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What to do when our vertical and horizontal relationships are not symbiotic?

What is the highest form of love?

Should one love oneself to be happy?

How can killing for one’s country be considered love?

Love is the highest reality

Gita 08.25 – Yogi’s spiritual exit velocity needs to be greater than the world’s gravity pull

Happiness lies inside, not outside – is this a spiritual and scriptural principle?

Prabhupada encouraged competition but that sometimes led to ego and power struggle – how to understand?

Why did Balaram favor Duryodhana?

Analyzing envy through Duryodhana’s history

If a thief after praying to Krishna robs a devotee, whom is Krishna merciful to?

How to recover from harsh words of some devotees?

When Krishna is so loving, why is loving him so difficult?

How can we practically experience Krishna’s love for us?

MIND acronym 3 – The mind neglects opportunity and denies reality

Gita 08.24 – Astrological positions and psychological dispositions contribute to the soul’s liberation

What to do if the mind gets caught in the sector of disagreement between science and scripture?

How do we differentiate between scriptural principle and detail?

How to reconcile science and religion?

How to be selective in our association without becoming judgmental?

Appreciating scripture’s perennial relevance

What does beating the mind with broom and shoe mean?

How do we reconcile the mind’s coming from goodness with goodness giving rise to knowledge?

How can we prevent the mind from obsessing over negative things that shouldn’t happen?

How can we spiritualize the willing function of the mind?

MIND acronym 2 – Mind imagines pleasure

Gita 08.23 – The Gita unifies diverse Vedic concepts in a devotional framework

Death and the search for meaning

Gita 08.22 – Everything is in Krishna and Krishna is in everything

Is the mind or a source of desires or just a channel of the soul’s desires?

Does the working of the mind match with our desires?

How to fight against the minds self-sabotaging inner dialogue?

Does Krishna not help us when we are not his pure devotees?

Does the Gita contain verses against meat-eating?

How to deal with relatives who hurt us by their ego and negativity?

Philosophy seems abstract – how can we undestand that Krishna tangibly helps us?

Appreciating Radharani’s position and devotion – Radhashtami class

What does the Gita say about attachment, detachment and rupture in relationships?

How exactly is work worship – is bad work also worship?

How can we go beyond suppressing desire to becoming free from even the urge?

How to sustain our bhakti when we have to live in materialistic association

Understanding the Marshmallow test from the three modes’ perspective

Do aliens exist?

Why do great devotees die due to painful dieases or terrible accidents?

Akbar built temples and Aurangzeb destroyed temples – why the difference?

Gita 08.21 – Our longing for home is our longing for the spiritual world

Did man go to the moon or not?

What is our approach to the theory of evolution?

Are dreams about Krishna factual or just imaginary?

Why do Abrahamic religions call Deity Worship as Devil Worship?

Do our dreams reflect our anarthas?

Gita 08.20 – The spiritual is not just non-manifest but also nonmaterial

MIND acronym 1 – Magnifies the problem

Gita 08.19 – Recognizing our lack of control over the destructible material imples us to direct our consciousness to the eternal spiritual

How to respond when a devotee is criticized by a devotee or a nondevotee?

Deconstructing Shishupala’s character assassination of Krishna

Gita 08.18 – Matter becomes unmanifest, but material form is destroyed

Gita 08.17 – The immortal is not eternal

Gita 08.16 – The world is like a jail or hospital – returning to it is undesirable

Gita 08.15 – Attaining Krishna is the eternally inalienable attainment

Gita 08.13 – External recitation and internal recollection propel us to spiritual liberation

Gita 08.12 – In yoga, the technical is a necessary preliminary to the transcendental

Gita 08.11 – Liberation in yoga requires renunciation

Gita 08.10 – Yoga restrains the negative, bhakti energizes the positive

Gita 08.09 – Systematic contemplation begins with tangible information

Relevance of Krishna’s descent – TEMPLE acronym – Janmashtami special

Comparing appearances of Krishna and Rama – Janmashtami special

Gita 08.08 – Practice to take consciousness beyond endlessly deceptive material reality to Krishna

Gita 08.14 – What is difficult in one perspective is easy in another perspective

Gita 08.07 – Devotion is not about rejecting the outer world but about offering the inner world

Gita 08.06 – Our emotional disposition becomes our physical position

Gita 08.05 – Our choice at the junction determines our destination

Gita 08.04 – Everything is ultimately a manifesatation of Krishna

Gita 08.03 – Spirituality is our nature

Gita 08.02 – Death is not the termination of life but its testing ground

Gita 08.01 – Terms have specific and generic meanings

Is bhakti as rasa a contemporary presentation at Lord Chaitanya’s times or an eternal truth?

Can a devotee do karma-kandi rituals for earning a living?

Did the presentation of bhakti evolve or even its definition evolve over time?

How can we reconcile “act according to your nature” and “do what Krishna wants you to do, not what you want to do”?

From the Mahabharata Krishna to the Bhagavatam Krishna

How can we avoid comparing ourselves with others while living in a comparing culture?

How can we avoid moroseness caused by repeatedly falling for sense gratification?

How can we serve according to our nature within an institutional setup?

Why did Vasudeva not allow Krishna to return to Vrindavana?

Appreciating Bhagavatam as rasa shastra

Gita 07.30 – Teacher’s incomprehensible statements test student’s interest and attentiveness

Temptations may come, we don’t have to welcome

Gita 07.29 – Detect misery to correct it

Gita 07.28 – Dont expect immediate steady determination – use present determination, even if unsteady

How can we understand that Krishna’s form is transcendental?

How are the Bhagavatam’s cantos named?

How can we reconcile “Krishna provides for devotees” and “Krishna takes everything from devotees”?

How can we make our heart into a temple?

Animals threaten each other the way humans do – how are humans more threatened?

What is pushti-bhakti and pushti and tushti in bhakti?

Gita 07.26 – Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence

When Narasimha had promised Prahlad that his descendents would be protected, why did Krishna kill Putana?

Spiritual Insights for dealing with HIV

Essence of Gita 5 – Choose God over the world