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June 2023
446)
India Train Crash: A Bhagavad Gita Perspective
June 2022
445)
Responding to attacks on devotees in Bangladesh
May 2022
444)
The Kashmir Files Reflection: Tolerance at the cost of truth destroys both
December 2021
443)
Prabhupada — the transcendentalist who embodied the best of the traditionalist, the existentialist and the utopianist
May 2021
442)
How to overcome hypertension, anxiety and depression during the pandemic
November 2020
441)
While the world slept …
June 2020
440)
By using the lower case pronoun for Krishna, aren’t you minimizing his position?
April 2019
439)
“Unplanned” movie exposes the planned denial of reality surrounding abortion
April 2018
438)
From possessions that dispossess to the possession that delivers
437)
Praising by criticizing – The paradoxical ways of expressing love
February 2018
436)
Teaching evolution in schools: what science explains and what explains science
October 2017
435)
Tolerating phases of bad fortune
September 2017
434)
Seeing ourselves clearly through others’ eyes
433)
Everything is a miracle
432)
Be open-minded, not empty-minded
431)
From the Blue Whale Challenge to the Blue Whole Challenge
August 2017
430)
It is never too late
429)
Meditation on Vrindavan – relishing Krishna-lila and sharing Krishna-shiksha
428)
Meeting with HH Gopal Krishna Maharaj – Learning to sense the contemporary pulse
427)
Balaram appearance day at the lotus feet of Lord Balarama
426)
Activism is our rent for living on the earth
425)
How my laptop was stolen and recovered – and what I recovered in between
424)
Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada: Appreciating the empowering breadth of your trust in Krishna
423)
Gita daily appreciation
422)
London visit
421)
HH Radhanath Maharaj: Training through a Mock QA session
420)
Sadhu-sanga
419)
Science and Spirituality – From confrontation to reconciliation
418)
The power of appreciation
417)
Unusual experiences
416)
Chaitanya Charan, author of best-seller Demystifying Reincarnation, on Facebook Live, Fri, Aug 11, 2-3 P.M
415)
Learning from the audience
414)
A Nigerian speaking Hindi at Denver Airport
413)
Challenging Christian conceptions – Bhakti in Mormon heartland Utah?
412)
Beyond Conversion to Conversation – Christian-Vaishnava inter-faith meet at Washington DC:
411)
Beyond emotion to intention – Talk at Ohio State University
410)
Temptation leans on the doorbell
409)
Gratitude and originality in spiritual creativity
408)
Spirituality in the age of science – Balancing science, spirituality and audience interest
July 2017
407)
Talking on karma and appreciating the audience’s karma – Talk at Princeton University, Princeton
406)
Caring for the minds of those who care for sick minds – Program at Carrier Clinic, Central New Jersey
405)
Minding the Intel Mind
404)
2017 Spring tour of the West
403)
Does God laugh at our plans?
402)
When Krishna thrusts his mercy, inconceivably (Reflections on the departure of Vaishnava Seva Prabhu’s father)
401)
The relief of turning away from the social mirror
400)
The Abnormal Normal
399)
Who is our worst enemy?
June 2017
398)
Behind the book – Interview with Chaitanya Charan, author of “Demystifying Reincarnation”
397)
Are past-life memories frauds? – Analysis with the case study of a Muslim-to-Hindu reincarnation
396)
Demystifying Reincarnation – Chaitanya Charan’s latest book is now available on amazon.com
395)
Why religion seems dispensable
May 2017
394)
Let go of the burden of hate
393)
Don’t just stand – take a stand
392)
Niagara falls & the flow of life – A meditation
April 2017
391)
Interview with Asia Today (Arizona based newspaper)
March 2017
390)
“Have you had a near-death experience?”
389)
Constructive response to destructive criticism
February 2017
388)
The Creator’s Cruelty and the Saints’ Selflessness
January 2017
387)
Don’t let the drink take the drinker
386)
The life of devotional dynamism
December 2016
385)
The desirer of desire
384)
Christmas gift for the Bhagavad-gita: 200,000 Facebook followers on Gitadaily
383)
What I have learned from the Gita
382)
Timeless insights, timely re-sights
381)
Why did Rama abandon Sita?
380)
The setting inspires talks on “What cricket can teach us about life”
379)
Feasting on Krishna’s glories on Ekadashi
378)
Modernization Without Westernization – Reflections on the Middle East’s spiritual potential
November 2016
377)
Don’t identify with the mind – identify the mind
376)
Opening minds while getting one’s own mind opened (Reflections on visit to Bahrain 2016)
375)
“What’s your name?” & “What’s in a name?”
