QA Audio : 2017

How is Rama’s treatment of Sita justified?

If guru-shishya parampara was always present, how could monism become so prominent?

Can we have a thoughtless mind?

Why do we feel sleepy during chanting, but not kirtan or prasad?

Does the mind have more impressions from the present life than from past lives?

How can we stop daydreaming?

What happens to the mind when we sleep?

Drinking water and sleeping are both bodily needs – why is sleeping considered in the mode of ignorance?

How to balance between shunning social media and being obsessed with social media?

What is the spiritual perspective on death due to dowry harassment apart from past karma?

How to see spiritually the grief I feel after my mother has passed away?

Is violence against women in India caused by the objectification of women as sense objects in Indian sacred texts?

How does telepathy occur?

Is the mind like a TV on which pictures are projected?

Can the mind travel out of the body?

Are material objects less pure than us?

How is detachment empowering?

When the soul moves from one body to another, is there complete conservation of the mind?

What does fixing the mind on the lotus feet of Krishna mean?

How can we overcome the mind’s rationalizations?

If the mind is not a person, who proposes desires to us?

Is the mind personal or impersonal?

If the software is compared to the mind, what is the intelligence compared to?

How is controlling the mind by focusing it on Krishna different from focusing it on some material object?

How can we help people who are following some apasampradaya – Hindi?

Is self-respect the same as ego – Hindi?

How can we be Krishna conscious when we are not staying with devotees in a youth center – Hindi?

What is the difference between purity and goodness – Hindi?

While doing our service, is seeing everything in connection with Krishna necessary?

If people hold on to their beliefs, how can we elevate them?

Why do Hindus leave shoes outside their place of worship but Christians don’t?

When scripture says our parents are God, why do some young devotees renounce their parents?

How can bhakti philosophy unite world religions?

How can we avoid getting caught in petty things?

Do microbes forming on rocks demonstrate that life comes from matter?

Can future scientific advancement detect the existence of God?

As humans can do a wide variety of activities, doesn’t that prove we have free will?

What comprises science – what are the boundaries that define science?

What does knowledge in the mode of ignorance mean in today’s world?

Is there some science other than modern for explaining matter?

How do tantrics get special power?

How can we go beyond being exclusivist and pluralist to becoming inclusivist?

When so many humans are doing bad karma today, how is the human population increasing?

How can people from other religions realize that they are servants of Krishna?

When Krishna is the source of both material and spiritual worlds, which world comes first?

Does dharma mean religion?

Within a religion, when there are many paths, how do we know our path?

What is the Vedic perspective of Buddhism?

How is Shankaracharya’s path to be seen in the inclusive understanding of dharma?

When sanatana-dharma is inclusive, why are most Hindus pluralists?

When a bad thing happens, does optimism mean seeing it as the best thing that could have happened?

Does positive thinking mean that we shouldn’t think about the past – then how will we learn from it?

How can Chrisitan conversions in India be countered – can Hindus be united for this purpose?

Some Christians say that Kalki will be Jesus come again, not Krishna come again – how to respond?

How central is cow slaughter to Islam?

If Islam considers idolatry the greatest sin, how can it co-exist with Hinduism?

Why do post-modern Leftist scholars in India separate Islam from terrorism, but not Hinduism from the caste system?

As different paths conceive God differently, do they all lead to the same goal?

Before Nirjala Ekadashi, can we take some juices or pills to increase our fasting capacity?

From the karmic perspective, what is the difference between ignorant wrongdoings and intentional wrongdoings?

Why do scriptures not describe technology such as bulbs?

How can we be always surrendered to Krishna?

How can we know whether the mind’s story is false or real?

How can we know when we are planning and when the mind is fear-mongering?

If when our mind tells a story and we consult a friend whose mind is telling the same story, how can we avoid illusion?

The mind tells the most stories during chanting – how to counter?

Why does devotion change our mind’s tendencies temporarily?

Does chanting automatically make us kinder or do we have to strive to become kinder?

Does chanting require effort or does chanting make us happy?

Why is the mind considered a sense?

How can we focus on chanting when the mind wanders?

When Tvashta gave Narayana-kavacha that made Indra invincible, how could Tvashta himself be killed?

How can we remain respectful to the devatas while describing their non-supreme position or their non-ideal activities?

Just as the mind is personified, are other things such as Bhakti devi and Kali also personifications?

How can we balance giving due priority to chanting with other important services?

If people anger us, how can we control ourselves?

Does a good result indicate intelligence-guided action and a bad result indicate mind-driven action?

If during book distribution, people are abusive, how can we stay calm?

How can we make the right choices within bhakti?

How can we know that the purpose we are pursuing is the best purpose?

How can we prevent our emotions from affecting our decisions?

How can we be practically grounded on the spiritual level?

Can we fulfill all the purposes for our existing in this world?

Are our problems caused by our past karma or arranged by Krishna?

Are poor people responsible for their poverty?

How can the Gita’s knowledge help poor people?

Are there two ways of thinking – the mind’s way and the soul’s way?

How can bhakti increase our ability to think, which is a material ability?

Does the Gita give spiritual solutions to all material problems?

How can I overcome procrastinating tendency?

How to respond when others serve in ways that don’t make sense to us – should we criticize them?

Do interruptions in our remembrance of Krishna occur because of circumstances or consciousness?

What does seva-smarana mean?

Is the mood of dasyam not present in Goloka Vrindavan because it is madhurya dhama?

Are paid pujas done in temple not commercialization of religion?

What standard of Deity worship should householders follow?

When we are in a position of guiding others, how can we know how much to control them and how much to let them go?

How can we avoid discouragement when our sincere service is repeatedly frustrated?

From a spiritual perspective, what causes addiction and how can it be dealt with?

When science and spirituality never meet, how can they be reconciled?