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February 2023

• 745) Is investing in mutual funds violation of the regulatory principle against gambling?

December 2022

• 744) What are the consequences of not following Bhagavad-gita?

July 2022

• 743) Why don’t we make the Bhagavad-gita compulsory in schools in India?

June 2022

• 742) ​How could Yudhishthira stake his own wife in gambling?
• 741) When the Gita is spoken to one specific person, how can it be universal?
• 740) How is the Bhagavad gita applicable for students?
• 739) Why does God not answer our prayers? (PK answered 5)
• 738) How can we know that we are progressing spiritually?
• 737) ​What is the difference between Arjuna fighting under Krishna and jehadis fighting under Allah?
• 736) ​How can a student practice bhakti?

July 2021

• 735) Why does Krishna talk about controlling the senses to Arjuna when the purpose of the conversation seems to be to incite Arjuna to fight?
• 734) Is it scientific to believe in weird things such as ghosts, hallucinations and near-death experiences?
• 733) How is mantra meditation different from other forms of meditation?
• 732) When scriptures depict animals speaking human languages, how is that to be understood?
• 731) When we are in anxiety searching for a new job, how can we maintain our spiritual practices?
• 730) How to forgive ourselves if we have made a serious mistake?
• 729) How can we cultivate the mode of goodness when we are puppets of the modes?
• 728) Is it really possible to be happy while you yourself see so much suffering in yours like as well as everywhere around?
• 727) Wasn’t it immoral for Rama to exile Sita on just a rumour?
• 726) How can we deal with our past conditionings that come in the way of our bhakti – Hindi?

April 2021

• 725) What is the bhakti perspective on feminism – not the man-bashing extreme feminism, but the equal opportunity for women feminism?
• 724) Should one take saffron only when one is convinced that Krishna is God?
• 723) Were kshatriyas allowed to eat meat in Vedic culture?
• 722) Why does Ayurveda prescribe medicines with non-veg ingredients when meat is forbidden in Vedic culture?
• 721) Can food with onion and garlic be offered to Krishna during emergencies?
• 720) How should we respond when sacred characters from our tradition are criticized?
• 719) Isnt the Pandavas’ killing their own relatives over a property dispute immoral?
• 718) Are Radharani and Lakshmi devi the same person?
• 717) What is the reason for shaving the head at Tirupati?
• 716) Can one go back home back to godhead by practicing Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Judaism?
• 715) Can devotees kill snakes and scorpions?
• 714) How is the Western world having its necessities despite not performing any sacrifices?

February 2021

• 713) How can we understand that we are servants of Krishna – Hindi?
• 712) How can we grow spiritually when we have to serve demanding people – Hindi?
• 711) When we chant, why does our mind get distracted – Hindi?
• 710) Our mind is our enemy – how can we control it – Hindi?
• 709) What is Karma? Is kartavya and karma same? As a student what are my karma and kartavya? – Hindi
• 708) How can we avoid becoming disheartened on failing to give up bad habits – Hindi?
• 707) Can thinking positively create a brighter future?
• 706) If a butcher is following their employer, as a soldier might follow a king, why does the butcher get karma, but the soldier doesn’t?

November 2020

• 705) The Monk’s Podcast 43 with Braja Bihari Prabhu – How to disagree without being disagreeable
• 704) The Monk’s Podcast 55 with Garuda Prabhu – Does love exist in the material world?
• 703) The Monk’s Podcast 51 with Bhanu Maharaj – Why science and scripture see reality differently
• 702) The Monk’s Podcast 62 with Madhavananda Prabhu – Conspiracy theories
• 701) The Monk’s Podcast 65 with Govinda Prabhu – Centralization, Decentralization and Dharma
• 700) The Monk’s Podcast 68 with Radhika Raman Prabhu – Harmonizing faith and reason in bhakti
• 699) The Monk’s Podcast 56 with Bhakti Vasudeva Maharaj – Taking bhakti wisdom into the management world
• 698) The Monk’s Podcast 77 with Govinda Prabhu – Racism – what it is, what it isn’t and how to deal with it?
• 697) The Monk’s Podcast 78 with Krishna Kshetra Maharaj – Churning the Bhagavatam – Dashavatara 2 – Kurma
• 696) What to do when in a relationship that we can neither tolerate nor retaliate?
• 695) How can we distribute our time between hearing and chanting?
• 694) How can we increase our determination for waking up in the morning?
• 693) How does prayer affect karma?

October 2020

• 692) Despite your conservative training how did you become so accommodating?
• 691) Is karma real?
• 690) As soon as the corona pandemic started, the temples shut down and only hospitals offered relief. Isn’t it better that we fund medical research?
• 689) Is spirituality the only way to overcome bad habits?
• 688) Does science come from spirituality or is it made by man?

September 2020

• 687) Is there any scientific proof of the existence of higher and lower planetary systems?
• 686) How to understand the Bhagavatam’s cosmology?
• 685) Why is the Vedic Sanskrit and Puranic Sanskrit different?
• 684) Amidst conflicts, how can we put aside our ego and accept responsibility for the problem?
• 683) How can we serve cooperatively with devotees without aggravating mutual conflicts?
• 682) Did God help Gajendra only when he stopped helping himself?
• 681) If a child was abused and God didn’t answer their prayers for protection, how can we help them develop faith now?

July 2020

• 680) What is the relationship between Maya and the Three Modes of Nature?
• 679) How can we decide the upper limit of tolerance?
• 678) When natural calamities disrupt our lives beyond tolerance point, what can we do other than pray?
• 677) How do we reconcile Bhagavatam cosmology with scientific cosmology?
• 676) Krishna told Arjuna to kill but Narada told Mrigari to not kill?
• 675) Are the Mahabharata real or stories?

June 2020

• 674) When people today are so untrustworthy how can we develop relationships?
• 673) If work is worship is a butcher also worshiping by slaughtering animals?
• 672) If someone puts in the same efforts as me but gets better results, how to avoid envy?
• 671) To protect ourselves, we sometimes become insensitive to others – how to avoid?
• 670) How can we help a non-Krishna conscious person overcome depression?
• 669) What are the three modes of material nature?
• 668) ​How can we overcome envy?
• 667) When an eye for an eye will make everyone blind, why does the Gita teach that?
• 666) If bhakti is the conclusion of the Vedas, shouldn;t the Vedas be filled with bhakti?
• 665) When Dhruva Maharaj started with a selfish motive, how did he attain Vaikuntha, the abode of selflessness?
• 664) How do we give up bad habits?
• 663) Does becoming spiritual mean becoming unemotional – won’t that make our life flat?

April 2020

• 662) How can an organization balance between maintaining structure and providing independence to its members?
• 661) What is the difference between a jnani and jnani-yogi?
• 660) Even when we know that worldly pleasures are temporary, why do we still crave for it?
• 659) When we are far away from the standards needed to attain the spiritual world, what is our hope?
• 658) Isn’t the Gita’s comparing women with vaishyas and shudras derogatory?
• 657) Does practicing bhakti at only the cultural level deprive us of intellectual and spiritual growth?

March 2020

• 656) How can we know if we are sincere?
• 655) If our faith is attacked internally or externally, what should we do?
• 654) How can we balance body, mind and consciousness?
• 653) How are karma and jnana the cause of material desires?
• 652) Can buddhi-yoga refer to all three yogas – karma, jnana and bhakti?

