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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

Gita 02.32 – Dharma rewards success according to each varna’s definition of success

Gita 02.31 – Dharma is not a blanket injunction but an individualized customization

Gita 02.30 – Knowlege of the soul is not a call for resignation but for action

Gita 02.29 – Perception, verbalization, reception and incomprehension wrt soul are all amazing

Gita 02.28 – The mutability of everything materially magnifies the futility of grief

Gita 02.27 – See death not as a future event, but as an ongoing process

How can we know which things increase our doubt and which increase our faith?

Let intelligence take from the poison phase to the nectar phase

Do neophyte devotees also represent Krishna? How?

Is the mind always our enemy?

When we get answers to doubts about which we pray, should we see those answers as Krishna’s reciprocation?

Is the Absolute Truth just a stream of consciousness for jnanis and a Person for bhaktas?

Gita 02.26 – Materialism makes meaning meaningless and lamentation pointless

If smriti is compiled by sages, how can we know that it is free from the four defects?

When Ajamila chanted with the wrong conception, why did Vishnutas come?

What is the result of chanting the names of godmen who have the name of God?

Can you give an example of unnecessarily provocative presentation of apara-vidya that we should avoid?

How can we give people initial faith so that they can practice para-vidya and experience its potency?

Why did Bhishma in his previous life as Vasu steal Vashistha’s cow?

Why does Arjuna brag that he is greater than Dwarkavasis in the brahmana son’s stealing pastime?

How to present scriptural wisdom scientifically

Gita 02.25 – Contemplate the inconceivable to relish the spiritual

Why is the same story told differently in different scriptures?

When Bhagavatam is the commentary on Vedanta-sutra, why do Advaitins still study Vedanta-sutra

Gita 02.24 – The soul can’t be stopped from going anywhere nor forced to go anywhere

Gita 02.23 – The utter indestrutibility of the soul underlies the path of difficult duty

Gita 02.22 – The dress metaphor redefines death not as a miserable termination but as a welcome transition

Gita 02.21 – Integrate knowledge of the soul with the purpose of that knowledge

Gita 02.20 – The soul doesn’t undergo the six changes that matter does

Gita 02.19 – The soul’s non-doership points to the complexity of matter-spirit interaction

Is Krishna’s reference to Arjuna as Bharata spiritual because the Bharata dynasty is filled with liberated souls?

If Krishna addresses Arjuna as per the bodily conception, does it mean that Krishna is in the bodily conception?

Gita 02.18 – The immeasurability of soul points to its non-literal non-metaphorical measure

Gita 02.17 – Nothing can destroy the soul because it pervades everything