Question: How can there be samanjasa rati [selfless love satisfying worldly standards of righteous conduct], and sadharani rati [related to one’s desire to receive happiness from the Lord] in the spiritual world while Rupa Gosvami said there are personal desires involved? Can persons with personal desires live in the spiritual world? Anwer: The Queens are
Question: Does Yashoda know that Krishna is God? Answer: There is no need for her to know it. There is stage of consciousness in which someone is not interested to know it. The first stage is to know God, and the need love of Him, but at a more advanced level God isn’t anymore God
Question: In Srimad Bhagavat 8.21.16-17, it is said that Jay and Vijay combatted the demons [outside of Vaikuntha]. In his tika, Sri Visvanatha Cakravartipad says – jaya-vijaya iti bhagavato brahmaNyatvasya bhaktAnAm aparAdha-vibhISikAyAz ca pradarzanArtham evAnayoH prakAzAv eva vaikuNThAd adhaH petatur iti tRtIye vaikuNTha-varNana eva vyAkhyAtam Does the word prakAzau mean that Jay and Vijaya were
Question: Why do we practice vegetarianism? In the material world, we’re caught in a situation where we must kill to eat. This is unavoidable. So the restriction is not on killing but rather on the eating of animal flesh. Why is that? Is there a perceivable reason and/or benefit behind this sanction on meat? Answer:
Question: We have many cases of interpretations where acharyas differ from each other, or where they give additional information not mentioned in shastra. What exactly is the criterion for accepting such accounts, besides the general principle to stick to what our own line is teaching? To give an example, Rupa Goswami explains in Laghu-bhagavatamrita that
Question: Now we are in a state which can be compared to exile, where material and spiritual eyes are mixed. Was there a time that we were not in confusion? Why are we are in that condition now? Answer: There are certain things that have no beginning. We have the experience that things in this
Question: I understand that it is intoxicating and thereby leads towards other activities that could cause bondage and I also recognize that being ”in” a body of senses enjoyment is unavoidable. Indeed the aim is to make sense enjoyment spiritual by enjoying with Krishna but does this extend to all forms of enjoyment – for
