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Mahabharata Characters 17 – Dhritarashtra 03 – Blaming destiny for irresponsibility

Isn’t it distasteful for brahmacharis to be watching and quoting movies when people come to them to hear about Krishna

Isn’t violence against women in India, as in the Badaun rape case, caused more by the casteist society and not by the obscenity in the culture?

Is instantaneous forgiveness the characteristic of pure devotion and seeking retribution that of neophyte devotion

Mahabharata Characters 15 – Dhritarashtra 01 – The blindness of attachment begins

What is the significance of the word avyaya in Gita 9.2?

If Draupadi was dishonored due to her past karma, why did the Pandavas have to take revenge?

How can we strengthen our resolve to correct our wrongs?

How can we forgive not just with lips but with the heart?

When we don’t feel like asking for forgiveness what should we do?

What is the use of writing insubstantial articles in newspapers that don’t even mention the name of Krishna once?

Why are divorces more among devotees than nondevotees?

Why are all forms of science not equally authoritative – why is evoluion less reliable than gravity when its all science?

Mahabharata Characters 14 – Drona 04 – Repaying deceit with deceit

Mahabharata Characters 13 – Drona 03 – The Blunder Under Pressure

Can devotees watch TV serials about Krishna’s pastimes?

What is the meaning of Gita 14.11: “The manifestations of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge”?

Has ISKCON replaced the scriptural worship of Ganesh in Hindu temples with the unscriptural worship of Prabhupada in its temples?

Do we need to posit the existence of eternal souls to make the design argument robust?

Do the Anthropic Principle and the multiverse theory make the design argument redundant?

If all three aspects (SAT CIT ANANDA) are present within brahman, why can’t we perceive all of them just within the brahman itself?

Just as one can climb out of a well without a rope using footholds in the wall, can one get liberated without following a valid process?

Mahabharata Characters 12 – Drona 02 – The Teacher’s Tests

If one has devotion, why does one need to count the names of God?

When this world is duhkhalayam why are the distressed only one of the four categories of people coming to Krishna

Isn’t demonisation of the present with its promise of hi-tech paradise necessary to make people seek spiritual happiness?

Mahabharata Characters 16 – Dhritarashtra 02 – How the attached get manipulated

Mahabharata Characters 11 – Drona 01 – From poverty to power

Mahabharata Characters 10 – Bhishma 09 – The Ideal Departure

Mahabharata Characters 09 – Bhishma 08 – The Grandsire on the arrow bed

Does the M-theory do away with the need for God, as Stephen Hawking claims in The Grand Design?

How do we respond when prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking write books propounding atheism?

Is belief in God a virus of the mind, as atheists claim?

Mahabharata Characters 08 – Bhishma 07 – Transcendental devotion amidst violent confrontation

Mahabharata Characters 07 – Bhishma 06 – The heartbreaking conflict among loved ones

Mahabharata Characters 06 – Bhishma 05 – The sacrifice of reputation for devotion

How do we respond to scientistic fanatics who deny even emotions like happiness?

If we have scriptural knowledge, why do we need science?

Mahabharata Characters 05 – Bhishma 04 – The celibate becomes the match-maker

I like to chant and meditate on the Supersoul. As that is my nature, can I just do this and not do other devotional activities?

When religions like Buddhism are non-Vedic, how can Veda be the source of all knowledge?

Mahabharata Characters 04 – Bhishma 03 – A test of faith

When science explains planetary motion through gravity, why do we need God to explain it?

When the design argument is so logical, why don’t most people and most scientists accept God’s existence?

Is God improbable because he has to be more complex than his creation and complex things have very low probability of emerging?

When Ramanuja has refuted the design argument, why does Prabhupada use it so extensively?

Why has Ramanuja refuted the design argument in his Vedanta Sutra commentary?

Short introduction to “Fascinating Mahabharata Characters” Course

Mahabharata Characters 03 – Bhishma 02 – The fatal complication

Does religion cause sexual repression?

Is it ok to have belief in belief instead of belief in God?

