Vedic Observer

Do people who are afraid go to temples? (PK QA 4)

Why do religious teachers stereotype people as when they pronounce all Pakistanis as cheaters? (PK QA 3)

Can we reject as wrong numbers the rituals that don’t make sense? (PK QA 2)

Are rituals wrong numbers to God? (PK QA 1)

Should conversions be banned in India?

What is the difference between faith and blind faith? (PK answered 27)

Are different religions like different companies with their gods as their product? (PK answered 26)

How can God who is unlimited appear as a limited stone image? (PK answered 24)

Does a stone smeared with turmeric become God? (PK answered 23)

Happy New Year – How bhakti-yoga fulfills the import of this sincere wish

Is PK an anti-Hindu movie? (PK answered 22)

Are we meant to not ask questions in matters of faith? (PK answered 21)

Aren’t Hindu teachers by refuting PK unnecessarily promoting it?

Why waste milk on God’s image when his children are starving? (PK answered 20)

How can worshiping a cow get a person a job? (PK answered 19)

If God has a plan for everything, does chanting mantras for getting something change his plan? (PK answered 18)

Why do religious teachers threaten people with fear of future punishment? (PK Answered 17)

Why does God like flattery? (PK answered 16)

When God is all-powerful, why do religionists need to protect him and for that attack others? (PK answered 15)

Why does God favor the wealthy by letting them bypass the queues in temples? (PK answered 14)

Does God respond more to our prayers when we worship him in a bigger murti? (Pk answered 13)

If God can hear our prayers directly, why do we need to pray to a murti? (PK answerd 12)

Is going to temple due to fear cowardice? (PK answered 11)

Is religion a business run by godmen to exploit people’s fears? (PK answered 10)

Why do different religions have different rituals? (PK answered 9)

Why aren’t we born with our religion stamped on our body? (PK answered 8)

Is religion made by man or by God? (PK answered 7)

Why would God want his children to roll on the ground to come to him? (PK answered 6)

Do fearful people go to temples? (PK answered 4)

Are rituals wrong numbers for calling God? (PK answered 3)

Is the god who made us completely unknowable to us? (PK answered 2)

Are there two gods – the god who made us and the god whom we made? (PK answered 1)

Does God like atheists more than religionists because atheists don’t kill children?

Don’t sharpen the axe in the criminal’s hands; cure the criminal

Devotion is the culmination of the aspiration for liberation

Is Modi anti-secular in giving the Gita to other heads of state?

Is secularism against the Vedic tradition?

Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Should prostitution be legalized in India?

When God doesn’t conjure tricks can he be considered a magician?

How can we share scriptural wisdom in today’s secular government?

Why do so many people commit suicide?

How can anyone accept such an antromorphic unscientific mythic conception of God as Krishna

How should devotees respond to the threat of brutal religious groups like ISIS?

After the laughter? – Reflections on Robbin Williams’ suicide

After the laughter? (Reflections on Robin Williams’ suicide)

What is the Vedic perspective on passive euthanasia?

How have so many languages come up worldwide when developing a computer language requires so much effort?

Spirituality and Medicine – An Integrated Approach

“Love yourself” – what is Vedic perspective on this idea?

Should the gold in temples be used for social development?

Doesn’t religious violence disprove the existence of God?

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

What is the destination of patriotic atheists like Bhagat Singh?

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

How should we respond to indiscriminate violence against other communities done in the name of religion as a response to distortion of respected images?

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

Isn’t violence against women in India, as in the Badaun rape case, caused more by the casteist society and not by the obscenity in the culture?

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

Don’t romanticize the past or demonize the present – utilize whatever is available

If we have scriptural knowledge, why do we need science?

Can we be spiritual in an age of science?

Do religionists become self-centered due to believing that God has a personal relationship with them?

Does religion cause sexual repression?

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

How to see spiritual organizations that are largely Vaishnava except for considering their founder as an incarantion?

Can we be spiritual without being religious? – Prerana festival talk

Voting in elections – Clarification in response to HH Bhakti Vikas Maharaj

By asking devotees to vote, why are you dragging Prabhupada’s pure legacy into dirty politics?

Voting in elections is the social responsibility of devotees (Hindi)

Voting in elections is the social responsibility of devotees

Is banning books a part of the Abrahamic religions and not of dharmic religions which focused on intellectually debating and defeating opposing ideas not banning them?

Prabhupada’s contributions to the world

Vedic dharma series – Universal and contextual aspects of dharma

The Amish and the practicality of varnashrama in today’s world

Is rape always motivated by lust? Or is it due to the hunger for power as sociologists say?

Role of religious leaders in taking India forward

Doesn’t technology save lives? Casualties in USA are less than in India due to disaster predictors.

Is teaching children about religion before they can think on their own child abuse?

Happy New Year – Karmi, Jnani and Bhakti attitudes towards the celebration

When even Americans are concerned about Christian conversions in India, why is ISKCON unconcerned?

Sexual Energy on the Riot (A spiritual perspective on the Tejpal scandal)

Can ISKCON devotees participate in social causes like anti-corruption activism or do they have to only cultivate and teach pure devotion?

To present KC from a contemporary intellectual perspective which all books of Prabhupada’s followers can I read?

How did you come to Krishna consciousness?

Should devotees be promoting any particular candidate during political elections?

Aren’t we blaming the victim when we say that women’s revealing dresses are the cause of crimes against them?

Do women have the right to dress however they like? Is modest dressing old-fashioned?

When famous religious teachers are accused of crime, how can we expect people to keep faith in religion?

09.21 – Seek not higher material happiness; seek higher than material happiness

Are demigods bhavagrahi? Otherwise when demigod worship is done improperly, how does it produce results?

Timeless insights on today’s issues – Prerna-Nasik 2013 Sept

When prominent godmen are accused of sexual assualt how should we respond especially with people who have been following those godmen?

Why have Hindus suffered for a thousand years? Why don’t Hindus unitedly fight against their aggressors?

Wasn’t Vedic culture destroyed because of its own faults and not external forces like Macaualay’s schemes?.m4a

Why do some spiritual organizations that believe in the Vedas not accept Deity Worship?

Why hasn’t ISKCON presented Prabhupada as a national spiritual hero?

Was Vedic education responsible for social evils like caste system that Indian reformers tried to remove by adopting Western education?

Isn’t the Hindu belief that girls are the result of bad karma and boys the result of good karma responsible for female foeticide?

What is the Vedic perspective on artificial meat?