important contributions we have, and, say, would it be too much material to put in, say, an essay by you and maybe a lecture?
- How many books are already finished, and how much is more to come in the future?
- How many manuscript pages?
- How many volumes is this one (Caitanya-caritamrta), when it's complete?
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- I have thought of doing Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Brahma-samhita. Do you think we could serialize it maybe in three or four Back to Godheads? Or could we print it ourselves in a little pamphlet? Or which do you think would be better?
- I know the translations themselves, they were somewhat changed in Bhagavad-gita As It Is as it came out in Macmillan. Did you like those translations?
- I remember over five years ago you telling me about, "If you read the first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam, you become fully Krsna conscious." Would you kindly tell me what does it mean to be fully Krsna conscious?
- I saw your magazine (Back to Godhead). It's a beautiful magazine. Where is that done?
- I think this story's in Raja-vidya, that small book. The one about the brahmana and the cobbler?
- I want to read some books published by Swamiji. Can I get?
- I was wondering if you could give me some idea what you want done, so I can also think about how to improve the magazine. Something is wrong in the magazine?
- If they try to stop us from printing, we can show them the copy of that letter that says they do not publish, and then what can they do?
- If we're very attracted to reading Caitanya caritamrta now, but we haven't finished Srimad-Bhagavatam as yet, should we wait until we have studied Srimad-Bhagavatam thoroughly?
- If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and not follow the regulations, not reading your books, can you go back to Godhead?
- In America. The art pages? Everything? It will be more expensive because in India they print on cheap paper. If we use the same cheap paper, they'll still have to pay more because it has to be shipped back to India. But I can check
- In Krsna Book and Bhagavad-gita both, you explain there are five states of consciousness, beginning with annamaya, manomaya, pranamaya, like that. Do these states of consciousness manifest in different species of life?
- In other words, if they want to donate something, they donate. Is that how the magazine is published (we allow everyone, "Come on, chant. Take prasadam")?
- In other words, there's no set principle that only the works which you have already translated can be published by the BBT. If there is some worthy translation of a bona fide Vedic reference, if it's properly done, the BBT could publish it?
- In reference to Isopanisad mantra 15, should a devotee ask the Lord to reveal Himself?
- In reply to Jayadvaita's questions, regarding the policy for using diacritic markings
- In reply to your question whether TLC or the original cover of Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the authoritative picture of the hand symbols?
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta it states that to understand Krsna and to improve our relationship with Him we must understand the spiritual master. What is the best way to understand him?
- In the things that you've written, where would that message come through most clearly?
- In your books you say that the world is like a dream... How is it a dream?
- In your books you talk about Brahmaloka, which, I suppose is heaven
- In your introduction to the Bhagavad-gita you refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianism and other religious faiths as sectarian designations, but isn't Krsna consciousness just another kind of designation in order not to call it Krsna-ism, another ism?
- In your letter of April 11th you have asked me to insert "What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him?''....
- Is it all right that Lord Siva's picture is in the new calendar that's come out?
- Is it possible to become a devotee without actually having personal association with you, just by reading your books?
- Is it proper to say that your purports are getting better every day?
- Is that (the moving of ISKCON Press) a GBC matter or BBT matter?
- Is that part of your income, to run a...(publishing house)?
- Is there a center in Geneva where this literature...?
- Is there any one, one of the translations or one of the purports or of a series of purports of the things that you've published that you think is more clear, more...?
- Is there any other books before Bhagavad-gita?
- Is there any plan to translate into English? Is there any plan to translate Jiva Gosvami's Jiva-bhasya?
- Is there any system for publishing works in the future that you may not see?… What would the system be to insure the parampara if you would not personally see these translations?
- It had one for every verse (illustration)? Very good picture or simple?
- It's not dedicated to Krsna? The work is not dedicated to Krsna. How, specifically, how can you do this?
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- Not more than two or not more than one (article by yourself)?
- Now, another point is, which we have put off until this (GBC) meeting, especially to be considered in this meeting, is the moving of the Press. The moving of ISKCON Press. Is that...?
- Now, you have answered all our inquiries so thoroughly in our books that to make inquiry at this point seems like..., you've already answered all the questions. So how may we... What is the proper relationship at that point to make inquiry?
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- Of the things that you have written, what do you consider most important?
- Oh, I see. Then why not here in Vrndavana (printing books)?
- Oh, the recommendations (where is that professors? All these professors. Those who are purchasing our books)?
- One of your followers here mentioned that the university here in Toronto is teaching your books and so forth. Do you feel that any contact with your ideas?
- Out of stock? So they will print it (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) again, no?
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- Prabhupada, about glossaries, the glossary? I have prepared a glossary...
