Vedic Philosophy

How can some people remember their past lives?

​Is the golden cord that goes with the soul permanent or temporary?

​What should we do if we have a near-death experience or a mystical experience?

​I saw a shining light during a vision – what does it mean?

​Are reports of people having gone to Yamaraja and returned true?

​When does the soul get connected with the body?

​Do pure devotees have no worldly desires or do they have desires but no inclination to act on those desires?

​Is there a difference between vairagya and virakti?

​When God is omniscient and knows our suffering, why do we need to go to him to get relief?

​How can the presence of suffering be reconciled with God’s existence?

​Can we change our destiny by living according to a particular path?

​Every effect has a cause – why can’t this argument be applied to God?

​When the Paramatma is always in the heart, how can Krishna leave the heart?

When bhakti provides higher pleasure than sensuality, why does the mind still crave for sense pleasure?

When we can’t even be sure whether this world will exist tomorrow, why bother thinking about some other world that is anyway held as inconceivable?

​Is old age present in the spiritual world?

​Yoga Maya can cover Krishna – how is this different from the Mayavadi idea that we all are God covered by Maya?

​How can we explain rasa-lila to new people?

​Are all svakiya relationships in this world false?

​Does our enthusiasm in bhakti come from our sincerity or from Krishna’s mercy?

How can we know that God is still living?

​How can we prevent our faith from going down with the passage of time?

​We know our likes and dislikes, but how can we know ourselves?

When religious conflicts cause violence, how can religious practice bring peace?

When mantra meditation involves actions and changes, how does it take us from the unchanging to the changing?

Where is the svabhava stored – is svabhava always unfavourable to bhakti?

​What is the difference between svabhava and conditionings?

​Is meditation on sound preferable to silent meditation?

Does becoming spiritual involve running away from problems instead of solving them?

As exalted devotees don’t want liberation, should we not desire to get out of this world?

​What is the difference between premature death due to accident and due to suicide?

​What is consciousness – can we attain consciousness without giving up family life?

​If we all are parts of God, then is God the sum total of all beings?

​Is knowing our weaknesses one of the results of materialism?

​Krishna is the basis of all being, not just the best of all beings – what does this mean?

Does exercising that increases our breathing rate decrease our lifespan?

Why do some people come close to death, but escape death?

If some people are more tolerant by their nature, does that tolerance mean they are advanced devotees?

Is bhakti the only way to higher taste – or are there other ways too?

What exactly is polymorphic monotheism?

​How do we see people who use their faith to justify their bigotry?

Does the soul choose its parents in its next life?

​Do the Puranas talk about caste by birth and the Gita, caste by qualities?

​Why were the lower castes so abused in the caste system, though it was given by Krishna?

​Why would kshatriyas, especially devotees like Arjuna, hunt?

Is bhakti meant for setting things right in our life or for liberating our soul?

​If we don’t grieve at someone’s death, aren’t we devaluing them?

Is our next body shaped by our desire or by our mind?

​Are all our material choices pre-determined by our past karma?

When Krishna is in our heart and knows our desires, why do we need to pray to him?

​When Krishna descends to destroy the miscreants, why does he try for peace with the miscreant Kauravas?

​How does the mind make decisions?

​Why are academic scholars of a tradition often derided by the tradition?

​What happens to our accumulated karma when we surrender to Krishna?

Why do some pious people face prolonged suffering before death?

What is the destination of those who have died too young to have done any good or bad?

Does the soul of those who die prematurely come back?

​Do all the millions who commit suicide become ghosts?

​How can we help the souls of those people who have committed suicide?

​Rasa Lila or rash lila 2- The historical misunderstanding

​Rasa Lila or rash lila 1- The philosophical misunderstanding

Does the soul age?

​Is the form of the soul similar to our present form?

​Why is the atheistic West more prosperous than religious India?

​As the spiritual is not visible or quantifiable, how can we know that we are not pursuing something delusional?

​Can becoming spiritual make us lazy and unambitious?

​Why does Krishna in the hearts of terrorists allow them to murder people?

​Are the varnas applicable today?

Do impersonalists who do jnana-tapasa attain liberation?

​How does bhakti invert social hierarchy?

​Is dharma the same in all ages?

​When we all lose everything at death, how does making better choices matter at death?

​If spirituality helps us make better choices, who decides which choices are better?

​If devotion is innate for all of us, why does it seem alien to some?

​Can yogis leave their body at will?

​​​​What happens after death

​How is there no passage of time in the spiritual world?

Are there any scriptural references that people’s caste is determined by their qualities?

Are there any scriptural references that people’s caste is determined by their qualities?

Does bhakti lead to brahman, as Gita 14.26 says or does brahman lead to bhakti, as Gita 18.54 says?

How is the soul immoveable?

Does the Supersoul go with the soul or is the all-pervading Supersoul already there where the soul goes?

Is the Paramatma in the heart same as the Paramatma in the atom?

Do all those who become deviated from yoga go to heavens?

​What does one get by doing sva-dharma without doing bhakti?

​Is thinking done by the mind or by the soul?

​Why does the Gita say that sva-dharma shouldn’t be given up whereas Bhagavatam says sea-dharma should be given up for bhakti?

​What exactly are the modes?

​QA on Bhagavad-gita and bhakti philosophy

​Matters that matter more than matter – Origin, value & purpose

​Does developing our conscience and intelligence develop our bhakti?

​Are materialists completely controlled by the modes or can they make choices?

​Is the Gita’s statement that all endeavors are covered by faults applicable to a butcher’s profession?

​How do we explain the concept of achintya to scientific people?

​How do we address the conflict between the mind and the heart?

​How could omniscient Krishna not locate his abducted son Pradyumna for many years?

​Does bhakti cause increase in our problems or does increase in problems intensify our bhakti?

​What is the bigger reality that spiritualists talk about?

​If Bhagavan and Brahman are non-different, are a gulab jamun and its fragrance non-different?

Does our past karma determine our present actions?