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LIGHT acronym – 5 Meditations on Diwali

Demystifying Reincarnation 19 – Reincarnation reveals justice amidst injustice

Prabhupada life-story 10 – How Krishna set the stage for Prabhupada

My husband doesn’t oppose my bhakti, but he wants me to take interest in worldly things that I have lost interest in – what should I do?

If my counselor breaks a regulative principle, how do I maintain my faith?

Equality beyond equality

GIRI acronym – 4 lessons from Govardhana lila

Demystifying Reincarnation 18 – Common Questions about Reincarnation

If our past bad relationships make us averse to exploring new relationships, what should we do?

How can we emotionally accept that people who treat us like crap are delivering us our past karma?

How can we overcome the expectation of apology from someone who has hurt us?

What are the precursors to anger – how can we know that we are likely to explode at someone?

How can we preach with sincere devotees who are desensitized to newcomers’ sensitivities?

Overcoming negative emotions 4 – Overcoming anger through forgiveness

The need for appropriate adaptors when transmitting the current of bhakti

Demystifying Reincarnation 17 – The Mechanism of Reincarnation

If circumstances make following bhakti principles impossible, what should we do?

When our emotions come in the way of our bhakti practices, what can we do?

In youth, how much should we be preparing for our career and how much focusing on devotional growth?

How much should we restrict our children from hearing mundane music?

How can we prioritize our services, when we have limited time?

Does bhakti practice free us from past bad karma?

Advancing spiritually at our pace, from our place by understanding the power, principle and process of krishna-bhakti

Demystifying Reincarnation 16 – The soul’s defining characteristics and levels of consciousness

Will Krishna help us out of a situation that we have got in because of our own desires?

Worldly intoxication and devotional intoxication differ in consciousness, content and consequence

Demystifying Reincarnation 15 – The Gita’s model of the self and its explanatory potential

How can we avoid judging ourselves?

How can we deal with self-doubt?

What does it mean to be consistently content with the self?

If we see patterns similar to a failed relationship in a new relationship, how can we avoid becoming pessimistic?

Devotion doesn’t restrict us – it empowers us

The Spirit of Diwali – Light the inner lamp to see beyond the painkiller of entertainment to the cure of devotion

Demystifying Reincarnation 14 – Reincarnation in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism

Understanding Gita Wisdom – Interview on People of Bhakti at Bhakti Radio Network

If a relative of mine is getting influenced by Christian missionary propaganda, what should I do?

How can we develop our relationship with Krishna without minimizing the position of the guru?

If a child becomes orphaned because the parents commit suicide, is that because of the child’s destiny or the parents’ misuse of free will?

Where can I get mantra diksha?

Do we need to know God before we can have faith in him?

What does it mean to serve the Lord?

How does one find a spiritual path?

Demystifying Reincarnation 13 – Reincarnation accepted across history and geography

What is the role of religion in today’s world?

Is hypnotic regression to past lives for real?

The missing self in the selfie

How do we explain the non-physical is differentiated as the mind and the soul?

How do we help people who hold that nature is their god?

Gita 02.20-30 Go beyond lamentation by understanding the eternality of the soul and the multiplicity of its reincarnations

How the Universal Form makes Krishna accessible

Prabhupada life-story 09 – Alone and unaided in an alien land

Overcoming negative emotions 3 – Fear

Understanding religion and bhakti in the three modes

Just as Nalakuvera-Manigriva were given remembrance their past lives, why can’t we be given remembrance of our past lives?

When is violence justified – how is the Gita’s war different from modern World Wars?

If our intelligence can never supersede Krishna’s intelligence, how can our will supersede his will – how can we act independent of him?

If we don’t have gratitude, how does it matter in bhakti?

Just as Krishna gives conviction to different people to worship different devatas, does he give different devotees conviction to serve him in different ways?

How to overcome lust or material desire

Is our free will infinite, just the facility to fulfill it is finite?

If my chanting remains inattentive despite my best effort, am I being offensive?

Can those who have more material desires not come in Krishna’s gravity pull?

If we feel that Krishna is not reciprocating, should we intensify our devotion?

Stories about Krishna remain the same, whereas new stories about fictional heroes keep coming up – how then are Krishna stories ever-new?

Material entertainment requires no thinking, spiritual entertainment requires deep thinking – are the two comparable?

Can unconscious people hear the holy name?

To which level of reality are people with Alzheimer’s escaping?

How the fictional points to the spiritual

QA on dealing with material desires, excessive workload, inattentiveness in chanting and other bhakti principles

Understanding the spiritual world, the power of bhakti and Narottama Das Thakura’s contribution to the bhakti tradition

What is the difference between believing a half-man half-lion and believing a half-man half-spider?

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 5

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 4

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 3

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 2

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 1

Should medicines be used to treat depression?

If negative events cause a panic attack, what can we do?

Our survival instinct tells us to avoid pain, whereas austerity means to accept pain – how to decide what to do?

Should we be simply attached to the principle of service or to specific services according to our nature?

Ramayana reflections – Maricha represents worship in fear

Damodara lila analysis – Going beyond cultural conceptions to spiritual revelation

How our vision alters our perception – Gita study 01.24-36

Overcoming negative emotions 2 – Depression

Is Krishna-bhakti universal when it is so specific?

Prabhupada life-story 08 – Journey on Jaladuta – Physically demanding, Divinely revealing

How can we deal with gossipy or critical family members?

What is the difference between greed and ambition?

What role does sleep play on the spiritual path?

Can we see the future in our dreams?

How do some people get guidance in the state of being half-awake, half-asleep?

What is the source of the programming we have?

When our emotions don’t keep pace with our convictions, as when facing adversities, what can we do?

What we can learn from our dreams

Science, Spirituality & Self-improvement

As most people nowadays are born without any garbhadhana samskara will the world soon be filled with people in ignorance?

Are religious rituals entirely separate from philosophy – why do different religions have different rituals?

Is the caste system wrong?

Might our sense of right and wrong be something created by society to check our biological urges?

Might our desire for eternal life come from our experience of an external long-living object not from an eternal soul?