Vedic Scriptures

Sumanta-Akrura parallels and ADD acronym for dealing with doubts

​Understanding why Rama banished Sita

​What can we learn from Yudhishthira’s gambling?

​Was the Pandavas’ killing Bhishma and Drona according to dharma?

​Respond to adversity with dignity

Did Krishna feel confused about which pure devotee to support – Arjuna or Bhishma?

​​​​Which aspect of the universal form did Duryodhana see?

​What does the Gita’s call to control the mind by practice and renunciation mean practically?

​​In guna-karma mentioned in Gita 4.13, can karma be developed but not guna?

​Why does the Gita give its essence of bhakti in its middle and not at its end?

Mahabharata 3 – Karna – Deciding based on intent, content or effect

Mahabharata 2 – Draupadi – Dishonored yet honorable

​Mahabharata 1 – Bhishma – Misunderstood by the world, understood by Krishna

Understanding the Bhagavatam’s chronological and conceptual flow

​Does Krishna’s call to Arjuna to rise beyond the three modes imply that we all can transcend our nature born from the modes?

​Channeling our emotions on the path of yoga – Gita 06.20-23

What is the flow of the from Gita 6.20 to 6.23?

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 2 – Understanding inconceivability as an explanation for the world’s nature

In the Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam, Krishna refers to himself inclusively, not exclusively – what does this mean?

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 1 – Understanding God is all that exists

Does Draupadi not know that Krishna protected her from disrobing?

​Tragic Hero – Life Lessons from Karna – Princeton University

​What does the Gita 4.11 – everyone is on my path – mean?

​Who is a sthita–prajna?

​What happens to Krishna’s queens after he departs from the world?

​When Krishna had vowed not to lift weapons during the Kurukshetra war, why did he lift up a wheel?

Why did Krishna first tell the Pandavas to fight and then to renounce the world because of their sins?

Does the Gita tell us what kind of goals should we set for ourselves?

​How can a leader be benefited by the Gita’s leadership sutras?

​How can the Gita help us in change management?

​Should we differentiate between pre-Gita leadership and post-Gita leadership?

​Why did Arjuna need to hear the Gita – did he as a leader not have that spiritual knowledge earlier?

​How is Krishna the enjoyer of the sacrifices done without knowing his supremacy?

​What is the meaning of Gita 2.47 – don’t think of yourself as the cause of the result?

​How are the attached the cause of the fruit and the detached not?

Understanding the practicality of karmany evadhikaraste (Gita 02.47)

​Gita Leadership Sutras 5-10

​Gita Leadership Sutras 2-4

​Gita Leadership Sutras Intro & Sutra 1

​How to persevere when humility feels very difficult to achieve?

​Can the Gita’s verses be translated differently from what Prabhupada did?

Was Yudhishtira’s gambling Draupadi after he had lost himself dharmic or adharmic?

How can the Gita’s spiritual knowledge be compared to nuclear weapons knowledge?

When Bhishma comes after Ajamila pastime, how does that pastime list him as a mahajan?

When God fails – Krishna as shanti-duta

Bhagavatam canto 6 study 6 6.4.1-34 The pure heart is the secret to know the pure Lord

Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that everything that happens is good?

How can one practice bhakti without going through other yogas?

How can knowledge of other yogas help in practicing bhakti?

​How can we cultivate gravity for controlling the mind, as told in the Gita 17.16?

How are Krishna’s self-contradictory statements in Gita 9.4 and 9.5 to be understood?

​Bhagavatam canto 6 study 4 – 2.32-3.11 Boost inner resolution with external facilitation

​Bhagavatam canto 6 study 3 – 6.2.1-28 Bhakti’s potency is not a license for immorality

​Bhagavatam canto 6 study 2 – 6.1.28-68 Lust is not gender-specific – it troubles everyone

​Do the Yamadutas know about bhakti?

Did Ajamila by caring for his son develop bhakti?

Bhagavatam canto 6 study 1 – 6.1.1-27 Nothing purifies as thoroughly as bhakti

​Bhagavatam study 65 1.13.19-23 Vidura’s words hit Dhritarashtra where it hurts the most

​Bhagavatam study 64 1.13.9-18 Fulfilling purpose is more important than just sharing information

​Bhagavatam study 63 1.13.1-8 Periods of distress can forge the deepest bonds

Bhagavatam study 62 1.12.30-36 The Bhagavatam’s lens focuses on separation from Krishna

​Bhagavatam study 61 1.12.21-29 The prophecy of a glorious death is not inauspicious

Bhagavatam study 60 1.12.12-20 The carrier of the dynasty was to the glory of the dynasty

​Why did Drona ask for Ekalavya’s thumb?

​Why did Draupadi not protest when she was told to marry five husbands instead of one?

Why did Krishna’s protecting Draupadi’s honor not change the Kauravas’s evil intention?

Bhagavatam study 59 1.12.1-11 Parikshit had magnificent darshan even before birth

​Why did the Pandavas tolerate poisoning and arson, but not Draupadi’s dishonoring?

​Why did Duryodhana put the clause of incognito stay in the Pandavas’ exile?

​Why was Duryodhana so envious of the Pandavas?

Did Draupadi dishonor Duryodhana, thereby causing him to dishonor her?

Was Draupadi the cause of the Kurukshetra war?

Were the Pandavas not legitimate heirs to the Kuru kingdom?

​Was the Kurukshetra war fought over a property dispute?

Why did Krishna break his vow by attacking Bhishma?

​Why did Drona fight against the Pandavas?

Why did Bhishma fight against the Pandavas?

Bhagavatam study 58 1.11.32-39 Krishna seemed attached but remained detached

​After Bhishma, why was Drona, not Karna, made the Kauravas’ commander?

​Wasn’t Krishna’s covering the sun to deceive Jayadratha wrong?

​Why did Arjuna target Jayadratha when Abhimanyu was killed by Durjaya?

​Why did Bhima kill Duryodhana unfairly?

​How could Bhima drink Dusshasana’s blood?

​Why did the Pandavas conspire to kill Drona?

​Why did Arjuna kill Bhishma from behind Shikhandi?

​Why did Bhishma not stop the disrobing of Draupadi?

Despite being virtuous, why did Yudhishthira gamble?

Bhagavatam study 57 1.11.25-32 Krishna’s beauty is exquisite and exquisitely described

​Bhagavatam study 56 1.11.14-24 The spiritual qualification of bhakti unites the materially​ ​qualified and unqualified

​Was destiny against Karna?

​When Karna was virtuous why did he suggest that Draupadi be disrobed?

​Did Kunti do the right thing by abandoning Karna?

​Why did Krishna say that Karna is equal, or even superior to Arjuna in archery?

​Did Kunti emotionally weaken Karna by revealing that the Pandavas were his brothers?

​Why did Draupadi dishonor Karna by rejecting him as a suitor?

​Bhagavatam study 55 1.11.8-13 Prosperity without Krishna is like beautiful things for the blind

​Was Karna not discriminated against by being labeled a charioteer’s son?

​Was Karna unfairly disadvantaged by the curses of Parashurama and the brahmana?

​Was Karna a glorious example of faithful friendship to Duryodhana?

​Was Karna a virtuous hero?