QA Audio : 2016

How can one practice bhakti without going through other yogas?

How can knowledge of other yogas help in practicing bhakti?

How can we differentiate between the mind’s voice and the Supersoul’s voice?

Is citta a part of the subtle body?

How can we harmonize our inclination with higher instruction while serving?

How can we develop the mood of serving Krishna in everything we do?

​How can we avoid ego while doing what we like to do?

How can we avoid indulging in a thing while thinking negatively about avoiding it?

How can we give bhakti to beggars and other poor people?

Can enterprising devotees open devotional schools for offering both material and spiritual welfare?

​Why is Krishna not revealed in the Vedas – why was Bhagavatam needed to reveal him?

Does a culture of free mixing among genders make bhakti impossible to practice?

Why is Lord Chaitanya considered supremely merciful?

​Why are ISKCON programs in the West attended mostly by Indians?

​How can we avoid pride while giving spiritual knowledge to others?

​How can we cultivate gravity for controlling the mind, as told in the Gita 17.16?

​Why does Rupa Goswami talk about vaco-vega and jihva-vega separately?

​How can we know when we have endeavoured enough and should now wait for mercy?

​How is the whole world full of question-answers?

How are Krishna’s self-contradictory statements in Gita 9.4 and 9.5 to be understood?

Should we strive for perfection in our service?

Won’t doing service in contaminated consciousness license the contaminating influences?

If we do a service in contaminated consciousness, will that service contaminate others too?

​Why is the Paramatma considered impersonal?

​If I don’t have much time to write, how can I write?

Do different people perceive Krishna’s mercy differently?

​Can we extend our life by medicines?

What is the Vedic perspective on Islam?

Should we study scripture deeply and slowly or rapidly to get an overview?

​Can we use self-help books that give techniques that help us in our bhakti?

How do we see the joy of living in the present from the bhakti perspective?

​Should we always seek devotional stimuli with the mind?

​Should we chant while feeling separated from Krishna or while feeling that they are in front of us as the Deities?

​When we perceive that we are different from our thoughts, how do we infer who we really are?

​How can we balance brahmana and kshatriya roles?

​How can we connect to people’s emotional concerns without diluting our message?

What does the regulative principle no illicit sex mean?

Can we chant slowly if we find that absorbing?

Does chanting progress from uttering to hearing to visualizing Krishna’s form?

​What spiritual bliss can we have as sadhakas – how is it different from sattvika happiness?

​How can we share our realisations without coming off as proud?

​When all forms of God exist eternally, what does Krishna is the source of all those forms means?

Should we make ​​blanket statements first and then teach nuances?

​Did Bhima hate Duryodhana and not follow hate the sin, not the sinner?

​How can we sustain our resolutions?

​God did it – is this scripture’s only explanation for all material phenomena?

​Don’t let astonishment over mystical or technological marvels distract from bhakti

​How does Krishna decide when to protect and when to not protect?

​Can we just take shelter of bhakti when nothing solves our problems?

​Can phala-shrutis be used to attract people looking for material benefits?

​When even after chanting we still have problems should we tell others chant and be happy?

​Should we preach about the material benefits of bhakti given in scripture?

​Are we meant to reject the mind or to engage it?

​If we shouldn’t identify with feelings, why are we told to identify with devotional feelings?

​Are a laptop and a rainbow both brain signals and are so equally real?

​Does matter acquire form only when there is observing consciousness?

Should wives conduct themselves in a way that their husbands don’t look elsewhere?

When children don’t have intention to practice bhakti, does giving them devotional samskaras help?

​Do the Yamadutas know about bhakti?

​If dharma is about principles, how does it differ from belief system?

Are both people who chant simply out of piety and those who chant as sadhana at namabhasa level?

Did Ajamila by caring for his son develop bhakti?

If the soul immovable, how do the Yamadutas drag the soul?

​Does Krishna sometimes violate the other three legs of dharma but never violate mercy?

​Does Krishna intervene in the system of karma or lets it act even on devotees?

​What exactly are the modes? How does raja guna give rise to lust?

​If lust is present in our own senses, why does proximity to sense objects make us lusty?

When the mind beats us for doing wrong, how is that different from repentance?

​When the mind simply does sankalpa and vikalpa, what does the mind understanding something mean?

​How do we invest emotions in whatever we do?

​Why do we feel enthusiastic initially in bhakti, but later that enthusiasm goes away?

How can we increase our commitment to Krishna?

​Why did Drona ask for Ekalavya’s thumb?

​Why did Draupadi not protest when she was told to marry five husbands instead of one?

Why did Krishna’s protecting Draupadi’s honor not change the Kauravas’s evil intention?

What is the best thing a mother can do for her deceased son?

​Why did the Pandavas tolerate poisoning and arson, but not Draupadi’s dishonoring?

​Why did Duryodhana put the clause of incognito stay in the Pandavas’ exile?

​Why was Duryodhana so envious of the Pandavas?

Did Draupadi dishonor Duryodhana, thereby causing him to dishonor her?

Was Draupadi the cause of the Kurukshetra war?

Were the Pandavas not legitimate heirs to the Kuru kingdom?

​Was the Kurukshetra war fought over a property dispute?

Why did Krishna break his vow by attacking Bhishma?

​Why did Drona fight against the Pandavas?

Why did Bhishma fight against the Pandavas?

​After Bhishma, why was Drona, not Karna, made the Kauravas’ commander?

​Wasn’t Krishna’s covering the sun to deceive Jayadratha wrong?

​Why did Arjuna target Jayadratha when Abhimanyu was killed by Durjaya?

​Why did Bhima kill Duryodhana unfairly?

​How could Bhima drink Dusshasana’s blood?

​Why did the Pandavas conspire to kill Drona?

​Why did Arjuna kill Bhishma from behind Shikhandi?

​Why did Bhishma not stop the disrobing of Draupadi?

Despite being virtuous, why did Yudhishthira gamble?

​Was destiny against Karna?

​When Karna was virtuous, why did he suggest that Draupadi be disrobed?

​Did Kunti do the right thing by abandoning Karna?

​Why did Krishna say that Karna is equal, or even superior, to Arjuna in archery?

​Did Kunti emotionally weaken Karna by revealing that the Pandavas were his brothers?