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Social · 212 questions

Everything related to social interactions (ISKCON issues go here too).

Best Possible Jobs for DevoteesSocial 1 answers · 2011-01-12 jew kirtan - please hear and commentSocial 2 answers · 2010-12-14 Should one ever deliberately avoid (otherwise suitable) devotees?Social 16 answers · 2010-12-10 Should devotees try to make up for peoples bad first impressions of KC/devotees?Social 20 answers · 2010-12-09 How much has been spent on the planetarium so far?Social 3 answers · 2010-12-06 How to reply to a devotee who "seeks to be of some service"?Social 5 answers · 2010-11-17 Where to find KC material pdf/audio/etc. for children on net?Social 1 answers · 2010-09-01 Tomorrow is Janmastami and Vaishnava Calendar reminder sent me no reminder.Why?Social 15 answers · 2010-08-31 Is Acyutananda S. back?Social 4 answers · 2010-08-28 Where can I find other devotees that are working on preaching videos?Social 3 answers · 2010-08-26 When devotees preach to people, what do they expect/demand from them?Social 3 answers · 2010-08-01 Is it moral to collect thousands using the food for life lines...Social 13 answers · 2010-07-28 ISKCON and the Organisation led by Sri Madhu Pandit DasaSocial 73 answers · 2010-07-08 Srila Prabhupadas childrenSocial 3 answers · 2010-07-05 resistances from relativesSocial 19 answers · 2010-06-22 Socialising with non devoteesSocial 6 answers · 2010-06-17 What is spiritual abuse and how to deal with it?Social 18 answers · 2010-05-31 What do you think of a new preaching center?Social 0 answers · 2010-05-06 Child AbuseSocial 9 answers · 2010-04-18 Is Garbhadana Samskara auspicious during Purushottam Maas?Social 1 answers · 2010-04-16 relationships with non-devoteesSocial 17 answers · 2010-04-13 Alfred brush fordSocial 4 answers · 2010-04-04 What is your favourite George Harrison Song?Social 3 answers · 2010-03-11 How do we deal with the management machine?iskcon or gaudiya !Social 25 answers · 2010-02-28 Is ISKCON progressing or going down?Social 5 answers · 2010-02-20 What do you think of this list?Social 0 answers · 2010-02-17 If non-devotees have a complaint regarding devotee conduct, what should they do?Social 1 answers · 2010-01-22 Are ISKCON Laws and other formal/legislative info available online?Social 10 answers · 2010-01-22 Sould OCHS be allowed to raise money in ISKCON?Social 3 answers · 2010-01-18 How does one get to know someone?Social 2 answers · 2010-01-13 PADASocial 20 answers · 2010-01-12 Siddhaswarupananda ParamahamsaSocial 125 answers · 2009-12-08 Vaisnava etiquette specific for some languages (German, French, Spanish, Slavic languages ...)?Social 6 answers · 2009-12-03 PatriotismSocial 8 answers · 2009-12-03 Should we have liberal spiritualismmarriages....as proponded by Hridayanada maharaja.?Social 17 answers · 2009-11-20 When is someone too slow?Social 13 answers · 2009-11-19 What exactly is respect?Social 61 answers · 2009-11-15 What constitutes being a member of ISKCON?Social 120 answers · 2009-11-15 Who is running Sampradaya Sun?Social 3 answers · 2009-11-11 Non-ISKCON devotees in ISKCON?Social 12 answers · 2009-11-11 What are the childs duties to parents?Social 4 answers · 2009-11-07 Is Vrajabhumi of Hare Krishna Women blog is actually... an ISKCON swami?Social 8 answers · 2009-11-04 Where can I find ISKCON promotion material?Social 1 answers · 2009-11-04 ReligionSocial 6 answers · 2009-11-02 Is sun sampradaya trafficking in vaisnava aparadha?Social 191 answers · 2009-11-02 Is it wrong to require an explanation for an instruction?Social 14 answers · 2009-10-26 Legal age gapSocial 8 answers · 2009-10-26 What are the "killer questions"?Social 13 answers · 2009-10-24 How to make someone believe that Krishna is the supreme?Social 12 answers · 2009-09-17 Which functions are allowable within the temple room?Social 1 answers · 2009-09-11 Whats the origin of: "With an instruction comes the ability to carry out that instruction."Social 4 answers · 2009-09-09 iskcon bangalore under scanner because of fraudSocial 2 