Lectures

Gita 14.09 The longer a pleasure lasts, the greater its lure

​Near Death Experiences – Where science points to spirituality

Gita 14.08 The mode of ignorance begins with not knowing and leads to false knowing

​How can we neglect the mind when it obsesses on the very object we want to avoid?

Angada’s journey – Unity within begets unity without

​Sugriva’s journey from doubt to faith

Gita 14.07 Passion is composed of attachment, gives rise to craving and binds us to work

The Gita is elevating and accommodating – Overview of chapters 1-12

​QA session at Perth

​The earth-bound are dearth-bound

​Appreciating Krishna’s love for us

​Disproportionate punishment can be atrocious – Ashwattama pastime analysis 2

Understanding Krishna’s position and disposition from the Gita and the Mahabharata

Is constantly thinking about death psychologically damaging?

Gita 14.06 Anything that keeps us away from realizing our spirituality is binding, even if it is illuminating

Gita 14.05 Modes are a combination of matter that trigger emotion which matter in isolation doesnt

Gita 14.04 The seed-giving father is also the soul-attracting liberator

Gita 14.03 We determine our bodies and our bodies determine us

Gita 14.02 Death can’t be avoided, but affliction due to death can be

Faith is essential in daily life, science – and spiritual life

Different levels of seeing Krishna

Beware of the temptation to punish 1- Ashwattama pastime analysis

Gita 14.01 The Gita uses diverse frames of analysis to reiterate its consistent conclusion

Discover Your Inner Power

Understanding the purpose of explicit language in scripture

Two ways to realization: as sudden illumination and as gradual awakening

Vritrasura lila analysis 2 – The heroic leader and the hidden devotee

The mind is a monkey that makes us a donkey

Vritrasura lila analysis 1 – The setting for the stunning twist in the storyline

Concluding QA session in Dharma to Prema Retreat

Overcoming discouragement in life

Understanding the many forms of surrender

Mapping our inner territory – Anartha nivritti explained from Madhuraya Kadambini

Understanding karma dharma and destiny

From dharma to prema

GAURA acronym – 5 glorious qualities of Lord Chaitanya

How faith contributes to harmony – Multi-faith meeting

Gaura Purnima lecture – Lord Chaitanya manifested the three internal reasons for his descent in his Ratha-yatra lila

Gita 13.35 Knowledge helps us perceive and achieve spiritual reality

Gita 13.34 Consciousness can be the channel to illumination – and to illusion too

Gita 13.33 The soul is not entangled, but the mind is

Bhakti is an experiential science

Pray not to get things done but to connect with Krishna

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 3

Gita 13.32 The soul is situated in the body, but its consciousness doesn’t have to imprisoned in the body

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 2

Beyond sentimentality to sentiments

Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity

Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body

Gita 13.29 See beyond people’s particular actions to Krishna’s universal positive intention

You are bigger than your habits

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 1

Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi part 3

Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension

Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality

Harmonizing our spiritual and material lives

Uddhava Gita nectar 4 – Understanding the different gopis’ varying understandings of Krishna

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 3 – Srila Prabhupada made the transcendental practical

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 4 – Understanding human intelligence

Gita 13.25 The many ways to see within are meant to show the same truth within

How are scriptures relevant today

Uddhava Gita nectar 3 – The gopis’ ecstatic samadhi

Uddhava Gita nectar 2 – Love explained – Comparing materialist, Abrahamic, impersonalist and bhakti worldviews

Uddhava Gita nectar 1 – Krishna acknowledges the gopis’ heartbreak

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 2 – Learn to relish bhakti rasa

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 1 – Bhakti inverts social hierarchy

Yayati pastime analysis – From indulgence to transcendence

FREE – 4 ways spirituality makes us better achievers

Gita 13.24 Sankhya and bhakti are different in form, but similar in essential content and ultimate purpose

Gita 13.23 One purusha is controlled by nature, the other is the controller of nature

Gita 13.22 Our desire to enjoy matter subjects us to material distress

Gita 13.21 Material causality is not complete causality

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi – Part 2

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi Part 1

Gita 13.20 Matter is eternal, but material forms are temporary

Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection

Gita 13.18 All objects of knowledge are meant to direct us to the objective of knowledge

Go beyond get, beget, forget, regret

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 3 – Understanding material nature

Holy Name is Everything Part 2

Holy Name is Everything Part 1

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 2 – Understanding Maya

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 1 – Understanding the Absolute Truth

Gita 13.17 The all-round glory of the Absolute includes its glory as the destroyer

Gita 13.16 The Gita’s Absolute reflects not naive anthropomorphism but profound sophistication

Gita 13.15 The Absolute’s paradoxical attributes underscore its transcendental inconceivability

Bhagavatam study 35 01.7.52-58 Law codes alone aren’t enough for justice – an expert judge is needed

Gita 13.14 The knowable’s all-pervasiveness points to its transcendence of our capacity to know

The living bhakti tradition is a garden, not a museum

Gita 13.13 That which grants the immortal is the most vital knowable

Dasha Mula Tattva 13 – Study scripture with focus on the purpose of scripture

Dasha Mula Tattva 12 – Enter higher rasas by purification, not imitation

Spirituality in the Age of Science

Gita 13.12 Knowledge means to what is the most important to know

Bhagavatam study 34 01.7.44-51 Differences in opinion arise from differences in focus of perception

Gita 13.11 The way of devotion is different from the way of the masses

Gita 13.10 Detachment is not meant to make us hard-hearted

Dasha Mula Tattva 11 – Love is not just feeling but also doing

Dasha Mula Tattva 10 – Mayavada is the inversion, not contradiction, of Vaishnavism