Dr. Pore: Is it possible to find Kṛṣṇa in the Christian tradition or in Islam?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Oh yes. Why not? Christians are seeking after God. You are going to the church. "O God." You accept God has created everything. Here also He says, "Everyth
Read more…Prof. Gombrich: No, I haven't, I'm afraid. No. And do you think that the message of Kṛṣṇa consciousness or Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is very different from the message of realizing God which is promulgated in other religions, for instance the Śaiva religion or.
Read more…Student (9): There are different techniques for reaching Christ consciousness or God consciousness or self-realization. What test do you recommend for finding out which technique is the best?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That I have already explained. That techni
Read more…Martin: Can a true devotee come face-to-face with God through the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Christ?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Teachings of Christ, teaching of Buddha, they are meant for a particular type of men. Generally it is meant for everyone,
Read more…Your question, "How did Prakasananda Sarasvati see or think that Lord Caitanya was the Lord Narayana Himself when he only realized Brahman?"—by personal audience of Lord Caitanya they could realize Him as Narayana because they were sincere in searchi
Read more…Dr. John Mize: The relationship of mind to the soul, how the mind comes to know that it has or that there is a soul.
Prabhupāda: By taking lesson from professors who has mind clear. Why the students are coming to you? Because his mind is not clear. Yo
Read more…In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said, karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām: (Bs. 5.54) for devotees the results of past pious and impious activities are nullified by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The words ārabdhān eva mean "as if achieved by p
Read more…Guest (1): What about his soul? Did God welcome it to paradise or soul are always in the air and makes people think that he is a devil's man too?
Devotee: If a man does not understand God in this lifetime, is he still accepted by God? What he is heari
Read more…Some way or other, if someone establishes in his mind his continuous relationship with Kṛṣṇa, this relationship is called remembrance. About this remembrance there is a nice statement in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, where it is said, "Simply by remembering the
Read more…Guest (5): Swami, what is om?
Prabhupāda: Om is the concentrated name of God.
Guest (5): Can one say om instead of "Kṛṣṇa" and gain the same benefit?
Prabhupāda: Yes. But why instead of Kṛṣṇa? If one Kṛṣṇa is the same, why not Kṛṣṇa? Why stick to om? Om
Read more…Madhudviṣa: Prabhupāda, when we're out on saṅkīrtana, chanting, what would be the best way for us to engage the crowd to become participants in the chant with us? What would be the best of...
Prabhupāda: Best way you go on chanting. Your business is n
Read more…Those who do not accept the Personality of Godhead, they are called Māyāvādīs. Māyāvādī means they see everything māyā. Even Kṛṣṇa is māyā. That is called Māyāvādī.
(Lecture on Bhagavad-Gita----7:1-3).
Even the Māyāvādī impersonalists, who flatter the
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…Reporter (1): And what will it profit us if we get to know about Him?
Prabhupāda: The profit means you'll be saved from the material existence. Material existence means repetition of birth, death, old age, and disease.
(Interview--------London).
India
Read more…Guest: 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?
Prabhupāda: What is that question?
Satsvarūpa: What are the different levels that you go through
Read more…Female devotee (1): Should we try to go fast in order to get them done, in order to get the rounds done?
Prabhupāda: The first thing is that you should chant without any offense. You see? In the beginning there may be so many offenses, but the chantin
Read more…If one offers charity to a brāhmaṇa who is not a devotee, the Lord does not accept; but if something is offered to a devotee, the Lord accepts. In other words, whatever a person wishes to offer the Lord may be given to His devotees. Caitanya Mahāprab
Read more…Reporter (1): Is it possible to talk and also to chant the mantra at the same time?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That requires practice. That requires practice. Just like woman is cooking and (s)he is also talking. It does not mean the cooking is going bad. It is
Read more…Hṛdayānanda: If our chanting is a form of prayer?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Chanting is a spiritual method for cleansing our heart. Because all dirty things are there in the heart, if the heart becomes clean, then we can understand things as they are. The firs
Read more…Acyutānanda: Why at the time of death, the name of God does not come to (indistinct)?
Prabhupāda: Because you are not practiced. You practice to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, at the time of death it will come. Abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena cetasā nānya-gāminā (B.G.8:8). T
