Practical Spirituality

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?

​How did Prabhupada provide sadhana-bhakti and raganuga bhakti together?

​How can we overcome the tendency to overthink?

​How can we avoid second guessing ourselves while doing creative work?

Before we can evaluate our desire, we end up indulging in it – what to do?

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How can we avoid falling repeatedly to a wrong desire?

​How do prioritize between our duty to our parents and to our wife and children?

Counter the inner negative conversation of doubt and desire

Won’t cultivating satisfaction take away our urge to improve?

How can we know what our prescribed duty is in today’s world?

How can we know whether we are depending on our own endeavors or on Krishna?

How can we maintain our spiritual alertness amidst worldly association?

Bhikshu Gita 6 – See the mind’s aversion to concentration as a trick of illusion (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.47)

Don’t identify with the mind – identify the mind

When real problems such as recession threaten us, how can we deal with the anxiety?

Bhakti is not about attachment or detachment but about commitment – please explain.

Is all anxiety bad – can’t anxiety inspire us to perform better?

How can we weaken our bad desires and strengthen our good desires?

How can we avoid forgetting our resolutions?

Bhikshu Gita 5 – Happiness comes by raising the standard of longing (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.46)

How do non-devotees without sadhana and siddhanta sometimes have better sadachara than devotees?

How can we fix the mind on Krishna?

How can those unaware of scripture differentiate between the mind and the intelligence?

How can we inculcate Krishna consciousness in our children?

If having too many commitments makes us resentful, what can we do?

How should we preach – gently or forcefully?

QA on Practical application of bhakti

Bhikshu Gita 4 – The mind distracts us from bhakti in the name of bhakti (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.45)

If someone is going through a bad phase astrologically, how does the mind affect their problems?

How much does the mind affect problems in astrologically compatible relationships?

How can we constantly remember that we are not the doers?

If we keep curbing most of our impulses, aren’t we living a fake life?

Is passion needed while functioning in this world?

If a devotee can’t find an astrologically compatible match, can they pursue astrologically incompatible matches where other things match?

Bhikshu Gita 3 – The mind makes the unreal seem real and the real seem unreal (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.44)

Bhikshu Gita 2 – The mind makes it difficult for people to change – be understanding (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.43)

Navigating the social and emotional turbulence of adolescence

How can we remove bad impressions from our mind?

How can we survive spiritually when suddenly we lose devotee association?

Bhikshu Gita 1 – Minimize misery by identifying the misery caused by the mind (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.42)

How can we cultivate humility in our bhakti?

Some devotees take a vow to chant lots of rounds and keep chanting all day – is that ok?

What are the duties of a modern woman who wants to practice bhakti?

How can we attain true peace?

Can we chant while traveling or walking?

How can we chant without distractions?

Why are we more judgemental towards equals instead of seniors?

Why are we judgemental towards others?

On self-mastery: Fight the archer, not the arrow

How do we differentiate between which desire to accept and which to reject?

How can we strengthen our faith, especially while going through mood swings?

How can we disconnect from undesirable thoughts?

How can we know if our intelligence is misleading us through rationalization?

​How can we use in bhakti the qualities we don’t know we have?

​How can we deal with bad thoughts that come up subconsciously?

How can we overcome procrastinating tendency?

​Should we just depend on bhakti to purify us or cultivate introspectiveness to check and change our motives?

​How do we explain the triangularity of desires to children?

​Isn’t it better to know our needs and be satisfied on getting them instead of trying to be satisfied with what we have?

If we don’t have the inclination to do some service, should we still do it just to purify ourselves?

In our spiritual life how can we be both satisfied and ambitious?

​Can individual or group chanting promote world peace?

​Some devotees see social issues as irrelevant – isn’t bhakti meant to be socially relevant?

​How can spirituality help amidst increasing social polarisation, often caused by religion?

​How can we guide our children in their teenage years?

​When anxiety distracts us during chanting, should we try to counter those thoughts or just wait for those thoughts to go?

​Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s transcendence in sharing bhakti

Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s transcendence in sharing krishna-bhakti (Prabhupada disappearance day meditation)

​How is Hinduism different from other religions?

Is there any way we can use procrastination positively?

​How can we avoid getting sucked into local temple politics while practicing bhakti?

​How can we know which situations are in our control and which out of control?

​How are we affected by positive or negative thoughts?

When people are diagnosed with depression, should they take medicines or practice spirituality?

​Is a goal-oriented approach in bhakti in the mode of passion?

Do we need to appreciate devotees before we can appreciate Krishna?

Is multi-tasking desirable or undesirable?

​Why does God let difficulties happen in our life – please explain based on your personal life?

Won’t saying that don’t pursue worldly pleasures demotivate students from academic performance?

How can we control sense gratification?

What is ISKCON doing to address the fear that terrorists may attack temples?

​Pressing on when things don’t make sense

Among the Gita’s four varnas, what is your varna?

​How does bhakti counter anxiety?

What role does time play in differentiating between wants and needs?

How can we regulate our material wants in our spiritual life?

Spirituality for caregivers

Can devotees ask Krishna for a material thing such as a child?

​Learning to manage our desires – Gita 02.64-72

​How to share bhakti with our relatives who are addicted to materialism?

​How to deal with the conflict of feeling like giving charity and fearing that it may be misused?

​What to do if the association of some devotees makes us negative and agitated?