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Why does God send different teachers who teach different paths?

Why is the Gaudiya sampradaya a branch of the Brahma-Madhva sampradaya and not its straight continuation?

How are scriptures relevant today

Uddhava Gita nectar 3 – The gopis’ ecstatic samadhi

Uddhava Gita nectar 2 – Love explained – Comparing materialist, Abrahamic, impersonalist and bhakti worldviews

Uddhava Gita nectar 1 – Krishna acknowledges the gopis’ heartbreak

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 2 – Learn to relish bhakti rasa

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 1 – Bhakti inverts social hierarchy

Yayati pastime analysis – From indulgence to transcendence

FREE – 4 ways spirituality makes us better achievers

Gita 13.24 Sankhya and bhakti are different in form, but similar in essential content and ultimate purpose

Gita 13.23 One purusha is controlled by nature, the other is the controller of nature

Gita 13.22 Our desire to enjoy matter subjects us to material distress

How are spiritual experiences different from chemically-induced experiences?

Who damaged bhakti culture more – Muslims or Britishers?

Gita 13.21 Material causality is not complete causality

Is the spiritual an energy like material energies such as thermal or electrical energies?

How did Nimai Pandit’s name become Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?

Why did Lord Chaitanya first become a scholar and then a devotee?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi – Part 2

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi Part 1

Gita 13.20 Matter is eternal, but material forms are temporary

Can any pastime be analyzed metaphorically for some moral instruction?

Is Gandhiji’s commentary on the Gita ok?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

How do laws of nature invalidate design – don’t laws require a designer?

Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection

When problems distract us from bhakti, isn’t it better to solve the problems and then focus on bhakti?

How can we know the balance between the painkiller of material things and the cure of spirituality?

Gita 13.18 All objects of knowledge are meant to direct us to the objective of knowledge

Go beyond get, beget, forget, regret

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 3 – Understanding material nature

When scientists criticize intelligent design, how can we establish that God is the explanation for explainability?

If everything unconnected with Krishna is Maya, then are all systems for valuing different things differently also Maya?

When Maya is so powerful, what is our hope for being delivered?

When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?

Are there any practicing brahmavadis today or are all impersonalists mayavadis?

How to avoid becoming discouraged when we are unable to pronounce the mahamantra clearly and correcting it takes too much time?

Is there any correlation between the Dashavataras and the four yugas?

Does the sequence of the Dashavatars reflect the theory of evolution?

What are the differences between plenary portions, expansions and incarnations?

What is the exact difference between brahmavadis and mayavadis?

When Krishna can free us from illusion, can’t he free us from pride too?

If Bhagavatam and Bible come from different frames of reference, does that mean everything is relative?

Is the Biblical Adam-Eve story of creation reconcilable with the Bhagavatam’s description of narration?

If everything coming from Krishna is also Krishna, then is everyone God?

Holy Name is Everything Part 2

Holy Name is Everything Part 1

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 2 – Understanding Maya

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 1 – Understanding the Absolute Truth

Gita 13.17 The all-round glory of the Absolute includes its glory as the destroyer

Gita 13.16 The Gita’s Absolute reflects not naive anthropomorphism but profound sophistication

Gita 13.15 The Absolute’s paradoxical attributes underscore its transcendental inconceivability

If our outreach services require us to go away from devotees how can we get their association?

Bhagavatam study 35 01.7.52-58 Law codes alone aren’t enough for justice – an expert judge is needed

Gita 13.14 The knowable’s all-pervasiveness points to its transcendence of our capacity to know

Is it appropriate to speak directly on the Bhagavatam to new people?

When people are alienated by ISKCON’s high standards, how can we attract them?

How can we present shastra in a contemporary way?

Which Krishna pastimes can we meditate on?

How can we attract people who are connected with other spiritual organizations?

Doesn’t ISKCON’s managerial structure sometimes impede its spiritual outreach?

Why don’t we spontaneously act according to our svabhava?

How can we accommodate those who can’t practice bhakti with high standards?

The living bhakti tradition is a garden, not a museum

Gita 13.13 That which grants the immortal is the most vital knowable

Dasha Mula Tattva 13 – Study scripture with focus on the purpose of scripture

Dasha Mula Tattva 12 – Enter higher rasas by purification, not imitation

What is the Gaudiya Vaishnava understanding of Manu Smriti?

Do the Vedas teach that only brahmanas by birth can become brahmanas?

How can we explain that Krishna’s pastimes are not mythological?

Why are the same pastimes described differently in different scriptures?

How can we tune our consciousness so that Krishna manifests therein?

How can I celebrate my birthday spiritually?

Spirituality in the Age of Science

Gita 13.12 Knowledge means to what is the most important to know

Bhagavatam study 34 01.7.44-51 Differences in opinion arise from differences in focus of perception

Gita 13.11 The way of devotion is different from the way of the masses

Are there any scriptural examples of those indifferent to the modes?

Why does Krishna do certain things for maintaining people’s faith in paths other than bhakti?

Why does the Gita refer to people following scripture (17.11) while describing people without scriptural faith?

Does one need to know one’s svarupa to be liberated?

Does pure devotion mean expecting no reciprocation from Krishna?

Can we have a relationship with someone without reciprocation from them?

How can we explain Krishna’s conspiracies in the Mahabharata?

How can we correlate shastra with our daily life?

Gita 13.10 Detachment is not meant to make us hard-hearted

Dasha Mula Tattva 11 – Love is not just feeling but also doing

Why do senior devotees sometimes join apasampradayas?

What makes Indians convert to Islam or Christianity?

Dasha Mula Tattva 10 – Mayavada is the inversion, not contradiction, of Vaishnavism

Isn’t it better to be a stable grihastha than a bewildered brahmachari?

How can we be inspired when we don’t get much association of senior devotees?

Should we associate with like-minded devotees or devotees who have the qualities we don’t have?

Dasha Mula Tattva 9 – Association is the way to liberation

Gita 13.09 To cultivate detachment from matter, contemplate the distresses of material existence

Bhagavatam study 33 01.7.38-43 Ashwatthama’s actions were inexcusable and punishable

Why has God given us such a troublesome mind?

Does spirituality choke our scientific enquiry?