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Gita 02.23 – The utter indestrutibility of the soul underlies the path of difficult duty

Gita 02.22 – The dress metaphor redefines death not as a miserable termination but as a welcome transition

Gita 02.21 – Integrate knowledge of the soul with the purpose of that knowledge

Gita 02.20 – The soul doesn’t undergo the six changes that matter does

Gita 02.19 – The soul’s non-doership points to the complexity of matter-spirit interaction

Is Krishna’s reference to Arjuna as Bharata spiritual because the Bharata dynasty is filled with liberated souls?

If Krishna addresses Arjuna as per the bodily conception, does it mean that Krishna is in the bodily conception?

Gita 02.18 – The immeasurability of soul points to its non-literal non-metaphorical measure

Gita 02.17 – Nothing can destroy the soul because it pervades everything

Gita 02.16 – Matter has no existence in the sense of having no lasting consequence

Gita 02.15 – Those unaffected by the temporary attain the eternal

If a senior devotee asks me to take up a major service that he himself is not good at, should I follow him?

Gita 02.14 – The material is peripheral, unavoidable and ephemeral – so tolerate it

As varna means color, is varnashrama based on bodily color?

How can we help a dying relative attain emotional closure with an unforgiving relative?

Gita 02.13 – The body is changing, not just growing – so focus on the unchanging

Gita 02.12 – Spirit is not just eternal but also plural

Does fear take people towards God or away from him?

Is speaking to new people about Krishna the ninth offense to the holy name?

Gita 02.11 – The ability to harmonize the walk with the talk characterizes the wise

Gita 02.10 – Change in the seeker’s mood evokes change in the teacher’s mood

Bhagavatam-daily 85 – SB 11.08.01 – Why struggle to increase the pleasure that is unchangeably finite?

Gita 02.09 – The decision of inaction reflects desperation to learn

Bhagavatam-daily 84 – 11.07.74 – When the prison door is open don’t turn your back to it

Gita 02.08 – Outer success can’t remove inner distress

Bhagavatam-daily 83 – 11.07.73 – Don’t delight in duality – delight in Krishna

Gita 02.07 – Arjuna exhibits 3 characteristics of an ideal disciple

Does the improbability of extra-terrestrial life support more the Christian conception of God than the Vedic conception?

Gita 02.06 – Find way through lose-lose problems by seeking emotional distance

Gita 02.05 – Hard choices have to be made to avoid harder consequences

How can we best help a relative who is near death?

Gita 02.04 – Resolve conflicts among different roles by raising consciousness

Gita 02.04 Fight not for or against some material cause – fight for Krishna

As neophytes can’t understand tattva and rasa accurately, isn’t it better to consider Krishna-lila depictions as literal and not artistic?

Won’t atheists use the concept of artistic license in depciting Krishna-lila to say that his supernatural pastimes are poetic exaggerations?

Gita 02.03 – Fight degrading temptation by remembering honoroble position

Should conversions be banned in India?

Gita 02.02 – Arya – Spiritual denotation, historical concoction and modern connotation

What is the difference between faith and blind faith? (PK answered 27)

Are different religions like different companies with their gods as their product? (PK answered 26)

How can God who is unlimited appear as a limited stone image? (PK answered 24)

Does a stone smeared with turmeric become God? (PK answered 23)

Gita 02.01 – Arjuna’s analysis only aggravates his agony

Is PK an anti-Hindu movie? (PK answered 22)

Are we meant to not ask questions in matters of faith? (PK answered 21)

Is ISKCON misappropriating sanatana-dharma?

Is dharma same as religion?

If God has given scripture, then which scripture and to whom?

If scripture is given by God, why is it not visible to a newborn child?

Aren’t Hindu teachers by refuting PK unnecessarily promoting it?

Why waste milk on God’s image when his children are starving? (PK answered 20)

Daily-Bhagavatam 73 – 11.07.63 – Temporary shelter is a danger if it distracts from eternal shelter

How can worshiping a cow get a person a job? (PK answered 19)

If God has a plan for everything, does chanting mantras for getting something change his plan? (PK answered 18)

Why do religious teachers threaten people with fear of future punishment? (PK Answered 17)

Why does God like flattery? (PK answered 16)

When God is all-powerful, why do religionists need to protect him and for that attack others? (PK answered 15)

Daily-Bhagavatam 72 – 11.07.62 – See food as the grace of God

Why does God favor the wealthy by letting them bypass the queues in temples? (PK answered 14)

Does God respond more to our prayers when we worship him in a bigger murti? (Pk answered 13)

If God can hear our prayers directly, why do we need to pray to a murti? (PK answerd 12)

Is going to temple due to fear cowardice? (PK answered 11)

Is religion a business run by godmen to exploit people’s fears? (PK answered 10)

Why do different religions have different rituals? (PK answered 9)

Why aren’t we born with our religion stamped on our body? (PK answered 8)

Is religion made by man or by God? (PK answered 7)

Why would God want his children to roll on the ground to come to him? (PK answered 6)

Do fearful people go to temples? (PK answered 4)

Are rituals wrong numbers for calling God? (PK answered 3)

Is the god who made us completely unknowable to us? (PK answered 2)

Are there two gods – the god who made us and the god whom we made? (PK answered 1)

Daily-Bhagavatam 71 – 11.07.61 – Don’t let love stop with this world

Daily-Bhagavatam 70 – 11.07.60 – Parent in the service of the supreme parent

Vaishnava Meditations on Christmas

Daily-Bhagavatam 69 – 11.07.59 – As the infant needs parent, the soul needs Krishna

Daily-Bhagavatam 68 – 11.07.58 – Appreciate the inconceivable even in the material

Daily-Bhagavatam 67 – 11.07.57 – Let horizontal love remind us of vertical love

Daily-Bhagavatam 66 – 11.07.56 – Counter temptation by intelligence, vigilance and diligence

Daily-Bhagavatam 65 – 11.07.55 – Don’t expect the future to be a continuation of the comfortable present

Does God like atheists more than religionists because atheists don’t kill children?

Daily-Bhagavatam 64 – 11.07.54 – Focus on Krishna to harmonize other relationships

Was Arjuna aware of the soul’s existence before hearing the Gita?

Daily-Bhagavatam 63 – 11.07.53 – Don’t settle down into psuedo-security

Daily-Bhagavatam 62 – 11.07.52 – Don’t let worldly relationships consume all our emotions

What is artistic license and how can it be used in devotional dramas?

Daily-Bhagavatam 61 – 11.07.51 – Live beyond the world, as does the sun

Don’t sharpen the axe in the criminal’s hands; cure the criminal

Hold on to Hari, not to worry

Daily-Bhagavatam 60 – 11.07.50 – Focus more on reciprocation than renunciation

Daily-Bhagavatam 59 – 11.07.49 – Intelligently see the invisible but inexorable bodily change

Daily-Bhagavatam 58 – 11.07.48 – Unchanging substance below changing appearance brings security

Daily-Bhagavatam 57 – 11.07.47 – Don’t let limitation of expression become limitation of intention

In SB 1.2.7 if the knowledge is acquired through devotion how is it causeless?

Bhagavatam-daily 56 – 11.07.46 – Take shelter of Krishna however that manifests to us

In SB 1.2.2 what does the trees’ echoing Vyasadeva’s call to Shukadeva mean?

In NoI 8 why is kirtanam mentioned separately from engaging the tongue?

Is there any difference between urges and feelings?

What feelings do impersonalists experience – material or spiritual?

Bhagavatam-daily 55 – 11.07.45 – Light within the purifying flame of devotion

Bhagavatam-daily 54 – 11.07.44 – Bathe in the purifying river of saintly association