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Will Krishna help us out of a situation that we have got in because of our own desires?

How can we avoid judging ourselves?

How can we deal with self-doubt?

What does it mean to be consistently content with the self?

If we see patterns similar to a failed relationship in a new relationship, how can we avoid becoming pessimistic?

If a relative of mine is getting influenced by Christian missionary propaganda, what should I do?

How can we develop our relationship with Krishna without minimizing the position of the guru?

If a child becomes orphaned because the parents commit suicide, is that because of the child’s destiny or the parents’ misuse of free will?

Where can I get mantra diksha?

Do we need to know God before we can have faith in him?

What does it mean to serve the Lord?

How does one find a spiritual path?

What is the role of religion in today’s world?

Is hypnotic regression to past lives for real?

How do we explain the non-physical is differentiated as the mind and the soul?

How do we help people who hold that nature is their god?

Just as Nalakuvera-Manigriva were given remembrance their past lives, why can’t we be given remembrance of our past lives?

When is violence justified – how is the Gita’s war different from modern World Wars?

If our intelligence can never supersede Krishna’s intelligence, how can our will supersede his will – how can we act independent of him?

If we don’t have gratitude, how does it matter in bhakti?

Just as Krishna gives conviction to different people to worship different devatas, does he give different devotees conviction to serve him in different ways?

How to overcome lust or material desire

Is our free will infinite, just the facility to fulfill it is finite?

If my chanting remains inattentive despite my best effort, am I being offensive?

Can those who have more material desires not come in Krishna’s gravity pull?

If we feel that Krishna is not reciprocating, should we intensify our devotion?

Stories about Krishna remain the same, whereas new stories about fictional heroes keep coming up – how then are Krishna stories ever-new?

Material entertainment requires no thinking, spiritual entertainment requires deep thinking – are the two comparable?

Can unconscious people hear the holy name?

To which level of reality are people with Alzheimer’s escaping?

What is the difference between believing a half-man half-lion and believing a half-man half-spider?

Should medicines be used to treat depression?

If negative events cause a panic attack, what can we do?

Our survival instinct tells us to avoid pain, whereas austerity means to accept pain – how to decide what to do?

Should we be simply attached to the principle of service or to specific services according to our nature?

How can we deal with gossipy or critical family members?

What is the difference between greed and ambition?

What role does sleep play on the spiritual path?

Can we see the future in our dreams?

How do some people get guidance in the state of being half-awake, half-asleep?

What is the source of the programming we have?

When our emotions don’t keep pace with our convictions, as when facing adversities, what can we do?

As most people nowadays are born without any garbhadhana samskara will the world soon be filled with people in ignorance?

Are religious rituals entirely separate from philosophy – why do different religions have different rituals?

Is the caste system wrong?

Might our sense of right and wrong be something created by society to check our biological urges?

Might our desire for eternal life come from our experience of an external long-living object not from an eternal soul?

How can we know our prescribed duty?

How do we differentiate between the mind and the soul?

Are there different mantras for different effects?

How can we protect our consciousness?

How can we evaluate people’s level of consciousness without becoming judgmental?

What type of yoga is best for rising to spirituality?

How can we stop being resentful towards others?

Why do some devotees see things in terms of black and white without any nuance?

While practicing bhakti how can we avoid getting locked into our professional identity?

How to balance between following Prabhupada faithfully and adjusting to time-place-circumstances?

Can our anarthas be dovetailed in Krishna’s service?

Does the mind discourage the soul?

Do the different senses of the word karma come from scripture or from usage?

How can we distract ourselves from desires arising in the body such as hunger?

Does loss of intelligence lead to control by the mind or does control by the mind lead to loss of intelligence?

When our intelligence is controlled by lust how can it control the mind?

Why doesn’t Krishna make things easy for his devotees?

Is the opposite of gratefulness resentfulness or neglectfulness?

How can some people pass through problems without taking shelter of Krishna?

Does the media increase our negativity by focusing on problems in today’s world?

Do scientific theories disprove spiritual truths?

Is spiritual science a valid branch of science?

Are we omnivores who need to eat animals to maintain the food chain?

When we start studying Bhagavad-gita what is the motivation for continuing to study material science?

If our family members don’t practice regulative principles is it right to disconnect from them?

Why didn’t God create another dimension for us to enjoy?

Why can’t all realized souls join hands to demonstrate a working model of harmonious spiritual living?

Can the principles of bhakti solve the world’s practical problems?

How can we be cautious about not indulging in something without constantly thinking about it?

How is anger not just an emotion but also a thing?

Are anarthas also part of our nature?

When repressing desires doesn’t work what to do?

How do we balance thinking and feeling in spiritual life?

How can we be grateful to Krishna in all situations?

Does complete faith in Krishna make us fearless?

If we don’t have full faith are we hedging our bets?

Among various world religions what is special about practicing krishna-bhakti?

Can Krishna be interchanged with any other god as our object of worship?

How can bhakti help us overcome our emotional fears?

Do different people need different percentages of material and spiritual life?

When we ask Krishna to protect us are we treating him as our servant and are we advanced enough for him to intervene?

When we want to go to the spiritual world is our devotion motivated or unmotivated?

Since something I built my life on collapsed I have started hating God – what can I do?

When we decide to change ourselves how can we know that those changes will be for good?

Should we try to learn from our past when our perception of our past will always be distorted by our biases?

How can we identify the voices of the inner critic and the inner daredevil?

Is anger reduced by becoming spiritual or by developing the brain’s frontal lobe that is associated with controlling emotions?

Can there be something called spiritual science?

Love of God may just be a sentiment in some religions – how can we know it is for real?

Scientists are often aesthetic people and religion has often caused persecution and violence – how to understand?

Should devotees do sandhya as a daily sadhana as per their family tradition?

Why does our mind dwell more on painful memories than on joyful memories?

We talk a lot about practicing bhakti but not about practicing morality – why?