Practical Spirituality

Balancing obedience to authority & independent thoughtfulness, The Monk’s Podcast 122 with Radheshyam Prabhu

Growing through love and loss in relationships, The Monk’s Podcast 121 with Garuda Prabhu

Making bhakti spirituality relevant to today’s social concerns – The Monk’s Podcast 120 with Yogesvara Prabhu

Faith-based organizations, eco-friendly living & ISKCON, The Monk’s Podcast 118 with Gauranga Prabhu

How do we know when we are accepting ourselves and when we are justifying our weaknesses?

If we feel empty or lonely despite having enough materially, how to respond to such feelings?

Role of oral traditions in preserving spiritual culture, The Monk’s Podcast 116 with Bhakti Rasamrita Swami

Is death as dreadful as we fear?

Offering to Pankajanghri Prabhu – A pivotal leader, a personal guide

Journaling in bhakti – The Monk’s Podcast 115 with Candramauli Maharaj

Youth outreach for community-building & world-transformation, The Monk’s Podcast 113 with Radheshyam Prabhu

Earth Day Special, Vedic wisdom for eco-friendly living, The Monk’s Podcast 112 with Shyamananda Prabhu

What is the bhakti perspective on feminism – not the man-bashing extreme feminism, but the equal opportunity for women feminism?

If after striving for a long time in one area, we get only moderate success, what should we do?

Can food with onion and garlic be offered to Krishna during emergencies?

How should we respond when sacred characters from our tradition are criticized?

How can we be responsible in our relationships without becoming attached?

How are humans intrinsically moral beings?

Can devotees kill snakes and scorpions?

Should devotees take vaccines. – A Bhagavad-gita perspective – The Monk’s Podcast 109 with Garuda Prabhu

Can scripture be understood in multiple ways? – The Monk’s Podcast 108 with Radhika Raman Prabhu

Spirituality and Democracy – The Monk’s Podcast 107 with Shyamananda Prabhu

How scripture comes alive – The Monk’s Podcast 105 with Shyamananda

The essence of offense and its best antidote – The Monk’s Podcast 106 with Garuda Prabhu

Why do senior devotees sometimes judgmentally dismiss other devotees because of just one mistake

If our past karma impels us to wrongdoing, do we get further bad karma?

Can our past karma force us into wrongdoing – then how do we have free will?

Does our varna change with time – can we belong to several varnas?

How can we increase empathy and heart-to-heart interactions in the devotee community

If we live in a complicated environment that requires us to be duplicitous, how can we prevent duplicity from becoming our habit

How can we talk about pure devotion without making people discouraged, thinking it is too lofty

Contemplating Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Wisdom-Quotes — Appearance Day Talk 2021

If a devotee friend of ours is criticizing other devotees what should we do at that time ?

Was Abhimanyu killed because he acted without consulting his superiors?

Should we have doubt only initially while choosing a path and have full faith thereafter

Does spiritual growth lead to an external transformation along with internal transformation

When Parashurama himself acted outside of his varna, why did he curse Karna for doing the same thing?

If someone finds our statements about other spiritual leaders unbearable, how can we connect with them?

How we see it 1, We they mentality & other religious typicals, The Monk’s Podcast 102 with Shyamananda Prabhu

Can you give examples of settling for tolerable tradeoffs instead of seeking perfect solutions?

Role of self-care in bhakti – The Monk’s Podcast 101 with Sukhavaha Mataji and Gaur Kumar Prabhu

Examining mythology 4 – The Monk’s Podcast 100 with Shyamananda Prabhu

How can we have complete faith?

Examining mythology 3 – The Monk’s Podcast 99 with Shyamananda Prabhu

Why do we feel more envy toward some people than toward others?

While doing yoga outreach, how can we ensure that our bhakti focus doesn’t get diluted?

Examining mythology 2 – The Monk’s Podcast 98 with Shyamananda Prabhu

The Monk’s Podcast 97 with Shyamananda Prabhu – Examining mythology 1

How can we understand that we are servants of Krishna – Hindi?

