Chapters by Vedanta Category

Bhakti Yoga

• Is bhakti simply a stepping stone towards jnana? (2025-04-27)
• Is devotion alone sufficient for moksha? (2025-04-13)
• Does God exist in the form of avatars? (2025-03-30)
• Is God just a concept of our mind? (2025-03-30)
• Does the acceptance of everything as Ishvara lead one to para bhakti? (2025-03-30)
• How to shift from bhakti to para bhakti? (2025-03-30)
• What led Swamiji to embrace bhakti? (2025-03-16)
• How to deal with inability to ask God for anything? (2025-03-16)
• Why do we anthropomorphize God? (2025-02-16)
• Is worshiping God and asking for mercy a waste of time? (2025-02-02)
• What is meant by those who say God is love? (2025-01-26)
• Do you believe that Ishvara has a form that can be seen by advanced practitioners of bhakti? (2025-01-26)
• What is the difference between human love and divine love? (2024-12-22)
• What is the difference between unconditional love and altruism? (2024-12-22)
• What is the point of praying to God on an altar when God is present within us? (2024-11-24)
• Isn’t the path of bhakti more dangerous than the path of jnana? (2024-11-24)
• Does God play dice? (2024-11-17)
• What is the difference between cognitive shift and identity shift? (2024-11-03)
• Aren’t sankirtana (chanting) and sharanagati (surrender) sufficient for attaining moksha? (2024-10-13)
• Are we merely worshiping a conceptualized image of God? (2024-09-22)
• How do the views of Sri Madhusudana Saraswati on bhakti compare with that of Sri Shankara? (2024-09-22)
• How to not feel guilty about worshiping one form of God and not another? (2024-09-15)
• How to worship a formless God? (2024-09-15)
• How can devotion to Ishvara be cultivated for those raised in a non-religious environment? (2024-08-25)
• Why is devotion essential for enlightenment? (2024-08-04)
• Are devotional practices more important than Vedantic self-enquiry? (2024-07-14)
• Aren’t opinions just subtle forms? (2024-07-07)
• Can we ask God for material things? (2024-06-23)
• How can I fulfill my responsibilities in life while being connected to God? (2024-05-26)
• Does Vedanta accept the concept of yugas? (2024-05-05)
• From the perspective of Advaita Vedanta does God love us? (2024-05-05)
• Does the term mithya of Advaita Vedanta mean illusion or God’s play? (2024-04-28)
• Can a person gain enlightenment with just karma yoga and bhakti but without meditation? (2024-03-31)
• 46:37 How could one truly surrender to God?(2025-06-22)

Comparative Vedanta

• What are Swamiji’s views on the Law of One? (2025-04-27)
• Is it helpful to read spiritual books from other religious traditions? (2025-02-23)
• Does Advaita Vedanta prescribe a mantra or prayer for use all day long? (2025-02-23)
• Does Advaita Vedanta say that the universe exists only when there is someone to observe it? (2025-02-23)
• What is the difference between dvaita and Sankhya? (2024-12-01)
• Are there prerequisite qualifications for students of Vedanta? (2024-11-24)
• Should non-sanyasi students of Advaita Vedanta also give up onion and garlic as sanyasis do? (2024-11-03)
• What is an individual per Advaita Vedanta? (2024-10-20)
• What is meant by the term essence? (2024-09-08)
• What is the essence of Sri Ramanuja’s Vishishtadvaita tradition? (2024-08-04)
• What is the value of alternative healing traditions for Vedantins? (2024-08-04)
• Does Advaita Vedanta have a teaching equivalent to the Christian doctrine of salvation? (2024-07-07)
• What is the role of faith in Advaita Vedanta? (2024-06-02)
• What is the meaning of mithya in Advaita Vedanta? (2024-05-26)
• Is the gap between Advaita Vedanta and modern Buddhism narrowing? (2024-05-19)

Death & Rebirth

• What happens to the sukshma sharira of an enlightened person at death? (2025-05-11)
• Does the subtle body suffer during the period between reincarnations? (2025-05-04)
• Would it be possible for anyone to be enlightened? (2025-04-20)
• Is nama japa helpful in Vedantic sadhana? (2025-04-13)
• Is it possible for enlightened persons to choose their time of death? (2025-02-23)
• What happens to Atma after the death of an unenlightened person? (2025-02-02)
• Is a belief in reincarnation needed for Vedantic sadhana? (2024-11-03)
• Is reincarnation rejected by Advaita Vedanta? (2024-10-27)
• What happens to the individuality of a jivan mukhta upon death? (2024-08-25)
• Would Vedanta be relevant if humans conquer death? (2024-08-04)
• Who is it that undergoes rebirth? (2024-07-28)
• What is the experience of a liberated individual after death? (2024-07-28)
• Is there a difference between rebirth and reincarnation? (2024-07-14)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on near-death experiences? (2024-06-23)
• If the earth underwent an extinction event what would happen to the reincarnation cycle? (2024-05-19)
• Is it true that our soul does not undergo rebirth if we have no desire at the time of death? (2024-03-31)
• What triggers the next cycle of creation after pralaya (cosmic dissolution)? (2023-12-17)
• What happens to the soul of a person who committed suicide? ' (2023-12-10)

Dreams & States

• What happens to memory during deep sleep? (2025-02-09)
• Couldn’t an enlightened person suffer in a dream? (2024-10-20)
• What is the difference between waking and dream experiences? (2024-09-01)
• What is the deep sleep experience of an enlightened person? (2024-08-04)
• What is the difference between deep sleep and nirvikalpa samadhi? (2024-06-23)
• Is it possible for the soul of a departed person to linger on earth and appear in our dreams? (2024-06-02)
• Does an enlightened person behave as an enlightened person while dreaming? (2024-05-05)

Ethical Dilemmas

• Would it be okay to kill animals for food assuming it moves them closer to human birth? (2025-05-18)
• Should Hindus revisit their ahimsa doctrine for dealing with the terrorism directed against them? (2025-04-27)
• What about dharmic obligations for the enlightened person? (2024-11-24)
• What is the dharmic way to help a beggar? (2024-10-06)
• What is a dharmic approach to settle arguments with those who don’t admit they are wrong? (2024-06-09)
• Are there various degrees of ahimsa? (2024-05-26)
• Is it okay to have expectations? (2024-05-05)
• Would the protocol for administering euthanasia be different for an enlightened person? (2024-04-21)
• Is euthanasia dharmic? (2024-04-14)
• Is euthanasia justifiable in the case of severe mental illness? (2024-04-14)
• What is the doctrine of anugraha or grace alone? (2024-03-31)
• 01:12 How should sadhakas conduct themselves in social gatherings?(2025-06-22)

