Practical Krishna Consciousness

I like to chant and meditate on the Supersoul. As that is my nature, can I just do this and not do other devotional activities?

How can we know whether we are using our intelligence in Krishna’s service or are just enjoying Krishna consciousness intellectually?

Can we preach without using technology as such use can distract one from Krishna?

During preaching, how important is it to provide relevant material information in addition to the paramapara’s message?

If the son practices bhakti, then will his non-devotee parents’ get a good next-life destination due to their son’s bhakti?

We hear so much in various classes, but apply very little from it. How can we change this?

We often feel like doing different things in bhakti at different times – how can we steadily maintain interest in one thing?

While using a talent such as music for Krishna how can we transfer our attachment from that talent to Krishna?

How can we avoid frustration at our inability to follow the standards of devotional service?

If one has not had the habit of reading books but likes to hear, how can one develop that habit in bhakti?

How much should we seach on the internet for good Krishna conscious content?

How can I protect my bhakti when I go home and am with my pre-bhakti friends with whom I had indulged in bad habits?

How much should devotee-writers learn English grammar and style to write effectively for Krishna?

Value Education and Spirituality 6 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 4 – Let secularism protect us from narrow-mindedness, not restrict us in empty-mindedness

Value Education and Spirituality 5 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 3 – Three non-sectarian arguments for the existence of God

Value Education and Spirituality 4 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 2 – Karma shows the sense in life’s seeming senselessness

Value Education and Spirituality 3 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 1 – The end is not the end

Value Education and Spirituality 8 – Mahabharata 2 – Duryodhana – Envy leads to destructive competition that is dissatisfying and degrading

Value Education and Spirituality 7 – Mahabharata 1 – Shakuni – Imaginary expectation leads to real destruction

Are devotees being told to be too other-worldly that something so simple as voting is made into such a big issue?

Are chanting and going to the temple bhakti only if they are done to please Krishna?

Why doesn’t ISKCON practice what it preaches? First new devotees are told to be detached from their parents and then senior brahmacharis spend months caring for their dying parents

Is it right to feel envious of advanced devotees for their spiritual advancement? If not, how to deal with it?

Can talents like mimicry and comedy be used in devotional service?

How can we know if someone is correcting out of ego or out of concern?

Is it appropriate to judge students by the marks obtained by them in their examination?

How can we introspect about our devotional progresss? How can we rise from kanishtha to madhyama level?

What is the point of taking initiation from a spiritual master when there is very little chance of getting personal guidance from him?

To grow individually and socially, look for the weakness in yourself and the goodness in others

For him, Back to Godhead was both the means and the end

Value Education and Spirituality 2 – Our values serve as protecting fences and as focusing default settings

Value Education and Spirituality 1 – What we value determines our values – and our values determine our value

Should a devotee work in a devotional project where one can directly serve Krishna or in a secular company by which one can offer more donation?

How much anxiety shoud we take up for our devotional activities?

If our nondevotee parents discourage our children’s enthusiasm for bhakti by calling it brainwashing by dangerous cults, how should we respond?

When people around us force us to things that aren’t according to devotional standards how should we respond?

Is it ok to be attracted more to the cultural aspects of KC than its philosophical aspect?

When we ask questions how can we know whether we simply want to confirm our pre-conconceptions or seek open-minded understanding?

Once I had immense bhakti, but now I have lost it. How can I regain it?

Reviving Love 1 – Para dharma contrasted with apara dharmas like patriotism, be-good and service to parents

The four P’s of effective chanting – Posture, Pronunciation, Purity and Prayerfulness

Let go of all ties (conditions, conditionings and competition) and live life wise and nice

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?