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When we desire something is it the soul desiring or is it simply the mind desiring?

Is there anything spiritual about our nature or is it simply result of our past desires & karma according to which Krishna has given us our body & mind with their nature?

Is spiritual tourism to India dangerous for one’s mental health?

How can we make our children great devotees like Prahlad?

Is hearing devotees speak in confidence about their grievances with devotee-leaders a Vaishnava-apradha?

Are the four defects due to our conditioning or due to our finiteness?

Why might devotees learned in bhakti scriptures leave bhakti?

How can we deal with our past mistakes, especially if some devotees bring up those mistakes repeatedly?

If others become envious about us, what can we do?

What is the source of intuition higher modes or Krishna?

While making decisions, how can we know whether we are in touch with the Supersoul?

How can we pass on inheritance to our children in a way that they won’t misuse by acting in the lower modes?

Do we need a shiksha guru when we don’t get personal guidance from our diksha-guru?

Why do you put an unlimited God into the small box of a particular scripture, group or practice?

Why senior devotees may commit suicide?

Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura give a nonliteral understanding of Bhagavatam cosmology and chronology just to appease his British audience?

What is the difference between revelation and realization?

Was the medieval desecration of temples due to providence or due to incompetence of Indian rulers

If those who chant a lot face material problems, are they chanting too much

If a daughter takes care of her parents because the son doesn’t, is she giving up her sva-dharma?

Can devotees participate in the puja of the devatas done in their family or community?

How can we interact with a worshiper of the devatas without criticizing or approving their conceptions?

Are our svabhava and prarabdha-karma two results of our past karma?

Do karmic actions and reactions happen at gross and subtle levels – do our present actions add to our destined pleasure or pain?

Were Lord Chaitanya’s teachings influenced by navya-nyaya tradition present in Navadvipa?

Is Tilaka’s Gita commentary focusing on karma yoga a misinterpretation of the Gita?

Can the souls between lives learn from guides and choose their next lives – what is the Vedic perspective?

Amid danger, how can we be watcful without being fearful?

How can we experience Krishna’s love at our stage?

How can we become a responsible child of Krishna?

How exactly is change the only constant in the world?

Why does Krishna talk about controlling the senses to Arjuna when the purpose of the conversation seems to be to incite Arjuna to fight?

Why Should Gita Be Translated In Languages And Distributed In Countries That Are Hostile To Sanatana Dharma?

Is Krishna the perfect manifestation of Supreme or is He The Supreme?

Don’t associate with Mayavadis – what does this mean practically?

Should scriptural stories be used to draw moral lessons that don’t convey Krishna’s supremacy clearly

Is the Hare Krishna movement a Hindu organization?

Is it scientific to believe in weird things such as ghosts, hallucinations and near-death experiences?

Is Bhagavad Gita a Hindu religious book?

How can we say that the essence of Gita is Bhakti Yoga?

How is mantra meditation different from other forms of meditation?

When scriptures depict animals speaking human languages, how is that to be understood?

When we are in anxiety searching for a new job, how can we maintain our spiritual practices?

How to forgive ourselves if we have made a serious mistake?

How can we cultivate the mode of goodness when we are puppets of the modes?

Is it really possible to be happy while you yourself see so much suffering in yours like as well as everywhere around?

Wasn’t it immoral for Rama to exile Sita on just a rumour?

How can we deal with our past conditionings that come in the way of our bhakti – Hindi?

Is living in villages better for cultivating goodness and devotion?

Should we tell people about hellish torment to deter them from breaking the regulative principles?

Why did Prahlada Maharaja provide wine for demons instead of making them devotees as he did in childhood?

When we are unable to follow instructions, what can we do?

If we have to punish anyone, how can we decide whether we are over-punishing or under-punishing?

I can’t speak anything about God at my mother’s funeral – should I just remain silent?

When we multitask do we miss something as we switch from one thing to the next?

If we forget everything upon rebirth, how do our instincts carry over to the next life?

How do we understand scriptural statements that reject all non-devotional literature

Is the Bhagavatam anti-grihastha ashram?

How do we know when we are accepting ourselves and when we are justifying our weaknesses?

If we feel empty or lonely despite having enough materially, how to respond to such feelings?

Is death as dreadful as we fear?

What is the bhakti perspective on feminism – not the man-bashing extreme feminism, but the equal opportunity for women feminism?

Should one take saffron only when one is convinced that Krishna is God?

If after striving for a long time in one area, we get only moderate success, what should we do?

Why is there no description of a pandemic in the Vedic scriptures?

Were kshatriyas allowed to eat meat in Vedic culture?

Why does Ayurveda prescribe medicines with non-veg ingredients when meat is forbidden in Vedic culture?

Can food with onion and garlic be offered to Krishna during emergencies?

How should we respond when sacred characters from our tradition are criticized?

How can we be responsible in our relationships without becoming attached?

Isnt the Pandavas’ killing their own relatives over a property dispute immoral?

How can contradictory-seeming scriptural statements be understood?

Are Radharani and Lakshmi devi the same person?

How are humans intrinsically moral beings?

What is the reason for shaving the head at Tirupati?

Can one go back home back to godhead by practicing Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Judaism?

Can devotees kill snakes and scorpions?

How is the Western world having its necessities despite not performing any sacrifices?

How does bhakti change our inner impressions?

Why do senior devotees sometimes judgmentally dismiss other devotees because of just one mistake

If our past karma impels us to wrongdoing, do we get further bad karma?

Can our past karma force us into wrongdoing – then how do we have free will?

Does our varna change with time – can we belong to several varnas?

How can we increase empathy and heart-to-heart interactions in the devotee community

If we live in a complicated environment that requires us to be duplicitous, how can we prevent duplicity from becoming our habit

How can we talk about pure devotion without making people discouraged, thinking it is too lofty

If a devotee friend of ours is criticizing other devotees what should we do at that time ?

Was Abhimanyu killed because he acted without consulting his superiors?

Should we have doubt only initially while choosing a path and have full faith thereafter

Does spiritual growth lead to an external transformation along with internal transformation

Why is the conclusion of the Gita–18.66–rejected as external in the Chaitanya-Ramananda Samvada?

When Parashurama himself acted outside of his varna, why did he curse Karna for doing the same thing?

If someone finds our statements about other spiritual leaders unbearable, how can we connect with them?

When God is all-powerful, why does he need devatas to assist him?

Can you give examples of settling for tolerable tradeoffs instead of seeking perfect solutions?

If unfulfilled lust leads to anger, where was the lust behind Parashurama’s anger?

Was Parashurama’s violence against the kshatriyas disproportionate?

How can we have complete faith?

Why do we feel more envy toward some people than toward others?

While doing yoga outreach, how can we ensure that our bhakti focus doesn’t get diluted?