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Cow vigilantism: Fanaticism even for a good cause blinds people to the goodness of the cause 

Frustration and absorption in technological no man’s land 

Visit to Govardhan Ecovillage

Visit to Govardhan Eco Village

Avatar – Digital, Christian, monistic and bhakti conceptions

“Make me dance” – Meditation on Srila Prabhupada’s prayer on beholding the American coastline

Near death experiences on the road (Part 02) (Reflections on 2016 Australia-Singapore trip)

Near death experiences on the road (Part 01) (Reflections on 2016 Australia-Singapore trip)

The dual dimensions of artha (Guest Column in Financial Chronicle)

God is not a means to an end – he is himself the highest end 

A giant desire tree blesses ISKCON desire tree

As we desire, so we see (Subhashita commentary 2)

Sugriva: Comfort – Material and Transcendental

Did Draupadi love Karna?

See criticism with a critical eye

Draupadi – dishonored yet honorable

Why did Dasharatha not follow Ram into his 14 year exile?

Unity – Within and Without (Ramayana Reflection 7)

Meditating on the Damodarashtakam: The supreme controller is controlled – and still remains in control (Part 2 – Verses 5 to 8)

Meditating on the Damodarashtakam: The supreme controller is controlled – and still remains in control (Part 1 – Verses 1 to 4)

The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 3

The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 2

The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 1

Intention in tension? (Ramayana Reflections 6)

“Can you keep a secret?”

Elevating our Emotions (Ramayana Reflections 5)

Offering to Srila Prabhupada – Meditating on your life for dedicating my life

Appreciating Sankirtan Prabhu’s frontline literary outreach

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 3

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 2

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 1

Jaladuta 50th anniversary special – New book: “Prabhupada: The moments that made the movement”

Lust brings out our lower side; love, our higher side

A succession conflict caused by selflessness (Ramayana Reflections 4)

Artificial Life? Why Not Real Life?

Gita Metaphors 2 – Wind 1 – A Boat Amidst a Storm

Bhagavad Gita Metaphors 1 – Introduction

Fatalism or pragmatism? (Ramayana reflections 3)

Accepted restriction facilitates elevation – resented restriction doesn’t

Prabhupada’s legacy lives on

A spiritual wonder down under (Reflections on my outreach tour to Melbourne)

Devastation by Disinformation (Ramayana Reflections 2)

Near Death Experiences or Near Eternity Experiences?

Meaningless material existence becomes meaningful through the human form (Churning the Bhagavatam 1)

Judging without understanding – The recipe for ruining relationships (Ramayana Reflections 1)

Nāmarāmāyaṇam (The Ramayana conveyed in 108 names)

If God created everything, who created God?

Gaur Purnima Special – Lord Chaitanya makes the abominable age worshipable

ISKCON’s Comeback Emperor: His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja

Warmer hearts can cool warming planet

Are there two gods: the god who created man and the god whom man created? (PK QA 6)

Is it cowardice to go to God out of fear? (PK QA 5)

Do people who are afraid go to temples? (PK QA 4)

Why do religious teachers stereotype people as when they pronounce all Pakistanis as cheaters? (PK QA 3)

Can we reject as wrong numbers the rituals that don’t make sense? (PK QA 2)

Are rituals wrong numbers to God? (PK QA 1)

Don’t just sharpen the axe – reform the axe-holder

Don’t mistake the assumption to be the conclusion

Devotion is the culmination of our aspiration for liberation

Why does the Bhagavad-gita immediately after rejecting bodily identity address Arjuna with names which reinforce that very identity?

Why do we sometimes act irrationally, doing things that we would normally never do?

Don’t let pseudo-hunger masquerade as hunger

The weapon for waging the world’s most formidable spiritual war (Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Offering 2014)

People pray to God; the Vrajavasis pray for God (Meditation on Nandotsava)

After the laughter? (Reflections on Robin Williams’ suicide)

How is the holy name different from ordinary sound?

Scientism fosters not respect for science, but disrespect for humanity

Scientism makes it impossible for us to be scientific

Why did Bhima kill Duryodhana unfairly by hitting him below the waist during their final battle in the Mahabharata war?

Ratha-Yatra – When the Lord comes out, let’s invite him in

Autobiographical Writing in Vaishnavism

Is ISKCON an American organization that sends temple donations from India to America?

Maturity means to not let our emotionality interfere with our responsibility

Non-vegetarians healthier than vegetarians?

Modi Swearing-in Ceremony – The Substance underlying the Form

Demonizing the other doesn’t remove the demons hither

Scientism is self-contradictory

Revelation is the complement, not the replacement, of reason (Countering Scientism 1)

Was Arjuna’s killing Karna when he was chariot-less not unfair, being against the kshatriya codes?

Voting in elections – Clarification in response to HH Bhakti Vikas Maharaj

ISKCON appreciations

To grow individually and socially, look for the weakness in yourself and the goodness in others

For him, Back to Godhead was both the means and the end

Why is the Bhagavad-gita so pessimistic? (expanded with four-point analysis)

The Son of the Sun – part 4

What is the significance of lighting a bonfire on the festival of Holi?

The Son of the Sun – Part 3

The Son of the Sun – Part 2

Special lecture on Valentine’s Day

Lord Nityananda’s mercy: The magnitude, the motivation and the magic

The Son of the Sun – Part 1

The Ultimate Dance

Sexual Energy on the Riot (A spiritual perspective on the Tejpal scandal)

Conversion to What: Intolerance or Transcendence?

The nonviolent violence of the Gita

Fear not that life may end; fear that life may never begin

See within to seek without; seek without to see within

The Glory of Gita wisdom (Reflections on the second anniversary of Gita-daily)

Is the world a playground or a battleground?

Do women have the right to dress however they like? Is modest dressing old-fashioned?