Questions and Answers on the Absolute Science

Here in Melbourne each time I give a lecture I am blessed with a mountain of questions regarding the absolute science of Krishna consciousness. Answering these questions is an exciting challenge as I try to answer them in such a way that the audience will be guided properly and also inspired to seriously take up the pathway of Krishna consciousness. Regarding questions and answers Srila Prabhupada explains as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.5:

"The whole world is full of questions and answers. The birds, beasts and men are all busy in the matter of perpetual questions and answers. In the morning the birds in the nest become busy with questions and answers, and in the evening also the same birds come back and again become busy with questions and answers. The human being, unless he is fast asleep at night, is busy with questions and answers. The businessmen in the market are busy with questions and answers, and so also the lawyers in the court and the students in the schools and colleges. The legislators in the parliament are also busy with questions and answers, and the politicians and the press representatives are all busy with questions and answers. Although they go on making such questions and answers for their whole lives, they are not at all satisfied. Satisfaction of the soul can only be obtained by questions and answers on the subject of Krishna.

"Krishna is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Krishna, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things -- but Krishna -- give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Krishna."

The more we engage in questions and answers about the science of Krishna consciousness the more we make advancement on the path of unlimited spiritual happiness.

Questions and Answers at Public Hall Program
Point Cook, Australia--21 June 2015

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Preaching to the Faithless?

Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The ninth offense against the chanting of the holy names is to instruct a faithless person about the glories of Krishna. So how to preach him on one to one basis? Even if we want to take him to the temple for Lord Krishna s darshan, and congregation chanting he may not come. So how to do that?

Your humble servant
Makarand.

Answer: Teach Them According to Their Level

If you were teaching math to a group of first graders, would teach them advanced calculus, or would you teach them one pus one equals two? This means that when you are teaching a newcomer about the science of Krishna consciousness, if he does not already have faith in the glories of Krishna or God, you need to gradually educate him instead of immediately jumping to the high level topic of the transcendental glories of Krishna. You should first convince him that he is not his body, and then later on teach him the glories of Krishna when he is able to understand and appreciate them.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari