Lectures

Gita 18.47 Acknowledging our present diversity is essential for realizing our spiritual commanality

Our emotional wounds can’t be healed by technology – we need spiritualty

The world of science is not the world we live in

Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine’s gifts to the divine

Committing is not limiting – it is elevating

From ritual to spiritual 3 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – The brahmanis selfless devotion

Dhruva pastime analysis 3 – DHRUV acronym – Realization and reconciliation result from devotion

Dhruva pastime analysis 2 – DHRUV acronym – Humility and honesty leads to authentic bhakti

Increasing willpower – by increasing the distance between us and our feelings, and our feeling and our actions

Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 3 – Balance & Commitment

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 2 – QA

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 1 – Authenticity

From ritual to spiritual 2 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – Understanding the brahmans

Gita 18.44 Protecting cows protects the cow protectors from greed

Gita 18.43 Kshatriyas control in service of the supreme controller

Dhruva pastime analysis 1 – Everyone faces distress, the fortunate find the right direction – DHRUV acronym

From ritual to spiritual 1 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas

Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction

Gita 18.41 Varnashrama provides customized spirituality for elevating people from where they are

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 19 – 10.3.39-46 Omnipotent Krishna can act through transcendental or normal means

PAST acronym – 4 reflections to go past your past

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 18 – 10.3.32-38 How past life connections make sense of present-life situations

Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature

QA at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, New Zealand

Gita 18.39 Pleasure in ignorance begins in ignorance and ends in increased ignorance

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 17 – 10.3.26-31 Devaki acknowledges Krishna as the provider of the supreme safety and strives for his safety

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 16 – 10.3.20-25 The divine’s complexion is sometimes a description and sometimes a signification

Gita 18.38 The pleasure of titillation leads to the agony of tribulation

To think or not to think – 4 reflections for a happy mind

3 ways to look for blessings amidst problems

3 roles of intelligence in bhakti

How Krishna can be seen – and how he can’t be seen

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 15 – 10.3.11-19 Krishna’s appearance dissipates the darkness without and within

Gita 18.37 Spiritual knowledge gives us the purpose to persevere through the poison till the nectar

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 14 – 10.3.1-10 The celestial, terrestrial and psychological characteristics that celebrate the Lord’s appearance

Don’t let your expectations of life come in the way of life

Gita 18.36 Some pleasures are the start of sorrow – and some the end of sorrow

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 13 – 10.2.37-42 Why the unborn Lord is born is both inferable and inconceivable

Gita 18.35 To hold on to thought-patterns that hurt us is to abuse our determination

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 12 – 10.2-31-36 Krishna’s lotus feet make the insurmountable material ocean insignificant

Selfie – Self = IE – Two things that technology provides and two things that spirituality provides

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 11 – 10.2.25-30 The devatas glorify the true nature of the Absolute Truth

Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion

Bhagavatam study 109 1.19.34-40 When God remains anonymous through coincidences devoteees identify and glorify him

Gita 18.33 What intelligence discerns, that determination sustains

Make a life, not just a living – LIFE acronym

Bhagavatam study 108 1.19.25-33 Devotee’s attractiveness attracts people to Krishna’s supreme attractiveness

Gita 18.32 Intelligence in ignorance mistakes the binding to be freeing

Effective Leadership of spiritual communities

Debunking the mind’s fake news – 4 points

Worry not whether your path is genuine – worry whether you are genuine

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – QA

Bhagavatam study 107 1.19.19-24 Knowledge comes alive thorugh those live that knowledge

Gita 18.31 Confusing between long-term purposes and short-term pleasures characterizes intelligence in passion

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – 3. Appreciate 4. Act

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – 2. Ascertain

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – 1. Accept

Three factors that determine what we see – Knowledge, Desire, Commitment

Gita 18.30 Intelligence means to see beyond appearance to consequence

Bhagavatam study 106 1.19.13-18 Our personal deliberation and our mentor consultation can be complementary, not contradictory

Gita 18.29 To drive purposefully, we need to know the destination, the path and the vehicle

Bhagavatam study 105 1.19.7-12 The universal sages come to see of the royal sage

Are some sections of the scriptures outdated? – Understanding the compassionate intent of the Vedas 2

Bhagavatam study 104 1.19.1-6 If sinful reaction rectifies sinful mentality, then the reaction is auspicious, not inauspicious

Gita 18.28 Doers in ignorance act destructively for others and even for themselves

Understanding the compassionate intent of the Vedas 1 – Are the Vedas agnostic?

Krishna’s presence is more precious than his presents

How devotion makes the insurmountable ocean of material desires insignificant

Bhagavatam study 103 1.18.44-50 Abuse of power by those representing God makes people godless

Gita 18.27 Our actions reflect our self-conception and our world-conception

Gita 18.26 The doer is not a non-doer but is a component in doing

Bhagavatam study 102 1.18.36-43 Avoid offenses carefully and avoid getting offended easily

Gita 18.25 To see our actions disconnected from the past and the future is to see in illusion

Bhagavatam study 101 1.18.31-36 Presuming that we know God’s will and are doing his work is presumptuous and dangerous

Gita 18.24 Disconnection from our Lord leads to the consumption of our consciousness by passion

Bhagavatam study 100 1.18.24-30 An annoyed response to annoying non-responsiveness is not malevolent

Bhagavatam study 99 1.18.18-23 The unlimited has unlimited potency to purify us of our unlimited sins

Gita 18.23 To gain knowledge, we need basic knowledge about where to seek knowledge

Bhagavatam study 98 1.18.11-17 Relish the sweetness of Bhagavan through the Bhagavata

Gita 18.22 Knowledge in ignorance makes us obsessed with one fragment of reality and one kind of action

Bhagavatam study 97 1.18.4-10 Understanding Parikshit M’s treatment of Kali

Gita 18.21 To equate others physical appearance with spiritual substance is vision in passion

Movie metaphor to understand how we are entangled and how bhakti liberates us

Bhagavatam study 96 1.17.43-18.3 The recent past is just like the present

Gita 18.20 Seeing commonality alone is not vision in goodness – seeing spirituality as the foundation of commonality is

Rationally choosing our life’s purpose and process

Bring out the best within, not the beast within – Hindi

QA session with Delhi youth

Analyzing Karna – Going beyond black and white perspectives in understanding scripture + QA

Three levels of purification – reaction, action and inclination – Hindi

How to increase our faith – Hindi

Bhagavatam study 95 1.17.37-42 Undestanding how restricting area of residence is a form of punishment

Gita 18.19 The Gita’s flow verses make its question-directed discussion more accessible

We can’t delete our memories, but we can choose what we remember

Gita 18.18 Analysis of the components of action is meant to direct towards non-reactive action

Bhagavatam study 94 1.17.31-36 Adharama-bandhu Kali can’t be allowed to live in the kingdom of Dharma-raja pautra

Gita 18.17 When we act without false ego, we stay free of reactions

Bhagavatam study 93 1.17.24-30 Avoid both extremes of taking everything in scripture only literally or only metaphorically

Bhagavatam study 92 1.17.18-23 The cause of suffering is sometimes incomprehensible