- Prabhupada, what do you think about the German translation work? I know it must go on. But isn't there some way to increase it, to make it go more quickly?
- Prabhupada, what is the plan? To send money or books?
- Prabhupada, you know the scientist you quoted in Easy Journey? You quoted an article from the newspaper in Easy Journey about the two scientists who were studying anti-matter?
- Pradyumna is here, Srila Prabhupada. Would you like to hear Caitanya-caritamrta?
- Printed in America (another thing, the Hindi photographic pages, if you send to Los Angeles, the books can be printed there)?... What language? Hindi?
- Professionals may translate, but one of our men may check?
- Professor Chenique wishes to know whether we cannot do one very small pocketbook edition that will sell very inexpensively?
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- Regarding your first question to explain the statement of Sri Isopanisad that "even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance"
- Regarding your inquiry into Japan for reprinting the book
- Regarding your question about BTG containing more than one essay by me in certain issues...
- Regarding your question about instruction, spiritual life is different from material life. The instruction given in my books is supposed to be personal instruction
- Regarding your question about Mantra 12 of Isopanisad...
- Regarding your question about the art department
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- Shall I read it?
- Should BBT America pay for our expenses in that Book Fair? It will cost about three thousand dollars. It's a very good preaching opportunity. They can pay?
- Should we have karmi photographs in our magazines?
- Should we start printing Hindi books in Calcutta, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we use that four lakhs for printing?
- Since most of our presentation is done by lawyer, how can this practically be brought about that he introduces the books as our main defense? How can he present the books, a lawyer, if there's not a preacher?
- So always your writing, people were attracted by?
- So do you want to quote this verse?
- So does it ("The India is membership, and the members, if they are dissatisfied, then? This is not good.") mean that the BBT should take charge of the Life Membership program or to see that they're supplied the books?
- So is it (your health problem) affecting your translation work?
- So it's the complete text (the summary study of Srila Rupa Gosvami's Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu)?
- So just now you've sent a Krsna tape. Should I, rather than do that, give it to Bhagavan?
- Srila Prabhupada, I once was distributing some of your literature to a library, and the librarian said, "If these are five thousand years old, where is the proof of this? Do we have the copies that were written down five thousand years ago?"
- Srila Prabhupada, I've got a letter here from Jayadvaita and from Jagannatha dasa regarding some corrections. These are two books that are in production right now. So would it be all right to ask you them?
- Srila Prabhupada, in Nectar of Devotion you explain that there are three classes of devotees. And you say that the third-class devotee, he has belief but he cannot explain or give any support. This is like Christian...?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Sri Isopanisad it is said that one must learn the process of nescience alongside with the process of self-realization... Pravrtti with nivrtti. How is that?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Srimad-Bhagavatam or the Krsna Book, you state that even clouds have souls. But then again they dissipate, in the rain they dissolve. Does that mean they die?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you be interested in hearing any of the Bhagavatam that they have edited?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like to do the next verse?
- Srila Prabhupada, you first began to distribute Back to Godhead magazine by yourself, right, in India? You would go to the shops?
- Srila Prabhupada? You said you want to present more philosophy in Back to Godhead magazine. Does that mean that we should make it more and more sophisticated? Or does that mean that we should try to present the philosophy in the easiest way?
- Srimad-Bhagavatam, we are selling it to the libraries for forty-five rupees... The general price is higher. What's the U.S. registered price?
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- That man was the chief of the Benares school (he said "insurpassable." "Prabhupada's books are unsurpassable")?
- That's also "Not for sale in India" (the Tenth Canto of Bhagavatam, two volumes). Why?
- The future of the Krsna consciousness movement. Should I see what it says under that?
- The less capitals, the better?
- The more we understand Srimad-Bhagavatam, the more we'll understand the Caitanya-caritamrta?
- The one you've written, from the old Book Trust?
- The prabhu is feeling that he likes to read all of your books and sometimes he reads one book and sometimes another book. Is that bad?
- There is nothing specificially objectionable?
- There would be lastly a reference section which would include all addresses that they would find useful, a glossary of the terms used, and an index, etc... You like the idea, do you?
- There're very few... How many color illustrations in it?
- These (books) are introductory?
- These books will be available where?
- Thirty manuscript pages, thirty book pages?
- This (the ten tikas) is published?
- This is also a translation of it (Nectar of Devotion. It is translation from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of Rupa Gosvami) or...?
- This is the first pamphlet that you ever printed?... I mean in the West?
- This is the first volume. Are you preparing more of them?
- This meeting right now is concerning ISKCON and the GBC, but are we going to have some kind of meeting regarding the BBT?
- 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)?
