Video Lectures

Awareness, Aspiration, Action – From standard of living to standard of loving

Daksha-Shiva conflict 2 – The proud consider others proud – Hindi

Parikshit M – Dharma discussion – Don’t blame 3 – How to deal with troubling people – Hindi

Parikshit M – Dharma discussion – Don’t blame 2 – If why has no answer focus on how – Hindi

Parikshit M – Dharma discussion – Don’t blame 1 – See beyond the immediate cause – Hindi

Role of determination and association in devotion – Hindi

Daksha-Shiva conflict 1 – How misconceptions give rise to conflicts – Hindi

Snana-Yatra Meditation – Understanding how God can fall sick – Hindi

Be creative in fixing the mind on Krishna – Hindi

We may be hurt but we don’t have to stay hurt

Can ambition and devotion go together 2 – How to channel ambition in devotion

Redirection of consciousness is Krishna’s miracle – Bali Maharaj pastime reflection

Seeing Krishna’s mercy amidst loss – Krishna’s instructions after Govardhana lila

Renunciation of false ego – Indra’s Prayers after Govardhana lila

How the mind troubles us – and how to protect ourselves – Hindi

Keep the mind on the spiritual track to keep it out of trouble

Why we need spirituaity in the age of technology

Can ambition and devotion go together 1 – How happiness-distress are fixed and how they aren’t

Analyzing different religions to find life’s purpose 2 – The problem of evil original sin and karma

Analyzing different religions to find life’s purpose 1 – Seeking a purpose bigger than our problems

Is seeing believing 3 – Resolving science-spirituality conflicts

Is seeing believing 2 – What the map of science misses

Is seeing believing 1 – Even science explains the visible with the invisible

Understanding tradition and its conformers, deformers reformers – and presenters

The power of gratitude 2 – How to cultivate gratitude

The power of gratitude 1 – How gratitude empowers us

Varnashrama in bhakti – Focus on replicating the take-off not recreating the take-off point

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 4 – Finding our spiritual stimuil

QA session in London

Nourishing our lives with the Bhagavad-gita

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 3 – Avoid attachment to renunciation

Strive first for devotion then for pure devotion

Sensitivity in relationships 3 – Dealing with insensitive people

How to get realizations

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 2 – Regulate attachment even to things that help in devotion

Sensitivity in relationships 2 – From judgment to encouragement

Sensitivity in relationships 1 – Why we need to be sensitive and why we aren’t

Healthy self-understanding 5 – Concluding QA session

Healthy self-understanding 4 – Reasons to be kind to ourselves

Healthy self-understanding 2 – How the mind can hurt the self

Balancing forgiveness and justice 2 – What forgiveness isn’t and what it is

Balancing forgiveness and justice 1 – Why deterrence is essential

How to overcome dissatisfaction

Seek not moments of devotion – seek momentum in devotion

How to effectively study and apply the Gita

Free will and God’s will 3 – How God helps us free our free will

Free will and God’s will 2 – Understanding the trigger cause and target of our weaknesses

QA session in London 2018

How reincarnation makes sense of our existence and that of animals too

Seeker within achiever without

Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows -2

Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows -1

Even if we have problems we don’t have to be problems

How science and spirituality go together

How science points to spirituality

Mother’s day Meditation – Conception Commercialization Spiritualization

What is spirituality and why we need it

What science can provide – and what it can’t

Bhagavad-gita and Modern Psychology 1 – Is there anything beyond emotionality and rationality?

Why psychological distress amidst technological progress – 3 reasons

See pain as a protector and a pointer

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

Understanding how Narasimhadeva delivers both Prahlada and Hiranyakashipu

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

Fulfilling our need for progress by becoming committed in bhakti

How the mind becomes unclear and how to clear it

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

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