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How do you maintain consistency in your daily writing year after year?

Are tragedies in our lives such as a relative committing suicide God’s punishments on us?

How should relatives of a suicide resolve their anger towards that person?

Should relatives communicate via planchette with someone who has committed suicide?

If a good person commits suicide due to some frustration, what is their destination?

Does a sudden tragedy in the lives of God’s worshipers indicates that God is too busy in his own kingdom to protect?

Why does the Gita use a setting of war to convey its transcendental message when such a setting can be abused to provoke communal violence?

What is the theory of reflection Prabhupada refers to in the Gita 2.13 purport?

What is the Vedic perspective on passive euthanasia?

Why do we say that lust needs to be curbed when it can be channelized towards Krishna as Narottama Das Thakura says?

Why does Krishna emphasise consciousness at death which is much more uncontrollable than consciousness while living?

When Krishna had said he wouldn’t lift weapons in the Kurukshetra war, why does he say in Gita 11.33 that the Kauravas are already killed by him?

Does taking anti-depressant drugs as medicine violate the no intoxication principle?

When opulences are disqualifications for devotion, why does ISKCON preach to the opulent?

If consciousness of the couple at conception determines the nature of the child, will a child born through rape be evil?

Does Krishna control us through remembrance and forgetfulness just as computer controls through zeroes and ones?

Why do we need to justify the Pandavas’ actions? Isn’t “Krishna told them to do it” enough reason?

Why do we need to be in the mode of goodness to practice bhakti?

What is the significance of the two metaphors of rivers and moths used in the Gita’s description of warriors entering into the Universal Form

In shabda pramana we receive knowledge from our senses (ears), so how is it superior to pratyaksha pramana?

How have so many languages come up worldwide when developing a computer language requires so much effort?

Do we need to introspect whether we are progressing in our spiritual life?

Does one have to give up one’s material life on becoming an ISKCON member, even if one doesn’t become a brahmachari?

Is ISKCON an organization for rich people?

Mahabharata characters 73 Abhimanyu 2 Confronting conspiracy with courage

Mahabharata characters 72 Abhimanyu 1 Penetrating the impenetrable phalanx

Mahabharata characters 71 Ashwatthama The dangerous temptation to punish

Mahabharata characters 70 Karna 5 The tragic end of heroic misdirection

Mahabharata characters 69 Karna 3 Is word of honor greater than life of honor

Mahabharata characters 68 Karna 2 Status insecurity leads to shocking immorality

Mahabharata characters 67 – Karna 1 – Did life give him a raw deal?

Where does Vishishtadvaita fall in the six systems of philosophy?

If we have canine teeth for eating meat, then doesn’t it go against the regulative principle of no meat-eating?

How do we develop taste for studying scripture?

Mahabharata characters 66 Duryodhana 5 Baffled in words, battles and spirits

Mahabharata characters 65 Duryodhana 4 Incompetence and fault finding personified

When can a devotee seek honor instead of being humble?

Did God create humans to care for him as no other living beings care for him?

How does atheism lead to abolition of our free will?

Mahabharata characters 64 Duryodhana 3 Foolishly adding fuel to fire

Mahabharata characters 63 Duryodhana 2 Krishna’s magnanimity vs Duryodhna’s obstinacy

Mahabharata characters 62 Duryodhana 1 The humiliator is humiliated

Mahabharata characters 61 Draupadi 2 Exemplary devotion amidst tribulation

Mahabharata characters 60 Draupadi 1 Responding to vice with virtue

Mahabharata characters 59 – Sahadeva – Using intelligence in the service of dharma

Mahabharata characters 58 – Nakula – Sustaining unity amidst individuality

Mahabharata characters 57 – Arjun 20 – World conquest for Ashwamedha-yajna

Mahabharata characters 56 – Arjuna 19 – The difficult disciplining of Ashvatthama

Mahabharata characters 55 – Arjuna 18 – The final battle with Karna

Mahabharata characters 54 – Arjun 17 – Devotional surrender amidst mixed feelings at Drona’s death M

Mahabharata characters 53 – Arjuna 16 – Racing against time with the Lord of time

Mahabharata characters 52 – Arjuna 15 – Breaking through the wall of the Kaurava forces

Mahabharata characters 51 – Arjuna 14 – Besting the fearsome elephant and the formidable elephant wa

Mahabharata characters 50 – Arjuna 13 – Battling and serving the beloved grandsire

Why is Krishna worshiped in North India in intimate mood and Vishnu worshiped in South India in reverential mood?

