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​Bhagavatam study 38 1.8.23-25 Material adversity makes spiritual opportunity a necessity

Gita 15.20 Using the knowledge and devotion we presently have propels us symbiotically towards life’s perfection

How to control revengeful thoughts?

​How can we share Krishna through our profession?

​Do we always have to eat what we cook – does bhakti change our karma?

Does depending on Krishna mean using our analytical framework in his service or giving up that framework?

Does the Gita recommend different yogas for different people?

​Why should we follow rules and give up our freedom?

Can some foods or medicines change our destiny?

​How do our conditionings shape our behavior without determining it?

​How is daiva different from destiny?

​How to understand when some sages feel greater bliss in impersonal realization than in personal realization?

​Do pure devotees always experience themselves as different from the body?

​As yogis see Paramatma within, do bhaktas see Bhagavan within?

How is the mind converted by bhakti?

​Do we control the mind first or do we situate ourselves in our svarupa first?

During chanting, can we experience the holy name touching the soul?

​How can we understand the intelligence and ego to be different from the mind and the soul?

How does the holy name penetrate beyond the mind, intelligence and ego?

Bhagavatam study 37 1.8.17-22 The prayer progresses from philosophical to personal

Gita 15.19 Bhakti is not non-intellectual or anti-intellectual – it is trans-intellectual

Bhagavatam study 36 1.8.1-16 – What is materially impossible is possible for Krishna

​Should we strive to change those things that require a lot of effort to change?

Can some people get things without endeavoring?

​How does endeavor figure in people who get good things easily?

Is our duty towards others unlimited, irrespective of how they behave?

​What role do star signs play in our destiny?

If scripture is eternal, are all pastimes given in scripture destined?

Gita 15.18 Fragmentation is not the cause of illusion, disharmonization is

While choosing a spouse, is matching astrological charts essential?

​Does the precision of astrological predictions imply that we don’t have free will?

Can developing our talents obstruct us in bhakti?

​Are we forced to act according to our nature?

​When the modes control us, how do we have free will?

What is the spiritual perspective on organ donation?

Make your own destiny 3

​Make your own destiny 2

Make your own destiny 1

Gita 15.17 Liberation is not just elevation out of illusion but also connection with the supreme reality

Gita 15.16 Purification means to change our emotional center

Gita 15.15 The purpose of perceiving the spiritual through the material is to perceive the spiritual in its own right

Gita 15.14 The world’s origin and operation points requires something beyond the world

Gita 15.13 The existence of multiple factors congenial to our existence points to transcendence

Gita 15.12 We need the eyes to see what our eyes need to see

PRAY acronym: Revisiting our conceptions about praying

Gita 15.11 What we see depends on what we want to see

Gita 15.10 We need knowledge to see our vulnerability in material existence

Seek artha in both its senses – wealth and meaning

Gita 15.09 The mind makes chasing mirages the soul’s tragic habit

Gita 15.08 The essence of growth is evolution in our conception of life

Gita 15.07 Even when the mind is directed by the senses, it still directs the senses

Gita 15.06 The spiritual world is self-luminous and its luminosity is malleable to Krishna’s will

The pointlessness of atheism

When modern civilization collapses in future, should devotees have a Vedic alternative ready?

What does Prabhupada’s statement about 50% of his mission being incomplete mean​?

Gita 15.05 Surrender means to give up everything for Krishna – even the feeling of hopelessness

Gita 15.04 The Personal Absolute is not a way to transcendence – he is the summit of transcendence

Gita 15.03 Detachment cuts not the world but our own attachment to the world

Why is the corporate world turning towards conscious entrepreneurship?

Gita 15.02 We are bound by action and knowledge can guide us to action that leads to liberation

Naam Ramayana – Pride induces and perpetuates misjudgment

Do we need problems to grow internally?

Gita 15.01 The metaphor of the upside-down tree points to the reality beyond the reflection

​You came, you gave, you conquered – Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s mercy

​How can one act with love without the feeling of love?

Does devotional life begin only when material life is finished?

​Should we give due attention to our material side or should we spiritualize it?

​Does thought become matter – can thought enable us to achieve everything?

​Why does God not give everyone equal capacity to understand right and wrong?

​Do we need peace externally to find peace internally?

​Do we commit mistakes because of Krishna’s plan?

​If Krishna is merciful, why do we get karmic reactions?

When others trouble us, should we just tolerate things?

​Is harmony possible among various religions?

​Naam Ramayana – When the supreme appears to be deluded, that appearance is a delusion

​Naam Ramayana – Disciplining is not punishing

Naam Ramayana – Devotion requires no qualification except the desire to serve

​Naam Ramayana – The supreme blesser blesses and is blessed

​Naam Ramayana – The all-pure purifies at multiple levels – tangible and intangible

Naam Ramayana – Our worldview shapes our responses to the world’s ups and downs

Gita 14.27 Brahman refers not just to the impersonal spiritual but also the generically spiritual

How can knowledge of God be understood in scientifically acceptable terms?

Gita 14.26 Health is a product of medication but it is also a precondition for medication

When something inspires us devotionally, how to know whether it is self-centered or Krishna-centered?

​How can a visually challenged person practice bhakti?

Does consciousness necessitate the existence of personality?

When God is one, how can the one manifest as the divine couple?

Does worshiping different forms of God for different purposes not limit God?

​ Varahadeva – Bhakti theology goes far beyond zoomorphism

Gita 14.25 As long as we are materially motivated, we will be materially agitated

​How do we stay committed in our devotional relationships when devotees don’t seem inspiring?

​If I serve my mother because of my bhakti, am I serving her or serving Krishna?

Why did Nityananda Prabhu curse Shivananda Sena’s son to die?

​How does Shivananda Sena exemplify the three great strengths in bhakti?

​How can we overcome the desire for appreciation from others?

Do our realizations arise because of our past karma?

How can we avoid taking things for granted in bhakti?

When Krishna talks about various yogas progressively, why does Prabhupada focus on bhakti alone?

Why is Arjuna’s renunciation disapproved and the Goswamis’ renunciation appreciated?

Is serving according to our nature selfishness?