QA: Audio

After practicing bhakti for many years our enthusiasm goes down and we just go through the motions – how can we know whether we are actually going towards Krishna?

How can I deal with a beef-eating colleague?

Suppose Krishna desires me to win a race but I decide to not participate – what happens?

In the spiritual world can we act entirely freely without being controlled by our nature?

If someone follows a spiritual path without much knowledge of Krishna how will they advance spiritually?

Might a devotee be born in a Muslim family?

Does the Gita 13.30 support the idea that the soul has no free will?

If I connect quickly with someone does that mean we had a past-life connection?

Do like-minded people become more understanding or does understanding make people more life-minded?

Does ignoring situations solve problems?

How can we keep the mind in the present?

When we get bad experiences repeatedly should we just entrust everything to Krishna?

If God’s inscrutable will is good for everyone,what’s wrong with letting whatever is happening happen?

How is always thinking of Krishna practical?

When suicide is bad, why did Arjuna resolve to commit suicide if he failed to kill Jayadratha by sunset?

Is constantly thinking of Krishna and doing our work an example of multitasking – how can it be done practically?

On hearing offense to devotees, why is the extreme option of committing suicide recommended?

How can we understand that whatever is happening to us is due to the weakness of our heart?

What kind of affirmations are most effective?

Even after we learn to observe our mind, why can’t we stay on as the observer?

How can we become more mindful?

If a bad relationship has made me paranoid about relationships, what can I do?

How can we prevent our career from interfering with our relationships?

Why do you speak more on bhakti than on karma which the Gita stresses?

What are the dos and donts to develop devotional consciousness?

How can we practically apply – don’t be angry with the instrument of your karma?

Why are the near-death experiences of Indians and Americans different?

How can we differentiate between the voices of the mind, the intelligence and the Supersoul?

If this world is a place of misery, why does it have so much pleasure too?

If dedicated senior devotees face great distress, new devotees ask what is the point of practicing bhakti – how to answer?

How can we maintain the standard of purity that Prabhupada established?

If parents have been brought up in India and their children in the US, how can they harmonize their differing cultural expectations?

What to do if our material ambitions are stronger than our spiritual intentions?

I broke a one-sided relationship, but now I feel I should have tried more – what should I do?

Even if we control our anger at someone, still we keep thinking about who was at fault- what to do?

How do we deal with mental flashbacks?

If our elders are at fault, should we just tolerate or should we tell them?

How can we know what can be changed and what can’t be?

When we understand scripture according to our level of realization, is that our false ego at work?

During the manifestation of action, what or how does Krishna sanction?

Is the Supersoul present in the spiritual world?

When scripture contains so much wisdom, why does most of India not follow scripture?

Why do we sometimes feel more agitated after starting bhakti practice?

Most past-life memories involve people who lived sinfully in their previous lives – shouldn’t such people have gone to animal bodies, not human bodies?

Is there proof of reincarnation from animal body to human body?

If the natures of a husband and a wife are not complementary, but contradictory, how can they function?

I have a disagreeable boss who is also atheistic – how can I deal with him?

If a relationship is severely strained but it has to go on, what to do?

In the Bhagavatam, devotees renounce the world to serve the Lord, but in the Vitthal tradition, devotees serve their parents while the Lord waits – how to reconcile?

How can we explain tangibly what consciousness is?

When our consciousness goes up and down regularly, how is consciousness irreducible?

Different brain areas are activated when we have different emotions – doesn’t that show consciousness comes from the brain?

Is our nature never changeable – Hindi?

If people can’t change their nature, how can they improve – Hindi?

When facing problems, how can we go beyond blaming others and blaming our own past karma – Hindi?

Why do we so easily forgive ourselves – Hindi?

Why don’t people remember past lives in other species?

How can we decide when to give up one service and take up some other service?

In past-life memories cases, how do wounds on the previous body manifest as birth marks on the next body?

Do you remember your past lives?

When presenting philosophy from one perspective, how can we avoid getting carried away and rejecting other perspectives?

If devotees are becoming lethargic in professional life, should we encourage them to aim high?

Does the subconscious mind help us to do whatever we think repeatedly with our conscious mind?

Should a brahmachari change his ashrama if his astrological chart is unfavorable for renunciation?

What is the difference between the mind and the modes?

Which is better – learning with the intelligence or learning with the mind?

When a problem goes on for a long time and our attempts to solve it only aggravate it, what should we do – Hindi?

How can we get the mind out of a problem when we need to think about the problem to solve it – Hindi?

Should we do a service that pleases our authority but upsets other devotees?

If we as managers take some strong decisions, some devotees feel hurt and hit back at us – should we take such decisions?

Does responsibility mean doing whatever we are told to do or doing big projects under instruction?

How can we know whether we are surrendered?

When someone’s conditioning troubles us, but they expect us to continue tolerating, what should we do?

What is the difference between karma-yoga and bhakti-yoga – Marathi

Why was Lord Chaitanya harsh with Chota Haridas and lenient with Balabhadra Bhattacharya?

Can we get rid of unwanted thoughts by neglect?

How can we stay enthusiastic in a service where results take a long time to come?

How does the example of sometimes serving and sometimes receiving in a tennis match apply practically in the brahmachari ashram?

Which is more dangerous – failure of the mind or failure of the intelligence?

How do we differentiate between ego and self-confidence?

How is the discriminatory caste system justifiable?

In parts of India where people eat meat extensively, how can we attract them to bhakti?

If the impressions from past failures push us towards failure again, how do we break free?

How do we keep our spiritual focus while living up to various social expectations?

We don’t know our strengths and the social mirror distorts our self-conception further – where then can we begin knowing ourselves?

When different people with different mental frames discuss a problem, why is a particular person’s solution accepted?

Apart from positive-negative thinking, does past karma comprise barriers in our destiny?

While putting Krishna first, when devotees neglect others, how can good devotee-relationships develop?

If someone has helped us in our pre-devotional life, but is now unfavorable to our bhakti, how should we interact with them?

How can we strengthen our relationship with Krishna?

Is it ok to have material desires?

When we have more things in control, we feel less dependent on Krishna – what to do?

If prolonged problems leave us disheartened, how can we regain our morale – Hindi?

When problems stay on for a long time, how can we avoid losing faith – Hindi?

How can we stay devotionally enthusiastic amidst financial difficulties – Hindi?

Acceptance is the beginning of transcendence – where all does this apply – Hindi?

Happiness will come by destiny, without our endeavoring – how do we understand this practically?

When Krishna tells Arjuna that your nature will make you fight, then where is free will?

If a child is born retarded and dies without doing anything, what is the point of such a life?

How can we be devotionally conscious when working with materialistic people in a hospital?