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Are the names Ramayana and Narayana related?

When Lord Shiva is the destroyer why is he considered auspicious?

Was Drona a pure devotee? Was he a spiritual teacher?

Why are the Gita’s first and last chapters of Krishna’s instructions its longest chapters?

What do the terms karya karana kartrtva adhyatma adhibhuta and adhiyajna in SB 2.5.19 mean?

Why does Prabhupada say in Gita 2.38p that sankhya doesn’t refer to and does refer to the Bhagavatam’s sankhya?

Whose Sankhya is the authorized Sankhya – the sage Kapila’s or of the avatara Kapila’s?

How is internal cleanliness a bodily austerity?

What is the difference between austerity and penance?

How can we ensure that our words of correction act as scalpels, not axes?

How can devotees avoid getting deviated to the heavenly planets?

How could a brahmana be so illiterate as to to not be able to read the Gita?

Which are the important commentaries on the Gita?

Why are there so many commentaries on the Gita?

What does “our senses are meant for Krishna’s satisfaction” mean?

What is the difference between doubt and curiosity?

What can we do in a relationship when the other person doesn’t want clarification?

When we don’t get any reciprocation despite calling Krishna earnestly for long, what can we do?

What is the difference between goodness and pure goodness?

How does marriage change sex from wrong to right?

What exactly was Bharata Maharaj’s mistake?

How could Bharata Maharaj have become attached to a deer after renouncing the world?

How can we overcome our ego?

What does it mean to not take credit for the things we do?

When neither yajnik-brahmanis nor their husbands get Krishna’s shelter, what is the point of that pastime?

Why is Vritrasura portrayed as a demon in the Rig-Veda and as a devotee in the Bhagavatam?

Why does Jiva Goswami deem Bhagavatam 2.2.37 the book’s phala-shruti?

How can we avoid getting lost in the many conversations in the Bhagavatam?

Which are the important commentaries on the Bhagavatam?

What is the difference between energies in Gita chp 7 and potencies in chp 9?

Are the Vedas actually ambiguous or just nonspecific about ultimate purpose?

What is the difference between giving up action and renunciation in Gita 3.4?

If we have devotional intention do we still get karmic reactions for incidental sins?

Did others apart from Arjuna see Krishna’s universal form?

How does the material body become spiritualized by bhakti?

Is it hypocritical to criticize others for faults we ourselves have?

Is the notion of time – of past, present, future – an illusion?

What is the rasa-abhasa in chanting “nitai gaur radhe shyam” mantra?

What is the position of bhakti teachers not connected with the four sampradayas?

Is doing sadhana bhakti in vatsalya bhava sahajiyaism?

Is Vallbha Bhatta of CC same as Vallabhacharya?

Is Vallabhacharya Krishna or devotee of Krishna?

What is time – Is there no time in the spiritual world?

What exactly is humility – how do we develop it in bhakti?

Why did Hanuman not defeat Vali?

Is the Sakshi-Gopal pastime mundane with a brahmana using God to futher his marriage?

Should I postpone my sadhana bhakti to focus on college studies?

How can I protect my bhakti from bad association in college?

How was sati meant for spiritual cultivation?

Should devotees read news?

Was sati suicide or murder?

When the world is Maya, why not just renounce it?

Why do serious devotees sometimes die prematurely?

Which is more helpful on the spiritual path – intelligence or inclination?

Should we eat as less as possible or eat to stay healthy for serving Krishna?

Can only those who don’t break brahmchari-vrata attain the kingdom of God?

Why is Bhagavatam 2.6 called the Purusha-Sukta confirmed?

Are dharma, artha, kama and moksha to be pursued sequentially or simultaneously?

Is time travel into the past possible?

On seeing the Pandavas forces why does Duryodhana approach Drona not Bhishma?

How do we understand Srila Prabhupada’s statements on rape?

Is diversity the DNA of Hinduism?

How can devotees face anxieties caused by worldly threats like crimes?

Why does Krishnadas KG in CC offer obeisances to his readers?

Why does the Gita say that Krishna can’t be attained by worship?

Is surrendering to God fatalistic?

Did Arjuna know Krishna’s supreme position in the Gita’s first chapter?

Why did Lord Chaitanya perform shraddha?

Could Krishna not convince Arjuna with philosophy alone and so he displayed the Universal Form?

How does Schrodinger’s cat paradox point to consciousness’ reality?

How could Bhima drink Dushashana’s blood?

Is the religionist’s God different from the philosopher’s God?

Did Bhima kill Duryodhana or just wound him?

Do sadhaka-devotees also become free all worldly obligations?

How does the Vedic rule of “no reactions in killing aggressors” apply today?

Is identifying according to our nature false ego?

Is sex pleasure due to hormones or mental imagination?

What does om mean?

If we do someone else’s work well, then is that work is our nature?

Is Prabhupada’s usage of “Thou shall not kill” to meat-eating an out-of-context application?

What causes inferiority complex?

Will banning beef lead to economic problems?

Is applying material science to spiritual things wrong?

Do devotees who commit suicide become ghosts?

Are all attractive things good for devotees of the all-attractive?

Doesn’t population growth disprove reincarnation?

How do we understand different devotees interpreting the moisture on the Pancha Tattva Deities differently?

Who created God?

Can’t all miracles be ascribed to natural causes?

How do we understand contradictions in scriptures?

How is shabda-pramana free from four defects?

How can we best present the Gita to intellectuals who feel Prabhupada’s Gita is too devotional?

Why does Prabhupada say that Haridasa Thakura is superior to Lord Shiva?

What exactly is false ego and true ego?

Did the Pancha Tattva Deities shed tears of ecstasy due to the ecstatic kirtan mela?

Why does God let some people be atheists?

Will soldiers who fight in today’s wars be doing vikarma?

Is simplicity and non-duplicity the same as humility or truthfulness?

Do sampradayas other than 4 Vaishnava sampradayas also have divine origin?

Did the Gita originally have 745 verses?