Practical Spirituality

How can we control the hyperactive imagination during chanting?

If eating opulent prasad harms our consciousness how can we regulate our eating?

Expanding the intersection of our emotional circle and Krishna’s emotional circle

While chanting is it better to just focus on the holy name or on a mahamantra sticker or on a picture of the Deities?

When some devotee praises us, should we stop that devotee or go away or hear passively?

How does Krishna consciousness practically solve the world’s problems like violence, poverty and drug abuse?

How can we practically engage in Krishna’s service all the time?

How can we ensure that the give and take between devotees doesn’t become artificial or business-like?

Does chanting all 16 rounds at one stretch lead to greater concentration?

When Prabhupada’s books will be the lawbooks for 10,000 years, how can we contextualize them?

Tapping our irreducible individuality in bhakti-yoga

How important is it for devotee-couples to follow the Vedic model for gender roles in their relationship?

When the mahaprasad of devotees is so glorious, why are we discouraged from taking it during our regular interactions with other devotees?

What should a devotee do on being overcome by temptation?

Are love marriages incompatible with bhakti? What about Arjuna marrying Subhadra?

Amidst life-threatening situations like attack by robbers, should a devotee tolerate, retaliate or flee?

If a person feels spaced out after chanting 16 rounds daily and more focused after chanting less rounds, what should be done?

If devotees’ children are advanced devotees from past lives, why do many of those children not become devotees in this life?

Should we avoid offering obeisances to senior devotees in public places because people find it alienating

When Krishna is satisfied by simple devotion do we need technical intellectual analysis as done by Gita-daily articles?

Can we integrate walking as an exercise with our daily chanting?

Is the quality of chanting inversely proportional to the speed of chanting?

How can we channelize our emotions in devotional service?

How can devotees do their material activities in spiritual consciousness?

Is chanting 16 rounds practical for an engineering student (or for anyone in our fast-paced times)?

If someone is really determined in one’s devotional service, why would that person fall?

How can we practice humility in a competitive world where everyone parades their credentials?

Do we need a personal culture with many devotee teachers? Does it mean that one guru is not enough?

How can an aspiring devotee-precher put one’s heart in a career that increases people’s illusions?

How can we avoid the ego’s feeling that service to others is demeaning?

How can we avoid pride during times of material success and remain thankful to Krishna?

In our efforts to become pure, pride somehow or the other sneaks in. How to avoid this?

When we have to spend time on family duties, how can we stay strong in our devotional standards?

What can we do when the mind gets agitated by a tempting sense object that can’t be avoided?

We surrender to Krishna’s will sometimes but mostly act for our own pleasure. What is our hope?

If we are served more prasad than what we can eat, can we throw it away?

When Prabhupada did many things different from his spiritual master, how did he not change anything?

How can we identify false ego while doing services?

When do questions move from being inquisitive to offensive? What kind of questions can be asked?

What is the destination of those people who die after receiving blessings of advanced devotees?

Does having some ambitions in life mean having material attachments and doing tenth offence?

Why do we take shelter of Krishna more in difficult times like exam period but not during sadhana and service?

Should a devotee oppose crimes like rapes? Should he feel compassion for the criminal?

Does Prabhupada’s request to cooperate with devotees mean that we allow them to exploit us?

How can we pray for those who are troubling us?

How can sitting erect like Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati help in our chanting?

How can a student who wants to become a brahmachari in future feel inspired to do academic studies?

How can we avoid getting caught in doubts about unimportant issues while studying scriptures?

Can we use Tulasi as medicine in life-threatening diseases?

Should we avoid discriminating between male and female to avoid agitation by lust?

How can we increase our tolerance to temptations?

If we feel grief-struck on losing a loved one, how do we relate with Krishna thereafter?

How can we best offer prayers from the Bhagavatam?

Is there any difference between dambha, darpa and abhimana in Gita 16.04?

How much should a grihastha plan for financial security and how much depend on Krishna?

Prabhupada presented Krishna consciousness sensitively, then why did he use the word cult not culture to refer to his movement?

How can we develop divine passion? Do we need an external motivation?

Is the passion for our material duties like excelling in studies desirable or undesirable?

If the temple management organizes kirtan festivals with singers who do not follow high standards of sadhana, should we participate in such festivals?

Is it right for devotees to use kirtan singing for earning their living?

Srila Prabhupada recommended monarchy in his books, yet instituted democracy in managing ISKCON through the GBC. Why?

How can we practice and share Krishna consciousness when the political leadership is uncooperative or even opposed?

In what mood should we take darshan of Deities?

Should we chant and wait for feeling to come or chant with feeling?

How do we deal with people who become cold or hostile when we share Krishna consciousness with them?

In today’s competitive society, how can we practice simple living & high thinking?

How can we determine our varna?

How can we avoid becoming lethargic in spiritual life?

If we are not to slave for worldly recognition, how can we go ahead in life?

Fear not that life may end; fear that life may never begin

How can we counter competitive mentality when we see other devotees succeeding in spiritual life?

If devotees are troubled by black magic can they seek a remedy from tantriks?

How do we see spiritualists who want to control others to maintain their own position?

If we get angry with our children while trying to guide them about right or wrong, is that due to controlling mentality? How can we best guide them?

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

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

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?

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

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

Should there be dowry in devotee-marriages?

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

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

See within to seek without; seek without to see within

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

Can a homosexual become a brahmachari?

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

Should devotee read books by nondevotee nationalist thinkers to learn how to protect Vedic culture and actualize varnashrama in today’s society?

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

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?

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

Four empowerments from hearing

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

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

Prabhupada’s war stratey for penetrating America

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

I have joined as a brahmachari but am opposed and troubled by my relatives. How should I stay strong?