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How can we avoid becoming proud on getting a position of power?

Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic

Spiritual Advancement and Material Ambitiousness

Science proves its faith as factual by experiment – so isn’t it a preferable way of gaining knowledge?

How do we deal with faultfinding mentality wrt uncleanliness among our loved ones?

Despite having so many time-saving devices, why do we not have time?

How can we manage our relations with nondevotee family members?

Do all paths lead to the same goal?

How do we get rid of the propensity to want to prove our greatness to the world?

Why not accept nature as God and do social service without becoming religious?

How do we know there is life after death?

Gita 04.40 – Don’t let doubts deprive you of happiness

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge

Gita 04.38 – Don’t reduce jnana to jnana-yoga

Emotion Commotion Devotion – Nourishing our emotions in a culture of emotional exploitation

How can we give up addictions so that we can practice bhakti?

How do the modes affect our intelligence’s capacity to choose our emotions?

When our professional and family responsibilities already fill our schedule, why should we take the additional burden of practicing bhakti?

How do we deal with emotions of others – friends, relatives and devotees?

How do we deal with the inner conflict created by having within us both dharmic knowledge and worldly emotions?

Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes

Karna’s tragic choice

Extra-terrestrial life – Scientific and scriptural approaches to the subject

Difference between humans and animals – Christian, scientific and Bhagavatam understandings

If someone doesn’t have a photographic memory, is that injustice or does it mean he is meant to excel in some field that doesn’t require such a memory?

If someone doesnt have a photographic memory is that injustice or does it mean he is meant to excel in some field that doesnt require such a memory?

How can we increase nama-ruchi?

How can we serve according to our nature when knowing our nature takes time?

Gita 04.36 – The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge

The purpose of the world – atheistic, theistic and Bhagavatam understandings

Why does the world offer more wrong options than right options?

Should we force our teenage children to take to bhakti or leave it to Krishna’s will?

When people say we don’t care about next life karmic consequences how should we preach to them?

Why did God give us free will when he knew we could misuse it?

How do we reconcile science and spirituality when they are contradictory?

Gita 04.35 – Knowledge takes us beyond illusion and reveals connection of everything with Krishna

Obstacles on the spiritual path at the level of intelligence, mind and faith

Gita 04.34 – Learn from guru how to do karma as yajna and attain jnana

Conceptual, conversational and chronological background of the Bhagavatam’s creation narrative

How can we continue in bhakti when our faith in devotees is shaken?

How can we avoid pride while doing service?

We feel more eager to read news than scripture – what to do?

How can we strengthen our faith in Krishna amidst difficulties?

Why do both Krishna and Lord Chaitanya appear in Vaivasvata Manu’s period?

Do those who live in Vrindavan live on the lap of Krishna?

Love is in the SOUND

Why does mantra chanting calm the dying?

Is there a relationship between mantra chanting and physical healing?

Can mantra chanting help us to access all the knowledge that was known to humanity in the past?

How does mantra singing help in emotional healing?

Gita 04.33 – Let action be permeated by knowledge and culminate in knowledge

Gita 04.32 – Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation

As qualities in goodness are favorable to bhakti should devotees try to cultivate them?

Have all devotees already practiced yoga, jnana, tapa and all such processes for transcendence?

Gita 04.31 – Happiness in this world and the next don’t have to be mutually exclusive

What is the effect of hearing rasa-lila pastimes with mundane intentions?

Gita 04.30 – The knowers of yajna attain purification, satisfaction and liberation

Gita 04.28 – Apply the yajna priniciple to a broad spectrum of religious activities

Gita 04.27 – Ceassation of all sensory and respiratory activity is a yajna

Gita 04.26 – The mood of sacrifice spiritualizes both the householder and the renounced orders

Gita 04.25 – Re-envision both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda as yajna

Krishna can bring good out of everything – even our mistakes

Gita 04.24 – When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual

Gita 04.23 – Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity

Gita 04.22 – See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability

Gita 04.21 – Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire

Gita 04.20 – The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter

Gita 04.19 – Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant

Gita 04.18 – Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization

Will accepting reincarnation make people more lazy or more responsible?

Can an OBE be repeated and experimented upon?

Are there any scientifically verified cases of past-life memories?

Are there any NDEs that conclusively prove the existence of the soul?

Gita 04.17 – Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible

How do we counter the explanation of NDEs as mind-body split?

What are the proofs for reincarnation accepted by mainstream scientists?

Cant past-life memories be coincidences among the earth’s eight billion people’s stories?

Why do people consider the Bhagavatam’s history to be mythological?

How do we deal with the material-spiritual conflict in our heart?

Gita 04.16 – Don’t simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning

How can we make the effect of hearing last for long?

Do devotees have to give up humor?

How can we face problems caused by others without falling for the blame game?

Information Satisfaction Purification Conviction – Four Benefits of Hearing

Gita 04.15 – Follow the successful to be successful

Accepted limitation facilitates elevation – resented limitation doesn’t

Gita 04.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position protects us from karmic subjugation

Does Krishna’s not being able to remember the Gita later in the Mahabharata prove that some higher being spoke the Gita through him?

When chanting is so simple why do we feel so lazy – how can we chant constantly?

How should we see unbrahminical behavior of brahman-initiated devotees?

As advanced spiritualists have no material desires, do they get no dreams while sleeping?

If tamasic people are attracted to ghastly worshipable forms, then are those who worship Narasimha tamasic?

Why is Rama Navmi fast broken in some temples with grains and in others without grains?

Gita 04.13 – Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating

Does God have favorites?

Gita 04.12 – Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion

Is Christianity Mayavada because many Christians consider Jesus to be God?

Bhagavatam first canto study 6 – 1.2.9-1.2.15 – Bhakti leads to realization of the Absolute Truth

Sensitivity in preaching amidst natural calamities

Gita 04.11 – Appreciate the profundity of Krishna’s reciprocity and universality