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Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Why does Gita 7.25 use yoga-maya instead of maha-maya?

Does the Gita ask Arjuna to choose job over family?

Should prostitution be legalized in India?

Do parents suffer the sins of their children?

Are children punished for the sins of their parents?

How is chanting in the washroom not an offense to the holy name?

When chanting requires mind control, why do we say that chanting leads to mind control?

Where does people’s evil tendency come from?

Could God have prevented the Holocaust?

Who is responsible for the Holocaust – Hitler or the Jews’ karma?

Why does God not protect his devotees today like he protected Prahlad?

When we don’t know what past-life karma caused our present suffering how do we learn?

Where exactly is the pleasure of sex: in our mind, in our body’s hormonal secretion or in the other person’s body?

Is God a scientist or a magician?

Is the God of the Abrahamic traditions the same as the God of the Vedic tradition?

Will devotional service free us from a painful disorder?

Does one lose wealth or gain wealth by worshiping Hari?

Is controlling lust forcibly helpful or harmful?

Why do devotees consult psychologists instead of chanting mahamantra?

How can we share scriptural wisdom in today’s secular government?

Why does Bhishma Panchaka have 4 days this year instead of 5?

Does papa-yonayah in Gita 9.32 refer to a fourth category?

Why do so many people commit suicide?

Is karma-yoga superior to jnana-yoga according to the Gita chp 3?

Which dictionary meaning of the word ‘mind’ does the Gita refer to?

What does panentheism mean?

When sex is a fact of life, why be prudish about depicting it in the media?

Does covering our bodies with clothes make us obsessed to see others’ bodies?

Is wearing clothes unnatural as no other species in nature wears clothes?

How do we deal with students who take to KC to escape from studies?

When Arjuna’s chariot was destroyed after the MB war, why does he say in SB “The chariot is the same”?

When Prabhupada’s Gita is so obviously not as it is, how can he call it as it is?

What is the benefit in hearing about Krishna?

How can anyone accept such an antromorphic unscientific mythic conception of God as Krishna

Govardhana lila’s significance in establishing the Bhagavatam’s worldview

Aren’t Brahmavadis ultimately Mayavadis because they consider the Lord’s form to be temporary?

Is the ability to remember past lives the mercy of the Lord?

Redefine success

How is Krishna consciousness a science?

Can science never prove the existence of God?

Why can’t we remember our past lives?

Is sensitivity the same as sentimentality?

Is birthday celebration non-Vedic?

How can birthday celebrations be made more traditional and spiritual?

Should we just chant more or should we study philosophy more?

Is the love of a mother for her baby Maya?

I study scripture but don’t find it relevant to me. What to do?

When bhakti can’t be quantified, why have a bhakti shastri course with marks?

What does the CC statement that scripture contains illusory stories mean?

Why does ISKCON have such a negatively sex-obsessed conception of bhakti?

If all equations including those of quantum physics are thoughts of God, why does quantum physics not make sense?

Words shape worlds – watch your words

Why do we sometimes act like mad, doing things that we would normally never do?

How the Chaitanya Charitamrita unified and systematized Gaudiya Vaishnavism

How do we balance between endeavor for bodily maintenance and dependence on Krishna?

Does the body change cell-by-cell or is it like a TV frame that changes completely at every moment?

Dussehra meditation – Differentiating between obstinacy and determination

How can one avoid defying authority in the name of serving according to svabhava?

Why does Prabhupada in his Gita sometimes place nishkama karma yoga above jnana and dhyana yogas?

When today spiritual masters can’t personally instruct disciples about their services, how can we best serve Krishna?

How do we avoid prayasa in the services we like to do?

Are the Vedas like a jungle, as a blasphemous scholar alleges?

How can we know that the Vedas have a divine origin?

Appreciating different definitions of success in devotional service

Does the Gita recommend Deity worship?

When Brahma says we should just accept misery as mercy, why do that Pandavas fight to take revenge

When Krishna loves his devotees and can check karma, why does he let them suffer?

When Krishna loves his devotees and can check karma, why do scriptures describe as karma being the cause of their suffering

Balance philosophy with sensitivity – Be dharma-centered, not karma-centered

Preaching sensitively

If someone asks ‘have you seen God’ how do we answer?

When Krishna gave special darshan to Dhanurdas, didn’t he interfere with his free will?

Right and wrong definitions of success in grihastha life

Can God create a stone that he can’t lift?

How can the spiritual soul taste or enjoy a material sweet?

What is the difference between phenomenal and numinous in Gita 7.2

How should devotees respond to the threat of brutal religious groups like ISIS?

Why are ISKCON temples so commercialised?

Can sick devotees adopt a diet of only raw foods if it improves their health?

How should we counter when a respected ex-SC judge says that scripture contains poetic exaggerations?

What is the actual difference between mind and intelligence?

If misery is caused by misidentification, then why is there not just mental pain but also physical pain?

A devotee is already righteous, so why does Krsna say that he becomes righteous in Gita 9.31?

What is the difference between nitya and shashvata in Gita 2.20?

When the guru is mostly inaccessible to disciples, isn’t initiation just a rubber-stamp?

How can we convert our work in office into yajna?

What is the difference between karma yoga, buddhi yoga and bhakti yoga?

Is it selfish to want taste in chanting?

Boro kripa koile krishna song meditation

Don’t let pseudo-hunger masquerade as hunger

Are all religions coming from the Vedas?

Is there a shiva-linga at the Kaba?

Was Prabhupada’s renunciation in the mode of passion as it was triggered by frustration with uncooperative family members?

How do we reconcile the conflict of values in the Gita and the Chaitanya Charitamrita?

Accepting our limitations helps us see the light beyond limitations – SB 10.49.19

When everything is in Prabhupada’s books, what is the need to read other books either by ISKCON devotees or previous acharyas?

Does Prabhupada’s instruction ‘do as I have done’ mean there’s no need to innovate in preaching”

How do we decide which of our emotions are material and which are spiritual?

Is a devotee’s grihastha-ashrama a failure if the children don’t become devotees?