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If the devotees who introduced us to bhakti don’t inspire us later, what should we do?

When Vibhishana went over to the side of virtue, why didn’t Vidura do the same?

When Lakshmana left Sita unguarded because of her harsh words, whose mistake was it?

How do I know which type of surrender is suitable for us?

How do avoid depression caused by the mistakes we make and by thinking about past bad karma?

Is black magic real – what should devotees targetted by it do?

How much does Krishna intervene in the lives of good people, if they are not devotees?

What is the relationship between astrology and karma, especially for devotees?

How does our material varna relate with our spiritual svarupa?

Why does Bhaktivinoda Thakura refer to temporary duties as anitya-dharma?

Should we stabilize our material life before practicing spiritual life?

Why is tamo-guna needed at all?

How can we know that we have done our best in our services or relationships?

How can we find our svabhava and change our career accordingly?

If people are nasty to us, should we as devotees just be detached from it?

How can we take shelter of a devotee practically?

Can association through electronic media be the same as personal association?

Is asking lots of questions a sign of a jnani, not a bhakta?

Can Krishna’s exalted pastimes be understood without philosophically understanding his greatness?

Can we relish the same level of love for Krishna that Radharani relishes?

Is Radharani attracted to Krishna because he is handsome?

Is Lord Chaitanya’s lila too elevated for general people?

As devotees, how can we deal with our relatives sensitively?

If one devotee serves Krishna as a brahmachari and another, as a grihastha, who is better?

Is untimely death of a son the will of God – how is this to be explained to grieving parents?

Why does science treat mental problems medically, not spiritually?

How can we raise our children so that they become devotees?

What is a preferred career for devotees?

Why are things that we hear and accept still difficult to apply?

If our relatives are enquiring about spirituality but aren’t submissive, how should we respond?

Is our sampradaya’s credibility weakened because of having shiksha links instead of diksha links?

When milk is nowadays extracted violently from cows, should devotees take milk?

When there are so many scriptures how is the essential scriptural message to be understood?

If someone dies because of drunken driving, was the death due to destiny or drunkenness?

When our sampradaya is of shiksha, why are diksha-gurus deemed so important and shiksha-gurus deemed unimportant?

Are ghastly rituals such as animal sacrifices given in scriptures?

Aren’t the problems we face due to our past karma?

How can we feel connected with Krishna when we have problems and our prayers are not answered?

What is the significance of Lord Chaitanya’s chastising Balabhdara Bhattacharya?

What is the relationship between our intelligence and our desires?

What is wrong with aversion to sense objects?

How can we cultivate sentiments without becoming sentimental?

Do the modes determine our moods or our modes determine the modes?

When Prabhupada speaks so strongly against Mayavadis, how can we avoid becoming judgmental?

Why does the Bhagavatam 11.28.1 ask us to not praise others?

Can we engage in any desire without being bound by it?

How can we know that we are conscious while tables are not conscious?

How can we prepare for giving classes?

How can we teach our children right and wrong without coming off as judgmental?

Why focus on sound alone for raising our consciousness – why not exercise, food etc?

What is the channel by which the soul gives signals to the brain?

How can we infuse our scriptural study with devotional emotion?

Can we apologize to Krishna?

How can we know what is Krishna’s plan and what is Maya’s action?

When we are unable to focus on chanting, what can we do?

How do the Vedas correlate with the Gita?

How can we focus on the present while serving Krishna?

When we use our imagination in devotional service, will whatever we imagine come true?

How is sense pleasure not imaginary but a product of imagination?

Do brahmavadis know that something exists beyond brahman?

How can we deal with the doubts that obstruct us in our relationships with others?

How can we maintain our principles in a materialistic corporate environment?

How can we act intelligently when adolescence impels us to act rebelliously?

How can we guide others when different people want different levels of instruction?

Do animals have souls – if yes, then how are humans different from animals?

What is happiness – how can we achieve it?

What is a human being’s purpose on earth?

What is the soul – is it real?

What is the relationship between science and Krishna consciousness?

Will becoming spiritually advanced automatically resolve our relationship problems?

How does fear enhance our relationship with Krishna?

Why couldn’t Krishna have killed miscreants without leaving Vrindavan?

How do we balance between our spiritual and material lives?

How to respond to people who say that they are satisfied with their mental maps?

Is humanity more important or is spirituality more important?

If my child is very sick, how can my spirituality help me?

When we have material problems, should we just focus on spiritual advancement or try to solve it materially?

How was Bhishma’s abducting Amba, Ambika and Ambalika moral?

When Karna was already killed by destiny, why did Krishna invite Karna to the Pandavas side?

If our feelings come from the soul, how does brain chemical deficiency cause depression?

If Karna chose wrongly because of attachment, didn’t Bhishma do the same?

Does prolonged expectation for a thing make us value it more- does this apply to the gopis separation from Krishna?

Are the gopis separated from Krishna even in the spiritual world?

If even the gopis’ lost hope in separation from Krishna, what is the hope for us?

Why is the Bhagavatam’s tenth canto divided into chapters according to the location of pastimes?

Why does God send different teachers who teach different paths?

Why is the Gaudiya sampradaya a branch of the Brahma-Madhva sampradaya and not its straight continuation?

How are spiritual experiences different from chemically-induced experiences?

Who damaged bhakti culture more – Muslims or Britishers?

Is the spiritual an energy like material energies such as thermal or electrical energies?

How did Nimai Pandit’s name become Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?

Why did Lord Chaitanya first become a scholar and then a devotee?

Can any pastime be analyzed metaphorically for some moral instruction?

Is Gandhiji’s commentary on the Gita ok?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

How do laws of nature invalidate design – don’t laws require a designer?

When problems distract us from bhakti, isn’t it better to solve the problems and then focus on bhakti?

How can we know the balance between the painkiller of material things and the cure of spirituality?

When scientists criticize intelligent design, how can we establish that God is the explanation for explainability?