374)
Moments of bhakti & momentum in bhakti
373)
A Bhagavad-gita view of religious diversity
372)
Spirituality for caregivers – Talk at psychiatric hospital in New Jersey
371)
Science & Spirituality talk show at Cambridge University – Undoing an unfortunate divorce?
370)
Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s transcendence in sharing krishna-bhakti (Prabhupada disappearance day meditation)
October 2016
369)
“What dogs, birds and elephants teach us about our habits” – talk at a Christian school in Panama
368)
Remembering Srinathji Prabhu – an intellectual, non-patronizing patron of intellectuals
367)
“Proactive Leadership” talk at UDELAS Universidad Especializada de las Américas
366)
“The power of your mind” talk at Hotel El Panama
365)
Science amidst bhakti – rasabhasa or rasa access?
364)
Prabhupada pilgrimage places on America’s eastern and western coast
363)
Association of ISKCON Los Angeles Temple President, H G Svavasa Prabhu
September 2016
362)
Speaking on the Mahabharata outside Bharata – at Princeton
361)
Shiksha from Shikshashtakam
August 2016
360)
Flight wings give wings to the flight of realization
359)
The Meaning of Vyasa Puja – “He came, he gave, he conquered”
358)
“Don’t be so confidently pessimistic”
357)
Fasting from water while holding water in the mouth
356)
Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that everything that happens is good?
355)
Get hope from the extraordinary, seek shelter in the ordinary
354)
Exploring human nature near divine nature
353)
Cow vigilantism: Fanaticism even for a good cause blinds people to the goodness of the cause
352)
Frustration and absorption in technological no man’s land
July 2016
351)
Avatar – Digital, Christian, monistic and bhakti conceptions
June 2016
350)
“Make me dance” – Meditation on Srila Prabhupada’s prayer on beholding the American coastline
349)
Near death experiences on the road (Part 02) (Reflections on 2016 Australia-Singapore trip)
348)
Near death experiences on the road (Part 01) (Reflections on 2016 Australia-Singapore trip)
May 2016
347)
The dual dimensions of artha (Guest Column in Financial Chronicle)
February 2016
346)
A giant desire tree blesses ISKCON desire tree
January 2016
345)
Sugriva: Comfort – Material and Transcendental
344)
Did Draupadi love Karna?
343)
See criticism with a critical eye
342)
Draupadi – dishonored yet honorable
December 2015
341)
Why did Dasharatha not follow Ram into his 14 year exile?
November 2015
340)
Meditating on the Damodarashtakam: The supreme controller is controlled – and still remains in control (Part 2 – Verses 5 to 8)
339)
Meditating on the Damodarashtakam: The supreme controller is controlled – and still remains in control (Part 1 – Verses 1 to 4)
October 2015
338)
The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 3
337)
The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 2
336)
The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 1
335)
God Proposes, Man Accepts
September 2015
334)
“Can you keep a secret?”
333)
Offering to Srila Prabhupada – Meditating on your life for dedicating my life
332)
Appreciating Sankirtan Prabhu’s frontline literary outreach
August 2015
331)
Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 3
330)
Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 2
329)
Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 1
328)
Jaladuta 50th anniversary special – New book: “Prabhupada: The moments that made the movement”
327)
Lust brings out our lower side; love, our higher side
July 2015
326)
Artificial Life? Why Not Real Life?
325)
Gita Metaphors 2 – Wind 1 – A Boat Amidst a Storm
324)
Bhagavad Gita Metaphors 1 – Introduction
323)
Focus on the universality of suffering, not its variety
June 2015
322)
Accepted restriction facilitates elevation – resented restriction doesn’t
321)
Prabhupada’s legacy lives on
320)
World Yoga Day – Let’s Go Beyond Political and Physical Posturing
319)
A spiritual wonder down under (Reflections on my outreach tour to Melbourne)
318)
Krishna can bring good out of everything – even our mistakes
April 2015
317)
Meaningless material existence becomes meaningful through the human form (Churning the Bhagavatam 1)
March 2015
316)
Nāmarāmāyaṇam (The Ramayana conveyed in 108 names)
315)
If God created everything, who created God?
