Acyutānanda: When you said that everyone is destined to a particular goal, then where is the question of preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Prabhupāda: Therefore I said tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta ko... You should try only for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, other thin
Read more…Revatīnandana: So in the human life the distinguishing feature is that his spiritual independence can show itself; whereas the animal is completely under the modes, but the human being, the modes' influence is reduced sufficiently so that he can make
Read more…Brahmānanda: Why doesn't God force me to surrender?
Prabhupāda: No. That Kṛṣṇa is not a nonsense like you. Because Kṛṣṇa has given you little freedom He does not want to touch it. That is Kṛṣṇa. What He gives, He never takes it back. It is not a nonse
Read more…Devotee (3): Prabhupāda, you said that the greatest offense is to chant thinking that "My sins will be washed away" and commit sins, or wants to.(?) So what is the result that that person gets if he dies in that condition?
Prabhupāda: He dies a sinful
Read more…Śyāmasundara: There is no universal morality?
Prabhupāda: Universal morality is to obey God, that's all. This is universal morality.
Śyāmasundara: But are any of God's laws fixed...
Prabhupāda: That is included. If you obey God, then all the laws are al
Read more…Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: We live in sin, so is it not speculation to consider a sinless state?
Prabhupāda: Yes. If you speculate, then also you will not be in position to understand what is sin and what is pious. Therefore you have to hear from the authority. Jus
Read more…Young man: Then how do we take the meaning of earthquakes and natural disasters which could destroy the lives of pure people as well as impure people?
Prabhupāda: No, every life is pure. The body is pure and impure. So anyway, after destruction, the l
Read more…Satsvarūpa: If a large section of the people don't want spiritual life, that's their...
Prabhupāda: No, you cannot force. That is not possible, because he has got independence. You cannot force. You can simply give him knowledge. Therefore to distribu
Read more…Śyāmasundara: Kṛṣṇa is always playing the tune by which everyone is dancing?
Prabhupāda: No. You wanted to dance like this, He is giving facility. He is not in agreement with you.
(Room conversation-------Sydney).
Madhudviṣa: He wants to know... Kṛṣṇa
Read more…Guest (2): If man be part and parcel of God, how do you explain the evil deeds of man?
Prabhupāda: Because he likes to do that.
Guest (2): That means God also likes to do evil.
Prabhupāda: No. God gives simply facility. That's all.
Guest (1): Therefore h
Read more…Paramahaṁsa: Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop?
Prabhupāda: Hm? By association. If you mix with the drunkards, you'll learn how to drink. And if you mix with the devotees, similarly, you can become cleansed. By t
Read more…Prabhupāda: Yes. This is ultimate moral nature—take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and gradually all moral things will come. Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ (S.B.5:18:12). All good qualifications will come automatical
Read more…Prajāpati: Śrīla Prabhupāda, why has it taken so long for a pure devotee to come to the West? Has the West been so sinful that no pure devotee has come before Your Divine Grace?
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Don't be sorry. At that time you were so sinful that
Read more…Dr. Pore: One problem... You see, I keep wondering how you're so sure you know what good is, particularly when it comes to war. I would be a little more worried I think that...
Prabhupāda: What is that war?
Dr. Pore: Well, when you were telling that so
Read more…Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So for one who gives up sinful activities, does his sense of God consciousness become awakened?
Prabhupāda: Yes, there is chance. Sinful activities means covering intelligence. Just like animals. A tiger is always engaged in sinful activi
Read more…Prajāpati: But is it true, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?
Prabhupāda: The same way. Bodily suffering. Infection. The spiritual master accepts the all infection. So as the infect
Harikeśa: The dogs and monkeys, they feel grateful?
Prabhupāda: Yes, when they come to sense they feel grateful. As dogs they cannot. As dog or monkey they cannot enhance their sinful activities. It is stopped. And whatever they do, that is not taken
Read more…Śyāmasundara: But what if you avoid even choosing right or wrong, you simply drift without any decision of right or wrong?
Prabhupāda: No. That is irresponsibility.
(Philosophy discussion).
Jayatīrtha: What is the definition of a cheat?
Prabhupāda: Che
Read more…Guest (4): When one becomes sinless, would he then experience the indwelling of God?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, certainly. That is the platform of understanding God.
(Lecture-------Melbourne).
Prajāpati: When we tell them to stop their sinful activities, th
Read more…Richard Webster: Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?
Prabhupāda: You cannot eat anything, even grass, without the sanction of God, what to speak of fish and others. You cannot eat even a piece of grass. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ yat kiñca jagatyāṁ jagat, te
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