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May 2022

• 188) Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: A Bhagavad-gita Perspective – Chaitanya Charan

March 2022

• 187) 190 Sannyasa ashrama in the bhakti tradition: Overvalued or devalued? The Monk’s Podcast 190 with Yadunandana Maharaj

February 2022

• 186) What tangible good does ISKCON do the world – how to explain in universal terms?

December 2021

• 185) What is the source of intuition higher modes or Krishna?
• 184) Appreciating Radhanatha Maharajas holistic faithfulness to the Gaudiya tradition including to the flexibility of the tradition
• 183) Appreciating Radhanath Maharaja’s expertise in community building
• 182) Do we need a shiksha guru when we don’t get personal guidance from our diksha-guru?
• 181) How Gaudiya Vaishnavism can inspire eco-friendly living, The Monk’s Podcast 176 with Radhika Raman Prabhu
• 180) Radhanath Maharaja’s expertise in sharing devotional service

October 2021

• 179) Continuity & change from Bhaktisiddhanta ST to Prabhupada The Monk s Podcast 161 with Bhakti Vikas Maharaj
• 178) Finding guidance in Prabhupada’s books, The Monk’s Podcast 158 with Krishna Dharma P & Chintamani Dharma M
• 177) Is Prabhupada’s Gita bhakti biased The Monks Podcast 157 with Garuda Prabhu

September 2021

• 176) Book Distribution As The Engine For Community Building,The Monk’s Podcast 155-Vaisesika Prabhu, @Bhadra Purnima special

August 2021

• 175) Preserving Gaudiya culture by fostering a mood of inclusion, The Monk’s Podcast 143 Madhavananda Prabhu

July 2021

• 174) Why we need a Gaudiya Vaishnava eco-theology pt 1, The Monk’s Podcast 135 with Radhika Raman Prabhu
• 173) ISKCON & Ethics 2, Why we need a moral philosophy, The Monk’s Podcast 131 with Rasamandala Prabhu

June 2021

• 172) How can we know if a particular guru is an uttama-adhikari or not?

May 2021

• 171) Faith-based organizations, eco-friendly living & ISKCON, The Monk’s Podcast 118 with Gauranga Prabhu
• 170) Offering to Pankajanghri Prabhu – A pivotal leader, a personal guide

March 2021

• 169) Contemplating Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Wisdom-Quotes — Appearance Day Talk 2021

February 2021

• 168) Why are Prabhupada’s non-confrontational quotes so less known and his confrontational quotes so well-known?
• 167) When our movement quantifies spirituality in terms of targets, won’t this alienate thoughtful new people?

December 2020

• 166) History of ISKCON and HH Radhanath Maharaj contribution – Hindi

November 2020

• 165) While the world slept …

September 2020

• 164) The Monk’s Podcast 64 with Krishna Abhishek Prabhu – How Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s political positioning maximized his outreach

August 2020

• 163) Prabhupada: A timeless teacher for troubled times

April 2020

• 162) When Lord Chaitanya destroys demonic mentality, not demons, why did the person who threatened devotees constructing the Juhu temple die?

February 2020

• 161) Lord Chaitanya said that Bible and Koran are full of faults?

January 2020

• 160) Is ISKCON’s institutionalized structure an import from Christianity?

September 2019

• 159) What are our movement’s core values?

June 2019

• 158) 7 purposes of ISKCON explained

February 2019

• 157) Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s three quotes on preaching – Purpose, perspective, process
• 156) BTG distribution marathon inauguration talk – SHARE acronym – Hindi

December 2018

• 155) GURUDEVA acronym – Vyasa-puja offering to HH Radhanath Maharaj

April 2018

• 154) Appreciating Radhanatha Maharaj’s contributions towards helping devotees practice bhakti sustainably

March 2018

• 153) Appreciating Radhanath Maharaj’s contributions in the light of ISKCON history

December 2016

• 152) Prabhupada’s legacy lives on
• 151) When Krishna disapproves renunciation as it will disturb people’s minds, how can we understand Prabhupada’s giving sannyasa to young disciples?
• 150) Is dandiya rasa considered imitation of Krishna’s rasa-lila — is it allowed in ISKCON?

