Vedic Philosophy

​Is there a purpose for punishment?

When everyone is ultimately a devotee, what does avoiding nondevotee association mean?

​What is atma-nirikshana or soul-searching?

​Are tolerance and surrender directly proportional to each other?

When Krishna controls our karma, do we really have free will?

​Abrahamic and impersonalist misconceptions about Krishna’s position

​When different people have natures of different varnas, what is the purpose of brahman initiation?

​How is liberation Krishna’s mercy when its pleasure is insignificant in comparison with bhakti?

How can demons killed by the Lord get the same destination as the devotees?

​Isn’t “dishonor is worse than death” an egoistic calculation?

​Is the spiritual bliss we experience real or sentimental?

Does any literature declare that the devatas are supreme?

​Is worshiping the devatas a means to Krishna consciousness?

​What is the difference between the atman and the mana?

​What can help us develop faith?

How are faith and trust correlated?

​Are forms like Narasimha eternal in the spiritual world?

​When we are sinful, does Krishna still protect us?

​How do we understand lilas that appear immoral?

​Do madhyama devotees have one leg in the material world and one in the spiritual?

​Does Krishna enjoy being a master and forcing us to serve him?

​I​​s a mad human higher than a mad animal?

​Who exactly imagines – the mind or the intelligence?

Are we the supreme power or are we part of that power?

​What is raj-vidya and raj-guhya in Gita 9.2?

​If no one can be free from the modes, is it really possible to be free from material desires?

​Are realizations permanent or do we need to get the same realizations again and again?

​What is the subconscious mind – is it related with karana sharira?

​The earth-bound are dearth-bound

​Appreciating Krishna’s love for us

Understanding Krishna’s position and disposition from the Gita and the Mahabharata

Is constantly thinking about death psychologically damaging?

​Can our past-life karma force us to do sins in this life?

How important is it to be aware of our thoughts?

Is dreaming about Krishna also remembrance of Krishna?

How can we think of Krishna constantly?

​How is daiva related to karma?

We can realize the mind, but how can we realize the intelligence?

Do the six stages of anartha-nivrtti come one after the other?

How does the intelligence control the mind?

Is the mind just a repository of past impressions?

How are multiple personality disorders related with the mind?

Faith is essential in daily life, science – and spiritual life

Different levels of seeing Krishna

Eating can be spiritualized, but how can mating be spiritualized?

How do sages like Kardama Muni enjoy material things despite being great spiritualists?

God is not a means to an end – he is himself the highest end 

How are the Gita and the Bhagavatam related?

Understanding the purpose of explicit language in scripture

Two ways to realization: as sudden illumination and as gradual awakening

How do I know which type of surrender is suitable for us?

Is black magic real – what should devotees targetted by it do?

How much does Krishna intervene in the lives of good people, if they are not devotees?

What is the relationship between astrology and karma, especially for devotees?

Why does Bhaktivinoda Thakura refer to temporary duties as anitya-dharma?

How does our material varna relate with our spiritual svarupa?

Why is tamo-guna needed at all?

Concluding QA session in Dharma to Prema Retreat

Overcoming discouragement in life

Understanding the many forms of surrender

Mapping our inner territory – Anartha nivritti explained from Madhuraya Kadambini

Understanding karma dharma and destiny

From dharma to prema

Can association through electronic media be the same as personal association?

Is asking lots of questions a sign of a jnani, not a bhakta?

Can Krishna’s exalted pastimes be understood without philosophically understanding his greatness?

Bhakti is an experiential science

Pray not to get things done but to connect with Krishna

Is untimely death of a son the will of God – how is this to be explained to grieving parents?

Why are things that we hear and accept still difficult to apply?

When there are so many scriptures how is the essential scriptural message to be understood?

If someone dies because of drunken driving, was the death due to destiny or drunkenness?

Are ghastly rituals such as animal sacrifices given in scriptures?

What is the relationship between our intelligence and our desires?

What is wrong with aversion to sense objects?

Do the modes determine our moods or our modes determine the modes?

When Prabhupada speaks so strongly against Mayavadis, how can we avoid becoming judgmental?

Can we engage in any desire without being bound by it?

How can we know that we are conscious while tables are not conscious?

Why focus on sound alone for raising our consciousness – why not exercise, food etc?

What is the channel by which the soul gives signals to the brain?

How do the Vedas correlate with the Gita?

When we use our imagination in devotional service, will whatever we imagine come true?

How is sense pleasure not imaginary but a product of imagination?

Do brahmavadis know that something exists beyond brahman?

Do animals have souls – if yes, then how are humans different from animals?

What is happiness – how can we achieve it?

What is a human being’s purpose on earth?

What is the soul – is it real?

What is the relationship between science and Krishna consciousness?

How to respond to people who say that they are satisfied with their mental maps?

Is humanity more important or is spirituality more important?

Does prolonged expectation for a thing make us value it more- does this apply to the gopis separation from Krishna?

Why does God send different teachers who teach different paths?

How are spiritual experiences different from chemically-induced experiences?

Can any pastime be analyzed metaphorically for some moral instruction?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

If everything unconnected with Krishna is Maya, then are all systems for valuing different things differently also Maya?

When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?