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We surrender to Krishna’s will sometimes but mostly act for our own pleasure. What is our hope?

When something happens, how do we decide whether it was due to past karma or present actions?

If gambling makes people do foolish things, why are kshatriyas ordained to gamble when challenged?

Though Yudhishthira is the oldest Pandavas, why does Gita chp 1 mention him after Arjuna & Bhima?

Are the four defects hierarchical: imperfect senses cause illusion, illusion causes mistakes etc?

Among the four defects, can the first three be unintentional, but cheating is always intentional?

As all the bodily forms we take are temporary, does that mean the eternal and real is formlessness?

What can we do when religions use surrogate advertising for converting unsuspecting needy people?

Is institutionalization alien to Vedic culture? Did Gaudiya acharyas import if from Christianity ?

When Hinduism is not a missionary religion, why does ISKCON stress missionary activities so much?

If we are served more prasad than what we can eat, can we throw it away?

When even Americans are concerned about Christian conversions in India, why is ISKCON unconcerned?

When Prabhupada did many things different from his spiritual master, how did he not change anything?

How can we identify false ego while doing services?

When do questions move from being inquisitive to offensive? What kind of questions can be asked?

Is chanting with beads more blissful because the fingers are connected with certain brain parts?

When sex is an experience of Krishna, as the Gita states, why does Yamunacharya spit at sex desire?

Is Ramananda Raya’s decoration of devidasis a standard devotional practice or an exception?

Is it possible for a human being to be entirely free from sex desire?

Are the beliefs “kshatriya martyrs attain heaven” & “jehadi suicide bombers attain paradise” different?

When so many microbes are present in a cm, isn’t the idea of a God who loves everyone impractical?

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita 18.65 call to worship Krishna alone and no other Vishnu form fanatical?

Don’t descriptions of Krishna’s form make us imagine as spiritual our material attraction to forms?

Is Gita 18.55’s impersonal message (vishate tad anantaram) overridden by Prabhupada’s translation?

If the Gita is a manual why is it so confusing? Why couldn’t it have been clearer?

Is the Gita an attempted reconciliation of different Upanishadic thoughts and not a revelation?

What is the destination of those people who die after receiving blessings of advanced devotees?

Does “knowing in truth” (Gita 4.9) happen by “experiences of Truth” or by “understanding”?

When Prabhupada’s perfect purports to the Gita are there, why are Gita daily articles needed?

Considering “gurushu naramati..”, isn’t thinking about spiritual teachers’ human failings offensive?

Does ISKCON promote subtle emotional enjoyment in the name of spiritual enjoyment?

Is ISKCON’s conception of God like the Abrahamic religion’s jealous God?

Could the unbelievable stories about Krishna not be some poets’ fabrications?

What does sound travels to ether mean when science says ether doesn’t exist?

As Brahma has come as Haridasa Thakura what is the meaning of the statement that Maya could tempt Brahma but not Haridas Thakura?

Does having some ambitions in life mean having material attachments and doing tenth offence?

Why do we take shelter of Krishna more in difficult times like exam period but not during sadhana and service?

How is the material world non-existent as Prabhupada states in the Gita introduction?

In Gita 13.12 is there any difference between atma-vinigrahah and indriyartheshu vairagya?

What is the meaning of kavitam in the na dhanam na janam verse?

In the namo-brahmanya devaya prayer, why does hitaya come twice?

What does Shad-Goswami Ashtakam mean by ‘the devouring mouth of liberation’?

Should a devotee oppose crimes like rapes? Should he feel compassion for the criminal?

Does Prabhupada’s request to cooperate with devotees mean that we allow them to exploit us?

How can we pray for those who are troubling us?

How can sitting erect like Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati help in our chanting?

How can a devotee use the ambition to research in Physics in Krishna’s service?

How can a student who wants to become a brahmachari in future feel inspired to do academic studies?

How can we avoid getting caught in doubts about unimportant issues while studying scriptures?

Did Ekalvaya fight in the Kurukshetra war?

