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9 forms of devotional service part 1 – Shravanam Kirtanam Smaranam

Why spirituality matters – scientific, ethical and relational perspectives

Is the holy name scientific, ethical or relational?

How can a newly married couple new to bhakti strengthen their relationship?

What is the spiritual recourse amidst abusive relationships?

How do we have free will – how much can we use it?

Baahubali – A Spiritual Perspective

Focus on life’s big why, not everyday’s small whys

Gita 14.26 – Bhakti is both a state and a process

Gita 18.63 – Don’t sway others – inspire them

Gita 14.05 – The modes comprise objective reality and color subjective perception

Understanding how Krishna is everything and controls everything even amidst worldly sufferings

If Prabhupada knew that certain projects weren’t going to succeed, why did he encourage devotees to do those projects?

If karmic reactions come on earth itself, what is the need for sufferings in hell?

How can we help others to not see problems at the bodily level?

How can we connect with Krishna tangibly when distracted by worldly objects?

How can we realize that we are different from our mind?

How can we transform practice into realization?

How can devotees mistreated by their seniors avoid discouragement?

How to respond when we are corrected by others?

Should we use the sandwich method when correcting others?

How does regulated devotion transform into spontaneous devotion?

Is revelation of Krishna’s all-attractiveness analogous to his mercy?

How can we study scripture, not just read it?

Is investing money to increase it over-endeavor?

When we do a service well, if people label us as proud, what can we do?

How can we avoid self-acceptance of our abilities from becoming false ego?

While chanting, can we hear kirtan?

Cultivate aversion to faultfinding

Seek not a pleasure-filled life; seek a purpose-filled life

Seek not a problem-free life – seek a purpose-filled life

If we help someone but they don’t help us in return, should we continue to help?

Lessons in love from Krishna-gopis relationship

Knowing when to endeavor and when to surrender

Given that the idea of trans-moral can be misused, can it ever be applied?

Can you illustrate the principle of trans-moral actions?

Playing games for relaxation – which mode does it fall in?

Despite practicing bhakti and cultivating goodness, we remain passionate – what to do?

How can we deal with our inner critic?

On failing to achieve our goal, should we persevere in that goal or change it?

How to avoid relaxing into worldly enjoyment after doing our service wholeheartedly?

How can we avoid struggling in vain to control situations that are not in our control?

As science keeps people away from God, can scientists be considered reincarnations of demons?

If someone has done something wrong, isn’t it better to tell them straight instead of pausing and speaking later?

What causes timidity – how can we overcome it?

How can we control our mind, especially during chanting?

What is the wws concept?

When Krishna is unlimited, how can he be a person?

Have people who can remember their past lives done some special good karma?

Choosing our mental battles

Reincarnation – Reality, Rationality, Opportunity

How do we balance between chanting and getting knowledge?

We chastise someone out of love, but it spoils the relationship – what to do?

What is the consequence of the offense of inattentive chanting?

Should we attribute problems in daily life to our poor chanting?

How to replace envious thoughts with loving thoughts?

How can we control our emotions?

What does achintya in achintyabhedabheda refer to?

Why is scriptural knowledge needed in daily life?

Misunderstandings spread like cancer – beware

Is Krishna as the holy name a sound vibration or is he beyond all sound vibrations?

What exactly is the holy name – does its potency lie in the words or the meaning or somewhere else?

How can we overcome our past conditionings?

Will our conscience ever become stronger than the mind?

To anchor our consciousness in Krishna, do we need external calm or can we directly get inner calm?

If we don’t have devotee association, how can we practice bhakti?

How to overcome anxieties about issues that have life-changing consequences?

How can we be concerned but not disturbed – is it simply by faith?

How can we become intense in our chanting?

To master the mind, become conscious of your consciousness

Focus on the Bhagavatam’s universal purpose beyond its specific details – invest one’s emotions in Krishna, not the world

Does courtesy japa help us attain Krishna after death?

When past karma blocks our bhakti, what can we do?

How do I choose my spiritual master?

Amidst problems, should we just let Krishna solve them or should we work to solve them?

While making choices, how can we take Krishna’s shelter?

If karma, daiva and kala lead to phala, what is Krishna’s role?

If parents have two children – one bright, one dull – is it the parents’ karma or the childrens’ karma?

When our sadhana oscillates because of material ups and downs, what can we do?

Overcome anxiety by focusing on state of thoughts, not state of things

Self-control Strategies – Contemporary analysis of Nectar of Instruction Text 1

Is destiny determined by past karma alone or by present karma too?

When is our friends’ influence helpful and when unhelpful?

Why did Krishna save Parikshit, but not Abhimanyu?

Should we learn from problems or move away from them?

Is our intelligence destined – does it determine when we take to spiritual life?

Is our marital partner destined?

If destiny evens out in the long run, then does it really matter?

Devotional practices calm our mind, but only briefly – what to do?

Does our past impede our bhakti – how can we overcome those impediments?

Why was Vyasadeva dissatisfied even after writing Vedic literature that glorify Krishna?

Do we need to always feel existential dissatisfaction to practice bhakti intensely?

How can we be emotionally connected with Krishna without becoming sentimental?

With what purpose should we read Srila Prabhupada’s books?

How can we make a plan that is effective even if Krishna’s plan turns out to be different?

How can we say no to the things we like?

Don’t hear the mind’s story – hear Krishna’s story

Let incidental dissatisfaction trigger existential dissatisfaction

PURE acronym – 4 attitudes for progressing in spiritual life

God loves me – is this just a psychological feeling or a spiritual reality?