Vedic Scriptures

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 1 – 10.01.01-04 – Please speak Krishna-katha for benefitting everyone

How did Nanda and Yashoda allow Krishna to go to Mathura so readily?

Where was Radharani when the rasa-lila was performed? Why is there no mention of her in the Bhagavatam’s rasa-lila narration?

What is the connecting link between the Gita’s ninth and tenth chapters?

In which verses of the Gita’s eight chapter are the Lord’s glories stated?

When the Pandavas meet Krishna after being exiled to the forest, why do neither mention Krishna’s protecting Draupadi during the gambling match?

Was the Karna who was defeated by Bhima during the pre-Rajasuya yajna conquest different from the Karna who befriended Duryodhana?

When the Ramayana says monasteries shouldn’t accept donations from women, why does ISKCON accept donations from women?

The Son of the Sun – part 4

Do the daivi maya in Gita 7.14 and daivi prakriti in 9.13 to the same thing or different things?

I am a Physics student. How can I study the Bhagavad-gita scientifically when it seems like a discussion in a story?

If Karna was not stronger than Arjuna why did Kunti weaken him emotionally and Indra weaken him physically before the war?

Karna’s colossal blunder

In the Mahabharata, why are other warriors like Eklavya, Ghatothakcha and Barbarika manipulated to favor Arjuna?

When Kamsa’s capital Mathura and Kaurava’s capital Hastinapura were so close to each other why is there no record of any conflict between them?

When Vali and Sugriva are born from the union of demigods (Indra and Surya with Aruni) why do they have a monkey form?

Is the Nectar of Instruction a part of a larger work by Rupa Goswami?

NoI 17 Texts 10-11 – The glory of pure devotion in parakiya bhava

NoI 16 Text 9 – The glory of the topmost of all dhamas

NOI 13 Text 6 – Don’t be misled by material perception of devotees

Is the jnani in Gita 7.16 and jnanavan in 7.19 the same or different?

In the Gita chp 8, what is the yogis’ conception of Krishna?

In NoI 8 purport, what do the dashas from shravana to sampatti refer to?

In Gita chp 13, what exactly does jneya refer to?

Are there any examples of yoga-mishra bhaktas becoming kevala bhaktas?

Can Gita verses be translated differently from Prabhupada’s translations?

How can we understand Prabhupada’s equating buddhi-yoga in 2.39 purport with bhakti-yoga?

How do we understand Krishna’s statement to Arjuna that Karna is a better archer than him?

NoI 16 Text 8 Living in Vraja in spirit

NoI 14 Text 7 – The science of chanting

NoI 13 Text 5 – Interacting with devotees at different levels

NoI 12 Text 5 – Interacting with devotees at different levels

Gita 18.64-78 – The Gita culminates in a call for pure love (Hindi)

Gita 18.40-63 – Bhakti is the spiritual summit that also extends down to wherever we may be (Hindi)

As tapa is not a distinct spiritual path, what does Gita 6.46 tapsvibhyo adhiko yogi refer to?

Why is the flow the Gita verses not given in Prabhupada’s Gita?

What is the connection between Gita 6.4 yogarudha stage and 6.5-6 mind’s inimical nature?

Gita 18.29-39 Choose the intelligence, determination and happiness for attaining auspiciousness (Hindi)

How can we practically understand the modes influencing us wrt the jnana karma and karta analysis in Gita 18.20-28?

How are the 6 components of action in Gita 18.18 reduced to 3 in Gita 18.19?

Gita 18.13-18.28 – The five factors and the three components of action (Hindi)

Gita 18.01-12 – Don’t garb irresponsibility as renunciation (Hindi)

Gita 17.17-17.28 – Various religions are pathways towards the same sat moutain-peak (Hindi)

Gita 3.9 enjoins yajna for the satisfaction of Vishnu. Then why does the next section talk about the lower level of karma kanda?

Gita 2.38 and 2.48 seem very similar. What is the difference between them?

What is the difference between karma-kanda and sakama karma-yoga? Which does Gita 2.31-37 refer to?

Gita 2.39 is a linking verse. Which sections in the Gita and which levels in the yoga ladder does it link?