Ethics / Values

• As one advances in spirituality does one automatically become more compassionate? (2025-02-09)
• How to reconcile violence depicted in the Ramayana with its teachings on dharma? (2025-01-12)
• Is the increase of adharma within Ishvara’s laws? (2025-01-12)
• What is the origin of the terms Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma? (2025-01-12)
• Does mathematics represent the truth? (2024-11-17)
• How to make decisions guided by dharma? (2024-11-17)
• How can adharma, ignorance, and suffering also be manifestations of Ishvara? (2024-11-10)
• Is compassion different for an enlightened person? (2024-10-27)
• Are there still lessons to be learned from outdated dharmashastras? (2024-10-20)
• How to reconcile the Gita’s advice to cultivate sattva guna with its advice to transcend all gunas? (2024-09-15)
• How to determine our svadharma? (2024-09-08)
• What do the terms astika and nastika mean in Hinduism? (2024-08-04)
• Since non-duality is the ultimate truth, why does Vedanta rely on the dualistic neti neti method? (2024-05-05)
• What does fearlessness mean in spirituality? (2024-04-14)
• How can teachings that are relatively true lead to the Absolute Truth? (2024-04-07)
• How can we understand dharma in a manner independent of the time and culture we live in? (2024-03-31)
• What is svadharma? (2024-01-07)

Jnana Yoga

• How do we know that Consciousness is all-pervasive? (2025-06-01)
• Why is it incorrect to say Brahman is everything? (2025-06-01)
• Does Witness Consciousness react to thoughts in the mind? (2025-06-01)
• Why is Brahman called SatChitAnanda and not just SatChit? (2025-05-11)
• Can Brahman be experienced? (2025-05-11)
• Why don’t I know everything if I am Consciousness? (2025-05-04)
• What is the meaning of Swamiji’s name, Tadatmananda? (2025-04-20)
• Since Consciousness has no need to ask questions, who is it that asks questions? (2025-04-13)
• Can Brahman know objects? (2025-03-30)
• What is the difference between reflected consciousness and consciousness? (2025-03-30)
• What is the relationship between Brahman and the pancha koshas? (2025-03-16)
• Does every living being have a purpose? (2025-03-16)
• Do different living beings have different levels of consciousness? (2025-03-16)
• If reality is one, isn’t our mind just an expression of Brahman? (2025-03-02)
• How is consciousness the knower? (2025-02-23)
• Is samadhi an experience of pure consciousness? (2025-02-23)
• If there were no Consciousness, how would we account for our knowledge of the world? (2025-02-16)
• Has Swamiji ever encountered any supernatural occurrences? (2025-02-09)
• How does identifying with Brahman remove all suffering? (2025-02-09)
• Is the claim “There is only Consciousness” falsifiable? (2025-02-02)
• Do enlightened people always remember that they are Brahman? (2025-02-02)
• Can Consciousness know itself? (2025-02-02)
• Didn’t Sri Krishna give Arjuna a spiritual solution to an emotional problem? (2025-01-26)
• How do I see Brahman in people who are exceptionally and intentionally unkind and rude to me? (2025-01-26)
• How to realize our nature as Brahman from a scientific perspective? (2025-01-12)
• What is the relationship between pure Consciousness and subjective experience? (2025-01-12)
• How is it logical for one to say “I am all pervasive Consciousness”? (2025-01-05)
• How can Brahman be both nirguna and saguna? (2024-12-22)
• What is the difference between pure Consciousness and nirguna Brahman? (2024-12-08)
• Since there is only Brahman where is the ignorance that Advaita Vedanta talks about? (2024-12-01)
• Does self-knowledge merely deactivate ignorance in the karana sharira? (2024-12-01)
• Isn’t nididhyasana just brainwashing? (2024-12-01)
• How is Consciousness present in non-living things? (2024-11-24)
• How to perceive Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman as one? (2024-11-24)
• What is Swamiji’s take on UFOs? (2024-11-17)
• Why is Brahman called the witness when there is nothing for Brahman to witness? (2024-11-10)
• With a limited mind how can we gain knowledge of limitless Brahman? (2024-11-03)
• What is the upadhi that makes nirguna Brahman appear to be creator, sustainer, and destroyer? (2024-10-27)
• How are the terms brahman, paramatma, bhagavan, ishvara, and devata defined? (2024-10-27)
• What is the difference between brahman, brahm, brahma, atman, atma, paramatma, and jivatma? (2024-10-27)
• Can machines become self-aware in the future? (2024-10-20)
• Wouldn’t Atma need a mind to function as witness consciousness? (2024-10-13)
• Can the mind function in the absence of consciousness? (2024-10-06)
• Is there a difference between the Vedantic and medical usages of the term consciousness? (2024-10-06)
• Is Vedanta needed to reveal that we are Consciousness? (2024-09-29)
• How is Brahman beyond both space and time? (2024-09-29)
• What is the relationship between Ishvara and Brahman? (2024-09-22)
• How does Consciousness seemingly lend sentience to the subtle body? (2024-09-22)
• How does attribute-free Consciousness carry memories from one lifetime to another? (2024-09-15)
• Don’t the different sectarian interpretations of the scriptures create divisiveness? (2024-09-15)
• Which of the following feels pain: brain, mind, Consciousness? (2024-09-15)
• How do the “four states of Consciousness” relate to the eight limbs of Patanjali Yoga? (2024-09-08)
• Are the terms Consciousness and Awareness interchangeable in Advaita Vedanta? (2024-09-08)
• Where to find the English meaning of the Sanskrit prayers recited in these classes? (2024-09-01)
• How do we know that Consciousness is one? (2024-08-11)
• Is Consciousness inside me or is everything, including me, just Consciousness? (2024-08-11)
• Once two individuals are free from samsara, do they both return to one Consciousness? (2024-08-11)
• What is the difference between the statements “sarvam khalvidam brahma” and “2+2=4”? (2024-08-11)
• Is Brahman knowable? (2024-08-04)
• How does Nirguna Brahman assume the form of avatars? (2024-07-28)
• What is karana sharira or causal body? (2024-07-28)
• What is the role of our mind in gaining self-knowledge? (2024-07-28)
• If Consciousness can’t do anything, how can Consciousness observe our mind? (2024-07-21)
• How are mental states different from states of Consciousness? (2024-07-21)
• Do qualities like love, compassion, etc. belong to Ishvara or to Brahman? (2024-07-21)
• Why can’t we meditate upon Consciousness? (2024-07-14)
• Where do thoughts come from? (2024-07-14)
• What is the Vedantic view on living in the present moment? (2024-07-07)
• What is the difference between Nirguna Brahman and Saguna Brahman? (2024-07-07)
• Is Ishvara a dream of Nirguna Brahman? (2024-07-07)
• Can Brahman exist without Ishvara? (2024-07-07)
• Aren’t subjective opinions based on raga and dvesha? (2024-07-07)
• Doesn’t the mind know the content of Consciousness? (2024-07-07)
• What is the simplest way to know Brahman for a worldly person? (2024-06-30)
• If there is one Consciousness which I am, why can’t I know your thoughts? (2024-06-30)
• How can we say that Brahman exists independent of the unmanifest and manifest states? (2024-06-30)
• Is prana an essential part of the sukshma sharira? (2024-06-30)
• What is the difference between ego and reflected consciousness? (2024-06-23)
• Are Upanishadic statements about Brahman the Absolute Truth or are they part of the teaching methodology? (2024-06-23)
• Can Brahman be known without any upadhis? (2024-06-23)
• What is the relationship between Nirguna Brahman and maya? (2024-06-09)
• Doesn’t Brahman need a mind to appreciate being Brahman? (2024-06-09)
• Is sakshi bhava reflected consciousness or pure consciousness? (2024-06-09)
• What is the relationship between prana and consciousness? (2024-06-09)
• If Atma and Brahman are one and the same, why use different terms? (2024-06-09)
• If Atma and Brahman are the same, why use different words? (2024-06-02)
• How can Ishvara and Brahman belong to different orders of reality? (2024-06-02)
• Since anything gained can be lost, wouldn’t self-knowledge be lost as well? (2024-06-02)
• How can we understand the ISKCON view that Sri Krishna is above impersonal Brahman? (2024-06-02)
• Why do sandhyavandanam mantras invoke the sun as Brahman? (2024-06-02)
• Which gunas are we referring to when we say saguna and nirguna Brahman? (2024-06-02)
• Where do thoughts and decisions originate from? (2024-05-19)
• Are the assertions “everything is in Consciousness” and “everything is Consciousness” made from different perspectives? (2024-05-05)
• How can we rule out a reality more real than Brahman? (2024-05-05)
• How does Advaita Vedanta establish that there is no second to Consciousness? (2024-04-28)
• At what point in meditation do I become one with Brahman? (2024-04-28)
• Why isn’t meditation alone sufficient for self-knowledge? (2024-04-21)
• What is the relationship between Consciousness and space? (2024-04-21)
• What is the right perspective on Saguna Brahman in Advaita Vedanta? (2024-04-14)
• Would it be appropriate to associate properties with Consciousness? (2024-04-07)
• If Consciousness is unborn, what is it that is reborn? (2024-04-07)
• Is a liberated being always aware of Brahman? (2024-04-07)
• How can we progress from the understanding of Consciousness as the known-ness of our experience here and now to the understanding of Consciousness as the unborn, limitless reality? (2024-03-31)
• Why would Consciousness or Brahman want to manifest as the entire universe? (2024-01-07)
• How can we discover Brahman? (2024-01-07)
• I know I am limitless Consciousness but why don’t I feel limitless? (2023-12-17)
• What is it that separated us from all-pervasive Consciousness? (2023-12-10)

