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Gita Overview Mumbai 14.22-27 Become an observer of the consciousness

What is kham brahma? What is ether? Is ether same as brahman?

Why is vatsalya and madhurya not included in the 9 forms of devotional service?

As bhakti centers on smarana, is just chanting enough to take us back to Godhead?

Why does Prabhupada’s Gita 6.46 translation of karmi not include nishkama karmis?

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.17-21 Knowledge arises from sattva not abhyasa

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.11-16 How knowledge became redefined as the quest for power not truth

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.1-10 Characteristics of the three modes

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.20-35 A coherent understanding of the 6 items taught in Chp 13-

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.13-19 Understanding five koshas and achintyabhedabheda in the Gita

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.8-12 Role of bhakti in jnana and of jnana in bhakti

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.1-7 Vyashti and Samashti approaches to understanding reality

Mukunda Mala Stotra 19 – Redefining our conceptions of greatness

Is the verse ‘Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu’ Mayavadi?

Do animals act by instinct or they have intelligence also?

Why do we consider 108 times chanting as 1 round?

How do we respond to atheists who refer to god as a magician?

Was the concept of sun-god invented by ancient people who didnt know about solar flares?

Can we remember in the spiritual world the technology Krishna used to make both the worlds?

Does Brahma have 4 or 5 heads?

Is stating that god has created the universe like saying a magic fairy moves a car piston?

What does Bhaktisiddhanta’s statement “The world doesnt need any reformer” mean?

Five aspects of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s outreach

Gita Overview 12.12-20 Unraveling the mysterious hierarchy of 12.12

Gita Overview Mumbai 12.1-11 Progression from Virata Rupa to Impersonal Brahman

Gita Overview Mumbai 11.41-55 Pure devotion reveals all visions

Does the mind wander more while chanting Hare Krishna as compared to other mantras?

Gita Overview Mumbai 11.24-40 Material destruction paves the way for spiritual ressurection

Gita Overview Mumbai 11.1-23 The background to understand Vishva-rupa – Yoga aishvarya to rupa aishvarya

Gita Overview 10.34-42 – Krishna as victory adventure and other opulent manifestations

Gita Overview Mumbai10.25-33 – Metaphors for understanding Krishna’s glories

Why was Arjuna so dear to Krishna?

What is the difference between expansion and incarnation?

What is Krishna consciousness?

What does Krishna’s statement that “I am time the destroyer” mean?

Why is the dowry system prevalent among Hindus?

Isnt the idea that only by modern science have diseases been cured West-centric?

What is the relation of Vedvyasji with Parashar Muni and King Shantanu?

Is ISKCON’s claim for a paramapara connection to understand the Gita not an attempt to monopolize the Gita?

Why do most people think that religion is for making us do good and for teaching us to love God?

Can you explain how the mind addresses us in the first person and the second person?

When the soul goes from one body to another where is the karma stored?

What is the Vedic perspective of homosexuality?

How can we be affectionate without being attached?

What does it mean to choose material things based on their utility?

When a relative becomes hostile to a devotee, is that due to the devotee’s past karma, that person’s misuse of free will or Krishna’s arrangement?

Does the Gita’s instruction that we work without expecting results mean that we work without salaries?

Can we experience real love through relationships in this world?

When a relative is materially abusive how should a devotee respond?

Do higher dimensions in scriptures refer to higher spatial dimensions or higher levels of consciousness?

When a relative becomes hostile to our devotional practices how should we respond?

Why are most past life memories found in children of families who already believe in reincarnation?

Why did the gopis worship Katyayani? Can we worship demigods to attain Krishna?

As we need to arrange for our bodily needs how do we understand Prabhupada’s statemen that there is no need for economic development?

How can we regulate material desires that are not sinful?

Should devotees donate organs?

Do spiritualists lack critical thinking and are all thinking people atheists?

If Bhishma departed on Makar Sankranti then what is Bhishmashtami?

Do the Vedic scriptures support moral policing?

Is gender segregation the cause of violence against women?

How KC is the solution of all problems 7 – Religious Problems

What does the Shikshashtakam verse “shreyah kairava chandrika vitaranam” mean?

When our computer breaks down and troubles us, which klesha is it? How are the kleshas classified?

Why do some religions oppose Vedic cultural symbols like tilaka when they also have their religious symbols like beard and cap?

What does the statement that “protons and neutrons are the effects of the Paramatma feature” mean?

Does a daughter have the duty to deliver her parents, as does a son?

How Krishna left and returned to Vrindavan – Hindi

Srila Prabhupada expert presentation of the Bhagavatam – Hindi

Why is the Pururava pastime told partially in the ninth canto and then later completeted in the eleventh canto?

Isn’t the skeptical antenna the same as the doubting faculty?

How exactly was Balaramji born? How much is the age difference between him and Krishna?

Why did Krishna run away when Jarasandha attacked for the 18th time?

Why did Krishna say to Arjuna that he had not shown the Universal Form to anyone else when he had shown it to Yashoda and Duryodhana?

How KC is the solution of all problems 6 – Medical Problems

As students of science and as sadhakas how should we implement the understanding of realist and instrumentalist approaches to science?

When Krishna doesn’t recommend roots as items to be offered to him why do we offer him potatoes?

“Brahman spoke through Krishna by entering into him like a ghost.” How do we respond to this idea?

What is the difference between pleasure, indulgence and temptation?

When we see that senior devotees have factual flaws, how should we respond?

How do we understand that the number of people killed in the Mahabharata war was more than the earth’s population at that time

Can devotees use products containing Tulasi for medicinal purposes?

Why is sleep considered to be a characteristic of intelligence in the Bhag 3.26.30?

Mahajanas 4 – Kumaras

Why did the Vrajavasis not go to Mathura to meet Krishna when they were suffering in separation from him?

How KC is the solution to all problems 5 – Economic problems

As sexual abuses are so widespread in society isn’t sex education essential to protect potential victims of abuse?

As vaccination can prevent diseases that come as karmic reactions has science disproved or defeated the law of karma?

Why do I need a personal Guru, if all the knowledge is available and all doubts get resolved on websites like Vedabase or your website, thespiritualscientist.com?

Why did Krishna go to Kubja though she was known to be a society woman?

Is Maya eternal? Why does she illusion the jiva but not God?

As milk is today produced by causing violence to the cow should devotees take such milk?

Some people say that no species drink milk beyond infancy, so our drinking milk is unnatural. How do we respond?

Why is stitched cloth not used for Deity Worship?

Why do devotees use silk when it involves killing of silkworms?

If Jesus is a pure devotee why was he not protected, as was Prahlada?

Is there any scriptural basis to the quantum physics idea that the observer determines the observation?

Why are we selective about the analysis or purports of the scriptures?

What is the position of grihasthas in ISKCON? Should brahmacharis criticize them?

How do we respond if someone says I am satisfied in my material life and am not spiritually ambitious?

Why is Jiva Goswami known as the Siddhanta acharya of the Gaudiya sampradaya?