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Seeking Vaishnava Guidance: I Lost My Temper with RTO Officers — How to Spiritually Atone?

Hare Krishna dear devotees,
Dandavat pranam. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Guru-Gauranga.

I seek your humble guidance for a real-life incident where I failed to act in Krishna consciousness.

Recently, my bike was towed by RTO officials in Pun

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Guidance Needed: Questions to Ask Before Marriage & Qualities to Develop for a Spiritually Supportive Grihastha Life

Hare Krishna dear Prabhuji and Matajis, 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am a young devotee seeking guidance from senior grihasthas and experienced Vaishnavas. In the current age, where chastity, loyalty, and dhar

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Why krishna doesn't says things directly?

lord sri krishna says, finds satisfaction in the self alone(bg 2.55)

 

And this is a self-understanding for us that because jiver svarupa haya krsner nitya das, the above line means to find satsfaction in realizing that we're eternal servitor of lord o

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Why animal sacrifice??

HARE KRISHNA, i have few questions related to animal sacrifice---

 

1. Why animal sacrifice is mentioned in our vedas, what benefit it does to a person who performs it? 

 

2. As we know, that the vedas gives us directions for ultimately knowing krishna (

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Confusion in Degrees

Hare Krsna Dear Devotees, 

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

PAMHO 🙏🏻

Respected devotees, I was yesterday very very inquisitive about the spiritual education and the degrees that Srila Prabhupada had introduced to us, but I am having a problem in understa

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BHAGWAT GEETA

Impersonal brahma-jyotir or localized Paramātmā realization is not perfect knowledge of the Absolute Truth, because it is partial.

what is the meaning of brahma jyotir and paramatma 
and what is the difference

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Bhagavata Cosmology Model

Hare Krishna all dear devotees, 

Myself Aryan Mittal, 

Like TOVP at ISCKON MAYAPUR, ISKCON Bharuch, Gujarat also planning to make museum. They require some drones in chariot form to show the movement of all the planets. 

So, I am looking for a person wh

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Geography

 

Bhagavatham says, earth stationary, mountmeru stationary, earth carried by adikurma and adisesha and planets like sun revolves around mountmeru makes much sense...

But, why some verses in veda which is the highest authority are contradicting with Bha

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Not a complaint but wanted to share

I started reading Shrimad Bhagvad Gita some years ago and read it for 2 times, then I read Rigveda and now about to complete 1st canto of Shrimad Bhagwatam. I watch and read about spirituality any time I have a chance. 

So I was a non vegetarian befor

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Guidance for the Damodar month

Hare krishna!!!  My humble obeisances unto your lotus feet.

I know the month of Damodar is approaching and it is one of the best times for inculcating in spiritual activities to progress in the path of bhakti. But I am a student and live atleast an ho

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Which BG or other book to read for a potential future devotee

Hare Krishna everyone. PAMHO

I am a neophyte aspirant devotee. Currently chanting 8 rounds. My to-be-husband is a non devotee. He is not against being a devotee as such but his heart hasn't said "yes" to the philosophy yet. That "this is it" feeling h

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Is nistha is perquisite for initiation now?

Hare Krishna!

I'm reading Srila Prabhupada's books, and listening to lectures, and when it comes to the topic of initiation, I notice significant differences between what Prabhupada said and what's actually going on. For example, Nectat of Instruction

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Which parts of Bhagavad-Gītā should be read literally?

Hare Krishna!

According to this interview with Srila Prabhupada, parts of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam should be read literally, other parts should be understood as allegories. Does this also apply to Bhagavad-Gītā? Did Lord Kṛṣṇa tell Arjuna to literally fight

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Bhāratavarṣa

Hare Krsna,

  Dear all devotees,

   PAMHO

shiv purana :

   I shall explain the Bhāratavarṣa. South of the Himālaya mountain and north of the ocean is the land of Bharata. O great sage, its extent is nine thousand Yojanas. This is the land of sacred rites

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Is NASA lying ?

Hare Krishna,

   They say NASA  is lying about the shape of the Earth and it's revolution around the SUN.

   There are flat earthers , who  claim Earth is not a globe. They always ridicule NASA.

   They say, if Earth rotates around SUN, with it's great

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What is ahimsa

Hare krishna dear devotees.

I would like to understand the borderline between violence and non-violence, Some people say killing animals is not acceptable, some people say even insects shouldn't be harmed. I have seen the atrocities that are commited

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Kaliyuga exists in Bharata Varsha only ?

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Same-Sex Marriages and scriptural references to being ring or wrong

All glories to Guru Maharaj and Gauranga. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Hare Krishna!

This is very taboo topic to have a discussion about but just wanted to know the following:

What are the scriptural references to same sex marriage and are they val

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"Best" Bhakti Sastri course online

Hare Krishna dear devotees.

I'm attending to online courses in my language, but I was wondering, what is most serious courses in English I can attend to? Bhakti Sastri for now, and then further. While it will be much difficult for me, because it's not

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