Karma Yoga

• How to apply karma yoga for managing children? (2025-06-01)
• How to reconcile the doctrine of karma with the teachings of Advaita Vedanta? (2025-05-18)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on pleasure? (2025-05-18)
• Are the terms punya and papa just arbitrary labels for karma? (2025-05-11)
• Are astrology-guided sadhanas effective? (2025-04-20)
• Is the doctrine of karma a system of divine judgment? (2025-04-13)
• What happens to the karma generated by an enlightened person? (2025-03-16)
• What is the akhandakara vritti? (2025-02-23)
• How to overcome stress about work? (2025-02-16)
• Wouldn’t the accumulation of good karma in this life lead to rebirth and prevent moksha? (2025-01-26)
• How is an enlightened person free from suffering while being subject to prarabdha karma? (2025-01-26)
• How do offerings such as flowers made at an altar work for Ishvara and for us? (2025-01-12)
• Can good karma offset, mitigate, or eliminate bad karma? (2024-12-22)
• What is an upadhi? (2024-12-08)
• What happens to karma when contemplating on our nature as non-doer during nididhyasana? (2024-12-01)
• Is it possible for one to take on the karma of others? (2024-12-01)
• Since we have no control over all the factors affecting karma what is the point of doing good? (2024-12-01)
• How is it that all Indic religions agree on the doctrine of karma? (2024-11-24)
• Does the karma of others impact what happens to us? (2024-11-10)
• How can we engage in karma sincerely without thinking of results? (2024-11-10)
• How does conditioning work in the context of an upadhi? (2024-10-27)
• Why bother about dharma if bad karma in this life does not necessarily fructify in the next life? (2024-10-20)
• Can bad thoughts produce bad karma? (2024-10-13)
• Can the doctrines of karma and reincarnation be confirmed experientially? (2024-10-13)
• Doesn’t euthanasia interfere with predetermined karma? (2024-10-13)
• If Ishvara can’t be bribed, how come there are Vedic rituals for producing particular results? (2024-09-29)
• What is the purpose of life? (2024-09-29)
• How to understand some of the questionable actions of the Pandavas in the Mahabharata? (2024-09-15)
• What is upasana yoga? (2024-09-08)
• Must karma yoga be given up to attain enlightenment? (2024-09-08)
• If a desire is not fulfilled in this life, will it be carried over to a future life? (2024-09-01)
• Is there a scriptural basis for shraddha rituals performed for departed ones? (2024-08-25)
• Wouldn’t our accumulated bad karma prevent us from attaining enlightenment? (2024-08-25)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on karma kanda rituals? (2024-08-04)
• Since Ishvara gives us the results of our karma, why pray for miracles? (2024-07-28)
• Are the situations we encounter in this life a result of our past karma? (2024-07-21)
• How to reconcile horrible events like the holocaust with the doctrine of karma? (2024-07-14)
• Is there any chance of Arsha Bodha opening a branch in Bangladesh? (2024-07-07)
• Isn’t the doctrine of karma tangential to Advaita Vedanta? (2024-06-30)
• From a Vedantic perspective, who is the one that suffers? (2024-06-09)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on Hindu deities such as Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Ganesha? (2024-06-09)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on the "dissociated alters" narrative of Bernardo Kastrup? (2024-05-26)
• Can’t the teachings on karma yoga in the Bhagavad Gita be misused by unscrupulous persons? (2024-05-19)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on fighting evil? (2024-04-28)
• Does the doctrine of karma provide a way for progressively depleting infinite karma? (2024-04-28)
• How does the law of karma ensure that karma phala is assigned to the correct recipient? (2024-04-28)
• Which yuga narrative is the correct one? (2024-04-21)
• What is prasada buddhi in the context of karma yoga? (2024-04-21)
• Since the pain and suffering of end-stage cancer is a part of prarabdha karma doesn’t euthanasia interfere with that? (2024-04-21)
• Could a genetic disposition to addictive behavior be due to prarabdha karma? (2024-04-21)
• How is suffering after death understood within the doctrine of karma? (2024-04-14)
• Does the law of karma apply to animals? (2024-03-31)
• What role does the karana sharira play in the doctrine of karma and rebirth? (2023-12-10)

