Vedic Wisdom

Why couldn’t Krishna have killed miscreants without leaving Vrindavan?

How to respond to people who say that they are satisfied with their mental maps?

Is humanity more important or is spirituality more important?

Does prolonged expectation for a thing make us value it more- does this apply to the gopis separation from Krishna?

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 3 – Srila Prabhupada made the transcendental practical

Are the gopis separated from Krishna even in the spiritual world?

Why does God send different teachers who teach different paths?

Why is the Gaudiya sampradaya a branch of the Brahma-Madhva sampradaya and not its straight continuation?

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 2 – Learn to relish bhakti rasa

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 1 – Bhakti inverts social hierarchy

How are spiritual experiences different from chemically-induced experiences?

How did Nimai Pandit’s name become Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?

Why did Lord Chaitanya first become a scholar and then a devotee?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi – Part 2

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi Part 1

Can any pastime be analyzed metaphorically for some moral instruction?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

If everything unconnected with Krishna is Maya, then are all systems for valuing different things differently also Maya?

When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?

Are there any practicing brahmavadis today or are all impersonalists mayavadis?

Is there any correlation between the Dashavataras and the four yugas?

What are the differences between plenary portions, expansions and incarnations?

What is the exact difference between brahmavadis and mayavadis?

If Bhagavatam and Bible come from different frames of reference, does that mean everything is relative?

Is the Biblical Adam-Eve story of creation reconcilable with the Bhagavatam’s description of narration?

If everything coming from Krishna is also Krishna, then is everyone God?

The living bhakti tradition is a garden, not a museum

Dasha Mula Tattva 13 – Study scripture with focus on the purpose of scripture

Dasha Mula Tattva 12 – Enter higher rasas by purification, not imitation

What is the Gaudiya Vaishnava understanding of Manu Smriti?

Do the Vedas teach that only brahmanas by birth can become brahmanas?

How can we explain that Krishna’s pastimes are not mythological?

Why are the same pastimes described differently in different scriptures?

Why does Krishna do certain things for maintaining people’s faith in paths other than bhakti?

Does one need to know one’s svarupa to be liberated?

Does pure devotion mean expecting no reciprocation from Krishna?

Can we have a relationship with someone without reciprocation from them?

How can we correlate shastra with our daily life?

Dasha Mula Tattva 11 – Love is not just feeling but also doing

Why do senior devotees sometimes join apasampradayas?

Dasha Mula Tattva 10 – Mayavada is the inversion, not contradiction, of Vaishnavism

Dasha Mula Tattva 9 – Association is the way to liberation

Why has God given us such a troublesome mind?

Does spirituality choke our scientific enquiry?

Dasha Mula Tattva 8 – Maya binds us not as prisoners but as puppets

What is the difference between shunyavada, mayavada and nirvisheshavada?

Dasha Mula Tattva 7 – Achintyabhedabheda is the most evolved understanding of Vedanta

When the Vedas talk about so many gods, isn’t that confusing?

How does the hladini shakti entering our consciousness please Krishna?

How to respond to the Buddhist argument that the universe is eternal?

What does the Absolute Truth being one in synthesis and separate in analysis mean?

Dasha Mula Tattva 6 – The Absolute Truth delights and shares delights through three internal energies

Dasha Mula Tattva 5 – The Absolute Truth and its energies are one in synthesis, different in analysis

Advaita Acharya 1 – Compassionate call to the Lord

If human will is strengthened by connection with divine will, how do nondevotees sometimes have great determination?

If Indra got the reaction of brahma-hatya for killing Vritrasura, why didnt Rama, for killing Ravana?

As we desire, so we see (Subhashita commentary 2)

Dasha Mula Tattva 4 – Hari is the Absolute Truth concealed and revealed in the Vedas

Dasha Mula Tattva 3 – Understanding the necessity and focus of Vedic knowledge

Both Narada and Shakuni incited others – what is the difference?

How can we raise our remembrance of Krishna from intellectual recollection to devotional redirection?

Narada Muni – Not kalah-priya, but krishna-priya

If everything comes from Krishna why doesn’t everything take us to Krishna?

If the soul is marginal energy, how can it never fall after attaining Krishna?

From moksha one falls back, from svarga one can be elevated – is kama better than moksha?

Dasha Mula Tattva 2 – Scripture is the only way to know inconceivable Absolute Truth

How does spiritual sound stimulate and facilitate meditation?

When the Lord’s pastimes are transcendental, should they be analyzed?

How can scripture be understood relevantly without deviant interpretations?

Which is the abode for sakhya rasa?

Using jnana in bhakti

How can we be sympathetic to people whose beliefs differ from scripture?

How does the jiva fall to the material world?

When the soul doesn’t feel hunger, how can the body tire the soul?

Can holy places be haunted?

How do parts of a plant when cut sometimes grow as separate plants?

Can the soul in a grain get a human body in the next life especially if it has fallen from heaven?

Are souls present in seeds – where does it go when souls remain inactive for years before germinating?

Do souls move continuously from one body to another or are they inactive in between bodies?

Aren’t renunciates who lose semen accidentally denying bodies to the souls present in their semen?

During the birth of twins does the soul split into two?

During conception, how do sperm, egg, soul, karma and Krishna’s will inter-relate?

During conception, when and where does the soul come into the picture?

How can women be encouraged to get a sense of success in their home responsibilities?

Do women-devotees always have to be homemakers?

Were women always housewives in Vedic culture?

What is the spiritual significance of the Gopinath Patnaik story?

When Yashoda’s rasa is vatsalya, how is her bhakti coming from Radharani whose rasa is madhurya?

Was Dhruva’s determination in passion or transcendental?

Please explain varnashrama, its different types and its relevance in urban settings.

Is varnashrama hierarchical with brahmanas higher and shudras lower?

What does emotional distance from a principle mean?

Does Krishna guide everyone or only those his devotees?

Are the other 5 schools of Indian philosphy relevant for devotees – are they speculations?

Are Nirvisheshavada and Mayavada two names of the same?

Whats wrong with verifying scientifically the material knowledge given in scripture?

Are all the many expansions of the Lord eternal?

How to understand the descriptions of material settings in scriptural pastimes?

Are all of Krishnas’ associates the same in each kalpa?