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Why do Abrahamic religions depict God as jealous when they are too are revelations?

Is the prayer to get a good spouse a material prayer?

The weapon for waging the world’s most formidable spiritual war (Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Offering 2014)

To realize everything is illusion amidst adversities, is yoga and pranayama the way or is bhakti-yoga sufficient?

When the number of breaths of a soul in a body are fixed, how can a purpose-driven attitude increase longevity?

People pray to God; the Vrajavasis pray for God (Meditation on Nandotsava)

After the laughter? (Reflections on Robin Williams’ suicide)

Is the holy name transcendental or immanent?

Why were Indian rulers other than Shivaji not empowered by the Lord to protect Vedic culture?

Are tragedies in our lives such as a relative committing suicide God’s punishments on us?

How should relatives of a suicide resolve their anger towards that person?

Should relatives communicate via planchette with someone who has committed suicide?

If a good person commits suicide due to some frustration, what is their destination?

Does a sudden tragedy in the lives of God’s worshipers indicates that God is too busy in his own kingdom to protect?

What is the theory of reflection Prabhupada refers to in the Gita 2.13 purport?

What is the Vedic perspective on passive euthanasia?

Why does Krishna emphasise consciousness at death which is much more uncontrollable than consciousness while living?

Meditation on the only prayers to Balaram in the Bhagavatam

Does taking anti-depressant drugs as medicine violate the no intoxication principle?

If consciousness of the couple at conception determines the nature of the child, will a child born through rape be evil?

Why do we need to justify the Pandavas’ actions? Isn’t “Krishna told them to do it” enough reason?

Why do we need to be in the mode of goodness to practice bhakti?

Does one have to give up one’s material life on becoming an ISKCON member, even if one doesn’t become a brahmachari?

Is ISKCON an organization for rich people?

Spirituality and Medicine – An Integrated Approach

When the Pandavas were so virtuous why did Krisha let them suffer so much?

When different religious groups have their own scriptures how is the authority of Vaishnava scriptures to be established?

What guided humanity before scripture was written?

Did Krishna establish dharma just for 36 years after fighting such a big war?

How do we decide when to forgive and when to fight back?

Draupadi’s courageous devotion amidst the disrobing – Ask not “why this?” but “how now?”

Did Karna have to choose the side of evil due to his past karma?

How to choose between doing our worldly repsonsibilities devotionally and doing directly devotional activities?

How do we develop taste for studying scripture?

When can a devotee seek honor instead of being humble?

Did God create humans to care for him as no other living beings care for him?

“Love yourself” – what is Vedic perspective on this idea?

Scientism fosters not respect for science, but disrespect for humanity

Is the Gita’s teaching that women are sinful resposible for female infanticide?

Scientism makes it impossible for us to be scientific

Should the gold in temples be used for social development?

Does ISKCON have a phobia for the tenth canto? (Bhagavatam 10.47.28)

Why did Bhima kill Duryodhana unfairly by hitting him below the waist during their final battle in the Mahabharata war?

Is scriptural knowledge needed only when devotion is dilute and not when devotion is pure?

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?

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

Do the scriptures treat women as the property of men?

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

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

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

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

Ratha-Yatra – When the Lord comes out, let’s invite him in

Meditation on Bhaktivinoda Thakura pranama mantra

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

Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contributions 3 – The sara-grahi redefinition of Panchopasana as progressive modes of comprehending the divine

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

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?

Selecting our association without being judgmental or offensive

Is ISKCON an American organization that sends temple donations from India to America?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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 should we respond to indiscriminate violence against other communities done in the name of religion as a response to distortion of respected images?

Confrontation or Penetration – Two approaches to sharing Krishna consciousness

Safe, Danger and Relapse Zones in the War against temptation

The nine tensions in the Bhagavatam

Isn’t violence against women in India, as in the Badaun rape case, caused more by the casteist society and not by the obscenity in the culture?

If Draupadi was dishonored due to her past karma, why did the Pandavas have to take revenge?

What is the use of writing insubstantial articles in newspapers that don’t even mention the name of Krishna once?

Why are divorces more among devotees than nondevotees?

Why are all forms of science not equally authoritative – why is evoluion less reliable than gravity when its all science?

Modi Swearing-in Ceremony – The Substance underlying the Form

Can devotees watch TV serials about Krishna’s pastimes?

Has ISKCON replaced the scriptural worship of Ganesh in Hindu temples with the unscriptural worship of Prabhupada in its temples?

Do the Anthropic Principle and the multiverse theory make the design argument redundant?

If one has devotion, why does one need to count the names of God?

As India is still receptive to direct devotional preaching and Prabhupada emphasized that, shouldn’t that be our emphasis too?

Islam and Christianity have damaged Vedic culture yet we consider them revealed religions – so are they part of Kali’s plan or have they become distorted over time?

Don’t romanticize the past or demonize the present – utilize whatever is available

How do we respond when prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking write books propounding atheism?

Is belief in God a virus of the mind, as atheists claim?

Scientism is self-contradictory

What does it mean to see Krishna everywhere?

When the design argument is so logical, why don’t most people and most scientists accept God’s existence?

Is God improbable because he has to be more complex than his creation and complex things have very low probability of emerging?

Why has Ramanuja refuted the design argument in his Vedanta Sutra commentary?

Revelation is the complement, not the replacement, of reason (Countering Scientism 1)