Liberation / Moksha

• Why did Ishvara design a world with no possibility of enlightenment for millions of years? (2025-05-11)
• Why doesn’t a person leave the body immediately upon enlightenment? (2025-03-16)
• What are the different kinds of samadhi in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali? (2025-02-23)
• What is maha samadhi? (2025-02-16)
• If bondage and moksha are associated with the mind, how can moksha be permanent? (2025-02-16)
• Is it normal to encounter the fear of enlightenment on the path to moksha? (2025-02-16)
• Where did the belief of attaining moksha by bathing in the Ganga originate? (2025-02-09)
• Are puja and rituals necessary for a seeker of moksha? (2025-02-09)
• Could dementia reverse enlightenment? (2025-01-05)
• Is loss of mental function the same as loss of enlightenment? (2025-01-05)
• How does enlightenment help with physical and mental problems? (2024-12-22)
• What happens to a person who fails to attain moksha in this life? (2024-11-24)
• Does mental illness disqualify someone from Vedantic pursuit? (2024-11-24)
• Don’t the qualifications needed for Vedantic pursuit require enlightenment? (2024-11-24)
• What is the difference between moksha and finding peace through other modalities? (2024-11-17)
• Can dementia or brain injury reverse enlightenment? (2024-11-03)
• How to understand the enlightenment process with respect to the ego? (2024-11-03)
• How to determine where we are in the enlightenment process? (2024-11-03)
• Isn’t Swamiji taking sides when expressing his views on geopolitical issues? (2024-11-03)
• Why is moksha preferable to the Abrahamic eternal heaven? (2024-10-27)
• Why is solitude instrumental in gaining enlightenment? (2024-10-27)
• Are extraordinary meditative experiences necessary for enlightenment? (2024-10-27)
• Does an enlightened person have an intense desire to help others attain enlightenment? (2024-10-27)
• Is samadhi different from enlightenment? (2024-10-20)
• Is samadhi necessary for enlightenment? (2024-10-20)
• How to transition from understanding that I am Satchitananda Atma to enlightenment? (2024-10-20)
• Does an enlightened person have an intense desire to help others attain enlightenment? (2024-10-20)
• How do the Dvaita and Vishishtadvaita traditions differ in their views on moksha? (2024-10-13)
• How is the desire for moksha different from other desires? (2024-10-13)
• How do the views on moksha in Advaita and Vishishtadvaita differ? (2024-09-29)
• Is enlightenment a moving target? (2024-09-29)
• Whose mind experiences bliss in moksha? (2024-09-29)
• What is the Vedantic view on moksha after death? (2024-09-29)
• Who attains moksha? (2024-09-22)
• Is moksha the merging of jivatma and paramatma? (2024-09-22)
• Doesn’t the desire for moksha denigrate the value of worldly life? (2024-09-15)
• What is moksha like after death and why pursue it? (2024-09-15)
• Why isn’t enlightenment an event? (2024-09-08)
• What happens at enlightenment? (2024-09-01)
• How to pursue professional advancement while pursuing moksha? (2024-09-01)
• Were impediments to enlightenment created intentionally? (2024-08-25)
• Is kundalini rising synonymous with moksha? (2024-08-11)
• Does Vedanta provide an approach for handling our mental projections? (2024-07-14)
• Are self-realization and enlightenment the same? (2024-06-30)
• Why is enlightenment difficult to attain? (2024-06-02)
• Is enlightenment the same for Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains? (2024-06-02)
• Isn’t it rajasic to want moksha? Shouldn’t we be sattvic? (2024-05-26)
• Isn’t the craving for moksha a sign of vanity? (2024-05-26)
• Is anger compatible with enlightenment? (2024-04-14)
• After receiving diksha I have had many spiritual experiences but when will I attain moksha? (2023-12-17)
• If enlightenment is an experience would it not be just a transient state of mind? (2023-12-10)

Maya & Ignorance

• Is Swamiji a part of the Chinmaya Mission? (2025-05-18)
• Isn’t the world of duality an illusion? (2025-05-04)
• Since humans are born with ignorance, how can we trust the teachings of human rishis? (2025-01-26)
• What is ananda-maya kosha? (2025-01-05)
• What does enlightenment entail vis-à-vis maya? (2024-12-22)
• What is the difference between maya and reality? (2024-09-29)
• How is the meaning of ananda different as used in ananda-maya kosha and Satchitananda Atma? (2024-09-08)
• What is the relationship between Yoga Vasishta and the Ramayana? (2024-09-01)
• How does ignorance persist through deep sleep? (2024-08-25)
• Why don’t we find Vedantic teachings in the Ramayana? (2024-08-25)
• Can maya be viewed as name and form? (2024-07-28)
• What do Vedantic teachings say about abortion? (2024-07-07)
• What is the proof that anything created gets destroyed? (2024-06-23)
• Since the shruti came from rishis, isn’t it of human origin? (2024-06-02)
• What is the relationship between mithya and maya? (2024-05-19)
• What is the meaning of the term ananda in Satchitananda? (2024-04-28)
• If the world is an illusion, who created this illusion? (2024-04-21)
• How did ignorance start? (2024-04-14)

Meditation / Dhyana

• Is Patanjali’s system of meditation a practical pathway to realize the ultimate truth of Vedanta? (2025-06-01)
• Is the observation of breath in vipassana meditation useful for Atma vichara? (2025-05-25)
• How to go beyond being aware of silence in my mind during meditation? (2025-04-13)
• What exactly is brahmacharya? (2025-03-02)
• Is yoga nidra a helpful meditative technique? (2025-03-02)
• Wasn’t Hanumanji a historical figure? (2025-02-16)
• What are samanya chaitanya and vishesha chaitanya? (2025-02-09)
• How to reach a state of Awareness? (2025-02-02)
• What is the role of positive thinking in Vedanta? (2025-02-02)
• Why didn’t Swamiji pick just one form of Ishvara for all his meditation classes? (2025-02-02)
• How is the bliss of Awareness different from the feeling of happiness? (2025-02-02)
• What is the role of meditation in Advaita Vedanta? (2025-01-26)
• Couldn’t the ahamkara get fooled during deep meditation? (2025-01-26)
• Must the practice of nididhyasana always be preceded by formal meditation? (2025-01-05)
• Does meditation ever culminate in anything? (2024-12-22)
• What was Pujya Swami Dayananda’s “alupta-drik mudra”? (2024-12-08)
• Who is the one that controls the mind during yogic meditation? (2024-11-24)
• What is a vedantin’s response to geopolitical issues? (2024-11-10)
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• What is the difference between Vedantic meditation and yogic meditation? (2024-11-03)
• Where to draw the line between detachment and negligence? (2024-10-27)
• What is a good meditation technique for nididhyasana? (2024-10-27)
• What is the anahat naad (unstruck sound)? (2024-10-13)
• Is suicide ever justifiable? (2024-10-06)
• What can we do to become emotionally mature? (2024-09-29)
• Who needs Vedanta? (2024-09-22)
• Is the term prajna in “Prajnanam Brahma” the same as that in Mandukya mantra #7? (2024-09-08)
• What is mantra diksha? (2024-09-01)
• Do plants have souls? (2024-09-01)
• Who is it that thinks? (2024-08-04)
• What is asthitva? (2024-07-28)
• What is nidhidhyasana? (2024-07-21)
• What is the utility of rituals and prayers? (2024-07-14)
• Is a good laugh as good as a prayer? (2024-07-07)
• Is awareness a thought? (2024-07-07)
• Is it okay to stop shravana and just focus on nidhidhyasana? (2024-07-07)
• If a person maintains some awareness during deep sleep, will it be called sushupti or turiya? (2024-06-09)
• What is iccha shakti and who possesses it? (2024-05-19)
• How do I handle spontaneous body movements experienced during long meditations? (2024-05-05)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on acquiring siddhis through meditation? (2024-05-05)
• How can we deal with negative thoughts during sakshi bhava meditation? (2024-04-07)
• How may we focus on the meaning of the mantra during mantra japa? (2024-04-07)
• Can meditation techniques that are taught in other traditions be beneficial in Advaita Vedanta? (2024-04-07)
• How is Vedantic contemplation accomplished with OM meditation? (2024-04-07)
• Are the mantras used in the Transcendental Meditation tradition prayers? (2024-03-31)
• What is the role of wealth in our spiritual life? (2024-01-07)
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• 07:01 How to use nididhyasana for handling horrible situations? (2025-06-22)

