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When we could learn so much about Krishna’s glories by asking him about, say, how quantum mechanics and relativity are reconciled, why are his simple pastimes like playing with children considered the highest?

When knowledge comes easier than faith, why does CC say that faith develops in the madhyama stage and knowledge in the uttama stage?

When should we concern ourselves with helping other devotees and when should we mind our own business?

How can we differentiate between yukta-vairagya and bhoga-vrtti?

Wasn’t Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s rejecting his spiritual master Bipin Bihari Goswami offensive?

Can one go back to Godhead just by chanting without taking initiation?

How should we prepare for giving our first Bhagavatam class?

Does Lord Chaitanya appear in all Kali yugas or only in this Kali yuga?

Why were prostitutes present in Ayodhya?

SB 8.3.17 The Lord never tires in connecting with us; why should we tire in connecting with him?

Can we be fully dependent on Krishna? How?

Does everyone have to take sannyasa to go back to Godhead?

How can Parshurama be affected by sinful reactions?

If rains come due to kirtan, then are floods due to too much kirtan?

SB 8.3.16 We need purification to approach the Lord, but he can approach us through revelation even when we are impure

As Gajendra had been a Vaishnava king, why did he offer impersonal prayer?

Is the bridge between India and Lanka Rama-setu?

SB 8.3.15 Use philosophical contemplation to discover the connection of everything with Krishna

How can we offer correction without committing offenses?

Should devotees bathe in Radha-Kunda?

How should we receive criticism constructively?

Is using Radha Kunda tilaka authentic?

SB 8.3.14 The unreal appears real because of the real; so be attracted to the real, not the unreal

What is the basis of the authenticity of those Chaitanya Charitamrita teachings that are not present in the Vedic scriptures?

What is the disciplic succession by which Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami got the knowledge to write the Chaitanya Charitamrita?

How can I understand and apply the Gita?

If all living beings are God’s children, then isn’t killing plants but not animals like killing the handicapped child of a parent while sparing the healthy child?

Why do we get the same karmic reactions in hell, lower species and human form too?

Where does the soul go after death – heaven, hell or lower species?

What are the 7 secondary relationships? Do demons have those relationships with Krishna?

Leadership Sutras based on the Bhagavad-gita

How can we remember Krishna constantly and also do our work properly?

Is it right to say that we have a right to happiness when we are sinful, having rejected Krishna?

If our KC becomes weak away from devotee association, does it mean that our core conviction is weak?

What’s the significance of “new” in the “New Vedic Cultural Center”, the ISKCON temple at Pune?

If we chant while doing other activities, won’t that chanting be inattentive and thereby offensive?

SB 8.3.13 Nothing that happens is outside the Lord’s plan. Pray to comprehend our part in it.

SB 8.3.12 The innumerable forms of the Lord manifest his infinite love for us

How do the modes and the astrological planets inter-relate?

When does medical treatment interfere with nature?

Do engineers have secure future in devotional life?

Is a devotee born in a brahmin family working in a bank a brahmana or a vaishya?

How many types of bodies are there in the spiritual world?

Should one give charity even while being in debt?

Doesn’t the idea that devotees deliver their ancestors indicate bodily identification?

Can devotees perform agnihotra sacrifice?

SB 8.3.11 To let Krishna give us transcendental happiness, we need to direct our consciousness towards transcendence

Isn’t the Goswamis’ having boatful of gold atyahara?

How can we learn to contemplate on scriptural verses?

Why did Prabhupada recommend worship of Narasimha amongst all avataras? Isn’t this against the principle of peace?

How were Ikshvaku kings rulers of the earth when Ravana was in Lanka?

Does the Rantideva pastime exemplify social service?

SB 8.3.10 Praying for revelation is far better than playing with speculation

Can we use the word “our spiritual glory” when actually we are meant to be humble servants in spiritual life?

Is obesity a medical problem or a behavioral problem?

If we are in a service that doesn’t inspire us how long can we continue in that service?

SB 8.3.9 Let Krishna do his ascharya karma in the heart

Can devotees use positive thinking techniques like visualizations and affirmations?

If devotees don’t notice our service, then is our service authorized or whimsical?

Isn’t it better to do one thing at a time instead of chanting inattentively while doing other things?

Is it ok to celebrate Holi to attract new people to the temple?

How can we differentiate between humility and humiliation?

Do those who don’t accept that Prabhupada descended from the spiritual world comprise an apasampradaya?

What does the sentence “From your place at your pace join the race” mean?

SB 8.3.8 The Lord’s coming to us is far more extraordinary than our going to him

Does Krishna protect his devotee-students from bullies at school?

Are sahajiyas better than Mayavadis?

Will those who reject Gaur-Nitai go to hell?

Don’t you like me? You haven’t answered my question for a long time.

Is it right for devotees to say that they are Krishna-tarians when it conveys the idea that we are consuming Krishna the way vegetarians consume vegetables?

SB 8.3.7 By glorifying those who are close to the Lord our heart goes closer to the Lord

What are the kind of questions that fall under counseling questions which you won’t be answering on the site?

How can devotees engage in charity so that they will not become bound in karma?

How can we sustain the momentum in spiritual life year after year?

Why do we need to preach?

During their spiritual advancement, do devotees see the Supersoul in their heart? How?

Does commitment to ideology make us blind to objective understanding?

SB 8.3.6 Let us not mistake our ignorance of meaning to be the absence of meaning

Is it ok to ask for a specific wish like our family’s well being in our prayers?

If devotees don’t help the needy because of fear of being bound by good karma, aren’t they sacrificing basic humanity for spirituality?

When cows are souls who were cow-killers in their past life, why is killing them considered so sinful?

Why do we glorify George Harrison so much when he was not chanting 16 rounds or following the regulative principles?

SB 8.3.5 Let the darkness around become the impetus to seek the undiminishing light

Do we need to chant 25 rounds on Ekadashi?

SB 8.3.4 Philosphical contemplation on the Lord’s position stabilizes our inner position

How can we ensure that honest communication doesn’t become Vaishnva apradh?

Is the Buddha mentioned in the Bhagavatam different from the historical Buddha?

How and Who decides that the involvement in the stock market is cautious and won’t effect the mind?

Why do you fellas have a problem with evolution? What will you do when genetic cures become the norm?

How can we better recollect what we hear in classes?

SB 8.3.3 Krishna being immanent and transcendent is eminently capable of helping us

I dont get any questions on hearing lectures. Is this good or bad?

Can a devotee who longs to go to Golok end up going to one of the Vaikunthas? Can souls from Vaikunthas go to GolokA?

Why do we as eternal souls get entangled in the cycle of birth and death?

How can a deaf and dumb person chant the holy names?

Do we have to first purify our mind and then our intelligence and then our existence?

SB 8.3.2 Philosophical absorption in the Lords glories is not meant only for study time or preaching time

Is dealing in shares in the stock market against the principle of no gambling?

Krishna asked Arjuna to fight but Buddhism supported Ashoka’s resolve not to fight Why the difference?

Is the state of faith at the level of chidanti sarva samshya same as that at Nistha stage?