Summary

Overcoming negative emotions 4 – Overcoming anger through forgiveness

The need for appropriate adaptors when transmitting the current of bhakti

Advancing spiritually at our pace, from our place by understanding the power, principle and process of krishna-bhakti

Worldly intoxication and devotional intoxication differ in consciousness, content and consequence

Devotion doesn’t restrict us – it empowers us

The Spirit of Diwali – Light the inner lamp to see beyond the painkiller of entertainment to the cure of devotion

The missing self in the selfie

How the Universal Form makes Krishna accessible

Overcoming negative emotions 3 – Fear

Understanding religion and bhakti in the three modes

How the fictional points to the spiritual

Understanding the spiritual world, the power of bhakti and Narottama Das Thakura’s contribution to the bhakti tradition

Damodara lila analysis – Going beyond cultural conceptions to spiritual revelation

Overcoming negative emotions 2 – Depression

Is Krishna-bhakti universal when it is so specific?

What we can learn from our dreams

Science, Spirituality & Self-improvement

Simplify Clarify Purify – Three principles for a fulfilling life

Live in the present but not for the present

From material detachment to spiritual attachment – Ignorance Tolerance Transcendence Immanence

The essence of the spiritual world and of spiritual life is not location but disposition

Overcoming negative emotions 1 – Resentment

Remembrance of Krishna cuts karmic bondage by providing intelligence taste and love

Three principles for controlling the mind – Intelligence Diligence and Dependence

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 4 – Understanding Pravrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 3 – Understanding Artha

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 2 – Understanding Nivrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 1 – Understanding Anartha

Love may be unscientific but is it unreal?

Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s presentation of devotion and of Ratha Yatra as a global festival of devotion

FEAR acronym – Learning to deal with our fears

Gopi Gita 3 – “We cannot tolerate your feet being hurt by thorns – please return”

Gopi Gita 2 – “You alone can free us from contamination and tribulation – please return”

Gopi Gita 1 – “Whoever you are – Lord or lover – please come back”

The Bhagavad-gita is a yoga text for emotional empowerment

Improving Japa 2 – Concentrate by cultivating interest and appreciating importance

Cultists Fanatics and Spiritual Shoppers – Making sense of the world’s religious scenario

Six loving exchanges – Opening the heart and reciprocating with the opened heart

We are defined by the questions we ask – in life in science and in spirituality

Bring out the best you 3 – Spiritual help

Bring out the best you 2 – Social help

Bring out your best 1 – Self-help

Can we logically prove God’s existence – Backward and forward reasoning

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 7 – Love in separation is the culmination of love

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 6 – Parakiya-rasa is not immoral but trans-moral

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness

Understanding consciousness and its four levels – Jagruti Svapna Sushupti and Turya

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 2 – How Karma and Jnana Culminate in Bhakti

Reincarnation and the Search for Meaning – Evidence Explanation & Evolution

The mind is not the problem – the mindset is

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 1 – Understanding how love culminates in bhakti

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

LEAD acronym – 4 Leadership Sutras from Bhagavad-gita

DEEP acronym – What our phone can teach us about our mind

OASIS – Five reflections for self-improvement

Discover the Baahubali within you

4 lessons about our mind from our phone – Distortion Discretion Determination, Devotion

Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti philosophical bhakti spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti

Akrura Katha 2 – Devotional disposition in association deepens our devotion

Akrura Katha 1 – When no one understands us Krishna understands

Appreciating Balarama’s two blessings – Bala and Rama

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

Appreciating Balarama’s position pastime and blessing – Hindi

To always remember Krishna practically means to remember that he is the controller of things outside our control – Hindi

Krishna is the trans-personal shelter of all the things that shelter us

Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions

Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Accept yourself to relate better with others

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior

Understanding what is mental and what is spiritual

Reincarnation – From Romance to Research

Learn to fail or fail to learn

How to surrender amidst different and difficult situations – Hindi

Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – To improve relationships, decrease expectation and increase contribution

Whom are we giving our mind – Hindi

Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – The more despiritualized we are, the more desensitized we become

Understanding the five functions of intelligence

Use goodness to practice bhakti and correct our disconnect with reality

Ghosts, Spirits & Reincarnation – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible

Social Media Analysis 3 – Greater accessibility brings greater responsibility

Analyzing Social Media 2 – How social is social media?

Remembering Srila Prabhupada’s mood and sacrifice – Hindi

Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder – A Vedic Perspective

We can’t replace the mind, but we can re-place it

Analyzing various perceptions and conceptions of God

Reincarnation Research – Science, Pseudo-Science & Scientism

Reincarnation and the human quest for self-understanding

How to see God in this world

Scripture is a torch to see the world, a mirror to see the self and a window to see God

World Religions – From Bhakti Universal to Bhakti Confidential

Understanding who is the doer – Analyzing instincts, impulses and intelligence

Analyzing Social Media 1 – What it does for us and what it does to us

How to cultivate positive thinking in bhakti

To change vision, change intention by study and association

Krishna is our protector, even when he seems to be the afflictor

From Maya to Lila 2 – The desired may be an illusion, the desirer isn’t