Lecture Series

Overcoming negative emotions 5 – Self-doubt

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 4 – The destination is also our companion

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 3 – Our attitude is our steering wheel

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 2 – What we are driving matters, but where we are driving matters more

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 1 – The mind is the passenger, don’t let it become the driver

Demystifying Reincarnation 20 – The Freedoms of the Reincarnation Worldview

Demystifying Reincarnation 19 – Reincarnation reveals justice amidst injustice

Prabhupada life-story 10 – How Krishna set the stage for Prabhupada

Demystifying Reincarnation 18 – Common Questions about Reincarnation

Overcoming negative emotions 4 – Overcoming anger through forgiveness

Demystifying Reincarnation 17 – The Mechanism of Reincarnation

Demystifying Reincarnation 16 – The soul’s defining characteristics and levels of consciousness

Demystifying Reincarnation 14 – Reincarnation in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism

Demystifying Reincarnation 13 – Reincarnation accepted across history and geography

The missing self in the selfie

Prabhupada life-story 09 – Alone and unaided in an alien land

Overcoming negative emotions 3 – Fear

How the fictional points to the spiritual

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 5

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 4

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 3

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 2

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 1

Overcoming negative emotions 2 – Depression

Is Krishna-bhakti universal when it is so specific?

Prabhupada life-story 08 – Journey on Jaladuta – Physically demanding, Divinely revealing

Science, Spirituality & Self-improvement

Live in the present but not for the present

Prabhupada life-story 07 – Seeking to reach the Western mind

Overcoming negative emotions 1 – Resentment

From anartha nivrtti to artha pravrtti (04)

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 4 – Understanding Pravrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 3 – Understanding Artha

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 2 – Understanding Nivrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 1 – Understanding Anartha

Prabhupada life-story 06 – Taking sannyasa & starting Bhagavatam commentary

Among various world religions what is special about practicing krishna-bhakti?

Bhagavatam study 67 01.13.30-38 When it is time to renounce embrace renunciation as a challenge and avoid discouragers

Can Krishna be interchanged with any other god as our object of worship?

Go beyond your inner critic & your inner daredevil

Gopi Gita(3)

Love of God may just be a sentiment in some religions – how can we know it is for real?

Gopi Gita 3 – “We cannot tolerate your feet being hurt by thorns – please return”

Gopi Gita 2 – “You alone can free us from contamination and tribulation – please return”

Prabhupada life-story 05 – Indian Partition – Transcendence amidst turbulence

Gopi Gita 1 – “Whoever you are – Lord or lover – please come back”

Bhagavatam study 66 01.13.24-29 Detachment emerges from education that changes our definition of success

Improving Japa 2 – Concentrate by cultivating interest and appreciating importance

Improving Japa 1 – Understand how and when we get distracted

Prabhupada life-story 04 – League of Devotees – A clique thwarts the promise

Bring out the best you 3 – Spiritual help

Bring out the best you 2 – Social help

Bring out your best 1 – Self-help

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 7 – Love in separation is the culmination of love

Demystifying Reincarnation 12 – Where is the programmer of the brain

Prabhupada life-story 03 – The dedicated disciple takes up the mission

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 6 – Parakiya-rasa is not immoral but trans-moral

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika

Christians say Jesus is the only way – do ISKCON devotees say Prabhupada is the only way?

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 2 – How Karma and Jnana Culminate in Bhakti

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 1 – Understanding how love culminates in bhakti

Prabhupada life-story 02 – From political activist to spiritual activist

Gajendra Moksha Katha 5 – Which comes first – giving up lower taste or getting higher taste – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi

Others deserve our empathy not our irritability

Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti philosophical bhakti spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

Akrura Katha 2 – Devotional disposition in association deepens our devotion

Akrura Katha 1 – When no one understands us Krishna understands

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions

Acknowledging and regulating our passions – Wisdom on Wisdom 8

Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Accept yourself to relate better with others

Spiritualizing our relationships (05)

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior

Reincarnation – From Romance to Research

Why was Lord Chaitanya harsh with Chota Haridas and lenient with Balabhadra Bhattacharya?

Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – To improve relationships, decrease expectation and increase contribution

Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – The more despiritualized we are, the more desensitized we become

Demystifying Reincarnation (12)

Demystifying Reincarnation 11 – Consciousness – Intuitions that point beyond the brain

Demystifying Reincarnation 10 – Near Death Experiences – Conscious when unconscious?

Demystifying Reincarnation 9 – Near Death Experiences – Partial consciousness?

Demystifying Reincarnation 8 – Near Death Experiences – Hallucinations or Guesses?

Demystifying Reincarnation 7 – Past life memories – Fraud by investigators?

Demystifying Reincarnation 6 – Past-life memories – Frauds by parents?

Demystifying Reincarnation 5 – Astonishing birth marks and birth defects

Demystifying Reincarnation 4 – Past life memories – Guesses or Hyperboles?

Demystifying Reincarnation 3 – Past life memories – Any normal explanation?

Demystifying Reincarnation 2 – Hypnotically induced past life memories and Xenoglossy

Demystifying Reincarnation 1 – Incredible delusion or credible vision?

Social Media Analysis (03)

Reincarnation Research – Science, Pseudo-Science & Scientism

Reincarnation and the human quest for self-understanding