Book: Perfect Questions Perfect Answers

Book: Perfect Questions Perfect Answers

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

· A man is important when he is attractive. Unless you are powerful, how can you be all-attractive?

· Our formula of God is that He is the source of everything.

· Everyone is hankering after someone because he realizes some mellow (taste, pleasure) in it.

· What is your body? This external body – that is your energy. Do you know that? Your body is made out of your energy. For example, I am eating, so I am creating some energy and therefore my body is maintained. If your energy supply is not proper, then your body becomes weak and unhealthy. Your body is made out of your energy. Similarly, this gigantic cosmic body – the universe – is made of Krsna’s energy. How can you deny it? As your body is made out of your energy, similarly the universal body must be made by somebody’s energy. That is Krsna.

· Maya – another meaning is “illusion”. So foolish persons accept the energy as the energetic. That is Maya. Just like sunshine. Sunshine enters your room. Sunshine is the energy of the sun. But because the sunshine enters your room, you cannot say that the sun has entered. You cannot say that sunshine is not the sun. Without the sun, where is the sunshine? So you cannot say that sunshine is not the sun. But at the same time, it is not the sun. It is the sun and not the sun – both. That is our philosophy.

· Man is attached to woman, and woman is attached to man. Not only in human society – in animal society also. That attachment is the basic principle of material life.

· Sex life increases the bodily concept of life.

· ISKCON movement is especially meant to enable a human being to reach the real goal of life; to go back home, back to Godhead. That is the real goal of life. Same like the water that comes from the sea forms clouds, the clouds fall down as rain, and the actual goa is to flow down the river and again enter the sea.

· No! Some knowledge will not do. You must have perfect knowledge.

· You are covered by a dress, by a shirt. When this shirt is unusable, you change it. Similarly, this body is just like a shirt and coat. When it is no longer workable, we have to change it.

· God is there in everyone’s heart. God is also within every atom. So this is the first information. And then, by the yogic process, you have to realize it.

· There are three kinds of charities – good, passionate and ignorant. Goodness is giving charity where charity must be given. And if one gives charity for some return, that is passion. And if somebody gives in charity in an improper place and time, without respect and to an unworthy person, that is ignorance.

· Devotees are neither in goodness, passion nor ignorance. They are transcendental to all these qualities.

· First make your life perfect. Then try to teach others.

· If you always keep yourself spiritually engaged, your body will act spiritually, although it is material.

· People do not know how to become happy. They do not take the standard path to become happy. They manufacture their own way. That is the difficulty.

· Don’t manufacture your ways of pleasing god.

· Material life means – when you desire to gratify your senses that is material life. And when you desire to serve God that is spiritual life.

· Suppose you are trying to do something. Due to your inexperience if you sometimes fail, that is not a fault. You are trying. There is a verse in the Bhagavatam – that if a devotee is trying his best but due to his incapability he sometimes fails, Krsna excuses him.

· The whole human life is meant for purification. A human being is not meant to labor like an ass and enjoy like a dog. Purification means coming to a higher level of consciousness.

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Note – The above points are notes I have scrubbed down while reading the book “Perfect Questions Perfect Answers” written by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I am blogging this material only to encourage the readers who see my blog to read the book and is not meant for any commercial purpose. It is just sharing information about a good book.

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