Questions And Answers: Other philosophies / Christianity

In Caitanya-caritāmṛta there are many stories connected with Islam. Somewhere there is some information about Europe and Christianity of that time. What are your thoughts on this ?
Questioner: Viśvambhara Rāma dāsa
Date: 2022-08-04
Jayapatākā Swami: At that time Lord Caitanya interacted with different devotees.
Some were followers of Islam,
some were Buddhists,
I don’t know if He interacted with any Christians,
but we believe that there is only one God
and that He is worshiped in different cultures, with different names.
We are trying to get people all over the world to chant the name of God and this will satisfy the Lord
and this way the pandemic of COVID-19 could be reduced.
Of course, as devotees, we don’t ask Kṛṣṇa for anything material.
So, we state if it so pleases you,
but followers of Islam, Christianity they may pray for the disease to be transcended.
And we know that in the case of Dhruva Mahārāja, he wanted something material from Kṛṣṇa.
But in the end, he realized that Kṛṣṇa was much more dearer than other things he wanted.
So, somehow or other we want people to chant the holy names
and Śrīla Prabhupāda was saying that he transited Tehran in Iran.
So there he was talking to some Mullahs, Ayatollahs
and he realized that the phrase allah-ho
also meant O Absolute Truth.
So like that he told the people in Tehran that if they liked and preferred to chant the name of Allah, they could do that.
But somehow or other we should chant the name of God.
So this was his non-sectarian viewpoint.
Category: [Other philosophies / Islam], [Other philosophies / Christianity]
Will a sincere follower of the Bible be admitted into the Spiritual World? Also, is the Kingdom of God mentioned therein the same as Vaikuṇṭha?
Questioner: Akhila Bandhu Gopāla dāsa
Date: 2022-08-27
Jayapatākā Swami: So, there is only one God.
Different religions may think that they worship different Gods.
But from a Kṛṣṇa conscious point of view we understand that there is only one God.
The Mohammadans worship as Allah, and the Christians worship as God.
So, the real thing is whether you have developed love for the Supreme Person.
If you are just praying to the Supreme Lord, to give you bread, to give you good wife, good husband, something like that, then that means you are only attached to material things, not to Him.
We want that people should develop their love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
So, what Lord Jesus said was the Kingdom of God we say Vaikuṇṭha, it is the same thing.
The question is that to what extent they actually develop love of Godhead, then we have no objection.
Category: [Kṛṣṇa (Godhead) / Spiritual World / Dhāma], [Other philosophies / Christianity], [Sādhanā / Philosophical questions]
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