QA Audio : 2016

​What is conscience – and what is the subconscious?

If we have to go against our family members to practice bhakti, is the inner bad feeling conscience or pseudo-conscience?

If we tolerate the spikes of desires, won’t those repressed desires return more forcefully in future?

Do we experience higher spiritual states through the intelligence?

​Is cessation of misery not stable without bhakti?

​What can we do if we can’t serve in a selfless mood?

​What is intuition?

Chanting frees us from suffering – is this a conceptualisation or an experience?

​What is the relationship between studying exalted devotional states and experiencing those states?

Does meditating on Krishna’s pastime while chanting comprise inattentive chanting?

Are the acharyas’ names also non-different from them?

If we are not doers, why are we held responsible for our actions?

​Should we avoid worrying or should we take anxieties for Krishna’s service?

​Should we see that our sufferings are arranged by Krishna?

What does “our inner desires are not me” mean?

What is special about kala in the Gita not present in other books?

How to reconcile Gita bhogaishvarya prasaktanam and Bhagavatam akamah sarva kamo va?

How do we know everything when we know Krishna?

Are the material problems of a devotee solved automatically?

Can material problems have spiritual solutions or do they need material solutions?

Can wanting to know more about Krishna distract us from bhakti especially from chanting?

How to avoid thinking about eating food while offering bhoga?

Is the goal of commitment to please Krishna or to penetrate through the initial poison?

How to understand the contradictions between modern cosmology and Bhagavatam cosmology?

How can we know whether our resolutions are based on our mind or our intelligence?

Should we stick to commitments even if doing so makes our life unbalanced?

Is bhakti centered on commitment to Krishna or on attachment to him?

Does knowledge of Krishna’s supremacy come before sankhya study or after it?

Is the initial poison in spiritual life same for everyone?

​Can hypnosis be used to help us better focus our mind in bhakti?

​If the husband practices bhakti, does the wife automatically get the benefit even if she doesn’t practice?

​While doing anything, isn’t it better to have plans B and C instead of closing the doors to all options?

In the conflict between the mind and the intelligence, who decides?

​Where do our intuitions come from?

​How to persevere when humility feels very difficult to achieve?

​If we are purpose-centered, aren’t we still self-centered?

​How to deal with the feeling that the class is meant for others?

​How to understand statements of extreme humility in saints?

​Does humility mean complete surrender to Krishna?

​Is humility practical in the professional world?

​How can we avoid pride while using our talents in Krishna’s service?

​What is the stage between self-pity and ego?

​Does chanting with humility mean to think I am doing this for Krishna?

​Why do we talk only about mind control and not about intelligence control?

​Is begetting children a duty to one’s ancestors?

​How can we balance humility with self-confidence?

​What is the destination of spiritualists who don’t follow scripture properly?

​Are brahmanas allowed to eat meat?

​Where is the soul present in plants?

​Is it right to kill large quantity of grass to cultivate one plant or grain?

​Why should we avoid speaking points just because they are unpopular?

​Should we improve the material skills needed for service or improve our consciousness?

​Can the Gita’s verses be translated differently from what Prabhupada did?

Can not desiring perfection lead to a casual attitude in service?

Why are only services done in the temple, and not activities done in the home temple, considered as seva?

How is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s example of practicing bhakti applicable today?

How can we do our best in both spiritual and material life?

​When a person is possessed by a ghost, where are the two souls situated?

Is meat-eating sinful or is it just to be avoided for spiritual progress?

​What happens to Krishna when his deity is desecrated?

​Does the seekers’ consciousness make the deities divine or are they actually divine?

​What to do if I don’t feel emotions for Krishna naturally, but only after contemplation?

​Can we present scripture according to our understanding?

​When intellectual level is higher than sensual, why are intellectual devotees still attracted to sensual pleasure?

​How can an intellectual practice bhakti without becoming intellectually deviated?

Can the guru take back to godhead even disciples who are still works in progress?

​Should devotees rigidly force people to take to Krishna consciousness?

Why is the message of God so different in different religions?

​Are terrorists like snakes who deserve to be killed without trial and who don’t deserve last rites?

What is the destination of terrorists who blow themselves up while chanting Allah?

How should we behave with non-religious people?

​​How is a terrorist different from a freedom fighter?

​Are people without avenues for democratic expression justified in resorting to terrorism?

Who can be affected by black magic?

What is tantra – is it material or spiritual?

How can we draw lessons from scripture – should we stick only to lessons given by acharyas?

​How can Vishvanatha Chakravarti say that scriptural verses are grammatically inaccurate?

​Do we need different teachers for different areas of life?

​Is deity worship meant for the less intelligent?

How to respond to scholars who consider abstract principles more important than bhakti specifics?

​What does “Yamadutas are afraid to approach devotees” mean?

Why doesn’t Lord Shiva guide his devotees to Vishnu?

Can there be pure devotion to Lord Shiva?

Can Lord Shiva also grant liberation?

How can we guide people who find chanting 16 rounds impossible?

Was Yudhishtira’s gambling Draupadi after he had lost himself dharmic or adharmic?

Isn’t the idea that everyone can’t understand dharma elitist?

How can the Gita’s spiritual knowledge be compared to nuclear weapons knowledge?

When Bhishma comes after Ajamila pastime, how does that pastime list him as a mahajan?

​Do we need to combat social threats to dharma to preserve an environment conducive for practicing dharma in future?

How can we understand which qualities are good and which bad?

How to avoid becoming indecisive when encountering different advices from different people?

How can we avoid being misled by people who are confident but wrong?

Why don’t we like the good and dislike the bad?

How can we live in the present alone without learning from the past or preparing for the future?

How to respond when things go wrong?

How can we know ourselves well enough to make wise choices with lifelong consequences?

How can we better execute our plans?

How to persevere despite our failures in following standards?

Is the mind alone the link between the gross body and the soul – or are the intelligence and false ego also included?