Video Lectures

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?

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 4 – How Krishna appears in Vrindavan

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 3 – How Krishna appears in Mathura

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 2 – How Krishna freed the princesses from Naraka

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 1 – How Krishna freed the kings from Jarasandha and how Krishna frees us

Science, Spirituality and Wellness – Existence, Emotions and Ethics

Appreciating the divine Krishna-Balarama relationship

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?

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

Karna character analysis – Are we doomed by destiny or by our own decisions?

Ashwatthama character analysis – Just because we are empowered doesn’t mean that we are right

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

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

How to become peaceful and purposeful

What love is and what love isn’t

SELF acronym – The self that is missing in the selfie

Our emotional wounds can’t be healed by technology – we need spiritualty

The world of science is not the world we live in

Committing is not limiting – it is elevating

From ritual to spiritual 3 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – The brahmanis selfless devotion

Dhruva pastime analysis 3 – DHRUV acronym – Realization and reconciliation result from devotion

Increasing willpower – by increasing the distance between us and our feelings, and our feeling and our actions

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 2 – QA

Dhruva pastime analysis 1 – Everyone faces distress, the fortunate find the right direction – DHRUV acronym

PAST acronym – 4 reflections to go past your past

To think or not to think – 4 reflections for a happy mind

3 ways to look for blessings amidst problems

3 roles of intelligence in bhakti

How Krishna can be seen – and how he can’t be seen

Don’t let your expectations of life come in the way of life

Selfie – Self = IE – Two things that technology provides and two things that spirituality provides

Make a life, not just a living – LIFE acronym

Effective Leadership of spiritual communities

Debunking the mind’s fake news – 4 points

Worry not whether your path is genuine – worry whether you are genuine

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – QA

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – 3. Appreciate 4. Act

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – 2. Ascertain

Maturity in relationships – Four principles – 1. Accept

Three factors that determine what we see – Knowledge, Desire, Commitment

Are some sections of the scriptures outdated? – Understanding the compassionate intent of the Vedas 2

Understanding the compassionate intent of the Vedas 1 – Are the Vedas agnostic?

Krishna’s presence is more precious than his presents

How devotion makes the insurmountable ocean of material desires insignificant

Movie metaphor to understand how we are entangled and how bhakti liberates us

Rationally choosing our life’s purpose and process

Bring out the best within, not the beast within – Hindi

Analyzing Karna – Going beyond black and white perspectives in understanding scripture + QA

Three levels of purification – reaction, action and inclination – Hindi

How to increase our faith – Hindi

We can’t delete our memories, but we can choose what we remember

Daksha-Shiva conflict 3 – How our mind makes us sectarian – Hindi