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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 52 – 10.9.13-17 Krishna’s form appears finite but is infinite

Is not trusting those who have cheated us a weakness of the mind?

Understanding, identifying and managing the mind

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 51 – 10.9.7.12 Yashoda catches the Lord whom the yogis can’t catch

If good karma can’t change bad karma, how does atonement work?

If Krishna already knew that Duryodhana wasn’t going to agree to peace, then did Duryodhana have free will to choose?

Bhagavatam transforms intensity of distress into velocity in devotion

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 50 -10.9.1-6 Yashoda demonstrates the same bhakti perfection as does Arjuna

If Duryodhana was generous enough to give the arrows to Arjuna why was he so hateful?

Overcoming negative emotions 2 – Acceptance, Aspiration, Analysis, Action

Overcoming negative emotions 1 – Explanation, Experimentation, Evaluation, Elevation

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 49 – 10.8.46-52 Transcendental and contextual explanations for the fortune of Nanda and Yashoda

Is our definition of happiness depriving us of happiness – Having, Doing, Being

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 48 – 10.8.42-45 Yashoda makes sense of the incomprehensible by taking shelter of the transcendental Lord

Understanding rasa-lila 8 – Appreciating Krishna’s mystifying reciprocation

How Gita wisdom addresses mental health problems

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 47 – 10.8.32-41 Krishna shows the universe in his mouth once again

Doesn’t the universal form vision indicate that the war was destined?

Was the Kurukshetra war Krishna’s plan?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 46 – 10.8.26-31 Vraja ladies complain about Krishna’s pranks cheerfully

Understanding Rasa-lila 7 – Gopi-gita 3

Understanding Rasa-lila 6 – Gopi-gita 2

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 45 – 10.8.20-25 Krishna’s childhood activities fill Vraja ladies with anxiety and ecstasy

Does Gita 6.28 refer to brahman or to bhakti to bhagavan? (Bhagavad-gita)

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 44 – 10.8.13.19 Garga conceals and reveals Krishna’s identity

Why is Kurukshetra known as Dharma-kshetra – why was it chosen as the venue for the Mahabarata war?

Understanding Rasa-lila 5 – Gopi-gita 1

Radhashtami class – Radharani demonstrates selfless love and blesses us with selfless love

Understanding Rasa-lila 4 – Radharani’s apparent pride expresses her selfless love

How the Bhagavad-gita’s first and last words reflect its empowering message

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 43 – 10.8.7-12 Religious celebration is meant for spiritual purification, not social congregation

Why does Western science find it so difficult accept the concept of the soul?

Understanding rasa-lila 3 – Arrogance keeps us locked in ourselves, both apara-dharma and para-dharma get us out of ourselves

Seeing Krishna’s mercy amidst adversity – Bali M pastime analysis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 42 – 10.8.1-6 The saintly come to the worldly to expand the consciousness of the wordly

Should we be attached to or affectionate to our spiritual master?

Understanding rasa-lila 2- How Bhagavatam establishes para-dharma without trivializing apara-dharma

What is the difference between attachment and affection?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 41 – 10.7.31-37 Krishna’s first revelation of the universe in his mouth

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 40 – 10.7.27-30 Krishna silences Trinavarta to minimize anxiety for Vrajavasis

Does reading on the net decrease the quality of reading?

Understanding rasa-lila 1 – How the supreme Shelter (Ashraya) becomes sheltered (Ashrita)

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 39 – 10.7.19-26 Krishna protects Yashoda before tackling Trinavarta

In the Daksha-Shiva conflict, why did Shiva not clarify to Daksha about why he hadn’t offered respects?

Gita 18.78 The Gita’s purpose is not just to proclaim God’s position but primarily to transform man’s disposition

Analyze, Accept, Act – 3 principles for dealing with negativity

Does repeated exposure to something we are averse always increase our aversion – doesn’t krishna-bhakti taste like poison initially and nectar eventually?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 38 – 10.7.13-18 The potency of blessings increases with the purity of the blesser

Gita 18.77 Recollecting Krishnas universal form stimulates wonder in some and fear in others

Is having negative opinions about others a subtle form of Vaishnava apradha?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 37 – 10.7.7-12 Vrajavasis try to protect the one who protects everyone

Gita 18.76 The Gita’s conversation is memorable and relishable

Share the spiritual treasure with the world – SHARE acronym

Bringing out the best within us

Making healthy choices

If a devotee girl has to marry a nondevotee boy, what can she do to protect her devotion?

Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita’s wisdom

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 36 – 10.7.1-6 Krishna’s childhood pastimes are both entertaining and enlightening

Overcoming negative emotions

Growing through adversities

What is destiny?

Why didn’t Indra become sober even after Govardhana lila?

Gita 18.74 The Gita describes a mahatama and makes its hearer into a mahatma

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 35 – 10.6.35-44 Bhagavatam highlights the extraordinariness of the Vrajavasis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 34 – 10.6.24-34 Contact with Krishna is miraculously purifying

Gita 18.73 Harmony with the divine infuses our fleeting insignificant lives with lasting significance

How could Samba abduct Lakshmana against her will?

How can we process criticism without feeling hurt?

Gita 18.72 A philosophical conversation amidst emotional tribulation testifies to Arjuna’s sincerity and Krishna’s potency

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 33 – 10.6.15-23 The Vrajavasis invoke God for the protection of God

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 32 – 10.6.7-14 Putana deceived the Vrajavasis, but Krishna deceived her

If we are criticized, should we neglect it or try to correct ourselves?

Gita 18.71 Krishna compassionately offers connections at decreasing levels of commitment

Appreciating Prabhupada’s sacrifice, wisdom and legacy

If we resentful towards some other devotee, how can we overcome the resentment?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 31 – 10.6.1-6 Sukadeva G reveals the spoiler to relieve Parikshit M anxiety

Does the mind have any power to change reality or does everything happen according to karma?

Gita 18.70 See the sanctity of Gita study in terms of intent, content and result

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 4 – How Krishna appears in Vrindavan

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 3 – How Krishna appears in Mathura

Gita 18.69 See the superlative as an exhortation to devotional action

If gender is a biological feature, then why are some men feminist and some women masculine?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 30 – 10.5.26-32 Relationships are the foundational wealth that is essential for anything to be enjoyable

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 2 – How Krishna freed the princesses from Naraka

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 1 – How Krishna freed the kings from Jarasandha and how Krishna frees us

In taking care of people’s emotional needs, isn’t there a danger of deviating from the spiritual?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 29 – 10.5.21-25 See adversities as actions of destiny to stay composed

If bhakti practice and devotee association agitates our mind, can we practice bhakti in isolation?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 28 – 10.5.15-20 When Krishna came to Vraja, so did the goddess of fortune

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 27 – 10.5.7-14 Krishna’s birth floods Vraja with joy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 26 – 10.5.1-6 Let celebration center on purification, not gratification

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 25 – 10.4.38-46 Bad disposition with bad association is brutally bad

Gita 18.68 The bhakti cure cures more those who share the cure more

Where does hostility towards God and the godly come from?

Does God suffer?

Gita 18.67 Though ultimately every heart longs for divine love, not every heart is presently ready for divine love

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 24 – 10.4.25-37 Kamsa’s change of heart doesn’t last for long

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 23 – 10.4.17.24 Others’ past bad karma doesn’t rationalize our present misdeeds towards them

Are all of God’s names the same or are there gradations of intimacy?

Gita 18.66 The call to rise above dharma is not a call to slip below dharma