QA Audio : 2013

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?

Is it ok to celebrate Holi to attract new people to the temple?

How can we differentiate between humility and humiliation?

Do those who don’t accept that Prabhupada descended from the spiritual world comprise an apasampradaya?

What does the sentence “From your place at your pace join the race” mean?

Does Krishna protect his devotee-students from bullies at school?

Are sahajiyas better than Mayavadis?

Will those who reject Gaur-Nitai go to hell?

Don’t you like me? You haven’t answered my question for a long time.

Is it right for devotees to say that they are Krishna-tarians when it conveys the idea that we are consuming Krishna the way vegetarians consume vegetables?

What are the kind of questions that fall under counseling questions which you won’t be answering on the site?

How can devotees engage in charity so that they will not become bound in karma?

How can we sustain the momentum in spiritual life year after year?

Why do we need to preach?

During their spiritual advancement, do devotees see the Supersoul in their heart? How?

Does commitment to ideology make us blind to objective understanding?

Is it ok to ask for a specific wish like our family’s well being in our prayers?

If devotees don’t help the needy because of fear of being bound by good karma, aren’t they sacrificing basic humanity for spirituality?

When cows are souls who were cow-killers in their past life, why is killing them considered so sinful?

Why do we glorify George Harrison so much when he was not chanting 16 rounds or following the regulative principles?

Do we need to chant 25 rounds on Ekadashi?

How can we ensure that honest communication doesn’t become Vaishnva apradh?

Is the Buddha mentioned in the Bhagavatam different from the historical Buddha?

How and Who decides that the involvement in the stock market is cautious and won’t effect the mind?

Why do you fellas have a problem with evolution? What will you do when genetic cures become the norm?

How can we better recollect what we hear in classes?

I dont get any questions on hearing lectures. Is this good or bad?

Can a devotee who longs to go to Golok end up going to one of the Vaikunthas? Can souls from Vaikunthas go to GolokA?

Why do we as eternal souls get entangled in the cycle of birth and death?

How can a deaf and dumb person chant the holy names?

Do we have to first purify our mind and then our intelligence and then our existence?

Is dealing in shares in the stock market against the principle of no gambling?

Krishna asked Arjuna to fight but Buddhism supported Ashoka’s resolve not to fight Why the difference?

Is the state of faith at the level of chidanti sarva samshya same as that at Nistha stage?

Is there benefit even if we chant without hearing?

How can there be stool and urine in the spiritual world?

If I am facing problems with my counselor’s behavior towards me, should i tell him directly or to some other senior devotee?

Draupadi called out to the Lord for protection whereas Prahlad just remembered the Lord with faith in his protection. Which attitude is higher?

When the yuga dharma now is chanting, why do we still worship the Deity?

As Buddha is mentioned in the Bhagavatam does it prove that it was written after the time of Buddha?

Are divorces among ISKCON devotees happening because most devotees have Western gurus who subsconsciously Western culture among their disciples?

When we as sadhakas face sufferings, are they due to our past karma or due to Krishna’s arrangement especially when bhakti is said to remove all karmic reactions?

What does the term Gita wisdom refer to in your Gita-daily articles, when it refers to points not present in the Gita?

We devotees are ready to hurt our loved ones for the sake of Krishna and religious zealots are ready to kill others to please their God. What is the difference?

As guilt due to falldown can also be a temptation, should one just neglect guilt and keep practicing devotional service?

If a devotee due to repeated falls feels that I wont be able to go BTG and so becomes discouraged how should we respond to that devotee?

What should one do if after practising years of devotional service also, one gives in to temptations and falls down?

How can we always be conscious that the Paramatma is present within our heart and hear his inner voice?

When fake godmen are destroying the spiritual life of people isnt it the duty of the government or ISKCON to end this nonsense?

What happens if an unqualified person chants the Gayatri mantra?

What does the Gita 2.47 purport statement “One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action” mean?

How can we apply sarva dharman parityajya in our life as, for example, students?

I have been a lifelong strict vegetarian but due to bad association have eaten meat and so am feeling myself becoming impure and going away from Krishna. What should I do?

Can the maha prasade prayer be chanted at times apart from prasadam times? What do they actually refer to?

Spiritual advancement requires servitude towards Krishna and mastery over our senses Dont these two call for opposite attitudes?

When chanting is the yuga dharma why does Rupa Goswami give five potent forms of devotional service and not give exclusive emphsis on chanting?

Does Lord Shiva chant the name of Lord Rama in the ears of everyone who dies in Kashi and grant them liberation?

What are the types of lectures we need to hear in a week so that we will joyfully stay in KC?

How can we logically persuade others that scriptures like the Gita are the words of God?

Is there any diiference between a devotee taking medicine for a disease and he doing demigod worship for treating the disease?

As per Gita 10.10 does Krishna help only those who serve him constantly and with love or does he help all his devotees?

When I chant I cry like a child for the mother Is this normal or is it because I am emotional?

When hearing Vedic philosophy distracts me from studies what should I do?

When the verses in the Bhagavatam are counted, why do they turn out to be less than 18,000?

Please clarify the two words–Lord Shiva and Lord Shankar.

Why should I develop Love of God?

Why are cows referred to as unintelligent in the scriptures when they are in goodness, are dear to Krishna, and even their urine and dung are useful?

In your acknowledgments in the OMG book why have you not thanked Krishna and Srila Prabhupada who has shown you the way?

Why it is said that Lord Shiva is a true Vaishnav?

Anybody who is related to Krishna is worshiped then why Lord Shiva who is maha-Vaishnava is not worshiped?

Can we offer milk breads of good companies to Krishna ?

Why do we need to get rid of good reactions in addition to bad reactions?

What does the word ’cause’ mean in Gita 2.47 “Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities…”?

Is the male-female attraction present in us because that attraction is present in Krishna?

Is the Supersoul the observer and permitter or just the observer as is conveyed by the analogy of the two birds in the heart?

How do our present actions affect the results when our happiness and distress are fixed by destiny?

What is the difference between monarchy and autocracy as indicated in SB 4.13.11 purport?