Integrating the Scientific method and the Spiritual vision for all-round human growth
Articles 
May 2013
April 2013
- Does religion make us helpless?
- How should we deal with phases of inner emptiness in our spiritual life?
- Is chanting a prayer or a meditation?
March 2013
- When Krishna consciousness is supposed to be joyful, why does it seem so joyless?
- How can we improve our concentration during meditation?
- The Pune temple inauguration – The inner and the outer miracle
February 2013
- Isn’t it better to be spiritual instead of being religious?
- Why do we misidentify with the mind?
- Fulfilling our longing for love
January 2013
- Why does mantra meditation seem to be a burden?
- Doesn’t blaming the culture for the Delhi gang-rape mean that we shift the blame away from the criminals?
- Delhi Gang-Rape and the modern Shurapanakha
- If dharma is our essential nature, then why does the Gita (18.66) ask us to abandon dharma?
December 2012
- How can we succeed in leading a principle-centered life?
- How can we control the mind when it pushes us towards harmful actions?
- How does spiritual knowledge free us from misery, as the Bhagavad-gita promises?
- Oh My God: Has religion become a business?
November 2012
- Question: If spiritual happiness is eternal, why is our experience of that happiness temporary?
- Is Krishna’s love conditional or unconditional?
- Is faith in Krishna a matter of human choice or divine grace?
- Reflections on the first anniversary of Gita-daily
October 2012
- Question: What is the difference between the past ages and the present age?
- Why does devotion need to be exhibited publically?
- No exception to the rule: “To every rule there is an exception”
September 2012
- Writing for Krishna: The Price and the Prize
- The encouraging, more encouraging and most encouraging messages of the Gita
- The W.R.I.T.E. service: Five reasons to write in devotional service
- Why does our consciousness change suddenly from devotional to sensual?
August 2012
- Isn’t renunciation a sign of frustration?
- The Expert Tightrope Dancer – 2012 Vyasapuja Offering to Srila Prabhupada
- Janmashtami meditation: Krishna is committed to our freedom. Are we?
- How can we say no to the mind when its force seems irresistible?
July 2012
- Understanding the difference between science and scientism
- The Mysterious Soul
- Ghosts Demystified
- From the god particle to the godly particle
June 2012
- How can we protect India’s culture from rampant westernization?
- Do devotional rules take away our freedom?
- Can we develop spiritually through wholesale material indulgence?
- Should we suppress or express our emotions of sorrow when our fellow-devotees pass away in sudden tragedies?
- Why do academic scholars of scripture miss its essential message?
May 2012
- How are we to see Krishna’s hand amidst tragic, premature death of devotees?
- How can we avoid rash impulsive behavior?
- Why are Spiritualists Against Material Ambitions?
- References to the Hare Krishna Mahamantra
- How can we understand that we are different from our mind?
- Why do karmic reactions not come in this life itself?
April 2012
- Is there any way we can perceive the nature of the soul?
- Srila Prabhupada’s visionary propagation of India’s spiritual culture: The Power of One Spiritual Indian
- Srila Prabhupada’s Contributions to Society
- Brief biography of Srila Prabhupada: The Ambassador of the Kingdom of God
- How My Cancer Became a Blessing
- Isn’t it more peaceful to appease temptation than to battle it?
- The Save Yamuna Campaign: Where Environmental Activism and Devotional Service Unite
- Is the Ramayana relevant today?
March 2012
- Does spirituality kill our individuality?
- How can we increase our mental energy?
- “There is much I have to tell you”: Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Krishna consciousness
- Doesn’t the institutionalization of spirituality kill its spirit?
- Why is God not humble?
February 2012
- Doesn’t faith in God express the rejection of our human intelligence?
- Why does God use second-hand souls?
- Is seeing believing?
- Lets Stop Daydreaming
- The Key To Religious Harmony
- Make Your Family Divine
- Faithful Heart, Joyful Heart
- Is work Worship?
- The best Investor?
- The Sound beyond Silence
- Reel Unreality
- Science – “Two ” Short to Rope the Universe
- Humanity – A Burden?
- SQ – Your Ultimate Intelligence
January 2012
- God proposes, Man Accepts
- God Answers Knee-mail
- D – Anger
- Too Busy to be Happy?
- The Spiritual IIT Chance
- Are You A Positive Thinker?
- The power of Humility and Tolerance
- Suicide – Why? What to do?
- The secret of fearlessness
- Are we the makers of our destiny?
- Why are some people born wealthy and some poor?
- Does the concept of karma have a logical basis?
- Why me! What did I do to deserve this? – Understanding Karmic Justice
- What’s wrong with sex?
- Are there any logical reasons to choose vegetarianism?
- Does the theory of evolution have a scientific basis? (summary)
- Has science disproved the Bhagavad-gita?
- Advanced Astronomy In the Shrimad-Bhagavatam
- Why do people who follow a religion often claim that their path is the only way?
- Why do people fight in the name of religion?
- Does Religion Cause War? (short)
- Does Religion Cause War? (long)
- Is the Bhagavad-gita an extremist book?
December 2011
- Is the metaphorical interpretation of the Gita’s battlefield setting authorized?
- Bad habits – Causes and Cures
- The Tea Quake
- The One-Eyed Modern Guru
- Smiling Faces, Crying Hearts
- Why does the Bhagavad-gita call for violence?
- Where Technology Falls Short
- Foolososphy
- Is Something Missing in Modern Education?
