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Why do some devotees see things in terms of black and white without any nuance?

While practicing bhakti, how can we avoid getting locked into our professional identity?

How to balance between following Prabhupada faithfully and adjusting to time-place-circumstances?

The essence of the spiritual world, and of spiritual life, is not location but disposition

Overcoming negative emotions 1 – Resentment

Can our anarthas be dovetailed in Krishna’s service?

Does the mind discourage the soul?

Do the different senses of the word karma come from scripture or from usage?

How can we distract ourselves from desires arising in the body such as hunger?

Developing Vaishnava qualities

Remembrance of Krishna cuts karmic bondage by providing intelligence, taste and love

Does loss of intelligence lead to control by the mind or does control by the mind lead to loss of intelligence?

When our intelligence is controlled by lust, how can it control the mind?

Why doesn’t Krishna make things easy for his devotees?

Is the opposite of gratefulness resentfulness or neglectfulness?

How can some people pass through problems without taking shelter of Krishna?

Does the media increase our negativity by focusing on problems in today’s world?

Do scientific theories disprove spiritual truths?

Is spiritual science a valid branch of science?

Three principles for controlling the mind – Intelligence, Diligence and Dependence

Even if we can’t be grateful for all circumstances, we can be grateful in all circumstances

My journey from material science to spiritual science – QA session

Are we omnivores who need to eat animals to maintain the food chain?

When we start studying Bhagavad-gita, what is the motivation for continuing to study material science?

If our family members don’t practice regulative principles, is it right to disconnect from them?

Why didn’t God create another dimension for us to enjoy?

Why can’t all realized souls join hands to demonstrate a working model of harmonious spiritual living?

Can the principles of bhakti solve the world’s practical problems?

How can we be cautious about not indulging in something without constantly thinking about it?

How is anger not just an emotion but also a thing?

Are anarthas also part of our nature?

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 4 – Understanding Pravrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 3 – Understanding Artha

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 2 – Understanding Nivrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 1 – Understanding Anartha

When repressing desires doesn’t work, what to do?

How do we balance thinking and feeling in spiritual life?

How can we be grateful to Krishna in all situations?

Does complete faith in Krishna make us fearless?

Prabhupada life-story 06 – Taking sannyasa & starting Bhagavatam commentary

If we don’t have full faith, are we hedging our bets?

Among various world religions, what is special about practicing krishna-bhakti?

Bhagavatam study 67 01.13.30-38 When it is time to renounce, embrace renunciation as a challenge and avoid discouragers

Can Krishna be interchanged with any other god as our object of worship?

How can bhakti help us overcome our emotional fears?

Do different people need different percentages of material and spiritual life?

When we ask Krishna to protect us, are we treating him as our servant, and are we advanced enough for him to intervene?

When we want to go to the spiritual world, is our devotion motivated or unmotivated?

Sharpening our focus – going beyond piety to spirituality and the mental to the spiritual

Since something I built my life on collapsed, I have started hating God – what can I do?

When we decide to change ourselves, how can we know that those changes will be for good?

Should we try to learn from our past when our perception of our past will always be distorted by our biases?

How can we identify the voices of the inner critic and the inner daredevil?

Go beyond your inner critic & your inner daredevil

Love may be unscientific, but is it unreal?

Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s presentation of devotion and of Ratha Yatra as a global festival of devotion

Is anger reduced by becoming spiritual or by developing the brain’s frontal lobe that is associated with controlling emotions?

Can there be something called spiritual science?

Love of God may just be a sentiment in some religions – how can we know it is for real?

Scientists are often aesthetic people and religion has often caused persecution and violence – how to understand?

FEAR acronym – Learning to deal with our fears

Should devotees do sandhya as a daily sadhana as per their family tradition?

Why does our mind dwell more on painful memories than on joyful memories?

We talk a lot about practicing bhakti, but not about practicing morality – why?

When faced with problems, how to decide how many solutions to try out?

If someone chants a lot of rounds, but doesn’t behave properly with their spouse, how do we understand?

Do gopis know Krishna’s future pastimes?

I desire to start a new business – is this desire compatible with bhakti?

The jnanis concepton of the Absolute Truth lacks potency – please explain?

How can we have steady faith that Krishna cares for us?

Deal with desire not by indulgence or resistance but by intelligence and transcendence

Cultivate not just factual memories but also emotional memories

Gopi Gita 3 – “We cannot tolerate your feet being hurt by thorns – please return”

How can the gopis become proud?

Gopi Gita 2 – “You alone can free us from contamination and tribulation – please return”

Prabhupada life-story 05 – Indian Partition – Transcendence amidst turbulence

Did Krishna appear in Mathura or in both Mathura and Vrindavan?

Gopi Gita 1 – “Whoever you are – Lord or lover – please come back”

How can ghosts, being subtle, act on gross objects as when opening doors or breaking things?

When ghosts have only subtle bodies, how can they be seen by humans?

Are increased natural calamities due to climate change or bad karma?

Desires exhaust us, but remain inexhaustible themselves

Understanding and fulfilling the Bhagavatam’s purpose by cultivating sensitivity

Bhagavatam study 66 01.13.24-29 Detachment emerges from education that changes our definition of success

The Bhagavad-gita is a yoga text for emotional empowerment

Change your inner world to change your outer world

Improving Japa 2 – Concentrate by cultivating interest and appreciating importance

Improving Japa 1 – Understand how and when we get distracted

How can we be more and more in the present?

If someone has hurt us grievously, what should we do?

Should we learn from the past or consider that whatever happened is God’s will?

Cultists, Fanatics and Spiritual Shoppers – Making sense of the world’s religious scenario

When waves of desire come suddenly, do they have some rational cause?

When, because of our bhakti principles, we can’t eat the food offered by our relatives, how can we avoid alienating them from bhakti?

Temptation is caused not so much by perception as by provocation

Six loving exchanges – Opening the heart and reciprocating with the opened heart

We are defined by the questions we ask – in life, in science and in spirituality

Prabhupada life-story 04 – League of Devotees – A clique thwarts the promise

Irrational irritability results from indiscriminate sensuality

Can machines think?