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- We can also do it for the books also, Srila Prabhupada, isn't it? It will be published by BBT, but coming out from Bhaktivedanta Institute
- We can publish that and also our refutation (another point about this journal is that we will present controversial things, and people may want to write something to refute what we have said)
- We had another practical consideration. We were thinking, could BBT publish the journal? BBT would publish the journal ("Sa-vijnanam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute")?
- We printed that little Bhagavad-gita, remember? That we've distributed twenty-five thousand. So seventy-five thousand Bhagavad-gita one year
- We should just reproduce that (take some photograph) as it is?
- We were lucky because when we joined all that we had were your Bhagavatams from India, those original Bhagavatams... Otherwise, what shall we do?
- Well I understand you do a lot of work translating and that you only sleep two hours a day. Is that right?
- Well, are your book lists in here?
- Well, can we use, for instance, the glossary to your Srimad-Bhagavatam printed in India, can we use that as a model for...?... You have a glossary at the end of the first volume. Is that the type of glossary...?
- Well, tell me about the books you have translated. Are there some more to translate?... Well, one day you will die. Now who will translate them then? Continue the translating?
- Were you just waiting to finish your books?
- What (other texts than the Gita, Krsna, Caritamrta, and Bhagavatam) do you recommend?
- What about avataras, in reference to Christ or Buddha?
- What about excerpts from your books? Is that all right?
- What about quoting even Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated, like the Caitanya-caritamrta or cantos that you haven't translated?
- What about writing down "kissing the lips of Krsna"?
- What are you reading? These are the commentaries? And this is the text?
- What if the Hindi Back to Godhead was in newspaper form? Would that be lowering the standard?
- What if we mentioned how many copies of Bhagavad-gita have been sold in the last year?
- What if we want to quote them (Vaisnava literature that you haven't translated) in some article?
- What is the meaning of "as it is."?
- What language, master, was your books originally written in?
- What was your connection with McGill? I heard... You published first with McGill?
- When do you usually write?
- When should we read the Krsna book?
- When the boys are going village to village, if they get subscriptions, it's good?
- When we print this book (Brahma-samhita), should we distribute it freely? Should we distribute this book to the masses?
- When you're typing, should you think of Krsna first and your typing second?
- Where did the money come from to print such lavish editions of your books?
- Where do you have these eight commentaries? Are they found in this edition or...?
- Where do you.... You might think this unusual. Where does it come from, though?... What goes into this?
- Where does the money come from to print Godhead?
- Where in our scriptures is there mention of Lord Jesus Christ as recognized and what is the purport?
- Which book would you like to have translated into Russian?
- Which of your books do you consider to be the most important?
- Who has done this (the Chinese Bhagavad-gita), Srila Prabhupada?
- Who has published them (all these books)?
- Who is Crazy?... That's a new book?
- Who is in charge of this publication? Who is the leader?
- Why don't you write some purports to that?... To Bhaktisiddhanta's Brahma-samhita?
- Why have you written Bhagavad-gita as it really is? Why?
- Will Krsna not fulfill your desire (to complete the Bhagavatam)?
- With the question regarding whether prospectus or magazine is better...
- Won't it help to have your books in their homes though? And maybe future generations will, you know, be benefited, they'll read your books?
- Would it be improper to say Vijnana only? Would that be improper? I was thinking in terms of making the title as short as possible. Vijnanam or sa-vijnanam, both nice, but I was thinking...
- Would it be more practical if you write a separate booklet or a pamphlet for Russians who have never heard about God or the existence of God as Krsna?
- Would you like to hear a little bit of one of the books? We'll read some more of the Teachings of Lord Kapila that we were reading yesterday to you? In this way we can pass the time very nicely
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- Yadubara wanted to film you translating. Is that all right?
- You are a cultured man. You're educated... Did you not learn...? Who gave you the talent to translate your Vedic scriptures?... Who gave you the talent, father?
- You got a copy, eh, Easy Journey to Other Planets?
- You have asked about the printing of Srimad-Bhagavatam...
- You have asked about where you will get the money for bookbinding equipment...
- You have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana. So you are asking how this can be so?
- You say that in every issue there should be at least one picture, painting, of Krsna?
- You want Gopala Krsna to print in India or you want us to print in Los Angeles?
- You want me to do Nectar of Devotion and then Krsna and then Bhagavad-gita, in that order?
- You want the translation to it (Bg 2.13)?
- You want to do some just now (translating)?
- You were saying that we should do one verse in one day, Srila Prabhupada? And do it thoroughly?
- You were very well known in Vrndavana before you came? Because you were writing or…?… Or because of your ambition to come to the West?
- You will be translating while you're travelling?
- Your volumes are dealing with each chapter of Gita?