Mahabharata characters 49 – Arjuna 12 – The Gita goes far beyond violence to transcendence

Why does the mind develop bad habits more easily than good habits?

Mahabharata characters 48 – Arjuna 11 – The divine heart calls the human heart to the path of love

Mahabharata Characters 47 – Arjuna 10 – Arguments against and for fighting in the Gita

Mahabharata Characters 46 – Arjuna 09 – Choose Krishna over the world

Mahabharata Characters 45 – Arjuna 08 – The stunning victory at Virata

Mahabharata Characters 44 – Arjuna 07 – Singlehanded triumph over the Nivatkavachas and Kalakanyas

Mahabharata Characters 43 – Arjuna 05 – Heaven hath no fury like a woman scorned

Mahabharata Characters 42 – Arjuna 05 – Austerity and audacity for the pleasure of Lord Shiva

Mahabharata Characters 41 – Arjuna 04 – All the gods bested at Khandava

Mahabharata Characters 40 – Arjuna 03 – The match made with Krishna as the matchmaker

Mahabharata Characters 39 – Arjuna 02 – Accepting exile to honour virtue

Mahabharata Characters 38 – Arjuna 01 – Diligence is essential for attaining excellence

Mahabharata Characters 37 – Bhima 07 – Draupadi’s dishonorers destroyed

Mahabharata Characters 36 – Bhima 06 – Bhima decimates the Kauravas in the war’s first sixteen days

Mahabharata Characters 35 – Bhima 05 – Bhima’s heroics during incognito exile

Mahabharata Characters 34 – Bhima 04 – Meting punishment while giving forgiveness

Mahabharata Characters 33 – Bhima 03 – An attack on the gods that fulfilled a godly purpose

Mahabharata Characters 32 – Bhima 02 – No demon is a match to this human

Mahabharata Characters 31 – Bhima 01 – Growing stronger through danger and disaster

Mahabharata Characters 30 – Yudhisthira 08 – Dharmaraja’s moments of infamy and glory in the war

Mahabharata Characters 29 – Yudhisthira 07 – Steadiness through wisdom amidst the war’s worries

Why are Einstein’s and Prabhupada’s metaphors about blind man-lame man contradictory?

What does Einstein’s metaphor about science and religion mean?

Is science based on rational faith and religion on irrational faith?

Does religion require faith from start to end whereas science requires faith only occasionally?

Mahabharata Characters 28 – Yudhisthira 06 – Wisdom wins where strength fails (Nahusha & Yaksha)

Mahabharata Characters 27 – Yudhisthira 05 – Words of wisdom vs words of anger in the forest

If we shouldn’t be disturbed by the mind’s impurities, then how can we beat the mind?

Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?

Did past people believe in miracles like Govardhana lila because they were unscientific and gullible?

If Krishna is the cause of all causes, is he the cause of everything that we and others do?

Mahabharata Characters 26 – Yudhisthira 04 – The Pandavas dishonoured and dispossessed

Are chanting praying and meditation the same?

Mahabharata Characters 25 – Yudhisthira 03 – The virtuous victimized in the vicious gambling match

Is belief in God like belief in a cosmic teapot – undisprovable yet unreasonable?

How can India’s wisdom-literature be introduced in the education without the saffronization of the syllabus?

Should every action in the Lord’s pastimes be interpreted to get some instruction from it?

Mahabharata Characters 24 – Yudhisthira 02 – The world’s king glorifies the supreme king

Mahabharata Characters 23 – Yudhisthira 01 – Sticking to integrity amidst injustice

Mahabharata Characters 22 – Kunti 03 – Successful amidst misery after misery

Mahabharata Characters 21 – Kunti 02 – The glorious mother sees the glory of her sons and her Lord

Mahabharata Characters 20 – Kunti 01 – The blessing that made a nightmare and a dream come true

Mahabharata Characters 19 – Vidura 01 – A true friend, affectionate but not attached

Mahabharata Characters 18 – Dhritarashtra 04 – Losing Everything Before Losing Blindiness