February 2020

• 651) ​How can we overcome envy?
• 650) If an equal devotee becomes more advanced, how can we avoid envy?
• 649) How can knowing Krishna as the proprietor, enjoyer and benefactor bring us peace?
• 648) When jnana and karma are different philosophies, how can they both give the same result, as the Gita’s sixth chapter states?
• 647) How can an introvert practice bhakti when it is so social and public?
• 646) Are jnana and karma complementary instead of hierarchical?

January 2020

• 645) What does simply living really mean?

December 2019

• 644) What is the difference between destiny and free will?
• 643) How can we overcome the faultfinding tendency?
• 642) What is the Vedic perspective on euthanasia?

November 2019

• 641) How does God helps those who help themselves apply to Rama in Ramayana?
• 640) Why can some people readily accept Krishna’s supremacy and some can’t?
• 639) How can we deal with life’s dualities?
• 638) How can we deal with angry people?
• 637) How can we become determined like Hanuman?
• 636) Isn’t it useless to share spirituality with people who have no spiritual interest?

October 2019

• 635) How do we distinguish between material anxiety and spiritual anxiety?

April 2019

• 634) Gita 01.01 The Gita’s first word dharma conveys its essential, universal theme

July 2018

• 633) Why was Ekalavya treated so unfairly?
• 632) Why does Shiva Puarana say that Shiva is the source of Brahma and Vishnu?
• 631) How can bhakti wisdom help us to become more forgiving?
• 630) Why is Islam the most violent religion?

June 2018

• 629) How can those in passion come to goodness to understand their nature?
• 628) How do the soul, mind, intelligence and false ego interact with each other?
• 627) How does bhakti wisdom help us to become more tolerant?

May 2018

• 626) See pain as a protector and a pointer
• 625) If God is the cause of everything, how do we have free will?
• 624) Will God be understood by science in future?
• 623) How does bhakti correlate with raising our energy to higher chakras?
• 622) Is spirituality meant to eliminate worry and depression?

March 2018

• 621) If a desire is irresistible, what to do?
• 620) Should we have expectations while practicing bhakti?
• 619) Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 2 – Earning trust through emotional intelligence
• 618) Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 1 – When we hide ourselves from the Lord, he hides himself from us
• 617) In Kali-yuga, thoughts don’t incur reactions – what does that mean practically?
• 616) How can we help materially entrapped people to become spiritual?
• 615) Ajamila knew scripture – yet he fell down. Why?
• 614) How can we balance between bhakti and studies?
• 613) Are our mistakes Krishna’s mercy?
• 612) If our spouse is sentimentally following a different spiritual path, how should we deal with it?
• 611) How do we understand scriptural stories in which mountains are conscious?

September 2017

• 610) Six loving exchanges – Opening the heart and reciprocating with the opened heart
• 609) We are defined by the questions we ask – in life, in science and in spirituality
• 608) Bring out your best 1 – Self-help
• 607) Can we logically prove God’s existence – Backward and forward reasoning
• 606) From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 7 – Love in separation is the culmination of love

August 2017

• 605) From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies
• 604) From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness
• 603) Understanding consciousness and its four levels – Jagruti, Svapna, Sushupti and Turya
• 602) From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika
• 601) Reincarnation and the Search for Meaning – Evidence, Explanation & Evolution
• 600) Discover the Baahubali within you
• 599) Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti, philosophical bhakti, spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti
• 598) Appreciating Balarama’s two blessings – Bala and Rama
• 597) Krishna is the trans-personal shelter of all the things that shelter us

July 2017

• 596) Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions
• 595) Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Accept yourself to relate better with others
• 594) Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior
• 593) Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – To improve relationships, decrease expectation and increase contribution

June 2017

• 592) Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – The more despiritualized we are, the more desensitized we become
• 591) How to cultivate positive thinking in bhakti
• 590) Does chanting automatically make us kinder or do we have to strive to become kinder?

May 2017

• 589) From Grudging to Gratitude 4 – Forgiving internally and externally by focusing on Krishna
• 588) From Grudging to Gratitude 3 – Learn to re-interpret reality devotionally
• 587) From Grudging to Gratitude 2 – See beyond the immediate cause of suffering
• 586) From Grudging to Gratitude 1 – Grudging is like driving with brakes pressed
• 585) From will and power to willpower
• 584) Gita Essence 3 – The transformational power of love – World-knowledge as the vehicle for love
• 583) Gita Essence 2 – The transformational power of love – God-knowledge as the fuel for love
• 582) Is there a scientific explanation of the benefits of eating prasad?
• 581) Gita Essence 1- The transformational power of love – Self-knowledge as the basis of love

April 2017

• 580) Overcoming resentment amidst difficult situations
• 579) Understanding how dharma culminates in prema
• 578) Spirituality changes how we perceive, process and pursue
• 577) 5 reflections for reconciling science and scripture

March 2017

• 576) What your phone can teach you about your mind 4 – Let bhakti change your memory
• 575) What your phone can teach you about your mind 3 – Check your energy drainers
• 574) What your phone can teach you about your mind 2 – Hardware improvement doesn’t solve software problems
• 573) What your phone can teach you about your mind 1 – Deal with your default settings maturely
• 572) When our thoughts start becoming negative, how can we flip them to positive?
• 571) How can we insulate ourselves from negative people?
• 570) When we are troubled by controversies in Krishna’s movement, should we try to tackle them or just focus on our service?
• 569) How can we assess our service when we are not pure-hearted?
• 568) How can we avoid over-controlling the things that are in our control?
• 567) In the practical-philosophical categorization, where does the emotional fit in?
• 566) When we face problems, we need practical solutions, not philosophical solutions – how can scripture help?
• 565) What is the best way to monitor our mental habits?
• 564) If someone rationalizes their wrongdoing by saying that Krishna loves us unconditionally, how do we respond?
• 563) Doesn’t Krishna feel bad when we do something wrong – doesn’t that make him unwilling to shelter us?
• 562) Is a woman’s unchaste dressing responsible for a man’s misbehaviour?
• 561) When we take or get blessings from someone, what actually happens?
• 560) Isn’t ISKCON sectarian that it stops devotees from hearing from other Vaishnava groups?

February 2017

• 559) How can we spiritualize our material attachments?
• 558) If we are working wholeheartedly in our material life, but can’t work similarly in our spiritual life, what can we do – Hindi?
• 557) Why do leaders of religious organisations sometimes form sects and fight with each other – Hindi?
• 556) If people treat us based on their past negative impressions about us even after we have improved, what can we do – Hindi?
• 555) If we don’t see others’ faults, how can we guide them to improve – Hindi?
• 554) Can someone say that my nature is to talk insensitively – Hindi?
• 553) How can we intelligently neglect some people’s criticism of us?
• 552) When we can’t overcome our bad habits, what to do – Hindi?
• 551) Why did Krishna allow the desecration of Deities by foreign invaders in medieval times?

January 2017

• 550) When the mind is like software, then how can pills for treating the hardware – the brain – cure mental problems?
• 549) I was initiated earlier by a priest – how do I see it when seeking initation from a Vaishnava guru?
• 548) As sadhus, should we focus on internal change through sadhana or social change through activism?
• 547) When a close relative troubles us, do we need to tolerate infinitely?

