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September 2021

• 85) If a daughter takes care of her parents because the son doesn’t, is she giving up her sva-dharma?

August 2021

• 84) Can devotees participate in the puja of the devatas done in their family or community?
• 83) How can we interact with a worshiper of the devatas without criticizing or approving their conceptions?
• 82) Are our svabhava and prarabdha-karma two results of our past karma?
• 81) Do karmic actions and reactions happen at gross and subtle levels – do our present actions add to our destined pleasure or pain?

July 2021

• 80) Were Lord Chaitanya’s teachings influenced by navya-nyaya tradition present in Navadvipa?
• 79) Can the souls between lives learn from guides and choose their next lives – what is the Vedic perspective?
• 78) Amid danger, how can we be watcful without being fearful?
• 77) How can we experience Krishna’s love at our stage?
• 76) How can we become a responsible child of Krishna?
• 75) How exactly is change the only constant in the world?
• 74) Why Should Gita Be Translated In Languages And Distributed In Countries That Are Hostile To Sanatana Dharma?
• 73) Is Krishna the perfect manifestation of Supreme or is He The Supreme?
• 72) Don’t associate with Mayavadis – what does this mean practically?
• 71) Should scriptural stories be used to draw moral lessons that don’t convey Krishna’s supremacy clearly
• 70) Is the Hare Krishna movement a Hindu organization?
• 69) Is Bhagavad Gita a Hindu religious book?
• 68) How can we say that the essence of Gita is Bhakti Yoga?

June 2021

• 67) Is living in villages better for cultivating goodness and devotion?
• 66) Should we tell people about hellish torment to deter them from breaking the regulative principles?
• 65) Why did Prahlada Maharaja provide wine for demons instead of making them devotees as he did in childhood?
• 64) When we are unable to follow instructions, what can we do?
• 63) If we have to punish anyone, how can we decide whether we are over-punishing or under-punishing?
• 62) I can’t speak anything about God at my mother’s funeral – should I just remain silent?
• 61) When we multitask do we miss something as we switch from one thing to the next?
• 60) If we forget everything upon rebirth, how do our instincts carry over to the next life?

May 2021

• 59) How do we understand scriptural statements that reject all non-devotional literature
• 58) Is the Bhagavatam anti-grihastha ashram?
• 57) How do we know when we are accepting ourselves and when we are justifying our weaknesses?
• 56) If we feel empty or lonely despite having enough materially, how to respond to such feelings?
• 55) Is death as dreadful as we fear?

April 2021

• 54) If after striving for a long time in one area, we get only moderate success, what should we do?
• 53) Why is there no description of a pandemic in the Vedic scriptures?
• 52) How can we be responsible in our relationships without becoming attached?
• 51) How can contradictory-seeming scriptural statements be understood?
• 50) How are humans intrinsically moral beings?

March 2021

• 49) How does bhakti change our inner impressions?
• 48) Why do senior devotees sometimes judgmentally dismiss other devotees because of just one mistake
• 47) If our past karma impels us to wrongdoing, do we get further bad karma?
• 46) Can our past karma force us into wrongdoing – then how do we have free will?
• 45) Does our varna change with time – can we belong to several varnas?
• 44) How can we increase empathy and heart-to-heart interactions in the devotee community
• 43) If we live in a complicated environment that requires us to be duplicitous, how can we prevent duplicity from becoming our habit
• 42) How can we talk about pure devotion without making people discouraged, thinking it is too lofty
• 41) If a devotee friend of ours is criticizing other devotees what should we do at that time ?
• 40) Was Abhimanyu killed because he acted without consulting his superiors?
• 39) Should we have doubt only initially while choosing a path and have full faith thereafter
• 38) Does spiritual growth lead to an external transformation along with internal transformation
• 37) Why is the conclusion of the Gita–18.66–rejected as external in the Chaitanya-Ramananda Samvada?

February 2021

• 36) When Parashurama himself acted outside of his varna, why did he curse Karna for doing the same thing?
• 35) If someone finds our statements about other spiritual leaders unbearable, how can we connect with them?
• 34) When God is all-powerful, why does he need devatas to assist him?
• 33) Can you give examples of settling for tolerable tradeoffs instead of seeking perfect solutions?
• 32) If unfulfilled lust leads to anger, where was the lust behind Parashurama’s anger?
• 31) Was Parashurama’s violence against the kshatriyas disproportionate?
• 30) How can we have complete faith?
• 29) Why do we feel more envy toward some people than toward others?
• 28) During Western outreach, results come very slowly – how to avoid becoming encouraged?
• 27) While doing yoga outreach, how can we ensure that our bhakti focus doesn’t get diluted?
• 26) Isn’t the Vedic path better because it doesn’t narrow-mindedly claim to be the only way as do the Abrahamic religions
• 25) Do We Need To Be Politically Correct And Say That All Paths Are The Same When Addressing Devotees?
• 24) When we know that our senses are defective and that Big Pharma can be manipulative, how can we work in or with science without cognitive dissonance
• 23) During Western outreach, results come very slowly – how to avoid becoming encouraged?
• 22) Why are Prabhupada’s non-confrontational quotes so less known and his confrontational quotes so well-known?
• 21) When our movement quantifies spirituality in terms of targets, won’t this alienate thoughtful new people?
• 20) In the Daksha pastime, why do we blame Daksha alone and not consider that others also acted hastily or insensitively?
• 19) What can we do when we feel emotions that we aren’t meant to feel?
• 18) If I am happy now why do I need to learn about reincarnation?
• 17) If we say the Itihasas – historical scriptures – are not historical, won’t people get reasons to reject scriptures as imaginary?
• 16) How do people use spirituality and religion to justify suffering?
• 15) Does the caste system still exist in some parts of India?

January 2021

• 14) How can humility go along with self-respect?
• 13) If we label people positively – you are specially talented – can that help people grow?
• 12) If our guides speak unpalatably to us and we can’t express ourselves to them what can we do?
• 11) Does free will exist when one is suffering from bipolar disorder?
• 10) If someone commits suicide, can that be caused by their karma?
• 9) When Narada has a transcendental body, how does he appear through Brahma’s body
• 8) Was Yudhishthira wrong to gamble and cowardly to not protect Draupadi while she was dishonored?
• 7) If we are extroverts how can we be invisible while doing our services?
• 6) Does surrender mean simply leaving our fate to God – then why practice bhakti-yoga to attain him?
• 5) When Vasudeva Was In Prison With Devaki, How Did Rohini Conceive A Child?
• 4) In the Gita’s tenth chapter, why does Krishna identify various opulences with himself instead of saying they belong to him?
• 3) Does Krishna consciousness while removing our conditionings create its own set of conditionings that obstruct wisdom?
• 2) How does fatherlessness in America affect their spiritual receptivity?
• 1) When ethics and humanity can provide us direction why do we need spirituality?