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If people hold on to their beliefs, how can we elevate them?
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Why do Hindus leave shoes outside their place of worship but Christians don’t?
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When scripture says our parents are God, why do some young devotees renounce their parents?
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How can bhakti philosophy unite world religions?
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Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection
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Gita verse-by-verse Podcast

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When We Distribute What We Have, We Appreciate What We Have
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Spiritual knowledge given in the Bhagavad-gita is like a life-saving medicine.

Light to see the world – Science, Spirituality and Life’s Big Questions
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[Talk to IIT Kharagpur students at Kharagpur, India]

Podcast

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Light to see the world – Science, Spirituality and Life’s Big Questions 

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How can we avoid getting caught in petty things?
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Do microbes forming on rocks demonstrate that life comes from matter?
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Can future scientific advancement detect the existence of God?
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As humans can do a wide variety of activities, doesn’t that prove we have free will?
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What comprises science – what are the boundaries that define science?
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What does knowledge in the mode of ignorance mean in today’s world?
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Is there some science other than modern for explaining matter?
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Don’t waste your mental energy on people on whom you won’t waste your time Gita 11.55
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Address misery first by recognizing its fundamental cause then its circumstantial cause Gita 09.33
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How do tantrics get special power?
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How can we go beyond being exclusivist and pluralist to becoming inclusivist?
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When so many humans are doing bad karma today, how is the human population increasing?
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How can people from other religions realize that they are servants of Krishna?
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When Krishna is the source of both material and spiritual worlds, which world comes first?
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Does dharma mean religion?
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Within a religion, when there are many paths, how do we know our path?
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What is the Vedic perspective of Buddhism?
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How is Shankaracharya’s path to be seen in the inclusive understanding of dharma?
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When sanatana-dharma is inclusive, why are most Hindus pluralists?
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When a bad thing happens, does optimism mean seeing it as the best thing that could have happened?
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Does positive thinking mean that we shouldn’t think about the past – then how will we learn from it?
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How can Chrisitan conversions in India be countered – can Hindus be united for this purpose?
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Some Christians say that Kalki will be Jesus come again, not Krishna come again – how to respond?
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How central is cow slaughter to Islam?
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If Islam considers idolatry the greatest sin, how can it co-exist with Hinduism?
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Why do post-modern Leftist scholars in India separate Islam from terrorism, but not Hinduism from the caste system?
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As different paths conceive God differently, do they all lead to the same goal?
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Don’t give your enemies weapons to beat you with Gita 03.36
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Ask not how could he have done that – ask what is to be done next Gita 03.39
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Social media – what it does for us and what it does to us
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[Phone class to everydaychant.com sanga]

Podcast

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Devotion, renunciation and aversion are differentiated by the direction of emotion
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[Bhagavatam class on 11.2.48 at ISKCON, Chowpatty, Mumbai, India]
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Dumbness is not inability to understand gibberish – it is inability to see gibberish for what it is Gita 18.63
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