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October 2018

• 92) Why does Jagannatha Puri temple forbid non-Hindus from entering?

April 2016

• 91) Facilitate devotional creativity – Address at Children’s Ratha Yatra in Singapore
• 90) ​If Draupadi can have five husbands, what’s wrong with Muslims having many wives?
• 89) ​Can women study scripture when their body is in an unclean state?
• 88) Should women be allowed to enter Shani temple?

September 2015

• 87) Appreciating Radharani’s position and devotion – Radhashtami class

May 2015

• 86) Why is Rama Navmi fast broken in some temples with grains and in others without grains?

March 2015

• 85) How was sati meant for spiritual cultivation?
• 84) Was sati suicide or murder?

November 2014

• 83) Why does Bhishma Panchaka have 4 days this year instead of 5?

October 2014

• 82) Is birthday celebration non-Vedic?

May 2014

• 81) Do cultural practices change as per age as does the yuga-dharma?
• 80) Isn’t varnashrama based on looking at the harness instead of the horse?
• 79) Why do we do pradakshina?

April 2014

• 78) Why is prana-pratistha not performed for the utsava-murtis though they ave their own names?

March 2014

• 77) How can women be said to have their own varna when Prabhupada says that the wife’s varna should be identified by the husband’s varna?

January 2014

• 76) Is niyoga – begetting children through some man other than one’s husband – an authorized Vedic practice?
• 75) Isn’t it better to refer to women as behenji instead of mataji especially when they are of the same age as the men?

November 2013

• 74) In Deity Worship why do we offer specific items and rotate them a specific number of times?
• 73) Why do we avoid specific food items in specific months during Chaturmasa?
• 72) Why did Arjuna despite being a pure devotee hunt animals?

September 2013

• 71) When Lord Chaitanya didn’t insist that Haridas Thakura be allowed entry into Jagannatha temple, why do ISKCON’s non-Hindu devotees want entry?
• 70) Why do some temples not allow non-Hindus from entering? Is this rule scriptural or merely cultural?
• 69) When Lord Chaitanya refused to meet king Pratap Rudra, why do ISKCON leaders invite politicians like the President of India for inaugurating their temples?
• 68) How Prabhupada’s sannyasa was a part of Krishna’s master-plan
• 67) How Bhaktivinoda Thakura reformed and presented the Gaudiya tradition
• 66) How Haridas Thakura demonstrates the universality and the glory of bhakti
• 65) Are sexless marriages the best marriages?
• 64) What does Prabhupada’s statement “All men should remain as brahmacharis and all women should get married” mean?
• 63) How Radharani cooked the first time for Krishna – Radhashtami 2013 class at Nasik
• 62) When Krishna appeared at midnight according to the time in Mathura why do we fast on Janmashtami till midnight according to the local time at different places?
• 61) Is Raksha Bandhan an authorized Vaishnava festival?

August 2013

• 60) Why were prostitutes present in Ayodhya?

July 2013

• 59) Do we need to chant 25 rounds on Ekadashi?
• 58) What happens if an unqualified person chants the Gayatri mantra?
• 57) Can the maha prasade prayer be chanted at times apart from prasadam times? What do they actually refer to?

June 2013

• 56) Why was polygamy allowed in Vedic culture?
• 55) When devotees bathe several times each day arent they wasting water?

May 2013

• 54) Bhuliya tomare meaning (Meditations on Vaishnava songs)
• 53) Does the publicizing the names of donors in temples not encourage ego in the name of religion?
• 52) Why can’t clothes stitched by devotees be worn while worshiping the Deities?
• 51) Does saying that people disbelieve in half-man half-lion but believe in half-man half-spider prove the existence of the half-man half-lion?
• 50) Meditating on the Sanskrit and Bengali prasadam prayers – Hindi

April 2013

• 49) What is the destination of those who serve cows?
• 48) Why is the whole environment considered polluted during eclipses?
• 47) Are women made for the enjoyment of men?

February 2013

• 46) Why is the dowry system prevalent among Hindus?

January 2013

• 45) Why should one not go to the temple after there is a death in the family? Can we chant on Tulasi beads in a crematorium?
• 44) Why do scriptures urge women to do vat-savitri puja to get the same husband for seven lives when the goal of life is to attain liberation?
• 43) Were kshatriyas allowed to eat meat in Vedic culture?
• 42) As milk is today produced by causing violence to the cow should devotees take such milk?
• 41) Some people say that no species drink milk beyond infancy, so our drinking milk is unnatural. How do we respond?
• 40) Why is stitched cloth not used for Deity Worship?
• 39) Why does one have to break Ekadashi at a specific time?

December 2012

• 38) Is only heavy drinking harmful and occasional drinking good for health?
• 37) What is the reason for shaving the head at Tirupati?

September 2012

• 36) Is hearing demigod pastimes prajalpa or devotional service?
• 35) Why are brahmacharis necessary? If they are necessary then why shouldnt everyone become brahmachari?
• 34) As devotion is a matter of the heart, does it matter whether one wears dhoti-kurta – saree or T-shirt & jeans?

August 2012

• 33) How does Lord Jagannatha reciprocate in Puri when the temple priests are so rude?
• 32) Janmashtami meditation: Krishna is committed to our freedom. Are we?
• 31) Goal of a devotee is to know Krishna

July 2012

• 30) What is the significance of offering bhoga to Lord Krishna only for 7 minutes?
• 29) What is the significance of touching ones feet?
• 28) When a person tries to renounce the world, why do people call him an escapist?
• 27) How does the consciousness of the cook affect prasad?
• 26) Why can’t women be brahamcharinis?

June 2012

• 25) Do devotional rules take away our freedom?
• 24) What is the significance of performing proper funeral rites?
• 23) Can we use Ganga water to bathe the Deities when that water is actually Krishna’s own charanamrita?
• 22) If women are so attached to their husbands that they die with them during sati, then how will they go back to godhead?
• 21) Can a devotee live without getting married and without joining brahmachari ashrama?

May 2012

• 20) Why do Vaishnava poets place their own names in their poems? Isn’t that self-promotion?
• 19) Will the woman who goes Sati not become a ghost due to committing suicide?
• 18) If we are served charanamrita while we are taking prasad, can we honor caranamrita with contaminated hands?

April 2012

• 17) Is Remarriage of widow allowed in scripture? Was sati a practice or a phenomena?
• 16) What is the devotional and scientific reason of keeping shikha?
• 15) If women become devotees, do they need to stick to their traditional roles? Can’t they have their own careers?
• 14) What happens when a person over-respects or under-respects a devotee who has temporarily fallen?

March 2012

• 13) Why is the index finger considered inauspicious?

February 2012

• 12) If the Vedic culture existed all over the world in ancient times, why are there so many dissimilarities in ancient cultures?
• 11) Why should we chant on beads?
• 10) What is the position of women in a spiritual culture?

January 2012

• 9) Why are women considered less intelligent?
• 8) Why is holding grass in the mouth considered a sign of humility?
• 7) Isn’t women being given initiation non-Vedic?

December 2011

• 6) The One-Eyed Modern Guru

October 2011

• 5) How is a holy place different from any other place?
• 4) Aren’t Yajnas a Waste of Money?
• 3) Why rituals?

May 2011

• 2) How can pizza be called prasad?

January 2011

• 1) In temples, why is worship offered to cars instead of God?