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Should we learn from the past or consider that whatever happened is God’s will?

Cultists Fanatics and Spiritual Shoppers – Making sense of the world’s religious scenario

When waves of desire come suddenly do they have some rational cause?

When because of our bhakti principles we can’t eat the food offered by our relatives how can we avoid alienating them from bhakti?

Temptation is caused not so much by perception as by provocation

Six loving exchanges – Opening the heart and reciprocating with the opened heart

We are defined by the questions we ask – in life in science and in spirituality

Prabhupada life-story 04 – League of Devotees – A clique thwarts the promise

Irrational irritability results from indiscriminate sensuality

Can machines think?

Go beyond the mind’s transitory feelings to the heart’s transcendental feelings

To be devoted means to look for devotional openings constantly

The Entertainment Industry – Giving the least valuable the most value reflects ignorance

Talk show – Virtual Reality and Spirituality

Is depression a mental problem or a medical problem?

If a devotee familiar to us starts blaspheming our spiritual master how should we deal with that devotee?

When our goals are in the future how can we live in the present?

For devotees are things happening beyond our control due to destiny or Krishna’s mercy?

In outreach what needs to come first – knowledge and inspiration or facilities?

Among knowledge inspiration and facilities if we can’t provide all three to others what is the most important thing to provide?

Bring out the best you 3 – Spiritual help

Bring out the best you 2 – Social help

When we can’t give up our conditionings is just calling out to Krishna the solution?

How can we know that we are subconsciously justifying our anger?

Speaking forcefully often gets people to take things seriously – is such speech angry and to be avoided?

Bring out your best 1 – Self-help

If connection with Krishna makes the inauspicious auspicious then if a devotee gets caught in sinful activities is that also good?

Are the gopis wired naturally to love Krishna so purely?

Seeing Shiva and Vishnu as equal is considered offensive but seeing them as different is also considered offensive – how to understand?

When we can experience peace through oneness with nature why do we need to depict God as a person?

Do theists attribute to God things that are not explainable within our frame of reference?

Can we logically prove God’s existence – Backward and forward reasoning

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 7 – Love in separation is the culmination of love

Demystifying Reincarnation 12 – Where is the programmer of the brain

Prabhupada life-story 03 – The dedicated disciple takes up the mission

If someone has hurt us badly should we tell them that they have hurt us?

Renunciation doesn’t make devotion attractive – devotion makes renunciation attractive

How can we know whether our wrongdoing is accidental or intentional?

How does time affect the dhama in the material world?

Can you explain how sambandha-jnana is like the guiding star and the gopis’ prema is like the sun?

If Krishna is eternally youthful in the spiritual world are his childhood pastimes present there?

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 6 – Parakiya-rasa is not immoral but trans-moral

How is forgiveness related to the modes of material nature?

If we get dreams of our past profession even after having retired for over ten years is that good or bad?

Is retaliation in the mode of passion?

What is the difference between tolerance and passivity?

If some devotees feel inspired to hear Krishna’s intimate pastimes what can they do?

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies

Radharani is the epitome of pure selfless service

Learning to not go up and down with life’s ups and downs – Gita 02.54-57

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness

When Prabhupada says that God can never be illusioned how can we understand that Krishna comes under Yoga-Maya?

Should we study books about God’s greatness and sweetness progressively or in parallel?

Should we not read advanced krishna-lila because we aren’t mature or read it because we need to know our ultimate goal?

By focusing on future spiritual happiness are we running away from living in the present?

Does spiritual knowledge decrease our tendency to find faults with the present?

If a rat is chewing at our foot should we tolerate it?

As we are controlled by material nature do we really have free will?

How can we better apply what we have read?

If we don’t understand much on studying scripture how can we inspire ourselves to study?

Can dreams be considered unreal because they are temporary?

Are dreams real or not?

When our services sometimes cause anxiety how can we understand that devotees are peaceful?

If bhakti is triggered by external stimuli does such bhakti come from the heart?

Understanding consciousness and its four levels – Jagruti Svapna Sushupti and Turya

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika

Christians say Jesus is the only way – do ISKCON devotees say Prabhupada is the only way?

How is inner growth more important than external growth in bhakti?

How does the hierarchy in bhakti differ from mundane hierarchy?

Why doesn’t mainstream science accept the evidence for past-life memories?

Can we heal our emotional hurts by knowing about our past lives?

How can we go from blaming to forgiving?

What is the nature of eternal life?

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 2 – How Karma and Jnana Culminate in Bhakti

Reincarnation and the Search for Meaning – Evidence Explanation & Evolution

How can we prevent the hurts from our past become our emotional baggage in a future life?

Can excessive forgiveness lead to weakness?

What makes us complacent about applying the solution of bhakti to the problem of our known weaknesses?

Who is it that observes the mind has wandered off?

How can we understand Prabhupada’s statement that there is no love in this world?

If we have fear or mistrust towards God how does the process of bhakti work for us?

Is our relationship with our guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

Kusum Sarovar meditation – Cherishing the culture rich with spiritual stimuli

The mind is not the problem – the mindset is

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 1 – Understanding how love culminates in bhakti

How much can analysis help in controlling desires?

Can an animal become a ghost – Hindi?

When Gajendra comes to Krishna because of distress what is the role of his previous life actions – Hindi?

Our parents are destined – are our friends also destined?

Self-help social help and spiritual help – understanding how they work together

Prabhupada life-story 02 – From political activist to spiritual activist

How do we understand Prabhupada’s statement that most of my disciples will go to heaven – Hindi?

The soul can’t be cut but can God cut the soul – Hindi?

Isn’t everything that happens to a surrendered devotee good?

Gajendra Moksha Katha 5 – Which comes first – giving up lower taste or getting higher taste – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

The Blue Whale Challenge and the desperate human need for self-validation

How can we overcome anger?