Video Lectures

Gita key verses course 21 Why are relationships so difficult – how can we improve them – Gita 06.32

Remembrance and guidance – the essence of devotion

The corona crisis What nature is telling us about human nature

Gita key verse course 20 What is meditation – What are spiritual experiences – Are they just hallucinations – Gita 06.22

Gita key verses course 19 What is yoga – Gita 06.11

Gita key verses course18 What is mind – What is mindfulness – Gita 06.05

Gita key verses course 17 Why are religious people so sectarian – Is it better to be spiritual but not religious – Gita 05.18

Naam Ramayana 4 – Rama charms the hearts of everyone

Naam Ramayana 3 – Rama exhibits his miraculous abilities

Understanding Prahlada’s provocative response to Hiranyakashipu’s angry question

How God protects – Lessons from Prahlada-Narasimha pastime

Gita key verses course 16 If God is good why does he allow evil to exist? – Gita 05.15

Gita key verses course 15 Do I need guru – How can I find my guru – Gita 04.34

Gita key verses course 13 Why are there so many religious paths – Do all paths lead to the same goal – Gita 04.11

Gita key verses course 12 Who is God – Does he care – Why should I care – Gita 04.08

Gita key verses course 11 What is revelation – Is it for real – Gita 04.01-02

Naam Ramayana 2 – The Lord brings joy to everyone

Gita key verses course 10 Do I have inner demons – How can I slay them – Gita 03.36

Gita key verses course 9 What is sacrifice – Is it a ritual – Are rituals needed – Gita 03.09

Gita key verses course 8 What is happiness – Why is it so elusive – Gita 02.55

Rama Navmi class – Glory Revealed Amid Adversity

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 3

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 2

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 1

Gita key verses course 7 Can I be detached without becoming irresponsible – Gita 02.47

How to see the current Corona Crisis from a spiritual perspective

Gita key verses course 6 Do animals have souls – Are humans just evolved animals – Gita 02.30

Where is Gods karuna in todays Corona

How to surrender to Krishna amid the corona virus crisis

Gita key verses course 3 What is death – what is reincarnation – do we have soul mates – Gita 02.22

Gita key verses course 2 Who am I – Is there any scientific evidence for the existence of the soul – Gita 02.13

From Entangled to Enlightened – Lessons from Yayati story

Uddhava’s significance in the tenth canto, in the Bhagavatam and in our life

How the Gita expresses Krishna’s love by directing us to balance this world and the next world

How to stop overthinking -Attribute, Analyze, Anchor, Act

Srila Prabhupada – The transcendentalist who embodied the best of traditionalist, existentialist and utopianist

Damodarashtakam 4 – Seeing God as the supreme desirable, not just as the source of all desirables

Diwali Meditation – The light that illumines and the light that doesn’t

Govardhan Puja – The rising of consciousness from anna-maya kosha to ananda-maya kosha

Gita lite 5 – Chps 12-15

A waste-free mind for a waste-free world

How to think effectively – ACTS acronym

When people betray us – Ramayana wisdom

The complex relationship between appearance and substance in spiritual life

Gita insights for managing the mind – Chapter Ten Analysis

Damodarashtakam Texts 5-8 – Hindi

Damodarashtakam Texts 1-4 – Hindi

How to become resilient

The Gita shares not just light but also warmth

Why the self is missing in the selfie

Damodarashtakam 3 – The unique loveliness of the Krishna conception of God

Gita’s key to happiness

Damodarashtakam 2 How Krishna is the God of love who fulfills our longing for love

Gita Lite 4 – Chps 9-11

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 3 – How to see and seek God amid adversities

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 2 – How to process adversities constructively

How the infinite manifests in the finite – Various religious conceptions

Rise above the ego’s need to be right by focusing on devotional purpose

Sharad Purnima Significance

Change your picture of the world and of God from low resolution to high resolution

How devotion transcends the caste system and other institutional hierarchies

Damodarashtam 1 – The vision of the divine from the generic to the stunningly specific

How our strength and our faith are integrated in bhakti

How to stop overthinking – Attribute, Analyze, Anchor, Act

Mahabharata controversies – how life was unfair to both Karna and Arjuna

A grateful heart is a powerful heart Prabhupada’s Jaladuta prayer

The significance of Rama Vijayotsav – How goodness punishes wickedness and forgives weakness

How God helps those who help themselves – Bhakti Basics explained

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 5 – Why is the embryo’s prayer not answered

How character is deformed and reformed – Ramayana wisdom

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 4 – What the embryo’s desire to stay in the womb implies

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 3 – What is a human soul

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 2 – How can the embryo know God

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 1 – How can the embryo with ana undeveloped brain speak prayers?

How to understand Krishna’s blessings – Mukunda Mala Stotra 1 – BULL acronym

How to use our free will properly – QA with children

How hearing the Bhagavad-gita raised Sanjay’s standard of longing

How devotion is like a good habit – and how it is more than a good habit

Facing our fears – 4 principles – IDEA acronym

Six limbs of surrender 4 – Offering ourselves by accepting ourselves

Six limbs of surrender 3 – Understanding how God protects

Six limbs of surrender 2 – Accept the favorable, avoid the unfavorable

Six limbs of surrender 1 – The Medical Metaphor

Presenting scripture for dummies

How to decide what to do

Comparing exiles in Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavatam – How to face distress

How Jiva Goswami and Bhaktivinoda Thakura expertly expanded the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition

3 Metaphors for Effective Parenting

Gita 6.37-45 – How our spirituality continues beyond our present life

Vamana pastime analysis 2 – When the branch under us break, seek Krishna’s help to spread your wings

The Bhagavatam’s glory revealed in its concluding verse – PURE acronym

Mandodari’s lament 1 – How to be empowered in disempowering situations – Hindi

Mandodari’s lament 2 – How can we transform ourselves – Hindi

Staying steadfast amid confusing situations

Prithu M’s humility – Be conscious of others’ position and disposition

Vamana pastime analysis 1 – When good people do good things at a heavy cost

3 ways to engage our desires with Krishna 2 – Desiring Krishna and desiring for Krishna

3 ways to engage our desires with Krishna 1 – Desiring from Krishna

Is the Bhagavad-gita relevant in the age of science – MAIL acronym

Why do bad things happen to good people – QA