Vedic Philosophy

What is the relationship between the Krishna keshava pahi mam mantra and the Hare Krishna mantra?

Are the Bible and the Koran to be considered scriptures?

What exactly is Shivalinga? What is the pastime behind it?

What does it mean to say that we are envious of Krishna?

Why do devotees not using mystic siddhis in Krishnas service?

Are souls falling from Vaikuntha even now?

What is the difference between heavenly, earthly and spiritual body?

If there are 33 crore demigods, then why does Shatpatha Brahman mention 33 gods?

Does matter come from spirit? if so how does matter emerge from it?

Are mountains conscious? To which species do they belong?

Does the Lord become fed up with those who commit offenses repeatedly?

Do nondevotees have no good qualities

Mahajanas 5 – Lord Kapila

Is the intelligence unaffected by material interactions?

How do we distinguish the heart and mind?

Why does Krishna express surprise in some of his pastimes when he is omniscient?

Is chanting a prayer or a meditation?

How do we respond to ‘Ramayana and Gita are speculators delight’?

Does the brahmajyoti come from Lord Shiva?

How can we wash our sins – is there any water or oil?

Why do we feel envious of God but not of materially rich people?

What does ‘contamination of the material qualities’ mean?

Is devotion a feeling to be developed or does it come naturally?

How do knowledge and realisations help us if they become covered due to lust?

From the Absolute Platform If Lord Is the Only Purusa, What do words Like Pursottama, Apauresya actually mean?

What happens to the koshas after death?

As some species have become extinct what happens to those souls who have desires that those species are meant to fulfill?

Does the idea that matter can be a means to spirit have any basis?

Why did Lord Chaitanya worship Shiva-linga if it is not the highest form of worship?

What is the significance of Shiva-linga?

What does the unborn nature of the Lord mean?

Who is a bhakta? Were saints like Tukaram Tulsidas Kabir bhaktas?

How do we differentiate between our Intelligence guiding us or the Mind in the Mode of Goodness?

As Parvati is the chaste wife of Lord Shiva how could she have come personally to tempt Haridas Thakura?

How does gambling break the principle of truthfulness?

What is kham brahma? What is ether? Is ether same as brahman?

As bhakti centers on smarana, is just chanting enough to take us back to Godhead?

Is the verse ‘Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu’ Mayavadi?

Why do we consider 108 times chanting as 1 round?

Can we remember in the spiritual world the technology Krishna used to make both the worlds?

What is the difference between expansion and incarnation?

What is Krishna consciousness?

What does Krishna’s statement that “I am time the destroyer” mean?

Can you explain how the mind addresses us in the first person and the second person?

When the soul goes from one body to another where is the karma stored?

As we need to arrange for our bodily needs how do we understand Prabhupada’s statemen that there is no need for economic development?

Fulfilling our longing for love

Do spiritualists lack critical thinking and are all thinking people atheists?

When our computer breaks down and troubles us, which klesha is it? How are the kleshas classified?

Does a daughter have the duty to deliver her parents, as does a son?

Isn’t the skeptical antenna the same as the doubting faculty?

What is the difference between pleasure, indulgence and temptation?

As vaccination can prevent diseases that come as karmic reactions has science disproved or defeated the law of karma?

Is Maya eternal? Why does she illusion the jiva but not God?

Why are we selective about the analysis or purports of the scriptures?

If “Svetasvatara Upanishad ” is dedicated to Lord Shiva , why is it dedicated to Krsna by Vaishnava Acharyas?

Do all the residents of Dhams go back to the spiritual world?

Is the size of the Supersoul in the heart literal or figurative?

How do we respond to the Mayavadi notion of a two-level Brahman?

Is the Absolute Truth inexpressible by words, even the words of scriptures?

Why does Krishna love cows when whatever qualities they have are simply given to them by nature?

What is Krishna consciousness perspective on sex education in general and in schools in particular?

If we can go back to Godhead from any mode then what is the need to come to goodness?

When Krishna does so many immoral activities how can he be God?

Does the father get the sin if his children misuse the money he gave them?

Which form of Vishnu is referred to by the Sahasra Shirsha purusha prayers as none of the Vishnu forms actually have 1000s of heads?

Why was ancestor worship by meat offerings allowed in earlier ages?

If Narada Muni is an incarantion then is he a jiva-tattva or Vishnu-tattva?

Does soul have shape? Does that shape change from body to body?

If the spiritual world is thrice the material world doesnt that make the total creation finite?

Is initiation essential? What if devotees after initiation become proud?

Question: If spiritual happiness is eternal, why is our experience of that happiness temporary?

What should be a devotee’s attitude towards scientists?

Gopashtami class – Spiritualizing rites of passage like birthdays

How did you first realize that there was a Supreme God?

Is Krishna’s love conditional or unconditional?

As spiritual happiness is eternal and the happiness we experience in spiritual activities is temporary is this happiness material?

What is the difference between ahankara as concept and as object?

Does initiation change the gotra of a person?

Why does Sanskrit have words with many meanings Why are the concepts open to varying interpretations?

Question: What is the difference between the past ages and the present age?

Is the soul projected to the material world as in a virtual reality or has the soul actually fallen to the material world?

If several spiritual organizations urge us to study their philosophy and try our their process how should we decide what to follow?

If our suffering in material existence is just a momentary dream then wont this thought make us feel lazy about becoming liberated?

What is the essential moral of the brahmin cobbler story because the huge tree is not literally present in the small seed?

QA on Ramayana Comparative Religion and miscellaneous topics

GLASS acronym – Five tangible aspects of mercy

As those people who are destined to take to spirituality will take it up anyway how does it matter whether we use technology for sharing spirituality or dont use it?

If experience is the highest pramana how does it fit into the three standard pramanas with shabha as the highest?

How long should we go on questioning about Krishna when all our acharyas have already accepted him?

Prabhupada says Brahma falls whereas Haridas Thakura doesnt but they are the same. Then why the difference? person

How does the spiritual soul first get material desires?

If one can chant the name of Allah or Jesus with love and reach God, then why cant one chant the name of Ganesh or Shiva with love and reach Him?

Does the fact that whatever happens to us is a result of our own karma imply that we passively accept whatever happens to us or not bother about the results on others of what we do?

If aquatics are lower than plants in the Vedic evolutionary scale then why is eating aquatics forbidden and eating plants allowed?

When Brahma is an incarnation of the Lord. then how can he be illusioned by maya and how can a person become Bramha?

Is the Virat Rupa Real or False? If it is false then was Vamanadeva’s revelation to Bali Maharaj false?

Is the Universal Form Material or Spiritual? How is it different from the Deity form?

Intelligence is the representation of Paramatma,then why does our intelligence sometimes fail to take the right decision?

Why do Vishnu and Shiva have several common names?