Practical Spirituality

​​​​How can we use our intellectual faculty to elevate ourselves and others spiritually?

Devotionally, we need to be humble. Professionally, we need to promote ourselves. How to reconcile?

How can we reduce the time we spend on devices?

​How to deal with the mind if it traps us in the same behaviour repeatedly?

​How can we expand our resolutions from time-bound to lifelong?

What to do if the mind acts on us even before we realize what is happening?

​Tap the triangularity of desires through good association

How to avoid getting distracted by the mind during our idle time?

​Is wanting to rise in the corporate world due to the mode of passion?

​Why do distractions come more when we chant?

What to do if we can’t contain our anger but expressing it will hurt others?

​If we become too target-oriented while doing a service, should we give up that service?

Remembering Srinathji Prabhu – an intellectual, non-patronizing patron of intellectuals

​Initially, bhakti doesn’t give as much happiness as sensuality – how to persevere then?

Is dharma practical in this age?

How can we balance our material commitments and spiritual aspirations?

Your enemy is inside you – and so is your friend – with Spanish translation

How has your spirituality helped you to practically solve the world’s problems?

​Can’t laughter help us feel better?

Tap the power of your mind​ – with Spanish translation

​Key to success – Go DEEP

Proactive Leadership – with Spanish translation

​Discover your inner power – with Spanish translation

​What dogs, birds and elephants teach us about our habits – with Spanish translation

​Is becoming worried or not becoming worried a learnable habit?

​Why do we tend to worry about future things that haven’t even happened?

How can we measure our progress on the path of controlling our mind?

How can we improve our focus?

Do people take to spirituality only because of detachment from material life?

​How can we learn to serve Krishna more selflessly?

​How can we see problems as challenges?

​How can we overcome a bad habit that has been very difficult for us to give up?

How can we train the mind to correct its bad ways?

​How can we protect ourselves at various stages from contemplation to degradation?

​Are we meant to neglect the mind or to channel it?

How can we live in the present instead of the past or the future?

When the mind troubles us, how can we practically control it?

What your phone can teach you about your mind

​Will we ever attain a spiritual level beyond material desire?

​How can we help materialistic people recognize the need to control their thoughts?

When does ambition become greed?

How can we introduce new people to bhakti?

Why does ISKCON have a more organized managerial structure than most traditional religious groups?

​When the soul is beyond identity, why do devotees put identification marks such as tilak?

Should we stick to personal spiritual standards even when they imbalance our life?

​Activate the grand rapid flow of bhakti by restructing your mental architecture

Do we need to resist a material desire that is a need?

If a devotee can see the future in dreams, what should they do?

When management affects our sadhana adversely, what can we do?

Tap the power of consciousness

Why do children of devotees sometimes not become devotees?

​What is the difference between being selfish and thinking of oneself first?

​What to do when people exclude us from some social circles because of our bhakti practices?

​How can we make right decisions when what is right is not clear and the decisions have serious consequences?

​Should we share bhakti wisdom only after we have understood it thoroughly?

​How much can logic be applied to scriptural study?

How can we be detached without becoming uncaring?

​Is service the foundation of relationship – can’t we have relationships without any common service?

​If some devotees keep rejecting us despite our best efforts to please them, what should we do?

Are bhakti activities transcendental to the modes or are we to engage activities in the modes in bhakti?

​What goes wrong when one person gets undue control on others’ minds?

​If we see wrongdoers go unpunished in our movement, what should we do?

​How can people who are conditioned to be child abusers be cured?

​During chanting should we try to control the mind or should we pray to Krishna that he control the mind?

​How do we differentiate between the mind’s desires and the soul’s desires?

​Why did Prabhupada not encourage devotees to consult astrologers?

​If I can invest one hour daily for bhakti, which bhakti practices should I do?

​How has the momentum of bhakti helped you to face problems in your own life?

​What is dharma, especially for householders?

What are the characteristics of those who are spiritually healed?

​Examining our definition of happiness

​Learning to change our rasa from the world to Krishna

​How important is it to have a goshala with a temple?

​How to know whether our inner decisions come from the mind or the intelligence?

​How can we reciprocate with the many people who have helped us?

​Is it healthy to feel distressed whenever we remember how we have hurt others in the past?

​Is thinking negative about some devotee an offence?

​While sharing bhakti, how can we overcome the tendency to be intellectually aggressive?

​How can we encourage devotee-kids to explore bhakti and not worldly pleasures?

When thoughts distract us while chanting, how to respond?

​When bad thoughts trouble us during our bhakti practice, how to respond?

​Four animal metaphors for managing the mind – horse, wolf, dog and sheep

​​​​If we have terrible pain, how can bhakti help us tolerate that pain?

​How does the food offered to Krishna purify us?

​If we feel worried the same way as we felt before practicing bhakti, is something wrong with our bhakti practice?

​How can we stay self-aware while living in a materialistic culture?

​How do we know when we have become self-aware?

​If hearing krishna-lila makes me envious, does that mean I am demoniac?

​If someone keeps misunderstanding us repeatedly, how to respond?

​When people think that we are wrong when we are not, how to respond?

Understand your machine to relish your self

​Are people around us benefited by our being Krishna conscious even when we can’t share our devotion with them?

​What differentiates bhakti-yoga from other forms of yoga?

​How to respond when our becoming spiritual is deemed socially unacceptable?

​How can we keep our mind clear between meditation sessions?

​What is the best way for a beginner to start with mantra meditation?

​How can we keep our heart open when the mind is hostile?

If our mind’s software is very corrupted, how can we handle it?

​Consciousness, the subconscious and conscience – understanding and transforming our inner world

​Should we worry about spiritual problems such as inattentive chanting?