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As we advance, will our physical needs go down to Raghunatha Dasa Goswami’s level?

How can we avoid taking shelter of something temporary that gives us relief?

What can we do if we feel bored while chanting?

To change vision, change intention by study and association

Does bhakti remove karmic reactions or give relief amidst karmic reactions?

Can’t knowing about Krishna push us to know Krishna?

Let go of the burden of hate

Isn’t using intelligence to control the mind paradoxical?

Amidst karmic suffering, can astrology offer relief?

Can karma be inherited – do children get the good karma of their parents?

How can we get relief by letting go of things and still be responsible?

If others become insecure because of us, what can we do?

If we are born with demoniac qualties, are those qualities God’s gift to us?

How can spiritual knowledge address today’s burning social issues?

How can we as spiritual agents better connect with each other?

How can we be spiritual – tolerant, gentle – in today’s corporate world?

If Kali-yuga is set to be degraded, can we do anything to change it?

Are there any practical tools for overcoming anxiety?

Should we take cow milk when it is obtained by causing violence to cows?

Gita 16.11 Use developed human consciousness to decrease material fears, not increase them

Understanding Destiny 2 – Destiny determines the scope of our free will, not our free will

Understanding Destiny 1 – What is pre-determined and what isn’t

Kali Yuga predictions – Superficiality, Audacity, Anxiety, Spirituality

Gita 18.22 – Rise from tunnel vision through funnel vision

What are the symptoms of a self-realized person?

Is praying to Krishna a part of our karma?

Can someone be destined for failure?

If a tide pushes us towards success, is that tide Krishna?

If we are destined to succeed, will destiny make us act for success?

Krishna is our protector, even when he seems to be the afflictor

Bhagavatam study 1.13.1-7 – The detachment that fosters attachment to Krishna

Did Vidura depart because of unbearable criticism or frustration at his counsel being neglected?

Was Vidura irresponsible in departing when his family was about to fight the worst war of their life?

How important is it for we ourselves to be detached?

How do we convey the importance of the don’ts in bhakti?

What is a healthy attitude towards guilt induced after sense indulgence?

What does it mean to hear the holy name?

Why does our inspiration for service rise on hearing and fall when material responsibilities come up?

Pingala got realization despite having no spiritual environment – why don’t we get realization despite having spiritual environment?

Spiritual Perspectives on Material Beauty – 2 – Should we be disgusted with the body?

What is the difference between intellect and intelligence?

Gita 13.13 Bhakti wisdom frames our knowledge and our need for knowledge within our aspiration for eternity

Bhakti-yoga is the balancer of our emotional and rational sides

Can we desire to have a child like Lord Rama?

How can beauty be used in Krishna’s service?

When does the intelligence become the form direction of the Lord?

Can our intelligence be contaminated?

Why does scripture say that the sould doesn’t experience any emotion?

Managing stress coming from disorganization, disposition, destiny and decision

Spiritual Perspectives on Material Beauty 1 – Bring out each other’s higher side, not lower side

Appreciating bhakti as a spiritual science

Are pure souls covered by the subtle body?

Prostitutes were present in Dwarka, the abode of pure devotees – how to understand?

If we fail in a field, can we infer that field is not our nature?

How much anxiety should we take up while being ambitious in our professional life?

Do advanced devotees who know Krishna is in control also feel anxiety?

How do we deal with the anxiety caused by inability to deliver what we are expected to do?

How to deal with senior devotees who make life difficult for everyone in a community?

Among devotees when will love for Krishna transform into love for all living beings?

When difficulties force us to surrender to Krishna, where is our free will?

When Maya presents options, some temptations are not options at all – why?

Will tempting desires ever go away or will they stay lifelong?

How can we keep our spiritual intentions strong?

Does Krishna test us according to our capacity or beyond our capacity too?

Gita 13.08 – Disrespecting ourselves doesn’t make us humble – respecting something bigger than ourselves does

From Maya to Lila 2 – The desired may be an illusion, the desirer isn’t

From Maya to Lila 1 – Illusion originates not in the object, but in the subject

Have we humans thought up an anxiety-relieving entity God because we suffer more anxiety than animals?

When Karna abused Draupadi, why didn’t anyone punish him by taking away his position?

Karna wanted revenge and Draupadi wanted revenge – what is the difference?

How can we help our children to make good choices amidst a degraded culture?

How do we counter moral relativism with those who don’t accept scriptural authority?

How can we feel that Krishna is the doer, not that we are the doers?

Does absorption in Krishna require sixteen rounds chanting?

How can we rise from cultural bhakti to spiritual bhakti?

How to develop our relationship with Krishna

What if we feel attracted to serving Krishna in our role in this world, but not in the spiritual world as his associate?

Do soldiers who die while fighting for their country attain higher planets?

Is it good to be a nationalist and a Krishna devotee?

How can we counter the mind’s wandering while reading scripture?

Should society dictate the criteria for when to take legal action and when to forgive?

Can we tell the truth selectively if that helps someone?

How to absorb ourselves in Krishna instead of problems?

Do we need intelligence to deal with resentment?

How can we deal with material desires in bhakti?

Why does Krishna sanction people’s doing bad karma – why doesn’t he just control their free will?

How hurt people hurt people 2 – Learning to process our emotions before acting on them

How hurt people hurt people 1 – Karna Character Analysis

Gita 12.08 Living in Krishna is a matter of not just relocation, but also of realization

Gita 02.07 When surface identities lead to conflicting duties, seek the fundamental identity

When results are determined by our past karma, can results be used to evaluate the soundness of our decisions?

What is the difference between processing emotions through self-help principles and through bhakti principles?

How can we overcome our false ego and rise from our material identity to our spiritual identity?

If we are broken by many past hurts, how can we overcome that casting?

When a relative lets us down repeatedly, how can we trust them?

From Grudging to Gratitude QA 2

From Grudging to Gratitude QA 1

From Grudging to Gratitude 4 – Forgiving internally and externally by focusing on Krishna

From Grudging to Gratitude 3 – Learn to re-interpret reality devotionally

From Grudging to Gratitude 2 – See beyond the immediate cause of suffering