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Bhagavatam first canto study 1 – 1.1.1 – The Attributes of the Absolute Truth

Is God hard of hearing that his devotees need to chant his names loudly?

If Krishna’s ultimate instruction is to give up all duties for surrendering to him why shouldn’t everyone join the temple?

Is Krishna omninpresent as his energy or personally as the Supersoul?

If the Supersoul is present in all atoms and the space between them, what is special about the Superoul in our heart?

What happens to the Supersoul after death and after liberation?

Is the Supersoul actually expanded in every heart or is it an appearance of expansion?

Mahabharata characters 50 – Arjuna 13 – Battling and serving the beloved grandsire

How do we deal with people’s fear that ISKCON preachers will make ours sons into brahmacharis?

What is wrong with worship of devatas if one understands them to be devotees of Krishna?

How do we reconcile different Puranic versions of the origin of Lord Shiva?

How do we know whether we desire to preach for fame or for pleasing Krishna?

Why is Krishna worshiped in North India in intimate mood and Vishnu worshiped in South India in reverential mood?

Mahabharata characters 49 – Arjuna 12 – The Gita goes far beyond violence to transcendence

Can grihasthas who want to preach make preaching as their source of livelihood?

The religious rural culture of India is being replaced by materialisitc culture. What can we do to counter this?

Should we preach to make people ISKCON devotees or to make them better human beings?

How can we understand which mode we are in?

How can we stay in the mode of goodness?

If one doesnt practice raganuga bhakti then how will one get the realizations needed to return to our svarupa?

Does one have to practice raganuga bhakti to go BTG or is just departing in devotional circumstances enough

Hearing Krishna’s pastimes with the gopis is said to remove lust, but it often induce lust. How do we understand

Why does the mind develop bad habits more easily than good habits?

Mahabharata characters 48 – Arjuna 11 – The divine heart calls the human heart to the path of love

Mahabharata Characters 47 – Arjuna 10 – Arguments against and for fighting in the Gita

Mahabharata Characters 46 – Arjuna 09 – Choose Krishna over the world

Mahabharata Characters 45 – Arjuna 08 – The stunning victory at Virata

Mahabharata Characters 44 – Arjuna 07 – Singlehanded triumph over the Nivatkavachas and Kalakanyas

Mahabharata Characters 43 – Arjuna 05 – Heaven hath no fury like a woman scorned

Mahabharata Characters 42 – Arjuna 05 – Austerity and audacity for the pleasure of Lord Shiva

Mahabharata Characters 41 – Arjuna 04 – All the gods bested at Khandava

Mahabharata Characters 40 – Arjuna 03 – The match made with Krishna as the matchmaker

Meditation on Bhaktivinoda Thakura pranama mantra

Mahabharata Characters 39 – Arjuna 02 – Accepting exile to honour virtue

Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contributions 4 – The Eastern Savior offers the zenith of religious experience among all the world’s religions

Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contributions 2 – See the unity of purpose underlying the diversity of religions

Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contributions 1 – Let faith and reason remove the mosses of illusion

Mahabharata Characters 38 – Arjuna 01 – Diligence is essential for attaining excellence

Doesn’t religious violence disprove the existence of God?

Is Deity worship needed only for neophyte devotees who can’t see Krishna in the heart?

How can we overcome the tendency to take the association of devotees for granted?

What is the difference between bhara-vahi and sara-grahi Vaishnavas?

Are we compromising when we use mild words like outreach instead of Prabhupada’s standard words like preaching?

