Vedic Scriptures – General

What is the relation between the Ishopanishad cover picture and its content?

Why are the Ishopanishad verses called mantras?

Brahma Samhita 5.30 – venum kvanantam – The creator adores his creator

When Upadeshamrita is for seekers, why does it start by telling who can become a guru?

Why are the divisions of different scriptures called differently – skandha, kanda and parva

Why does Prabhupada talk about the three energies in his purport to the atyahara verse (NoI 2)?

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

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

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

Is the Vedanta sutra personalist or impersonalist?

Is there any online database or on paper of all the vedic scriptures intact for instant access?

How are instructions in Uddhav Gita higher than instructions in Bhagwat gita?

The special place of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu among the Vedic scriptures – Hindi

NoI 10 Text 3 – Three directions we may go on deviating from bhakti

NoI 9 Text 3 How neglect of regulative principles destroys bhakti

NoI 8 Text 2-3 – Devotional service is not sentimental speculation or imaginative ecstasy

NoI 7 Text 2 – Three levels of contamination due to asat-sanga

NoI 6 Text 2 – Identifying over-endeavor in spiritual life

NoI 5 Text 2 – Sociological and philosophical reasons to avoid atyahara

NoI 4 Text 1 – The exalted level of the “sharira avidya jala” prayer

NoI 3 Text 1 – How to spiritualize anger in devotional service – Mumbai 2013

NoI 2 Text 1- The need and the means for authentic atonement – Mumbai 2013

NoI 1 Preface – Understanding the right attitude for a sadhaka – Mumbai 2013

Does Brahma have 4 or 5 heads?

Why was Arjuna so dear to Krishna?

How do we refute the Mayavadi interpretation of ‘om purnam adah’?

What is the origin, authenticity and relevance of Tantra?

How did Parashurama exist at the same time as another avatar Rama? Why did he oppose Rama?

How do we understand and explain that the Vedas are self-evident truths?

Why are there talking animals in Ramayana but not in Mahabharata?

What is the authenticity of the story that Parikshit M stayed in a tower to protect himself?

What does the Taittiriya Upanishad mantra “Brahmavidya aponti param” mean?

Scriptures act as Map, Model and Muscle

How is Bhagavan higher than Brahman? Ishopanishad 15-16

Do all paths lead to the same goal? – Ishopanishad 13

As scriptures are like Deities, can we underline or higlight or make similar marks on them?

If it is told in the Vedas that “Krishnas tu bhagavan svayam” then why do other Vaishnav sampradaya worship Vishnu and not Krishna?

Are the scriptural descriptions about the glories of the holy name exaggerations?

Why does Srila Prabhupada “bhakti” in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu as devotion instead of his usual translation “devotional service”?

Why are the Puranas mentioned separately from Smriti in the verse “shrutismritipuranadi..”?

How do we understand when different Vaishnava acharays give different meanings of the same scriptural verse?

References to the Hare Krishna Mahamantra

Ishopanishad Systematic Overview Pune 2012 – 15 classes

How can we trust the Vedas when many Vedic texts have been destroyed and incomplete knowledge is harmful?

Should I try to resolve every doubt that comes when reading scriptures?

Bhishma Stuti 1.9.32-42

Why do some people consider the Vedas superior to the Puranas?

When we can return to Krishna by love and devotion, why do we need to study scriptures?

Why do the Vedic scriptures sometimes contain verses with an apparently Mayavadi import?

Why should we believe in the Vedas?

Are the Vedas mythological because they talk about mysticism?