November 2016

• 149) ​How did Prabhupada provide sadhana-bhakti and raganuga bhakti together?
• 148) ​Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s transcendence in sharing bhakti
• 147) Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s transcendence in sharing krishna-bhakti (Prabhupada disappearance day meditation)

October 2016

• 146) Remembering Srinathji Prabhu – an intellectual, non-patronizing patron of intellectuals
• 145) Why does ISKCON have a more organized managerial structure than most traditional religious groups?
• 144) ​If we see wrongdoers go unpunished in our movement, what should we do?

September 2016

• 143) ​How can we attract people who don’t find ISKCON adequately traditional in its cultural aspect?

August 2016

• 142) The Meaning of Vyasa Puja – “He came, he gave, he conquered”

June 2016

• 141) ​Why are only engineering students attracted to ISKCON?
• 140) ​Why doesn’t ISKCON distribute books free?

April 2016

• 139) ​You came, you gave, you conquered – Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s mercy
• 138) Why does ISKCON practice double standards by allowing donors, not others, to do deity abhisheka on festivals?
• 137) Do women have the same rights as men in ISKCON?
• 136) ​​​​How does Bhaktisiddhanta S statement about institution being evil apply to ISKCON?
• 135) ​How can a community avoid guru groupism?

March 2016

• 134) Doesn’t ISKCON’s managerial structure sometimes impede its spiritual outreach?

February 2016

• 133) Does ISKCON brainwash people?
• 132) A giant desire tree blesses ISKCON desire tree

January 2016

• 131) What should I do if my bhakti is damaged after coming from ISKCON?

November 2015

• 130) Should grihastha gurus also be addressed as Maharajas?

October 2015

• 129) How can we reconcile being sensitive with Prabhupada’s being rigid?
• 128) What is the difference between zonal division present in ISKCON and zonal acharya system?
• 127) Preserving tradition means fulfilling the purpose of the tradition
• 126) When Nectar of Devotion is the lawbook for ISKCON, why is it not stressed enough?
• 125) Prabhupada – dependent on Krishna yet dynamic in service – 50th anniversary address

September 2015

• 124) Prabhupada encouraged competition but that sometimes led to ego and power struggle – how to understand?
• 123) “Can you keep a secret?”
• 122) Offering to Srila Prabhupada – Meditating on your life for dedicating my life
• 121) Appreciating Sankirtan Prabhu’s frontline literary outreach

August 2015

• 120) Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 3
• 119) Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 2
• 118) Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 1
• 117) Doesn’t ISKCON’s rule to glorify Srila Prabhupada and not one’s guru go against Vedic culture of glorifying one’s guru?

July 2015

• 116) Are ISKCON devotees CIA agents?

June 2015

• 115) Prabhupada’s legacy lives on
• 114) Why does Prabhupada give Sanskrit word-to-word translations that aren not found in Sanskrit dictionaries?

March 2015

• 113) How do we understand Srila Prabhupada’s statements on rape?
• 112) Understanding acharaya’s controversial statements

February 2015

• 111) ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor – H H Jayapataka Swami Maharaj
• 110) ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor: His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja
• 109) Why do ISKCON devotees pronounce Sanskrit words differently from traditional pronunciations?

December 2014

• 108) Is ISKCON misappropriating sanatana-dharma?
• 107) How do we help people hurt by insensitive behavior of devotees?

October 2014

• 106) Why does ISKCON have such a negatively sex-obsessed conception of bhakti?
• 105) Why does Prabhupada glorify kaitava dharma by talking about how dharma produces artha?
• 104) When science is being misused to propagate atheism, isn’t it the responsibility of devotees to counter that by scientific outreach?
• 103) How do we balance between remaining faithful to Srila Prabhupada and presenting according to time-place-circumstances?
• 102) When different devotees quote Srila Prabhupada’s different quotes to support their positions, how can we know what he would have wanted?
• 101) Preaching sensitively
• 100) How do we connect with ISKCON people who are connected with other religious organisations?
• 99) How do we deal with people who find our standard philosophical presentations too simple?
• 98) How much will the mode of preaching be affected by the nature of different preachers?

September 2014

• 97) Does ISKCON consider the English of the 1920s to be sacred?
• 96) Why are ISKCON temples so commercialised?
• 95) When the guru is mostly inaccessible to disciples, isn’t initiation just a rubber-stamp?
• 94) Was Prabhupada’s renunciation in the mode of passion as it was triggered by frustration with uncooperative family members?

