Summary

Practical application of the Gita – MAIL acronym

Even God can’t help those who don’t want to be helped – Dhritarashtra’s physical and metaphysical blindness

Does God know the future?

What reality TV tells us about reality

How Halloween celebration points to our longing for Krishna

Life, Afterlife and the Search for Meaning

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

Developing service attitude 1 – Service attitude transforms knowledge into realization

How to develop self-confidence

From sentimentalism to sentiment 2 – FEEL acronym – Expression and Learning

From sentimentalism to sentiment 1 – FEEL acronym – Firmness and Education

Immigrating to the spiritual world

Stop fighting battles that are already lost and start fighting the battle that is never lost – Vritrasura pastime analysis 3

Focus on potentials, not on problems

When the source of liberation becomes the source of illusion 2 – Mohini-murti pastime analysis

How to transform our heart 2 – Vritrasura’s dramatic transformation

When the source of liberation becomes the source of illusion 1 – Mohini-murti pastime analysis

How to transform our heart 1 – Vritrasura’s dramatic transformation

Transform your mind, transform your world

Loneliness – Why, what to do?

Understanding God’s role in our life

When life hurts 3 – When our good deeds causes problems – Prahlad pastime analysis

When life hurts 2 – When people attack us – Gajendra pastime analysis

When life hurts 1 – when a small mistake causes huge problems – Parikshit M pastime analysis

Finding security in insecurity

How our mind creates our reality – and how to change it

We need to forgive ourselves to give ourselves to Krishna

Krishna has faith in our potential – let’s have faith in his potency

Security in Insecurity – Learning to flourish amidst change

Demons in krishna-lila 4 – Vatsasura – Weakness is forgivable, wickedness isn’t

Cultivating the mood for studying Bhagavatam

Demons in krishna-lila 2 – Shaktasura – Overcoming Lethargy

Demons in krishna-lila 1 – How the metaphorical points to the transcendental and how Putana represents false guru

How Gita wisdom helps us to deal with pain

How to immigrate to the spiritual world

The MIND enigma – Mystical, Impressionable, Neutral, Directable – Insights for better mental health

The power of purpose

The way to Vrindavan is through Kurukshetra

Overcoming discouragement in spiritual life

Our longing for love – comparing materialist, Abrahamic, impersonal and bhakti explanations

The truth that warms the heart influences more than the truth that lights the way

The home as the decentralized transmitter of devotional culture

Rise from being full of thoughts to being thoughtful – 4 reflections

Understanding “emotions”, “negative emotions” and “overcoming negative emotions”

The time to understand time is now

Role of self-confidence in bhakti

Understanding, identifying and managing the mind

Bhagavatam transforms intensity of distress into velocity in devotion

Overcoming negative emotions 2 – Acceptance, Aspiration, Analysis, Action

Overcoming negative emotions 1 – Explanation, Experimentation, Evaluation, Elevation

Is our definition of happiness depriving us of happiness – Having, Doing, Being

Understanding rasa-lila 8 – Appreciating Krishna’s mystifying reciprocation

How Gita wisdom addresses mental health problems

Understanding Rasa-lila 7 – Gopi-gita 3

Understanding Rasa-lila 6 – Gopi-gita 2

Understanding Rasa-lila 5 – Gopi-gita 1

Radhashtami class – Radharani demonstrates selfless love and blesses us with selfless love

Understanding Rasa-lila 4 – Radharani’s apparent pride expresses her selfless love

How the Bhagavad-gita’s first and last words reflect its empowering message

Understanding rasa-lila 3 – Arrogance keeps us locked in ourselves, both apara-dharma and para-dharma get us out of ourselves

Seeing Krishna’s mercy amidst adversity – Bali M pastime analysis

Understanding rasa-lila 2- How Bhagavatam establishes para-dharma without trivializing apara-dharma

Understanding rasa-lila 1 – How the supreme Shelter (Ashraya) becomes sheltered (Ashrita)

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

Share the spiritual treasure with the world – SHARE acronym

Bringing out the best within us

Making healthy choices

Overcoming negative emotions

Growing through adversities

What is destiny?

Science, Spirituality and Wellness – Existence, Emotions and Ethics

Do you need a break from our mind? Bhagavad-gita insights for inside-out change

What makes relationships unsteady – and how to make them steady

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 2?

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 1?

From exploration to realization to absorption – our devotional journey

Faith in Krishna’s existence, relevance, benevolence, intelligence and remembrance

Don’t take others’ actions personally – they are dealing more with their mind than with you

Understanding Krishna’s love 2 – Experience

Understanding Krishna’s love 1 – Knowledge

Is thinking too much unhealthy?

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – PURE acronym – 2

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – 1

How spirituality fosters unity in diversity and individuality in unity

WITH acronym – We may have to live with pain, but we don’t have to live in pain

Devotion is not just emotion – it is conscious continuous cultivation

3 attitudes for becoming steady in life

No price is too high to possess ourselves – RECAP acronym

How the pre-modern, modern and post-modern ages respectively stressed the spiritual, physical and mental

What is Krishna consciousness? – Talk to multi-faith group in Australia

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – If we don’t want help, even God can’t help

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – Are some people innately evil?

Krishna is close to us, but we are far away from him

Dhritarashtra character analysis 2 – Do we need to lose everything before we lose our attachments?

Dhritarashtra character analysis 1 – Attachment makes us stone-hearted

Understanding the mind and how it makes us unconscious

The search for happiness – how bhakti pacifies, purifies and satisfies us

How to choose our thoughts wisely – Science, Spirituality and Wellness

How to become peaceful and purposeful

What love is and what love isn’t