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Can our prescribed duties be changed according to our likes or dislikes?

Why do we avoid specific food items in specific months during Chaturmasa?

As the world judges us by actions not dispositions how can we avoid the confusion caused by wrong judgments?

What is the difference between qualities and abilities?

How much importance should devotee-parents give for the material education of their children, especially preparing them for competitive exams etc?

Why do scriptures contain provocative descriptions of female beauty as in the Mohini Murti pastime?

Does having equal disposition towards all mean tolerating troubles from others passively?

How can we avoid pride without going into self-pity?

Does being humble mean being indifferent towards honor or being absorbed in Krishna?

Do householder devotees need to attend the temple morning program daily to be surrendered?

Wasn’t Arjuna’s taking on the garb of a mendicant to abduct Subhadra immoral?

Kunti’s prayers (1.8.28-1.8.31) – Krishna gives up his supremacy so that love can reign supreme (Hindi)

When Uddhava already had so much knowledge about Krishna, why did Krishna send him to learn from the Vrajavasis?

Is the concept of good and bad omens a superstition?

Why did Arjuna despite being a pure devotee hunt animals?

When Jayadratha didn’t actually kill Abhimanyu, why did Arjuna target him to avenge Abhimanyu’s death?

How can we rectify an offense, especially when the devotee whom we have offended doesn’t know about the offense?

Why do Abrahamic religions violently oppose Deity Worship?

Should we hear only from advanced pure devotees or from whichever devotees inspire us?

Are all vegetarian seekers more spiritually advanced than non-vegetarian seekers?

Should there be dowry in devotee-marriages?

Is all sex an expression of lust or can it be an expression of love?

Can devotees do abortion if it is favorable for their bhakti?

Tulasi Shalagram Vivaha – The inconceivable manifestation of the love between the Lord and the devotee

Do women have the same varna as their husbands?

Bhishma Stuti SB 1.09.32-38 (Hindi)

How can we avoid isolation when people around us misunderstand our intentions and hurt us?

How can we become equally disposed toward every living entity?

How is the Vaishnava assertion that the world is like a dream different from the Advaita rejection of the world as unreal?

Why does the Avanti brahmana say that the mind is the cause of our suffering and not we ourselves?

Wasn’t it fanatical of Lord Chaitanya to punish Chhota Haridas so severely for such a minor transgression?

Does telepathy really happen? If yes, how?

If our svarupa is fixed, then is our endeavor to experience a different rasa futile?

Nimbarakacharya – Incarnation of Sudarshan Chakra

Did Dasharatha Maharaj go to heaven instead of the spiritual world?

How did you come to Krishna consciousness?

Is having doubts unfortunate? Are doubts undesirable?

How did God create black holes?

Can’t the universe have always existed the way it is? Why bring God into the picture?

Is spirituality the explanation that we resort to when we can’t get explanations?

If a senior brahmachari changes his ashrama, how should we understand that situation and deal with that devotee?

How does evil harden our heart towards Krishna? How can we prevent such hardening?

How do we respond to those who say that different Puranas glorify different devatas as Supreme?

Why is Krishna often thought of as one of the incarnations of Vishnu?

The Multiples Conflicts within the Gita

If dharma leads to artha, then why do devotees have financial difficulties and what does Krishna’s special mercy of taking away artha mean?

If the desire for liberation is selfish should we desire liberation or not?

Does the Dashavatara conception – with aquatics in the start, semi-humans in the middle and humans in the end – support the theory of evolution?

Rasikananda Thakura – The power of devotion makes even animals dance

Govardhana Puja – Ecological disaster originates in spiritual disaster

Bali Maharaj – Surrender doesn’t have to wait

Diwali – Let spiritual wisdom light the lamp within

Virabhadra Goswami – An important preserver and propagator of the Gaudiya tradition

Is buddhi-yoga a separate type of yoga apart from the four main yogas?

Can one person have true love for other person in material world?

If Padma Purana is written by Vyasadeva then how can the Damodarashtakam in it Purana be composed by Satyavrata Muni?

While glorifying Damodara why do we say Radha-Damodara and not Yashoda-Damodara?

Should devotees be promoting any particular candidate during political elections?

What is the meaning of the Gita 6.44 statement that the advanced yogi goes beyond the range of Vedic sound?

When adharma continues to exist in the world, what does it mean to say that the Lord’s mission is complete?

Is the Brahmastra Brahma’s weapon? Why is it considered so special?

Can a homosexual become a brahmachari?

Do material laws cease to apply for devotees?

How can we offer all the results of our work to Krishna?

People say “Pursue your passion.” Is such passion coming from the soul or the mind?

How can we take shelter of Krishna when the sexual urge troubles us while we are resting in bed?

Why do we talk about the benefits of chanting when we are meant to chant selflessly for Krishna’s pleasure?

Should we avoid debates with argumentative people who believe that technology is beneficial?

Is our capacity to practice devotional service limited by our prarabhda karma and the resulting guna configuration?

Who has the proof or knowledge that incredibly well-designed natural crystals, the natural arches, or even complicated biological things were designed by someone ‘intelligent’?

If the mechanisms of evolution are just imagination, then isn’t religion also just the imagination of some sages?

Is there a difference between the spirit soul and the spiritual body that he possesses?

Does the spirit soul remain the non-doer in the spiritual world just like he is the non-doer of his activities in the material world?

Does one need to be materially opulent to preach Krishna consciousness?

What prevents us from applying what we hear? How can we correct it?

If we like to hear do we still need to chant more to make spiritual advancement?

Karttika – Spiritual Opportunism for Krishna’s pleasure

Lakshmi Puja – Narayana, not Lakshmi, is Lakshmi-devi’s greatest blessing

Krishna Saradiya Rasayatra – The celebration of sublime and supreme love

Narottam Das T – Pure devotion trumps caste

Murari Gupta – Devotion – single-minded and broad-minded

Krishnadas Kaviraja G – Masterly integration of scholarship and devotion

Raghunatha Dasa G – The sweetness of devotional renunciation

Raghunatha Bhatta G – Harmonize apara and para dharmas

Dussehra – Victory in the inner war

Durga Puja – Durga Devi’s Role in the cosmic master plan

In what consciousness should we attend festivals centered on demigod worship that we are obligated to attend?

Madhavacarya’s contributions to re-establishing pure devotion

Four empowerments from hearing

Can hearing classes on the internet substitute for going to the temple to hear classes?

Aren’t we blaming the victim when we say that women’s revealing dresses are the cause of crimes against them?

Can we attain a level where nothing that Krishna does can stop us from loving him?

Prabhupada’s war stratey for penetrating America

Does the Vishva-rupa’s devouring the Kauravas prove that the Hindu God is a cannibal, as preachers of some other religion claim?

How can a butcher be advanced in spiritual knowledge as the Vyadha Gita in the Mahabharata depicts?

What does the Mahabharata pastime of Draupadi and all the Pandavas except Yudhisthira falling before they reach the top of the Himalayas signify?

When the Gita says the world is duhkhalayam, does that mean we should face all duhkha passively?

While hearing scripture, should we seek solutions to our current problems through the hearing or just focus on hearing about Krishna?

When Lord Chaitanya didn’t insist that Haridas Thakura be allowed entry into Jagannatha temple, why do ISKCON’s non-Hindu devotees want entry?

Why do some temples not allow non-Hindus from entering? Is this rule scriptural or merely cultural?