Practical Spirituality

Overcoming obstacles 7 – Focus less on detachment from the world and more on attachment to Krishna – part 1

Overcoming obstacles 6 – Focus not on how the world sees you, but on how you see the world – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 5 – Focus not on how the world sees you, but on how you see the world – part 1

Overcoming obstacles 4 – Let intelligence be your minister, not your master – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 3 – Let intelligence be your minister, not your master – part 1

Overcoming obstacles 2 – Focus not on rejecting desire, but on selecting desire – part 2

Overcoming obstacles 1 – Focus not on rejecting desire, but on selecting desire – part 1

How can we understand the ideal without becoming impractical and fanatical?

As intelligence can make us calculative or over-smart, how can we remain simple while being intelligent?

Tap your inner power by understanding your inner hierarchy – Gita 03.42

How do we see people who come to the temple but don’t practice bhakti seriously – Hindi?

How can a person suffering from an incurable disease overcome resentment – Hindi?

Applying spiritual wisdom to persevere through senseless suffering

Overcome resentment by asking how, not why – Hindi

How can we overcome the tendency to be indecisive – Hindi?

How can we spiritualize our material attachments?

Learn from the Gita the temperament to transform talent into achievement

If we are working wholeheartedly in our material life, but can’t work similarly in our spiritual life, what can we do – Hindi?

If someone is connected with another organization, how can we get them to the Krishna consciousness movement?

Why do leaders of religious organisations sometimes form sects and fight with each other – Hindi?

If people treat us based on their past negative impressions about us even after we have improved, what can we do – Hindi?

If we don’t see others’ faults, how can we guide them to improve – Hindi?

Can someone say that my nature is to talk insensitively – Hindi?

How can we intelligently neglect some people’s criticism of us?

Self-transformation comes by becoming conscious of the subconscious – Hindi?

When the soul and the body are different, why do self-realized souls suffer bodily pain – Hindi?

When we can’t overcome our bad habits, what to do – Hindi?

When our opinions come from our nature, how can we understand that the opinions of those with different natures can also be correct – Hindi?

Is loving our body the cause of misery?

If our talents such as a powerful voice sometimes inconvenience others, what should we do?

Is focusing on developing our talents selfishness?

When we start coming for spiritual programs, our college friends criticize us – how to respond?

When we are not our bodies, why do devotee marriage boards want to know the candidate’s caste – Hindi?

If others’ way of functioning disturbs our service, what can we do – Hindi?

Bring out the best within, not the beast within

Determination in the three modes – Hindi

When others’ words makes us disturbed and dissatisfied, how to deal with that dissatisfaction – Hindi?

When we are unable to practice devotional principles, are we hypocritical – how to overcome it – Hindi?

How can we overcome the unhappiness felt on seeing others go away from bhakti – Hindi?

When our past bad habits don’t go away despite repeated efforts, what to do (Hindi)?

When problems go beyond our tolerance limit, we explode as per our past conditionings – how to deal with this (Hindi)?

If those in power such as Dhritarashtra stay silent amidst injustice, can their silence be attributed to their nature (Hindi)?

Dealing with provocative people

Sattva-guna – A competitor to bhakti and a stepping stone to bhakti

Changing the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves

Don’t let the drink take the drinker

I was initiated earlier by a priest – how do I see it when seeking initation from a Vaishnava guru?

Is speaking about krishna-bhakti to relatives who may be faithless an offense to the holy name?

Strengthen relationships by tolerating others’ indiscretions

The life of devotional dynamism

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What we are is God’s gift to us – what we become is our gift to God

When a close relative troubles us, do we need to tolerate infinitely?

How can I protect my NRI-nephew from being carried away by materialism?

How can we be friendly with equals without becoming casual?

How can we avoid feeling burdened when we have unmanageable deadlines?

Counter the cancer of workaholism

When we face real problems, can we spiritually raise ourselves above those problems?

Can we say the grabbers in the marshmallow experiment are those who grab opportunities?

How can we make our presentation more crisp and condensed?

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Prabhupada’s legacy lives on

The desirer of desire

​How can we avoid fear after taking big decisions thoughtfully?

​How can I control anger when I am continuously provoked?

​How can we be strict in sadhana and sensitive with others?

​When faced with difficulty, why do we go away from Krishna?

​How can we practically do abhyasa for focusing the mind?

​How can we develop taste for chanting?

​If devotees have to do research involving animal testing, what should they do?

​When our material obligations make us too busy to practice sadhana strictly, what can we do?

Our decision, our destination (Subhashita commentary)

Does expertise in shabda make one expert in fields in which one may have no practical experience?

Should we preach when we are not feeling devotionally?

When Krishna disapproves renunciation as it will disturb people’s minds, how can we understand Prabhupada’s giving sannyasa to young disciples?

Is dandiya rasa considered imitation of Krishna’s rasa-lila — is it allowed in ISKCON?

How can we cope with enduring sadness?

How can we say our thanks to God?

Why does corruption exist in religious organisations – can it be minimized?

How can a bar waiter transform one’s occupational duty into devotional service?

How to deal with devotees in ISKCON who criticize ISKCON?

How can we overcome lust?

How can we avoid distractions amidst today’s internet age?

How can we remember while serving the Deities that they are persons?

If we don’t have the opportunity to explore, won’t we lose our desire to learn?

If we are in a situation where we can’t develop our talents, what can we do?

Can pursuing our material talents help us in our spiritual life?

How can chanting help us in our life practically?

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How can we know our most dangerous attachments?

What if we want to preach but are given other services? – Hindi

How can we resist temptation? – Hindi

The world sees results, Krishna sees efforts

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​Help your mind to learn using association and intelligence

​When chanting doesn’t feel blissful, how can we make it always blissful?

​What kind of mental pitch is favourable for bhakti?