Bhavānanda: It is not determined even by karma?
Prabhupāda: Yes. In higher sense it is also like that. That means from God's eyes even the so-called accident is also predestined.
Devānanda: Nothing can be outside of the law of God.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
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Read more…Indian man (8): Is it that a man becomes a man after the death?
Prabhupāda: No guarantee.
Indian man (8): He may go to an animal.
Prabhupāda: Species. He may become a dog, and he may become a demigod also, according to his karma. Mad-yājino 'pi yānti mā
Read more…Jaya-gopāla: Well, I've been told then that we can have no more karmic reactions from our actions.
Prabhupāda: Yes. If you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there is no more reaction of your karma.
(Lecture------Los Angeles).
Bob: My soul is different
Read more…Makhanlal: Pure bhakti and karma-yoga considered to be exactly the same?
Prabhupāda: Exactly the same.
Prabhupāda: Pure bhakti is above karma-yoga. Pure bhakti is above karma-yoga.
Bhāgavata: That is the difference between the Chapter Karma-yoga and Kar
Read more…Sister: What about for a child, a newly born baby. Are they born into a material body because of their parents' bad doings?
Prabhupāda: No, he has taken that particular body in terms of his past activities. One is born as a human child; one is born as
Read more…Mr. Malhotra: But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty...
Prabhupāda: Then ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣ... (B.G.18:66), then Kṛṣṇa takes care of you.
Mr. Malhotra: Then those karmas don't affect...?
Prabhupāda: No. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhak
Devotee (1): Śrīla Prabhupāda, he states about Africa, that the food..., that they do not know what to eat tomorrow, and in fact, that here it's very hard for them to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. My question is which, what can we do which is...?
Pr
Read more…Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Because we get lots of that dahi. You drink it cool with a little sugar in it. I think it's good for digestion, dahi. How are you feeling today, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Not feel so... That jhuri was very heavy for me. Jhuri, jhuri.
Read more…Indian man: Śrīla Prabhupāda, everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys(?), or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
Prabhupāda:
Read more…Dayānanda: In our experience we have no understanding how this can be practical, because we think that meat is good for our strength. How can we be strong?
Prabhupāda: No. Therefore you are not human being, you are animal. If you cannot produce your f
Read more…Indian man (4): At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
Prabhupāda: Yes. This is action. If you... Mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām (B.G.9:25). If you practice devotional service, then at the time of death there is great possibility of und
Read more…Interviewer: Do you have certain dietary rules for which you do not eat?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Certainly.
Interviewer: What do you not eat?
Prabhupāda: We don't eat anything which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa. We first of all prepare foodstuff as recommended
Read more…Reporter (1): How to give up this tea and coffee to which we are so much habituated?
Prabhupāda: That they have given up.
Devotee (2): Join the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.
(Conversation--------Delhi).
Prabhupāda: Oh, that
Read more…Indian guest (5): That chanting is not the stage you have to preserve all the time or practice all the time?
Śyāmasundara: That you become as more advanced in spiritual life, your chanting drops away.
Prabhupāda: No. no, chanting is eternal. After you
Read more…Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Is yogurt as healthy as milk?
Prabhupāda: No. Yogurt is healthy when you cannot digest properly. One who can digest, for him, milk is better.
(Morning walk-------Mayapura).
Translator: (translating questions from French) Jesus Christ...,
Read more…Svarūpa Dāmodara: Prabhupāda, buffalo, buffalo milk is as good as cow's milk?
Prabhupāda: No. It contains more fat. Milk means cow's milk. If you want to derive milk profit, then it is cow's milk. Otherwise every animal has got milk. And next to cow's
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: A little extra strength. Rice water will give you a little extra strength?
Prabhupāda: Yes. One globule, little honey and little rice water. Let me try.
Hari-śauri: A full cardamom?
Prabhupāda: Yes. You know. But this must be smashed very
Read more…I am trying to chant attentively from many days but I did not get success, please guide me on this.
Prashant
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Faill: Is it vital to follow certain eating habits? I mean...
Prabhupāda: Yes. The whole process is how to purify ourself. So by... according to eating, the purification also... I think Mr. Bernard Shaw, he wrote one book that "You Are What You Eat."
Read more…Guest: If man wasn't meant to eat meat, why in nature do the other animals kill to eat?
Prabhupāda: Are you other animal?
Guest: Well, we're all animals.
Prabhupāda: You count amongst the animals? You classify yourself with the animals?
Guest: Well, we'r
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