Video Lectures

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

4 reflections for overcoming fear of failure

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

How understanding destiny empowers

Cultivating Cooperation in Krishna consciousness

Why we are sometimes wise and sometimes otherwise

Net Surfing or Net Suffering?

QA session at Columbus 2018 Spring

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 4 – How Hanuman provoked to deter Ravana from war

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

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 1 – When we hide ourselves from the Lord he hides himself from us

Ramayana series 3 – Rama-Lakshmana – Does destiny control everything?

Ramayana series2 – Vali-Sugriva – Don’t judge without understanding

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

Winning with emotional intelliigence 1 – Personal competence through self management

Understanding how bhakti addresses anxiety

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

Appreciating Radhanath Maharaj’s contributions in the light of ISKCON history

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 4 – The destination is also our companion

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 3 – Our attitude is our steering wheel

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 2 – What we are driving matters, but where we are driving matters more

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 1 – The mind is the passenger, don’t let it become the driver

Demystifying Reincarnation 20 – The Freedoms of the Reincarnation Worldview

Demystifying Reincarnation 19 – Reincarnation reveals justice amidst injustice

Demystifying Reincarnation 18 – Common Questions about Reincarnation

Demystifying Reincarnation 17 – The Mechanism of Reincarnation

Demystifying Reincarnation 16 – The soul’s defining characteristics and levels of consciousness

Demystifying Reincarnation 15 – The Gita’s model of the self and its explanatory potential

Demystifying Reincarnation 14 – Reincarnation in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism

Demystifying Reincarnation 13 – Reincarnation accepted across history and geography

Demystifying Reincarnation 12 – Where is the programmer of the brain

Learning to not go up and down with life’s ups and downs – Gita 02.54-57

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

Kusum Sarovar meditation – Cherishing the culture rich with spiritual stimuli

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

Does God laugh at our plans?

Acknowledging and regulating our passions – Wisdom on Wisdom 8

The relief of turning away from the social mirror

The Abnormal Normal

Understanding what is mental and what is spiritual

Who is our worst enemy?

Demystifying Reincarnation 11 – Consciousness – Intuitions that point beyond the brain

Demystifying Reincarnation 10 – Near Death Experiences – Conscious when unconscious?

Demystifying Reincarnation 9 – Near Death Experiences – Partial consciousness?

Demystifying Reincarnation 8 – Near Death Experiences – Hallucinations or Guesses?

Demystifying Reincarnation 7 – Past life memories – Fraud by investigators?

Demystifying Reincarnation 6 – Past-life memories – Frauds by parents?

Demystifying Reincarnation 5 – Astonishing birth marks and birth defects

Demystifying Reincarnation 4 – Past life memories – Guesses or Hyperboles?

Demystifying Reincarnation 3 – Past life memories – Any normal explanation?

Demystifying Reincarnation 2 – Hypnotically induced past life memories and Xenoglossy

Demystifying Reincarnation 1 – Incredible delusion or credible vision?

World Religions 3 – Islam – Beyond the politically correct and the politically incorrect to the philosophically correct

World Religions 2 – Christianity – Beyond authoritarian and humanitarian religion to transcendence

World Religions 1 – Appreciating religious diversity amidst spiritual universality

Devotion, renunciation and aversion are differentiated by the direction of emotion

To change vision, change intention by study and association

SIMHA acronym – Glories of Prahlada and Narasimha

Channeling our dissatisfaction constructively

IDEA acronym – The Bhagavad-gita in essence

Strengthen relationships by tolerating others’ indiscretions

Let life give new eyes to see old relationships – Wisdom on Wisdom 7

​Tragic Hero – Life Lessons from Karna – Princeton University

Making our outreach relevant

Self-determination and denial of destiny characterize modernity

Make your own destiny 3

​Make your own destiny 2

Make your own destiny 1

​Don’t be attached to being detached

Value Education and Spirituality 35 – Ramayana 17 – Hanuman 2 – Never lose heart

Value Education 34 – Ramayana 16 – Hanuman 1 – Overcome distractions by determination

Value Education 33 – Ramayana 15 – Jambavan – Help bring the best out of others

Value Education 32 – Ramayana 14 – Angada – Overcome dissension by focus on common

Value Education 31 – Ramayana 13 – Sugriva – Comforts breed ingratitude