Lecture Series

Bhagavatam-daily 244 – 11.12.01 – The primacy of bhakti is not exclusive but is inclusive

Bhagavatam-daily 243 – 11.11.49 – Krishna teaches not as a pedant but as a friend

Gita 05.20 – Equanimity is meant to make us not emotionless, but purposeful

Gita 05.19 – Sameness of perception is the situation of liberation

Gita 05.18 – Spiritual realization grants equal vision towards all

Gita 05.17 – Spiritualize all the channels of consciousness to gain liberating knowledge

Gita 05.16 – Knowledge illumines our inner territory and reveals the indwelling Lord

Bhagavatam-daily 242 – 11.11.48 – Association sustains devotion

Gita 05.15 – The judge is not responsible for the criminal’s conviction

Bhagavatam-daily 241 – 11.11.47 – Absorption comes from both attraction and determination

Gita 05.13 – The bodily city metaphor conveys our difference from our sensory gates

Gita 05.14 – The more we become detached, the more we master the body

Bhagavatam-daily 240 – 11.11.46 – Specific details of Krishna’s forms are not to be transcended but to be treasured

Gita 05.12 – Action per se is not binding – attached action is

Bhagavatam-daily 239 – 11.11.45 – See social service as a form of devotional service, not its replacement

Gita 05.10 – Live in the world but be not of the world

Gita 05.11 – Change the motivation for action from gratification to purification

Gita 05.09 – Contact of senses & sense objects is not the problem – infatuation with the contact is

Bhagavatam-daily 238 – 11.11.44 – Worship of Krishna is eminently accessible through his devotees

Bhagavatam-daily 237 – 11.11.43 – See various worshipable things as pathways to the supreme worshipable

Gita 05.08 – Don’t take credit for actions done by bodily mechanisms

Bhagavatam-daily 236 – 11.11.42 – Don’t see God as reduced to the world or as disconnected from the world

Gita 05.07 – Inner purity ensures outer action without reaction

Bhagavatam-daily 235 – 11.11.41 – By giving our dearmost things to Krishna, we make Krishna our dearmost thing

Gita 05.06 – Renunciation without yogic connection is distressing

Personal Management Mantra – Productivity in Activity through Spirituality

Bhagavatam-daily 234 – 11.11.40 – Maintaining the sanctity of Deity worship protects our vision from sliding to the mundane

Gita 05.05 – Sankhya and yoga aim for the same destination, yet they aren’t same

Gita 05.04 – See beyond the diversity of process to the commonality of purpose

Bhagavatam-daily 233 – 11.11.39 – The counter for duplicity is not just honesty but also simplicity

Bhagavatam-daily 232 – 11.11.38 – The desire to become bigger keeps us a beggar

Gita 05.03 – Renunciation in action is lasting renunciation

Bhagavatam-daily 231 – 11.11.37 – Don’t let technical minutiae blind you to transcendental purpose

Gita 05.02 – The path that takes us away from bondage fastest is the best

Gita 05.01 – Understand meanings of terms from context, not from preconception

Bhagavatam-daily 230 – 11.11.36 – Pass higher test to quickly gain higher taste

Gita 04.42 – Win the inner war with spiritual knowledge and fight the outer war

Bhagavatam-daily 229 – 11.11.35 – Let spiritual sound shape your inner and outer world

Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic

Bhagavatam-daily 228 – 11.11.34 – The infinite by his infinite mercy becomes accessible in a finite form to the finite

Gita 04.40 – Don’t let doubts deprive you of happiness

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge

Bhagavatam-daily 227 – 11.11.33 – The glorification of devotion is not a denigration of reason

Gita 04.38 – Don’t reduce jnana to jnana-yoga

Bhagavatam-daily 226 – 11.11.32 – Give up whatever comes in the way of bhakti, even if it is dharma

Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes

Bhagavatam-daily 225 – 11.11.31 – Determination is more enriching than wealth

Bhagavatam-daily 224 – 11.11.30 – Even if desires dont get out, we can wait them out

Gita 04.36 – The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge

Gita 04.35 – Knowledge takes us beyond illusion and reveals connection of everything with Krishna

Bhagavatam-daily 223 – 11.11.29 – Mercy is given from a superior position, but not with a superior disposition

Gita 04.34 – Learn from guru how to do karma as yajna and attain jnana

Bhagavatam-daily 222 – 11.11.28 – God is not just the best in a category – he is beyond all categories

Bhagavatam-daily 221 – 11.11.27 – To take the bhakti treatment seriously, boost your faith in Krishnas healing expertise

Bhagavatam-daily 220 – 11.11.26 – Dont reduce bhakti to your conceptions – expand your conceptions

Gita 04.33 – Let action be permeated by knowledge and culminate in knowledge

Gita 04.32 – Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation

Bhagavatam-daily 219 – 11.11.24 – Have an integrated, not fragmented, understanding of bhakti

Bhagavatam-daily 218 – 11.11.23 – Devotion channelizes our active nature towards Krishna

Gita 04.31 – Happiness in this world and the next don’t have to be mutually exclusive

Gita 04.30 – The knowers of yajna attain purification, satisfaction and liberation

Bhagavatam-daily 217 – 11.11.22 – Krishna is not a judging God but an accomodating God

Gita 04.29 – Infuse pranayama with the imagery of yajna

Bhagavatam-daily 216 – 11.11.21 – Go beyond material variety by delighting in spiritual variety

Gita 04.28 – Apply the yajna priniciple to a broad spectrum of religious activities

Bhagavatam-daily 215 – 11.11.20 – Knowledge even if Vedic is barren without Krishna

Bhagavatam-daily 214 – 11.11.19 – Good without God is no good

Gita 04.27 – Ceassation of all sensory and respiratory activity is a yajna

Bhagavatam-daily 213 – 11.11.18 – Know not just the letter of the Vedas but their purpose too

Gita 04.26 – The mood of sacrifice spiritualizes both the householder and the renounced orders

Gita 04.25 – Re-envision both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda as yajna

Bhagavatam-daily 212 – 11.11.17 – The wise act as foolish to avoid being entangled with the foolish

Bhagavatam-daily 211 – 11.11.16 – The equal vision is principle-centered, not pleasure-centered

Gita 04.24 – When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual

Gita 04.23 – Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity

Bhagavatam-daily 210 – 11.11.15 – Transcend duality by being fixed in a reality higher than duality

Gita 04.22 – See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability

Bhagavatam-daily 209 – 11.11.14 – Our mentality determines whether we are in the body or are beyond it

Bhagavatam-daily 208 – 11.11.13 – Dream to come out of the dream

Gita 04.21 – Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire

Bhagavatam-daily 207 – 11.11.12 – Detachment enables us to be situated in matter but not bound by it

Gita 04.20 – The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter

Bhagavatam-daily 206 – 11.11.11 – See the world with a clinical perspective like a viritual reality

Gita 04.19 – Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant

Bhagavatam-daily 205 – 11.11.11 – Beware of the internal sabotage of our defense mechanism

Gita 04.18 – Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization

Bhagavatam-daily 204 – 11.11.09 – Maximizing the contact of senses and sense objects is the expressway to entanglement

Gita 04.17 – Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible

Bhagavatam-daily 203 – 11.11.08 – Embodied existence is not a dream – bodily misidentification is

Gita 04.16 – Don’t simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning

Bhagavatam-daily 202 – 11.11.07 – Enlightenment means to realize not just our oneness with the Absolute but also our difference

Gita 04.15 – Follow the successful to be successful

Bhagavatam-daily 201 – 11.11.06 – Quench the thirst for happiness by diving into the Lord’s glories

Bhagavatam-daily 200 – 11.11.05 – Krishna is potent and benevolent

Gita 04.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position protects us from karmic subjugation

Bhagavatam-daily 199 – 11.11.04 – Accepting our smallness brings wisdom

Gita 04.13 – Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating

Bhagavatam-daily 198 – 11.11.03 – Be not self-conscious or Maya-conscious – be Krishna conscious

Gita 04.12 – Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion

Bhagavatam first canto study 6 – 1.2.9-1.2.15 – Bhakti leads to realization of the Absolute Truth