Practical Spirituality

If we are already connected with Krishna why do we need to chant?

Bhakti in three modes 1 – Bhakti in ignorance is self-righteous and hurtful

To blame is to be lame – stop seeking scapegoats

Are rocks alive – can we become rocks in our future life?

If someone takes retirement and then feels unengaged and disoriented what should they do?

Focus on life not on the mind’s commentary on life

Where does the power of mantras lie – in letters or meaning or somewhere else?

If everything is God’s will how do we have free will?

Does the mind look for change and the soul look for the unchanging?

Does our spiritual master know everything about us?

Unity in diversity and diversity in unity – The Absolute’s relationship with us

Gratitude is not just an attitude but also an awareness

How can we explain morality to moral relativists?

Will anxiety be addressed in the long-term by bhakti or should we try to address it in the short-term too?

How can we remember Krishna while we are working in a materialistic environment?

Resolutions in the three modes – and in transcendence

If during a class some children are distracting everyone, why isn’t anything done about it?

How can we perceive Krishna’s love amidst our and others distresses and conditionings?

Is our attraction to Krishna a conditional attraction generated by devotional conditions?

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 2

During chanting, can we have aids to get the mind from the physical level to the spiritual level?

When science requires only working assumptions, why do you say that science requires faith?

Why is the population increasing?

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 1

Our defining power is the power to choose our thoughts

How can we develop our relationship with the eternal using the temporary mind?

If I don’t have much work at my office, should I go and ask for more work?

Is Krishna situated in the mind or the heart – how are the two related?

4 reflections for overcoming fear of failure

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2

Does accepting our emotions mean that our getting angry is not a matter of concern?

How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?

When we are telling ourselves to concentrate, who is telling this – the soul or the intelligence – and to whom?

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1

When we can’t remember Krishna purely now, how will our remembering him at death take us to him?

Does religion cause war?

The mind may stray away, but don’t let it stay away

How can the mind be our friend?

Do we need to give up guilt and worry to practice bhakti?

If my office workload has decreased but I can’t chant or hear much what should I do?

Understanding how the mind acts as a mirror that distorts our self-conception

How does bhakti shelter us amidst physical and emotional pain?

How to reconcile the Gita – do your own duty even if imperfectly – with the Gita – do what you are good at, according to your nature?

Screen what appears on your inner screen – Learn to manage the mind

If we move to a temple whose mood is different from that of our native temple what to do?

Science Spirituality and The Search for Meaning

How can we internalize the mood and mission of our teachers?

How understanding destiny empowers

While analyzing our mind how to avoid paralysis by analysis?

When we are not the doers – material nature is – why are we held responsible for our actions?

Cultivating Cooperation in Krishna consciousness

Why we are sometimes wise and sometimes otherwise

If we feel more attracted to managerial services than scriptural study are we in the mode of passion?

Net Surfing or Net Suffering?

How do we strengthen the intelligence?

How do the modes correlate with an analysis of the mind’s functioning?

From state of the art to state of the heart

If meeting our expectations makes us over-confident what can we do?

By engaging our material nature in bhakti are we constructing our spiritual nature or reviving it?

Is anxiety a disorder?

How to go through dry phases in our chanting?

Do we seek only an operational knowledge of scripture and not actual knowledge?

Learning to live with emotional lows

How Krishna steals our distresses

Does repeated practice improve our instincts?

Does anyone who die in a dhama on a holy day go back to Godhead?

If a desire is irresistible what to do?

Should we take other devotees plates for washing if they don’t want to give?

Should we have expectations while practicing bhakti?

Shouldn’t we speak strongly to get everyone on the fast track to Krishna?

Are we the sum of our thoughts?

Spiritual but not religious – Analyzing four permutations

Can we say that intelligence comprises of knowledge processing discrimination analysis and determination?

How should we deal with people involved in non-devotional dharmic causes?

Is determination situated in the intelligence or in the mind?

How can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind?

How can we encourage a devotee to do service with someone they don’t like?

Does the soul in an animal body learn anything spiritual?

In Kali-yuga thoughts don’t incur reactions – what does that mean practically?

How can we help materially entrapped people to become spiritual?

Ajamila knew scripture – yet he fell down. Why?

How can we balance between bhakti and studies?

If our spouse is sentimentally following a different spiritual path how should we deal with it?

If our speaking about Krishna doesn’t transform others does that mean we lack the purity that empowers senior devotees’ words to be transformational?

Is wanting to go back after death to Krishna selfish and wanting to go to Prabhupada selfless?

How do we understand scriptural stories in which mountains are conscious?

Are pleasures such as traveling to see new places considered addictive?

Why to become spiritual now

To show our world to others we need to see it with fresh eyes

Matters that matter more than matter – Origin Value Meaning

Is bhakti a conditioned attraction of the mind or the natural attraction of the soul?

How the mind tells its stories by inducing forgetfulness faith and feelings

If bhakti is beyond the modes why do we need to come to the mode of goodness?

How to avoid judging others?

Can capacity to find faults be an empowerment from Krishna?

When the mind is restless how are performers like archers able to focus on one point?

How philosophy and experience harmonize in bhakti

How chanting works on the mind – and how the mind works during chanting

Tap the mind don’t be trapped by the mind 3 – From shakshi bhava to seva bhava

If seva-dhyana comes in the way of nama-dhyana, what to do?