314)
Gaur Purnima Special – Lord Chaitanya makes the abominable age worshipable
February 2015
313)
ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor: His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja
312)
Should we hate the mind?
311)
Warmer hearts can cool warming planet
310)
What a saint learned from a prostitute
January 2015
309)
Are there two gods: the god who created man and the god whom man created? (PK QA 6)
308)
Is it cowardice to go to God out of fear? (PK QA 5)
307)
Do people who are afraid go to temples? (PK QA 4)
306)
Why do religious teachers stereotype people as when they pronounce all Pakistanis as cheaters? (PK QA 3)
305)
Can we reject as wrong numbers the rituals that don’t make sense? (PK QA 2)
304)
Are rituals wrong numbers to God? (PK QA 1)
December 2014
303)
Don’t just sharpen the axe – reform the axe-holder
302)
Hold on to Hari, not to worry
301)
Don’t mistake the assumption to be the conclusion
November 2014
300)
Thoughts on Thanksgiving
299)
Devotion is the culmination of our aspiration for liberation
298)
Words shape worlds – watch your words
October 2014
297)
Why does the Bhagavad-gita immediately after rejecting bodily identity address Arjuna with names which reinforce that very identity?
296)
Don’t reduce all thinking to logical thinking
295)
The soul longs for meaning, but the body settles for pudding
294)
Why do we sometimes act irrationally, doing things that we would normally never do?
September 2014
293)
To seek love in food is to relapse into emotional babyhood
292)
To know the meaning of challenge, know the challenge of meaning
291)
Don’t let pseudo-hunger masquerade as hunger
August 2014
290)
The weapon for waging the world’s most formidable spiritual war (Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Offering 2014)
289)
People pray to God; the Vrajavasis pray for God (Meditation on Nandotsava)
288)
After the laughter? (Reflections on Robin Williams’ suicide)
287)
How is the holy name different from ordinary sound?
July 2014
286)
Scientism fosters not respect for science, but disrespect for humanity
285)
Scientism makes it impossible for us to be scientific
284)
Why did Bhima kill Duryodhana unfairly by hitting him below the waist during their final battle in the Mahabharata war?
June 2014
283)
Ratha-Yatra – When the Lord comes out, let’s invite him in
282)
Autobiographical Writing in Vaishnavism
281)
Is ISKCON an American organization that sends temple donations from India to America?
280)
Maturity means to not let our emotionality interfere with our responsibility
279)
Non-vegetarians healthier than vegetarians?
278)
Is forgiveness practical?
277)
Modi Swearing-in Ceremony – The Substance underlying the Form
May 2014
276)
Demonizing the other doesn’t remove the demons hither
275)
Scientism is self-contradictory
274)
Revelation is the complement, not the replacement, of reason (Countering Scientism 1)
273)
Was Arjuna’s killing Karna when he was chariot-less not unfair, being against the kshatriya codes?
April 2014
272)
Voting in elections – Clarification in response to HH Bhakti Vikas Maharaj
271)
ISKCON appreciations
270)
To grow individually and socially, look for the weakness in yourself and the goodness in others
269)
For him, Back to Godhead was both the means and the end
268)
Why is the Bhagavad-gita so pessimistic? (expanded with four-point analysis)
March 2014
267)
The Son of the Sun – part 4
266)
What is the significance of lighting a bonfire on the festival of Holi?
February 2014
265)
The Son of the Sun – Part 3
264)
The Son of the Sun – Part 2
263)
Special lecture on Valentine’s Day
262)
Lord Nityananda’s mercy: The magnitude, the motivation and the magic
261)
The Son of the Sun – Part 1
December 2013
260)
The Ultimate Dance
259)
Sexual Energy on the Riot (A spiritual perspective on the Tejpal scandal)
258)
Conversion to What: Intolerance or Transcendence?
November 2013
257)
The nonviolent violence of the Gita
256)
Fear not that life may end; fear that life may never begin
October 2013
255)
See within to seek without; seek without to see within
254)
The Glory of Gita wisdom (Reflections on the second anniversary of Gita-daily)
253)
Is the world a playground or a battleground?
252)
Do women have the right to dress however they like? Is modest dressing old-fashioned?
September 2013
251)
Peace, purity and pleasure – The benefits of mantra meditation (World Holy Name Week Special)
250)
SHARE your story – Five reasons to share the story of how you came to Krishna
August 2013
249)
Srila Prabhupada – the leader who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way (Vyasa Puja Offering 2013)
248)
The God who conceals his godhood so that love can reign supreme (Janmashtami special)
247)
Is the Gita’s message life-negating?