December 2016

• 546) When God knows everything, why doesn’t he stop bad things from happening?
• 545) Why did Rama worship Shiva?
• 544) When we have to choose between two good options, how do we choose?
• 543) When we face real problems, can we spiritually raise ourselves above those problems?
• 542) How can we make our presentation more crisp and condensed?
• 541) ​How can we avoid fear after taking big decisions thoughtfully?
• 540) ​How can I control anger when I am continuously provoked?
• 539) ​How can we develop taste for chanting?
• 538) ​When our material obligations make us too busy to practice sadhana strictly, what can we do?
• 537) Should we preach when we are not feeling devotionally?
• 536) How can we cope with enduring sadness?
• 535) Why does corruption exist in religious organisations – can it be minimized?
• 534) Are the sense and mind different – which of them drives us?

November 2016

• 533) What cricket can teach us about life 3
• 532) What cricket can teach us about life 2
• 531) ​When chanting doesn’t feel blissful, how can we make it always blissful?
• 530) ​What kind of mental pitch is favourable for bhakti?
• 529) ​What cricket can teach us about life 1
• 528) Bhikshu Gita 6 – See the mind’s aversion to concentration as a trick of illusion (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.47)
• 527) Bhikshu Gita 5 – Happiness comes by raising the standard of longing (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.46)
• 526) Bhikshu Gita 4 – The mind distracts us from bhakti in the name of bhakti (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.45)
• 525) Bhikshu Gita 3 – The mind makes the unreal seem real and the real seem unreal (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.44)
• 524) Bhikshu Gita 2 – The mind makes it difficult for people to change – be understanding (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.43)
• 523) Bhikshu Gita 1 – Minimize misery by identifying the misery caused by the mind (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.42)
• 522) ​How can we guide our children in their teenage years?
• 521) ​How is Hinduism different from other religions?

October 2016

• 520) How can we improve our focus?
• 519) When management affects our sadhana adversely, what can we do?
• 518) Why do children of devotees sometimes not become devotees?
• 517) ​If I can invest one hour daily for bhakti, which bhakti practices should I do?
• 516) How do we balance between respecting followers of all religions and acknowledging the violence that some of them do?
• 515) ​How can we share bhakti with atheists who are nature-conscious and are relatively in the mode of goodness?
• 514) ​How to respond to people who say their religion is the only way?

September 2016

• 513) Shikshashtakam 12 Text 8 Radharani manifests the highest summit of love
• 512) Shikshashtakam 11 Text 7 Treasure devotional memories to propel your devotion
• 511) Shikshashtakam 10 Text 6 Curb sentimentality but cherish sentiments
• 510) Shikshashtakam 9 Text 5 The subtle interplay of endeavor and grace in bhakti
• 509) Shikshashtakam 8 Text 4 Let your bhakti be Krishna-centered, not renunciation-centered
• 508) Shikshashtakam 7 Text 3 Tolerance means to call off our war with reality
• 507) Shikshashtakam 6 Text 3 Humility means to not let our ego interfere with our purpose
• 506) ​Shikshashtakam 5 Text 2 The mysterious non-difference of Krishna and his holy name
• 505) ​Shikshashtakam 4 Text 1 From the partial nectar to the complete nectar
• 504) ​Shikshashtakam 3 Text 1 The flower metaphor for the blossoming of consciousness
• 503) Shikshashtakam 2 Text 1 The mind as a window, a TV screen and a mirror
• 502) Shikshashtakam 1 Overview and flow of the ashtakam

April 2016

• 501) Do women have the same rights as men in ISKCON?

March 2016

• 500) Can Krishna’s exalted pastimes be understood without philosophically understanding his greatness?
• 499) Gaura Purnima lecture – Lord Chaitanya manifested the three internal reasons for his descent in his Ratha-yatra lila

October 2015

• 498) Appreciate the depth and length of our existence to appreciate Krishna’s love
• 497) The Quest for Happiness – Collecting the material or recollecting the spiritual?
• 496) Overcome discouragement through spiritual wisdom
• 495) Practicing bhakti amidst todays fast-paced life
• 494) Manage the mind through introspection and meditation

September 2015

• 493) How spirituality increases our social contributions
• 492) Parenting Principles from Bhagavad-gita
• 491) MIND acronym 3 – The mind neglects opportunity and denies reality
• 490) Appreciating scripture’s perennial relevance
• 489) MIND acronym 2 – Mind imagines pleasure
• 488) What does the Gita say about attachment, detachment and rupture in relationships?
• 487) MIND acronym 1 – Magnifies the problem

August 2015

• 486) Temptations may come, we don’t have to welcome
• 485) Should the Bhagavad-gita be made India’s national book?

June 2015

• 484) Personal Management Mantra – Productivity in Activity through Spirituality
• 483) Counter anxiety by spirituality
• 482) Despite having so many time-saving devices, why do we not have time?

May 2015

• 481) How can we make the effect of hearing last for long?
• 480) When chanting is so simple why do we feel so lazy – how can we chant constantly?

April 2015

• 479) How can karma such as fighting in army be spiritualized?
• 478) How is Krishna attained by doing duty – doesn’t one need to rise to love for him?
• 477) Why do Hindus worship ghastly gods with skulls?
• 476) Is Jesus the only way to God and Hinduism the lie of the Devil?
• 475) If Lakshmi is the Goddess of wealth, why are Hindus so poor?
• 474) Is God too big to be contained in a picture?
• 473) Does the system of karma and rebirth imply that there is no forgiveness?
• 472) Was Drona a pure devotee? Was he a spiritual teacher?
• 471) How can we ensure that our words of correction act as scalpels, not axes?
• 470) Why are there so many commentaries on the Gita?
• 469) How does marriage change sex from wrong to right?
• 468) How can we overcome our ego?
• 467) What does it mean to not take credit for the things we do?
• 466) Are the Vedas actually ambiguous or just nonspecific about ultimate purpose?
• 465) Rasa analysis of Krishna’s teasing of Rukmini
• 464) What exactly is humility – how do we develop it in bhakti?

March 2015

• 463) How can I protect my bhakti from bad association in college?
• 462) Was sati suicide or murder?
• 461) Why do serious devotees sometimes die prematurely?
• 460) Is time travel into the past possible?
• 459) What does om mean?
• 458) What causes inferiority complex?
• 457) Will banning beef lead to economic problems?

February 2015

• 456) Doesn’t population growth disprove reincarnation?
• 455) How do we understand contradictions in scriptures?
• 454) Did the Pancha Tattva Deities shed tears of ecstasy due to the ecstatic kirtan mela?
• 453) Why does God let some people be atheists?
• 452) Does the Gita offer spiritual solution to spiritual problem or to material problem?

January 2015

• 451) If smriti is compiled by sages, how can we know that it is free from the four defects?
• 450) When Ajamila chanted with the wrong conception, why did Vishnutas come?
• 449) Are Gita and Bhagavatam meant for less intelligent people because they are parts of smriti?
• 448) Why is the same story told differently in different scriptures?
• 447) Does fear take people towards God or away from him?
• 446) How can we best help a relative who is near death?
• 445) Should conversions be banned in India?
• 444) What is the difference between faith and blind faith? (PK answered 27)
• 443) Are different religions like different companies with their gods as their product? (PK answered 26)
• 442) Are the gods of different religions different? (PK answered 25)
• 441) How can God who is unlimited appear as a limited stone image? (PK answered 24)
• 440) Does a stone smeared with turmeric become God? (PK answered 23)

December 2014

• 439) What is artistic license and how can it be used in devotional dramas?

