Integrating the Scientific method and the Spiritual vision for all-round human growth
Vedic Philosophy 
May 2013
April 2013
- Why do devotees not using mystic siddhis in Krishnas service?
- What is the difference between heavenly , earthly and spiritual body? 1. What is the difference between heavenly , earthly and spiritual body? What is the difference between heavenly, earthly and spiritual body?
- Are souls falling from Vaikuntha even now?
- If there are 33 crore demigods, then why does Shatpatha Brahman mention 33 gods?
- Does matter come from spirit? if so how does matter emerge from it?
- Are mountains conscious? To which species do they belong?
- Does the Lord become fed up with those who commit offenses repeatedly?
- Do nondevotees have no good qualities
- Mahajanas 5 – Lord Kapila
- Is the intelligence unaffected by material interactions?
- How do we distinguish the heart and mind?
- Why does Krishna express surprise in some of his pastimes when he is omniscient?
- Is chanting a prayer or a meditation?
- How do we respond to ‘Ramayana and Gita are speculators delight’?
- Does the brahmajyoti come from Lord Shiva?
- How can we wash our sins – is there any water or oil?
- How are karma and jnana the cause of material desires?
- Why do we feel envious of God but not of materially rich people?
- What does ‘contamination of the material qualities’ mean?
- Is devotion a feeling to be developed or does it come naturally?
- How do knowledge and realisations help us if they become covered due to lust?
- From the Absolute Platform If Lord Is the Only Purusa, What do words Like Pursottama, Apauresya actually mean?
- What happens to the koshas after death?
- As some species have become extinct what happens to those souls who have desires that those species are meant to fulfill?
March 2013
- Does the idea that matter can be a means to spirit have any basis?
- Why did Lord Chaitanya worship Shiva-linga if it is not the highest form of worship?
- What is the significance of Shiva-linga?
- What does the unborn nature of the Lord mean?
- Who is a bhakta? Were saints like Tukaram Tulsidas Kabir bhaktas?
- How do we differentiate between our Intelligence guiding us or the Mind in the Mode of Goodness?
- As Parvati is the chaste wife of Lord Shiva how could she have come personally to tempt Haridas Thakura?
- How does gambling break the principle of truthfulness?
- What is kham brahma? What is ether? Is ether same as brahman?
- As bhakti centers on smarana, is just chanting enough to take us back to Godhead?
- Is the verse ‘Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu’ Mayavadi?
- Why do we consider 108 times chanting as 1 round?
- Can we remember in the spiritual world the technology Krishna used to make both the worlds?
February 2013
- What is the difference between expansion and incarnation?
- What is Krishna consciousness?
- What does Krishna’s statement that “I am time the destroyer” mean?
- Can you explain how the mind addresses us in the first person and the second person?
- When the soul goes from one body to another where is the karma stored?
- As we need to arrange for our bodily needs how do we understand Prabhupada’s statemen that there is no need for economic development?
- Fulfilling our longing for love
- Do spiritualists lack critical thinking and are all thinking people atheists?
- When our computer breaks down and troubles us, which klesha is it? How are the kleshas classified?
January 2013
- Does a daughter have the duty to deliver her parents, as does a son?
- Isn’t the skeptical antenna the same as the doubting faculty?
- What is the difference between pleasure, indulgence and temptation?
- As vaccination can prevent diseases that come as karmic reactions has science disproved or defeated the law of karma?
- Is Maya eternal? Why does she illusion the jiva but not God?
- Why are we selective about the analysis or purports of the scriptures?
- If “Svetasvatara Upanishad ” is dedicated to Lord Shiva , why is it dedicated to Krsna by Vaishnava Acharyas?
- Do all the residents of Dhams go back to the spiritual world?
- Is the size of the Supersoul in the heart literal or figurative?
December 2012
- How do we respond to the Mayavadi notion of a two-level Brahman?
- Is the Absolute Truth inexpressible by words, even the words of scriptures?
- Why does Krishna love cows when whatever qualities they have are simply given to them by nature?
- What is Krishna consciousness perspective on sex education in general and in schools in particular?
- If we can go back to Godhead from any mode then what is the need to come to goodness?
- When Krishna does so many immoral activities how can he be God?
- Does the father get the sin if his children misuse the money he gave them?
