Lecture Series

Gita 09.15 – Jnana yajna is not the same as jnana-yoga

Gita 09.14 – See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication

Gita 09.13 – Krishna’s attractiveness is original and inexhaustible

Gita 9.12 – Rejecting real currency as fake leaves one impoverished

Gita 09.27 – Bhakti accommodates seekers at multiple levels

Gita 09.16 – See beyond the technical to the transcendental

Gita 09.11 – To claim the impersonal to be Krishna’s param bhava is contextually and grammatically indefensible

Gita 09.10 – Nature is not causally complete without an ultimate cause

Gita 09.09 – Krishna is concerned but not sentimental

Gita 09.07 – Repetition of discussion is meant for elevation of vision

Gita 09.06 – Krishna limits not our freedom but the scope of our freedom

Gita 09.05 – God’s self-contradiction points to his inconceivable multi-level manifestations

Gita 09.04 – God relates with the world through the impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent

Gita 09.03 – Bhakti harmonizes the temporary with the eternal

Gita 09.01 – Krishna’s glory can be appreciated by the devoted, not the envious

Gita 08.28 – Yogi gets what other paths offer and gets more too

Gita 08.27 – Devotional consistency is more important than chronological accuracy

Gita 08.26 – Disinvest emotion from matter before it crashes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bhagavatam-daily 315 – 11.14.9 – Spiritual universality accomodates material variety

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

Bhagavatam-daily 314 – 11.14.8 – We need the living tradition to protect us from deviation

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

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

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

Gita 07.29 – Detect misery to correct it

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

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 3

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 2

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 1

Bhagavatam-daily 313 – 11.14.5-7 – Vedic variety reflects universal demography

Bhagavatam-daily 312 – 11.14.4 – Sonic succession is more important than seminal succession

Bhagavatam-daily 311 – 11.14.3 – The knowledge beyond history manifests in history

Gita 07.27 – Go beyond duality by spirituality

Gita 07.26 – Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence

Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron

Bhagavatam-daily 310 – 11.14.2 – Diversity of paths accommodates variety of desires

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

Bhagavatam-daily 309 – 11.14.1 – See the diversity of paths neither fanatically nor uncritically

Gita 07.23 – Accommodation is not recommendation

Bhagavatam-daily 308 – 11.13.41 – Enlightenment is not just accepting the reality of the spiritual but also accepting its primacy

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

Bhagavatam-daily 307 – 11.13.40 – Purification is not the depriver of happiness – impurity is

Bhagavatam-daily 306 – 11.13.39 – Unity of purpose underlies diversity of processes

Bhagavatam-daily 305 – 11.13.38 – Krishna questions the question before answering the question

Bhagavatam-daily 304 – 11.13.37 – Austerity is meant not to torment the body but to transcend the body

Bhagavatam-daily 303 – 11.13.36 – Devotion is the ultimate intoxication

Bhagavatam-daily 302 – 11.13.35 – Don’t equate the temporarily real with the eternally real

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 07.19 – Krishna is not a dispensable filler; he is an indispensable shelter

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

Bhagavatam-daily 301 – 11.13.34 – Don’t equate continuity of form with continuity of substance

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

Bhagavatam-daily 300 – 11.13.33 – Faith in Krishna is similar to and different from other kinds of faith

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

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

Bhagavatam-daily 299 – 11.13.32 – The absence of memory is also a memory

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

Bhagavatam-daily 298 – 11.13.31 – Absorption in higher reality counters infatuation with lower reality

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

Bhagavatam-daily 297 – 11.13.30 – Wake up from the dream, not within the dream

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

Bhagavatam-daily 296 – 11.13.29 – Rejection of illusion brings release from anxiety

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

Bhagavatam-daily 295 – 11.13.28 – Spiritual is not just above goodness – it is way above