Practical Spirituality

Should we force our teenage children to take to bhakti or leave it to Krishna’s will?

When people say we don’t care about next life karmic consequences how should we preach to them?

Obstacles on the spiritual path at the level of intelligence, mind and faith

How can we continue in bhakti when our faith in devotees is shaken?

How can we avoid pride while doing service?

We feel more eager to read news than scripture – what to do?

How can we strengthen our faith in Krishna amidst difficulties?

How does mantra singing help in emotional healing?

Krishna can bring good out of everything – even our mistakes

How can we make the effect of hearing last for long?

How can we face problems caused by others without falling for the blame game?

When chanting is so simple why do we feel so lazy – how can we chant constantly?

How should we see unbrahminical behavior of brahman-initiated devotees?

How can we ensure that our words of correction act as scalpels, not axes?

What can we do in a relationship when the other person doesn’t want clarification?

How can we overcome our ego?

What does it mean to not take credit for the things we do?

Is it hypocritical to criticize others for faults we ourselves have?

Should I postpone my sadhana bhakti to focus on college studies?

How can I protect my bhakti from bad association in college?

Should we eat as less as possible or eat to stay healthy for serving Krishna?

How do we understand Srila Prabhupada’s statements on rape?

How can devotees face anxieties caused by worldly threats like crimes?

Understanding acharaya’s controversial statements

ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor – H H Jayapataka Swami Maharaj

ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor: His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja

Don’t be so concerned about others’ future destination as to be cut off from their present emotion

Will soldiers who fight in today’s wars be doing vikarma?

Why do ISKCON devotees pronounce Sanskrit words differently from traditional pronunciations?

Vaishnava Sadachara 4 – Managing harmoniously

Vaishnava Sadachara 3 – Acting according to time place circumstance

Vaishnava Sadachara 2 – Dealing appropriately with different people

Vaishnava Sadachara 1 – Importance of Sadachara

How can we know which things increase our doubt and which increase our faith?

Do neophyte devotees also represent Krishna? How?

Is the mind always our enemy?

When we get answers to doubts about which we pray, should we see those answers as Krishna’s reciprocation?

If a senior devotee asks me to take up a major service that he himself is not good at, should I follow him?

How can we help a dying relative attain emotional closure with an unforgiving relative?

How can we best help a relative who is near death?

Is ISKCON misappropriating sanatana-dharma?

Hold on to Hari, not to worry

Making our scriptural study relevant

To practice bhakti strictly is it better to be fanatical?

How do we help people hurt by insensitive behavior of devotees?

The difference between sentimentality and sensitivity – SB 4.8.26

How can we use gadgets in bhakti without becoming attached?

What will it take for us to lose faith in our mind?

Does bhakti make us unambitious?

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

What leads to spirtual advancement – taking more responsibility in service or doing more chanting?

Should we stop voting in elections because no political party stops sinful activities?

Will devotional service free us from a painful disorder?

Is controlling lust forcibly helpful or harmful?

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

Can we take charanamrita when curd is forbidden during Chaturmasya?

How can birthday celebrations be made more traditional and spiritual?

Should birthday celebrations for devotees’ children be banned?

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

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

What goes around comes around – assume accountability

Why does Prabhupada glorify kaitava dharma by talking about how dharma produces artha?

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

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

Isn’t it better to chant extra than to use dama and bheda with the mind?

How can we approach science by which we can go closer to Krishna?

When science is being misused to propagate atheism, isn’t it the responsibility of devotees to counter that by scientific outreach?

How can devotees staying in the temple be engaged according to their natures?

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

How do we balance between remaining faithful to Srila Prabhupada and presenting according to time-place-circumstances?

When different devotees quote Srila Prabhupada’s different quotes to support their positions, how can we know what he would have wanted?

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

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

How much can devotees facing emergenices be allowed to relax standards?

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

Appreciating different definitions of success in devotional service

Just as we take non-Ayurvedic medicines, can we adopt non-devotional astrological prescriptions?

Don’t be worn out by the mind – wear the mind out

How do we deal with our tendency to perceive others negatively?

Preaching sensitively

We know Krishna loves devotees, still we offend them – how can we stop this?

How do we connect with ISKCON people who are connected with other religious organisations?

How do we deal with people who find our standard philosophical presentations too simple?

When different acharyas write books according to time-place-circumstances, how will Prabhupada books be lawbooks for ten thousand years?

How much will the mode of preaching be affected by the nature of different preachers?

When we feel empty and impure, how can we persevere in devotion?

How can we experience Krishna’s love at our present level of devotion?

Right and wrong definitions of success in grihastha life

How can we stay open to new ideas without weakening our convictions?

How can we keep our mind steady amidst outer agitation and inner temptation?

What should we do when we are blamed for something?

Why do we offer prasad and how is it to be offered?

How should we respond to classes that seem confusing and contradictory to the standard philosophical understanding

Does ISKCON consider the English of the 1920s to be sacred?

Why are ISKCON temples so commercialised?

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

How can I surrender to Krishna?

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

Is it selfish to want taste in chanting?

To seek love in food is to relapse into emotional babyhood