[I wanted to comment on Bharat P.'s post but it is comment-protected.]
Advaitists claim that smritis are not good enough pramana and specifically criticize this Padma Purana passage as inauthentic. That's their evasive tactic.
My favorite sruti pramana
hare Krishna to all the devotees
All glories to srila Prabhupada
https://youtu.be/QH8Ywe3DJ-I?si=frJcS0_3bk_f0wdJ from 17:30 srila Prabhupada says that those who have got sex attraction are unfit for hearing rasa lila, and that rasa lila is to be r
Read more…Devotees often talk about maintaining Krishna consciousness “till the moment of death.” But is pure, unbroken Krishna consciousness realistically achievable for ordinary practitioners?
What happens if one’s consciousness falters, especially at death?
From a critical-historical perspective: is there sufficient evidence that Krishna ever existed as a historical person, or is he primarily a mythological or symbolic figure?
If Krishna is understood more metaphorically (rather than literally), what doe
Some critics (and even internal doubters) point out what they consider to be logical contradictions in Krishna’s teachings: e.g., Krishna is both “acting” and “non-acting,” “personal” and “impersonal.”
How do we reconcile Krishna’s role as a teacher,
According to certain interpretations, Krishna both enforces the law of karma (reward/punishment) and grants grace to devotees who surrender.
How can humans be fully responsible for their actions (karma) if Krishna can “override” or “deliver” them from
In the Bhagavad Gītā, Krishna asks Arjuna to fight in the Kurukṣetra war. How is this reconciled with Krishna as a benevolent, compassionate Supreme Lord? Is this an endorsement of violence, or is it metaphorical / symbolic? This raises deep ethical
Read more…I have been coming across the following terms recently, but am confused as to what/who they are referring to.
1. Prachetas
2. 21 prajapatis
3. Vishve-devas
4. Sadhyas
5. Guhyakas
As far as I am aware, these are different classes of demi-gods/semi-divine b
Read more…my question is that I have heard that the lokas above are heavenly and only have happiness there and the lower lokas like sutala and patala etc have only dukha.
Then even the demigods suffer from dukhas like demons attack them and they are afraid. Eve
Read more…Hare Krishna dear devotees. Dandavat pranams. I have a question regarding Lord Rama and Lord Krishna’s relationship. Some traditions like the Ramanandis say that Krishna is an expansion of Rama, and they even quote texts like Vashishta Samhita, Adhya
Read more…Namaste everyone,
I am working as an Accounts Manager and have more than 14 years of professional experience. However, throughout my career I have faced an unusual pattern that troubles me deeply. Many of the companies I have joined eventually went th
Read more…I was with some of my wife’s relatives. They came to pick me up in a car, and together we went on a drive that eventually took us to Barsana, to Radha Rani’s temple. We stood in a queue and waited for our turn for darshan.
When I entered, I first had
Read more…Hare Krishna,
please accept my humble obiesances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
I'm facing difficulty in understanding 29th verse of chapter 4, especially these lines that i've mentioned below
"offering the movement of the outgoing breath into the i
Read more…One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among men. (BG. 4.18)
seeing inaction in action means even tho a certain work seems like a frutive work(action) still a krishna conscious person does it only wholly and solly for th
Read more…I had a curiosity to read translation of a bhagavad-gita verse given by Vivekananda() and i saw that many of the things that he is writing in his commentary is not correct. He even removes the word devotion(eka bhaktir visisyate) from his translation
Read more…From Vaishnav literatures we know that Lord Sri Krsna is the supreme personality of godhead and the cause of all causes (he is also the cause of creation)
I have 100% faith in what krishna says but,
Why in other literatures like Devi Puran, Godesses Du
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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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