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What does worshiping the Lord through our work mean?

What is meditation?

All our problems aren’t mental – how to deal with real problems?

LOAD acronym – How work becomes workload

Gita 09.24 – Education about reality is not discrimination against certain features of reality

Is it necessary to research our nature?

Is resentment caused by outer events or inner mentality?

How to cooperate joyfully with devotees of radically different natures?

Does demoniac goodness become divine goodness by bhakti?

Can we transcend goodness without coming to goodness?

Does our nature change as become purified?

“Chant and be happy” is not just causal but also parallel (Bhagavatam 1.2.22)

How is consciousness carried through food?

Is being over-intellectual dangerous for devotion?

Should we not do service if we are not pure?

Gita 09.23 – The Gita’s multi-level monotheism is the balance between Abrahamic monotheism and Greco-Roman polytheism

Why is sleepiness during chanting sometimes resistible and sometimes not?

Why does the mind suddenly get agitated sometimes?

Why does the sound of mantras produce purification whereas other sound doesn’t?

How does hearing a pastime produce an entirely unrelated result?

How to understand scriptural promises about result of hearing pastimes?

Does the soul go closer to God during sleep?

If everything has a cause, why should God not have a cause?

How are optimism and pessimism related to the modes?

If scripture gives knowledge in goodness, how can it help us know what is beyond goodness?

Why does the Supersoul sanction our unhealthy choices?

How do the soul, Supersoul and nature contribute to action?

How can we convince the mind of truths that are beyond science?

How is the soul full of knowledge?

Understanding the scopes of science and spirituality

How can we focus on Krishna without imagining or speculating?

Is absorption in Krishna a combination of all the four levels of consciousness?

How do our actions leave impressions on the mind?

How is the body sustained when the soul leaves the body?

Does the soul leave the body during dreams?

Why don’t we have consciousness during sleep?

Gita 09.22 – Seek spiritual security not just in the soul but in Krishna

Gita 09.21 – Blindness to mortality, even if it be in heaven, is still blindness

How do we understand that Krishna is the cause of all causes?

Why do mathematical concepts correlate with things in nature?

How does the sound of the holy name penetrate beyond the universe – and other sounds don’t?

How does the subtle body interact with the physical body?

Good jobs in crative fields are difficult – what should creatively gifted devotees do?

Is going deep in any creative field desirable for devotees?

Are our present spiritual emotions real or just mental?

How can we avoid getting carried away by worldly things?

God and Science – The Gita perspective

How can we avoid being over-concerned about others’ feelings?

Gita 09.20 – Karma-kanda leads to elevation, but not liberation

Gita 09.19 – In Krishna contradictions are transcended and reconciled

How is the Gita’s detachment different from Mayavadi detachment?

If we look for some easy work, are we running away from hard work in the name of finding a work according to our nature?

Are we karmically responsible for work that later leads to unknowing harmful consequence?

If my boss tells me to do something wrong, who gets the karma – my boss or me?

Does improperly performed work in the Gita shreyan sva-dharmo vigunah refer to incompetence in work?

Is it wrong to get intellectual pleasure in our academic studies?

If charity is a mentality to be cultivated, is automatic monthly donation from ones bank account undesirable?

Are direct bhakti in brahmachari life and indirect bhakti in grihastha life equivalent?

When Bhagavatam focuses on devotion through renunciation, how do we understand Lord Chaitanya’s having grihastha followers and stressing Bhagavatam both?

Grihastha ashrama in bhakti – Shifting the focus from grihastha to ashrama

What to do when the mind overpowers the intelligence?

Gita 09.18 – God is not a remote controller – he is the pervasive sustainer

Gita 09.17 – Krishna is the sustainer of our sustainers

What does the Gita verse karmany evadhikaraste mean?

While making choices how to decide which are important and which aren’t?

If senior devotees ask us to renounce everything, should we do that?

How much should sadhaka discriminate between matter and spirit while practicing bhakti?

How did you scientifically come to the conclusion of bhakti?

Is sadhaka’s suffering because of past karma or Krishna’s arrangement?

Amidst life’s storms, does our relationship with Krishna shelter us automatically or do we need to do something special?

Can we live without expectation in relationships?

Is our relationship with guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

Our longing for love is perfected in Krishna

Gita 09.15 – Jnana yajna is not the same as jnana-yoga

Go beyond Hurry Worry Sorry

Gita 09.14 – See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication

When many spiritual paths say they are the best, how to choose our path?

Can we be enthusiastic without being passionate?

To manage the mind, regulate the mind’s diet

Preserving tradition means fulfilling the purpose of the tradition

How to deal with people who don’t want to clarify misunderstandings?

Cooperating among equals

Gita 09.13 – Krishna’s attractiveness is original and inexhaustible

How can we control anger?

How to connect Vedic mathematics to Krishna consciousness?

Association reminds us of our spiritual glory

GOD acronym – Reconciling human independence with divine omnipotence

What spiritual principles can inspire devotees to live cooperatively?

How exactly did Krishna depart from the world?

Increasingly intimate manifestations of Krishna in Mahabharata, Gita, Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrita

How can we dovetail attraction to fiction in bhakti?

Do we need to hear true spiritual sound to be elevated?

Appreciate the depth and length of our existence to appreciate Krishna’s love

Gita 9.12 – Rejecting real currency as fake leaves one impoverished

Gita 09.27 – Bhakti accommodates seekers at multiple levels

Gita 09.16 – See beyond the technical to the transcendental

Gita 09.11 – To claim the impersonal to be Krishna’s param bhava is contextually and grammatically indefensible

Gita 09.10 – Nature is not causally complete without an ultimate cause

Is there any formula to always appreciate devotees?

Why does scriptural knowledge differ from modern anthropological knowledge?