November 2014

• 438) Where does people’s evil tendency come from?
• 437) Could God have prevented the Holocaust?
• 436) Who is responsible for the Holocaust – Hitler or the Jews’ karma?
• 435) Why does God not protect his devotees today like he protected Prahlad?
• 434) When we don’t know what past-life karma caused our present suffering how do we learn?

October 2014

• 433) What is the philosophy behind the worship of a pure devotee’s Deity?

September 2014

• 432) Can God create a stone that he can’t lift?
• 431) As yogis become bhaktas at their topmost stage does that mean we should practice yoga before bhakti?
• 430) How can we stay open to new ideas without weakening our convictions?
• 429) How can we keep our mind steady amidst outer agitation and inner temptation?
• 428) How can the spiritual soul taste or enjoy a material sweet?
• 427) How should we respond to classes that seem confusing and contradictory to the standard philosophical understanding
• 426) What is the difference between object and concept – and how does it apply to our philosophy?
• 425) What is the difference between phenomenal and numinous in Gita 7.2
• 424) Does ISKCON consider the English of the 1920s to be sacred?
• 423) Why are ISKCON temples so commercialised?
• 422) How should we counter when a respected ex-SC judge says that scripture contains poetic exaggerations?
• 421) How can I surrender to Krishna?
• 420) What is the actual difference between mind and intelligence?
• 419) Are those who abuse their intelligence jnanis and those who use it to serve Krishna jnana-yogis?
• 418) What does being free from all dualities mean wrt devotional service?
• 417) When Krishna says that the knowledge in disciplic succession was lost, weren’t the four sampradayas available at that time?
• 416) What is the difference between nitya and shashvata in Gita 2.20?
• 415) When the guru is mostly inaccessible to disciples, isn’t initiation just a rubber-stamp?
• 414) Is it selfish to want taste in chanting?
• 413) If Arjuna was superior to Karna, why does Bhagavatam say he was a small fish in an ocean of giant fishes?
• 412) Why does Krishna refer to someone else as the object of surrender in the Gita 18.62?
• 411) Dharma is that which is coming from God – do the Abrahamic religions also come from Krishna

August 2014

• 410) In monozygotic twins where do the differences come from?
• 409) Is the universal form in the Gita’s ninth chapter a conceptualization and the eleventh chapter, a revelation?
• 408) What does the Gita’s inverted tree metaphor signify?
• 407) How is the world a lila of the Pursha avatara? Is it a virtual reality manufactured by him with chosable scripts for us?
• 406) When everything is in Prabhupada’s books, what is the need to read other books either by ISKCON devotees or previous acharyas?
• 405) Does Prabhupada’s instruction ‘do as I have done’ mean there’s no need to innovate in preaching”
• 404) How do we decide which of our emotions are material and which are spiritual?
• 403) Is a devotee’s grihastha-ashrama a failure if the children don’t become devotees?
• 402) Is the prayer to get a good spouse a material prayer?
• 401) To realize everything is illusion amidst adversities, is yoga and pranayama the way or is bhakti-yoga sufficient?
• 400) As developing internal conviction takes time, isn’t it better to be stimulated in our devotion by external inspiration?
• 399) When the number of breaths of a soul in a body are fixed, how can a purpose-driven attitude increase longevity?
• 398) Why does Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati criticize organized churches when ISKCON is also an organised church?
• 397) Is the holy name transcendental or immanent?
• 396) How is the holy name different from ordinary sound
• 395) Has the Lord come under Maya in Kali-yuga that he is not able to protect Deities
• 394) When we are attracted to material things through our senses, whereas Krishna is spiritual, how can Krishna be considered all-attractive?
• 393) Why does the Gita use a setting of war to convey its transcendental message when such a setting can be abused to provoke communal violence?
• 392) What is the Vedic perspective on passive euthanasia?
• 391) Why do we say that lust needs to be curbed when it can be channelized towards Krishna as Narottama Das Thakura says?
• 390) Why does Krishna emphasise consciousness at death which is much more uncontrollable than consciousness while living?
• 389) When Krishna had said he wouldn’t lift weapons in the Kurukshetra war, why does he say in Gita 11.33 that the Kauravas are already killed by him?
• 388) Does taking anti-depressant drugs as medicine violate the no intoxication principle?
• 387) When opulences are disqualifications for devotion, why does ISKCON preach to the opulent?
• 386) If consciousness of the couple at conception determines the nature of the child, will a child born through rape be evil?
• 385) Does Krishna control us through remembrance and forgetfulness just as computer controls through zeroes and ones?
• 384) Why do we need to justify the Pandavas’ actions? Isn’t “Krishna told them to do it” enough reason?
• 383) Why do we need to be in the mode of goodness to practice bhakti?
• 382) In shabda pramana we receive knowledge from our senses (ears), so how is it superior to pratyaksha pramana?
• 381) How have so many languages come up worldwide when developing a computer language requires so much effort?
• 380) How does Ishopanishad mantra 17 refute impersonalism?
• 379) Do we need to introspect whether we are progressing in our spiritual life?
• 378) Does one have to give up one’s material life on becoming an ISKCON member, even if one doesn’t become a brahmachari?
• 377) Is ISKCON an organization for rich people?
• 376) Bhagavatam first canto study 3 – 1.1.3 – Relish the rasa in association

