Vedic Wisdom

How do we understand different devotees interpreting the moisture on the Pancha Tattva Deities differently?

Who created God?

What is violence for the infectant is benevolence for the infected

The destructibility of the body is not a license for its wanton destruction

Don’t just see the provision – see the provider

Can’t all miracles be ascribed to natural causes?

How do we understand contradictions in scriptures?

How is shabda-pramana free from four defects?

What exactly is false ego and true ego?

Did the Pancha Tattva Deities shed tears of ecstasy due to the ecstatic kirtan mela?

Why does God let some people be atheists?

Do sampradayas other than 4 Vaishnava sampradayas also have divine origin?

Harinaam Sankirtan unites dance with meditation

Should we hate the mind?

Are miracles compatible with science?

Ishopanishad says God’s body has no veins, whereas SB says rivers are the veins of Virat rupa – how to reconcile?

Krishna rewards according to surrender, but Lord Chaitanya sees no qualification. How to reconcile?

Is the Absolute Truth just a stream of consciousness for jnanis and a Person for bhaktas?

If smriti is compiled by sages, how can we know that it is free from the four defects?

When Ajamila chanted with the wrong conception, why did Vishnutas come?

What is the result of chanting the names of godmen who have the name of God?

Can you give an example of unnecessarily provocative presentation of apara-vidya that we should avoid?

How can we give people initial faith so that they can practice para-vidya and experience its potency?

How to present scriptural wisdom scientifically

Why is the same story told differently in different scriptures?

When Bhagavatam is the commentary on Vedanta-sutra, why do Advaitins still study Vedanta-sutra

As varna means color, is varnashrama based on bodily color?

Does fear take people towards God or away from him?

Is speaking to new people about Krishna the ninth offense to the holy name?

Don’t anoint everything as spiritual or denounce everything as material

As neophytes can’t understand tattva and rasa accurately, isn’t it better to consider Krishna-lila depictions as literal and not artistic?

Won’t atheists use the concept of artistic license in depciting Krishna-lila to say that his supernatural pastimes are poetic exaggerations?

Is dharma same as religion?

If God has given scripture, then which scripture and to whom?

If scripture is given by God, why is it not visible to a newborn child?

What is artistic license and how can it be used in devotional dramas?

In NoI 8 why is kirtanam mentioned separately from engaging the tongue?

Is there any difference between urges and feelings?

What feelings do impersonalists experience – material or spiritual?

Dealing with old age – individual and social responsibility – 3.30.15

Why would Prabhupada quote inauthentic books like the Aquarian Gospel?

Do we learn shastra by studying more or serving more?

If we dont understand something in the Gita should we re-read it till we understand before going ahead?

If six systems of philosophy are progressive why are they contradictory?

Is death alone away from loved ones successful death?

Isn’t forcing ourselves to thank God for bad things self-repression?

Devotion is the culmination of our aspiration for liberation

Was Mirabai greater than Jiva Goswami because she saw beyond bodily gender?

Why is every sin ultimately a sin against God?

What does it mean to be free from sin?

What does it mean to be a slave to sin?

How can I overcome a habitual sin?

Why do we sin?

Are all sins equal to God?

Do parents suffer the sins of their children?

Are children punished for the sins of their parents?

How can I know if something is a sin?

What is the definition of sin?

Is caffeine addiction a sin?

Is it ever right to lie?

Is joking a sin?

How is Mayavada offensive?

How is chanting in the washroom not an offense to the holy name?

Where does people’s evil tendency come from?

Could God have prevented the Holocaust?

Who is responsible for the Holocaust – Hitler or the Jews’ karma?

Why does God not protect his devotees today like he protected Prahlad?

When we don’t know what past-life karma caused our present suffering how do we learn?

Are only Indian breed cows go mata?

When God doesn’t need to do research, can he be considered a scientist?

Where exactly is the pleasure of sex: in our mind, in our body’s hormonal secretion or in the other person’s body?

Shikshashtakam 3 – Varnavada, sphotavada and the holy name’s potency

Is God a scientist or a magician?

Does one lose wealth or gain wealth by worshiping Hari?

Does God create energy out of nothing?

Why do devotees consult psychologists instead of chanting mahamantra?

Does om purnam imply that we should be complete and so we should be Krishna?

Why does Bhishma Panchaka have 4 days this year instead of 5?

Do animals have mind – how do they control it?

What does panentheism mean?

When sex is a fact of life, why be prudish about depicting it in the media?

Does covering our bodies with clothes make us obsessed to see others’ bodies?

Is wearing clothes unnatural as no other species in nature wears clothes?

What is the benefit in hearing about Krishna?

When the gopis were Dandakaranya sages, why does the Bhagavtam say that they had not gone on pilgrimage?

Why does the list of eight siddhis not include garima?

Aren’t Brahmavadis ultimately Mayavadis because they consider the Lord’s form to be temporary?

Is the ability to remember past lives the mercy of the Lord?

What is the basis for the classification of scripture as shruti smriti and nyaya?

Is sensitivity the same as sentimentality?

Is birthday celebration non-Vedic?

What is the philosophy behind the worship of a pure devotee’s Deity?

Do devotees have to go through Brahman realization to attain Bhagavan realization?

The soul longs for meaning, but the body settles for pudding

Don’t reduce all thinking to logical thinking

Does varnashrama romanticize, demonize or utilize the world?

Should we just chant more or should we study philosophy more?

Shikshashtakam 2 – The life of knowledge, the ocean of happiness and the complete nectar and bath (Part 2)

Is the love of a mother for her baby Maya?

When bhakti can’t be quantified, why have a bhakti shastri course with marks?