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December 2015

• 57) What is the relation between the Ishopanishad cover picture and its content?
• 56) Why are the Ishopanishad verses called mantras?

July 2015

• 55) Brahma Samhita 5.30 – venum kvanantam – The creator adores his creator

April 2015

• 54) When Upadeshamrita is for seekers, why does it start by telling who can become a guru?

September 2014

• 53) Why are the divisions of different scriptures called differently – skandha, kanda and parva

April 2014

• 52) Why does Prabhupada talk about the three energies in his purport to the atyahara verse (NoI 2)?

March 2014

• 51) Is the Nectar of Instruction a part of a larger work by Rupa Goswami?
• 50) NoI 17 Texts 10-11 – The glory of pure devotion in parakiya bhava
• 49) NoI 16 Text 9 – The glory of the topmost of all dhamas
• 48) NOI 13 Text 6 – Don’t be misled by material perception of devotees
• 47) In NoI 8 purport, what do the dashas from shravana to sampatti refer to?
• 46) NoI 16 Text 8 Living in Vraja in spirit
• 45) NoI 14 Text 7 – The science of chanting
• 44) NoI 13 Text 5 – Interacting with devotees at different levels
• 43) NoI 12 Text 5 – Interacting with devotees at different levels

August 2013

• 42) Is the Vedanta sutra personalist or impersonalist?

June 2013

• 41) Is there any online database or on paper of all the vedic scriptures intact for instant access?

May 2013

• 40) How are instructions in Uddhav Gita higher than instructions in Bhagwat gita?
• 39) The special place of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu among the Vedic scriptures – Hindi
• 38) NoI 10 Text 3 – Three directions we may go on deviating from bhakti
• 37) NoI 9 Text 3 How neglect of regulative principles destroys bhakti
• 36) NoI 8 Text 2-3 – Devotional service is not sentimental speculation or imaginative ecstasy
• 35) NoI 7 Text 2 – Three levels of contamination due to asat-sanga
• 34) NoI 6 Text 2 – Identifying over-endeavor in spiritual life
• 33) NoI 5 Text 2 – Sociological and philosophical reasons to avoid atyahara
• 32) NoI 4 Text 1 – The exalted level of the “sharira avidya jala” prayer
• 31) NoI 3 Text 1 – How to spiritualize anger in devotional service – Mumbai 2013
• 30) NoI 2 Text 1- The need and the means for authentic atonement – Mumbai 2013
• 29) NoI 1 Preface – Understanding the right attitude for a sadhaka – Mumbai 2013

March 2013

• 28) Does Brahma have 4 or 5 heads?

February 2013

• 27) Why was Arjuna so dear to Krishna?

December 2012

• 26) How do we refute the Mayavadi interpretation of ‘om purnam adah’?
• 25) What is the origin, authenticity and relevance of Tantra?

August 2012

• 24) How did Parashurama exist at the same time as another avatar Rama? Why did he oppose Rama?
• 23) How do we understand and explain that the Vedas are self-evident truths?
• 22) Why are there talking animals in Ramayana but not in Mahabharata?
• 21) What is the authenticity of the story that Parikshit M stayed in a tower to protect himself?

July 2012

• 20) What does the Taittiriya Upanishad mantra “Brahmavidya aponti param” mean?
• 19) Scriptures act as Map, Model and Muscle
• 18) How is Bhagavan higher than Brahman? Ishopanishad 15-16
• 17) Do all paths lead to the same goal? – Ishopanishad 13

June 2012

• 16) As scriptures are like Deities, can we underline or higlight or make similar marks on them?
• 15) If it is told in the Vedas that “Krishnas tu bhagavan svayam” then why do other Vaishnav sampradaya worship Vishnu and not Krishna?
• 14) Are the scriptural descriptions about the glories of the holy name exaggerations?

May 2012

• 13) Why does Srila Prabhupada “bhakti” in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu as devotion instead of his usual translation “devotional service”?
• 12) Why are the Puranas mentioned separately from Smriti in the verse “shrutismritipuranadi..”?
• 11) How do we understand when different Vaishnava acharays give different meanings of the same scriptural verse?
• 10) References to the Hare Krishna Mahamantra
• 9) Ishopanishad Systematic Overview Pune 2012 – 15 classes

April 2012

• 8) How can we trust the Vedas when many Vedic texts have been destroyed and incomplete knowledge is harmful?
• 7) Should I try to resolve every doubt that comes when reading scriptures?

March 2012

• 6) Bhishma Stuti 1.9.32-42

February 2012

• 5) Why do some people consider the Vedas superior to the Puranas?
• 4) When we can return to Krishna by love and devotion, why do we need to study scriptures?
• 3) Why do the Vedic scriptures sometimes contain verses with an apparently Mayavadi import?

January 2012

• 2) Why should we believe in the Vedas?

October 2011

• 1) Are the Vedas mythological because they talk about mysticism?