Devotee (1): What is Balarāma's relationship with Rādhā?
Prabhupāda: That is not our discussion here. What you got this Balarāma's relation... (break)
Devotee (1): I mean, what is Their relationship? I understand that all the expansions come through Ba
Read more…Yogeśvara: Well, they would say, "If stone is also Kṛṣṇa, then why aren't we worshiping all stone?"
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Yogeśvara: Then why don't we worship all... Here is also some stone. Why don't we worship this?
Prabhupāda: You worship. Because you are
Read more…Hayagrīva: And the only other... Oh, how old should they be before Deity worship, they do Deity worship?
Prabhupāda: Just after ten years.
Hayagrīva: After ten years? Then they can do Deity worship?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hayagrīva: That's Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity wo
Read more…Paramahaṁsa: Sometimes, they argue, "How do you know this Deity is Kṛṣṇa, and this one isn't? Because each Deity looks a little different to the material eyes."
Prabhupāda: So we have to pluck out the material eyes. Then you'll see that it is all righ
Read more…Prabhupāda: Spiritual life we are leading here. You can see. We are worshiping the Deity. We are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. We haven't got to go to the factory early in the morning. This is spiritual life. Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, eat sumptuously Kṛṣṇa pr
Read more…Ādi-keśava: (break) ...the devotees are asking one question. They're wanting to know how it was that even though there is so much distance between, let's say, Govardhana and Rādhā-kuṇḍa and Vṛndāvana, Nanda-grāma, Varṣāṇā, how it was that still Kṛṣṇa
Read more…Woman guest (2): Could you... Do you think you could explain to me about the Deities and how it's different from idol worship? Because no one has been able to explain that to my understanding.
Prabhupāda: Idol means your imagination. And Deity is not
Read more…Haṁsadūta: Are you going to give some more instruction?
Prabhupāda: No. This is... In this age temple worship is not recommended.
Haṁsadūta: It's not recommended. But Deity worship is temple worship?
Prabhupāda: It is Deity worship. Because nobody can a
Read more…Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy. Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when
Read more…Rūpānuga: Yes, he comes on this side of the altar and blows the conchshell. Is that all right? It should be behind the curtain or in front of the curtain?
Prabhupāda: Behind the curtain?
Rūpānuga: He should blow it behind.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, what he
Regarding installing larger deities at the New Vrindaban farm temple, which is now exclusively for brahmacaris, yes, why not? Brahmin brahmacaris are very nice for deity worship. You have asked about Balarama Krsna deities. No, Balarama and Krsna are
Read more…Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He has a question to ask. He says, "Is it permitted to use shells for making jewelry, crowns, etc., for Deities? Or is it to be considered as the bone of an animal?"
Prabhupāda: No, you can do it.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 'Cause they're very beautif
Read more…Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No doubt, but what about the daily worship? Should we have Jagannātha deities if it's not possible for worshiping them? Should we have them just for the festival?
Prabhupāda: What is the difficulty of worshiping? You are already worshipin
It is customary among kṣatriyas for a princess to be offered under certain conditions. For instance, Draupadī was offered in marriage to one who could pierce a fish with an arrow simply by seeing the reflection of that fish. Kṛṣṇa married one of His
Read more…Śyāmasundara: Oh. So penance and austerity, that it is not really suffering? What does suffering involve?
Prabhupāda: No, no. No suffering. Those who are advanced in knowledge, there is no suffering. Actually those who are spiritually advanced, if the
Read more…The word amba is significant. A father sometimes addresses his daughter in affection as "mother" and sometimes as "my darling." The feeling of separation occurs because until the daughter is married she remains the daughter of the father, but after h
Read more…In any auspicious ceremony, such as a marriage ceremony, sacrificial ceremony or pūjā ceremony, it is auspicious for married women to decorate themselves very nicely with ornaments, fine clothing and cosmetics. These are auspicious signs. Many heaven
Read more…After marrying Devakī, Vasudeva was returning home with her on a chariot driven by Kaṁsa, her brother, when an ominous voice addressed Kaṁsa, warning him that Devakī's eighth son would kill him. Upon hearing this omen, Kaṁsa was immediately ready to
Read more…Devotee: Did Kṛṣṇa have children by the gopīs?
Prabhupāda: No. Kṛṣṇa's love was not this love, sex love. That was different thing.
(Lecture on Bhagavad-Gita-------Los Angeles).
Devotee (3): Did Kṛṣṇa invent Rādhā for His own pleasure?
Prabhupāda: Yes. No
Read more…This is certainly an attraction. Then she prepares very palatable foods to satisfy the tongue, and when the tongue is satisfied one gains strength in the other sense organs, especially the genitals. Thus the wife gives pleasure in sexual intercourse.
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