Lectures

Choosing our mental battles

Reincarnation – Reality, Rationality, Opportunity

Misunderstandings spread like cancer – beware

To master the mind, become conscious of your consciousness

Focus on the Bhagavatam’s universal purpose beyond its specific details – invest one’s emotions in Krishna, not the world

Overcome anxiety by focusing on state of thoughts, not state of things

Self-control Strategies – Contemporary analysis of Nectar of Instruction Text 1

Don’t hear the mind’s story – hear Krishna’s story

Let incidental dissatisfaction trigger existential dissatisfaction

PURE acronym – 4 attitudes for progressing in spiritual life

Romanticizing Reincarnation – The danger of divorcing knowledge from its purpose

Reincarnation – what explains it and what it explains

Focus on the best in the past, be present in the present and shape the future

QA with children on Ramayana-Mahabharata

Go beyond fight or flight to sight

Overcoming resentment amidst difficult situations

Managing the mind – we control, Krishna converts

Maintaining standards while cultivating sensitivity

Channeling our dissatisfaction constructively

IDEA acronym – The Bhagavad-gita in essence

Focus on conscious intention, not circumstantial emotion

Anxiety Management

​Our material needs are like painkillers – necessary but not sufficient

Understanding how karma provides justice and Krishna provides mercy

“The Holy Name is everything” – how to appreciate and apply this

Understanding how dharma culminates in prema

Materialism makes material life joyless and pointless

Inner power means to act intelligently, not impulsively

Spirituality changes how we perceive, process and pursue

QA with Central New Jersey devotees

Ram Navmi class – Learn from Rama’s concern for others’ distress instead of his own distress (Ramayana)

5 reflections for reconciling science and scripture

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 4

QA on Living spiritually in today’s world

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 3

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 2

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 1

Two lives, one purpose

External miracles don’t change us – internal choices do

Consciousness – our under-used inner power

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam

QA with Boston-Seattle devotees

Spirituality in the age of Science (Science – Modern)

Are we forgetting the key downstairs?

What your phone can teach you about your mind 4 – Let bhakti change your memory

What your phone can teach you about your mind 3 – Check your energy drainers

Cultivate aggressive gratitude

What your phone can teach you about your mind 2 – Hardware improvement doesn’t solve software problems

What your phone can teach you about your mind 1 – Deal with your default settings maturely

Seek self-affirmation through what you do for others, not what others do for you

Redefining freedom

Taking responsibility for our spiritual advancement

Go beyond testing Krishna to tasting Krishna

Can we love someone whom we hate?

Chances, Changes, Choices – Making Life’s Big Decisions

The cause of fanaticism is not excessive devotion, but inadequate devotion

Understanding what is our quota in material life – 2

Resist the temptation to be discouraged

Learn to see the material and the spiritual as cumulative, not competitive

Understanding what is our quota in material life – 1

Changing the default settings of our mind

Redirecting our desires and our speech towards Krishna

Do we make our destiny or are we made by our destiny?

Lord Chaitanya demonstrates that the heart is higher than the head

Relishing Shikshashtakam – Appreciating how meditation on the holy name blossoms to meditation on Krishna

Spirituality in the age of science – The hard problem of consciousness

Balancing intensity and sensitivity in bhakti – Learning from HH Radhanath Maharaj’s example

Overcoming our mental energy drainers

QA session with Dallas congregation

QA session with Dallas youth

Devotion as sentiment, commitment and attainment

Significance of Chatur-Shloki Gita – Location, Content & Import

Be not fretful or fearful – be faithful

Understanding attachment, detachment, commitment 3 – Devotion as emotion, disposition and cultivation

Understanding attachment, detachment, commitment 2 – Detachment is not hardheartedness – it is levelheadedness

Understanding attachment, detachment, commitment 1 – Frustration is not renunciation

Analyzing Near Death Experiences – Has the white crow been spotted?

Go beyond the painkiller of karma-kanda or modern science to the curative medicine of bhakti

Growing from grudges to gratitude – Bhagavatam 10.14.8

Overcoming obstacles 8 – Focus less on detachment from the world and more on attachment to Krishna – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 7 – Focus less on detachment from the world and more on attachment to Krishna – part 1

Overcoming obstacles 6 – Focus not on how the world sees you, but on how you see the world – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 5 – Focus not on how the world sees you, but on how you see the world – part 1

Overcoming obstacles 4 – Let intelligence be your minister, not your master – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 3 – Let intelligence be your minister, not your master – part 1

Overcoming obstacles 2 – Focus not on rejecting desire, but on selecting desire – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 1 – Focus not on rejecting desire, but on selecting desire – part 1

The eye to see the I

Tap your inner power by understanding your inner hierarchy – Gita 03.42

Applying spiritual wisdom to persevere through senseless suffering

Overcome resentment by asking how, not why – Hindi

Love is in the air, but where is the air? 

Learn from the Gita the temperament to transform talent into achievement

Nityananda Trayodashi – NITAI acronym for appreciating Nityananda Prabhu’s glories – Hindi

Nityananda Trayodashi – How Nityananda Prabhu glorifies Lord Chaitanya – Hindi

Sensitivity means to balance enlightenment with encouragement – Gita 17.15 – Hindi

Self-transformation comes by becoming conscious of the subconscious – Hindi?

Bring out the best within, not the beast within

Dealing with provocative people

The Gita’s five subjects analyzed as a guide to action