answers · 2009-08-02 Can guru say some things that Krsna says, but take from other places also?Social 4 answers · 2009-08-01 Support Needed for Book DistributionSocial 0 answers · 2009-07-21 Good Place to order a HarmoniumSocial 1 answers · 2009-06-24 Initiation outside of ISKCON, how do we react? DHSocial 7 answers · 2009-06-07 Arent these guys the real GBC?Social 3 answers · 2009-04-22 Anybody see the Obama Deception?Social 3 answers · 2009-04-16 Video: If atheists ruled the worldSocial 3 answers · 2009-04-04 Are we going rapidly towards a 1984 style society?Social 2 answers · 2009-03-29 What lessons have you learned from devotees?Social 7 answers · 2009-03-23 How to survive in ISKCONSocial 19 answers · 2009-03-23 Why did they bury Srila Puri Maharaja?Social 6 answers · 2009-03-22 Is anyone interested in running notdandavats,wordpress blog?Social 5 answers · 2009-03-22 What is the thing you like the most about ISKCON?Social 10 answers · 2009-03-19 Did you ever read Euro-GBC resolutions..?Social 3 answers · 2009-03-07 Obama got our Gita!Social 5 answers · 2009-03-05 The "I am a Prabhupada disciple" cardSocial 98 answers · 2009-02-28 Who is your favorite sannyasi?Social 13 answers · 2009-02-28 should known criminals like convicted senior devotees be allowed in the temples?Social 12 answers · 2009-02-24 Would you reinvent the Sunday Feast?Social 1 answers · 2009-02-06 Ill gotten gains - money in the material lifeSocial 7 answers · 2009-01-27 You may be a Hare Krishna fanatic if ...Social 4 answers · 2009-01-17 The Hoodilidoo festival in Herod IllinoisSocial 0 answers · 2009-01-16 Vaisnavas writing autobiographiesSocial 5 answers · 2009-01-08 Why sannyasis and stalwart devotees do not show here at pariprashnena?Social 21 answers · 2008-12-14 What to do with parent with Alzheimers?Social 3 answers · 2008-11-24 Do you think Iskcon leaders handle it well in Puris Pandas dispute?Social 4 answers · 2008-11-15 To vote or not to vote...Social 20 answers · 2008-10-31 Should children in gurukulas be allowed to play with children of congregational devotees?Social 40 answers · 2008-10-09 What is going on in the world?Social 2 answers · 2008-09-30 Beware! The fault-findersSocial 15 answers · 2008-09-27 Sadaputas disappearanceSocial 16 answers · 2008-09-26 Is liking rock music compatible with being a leader in KC?Social 8 answers · 2008-09-19 Maintaining a petSocial 14 answers · 2008-09-18 Solving disagreementSocial 18 answers · 2008-09-02 Which of your comments dandavats did not post?Social 14 answers · 2008-08-28 Whereabouts of Atma Tattva DasSocial 1 answers · 2008-08-25 Ambarish on the temple design... comments?Social 21 answers · 2008-08-25 Best ISKCON centreSocial 6 answers · 2008-07-23 Traditional tunes or bollywood tunes?Social 1 answers · 2008-07-19 Is there a way to know ones varna qualities?Social 2 answers · 2008-07-16 Why not blue? Take a pick...Social 0 answers · 2008-07-16 Umapati Swami updateSocial 5 answers · 2008-07-03 Is zonal acharya system still in effect in ISKCON?Social 47 answers · 2008-07-01 Is your temple located near a nursing home?Social 0 answers · 2008-06-27 Does the sum of (respected) conditioned souls GBC make an infallible body?Social 3 answers · 2008-06-24 How to deal with irresponsible "transcendental" parents?Social 5 answers · 2008-06-24 Trading free tickets for Six Flags for money: Sin or not?Social 2 answers · 2008-06-24 Is this the end of the GBC?Social 8 answers · 2008-06-22 If you change the books we will not distribute them!!!Social 1 answers · 2008-06-17 How do you avoid karmi activities at workplace ?Social 8 answers · 2008-06-17 Male GenderSocial 4 answers · 2008-06-14 Saturn in the Twelth HouseSocial 6 answers · 2008-06-10 Is this website suitable for devotees looking for a marriage partnerSocial 0 answers · 2008-06-09 Will indirect preaching lead to a frustation like Vyasadevas?Social 24 answers · 2008-06-05 Men treating all women, except their wife, as motherSocial 6 answers · 2008-06-05 Who is Superior Guru or GBC?Social 4 answers · 2008-06-02 what is GBCs "job description"?Social 