Audio Lectures

Understanding the Spiritual Reality and Parakiya Rasa

How a devotee transcends worldly miseries through absorption SB 3.22.37

Directing the four lanes of our consciousness – intellectual emotional devotional and motivational – towards Krishna Gita 5.17

The antiquity accessibility and glory of the Vedic spiritual path SB 3.22.33

Let logic be our minister not our master

3 considerations in reconciling Science and Scripture

The Password for Happiness – Utkarsh Camp 2013 Pune

Spiritual World – The World of Mirth and Merry

Why do we put faith in the spiritual world?

Balancing faith and questioning spirit on the spiritual path

Self-Control – The Key to Happiness Gita 5.21-24

OMG 2 – Acts of God, Karma and Destiny

How devotees’ suffering is different from that of nondevotees

Bhuliya tomare meaning (Meditations on Vaishnava songs)

Implementing Varnashrama in todays society SB 5.19.19

Is Manava seva not Madhava Seva? (With over 25 QA)

Prayers that differentiate pure devotion from mixed devotion – Prahlad’s prayers SB 7.10.2-7

Understanding Krishnas first-person and third-person referencs in the Gita – part 2

Happiness is a byproduct ofabsorption in Krishna SB 10.20.20

Understanding Krishna first-person and third-person references in the Gita – part 1

The special place of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu among the Vedic scriptures – Hindi

Meditating on the Sanskrit and Bengali prasadam prayers – Hindi

SB 1.7.4-7 – Vyasa’s mystic vision as the seed of the Bhagavatam

NoI 10 Text 3 – Three directions we may go on deviating from bhakti

NoI 9 Text 3 How neglect of regulative principles destroys bhakti

NoI 8 Text 2-3 – Devotional service is not sentimental speculation or imaginative ecstasy

Gita 13.21-22 Material existence as a virtual reality

NoI 7 Text 2 – Three levels of contamination due to asat-sanga

NoI 6 Text 2 – Identifying over-endeavor in spiritual life

NoI 5 Text 2 – Sociological and philosophical reasons to avoid atyahara

NoI 4 Text 1 – The exalted level of the “sharira avidya jala” prayer

The process of bhakti yoga in a nutshell SB 1.2.12

NoI 3 Text 1 – How to spiritualize anger in devotional service – Mumbai 2013

NoI 2 Text 1- The need and the means for authentic atonement – Mumbai 2013

NoI 1 Preface – Understanding the right attitude for a sadhaka – Mumbai 2013

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 12.12-20 – The last rung in the Gita’s downward ladder of love

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 12.1-11 Arjuna’s question refers to Brahmavada not Mayavada

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.47-55 – How Virat Rupa revelation ends in glorification of bhakti

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.28-46 The Frightening Virat Rupa – Kala Rupa

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.1-27 The Magnificent Virat Rupa

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.19-42 How the Vibhutis manifest Krishna’s glory

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.1-7 – Review of the first nine chapters of the Gita

Chronological and Conceptual flow of the Bhagavatam (SB 3.22.8)

Ram Jinka Nama Hai song explanation – Rama Navmi 2013 Hindi

Rama Katha – 4 lessons from the abduction of Sita Hindi

Difference between glorification and flattery (Hindi)

Ramayana characters 2 – Kaikeyi 2

Ramayana characters 1 – Kaikeyi (Trapped by Blind Belief and Baseless Doubt) – 1

Do nondevotees have no good qualities

OMG – Point-by-point response to the movie TV talk show Hindi

Mahajanas 5 – Lord Kapila

Oh My God – Point-by-point response to the movie TV talk show

Lord Chaitanya Sannyasa lila – Chaitanya Chandrodaya Nataka 4 Hindi

Dana Keli Lila enacted by Lord Chaitanya – Chaitanya Chandrodaya Nataka 3 Hindi

Vairagya and Bhakti in Kali Yuga – Chaitanya Chandrodaya Nataka 2 Hindi

Explanation of Sacisuta Ashtakam – Gaur Purnima 2013 Hindi

How Kali’s weapons failed against Lord Chaitanya – Chaitanya Chandrodaya Nataka 1 Hindi

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.73-78 Concluding messages from the Gita

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.65-72 – Comprehending dharman parityajya and vraja in 18.66

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.62-64 Why bhakti is the conclusive message of the Gita

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.54-62 Bhakti is the summit of spirituality but also reaches down to wherever we are

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.40-53 Rising to the brahman platform through devotionalized karma yoga within varnashrama

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.36-39 Choose happiness based on intelligence

18.35 Sustaining our determination is our responsibility

18.29-34 Intelligence in the three modes and its difference from knowledge in the three modes

Gita Overview Mumbai18.22-28 How the modes shape the doer and the deed

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.18-21 The motivations and components of action

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.12-17 Five factors of action

Gita Overview Mumbai 18.1-9 When renunciation does and doesn’t bear fruit

Gita Overview Mumbai 17.23-28 How om tat sat sanctifies and spiritualizes

17.15-22 Being soft-spoken and satisfied are matters of choice not just of nature

Gita Overview Mumbai 17.11-14 Understanding svabhava svakarma and svadharma

Gita Overview Mumbai 17.5-10 When austerities become demoniac

Gita Overview Mumbai 17.3-4 Panchopasana and religions in various modes

Gita Overview Mumbai 16.21-17.2 – Scripture takes us beyond nature nurture and culture

16.13-20 The demoniac treat religion as a social cosmetic

Gita Overview Mumbai 16.8-12 Atheists abuse science for demoniac purposes

Gita Overview Mumbai 16.1-7 Understanding pravrtti and nivrtti

Gita Overview Mumbai 15.15-20 Trishloki Gita refutes Mayavada unambiguously

Gita Overview Mumbai 15.9-14 Krishna arranges for even our material enjoyment

Gita Overview Mumbai 15.1-8 Analysis of the upside-down tree metaphor

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.22-27 Become an observer of the consciousness

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.17-21 Knowledge arises from sattva not abhyasa

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.11-16 How knowledge became redefined as the quest for power not truth

Gita Overview Mumbai 14.1-10 Characteristics of the three modes

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.20-35 A coherent understanding of the 6 items taught in Chp 13-

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.13-19 Understanding five koshas and achintyabhedabheda in the Gita

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.8-12 Role of bhakti in jnana and of jnana in bhakti

Gita Overview Mumbai 13.1-7 Vyashti and Samashti approaches to understanding reality

Five aspects of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s outreach

Gita Overview 12.12-20 Unraveling the mysterious hierarchy of 12.12

Gita Overview Mumbai 12.1-11 Progression from Virata Rupa to Impersonal Brahman

Gita Overview Mumbai 11.41-55 Pure devotion reveals all visions

Gita Overview Mumbai 11.24-40 Material destruction paves the way for spiritual ressurection

Gita Overview Mumbai 11.1-23 The background to understand Vishva-rupa – Yoga aishvarya to rupa aishvarya

Gita Overview 10.34-42 – Krishna as victory adventure and other opulent manifestations

Gita Overview Mumbai10.25-33 – Metaphors for understanding Krishna’s glories

How KC is the solution of all problems 7 – Religious Problems

How Krishna left and returned to Vrindavan – Hindi

Srila Prabhupada expert presentation of the Bhagavatam – Hindi