Practical Spirituality

4 lessons about our mind from our phone – Distortion Discretion Determination, Devotion

When too many spiritual apps sites and books confuse us about what to read or hear what to do?

If someone likes to practice bhakti in solitary devotional activities will they advance more slowly?

If our family attachments impede our spiritual advancement how can we be detached and still be responsible?

Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada: Appreciating the empowering breadth of your trust in Krishna

When problems trouble us and we can’t put our heart in our service what can we do?

How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

While studying in college how can we not identify ourselves as students?

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

When we practice bhakti culture in our temples or youth centers are we not practicing spiritual bhakti?

On holy days if new people can either fast or do service what should we encourage them to do?

If our past bad habits keep dragging us down what should we do?

Can we get tangible results in bhakti as we get in our worldly relationships?

How can we explain philosophy to those who don’t accept the authority of scripture?

If spirituality tells us to fast and science tells us to not fast what should we do?

Should we be detached from feeling happy when we chant well?

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

If while chanting some bad thoughts come in our mind is that a sin?

In our offices how can we be socially involved in contemporary discussions without getting spiritually distracted?

Does humility mean feeling that we are fallen or does it mean not letting our ego come int the way of our service?

If a devotee repeatedly struggles in different services how can we engage that devotee?

How can we keep fighting against our senses till we get Krishna’s mercy?

When we can study scripture without doing the Bhakti Shastri course why is the course needed?

How can we better remember philosophical points and scriptural verses?

Is remembering that Krishna is in control the only way we can remember him while working in the world?

How can we overcome the mind’s habit of contemplating sense objects – Hindi?

How can we understand our nature – Hindi?

Can bhakti change a person’s nature – Hindi?

By what practices can we control the mind – Hindi?

Why do we sometimes act circumstantially rather than scripturally – Hindi?

If our intelligence becomes weak what is the solution – Hindi?

Appreciating Balarama’s two blessings – Bala and Rama

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

If we see devotees living materialistically how can we prevent that from rationalizing our materialism – Hindi?

How can we remember to process our emotions not act on them – Hindi?

How can we overcome worrying habit – Hindi?

How can we deal with our need for approval while doing good things – Hindi?

How can bhakti help students to not get too disturbed about their marks – Hindi?

Is what we are going to get in life determined at birth – Hindi?

Tap the power of thoughts don’t be trapped by them – Hindi

To always remember Krishna practically means to remember that he is the controller of things outside our control – Hindi

Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions

What is the conscious mind and the subconscious mind?

When anger arises what uddipana can we use to control it?

If we see devotees’ love for us as Krishna’s love coming through them are we not depersonalizing devotees?

If others’ love for us is Krishna’s love coming through them does that apply to their anger too?

How can a devotee work in an anti-devotional profession that goes against the four regulative principles?

I was an honest disbeliever instead of being a hypocritical believer yet I suffered – why?

Is forgiving those who have hurt us necessary for moving on in our life?

How can we persevere in bhakti over the years when our transformation becomes gradual and not so easily perceivable?

On hearing sweet kirtans is the happiness we experience spiritual or material?

How can we be both assertive about getting things done while being sensitive to others’ feelings?

When we try to help someone by pointing out their mistake and they see it as an attack on them what can we do?

How do we understand that the spiritual world has no physical location?

Can people with an empty stomach practice bhakti – shouldn’t material needs be fulfilled first?

Don’t let the mind send the intelligence on a vacation

How can we harmonize ourselves with our situation when say our boss works by opposite principles?

What does having faith amidst problems mean practically?

How can we avoid reinforcing our biases by discussing delicate issues with others who have similar biases?

Our addictions originate not in uncontrollable desires but in unmet needs

Even after practicing bhakti we explode at people who irritate us – what can we do?

If we feel guilty because of having exploded at someone how can we overcome that guilt?

How does bhakti relate with being present in the present?

What is wrong with seeking the desirable and avoiding the undesirable?

Is being emotionally invested in Krishna different from being emotionally invested in services to Krishna?

Is it easier to go from aversion to renunciation than from attachment to renunciation?

For preaching is it enough to simply hear classes of senior devotees and repeat?

Should we take food offered at gurudwara if it contains onion-garlic?

We are never alone – we are always with our thoughts

Does the subtle body dissolve on purification?

After practicing bhakti for many years our enthusiasm goes down and we just go through the motions – how can we know whether we are actually going towards Krishna?

If I connect quickly with someone does that mean we had a past-life connection?

Do like-minded people become more understanding or does understanding make people more life-minded?

Does ignoring situations solve problems?

How can we keep the mind in the present?

When we get bad experiences repeatedly should we just entrust everything to Krishna?

How is always thinking of Krishna practical?

When fantasy distracts us from reality let reality distract us from fantasy

Is constantly thinking of Krishna and doing our work an example of multitasking – how can it be done practically?

How can we understand that whatever is happening to us is due to the weakness of our heart?

What kind of affirmations are most effective?

Even after we learn to observe our mind why can’t we stay on as the observer?

How can we become more mindful?

If a bad relationship has made me paranoid about relationships what can I do?

How can we prevent our career from interfering with our relationships?

Metaphorical holy name meditations 2 – 3 ways the holy name stimulates deeper thought

What are the dos and donts to develop devotional consciousness?

How can we practically apply – don’t be angry with the instrument of your karma?

How can we differentiate between the voices of the mind the intelligence and the Supersoul?

If this world is a place of misery why does it have so much pleasure too?

If dedicated senior devotees face great distress new devotees ask what is the point of practicing bhakti – how to answer?

How can we maintain the standard of purity that Prabhupada established?

If parents have been brought up in India and their children in the US how can they harmonize their differing cultural expectations?

What to do if our material ambitions are stronger than our spiritual intentions?

Why do we sometimes feel more agitated after starting bhakti practice?

Is there proof of reincarnation from animal body to human body?

I have a disagreeable boss who is also atheistic – how can I deal with him?

If a relationship is severely strained but it has to go on what to do?

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior