Contents
1 Age Groups - Stages of Life
2 Agriculture and Cow Protection
3 Animal Killing
4 Authority and Authenticity
5 Avataras, Incarnations, Messengers of God
6 Bhagavad-gita
7 Birth, Death, Procreation
8 Body (Gross), Material Senses
9 Brahminical Culture
10 Caitanya, His Associates
11 Calendar Events, Observances
12 Chanting the Holy Name
13 Children, Childhood
14 Christianity
15 Civilization and Civilized Life
16 Class, Divisions of Society
17 Consciousness
18 Contemporary Personalities
19 Contemporary Trends, Events, Social Issues
20 Demigods
21 Demonic Personalities
22 Devotee Standards, Etiquette
23 Devotees - General
24 Devotees of the Hare Krsna Movement
25 Devotional Dress, Paraphernalia
26 Devotional Singing, Dancing, Drama
27 Disciplic Succession
28 Discrepancies, Slips, Falldowns
29 Independence, Dependence
30 The Deity, Deity Worship
31 Eastern, Western
32 Economics - Wealth, Resources, Money, Business
33 Education, Training, Learning
34 Ethnicity, Nationality
35 Evolution
36 Faith, Belief
37 Family Life, Family Members
38 Fate, Destiny, Freedom, Free Will
39 Fine Arts, Fashion, Entertainment
40 Food, Diet, Cooking
41 Gender
42 Geographical Places
43 God
44 God Realization, Self Realization, Enlightenment
45 Gurukula
46 Health, Disease, Healing
47 Hearing, Reading, Study
48 Hinduism
49 Historical Personalities
50 History, Historical Facts, Timelines
51 Holy Places
52 Human Beings, Other Species or Types of Living Entities
53 Human Qualities, Character, Behavior
54 Impersonalism
55 Initiation
56 ISKCON - Finances
57 ISKCON - General
58 ISKCON - Leadership and Management
59 ISKCON - Temples and Centers
60 Jesus
61 Kali-yuga
62 Karma - Action and Reaction
63 Knowledge
64 Krsna Conscious Visual Presentations - Art, Decor, Displays
65 Krsna, His Expansions, Associates, Paraphernalia
66 Language, Literature
67 Leadership, Management (General)
68 Liberation, Salvation
69 Love of Godhead
70 Marriage
71 Material Creation, Universe
72 Material Love and Affection
73 Meaning of Sanskrit Words
74 Meditation
75 Mercy, Grace, Blessings
76 Modern Science and Scientists
77 Modes of Material Nature
78 The Moon
79 Natural Science, Natural History
80 Occupation, Work, Duty
81 Other Philosophies, Philosophy in General
82 Other Planets
83 Other Religions, Religion in General
84 Pastimes of...
85 Personalities From Other Religions or Spiritual Paths
86 Personalities From Vedic Scripture
87 Pleasing Krsna
88 Pleasure and Sense Gratification
89 Politics, Government
90 Prabhupada
91 Prabhupada's Books, BBT and BTG
92 Prabhupada's Family
93 Prabhupada's Godbrothers and the Gaudiya Math
94 Prabhupada's Health and Sickness
95 Prabhupada's Life (1896 - 1977)
96 Prabhupada's Travelling and Itinerary
97 Prasadam
98 Prayer
99 Preaching, Spreading Krsna Consciousness
100 Process of Krsna Consciousness - Bhakti-yoga
101 Protection of Society
102 Publicity, Public Relations, Public Press
103 Radharani, Her Expansions, Associates (Gopis)
104 Regulated Life, Regulative Principles
105 Reincarnation, Afterlife, Transmigration of the Soul
106 Relationships Among Devotees
107 Reward, Punishment, Suffering
108 Sadhana
109 Saintly Personalities
110 Sankirtan - Public Chanting, Book Distribution
111 Scripture, Mantras
112 Secular Personalities
113 Seva - Devotional Service
114 Sex, Sexuality, Celibacy
115 Sin, Morality, Good, Evil
116 Social Progress
117 Spirit Soul
118 Spiritual Advancement
119 Spiritual Master - Guru
120 Spiritual World
121 Spirituality (General)
122 Srimad-Bhagavatam
123 States of Heart and Mind
124 Subtle Body - Mind, Intelligence, Ego
125 Successful Life, Goal of Life
126 Supersoul, Paramatma
127 Surrender, Obedience, Renunciation
128 Spiritual Body
129 Tradition, Modernity
130 Truth, Reality
131 Vaisnava Acaryas
132 Varna, Asrama
133 Vedic Culture and Philosophy
134 War, Violence
135 Yoga
For decades, Srila Prabhupāda’s books have been studied and analyzed, word by word, by thousands of devotees. However, his spoken teachings have not received nearly the same level of analysis until now. While immersed in our mission to bring to light these spiritual gems, we repeatedly found ourselves admiring Prabhupāda’s expertise in relating to all different varieties of people. Srila Prabhupāda was just as prolific in his lecturing as he was in his writing. He never missed a chance to preach, whether to reporters , academics , politicians , priests from other faiths , the parents of his disciples , newcomers to the temple, Artists, Musicians and Poets , regular devotees, or his senior disciples. While relating to all these different audiences, he displayed a very mature and congenial standard of dealings. He had great skill in understanding the moods and backgrounds of the people he spoke with, which let him talk with them in the way in which they could best accept his message.
The most recurring feature in these discussions was the format of questions and answers. Everyone had questions for Srila Prabhupāda, and Prabhupāda almost always gave very insightful answers. The questions ranged over hundreds of topics, and we found, as time went on, more and more deeply profound exchanges. After all, asking questions to a spiritual master is truly the only way to gain genuine spiritual knowledge. We decided, therefore, to take on the monumental project of bringing together, for the first time, all of the recorded questions asked to Srila Prabhupāda. A team of several devotees searched painstakingly, throughout all the conversations, lectures, and letters, for Prabhupāda answering questions. It took several months to find them all, and several more months to present them in an organized, thematic fashion, but the result was well worth the effort. We have now gathered over 10,200 of them. Each is on its own separate page, all of them are searchable, and they are situated within 145 different thematic categories.
We are now developing a new project to find 500 to 1000 of the most fundamental questions to be placed in the lists below. Please join with us on this opportunity to further bring to light Srila Prabhupāda's illustrious words.
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Can you tell me something about Caitanya's initiation in Vaisnava faith? When He was initiated?
Los Angeles
1969
Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like?
Los Angeles
1969
Every time Lord Krsna appears, original Krsna appears, does Lord Caitanya appear on the following Kali-yuga?
Bombay
1974
Why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka?
Los Angeles
1969
Srila Prabhupada, once you said that to stop this transmigration, one has to become completely disgusted with this material world. What about Lord Caitanya who prayed that "I don't mind coming back again and again"?
Germany
1974
Prabhupada, after Lord Caitanya took sannyasa, in the Teachings of Lord Caitanya it says He met His mother. I always thought that a sannyasi could not do that
Seattle
1968
One time you were explaining that Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was speaking with the Kazi, He convinced him about that the Koran does not actually advocate meat-eating
Mayapur
1976
There is very little description from the age of 31 to Lord Caitanya's disappearance. Maybe you can tell me as much as you can of what happened?
Los Angeles
1969
Lord Caitanya used to stuff His ears up when anyone would refer to Him as God. He wants to be known as a devotee. But we worship Him as God, in the same line as Radha-Krsna. So how do we understand that?
Mayapur
1975
Lord Jesus Christ said that "The only way to God is through me; just believe in me or surrender to me," and Lord Caitanya taught that hari-nama is the only means of spiritual realization in this age. Is there any contradiction?
Seattle
1968
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Is there room in the movement for other persons who are indirectly serving Krsna rather than chanting Hare Krsna all day?
Gainesville
1971
How will it be possible, Prabhupada, for a man whose mind is clouded to constantly chant Hare Krsna?
Los Angeles
1968
How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant Hare Krsna yet is still being plagued by desire for sex?
New York
1975
Srila Prabhupada, sometimes we try to meditate on Krsna, when we chant Hare Krsna, sinful memory from our past life is coming. How is this to be understood that Krsna says, "From Me the memory comes"
New Mayapur
1976
Should we try to go fast when we chant, in order to get the rounds done?
Los Angeles
1969
Prabhupada, when we're out on sankirtana, chanting, what would be the best way for us to engage the crowd to become participants in the chant with us?
Los Angeles
1968
Is it possible to chant within one's mind?
Bombay
1975
In a situation where there's a choice between say chanting and reading. Is chanting a better activity than reading?
Gorakhpur
1971
Prabhupada, what does it mean to chant seriously?
New York
1975
Without taking diksa from the guru also utters the name of Lord Krsna with devotion?
Bhuvanesvara
1977
Why at the time of death, the name of God does not come?
Hyderabad
1975
What if the person cannot chant sixteen rounds a day? He says, "I can't..."
Hyderabad
1974
What is the first stage of transformation like in the consciousness after one discovers chanting Hare Krsna mantra?
Melbourne
1975
What should you be thinking about when you're chanting?
Los Angeles
1968
What does Rama mean in Hare Rama? Is this Balarama or Lord Ramacandra?
Hamburg
1969
Srila Prabhupada, then if I have Krsna's name and I understand that it is Krsna, then can I take it and go to the forest?
Hawaii
1974
If you advertise the maha-mantra gives some material benefit, isn't that an offense?
Mayapur
1977
Regarding your last question about the importance of chanting...
Los Angeles
1969
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Do you believe in the Holy Bible?
Melbourne
1974
Basically, what have you to offer that is different than the Christian ethos or the Jewish ethos?
Los Angeles
1968
I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
Boston
1968
Like any other revealed scripture, the Bible's teachings are absolute, but are they to be understood literally or symbolically, and are they applicable for all men?
Bombay
1977
Is it possible for one to engage himself in bhakti-yoga without rendering service to Krsna? Let's say someone who is worshiping Lord Buddha or Lord Jesus
Los Angeles
1969
Jesus Christ..., it is said that he made the miracle of the fish and ate. So why is it that one should not eat meat?
Geneva
1974
How can Catholic people, without rejecting their own religion, take to Krsna consciousness?
Paris
1974
Can you say exactly the point where Christians are not obedient. Do you see any points here by your visit to the Christian countries and you like to say for us? It is a help for us to say exactly the point
Germany
1974
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
How is it that there is so much material "advancement in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? Is a man after economic development automatically worshiping Lord Siva whether he is making Yajna or not?
Hawaii
1969
Durga, she is in charge of... She is Krsna's agent, so what is the harm in worshiping Durga?
Mayapur
1977
Srila Prabhupada, if the human form is insignificant compared to demigods, but still, it is very much desired, this human form of life, even by the demigods?
Melbourne
1975
What is the position of Lord Siva?
Los Angeles
1968
It says here that a pure devotee like Haridasa Thakura would not fall victim to Mayadevi's temptations, but even Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, might fall victim. I always thought that they were pure devotees of the Lord
Los Angeles
1968
Is Mayadevi a pure devotee?
Seattle
1968
What would you classify as demigods, then?
Washington, D.C.
1976
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Why, if the devotee is struggling very hard to be free of the clutches of Maya, then how can he not be interested in such liberation?
Mayapur
1972
At what stage could one say that a person is Krsna conscious? There must be a beginning stage...
Bombay
1973
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?
Indore
1970
He (a devotee who works for Krsna yet doesn't follow the four regulatives principles) will fall down?
Perth
1975
Your final question is how can you become a pure devotee, and the answer to this is given in Bhagavad-gita
West Virginia
1969
What should be the first step to become a devotee?
Bombay
1973
Prabhupada, What is the devotee's greatest enemy?
Paris
1974
In the list of qualifications of a devotee there is one qualification, expert. What does that mean in relation to the occupation?
Montreal
1968
If somehow, Srila Prabhupada, someone falls down, does that mean that he did not want to love Krsna?
New Mayapur
1976
What is the difference in full between the Spiritual Master, Krishna, and the devotee?
West Virginia
1969
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Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
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?
Gainesville
1971
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?
Toronto
1976
Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
Tehran
1976
Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
Delhi
1976
Does it matter how long it might take you? Can you become first-class men soon, within five years?
Perth
1975
For those who are outside the temple, they have their jobs and they live in their houses, how can they achieve Krsna consciousness?
Caracas
1975
Do they (your followers) do anything like social work or other...?
London
1975
Don't followers of Krsna consciousness ever get angry?
Hawaii
1969
If we are not at the purified stage, then why is the temple president a representative of yourself?
Vrndavana
1974
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?
Los Angeles
1968
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)?
New Vrindaban
1972
May I leave the family to bear faith and devote myself to become a devotee of Krsna?
Hyderabad
1975
Sometimes the devotees ask if they can take birth again distributing books for you
Atlanta
1975
Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to...
Delhi
1976
Since we don't yet understand the supreme law, because we are young and just new to this, how can we speak about it?
San Francisco
1967
Regarding your question, about living alone
Los Angeles
1968
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?
Los Angeles
1968
What determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?
Los Angeles
1970
We may develop at least maybe half of your energy to continuously preach someday?
Sydney
1972
We are talking against material life, and why we are using microphones, tape recorders, airplanes?
Rome
1974
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
So I have no other goal but to have the phala of past karmas. Or can I change my fate?
Poona
1976
Don't you think that the children should be given freedom to choose voluntarily?
Bombay
1977
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?
Hamburg
1969
Is it possible to reform a person against their will?
Johannesburg
1975
Can we withdraw our independence, can we request Krsna to force us to surrender to Him, due to our conditioning?
Hawaii
1969
When you said that everyone is destined to a particular goal, then where is the question of preaching Krsna consciousness?
Hyderabad
1975
If somebody commits suicide, that is also preset?
New York
1972
Why doesn't Krsna protect us from that desire (even in the Vaikuntha, if I desire that "Why shall I serve Krsna? Why not become Krsna?" I immediately fall down)?
Washington, D.C.
1976
You say that we have a choice, that either we can surrender to Krsna, or we can remain under the control of the external energy. Those in the mode of passion and ignorance, do they have any choice?
Geneva
1974
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Well, his question it is why must we do something to become God when we're already God?
Edinburgh
1972
Are you God?
Melbourne
1974
Could it be, Srila Prabhupada, that this sanction of wine drinking be from God? Could that sanction come from God? Do we think that is possible?
Rome
1974
If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?
Mexico
1975
And how to surrender to God, how to do this?
Tehran
1976
But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
Bombay
1973
I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
Boston
1968
Do you believe in love of God, and that God is a person? Some people say that God is not a person, and we say God is a person
Paris
1974
If there is God, how can there be suffering and disease?
Tittenhurst
1969
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
At what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?
New York
1975
Do you think meditation is a way to see God inside yourself?
Melbourne
1974
As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
Perth
1795
And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
New York
1976
Srila Prabhupada, in Bhagavad-gita it says that "Out of millions of men, only one may come to know Me, and of millions who know Me, only one can understand." What are ways...?
Melbourne
1975
Could you discuss the various levels on the way to bliss consciousness? What happens to the body and the mind as one approaches bliss consciousness?
Boston
1969
Is service to the Supreme Lord the same as realization of the Absolute Truth?
New Vrindaban
1976
Just by distributing your books we can become self-realized?
Atlanta
1976
Srila Prabhupada, can realization be had through service without theoretical understanding?
New Vrindaban
1976
The relationship of mind to the soul, how the mind comes to know that it has or that there is a soul
Los Angeles
1975
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?
Vrndavana
1977
Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
Hawaii
1974
Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?
Melbourne
1974
Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
Los Angeles
1973
If we're performing devotional service and an insect is in the way, like if you're painting the walls and you find this ant and you must paint this wall to please the spiritual master, what is the attitude?
Atlanta
1975
Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?
London
1973
Physical world, this earth is there. Are there any other earthly planets of this type where human beings or other beings are staying other than spiritual beings?
Ahmedabad
1975
Sometimes questions are raised saying that how do we know that a bird is more intelligent than a human being?
Los Angeles
1973
Suppose I feed these rats and I go on feeding them. Won't more and more rats come?
Surat
1970
The human beings get dreams, and what's the lesson between the dreams and the actual life?
London
1973
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
Geneva
1974
When Krsna is incarnating in His plenary incarnations like Varaha, Nrsimha... and sometimes devotees become devoted to those forms. Are there corresponding planets in Vaikuntha for those forms of incarnation? Is there a planet of Nrsimha or Nrsimha-loka?
London
1973
Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?
Los Angeles
1968
Do you expect Him (Krsna) to come again?
London
1973
But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?
Melbourne
1974
Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?
Hawaii
1974
Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna?
Bombay
1974
Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu?
Bombay
1974
Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
Johannesburg
1975
If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
Poona
1976
Every time Lord Krsna appears, original Krsna appears, does Lord Caitanya appear on the following Kali-yuga?
Bombay
1974
How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
Vrndavana
1976
If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
San Francisco
1975
Does fortune mean it's the mercy of Krsna?
Perth
1975
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?
Hamburg
1969
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
If the space program, either the Russian or the American program, which have plans to try to land on the moon and return safely, if this is successful, do you think this accomplishment would hurt the Krsna movement in the United States?
Los Angeles
1968
How are they able to perpetuate such an enormous hoax (ask all scientists this simple question. Why, all over the world, Sunday, sun first and moon second? Why? And Saturday last. All of you could not answer this question)?
Los Angeles
1976
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?"
Bombay
1975
How do we support our challenge to the scientists that they have not actually gone to the moon?
Bombay
1975
Take photographs where (and this moon planet going means Arizona. That is now disclosed. They take photographs in the Arizona. That's all)?
New York
1976
Did they (the astronauts) actually get to the moon or not?
Perth
1975
If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?
Mayapur
1976
Real information about the moon from the Bhagavatam?
Honolulu
1975
If the space program, either the Russian or the American program, which have plans to try to land on the moon and return safely, if this is successful, do you think this accomplishment would hurt the Krsna movement in the United States?
Los Angeles
1968
Mars is after the moon?
Los Angeles
1976
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Srila Prabhupada, are the planets shaped liked balls or more like plates? Because they're called dvipas, "islands." Their roundness is the roundness of a plate or like a ball?
Mayapur
1976
So, if ordinary man went to some other planet through his sputnik, would he be able to see the demigods?
Los Angeles
1976
On this planet we have certain elements, like iron, water, or sand. Could there be other elements on other planets, new elements?
New York
1976
Prabhupada, for one who worships Lord Buddha, is there a planet for him to go to?
Los Angeles
1968
Aren't the planets in this universe the sun's energy, a product of the sun's energy?
Mayapura
1972
But what if you are reincarnated into other planets? Is it less painful, or is it the same procedure?
Paris
1973
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
In what way did you think, that the teaching of the love of God which you are doing, is different and perhaps better than the teachings of which already were being conducted in this country and have been conducted in the Western world for centuries?
Gainesville
1971
Can our religion bring something more than other religions?
Paris
1974
Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group?
Paris
1974
As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
Perth
1795
If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?
Mexico
1975
And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?
New York
1976
Basically, what have you to offer that is different than the Christian ethos or the Jewish ethos?
Los Angeles
1968
But Guruji, giving those who are in need, is not giving to God?
Bombay
1973
I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
Boston
1968
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?
Los Angeles
1968
How it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Radha-kunda and Vrndavana, Nanda-grama, Varsana, how it was that still Krsna and Radha could go and meet?
Vrndavana
1976
Did Krsna play that (football)?
Honolulu
1975
Krsna manifests more pastimes in the higher universes?
Mayapur
1976
About a hundred hoods, how could Kṛṣṇa manage all of those hoods?
Bombay
1974
When your spiritual master was a little boy, did he do things like Lord Caitanya did like when He went to the water and all girls were asking for...?
Los Angeles
1968
Is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting?
Los Angeles
1968
What is the outcome of this (discussion of the Vedanta-sutra between Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya and Caitanya Mahaprabhu) now? Final outcome?
San Francisco
1967
When Krsna lifted up Govardhana Hill, nobody said that was a miracle. But when Jesus Christ made so many things, they say it's a miracle. How is that?
New York
1968
If the planets, they have always been floating, but the stones of Lord Ramacandra has put in the ocean, they are still not... Where are they?
Mayapur
1975
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
Boston
1968
If you don't pronounce the Sanskrit prayers that are in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Would there be any effect if they're not pronounced properly?
Montreal
1968
Regarding your questions are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them? - the answer is that no conscious prayers go in vain
Los Angeles
1970
I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
Boston
1968
Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
New York
1976
Prahlada Maharaja, his father becomes a demon, and he has to fight Nrsimha. That means it is the karma of a previous life, and he's praying. Or is it understood that he'll get the protection? So why this prayer?
Montreal
1968
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
In what way did you think, that the teaching of the love of God which you are doing, is different and perhaps better than the teachings of which already were being conducted in this country and have been conducted in the Western world for centuries?
Gainesville
1971
All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?
Paris
1974
If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?
Poona
1976
Now that he has received Krsna consciousness, he would like to know from you how he should behave in his normal life, because he'll be living very far from the temple?
New Mayapur
1976
I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
Boston
1968
How do you feel about self-expression, art, as a path back to Godhead?
New York
1971
He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
New York
1976
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
If the space program, either the Russian or the American program, which have plans to try to land on the moon and return safely, if this is successful, do you think this accomplishment would hurt the Krsna movement in the United States?
Los Angeles
1968
Brain-washed they call it, you know, by getting up and having the two hours or three of chanting in the morning and prayer beads constantly and the group life, that they're sort of controlled, and denied their freedom. What do you say about that?
New York
1976
Has there been any official opposition to your movement in any country?
Hyderabad
1976
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...?
Paris
1974
Srila Prabhupada, we don't know whether to be diplomatic towards these other so-called religious movements or whether to simply expose the philosophy which they are putting forward?
Durban
1975
Your Grace, do you keep in touch with the world through television or newspapers or the media?
Melbourne
1976
When they ask us about Lord Caitanya, "Who is this Lord Caitanya?" what may we tell them?
Nairobi
1975
What is the response in the Islamic countries?
Hyderabad
1976
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Do you understand your previous lives from the descriptions in authoritative texts, or from any introspective recollection of your own?
Columbus
1969
Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation
Edinburgh
1972
Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
Hawaii
1974
Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
Johannesburg
1975
Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
Washington D.C.
1976
Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
Los Angeles
1973
At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
Nairobi
1975
Prabhupada, you said that devotees, after becoming fully pious, have to take another birth in the material world and in somewhere where Krsna is performing His pastimes, before going back to Vaikuntha?
Hawaii
1974
So the cow which is untimely killed takes birth as a cow again?
Honolulu
1975
Sometimes the devotees ask if they can take birth again distributing books for you
Atlanta
1975
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
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...?
Melbourne
1976
Sometimes there's some discrepancy, two parties, they may both want to serve but they have different ways, different ideas how to execute the same order, so there may be some argument
New Mayapur
1976
What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade?
Mayapura
1976
Srila Prabhupada, should we call all the women "mother"?
Mauritius
1975
If we love our godbrothers, is that also loving Krsna?
Los Angeles
1974
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Can't people be spiritual without dressing in this fashion and dancing in the street?
New York
1975
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?
Mayapur
1976
How can we increase our desire for sankirtana?
Mexico
1975
He's asking how does our sankirtana activities relate to God consciousness, the selling of books and collecting of donations?
New York
1976
Prabhupada, if someone is hearing the holy name in the street, if the sankirtana party is chanting, and they are atheists, what benefit is it for them?
London
1971
Prabhupada, when we're chanting on the street and the people walk by and hear us chant or we give them prasadam or they give a small donation, to what extent is the benefit they receive?
Hawaii
1974
Prabhupada, when we're out on sankirtana, chanting, what would be the best way for us to engage the crowd to become participants in the chant with us?
Los Angeles
1968
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Among the avataras which are described in the second and third book of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are two questions I have to put. There is Krsna Himself, who appears as His own avatara, and the Krsna, the yadava Krsna?
Geneva
1974
Should we just completely devote all our time to studying the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and then progress from there, or should we continue our study of the Srimad-Bhagavatam?
Seattle
1968
Why there is so-called discrepancy between the views of Bhagavat and modern scientists regarding the moon and other planets, and whether Hitler is good or bad man?
Vrindavan
1972
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?
Melbourne
1974
Is it safe to compare scientific advancement with Bhagavata, like Darwin and Bhagavatam?
London
1972
Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada
Place
YEAR
Could it (chanting Hare Krsna) be called the true yoga of our time?
Los Angeles
1975
Finally Swamiji, what is the relevance of Krsna consciousness in our modern society?
Fiji
1975
Do we use machines and modern methods on our asramas and farms?
Geneva
1974
I would like to know more about what do you think our society is doing wrong?
Melbourne
1975
Hinduism has always renewed or revitalized itself according to the need of the times. In today's context, are any correctives called for, and if so, who will bring them about and how can they be brought about and made acceptable to all the masses?
Vrndavana
1976
Let me ask you. If through technological means mankind is somewhat improved, in other words, the average man is much more intelligent, what you would consider now to be an intelligent man...
New York
1976
Seeing the world as it is today, what is the most preferable social organization from the Krsna conscious point of view?
Paris
1973
It's not a problem simply of the modern society but a problem of man, what are, more specifically, the problems, and how can we solve the problems (the modern society is not taking care of the driver; they are taking care of the car) ?
Caracas
1975
We are talking against material life, and why we are using microphones, tape recorders, airplanes?
Rome
1974
In society, the consumer society, (indistinct) miseries, what is the message you can bring people even in this day?
Paris
1972