Metaphysics & Ontology

• What is meant by the “eternal now”? (2025-05-25)
• Is there anything common and non-negatable among Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, and Dvaita? (2025-05-25)
• Are time and space just mental constructs in Vedanta? (2025-05-11)
• Does Vedanta say anything about time? (2025-05-11)
• What does it mean to live a finite and fragile life in an infinite and eternal universe? (2025-02-23)
• Does there come a point when Existence (sat) must be negated as well? (2025-02-16)
• Is it possible to live a life without being hurt or causing hurt? (2025-01-12)
• Who is it that does anything? (2025-01-05)
• Does existence depend on knowability? (2024-10-20)
• If Atma is changeless what is it that evolves over multiple lifetimes? (2024-10-06)
• Do all the well-known Eastern spiritual traditions lead to the same realization? (2024-09-15)
• Can we view jiva as our reality at the empirical level? (2024-07-14)
• What is the biggest misunderstanding about Vedanta seen in sadhakas nowadays? (2024-06-02)
• What exactly is akhandakara vritti? (2024-05-19)
• Can ahankara be known except as a feeling? (2024-05-05)
• Is there a Vedanta-recommended method for always staying centered? (2024-04-28)
• What is the difference between knowing that we are sakshi and practicing sakshi bhava? (2024-04-21)
• What is meant by known-ness of an object or experience? (2024-04-07)
• Can we perceive material reality exactly as it is? (2024-04-07)
• What is the difference between thinking and knowing? (2024-03-31)
• Was the known-ness of our experience present at singularity? (2024-03-31)

Mind and Emotions

• Do enlightened persons need to always remind themselves that they are not doing anything? (2025-05-04)
• Is it possible to make our mind perfectly silent? (2025-04-20)
• Are some mantras dangerous? (2025-02-16)
• What is it that motivates an enlightened person? (2025-02-16)
• If the mind is a product of the brain, can there be a subtle body that survives death? (2025-02-16)
• Are thoughts and emotions artificial? (2025-01-26)
• Since the mind can’t be perfected, what is the point of nididhyasana? (2024-12-08)
• When can we say that the mind is enlightened? (2024-12-08)
• What determines the lifespan of a person? (2024-11-17)
• What does doing mean from a Vedantic perspective? (2024-11-10)
• Does Ishvara have human emotions? (2024-10-13)
• Does an enlightened person have emotions? (2024-10-13)
• What is the difference between an enlightened person and an avatar? (2024-09-29)
• Is time experienced differently when our mind is in a state of absorption? (2024-08-25)
• What is the Vedantic perspective on the subconscious mind? (2024-07-21)
• Is it possible for an enlightened person to be peaceful and irritated simultaneously? (2024-06-30)
• What is the source of the aham vritti in our mind? (2024-05-26)
• What motivates the observed activities of an enlightened person? (2024-05-05)
• What is the relationship between mind and brain? (2024-05-05)
• What does it mean to purify the mind? (2024-04-28)
• Do the lokas of the puranas really exist or are they merely projections of our mind? (2024-04-14)
• If the experience of mindless bliss (in samadhi) is not incorporated in day-to-day life is it useless? (2023-12-17)

Philosophical Analysis

• Do the non-Advaita traditions of Vedanta pass the test of reason like Advaita does? (2025-06-01)
• Isn’t there a contradiction in the definition of Atma as limitless and unchanging? (2025-05-25)
• What is the difference between knowledge and belief? (2025-05-25)
• Is a belief in the historicity of puranic stories important for our sadhana? (2025-05-18)
• Does Ishvara have free will? (2025-05-11)
• Is there a theory that talks about the transmigration period for a subtle body? (2025-05-04)
• Wouldn’t a belief in oneness/advaita lead to narcissism? (2025-04-27)
• Is there a scientific explanation for bi-location? (2025-04-20)
• Can Vedantic sadhana be included as another item on our to-do list? (2024-12-08)
• What is the reason for the rise of cults? (2024-10-13)
• Is free will separate from Ishvara? (2024-08-25)
• Do we have control over free will? (2024-08-25)
• Since Atma isn’t an object of knowledge of any pramana, what is Vedanta a pramana for? (2024-08-11)
• Since our decisions originate from a “biological computer”, i.e., the brain, can there be free will? (2024-06-09)
• 25:22 Is everything we perceive a projection of our thoughts? (2025-06-22)

Practical Guidance

• Is the rope-snake or the gold-ornament metaphor better at presenting the Advaita viewpoint? What is the practice of self-enquiry taught by Sri Ramana Maharishi? (2024-12-22)
• Can nididhyasana be practiced before atma sakshatkara takes place? (2024-12-08)
• Must we practice Hinduism to adopt Vedanta as a spiritual practice? (2024-12-01)