- Which form of Vishnu is referred to by the Sahasra Shirsha purusha prayers as none of the Vishnu forms actually have 1000s of heads?
- Why was ancestor worship by meat offerings allowed in earlier ages?
- If Narada Muni is an incarantion then is he a jiva-tattva or Vishnu-tattva?
- Does soul have shape? Does that shape change from body to body?
- If the spiritual world is thrice the material world doesnt that make the total creation finite?
November 2012
- What is Karma? Is kartavya and karma same? As a student what are my karma and kartavya?
- Is initiation essential? What if devotees after initiation become proud?
- Question: If spiritual happiness is eternal, why is our experience of that happiness temporary?
- What should be a devotee’s attitude towards scientists?
- Gopashtami class – Spiritualizing rites of passage like birthdays
- How did you first realize that there was a Supreme God?
- Is Krishna’s love conditional or unconditional?
- As spiritual happiness is eternal and the happiness we experience in spiritual activities is temporary is this happiness material?
- What is the difference between ahankara as concept and as object?
- Does initiation change the gotra of a person?
- Why does Sanskrit have words with many meanings Why are the concepts open to varying interpretations?
October 2012
- Question: What is the difference between the past ages and the present age?
- Is the soul projected to the material world as in a virtual reality or has the soul actually fallen to the material world?
- If several spiritual organizations urge us to study their philosophy and try our their process how should we decide what to follow?
- If our suffering in material existence is just a momentary dream then wont this thought make us feel lazy about becoming liberated?
- What is the essential moral of the brahmin cobbler story because the huge tree is not literally present in the small seed?
- QA on Ramayana Comparative Religion and miscellaneous topics
- GLASS acronym – Five tangible aspects of mercy
- As those people who are destined to take to spirituality will take it up anyway how does it matter whether we use technology for sharing spirituality or dont use it?
- If experience is the highest pramana how does it fit into the three standard pramanas with shabha as the highest?
- How long should we go on questioning about Krishna when all our acharyas have already accepted him?
- Prabhupada says Brahma falls whereas Haridas Thakura doesnt but they are the same. Then why the difference? person
- How does the spiritual soul first get material desires?
- If one can chant the name of Allah or Jesus with love and reach God, then why cant one chant the name of Ganesh or Shiva with love and reach Him?
- Does the fact that whatever happens to us is a result of our own karma imply that we passively accept whatever happens to us or not bother about the results on others of what we do?
- If aquatics are lower than plants in the Vedic evolutionary scale then why is eating aquatics forbidden and eating plants allowed?
- When Brahma is an incarnation of the Lord. then how can he be illusioned by maya and how can a person become Bramha?
September 2012
- Is the Virat Rupa Real or False? If it is false then was Vamanadeva’s revelation to Bali Maharaj false?
- Is the Universal Form Material or Spiritual? How is it different from the Deity form?
- Intelligence is the representation of Paramatma,then why does our intelligence sometimes fail to take the right decision?
- Why do Vishnu and Shiva have several common names?
- If pure devotees know everything from all perspectives then why do they have differences as in different commentaries?
- When we are 100% spiritual we see everything as spiritual. Then what is the difference between material and spiritual?
- Spiritual happiness depend on external sources, so isnt it outside-in not inside-out?
- How are scriptures preserved when the parampara is lost?
- Why do we need big temples?
- If we worship the spiritual master as a devotee of Krishna why not worship demigods similarly?
- Is humanitarian activity not a form of subtle sense gratification?
- PROTECT – Seven ways Krishna protects (Hindi)
- When the mind sometimes makes us do good, why do we consider it to be a enemy?
- What is the proof that someone has gone back to Godhead?
- How does Krishna decide which family we are born when we first come from the spiritual world?
- Why were child marriages advocated in Vedic scriptures?
- Why is Parashurama mentioned in the Dashavatara stotra and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu not mentioned?
August 2012
- Isn’t renunciation a sign of frustration?
- Are dinosaurs and ghosts included in the 8.4 million species?
- Is mother earth a jiva a demigod or a metaphor?
- User Friendly spirituality and Krishna consciousness
- Science of Transforming the Modes
- Why does Krishna accept a bluish complexion when blue is considered to be in the mode of passion?