August 2014

• 93) Prabhupada Vyasapuja offering at Radha Gopinath temple
• 92) Does Prabhupada’s instruction ‘do as I have done’ mean there’s no need to innovate in preaching”
• 91) The weapon for waging the world’s most formidable spiritual war (Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Offering 2014)
• 90) Does one have to give up one’s material life on becoming an ISKCON member, even if one doesn’t become a brahmachari?
• 89) Is ISKCON an organization for rich people?

July 2014

• 88) How do we deal with people’s fear that ISKCON preachers will make ours sons into brahmacharis?

June 2014

• 87) What is the difference between bhara-vahi and sara-grahi Vaishnavas?
• 86) Are we compromising when we use mild words like outreach instead of Prabhupada’s standard words like preaching?
• 85) Prabhupada quotes largely from the Puranas so how can we show that our sampradaya is based on shruti?
• 84) Confrontation or Penetration – Two approaches to sharing Krishna consciousness
• 83) Why are divorces more among devotees than nondevotees?

May 2014

• 82) Has ISKCON replaced the scriptural worship of Ganesh in Hindu temples with the unscriptural worship of Prabhupada in its temples?
• 81) As India is still receptive to direct devotional preaching and Prabhupada emphasized that, shouldn’t that be our emphasis too?
• 80) Do devotees have to oppose science to be faithful to Prabhupada?
• 79) Wouldn’t ISKCON be more united if it had Prabhupada as the only diksha-guru?
• 78) 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?
• 77) 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?
• 76) Should Indian devotees preach to Indians and Western devotees preach to Westerners so as to have culturally sensitive presentations of Krishna-bhakti?

April 2014

• 75) Should we as followers of Srila Prabhupada also study the books of the previous acharyas?
• 74) Did Prabhupada sanction the post-publishing editing of his books?
• 73) ISKCON appreciations
• 72) ISKCON’s contributions to India 6 – Appreciation of India’s spiritual culture among Indian youth
• 71) ISKCON’s contributions to India 5 – Infrastructure provision for spiritual practice in modern times
• 70) ISKCON’s contributions to India 4 – Development
• 69) ISKCON’s contributions to India 3 – Non-discrimination in sharing spirituality
• 68) ISKCON’s contributions to India 2 – Internationalization of India’s spiritual culture
• 67) ISKCON’s contributions to India 1 – Overview acronym INDIA

March 2014

• 66) When the disciplic succession has many branches, why do we need to connect with it only through Srila Prabhupada’s branch?
• 65) When Prabhupada’s books will be the lawbooks for 10,000 years, how can we contextualize them?

January 2014

• 64) Do we need a personal culture with many devotee teachers? Does it mean that one guru is not enough?

December 2013

• 63) When Prabhupada did many things different from his spiritual master, how did he not change anything?
• 62) Prabhupada presented Krishna consciousness sensitively, then why did he use the word cult not culture to refer to his movement?

November 2013

• 61) Srila Prabhupada recommended monarchy in his books, yet instituted democracy in managing ISKCON through the GBC. Why?

September 2013

• 60) Prabhupada’s war stratey for penetrating America

August 2013

• 59) Srila Prabhupada – the leader who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way (Vyasa Puja Offering 2013)
• 58) Why does ISKCON focus on English outreach when everyone understands Hindi?
• 57) Due to its emphasis on class preaching, is ISKCON not losing the opportunity for mass preaching?
• 56) How can we deal with doubts rising on seeing that many leading Prabhupada disciples are no longer practicing KC?

July 2013

• 55) Is it ok to celebrate Holi to attract new people to the temple?
• 54) Are divorces among ISKCON devotees happening because most devotees have Western gurus who subsconsciously Western culture among their disciples?

June 2013

• 53) Why do ISKCON devotees sometimes say that they are Hindus and sometimes deny it?
• 52) Is ISKCON an American institute run by Americans who take donations given by Indians to America?
• 51) When some devotees use harsh words to condemn other spiritual paths, I feel uncomfortable but i dont want to offend those devotees. What should I do ?
• 50) How can we please the spiritual master, as Prabhupada repeatedly states in his books? Does this refer to diksha guru or shiksha guru? What to do when we don’t have much association with the spiritual master?
• 49) What does it mean that we should have implicit faith in the spiritual master, as Prabhupada says in his books
• 48) Is Prabhupada’s appearance and activities predicted in scriptures? If so please tell them

May 2013

• 47) Is ISKCON present eternally in the spirtual world? Can we see Srila Prabhupada there?

