Practical Krishna Consciousness

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

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?

Hold on to Hari, not to worry

Making our scriptural study relevant

To practice bhakti strictly is it better to be fanatical?

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?

What goes around comes around – assume accountability

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?

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 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?

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

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

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

How can I surrender to Krishna?

Is it selfish to want taste in chanting?

To seek love in food is to relapse into emotional babyhood

Don’t let pseudo-hunger masquerade as hunger

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?

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?

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

As developing internal conviction takes time, isn’t it better to be stimulated in our devotion by external inspiration?

How do you maintain consistency in your daily writing year after year?

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?

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

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

Do we need to introspect whether we are progressing in our spiritual life?

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

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?

Is experience a pramana if one’s experience contradicts scripture?

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

Can grihasthas who want to preach make preaching as their source of livelihood?

The religious rural culture of India is being replaced by materialisitc culture. What can we do to counter this?

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

How can we understand which mode we are in?

How can we stay in the mode of goodness?

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

How can we overcome the tendency to take the association of devotees for granted?

Selecting our association without being judgmental or offensive

If we shouldn’t be disturbed by the mind’s impurities, then how can we beat the mind?

Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?

Maturity means to not let our emotionality interfere with our responsibility

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?

Meditation minimizes inner friction and maximizes outer contribution

If we cant fast nirjala on Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi what benefit do we get?

Safe, Danger and Relapse Zones in the War against temptation

How can we strengthen our resolve to correct our wrongs?

How can we forgive not just with lips but with the heart?

When we don’t feel like asking for forgiveness what should we do?

Can devotees watch TV serials about Krishna’s pastimes?

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