Practical Krishna Consciousness

​How can a student practice bhakti?

Developing an inclusive spiritual community, The Monk’s Podcast 136 with Shikshashtakam Prabhu

Why we should or should not study the Rasa-lila, The Monk’s Podcast 129 with Garuda Prabhu

How can we cultivate the mode of goodness when we are puppets of the modes?

Is it really possible to be happy while you yourself see so much suffering in yours like as well as everywhere around?

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

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

Can devotees kill snakes and scorpions?

How can we distribute our time between hearing and chanting?

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

​How can we overcome envy?

How do we give up bad habits?

How can an introvert practice bhakti when it is so social and public?

Why do some bad habits stay on despite our devotional practice – how to deal with them?

What is the best way to study shastra in a group with devotees?

How can we realize that we are souls?

Can you explain the various stages in chanting – namaprada, namabhasa, shudda-nama?

What is the role of vairagya in grihastha life?

How devotion and dedication can transform our life into an adventure

Appreciating Krishna’s attractiveness

Developing service attitude 2 – How to see reciprocation in our service

Developing service attitude 1 – Service attitude transforms knowledge into realization

The way to Vrindavan is through Kurukshetra

Is remembering Krishna the highest service and all other services are for those who can’t remember him constantly?

Analyze, Accept, Act – 3 principles for dealing with negativity

How can we practically understand humility and surrender?

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 2 – Regulate attachment even to things that help in devotion

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 1 – The danger of becoming religious but not spiritual

How can we strive to overcome our anarthaas without becoming anartha-conscious?

How to become pacified purified and satisfied

Bhakti in three modes 3 – Bhakti in goodness brings sustainability purity and harmony

Bhakti in three modes 2 – Bhakti in passion equates material success with spiritual advancement

Bhakti in three modes 1 – Bhakti in ignorance is self-righteous and hurtful

Improving Japa 1 – Understand how and when we get distracted

​Our material needs are like painkillers – necessary but not sufficient

Tap the power of your mind​ – with Spanish translation

​Can we function at both spiritual and material levels in life?

​Do we need to renounce the world to grow spiritually?

​Can spirituality help people having acute mental health problems?

​Can people with brain chemical imbalances practice spirituality and benefit from it?

​What makes people evolve from seeking recognition to making contribution?

​How to respond when devotees start campaigning against some mundane problem?

Why do senior devotees sometimes divert from bhakti to fringe fields?

How can we use our talents at work without being sucked by the work away from Krishna?

Can inattentive chanting cause mental problems?

How to respond when problems overwhelm us?

Is not being disturbed amidst problems indicative of apathy or of bhakti?

When caring for our small children takes a lot of time, how can we enhance our spirituality?

​If I don’t feel disturbed when my loved ones face problems, am I becoming heartless?

Is it better to chant in the morning and do very simple Deity worship or to do nice Deity worship and chant later in the day?

​Holy Name seminar – Becoming conscious of our consciousnss, our distractions and our Lord

​Why do we become more angry with our family members than with our colleagues?

​How can we be both detached and compassionate?

​Why do people become sarcastic towards those practicing bhakti?

​How to avoid becoming disheartened on seeing our lack of spiritual emotion while chanting?

​How can we avoid becoming fearful about future possibilities?

Transform anxiety into intensity by spirituality

If someone is in too much anxiety, how can we help them?

​We can’t pray for problems like Kunti did, but being problem-free makes us complacent – what is the balanced attitude?

​Whenever I do anything, I feel distracted by the many other things in the world that are wrong – what can I do?

​How can we deal with spiritual jealousy?

​How do we prioritize between our material obligations and spiritual aspirations?

​If others don’t accept something we are strongly convinced about, what should we do?

​What are the most important things for practicing bhakti?

​Why do we chant Hare Krishna, not om krishna?

​When shasta-guru-sadhu give different guidance on some issue, how do we decide?

Focus not on the cause – focus on the cure

​Should we feel insecure if because of having many services we are unable to report to our authorities regularly?

​When the mind treats worldly objects, not Krishna, as its home, how to respond?

​Can the mode of ignorance be used in Krishna’s service?

​How can we avoid an excessively self-critical mentality?

​How to avoid feeling negative about people who criticize harshly?

​What to do if pressing the pause button amidst provocations will make things worse?

​Isn’t it better to address misunderstanding right away instead of letting it distract us later during japa?

​If senior devotees have misconceptions about us, is clarifying them disrespectful?

​Is mentally retaliating at devotees who have hurt us an offence?

​How can we train ourselves to pause when impulses hit us?

If something makes us go away from Krishna, how can we return towards him?

​How can we balance our studies and our bhakti?

​If bhakti is the art of becoming happy, why are we bhaktas not happy?

​How can we increase our appreciation for bhakti?

​How can we respond positively after committing mistakes?

​How can we control the mind in professional settings where we can’t do devotional activities?

Can we change a habit in two weeks, as some surveys suggest?

​How can we become more selfless?

​Take charge of your inner conversation

​How can the awareness of our sinfulness enhance our devotion?

​When Krishna said that the Kauravas were doomed because of offending Draupadi, why did he go to them as a peace envoy?

How can we differentiate between emotional experiences and transcendental experiences?

When the management gives services to one person and not another, isn’t that discrimination?

The Quest for Happiness

​Isn’t life all about discriminating – how can we be nonjudgmental?

What is the difference between judging and discriminating?

Is na dhanam na janam na sundarim applicable to householder life?

How does guilt practically help increase our bhakti?

​How can guilt manifest in a way favourable for bhakti?

​Does chanting purely itself give rise to virtues or should we strive to develop virtues?

​If we surrender to Krishna, won’t he help in taking care of our needs?

​Does Gita 09.22 imply that we needn’t care for our material needs?

​Are the material needs of pure devotees automatically provided for by Krishna?