QA Audio : 2015

If someone’s child has cancer should we not offer charity to avoid interfering with karma?

What is the difference between detachment and carelessness?

If suffering is not because of karma then what is its cause?

Does the guru literally come back lifetime after lifetime till the disciple is delivered?

Isn’t faultfinding necessary for correcting and benefiting others?

How can we cultivate humility without becoming negatively self-centered?

If our mantra shouldn’t be “I am fallen” why do we sing daily trnad api sunicena?

What does the Pandavas didn’t deserve to live mean in Bhagavatam in 1.9.12?

What is the difference between repentence and self-blame?

Is serving according to our nature lower than serving as per instruction?

Can lack of intellectual nourishment stop or slow our bhakti?

As consciousness in lower species is too covered to perceive suffering, what is the problem with falling to lower species?

Why did Krishna not inform Karna initially that he was Kunti’s son?

Does study of philosophy in Prabhupada’s books automatically awaken rasa?

How can we develop creative skills for writing?

Are devotees living in farm communities better situated than those living in cities?

If our profession indirectly contributes to breaking the regulative principles, what can we do?

If some new devotees want to donate organs, what should we tell them?

If different strategies work in outreach with different people, how can we know in advance how best to share bhakti?

How can we resist temptations?

How to preach to people who want to speak their own ideas and not hear?

Why did Krishna manifest four arms while teasing Rukmini?

Why did Barbarika’s mother tell him to fight on the weaker side instead of on the Pandavas’ side?

Was the solar eclipse a predicted event or created by the Lord to help Arjuna?

When our chanting is not good what can we do?

How can we increase our concentration in chanting?

How can we study scripture systematically?

How can a devotee coming from impersonalist background give up those leanings?

Should we hear Mayavadis submissively as Lord Chaitanya heard Sarvabhauma?

Can devotee-couples avoid having kids to avoid distraction in bhakti?

How can we reconcile being sensitive with Prabhupada’s being rigid?

What is the difference between zonal division present in ISKCON and zonal acharya system?

How to understand statistics that indicate the world is more peaceful than in the past?

When the mind becomes our friend, does it become the same as the intelligence?

When Buddha and Kalki appear in Kali-yuga, why is Vishnu called Tri-yugi?

When Sarvabhauma was an impersonalist how could he appreciate symptoms of love of God in Lord Chaitanya?

If I don’t have enough sattva to study sabda constantly, should I not become a brahmachari?

When staying silent amidst injustice is wrong, why did Yudhishthira passively accept the Kauravas’ atrocities?

Is dissatisfaction because of not being able to read scripture regularly good?

What does worshiping the Lord through our work mean?

What is meditation?

All our problems aren’t mental – how to deal with real problems?

Is it necessary to research our nature?

Is resentment caused by outer events or inner mentality?

How to cooperate joyfully with devotees of radically different natures?

Does demoniac goodness become divine goodness by bhakti?

Can we transcend goodness without coming to goodness?

Does our nature change as become purified?

How is consciousness carried through food?

Is being over-intellectual dangerous for devotion?

Should we not do service if we are not pure?

Why is sleepiness during chanting sometimes resistible and sometimes not?

Why does the mind suddenly get agitated sometimes?

Why does the sound of mantras produce purification whereas other sound doesn’t?

How does hearing a pastime produce an entirely unrelated result?

How to understand scriptural promises about result of hearing pastimes?

Does the soul go closer to God during sleep?

If everything has a cause, why should God not have a cause?

How are optimism and pessimism related to the modes?

If scripture gives knowledge in goodness, how can it help us know what is beyond goodness?

Why does the Supersoul sanction our unhealthy choices?

How do the soul, Supersoul and nature contribute to action?

How can we convince the mind of truths that are beyond science?

How is the soul full of knowledge?

How can we focus on Krishna without imagining or speculating?

Is absorption in Krishna a combination of all the four levels of consciousness?

How do our actions leave impressions on the mind?

How is the body sustained when the soul leaves the body?

Does the soul leave the body during dreams?

Why don’t we have consciousness during sleep?

How do we understand that Krishna is the cause of all causes?

Why do mathematical concepts correlate with things in nature?

How does the sound of the holy name penetrate beyond the universe – and other sounds don’t?

How does the subtle body interact with the physical body?

Good jobs in crative fields are difficult – what should creatively gifted devotees do?

Is going deep in any creative field desirable for devotees?

Are our present spiritual emotions real or just mental?

How can we avoid getting carried away by worldly things?

How can we avoid being over-concerned about others’ feelings?

How is the Gita’s detachment different from Mayavadi detachment?

If we look for some easy work, are we running away from hard work in the name of finding a work according to our nature?

Are we karmically responsible for work that later leads to unknowing harmful consequence?

If my boss tells me to do something wrong, who gets the karma – my boss or me?

Does improperly performed work in the Gita shreyan sva-dharmo vigunah refer to incompetence in work?

Is it wrong to get intellectual pleasure in our academic studies?

If charity is a mentality to be cultivated, is automatic monthly donation from ones bank account undesirable?

Are direct bhakti in brahmachari life and indirect bhakti in grihastha life equivalent?

When Bhagavatam focuses on devotion through renunciation, how do we understand Lord Chaitanya’s having grihastha followers and stressing Bhagavatam both?

What to do when the mind overpowers the intelligence?

What does the Gita verse karmany evadhikaraste mean?

While making choices how to decide which are important and which aren’t?

If senior devotees ask us to renounce everything, should we do that?

How much should sadhaka discriminate between matter and spirit while practicing bhakti?

How did you scientifically come to the conclusion of bhakti?

Is sadhaka’s suffering because of past karma or Krishna’s arrangement?

Amidst life’s storms, does our relationship with Krishna shelter us automatically or do we need to do something special?

Can we live without expectation in relationships?

Is our relationship with guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

When many spiritual paths say they are the best, how to choose our path?

Can we be enthusiastic without being passionate?