July 2014

• 375) If the suffering of great devotees is for their glorification why does Bhishma say Pandavas’ suffering is due to time?
• 374) When the Pandavas were so virtuous why did Krisha let them suffer so much?
• 373) Why was Kunti’s unknowing statement ‘share whatever you have brought’ considered absolute and Draupadai married to all the Pandavas?
• 372) Draupadi forgave Ashwatthama but not the Kauravas. Why?
• 371) Why did Krishna and Arjuna meet each other first time so late in their lives?
• 370) Why did Balaramji favor Duryodhana?
• 369) When different religious groups have their own scriptures how is the authority of Vaishnava scriptures to be established?
• 368) Is the expansion of the Mahabharata from its short Jaya version a contamination?
• 367) What guided humanity before scripture was written?
• 366) Is the Mahabharata contaminated due to interpolation?
• 365) Why did Yaksha ask so many questions to the Pandavas?
• 364) How do we decide when to forgive and when to fight back?
• 363) Why did Krishna not protect Yudhisthira from errors of judgment?
• 362) Did Vikarna get any good result for trying to defend Draupadi’s honor?
• 361) Who was Yuyutsu? How did he come from the Kaurava side to the Pandava side?
• 360) Why did Yudhisthira agree for a second gambling match after the disastrous first gambling match?
• 359) Why did the virtuous Bhishma fight on the side of the vicious Kauravas?
• 358) Did Karna have to choose the side of evil due to his past karma?
• 357) How to choose between doing our worldly repsonsibilities devotionally and doing directly devotional activities?
• 356) Did Duryodhana have any good qualities?
• 355) What are the authentic sources for learning the Mahabharata?
• 354) How did a ciranjeevi Ashwatthama fight against the virtuous Pandavas?
• 353) Why did Krishna and others not try to reform Duryodhana as reformation is the ultimate goal?
• 352) Why do the Bhagavatam and the Mahabharata describe the same stories differently?
• 351) Where does Vishishtadvaita fall in the six systems of philosophy?
• 350) If we have canine teeth for eating meat, then doesn’t it go against the regulative principle of no meat-eating?
• 349) When can a devotee seek honor instead of being humble?
• 348) What does vikalpa mean in the mind’s sanklpa-vikalpa?
• 347) Is the Gita’s teaching that women are sinful resposible for female infanticide?
• 346) Should the gold in temples be used for social development?
• 345) Is scriptural knowledge needed only when devotion is dilute and not when devotion is pure?
• 344) Is experience a pramana if one’s experience contradicts scripture?
• 343) Is God hard of hearing that his devotees need to chant his names loudly?
• 342) If Krishna’s ultimate instruction is to give up all duties for surrendering to him why shouldn’t everyone join the temple?
• 341) Is Krishna omninpresent as his energy or personally as the Supersoul?
• 340) If the Supersoul is present in all atoms and the space between them, what is special about the Superoul in our heart?
• 339) What happens to the Supersoul after death and after liberation?
• 338) Is the Supersoul actually expanded in every heart or is it an appearance of expansion?
• 337) What is wrong with worship of devatas if one understands them to be devotees of Krishna?
• 336) How do we reconcile different Puranic versions of the origin of Lord Shiva?
• 335) How do we know whether we desire to preach for fame or for pleasing Krishna?
• 334) Can grihasthas who want to preach make preaching as their source of livelihood?
• 333) The religious rural culture of India is being replaced by materialisitc culture. What can we do to counter this?
• 332) Should we preach to make people ISKCON devotees or to make them better human beings?
• 331) How can we understand which mode we are in?
• 330) How can we stay in the mode of goodness?
• 329) If one doesnt practice raganuga bhakti then how will one get the realizations needed to return to our svarupa?
• 328) Does one have to practice raganuga bhakti to go BTG or is just departing in devotional circumstances enough
• 327) Why does the mind develop bad habits more easily than good habits?

June 2014

• 326) How can we overcome the tendency to take the association of devotees for granted?
• 325) Why are Einstein’s and Prabhupada’s metaphors about blind man-lame man contradictory?
• 324) Is science based on rational faith and religion on irrational faith?
• 323) Does religion require faith from start to end whereas science requires faith only occasionally?
• 322) If we shouldn’t be disturbed by the mind’s impurities, then how can we beat the mind?
• 321) Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?
• 320) Did past people believe in miracles like Govardhana lila because they were unscientific and gullible?
• 319) If Krishna is the cause of all causes, is he the cause of everything that we and others do?
• 318) If we concede that scripture doesn’t contain literal report of conversations then where will the erosion of scriptural authority end?
• 317) Are chanting praying and meditation the same?
• 316) Why do some scriptures declare other gods to be Supreme?
• 315) Are the Puranas unreliable because they have so many different versions?
• 314) Prabhupada quotes largely from the Puranas so how can we show that our sampradaya is based on shruti?
• 313) I was born in another sampradaya, but became introduced to seriously bhakti through ISKCON. Which sampradaya should I follow?
• 312) Why do insubstantial religious groups spread extensively and pure saints remain unknown?
• 311) What is the destination of patriotic atheists like Bhagat Singh?
• 310) When Krishna always uses his free will properly, why don’t we too when we are his parts?
• 309) If we cant fast nirjala on Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi what benefit do we get?
• 308) Is belief in God like belief in a cosmic teapot – undisprovable yet unreasonable?
• 307) How can India’s wisdom-literature be introduced in the education without the saffronization of the syllabus?
• 306) Where do religious social workers like Mother Terersa fall in the Gita’s yoga ladder?
• 305) How does karma yoga mature into ashtanga yoga?
• 304) How does the nishkama karma yogi attain knowledge and liberation? Through the same path or by adopting another yoga?
• 303) Does ashtanga yoga always start from jnana yoga?
• 302) If Durga is the superintendent of material nature how can Krishna alone grant liberation?
• 301) Is Durga devi a demigodess in the category of jiva tattva?
• 300) Are the jnanis mentioned in Gita 7.16-18 impersonalists as the example of Kumaras suggests or devotees as Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakura’s commentary states?
• 299) For a devotee-sadhaka Is the desire to go BTG desirable or should one just desire service?
• 298) What does the identification of Krishna with time mean practically?
• 297) When there are so many cases of past life memories, why don’t we find some people remembering their experience in heaven, hell or as animals?
• 296) Isn’t it distasteful for brahmacharis to be watching and quoting movies when people come to them to hear about Krishna
• 295) What is the difference between the Gita 9.34 and 18.65?
• 294) Is instantaneous forgiveness the characteristic of pure devotion and seeking retribution that of neophyte devotion
• 293) If Draupadi was dishonored due to her past karma, why did the Pandavas have to take revenge?
• 292) How can we strengthen our resolve to correct our wrongs?
• 291) How can we forgive not just with lips but with the heart?
• 290) When we don’t feel like asking for forgiveness what should we do?
• 289) What is the use of writing insubstantial articles in newspapers that don’t even mention the name of Krishna once?
• 288) Why are all forms of science not equally authoritative – why is evoluion less reliable than gravity when its all science?
• 287) Can devotees watch TV serials about Krishna’s pastimes?

