Practical Spirituality

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?

I am suffering from a diease from last 10 years almost. May i know how my problem can be resolved.

How can we overcome laziness, especially wrt waking up in the morning?

Due to some problems with the local temple devotees, I have stopped going there. How can I maintain my enthusiasm in practicing devotional service?

When money offers security amidst uncertainty how can one give up material ambition for spiritual pursuits?

How can we love Krishna when he is not like a normal person and doesn’t reciprocate immediately?

Does loving Krishna always protect us from all heartbreaks?

Can the level of language in Gita-daily articles be made simpler?

How can we avoid complacency in spiritual life?

How do we choose whether to serve in the cities and reach out to many people or in rural communities for reviving varnashrama?

If one likes to study scripture more than do other services does that make one a jnani and not a bhakta?

As the consciousness at conception determines the kind of soul coming to the womb isn’t abortion desirable during pregnancy after rape so as to avoid unwanted progeny?

How can an IAS officer help in sharing Krishna consciosness since India is a secular country?

When the Bhagavatam simply condemns household life, how can we as householders get encouragement from it to face life’s problems?

If the chidren of devotees don’t become devotees, then does the devotee-parents’ duty of caring for their chilldren no longer count as devotional service?

What should I do when my devotional service interferes with my duties as a mother?

When a loved one has passed away, isn’t it heartless to dismiss the resulting grief as mundane?

Can devotees practice hath yoga for health?

How can we best study scriptures?

How can we make rapid spiritual advancement?

What to do when we feel attracted to holy names other than the mahamantra?

If our philosophy is based on the level of love, why do we talk about sex mostly at the level of fear – fears of its consequences?

When a leader of a devotee community acts unethically should we try to correct the situation or should we leave it in Krishna’s hands?

As you were a GRE topper, can you tell how we can prepare for GRE?

RRR – Reprobate Rescued and Reformed – Lessons from Ajamila Pastime

Srila Prabhupada – the leader who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way (Vyasa Puja Offering 2013)

Why does ISKCON focus on English outreach when everyone understands Hindi?

Due to its emphasis on class preaching, is ISKCON not losing the opportunity for mass preaching?

How can we differentiate between offering help and interfering in others’ business?

Won’t adjusting according to time-place-circumstances lead to deviations?

If we get sensual immoral dreams, does that indicate we are fallen? How should we respond?

How do we ensure that we don’t just enjoy KC intellectually and not advance spiritually?

Should devotees do kirtan in drought-afflicted places to produce rains and thereby attract people to devotional service?

Can a devotee pursue a career as a cricketer?

Can devotees enter into politics?

If bhakti offers higher taste why do devotees still struggle with sex desire?

Are birthday celebrations for devotees authentic from the Vedic perspective?

How can we stop our family members from using items having animal products?

When trying to figure out Krishna’s lesson for us makes us indecisive what should we do?

How can we deal with doubts rising on seeing that many leading Prabhupada disciples are no longer practicing KC?

How can we absorb ourselves in devotional service?

When should we concern ourselves with helping other devotees and when should we mind our own business?

How can we differentiate between yukta-vairagya and bhoga-vrtti?

How should we prepare for giving our first Bhagavatam class?

Can we be fully dependent on Krishna? How?

How can we offer correction without committing offenses?

Should devotees bathe in Radha-Kunda?

How should we receive criticism constructively?

Is using Radha Kunda tilaka authentic?

How can we remember Krishna constantly and also do our work properly?

If our KC becomes weak away from devotee association, does it mean that our core conviction is weak?

If we chant while doing other activities, won’t that chanting be inattentive and thereby offensive?

When does medical treatment interfere with nature?

Do engineers have secure future in devotional life?

Is a devotee born in a brahmin family working in a bank a brahmana or a vaishya?

Should one give charity even while being in debt?

Can devotees perform agnihotra sacrifice?

Isn’t the Goswamis’ having boatful of gold atyahara?

How can we learn to contemplate on scriptural verses?

If we are in a service that doesn’t inspire us how long can we continue in that service?

Can devotees use positive thinking techniques like visualizations and affirmations?

If devotees don’t notice our service, then is our service authorized or whimsical?

Isn’t it better to do one thing at a time instead of chanting inattentively while doing other things?

Is it ok to celebrate Holi to attract new people to the temple?

How can we differentiate between humility and humiliation?

Does Krishna protect his devotee-students from bullies at school?

Don’t you like me? You haven’t answered my question for a long time.

Is it right for devotees to say that they are Krishna-tarians when it conveys the idea that we are consuming Krishna the way vegetarians consume vegetables?

What are the kind of questions that fall under counseling questions which you won’t be answering on the site?

How can we sustain the momentum in spiritual life year after year?

Is it ok to ask for a specific wish like our family’s well being in our prayers?

How can we ensure that honest communication doesn’t become Vaishnva apradh?

How and Who decides that the involvement in the stock market is cautious and won’t effect the mind?

How can we better recollect what we hear in classes?

I dont get any questions on hearing lectures. Is this good or bad?

How can a deaf and dumb person chant the holy names?

When we fall in our devotional standards, we feel guilty and become discouraged. How should we go ahead at such times?

Is dealing in shares in the stock market against the principle of no gambling?

If I am facing problems with my counselor’s behavior towards me, should i tell him directly or to some other senior devotee?

Are divorces among ISKCON devotees happening because most devotees have Western gurus who subsconsciously Western culture among their disciples?

As guilt due to falldown can also be a temptation, should one just neglect guilt and keep practicing devotional service?

If a devotee due to repeated falls feels that I wont be able to go BTG and so becomes discouraged how should we respond to that devotee?

What should one do if after practising years of devotional service also, one gives in to temptations and falls down?

I have been a lifelong strict vegetarian but due to bad association have eaten meat and so am feeling myself becoming impure and going away from Krishna. What should I do?

What are the types of lectures we need to hear in a week so that we will joyfully stay in KC?

Is there any diiference between a devotee taking medicine for a disease and he doing demigod worship for treating the disease?

When I chant I cry like a child for the mother Is this normal or is it because I am emotional?

When hearing Vedic philosophy distracts me from studies what should I do?

Can we offer milk breads of good companies to Krishna ?

When so many people are facing real problems, why should we spend time in spiritual practices like meditation instead of doing something practical to help?

Look at the mind before you look with the mind

How can intellectually inclined devotees engage themselves in devotional service?

Should devotees put their children in English Medium or in vernacular medium schools? Should they avoid convent schools?