QA: Audio

Why does God favor the wealthy by letting them bypass the queues in temples? (PK answered 14)

Does God respond more to our prayers when we worship him in a bigger murti? (Pk answered 13)

If God can hear our prayers directly, why do we need to pray to a murti? (PK answerd 12)

Is going to temple due to fear cowardice? (PK answered 11)

Is religion a business run by godmen to exploit people’s fears? (PK answered 10)

Why do different religions have different rituals? (PK answered 9)

Why aren’t we born with our religion stamped on our body? (PK answered 8)

Is religion made by man or by God? (PK answered 7)

Why would God want his children to roll on the ground to come to him? (PK answered 6)

Do fearful people go to temples? (PK answered 4)

Are rituals wrong numbers for calling God? (PK answered 3)

Is the god who made us completely unknowable to us? (PK answered 2)

Are there two gods – the god who made us and the god whom we made? (PK answered 1)

Does God like atheists more than religionists because atheists don’t kill children?

Was Arjuna aware of the soul’s existence before hearing the Gita?

What is artistic license and how can it be used in devotional dramas?

In SB 1.2.7 if the knowledge is acquired through devotion how is it causeless?

In SB 1.2.2 what does the trees’ echoing Vyasadeva’s call to Shukadeva mean?

In NoI 8 why is kirtanam mentioned separately from engaging the tongue?

Is there any difference between urges and feelings?

What feelings do impersonalists experience – material or spiritual?

What exactly is the point of the nivrtta tarshair (SB 10.01.04) verse?

Why would Prabhupada quote inauthentic books like the Aquarian Gospel?

To practice bhakti strictly is it better to be fanatical?

How do we help people hurt by insensitive behavior of devotees?

Do we learn shastra by studying more or serving more?

If we dont understand something in the Gita should we re-read it till we understand before going ahead?

What is the joking referred to in Gita 1.25 purport?

How can we use gadgets in bhakti without becoming attached?

If six systems of philosophy are progressive why are they contradictory?

If the Gita is contextual, why is it considered such an important scripture?

Is death alone away from loved ones successful death?

Isn’t forcing ourselves to thank God for bad things self-repression?

Does bhakti make us unambitious?

Was Mirabai greater than Jiva Goswami because she saw beyond bodily gender?

Is Modi anti-secular in giving the Gita to other heads of state?

Is the Gita a religious book or a secular book?

Is secularism against the Vedic tradition?

Why does Gita 7.25 use yoga-maya instead of maha-maya?

Does the Gita ask Arjuna to choose job over family?

Should prostitution be legalized in India?

What are the consequences of sin?

Why is every sin ultimately a sin against God?

What does it mean to be free from sin?

What does it mean to be a slave to sin?

How can I overcome a habitual sin?

Why do we sin?

Are all sins equal to God?

Do parents suffer the sins of their children?

Are children punished for the sins of their parents?

How can I know if something is a sin?

What is the definition of sin?

Is caffeine addiction a sin?

Is it ever right to lie?

Is joking a sin?

How is Mayavada offensive?

When chanting requires mind control, why do we say that chanting leads to mind control?

Where does people’s evil tendency come from?

Could God have prevented the Holocaust?

Who is responsible for the Holocaust – Hitler or the Jews’ karma?

Why does God not protect his devotees today like he protected Prahlad?

When we don’t know what past-life karma caused our present suffering how do we learn?

Are only Indian breed cows go mata?

When God doesn’t conjure tricks can he be considered a magician?

When God doesn’t need to do research, can he be considered a scientist?

Was Bhishma an impersonalist – he refers to Krishna in the third person not the second person?

What is the difference between spiritual, transcendental and devotional?

Where exactly is the pleasure of sex: in our mind, in our body’s hormonal secretion or in the other person’s body?

What leads to spirtual advancement – taking more responsibility in service or doing more chanting?

Should we stop voting in elections because no political party stops sinful activities?

Is God a scientist or a magician?

What are phantom limbs – how do they prove the soul’s existence?

Is the God of the Abrahamic traditions the same as the God of the Vedic tradition?

Will devotional service free us from a painful disorder?

Does one lose wealth or gain wealth by worshiping Hari?

Is controlling lust forcibly helpful or harmful?

Does God create energy out of nothing?

Why do devotees consult psychologists instead of chanting mahamantra?

Why do you call your site spiritualscientist when there’s not much scientific content?

Does om purnam imply that we should be complete and so we should be Krishna?

How can we share scriptural wisdom in today’s secular government?

Why does Bhishma Panchaka have 4 days this year instead of 5?

Does papa-yonayah in Gita 9.32 refer to a fourth category?

Does Gita 18.56 refer to karma-yoga or bhakti-yoga?

How can a material process karma-yoga grow into the transcendental process bhakti-yoga?

Why do so many people commit suicide?

Science believes in experiments – what does spirituality believe in?

Is karma-yoga superior to jnana-yoga according to the Gita chp 3?

Do animals have mind – how do they control it?

Which dictionary meaning of the word ‘mind’ does the Gita refer to?

What does panentheism mean?

When sex is a fact of life, why be prudish about depicting it in the media?

Does covering our bodies with clothes make us obsessed to see others’ bodies?

Is wearing clothes unnatural as no other species in nature wears clothes?

Do vaishyas have to do brahminical occupation to come to goodness for practicing bhakti?

Why do we counter-push against lower modes and not against goodness?

How do we deal with students who take to KC to escape from studies?

When Arjuna’s chariot was destroyed after the MB war, why does he say in SB “The chariot is the same”?

Are those who come to Krishna even for material benefit mahatmas?

Is the jnani of Gita 7.17 one of the four categories of 7.16?