- Rituals and Essence – Understanding why we do what we do
- Liquid beauty – Going beyond false beauty to real beauty
- Heroism – Real vs Virtual
- What is the relationship between Maya and the Three Modes of Nature?
- What are the three modes of material nature?
- Why does the Lord send Kali if he wants the souls to come back to him?
- Democracy and Impersonalism
- What is real dharma?
- From emotional turbulence to spiritual enlightenment
- Empowerment through Austerity
July 2012
- Blossoming of Consciousness
- Won’t the parampara message get diluted because the present acharyas are not as powerful as the previous acharyas?
- As the soul can’t be cut, how does the cow cut and chew grass in the spiritual world?
- All the vedas and puranas are written by Vyasadeva, then why do they give contradictory accounts of the creation of the universe?
- Why is Krishna considered as Supreme?
- If we feel too burdened by our services, then does that indicate our service is not succesful?
- Isn’t our very existence a sin because we kill millions of micro-organisms with every breath? What can we do about it?
- When a devotee suffers more than a nondevotee, won’t this send a wrong message to atheists or novice devotees?
- Isnt it that all the miseries can ultimately be put as Adhi-daivika rather than differentiating them into separate categories.
- Might a beggar be an elevated devotee in Goloka? Why don’t we treat him as such?
- Importance of doubting – and danger of blind faith
- Is lust a real entity that exists separte from us or is it just our own misdirected desire?
- Reviving love – Difference between serving Krishna and serving parents nation society
- Rahu is a severed head and since the Soul resides close to the Heart where does his Soul reside?
- What exactly initiates the death process: the soul’s karma, the Paramatma or the Yamadutas?
- Is it realistic or idealistic to expect our spiritual master to be a pure devotee?
- Do we spiritualize our material mind and take it to the spiritual world?
- How can we know that the original Vedic scriptures have not been changed over many generations?
- When the demigods have to face death, did their drinking nectar after churning the ocean not work?
- Why is Kamadeva considered a demigod although kama is one of the six anarthas?
- How are terrorists so fearless?
- Why did God create the universe?
- Are the Universal Forms in the Gita and the Bhagavatam the same or different?
- Can you please tell about Chiranjivis?
- If Brahma is a pure devotee, how can he be bewildered?
- How pain protects us
- KC- The real help to society
- Five levels of Vedic Knowledge
- God’s relationship with matter
- KC pleasure higher than sensual and intellectual
- Understanding Krishna Tattva
- If a person is not interested in spiritual world and is interested only in material enjoyment, what should be done?
- Why did Krishna create us?
June 2012
- Can we develop spiritually through wholesale material indulgence?
- If God is ruling the world, then why is the world not perfect?
- How can we be sure that when we go back to the spiritual world, we will never fall back?
- Caste system – Spiritual equality Amidst material diversity
- How will the Yogis who meditate on Paramatma Go Back To Godhead?
- Is Parashurma a shaktyavesha avatar or a full avatar?
- Was Chanakya Pandita a pure devotee?
- Will recitation of Vishnu Sahasranama give the blessing of immoral pleasures without sinful reactions?
- When Krishna established dharma, why did it last for such a short time?
- How can we get perfect knowledge when our senses are imperfect?
- 6 Opulences of Krishna
May 2012
- How do we learn from our sufferings in hell and in past lives when we neither remember those sufferings nor the causes of those sufferings?
- Are the words of the pure devotees about the Lord descriptive or indicative about the Lord?
- When the Lord gives Darshan, why do we glorify the spiritual master instead of glorifying the Lord?
- As Radha was the aunt of Krishna, isn’t their relationship illicit?
- Can we pray to Lord Krishna to award us death when we are hale and hearty?
- What is the role of paramatma in atom, in contrast to paramatma in living entities who guides according to desires?
- Does Pitraloka change for different people?
- Where is the Hare Krishna mahamantra mentioned in the Vedic scriptures?
- What is the difference between a woman’s love for a paramour and the gopis’ love for Krishna?
- Introduction to Philosophy 2: Overview of Western Intellectual History
- What exactly is shakti-tattva? How do we understand the conjugal activities of Shiva-Parvati?
April 2012
- Who is Narayana? What is the difference between Krishna and Narayana?
