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Essence of Gita 4 – God helps those who let him help them

Essence of Gita 3 – Devotion connects us vertically and horizontally

Essence of Gita 2 – Direct love towards the ultimate object

Essence of Gita 1 – Love is eternal

Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron

Are Krishna bhaktas outside ISKCON at the neophyte stage?

How does fasting on Ekadashi increase our love for Krishna?

How can knowledge alone free us from karmic bondage, as Gita 4.14 says?

Is a person in Krishna consciousness transcendental to varnashrama?

How can we develop the contradictory qualities of enthusiasm and patience?

When Arjuna had enough mind control to perform great austerities, why does he say that he can’t control the mind?

How has surrender in Gita 2.7 changed Arjuna’s consciousness when he expresses the same sentiment in 1.35 and 2.8?

When Krishna calls as divine the vision for seeing the Universal Form, why does Vishvanatha Chakravarti call it a downgrade of vision?

When Arjuna was already able to see Krishna’s intimate form why did Krishna have to give him divine vision to see the Universal Form?

How was Sanjay able to see the Universal Form without being given special eyes by Krishna?

Does the fact that religious knowledge doesn’t grow like scientific knowledge prove its irrelevance?

Do the differences in various religions’ conceptions of God prove his non-existence?

Gita 07.24 – To deflect a clear critique of impersonalism is to violate both the meaning and the context

Gita 07.23 – Accommodation is not recommendation

Lord Chaitanya’s momentous victory in Puri – Chaitanya Charitamrita Madhya Chp 6

Gita 07.22 – Krishna accomodates within the house of the Vedas even those who cant worship him

Gita 07.21 – Krishna is much more merciful than the God in the Prodigal Son metaphor

Gita 07.20 – Don’t let desire steal your knowledge

Gita 07.01 – Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga

Gita 07.18 – Krishna is so hungry for love that he deems those who become his devotees charitable

Gita 06.47 – The perfection of yoga is not disconnection from matter but connection with Krishna

Gita 06.45 – Past-life attraction and present determination leads yogi to perfection

Gita 07.17 – Jnana favorable to bhakti intensifies our connection with Krishna

Gita 06.46 – Focus on transcendence is superior to any material attainment – gross or subtle

Gita 06.44 – Past-life’s spiritual practice manifests as inexplicable irresistible attraction to transcendence

Gita 07.16 – Approaching Krishna for any reason is auspicious

Gita 06.43 – Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse

Gita 07.15 – Scriptural categorization of non-devotees is living, not frozen

Gita 06.42 – Having past spiritual impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate

Independence Day Meditation – A Patriotism beyond Patriotism

Should the Bhagavad-gita be made India’s national book?

Gita 07.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position brings intellectual force to our call of devotion

Gita 07.13 – The modes sabotage our prospects of coming out of material existence

Gita 06.40 – Krishna reveals how an apparently lose-lose situation is actually win-win

Gita 06.41 – The deviated yogi loses neither materially nor spiritually

Should we love ourselves or hate ourselves?

Prabhupada’s one step to enter Jaladuta – A giant leap in humanity’s spiritual evolution

Gita 06.38 – The problems we perceive reflect our level of consciousness

Gita 06.39 – Doubts are natural due to our limitedness – seek the unlimited

Gita 07.12 – The Gita’s vision of God is not pantheistic but panentheistic

When cities were present in scriptural times too, why does ISKCON criticize urbanization?

Isnt fear of entanglement in grihastha life desirable?

Should one not become an IAS officer because one will get the karma of the people under one’s jurisdiction?

Is the quote about Macaulay systematically planning to destroy Indias glorious education and culture false?

If a devotee commits suicide, will he become a ghost? What can his relatives do for him?

Doesn’t ISKCON’s rule to glorify Srila Prabhupada and not one’s guru go against Vedic culture of glorifying one’s guru?

Why did Yudhisthira while gambling Draupadi describe her physical beauty publicly?

Why did Arjuna to avenge Abhimanyu kill the weaker Jayadratha and not a stronger opponent like Karna?

Gita 06.37 – Considering future problems is a sign of intelligence

Gita 07.11 – Kama manifests the divine when harmonized with dharma

Gita 06.36 – Mind control is essential – and possible by proper process

Gita 07.10 – All seeds are exhaustible, but Krishna is the inexhaustible seed

Gita 07.09 – Krishna underlies diverse manifestations as earth, fire, life and ascetic

Gita 06.35 – The supreme teacher offers guidance – and confidence

Lord Chaitanya gives special mercy – does that mean souls before his descent were deprived of mercy?

Why dont the Vedas talk only about bhakti – how are they the authority for bhakti?

Is Krishna’s coming only once in Brahma’s day mean that he is partial?

Gita 06.34 – The mind is dangerous like an unstoppable storm

Gita 07.08 – Krishna is the essence that makes all taste accessible through water

How can we ensure that we apply what we learn?

Gita 07.07 – Krishna is the substance underlying all appearance

Gita 06.33 – Seeing equally is tough, but seeing devotionally is easier

Gita 06.32 – The topmost yogi sees everyone with benevolence, not indifference

Gita 07.06 – Nothing exists outside the purview of Krishna’s energies

Gita 07.05 – The Absolute Truth is immutable, but its energies are mutable

Gita 06.31 – See oneness in Krishna’s various manifestations – not Krishna and the soul

After completing brahmachari training, how to overcome fear of entanglement while entering grihastha ashrama?

Should we pray for Krishna’s help for dealing with some problem in our profession even when such problem is material?

Should we pray for going BTG or pray for serving Krishna in this world?

Gita 07.04 – Sankhya when seen devotionally reveals Krishna’s glory

Gita 06.30 – The perception of Krishna everywhere takes one beyond the reach of illusion

While praying how can we cultivate emotions without becoming sahajiyaic?

What does it mean to remember Krishna while chanting?

Why don’t devotees discuss the eight stages of jnana?

When we are in tears, we need self-confidence to deal with it practically – what is the use of chanting?

If a famous person is dying and people pray for his longevity what is the Vedic perspective on it?

Vandanam – Understanding the dynamics of prayer

Gita 07.03 – The rarity of knowing Krishna reveals the mercy we have the opportunity to relish

Gita 06.29 – By seeing sameness in the material, yogi penetrates to the supreme spiritual substance

If something is destined, then will it not happen even if we don’t endeavor?

Can devotees perform Satyna-Narayan puja?

When later never comes, why tell people to postpone spiritual life for material life?

Shouldn’t we teach the highest standard, otherwise people will rationalize their materialism?

Gita 07.02 – Understand the appearance and the substance of everything

Gita 06.28 – To get the best happiness, connect with God, not sense objects

Gita 06.27 – Joy is the natural fruity of purity

Gita 06.26 – Overcome discouragement with the inner light and the inner map

Is it hypocrisy to kill animals for getting yoga-seat while claiming to be a vegetarian?

Is the idea of focusing on material life instead of spiritual life a deviation from Prabhupadas teachings?

In Bhagavatam canto 2, what is the relation between Parikshitas question and Brahmas listing various avataras?

In yugas when Krishna doesnt descend which avatar descend?

In Gita 13.24 why does Krishna say that he has spoken about the modes when he hasn’t spoken about them?

Gita 06.25 – Don’t expect overnight change – determinedly make gradual changes

Gita 13.26 – Hearing is foundational to the topmost yoga

Lust brings out our lower side – love, our higher side