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When the Bhagavatam declares Krishna to the source of all incarnations then why does it refer to the Supreme by the name Vishnu repeatedly, even in the rasa-lila section?

Isn’t the Hindu belief that girls are the result of bad karma and boys the result of good karma responsible for female foeticide?

How can we differentiate between offering help and interfering in others’ business?

Is the Garga-Samhita authentic? If yes, why don’t the Goswamis quote it?

What does Krishna’s threefold bending form signify?

Isn’t Balaramji’s killing Romharshana just because of failure to offer respects objectionable?

What is the Vedic perspective on artificial meat?

Won’t adjusting according to time-place-circumstances lead to deviations?

Does bhakti come from bhakti or from punya?

If we get sensual immoral dreams, does that indicate we are fallen? How should we respond?

What is the story behind the origin of gopi chandana?

When Krishna never leaves Vrindavan how is he present in all the Deities all over the world?

What is the Vedic equivalent of the Golden Rule of Chrisitianity?

When the tongue is non-living why does King Kulashekarha pray to the tongue in Mukunda Mala Stotra 26?

Should devotees adopt politically correct usages like “senior citizens” for old people or “medical termination of pregnancy” for abortion?

Did Lord Rama have to be separated from Sita due to Bhrigu Muni’s curse to Vishnu?

Won’t inter-caste marriages lead to varna sankara (unwanted progeny)?

Did Draupadi love Arjuna more than the other Pandavas as a controversial South Indian novel claims?

When Krishna tells Arjuna in the Gita to do his duty, why do brahmacharis give up their duty in the name of the Gita?

Why does Bhishma say in SB 1.9.22 that he is a pure devotee? Shouldn’t a devotee be humble?

Why does Kavi Karnapura say he is writing Anand Vrindavana Champu for my own pleasure?

Should devotees network with thinkers focusing on Hinduism and Indian nationality?

If the soul is inconceivable, why should we bother to conceive it?

Why does the “yena sarvam idam tatam” in Gita 2.17 refer to the body and not all of existence

How do we ensure that we don’t just enjoy KC intellectually and not advance spiritually?

Why is the Bhagavad-gita so important among the Vedic texts?

When Lord Chaitanya knew he was soon going to take sannyasa, why did he marry for a second time?

Should devotees do kirtan in drought-afflicted places to produce rains and thereby attract people to devotional service?

Why do scriptures refer to the mind negatively when it is our faculty for deep thought as in “Einstein was the greatest mind of the 20th century”?

Can a devotee pursue a career as a cricketer?

Can devotees enter into politics?

If bhakti offers higher taste why do devotees still struggle with sex desire?

When scriptures teach matra devo bhava, why do brahmacharis give up their parents for the sake of God?

Why is the Gita’s first chapter called a chapter on yoga when it contains no yogic teachings?

Why is the Gita called yoga-shastra?

What do we mean by the mind’s eye? How does the mind see?

What does the Gita say about love and inter-caste marriages?

Is the soul conscious in the period between death and the next birth?

What is the difference between free will and desire?

Are birthday celebrations for devotees authentic from the Vedic perspective?

If a person is attached to a family member will he be reborn in the same family?

How can we stop our family members from using items having animal products?

When trying to figure out Krishna’s lesson for us makes us indecisive what should we do?

How did Darwin spoil our culture?

How did Macaulay spoil our culture?

What is the conscious mind and the unconscious mind?

Are the Vedic scriptures faith-based theology or logic-based philosophy?

How can we deal with doubts rising on seeing that many leading Prabhupada disciples are no longer practicing KC?

Why do many Vedic sages engage in behavior that is lower than the moral standards of modern Vedic practitioners and even many modern atheists?

How can we absorb ourselves in devotional service?

When all did Krishna reveal the universe in his mouth to Mother Yashoda?

When we could learn so much about Krishna’s glories by asking him about, say, how quantum mechanics and relativity are reconciled, why are his simple pastimes like playing with children considered the highest?

When knowledge comes easier than faith, why does CC say that faith develops in the madhyama stage and knowledge in the uttama stage?

When should we concern ourselves with helping other devotees and when should we mind our own business?

How can we differentiate between yukta-vairagya and bhoga-vrtti?

Wasn’t Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s rejecting his spiritual master Bipin Bihari Goswami offensive?

Can one go back to Godhead just by chanting without taking initiation?

How should we prepare for giving our first Bhagavatam class?

Does Lord Chaitanya appear in all Kali yugas or only in this Kali yuga?

Why were prostitutes present in Ayodhya?

Can we be fully dependent on Krishna? How?

Does everyone have to take sannyasa to go back to Godhead?

How can Parshurama be affected by sinful reactions?

If rains come due to kirtan, then are floods due to too much kirtan?

As Gajendra had been a Vaishnava king, why did he offer impersonal prayer?

Is the bridge between India and Lanka Rama-setu?

How can we offer correction without committing offenses?

Should devotees bathe in Radha-Kunda?

How should we receive criticism constructively?

Is using Radha Kunda tilaka authentic?

What is the basis of the authenticity of those Chaitanya Charitamrita teachings that are not present in the Vedic scriptures?

What is the disciplic succession by which Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami got the knowledge to write the Chaitanya Charitamrita?

How can I understand and apply the Gita?

If all living beings are God’s children, then isn’t killing plants but not animals like killing the handicapped child of a parent while sparing the healthy child?

Why do we get the same karmic reactions in hell, lower species and human form too?

Where does the soul go after death – heaven, hell or lower species?

What are the 7 secondary relationships? Do demons have those relationships with Krishna?

How can we remember Krishna constantly and also do our work properly?

Is it right to say that we have a right to happiness when we are sinful, having rejected Krishna?

If our KC becomes weak away from devotee association, does it mean that our core conviction is weak?

What’s the significance of “new” in the “New Vedic Cultural Center”, the ISKCON temple at Pune?

If we chant while doing other activities, won’t that chanting be inattentive and thereby offensive?

How do the modes and the astrological planets inter-relate?

When does medical treatment interfere with nature?

Do engineers have secure future in devotional life?

Is a devotee born in a brahmin family working in a bank a brahmana or a vaishya?

How many types of bodies are there in the spiritual world?

Should one give charity even while being in debt?

Doesn’t the idea that devotees deliver their ancestors indicate bodily identification?

Can devotees perform agnihotra sacrifice?

Isn’t the Goswamis’ having boatful of gold atyahara?

How can we learn to contemplate on scriptural verses?

Why did Prabhupada recommend worship of Narasimha amongst all avataras? Isn’t this against the principle of peace?

How were Ikshvaku kings rulers of the earth when Ravana was in Lanka?

Does the Rantideva pastime exemplify social service?

Can we use the word “our spiritual glory” when actually we are meant to be humble servants in spiritual life?

Is obesity a medical problem or a behavioral problem?

If we are in a service that doesn’t inspire us how long can we continue in that service?

If devotees don’t notice our service, then is our service authorized or whimsical?

Isn’t it better to do one thing at a time instead of chanting inattentively while doing other things?