Lectures

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

The Blue Whale Challenge and the desperate human need for self-validation

LEAD acronym – 4 Leadership Sutras from Bhagavad-gita

Those who believe that their mind is their friend become their own enemies

DEEP acronym – What our phone can teach us about our mind

OASIS – Five reflections for self-improvement

Discover the Baahubali within you

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi

4 lessons about our mind from our phone – Distortion Discretion Determination, Devotion

Live from #FB Bandstand Q&A on reincarnation with Chaitanya Charan Das

Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti philosophical bhakti spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

Meditation on Kaliya lila – Devotion grants access to a rich panorama of divine emotions

Akrura Katha 2 – Devotional disposition in association deepens our devotion

Akrura Katha 1 – When no one understands us Krishna understands

Understanding our unprecedented vulnerability to temptation

Addressing the fear of war breaking out

Appreciating Balarama’s two blessings – Bala and Rama

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

Increasing our willpower through restriction redirection and reconstruction – Hindi

Appreciating Balarama’s position pastime and blessing – Hindi

Tap the power of thoughts don’t be trapped by them – Hindi

To always remember Krishna practically means to remember that he is the controller of things outside our control – Hindi

God is not present less in the hearts of the godless Gita 15.15

Krishna is the trans-personal shelter of all the things that shelter us

Response to “My daughter wants to become Sunny Leone”

Morality may be relativized but the consequences of immoral indulgence can’t be relativized Gita 03.17

Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions

Acknowledging and regulating our passions – Wisdom on Wisdom 8

Don’t let the mind send the intelligence on a vacation

Our addictions originate not in uncontrollable desires but in unmet needs

Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Accept yourself to relate better with others

We are never alone – we are always with our thoughts

When fantasy distracts us from reality let reality distract us from fantasy

Metaphorical holy name meditations 2 – 3 ways the holy name stimulates deeper thought

Karma & Reincarnation radio show – English with Tamil translation

Adulation distortion and denigration differentiate scientism from science

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior

We are never too far away from relapse Gita 02.60

Understanding what is mental and what is spiritual

Reincarnation – From Romance to Research

Dealing with conflicts by dealing with the mind – Hindi

When passion gains domination it sends reason on vacation

If we don’t direct contemplation fascination and dedication to Krishna wherever they get directed will become our addiction

Authenticity Superficiality Purity – Understanding the difference

For transmitting spiritual knowledge cultivate fixity of purpose and flexibility of process

Learn to fail or fail to learn

Deflecting attention doesn’t decrease addiction – develop connection

How to surrender amidst different and difficult situations – Hindi

Appreciating India after traveling in America – Hindi

See the positive not the negative as the primary active force in the cosmos

Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – To improve relationships decrease expectation and increase contribution

Our intelligence is our security system – don’t let temptation disable it Gita 02.63

Why crave for hours and years for pleasures that last for moments Gita 05.22

To say that philosophy is dead is to be dead to philosophy Gita 18.22

Whom are we giving our mind – Hindi

To evaluate devotion by its material benefits is like evaluating dancing by the distance covered Gita 02.44

God refuses to be a co-dependent in our addiction

Mental weight can’t be wished away but it can be worked away Gita 06.35

Be not judgmental but be not judgmentophobic either

Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – The more despiritualized we are the more desensitized we become

Don’t let perfectionism come in the way of progress towards perfection Gita 02.14

Demystifying Reincarnation 11 – Consciousness – Intuitions that point beyond the brain

Demystifying Reincarnation 10 – Near Death Experiences – Conscious when unconscious?

Demography and spirituality

Understanding the five functions of intelligence

Use goodness to practice bhakti and correct our disconnect with reality

Ghosts Spirits & Reincarnation – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible

The inner war is unavoidable Gita 03.43

Demystifying Reincarnation 9 – Near Death Experiences – Partial consciousness?

Demystifying Reincarnation 8 – Near Death Experiences – Hallucinations or Guesses?

Demystifying Reincarnation 7 – Past life memories – Fraud by investigators?

Demystifying Reincarnation 6 – Past-life memories – Frauds by parents?

Demystifying Reincarnation 5 – Astonishing birth marks and birth defects

Demystifying Reincarnation 4 – Past life memories – Guesses or Hyperboles?

Transformation is inevitable – positive transformation has to be intentional

To traverse the path to self-improvement balance aspiration with awareness

Metaphorical Meditations on the Holy Name 1 – The Holy Name grounds consciousness in the source of its source

Be aware of not just the destination but also the starting point

Social Media Analysis 3 – Greater accessibility brings greater responsibility

Demystifying Reincarnation 3 – Past life memories – Any normal explanation?

Demystifying Reincarnation 2 – Hypnotically induced past life memories and Xenoglossy

Demystifying Reincarnation 1 – Incredible delusion or credible vision?

Analyzing Social Media 2 – How social is social media?

Seek not just the self – seek the soul Gita 02.21

Remembering Srila Prabhupada’s mood and sacrifice – Hindi

Tamal Krishna Maharaj books appreciation

Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder – A Vedic Perspective

We can’t replace the mind, but we can re-place it

Analyzing various perceptions and conceptions of God

Reincarnation Research – Science, Pseudo-Science & Scientism

Reincarnation and the human quest for self-understanding

How to see God in this world

The possibility for self-improvement is reduced by materialism and expanded by spirituality Gita 18.60

Study the Gita for understanding it, not undermining it

Spiritualizing our relationships – Hindi

Scripture is a torch to see the world, a mirror to see the self and a window to see God