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How can conservation of energy be reconciled with temporariness of matter?

What is the reference point for saying that the soul is small?

How can we prove that life has the purpose of loving Krishna?

How can we understand that the attractiveness of all attractive things comes from Krishna?

Are there different levels of seeing Krishna?

How is Rama’s treatment of Sita justified?

If guru-shishya parampara was always present, how could monism become so prominent?

Can we have a thoughtless mind?

Why do we feel sleepy during chanting, but not kirtan or prasad?

Does the mind have more impressions from the present life than from past lives?

How can we stop daydreaming?

What happens to the mind when we sleep?

Analyzing Social Media 2 – How social is social media?

Seek not just the self – seek the soul Gita 02.21

Remembering Srila Prabhupada’s mood and sacrifice – Hindi

Tamal Krishna Maharaj books appreciation

Drinking water and sleeping are both bodily needs – why is sleeping considered in the mode of ignorance?

How to balance between shunning social media and being obsessed with social media?

What is the spiritual perspective on death due to dowry harassment apart from past karma?

How to see spiritually the grief I feel after my mother has passed away?

Is violence against women in India caused by the objectification of women as sense objects in Indian sacred texts?

How does telepathy occur?

Is the mind like a TV on which pictures are projected?

Can the mind travel out of the body?

Are material objects less pure than us?

How is detachment empowering?

When the soul moves from one body to another, is there complete conservation of the mind?

Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder – A Vedic Perspective

What does fixing the mind on the lotus feet of Krishna mean?

Why religion seems dispensable

We can’t replace the mind, but we can re-place it

Analyzing various perceptions and conceptions of God

Reincarnation Research – Science, Pseudo-Science & Scientism

How can we overcome the mind’s rationalizations?

If the mind is not a person, who proposes desires to us?

Is the mind personal or impersonal?

If the software is compared to the mind, what is the intelligence compared to?

How is controlling the mind by focusing it on Krishna different from focusing it on some material object?

How can we help people who are following some apasampradaya – Hindi?

Reincarnation and the human quest for self-understanding

How to see God in this world

The possibility for self-improvement is reduced by materialism and expanded by spirituality Gita 18.60

Study the Gita for understanding it, not undermining it

Spiritualizing our relationships – Hindi

Is self-respect the same as ego – Hindi?

How can we be Krishna conscious when we are not staying with devotees in a youth center – Hindi?

What is the difference between purity and goodness – Hindi?

While doing our service, is seeing everything in connection with Krishna necessary?

Scripture is a torch to see the world, a mirror to see the self and a window to see God

World Religions – From Bhakti Universal to Bhakti Confidential

Understanding who is the doer – Analyzing instincts, impulses and intelligence

Once we slip down a slope, we can’t control how far we slip down Gita 03.36

The mind can make a soldier into a deserter or even a betrayer Gita 05.22

Meta-thinking is vital for fruitful thinking Gita 14.23

If people hold on to their beliefs, how can we elevate them?

Why do Hindus leave shoes outside their place of worship but Christians don’t?

When scripture says our parents are God, why do some young devotees renounce their parents?

How can bhakti philosophy unite world religions?

Light to see the world – Science, Spirituality and Life’s Big Questions

How can we avoid getting caught in petty things?

Do microbes forming on rocks demonstrate that life comes from matter?

Can future scientific advancement detect the existence of God?

As humans can do a wide variety of activities, doesn’t that prove we have free will?

What comprises science – what are the boundaries that define science?

What does knowledge in the mode of ignorance mean in today’s world?

Is there some science other than modern for explaining matter?

Don’t waste your mental energy on people on whom you won’t waste your time Gita 11.55

Address misery first by recognizing its fundamental cause then its circumstantial cause Gita 09.33

How do tantrics get special power?

How can we go beyond being exclusivist and pluralist to becoming inclusivist?

When so many humans are doing bad karma today, how is the human population increasing?

How can people from other religions realize that they are servants of Krishna?

When Krishna is the source of both material and spiritual worlds, which world comes first?

Does dharma mean religion?

Within a religion, when there are many paths, how do we know our path?

What is the Vedic perspective of Buddhism?

How is Shankaracharya’s path to be seen in the inclusive understanding of dharma?

When sanatana-dharma is inclusive, why are most Hindus pluralists?

When a bad thing happens, does optimism mean seeing it as the best thing that could have happened?

Does positive thinking mean that we shouldn’t think about the past – then how will we learn from it?

How can Chrisitan conversions in India be countered – can Hindus be united for this purpose?

Some Christians say that Kalki will be Jesus come again, not Krishna come again – how to respond?

How central is cow slaughter to Islam?

If Islam considers idolatry the greatest sin, how can it co-exist with Hinduism?

Why do post-modern Leftist scholars in India separate Islam from terrorism, but not Hinduism from the caste system?

As different paths conceive God differently, do they all lead to the same goal?

Don’t give your enemies weapons to beat you with Gita 03.36

Ask not how could he have done that – ask what is to be done next Gita 03.39

World Religions 3 – Islam – Beyond the politically correct and the politically incorrect to the philosophically correct

World Religions 2 – Christianity – Beyond authoritarian and humanitarian religion to transcendence

World Religions 1 – Appreciating religious diversity amidst spiritual universality

Analyzing Social Media 1 – What it does for us and what it does to us

Devotion, renunciation and aversion are differentiated by the direction of emotion

Dumbness is not inability to understand gibberish – it is inability to see gibberish for what it is Gita 18.63

Before Nirjala Ekadashi, can we take some juices or pills to increase our fasting capacity?

From the karmic perspective, what is the difference between ignorant wrongdoings and intentional wrongdoings?

Why do scriptures not describe technology such as bulbs?

Gita 14.11 Don’t chase the objects in perception – clean the doors of perception

Gita 16.08 Materialism strips not only the other world of reality but also this world of meaning

Gita 08.20 Those who reject a world beyond this world sentence themselves to pointless business in this world