Lectures

Gita key verses course 1 What is the Gita – How is the Gita relevant today – Gita 01.01

From Entangled to Enlightened – Lessons from Yayati story

Uddhava’s significance in the tenth canto, in the Bhagavatam and in our life

How the Gita expresses Krishna’s love by directing us to balance this world and the next world

How to stop overthinking -Attribute, Analyze, Anchor, Act

Srila Prabhupada – The transcendentalist who embodied the best of traditionalist, existentialist and utopianist

Damodarashtakam 4 – Seeing God as the supreme desirable, not just as the source of all desirables

Diwali Meditation – The light that illumines and the light that doesn’t

Govardhan Puja – The rising of consciousness from anna-maya kosha to ananda-maya kosha

Gita lite 5 – Chps 12-15

A waste-free mind for a waste-free world

How to think effectively – ACTS acronym

When people betray us – Ramayana wisdom

How the Bhagavatam is the means of conquest in material existence – Meditation on narayanam namaskrtya verse

The complex relationship between appearance and substance in spiritual life

Gita insights for managing the mind – Chapter Ten Analysis

Damodarashtakam Texts 5-8 – Hindi

Damodarashtakam Texts 1-4 – Hindi

How to become resilient

The Gita shares not just light but also warmth

Why the self is missing in the selfie

Damodarashtakam 3 – The unique loveliness of the Krishna conception of God

Gita’s key to happiness

Damodarashtakam 2 How Krishna is the God of love who fulfills our longing for love

Gita Lite 4 – Chps 9-11

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 3 – How to see and seek God amid adversities

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 2 – How to process adversities constructively

How the infinite manifests in the finite – Various religious conceptions

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 1 – What caused the exiles

Rise above the ego’s need to be right by focusing on devotional purpose

Sharad Purnima Significance

Change your picture of the world and of God from low resolution to high resolution

How devotion transcends the caste system and other institutional hierarchies

Damodarashtam 1 – The vision of the divine from the generic to the stunningly specific

How our strength and our faith are integrated in bhakti

From your place, at your pace, access God’s grace

Gita lite 3 – Chps 6-8

Gita lite 2 – Chps 3-5

Gita lite 1 – Chps 1-2

How to stop overthinking – Attribute, Analyze, Anchor, Act

Mahabharata controversies – how life was unfair to both Karna and Arjuna

A grateful heart is a powerful heart Prabhupada’s Jaladuta prayer

The significance of Rama Vijayotsav – How goodness punishes wickedness and forgives weakness

How God helps those who help themselves – Bhakti Basics explained

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 5 – Why is the embryo’s prayer not answered

How character is deformed and reformed – Ramayana wisdom

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 4 – What the embryo’s desire to stay in the womb implies

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 3 – What is a human soul

Science and Spirituality – From the study of matter to the study of what matters

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 2 – How can the embryo know God

Mainstream media credibility crisis – A spiritual perspective

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 1 – How can the embryo with ana undeveloped brain speak prayers?

How to understand Krishna’s blessings – Mukunda Mala Stotra 1 – BULL acronym

How to use our free will properly – QA with children

How hearing the Bhagavad-gita raised Sanjay’s standard of longing

How devotion is like a good habit – and how it is more than a good habit

Facing our fears – 4 principles – IDEA acronym

Six limbs of surrender 4 – Offering ourselves by accepting ourselves

Six limbs of surrender 3 – Understanding how God protects

Six limbs of surrender 2 – Accept the favorable, avoid the unfavorable

Six limbs of surrender 1 – The Medical Metaphor

Presenting scripture for dummies

How to decide what to do

Comparing exiles in Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavatam – How to face distress

How Jiva Goswami and Bhaktivinoda Thakura expertly expanded the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition

3 Metaphors for Effective Parenting

Gita 6.37-45 – How our spirituality continues beyond our present life

Vamana pastime analysis 2 – When the branch under us break, seek Krishna’s help to spread your wings

The Bhagavatam’s glory revealed in its concluding verse – PURE acronym

Mandodari’s lament 1 – How to be empowered in disempowering situations – Hindi

Mandodari’s lament 2 – How can we transform ourselves – Hindi

Prithu M’s humility – Be conscious of others’ position and disposition

Staying steadfast amid confusing situations

Vamana pastime analysis 1 – When good people do good things at a heavy cost

3 ways to engage our desires with Krishna 2 – Desiring Krishna and desiring for Krishna

3 ways to engage our desires with Krishna 1 – Desiring from Krishna

Is the Bhagavad-gita relevant in the age of science – MAIL acronym

Why do bad things happen to good people – QA

Radhashtami meditation 2 – Appreciating the two separations endured by Sita and Radharani

Radhashtami meditation 1 – Appreciating the sacrificing spirit of Sita and Radharani

From the mind to the heart – Practicing bhakti with our mind and without it too

How to see God’s presence in the world – in things, in events and in our actions

How to see old truths with new eyes

How to free our free will

Flavors of divine friendship – Krishna’s relationship with Madhumangala, Sudama and Arjuna

Bhagavad-gita chapter 2 overview – How to decide the right thing to do and stay undisturbed while doing it

Teamwork in Ramayana 2

Teamwork in Ramayana 1

How devotion and dedication can transform our life into an adventure

Negative and positive thinking in spiritual life

Krishna demonstrates through his devotees how to respond to adversity wisely

Prabhupada demonstrates how to be both faithful and resourceful for expanding Krishna consciousness

Krishna descends to show the path to happiness – Sudama pastime analysis

Krishna descends to raise us from transactional love to transformational love

How Krishna made the two lives of the gopis one – and how he can make our two lives one too

Subduing Kaliya, subduing ego

Demons in Krishna lila 1 – Putana and the abuse of trust

Understanding human nature 1 – Two levels of innateness

Understanding the mind QA

Understanding human nature 2 – 4 types of people based on conscience and willpower