May 2014

• 286) Do we need to posit the existence of eternal souls to make the design argument robust?
• 285) Do the Anthropic Principle and the multiverse theory make the design argument redundant?
• 284) How do we respond when prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking write books propounding atheism?
• 283) Why do dharma-shastras say that aggressors should be forgiven?
• 282) Do the dharma-shastras say aggressors shouldn’t be killed and artha-shastras that they should be killed?
• 281) What are dharma-shastra and artha-shastra? How are they different?
• 280) Is belief in God a virus of the mind, as atheists claim?
• 279) Do cultural practices change as per age as does the yuga-dharma?
• 278) When the design argument is so logical, why don’t most people and most scientists accept God’s existence?
• 277) Is God improbable because he has to be more complex than his creation and complex things have very low probability of emerging?
• 276) When Ramanuja has refuted the design argument, why does Prabhupada use it so extensively?
• 275) Why has Ramanuja refuted the design argument in his Vedanta Sutra commentary?
• 274) How can we make our work into worship when it is not according to our nature and is not connected with Krishna?
• 273) Can devotional, non-devotional and anti-devotional cultures be connected with goodness passion and ignorance?
• 272) Won’t the progress of science make the God-of-the-gaps redundant?
• 271) Does bringing God into science stop progress as does attributing plague to evil spirits?
• 270) Do devotees have to oppose science to be faithful to Prabhupada?
• 269) Isn’t it better to be satisfied with the beauty of the garden without imagining a fairy at its bottom?
• 268) Does Krishna compassionately pull impersonalists from Brahman to Bhagavan?
• 267) Does our seeking end after we find God as the Bible indicates or continue forever as Gaudiya Vaishnavism indicate?
• 266) Why do we do pradakshina?
• 265) Are Manava seva and Madhava seva like two largely overlapping circles?
• 264) Why does Prabhupada translate bhakti in Bhaktirasamritasindhu as ‘devotion’ instead of ‘devotional service’?
• 263) Why does the Bhagavatam, a Vaishnava book, state that Kashi is the greatest of all holy places?
• 262) When Dhruva Maharaj was going BTG and had got a spiritual body, how could he remember a material relationship such as that with his mother?
• 261) Can we preach without using technology as such use can distract one from Krishna?
• 260) During preaching, how important is it to provide relevant material information in addition to the paramapara’s message?
• 259) If the son practices bhakti, then will his non-devotee parents’ get a good next-life destination due to their son’s bhakti?
• 258) How does attachment to result make us the cause of action, as the Gita 2.47 purport states?
• 257) How to see spiritual organizations that are largely Vaishnava except for considering their founder as an incarantion?
• 256) If someone is following an Abrahamic religion, should we encourage them to follow that religion or to take up Krishna consciousness?
• 255) If Prahlada learnt bhakti by hearing from Narada in his mother’s womb, why did Narada say to the devatas before this that the child in the womb is a great devotee?
• 254) Did Hiranyakashipu not know that Vishnu lived in the Kshira-sagara? Why did he ask Prahlad where Vishnu was and whether he was in the pillar?
• 253) Narasimhadeva told Prahlad that 21 generations of his family had been delivered, then how did Bali become such a demon that Vamanadeva himself had to come to deliver him?
• 252) We hear so much in various classes, but apply very little from it. How can we change this?
• 251) We often feel like doing different things in bhakti at different times – how can we steadily maintain interest in one thing?
• 250) When scriptures usually refer to Vishnu, do they refer to Maha-vishnu, Garbhodakshayi Vishnu or Kshirodakshayi Vishnu?
• 249) What is the relationship between Sadashiva, the Shiva born from Brahma and the eleven Rudras?
• 248) What is the difference between brahma of Mayavadis and shunya of voidists?
• 247) What is the difference between hatha-yoga, dhyana yoga and ashtanga yoga?
• 246) If our svarupa happens to be in dasya, how will be satisfied in that svarupa now that we know madhurya is highest?
• 245) While using a talent such as music for Krishna how can we transfer our attachment from that talent to Krishna?
• 244) How can we avoid frustration at our inability to follow the standards of devotional service?
• 243) How is Draupadi’s polygamy be justified especially when the Pandavas have to sometimes see her as a wife and at other times as sister-in-law?
• 242) Is conscience always the voice of the Supersoul? Does everyone’s conscience tell them that meat-eating is wrong?
• 241) Is terminal restlessness caused by fear of Yamadutas?
• 240) If one has not had the habit of reading books but likes to hear, how can one develop that habit in bhakti?
• 239) Wouldn’t ISKCON be more united if it had Prabhupada as the only diksha-guru?
• 238) When a disciple whose guru falls doesn’t have to be re-initiated because of being connected with Prabhupada why can’t the same happen without initation in the first place?
• 237) When ISKCON’s diksha-guru is not absolute but is subordinate to GBC due to Prabhupada’s will, doesn’t that make Prabhupada ISKCON’s diksha-guru?
• 236) Should Indian devotees preach to Indians and Western devotees preach to Westerners so as to have culturally sensitive presentations of Krishna-bhakti?
• 235) How much should we seach on the internet for good Krishna conscious content?
• 234) How much should devotee-writers learn English grammar and style to write effectively for Krishna?
• 233) How are the feelings of victory and adventure Krishna’s opulences, especially when people get those feelings in illicit activities such as gambling?
• 232) Value Education and Spirituality 4 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 2 – Karma shows the sense in life’s seeming senselessness
• 231) Value Education and Spirituality 3 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 1 – The end is not the end
• 230) Did the Pandavas actually complete the full year of ajnata vasa or were they detected before time?
• 229) When Ashwatthama’s Brahmastra is charging towards Arjuna how does he get time to do achmana and offer prayers to Krishna before countering it?
• 228) Why did Drona despite being a brahmana desire revenge against Drupada?
• 227) Why did Drona despite being virtuous come up with the unfair scheme to kill Abhimanyu?
• 226) Why doesn’t ISKCON practice what it preaches? First new devotees are told to be detached from their parents and then senior brahmacharis spend months caring for their dying parents
• 225) Can you explain the difference in the defects of being illusioned and committing mistakes as illustrated through the evolution theory?

April 2014

• 224) How can we know if someone is correcting out of ego or out of concern?
• 223) By asking devotees to vote, why are you dragging Prabhupada’s pure legacy into dirty politics?
• 222) ISKCON’s contributions to India 6 – Appreciation of India’s spiritual culture among Indian youth
• 221) ISKCON’s contributions to India 5 – Infrastructure provision for spiritual practice in modern times
• 220) ISKCON’s contributions to India 4 – Development
• 219) ISKCON’s contributions to India 3 – Non-discrimination in sharing spirituality
• 218) ISKCON’s contributions to India 2 – Internationalization of India’s spiritual culture
• 217) ISKCON’s contributions to India 1 – Overview acronym INDIA
• 216) Value Education and Spirituality 2 – Our values serve as protecting fences and as focusing default settings
• 215) Value Education and Spirituality 1 – What we value determines our values – and our values determine our value
• 214) Voting in elections is the social responsibility of devotees
• 213) What is the difference between the mind and the citta?
• 212) What exactly is the mind? And where exactly is it located?

February 2014

• 211) What is the mechanism of memory recollection? What is the Supersoul’s role in it?
• 210) How important is it for devotee-couples to follow the Vedic model for gender roles in their relationship?
• 209) How are the living symptoms of consciousness manifestations of the subtle body as the Gita 13.6-7 purport says?
• 208) According to Krishna, which is more important – karma-yoga, bhakti-yoga or both?
• 207) Can you explain clearly the role of mind, intelligence and consciousness in the path from impulse to intent?
• 206) What should a devotee do on being overcome by temptation?
• 205) When our senses are designed by God and they are defective, doesn’t that make God’s design defective?
• 204) What is the Vedic perspective of godless religions like Jainism and Buddhism whose followers still live good lives?
• 203) How can we understand scientific concepts like space and time from the Vedic perspective?

January 2014

• 202) Is niyoga – begetting children through some man other than one’s husband – an authorized Vedic practice?
• 201) Isn’t it better to refer to women as behenji instead of mataji especially when they are of the same age as the men?
• 200) If both Krishna and we are eternal, then how is he our source and why don’t we have the six opulences fully?
• 199) Why has God given us free will?
• 198) If serving the Lord is more important than serving parents, why did Pundalika keep Vitthal waiting?
• 197) Why do so many saints from so many traditions desire to merge with the Absolute Truth?
• 196) When the Gita instructs sarva dharman parityajya why does a devotee need to perform apara dharma?

