QA Audio : 2012

Why was there no scientific renaissance in India similar to that in Europe?

How was Chrisitanity able to spread all over the world despite cultural barriers?

If the Bible doesn’t have much philosophy, then what do Christians write in the thousands of books that they publish?

Where is the Hare Krishna mahamantra mentioned in the Vedic scriptures?

Does bhakti create feelings of inferiority within us?

My heart tells me that jnana-yoga is the best path for me. What should I do?

Why was Srila Prabhupada happy when devotees participated in a materialist ad in Australia?

If Hiranyakashipu performed austerity for 10,000 years, how was Prahlad just 5 years old when he returned?

What is the difference between a prophet and a rishi?

If we are served charanamrita while we are taking prasad, can we honor caranamrita with contaminated hands?

What is the difference between a woman’s love for a paramour and the gopis’ love for Krishna?

What exactly is shakti-tattva? How do we understand the conjugal activities of Shiva-Parvati?

Why do certain temples have architecture depicting sex?

Who is Narayana? What is the difference between Krishna and Narayana?

How much does exercise,medication interfere with one’s destiny?

As a practicing devotee, which is the medication method recommended, (since ayurvedic treatment is not suitable for emergencies)?

Is Remarriage of widow allowed in scripture? Was sati a practice or a phenomena?

Is humanity and a systematic way of living life the perfect spiritualy / religion?

What is the devotional and scientific reason of keeping shikha?

What happens to demigods when yajna is stopped?

It’s said that phalena parichayate. we can know the quality of endeavors by the result. but then we say Krishna doesn’t care about results but our endeavors. Is this not contradictory?

Isn’t good or bad a state of mind? Why then are the regulative principles necessary?

Was there no sankirtan before Lord Chaitanya?

Is the face the index of the mind?

Can our character be changed after we grow beyond 20?

When we see cause-effect relationship within this life itself, doesn’t that make karma irrelevant?

As only pure devotees are promoted to the spiritual world, why are doorkeepers needed there?

What is the need for marriage between devotees in Vaikuntha?

What exactly are the stars?

Why do we not celebrate the apperances of avataras like Matsya, Kurma and Varaha?

What should a devotee do when material desires start increasing and chanting doesn’t help?

Are the characteristics of the child determined by the soul’s own karma or the consciousness of the parents at the time of conception?

What is the difference between the mind, intelligence, consciousness and the soul?

How do the Brahmavadis conceive the forms of the Lord?

How do we understand the scriptural statement that we are not the doers?

Can corruption be eliminated from human society completely or will it continue till the time of judgement?

How can Lord Chaitanya have initiated Saint Tukaram when they lived at different times?

Isn’t belief in karma psychologically damaging?

What exactly are dreams?

Why is Lord Chaitanya not accepted as Lord Krishna by other sampradayas?

When exactly was the Ramayana written – before, during or after the pastimes of Lord Rama?

How can we trust the Vedas when many Vedic texts have been destroyed and incomplete knowledge is harmful?

How do people who eat onion-garlic still seem to be in goodness?

Is Vishnu a primary name or a secondary name?

Is there any explanation for Bermuda Triangle in the scriptures?

Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that all paths lead to the same goal?

Is putting faith in Krishna consciousness like leaping across a chasm with nothing more than the hope that we will make it to the other side?

If all the cells in the body change, then how do the externally imprinted tattoos stay on?

Whom do I trust is actually the truth?

If all the cells in the body are changing, they how do tattoos stay on for a long time?

If consciousness is spiritual, then why is it said to a part of the material field in Chp 13 of the Gita?

What does it mean practically to always remember Krishna?

Will our svarupa stay vacant if we start worshiping some other form of the Lord?

How is the Supersoul in the heart different from the Lord in every atom?

Do all incarnations have spiritual bodies?

Why should large amounts of money be spend on temples and Deities?

Why is prana-pratistha needed when the photo of Krishna is non-different from Krishna?

Why does Krishna love the brahmanas more than other varnas?

Is there any pleasure in the Brahmajoyati ?.

Why is India poor despite so much religiosity and the West so properous despite its materialism?

When we are suffering, does that mean that God is angry with us?

Should I try to resolve every doubt that comes when reading scriptures?

How to avoid worldly distractions in concentrating on Krishna?

What does Prabhupada mean when he refers to Drona’s leniency?

If the soul is changeless, then how does it change from its svarupa to a seed form?

How can we become free from irritability?

What could be the reason for the feeling that someone is pressing and pulling me at night?

Why did Lord Rama kill the shudra Shambuka for doing the pious activity of tapasya?

How can we know whether someone is following parampara?

Is there any evidence of life after death besides what written in the Vedic scriptures?

If women become devotees, do they need to stick to their traditional roles? Can’t they have their own careers?

What is the meaning of lila or pastimes? Can our activities also be called lila?

How are material time and spiritual time related to the fall of the jiva as given in Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Bhaktyaloka?

How to overcome base passions like anger, hate, fear etc?

Are possessions by the goddess genuine?

Lord Brahma is the first acharya in the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya, but why is he not considered pure devotee?

What exactly are ghosts? How can we protect ourselves from them?

How do the ancestors of everyone go to Pitraloka irrespective of their individual karma?

Why did the Lord make us with the nature to love and serve?

If initiation and other devotional activities remove the past karma of devotees, then why do they get diseases and other problems?

What is the difference between object of knowledge and goal of knowledge in Gita chp 13?

Why do you criticize the West so much? Isn’t India also materialistic? If Western clothers are revealing, so is the Indian saree.

In the Gita 1.1, why is Dhritarashtra’s asking “What did they do?” in the past tense instead of the present tense?

Why did the same Arjuna who didn’t want to kill his own relatives before the war want to kill Yudhishthira?

How does Kuvera have a lake on the earth?

Is one’s complexion related with past karma? They why do people who are doing sinful activities have good complexions?

Do all incarnations appear in India?

Is bhakti innate or is it given by the guru?

Which is the best yoga system to attain moksha?

How can one understand “action in inaction and inaction in action”

What happens when a person over-respects or under-respects a devotee who has temporarily fallen?

When japa is individual meditation, why should one chant in the association of Devotees

Is there any evidence of human incarnation beside what is written in vedic scriptures?

Does the soul go out of the body during out-of-body experiences?

Why should a devotee study when it is only materialistic and is called dogism by Srila Prabhupada?

Why are the names of Vedic personalities characteristic of their personalities?

Is the guru-disciple relationship eternal?

How can one practice vegetarianism in the coastal regions

How are birthmarks created on this life’s body due to wounds on the previous life’s body?

Why did our acharyas not travel to South India when foreigners became oppressive?