- Bhagavad-gita for the Jet-age
- Guided Missiles, Misguided Men
- Happy New Year
- The Gita’s Secret Message Of Love
- How Everything Began
- Artificial Rains – Imaginary Gains, Real Pains
- When Monkeys Start Typing
- Made Just For You
- The Symbiotic Factory
- The Science of Karma
- Karma’s Flawless Justice
- Does Religion Cause War?
- The Spiritual Dimension of Life
- Your Cosmic Specialness
- Why is the Bhagavad-gita so pessimistic?
- Material Diversity, Spiritual Equality
- Natural Calamities – Why? What to do?
- When Science Points to Spirituality
- Think Before You Eat
- Sexuality and Spirituality
- Why use material analogies to illustrate spiritual truths?
- The Complete Social Service
- Made For Each Other
- From Adversity to Prosperity
- The Gita’s Message of Love
- How can the unlimited have a form?
- Spirituality – The Foundation of Morality
- The Untapped Glory of India
- As we don’t remember our past lives, how do we learn anything from them?
November 2011
- Atheism Refuted
- The Respiritualization Of Science
- Why does the Gita recommend working with detachment?
- A Science Of Values
- Does genetics disprove reincarnation?
- Why is it so difficult to know God?
- Is forgiveness practical?
October 2011
- What is the significance of Diwali?
- How is a holy place different from any other place?
- Is God Omnipotent, Omniscient or both?
- Is the mind a being or a thing or a nothing?
- Doesn’t devotion make one weak and effeminate?
- Can a person be both intellectual and emotional simultaneously?
- Why does India need spirituality in this IT age?
- Why do some religious teachers use death as a tool to scare people into taking up religious practice?
- Why do some people commit horrible crimes without the slightest remorse as if they have no conscience?
- Why does God demand faith?
- What is the difference between lust and love?
- How Do Saints Help Others?
- Why Irrational Shopping?
- Why does the Vedic tradition emphasize divine sound so much?
- Isn’t Spirituality Impractical?
- Can spirituality free one from stress?
- What is the spiritual perspective on the serial Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka (The Secret of Previous Life)?
- Is guilt harmful?
- Can Spirituality solve World Problems?
- Why Natural Calamities?
- Is Karma practically relevant?
- How to choose the Right Path?
- Why to Approach God?
- Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
- Aren’t Yajnas a Waste of Money?
- Can Science Discover Spirituality?
- A fresh Worldview
- Is factual not actual?
- Isn’t That Unscientific ?
- What is wrong with creating life?
- What is the Vedic perspective on the creation of artificial life?
- Isn’t the claim that the soul is the source of energy in the body disproved by the bodily need of food?
- Is there any proof of reincarnation?
- Is there any scientific proof for the soul’s existence?
- Why is spiritual happiness considered superior to material happiness?
- Is God a Crutch?
- Did man make God?
- If God exists, why can’t we see him?
- Did man go to the moon?
- Why rituals?
- Is vegetarianism necessary for spiritual advancement?
- Is The Law of Karma Scientific ?
August 2011
- Why believe in spiritual promises about future happiness?
- Why can’t we remember our past lives?
- 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?
- Doesn’t spirituality demand blind faith?
- What is the Vedic perspective on the current agitation against corruption?
- Isn’t spirituality an escapeway for those who can’t take life’s sufferings?
- How does the knowledge of reincarnation benefit us practically?
July 2011
- If there is only one God, then why do different spiritualists have differing conceptions of the divine?
- Does the theory of evolution have a scientific basis? (full)
- What’s wrong with sex?
- If God is good, then why does he allow suffering?
- Why do people feel peaceful while meditating?
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?
- Is there any practical use of knowing about the soul?
- Why waste time in uttering a mantra repeatedly?
May 2011
- Religions are meant to bring peace; then why do they cause wars?
- How can pizza be called prasad?
- Are spiritual feelings imaginary or actual?
- What is the role of logic on the spiritual path?
April 2011
- If God is supreme, why does he need weapons?
- Are Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) hallucinations?
- If God has designed our world, then why is there so much suffering here?
- Is doubting a virtue or a failing?
March 2011
- Why do people fight in the name of religion?
- Is there any scientific proof for the existence of the soul?
- What is the source of consciousness: the brain or the soul?
- Can robots be conscious?
- Doesn’t population growth disprove reincarnation?
February 2011
- Do animals have souls?
- Are We Special? Understanding the difference humans and animals
- Is Krishna mythological or historical?
- Why is some food considered sacred?
January 2011
- In temples, why is worship offered to cars instead of God?
- Don’t neuronal correlates of consciousness disprove the soul theory?
- If consciousness comes from the soul, then why do brain states affect consciousness?
- Is the poison allegation true?
December 2010
- Can Vedic spirituality offer a solution to the current global eco-crisis?
- Is Deity worship for less intelligent people?
- What is the significance of the aarti performed in temples?
November 2010
- Isn’t repeating the same mantra boring?
- Why can’t all of us experience spiritual bliss?
- What is the purpose of life?
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
- Isn’t spiritual life an attempt to escape from reality?
- Can spirituality help us when we are sick?
- Isn’t scientific knowledge preferable to spiritual knowledge because it doesn’t depend on faith?
- Can science by its future progress discover spiritual truths?
July 2010
- Why discuss unscientific things like God, soul and rebirth in this scientific age?
- What is the relationship between yoga and bhakti?