Questions & Dialogues

• How can Brahma-jnana be knowledge and not belief? (2025-06-01)
• How come enlightened ones from different traditions come to different insights on reality? (2025-06-01)
• Why doesn’t Swamiji wear vibhuti or kumkum on his forehead? (2025-06-01)
• How can one with a scientific mind accept mythological stories? (2025-05-25)
• Why doesn’t conscience prick those committing harmful deeds? (2025-05-25)
• How to cultivate vairagya while handling worldly responsibilities? (2025-05-25)
• How to reconcile the free will paradox? (2025-05-18)
• Why is habitual identification with the body hard to get rid of? (2025-05-18)
• How to handle conflicts in a mixed religion family? (2025-05-18)
• Why doesn’t an enlightened person reincarnate? (2025-05-11)
• How to explain J Krishnamurti’s view that the observer is the observed? (2025-05-11)
• How to explain first hand accounts of miracles? (2025-05-11)
• Why is it a struggle to maintain my mind in a state of peace permanently? (2025-05-11)
• Why did Ishvara make us ignorant in the first place? (2025-05-04)
• How to relate quantum theory to Advaita Vedanta? (2025-05-04)
• How is it possible to experience painful emotions without suffering? (2025-05-04)
• Why isn’t the subtle body which reincarnates the true self? (2025-04-27)
• How to judge the validity of an extraordinary spiritual experience? (2025-04-27)
• How accurate is it to view sampradayas as denominations? (2025-04-20)
• How to access our true nature when life is challenging? (2025-04-20)
• How to bring non-duality into everyday world? (2025-04-20)
• Why isn’t judgment attributed to Ishvara in Advaita Vedanta? (2025-04-20)
• Can we get enlightened just by watching YouTube videos presenting Vedantic wisdom? (2025-04-13)
• How can an enlightened person not be affected by bodily pain? (2025-04-13)
• Why am I Satchitananda Atma and not the body, mind, and intellect? (2025-04-13)
• Why doesn’t Hinduism have a central organization for settling theological disputes? (2025-04-13)
• If the body and its suffering are just mithya, how can I develop empathy for those who suffer? (2025-04-13)
• Why am I being punished for something I did in a prior life which I know nothing about? (2025-04-13)
• How to avoid doing puja mechanically? (2025-04-13)
• How to progress in spiritual growth while earning a living? (2025-03-30)
• How does an enlightened person feel about the suffering of others, especially dependents? (2025-03-30)
• How to understand my extraordinary experience during exhalation while performing pranayama? (2025-03-30)
• Does a guru’s look matter? (2025-03-16)
• How did Swamiji’s family and friends react when he became a monk? (2025-03-16)
• How does one realize that one is Satchitananda Atma at the dual empirical level? (2025-03-16)
• How to properly understand the pancha kosha metaphor of Vedanta? (2025-03-16)
• How to decide whether to spend more time on career advancement or on spiritual growth? (2025-03-16)
• How to transcend the three gunas? (2025-03-09)
• How were the deities on the altar at Arsha Bodha Center chosen? (2025-03-09)
• How to avoid drifting off into deep sleep while meditating? (2025-03-09)
• How to understand the symbolism behind Samudra Manthana? (2025-03-09)
• Without desire how can there be any motivation to do anything? (2025-03-02)
• How does a specific thought arise in our mind? (2025-03-02)
• How does Vedanta view miracles? (2025-03-02)
• How to control lustful thoughts? (2025-03-02)
• Should we seek to deepen and explore special meditative experiences? (2025-03-02)
• Does Vedanta explain why the universe is created and destroyed? (2025-03-02)
• How to not feel guilty about devoting time to spiritual practice? (2025-03-02)
• How does the non-dual Vedantic path compare to the yogic path? (2025-02-23)
• How is atma sakshatkara related to akhandakara vritti? (2025-02-23)
• How does the cosmos manifest in our daily life? (2025-02-23)
• How do we discover our true self? (2025-02-23)
• How to decide when to address a problem and when to ignore it in a family situation? (2025-02-23)
• How can a limited mind grasp that which is infinite? (2025-02-16)
• Is it necessary to have personal contact with a guru to get enlightened? (2025-02-09)
• How can those performing Shanmata puja choose a single ishta devata? (2025-02-09)
• How to accommodate a spouse who does not share an interest in Vedanta? (2025-02-09)
• Do we have to pay off 100% of our karmic debt to be enlightened? (2025-02-09)
• What is the proper place of moral judgment in Vedanta? (2025-02-09)
• Can Surya be an ishta devata? (2025-02-09)
• How to choose an ishta devata? (2025-02-02)
• How important is mantra diksha? (2025-02-02)
• How to understand puranic stories from a modern perspective? (2025-02-02)
• How to get rid of the ego observing meditative silence? (2025-02-02)
• How is it that animal sacrifice was permitted in the Vedas? (2025-02-02)
• How can the highest teachings of Vedanta benefit society in general? (2025-01-26)
• Is Vedanta effective in managing emotional problems? (2025-01-26)
• How to develop a deep emotional connection to Ishvara? (2025-01-26)
• How to get rid of the ego? (2025-01-12)
• Is rote learning helpful for our sadhana? (2025-01-12)
• How to deal with jada samadhi? (2025-01-12)
• How does one comprehend that the Self is in all and all is in the Self? (2025-01-12)
• How is letting go of desires helpful for scientists and innovators? (2025-01-05)
• How to reconcile the Vedic formulation of the world with that of modern science? (2025-01-05)
• How to deal with regret? (2025-01-05)
• Has Swamiji sought medical treatment for his dizziness problem? (2025-01-05)
• If I have had an infinite number of prior lives, why am I still not enlightened? (2025-01-05)
• How might an enlightened parent respond to a child’s addiction problems? (2024-12-22)
• How to approach prayer from an understanding of non-duality? (2024-12-22)
• How can one be fully dharmic in today’s world? (2024-12-22)
• How do those without access to the wisdom of the rishis get enlightened? (2024-12-22)
• When Ishvara is identically present in all places why do we feel Ishvara’s presence more in some places like temples? (2024-12-08)
• Why is nididhyasana needed after realization? (2024-12-08)
• How was hunting for sport accepted as dharmic in ancient times? (2024-12-08)
• How to approach the problem of discrimination against Hindus? (2024-12-08)
• How is the magnet metaphor used in Upadesha Sahasri verse 79 appropriate for nirguna Atma? (2024-12-01)
• How to let go of desire and attachment in practice? (2024-12-01)
• How to develop equanimity in practice? (2024-12-01)
• What to make of revisionist interpretations of the Vedas? (2024-12-01)
• Is there a difference between how self knowledge and other knowledge are stored in the mind? (2024-11-24)
• Why is Advaita Vedanta more logical than Dvaita and Vishishtadvaita? (2024-11-24)
• Are there informal forms of nididhyasana? (2024-11-24)
• Why is nididhyasana necessary at all? (2024-11-24)
• If death is the end of experience, how to explain experience in various lokas after death? (2024-11-24)
• If experience can fool us, how to reconcile that with Sri Ramakrishna’s vision of Kali? (2024-11-24)
• How does an unenlightened seeker maintain equanimity in all situations? (2024-11-17)
• Why is it problematic for sanyasis to engage in politics? (2024-11-17)
• How to understand the Trinity of Christianity in the Vedantic context? (2024-11-17)
• How to deal with the desire for vengeance? (2024-11-17)
• How is the Vedantic teaching about our nature as Sakshi helpful in our sadhana? (2024-11-17)
• Does we have a choice in responding to situations? (2024-11-17)
• How does a sanyasi like Swamiji view geopolitical events such as the recent US elections? (2024-11-10)
• To what extent are we in charge of our lives? (2024-11-10)
• How to understand smriti rupa in the context of adhyasa? (2024-11-10)
• Can we view ananda as an emotion-free state? (2024-11-10)
• What is the symbolism associated with the danda carried by some sanyasis? (2024-11-10)
• How does the pursuit of Vedantic knowledge make us better or stop our suffering? (2024-11-10)
• How to respond to the question “Are you enlightened”? (2024-11-03)
• How can Bangladeshi Hindus respond to the appalling persecution they are facing? (2024-11-03)
• How are dreams conjured up in sleep? (2024-11-03)
• How to deal with moments of spiritual discouragement? (2024-11-03)
• Why is astrology viewed as a pseudoscience? (2024-10-27)
• How do I grow out of my intense desire for certain food items? (2024-10-27)
• Why reflect on what we have accomplished at the end of each day? (2024-10-27)
• How can Swamiji be agenda-free when he set up an ashram in New Jersey to serve the local community? (2024-10-27)
• Is spiritual progress made in this life carried over to the next life? (2024-10-27)
• How to understand superimposition vis-a-vis self non-recognition? (2024-10-20)
• How to remember Sri Krishna at the moment of death? (2024-10-20)
• Who is it that needs prayer? (2024-10-20)
• What is the best way to navigate through rough patches in our sadhana? (2024-10-20)
• How can non-duality exist in spite of our experience of duality? (2024-10-20)
• How does the state of deep sleep differ from the state of samadhi? (2024-10-13)
• How to correctly understand the dream metaphor used in Advaita Vedanta? (2024-10-13)
• Can a newborn child be considered enlightened? (2024-10-13)
• How can a patriot opposed to traitors be free from dvesha? (2024-10-13)
• How does forgiveness help us? (2024-10-13)
• How does it feel to be a sanyasi for Swamiji? (2024-10-06)
• How to handle loud temple music? (2024-10-06)
• How to understand the heaven and hell narratives common across most religions? (2024-10-06)
• Why does the universe exist? (2024-10-06)
• How to deal with attachment? (2024-10-06)
• How can an enlightened person enjoy mukti after death? (2024-10-06)
• How to come to terms with inexplicable misfortune? (2024-10-06)
• Why are enlightened beings hesitant to admit that they are enlightened? (2024-09-29)
• How to explain free will if Ishvara is the all-doer? (2024-09-29)
• How to understand Swami Vivekananda’s teachings on cultivating self-confidence? (2024-09-29)
• What is the optimal age to begin Vedantic sadhana? (2024-09-29)
• How does the sukshma sharira get associated with the fetus? (2024-09-29)
• How to use Vedanta as a pramana? (2024-09-29)
• How can experience be a pillar for Advaita Vedanta since it is not reliable? (2024-09-22)
• Why is the religion conversion rate of Hindus so high? (2024-09-22)
• Why do we always feel like we are sick when the body is sick? (2024-09-22)
• How can one get enlightened without faith in anything like J Krishnamurti? (2024-09-15)
• How to see divinity in mean people? (2024-09-15)
• How can Atma be grasped through the buddhi? (2024-09-15)
• How does a guru decide that a shishya is ready for sanyasa? (2024-09-08)
• How to be emotionally engaged without being controlled by emotions? (2024-09-08)
• How did Swamiji’s engineering background shape his spiritual journey? (2024-09-08)
• How to discern what is best for us among the diverse teachings of Vedic tradition? (2024-09-08)
• How to handle the guilt of enjoying good fortune? (2024-09-08)
• What is the distinction between shruti and smriti? (2024-09-08)
• How to start the process of becoming a qualified student like Nachiketas? (2024-09-01)
• Are all swamis enlightened? (2024-09-01)
• Can we invent our own personal deity (ishta devata)? (2024-09-01)
• Since Ishvara is all-pervasive, why visit places of pilgrimage? (2024-09-01)
• Is there a difference between Vedantic self-inquiry and the approach taught by Sri Ramana Maharishi? (2024-08-25)
• What is the Vedantic approach for dealing with toxic people? (2024-08-25)
• How many times a day and for how long must nididhyasana be performed? (2024-08-25)
• Who was Swamiji’s guru and how did he meet his guru? (2024-08-25)
• Does an enlightened person feel pain? (2024-08-11)
• Is religion necessary for us to progress spiritually? (2024-08-11)
• If Ishvara doesn’t intervene, how can we seek Ishvara’s grace through prayer? (2024-08-11)
• What happens at the end of Kali Yuga? (2024-08-04)
• How can we say that we experienced deep sleep? (2024-08-04)
• If our true nature is Ananda why do we experience sadness? (2024-08-04)
• How does Advaita define what is real? (2024-08-04)
• What is the Vedic view on astrology? (2024-07-28)
• When and how do I know that I am enlightened? (2024-07-28)
• May I have Swamiji’s blessings and permission to share his teachings in Spanish? (2024-07-28)
• Why is a prayerful life important for Vedantins? (2024-07-28)
• How to practice the attitude of prasada buddhi in daily life? (2024-07-28)
• Why is there no mention of Radha in major puranic scriptures? (2024-07-21)
• How to manage anger? (2024-07-21)
• Does the requirement for celibacy contribute to the problem of sexual abuse within clergy? (2024-07-21)
• How can I satisfy my desire to become an actor while renouncing material life? (2024-07-21)
• How does all this happen in the first place? (2024-07-14)
• Why can’t I experience Satchitananda? (2024-07-14)
• How did the theory of past lives develop? (2024-07-14)
• How does a war-oriented epic like the Mahabharata convey the message of ahimsa? (2024-07-14)
• How to resolve conflicts between family responsibilities and spiritual practice? (2024-07-07)
• How to teach religion to children? (2024-07-07)
• How to deal with toxic people? (2024-06-30)
• What would qualify a student for the highest teachings of Vedanta? (2024-06-30)
• How can I overcome my obsession with worldly pursuits? (2024-06-30)
• Why does the mind snap even after raga and dvesha are defeated? (2024-06-30)
• How does the subtle body travel if it doesn’t have a container? (2024-06-30)
• How can an individual say, “I am enlightened”? (2024-06-30)
• In the Mahabharatha, why didn’t Bhishma intervene when Draupadi was being dishonored? (2024-06-23)
• How does adhyasa happen? (2024-06-23)
• How to handle a spouse’s objection to spiritual practices? (2024-06-23)
• How can Atma enliven the mind? (2024-06-23)
• How does an enlightened person break the cycle of birth and death? (2024-06-23)
• How does one overcome the pain associated with physical suffering? (2024-06-09)
• What is a spiritual way to handle competition? (2024-06-09)
• Do animals have subtle bodies? (2024-06-09)
• How can sadhakas determine that they are making progress on the path? (2024-06-02)
• How is it that the scriptures describe Atma with size? (2024-05-26)
• Where should we begin our study of Vedanta? (2024-05-19)
• Why is Atma described as ananda svarupa when Atma cannot feel ananda? (2024-05-19)
• How can I be sure that I am not the one who produces the contents of my mind? (2024-05-19)
• How could our finite mind reach the infinite? (2024-05-19)
• How is it possible for an individual born as a snake to be reborn as a human? (2024-05-19)
• How can an enlightened mind be impatient when there is perfect peace and contentment? (2024-05-19)
• How can anubhava be a reliable source of Vedantic knowledge? (2024-05-05)
• Why is there a need to renounce anything for an enlightened person? (2024-05-05)
• How can we understand ahankara in an experiential way? (2024-05-05)
• How can Vedantic teachings be brought to the forefront during challenging situations? (2024-05-05)
• Why is it so difficult to shift our identification from our body-mind to Satchitananda Atma? (2024-04-28)
• How can we detach ourselves from compulsive desires? (2024-04-28)
• How can we convert binding desires into non-binding ones? (2024-04-28)
• How do we know that there is rebirth? (2024-04-28)
• Why is the authorship of the Bhaja Govindam disputed? (2024-04-21)
• Should we accept getting robbed as Ishvara prasada? (2024-04-21)
• If animals have no free will how can they advance to a human birth later? (2024-04-21)
• Since emotion-driven behavior is natural, why shouldn’t we just accept that? (2024-04-21)
• How do young sanyasis deal with sexual temptations? (2024-04-21)
• How does an enlightened person relate to Ishvara? (2024-04-14)
• Why not just “follow our heart” while making decisions? (2024-04-14)
• How can we relate to the world in a meaningful manner without conflicting with “brahma satyam jagan mithya” of Advaita Vedanta? (2024-04-07)
• How do the terms thuriyatheetha and spanda relate to Advaita Vedanta? (2024-04-07)
• How can we say that there is no conflict between Atma and our body? (2024-04-07)
• Why can’t I resist anger, greed, fear, and material desires even after grasping Advaita Vedanta? (2024-03-31)
• How can we understand the statement that knowledge is effortless, as it applies to Vedanta? (2024-03-31)
• If we had lived an infinite number of previous lives shouldn’t we have been enlightened already? (2024-03-31)
• If human birth is the highest, how do we understand humans committing heinous crimes? (2024-03-31)
• How does Advaita refute U.G. Krishnamurti’s claim that the human body is all there is? (2024-03-31)
• Why are pious people, typically, disinclined towards gaining scriptural wisdom? (2024-03-31)
• How do we integrate the teachings of Vedanta into everyday life? (2024-01-07)
• How should we handle different interpretations of the scriptures? (2024-01-07)
• How can we respond appropriately in difficult situations? (2024-01-07)
• Why is it difficult to benefit in everyday life from Vedanta despite understanding it? (2024-01-07)
• Is it best to remain unmarried to progress spiritually? (2024-01-07)
• How can we manage our vasanas? (2024-01-07)
• How can we follow the Vedas when they condone the caste system? (2024-01-07)
• How should we understand punishments prescribed in the Manu smriti? (2024-01-07)
• What is it that distinguishes the Arsha teaching tradition from others? (2024-01-07)
• How do we deal with tragedies in life? (2024-01-07)
• If there was no first birth how can there be a last birth? (2023-12-17)
• How can spirituality help us deal with conflicts in the world? (2023-12-17)
• How can Advaita Vedanta help us overcome emotional wounds? (2023-12-17)
• What makes us forget our true nature? (2023-12-17)
• How do we balance spiritual life with day-to-day worldly life? (2023-12-17)
• Are there an infinite number of souls? (2023-12-17)
• What is the role of intuition in the discovery of our true nature? (2023-12-17)
• What is the importance of celibacy in our spiritual journey? (2023-12-10)
• Where and how can the spiritual education of one’s child be started? (2023-12-10)
• Why is our mind uncooperative? How do we get it to cooperate? (2023-12-10)
• How should we act with wisdom in a world less real than us? (2023-12-10)
• How can we develop detachment towards worldly objects? (2023-12-10)
• Doesn’t objectivity require that we speak straightforwardly regardless of how our speech may be received? Doesn’t it imply that we prioritize what we say over how we say it? (2023-12-10)
• 22:00 How to control our mind so that it is always with God?
• 52:32 Why do we esteem the wisdom of the ancient rishis more than that of modern saints?(2025-06-22)

