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How to cultivate positive thinking in bhakti

How can we be always surrendered to Krishna?

How can we know whether the mind’s story is false or real?

How can we know when we are planning and when the mind is fear-mongering?

If when our mind tells a story and we consult a friend whose mind is telling the same story, how can we avoid illusion?

The mind tells the most stories during chanting – how to counter?

Why does devotion change our mind’s tendencies temporarily?

Gita 18.58 Devotion brings the inner morale to combat outer problems

Gita 16.11 Technology is not just the provider of facility – it is also the shaper of mentality

Gita 14.04 Dialogue requires methodological humility

Does chanting automatically make us kinder or do we have to strive to become kinder?

Does chanting require effort or does chanting make us happy?

Why is the mind considered a sense?

How can we focus on chanting when the mind wanders?

When Tvashta gave Narayana-kavacha that made Indra invincible, how could Tvashta himself be killed?

How can we remain respectful to the devatas while describing their non-supreme position or their non-ideal activities?

Just as the mind is personified, are other things such as Bhakti devi and Kali also personifications?

How can we balance giving due priority to chanting with other important services?

Talk show – How is the Gita relevant today?

If people anger us, how can we control ourselves?

Does a good result indicate intelligence-guided action and a bad result indicate mind-driven action?

If during book distribution, people are abusive, how can we stay calm?

How can we make the right choices within bhakti?

How can we know that the purpose we are pursuing is the best purpose?

How can we prevent our emotions from affecting our decisions?

How can we be practically grounded on the spiritual level?

Can we fulfill all the purposes for our existing in this world?

Gita 14.11 Our mind can be a transmitter, distorter or reflector of our consciousness

Gita 01.46 – When emotions block our consciousness, Gita wisdom removes the blockage

Talk Show – Understanding Karma and Destiny

Are our problems caused by our past karma or arranged by Krishna?

Are poor people responsible for their poverty?

How can the Gita’s knowledge help poor people?

Are there two ways of thinking – the mind’s way and the soul’s way?

How can bhakti increase our ability to think, which is a material ability?

Does the Gita give spiritual solutions to all material problems?

How can I overcome procrastinating tendency?

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Gita 16.24 Religious tolerance is better fostered by deeper religious adherence than by greater religious indifference

How to respond when others serve in ways that don’t make sense to us – should we criticize them?

Do interruptions in our remembrance of Krishna occur because of circumstances or consciousness?

What does seva-smarana mean?

Is the mood of dasyam not present in Goloka Vrindavan because it is madhurya dhama?

What standard of Deity worship should householders follow?

Gita 09.14 The claim – religion is an agreeable illusion – is atheists’ agreeable illusion

Gita 16.09 Developing better HD streaming may be individually meaningful but consuming what is streamed is hardly ever so

Gita 14.04 Social reform needs to be founded in spiritual reform

When we are in a position of guiding others, how can we know how much to control them and how much to let them go?

How can we avoid discouragement when our sincere service is repeatedly frustrated?

From a spiritual perspective, what causes addiction and how can it be dealt with?

When science and spirituality never meet, how can they be reconciled?

Do dreams mean something – should we try to understand their meaning?

Is research in reincarnation still going on?

Is reincarnation for real?

If we are already middle-aged, do we still have enough time to counter our bad karma by practicing bhakti?

Can we counter bad karma with good karma?

During the course of evolution, when did people develop the capacity to understand spirituality?

Why do movie songs stay in our memory much more than devotional songs?

If science can’t answer some questions, why is everyone progressing along scientific lines?

Science can’t address God’s existence and spirituality can’t prove it – how then can science and spirituality be reconciled?

When mood swings are caused by hormonal changes, how can we control our moods by our determination?

How can we get in our next life the devotional facilities we don’t have in this life?

If senior devotees chanting for many years still have conditionings, does that mean conditionings are stronger than the holy name?

Does duty means doing that which we don’t like to do?

When doing our prescribed service deprives us of devotee association, what should we do?

When someone hurts us, how can we avoid becoming vengeful and stay focused on Krishna?

Why is it so difficult to become attracted to God and so easy to get attracted to sense objects?

If someone has hurt us and we don’t have the courage to tell them, what can we do?

When anger comes, how can we calm ourselves?

How can we avoid impulsive reaction to hostile people?

If we fail in our resolution after sticking to it for some time, how to avoid becoming discouraged?

How to deal with relatively harmless addictions?

Gita 18.63 The call to the heart complements the call to the head

Gita 15.10 The scientific torchlight shows matter clearly, consciousness hazily and God not at all

Gita 16.24 Absolute Knowledge doesn’t have to be dogmatic and open-mindedness doesn’t have to relativize everything

Gita 18.37 Freedom without framework is paralyzing, not liberating

When the vibrations of different people chanting mantras are different, how does the mantra purify?

How can we correct the bad habits that we are unaware of?

Can destiny be changed by technology?

Why does our culture not tell us the reasons for our religious practices?

What is the starting point for bhakti yoga?

What changed your life trajectory?

How can we cheer up a family member disheartened by a prolonged bad health?

How do mantras change our consciousness – by their frequency, word order or word choice?

How can we know that the ultimate source of everything is good?

Does suicide change destiny?

Gita 18.38 Don’t be so caught in choosing the right seat as to fail to choose the right train

Gita 17.01 Worldviews are meant to be vision-enhancers, not vision-diminishers

Gita 17.16 Purity has to be cultivated as an austerity before it can be savored as a state

How can we increase our attraction to reading Prabhupada’s books?

What to do if we feel like being in the temple constantly but can’t?

How can Krishna be our top priority when our studies need to be our priority?

What to do if we get too many services and our sadhana goes down?

How are the eight stages of ashtanga-yoga related with bhakti-yoga?

What to do if the calm got from attending spiritual programs disappears when we face the world’s problems?

How can we become aware of our default settings?

Is touching the digital Bhagavatam in our phone equivalent to touching the book Bhagavatam?

In future, when physical books are replaced by digital books, how will we distribute books?

Can Krishna as a super-admin change all the settings of our mind in one go?

How do we differentiate between accepting the presence of our inclinations and pandering to them?