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Overcoming discouragement in life

Understanding the many forms of surrender

Mapping our inner territory – Anartha nivritti explained from Madhuraya Kadambini

Understanding karma dharma and destiny

From dharma to prema

GAURA acronym – 5 glorious qualities of Lord Chaitanya

How faith contributes to harmony – Multi-faith meeting

Can association through electronic media be the same as personal association?

Is asking lots of questions a sign of a jnani, not a bhakta?

Can Krishna’s exalted pastimes be understood without philosophically understanding his greatness?

Can we relish the same level of love for Krishna that Radharani relishes?

Is Radharani attracted to Krishna because he is handsome?

Is Lord Chaitanya’s lila too elevated for general people?

Gaura Purnima lecture – Lord Chaitanya manifested the three internal reasons for his descent in his Ratha-yatra lila

Gita 13.35 Knowledge helps us perceive and achieve spiritual reality

Gita 13.34 Consciousness can be the channel to illumination – and to illusion too

Gita 13.33 The soul is not entangled, but the mind is

As devotees, how can we deal with our relatives sensitively?

Bhakti is an experiential science

Pray not to get things done but to connect with Krishna

If one devotee serves Krishna as a brahmachari and another, as a grihastha, who is better?

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 3

Is untimely death of a son the will of God – how is this to be explained to grieving parents?

Why does science treat mental problems medically, not spiritually?

Gita 13.32 The soul is situated in the body, but its consciousness doesn’t have to imprisoned in the body

How can we raise our children so that they become devotees?

What is a preferred career for devotees?

Why are things that we hear and accept still difficult to apply?

If our relatives are enquiring about spirituality but aren’t submissive, how should we respond?

Is our sampradaya’s credibility weakened because of having shiksha links instead of diksha links?

When milk is nowadays extracted violently from cows, should devotees take milk?

When there are so many scriptures how is the essential scriptural message to be understood?

If someone dies because of drunken driving, was the death due to destiny or drunkenness?

When our sampradaya is of shiksha, why are diksha-gurus deemed so important and shiksha-gurus deemed unimportant?

Are ghastly rituals such as animal sacrifices given in scriptures?

Aren’t the problems we face due to our past karma?

How can we feel connected with Krishna when we have problems and our prayers are not answered?

What is the significance of Lord Chaitanya’s chastising Balabhdara Bhattacharya?

What is the relationship between our intelligence and our desires?

What is wrong with aversion to sense objects?

How can we cultivate sentiments without becoming sentimental?

Do the modes determine our moods or our modes determine the modes?

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 2

Beyond sentimentality to sentiments

Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity

Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body

Gita 13.29 See beyond people’s particular actions to Krishna’s universal positive intention

When Prabhupada speaks so strongly against Mayavadis, how can we avoid becoming judgmental?

Why does the Bhagavatam 11.28.1 ask us to not praise others?

Can we engage in any desire without being bound by it?

How can we know that we are conscious while tables are not conscious?

How can we prepare for giving classes?

You are bigger than your habits

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 1

How can we teach our children right and wrong without coming off as judgmental?

Why focus on sound alone for raising our consciousness – why not exercise, food etc?

What is the channel by which the soul gives signals to the brain?

Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see

How can we infuse our scriptural study with devotional emotion?

Can we apologize to Krishna?

How can we know what is Krishna’s plan and what is Maya’s action?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi part 3

When we are unable to focus on chanting, what can we do?

How do the Vedas correlate with the Gita?

How can we focus on the present while serving Krishna?

When we use our imagination in devotional service, will whatever we imagine come true?

How is sense pleasure not imaginary but a product of imagination?

Do brahmavadis know that something exists beyond brahman?

How can we deal with the doubts that obstruct us in our relationships with others?

Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension

Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality

How can we maintain our principles in a materialistic corporate environment?

How can we act intelligently when adolescence impels us to act rebelliously?

How can we guide others when different people want different levels of instruction?

Do animals have souls – if yes, then how are humans different from animals?

What is happiness – how can we achieve it?

What is a human being’s purpose on earth?

What is the soul – is it real?

What is the relationship between science and Krishna consciousness?

Will becoming spiritually advanced automatically resolve our relationship problems?

How does fear enhance our relationship with Krishna?

Why couldn’t Krishna have killed miscreants without leaving Vrindavan?

How do we balance between our spiritual and material lives?

How to respond to people who say that they are satisfied with their mental maps?

Is humanity more important or is spirituality more important?

If my child is very sick, how can my spirituality help me?

When we have material problems, should we just focus on spiritual advancement or try to solve it materially?

Harmonizing our spiritual and material lives

Uddhava Gita nectar 4 – Understanding the different gopis’ varying understandings of Krishna

How was Bhishma’s abducting Amba, Ambika and Ambalika moral?

When Karna was already killed by destiny, why did Krishna invite Karna to the Pandavas side?

If our feelings come from the soul, how does brain chemical deficiency cause depression?

If Karna chose wrongly because of attachment, didn’t Bhishma do the same?

Does prolonged expectation for a thing make us value it more- does this apply to the gopis separation from Krishna?

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 3 – Srila Prabhupada made the transcendental practical

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 4 – Understanding human intelligence

Are the gopis separated from Krishna even in the spiritual world?

If even the gopis’ lost hope in separation from Krishna, what is the hope for us?

Why is the Bhagavatam’s tenth canto divided into chapters according to the location of pastimes?

Gita 13.25 The many ways to see within are meant to show the same truth within