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Dining with a monkey

Gita 13.08 The Gita is not a glorification of war, but a delineation of dharma

Gita 13.07 Consciousness is shaped, not sourced, by changes of matter

Bhagavatam study 32 01.7.30-37 The protector from provocation tests by provoking

Gita 13.06 The subtle points towards the spiritual

Bhagavatam study 31 01.7.22-29 Krishna relieves from the dangerous fire – literal and metaphorical

How can we choose among various services that we can do?

When we want to serve Krishna, why do we get tempted?

If people commit murder in the name of religion, what is their destination?

Dasha Mula Tattva 8 – Maya binds us not as prisoners but as puppets

What is the difference between shunyavada, mayavada and nirvisheshavada?

How do impersonalists interpret the Gita’s clearly personalist verses?

Dasha Mula Tattva 7 – Achintyabhedabheda is the most evolved understanding of Vedanta

Gita 13.05 Study matter for functioning and transcending

Does ISKCON brainwash people?

When the Vedas talk about so many gods, isn’t that confusing?

Gita 13.04 Use your sphere of influence for bringing about the ultimate change

Gita 13.03 Knowledge means to know both matter and spirit

How do we see devotees who dont complete their japa in the morning?

How does the hladini shakti entering our consciousness please Krishna?

How to respond to the Buddhist argument that the universe is eternal?

What does the Absolute Truth being one in synthesis and separate in analysis mean?

Just as Christians adopt local cultural forms while converting Indians, can devotees do the same in their outreach?

What is the scientific evidence for incarnations other than Krishna?

Dasha Mula Tattva 6 – The Absolute Truth delights and shares delights through three internal energies

Dasha Mula Tattva 5 – The Absolute Truth and its energies are one in synthesis, different in analysis

PRAHLAD acronym – 7 glories qualities of Prahlad Maharaj

Gita 13.02 Our field reflects our sphere of influence

Gita 13.01 The meanings of words exist not just in dictionary but also in context

Gita 12.20 The concluding verse reiterates and reinforces the starting verse

Gita 12.19 Seek satisfaction not by horizontal improvement, but by vertical advancement

Gita 12.17 Conserve your emotional energy by focus on service

Gita 12.18 To rise above material dualities, break free from material association

Reincarnation 3 – Five intuitive contemplations for self-discovery

Reincarnation 2 – Europe’s incredible delusion – we have only one life

Gita 12.16 Complement spiritual devotion with material dispassion

Gita 12.15 Avoid agitation coming from the social and the mental

Gita 12.14 To sustain satisfaction, seek absorption

Reincarnation 1 – Preview of scientific, historical and philosophical analysis

Gita 12.13 Devotion manifests as action, even aggression, without mundane passion

What is the difference between knowledge in the three modes and intelligence in the three modes?

Gita 12.12 Serenity comes by rising from piety to spirituality

Gita 12.11 To be self-situated, begin with selflessness

Gita 12.10 Bhakti means dedicating our external to the eternal internal instead of the ephemeral internal

Gita 12.09 If absorption in Krishna is unattainable, seek attraction through connection

Gita 12.08 Bhakti changes not our outer location but the locus of our inner world

Gita 12.07 Bhakti-yoga complements human agency with divine agency

Gita 12.06 Devotional renunciation centers not on what we renounce but on for whom we renounce

Gita 12.05 Attachment to oneness leaves us with nothingness to be attached to

Gita 12.04 Don’t treat impersonalists impersonally – they are not all the same

If human will is strengthened by connection with divine will, how do nondevotees sometimes have great determination?

If Indra got the reaction of brahma-hatya for killing Vritrasura, why didnt Rama, for killing Ravana?

Gita 12.03 To say that the Absolute is indescribable is to describe it

Gita 12.02 Closeness unites more than oneness

Gita 12.01 Pantheism and impersonalism both conceive of the Absolute as diffused

Gita 11.55 – Absorption comes by harmonizing action and intention

Gita 11.55 The same chapter that calls for war also calls for giving up animosity

Gita 11.54 Pure devotion grants the topmost spiritual vision

Gita 11.53 Krishna can’t be known by the Vedas, although the Vedas are meant for knowing him

Gita 11.52 Vision results not just from perception but also comprehension

Gita 11.51 Right emotion results from right perception

Gita 11.50 The many-handed changes through the four-handed to the two-handed

Gita 11.49 If we maintain a service disposition, Krishna will reveal a conducive vision

Gita 11.48 Pious action doesn’t qualify us for devotional vision

Gita 11.47 The vision of the universal form, even its destructive feature, is a rare favor

Gita 11.46 Darshan of Vishva-rupa and Vishnu-rupa provide visual demonstration of verbal exposition

Gita 11.45 The vishva-rupa causes jubilation, the kala-rupa causes trepidation

Gita 11.44 Humility in the forgiveness-seeker and magnanimity in the forgiver uplifts both

Gita 11.43 Our response on coming to know others’ greatness is shaped by our relationship with them

Why is there the conservative-liberal divide everywhere, including even in spiritual organizations?

Dasha Mula Tattva 4 – Hari is the Absolute Truth concealed and revealed in the Vedas

Dasha Mula Tattva 3 – Understanding the necessity and focus of Vedic knowledge

Both Narada and Shakuni incited others – what is the difference?

Can superstitions be used in bhakti?

How can we raise our remembrance of Krishna from intellectual recollection to devotional redirection?

Narada Muni – Not kalah-priya, but krishna-priya

Is anger always bad?

Does spiritualist refer to a practitioner of spiritualism, not spirituality?

If everything comes from Krishna why doesn’t everything take us to Krishna?

QA with Christian students 4 – Is the Christian incarnation similar to Vedic avatar?

QA with Christian students 3 – Does the Prodigal Son parable correlate with the fall of the soul?

QA with Christian students 2 – Is there any bhakti equivalent to the Trinity?

QA with Christian students 1 – Is Yashoda similar to Virgin Mary?

If the soul is marginal energy, how can it never fall after attaining Krishna?

From moksha one falls back, from svarga one can be elevated – is kama better than moksha?

Wasn’t Hanuman’s anger in burning Lanka excessive?

How could Arjuna ask Krishna to become his charioteer?

Is Tulsi-Ramayana more biased against Ravana than Valmiki-Ramayan?

When Hanuman was a monkey, why did Sita see him as a man and decline to be carried by him?

Did Vibhishana betray his brother by defecting to Rama’s side?

If Arjuna being a kshatriya was anyway going to fight, why did Krishna speak the Gita?

Dasha Mula Tattva 2 – Scripture is the only way to know inconceivable Absolute Truth

Gita 11.31 Encountering the fearful kala rupa in the vishva-rupa is disconcerting

Gita 1​1.30 The all-devouring feature of the universal form reveals how the war is a yajna

Why did Arjuna kill Bhishma unfairly?

Was Arjuna a better archer than Karna because he got better training facilities?

Why did Dasharatha not go with Rama to the forest when he felt separation from him?

When Vasudeva and Devakis son was going to kill him, why did Kamsa keep them in the same prison cell?

Was Ravana virtuous because he didn’t violate Sita forcibly?

What should I do if my bhakti is damaged after coming from ISKCON?