Vedic Philosophy

Brahma Samhita meditation 2 – Krishna is not just the greatest in a hierarchy but the greatest beyond any hierarchy

Gita 16.09 – Our conception critically changes our contribution

Meditation on prayer to Jagannatha

Three levels of manifestation of Jagannatha Rath Yatra

Are the nine items of devotional service progressive?

What is the Vedic perspective on panpsychism?

Are sakhyam from nine items of devotional service and sakhya from the five rasas related?

What is the role of creativity in goodness?

The Deity has form but the holy name doesn’t – isn’t worshiping both together contradictory?

Does humility mean dishonestly blaming ourselves for things we haven’t done?

What is the difference between humility and inferiority complex?

Pada-sevanam – Bhakti is a relationship of ecstatic inequality

Isn’t it material conception of Deity to offer fan or candana when we feel hot in summer?

How much is the jurisdiction of our free will?

Are there some Deities that are jagruta?

Is it good to practice bhakti because it teaches us good values?

Is it good to practice bhakti due to our cultural upbringing?

Is KC also exclusivist because those who don’t accept Krishna’s form are said to be doomed?

How does bhakti compare with vipashana?

How does KC take us inwards when it involves many external activities?

When thinking is done by the soul, how can our thoughts be material?

When infinity is an attribute of Bhagavan, how can he manifest in a finite form?

When matter is indestructible what’s wrong with attraction to material forms?

Why are we attracted towards forms and not attracted towards Krishna’s forms?

Aren’t those who doubt whether Deities can perform miracles faithless skeptics?

Does seeing natural laws instead of Deities’ reciprocation amount to shallow Krishna consciousness?

Why are personalists better than impersonalists? What is the destination of impersonalist?

Going beyond misconceptions about Deity Worship

If soul doesn’t need food, why is cooking needed in the spiritual world?

Do mental, emotional and psychological refer to the same thing?

When a ghost possesses a person, how do two souls function in the same body?

If God’s will is the universal cause for everything, why do some events such as quakes that happen only at specific places?

When heavenly residents have subtle bodies dont all bodies contain all elements?

When doctors find treatments nature endows germs with resistance to medicies – why?

When likings are relative to species, what’s wrong with a hog’s attraction to stool?

Does the soul’s composition change from the material world to the spiritual world?

How can the soul carry subtle elements from one body to another?

When the Supersoul is with the soul how can it be covered by the material energy?

Do elderly people in the spiritual world remain eternally elderly?

Are Prabhupada’s standards being diluted by, say, singing mahamantra in Bollywood song tune?

What is the relationship between intelligence and consciousness?

If descending to lower species is the greatest fear why does Bhaktivinoda T not fear an insect birth?

If morality can be developed without religion, will religion become redundant?

How does the reconditioning of the soul from one body to another happen?

Are abnormal behaviors caused by nervous breakdowns or by ghosts?

If the soul is eternal why does it need food?

If the number of our breaths is fixed do exercises that accelerate our breathing decrease our lifespan?

Scientific, Christian and Bhagavatam conceptions of God

Why are the Bhagavatam’s and science’s conceptions of the universe so different?

Conceptions of time in science, Christianity and Bhagavatam

If time is an independent reality why do different people perceive it differently?

If time moves only forward how do we explain hypnotic regression?

Is mathematics a source of absolute knowledge as its concepts are not dependent on imperfect senses?

Is thinking only about God and not at all about the world not a restriction of the mind?

Is scripture inferior to science because scriptural knowledge is not verifiable by experiments?

Can we program our mind for achieving success?

Why is pleasure easily accessible in material life but not in spiritual life?

How do we get rid of the propensity to want to prove our greatness to the world?

Why not accept nature as God and do social service without becoming religious?

How do we know there is life after death?

How do the modes affect our intelligence’s capacity to choose our emotions?

When subtle body evolves from nonhuman body to human body, is it right to say that the only evolution is spiritual not material?

Extra-terrestrial life – Scientific and scriptural approaches to the subject

Difference between humans and animals – Christian, scientific and Bhagavatam understandings

The purpose of the world – atheistic, theistic and Bhagavatam understandings

Why does the world offer more wrong options than right options?

Why did God give us free will when he knew we could misuse it?

Why do both Krishna and Lord Chaitanya appear in Vaivasvata Manu’s period?

Do those who live in Vrindavan live on the lap of Krishna?

Love is in the SOUND

Why does mantra chanting calm the dying?

Is there a relationship between mantra chanting and physical healing?

Can mantra chanting help us to access all the knowledge that was known to humanity in the past?

As qualities in goodness are favorable to bhakti should devotees try to cultivate them?

Have all devotees already practiced yoga, jnana, tapa and all such processes for transcendence?

What is the effect of hearing rasa-lila pastimes with mundane intentions?

Why do people consider the Bhagavatam’s history to be mythological?

How do we deal with the material-spiritual conflict in our heart?

Do devotees have to give up humor?

Accepted limitation facilitates elevation – resented limitation doesn’t

As advanced spiritualists have no material desires, do they get no dreams while sleeping?

If tamasic people are attracted to ghastly worshipable forms, then are those who worship Narasimha tamasic?

Does God have favorites?

Lakshmi Narasmiha Karavalamba Stotra Meaning 1

How can karma such as fighting in army be spiritualized?

How are other rasas higher than shanta rasa?

In what sense is the Brihad Aranyaka Upansihad before the Ishopanishad?

How can the finite soul experience infinite happiness?

Which is the best way to read scripture?

Why is the irreligious West prosperous and religious India poor?

Is pain is caused by bodily attachment, how can painkillers stop the pain?

Is anand present in the cit aspect of the Absolute Truth too?

If brahmajyoti is nondifferent from Krishna, as is his holy name, what’s wrong with meditating on brahmajyoti?

Is super-consciousness the same as Krishna consciousness?

If Krishna acts exemplarily why did he perform rasa-lila?

Why are Krishna and Arjuna both referred by the name Jishnu?

Are the names Ramayana and Narayana related?

When Lord Shiva is the destroyer why is he considered auspicious?

Whose Sankhya is the authorized Sankhya – the sage Kapila’s or of the avatara Kapila’s?

How can devotees avoid getting deviated to the heavenly planets?