QA Audio : 2016

Is our sampradaya’s credibility weakened because of having shiksha links instead of diksha links?

When milk is nowadays extracted violently from cows, should devotees take milk?

When there are so many scriptures how is the essential scriptural message to be understood?

If someone dies because of drunken driving, was the death due to destiny or drunkenness?

When our sampradaya is of shiksha, why are diksha-gurus deemed so important and shiksha-gurus deemed unimportant?

Are ghastly rituals such as animal sacrifices given in scriptures?

Aren’t the problems we face due to our past karma?

How can we feel connected with Krishna when we have problems and our prayers are not answered?

What is the significance of Lord Chaitanya’s chastising Balabhdara Bhattacharya?

What is the relationship between our intelligence and our desires?

What is wrong with aversion to sense objects?

How can we cultivate sentiments without becoming sentimental?

Do the modes determine our moods or our modes determine the modes?

When Prabhupada speaks so strongly against Mayavadis, how can we avoid becoming judgmental?

Why does the Bhagavatam 11.28.1 ask us to not praise others?

Can we engage in any desire without being bound by it?

How can we know that we are conscious while tables are not conscious?

How can we prepare for giving classes?

How can we teach our children right and wrong without coming off as judgmental?

Why focus on sound alone for raising our consciousness – why not exercise, food etc?

What is the channel by which the soul gives signals to the brain?

How can we infuse our scriptural study with devotional emotion?

Can we apologize to Krishna?

How can we know what is Krishna’s plan and what is Maya’s action?

When we are unable to focus on chanting, what can we do?

How do the Vedas correlate with the Gita?

How can we focus on the present while serving Krishna?

When we use our imagination in devotional service, will whatever we imagine come true?

How is sense pleasure not imaginary but a product of imagination?

Do brahmavadis know that something exists beyond brahman?

How can we deal with the doubts that obstruct us in our relationships with others?

How can we maintain our principles in a materialistic corporate environment?

How can we act intelligently when adolescence impels us to act rebelliously?

How can we guide others when different people want different levels of instruction?

Do animals have souls – if yes, then how are humans different from animals?

What is happiness – how can we achieve it?

What is a human being’s purpose on earth?

What is the soul – is it real?

What is the relationship between science and Krishna consciousness?

Will becoming spiritually advanced automatically resolve our relationship problems?

How does fear enhance our relationship with Krishna?

Why couldn’t Krishna have killed miscreants without leaving Vrindavan?

How do we balance between our spiritual and material lives?

How to respond to people who say that they are satisfied with their mental maps?

Is humanity more important or is spirituality more important?

If my child is very sick, how can my spirituality help me?

When we have material problems, should we just focus on spiritual advancement or try to solve it materially?

How was Bhishma’s abducting Amba, Ambika and Ambalika moral?

When Karna was already killed by destiny, why did Krishna invite Karna to the Pandavas side?

If our feelings come from the soul, how does brain chemical deficiency cause depression?

If Karna chose wrongly because of attachment, didn’t Bhishma do the same?

Does prolonged expectation for a thing make us value it more- does this apply to the gopis separation from Krishna?

Are the gopis separated from Krishna even in the spiritual world?

If even the gopis’ lost hope in separation from Krishna, what is the hope for us?

Why is the Bhagavatam’s tenth canto divided into chapters according to the location of pastimes?

Why does God send different teachers who teach different paths?

Why is the Gaudiya sampradaya a branch of the Brahma-Madhva sampradaya and not its straight continuation?

How are spiritual experiences different from chemically-induced experiences?

Who damaged bhakti culture more – Muslims or Britishers?

Is the spiritual an energy like material energies such as thermal or electrical energies?

How did Nimai Pandit’s name become Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?

Why did Lord Chaitanya first become a scholar and then a devotee?

Can any pastime be analyzed metaphorically for some moral instruction?

Is Gandhiji’s commentary on the Gita ok?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

How do laws of nature invalidate design – don’t laws require a designer?

When problems distract us from bhakti, isn’t it better to solve the problems and then focus on bhakti?

How can we know the balance between the painkiller of material things and the cure of spirituality?

When scientists criticize intelligent design, how can we establish that God is the explanation for explainability?

If everything unconnected with Krishna is Maya, then are all systems for valuing different things differently also Maya?

When Maya is so powerful, what is our hope for being delivered?

When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?

Are there any practicing brahmavadis today or are all impersonalists mayavadis?

How to avoid becoming discouraged when we are unable to pronounce the mahamantra clearly and correcting it takes too much time?

Is there any correlation between the Dashavataras and the four yugas?

Does the sequence of the Dashavatars reflect the theory of evolution?

What are the differences between plenary portions, expansions and incarnations?

What is the exact difference between brahmavadis and mayavadis?

When Krishna can free us from illusion, can’t he free us from pride too?

If Bhagavatam and Bible come from different frames of reference, does that mean everything is relative?

Is the Biblical Adam-Eve story of creation reconcilable with the Bhagavatam’s description of narration?

If everything coming from Krishna is also Krishna, then is everyone God?

If our outreach services require us to go away from devotees how can we get their association?

Is it appropriate to speak directly on the Bhagavatam to new people?

When people are alienated by ISKCON’s high standards, how can we attract them?

How can we present shastra in a contemporary way?

Which Krishna pastimes can we meditate on?

How can we attract people who are connected with other spiritual organizations?

Doesn’t ISKCON’s managerial structure sometimes impede its spiritual outreach?

Why don’t we spontaneously act according to our svabhava?

How can we accommodate those who can’t practice bhakti with high standards?

What is the Gaudiya Vaishnava understanding of Manu Smriti?

Do the Vedas teach that only brahmanas by birth can become brahmanas?

How can we explain that Krishna’s pastimes are not mythological?

Why are the same pastimes described differently in different scriptures?

How can we tune our consciousness so that Krishna manifests therein?

How can I celebrate my birthday spiritually?

Are there any scriptural examples of those indifferent to the modes?

Why does Krishna do certain things for maintaining people’s faith in paths other than bhakti?