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Why doesn’t mainstream science accept the evidence for past-life memories?

Can we heal our emotional hurts by knowing about our past lives?

How can we go from blaming to forgiving?

What is the nature of eternal life?

How can we prevent the hurts from our past become our emotional baggage in a future life?

Can excessive forgiveness lead to weakness?

What makes us complacent about applying the solution of bhakti to the problem of our known weaknesses?

Who is it that observes the mind has wandered off?

How can we understand Prabhupada’s statement that there is no love in this world?

If we have fear or mistrust towards God how does the process of bhakti work for us?

Is our relationship with our guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

How much can analysis help in controlling desires?

Can an animal become a ghost – Hindi?

When Gajendra comes to Krishna because of distress what is the role of his previous life actions – Hindi?

Our parents are destined – are our friends also destined?

How do we understand Prabhupada’s statement that most of my disciples will go to heaven – Hindi?

The soul can’t be cut but can God cut the soul – Hindi?

Isn’t everything that happens to a surrendered devotee good?

How can we overcome anger?

What is the best way to understand spirituality?

Why does nature hide spiritual truths – why don’t all of us have past-life memories or near-death experiences?

If we happen to be a negative influence on others by discouraging them what should we do?

My friends tell me that engineering studies are a waste of time – should I pursue some other career?

Is Chitraketu’s accepting Parvati’s curse even when he was not at fault meant to instruct us to accept whatever happens to us – Hindi?

How can we fix the mind on the heart – Hindi?

If justice needs to be seen to be done how does this apply when karmic justice gives us results for unknown actions – Hindi?

How do we deal with over-expecting parents who ask why we have got 95 marks out of 100 not 100

Can our material progress and spiritual progress go together

How is the world meant to allow both theists and atheists to justify their beliefs

Is it right to blame others for our failure

Do our stars determine whether we become spiritual

When too many spiritual apps sites and books confuse us about what to read or hear what to do?

If someone likes to practice bhakti in solitary devotional activities will they advance more slowly?

If our family attachments impede our spiritual advancement how can we be detached and still be responsible?

When problems trouble us and we can’t put our heart in our service what can we do?

How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

While studying in college how can we not identify ourselves as students?

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

When we practice bhakti culture in our temples or youth centers are we not practicing spiritual bhakti?

On holy days if new people can either fast or do service what should we encourage them to do?

If our past bad habits keep dragging us down what should we do?

Can we get tangible results in bhakti as we get in our worldly relationships?

How can we explain philosophy to those who don’t accept the authority of scripture?

If spirituality tells us to fast and science tells us to not fast what should we do?

Should we be detached from feeling happy when we chant well?

If while chanting some bad thoughts come in our mind is that a sin?

In our offices how can we be socially involved in contemporary discussions without getting spiritually distracted?

Does humility mean feeling that we are fallen or does it mean not letting our ego come int the way of our service?

When the gopis criticize Akrura for taking Krishna away are they not offending Akrura?

If a devotee repeatedly struggles in different services how can we engage that devotee?

If the expansion of our consciousness stops with humanity will it reach Krishna?

How can we keep fighting against our senses till we get Krishna’s mercy?

One moon is better than a thousand stars – what does this imply in terms of outreach strategies?

When we can study scripture without doing the Bhakti Shastri course why is the course needed?

How can we better remember philosophical points and scriptural verses?

How exactly were we created?

Is remembering that Krishna is in control the only way we can remember him while working in the world?

How can we overcome the mind’s habit of contemplating sense objects – Hindi?

How can we understand our nature – Hindi?

Can bhakti change a person’s nature – Hindi?

By what practices can we control the mind – Hindi?

How can we differentiate between our cheating propensity and our tendency to be illusioned by duality – Hindi?

What is the definition of conditioning – Hindi?

What is the difference between the mind and the intelligence – Hindi?

Why do we sometimes act circumstantially rather than scripturally – Hindi?

If our intelligence becomes weak what is the solution – Hindi?

How can we prevent our eyes from seeing lustily – Hindi?

How much does our spiritual progress depend on our endeavor and how much on Krishna’s mercy – Hindi?

If we see devotees living materialistically how can we prevent that from rationalizing our materialism – Hindi?

How can we remember to process our emotions not act on them – Hindi?

How can we overcome worrying habit – Hindi?

How can we deal with our need for approval while doing good things – Hindi?

How can bhakti help students to not get too disturbed about their marks – Hindi?

Is what we are going to get in life determined at birth – Hindi?

What role does our nature play in our taking shelter of Krishna?

Why is impersonalism condemned in Gita 9.12 and appreciated in Gita 9.15?

Is intelligence not always a good thing?

Is intelligence covered by the mode of ignorance unintelligent?

Why does the Gita in chapter sixteen describe divine qualities in three full verses and demoniac qualities in just one verse?

How is simplicity as an austerity of the body in Gita 17.14 different from simplicity as an austerity of the mind in Gita 17.16?

What is the conscious mind and the subconscious mind?

When anger arises what uddipana can we use to control it?

Can the self be realized without realizing Krishna?

Does self-realization as understood in psychology – understanding our strengths and weaknesses – come automatically by bhakti practice?

If we see devotees’ love for us as Krishna’s love coming through them are we not depersonalizing devotees?

If others’ love for us is Krishna’s love coming through them does that apply to their anger too?

How can a devotee work in an anti-devotional profession that goes against the four regulative principles?

As sadhakas with anarthas how much should we rely on astrology?

I was an honest disbeliever instead of being a hypocritical believer yet I suffered – why?

Is forgiving those who have hurt us necessary for moving on in our life?

Is the self located in the brain?

Why can’t science measure love?

What is consciousness – why does science have difficulty in understanding it?

Why can’t scientists understand that our identity is spiritual?

Do we have free will?

Does scientific advancement make life seem pointless – why?

Are people who have out-of-body experiences out of their mind?

How sound is the scientific evidence of past-life memories?

Should we drink cow’s milk nowadays when it is got by causing violence to cows?

Who are we – how can we understand the Gita’s answer from a scientific perspective?