QA Audio : 2012

Is repressing the sexual instinct harmful?

Are Radharani and Lakshmi devi the same person?

What is the reason for shaving the head at Tirupati?

Can one go back home back to godhead by practicing Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Judaism?

Can devotees kill snakes and scorpions?

How is the Western world having its necessities despite not performing any sacrifices?

What is Karma? Is kartavya and karma same? As a student what are my karma and kartavya? – Hindi

What is the relationship between Maya and the Three Modes of Nature?

What are the three modes of material nature?

How can knowing Krishna as the proprietor, enjoyer and benefactor bring us peace?

How can we realize that we are souls?

Is the incident of Lord Rama worshiping Lord Shiva not mentioned in Valkmiki Ramayan?

How do we refute the Mayavadi interpretation of ‘om purnam adah’?

How do we respond to the Mayavadi notion of a two-level Brahman?

Is the Absolute Truth inexpressible by words, even the words of scriptures?

How can we know that Balarama’s gopis are different from Krishna’s gopis?

What is the practical use of abstract philosophy when the world is facing so many practical problems?

Why does Krishna love cows when whatever qualities they have are simply given to them by nature?

How do we understand Prabhupada’s statement that planets float because of air not gravity?

If a devotee goes to Goloka Vrindavana, does that mean he can never see great personalities like Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, Lord Hanuman, Parvati etc.?

Why is Lord Shiva glorified as if he is supreme in the Bhag 8.7?

How can we reconcile scientific and spiritual knowledge?

How should we respond to religious conversions happening in India?

What is Krishna consciousness perspective on sex education in general and in schools in particular?

Why does Krishna describe Maya as daivi in the Gita 7.14?

Can neuroscience make people happy, thereby making spirituality unnecessary?

If scientific theories are incorrect how do the scientific inventions work?

Does the multiverse theory disprove the existence of God?

When Krishna doesnt need to discover anything, as do scientists, is it right to call him the supreme scientist?

When we hear rumours about a senior devotee, how should we respond?

How can we avoid unwanted and offensive thoughts?

How can chanting Hare Krishna solve all problems?

How do we respond to atheists who say that we have no proof for heaven?

How do we respond to atheists who say nature has no space for god?

What is the significance of Gayatri Mantra? What result does one get by chanting this mantra?

Is Sita the daugher of Ravana?

If we can go back to Godhead from any mode then what is the need to come to goodness?

When Krishna does so many immoral activities how can he be God?

Why did Lord Chaitanya not initiate Tukaram M in the Hare Krishna mantra?

Is only heavy drinking harmful and occasional drinking good for health?

Does the father get the sin if his children misuse the money he gave them?

If Buddha is an incarnation then how do we understand his previous incarnations as animals mentioned in the Jataka tales?

Aren’t devotees like a group of people with limited knowledge and analysis?

How can we be confident, assertive, positive without becoming proud?

Will banning guns for law-abiding citizens help when law-breakers have guns with them?

When all the other elements have specific locations why not ether?

How can we handle tragedies like the Connecticut school massacres?

How de we understand the verse that nondevotees have no good qualities?

How do we reconcile the Vedic idea that the sun moves around the earth with the scientific idea that the earth moves around the sun?

Which form of Vishnu is referred to by the Sahasra Shirsha purusha prayers as none of the Vishnu forms actually have 1000s of heads?

Why was ancestor worship by meat offerings allowed in earlier ages?

Are farm communities meant to offer eco-friendly alternatives for the unsustainable modern civilization?

What did Prabhupada mean when he said that 50% of his mission was still remaining?

If the process of KC delivers us then how do we understand the verse that the guru is the only way to Krishna’s mercy?

What is the basis for taking the number of wives of Chitraketu non-literally?

When circumstances make our chosen standards unsustainable, what should we do?

How can we break the habit of believing that we wont be able to keep our promises?

How do we respond to skeptics’ claims that NDEs are products of culturally conditioned imagination?

Is time material or spiritual? Does it exist in the spiritual world? What is its role in creation?

How exactly do the demons killed by Krishna become liberated?

Has science debunked Indra?

When scriptural truths are branded by scientists ‘pseudoscience’, how do rationalistic people put faith on them?

What are the practical steps for maintaining and improving our relationships with devotees?

Is the scientific claim that jellyfish are immortal true?

What is the Vedic perspective on capital punishment?

What is the origin, authenticity and relevance of Tantra?

If Narada Muni is an incarantion then is he a jiva-tattva or Vishnu-tattva?

How could 64 crore people have fit in the small area known as Kurukshetra?

What is the difference between renunciation in passion and ignorance?

Is fault finding good or bad? If its bad then how can we overcome it? 

Does soul have shape? Does that shape change from body to body?

Was the milk drinking miracle in 1995 real miracle or was it due to scientific reasons?

Does one have to live in poverty to be able to call out to Krishna sincerely as Bhag 1.8.26 suggests?

If the spiritual world is thrice the material world doesnt that make the total creation finite?

If Drona rejected Eklavya due to his character deficiency, then why didnt he reject Duryodhana too?

Is initiation essential? What if devotees after initiation become proud?

If material happiness is like tickling then what about the happiness from humour?

Can devotees sell products made by killing flowers?

Why is the Bhagavatam considered to be the nirnayak scripture?

What was Srila Prabhupada’s position on Goswami Tulasidas?

Is chanting on electronic counter equal to chanting on Tulsi beads?

How can I overcome the fear that the future may bring unexpected problems in my spiriutal life?

Why do ISKCON Leaders share platform with impersonalists ?

What should be a devotee’s attitude towards scientists?

Do we need the faith that the spiritual master will never fall to be able to surrender to him?

Gopashtami class – Spiritualizing rites of passage like birthdays

Do those who study the Gita go to Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavana?

How can I deal with uncertainties about the guru system in ISKCON?

How did Krishna forget the Bhagavad-gita, as he states in the Mahabharata?

What is the scriptural basis for the idea that the proces of KC and not the guru transforms us?

Should we resist the mind or wait for it to calm down? What is the right way to control the mind?

Should spiritualists be afraid that scientific research may disprove their faith?

How did you first realize that there was a Supreme God?

Will knowing more and more about Krishna from the Bhagavatam give us love for him?

Are there clear references to “love” in the Gita? Are the words “devotional service” and “love” synonymous?

What is the scriptural basis and the practical method for the idea of observing our thoughts?

Is the mind a special material element to which material laws dont apply?

Can we ever say that our attachments are holding us when actually we are always responsible?

When material circumstances make it difficult or impossible for us to render devotional service what should we do?

If Prthu M is an avatara why did he take birth from a material body?