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​When intellectual level is higher than sensual, why are intellectual devotees still attracted to sensual pleasure?

​How can an intellectual practice bhakti without becoming intellectually deviated?

Can the guru take back to godhead even disciples who are still works in progress?

​Should devotees rigidly force people to take to Krishna consciousness?

Why is the message of God so different in different religions?

​Are terrorists like snakes who deserve to be killed without trial and who don’t deserve last rites?

What is the destination of terrorists who blow themselves up while chanting Allah?

How should we behave with non-religious people?

​​How is a terrorist different from a freedom fighter?

​Are people without avenues for democratic expression justified in resorting to terrorism?

Who can be affected by black magic?

What is tantra – is it material or spiritual?

How can we draw lessons from scripture – should we stick only to lessons given by acharyas?

​How can Vishvanatha Chakravarti say that scriptural verses are grammatically inaccurate?

​Do we need different teachers for different areas of life?

​Is deity worship meant for the less intelligent?

How to respond to scholars who consider abstract principles more important than bhakti specifics?

​What does “Yamadutas are afraid to approach devotees” mean?

Why doesn’t Lord Shiva guide his devotees to Vishnu?

Can there be pure devotion to Lord Shiva?

Can Lord Shiva also grant liberation?

How can we guide people who find chanting 16 rounds impossible?

Was Yudhishtira’s gambling Draupadi after he had lost himself dharmic or adharmic?

Isn’t the idea that everyone can’t understand dharma elitist?

How can the Gita’s spiritual knowledge be compared to nuclear weapons knowledge?

When Bhishma comes after Ajamila pastime, how does that pastime list him as a mahajan?

​Do we need to combat social threats to dharma to preserve an environment conducive for practicing dharma in future?

How can we understand which qualities are good and which bad?

How to avoid becoming indecisive when encountering different advices from different people?

How can we avoid being misled by people who are confident but wrong?

Why don’t we like the good and dislike the bad?

How can we live in the present alone without learning from the past or preparing for the future?

How to respond when things go wrong?

How can we know ourselves well enough to make wise choices with lifelong consequences?

How can we better execute our plans?

How to persevere despite our failures in following standards?

Is the mind alone the link between the gross body and the soul – or are the intelligence and false ego also included?

How can one practice bhakti without going through other yogas?

How can knowledge of other yogas help in practicing bhakti?

How can we differentiate between the mind’s voice and the Supersoul’s voice?

Is citta a part of the subtle body?

How can we harmonize our inclination with higher instruction while serving?

How can we develop the mood of serving Krishna in everything we do?

​How can we avoid ego while doing what we like to do?

How can we avoid indulging in a thing while thinking negatively about avoiding it?

How can we give bhakti to beggars and other poor people?

Can enterprising devotees open devotional schools for offering both material and spiritual welfare?

​Why is Krishna not revealed in the Vedas – why was Bhagavatam needed to reveal him?

Does a culture of free mixing among genders make bhakti impossible to practice?

Why is Lord Chaitanya considered supremely merciful?

​Why are ISKCON programs in the West attended mostly by Indians?

​How can we avoid pride while giving spiritual knowledge to others?

​How can we cultivate gravity for controlling the mind, as told in the Gita 17.16?

​Why does Rupa Goswami talk about vaco-vega and jihva-vega separately?

​How can we know when we have endeavoured enough and should now wait for mercy?

​How is the whole world full of question-answers?

How are Krishna’s self-contradictory statements in Gita 9.4 and 9.5 to be understood?

Should we strive for perfection in our service?

Won’t doing service in contaminated consciousness license the contaminating influences?

If we do a service in contaminated consciousness, will that service contaminate others too?

​Why is the Paramatma considered impersonal?

​If I don’t have much time to write, how can I write?

Do different people perceive Krishna’s mercy differently?

​Can we extend our life by medicines?

What is the Vedic perspective on Islam?

Should we study scripture deeply and slowly or rapidly to get an overview?

​Can we use self-help books that give techniques that help us in our bhakti?

How do we see the joy of living in the present from the bhakti perspective?

​Should we always seek devotional stimuli with the mind?

​Should we chant while feeling separated from Krishna or while feeling that they are in front of us as the Deities?

​When we perceive that we are different from our thoughts, how do we infer who we really are?

​How can we balance brahmana and kshatriya roles?

​How can we connect to people’s emotional concerns without diluting our message?

What does the regulative principle no illicit sex mean?

Can we chant slowly if we find that absorbing?

Does chanting progress from uttering to hearing to visualizing Krishna’s form?

​What spiritual bliss can we have as sadhakas – how is it different from sattvika happiness?

​How can we share our realisations without coming off as proud?

​When all forms of God exist eternally, what does Krishna is the source of all those forms means?

Should we make ​​blanket statements first and then teach nuances?

​Did Bhima hate Duryodhana and not follow hate the sin, not the sinner?

​How can we sustain our resolutions?

​God did it – is this scripture’s only explanation for all material phenomena?

​Don’t let astonishment over mystical or technological marvels distract from bhakti

​How does Krishna decide when to protect and when to not protect?

​Can we just take shelter of bhakti when nothing solves our problems?

​Can phala-shrutis be used to attract people looking for material benefits?

​When even after chanting we still have problems should we tell others chant and be happy?

​Should we preach about the material benefits of bhakti given in scripture?

​Are we meant to reject the mind or to engage it?

​If we shouldn’t identify with feelings, why are we told to identify with devotional feelings?

​Are a laptop and a rainbow both brain signals and are so equally real?

​Does matter acquire form only when there is observing consciousness?

Should wives conduct themselves in a way that their husbands don’t look elsewhere?

When children don’t have intention to practice bhakti, does giving them devotional samskaras help?

​Do the Yamadutas know about bhakti?

​If dharma is about principles, how does it differ from belief system?

Are both people who chant simply out of piety and those who chant as sadhana at namabhasa level?

Did Ajamila by caring for his son develop bhakti?

If the soul immovable, how do the Yamadutas drag the soul?