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What is the process by which the false ego gets hurt?

How can we sustain our resolutions in spiritual life?

How do we respond to people who self-identify as spiritual but not religious?

How can our spiritual growth dismantle the power structures in today’s world that choke spiritual growth?

How does spiritual consciousness help solve today’s practical problems?

Just as a child learns by growth, can’t machines develop human features by technological growth?

How do we decide when to confront a problem and when to accept it as destiny

Shouldn’t love for Krishna soften devotees’ heart and make them gentler?

How do we see when senior devotees act inappropriately and rationalize it based on their seniority?

Are scriptural models of duties to be implemented as it is today – should children obey their parents just as Rama obeyed Dasharatha?

QA with Central New Jersey devotees

Ram Navmi class – Learn from Rama’s concern for others’ distress instead of his own distress (Ramayana)

5 reflections for reconciling science and scripture

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 4

QA on Living spiritually in today’s world

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 3

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 2

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 1

Two lives, one purpose

External miracles don’t change us – internal choices do

Consciousness – our under-used inner power

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam

Is there any reference to the subconscious mind in the Vedic literature?

QA with Boston-Seattle devotees

Spirituality in the age of Science (Science – Modern)

Should we see non-philosophical devotees as not needing intellectual conviction or as weak because of intellectual malnourishment?

Are we forgetting the key downstairs?

What your phone can teach you about your mind 4 – Let bhakti change your memory

What your phone can teach you about your mind 3 – Check your energy drainers

When we don’t love Krishna, we suffer – doesn’t that mean Krishna forces us to love him?

Cultivate aggressive gratitude

What your phone can teach you about your mind 2 – Hardware improvement doesn’t solve software problems

What your phone can teach you about your mind 1 – Deal with your default settings maturely

Why does the Gita not have any Duryodhana uvaca, though he speaks several verses?

In which service should we start fighting our inclination to the path of least resistance?

What is the relationship between ashtanga-yoga and bhakti-yoga?

When our loved ones suffer, we suffer – then how does love bring happiness?

When our thoughts start becoming negative, how can we flip them to positive?

How can we insulate ourselves from negative people?

How could Krishna’s soldiers fight against him in the Kurukshetra war?

When we are troubled by controversies in Krishna’s movement, should we try to tackle them or just focus on our service?

Seek self-affirmation through what you do for others, not what others do for you

Redefining freedom

Taking responsibility for our spiritual advancement

Go beyond testing Krishna to tasting Krishna

Can we love someone whom we hate?

Does time apply only for us, not for Krishna?

If Krishna knows the future, how do we have free will?

Doesn’t God have unlimited opulences – why limit them to six?

Does Krishna understand our feelings or does he also experience them?

When Krishna knows everything, how can we not know Radharani’s love for him?

How can we balance between submission and overdependence?

Chances, Changes, Choices – Making Life’s Big Decisions

The cause of fanaticism is not excessive devotion, but inadequate devotion

How can we practice bhakti in today’s competitive world?

How can we prevent repeated falls from shaking our faith in bhakti?

How can we deal with friends who hurt us?

How can we know that our service is pleasing Krishna?

Do emotions come from the heart, the soul or the subtle body?

If Krishna is God, why is Vishnu widely considered to be God and Krishna his incarnation?

Is the universe heliocentric or geocentric?

Understanding what is our quota in material life – 2

Resist the temptation to be discouraged

Learn to see the material and the spiritual as cumulative, not competitive

Understanding what is our quota in material life – 1

How can we avoid forgetting in real-life what we learn in classes?

How can we prevent our faith from flickering amidst problems?

When guidance is not easily available, how can we make good choices?

How can we assess our service when we are not pure-hearted?

How can we avoid over-controlling the things that are in our control?

In the practical-philosophical categorization, where does the emotional fit in?

When we face problems, we need practical solutions, not philosophical solutions – how can scripture help?

What is the best way to monitor our mental habits?

How can we help those who are suffering but are still imagining that they are enjoying?

If someone rationalizes their wrongdoing by saying that Krishna loves us unconditionally, how do we respond?

Doesn’t Krishna feel bad when we do something wrong – doesn’t that make him unwilling to shelter us?

If our mistakes have got us into trouble, how can we overcome the guilt that disheartens us while taking shelter of Krishna?

Can followers of other religions who don’t follow the regulative principles go back to Krishna?

Is Vedic philosophy confusing because it has so many holy books, unlike Christianity and Islam that have only one holy book?

Changing the default settings of our mind

You have gone through a lot of pain in your life – what is your realization?

How can we prevent sense enjoyment from depriving us of Krishna’s shelter?

How can we know that the Gita hasn’t changed over the centuries?

When we don’t feel like surrendering, what should we do?

How can we overcome inconsistency in deity worship caused by our wavering feelings?

If our material life takes us temporarily away from our spiritual life, how can we later regain our spiritual enthusiasm?

If our material activities interfere with our spiritual life, how can we see those activities as spiritual?

If our family members don’t support our bhakti, what should we do?

Was the Mahabharata war predestined?

How can we spiritualize our work without disturbing our colleagues?

How did Krishna as Shanti-duta use sama, dama, bheda and danda?

If bhakti practice makes us less emotional, is that good?

How does repetition in bhakti lead to attraction when normally repetition leads to satiation?

Is our affection for Krishna to be cultivated as between wife-husband or spontaneous as between child-parent?

How can we know that deceased devotees go back to godhead?

Redirecting our desires and our speech towards Krishna

Do we make our destiny or are we made by our destiny?

Lord Chaitanya demonstrates that the heart is higher than the head

Relishing Shikshashtakam – Appreciating how meditation on the holy name blossoms to meditation on Krishna

Spirituality in the age of science – The hard problem of consciousness