July 2013
246)
When we fall in our devotional standards, we feel guilty and become discouraged. How should we go ahead at such times?
245)
Is spiritual life a supplement or a complement to material life?
244)
When so many people are facing real problems, why should we spend time in spiritual practices like meditation instead of doing something practical to help?
June 2013
243)
How can we develop our determination?
242)
Heredity, Destiny, Divinity – Channelizing the factors that shape us
241)
What does the metaphor of river merging into the ocean actually imply? Does it support impersonalism?
240)
Spot fixation – not spot fixing – is the real problem.
May 2013
239)
Is religion the opium of the masses?
April 2013
238)
Does religion make us helpless?
237)
How should we deal with phases of inner emptiness in our spiritual life?
236)
Is chanting a prayer or a meditation?
March 2013
235)
When Krishna consciousness is supposed to be joyful, why does it seem so joyless?
234)
How can we improve our concentration during meditation?
233)
Gita Overview Mumbai 13.20-35 A coherent understanding of the 6 items taught in Chp 13-
232)
The Pune temple inauguration – The inner and the outer miracle
February 2013
231)
Can we be spiritual but not religious?
230)
Why do we misidentify with the mind?
229)
Fulfilling our longing for love
January 2013
228)
Why does mantra meditation seem to be a burden?
227)
Doesn’t blaming the culture for the Delhi gang-rape mean that we shift the blame away from the criminals?
226)
Delhi Gang-Rape and the modern Shurapanakha
225)
If dharma is our essential nature, then why does the Gita (18.66) ask us to abandon dharma?
December 2012
224)
How can we succeed in leading a principle-centered life?
223)
How can we control the mind when it pushes us towards harmful actions?
222)
How does spiritual knowledge free us from misery, as the Bhagavad-gita promises?
221)
Oh My God: Has religion become a business?
November 2012
220)
Question: If spiritual happiness is eternal, why is our experience of that happiness temporary?
219)
Is Krishna’s love conditional or unconditional?
218)
Is faith in Krishna a matter of human choice or divine grace?
217)
Reflections on the first anniversary of Gita-daily
October 2012
216)
Question: What is the difference between the past ages and the present age?
215)
Why does devotion need to be exhibited publically?
214)
No exception to the rule: “To every rule there is an exception”
September 2012
213)
Writing for Krishna: The Price and the Prize
212)
The encouraging, more encouraging and most encouraging messages of the Gita
211)
The W.R.I.T.E. service: Five reasons to write in devotional service
210)
Why does our consciousness change suddenly from devotional to sensual?
August 2012
209)
Isn’t renunciation a sign of frustration?
208)
The Expert Tightrope Dancer – 2012 Vyasapuja Offering to Srila Prabhupada
207)
Janmashtami meditation: Krishna is committed to our freedom. Are we?
206)
How can we say no to the mind when its force seems irresistible?
July 2012
205)
Understanding the difference between science and scientism
204)
From the god particle to the godly particle
June 2012
203)
How can we protect India’s culture from rampant westernization?
202)
Do devotional rules take away our freedom?
201)
Can we develop spiritually through wholesale material indulgence?
200)
Should we suppress or express our emotions of sorrow when our fellow-devotees pass away in sudden tragedies?
199)
Caste system – Spiritual equality Amidst material diversity
198)
Why do academic scholars of scripture miss its essential message?
May 2012
197)
How are we to see Krishna’s hand amidst tragic, premature death of devotees?
196)
How can we avoid rash impulsive behavior?
195)
Why are Spiritualists Against Material Ambitions?
194)
References to the Hare Krishna Mahamantra
193)
How can we understand that we are different from our mind?
192)
Why do karmic reactions not come in this life itself?
April 2012
191)
Is there any way we can perceive the nature of the soul?
190)
Srila Prabhupada’s visionary propagation of India’s spiritual culture: The Power of One Spiritual Indian
189)
Srila Prabhupada’s Contributions to Society
188)
Brief biography of Srila Prabhupada: The Ambassador of the Kingdom of God
187)
How My Cancer Became a Blessing
186)
Isn’t it more peaceful to appease temptation than to battle it?
185)
The Save Yamuna Campaign: Where Environmental Activism and Devotional Service Unite
184)
Is the Ramayana relevant today?
March 2012
183)
Does spirituality kill our individuality?