6 answers · 2008-06-02 Problems of successionSocial 19 answers · 2008-05-31 The dilemmna of Mixed motivationsSocial 2 answers · 2008-05-31 Cow killed illegally in ManorSocial 2 answers · 2008-05-29 What is the procedure in ISKCON for a grhastha to take up sannyasaSocial 6 answers · 2008-05-29 Are you a happy grhasta?Social 1 answers · 2008-05-21 Was SP told of the abuse in the gurukuls in 1972?Social 4 answers · 2008-05-21 What do you think about GBC Resolution 311 - to annotate and "explain" SP`s books?Social 95 answers · 2008-05-15 Have you met any scientologist?Social 2 answers · 2008-05-15 Is this statement in the constitution draft dangerous for ISKCON society?Social 24 answers · 2008-05-04 Do you enjoy gossip?Social 5 answers · 2008-04-23 Management in Krishna consciousnessSocial 4 answers · 2008-04-13 What is Bhaktivedanta Archives in relationship with BBT(i)Social 21 answers · 2008-04-07 Can a person preach separated from ISKCON authority line and have success?Social 1 answers · 2008-04-07 LostSocial 10 answers · 2008-04-04 Why did the ritviks tell my Guru to kill himself?Social 15 answers · 2008-03-25 What do you answer when nondevotees ask what your "religion" is?Social 4 answers · 2008-03-25 What do you think about the guru training program suggested by some devotees?Social 7 answers · 2008-03-11 Is Boy George a devotee or what?Social 4 answers · 2008-02-29 Should we apply "api cet suduracaro" to all devotees?Social 5 answers · 2008-02-27 Have you ever visited the North Carolina Temple?Social 11 answers · 2008-02-20 How to convince others of ISKCON - outsidersSocial 4 answers · 2008-02-19 Better and effective Preaching techniquesSocial 1 answers · 2008-02-19 How do we cure ISKCONs internal Political diseaseSocial 19 answers · 2008-02-19 ISKCONs Public trust and internal diseaseSocial 10 answers · 2008-02-18 Are the present "Gurus" Uttama Adhikari?"Social 146 answers · 2008-02-16 Tips on decorating altarsSocial 10 answers · 2008-01-18 Srila Prabhupads ChildrenSocial 4 answers · 2008-01-07 Is it ok for devotees to celebrate Christmas or not?Social 8 answers · 2007-12-29 The Virtual Temple - chantingSocial 7 answers · 2007-12-20 How relevant is ritual in our culture?Social 6 answers · 2007-12-14 Sivarama Swami Katyayani-vrata: Bring back Gopi Bhava Club?Social 8 answers · 2007-12-14 Is divorce frowned upon in Krishna Consciousness?Social 2 answers · 2007-12-07 Is it proper to celebrate Diwali in ISKCON centers?Social 17 answers · 2007-11-17 Are Farm communities meant for the Information Age?Social 5 answers · 2007-11-07 Who is your favorite blogger?Social 11 answers · 2007-11-05 What is the most promising country or city in the world,regarding Krishna Consciousness?Social 5 answers · 2007-11-01 Is there an Iskcon devotee or anyone expert in Vedic economics?Social 5 answers · 2007-10-30 can you please list transcendental external signs of Srila Prabhupada..?Social 0 answers · 2007-10-27 Who is managing the BBT at present?Social 29 answers · 2007-10-24 Should all temples and centres publish a monthly financial report to all members?Social 3 answers · 2007-10-21 What do you think of GALVA?Social 5 answers · 2007-10-19 How to deal with meat-eating parents or family members?Social 10 answers · 2007-10-19 Wanted: Accomodation in VrindavanSocial 0 answers · 2007-10-19 Should there be a yearly public world report of Iskcons acheivements from all countries?Social 8 answers · 2007-10-17 How many practicing devotees are there in the world?Social 18 answers · 2007-10-15 Interesting films from Govindas,Australia.Social 7 answers · 2007-10-15 Why do devotees become so political?Social 15 answers · 2007-10-12 Should a book be published with all ISKCON horror stories?Social 23 answers · 2007-10-12 should a confirmed child abuser sit on a vyasasana in this lifetime?Social 22 answers · 2007-10-12 Why perpetuate the nonsense activities of the past?Social 11 answers · 2007-10-11 Hare Krishna Mandir Tirupati guest houseSocial 2 answers · 2007-10-08 should a temple president and authorities honor prasadam with