Summary

Does spirituality come from without within or within without?

Destiny determines our situations and emotions we determine our intentions and actions

When life doesn’t seem fair three reflections for self-empowerment

Managing the voice inside the head 2 – Identification Direction Transformation

Evolve – Rising towards contribution and satisfaction

Ghosts and God – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible

Does God laugh at our plans? – part 2

Does God laugh at our plans? – part 1

Seek not just to get better things seek to get better thoughts

Speaking according to time-place-circumstance to make outreach effective

Managing the voice inside the head – 1

How to become pacified purified and satisfied

To deny destiny is to deny ourselves the chance of making our destiny

Self-pity humility and maturity explained – Bhagavad-gita 18.35

God as the Supreme therapist 7 – Understanding how Narasimhadeva gave strength to Prahlada

Fulfilling our need for progress by becoming committed in bhakti

God as the supreme therapist 6 – Seek not the facility to do whatever we desire – seek the clarity to discern our deepest desire

The way I feel is the way I feel – Accepting our emotions and transcending our emotions

How the mind becomes unclear and how to clear it

God as the supreme therapist 5 – Cultivating qualities is integral to cultivating devotion

God as the supreme therapist 4 – How association works and how to make it work

Do you need to break up with your phone?

God as the supreme therapist 3 – Devotional detachment is not freedom from emotions but freedom of emotions

God as the supreme therapist 2 – To be others’ well wisher means to channel their emotions towards proper use of their free will

Intelligence means to know which thoughts to contemplate and which to neglect

Healing the earth by healing the heart

God as the supreme therapist 1 – Discerning the Prahlada and Hiranyakashipu mentalities within us

Appreciating Radhanatha Maharaj’s contributions towards helping devotees practice bhakti sustainably

Learning to be kind to ourselves

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

Making sense of life through karma and reincarnation

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

How to be detached without becoming irresponsible

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

To blame is to be lame – stop seeking scapegoats

Focus on life not on the mind’s commentary on life

Where does the power of mantras lie – in letters or meaning or somewhere else?

If everything is God’s will how do we have free will?

Unity in diversity and diversity in unity – The Absolute’s relationship with us

Gratitude is not just an attitude but also an awareness

Resolutions in the three modes – and in transcendence

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 2

Science & Spirituality – Why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 1

Our defining power is the power to choose our thoughts

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2

Three ways of perceiving Krishna’s love

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1

Does religion cause war?

The mind may stray away, but don’t let it stay away

Understanding how the mind acts as a mirror that distorts our self-conception

Screen what appears on your inner screen – Learn to manage the mind

Science Spirituality and The Search for Meaning

How understanding destiny empowers

Cultivating Cooperation in Krishna consciousness

Why we are sometimes wise and sometimes otherwise

Net Surfing or Net Suffering?

From state of the art to state of the heart

Is anxiety a disorder?

Learning to live with emotional lows

How Krishna steals our distresses

Spiritual but not religious – Analyzing four permutations

Bring out the Hanuman within not the Ravana within

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 3 – Keeping our intention above our emotions

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 2 – Earning trust through emotional intelligence

Why to become spiritual now

Matters that matter more than matter – Origin Value Meaning

Is bhakti a conditioned attraction of the mind or the natural attraction of the soul?

How the mind tells its stories by inducing forgetfulness faith and feelings

How philosophy and experience harmonize in bhakti

How chanting works on the mind – and how the mind works during chanting

Tap the mind don’t be trapped by the mind 3 – From shakshi bhava to seva bhava

Winning with emotional intelliigence 2 – Social competence through relationship management

Tap the minda don’t be trapped by the mind 2 – Why mind control backfires

Tap the mind dont be trapped by the mind 1 – The pressure for pleasure

Understanding how bhakti addresses anxiety

How we spend more time avoiding pain than seeking pleasure – and why we shouldn’t

When the higher taste doesn’t seem higher

How to control the mind with the intelligence 3 – Conversion

How to control the mind with the intelligence 2 – Concentration

How to control the mind with the intelligence 1 – Conviction

When fear accelerates the imagination let faith be the brake

The search for pleasure is often the source of the greatest trouble

What the self seeks beyond the selfie

Avoid distractions using intelligence directed towards transcendence

To transcend our emotions we need to begin by accepting our emotions

Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Changing our input in relationships

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Changing our vision of our role in relationships

Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – Changing our vision of others

Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – How the modes turn good intentions into not-so-good actions

Gaur Purnima class – How Lord Chaitanya defeated the attacks of Kali and how he empowers us to defeat those attacks

Gaur Purnima class – How Ratha Yatra fulfilled external and internal reasons for Lord Chaitanya’s appearance

How chanting helps us understand ourselves and our mind

What science can tell us about ourselves – and what it can’t

How the mind spoils our relationships – Hindi

Animal Metaphors for understanding the mind – Hindi

Acknowledging our emotions but not acting impulsively on them

Let samskaras takes us beyond our scars

Everyone’s mind tell them different stories – don’t be judgmental be purposeful

Analyzing the relationship between material progress and spiritual progress