Lectures

Gita 06.03 – Different levels require different methods for progress

CC daily 158 – M 6.234 – Bhakti is Vedic and trans-Vedic

Bhagavatam 11.08.37 – Realizing that detachment is freedom, not deprivation, is blessing

CC daily 157 – M 6.233 – Faith is not a treasure that we can hide in a locker

The Lord is the destroyer of the distress of the distressed

Gita 06.02 – Renunciation of matter and connection with spirit share the same purpose

Animate meditation with the warmth of recognition – Govinda Damodara Stotra 15

Cherish Krishna as our supreme spiritual master (krishnam vande jagad-guru)

CC daily 156 – M 6.232 – Cultivate faith as a choice and await faith as mercy

Pada-sevanam – Bhakti is a relationship of ecstatic inequality

Gita 06.01 – Renunciation means to give up the shelter of work’s fruits

CC daily 155 – M 6.229-231 – Lord Chaitanya’s definition of success is the conquest of the heart

Gita 13.23 – Contemplate Krishnas proximity to bring intensity to devotion

Focus on the universality of suffering, not its variety

Gita 05.29 – Peace comes by devotion to the all-powerful, all-loving Lord

CC daily 154 – M 6.226-228 – Appreciation of transcendence is often beyond material comprehension

Gita.05.28 – Controlling the external and the internal brings liberation

Venkatesh Stotra 5 – Krishna’s availability for others doesn’t make him unavailable to us

CC daily 153 – M 6.225 – Urgency to honor prasad can be due to sense gratification or due to spontaneous devotion

Gita 05.27 – Shut out the sense objects to seek inwards

Gita 05.26 – Success on the spiritual path will come surely and soon

CC daily 152 – M 6.220-224 – Devotion drives away the dullness that sees the rule but not its purpose

CC daily 151 – M 6.215-219 – Sarvabhauma jubilantly accepts the triumph of the heart over the head

Gita 05.25 – Removing impurities empowers us to rip apart the facade of dualities

CC daily 150 – M 6.214 – Logic is a way of thinking and a school of thought

Gita 05.24 – The inner is the way to the spiritual

CC daily 149 – M 6.213 – Don’t mistake heartfelt erudite appreciation with self gratification

Gita 05.23 – The war against lust is a war of attrition

Going beyond misconceptions about Deity Worship

CC M 21.136 – Savor the sweetness that supersedes superlatives

CC daily 148 – M 6.212 – Ecstasy and sobriety are both meant for service

Gita 05.22 – The so-called pleasure is the source of trouble

CC daily 147 – M 6.211 – Our achievements are due to not our greatness but devotees’ desires and Krishna’s mercy

Gita 05.21 – Give up outer pleasure and seek inexhaustible inner happiness

CC daily 146 – M 6.210 – Lord Chaitanya’s mercy makes the defeated delighted, not devastated

CC daily 140 – M 6.204 – Sarvabhauma’s transformation is not just intellectual but all-encompassing

Gita 05.20 – Equanimity is meant to make us not emotionless, but purposeful

CC daily 145 – M 6.209 – Don’t laugh at others – laugh with others

CC daily 144 – M 6.208 – Lord Chaitanya shares supremely the supreme ecstasy of the supreme devotee

CC daily 143 – M 6.207 – Sarvabhauma’s ecstasy overload makes him swoon

Gita 05.19 – Sameness of perception is the situation of liberation

CC daily 142 – M 6.206 – Sarvabhauma’s scholarship supersedes that of Keshava Kashmiri in disposition and content

Gita 05.18 – Spiritual realization grants equal vision towards all

CC daily 141 – M 6.205 – Liberation in devotion is the zenith of liberation

Gita 05.17 – Spiritualize all the channels of consciousness to gain liberating knowledge

CC daily 139 – M 6.203 – Krishna’s defining depiction reflects his loving disposition

Gita 05.16 – Knowledge illumines our inner territory and reveals the indwelling Lord

CC daily 138 – M 6.202 – The bhakti conception of the divine is polymorphic mono-theism

Gita 05.15 – The judge is not responsible for the criminal’s conviction

CC daily 137 – M 6.201 – Self-criticism is for our disposition not our composition

Gita 05.14 – The more we become detached, the more we master the body

Gita 05.13 – The bodily city metaphor conveys our difference from our sensory gates

CC daily 136 – M 6.200 – Pride alters our destination by distorting our vision

Gita 05.12 – Action per se is not binding – attached action is

Gita 05.10 – Live in the world but be not of the world

Gita 05.11 – Change the motivation for action from gratification to purification

Gita 05.09 – Contact of senses & sense objects is not the problem – infatuation with the contact is

CC daily 135 – M 6.198-99 – What the Bhagavatam teaches in principle it demonstrates in practice

CC daily 134 – M 6.196-97 – Krishna’s qualities pull our mind towards him – other spiritual goals don’t

Gita 05.08 – Don’t take credit for actions done by bodily mechanisms

CC daily 133 – M 6.187-95 – Sarvabhauma is outplayed at his own game

Gita 05.07 – Inner purity ensures outer action without reaction

Gita 05.06 – Renunciation without yogic connection is distressing

CC daily 132 – M 6.185-86 – Attraction of the liberated to the Lord demonstrates the transcendence of his qualities

Personal Management Mantra – Productivity in Activity through Spirituality

CC daily 131 – M 6.183-84 – Lord Chaitanya defeats Sarvabhauma without dishonoring him

Gita 05.05 – Sankhya and yoga aim for the same destination, yet they aren’t same

CC daily 130 – M 6.182 – Impersonalism gives Vedic facade to voidism

Scientific, Christian and Bhagavatam conceptions of God

Gita 05.04 – See beyond the diversity of process to the commonality of purpose

CC daily 129 – M 6.181 – Rationalization enables us to believe what we want to believe

Gita 05.03 – Renunciation in action is lasting renunciation

Conceptions of time in science, Christianity and Bhagavatam

CC daily 128 – M 6.180 – Don’t make peoples emotion come in the way of their reason

Gita 05.02 – The path that takes us away from bondage fastest is the best

Gita 05.01 – Understand meanings of terms from context, not from preconception

Counter anxiety by spirituality

Managing the mind 2 – Catch the ventriloquist with intellectual and emotional energy

Managing the mind 1 – The mind is the TV and the thief

Importance of celibacy in the world’s spiritual traditions

CC daily 127 – M 6.179 – Understand scripture not by coming up with an original interpretation, but by coming to the original intention

Gita 04.42 – Win the inner war with spiritual knowledge and fight the outer war

PK and the criteria for finding the right path

Gita as a leadership guide

CC daily 126 – M 6.178 – Use the three-fold typology to understand import of scripture

Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic

Spiritual Advancement and Material Ambitiousness

CC daily 125 – M 6.177 – Sarvabhauma’s last-ditch strategies dont last

Gita 04.40 – Don’t let doubts deprive you of happiness

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge

CC daily 124 – M 6.176 – Sarvabhauma fights till the end

Gita 04.38 – Don’t reduce jnana to jnana-yoga

CC daily 123 – M 6.175 – tat tvam asi is a statement of direction not conclusion

Emotion Commotion Devotion – Nourishing our emotions in a culture of emotional exploitation

Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes

Karna’s tragic choice

Extra-terrestrial life – Scientific and scriptural approaches to the subject

Difference between humans and animals – Christian, scientific and Bhagavatam understandings

CC daily 122 – M 6.174 – Lord Chaitanya turns the impersonalist strategy of maha-vakya on impersonalists

Gita 04.36 – The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge