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How can women be said to have their own varna when Prabhupada says that the wife’s varna should be identified by the husband’s varna?

In Gita chp 13, what exactly does jneya refer to?

If dharma meaning to love and serve God is so simple and universal why do so many religions focus on such aggressive conversion?

Can you explain clearly the role of mind, intelligence and consciousness in the path from impulse to intent?

How can we understand scientific concepts like space and time from the Vedic perspective?

How is the Gita 4.9 the essence of the Bhagavad-gita?

Is niyoga – begetting children through some man other than one’s husband – an authorized Vedic practice?

Isn’t it better to refer to women as behenji instead of mataji especially when they are of the same age as the men?

What is the difference between ‘nishkarma’ & ‘karma’ as explained in Gita & its significance?

If both Krishna and we are eternal, then how is he our source and why don’t we have the six opulences fully?

Amidst life-threatening situations like attack by robbers, should a devotee tolerate, retaliate or flee?

When we suffer due to our past karma does the Supersoul feel pain because his part is suffering?

If a person feels spaced out after chanting 16 rounds daily and more focused after chanting less rounds, what should be done?

If devotees’ children are advanced devotees from past lives, why do many of those children not become devotees in this life?

Should we avoid offering obeisances to senior devotees in public places because people find it alienating

Do Yamadutas commit mistakes by taking some person other than the intended?

When Krishna is satisfied by simple devotion do we need technical intellectual analysis as done by Gita-daily articles?

Can we integrate walking as an exercise with our daily chanting?

Is the quality of chanting inversely proportional to the speed of chanting?

How can we channelize our emotions in devotional service?

When the Lord’s glance is purifying why did Mohini-Murti’s glance not purify the demons?

When Krishna knows everything, how did he not know that Rahu & Ketu were impersonatings as demigods?

Why has God given us free will?

If God is complete and doesn’t desire anything, doesn’t he desire our deliverance?

Is ignorance a thing? What does “ignorance is nothing but the absence of knowledge” mean?

Is chanting 16 rounds practical for an engineering student (or for anyone in our fast-paced times)?

If serving the Lord is more important than serving parents, why did Pundalika keep Vitthal waiting?

Are spiritualists seeking a soul driving the brain like illiterates seeking a horse driving a car?

Why are we bound to certain patterns of thinking? Doesn’t that make us like pre-programmed robots?

Why do so many saints from so many traditions desire to merge with the Absolute Truth?

When the Gita instructs sarva dharman parityajya why does a devotee need to perform apara dharma?

Is teaching children about religion before they can think on their own child abuse?

If someone is really determined in one’s devotional service, why would that person fall?

How can we practice humility in a competitive world where everyone parades their credentials?

Do we need a personal culture with many devotee teachers? Does it mean that one guru is not enough?

Is offering the heart to Krishna easier and more fulfilling than offering the head?

How can an aspiring devotee-precher put one’s heart in a career that increases people’s illusions?

How can we avoid the ego’s feeling that service to others is demeaning?

If Krishna frees the surrendered of sinful reactions , why do pure devotees suffer?

How can we avoid pride during times of material success and remain thankful to Krishna?

In our efforts to become pure, pride somehow or the other sneaks in. How to avoid this?

When we have to spend time on family duties, how can we stay strong in our devotional standards?

What can we do when the mind gets agitated by a tempting sense object that can’t be avoided?

We surrender to Krishna’s will sometimes but mostly act for our own pleasure. What is our hope?

When something happens, how do we decide whether it was due to past karma or present actions?

Though Yudhishthira is the oldest Pandavas, why does Gita chp 1 mention him after Arjuna & Bhima?

Are the four defects hierarchical: imperfect senses cause illusion, illusion causes mistakes etc?

Among the four defects, can the first three be unintentional, but cheating is always intentional?

As all the bodily forms we take are temporary, does that mean the eternal and real is formlessness?

What can we do when religions use surrogate advertising for converting unsuspecting needy people?