182)
How can we increase our mental energy?
181)
“There is much I have to tell you”: Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Krishna consciousness
180)
Doesn’t the institutionalization of spirituality kill its spirit?
179)
Why is God not humble?
February 2012
178)
Doesn’t faith in God express the rejection of our human intelligence?
177)
Why does God use second-hand souls?
176)
Is seeing believing?
175)
The Song of God – A brief introduction to the Bhagavad-gita
174)
Lets Stop Daydreaming
173)
The Key To Religious Harmony
172)
Make Your Family Divine
171)
Faithful Heart, Joyful Heart
170)
Is work Worship?
169)
The best Investor?
168)
The Sound beyond Silence
167)
Reel Unreality
166)
Science – “Two ” Short to Rope the Universe
165)
Humanity – A Burden?
164)
SQ – Your Ultimate Intelligence
January 2012
163)
God proposes, Man Accepts
162)
God Answers Knee-mail
161)
D – Anger
160)
Too Busy to be Happy?
159)
The Spiritual IIT Chance
158)
Are You A Positive Thinker?
157)
The power of Humility and Tolerance
156)
Suicide – Why? What to do?
155)
The secret of fearlessness
154)
Are we the makers of our destiny?
153)
Why are some people born wealthy and some poor?
152)
Does the concept of karma have a logical basis?
151)
Why me! What did I do to deserve this? – Understanding Karmic Justice
150)
What’s wrong with sex?
149)
Are there any logical reasons to choose vegetarianism?
148)
Has science disproved the Bhagavad-gita – does consciousness come from the brain, not the soul?
147)
Advanced Astronomy In the Shrimad-Bhagavatam
146)
Why do people who follow a religion often claim that their path is the only way?
145)
Why do people fight in the name of religion?
144)
Does Religion Cause War? (short)
143)
Does Religion Cause War? (long)
142)
Is the Bhagavad-gita an extremist book?
December 2011
141)
Is the metaphorical interpretation of the Gita’s battlefield setting authorized?
140)
Bad habits – Causes and Cures
139)
The Tea Quake
138)
The One-Eyed Modern Guru
137)
Smiling Faces, Crying Hearts
136)
Why does the Bhagavad-gita call for violence?
135)
Where Technology Falls Short
134)
Foolososphy
133)
Is Something Missing in Modern Education?
132)
Bhagavad-gita for the Jet-age
131)
Guided Missiles, Misguided Men
130)
Happy New Year
129)
The Gita’s Secret Message Of Love
128)
How Everything Began
127)
Artificial Rains – Imaginary Gains, Real Pains
126)
When Monkeys Start Typing
125)
Made Just For You
124)
The Symbiotic Factory
123)
The Science of Karma
122)
Does Religion Cause War? (Article)
121)
The Spiritual Dimension of Life
120)
Your Cosmic Specialness
119)
Why is the Bhagavad-gita so pessimistic?
118)
Material Diversity, Spiritual Equality
117)
Natural Calamities – Why? What to do?
116)
When Science Points to Spirituality
115)
Think Before You Eat
114)
Sexuality and Spirituality
113)
Why use material analogies to illustrate spiritual truths?
112)
The Complete Social Service
111)
Made For Each Other
110)
From Adversity to Prosperity
109)
How can the unlimited have a form?
108)
Spirituality – The Foundation of Morality
107)
The Untapped Glory of India
106)
As we don’t remember our past lives, how do we learn anything from them?
November 2011
105)
Atheism Refuted
104)
The Respiritualization Of Science
103)
Why does the Gita recommend working with detachment?
102)
A Science Of Values
101)
Does genetics disprove reincarnation?
100)
Why is it so difficult to know God?
99)
Is forgiveness practical?
October 2011
98)
What is the significance of Diwali?
97)
How is a holy place different from any other place?
96)
Is God Omnipotent, Omniscient or both?
95)
Is the mind a being or a thing or a nothing?
94)
Doesn’t devotion make one weak and effeminate?
93)
Can a person be both intellectual and emotional simultaneously?
92)
Why does India need spirituality in this IT age?
91)
Why do some religious teachers use death as a tool to scare people into taking up religious practice?
90)
Why do some people commit horrible crimes without the slightest remorse as if they have no conscience?
89)
Why does God demand faith?
88)
What is the difference between lust and love?
87)
How Do Saints Help Others?
86)
Why Irrational Shopping?