Mahabharata Characters 02 – Bhishma 01 – The fierce vow

Won’t the progress of science make the God-of-the-gaps redundant?

Does bringing God into science stop progress as does attributing plague to evil spirits?

Do devotees have to oppose science to be faithful to Prabhupada?

Isn’t it better to be satisfied with the beauty of the garden without imagining a fairy at its bottom?

Why does the Gita 18.68 restrict its message of devotion to devotees?

Can we be spiritual without being religious? – Prerana festival talk

Why is Parikshit considered the sole survivor of the Pandava dynasty when sons of Bhima and Arjuna like Sutasoma and Babruvahana were still alive?

Why did Bahlika despite being virtuous fight against the virtuous Pandavas?

Does being humble mean that we shouldn’t give advice to others?

Are chanting and going to the temple bhakti only if they are done to please Krishna?

Why doesn’t ISKCON practice what it preaches? First new devotees are told to be detached from their parents and then senior brahmacharis spend months caring for their dying parents

Can you explain the difference in the defects of being illusioned and committing mistakes as illustrated through the evolution theory?

Do the ekatvena worshipers of Gita 9.15 refer to 9.11-12 or 12.3-6?

Was Hitler interested in India’s ancient spiritual culture? If yes, then why was he so hateful towards Jews?

Is it right to feel envious of advanced devotees for their spiritual advancement? If not, how to deal with it?

Does Krishna initiate us to do punya? Did he initiate Dhritarashtra to do punya for getting 100 sons?

What kind of rules and regulations do the prestige-seekers referred to in the Gita 16.17 follow?

Can talents like mimicry and comedy be used in devotional service?

Should we as followers of Srila Prabhupada also study the books of the previous acharyas?

Are the Gita’s instructions applicable in the spiritual world too or only in the material world?

If the Gita is a transcendental literature, then why does the Gita Mahatmya glorify the attainment of heavenly planets?

Why do we have a right to do prescribed duties as the Gita 2.47 states?

Did Prabhupada want to re-write Bhagavad Gita As It Is because he worked very fast to publish it quickly?

Why doesn’t Srila Prabhupada mention even once in the Bhagavad-gita As It Is that we should chant 16 rounds of Hare Krsna Mahamantra?

Can chanting Hare Krsna help one to assimilate the knowledge of the scriptures more efficiently? How?

How can I turn my occupational duty into devotional service to Krishna?

How does contemplating on Krishna differ from mental speculation about Krishna?

How exactly are “those in Krishna consciousness not responsible for their actions”, as Prabhupada states?

Is it appropriate to judge students by the marks obtained by them in their examination?

Can Gita 18.14 adhisthanam refer to some place of action other than the body?

Who is the actual doer according to the Gita?

How can we reconcile the Gita (3.4) – don’t give up work – and the Bhagavatam (1.5.17) – give up work?

Did Krishna-Arjuna commit environmental holocaust at Khandava?

By asking devotees to vote, why are you dragging Prabhupada’s pure legacy into dirty politics?

What is the difference between charity in goodness and transcendence?

Why does Prabhupada talk about the three energies in his purport to the atyahara verse (NoI 2)?

In the division of the Vedas into Samhitas, Aranyakas and Upanishads, where do the Brahmanas fall?

If the material world is perfect in itself, then why do we need to go to Godhead?

How can we know that the Vedas and the stories in them are true?

How can we introspect about our devotional progresss? How can we rise from kanishtha to madhyama level?

Why is prana-pratistha not performed for the utsava-murtis though they ave their own names?

Where do Abrahamic religions fall among the six systems of philosophy?

Why is the edited BBT Gita different from Prabhupada’s unedited original Gita?

What is the point of taking initiation from a spiritual master when there is very little chance of getting personal guidance from him?

How did Nanda and Yashoda allow Krishna to go to Mathura so readily?

Where was Radharani when the rasa-lila was performed? Why is there no mention of her in the Bhagavatam’s rasa-lila narration?

What is the connecting link between the Gita’s ninth and tenth chapters?

In which verses of the Gita’s eight chapter are the Lord’s glories stated?