QA: Audio

​Why would kshatriyas, especially devotees like Arjuna, hunt?

Is bhakti meant for setting things right in our life or for liberating our soul?

​Why was Arjuna Krishna’s favorite among the Pandavas?

How did Draupadi have so much devotion for Krishna, more than that of even the Pandavas?

Among the Gita’s four varnas, what is your varna?

Does Krishna tell Arjuna that you are a kshatriya at the level of a brahmana?

​If we don’t grieve at someone’s death, aren’t we devaluing them?

Is our next body shaped by our desire or by our mind?

Does the Gita recommend doing yajna-dana-tapa or giving it up?

​How does bhakti counter anxiety?

What role does time play in differentiating between wants and needs?

How can we regulate our material wants in our spiritual life?

Why was Bharat Maharaja punished with a deer body for his compassion?

​Are all our material choices pre-determined by our past karma?

When Krishna is in our heart and knows our desires, why do we need to pray to him?

Can devotees ask Krishna for a material thing such as a child?

​Did Karna ever feel that he had made a wrong choice by fighting for Duryodhana?

​When did Kunti reveal to Karna that he was her son – why?

​When Krishna descends to destroy the miscreants, why does he try for peace with the miscreant Kauravas?

Does Krishna ask Karna for his punya when Karna is about to die?

​How to share bhakti with our relatives who are addicted to materialism?

​How to deal with the conflict of feeling like giving charity and fearing that it may be misused?

​What to do if the association of some devotees makes us negative and agitated?

​​​​How can we use our intellectual faculty to elevate ourselves and others spiritually?

​QA on Science & Religion at Cambridge University

Devotionally, we need to be humble. Professionally, we need to promote ourselves. How to reconcile?

How can we reduce the time we spend on devices?

​How does the mind make decisions?

​How to deal with the mind if it traps us in the same behaviour repeatedly?

​How can we expand our resolutions from time-bound to lifelong?

What to do if the mind acts on us even before we realize what is happening?

​Why are academic scholars of a tradition often derided by the tradition?

How does scripture explain evolution?

​Are scientific claims of journey to other planets compatible with scripture?

​What happens to our accumulated karma when we surrender to Krishna?

Why do some pious people face prolonged suffering before death?

What is the destination of those who have died too young to have done any good or bad?

Does the soul of those who die prematurely come back?

​Do all the millions who commit suicide become ghosts?

​How can we help the souls of those people who have committed suicide?

How to avoid getting distracted by the mind during our idle time?

Does the soul age?

​Is the form of the soul similar to our present form?

​Is wanting to rise in the corporate world due to the mode of passion?

​Why do distractions come more when we chant?

What to do if we can’t contain our anger but expressing it will hurt others?

​Why is the atheistic West more prosperous than religious India?

​If we become too target-oriented while doing a service, should we give up that service?

​Initially, bhakti doesn’t give as much happiness as sensuality – how to persevere then?

​As the spiritual is not visible or quantifiable, how can we know that we are not pursuing something delusional?

​What can we learn from Yudhishthira’s gambling?

​Why are there contradictions among different religions?

​Can becoming spiritual make us lazy and unambitious?

​Why does Krishna in the hearts of terrorists allow them to murder people?

​Was the Pandavas’ killing Bhishma and Drona according to dharma?

​Are the varnas applicable today?

Is dharma practical in this age?

Do impersonalists who do jnana-tapasa attain liberation?

How can we balance our material commitments and spiritual aspirations?

Did Krishna feel confused about which pure devotee to support – Arjuna or Bhishma?

​​​​Which aspect of the universal form did Duryodhana see?

​How does bhakti invert social hierarchy?

​Is dharma the same in all ages?

​When we all lose everything at death, how does making better choices matter at death?

​If spirituality helps us make better choices, who decides which choices are better?

How has your spirituality helped you to practically solve the world’s problems?

​Can’t laughter help us feel better?

Are there any evidences that consciousness is extra-cerebral?

​Is becoming worried or not becoming worried a learnable habit?

​Why do we tend to worry about future things that haven’t even happened?

How can we measure our progress on the path of controlling our mind?

​What does the Gita’s call to control the mind by practice and renunciation mean practically?

​If devotion is innate for all of us, why does it seem alien to some?

How can we improve our focus?

​Can yogis leave their body at will?

Do people take to spirituality only because of detachment from material life?

​How can we learn to serve Krishna more selflessly?

​How can we see problems as challenges?

​How is there no passage of time in the spiritual world?

​How can we overcome a bad habit that has been very difficult for us to give up?

How can we train the mind to correct its bad ways?

​How can we protect ourselves at various stages from contemplation to degradation?

​Are we meant to neglect the mind or to channel it?

How can we live in the present instead of the past or the future?

When the mind troubles us, how can we practically control it?

​Will we ever attain a spiritual level beyond material desire?

​How can we help materialistic people recognize the need to control their thoughts?

When does ambition become greed?

How can we introduce new people to bhakti?

Why does ISKCON have a more organized managerial structure than most traditional religious groups?

​When the soul is beyond identity, why do devotees put identification marks such as tilak?

Should we stick to personal spiritual standards even when they imbalance our life?

Do we need to resist a material desire that is a need?

Are there any scriptural references that people’s caste is determined by their qualities?

Are there any scriptural references that people’s caste is determined by their qualities?

If a devotee can see the future in dreams, what should they do?

Does bhakti lead to brahman, as Gita 14.26 says or does brahman lead to bhakti, as Gita 18.54 says?

How is the soul immoveable?

Does the Supersoul go with the soul or is the all-pervading Supersoul already there where the soul goes?

Is the Paramatma in the heart same as the Paramatma in the atom?