Lectures

Gita 02.49 – The good becomes bad when it becomes the enemy of the best

CC daily 20 – M 72-77 – Appreciate Deity’s miraculous potency with devotion, not skepticism

Gita 02.48 – Yoga requires material indifference to provide spiritual transcendence

CC daily 19 – M 68-71 – Devotional service is vivid and concrete, not vague or amorphous

Gita 02.47 – Make sense of four counterintuitive assertions by seeing the full picture

CC daily 18 – M 61-67 – Abhisheka is an intimate service to the Lord

Gita 02.46 – Understand multivalence of Veda to grasp how transcending the Vedas fulfills their purpose

CC daily 17 – M 58-60 – Love invokes auspiciousness for the all-auspicious one

Gita 02.45 – Gain possession of the soul by giving up obsession with matter

Gauranga Shata Nama 4 – Those who delude the Lord get deluded by him

CC daily 16 – M 54-56 – Devotion makes a stone a simhasana

Valentine’s Day – Commercial exploitation of urban isolation sets up the heart for disappointment

Gita 02.44 – Prevent attachment from abducting consciousness by intelligence and taste

Gauranga Shata Nama 3 – His mischief charms his mother’s heart and our heart too

CC daily 15 – M 47-53 – Serve the Lord with sound strategy

Gauranga Shata Nama 2 – The supreme dancer comes to make our heart dance

Gita 02.43 – The Vedic masterplan uses dharma to raise people from kama to prema

Gauranga Shata Nama 1 – Relish the nectar shared by the moon of Mayapur

CC daily 14 – M 43-46 – Our devotion is defined not by mystical vision but by practical dedication

Should we hate the mind?

Vaishnava Sadachara 4 – Managing harmoniously

Vaishnava Sadachara 3 – Acting according to time place circumstance

Vaishnava Sadachara 2 – Dealing appropriately with different people

Vaishnava Sadachara 1 – Importance of Sadachara

Gita 02.42 – Flowery words of Vedas distract from their ultimate wisdom

CC daily 13 – M 4.41-42 – Focus on present loving reciprocation, not past wrongs

Gita 02.41 – Intent shapes intelligence

CC daily 12 – M 4.37-40 – Devotee’s love pulls Krishna out of concealment

Are miracles compatible with science?

Gita 02.40 – The spiritual path comes with a no-loss and a fear-relieving guarantee

CC daily 11 – CCM 4.32-36 – In lofty bhakti, the Lord shares his plight with devotee

Gita 02.39 – Use buddhi to transform theoretical sankhya into practical yoga

CC daily 10 – CCM 4.26-31 Krishna takes pride in providing for all in his village

Gita 02.38 – To reconcile the Gita’s contradictions, recognize the multi-level nature of its discussions

CC daily 8 – CCM 4.18-19 – The Lord’s formal, pet and titular names reveal his personal nature

CC daily 9 – CCM 4.21-25 – Devotee’s absorption attracts Krishna’s attention

Gita 02.37 – Knowledge of atma and dharma redefines lose-lose situation as win-win

CC daily 7 – CCM 4.16-17 – Lord Chaitanya’s prema-rupa-guna are captivating

CC daily 6 – CCM 4.13-15 – Devotion grants entry into the world of loving reciprocation

CC daily 5 – CCM 4.10-12 – Use ability to take responsibility on spiritual journey

Gita 02.36 – Behave respectably to bring respectability to Krishna’s message

Gita 02.35 – The variance between our intention and people’s perception causes mortifying misconception

CC daily 4 – CCM 4.7-9 – Avoid conflicts by strategy, humility and prayer

Gita 02.34 – Engage the power of honor to encourage honorable action

CC daily 3 – CCM 4.5-5-6 – In bhakti humility is the greatest ability

CC daily 2 – CCM 4.2-4 – See other devotees as partners, not competitors

Gita 02.33 – Honorable position brings obligation of tangible contribution

CCdaily 1- CCM 4.1 – The love that makes the Lord appear and steal is extraordinarily extraordinary

