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Bhuliya Tomare Meaning – Even success story is sorry story

Gita 03.01 – The Gita’s complex multi-level message is intellectually challenging and fulfilling

Gita 02.72 – Nirvana may be extinction, but brahma-nirvana is not

Gita 02.71 – Peace comes not by relocation, but by renunciation

Gita 02.70 – Be filled with higher purpose to transcend lower desires

Understanding acharaya’s controversial statements

Why does the Gita say that Krishna can’t be attained by worship?

Is surrendering to God fatalistic?

Krishna demonstrates prevailing definition of success – and transcends it

Gita 02.69 – Be special above the ordinary, not among the ordinary

Gita 02.68 – Be a soul-deliverer, not a soul-killer

Gita 02.67 – Be swept by the wind of spiritual desire, not material desire

Gita 02.66 – Without inner connection, we end with agitation and frustration

Gita 02.65 – Purification makes external intelligence internal

Holi – Let the fire burn the impurities within

Gaur Purnima – Lord Chaitanya makes supremely fortunate the materially unfortunate and the materially fortunate

Did Arjuna know Krishna’s supreme position in the Gita’s first chapter?

Why did Lord Chaitanya perform shraddha?

Gita 02.64 – Material regulation is the launching pad for spiritual liberation

Could Krishna not convince Arjuna with philosophy alone and so he displayed the Universal Form?

Gita 02.63 – Irritation, delusion, oblivion, stupefaction, destruction – Last 5 of 8 stages to falldown

Gita 02.62 – Whatever catches our attention catches us

How does Schrodinger’s cat paradox point to consciousness’ reality?

How could Bhima drink Dushashana’s blood?

Is the religionist’s God different from the philosopher’s God?

Did Bhima kill Duryodhana or just wound him?

Do sadhaka-devotees also become free all worldly obligations?

How does the Vedic rule of “no reactions in killing aggressors” apply today?

Is identifying according to our nature false ego?

Is sex pleasure due to hormones or mental imagination?

What does om mean?

If we do someone else’s work well, then is that work is our nature?

Is Prabhupada’s usage of “Thou shall not kill” to meat-eating an out-of-context application?

What causes inferiority complex?

Will banning beef lead to economic problems?

Gita 02.61 – Control, concentration, conquest – three stages in dealing with the senses

Gita 02.60 – Endeavoring and discerning are not enough for sense control

Gita 02.59 – Complement renunciation of the material with contemplation on the spiritual

PURI acronym – 4 special qualities of Madhavendra Puri

ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor – H H Jayapataka Swami Maharaj

Is applying material science to spiritual things wrong?

Do devotees who commit suicide become ghosts?

Gita 02.58 – Withdraw consciousness inwards as a basic defense mechanism

Are all attractive things good for devotees of the all-attractive?

Doesn’t population growth disprove reincarnation?

Gita 02.57 – Stay unaffected by the material by being focussed on the spiritual

Gita 02.56 – Emotional non-entanglement with the material characterizes the seer

How do we understand different devotees interpreting the moisture on the Pancha Tattva Deities differently?

Who created God?

Gita 02.55 – Rejection of mental desires and satisfaction in the self define the self-realized

Gita 02.54 – Non-literal meaning illumines when literal meaning stumps

Gita 02.53 – Persistent absorption comes by consistent rejection of distraction

Gita 02.52 – Shastra without guru can be a deluding forest for the intelligence

Can’t all miracles be ascribed to natural causes?

How do we understand contradictions in scriptures?

How is shabda-pramana free from four defects?

How can we best present the Gita to intellectuals who feel Prabhupada’s Gita is too devotional?

Why does Prabhupada say that Haridasa Thakura is superior to Lord Shiva?

What exactly is false ego and true ego?

Did the Pancha Tattva Deities shed tears of ecstasy due to the ecstatic kirtan mela?

Why does God let some people be atheists?

Will soldiers who fight in today’s wars be doing vikarma?

Is simplicity and non-duplicity the same as humility or truthfulness?

Do sampradayas other than 4 Vaishnava sampradayas also have divine origin?

Did the Gita originally have 745 verses?

Why do ISKCON devotees pronounce Sanskrit words differently from traditional pronunciations?

Gita 02.51 – Same action with higher motivation bestows higher destination

Harinaam Sankirtan unites dance with meditation

Music therapy and Harinaam Sankirtan

Is the Gita relevant today?

Gita 02.50 – Yoga facilitates individualized artistic infusion of work with devotion

Gita 02.49 – The good becomes bad when it becomes the enemy of the best

Gita 02.48 – Yoga requires material indifference to provide spiritual transcendence

Gita 02.47 – Make sense of four counterintuitive assertions by seeing the full picture

Gita 02.46 – Understand multivalence of Veda to grasp how transcending the Vedas fulfills their purpose

Gita 02.45 – Gain possession of the soul by giving up obsession with matter

Valentine’s Day – Commercial exploitation of urban isolation sets up the heart for disappointment

Gita 02.44 – Prevent attachment from abducting consciousness by intelligence and taste

Gita 02.43 – The Vedic masterplan uses dharma to raise people from kama to prema

Should we hate the mind?

Vaishnava Sadachara 4 – Managing harmoniously

Vaishnava Sadachara 3 – Acting according to time place circumstance

Vaishnava Sadachara 2 – Dealing appropriately with different people

Vaishnava Sadachara 1 – Importance of Sadachara

Gita 02.42 – Flowery words of Vedas distract from their ultimate wisdom

Gita 02.41 – Intent shapes intelligence

Are miracles compatible with science?

Gita 02.40 – The spiritual path comes with a no-loss and a fear-relieving guarantee

Ishopanishad says God’s body has no veins, whereas SB says rivers are the veins of Virat rupa – how to reconcile?

Does Krishna consider Arjuna’s concerns about destruction of family meaningless?

Gita 02.39 – Use buddhi to transform theoretical sankhya into practical yoga

Gita 02.38 – To reconcile the Gita’s contradictions, recognize the multi-level nature of its discussions

What is the Vedic perspective on organ donation?

Does the Gita offer spiritual solution to spiritual problem or to material problem?

Krishna rewards according to surrender, but Lord Chaitanya sees no qualification. How to reconcile?

Gita 02.37 – Knowledge of atma and dharma redefines lose-lose situation as win-win

Gita 02.36 – Behave respectably to bring respectability to Krishna’s message

Gita 02.35 – The variance between our intention and people’s perception causes mortifying misconception

Gita 02.34 – Engage the power of honor to encourage honorable action

Gita 02.33 – Honorable position brings obligation of tangible contribution