Sustainable Living and Rural Outreach – The Monk’s Podcast 96 with Sanat Kumar Prabhu

How can we grow spiritually when we have to serve demanding people – Hindi?

When we chant, why does our mind get distracted – Hindi?

When we know that our senses are defective and that Big Pharma can be manipulative, how can we work in or with science without cognitive dissonance

Our mind is our enemy – how can we control it – Hindi?

During Western outreach, results come very slowly – how to avoid becoming encouraged?

How can we avoid becoming disheartened on failing to give up bad habits – Hindi?

Can thinking positively create a brighter future?

Why are Prabhupada’s non-confrontational quotes so less known and his confrontational quotes so well-known?

When our movement quantifies spirituality in terms of targets, won’t this alienate thoughtful new people?

The Monk’s Podcast 94 with Lokanath Maharaja – Gaudiya bhakti, Maharashtrian bhakti, universal bhakti

What can we do when we feel emotions that we aren’t meant to feel?

If we label people positively – you are specially talented – can that help people grow?

If our guides speak unpalatably to us and we can’t express ourselves to them what can we do?

Does free will exist when one is suffering from bipolar disorder?

If someone commits suicide, can that be caused by their karma?

If we are extroverts how can we be invisible while doing our services?

The Monk’s Podcast 92 with Garuda Prabhu – Relationship is the essential purpose of guru-tattva

The Monk’s Podcast 91 with Giriraj Maharaj – End-of-life care and bhakti wisdom

The Monk’s Podcast 90 with Garuda Prabhu – Please criticize me – I want to grow

The Monk’s Podcast 88 with Kaustubha Prabhu – Kaustubha P Sharing bhakti in contemporary America

The Monk’s Podcast 84 with Madhavananda Prabhu – From Sentimentality to Spirituality

The Monk’s Podcast 83 with Shyamananda – Social Justice and Spiritual Wisdom 2 – Caste System Analyzed

The Monk’s Podcast 82 with Shyamananda – Animals and their place in an eco-friendly world

The Monk’s Podcast 81 with Shyamananda – Social Justice and Spiritual wisdom 1

History of ISKCON and HH Radhanath Maharaj contribution – Hindi

The Monk’s Podcast 43 with Braja Bihari Prabhu – How to disagree without being disagreeable

The Monk’s Podcast 55 with Garuda Prabhu – Does love exist in the material world?

If someone has been abused, can the victim just forgive the abuser?

The Monk’s Podcast 51 with Bhanu Maharaj – Why science and scripture see reality differently

The Monk’s Podcast 62 with Madhavananda Prabhu – Conspiracy theories

The Monk’s Podcast 65 with Govinda Prabhu – Centralization, Decentralization and Dharma

The Monk’s Podcast 56 with Bhakti Vasudeva Maharaj – Taking bhakti wisdom into the management world

The Monk’s Podcast 77 with Govinda Prabhu – Racism – what it is, what it isn’t and how to deal with it?

While the world slept …

The Monk’s Podcast 78 with Krishna Kshetra Maharaj – Churning the Bhagavatam – Dashavatara 2 – Kurma

What to do when in a relationship that we can neither tolerate nor retaliate?

How can we distribute our time between hearing and chanting?

How can we increase our determination for waking up in the morning?

As we can’t know for sure what are principles and what details, why not just follow the tradition as it is, without even attempting to change anything?

How does prayer affect karma?

How the ritual and the spiritual interrelate

If others pressure us into doing more than our capacity, what can we do?

Journaling for Inner Growth

Should we gratify our desires so that we don’t carry our desires to the next life?

If Krishna is merciful, he takes everything away from us – how to not become fearful on hearing this statement?

Why do we need to transcend the mode of goodness?

When the modes interrupt our bhakti practice, how can uninterrupted bhakti practice take us beyond the modes?

How do the modes influence our free will and our values?

Despite your conservative training how did you become so accommodating?

Is karma real?