Assorted Q and A
We began offering Live Help in 2003. Our collection of e-mail exchanges has since grown to include many thousands of conversations—questions and answers on a large variety of topics on the philosophy and practical application of Krishna consciousness.
Each link below represents an edited, real-life chat with a Krishna.com Live Help volunteer. Maybe you’ll find answers to your own questions here—or even things you never considered before. . .
- What happens to the soul when someone gets an artificial heart?
- What happens to the soul during heart surgery?
- How can one repent for one's past misdeeds?
- How is it possible to perceive the presence of the soul within the body?
- How to control sex desire?
- Is daily prayer really necessary?
- Transmigration and science
- Questions about the Hare Krishna movement
- Does Krishna fulfill both material and spiritual desires?
- If God is one, why do various religions so often disagree?
- Practicing Krishna consciousness without a spiritual master
- At the temple I feel Krishna conscious but outside I don't.
- How to find a spiritual master after Srila Prabhupada's departure
- Discrimination and prejudice
- How to chant with attention
- How to deal with ISKCON Internet controversies
- Who created Krishna?
- Did we go to the moon?
- Why is Krishna always naughty? Shouldn't God be good?
- Why is fasting important?
- Girlfriend not interested in Krishna consciousness
- How do you know that God exists and is known as Krishna?
- Frequency of Krishna's appearances on earth
- How to quit smoking and stop feeling depressed
- Meditation, distraction, and chanting Hare Krishna
- How to counteract the effects of materialistic music
- Too busy to chant?
- What's the mark on faces of Hare Krishna devotees?
- Since the mind gives us so much trouble, what is its real purpose?
- Why chant "Hare Krishna" and not other names of God?
- Since both animals and plants feel pain, why are Krishna devotees vegetarian?
- Could I be an initiated member of the Hare Krishna movement if I am gay and practice homosexuality?
- Jesus, Christianity, and Hell
- Does Krishna consciousness forbid marriage and sex?
- What does the swastika mean?
- Origins of scripture
- Qualifications of guru and guru worship
- Chanting and mental disturbance
- Faith and suffering
- Is following Krishna the same as following Vishnu?
- Elderly persons in the spiritual world
- Happiness, God consciousness, and material fame
- Differences between meditation and bhakti
- Idol worship, Deity worship, and hell
- Overcoming meat addiction
- Is chanting better than donating money to Krishna?
- Can I skateboard for Krishna?
- Where are the ladies?
- During Brahma's night, what happens to the living entities?
- What are the benefits of chanting and of going back to Godhead?
- Where in Srimad-Bhagavatam can I find the baby's gradual growth in the mother's womb?
- How can I do everything for Krishna and do nothing for personal gain when bills must be paid and children fed?
- Can you explain the regulative principles?
- Offering Celery, Onions, and Yeast to Krishna