- As only pure devotees are promoted to the spiritual world, why are doorkeepers needed there?
- What is the need for marriage between devotees in Vaikuntha?
- Why do we not celebrate the apperances of avataras like Matsya, Kurma and Varaha?
- Are the characteristics of the child determined by the soul’s own karma or the consciousness of the parents at the time of conception?
- How do the Brahmavadis conceive the forms of the Lord?
- Can corruption be eliminated from human society completely or will it continue till the time of judgement?
- Introduction to Philosophy 1: 6 Systems of Indian Philosophy
- Why is Lord Chaitanya not accepted as Lord Krishna by other sampradayas?
- Is Vishnu a primary name or a secondary name?
- 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?
- Will our svarupa stay vacant if we start worshiping some other form of the Lord?
- How is the Supersoul in the heart different from the Lord in every atom?
- Do all incarnations have spiritual bodies?
- Why should large amounts of money be spend on temples and Deities?
- Why is prana-pratistha needed when the photo of Krishna is non-different from Krishna?
- Why does Krishna love the brahmanas more than other varnas?
- Is there any pleasure in the Brahmajoyati ?.
- How can we know whether someone is following parampara?
- What is the meaning of lila or pastimes? Can our activities also be called lila?
- Are possessions by the goddess genuine?
- Why did the Lord make us with the nature to love and serve?
- Do all incarnations appear in India?
March 2012
- Is the guru-disciple relationship eternal?
- How can God be happy when we are suffering?
- Do different Brahmas have different lifespans?
- How to understand Krsna is non-different from His Name?
- Did the demons’ residing places change over the ages from different planets in Satya Yuga and same heart in Kali Yuga?
- Does God really helps when we are in need?.
- Why is God not humble?
- What is it actually preserved when someone falls down in spirtual life?
February 2012
- Doesn’t faith in God express the rejection of our human intelligence?
- Why does God use second-hand souls?
- Why is Krishna considered Supreme among all gods?
- Is seeing Krishna’s hand in everything just a psychological adjustment?
- Do all activities other than spiritual fall under eating, sleeping, mating and defending?
- How does one find the right path to attain peace?
- If God is present everywhere, is he present in stool?
- How can God be chanchal (restless)?
- How does the soul fall from the spiritual world? What is the guarantee that we won’t fall again?
- Why did God create the forbidden apple?
- How can knowing Krishna as the proprietor, enjoyer and benefactor bring us peace?
- Is it a sin to not like the holy name sung by professional singers?
- Is work Worship?
- Why is the Shambhu aspect of Lord Shiva glorified as the topmost devotee?
- What is the source of variety in spiritual world?
January 2012
- What is the difference between part and separated energy?
- Why is Krishna blue?
- God proposes, Man Accepts
- Can Animals Perceive God? – Discover Yourself Session 3 Explanation
- God Answers Knee-mail
- Is there any difference between praying and chanting?
- Is worshiping deities sinful?
- Idol Worship or Ideal Worship?
- If Krishna’s body is spiritual, then how can it get cut?
- Why doesn’t Krishna let us enjoy in the material world?
- What is a plenary portion of Lord Krishna?
- Is the conception of male & female in this world and spiritual world different?
- Why does Krishna stop us from enjoying when he himself enjoys so much?
December 2011
- What is the position of Lord Shiva?
- Why use material analogies to illustrate spiritual truths?
- How can the unlimited have a form?
November 2011
October 2011
- Is God Omnipotent, Omniscient or both?
- Why does God demand faith?
- Why does the Vedic tradition emphasize divine sound so much?
- Can Spirituality solve World Problems?
- Why to Approach God?
- Is God a Crutch?
- Did man make God?
- If God exists, why can’t we see him?
August 2011
- Does the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra do any practical good for the world?
- Are the words dharma and religion synonyms?
- Isn’t chanting an act of blind faith?
- What is the Vedic perspective on the current agitation against corruption?
July 2011
June 2011
- Why do you consider Krishna to be God?
- When God is one, why does the Vedic tradition teach polytheism – the worship of many gods?
April 2011
- If God is supreme, why does he need weapons?
- If God has designed our world, then why is there so much suffering here?
February 2011
December 2010
- Is Deity worship for less intelligent people?
- What is the significance of the aarti performed in temples?