December 2013

• 195) What can we do when the mind gets agitated by a tempting sense object that can’t be avoided?
• 194) When something happens, how do we decide whether it was due to past karma or present actions?
• 193) If gambling makes people do foolish things, why are kshatriyas ordained to gamble when challenged?
• 192) Though Yudhishthira is the oldest Pandavas, why does Gita chp 1 mention him after Arjuna & Bhima?
• 191) Is institutionalization alien to Vedic culture? Did Gaudiya acharyas import if from Christianity ?
• 190) When Hinduism is not a missionary religion, why does ISKCON stress missionary activities so much?
• 189) Are the beliefs “kshatriya martyrs attain heaven” & “jehadi suicide bombers attain paradise” different?
• 188) Is Gita 18.55’s impersonal message (vishate tad anantaram) overridden by Prabhupada’s translation?
• 187) If the Gita is a manual why is it so confusing? Why couldn’t it have been clearer?
• 186) Does ISKCON promote subtle emotional enjoyment in the name of spiritual enjoyment?
• 185) Is ISKCON’s conception of God like the Abrahamic religion’s jealous God?
• 184) Could the unbelievable stories about Krishna not be some poets’ fabrications?
• 183) How can we avoid getting caught in doubts about unimportant issues while studying scriptures?
• 182) When devotee-scientists’ books are criticized by mainstream scientists can we quote them as scientific evidence for KC?
• 181) How can we best offer prayers from the Bhagavatam?
• 180) If Krishna is God, how could he have been killed by a hunter’s arrow?
• 179) Just as Vedanta Sutra explains Vedanta are there other books that explain the other five systems of philosophy? How authentic are they?

November 2013

• 178) When the Supersoul is a judge, how is he neutral? And how is his role reconcilable with deism?
• 177) How are communism, socialism, altruism, humanitarianism and nationalism misdirections of the loving propensity?
• 176) When hearing about Krishna from nondevotees can create interest in people and act as a stepping stone to devotional service, why is such hearing considered like milk touched by a snake?
• 175) Is it right for devotees to use kirtan singing for earning their living?
• 174) How are the lower planetary systems different from hell? What purpose do they serve?
• 173) Is the Lanka in the south of India the same as Ravana’s Lanka?
• 172) What is the relationship between the moon and Chandraloka?
• 171) What is the meaning of the higher dimensional perspective in understanding whether man went to the moon or not?
• 170) What is the logical proof for the existence of the spiritual world?
• 169) Can you explain the various characteristcs by which the essential meaning of a book can be ascertained?
• 168) How can we avoid becoming lethargic in spiritual life?
• 167) Why do jnanis say that bhakti is for the less intelligent and Prabhupada say that only the intelligent can take to bhakti?
• 166) To present KC from a contemporary intellectual perspective which all books of Prabhupada’s followers can I read?
• 165) Wasn’t Arjuna’s taking on the garb of a mendicant to abduct Subhadra immoral?
• 164) Why did Arjuna despite being a pure devotee hunt animals?
• 163) Why do Abrahamic religions violently oppose Deity Worship?
• 162) Can devotees do abortion if it is favorable for their bhakti?
• 161) Do women have the same varna as their husbands?
• 160) Does telepathy really happen? If yes, how?

September 2013

• 159) KC and World Religions (6)

August 2013

• 158) Did Draupadi love Arjuna more than the other Pandavas as a controversial South Indian novel claims?
• 157) When Krishna tells Arjuna in the Gita to do his duty, why do brahmacharis give up their duty in the name of the Gita?
• 156) Why does Bhishma say in SB 1.9.22 that he is a pure devotee? Shouldn’t a devotee be humble?
• 155) Why does Kavi Karnapura say he is writing Anand Vrindavana Champu for my own pleasure?
• 154) Should devotees network with thinkers focusing on Hinduism and Indian nationality?
• 153) If bhakti offers higher taste why do devotees still struggle with sex desire?
• 152) When scriptures teach matra devo bhava, why do brahmacharis give up their parents for the sake of God?
• 151) Why is the Gita’s first chapter called a chapter on yoga when it contains no yogic teachings?
• 150) Why is the Gita called yoga-shastra?
• 149) What do we mean by the mind’s eye? How does the mind see?
• 148) What does the Gita say about love and inter-caste marriages?
• 147) Why does the Krishna book publically present confidential tenth canto pastimes?
• 146) What is the difference between free will and desire?
• 145) Are birthday celebrations for devotees authentic from the Vedic perspective?

July 2013

• 144) Does the Rantideva pastime exemplify social service?
• 143) What does the sentence “From your place at your pace join the race” mean?
• 142) Does Krishna protect his devotee-students from bullies at school?
• 141) Are sahajiyas better than Mayavadis?
• 140) Don’t you like me? You haven’t answered my question for a long time.
• 139) What are the kind of questions that fall under counseling questions which you won’t be answering on the site?
• 138) How Krishna’s stealing the garments of the gopis is not immoral but trans-moral
• 137) Is the Supersoul the observer and permitter or just the observer as is conveyed by the analogy of the two birds in the heart?
• 136) What is Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contribution to our tradition?
• 135) Should devotees put their children in English Medium or in vernacular medium schools? Should they avoid convent schools?
• 134) Is lying sinful? How can we give it up?
• 133) Is science never wrong because it is objective and is religion subjective?
• 132) Is the subtle body being material destroyed by the power of time, as is the gross body?
• 131) How can daily diary writing be used as a tool for spiritual growth?
• 130) I want to write articles as a service to Krishna. But I am unable to get time. How should I go ahead?
• 129) What does the marble and nail grid analoy exactly illustrate wrt the relationship between free will and destiny?
• 128) My obsessive thoughts dont allow me to chant and if I force myself to chant i feel haterful towards the Lord. Please advice.

June 2013

• 127) Is Govardhana Krishna or devotee of Krishna?
• 126) Is it true that the Uttarkhand disaster is caused by the moving of the Deity of Dhari devi?
• 125) Is ISKCON an American institute run by Americans who take donations given by Indians to America?
• 124) Why do natural disasters wreck havoc in holy places like in Kedarnath?
• 123) Some people are telling that aliens are controlling the earth. Is it true?
• 122) Is there any online database or on paper of all the vedic scriptures intact for instant access?
• 121) If science is wrong why do devotee go to a hospital when they fall sick and not to a temple?
• 120) Is Prabhupada’s appearance and activities predicted in scriptures? If so please tell them
• 119) Are the revelations in other religious traditions as for example they do not accept the law of karma?
• 118) How can we say our spiritual experiences are not just chemical reactions?
• 117) To become Krishna conscious do we need to change our complete behaviour or do we just need to learn respect and love for Vaishnavas?
• 116) Why has God created a mind that misleads us?
• 115) Is there any quick way to control the mind?
• 114) Radharani and Padmavati took birth on lotus only. Why didn’t they take natural birth?
• 113) Why is Krishna not descending now when there is so much adharma?
• 112) The Vedas say na tasya pratima asti. Then why do we worship the Deities and the laminations of the Deities?
• 111) Is the relationship between Krishna and the soul like that between two quantum entangled particles?
• 110) Why do we require faith to understand spirituality where as we don’t require faith to know science ,only proof can work?
• 109) How can we improve our intelligence to control our mind?
• 108) After death are we reborn into the cycle of 84 lakh species or does it depend on our desire at the time of death?
• 107) Lord Rama says janani janma bhumischa svargad api gariyasi. How to understand it?
• 106) When we become devotees should we not read newspaper or magazines and read only spiritual books? So how will we improve our general knowledge?
• 105) Do you feel that only if you follow Iskcon principles you will be elevated? Are all others lacking somewhere?
• 104) Can we make other organizations merge with ISKCON and have just one way?

