Lectures

SB 01.05.36 – Chanting integrates the inner devotion and the outer service dimensions of devotional service

Gita 18.73 – Persistence on our part attracts Krishna’s mercy, unleashing the magic of the holy name

Gita 18.78 – Spiritual success is sure for the determined chanter

Gita 13.08-17 – Understanding jnana and jneya (Hindi)

Mahabharata Wisdom 2 – Karna 1 – Past life karma comes as this life’s problems (Hindi)

SB 01.05.35 – Knowledge will emerge from devotion – focus on chanting

SB 01.05.34 – The very action that causes bondage brings liberation when there is change of intention

Gita 13.01-07 – Overview of chps 1-12 and understanding Kshetrajna & Kshetra – Hindi

SB 01.05.33 – Chanting appears ordinary but is extraordinary – see with the eyes of knowledge

SB 01.05.32 – The holy name is a potent medicine – focus on its potency not on its taste or on our guilt

Special lecture on Valentine’s Day

SB 01.05.31 – Cultivate knowledge to stimulate devotion

SB 01.05.30 Look forward to the holy name’s daily parting gift of strength and taste

SB 01.05.29 – Use the power of goodness for self-propulsion in devotion

SB 01.05.28 – Gain confidence about chanting’s presently unverified potency by meditating on its verified potency

SB 01.05.27 – Taste for Krishna comes by using the gross and subtle bodies in his service and it helps us use those bodies for the perfect purpose

SB 01.05.27 – Persist prayerfully in mind control while the holy name does mind conversion

Mahabharata wisdom 1 – Ashwatthama – Beware of the temptation to punish (Hindi)

SB 01.05.26 – The holy name offers the same potent mercy as the mahaprasad of the Vaishnavas

Advaita Acarya – Relish the nectar of Gaura-kirtan that he inagurated

Pundarika Vidyanidhi – Go beyond appearance to appreciate the substance of devotion in Vaishnavas

Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura – Devotion enriched with erudition leaves a rich legacy to attract innumerable hearts to Krishna

Raghunandan Thakura – Devotion inverts the father-son relationship

Vishnupriya Devi – The pinnacle of selfless devotion

Vasanta Panchami – Contribute to nature’s contributing for enhancing the rasa in Krishna’s pastimes

SB 01.05.24 – Let the gravity of our speech and conduct show Krishna the intensity of our devotion

Churning the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 3

Churing the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 2

Churing the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 1

Vedic Conception of God is beyond polytheism, monotheism and henotheism ( SB 06 03 05 at ISKCON Juhu)

SB 01.05.23 – Everyone has to struggle through purification – let the example of the pure inspire us

SB 01.05.22 – All our abilities and acitivities are spiritualized when we endeavor to offer our heart

SB 01.05.21 – Remember the Lord’s compassion to inspire concentration in meditation

SB 01.05.20 – Take heart from Krishna’s closeness when the heart seems cold

Pushya Abhishek – The festival of sensory spirituality demonstrates the beauty of Krishna and the glory of bhakti

Ganga Sagara Mela – Cherish austerity done for a noble cause

Makara Sankranti – Harmonize with the cosmic movements to move from darkness towards light

SB 01.05.19 – We can’t avoid being haunted – so better to be haunted by the higher taste than the lowe taste

SB 01.05.18 – Using dharma to get that which one can get otherwise underutilizes dharma

SB 01.05.17 Unsuccessful para dharma is far superior to successful apara dharma

SB 01.05.16 – Progression can become a regression if there is no knowledge of destination

Role of religious leaders in taking India forward

SB 01.05.15 Don’t use license to rationalize for staying at the material level

SB 01.05.14 Don’t let material sounds aggravate the mind’s oscillatory tendency – let spiritual sounds minimize it

SB 01.05.13 All good qualifications attain perfection when used for the supremely good purpose of glorifying the all-good Lord

SB 01.05.12 – Cultivate conscientious concentration by contemplating the valuelessness of everything else

Jiva Goswami – Scholarship perfected in the service of pure devotion

Jagadish Pandita – The Lord reciprocates wonderfully with the desire to serve

SB 01.05.11 – Those who let the peripheral distract them from the central live at the periphery of life

SB 01.05.10 – Don’t let deceptive surface attraction distract from lasting attraction to the essence

SB 01.05.09 – Don’t let the variety and the quantity distract from the quality and the intensity of devotion

SB 01.05.08 – When the heart doesn’t find satisfaction Krishna nothing else brings satisfaction

