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Can devotees participate in the puja of the devatas done in their family or community?

Amid danger, how can we be watcful without being fearful?

What difference is it going to make in my life? How is the Gita relevant today? – MAIL Acronym

Why does Krishna talk about controlling the senses to Arjuna when the purpose of the conversation seems to be to incite Arjuna to fight?

Don’t associate with Mayavadis – what does this mean practically?

When we are in anxiety searching for a new job, how can we maintain our spiritual practices?

How to forgive ourselves if we have made a serious mistake?

How can we know if a particular guru is an uttama-adhikari or not?

Why is there no description of a pandemic in the Vedic scriptures?

The Monk’s Podcast 91 with Giriraj Maharaj – End-of-life care and bhakti wisdom

What does follow your heart mean – does it involve the conscience or the soul?

Krishna told Arjuna to kill but Narada told Mrigari to not kill?

If we get different instructions from different authorities, which include our spiritual master, what should we do?

How are karma and jnana the cause of material desires?

How to use our free will properly – QA with children

Bhagavad-gita chapter 2 overview – How to decide the right thing to do and stay undisturbed while doing it

If people aren’t ready to take the giant leap of faith to come to Krishna, how can we help them?

When we see some devotee doing something wrong, what should we do?

Making difficult decisions – Hindi

The painkiller of entertainment is easily available, but does the cure of enlightenment needs to be given by someone enlightened

Scripture without guru is deluding

If aspiring disciples feel that they can’t get their guru’s association, what can we tell them?

How can motivate us to move on in our spiritual life – can the saints’ realizations inspire – don’t we need our own experiences?

Gita 01.40 Dharma prevents human society from being ruled by the law of the jungle

How may we be misled by externals when seeking a spiritual guide?

Gita 01.26 When we can’t fight the circumstances that make us fight against our loved ones, we have to fight against our loved ones

Should we be attached to or affectionate to our spiritual master?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 31 – 10.6.1-6 Sukadeva G reveals the spoiler to relieve Parikshit M anxiety

If we feel inspired to do a service other than what we are instructed, what should we do?

Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord

Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can’t be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice

When people are so confused that they can’t discern their own material inclinations, how can we engage them in bhakti?

Effective Leadership of spiritual communities

When the mind starts misleading, does the Supersoul intervene?

Should we serve Krishna as we feel inspired or as we are instructed?

If we have a million options to choose from how to decide?

How can we make difficult decisions responsibly?

How to effectively study and apply the Gita

God as the supreme therapist 6 – Seek not the facility to do whatever we desire – seek the clarity to discern our deepest desire

Appreciating Radhanatha Maharaj’s contributions towards helping devotees practice bhakti sustainably

How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?

How can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind?

Gita 17.06 Defying scripture be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body is demonic

Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next

Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver

What can brahmacharis do if they feel choked in their ashram?

How is our intelligence partly our friend and partly our enemy?

If we are too passionate to separate ourselves from our mind what to do?

I get dreams to act violently against Muslims – what should I do?

How is the Gita relevant today – Marathi

When we have to choose between two ways of serving Krishna, what should we do?

When taking decisions, how do we balance using our intelligence and having faith in Krishna?

The need for appropriate adaptors when transmitting the current of bhakti

If circumstances make following bhakti principles impossible, what should we do?

Where can I get mantra diksha?

How do we help people who hold that nature is their god?

QA on dealing with material desires, excessive workload, inattentiveness in chanting and other bhakti principles

How can we know our prescribed duty?

When faced with problems how to decide how many solutions to try out?

If a devotee familiar to us starts blaspheming our spiritual master how should we deal with that devotee?

Meeting with HH Gopal Krishna Maharaj – Learning to sense the contemporary pulse

Balaram appearance day at the lotus feet of Lord Balarama

Is our relationship with our guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

On holy days if new people can either fast or do service what should we encourage them to do?

HH Radhanath Maharaj: Training through a Mock QA session

I broke a one-sided relationship but now I feel I should have tried more – what should I do?

How do we deal with mental flashbacks?

If the natures of a husband and a wife are not complementary but contradictory how can they function?

I have a disagreeable boss who is also atheistic – how can I deal with him?

If a relationship is severely strained but it has to go on what to do?

How can we decide when to give up one service and take up some other service?

Does responsibility mean doing whatever we are told to do or doing big projects under instruction?

How do we help people who know about karma but think it won’t apply to me?

Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – To improve relationships decrease expectation and increase contribution

If we can’t decide whether a particular desire is good or bad what should we do?

When dharma has gone down so much now why is Krishna not appearing?

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita just one among the many interpretations of the Gita?

What are the ways in which the Nectar of Instruction text 1 can be misapplied?

What exactly does Krishna sanction – how?

Pandavas tolerated initially and retaliated eventually – how can we decide when to tolerate and when to retaliate?

Are some people utterly incapable of understanding God’s form – are some religion’s revelations customized for such people?

If we feel more devotionally connected with Krishna while hearing than while taking darshan what should we do?

How can we help people who are following some apasampradaya – Hindi?

Within a religion when there are many paths how do we know our path?

Gita 18.63 The call to the heart complements the call to the head

Gita 18.37 Freedom without framework is paralyzing not liberating

How can we help temple visitors to become serious devotees?

When there is disunity should we just surrender and wait for Krishna to restore unity or do something to restore unity?

How can we deal with people with nondevotional values?

Attitude in outreach 2 – Explain the philosophy before the morality – Be respectfully compassionate

Attitude in outreach 1 – Present the product before the process – Be a role model

Gita 16.24 – The transition from description to prescription requires discretion

If Prabhupada knew that certain projects weren’t going to succeed why did he encourage devotees to do those projects?

Should we use the sandwich method when correcting others?