Audio Lectures

Mahabharata Characters 19 – Vidura 01 – A true friend, affectionate but not attached

Mahabharata Characters 18 – Dhritarashtra 04 – Losing Everything Before Losing Blindiness

Mahabharata Characters 17 – Dhritarashtra 03 – Blaming destiny for irresponsibility

Mahabharata Characters 15 – Dhritarashtra 01 – The blindness of attachment begins

Mahabharata Characters 14 – Drona 04 – Repaying deceit with deceit

Mahabharata Characters 13 – Drona 03 – The Blunder Under Pressure

Mahabharata Characters 12 – Drona 02 – The Teacher’s Tests

Mahabharata Characters 16 – Dhritarashtra 02 – How the attached get manipulated

Mahabharata Characters 11 – Drona 01 – From poverty to power

Mahabharata Characters 10 – Bhishma 09 – The Ideal Departure

Don’t romanticize the past or demonize the present – utilize whatever is available

Mahabharata Characters 09 – Bhishma 08 – The Grandsire on the arrow bed

Mahabharata Characters 08 – Bhishma 07 – Transcendental devotion amidst violent confrontation

Mahabharata Characters 07 – Bhishma 06 – The heartbreaking conflict among loved ones

Mahabharata Characters 06 – Bhishma 05 – The sacrifice of reputation for devotion

Can we be spiritual in an age of science?

Mahabharata Characters 05 – Bhishma 04 – The celibate becomes the match-maker

Mahabharata Characters 04 – Bhishma 03 – A test of faith

Short introduction to “Fascinating Mahabharata Characters” Course

Mahabharata Characters 03 – Bhishma 02 – The fatal complication

Kunti’s Prayers 6 (SB 01.08.39-43) – The selflessness of pure devotion

Mahabharata Characters 02 – Bhishma 01 – The fierce vow

Mahabharata Characters 01 – Three understandings of the timeless classic

How to make our work into worship (Gita 18.44-45) (Hindi)

Narasimha Katha Hindi 3 – SB 07.08.14-30 – Love underlies the various dangerous forms of the Lord

Narasimha Katha Hindi 2 – SB 07.08.09-13 – Repressive and reprehensible Hiranyakashipu

Narasimhadeva’s instructions (SB 07.10.01-23) – Balancing the aspiration for pure devotion with practical action

Narasimha Katha Hindi 1 – SB 07.08.01-08 – Arrogant Hiranyakashipu confronts gentle but firm Prahlada

Arjuna’s memories of Krishna 1 (SB 01.15.04-09) – Make your memory your treasury

Narasimha Kavacha 3 – Verses 21-31 – The reciprocal Lord blesses us according to how we approach him

Narasimha Kavacha 2 – Verses 9-20 – Remember the Lord for protection of all bodily limbs and from all directions

Narasimha Kavacha 1 – Verses 1-8 – Meditate on the Lord without and within to invoke his protection

Sita Devi – Determined devotion refuses to choose the easy way out no matter what the justification

Madhu Pandit Goswami – Single-minded focus to the Deity that defined the devotee

Jahnava Devi – Carrying on the legacy amidst adversity

Value Education and Spirituality 6 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 4 – Let secularism protect us from narrow-mindedness, not restrict us in empty-mindedness

Value Education and Spirituality 5 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 3 – Three non-sectarian arguments for the existence of God

Value Education and Spirituality 4 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 2 – Karma shows the sense in life’s seeming senselessness

Value Education and Spirituality 3 – The Spiritual Foundation of Values 1 – The end is not the end

Value Education and Spirituality 8 – Mahabharata 2 – Duryodhana – Envy leads to destructive competition that is dissatisfying and degrading

Value Education and Spirituality 7 – Mahabharata 1 – Shakuni – Imaginary expectation leads to real destruction

Kunti’s Prayers 5 – (1.8.35-37) – Don’t deny human emotions in the name of transcendence

Can we be spiritual without being religious? – Prerana festival talk

Karna’s critical choice – Word of honor or life of honor?

