Vedic Wisdom

What is the difference between intellect and intelligence?

When does the intelligence become the form direction of the Lord?

Can our intelligence be contaminated?

Prostitutes were present in Dwarka the abode of pure devotees – how to understand?

Reincarnation – Myth or Reality with Spanish Translation

The Karma Conundrum – Does our destiny make us or do we make it?

How can we explain Bhagavatam sections that contradict modern science?

If scripture contains advanced material knowledge such as Vimana-shastra why don’t we use it to make planes today?

How can we understand unbelievable statements from scripture?

Why is Krishna thirsty for our love when he has so many devotees loving him?

Does everything exist for Krishna’s pleasure?

Many scriptural storylines appear to be predestined – do we really have free will?

Understanding how Krishna is everything and controls everything even amidst worldly sufferings

If karmic reactions come on earth itself what is the need for sufferings in hell?

As science keeps people away from God can scientists be considered reincarnations of demons?

When Krishna is unlimited how can he be a person?

Have people who can remember their past lives done some special good karma?

Is Krishna as the holy name a sound vibration or is he beyond all sound vibrations?

What exactly is the holy name – does its potency lie in the words or the meaning or somewhere else?

Does courtesy japa help us attain Krishna after death?

If karma daiva and kala lead to phala what is Krishna’s role?

If parents have two children – one bright one dull – is it the parents’ karma or the childrens’ karma?

Why did Krishna save Parikshit, but not Abhimanyu?

How do we define the Paramatma?

How can we choose our mantra?

Romanticizing Reincarnation – The danger of divorcing knowledge from its purpose

Reincarnation – what explains it and what it explains

Do happiness-distress have objective reality or are they just mental constructs?

How can we prove that God exists?

How important is the exact pronunciation of Rama in the maha-mantra?

How can those with an impersonal understanding of God be helped to taste bhakti?

If our spiritual master is not easily accessible and other spiritual masters give time primarily to their disciples, how can we get inspiration?

If an initiated devotee does something non-standard such as eating food cooked outside, will the spiritual master get the karma?

“The Holy Name is everything” – how to appreciate and apply this

Was Ajamila’s calling out to Vishnu an utterance or a remembrance?

What exactly is time – from yesterday to today what has changed?

How important is praying in bhakti?

In Vishnu Sahasra Nama, how are Vishnu’s names Nimisha and Animisha reconciled?

What is the process by which the false ego gets hurt?

Is there any reference to the subconscious mind in the Vedic literature?

QA with Boston-Seattle devotees

Should we see non-philosophical devotees as not needing intellectual conviction or as weak because of intellectual malnourishment?

When we don’t love Krishna, we suffer – doesn’t that mean Krishna forces us to love him?

What is the relationship between ashtanga-yoga and bhakti-yoga?

How could Krishna’s soldiers fight against him in the Kurukshetra war?

Does time apply only for us, not for Krishna?

If Krishna knows the future, how do we have free will?

Doesn’t God have unlimited opulences – why limit them to six?

Does Krishna understand our feelings or does he also experience them?

When Krishna knows everything, how can we not know Radharani’s love for him?

Do emotions come from the heart, the soul or the subtle body?

If Krishna is God, why is Vishnu widely considered to be God and Krishna his incarnation?

Can followers of other religions who don’t follow the regulative principles go back to Krishna?

Is Vedic philosophy confusing because it has so many holy books, unlike Christianity and Islam that have only one holy book?

How does repetition in bhakti lead to attraction when normally repetition leads to satiation?

Is our affection for Krishna to be cultivated as between wife-husband or spontaneous as between child-parent?

How can we know that deceased devotees go back to godhead?

Redirecting our desires and our speech towards Krishna

Lord Chaitanya demonstrates that the heart is higher than the head

Relishing Shikshashtakam – Appreciating how meditation on the holy name blossoms to meditation on Krishna

Shouldn’t bhakti be a natural evolution in our love, not an imposition based on being told whom to love?

What is the difference between attachment and obsession?

Accepting that we are beyond the brain, how can we know whether we are the mind or the soul?

Is the brain the generator of emotions or the responder to emotions?

Can we get to higher consciousness only through near-death experiences or by other means?

Can those undergoing near-death experiences choose not to return to their body?

During near-death experiences, is everything that happens predetermined or can the experiencer choose?

Who were the vanaras in the Ramayana – what happened to them?

Is a woman’s unchaste dressing responsible for a man’s misbehaviour?

How much of traditional culture needs to be replicated to practice bhakti today?

While understanding scripture according to time-place-circumstance, which factors need to be considered?

Isn’t ISKCON sectarian that it stops devotees from hearing from other Vaishnava groups?

QA session with Dallas congregation

QA session with Dallas youth

When a devotee does bhakti activities for someone else, what actually happens?

Is Vedic apara-vidya a better painkiller than modern knowledge?

Who all are the active factors in our inner world – soul or mind or Maya?

Does the soul go to the next body by its own desires or is it taken by the mind?

Were the ancient sages humbler than the modern acharyas as only the latter mention their names in their compositions?

Who remembers Krishna – the mind or the soul, or the mind in the conditioned stage and the soul in the liberated state?

When the mind is external to the soul, what does externally serving and internally remembering Krishna mean?

When the Upanishads say the Absolute Truth is unchanging, how do bhakti teachers say that even Krishna’s abode is changing?

Does mithya mean illusion or hallucination – is the material world illusion or hallucination?

When intelligence can be used or misused, is intelligence a power of our consciousness or a gift from the Supersoul?

Why is the intelligence said to come from goodness and the mind from passion – Hindi?

When the intelligence is subtler than the mind, why does the Gita ask us to control the mind and not the intelligence – Hindi?

The Creator’s Cruelty and the Saints’ Selflessness

If the intelligence and the Supersoul’s voice are the same, why do many intelligent people act sinfully – Hindi?

When spiritual culture encourages men to become brahmacharis, how does it spiritualize the male-female relationship?

Is the love between a pet and a master coming from hormones or from the soul?

Love is in the air, but where is the air? 

Nityananda Trayodashi – NITAI acronym for appreciating Nityananda Prabhu’s glories – Hindi

Why did Krishna allow the desecration of Deities by foreign invaders in medieval times?

Does the soul come first in the womb and the subtle body comes later after which consciousness manifests?

When children of same parents such as Ravana and Vibhishana have the same DNA, why are their characters so different (Hindi)?

Does presenting scripture as meant for moral instruction lead to the rejection of scripture’s transcendental teachings?

If Bhagavatam and Mahabharata tell incidents from different perspectives, are they histories or historical fictions?

When God is omniscient, doesn’t he know that some people will misuse their free will?

When God knows everything, why doesn’t he stop bad things from happening?

When we have to choose between two good options, how do we choose?