QA: Audio

If Prabhupada knew that certain projects weren’t going to succeed, why did he encourage devotees to do those projects?

If karmic reactions come on earth itself, what is the need for sufferings in hell?

How can we help others to not see problems at the bodily level?

How can we connect with Krishna tangibly when distracted by worldly objects?

How can we realize that we are different from our mind?

How can we transform practice into realization?

How can devotees mistreated by their seniors avoid discouragement?

How to respond when we are corrected by others?

Should we use the sandwich method when correcting others?

How does regulated devotion transform into spontaneous devotion?

Is revelation of Krishna’s all-attractiveness analogous to his mercy?

How can we study scripture, not just read it?

Is investing money to increase it over-endeavor?

When we do a service well, if people label us as proud, what can we do?

How can we avoid self-acceptance of our abilities from becoming false ego?

While chanting, can we hear kirtan?

If we help someone but they don’t help us in return, should we continue to help?

Given that the idea of trans-moral can be misused, can it ever be applied?

Can you illustrate the principle of trans-moral actions?

Playing games for relaxation – which mode does it fall in?

Despite practicing bhakti and cultivating goodness, we remain passionate – what to do?

How can we deal with our inner critic?

On failing to achieve our goal, should we persevere in that goal or change it?

How to avoid relaxing into worldly enjoyment after doing our service wholeheartedly?

How can we avoid struggling in vain to control situations that are not in our control?

As science keeps people away from God, can scientists be considered reincarnations of demons?

If someone has done something wrong, isn’t it better to tell them straight instead of pausing and speaking later?

What causes timidity – how can we overcome it?

How can we control our mind, especially during chanting?

What is the wws concept?

When Krishna is unlimited, how can he be a person?

Have people who can remember their past lives done some special good karma?

How do we balance between chanting and getting knowledge?

We chastise someone out of love, but it spoils the relationship – what to do?

What is the consequence of the offense of inattentive chanting?

Should we attribute problems in daily life to our poor chanting?

How to replace envious thoughts with loving thoughts?

How can we control our emotions?

What does achintya in achintyabhedabheda refer to?

Why is scriptural knowledge needed in daily life?

Is Krishna as the holy name a sound vibration or is he beyond all sound vibrations?

What exactly is the holy name – does its potency lie in the words or the meaning or somewhere else?

How can we overcome our past conditionings?

Will our conscience ever become stronger than the mind?

To anchor our consciousness in Krishna, do we need external calm or can we directly get inner calm?

If we don’t have devotee association, how can we practice bhakti?

How to overcome anxieties about issues that have life-changing consequences?

How can we be concerned but not disturbed – is it simply by faith?

How can we become intense in our chanting?

Does courtesy japa help us attain Krishna after death?

When past karma blocks our bhakti, what can we do?

How do I choose my spiritual master?

Amidst problems, should we just let Krishna solve them or should we work to solve them?

While making choices, how can we take Krishna’s shelter?

If karma, daiva and kala lead to phala, what is Krishna’s role?

If parents have two children – one bright, one dull – is it the parents’ karma or the childrens’ karma?

When our sadhana oscillates because of material ups and downs, what can we do?

Is destiny determined by past karma alone or by present karma too?

When is our friends’ influence helpful and when unhelpful?

Why did Krishna save Parikshit, but not Abhimanyu?

Should we learn from problems or move away from them?

Is our intelligence destined – does it determine when we take to spiritual life?

Is our marital partner destined?

If destiny evens out in the long run, then does it really matter?

Devotional practices calm our mind, but only briefly – what to do?

Does our past impede our bhakti – how can we overcome those impediments?

Why was Vyasadeva dissatisfied even after writing Vedic literature that glorify Krishna?

Do we need to always feel existential dissatisfaction to practice bhakti intensely?

How can we be emotionally connected with Krishna without becoming sentimental?

With what purpose should we read Srila Prabhupada’s books?

How can we make a plan that is effective even if Krishna’s plan turns out to be different?

How can we say no to the things we like?

God loves me – is this just a psychological feeling or a spiritual reality?

Do relationships interfere with our inner growth?

All loving relationships in this world are temporary – what does that mean?

How do we know which desires are healthy and which unhealthy?

Should we pray to God for things or just be content with what we have?

How can we persist in our resolutions?

When we face much worldly anxiety, how can we practice spirituality?

How are we non-sectarian when our practices are isolating?

How can we advance spiritually while having family and job responsibilities?

Where do the differences among religions come from?

How do we define the Paramatma?

Does pursuing knowledge reflect materialistic consciousness – will it keep us dissatisfied?

How can we choose our mantra?

What are simple steps to fix our mental software?

Where do our fears originate – are they just conceptions?

Do happiness-distress have objective reality or are they just mental constructs?

When Arjuna was sinless, why did he have to go to hell?

How can we prove that God exists?

Did Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection make his blood pure, making him into God?

How to preach to Christians who argue that Jesus is the only way?

How important is the exact pronunciation of Rama in the maha-mantra?

How can those with an impersonal understanding of God be helped to taste bhakti?

Although material things are temporary, those things matter to us – how can we balance our material and spiritual side?

How can we make our subconscious choices wise choices?

While choosing, how can we know which desire is coming from external influences and which from internal inspiration?

How can we choose rightly among various religions?

Why do some good devotees suddenly do some terrible things?

Sometimes our actions don’t produce results, but do those results manifest eventually?