QA: Audio

Is Gandhiji’s commentary on the Gita ok?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

How do laws of nature invalidate design – don’t laws require a designer?

When problems distract us from bhakti, isn’t it better to solve the problems and then focus on bhakti?

How can we know the balance between the painkiller of material things and the cure of spirituality?

When scientists criticize intelligent design, how can we establish that God is the explanation for explainability?

If everything unconnected with Krishna is Maya, then are all systems for valuing different things differently also Maya?

When Maya is so powerful, what is our hope for being delivered?

When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?

Are there any practicing brahmavadis today or are all impersonalists mayavadis?

How to avoid becoming discouraged when we are unable to pronounce the mahamantra clearly and correcting it takes too much time?

Is there any correlation between the Dashavataras and the four yugas?

Does the sequence of the Dashavatars reflect the theory of evolution?

What are the differences between plenary portions, expansions and incarnations?

What is the exact difference between brahmavadis and mayavadis?

When Krishna can free us from illusion, can’t he free us from pride too?

If Bhagavatam and Bible come from different frames of reference, does that mean everything is relative?

Is the Biblical Adam-Eve story of creation reconcilable with the Bhagavatam’s description of narration?

If everything coming from Krishna is also Krishna, then is everyone God?

If our outreach services require us to go away from devotees how can we get their association?

Is it appropriate to speak directly on the Bhagavatam to new people?

When people are alienated by ISKCON’s high standards, how can we attract them?

How can we present shastra in a contemporary way?

Which Krishna pastimes can we meditate on?

How can we attract people who are connected with other spiritual organizations?

Doesn’t ISKCON’s managerial structure sometimes impede its spiritual outreach?

Why don’t we spontaneously act according to our svabhava?

How can we accommodate those who can’t practice bhakti with high standards?

What is the Gaudiya Vaishnava understanding of Manu Smriti?

Do the Vedas teach that only brahmanas by birth can become brahmanas?

How can we explain that Krishna’s pastimes are not mythological?

Why are the same pastimes described differently in different scriptures?

How can we tune our consciousness so that Krishna manifests therein?

How can I celebrate my birthday spiritually?

Are there any scriptural examples of those indifferent to the modes?

Why does Krishna do certain things for maintaining people’s faith in paths other than bhakti?

Why does the Gita refer to people following scripture (17.11) while describing people without scriptural faith?

Does one need to know one’s svarupa to be liberated?

Does pure devotion mean expecting no reciprocation from Krishna?

Can we have a relationship with someone without reciprocation from them?

How can we explain Krishna’s conspiracies in the Mahabharata?

How can we correlate shastra with our daily life?

Why do senior devotees sometimes join apasampradayas?

What makes Indians convert to Islam or Christianity?

Isn’t it better to be a stable grihastha than a bewildered brahmachari?

How can we be inspired when we don’t get much association of senior devotees?

Should we associate with like-minded devotees or devotees who have the qualities we don’t have?

Why has God given us such a troublesome mind?

Does spirituality choke our scientific enquiry?

How can we choose among various services that we can do?

When we want to serve Krishna, why do we get tempted?

If people commit murder in the name of religion, what is their destination?

What is the difference between shunyavada, mayavada and nirvisheshavada?

How do impersonalists interpret the Gita’s clearly personalist verses?

Does ISKCON brainwash people?

When the Vedas talk about so many gods, isn’t that confusing?

How do we see devotees who dont complete their japa in the morning?

How does the hladini shakti entering our consciousness please Krishna?

How to respond to the Buddhist argument that the universe is eternal?

What does the Absolute Truth being one in synthesis and separate in analysis mean?

Just as Christians adopt local cultural forms while converting Indians, can devotees do the same in their outreach?

What is the scientific evidence for incarnations other than Krishna?

What is the difference between knowledge in the three modes and intelligence in the three modes?

If human will is strengthened by connection with divine will, how do nondevotees sometimes have great determination?

If Indra got the reaction of brahma-hatya for killing Vritrasura, why didnt Rama, for killing Ravana?

Why is there the conservative-liberal divide everywhere, including even in spiritual organizations?

Both Narada and Shakuni incited others – what is the difference?

Can superstitions be used in bhakti?

How can we raise our remembrance of Krishna from intellectual recollection to devotional redirection?

Is anger always bad?

Does spiritualist refer to a practitioner of spiritualism, not spirituality?

If everything comes from Krishna why doesn’t everything take us to Krishna?

QA with Christian students 4 – Is the Christian incarnation similar to Vedic avatar?

QA with Christian students 3 – Does the Prodigal Son parable correlate with the fall of the soul?

QA with Christian students 2 – Is there any bhakti equivalent to the Trinity?

QA with Christian students 1 – Is Yashoda similar to Virgin Mary?

If the soul is marginal energy, how can it never fall after attaining Krishna?

From moksha one falls back, from svarga one can be elevated – is kama better than moksha?

Wasn’t Hanuman’s anger in burning Lanka excessive?

How could Arjuna ask Krishna to become his charioteer?

Is Tulsi-Ramayana more biased against Ravana than Valmiki-Ramayan?

When Hanuman was a monkey, why did Sita see him as a man and decline to be carried by him?

Did Vibhishana betray his brother by defecting to Rama’s side?

If Arjuna being a kshatriya was anyway going to fight, why did Krishna speak the Gita?

Why did Arjuna kill Bhishma unfairly?

Was Arjuna a better archer than Karna because he got better training facilities?

Why did Dasharatha not go with Rama to the forest when he felt separation from him?

When Vasudeva and Devakis son was going to kill him, why did Kamsa keep them in the same prison cell?

Was Ravana virtuous because he didn’t violate Sita forcibly?

What should I do if my bhakti is damaged after coming from ISKCON?

How does spiritual sound stimulate and facilitate meditation?

When the Lord’s pastimes are transcendental, should they be analyzed?

Why do jnanis need many lives to become jnanavan?

Why are the eka-bhakti jnanis of Gita 7.17 considered jnana-mishra?

Can we use freewriting in bhakti-yoga?

How can I go about writing in Krishna’s service?

When the Vedas also talk about transcendence, why does Gita 2.45 ask us to go beyond the Vedas?

Does the Gita flow from 2.58 to 2.61 reflect rise from karma-yoga through jnana-yoga and dhyana-yoga to bhakti yoga?

Does Gita 2.12 actually counter impersonalism?