Jahnu Saptami – The Lord’s blessings are more than worth whatever austerity is required to get them

Shankaracharya – Reconcile apparent differences by focusing on unifying deeper purpose

Aryan Invasion Theory – Origins, Problems and Consequences

Kunti’s prayers 4 – (1.8.32-1.8.35) – Four reasons for the Lord’s appearance

Voting in elections is the social responsibility of devotees (Hindi)

Gadadhar Pandit – The devotee gives up everything for the Lord; the Lord gives up everything for the devotee

Vrindavana Dasa Thakura – The writings of Vaishanvas offer us their best legacy

ISKCON’s contributions to India 6 – Appreciation of India’s spiritual culture among Indian youth

ISKCON’s contributions to India 5 – Infrastructure provision for spiritual practice in modern times

ISKCON’s contributions to India 4 – Development

ISKCON’s contributions to India 3 – Non-discrimination in sharing spirituality

ISKCON’s contributions to India 2 – Internationalization of India’s spiritual culture

ISKCON’s contributions to India 1 – Overview acronym INDIA

Abhirama Thakura – Spiritual empowerment manifests through extraordinary material actions

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 10 – 10.02.15-24 – The mysterious appearances of Balarama and Krishna

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 9 – 10.02.01-14 – The previous lives of Kamsa

Value Education and Spirituality 2 – Our values serve as protecting fences and as focusing default settings

Value Education and Spirituality 1 – What we value determines our values – and our values determine our value

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 8 – 10.01.56-69 – Kamsa brutally persecutes his own family members

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 7 – 10.01.46-55 – Vasudeva’s plan B to put off catastrophe

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 6 10.01.36-44 – Vasudeva expertly uses sama, dama and bheda to pacify Kamsa

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 5 10.01.26-35 – Events leading to Kamsa’s barbarism

Prayer to Hanumanji – Welcome the Rama-duta in the heart with eagerness

Shaligram Tulsi Jal Daan – Tap every opportunity to increase service

Krishna Vasanta Rasa – An invitation to rise from reflection to reality

Balarama Rasa Yatra – Balaramji serves as the enjoyer in his service to the Supreme Enjoyer

Shyamananda Pandit – The Lord blesses mysteriously and wonderfully those who serve diligently

Vamshivadan Thakura – Serving those who are serving in separation

Hanuman Appearance – Blend submission and aggression in devotion

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 4 – 10.01.21-25 – The Lord’s majestic universal rescue operation

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 3 – 10.01.14-20 – The glory of the speakers and hearers of the Bhagavatam

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 2 – 10.05.01-13 – Krishna is everyone’s benefactor – I long to hear about him

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 1 – 10.01.01-04 – Please speak Krishna-katha for benefitting everyone

Ramayana and Gaudiya Vaishnavism

How Lord Rama is maryada-purushottama

Voting in elections is the social responsibility of devotees

Karna’s colossal blunder

Reviving Love 1 – Para dharma contrasted with apara dharmas like patriotism, be-good and service to parents

The four P’s of effective chanting – Posture, Pronunciation, Purity and Prayerfulness

Three ways to understand the maha-vadanyaya nature of Lord Chaitanya – the magnitude of the charity, the unworthiness of the recipients and the self-sacrifice of the giver

Let go of all ties (conditions, conditionings and competition) and live life wise and nice

Rekindling Wisdom 3 – How God is the supreme enjoyer and what that means for our enjoyment

Rekindling Wisdom 2 – How is God the supreme controller and what does it imply

Rekindling Wisdom 1 – Understanding how God is the supreme proprietor

Expanding the intersection of our emotional circle and Krishna’s emotional circle

NoI 17 Texts 10-11 – The glory of pure devotion in parakiya bhava

NoI 16 Text 9 – The glory of the topmost of all dhamas

NOI 13 Text 6 – Don’t be misled by material perception of devotees

Tapping our irreducible individuality in bhakti-yoga

NoI 16 Text 8 Living in Vraja in spirit

NoI 14 Text 7 – The science of chanting

NoI 13 Text 5 – Interacting with devotees at different levels

Prabhupada’s contributions to the world

NoI 12 Text 5 – Interacting with devotees at different levels

NoI 11 Text 4 – How the six exchanges nourish devotion

Vedic dharma series – Universal and contextual aspects of dharma