Is there any difference between nishkama bhakti and shuddha bhakti?

Do karma-mishra, yoga-mishra, jnana-mishra bhakti come under sakama bhakti?

Gita 17.07-16 – Understanding food, sacrifice and austerity from material and transcendental perspectives (Hindi)

Gita 16.13-17.06 – Demoniac mentality in today’s society (Hindi)

Gita 15.15-16.12 – Purushottama – the highest reality and the qualities that define our natures (Hindi)

Gita 15.01-14 – Understanding material existence metaphorically and philosophically (Hindi)

Gita 14.06-27 – Understanding and transcending the modes (Hindi)

Gita 13.30-14.05 – Jnana Chakshu and the reality of dreams (Hindi)

The Son of the Sun – Part 3

Gita 13.18-29 – How the purusha gets bound by prakriti (Hindi)

Gita 13.08-17 – Understanding jnana and jneya (Hindi)

Mahabharata Wisdom 2 – Karna 1 – Past life karma comes as this life’s problems (Hindi)

How are the living symptoms of consciousness manifestations of the subtle body as the Gita 13.6-7 purport says?

Gita 13.01-07 – Overview of chps 1-12 and understanding Kshetrajna & Kshetra – Hindi

According to Krishna, which is more important – karma-yoga, bhakti-yoga or both?

Do our impulses come from outside us or inside us?

Is karma yoga practical when even the people for whom we sacrifice consider it insane?

Why does the Bhagavatam say that we shouldn’t endeavor even for our necessities?

Why did Draupadi insult Duryodhana when he fell in the Maya sabha by saying ‘andhe ka beta andha’?

The Son of the Sun – Part 2

The Son of the Sun – Part 1

Mahabharata wisdom 1 – Ashwatthama – Beware of the temptation to punish (Hindi)

How is the Gita 4.9 the essence of the Bhagavad-gita?

What is the difference between ‘nishkarma’ & ‘karma’ as explained in Gita & its significance?

When Krishna is complete, how can he be the beneficiary of our sacrifices, as Gita 5.29 says?

When the Lord’s glance is purifying why did Mohini-Murti’s glance not purify the demons?

When Krishna knows everything, how did he not know that Rahu & Ketu were impersonatings as demigods?

Churing the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 2

Churing the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 1

Vedic Conception of God is beyond polytheism, monotheism and henotheism ( SB 06 03 05 at ISKCON Juhu)

Why are we bound to certain patterns of thinking? Doesn’t that make us like pre-programmed robots?

If gambling makes people do foolish things, why are kshatriyas ordained to gamble when challenged?

Though Yudhishthira is the oldest Pandavas, why does Gita chp 1 mention him after Arjuna & Bhima?

As all the bodily forms we take are temporary, does that mean the eternal and real is formlessness?

When sex is an experience of Krishna, as the Gita states, why does Yamunacharya spit at sex desire?

Are the beliefs “kshatriya martyrs attain heaven” & “jehadi suicide bombers attain paradise” different?

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita 18.65 call to worship Krishna alone and no other Vishnu form fanatical?

Is Gita 18.55’s impersonal message (vishate tad anantaram) overridden by Prabhupada’s translation?

If the Gita is a manual why is it so confusing? Why couldn’t it have been clearer?

Is the Gita an attempted reconciliation of different Upanishadic thoughts and not a revelation?

SB 7.9.29 – Lust is the fire that seems like a nectar

Does “knowing in truth” (Gita 4.9) happen by “experiences of Truth” or by “understanding”?

When Prabhupada’s perfect purports to the Gita are there, why are Gita daily articles needed?

Six steps to spiritual perfection – Bhagavad Gita 07.01

How is the material world non-existent as Prabhupada states in the Gita introduction?

In Gita 13.12 is there any difference between atma-vinigrahah and indriyartheshu vairagya?

When God Fails – The Bhakti Message in Krishna’s Peace Messenger Pastime

Did Ekalvaya fight in the Kurukshetra war?

How to be your own spiritual master

What is the Gita’s position on deontology?

What is the Gita’s etiology?

What is the Gita’s ontology?

What is the Gita’s soteriology?