Is institutionalization alien to Vedic culture? Did Gaudiya acharyas import if from Christianity ?

When Hinduism is not a missionary religion, why does ISKCON stress missionary activities so much?

If we are served more prasad than what we can eat, can we throw it away?

When even Americans are concerned about Christian conversions in India, why is ISKCON unconcerned?

When Prabhupada did many things different from his spiritual master, how did he not change anything?

How can we identify false ego while doing services?

When do questions move from being inquisitive to offensive? What kind of questions can be asked?

Is chanting with beads more blissful because the fingers are connected with certain brain parts?

When sex is an experience of Krishna, as the Gita states, why does Yamunacharya spit at sex desire?

Is Ramananda Raya’s decoration of devidasis a standard devotional practice or an exception?

Is it possible for a human being to be entirely free from sex desire?

Are the beliefs “kshatriya martyrs attain heaven” & “jehadi suicide bombers attain paradise” different?

When so many microbes are present in a cm, isn’t the idea of a God who loves everyone impractical?

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita 18.65 call to worship Krishna alone and no other Vishnu form fanatical?

Don’t descriptions of Krishna’s form make us imagine as spiritual our material attraction to forms?

Is Gita 18.55’s impersonal message (vishate tad anantaram) overridden by Prabhupada’s translation?

If the Gita is a manual why is it so confusing? Why couldn’t it have been clearer?

Is the Gita an attempted reconciliation of different Upanishadic thoughts and not a revelation?

What is the destination of those people who die after receiving blessings of advanced devotees?

Does “knowing in truth” (Gita 4.9) happen by “experiences of Truth” or by “understanding”?

When Prabhupada’s perfect purports to the Gita are there, why are Gita daily articles needed?

Considering “gurushu naramati..”, isn’t thinking about spiritual teachers’ human failings offensive?

Does ISKCON promote subtle emotional enjoyment in the name of spiritual enjoyment?

Is ISKCON’s conception of God like the Abrahamic religion’s jealous God?

Could the unbelievable stories about Krishna not be some poets’ fabrications?

What does sound travels to ether mean when science says ether doesn’t exist?

As Brahma has come as Haridasa Thakura what is the meaning of the statement that Maya could tempt Brahma but not Haridas Thakura?

Does having some ambitions in life mean having material attachments and doing tenth offence?

Why do we take shelter of Krishna more in difficult times like exam period but not during sadhana and service?

How is the material world non-existent as Prabhupada states in the Gita introduction?

In Gita 13.12 is there any difference between atma-vinigrahah and indriyartheshu vairagya?

What is the meaning of kavitam in the na dhanam na janam verse?

In the namo-brahmanya devaya prayer, why does hitaya come twice?

What does Shad-Goswami Ashtakam mean by ‘the devouring mouth of liberation’?

Should a devotee oppose crimes like rapes? Should he feel compassion for the criminal?

Does Prabhupada’s request to cooperate with devotees mean that we allow them to exploit us?

How can we pray for those who are troubling us?

How can sitting erect like Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati help in our chanting?

How can a devotee use the ambition to research in Physics in Krishna’s service?

How can a student who wants to become a brahmachari in future feel inspired to do academic studies?

How can we avoid getting caught in doubts about unimportant issues while studying scriptures?

Did Ekalvaya fight in the Kurukshetra war?

If Vrajavasis love each other doesn’t that mean Krishna is not all-attractive for he can’t exclusively attract their love?

How do we understand our love for our relatives from the soul point of view?

Why does Srila Prabhupada criticize Mayavadis but not mlecchas who desecrate Deities?

Can we use Tulasi as medicine in life-threatening diseases?

Why do devotees quote as authorities scientists who belong to Christian-funded institutes?

When devotee-scientists’ books are criticized by mainstream scientists can we quote them as scientific evidence for KC?

If dharma is the innate characteristic of a thing, how can it differentiate humans from animals?

If we feel grief-struck on losing a loved one, how do we relate with Krishna thereafter?