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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?

Why do ISKCON devotees pronounce Sanskrit words differently from traditional pronunciations?

Ishopanishad says God’s body has no veins, whereas SB says rivers are the veins of Virat rupa – how to reconcile?

Does Krishna consider Arjuna’s concerns about destruction of family meaningless?

What is the Vedic perspective on organ donation?

Does the Gita offer spiritual solution to spiritual problem or to material problem?

Krishna rewards according to surrender, but Lord Chaitanya sees no qualification. How to reconcile?

How can we know which things increase our doubt and which increase our faith?

Do neophyte devotees also represent Krishna? How?

Is the mind always our enemy?

When we get answers to doubts about which we pray, should we see those answers as Krishna’s reciprocation?

Is the Absolute Truth just a stream of consciousness for jnanis and a Person for bhaktas?

If smriti is compiled by sages, how can we know that it is free from the four defects?

When Ajamila chanted with the wrong conception, why did Vishnutas come?

What is the result of chanting the names of godmen who have the name of God?

Can you give an example of unnecessarily provocative presentation of apara-vidya that we should avoid?

How can we give people initial faith so that they can practice para-vidya and experience its potency?

Why did Bhishma in his previous life as Vasu steal Vashistha’s cow?

Why does Arjuna brag that he is greater than Dwarkavasis in the brahmana son’s stealing pastime?

Why is the same story told differently in different scriptures?

When Bhagavatam is the commentary on Vedanta-sutra, why do Advaitins still study Vedanta-sutra

Is Krishna’s reference to Arjuna as Bharata spiritual because the Bharata dynasty is filled with liberated souls?

If Krishna addresses Arjuna as per the bodily conception, does it mean that Krishna is in the bodily conception?

If a senior devotee asks me to take up a major service that he himself is not good at, should I follow him?

As varna means color, is varnashrama based on bodily color?

How can we help a dying relative attain emotional closure with an unforgiving relative?

Does fear take people towards God or away from him?

Is speaking to new people about Krishna the ninth offense to the holy name?

Does the improbability of extra-terrestrial life support more the Christian conception of God than the Vedic conception?

How can we best help a relative who is near death?

As neophytes can’t understand tattva and rasa accurately, isn’t it better to consider Krishna-lila depictions as literal and not artistic?

Won’t atheists use the concept of artistic license in depciting Krishna-lila to say that his supernatural pastimes are poetic exaggerations?

Should conversions be banned in India?

What is the difference between faith and blind faith? (PK answered 27)

Are different religions like different companies with their gods as their product? (PK answered 26)

How can God who is unlimited appear as a limited stone image? (PK answered 24)

Does a stone smeared with turmeric become God? (PK answered 23)

Is PK an anti-Hindu movie? (PK answered 22)

Are we meant to not ask questions in matters of faith? (PK answered 21)

Is ISKCON misappropriating sanatana-dharma?

Is dharma same as religion?

If God has given scripture, then which scripture and to whom?

If scripture is given by God, why is it not visible to a newborn child?

Aren’t Hindu teachers by refuting PK unnecessarily promoting it?

Why waste milk on God’s image when his children are starving? (PK answered 20)

How can worshiping a cow get a person a job? (PK answered 19)

If God has a plan for everything, does chanting mantras for getting something change his plan? (PK answered 18)

Why do religious teachers threaten people with fear of future punishment? (PK Answered 17)

Why does God like flattery? (PK answered 16)

When God is all-powerful, why do religionists need to protect him and for that attack others? (PK answered 15)