85)
Why does the Vedic tradition emphasize divine sound so much?
84)
Isn’t Spirituality Impractical?
83)
Can spirituality free one from stress?
82)
What is the spiritual perspective on the serial Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka (The Secret of Previous Life)?
81)
Is guilt harmful?
80)
Can Spirituality solve World Problems?
79)
Why Natural Calamities?
78)
Is Karma practically relevant?
77)
How to choose the Right Path?
76)
Why to Approach God?
75)
Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
74)
Aren’t Yajnas a Waste of Money?
73)
Can Science Discover Spirituality?
72)
A fresh Worldview
71)
Is factual not actual?
70)
Isn’t That Unscientific ?
69)
What is wrong with creating life?
68)
What is the Vedic perspective on the creation of artificial life?
67)
Isn’t the claim that the soul is the source of energy in the body disproved by the bodily need of food?
66)
Is there any proof of reincarnation?
65)
Is there any scientific proof for the soul’s existence?
64)
Why is spiritual happiness considered superior to material happiness?
63)
Is God a Crutch?
62)
Did man make God?
61)
If God exists, why can’t we see him?
60)
Did man go to the moon?
59)
Why rituals?
58)
Is vegetarianism necessary for spiritual advancement?
57)
Is The Law of Karma Scientific ?
August 2011
56)
Why believe in spiritual promises about future happiness?
55)
Why can’t we remember our past lives?
54)
Does the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra do any practical good for the world?
53)
Are the words dharma and religion synonyms?
52)
Isn’t chanting an act of blind faith?
51)
Doesn’t spirituality demand blind faith?
50)
What is the Vedic perspective on the current agitation against corruption?
49)
Isn’t spirituality an escapeway for those who can’t take life’s sufferings?
48)
How does the knowledge of reincarnation benefit us practically?
July 2011
47)
Where Technology Falls Short…
46)
If there is only one God, then why do different spiritualists have differing conceptions of the divine?
45)
What’s wrong with sex?
44)
If God is good, then why does he allow suffering?
43)
Why do people feel peaceful while meditating?
June 2011
42)
Why do you consider Krishna to be God?
41)
When God is one, why does the Vedic tradition teach polytheism – the worship of many gods?
40)
Is there any practical use of knowing about the soul?
39)
Why waste time in uttering a mantra repeatedly?
May 2011
38)
Religions are meant to bring peace; then why do they cause wars?
37)
How can pizza be called prasad?
36)
Are spiritual feelings imaginary or actual?
35)
What is the role of logic on the spiritual path?
April 2011
34)
If God is supreme, why does he need weapons?
33)
Are Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) hallucinations?
32)
If God has designed our world, then why is there so much suffering here?
31)
Is doubting a virtue or a failing?
March 2011
30)
Why do people fight in the name of religion?
29)
Is there any scientific proof for the existence of the soul?
28)
What is the source of consciousness: the brain or the soul?
27)
Can robots be conscious?
26)
Doesn’t population growth disprove reincarnation?
February 2011
25)
Do animals have souls?
24)
Are We Special? Understanding the difference humans and animals
23)
Is Krishna mythological or historical?
22)
Why is some food considered sacred?
January 2011
21)
In temples, why is worship offered to cars instead of God?
20)
Don’t neuronal correlates of consciousness disprove the soul theory?
19)
If consciousness comes from the soul, then why do brain states affect consciousness?
December 2010
18)
Can Vedic spirituality offer a solution to the current global eco-crisis?
17)
Is Deity worship for less intelligent people?
16)
What is the significance of the aarti performed in temples?
November 2010
15)
Isn’t repeating the same mantra boring?
14)
Why can’t all of us experience spiritual bliss?
13)
What is the purpose of life?
October 2010
12)
Is spirituality relevant for a globalizing India?
11)
Why did Lord Rama banish Sita?
September 2010
10)
Why is Vedic philosophy pessimistic?
9)
Who is God?
8)
Isn’t fasting self-torture?
August 2010
7)
Isn’t spiritual life an attempt to escape from reality?
6)
Can spirituality help us when we are sick?
5)
Isn’t scientific knowledge preferable to spiritual knowledge because it doesn’t depend on faith?
4)
Can science by its future progress discover spiritual truths?
July 2010
3)
Why discuss unscientific things like God, soul and rebirth in this scientific age?
2)
What is the relationship between yoga and bhakti?
June 2010
1)
Can God make a square circle?