Vedic Philosophy

What does “our senses are meant for Krishna’s satisfaction” mean?

What is the difference between doubt and curiosity?

When we don’t get any reciprocation despite calling Krishna earnestly for long, what can we do?

What is the difference between goodness and pure goodness?

How does marriage change sex from wrong to right?

Are the Vedas actually ambiguous or just nonspecific about ultimate purpose?

If we have devotional intention do we still get karmic reactions for incidental sins?

How does the material body become spiritualized by bhakti?

Is the notion of time – of past, present, future – an illusion?

Treasure the supreme realization – ekhona bujhinu prabhu meaning

What is the position of bhakti teachers not connected with the four sampradayas?

Is doing sadhana bhakti in vatsalya bhava sahajiyaism?

Is Vallbha Bhatta of CC same as Vallabhacharya?

Is Vallabhacharya Krishna or devotee of Krishna?

What is time – Is there no time in the spiritual world?

What exactly is humility – how do we develop it in bhakti?

Value a great love more than you love a great value

Vidyara vilase meaning – Godless knowledge is the intellect’s monument to illusion

Why do serious devotees sometimes die prematurely?

Which is more helpful on the spiritual path – intelligence or inclination?

Are dharma, artha, kama and moksha to be pursued sequentially or simultaneously?

If God created everything, who created God?

Is diversity the DNA of Hinduism?

Bhuliya Tomare Meaning – Even success story is sorry story

Is surrendering to God fatalistic?

Krishna demonstrates prevailing definition of success – and transcends it

Is the religionist’s God different from the philosopher’s God?

Is identifying according to our nature false ego?

Is sex pleasure due to hormones or mental imagination?

What does om mean?

If we do someone else’s work well, then is that work is our nature?

Is applying material science to spiritual things wrong?

Do devotees who commit suicide become ghosts?

Are all attractive things good for devotees of the all-attractive?

Doesn’t population growth disprove reincarnation?

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?

Why does God let some people be atheists?

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

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?