Swami B. V. Tripurari Live Q & A; July 31, 2022: Helping Others Make Sense of Our Tradition

Questions on today’s Swami call:

1min

What mantras would be suitable to teach at an interreligious workshop for young people?

9min

What can we reply to people of other faiths who question our faith in a personal form of God?

13min

How would you present Krishna consciousness to someone who does not believe in God?

21min

What do the terms svanistha, parinistha, and nirapeksa mean?

28min

Mahaprabhu sometimes appeared very impulsive although he is beyond mundane impulsiveness. Is this behavior a result of him being the combined form of Radha and Krsna, whereas in other yugas when Narayana appears as Gaura he would behave more sattvic?

42min

In the pastime of Maha-Vishnu stealing five children of a brahmana to get the darshan of Krishna, why did he call Krishna his expansion?

47min

What does it mean that the saves of Naimisaranya did a thousand-year sacrifice when Kali-yuga had already started? Can people leave that long in Kali-yuga?

51min

Was Maha-Vishnu feeling the ecstasy of separation from Krishna as he came from him?