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Questions based on 1st chapter of Bhagavad Gita As It Is:
1. Who will offer food to forefathers ?
2. How will the age-old family traditions be preserved ?
3. How to protect womanhood in standards of purity ?
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Once a devotee from Radha Gopinath Temple told me in a chastising mood:
99% of Krishna Consciousness is just common sense. You just need to observe.
How do I understand the difference between matter and spirit soul ?
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The example of thinking about Lord Krishna given by ACBSP in Bhagavad Gita As It Is is as follows:
A woman who has a paramour and does her household work with full care and sincerity and within thinks about Lord Krishna.
I asked the question why such a
Read more…Why did we come to this material world ? A Jail by Mayadevi, Durgadevi ?
How are the 3 modes of nature affecting living entities ?
How to ward off evil forces within and without in the struggle for existence with the mind and 6 senses keeping ourself
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The main understanding given for Bhagavad Gita As It Is Verse 1.1 by Kadamba Kanana Swami Maharaj is:
1. Bow down before Krishna.
2. Fix your mind on Krishna.
Whom else would you bow down before?
Example of mayavada interpretation g
Read more…Krishna mentions in Bhagavad Gita As It Is that anyone who offers Him leaf, flower, fruit, water with love and devotion, He accepts it. If I am not able to offer on a daily basis, only on festivals, then what do I do ? One devotee told me to chant
Read more…In some purport of Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Srila Prabhupada mentions that one has to be as strict as if in military discipline to follow Krishna Consciousness. What is being conveyed here ? How can one control/utilize one's anger and engage the min
Read more…In Bhagavad Gita As It Is, in some purport Srila Prabhupada mentions that one should not practice devotional service in seclusion. Why?
Read more…62 The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still ali
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Considering today's Kali-yuga, many fake bapus and babas arise in the society to create disturbances, without following the Pancha-ratrika vidhi, line of devotional service, etc. and it is important to clear such doubts.
In 2.2 pur
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In Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Krishna has advised Arjuna to give up petty and miserly weakness of heart, become detached and fight, give up attachment and aversion to sense objects, and follow the regulative principles o
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While going through 1st canto SB, I came across:
1. Personality of Godhead
2. Absolute Personality of Godhead
3. Supreme Personality of Godhead
What are the differences in the 3 powers/terms ?
Read more…In one lecture by Aindra Swami, he mentions that if one's heart is not pure or in other words has lot of material desires, he cannot proceed beyond 2nd Canto SB, what to speak about the Krishna leelas in SB Canto 10. In that case, anyone who is not
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According to Hindu Calendar:
Kalparambha, 7th Vivaswan Manvantar, 28 yugas, 5120 Kaliyugas.
Christians have completed 2018 years.
Muslims have comp
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I came across the following prayer during an evening church prayer:
A humbled contrite heart, O Lord you will not spurn.
What are the references in Srila Prabhupada's books for the above prayer ?
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What is the process of liberation ?
Mahabharat Shantiparva 264:15-19 says:
Ashraddha param papam shraddha paap pramochini
Translation: It is a great sin to be non-trustworthy, but a great trust destroys all sins.
Srimad Bhagavatam:
Ma
Read more…To do sankirtan and maybe distribute some books, does one have to be a signed up member of iskcon and initiated etc?
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I read the following statement outside a Church in our area while traveling in car:
When you kill time, remember it has no resurrection.
How do I understand this and act to help someone in need based on Bhagavad Gita As It Is ?
Read more…Srimad Bhagavatam 6.2.14: One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants indirectly [to indicate something else], jokingly, for musical entertainment, or even neglectfully. This i
