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Why did Yudhisthira agree for a second gambling match after the disastrous first gambling match?

Why did the virtuous Bhishma fight on the side of the vicious Kauravas?

Did Karna have to choose the side of evil due to his past karma?

How to choose between doing our worldly repsonsibilities devotionally and doing directly devotional activities?

Did Duryodhana have any good qualities?

What are the authentic sources for learning the Mahabharata?

How did a ciranjeevi Ashwatthama fight against the virtuous Pandavas?

Why did Krishna and others not try to reform Duryodhana as reformation is the ultimate goal?

Why do the Bhagavatam and the Mahabharata describe the same stories differently?

Where does Vishishtadvaita fall in the six systems of philosophy?

If we have canine teeth for eating meat, then doesn’t it go against the regulative principle of no meat-eating?

When can a devotee seek honor instead of being humble?

What does vikalpa mean in the mind’s sanklpa-vikalpa?

Is the Gita’s teaching that women are sinful resposible for female infanticide?

Should the gold in temples be used for social development?

Is scriptural knowledge needed only when devotion is dilute and not when devotion is pure?

Is experience a pramana if one’s experience contradicts scripture?

Is God hard of hearing that his devotees need to chant his names loudly?

If Krishna’s ultimate instruction is to give up all duties for surrendering to him why shouldn’t everyone join the temple?

Is Krishna omninpresent as his energy or personally as the Supersoul?

If the Supersoul is present in all atoms and the space between them, what is special about the Superoul in our heart?

What happens to the Supersoul after death and after liberation?

Is the Supersoul actually expanded in every heart or is it an appearance of expansion?

What is wrong with worship of devatas if one understands them to be devotees of Krishna?

How do we reconcile different Puranic versions of the origin of Lord Shiva?

How do we know whether we desire to preach for fame or for pleasing Krishna?

Can grihasthas who want to preach make preaching as their source of livelihood?

The religious rural culture of India is being replaced by materialisitc culture. What can we do to counter this?

Should we preach to make people ISKCON devotees or to make them better human beings?

How can we understand which mode we are in?

How can we stay in the mode of goodness?

If one doesnt practice raganuga bhakti then how will one get the realizations needed to return to our svarupa?

Does one have to practice raganuga bhakti to go BTG or is just departing in devotional circumstances enough

Why does the mind develop bad habits more easily than good habits?

How can we overcome the tendency to take the association of devotees for granted?

Why are Einstein’s and Prabhupada’s metaphors about blind man-lame man contradictory?

Is science based on rational faith and religion on irrational faith?

Does religion require faith from start to end whereas science requires faith only occasionally?

If we shouldn’t be disturbed by the mind’s impurities, then how can we beat the mind?

Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?

Did past people believe in miracles like Govardhana lila because they were unscientific and gullible?

If Krishna is the cause of all causes, is he the cause of everything that we and others do?

If we concede that scripture doesn’t contain literal report of conversations then where will the erosion of scriptural authority end?

Are chanting praying and meditation the same?

Why do some scriptures declare other gods to be Supreme?

Are the Puranas unreliable because they have so many different versions?

Prabhupada quotes largely from the Puranas so how can we show that our sampradaya is based on shruti?

I was born in another sampradaya, but became introduced to seriously bhakti through ISKCON. Which sampradaya should I follow?

Why do insubstantial religious groups spread extensively and pure saints remain unknown?

What is the destination of patriotic atheists like Bhagat Singh?

When Krishna always uses his free will properly, why don’t we too when we are his parts?

If we cant fast nirjala on Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi what benefit do we get?

Is belief in God like belief in a cosmic teapot – undisprovable yet unreasonable?

How can India’s wisdom-literature be introduced in the education without the saffronization of the syllabus?

Where do religious social workers like Mother Terersa fall in the Gita’s yoga ladder?

How does karma yoga mature into ashtanga yoga?

How does the nishkama karma yogi attain knowledge and liberation? Through the same path or by adopting another yoga?

Does ashtanga yoga always start from jnana yoga?

If Durga is the superintendent of material nature how can Krishna alone grant liberation?

Is Durga devi a demigodess in the category of jiva tattva?

Are the jnanis mentioned in Gita 7.16-18 impersonalists as the example of Kumaras suggests or devotees as Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakura’s commentary states?

For a devotee-sadhaka Is the desire to go BTG desirable or should one just desire service?

What does the identification of Krishna with time mean practically?

When there are so many cases of past life memories, why don’t we find some people remembering their experience in heaven, hell or as animals?

Isn’t it distasteful for brahmacharis to be watching and quoting movies when people come to them to hear about Krishna

What is the difference between the Gita 9.34 and 18.65?

Is instantaneous forgiveness the characteristic of pure devotion and seeking retribution that of neophyte devotion

If Draupadi was dishonored due to her past karma, why did the Pandavas have to take revenge?

How can we strengthen our resolve to correct our wrongs?

How can we forgive not just with lips but with the heart?

When we don’t feel like asking for forgiveness what should we do?

What is the use of writing insubstantial articles in newspapers that don’t even mention the name of Krishna once?

Why are all forms of science not equally authoritative – why is evoluion less reliable than gravity when its all science?

Can devotees watch TV serials about Krishna’s pastimes?

Do we need to posit the existence of eternal souls to make the design argument robust?

Do the Anthropic Principle and the multiverse theory make the design argument redundant?

How do we respond when prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking write books propounding atheism?

Why do dharma-shastras say that aggressors should be forgiven?

Do the dharma-shastras say aggressors shouldn’t be killed and artha-shastras that they should be killed?

What are dharma-shastra and artha-shastra? How are they different?

Is belief in God a virus of the mind, as atheists claim?

Do cultural practices change as per age as does the yuga-dharma?

When the design argument is so logical, why don’t most people and most scientists accept God’s existence?

Is God improbable because he has to be more complex than his creation and complex things have very low probability of emerging?

When Ramanuja has refuted the design argument, why does Prabhupada use it so extensively?

Why has Ramanuja refuted the design argument in his Vedanta Sutra commentary?

How can we make our work into worship when it is not according to our nature and is not connected with Krishna?

Can devotional, non-devotional and anti-devotional cultures be connected with goodness passion and ignorance?

Won’t the progress of science make the God-of-the-gaps redundant?

Does bringing God into science stop progress as does attributing plague to evil spirits?

Do devotees have to oppose science to be faithful to Prabhupada?

Isn’t it better to be satisfied with the beauty of the garden without imagining a fairy at its bottom?

Does Krishna compassionately pull impersonalists from Brahman to Bhagavan?

Does our seeking end after we find God as the Bible indicates or continue forever as Gaudiya Vaishnavism indicate?

Why do we do pradakshina?

Are Manava seva and Madhava seva like two largely overlapping circles?

Why does Prabhupada translate bhakti in Bhaktirasamritasindhu as ‘devotion’ instead of ‘devotional service’?

Why does the Bhagavatam, a Vaishnava book, state that Kashi is the greatest of all holy places?

When Dhruva Maharaj was going BTG and had got a spiritual body, how could he remember a material relationship such as that with his mother?

Can we preach without using technology as such use can distract one from Krishna?