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June 2022

• 93) 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?
• 92) 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?

April 2021

• 91) Were kshatriyas allowed to eat meat in Vedic culture?
• 90) What is the reason for shaving the head at Tirupati?

October 2018

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

April 2016

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

September 2015

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

May 2015

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

March 2015

• 82) How was sati meant for spiritual cultivation?
• 81) Was sati suicide or murder?

November 2014

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

October 2014

• 79) Is birthday celebration non-Vedic?

May 2014

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

April 2014

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

March 2014

• 74) 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

• 73) Is niyoga – begetting children through some man other than one’s husband – an authorized Vedic practice?
• 72) 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

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

September 2013

• 68) When Lord Chaitanya didn’t insist that Haridas Thakura be allowed entry into Jagannatha temple, why do ISKCON’s non-Hindu devotees want entry?
• 67) Why do some temples not allow non-Hindus from entering? Is this rule scriptural or merely cultural?
• 66) When Lord Chaitanya refused to meet king Pratap Rudra, why do ISKCON leaders invite politicians like the President of India for inaugurating their temples?
• 65) How Prabhupada’s sannyasa was a part of Krishna’s master-plan
• 64) How Bhaktivinoda Thakura reformed and presented the Gaudiya tradition
• 63) How Haridas Thakura demonstrates the universality and the glory of bhakti
• 62) Are sexless marriages the best marriages?
• 61) What does Prabhupada’s statement “All men should remain as brahmacharis and all women should get married” mean?
• 60) How Radharani cooked the first time for Krishna – Radhashtami 2013 class at Nasik
• 59) 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?
• 58) Is Raksha Bandhan an authorized Vaishnava festival?

August 2013

• 57) Why were prostitutes present in Ayodhya?

July 2013

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

June 2013

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

May 2013

• 51) Bhuliya tomare meaning (Meditations on Vaishnava songs)
• 50) Does the publicizing the names of donors in temples not encourage ego in the name of religion?
• 49) Why can’t clothes stitched by devotees be worn while worshiping the Deities?
• 48) 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?
• 47) Meditating on the Sanskrit and Bengali prasadam prayers – Hindi

April 2013

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

February 2013

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

January 2013

• 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?

September 2012

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

August 2012

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

July 2012

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

June 2012

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

May 2012

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

April 2012

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

March 2012

• 14) Why is the index finger considered inauspicious?
• 13) All animals are said to be in the mode of ignorance. Then is the cow also in the mode of ignorance? If yes, then why is it consdered sacred?

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?