Happy New Year – Karmi, Jnani and Bhakti attitudes towards the celebration

Sankirtan – Where dance and meditation intersect for spiritual therapy

Sankirtan churns feelings of separation and union to increase attraction to Krishna

Lord Chaitanya – The Divine Alchemist

Mahesh Pandit – The Lord and his associates elevate everyone by their grace

Uddharana D T – Bhakti can deliver anyone and even use anyone for delivering bhakti to others

Devanand Pandit – Devotion is the key to unlock the nectar in the Bhagavatam

SB 01.05.07 – Krishna is able and eager to guide us – we just need to express our desire for guidance

SB 01.05.06 – The Lord is detached yet masively active – Meditating on him makes us similarly effective

SB 01.05.05 – Remove the blocks that prevent Krishna’s wisdom from entering our head and his mercy from entering our heart

SB 01.05.02 – Don’t let the quest for physical and mental productivity deprive us of spiritual productivity

SB 01.05.03 – The materially magnificent can’t compensate for the spiritually deficient

SB 01.15.28 – Remembrance of Krishna removes inner disturbance even when outer disturbance remains

SB 01.15.27 – When material reality consumes us, philosophy provides the foundation for seeking shelter in spiritual reality

SB 01.15.25-26 – Our spirituality protects our humanity from degenerating into bestiality

SB 01.15.24 – Choosing faith can ensure that the very things which may drag us away from Krishna will impel us towards him

SB 01.15-22-23 – Krishna can integrate into his spiritual masteraplan disasters, even self-induced disasters – always choose faith, not doubt

SB 01.15.21 – Everything can be reduced to nothing in one moment – seek that which is the source of everything

SB 01.15.20 – Beyond all the wrongs of our life – material and spiritual – is the treasure of remembrance of Krishna

SB 01.15.19 – Humble remembrance of our excesses in our relationship with Krishna lets him break the wall between us

SB 01.15.18 – Krishna is an eminently personable God – approach him personally

SB 7.9.29 – Lust is the fire that seems like a nectar

SB 01.15.17 – In the moment of highest glory remember the object of highest glory to attain the destination of highest glory

SB 01.15.16 – Let the activity or passivity of our surrender not distract us from the glory of the one to whom we surrender

SB 01.15.15 – We win over our anarthas not by our power but when Krishna disempowers them

SB 01.15.14 – See the Krishna factor to make memories of our achievements into memories of Krishna’s benevolence

SB 01.15.13 – By acknowledging the orgin of our talents in Krishna and keeping him as the goal of our accomplishments, we complete the circle of loving reciprocation

SB 01.15.12 – Our devotion is the basis for, not a distraction from, our practical accomplishments

SB 01.15.11 – Dangers are opportunities to realize the reality of Krishna’s shelter

SB 01.15.10 – Let our chanting and our dramatic and traumatic times symbiotically increase our relationship with Krishna

Six steps to spiritual perfection – Bhagavad Gita 07.01

When God Fails – The Bhakti Message in Krishna’s Peace Messenger Pastime

How to be your own spiritual master

SB 01.15.09 – Krishna provides the best intelligence inputs

SB 01.15.08 – Our calls to Krishna may not break the wall that separates us but they show him we want the wall broken

SB 01.15.07 – Let material triumphs become contributors not distractors in our devotion

SB 01.15.06 – Feel the void in the absence of Krishna, not in his presence

SB 01.15.05 – The loss of our treasures forces us to fall back on the ultimate treasure

SB 01.15.04 – Rich divine emotions await us if we just invest in Krishna whatever emotions we presently have for him

3 measures to prevent falling down and falling away (SB-10-27-22-23)

Knotty Verse Series 6 – 11.33 – Is the Gita’s call for violence literal or metaphorical?

Knotty Gita Verses Series 5 – 03.35 – Does the Gita endorse the caste system?

Bhagavata Dharma Series 3 – SB 01.02.17-22 – Practice bhakti-yoga cheerfully

Bhagavata Dharma Series 2 – SB 01.02.11-16 – How bhakti brings realization of the Absolute Truth

Bhagavata Dharma Series 1 – SB 01.02.06-10 – How bhakti is the supreme dharma

SB 01.09.43 – Devotional remembrance is the way out of the dark room to the light of Krishna’s love

SB 01.09.42 – See conflicting conceptions as stimuli for greater absorption, not distraction

SB 01.09.41 – Treasure the glorification of Krishna the way the materialists cherish their own glorification