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Why is Vedic knowledge received through disciplic succession?

Does existence alone go from one life to another without carrying any karma from the past?

Can spiritual wisdom explain split personality disorder?

How can we strengthen our faith, especially while going through mood swings?

How can we disconnect from undesirable thoughts?

Can the soul experience anything other than what is displayed on the mind’s screen?

Does the level of consciousness indicate the strength of the soul?

Can’t future science explain consciousness?

How are the soul, mind and body brought together?

How can we know if our intelligence is misleading us through rationalization?

Will we ever come to a spiritual level when we understand Krishna’s plan perfectly?

How can some people remember their past lives?

​Is the golden cord that goes with the soul permanent or temporary?

​What should we do if we have a near-death experience or a mystical experience?

​I saw a shining light during a vision – what does it mean?

​Are reports of people having gone to Yamaraja and returned true?

​How do medically dead people sometimes return to life?

What is the difference between near-death experience, out-of-body experience and after-death experience?

​When does the soul get connected with the body?

​When there are different kinds of jehad, why is jehad associated with terrorism?

Was the Sita that Viradha abducted also Maya-Sita?

​Do pure devotees have no worldly desires or do they have desires but no inclination to act on those desires?

​How can we use in bhakti the qualities we don’t know we have?

​Is there a difference between vairagya and virakti?

​How can we deal with bad thoughts that come up subconsciously?

​How does the Placebo effect work?

When artificial intelligence becomes as good as our intelligence, what will our purpose be?

How can we overcome procrastinating tendency?

​Should we just depend on bhakti to purify us or cultivate introspectiveness to check and change our motives?

​When God is omniscient and knows our suffering, why do we need to go to him to get relief?

​How can the presence of suffering be reconciled with God’s existence?

​Can we change our destiny by living according to a particular path?

​Every effect has a cause – why can’t this argument be applied to God?

​Why didn’t Rama uphold the truth of Sita’s purity?

​Why did Rama take people’s criticism of Sita so seriously?

​When the Paramatma is always in the heart, how can Krishna leave the heart?

​Is there any evidence that chanting or bhakti-yoga decreases stress?

​How do we explain the triangularity of desires to children?

​Isn’t it better to know our needs and be satisfied on getting them instead of trying to be satisfied with what we have?

When bhakti provides higher pleasure than sensuality, why does the mind still crave for sense pleasure?

If we don’t have the inclination to do some service, should we still do it just to purify ourselves?

In our spiritual life how can we be both satisfied and ambitious?

​When Sita was devastated on Rama’s exiling her, how can we say that she just accepted her exile?

When we can’t even be sure whether this world will exist tomorrow, why bother thinking about some other world that is anyway held as inconceivable?

​Is old age present in the spiritual world?

​Yoga Maya can cover Krishna – how is this different from the Mayavadi idea that we all are God covered by Maya?

​Can individual or group chanting promote world peace?

​Some devotees see social issues as irrelevant – isn’t bhakti meant to be socially relevant?

​How can we explain rasa-lila to new people?

​How can spirituality help amidst increasing social polarisation, often caused by religion?

​Are all svakiya relationships in this world false?

​How can we guide our children in their teenage years?

​When anxiety distracts us during chanting, should we try to counter those thoughts or just wait for those thoughts to go?

​Does our enthusiasm in bhakti come from our sincerity or from Krishna’s mercy?

How can we know that God is still living?

​How is Hinduism different from other religions?

​How can we prevent our faith from going down with the passage of time?

​We know our likes and dislikes, but how can we know ourselves?

Is there any way we can use procrastination positively?

When religious conflicts cause violence, how can religious practice bring peace?

​Did Karna choose his fate or was he fated to die?

When mantra meditation involves actions and changes, how does it take us from the unchanging to the changing?

Where is the svabhava stored – is svabhava always unfavourable to bhakti?

​What is the difference between svabhava and conditionings?

​How can we avoid getting sucked into local temple politics while practicing bhakti?

​Is meditation on sound preferable to silent meditation?

Does becoming spiritual involve running away from problems instead of solving them?

​How can we know which situations are in our control and which out of control?

​How are we affected by positive or negative thoughts?

When people are diagnosed with depression, should they take medicines or practice spirituality?

Why did Nalakuvera-Manigriva not untie Krishna before going to heaven?

As exalted devotees don’t want liberation, should we not desire to get out of this world?

If it is Radharani’s love that binds Krishna, then is her love greater than Yashoda’s?

​Terrorism threatens human life – what is the spiritual perspective on this?

​What is the difference between premature death due to accident and due to suicide?

​Is a goal-oriented approach in bhakti in the mode of passion?

​What is consciousness – can we attain consciousness without giving up family life?

​If we all are parts of God, then is God the sum total of all beings?

​Is knowing our weaknesses one of the results of materialism?

​Krishna is the basis of all being, not just the best of all beings – what does this mean?

​Why does Krishna descend to this world – to kill demons or to teach the Gita?

​Why did Krishna not stop Yudhishthira from gambling?

​Did everyone on the Kurukshetra battlefield see Krishna’s universal form?

Do we need to appreciate devotees before we can appreciate Krishna?

Does exercising that increases our breathing rate decrease our lifespan?

Why do some people come close to death, but escape death?

If some people are more tolerant by their nature, does that tolerance mean they are advanced devotees?

Is bhakti the only way to higher taste – or are there other ways too?

Is multi-tasking desirable or undesirable?

What exactly is polymorphic monotheism?

Is the God of different religions one or different?

​​​​If religion is meant to love God, what about Buddhism which doesn’t refer to God?

​Why does God let difficulties happen in our life – please explain based on your personal life?

​How do we see people who use their faith to justify their bigotry?

Does the soul choose its parents in its next life?

​Do the Puranas talk about caste by birth and the Gita, caste by qualities?

​Why were the lower castes so abused in the caste system, though it was given by Krishna?

Won’t saying that don’t pursue worldly pleasures demotivate students from academic performance?

How can we control sense gratification?

What is ISKCON doing to address the fear that terrorists may attack temples?