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God refuses to be a co-dependent in our addiction
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When some people remember their past lives, where are those memories stored?
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Can the soul remember its eternal position?
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Does reincarnation explain why some people feel they are in a body of the wrong gender?
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How can we redirect our attraction from Krishna’s sparks to Krishna, the whole?
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How can we apply the principle of becoming angry when a devotee is blasphemed?
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What are the ways in which the Nectar of Instruction text 1 can be misapplied?
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What should be the basis of our self-worth?
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Is controlling our thoughts a skill that can be developed?
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If after praying we take a decision and it turns out to be wrong, has Krishna misled us?
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What exactly does Krishna sanction – how?
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How does free will interact with the modes?
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When Krishna knows everything including what we need, what is the need to pray to him?
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When we pray to Krishna to give us the strength to serve him, how can we recognize his reciprocation?
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Pandavas tolerated initially and retaliated eventually – how can we decide when to tolerate and when to retaliate?
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What is the role of science in Krishna consciousness?
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Mental weight can’t be wished away, but it can be worked away Gita 06.35
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Be not judgmental but be not judgmentophobic either
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Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – The more despiritualized we are, the more desensitized we become
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Don’t let perfectionism come in the way of progress towards perfection Gita 02.14
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How to understand that we can’t understand Krishna – then why do we study scripture?
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What is the monistic conception of pure consciousness in terms of subject, object and stream of consciousness?
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When Vaishnavas don’t take meat, why do Shaivites take meat?
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How can people who care for pets and aspire to be vets still eat meat?
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If someone justifies an illicit relationship by saying that their spouse is unloving, how do we respond?
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If our loved one is addicted to tobacco and still wears kanthi mala, how can we help them?
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How is scripture a window to God?
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Demystifying Reincarnation 11 – Consciousness – Intuitions that point beyond the brain
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When Airavata existed earlier, how did he appear during the churning of the milk ocean?
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Why is remembrance of Krishna so important in bhakti ?
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How can we better appreciate the relevance of spiritual classes as well as academic studies?
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During possession, what is the relation between the subtle bodies of the possessing ghost and the possessed person?
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When the possessed soul and the possessor soul are equal, how can one soul dominate another ?
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Do the laws of material nature work on ghosts ?
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Is our life duration determined by past karma?
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When the soul is different from the body, why does injury to the brain cause the soul to leave the body, but not injury to the foot
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Some people can see ghosts, some can’t – why?
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Demystifying Reincarnation 10 – Near Death Experiences – Conscious when unconscious?
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Why Religion Seems Dispensable
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Nowadays, the question of ultimate meaning doesn’t occupy the minds of most people. And when religion is divorced from such questions, it degenerates into a set of rituals that are followed out of deference to culture or tradition.