April 2013

• 46) Why is ISKCON no longer challenging atheists as Hamsaduta Swami did in Lanka?
• 45) What should be the highest priority in ISKCON when some devotees emphasize specific aspects like varnashrama?

March 2013

• 44) Isn’t the boiling the milk concept contradicting to ‘jare dekho tahe kaho krishna updesh’?
• 43) Are the different sangas of devotees within the same city recommended by Srila Prabhupada?

January 2013

• 42) Do Prabhupada books contain only preliminary points of Gaudiya philosophy, not its advanced tenets?

December 2012

• 41) Are farm communities meant to offer eco-friendly alternatives for the unsustainable modern civilization?
• 40) What did Prabhupada mean when he said that 50% of his mission was still remaining?
• 39) If the process of KC delivers us then how do we understand the verse that the guru is the only way to Krishna’s mercy?

November 2012

• 38) Why do ISKCON Leaders share platform with impersonalists ?
• 37) Do we need the faith that the spiritual master will never fall to be able to surrender to him?
• 36) How can I deal with uncertainties about the guru system in ISKCON?
• 35) What is the scriptural basis for the idea that the proces of KC and not the guru transforms us?

October 2012

• 34) Prabhupada’s expert presentation of Gaudiya Vaishnavism
• 33) How Krishna arranged for Prabhupada to dance (Hindi)
• 32) Why do the local devotees in Vrindavan refer to Srila Prabhupada as “Swami Maharaja”?
• 31) How should we respond to stories of Krishna miraculously intervening in the life of some contemporary devotee?

September 2012

• 30) Writing for Krishna: The Price and the Prize
• 29) Why do so few people becomes devotees? Why do some devotees fall away?
• 28) Why do we worship Srila Prabhupada?
• 27) Why is Ganesh worship being done in an ISKCON temple when it was not allowed by Srila Prabhupada?
• 26) When Srila Prabhupada has written so many books why do devotees need to write any further books?

August 2012

• 25) Why is Tukaram Maharaj especially glorified among various Maharashtrian saints in ISKCON?
• 24) Why do ISKCON Temples have Ganesh at entrance and not have bell?
• 23) The Expert Tightrope Dancer – 2012 Vyasapuja Offering to Srila Prabhupada
• 22) BHISHMA acronym: Parallels between Bhishman and Srila Prabhupada

July 2012

• 21) When the mahamantra takes us to Goloka, then why does Srila Prabhupada say that his temples are in Vaikuntha?
• 20) How can we prevent the doubt that one’s spiritual master can fall down from becoming an obstacle in keeping firm faith?
• 19) The changing of names during initiation is commonly presented as evidence that ISKCON brainwashes people. Can you please respond?
• 18) Was there any editing of Prabhupada’s books?
• 17) Will most devotees go to heavenly planets?

June 2012

• 16) I found blasphemy of ISKCON leaders online. How should I respond?
• 15) When Kali-yuga is going to end only after 4,27,000 years, why do some devotees quote mundane prophecies about imminent world destruction?

May 2012

• 14) Why is ISKCON not active in socio-spiritual causes like cow protection?
• 13) What was the crime of the children who were abused in ISKCON’s gurukulas?

April 2012

• 12) If Srila Prabhupada is an empowered acharya, then why did many of his empowered disciples leave Krishna consciousness after his departure?
• 11) Is it wrong to hear and read about God from multiple sources, like disciples of Srila Prabhupada?
• 10) Srila Prabhupada’s visionary propagation of India’s spiritual culture: The Power of One Spiritual Indian
• 9) How can we help people understand why Srila Prabhupada used words like “rascals” and “fools”?
• 8) Srila Prabhupada’s Contributions to Society

March 2012

• 7) Is sannyasa forbidden in Kali-yuga? If so, then why does ISKCON give sannyasa?
• 6) Doesn’t the institutionalization of spirituality kill its spirit?
• 5) Why does ISKCON give less emphasis on Lord Rama?

February 2012

• 4) When Krishna says that we shouldn’t take his name in front of an atheist, why does ISKCON share the holy name publically?
• 3) Should we use the words “fools and rascals” just as Srila Prabhupada did?
• 2) How can we understand that some of Prabhupada’s prophecies didn’t come true?

December 2011

• 1) Are ISKCON’s translations of the Vedic scriptures devotionally biased?