devotees at common facilities?Social 7 answers · 2007-10-08 What do you think of courses or seminars [all paid] to improve Maha Mantra chanting?Social 36 answers · 2007-10-07 Ways to inundate the internet with KCSocial 8 answers · 2007-10-05 Will discussion on varnasrama-dharma actually produce any tangible results?Social 13 answers · 2007-10-05 How can one give long term support to serious criminals and still become a GBC or guru?Social 119 answers · 2007-10-05 Why is Bhakta Corey a member & contributor of a website he publicly condemns?Social 4 answers · 2007-10-03 Is Pariprashnena a fringie site?Social 49 answers · 2007-10-02 Why Srila Prabhupadas tapes and original BBT transcripts are not available to devotees?Social 29 answers · 2007-09-25 What would Lord Caitanya do if coming personally among us, now...Social 11 answers · 2007-09-23 Do you know a temple shop selling questionable items?Social 1 answers · 2007-09-19 Do you know a temple doing ostensible demigod worship?Social 2 answers · 2007-09-19 any details of hare krishna centre in dubaiSocial 3 answers · 2007-09-16 Which "sinister movement" caused Iskcons degradation?Social 35 answers · 2007-09-14 "never leave ISKCON" instruction discussionSocial 23 answers · 2007-09-10 What about a prize -giving organisation to design the most Krsna Conscious community or country intSocial 2 answers · 2007-09-07 Moving Janmastami..Really?Social 3 answers · 2007-09-04 Are there pure devotees in ISKCON?Social 26 answers · 2007-09-01 Do you believe what you read on newspapers?Social 5 answers · 2007-09-01 Is there a good flow of information between leaders and us?Social 8 answers · 2007-09-01 Why are BBT book prices generally so high?Social 15 answers · 2007-08-30 what is the difference between BBT and BBTi ?Social 14 answers · 2007-08-30 is it OK for a grhasta to make a living on book distribution?Social 1 answers · 2007-08-30 Why is the GBC a seperately registered society?Social 3 answers · 2007-08-30 One of my favorite devotee blogsSocial 3 answers · 2007-08-28 who is your favorite pariprashnena user?Social 11 answers · 2007-08-27 interestSocial 3 answers · 2007-08-27 what is your favorite devotional video?Social 7 answers · 2007-08-27 Does the "Direction of Management" (DOM) document apply today?Social 43 answers · 2007-08-26 they mention us hereSocial 5 answers · 2007-08-26 Is it ok for Iskcon GBC members to promote material culture ?Social 37 answers · 2007-08-24 indirect preaching outreachSocial 4 answers · 2007-08-24 How do ISKCON devotees become living gurus ?Social 19 answers · 2007-08-23 is sampradaya sun a ritvik site?Social 120 answers · 2007-08-23 Site demographicsSocial 0 answers · 2007-08-19 why usually only new devotees go on Harinam party?Social 1 answers · 2007-08-19 interested in online preaching coordination?Social 69 answers · 2007-08-18 How hard is it to start a preaching program?Social 11 answers · 2007-08-17 are book changes OK?Social 51 answers · 2007-08-17 Why Chakra.org and Dandavats.com refuse to publish a link...Social 8 answers · 2007-08-16 Which should be the first priority for a temple president?Social 18 answers · 2007-08-16 ISKCON Constitution ComiteeSocial 36 answers · 2007-08-16 should sunday feast be charged?Social 37 answers · 2007-08-16 Does Iskcon really exist?Social 27 answers · 2007-08-15 Why is book distribution dead nowadays?Social 35 answers · 2007-08-15 Is OK devotees enrol as Marines and fight?Social 41 answers · 2007-08-15 Why do ISKCON authorities dissapoint so often?Social 17 answers · 2007-08-14 is the sannyasi ISKCON guru in the parampara?Social 14 answers · 2007-08-14 Devotees who falsely ask for food for life donationsSocial 19 answers · 2007-08-14 what is your personal approach when talking to christians?Social 16 answers · 2007-08-12 Do matajis like being called Prabhu?Social 24 answers · 2007-07-30 Paying obeisances to child abusersSocial 33 answers · 2007-07-29 What do you think is the most important social issue today in ISKCON?Social 40 answers · 2007-07-24

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