Audio Lectures

Meditation on prayer to Jagannatha

Gita 02.66 – We need Krishna-connection to keep our intelligence and mind on track

Three levels of manifestation of Jagannatha Rath Yatra

Gita 06.13 – Physical position is meant to facilitate mental absorption

Gita 18.35 – We don’t lack determination – we lack direction for our determination

Brahma Samhita 5.30 – venum kvanantam – The creator adores his creator

Gita 06.12 – Concentration is the foundation for purification

Gita 14.11 – Is our acquistion of knowledge done with knowledge?

Gita 14.16 – Goodness detoxifies our consciousness

Gita 16.16 – The more we are spiritually deprived, the more become materialy depraved

Gita 18.57 – Don’t renounce work – offer work to Krishna

Gita 06.11 – Seek a balance between externals and internals

Gita 06.10 – Popular yoga is not spiritual yoga

Gita 06.09 – Equal vision towards those who relate unequally is challenging

Gita 06.08 – Realization brings satisfaction and equal vision

Gita 06.07 – The controlled mind disregards dualities and discovers the Supersoul

Gita 06.06 – Train the mind as a horse is trained

Gita 06.05 – The responsibility for controlling the mind rests on us

Gita 06.04 – Rigorous renunciation characterizes the yogarudha stage

Gita 06.03 – Different levels require different methods for progress

Gita 06.02 – Renunciation of matter and connection with spirit share the same purpose

Pada-sevanam – Bhakti is a relationship of ecstatic inequality

Gita 06.01 – Renunciation means to give up the shelter of work’s fruits

Focus on the universality of suffering, not its variety

Gita 05.29 – Peace comes by devotion to the all-powerful, all-loving Lord

Gita.05.28 – Controlling the external and the internal brings liberation

Gita 05.27 – Shut out the sense objects to seek inwards

Gita 05.26 – Success on the spiritual path will come surely and soon

Gita 05.25 – Removing impurities empowers us to rip apart the facade of dualities

Gita 05.24 – The inner is the way to the spiritual

Gita 05.23 – The war against lust is a war of attrition

Going beyond misconceptions about Deity Worship

Gita 05.22 – The so-called pleasure is the source of trouble

Gita 05.21 – Give up outer pleasure and seek inexhaustible inner happiness

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gita 05.07 – Inner purity ensures outer action without reaction

Gita 05.06 – Renunciation without yogic connection is distressing

Personal Management Mantra – Productivity in Activity through Spirituality

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

Scientific, Christian and Bhagavatam conceptions of God

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

Gita 05.03 – Renunciation in action is lasting renunciation

Conceptions of time in science, Christianity and Bhagavatam

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

Counter anxiety by spirituality

Managing the mind 2 – Catch the ventriloquist with intellectual and emotional energy

Managing the mind 1 – The mind is the TV and the thief

Importance of celibacy in the world’s spiritual traditions

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

PK and the criteria for finding the right path

Gita as a leadership guide

Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic

Spiritual Advancement and Material Ambitiousness

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

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge

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

Emotion Commotion Devotion – Nourishing our emotions in a culture of emotional exploitation

Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes

Karna’s tragic choice

Extra-terrestrial life – Scientific and scriptural approaches to the subject

Difference between humans and animals – Christian, scientific and Bhagavatam understandings

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

The purpose of the world – atheistic, theistic and Bhagavatam understandings

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

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

Conceptual, conversational and chronological background of the Bhagavatam’s creation narrative

Love is in the SOUND

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

Gita 04.32 – Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation

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

Gita 04.29 – Infuse pranayama with the imagery of yajna

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

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

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

Krishna can bring good out of everything – even our mistakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Information Satisfaction Purification Conviction – Four Benefits of Hearing