Relationships

• What is the relationship between chidabhasa and ahankara? (2025-05-04)
• What is the relationship between chidabhasa and turiya? (2025-04-20)
• Is it mandatory for a non-sanyasi Hindu to have children? (2025-03-16)
• What is the difference between manitvam and ahankara? (2025-02-09)
• Who is a good Hindu? (2024-08-04)
• What is the relevance of Hindu rituals for departed ones? (2024-06-23)
• What is the relationship between Ishvara and free will? (2024-05-26)
• Is the word Hindu mentioned in the Vedas? (2024-05-26)
• What is the relationship between jivatma and paramatma? (2024-04-14)

Scripture & Commentaries

• Was Sri Shankara being divisive by refuting Buddhist thought? (2025-05-25)
• What is meant by the terms purusha and avyakta found in the Katha Upanishad? (2025-04-20)
• Why do different Vedantic traditions interpret the same Upanishads differently? (2025-02-16)
• How does Mandana Mishra’s approach differ from that of Sri Shankara? (2025-01-12)
• Is the term soul interchangeable with the term dehi used in the Gita? (2024-11-17)
• Why is the practice of samadhi viewed as a bondage in the Ashtavakra Gita? (2024-10-27)
• Does Sri Shankara dismiss the world as illusory? (2024-10-13)
• Is the Ashtavakra Gita a part of Vedantic teachings? (2024-08-04)
• Why does Sri Krishna declare some teachings as secret in the Uddhava Gita? (2024-06-23)
• How do Vedantins view the ISKCON criticism that Sri Shankara promoted Buddhism? (2024-06-23)
• How should sadhakas determine which version of the Bhagavad Gita is appropriate for them? (2024-06-09)
• Does the Mandukya Upanishad analyze the written symbolic representation of Om? (2024-06-09)
• In Chapter 11 of the Gita, didn’t Sri Krishna indicate that Arjuna was predestined to fight the war? (2024-06-02)
• What is the meaning of the term sankalpa mentioned in Bhagavad Gita 6.2? (2024-06-02)
• Why does the Uddhava Gita present Sri Krishna as superior to Lord Brahma? (2024-05-19)
• Did Sri Shankara author the Bhaja Govindam? (2024-04-21)
• How do we convert our study of the Bhagavad Gita into a process of self-enquiry? (2024-04-07)
• 15:41 Was Arjuna the first one to whom Sri Krishna revealed his cosmic form?(2025-06-22)

Spiritual Testimony

• Prashanto’s testimony about the benefits of Vedanta (2025-05-18)
• When does one experience paramananda? (2025-03-30)
• What is the two-step process for self-realization in Vedanta? (2024-09-29)
• Is it possible to experience pain without suffering? (2024-09-01)
• Does self-realization happen naturally? (2024-08-25)
• 28:06 Comments on anniversary celebrations (2025-06-22)

Vedantic Concepts

• Is chidabhasa a karta and bhokta? (2025-06-01)
• What precisely is sakshi bhava? (2025-05-18)
• What is pratyagatma? (2025-05-04)
• Is the concept of Ishvara made by humans? (2025-03-30)
• What is the difference between atma jnana and atma bodha? (2025-03-16)
• What is the distinction between Ishvara kotis and jiva kotis? (2025-03-02)
• Is Ishvara impersonal? (2025-01-12)
• Does Ishvara have a manifest as well as an unmanifest state? (2024-09-29)
• Did Ishvara have a purpose for creation? (2024-09-29)
• What is the difference between the Vedantic and Buddhist views on anatma? (2024-09-22)
• Is it possible to bribe Ishvara? (2024-09-22)
• What is the difference between chidabhasa and Atma? (2024-09-15)
• Are all religions man-made or are they made by Ishvara? (2024-08-11)
• Is conscious being or conscious observer the same as Sakshi/Atma? (2024-08-04)
• Don’t different subjective opinions belong to Ishvara? (2024-07-07)
• What is the difference between me and Ishvara? (2024-06-30)
• Wasn’t it unfair for Ishvara to give Vedantic wisdom only to rishis in India? (2024-06-02)
• What is Atma vichara? Do we have to be an uttama adhikari to perform Atma vichara? (2024-05-26)
• What is the difference between the terms upadhi and adhyasa? (2024-05-26)
• What is the difference between jnana and vijnana? (2024-05-05)
• Who is the doer since Atma is not the doer? (2024-04-28)
• What is the difference between the terms jiva and jivatma? (2024-04-28)
• Is everything predetermined by Ishvara? (2024-01-07)

Worldly Life

• Should I let go of my worldly ambitions and aim for a simple life? (2025-06-01)
• What to make of spiritual politics? (2025-05-04)
• What role can spirituality play in politics? (2024-11-24)
• What is the difference between religion and spirituality? (2024-09-29)
• Does it make sense to pray for a specific purpose? (2024-09-15)
• Where does the recognition of the impossibility of attaining perfect contentment through worldly achievements fit in the timeline of spiritual growth? (2024-08-25)
• Isn’t there more to the world than just names and forms? (2024-07-07)
• 19:15 Can God really talk to us?(2025-06-22)
• 29:32 Are we condoning sectarianism by acknowledging non-Advaita traditions? (2025-06-22)
• 38:57 How to understand the terrible loss of life in the recent Air India plane crash?(2025-06-22)