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Draupadi forgave Ashwatthama but not the Kauravas. Why?

Why did Krishna and Arjuna meet each other first time so late in their lives?

Why did Balaramji favor Duryodhana?

When different religious groups have their own scriptures how is the authority of Vaishnava scriptures to be established?

Is the expansion of the Mahabharata from its short Jaya version a contamination?

What guided humanity before scripture was written?

Is the Mahabharata contaminated due to interpolation?

Why did Duryodhana become vicious despite being born in a virtuous family?

Did Krishna establish dharma just for 36 years after fighting such a big war?

Why did Yaksha ask so many questions to the Pandavas?

How do we decide when to forgive and when to fight back?

Why did Krishna not protect Yudhisthira from errors of judgment?

Did Vikarna get any good result for trying to defend Draupadi’s honor?

Who was Yuyutsu? How did he come from the Kaurava side to the Pandava side?

Why did Yudhisthira agree for a second gambling match after the disastrous first gambling match?

Why did the virtuous Bhishma fight on the side of the vicious Kauravas?

Did Karna have to choose the side of evil due to his past karma?

How to choose between doing our worldly repsonsibilities devotionally and doing directly devotional activities?

Did Duryodhana have any good qualities?

What are the authentic sources for learning the Mahabharata?

How did a ciranjeevi Ashwatthama fight against the virtuous Pandavas?

Why did Krishna and others not try to reform Duryodhana as reformation is the ultimate goal?

Why do the Bhagavatam and the Mahabharata describe the same stories differently?

Where does Vishishtadvaita fall in the six systems of philosophy?

If we have canine teeth for eating meat, then doesn’t it go against the regulative principle of no meat-eating?

How do we develop taste for studying scripture?

When can a devotee seek honor instead of being humble?

How does atheism lead to abolition of our free will?

“Love yourself” – what is Vedic perspective on this idea?

What exactly is vrtti?

Are the intelligence and ego just transformations of the mind or are they constitutionally different?

What does vikalpa mean in the mind’s sanklpa-vikalpa?

Is the Gita’s teaching that women are sinful resposible for female infanticide?

While writing articles should we write about topics connected with our personal lives or about unconnected topics?

Should the gold in temples be used for social development?

Is scriptural knowledge needed only when devotion is dilute and not when devotion is pure?

Is experience a pramana if one’s experience contradicts scripture?

Is God hard of hearing that his devotees need to chant his names loudly?

If Krishna’s ultimate instruction is to give up all duties for surrendering to him why shouldn’t everyone join the temple?

Is Krishna omninpresent as his energy or personally as the Supersoul?

If the Supersoul is present in all atoms and the space between them, what is special about the Superoul in our heart?

What happens to the Supersoul after death and after liberation?

Is the Supersoul actually expanded in every heart or is it an appearance of expansion?

How do we deal with people’s fear that ISKCON preachers will make ours sons into brahmacharis?

What is wrong with worship of devatas if one understands them to be devotees of Krishna?

How do we reconcile different Puranic versions of the origin of Lord Shiva?

How do we know whether we desire to preach for fame or for pleasing Krishna?

Why is Krishna worshiped in North India in intimate mood and Vishnu worshiped in South India in reverential mood?

Can grihasthas who want to preach make preaching as their source of livelihood?

The religious rural culture of India is being replaced by materialisitc culture. What can we do to counter this?

Should we preach to make people ISKCON devotees or to make them better human beings?

How can we understand which mode we are in?

How can we stay in the mode of goodness?

If one doesnt practice raganuga bhakti then how will one get the realizations needed to return to our svarupa?

Does one have to practice raganuga bhakti to go BTG or is just departing in devotional circumstances enough

Hearing Krishna’s pastimes with the gopis is said to remove lust, but it often induce lust. How do we understand

Why does the mind develop bad habits more easily than good habits?

Doesn’t religious violence disprove the existence of God?

Is Deity worship needed only for neophyte devotees who can’t see Krishna in the heart?

How can we overcome the tendency to take the association of devotees for granted?

What is the difference between bhara-vahi and sara-grahi Vaishnavas?

Are we compromising when we use mild words like outreach instead of Prabhupada’s standard words like preaching?

Why are Einstein’s and Prabhupada’s metaphors about blind man-lame man contradictory?

What does Einstein’s metaphor about science and religion mean?

Is science based on rational faith and religion on irrational faith?

Does religion require faith from start to end whereas science requires faith only occasionally?

If we shouldn’t be disturbed by the mind’s impurities, then how can we beat the mind?

Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?

Did past people believe in miracles like Govardhana lila because they were unscientific and gullible?

If Krishna is the cause of all causes, is he the cause of everything that we and others do?

If we concede that scripture doesn’t contain literal report of conversations then where will the erosion of scriptural authority end?

Why are certain important verses quoted by acharyas not found in the scriptures?

Are chanting praying and meditation the same?

Why do some scriptures declare other gods to be Supreme?

Are the Puranas unreliable because they have so many different versions?

Prabhupada quotes largely from the Puranas so how can we show that our sampradaya is based on shruti?

I was born in another sampradaya, but became introduced to seriously bhakti through ISKCON. Which sampradaya should I follow?

Why do insubstantial religious groups spread extensively and pure saints remain unknown?

What is the destination of patriotic atheists like Bhagat Singh?

Why is there no Radha Krishna worship in the Madhva sampradaya?

Who is better – one who chants all day or one who chants a few times and serves others all day?

When Krishna always uses his free will properly, why don’t we too when we are his parts?

If we cant fast nirjala on Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi what benefit do we get?

Is belief in God like belief in a cosmic teapot – undisprovable yet unreasonable?

How can India’s wisdom-literature be introduced in the education without the saffronization of the syllabus?

Should every action in the Lord’s pastimes be interpreted to get some instruction from it?

Why does the Gita 12.11 include material charity in the bhakti hierarchy?

Where do religious social workers like Mother Terersa fall in the Gita’s yoga ladder?

How does karma yoga mature into ashtanga yoga?

How does the nishkama karma yogi attain knowledge and liberation? Through the same path or by adopting another yoga?

Does ashtanga yoga always start from jnana yoga?

If Durga is the superintendent of material nature how can Krishna alone grant liberation?

Is Durga devi a demigodess in the category of jiva tattva?

Are the jnanis mentioned in Gita 7.16-18 impersonalists as the example of Kumaras suggests or devotees as Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakura’s commentary states?

For a devotee-sadhaka Is the desire to go BTG desirable or should one just desire service?

How should we respond to indiscriminate violence against other communities done in the name of religion as a response to distortion of respected images?

What does the identification of Krishna with time mean practically?

When there are so many cases of past life memories, why don’t we find some people remembering their experience in heaven, hell or as animals?

Isn’t it distasteful for brahmacharis to be watching and quoting movies when people come to them to hear about Krishna

What is the difference between the Gita 9.34 and 18.65?