May 2013

• 103) Does chanting Rama Krishna Hari give liberation as does chanting the Hare Krishna mantra?
• 102) Is the Bhagavad-gita shruti or smriti? Did it become important only recently in the Indian tradition?

April 2013

• 101) Isn’t science better than religion because science is objective whereas religion is subjective?
• 100) When bows-arrows are more cumbersome than machine guns why did the advanced technology of the past use primitive weapons?

February 2013

• 99) Why was Arjuna so dear to Krishna?
• 98) How KC is the solution of all problems 7 – Religious Problems

January 2013

• 97) How KC is the solution of all problems 6 – Medical Problems
• 96) How KC is the solution to all problems 5 – Economic problems
• 95) How KC is the solution to all problems 4 – Ecological problems
• 94) How KC is the solution to all problems 3 – Psychological problems
• 93) How KC is the solution to all problems 2 – Cultural Problems – Sexual Assaults

December 2012

• 92) How KC is the solution to all problems I – Polticial problems – Corruption
• 91) If Drona rejected Eklavya due to his character deficiency, then why didnt he reject Duryodhana too?

November 2012

• 90) How can I deal with uncertainties about the guru system in ISKCON?
• 89) Did Lord Rama eat meat?

October 2012

• 88) How does the spiritual soul first get material desires?
• 87) What is the one scientific discovery that can prove or disprove the Vedic view of the universe?
• 86) If aquatics are lower than plants in the Vedic evolutionary scale then why is eating aquatics forbidden and eating plants allowed?
• 85) Why is Krishna not keeping the increasing population under control?

September 2012

• 84) What is the Krishna conscious perspective of nondevotees with good moral qualities like Jains?
• 83) Why do Vishnu and Shiva have several common names?
• 82) Is humanitarian activity not a form of subtle sense gratification?
• 81) Should devotees vote in elections? What is the devotional perspective of democracy?
• 80) A Hero’s Prayers at the moment of Death – Vritrasura – Bhagavatam 6.11.18-27

August 2012

• 79) Why is Tukaram Maharaj especially glorified among various Maharashtrian saints in ISKCON?
• 78) How does Lord Jagannatha reciprocate in Puri when the temple priests are so rude?
• 77) When we dont get results due to our karma, does service get affected by our karma?

July 2012

• 76) ENERGY: Your sutra for positive thinking
• 75) Harer Namashtakam 6: The misfortune of missing the fortune
• 74) Harer Namashtakam 7: The fruit of service is the increased desire to serve

June 2012

• 73) Harer Namashtakam 5: Access the holy name by the mercy of the Bhagavatas
• 72) I found blasphemy of ISKCON leaders online. How should I respond?
• 71) Why does Prabhupada say in Bhagavad Gita 2.62 purport that Lord Shiva is not able to control his senses?
• 70) Do we get bad karma by visual sexual stimulation?

May 2012

• 69) How do we understand when different Vaishnava acharays give different meanings of the same scriptural verse?
• 68) KC and World Religions 2 – Christianity 1
• 67) What is the difference between a woman’s love for a paramour and the gopis’ love for Krishna?
• 66) Why do certain temples have architecture depicting sex?
• 65) KC and World Religions 1 – Judaism

April 2012

• 64) How much does exercise,medication interfere with one’s destiny?
• 63) When we see cause-effect relationship within this life itself, doesn’t that make karma irrelevant?
• 62) Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that all paths lead to the same goal?
• 61) Is putting faith in Krishna consciousness like leaping across a chasm with nothing more than the hope that we will make it to the other side?
• 60) Why is prana-pratistha needed when the photo of Krishna is non-different from Krishna?
• 59) History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism – Post-Prabhupada ISKCON
• 58) History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism IV – Prabhupada’s unprecedented success

March 2012

• 57) The History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism III – Transcendence Amidst Independence
• 56) History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism III – The Beginnings of Modernity
• 55) History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism – II (Post Chaitanya phase)
• 54) History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism I – Pre-Chaitanya Vaishnavism

February 2012

• 53) If intelligence is higher than the mind, then why does intelligence come from passion and mind from goodness?
• 52) Should we use the words “fools and rascals” just as Srila Prabhupada did?
• 51) What are the causes of anger – how to deal with them – Hindi?
• 50) How does one find the right path to attain peace?
• 49) How does religion differ from spirituality?
• 48) If God is present everywhere, is he present in stool?
• 47) When the Pandavas were born of various demigods, why are they called the sons of Pandu?
• 46) Is Mohammed predicted in the Bhavishya Purana?
• 45) Was wheel invented in Satya-Yuga?
• 44) If somebody asks questions arrogantly, how should we respond?
• 43) Why is the desire for sex stronger than the desire for any other sense gratification?
• 42) How to control our jealousy and ego?
• 41) Why is the Shambhu aspect of Lord Shiva glorified as the topmost devotee?
• 40) Does the definition of success vary from person to person or is it universal?
• 39) Is repressing the sexual instinct harmful?
• 38) Why was ashtanga yoga recommended in Satya-yuga?
• 37) Why does the Gita say that “I am intelligence among women?”

January 2012

• 36) What exactly is the heart?
• 35) Why is Krishna blue?
• 34) When did Vyasadeva write Bhagavatam?
• 33) Why are women considered less intelligent?
• 32) How can sex desire be controlled?
• 31) Is everything pre-destined?
• 30) Do aliens really exist?
• 29) Is worshiping deities sinful?
• 28) How can we explain to others that meat-eating is undesirable?
• 27) Isn’t doing our duties better than spending hours chanting?
• 26) Which is the oldest religion in the world?
• 25) If Krishna’s body is spiritual, then how can it get cut?
• 24) How can we be Krishna conscious while doing our daily activities?
• 23) Why did Lord Rama kill Vali from behind a tree?
• 22) When we have microscopes that can see sizes less that 1/10,000 , then how do we understand the statement that the soul can’t be seen through the most powerful microscope?
• 21) Are there any references in the Gita to the chanting of the holy names?
• 20) Why should we believe in the Vedas?
• 19) How do we differentiate between helping the sick and playing God?
• 18) If consciousness comes from the soul, how does anesthesia make us lose consciousness?
• 17) Does every cell have a soul?
• 16) What’s wrong with satisfying the sexual urge by artificial means?
• 15) What’s wrong with consensual sex?
• 14) Is the conception of male & female in this world and spiritual world different?
• 13) Why was Karna denigrated as suta-putra?
• 12) If God wanted us to be vegetarian, then why has he given us canine teeth?
• 11) If we avoid meat because we don’t want to cause violence, then doesn’t eating vegetables also involve violence?
• 10) Do the Vedic literature allow meat-eating? Did Hinduism adopt vegetarianism from Buddhism?
• 9) Is the size of the soul literal or metaphorical?
• 8) Shouldn’t we be practical and focus on our present life instead of worrying about future lives?
• 7) Do all sperms have soul?
• 6) Why did God create carnivorous animals that attack herbivorous animals?
• 5) Did dinosaurs exist? What is the Vedic perspective?
• 4) What is the difference between mind, heart and soul?
• 3) What is the difference between mind and consciousness?

December 2011

• 2) What is the position of Lord Shiva?

October 2011

• 1) Are the Vedas mythological because they talk about mysticism?