Lectures

Understanding Rasa-lila 7 – Gopi-gita 3

Understanding Rasa-lila 6 – Gopi-gita 2

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 45 – 10.8.20-25 Krishna’s childhood activities fill Vraja ladies with anxiety and ecstasy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 44 – 10.8.13.19 Garga conceals and reveals Krishna’s identity

Understanding Rasa-lila 5 – Gopi-gita 1

Radhashtami class – Radharani demonstrates selfless love and blesses us with selfless love

Understanding Rasa-lila 4 – Radharani’s apparent pride expresses her selfless love

How the Bhagavad-gita’s first and last words reflect its empowering message

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 43 – 10.8.7-12 Religious celebration is meant for spiritual purification, not social congregation

Understanding rasa-lila 3 – Arrogance keeps us locked in ourselves, both apara-dharma and para-dharma get us out of ourselves

Seeing Krishna’s mercy amidst adversity – Bali M pastime analysis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 42 – 10.8.1-6 The saintly come to the worldly to expand the consciousness of the wordly

Understanding rasa-lila 2- How Bhagavatam establishes para-dharma without trivializing apara-dharma

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 41 – 10.7.31-37 Krishna’s first revelation of the universe in his mouth

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 40 – 10.7.27-30 Krishna silences Trinavarta to minimize anxiety for Vrajavasis

Understanding rasa-lila 1 – How the supreme Shelter (Ashraya) becomes sheltered (Ashrita)

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 39 – 10.7.19-26 Krishna protects Yashoda before tackling Trinavarta

Gita 18.78 The Gita’s purpose is not just to proclaim God’s position but primarily to transform man’s disposition

Analyze, Accept, Act – 3 principles for dealing with negativity

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 38 – 10.7.13-18 The potency of blessings increases with the purity of the blesser

Gita 18.77 Recollecting Krishnas universal form stimulates wonder in some and fear in others

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 37 – 10.7.7-12 Vrajavasis try to protect the one who protects everyone

Gita 18.76 The Gita’s conversation is memorable and relishable

Share the spiritual treasure with the world – SHARE acronym

Bringing out the best within us

Making healthy choices

Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita’s wisdom

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 36 – 10.7.1-6 Krishna’s childhood pastimes are both entertaining and enlightening

Overcoming negative emotions

Growing through adversities

What is destiny?

Gita 18.74 The Gita describes a mahatama and makes its hearer into a mahatma

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 35 – 10.6.35-44 Bhagavatam highlights the extraordinariness of the Vrajavasis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 34 – 10.6.24-34 Contact with Krishna is miraculously purifying

Gita 18.73 Harmony with the divine infuses our fleeting insignificant lives with lasting significance

Gita 18.72 A philosophical conversation amidst emotional tribulation testifies to Arjuna’s sincerity and Krishna’s potency

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 33 – 10.6.15-23 The Vrajavasis invoke God for the protection of God

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 32 – 10.6.7-14 Putana deceived the Vrajavasis, but Krishna deceived her

Gita 18.71 Krishna compassionately offers connections at decreasing levels of commitment

Appreciating Prabhupada’s sacrifice, wisdom and legacy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 31 – 10.6.1-6 Sukadeva G reveals the spoiler to relieve Parikshit M anxiety

Gita 18.70 See the sanctity of Gita study in terms of intent, content and result

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 4 – How Krishna appears in Vrindavan

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 3 – How Krishna appears in Mathura

Gita 18.69 See the superlative as an exhortation to devotional action

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 30 – 10.5.26-32 Relationships are the foundational wealth that is essential for anything to be enjoyable

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 2 – How Krishna freed the princesses from Naraka

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 1 – How Krishna freed the kings from Jarasandha and how Krishna frees us

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 29 – 10.5.21-25 See adversities as actions of destiny to stay composed

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 28 – 10.5.15-20 When Krishna came to Vraja, so did the goddess of fortune

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 27 – 10.5.7-14 Krishna’s birth floods Vraja with joy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 26 – 10.5.1-6 Let celebration center on purification, not gratification

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 25 – 10.4.38-46 Bad disposition with bad association is brutally bad

Gita 18.68 The bhakti cure cures more those who share the cure more

Gita 18.67 Though ultimately every heart longs for divine love, not every heart is presently ready for divine love

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 24 – 10.4.25-37 Kamsa’s change of heart doesn’t last for long

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 23 – 10.4.17.24 Others’ past bad karma doesn’t rationalize our present misdeeds towards them

Gita 18.66 The call to rise above dharma is not a call to slip below dharma

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 22 – 10.4.10-16 Kamsa’s self-recrimination is self-serving

Gita 18.65 Promises in a close relationship reflect and affect the closeness of the relationship

Science, Spirituality and Wellness – Existence, Emotions and Ethics

Appreciating the divine Krishna-Balarama relationship

Do you need a break from our mind? Bhagavad-gita insights for inside-out change

What makes relationships unsteady – and how to make them steady

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 21 – 10.4.1-10 Heartless Kamsa rejects Devaki’s heartfelt plea

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 2?

Gita 18.64 Krishna’s tone rises from informational analysis to impassioned advocacy

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 1?

Gita 18.63 Knowledge guides our free will by showing us the consequences of our actions

From exploration to realization to absorption – our devotional journey

Gita 18.62 The deepest peace comes by not an external serene situation but by an internal spiritual connection

Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 20 -10.3.47-53 Just as the ocean gave way to Rama, Yamuna gave way to Krishna

Faith in Krishna’s existence, relevance, benevolence, intelligence and remembrance

Don’t take others’ actions personally – they are dealing more with their mind than with you

Gita 18.60 How we act is determined by our material nature but for what purpose we act isnt

Understanding Krishna’s love 2 – Experience

Understanding Krishna’s love 1 – Knowledge

Gita 18.59 Ego means to think that we know better than God

Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can’t be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice

Is thinking too much unhealthy?

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – PURE acronym – 2

Gita 18.57 Take shelter of the intelligence to convince yourself of the need to take Krishna’s shelter

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – 1

How spirituality fosters unity in diversity and individuality in unity

Gita 18.56 The bhakti university takes seekers from any level to the summit of spiritual perfection

WITH acronym – We may have to live with pain, but we don’t have to live in pain

Devotion is not just emotion – it is conscious continuous cultivation

Gita 18.55 Don’t divorce the literal reading of one word from the overall context of the text

3 attitudes for becoming steady in life

Gita 18.54 Devotion doesn’t culminate in liberation, liberation culminates in devotion

No price is too high to possess ourselves – RECAP acronym

How the pre-modern, modern and post-modern ages respectively stressed the spiritual, physical and mental

Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual

What is Krishna consciousness? – Talk to multi-faith group in Australia

Gita 18.52 Take shelter of renunciation to cultivate inner absorption

Karna character analysis – Are we doomed by destiny or by our own decisions?

Ashwatthama character analysis – Just because we are empowered doesn’t mean that we are right

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – If we don’t want help, even God can’t help

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – Are some people innately evil?