QA Audio : 2018

Will God be understood by science in future?

How can we actually understand Krishna’s form?

How does bhakti correlate with raising our energy to higher chakras?

As our free will is finite should we just depend on Krishna always?

Is spirituality meant to eliminate worry and depression?

If a well-thought decision turns out to be a mistake then do we get the karma for it?

Krishna descends to establish dharma – what does that dharma refer to?

Where do intuitions come from – are they related with instincts or impulses?

Are the various paths up the mountain to spiritual consciousness equivalent?

Should we distance ourselves from positive emotions such as those coming from achievement?

When Krishna is the cause of all causes how do we have free will?

If some people are more emotional than others can they still manage their emotions?

Has neuroscience shown that there is no inner seer?

How does Hanuman embody humble ambitiousness?

When distancing ourselves from our desires isn’t enough what to do?

If our scriptural knowledge makes us proud what can we do?

Hanuman and Prabhupada were given a purpose – when we haven’t been given one how should we live?

Can spiritual growth and career growth go together?

Why did Bhima abandon Hidimibi – did he marry her simply to gain political power?

Did Krishna use Ghatothkacha as a sacrificial pawn?

If we like to read a lot and others don’t like our reading so much what to do?

How do we gain trust while interacting with unknown people?

How can we avoid labelling and judging others?

When different people consider different courses of action as right how to reconcile?

Amidst so many materialistic temptations today how can we stay devotional?

How can we alert others to future dangers without discouraging them?

Were Internet and wifi present at the time of the Mahabharata?

Why does Krishna make it so difficult for us to come to him?

Do intellectuals find it more difficult to love Krishna?

If peer pressure makes us do materialistic things what to do?

When the abducted Sita was not the real Sita why was Rama distressed by her abduction?

When the mind wants to change unchangeable circumstances what to do?

If we are to hate the sin aren’t we to be averse to sin?

How to decide how much to be satisfied with?

How are some people emotionally tough even when they don’t practice bhakti?

If we identify that we are feeling self-pity what do we do next?

If we are already connected with Krishna why do we need to chant?

Are rocks alive – can we become rocks in our future life?

If someone takes retirement and then feels unengaged and disoriented what should they do?

Does the mind look for change and the soul look for the unchanging?

Does our spiritual master know everything about us?

How can we explain morality to moral relativists?

Will anxiety be addressed in the long-term by bhakti or should we try to address it in the short-term too?

How can we remember Krishna while we are working in a materialistic environment?

If during a class some children are distracting everyone, why isn’t anything done about it?

How can we perceive Krishna’s love amidst our and others distresses and conditionings?

Is our attraction to Krishna a conditional attraction generated by devotional conditions?

During chanting, can we have aids to get the mind from the physical level to the spiritual level?

When science requires only working assumptions, why do you say that science requires faith?

Why is the population increasing?

How can we develop our relationship with the eternal using the temporary mind?

If I don’t have much work at my office, should I go and ask for more work?

Is Krishna situated in the mind or the heart – how are the two related?

Does accepting our emotions mean that our getting angry is not a matter of concern?

How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?

When we are telling ourselves to concentrate, who is telling this – the soul or the intelligence – and to whom?

If some Vaishnava sampradayas reject the worship of Radharani, how to respond?

How do we know that Krishna accepts our gratitude?

When we can’t remember Krishna purely now, how will our remembering him at death take us to him?

Was Ravana a good person who just committed one mistake?

How can the mind be our friend?

Do we need to give up guilt and worry to practice bhakti?

If my office workload has decreased but I can’t chant or hear much what should I do?

How does bhakti shelter us amidst physical and emotional pain?

How to reconcile the Gita – do your own duty even if imperfectly – with the Gita – do what you are good at, according to your nature?

When our nature is to be spiritual why are we not attracted to Krishna?

If we move to a temple whose mood is different from that of our native temple what to do?

How can we internalize the mood and mission of our teachers?

Is purification of the intelligence the same as purification of the mind?

While analyzing our mind how to avoid paralysis by analysis?

When we are not the doers – material nature is – why are we held responsible for our actions?

If we feel more attracted to managerial services than scriptural study are we in the mode of passion?

Will future scientific progress explain consciousness and spirituality in mathematical terms?

How do we strengthen the intelligence?

How do the modes correlate with an analysis of the mind’s functioning?

If meeting our expectations makes us over-confident what can we do?

By engaging our material nature in bhakti are we constructing our spiritual nature or reviving it?

How to go through dry phases in our chanting?

Do we seek only an operational knowledge of scripture and not actual knowledge?

Does repeated practice improve our instincts?

Does anyone who die in a dhama on a holy day go back to Godhead?

If a desire is irresistible what to do?

Should we take other devotees plates for washing if they don’t want to give?

Should we have expectations while practicing bhakti?

Shouldn’t we speak strongly to get everyone on the fast track to Krishna?

Are we the sum of our thoughts?

What is the destination of good non-spiritual people such as Stephen Hawking?

Can we say that intelligence comprises of knowledge processing discrimination analysis and determination?

How should we deal with people involved in non-devotional dharmic causes?

Is determination situated in the intelligence or in the mind?

How can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind?

How can we encourage a devotee to do service with someone they don’t like?

Does the soul in an animal body learn anything spiritual?

What is the relationship between soul consciousness and heart?

When Garuda is a pure devotee why does he eat fish?

In Kali-yuga thoughts don’t incur reactions – what does that mean practically?

How can we help materially entrapped people to become spiritual?

Ajamila knew scripture – yet he fell down. Why?

How can we balance between bhakti and studies?

If our spouse is sentimentally following a different spiritual path how should we deal with it?