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Is Chitraketu’s accepting Parvati’s curse even when he was not at fault meant to instruct us to accept whatever happens to us – Hindi?

How can we fix the mind on the heart – Hindi?

If justice needs to be seen to be done, how does this apply when karmic justice gives us results for unknown actions – Hindi?

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi

How do we deal with over-expecting parents who ask why we have got 95 marks out of 100, not 100

Can our material progress and spiritual progress go together

How is the world meant to allow both theists and atheists to justify their beliefs

Is it right to blame others for our failure

Do our stars determine whether we become spiritual

4 lessons about our mind from our phone – Distortion, Discretion, Determination, Devotion

When too many spiritual apps, sites and books confuse us about what to read or hear, what to do?

If someone likes to practice bhakti in solitary devotional activities, will they advance more slowly?

If our family attachments impede our spiritual advancement, how can we be detached and still be responsible?

Live from #FB Bandstand Q&A on reincarnation with Chaitanya Charan Das

When problems trouble us and we can’t put our heart in our service, what can we do?

How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

While studying in college, how can we not identify ourselves as students?

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

When we practice bhakti culture in our temples or youth centers, are we not practicing spiritual bhakti?

On holy days, if new people can either fast or do service, what should we encourage them to do?

If our past bad habits keep dragging us down, what should we do?

Can we get tangible results in bhakti, as we get in our worldly relationships?

How can we explain philosophy to those who don’t accept the authority of scripture?

If spirituality tells us to fast and science tells us to not fast, what should we do?

Should we be detached from feeling happy when we chant well?

Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti, philosophical bhakti, spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

If while chanting some bad thoughts come in our mind, is that a sin?

In our offices, how can we be socially involved in contemporary discussions without getting spiritually distracted?

Does humility mean feeling that we are fallen or does it mean not letting our ego come int the way of our service?

Meditation on Kaliya lila – Devotion grants access to a rich panorama of divine emotions

When the gopis criticize Akrura for taking Krishna away, are they not offending Akrura?

If a devotee repeatedly struggles in different services, how can we engage that devotee?

If the expansion of our consciousness stops with humanity, will it reach Krishna?

How can we keep fighting against our senses till we get Krishna’s mercy?

One moon is better than a thousand stars – what does this imply in terms of outreach strategies?

Akrura Katha 2 – Devotional disposition in association deepens our devotion

Akrura Katha 1 – When no one understands us, Krishna understands

Understanding our unprecedented vulnerability to temptation

Addressing the fear of war breaking out

When we can study scripture without doing the Bhakti Shastri course, why is the course needed?

How can we better remember philosophical points and scriptural verses?

How exactly were we created?

Is remembering that Krishna is in control the only way we can remember him while working in the world?

How can we overcome the mind’s habit of contemplating sense objects – Hindi?

How can we understand our nature – Hindi?

Can bhakti change a person’s nature – Hindi?

By what practices can we control the mind – Hindi?

How can we differentiate between our cheating propensity and our tendency to be illusioned by duality – Hindi?

What is the definition of conditioning – Hindi?

What is the difference between the mind and the intelligence – Hindi?

Why do we sometimes act circumstantially rather than scripturally – Hindi?

If our intelligence becomes weak, what is the solution – Hindi?

Appreciating Balarama’s two blessings – Bala and Rama

How can we prevent our eyes from seeing lustily – Hindi?

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

How much does our spiritual progress depend on our endeavor and how much on Krishna’s mercy – Hindi?

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

If we see devotees living materialistically, how can we prevent that from rationalizing our materialism – Hindi?

How can we remember to process our emotions, not act on them – Hindi?

How can we overcome worrying habit – Hindi?

How can we deal with our need for approval while doing good things – Hindi?

Increasing our willpower through restriction, redirection and reconstruction – Hindi

Appreciating Balarama’s position, pastime and blessing – Hindi

How can bhakti help students to not get too disturbed about their marks – Hindi?

Is what we are going to get in life determined at birth – Hindi?

Tap the power of thoughts, don’t be trapped by them – Hindi

To always remember Krishna practically means to remember that he is the controller of things outside our control – Hindi

God is not present less in the hearts of the godless Gita 15.15

What role does our nature play in our taking shelter of Krishna?

Why is impersonalism condemned in Gita 9.12 and appreciated in Gita 9.15?

Krishna is the trans-personal shelter of all the things that shelter us

Is intelligence not always a good thing?

Is intelligence covered by the mode of ignorance unintelligent?

Why does the Gita in chapter sixteen describe divine qualities in three full verses and demoniac qualities in just one verse?

How is simplicity as an austerity of the body in Gita 17.14 different from simplicity as an austerity of the mind in Gita 17.16?

Response to “My daughter wants to become Sunny Leone”

Does God laugh at our plans?

Morality may be relativized, but the consequences of immoral indulgence can’t be relativized Gita 03.17

Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions

What is the conscious mind and the subconscious mind?

When anger arises, what uddipana can we use to control it?

Can the self be realized without realizing Krishna?

Does self-realization as understood in psychology – understanding our strengths and weaknesses – come automatically by bhakti practice?

If we see devotees’ love for us as Krishna’s love coming through them, are we not depersonalizing devotees?

If others’ love for us is Krishna’s love coming through them, does that apply to their anger too?

How can a devotee work in an anti-devotional profession that goes against the four regulative principles?

As sadhakas with anarthas, how much should we rely on astrology?

I was an honest disbeliever instead of being a hypocritical believer, yet I suffered – why?

Is forgiving those who have hurt us necessary for moving on in our life?

Is the self located in the brain?

Why can’t science measure love?

What is consciousness – why does science have difficulty in understanding it?

Why can’t scientists understand that our identity is spiritual?

Do we have free will?

Does scientific advancement make life seem pointless – why?

Are people who have out-of-body experiences out of their mind?

How sound is the scientific evidence of past-life memories?

Acknowledging and regulating our passions – Wisdom on Wisdom 8

Should we drink cow’s milk nowadays when it is got by causing violence to cows?