Health Issues and Kundalini Yoga

Health issues and digestive problems

0:01Prabhupāda: ...some treatment he is undergoing?

0:06Gaurasundara: No, there is no treatment.

0:06Govinda dāsī: He says there is no treatment.

0:09Prabhupāda: So what he is eating?

0:12Govinda dāsī: He eats. Eats fruits, vegetables, capātīs, rice.

0:15Prabhupāda: Nicely?

0:17Govinda dāsī: Oh, yes. He eats very much, but he gets sick all the time.

0:21Prabhupāda: So what is the cause of sickness?

0:25Gaurasundara: Well, from the fasting too long it appears that his digestive system has stopped from lack of use, and now he just doesn't...

0:41Prabhupāda: No. Now after he is eating, he is evacuating?

0:43Gaurasundara: He has trouble, great trouble.

0:43Govinda dāsī: No. He has to drink prune juice. Every day we have to supply him juice.

0:50Prabhupāda: Hmm.

0:50Govinda dāsī: Or otherwise he can't eat. It won't... His digestive system won't work.

0:56Prabhupāda: Hmm. So he is not getting strength by eating?

1:02Gaurasundara: Well, somewhat.

Dietary advice for recovery

1:07Prabhupāda: He should not eat too much, but eat substantial. What is his age?

1:19Gaurasundara: I think twenty-one.

1:20Prabhupāda: Oh, he is young boy. So, easily digestible, nutritious. So dhal, he can take. Dhal?

1:38Gaurasundara: I think so.

1:39Prabhupāda: Dhal, capātīs, rice.

1:41Gaurasundara: He takes a lot of fruit and vegetables.

1:43Prabhupāda: That’s all?

1:44Govinda dāsī: Lots of papaya. It helps his digestion.

1:47Prabhupāda: Papaya?

1:48Govinda dāsī: Hm. He eats four or five papayas in a day.

Spiritual practice during illness

1:55Prabhupāda: He chants regularly? Chanting?

2:02Govinda dāsī: Chanting. Yes. He's not so much disturbed by it, because he's been sick a long time, so...

2:08Prabhupāda: Hmm.

Dangers of kundalini yoga

2:10Govinda dāsī: He said in raising the body heat with kuṇḍalinī yoga it burned the nervous system. I don't know anything about the...

2:26Prabhupāda: Kuṇḍalinī is bad to him?

2:26Govinda dāsī: Yes.

2:26Prabhupāda: What is this kuṇḍalinī? What is the benefit of kuṇḍalinī?

2:29Govinda dāsī: I don't know.

2:37Prabhupāda: We have never such attraction for kuṇḍalinī [indistinct].

Faith in the spiritual master

2:47We simply believe in the words of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, that’s all.

Realizing the personality of Krishna

3:12No kuṇḍalinī. I was attracted, “Oh, he is speaking nicely: ‘Kṛṣṇa can be seen.’ ” So I was attracted, like that: “Kṛṣṇa is not dead. He is living.” In the beginning [laughs] that enlightened me.

3:37From the very beginning of our life we are trained, “Kṛṣṇa is God. Kṛṣṇa is person.” Later on, in our school, college days, by bad association there was some impersonalist tendency.

3:55But when I heard from Guru Mahārāja that Kṛṣṇa is person, the Supreme, oh, I became so much [indistinct]. Yes. Then it was fixed up.

4:11I have written that “Impersonal calamities thou hast moved.” There was a current, when I was little, thinking that Lord is impersonal; that was not appealing. And when it was confirmed, I became very much glad.

Travel plans and deity construction

4:48Any other questions?

4:49Govinda dāsī: No. Gaurasundara is leaving today, I think. [to Gaurasundara: Are you leaving tomorrow?]

4:53Prabhupāda: He can leave tomorrow, together. You are leaving tomorrow?

4:57Govinda dāsī: Yes. I only paid twenty-five... [indistinct]

5:04Gaurasundara: On the deities, what should be the size?

5:07Prabhupāda: Hmm?

5:08Gaurasundara: The deities.

5:09Prabhupāda: Four feet is nice.

5:11Gaurasundara: That's five of them?

5:12Govinda dāsī: Yes.

5:12Gaurasundara: Five of them together, four feet?

5:15Govinda dāsī: That's very nice. No. Now They won't be as wide, They will be taller.

5:19Prabhupāda: You can see the picture. [pause] No. Then you can make short.

5:33Govinda dāsī: You see, I don't have to completely remake it. I have the mold already. I won't have to… Three figures I won't have to remake. Three figures are made. I just make one more. This figure.

5:49Prabhupāda: That's all right. You paint the picture; you do it. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

6:05Govinda dāsī: Kṛṣṇa will supply us a big enough temple.

Confidence in Krishna's provision

6:16[offers obeisances to Śrīla Prabhupāda]

6:16Prabhupāda: You can take this flower garland.

6:22Govinda dāsī: This big garland?

6:23Prabhupāda: Yes. Divide it into two. [break] [end]