Jagannatha Ashtakam 8 – The end of all desires except the desire to serve is the end of material existence

Jagannatha Ashtakam 7 – A glimpse of the supreme indestructible rasa removes all taste for destructible things

Jagannatha Ashtakam 6 – The rasanandi Lord relishes the highest ananda through the highest rasa reciprocated with his highest devotee

Jagannatha Ashtakam 5 – The Ratha Yatra festival offers affectionate service in the association of those with intense devotion

Mahabharata Characters 37 – Bhima 07 – Draupadi’s dishonorers destroyed

Mahabharata Characters 36 – Bhima 06 – Bhima decimates the Kauravas in the war’s first sixteen days

Jagannatha Ashtakam 4 – The Lord of the Universe is glorified by the whole universe

Jagannatha Ashtakam 3 – The difference in the sequences of designation and depiction of the Deities

Jagannatha Ashtakam 2 – Spiritual vision goes beyond abstraction to transcendental specification

Jagannatha Ashtakam 1 – The supreme love transcends worldly concerns and genders

Mahabharata Characters 35 – Bhima 05 – Bhima’s heroics during incognito exile

Mahabharata Characters 34 – Bhima 04 – Meting punishment while giving forgiveness

Mahabharata Characters 33 – Bhima 03 – An attack on the gods that fulfilled a godly purpose

Mahabharata Characters 32 – Bhima 02 – No demon is a match to this human

Mahabharata Characters 31 – Bhima 01 – Growing stronger through danger and disaster

Mahabharata Characters 30 – Yudhisthira 08 – Dharmaraja’s moments of infamy and glory in the war

Mahabharata Characters 29 – Yudhisthira 07 – Steadiness through wisdom amidst the war’s worries

Why are Einstein’s and Prabhupada’s metaphors about blind man-lame man contradictory?

What does Einstein’s metaphor about science and religion mean?

Is science based on rational faith and religion on irrational faith?

Does religion require faith from start to end whereas science requires faith only occasionally?

Mahabharata Characters 28 – Yudhisthira 06 – Wisdom wins where strength fails (Nahusha & Yaksha)

Shrivas Thakura – The summit of selfless service in offering everything for the Lord’s pleasure

Vakreshvara Pandit – The wing of devotion for the Lord to fly into the sky of love

Mahabharata Characters 27 – Yudhisthira 05 – Words of wisdom vs words of anger in the forest

If we shouldn’t be disturbed by the mind’s impurities, then how can we beat the mind?

Kolavecha Shridhar – The wealth of devotion makes all other wealth irrelevant

Mukunda Datta – Exemplar of humble determined faith

Snana Yatra – Entry into the Lord’s circle of love through intimate service

Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?

Did past people believe in miracles like Govardhana lila because they were unscientific and gullible?

If Krishna is the cause of all causes, is he the cause of everything that we and others do?

Mahabharata Characters 26 – Yudhisthira 04 – The Pandavas dishonoured and dispossessed

If we concede that scripture doesn’t contain literal report of conversations then where will the erosion of scriptural authority end?

Are science and spirituality at war with each other?

Why are certain important verses quoted by acharyas not found in the scriptures?

Are chanting praying and meditation the same?

Why do some scriptures declare other gods to be Supreme?

Are the Puranas unreliable because they have so many different versions?

Prabhupada quotes largely from the Puranas so how can we show that our sampradaya is based on shruti?

I was born in another sampradaya, but became introduced to seriously bhakti through ISKCON. Which sampradaya should I follow?

Why do insubstantial religious groups spread extensively and pure saints remain unknown?

How the Gita’s ninth chapter reveals its bhakti essence

Mahabharata Characters 25 – Yudhisthira 03 – The virtuous victimized in the vicious gambling match

What is the destination of patriotic atheists like Bhagat Singh?

Why is there no Radha Krishna worship in the Madhva sampradaya?

Who is better – one who chants all day or one who chants a few times and serves others all day?

When Krishna always uses his free will properly, why don’t we too when we are his parts?

Meditation minimizes inner friction and maximizes outer contribution

If we cant fast nirjala on Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi what benefit do we get?

Is belief in God like belief in a cosmic teapot – undisprovable yet unreasonable?

How can India’s wisdom-literature be introduced in the education without the saffronization of the syllabus?

Should every action in the Lord’s pastimes be interpreted to get some instruction from it?

Why does the Gita 12.11 include material charity in the bhakti hierarchy?

Where do religious social workers like Mother Terersa fall in the Gita’s yoga ladder?

How does karma yoga mature into ashtanga yoga?

How does the nishkama karma yogi attain knowledge and liberation? Through the same path or by adopting another yoga?