If Vrajavasis love each other doesn’t that mean Krishna is not all-attractive for he can’t exclusively attract their love?

How do we understand our love for our relatives from the soul point of view?

Why does Srila Prabhupada criticize Mayavadis but not mlecchas who desecrate Deities?

Can we use Tulasi as medicine in life-threatening diseases?

Why do devotees quote as authorities scientists who belong to Christian-funded institutes?

When devotee-scientists’ books are criticized by mainstream scientists can we quote them as scientific evidence for KC?

Will counteracting the causes of falling down also prevent falling away?

As we can’t independently control matter, how do our senses function in the world?

Should we avoid discriminating between male and female to avoid agitation by lust?

How can we increase our tolerance to temptations?

Do instincts come from genes or from the Supersoul’s guidance?

If dharma is the innate characteristic of a thing, how can it differentiate humans from animals?

If we feel grief-struck on losing a loved one, how do we relate with Krishna thereafter?

How do we understand Prabhupada’s statements about the Holocaust?

Which varna do doctors belong to?

What is the Gita’s position on deontology?

What is the Gita’s etiology?

What is the Gita’s ontology?

What is the Gita’s soteriology?

What is the Gita’s eschatology?

How can we best offer prayers from the Bhagavatam?

Does Gita 9.32 which says that anyone can begin bhakti apply to those who fall while practicing bhakti?

Is the Gita 18.66 exclusivist or inclusivist in spirit?

If we need to see intellectually before we can see visually, what about non-intellectual practitioners?

Isn’t unconsciousness of Krishna more harmful than unconsciousness of our faults?

Is there any difference between dambha, darpa and abhimana in Gita 16.04?

How much should a grihastha plan for financial security and how much depend on Krishna?

Is there any actual difference between Brahman Paramatma and Bhagavan, or is it just a matter of perception?

If the Ishopanishad is spoken by a sage, how is it apaurusheya?

What is the destination of the yogis who meditate on the Paramatma?

As yoga refers to connection and Patanjali is said to have taught yoga did he teach all the various ways of connecting with God like karma-yoga etc?

Instead of Vyasadeva begetting a successor king in his deceased brother’s wife couldn’t he have become the king himself?

If Krishna is God, how could he have been killed by a hunter’s arrow?

Is there a philosophical significance to the difference between the singular scripture and the plural scriptures?

In Vraja the cows go ahead of Krishna to remove the thorns from his path, who goes ahead of Radharani?

Just as Vedanta Sutra explains Vedanta are there other books that explain the other five systems of philosophy? How authentic are they?

As the Lord plays the part of a human being in his pastimes, doesn’t it imply that there’s a higher realer feature of the Lord beyond the part he plays in his pastimes?

What is the authenticity of Lord Rama’s pastimes that are not mentioned in the Ramayana?

Prabhupada presented Krishna consciousness sensitively, then why did he use the word cult not culture to refer to his movement?

Is Vedanta is the conclusion of the Vedas or is it one of the six philosophies derived from the Vedas? What exactly is their mutual relationship?

What does crying for Krishna, as Srila Prabhupada recommends, mean practically?

How can we develop divine passion? Do we need an external motivation?

Is the passion for our material duties like excelling in studies desirable or undesirable?

If a Gaudiya Vaishnava sadhaka feels attracted to Vishnu worship, what should he do?

When the Supersoul is a judge, how is he neutral? And how is his role reconcilable with deism?

How are communism, socialism, altruism, humanitarianism and nationalism misdirections of the loving propensity?

Why does Vasudeva Krishna, not Vrindavan Krishna, kill demons? Why do demons like Putana killed by him attain Goloka, not Vaikuntha?

Can Kuruskshtera be compared to the body, the senses to the Pandavas, the Kauravas to the vices and the war to the inner battle?

Among the 8.4 million species, where do the demigods and demons belong?

When hearing about Krishna from nondevotees can create interest in people and act as a stepping stone to devotional service, why is such hearing considered like milk touched by a snake?