Gita 02.32 – Dharma rewards success according to each varna’s definition of success

Gita 02.31 – Dharma is not a blanket injunction but an individualized customization

Gita 02.30 – Knowlege of the soul is not a call for resignation but for action

Gita 02.29 – Perception, verbalization, reception and incomprehension wrt soul are all amazing

Gita 02.28 – The mutability of everything materially magnifies the futility of grief

What a saint learned from a prostitute

Gita 02.27 – See death not as a future event, but as an ongoing process

Mukunda Mala Stotra 3 – Remembrance of Krishna is life’s greatest treasure

Let intelligence take from the poison phase to the nectar phase

Gita 02.26 – Materialism makes meaning meaningless and lamentation pointless

How to present scriptural wisdom scientifically

Gita 02.25 – Contemplate the inconceivable to relish the spiritual

Gita 02.24 – The soul can’t be stopped from going anywhere nor forced to go anywhere

Mukunda Mala Stotra 38 – Drinking poison when nectar is available is tragic

Gita 02.23 – The utter indestrutibility of the soul underlies the path of difficult duty

Gita 02.22 – The dress metaphor redefines death not as a miserable termination but as a welcome transition

Gita 02.21 – Integrate knowledge of the soul with the purpose of that knowledge

Gita 02.20 – The soul doesn’t undergo the six changes that matter does

Gita 02.19 – The soul’s non-doership points to the complexity of matter-spirit interaction

Gita 02.18 – The immeasurability of soul points to its non-literal non-metaphorical measure

Gita 02.17 – Nothing can destroy the soul because it pervades everything

Gita 02.16 – Matter has no existence in the sense of having no lasting consequence

Gita 02.15 – Those unaffected by the temporary attain the eternal

Gita 02.14 – The material is peripheral, unavoidable and ephemeral – so tolerate it

Gita 02.13 – The body is changing, not just growing – so focus on the unchanging

Gita 02.49 – Take shelter of the intelligence to ultimately take shelter of the source of intelligence

Gita 02.12 – Spirit is not just eternal but also plural

Gita 07.26 – Seek reassurance in Krishna’s prescience and competence

Gita 02.11 – The ability to harmonize the walk with the talk characterizes the wise

Gita 02.10 – Change in the seeker’s mood evokes change in the teacher’s mood

Gita 07.29 – Devotion prevents our head-on collision with misery

Don’t anoint everything as spiritual or denounce everything as material

Gita 02.09 – The decision of inaction reflects desperation to learn

Gita 02.69 – The darkness will not end if we don’t end our dark desires

Gita 02.08 – Outer success can’t remove inner distress

Gita 02.07 – Arjuna exhibits 3 characteristics of an ideal disciple

Gita 02.06 – Find way through lose-lose problems by seeking emotional distance

Gita 14.14 – Our mental condition is consequential, as is the meditation for improving it

Gita 02.05 – Hard choices have to be made to avoid harder consequences

Gita 14.10 – Don’t be captivated by the dramatics in the theater of embodied consciousness

Gita 02.04 – Resolve conflicts among different roles by raising consciousness

Gita 14.11 – Let knowledge illumine the door of the senses to welcome the holy name

Gita 02.04 Fight not for or against some material cause – fight for Krishna

Gita 02.03 – Fight degrading temptation by remembering honoroble position

Gita 02.02 – Arya – Spiritual denotation, historical concoction and modern connotation

Gita 05.12 – Choice of connection with Krishna is not casual but consequential

Gita 02.01 – Arjuna’s analysis only aggravates his agony

Gita 18.58 – Talents are usable but not essential for attaining Krishna’s shelter

Happy New Year – How bhakti-yoga fulfills the import of this sincere wish

Gita 11.40 – Relish the symbiosis of Krishna’s omnipresence and his sonic presence

Gita 11.39 – Access the all-pervading one through sacred sound

Gita 11.38 – The source and the goal of all knowledge is known by devotion