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December 2021

• 101) Why might devotees learned in bhakti scriptures leave bhakti?
• 100) How can we deal with our past mistakes, especially if some devotees bring up those mistakes repeatedly?
• 99) If others become envious about us, what can we do?
• 98) What is the source of intuition higher modes or Krishna?
• 97) While making decisions, how can we know whether we are in touch with the Supersoul?
• 96) How can we pass on inheritance to our children in a way that they won’t misuse by acting in the lower modes?
• 95) Do we need a shiksha guru when we don’t get personal guidance from our diksha-guru?
• 94) Why do you put an unlimited God into the small box of a particular scripture, group or practice?
• 93) Why senior devotees may commit suicide?
• 92) Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura give a nonliteral understanding of Bhagavatam cosmology and chronology just to appease his British audience?
• 91) What is the difference between revelation and realization?

October 2021

• 90) Was the medieval desecration of temples due to providence or due to incompetence of Indian rulers
• 89) If those who chant a lot face material problems, are they chanting too much

September 2021

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

August 2021

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

July 2021

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

June 2021

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

May 2021

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

April 2021

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

March 2021

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

February 2021

• 37) When Parashurama himself acted outside of his varna, why did he curse Karna for doing the same thing?
• 36) If someone finds our statements about other spiritual leaders unbearable, how can we connect with them?
• 35) When God is all-powerful, why does he need devatas to assist him?
• 34) Can you give examples of settling for tolerable tradeoffs instead of seeking perfect solutions?
• 33) If unfulfilled lust leads to anger, where was the lust behind Parashurama’s anger?
• 32) Was Parashurama’s violence against the kshatriyas disproportionate?
• 31) How can we have complete faith?
• 30) Why do we feel more envy toward some people than toward others?
• 29) During Western outreach, results come very slowly – how to avoid becoming encouraged?
• 28) While doing yoga outreach, how can we ensure that our bhakti focus doesn’t get diluted?
• 27) Isn’t the Vedic path better because it doesn’t narrow-mindedly claim to be the only way as do the Abrahamic religions
• 26) Do We Need To Be Politically Correct And Say That All Paths Are The Same When Addressing Devotees?
• 25) 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
• 24) During Western outreach, results come very slowly – how to avoid becoming encouraged?
• 23) If a butcher is following their employer, as a soldier might follow a king, why does the butcher get karma, but the soldier doesn’t?
• 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?