bhakti

Flavors of divine friendship – Krishna’s relationship with Madhumangala, Sudama and Arjuna

If some other temple has better association, should we leave our temple and go there?

How can we draw practical lessons from scripture?

Teamwork in Ramayana 2

Teamwork in Ramayana 1

Krishna descends to show the path to happiness – Sudama pastime analysis

How Krishna made the two lives of the gopis one – and how he can make our two lives one too

Subduing Kaliya, subduing ego

Demons in Krishna lila 1 – Putana and the abuse of trust

How can we continue our spiritual practice when we get no taste?

When we see some devotee doing something wrong, what should we do?

How may we be cynical in our relationship with Krishna?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 62 – 10.11.19-29 The Vrajavasis move to protect Krishna and Gokula both

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 60 – 10.11.10-18 By giving to Krishna, even if we appear to be losers, we are still gainers

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 58 – 10.10.28-35 Though God has a body, he is not limited by or to his body

How do we realize that Krishna consciousness is like 5 million dollars and worldly things are like 5 dollars

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 57 – 10.10.23-27 Krishna honors the promise of his devotees

Understanding the six stages of anartha nivrutti or inner purification – 2

Understanding the six stages of anartha nivrutti or inner purification – 1

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 56 – 10.10.15-22 Narada curses to cure the cause of the misbehavior, not just to punish the misbehavior

4 principles for improving relationships – Daksha-Sati pastime analysis

Relationships flourish by sharing, not by dominating – Rama Lakshmana interactions

The story of Vishvamitra – part 2 – Overcoming anger and arrogance

How the laws of nature work and what role Krishna plays in them

The story of Vishvamitra – Obstacles on the spiritual path – Part 1

Understanding papa, punya and bhakti – How the good obstructs and supports the best

Do great devotees like Prahlad just focus on Krishna and not bother about problems at all?

Does bhakti become more and more complicated as we go into the details?

How can we share bhakti with Western audiences?

Hanuman in the cave – Persevering in bhakti through pleasure and trouble

How our outer world and our inner world deludes – and how bhakti delivers

Centering our life on Krishna – not on the intellectual, the psychological, the social or the cultural

Bhagavatam study – Pruthu Maharaja pastime analysis with HG Braja Bihari P

Why did Vidura not instruct Dhritrashtra to apologize to the Pandavas and to thereby become offense-free for practicing bhakti?

Which path of yoga burns our karma to what extent?

What is wrong with ancestors falling from higher planets to earth, as only from earth they can be liberated?

Does fear of temptation indicate lack of devotion?

Isn’t the rasa-lila too exalted to discuss in our regular classes?

If after some wrongdoing, we feel guilty and don’t feel like coming close to Krishna, what can we do?

Overcoming discouragement in spiritual life

Understanding Rasa-lila 7 – Gopi-gita 3

Understanding Rasa-lila 6 – Gopi-gita 2

Does Gita 6.28 refer to brahman or to bhakti to bhagavan? (Bhagavad-gita)

Understanding Rasa-lila 5 – Gopi-gita 1

Should we be attached to or affectionate to our spiritual master?

The search for happiness – how bhakti pacifies, purifies and satisfies us

From ritual to spiritual 1 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas

3 roles of intelligence in bhakti

How philosophy and experience harmonize in bhakti

Understanding how bhakti addresses anxiety

If we are too passionate to separate ourselves from our mind what to do?

Can self-help techniques be used in Krishna’s service?

Bhagavatam study 70 1.13.51-60 Determination directed towards renunciation brings spiritual elevation

Prabhupada life-story 15 – From spiritual shoppers to spiritual seekers

Shikshashtakam series transcriptions uploaded

Prabhupada life-story 14 – Incorporating ISKCON – The seven visionary purposes

Bhikshu Gita series transriptions uploaded.

If past mental impressions stay despite a long practice of bhakti, what to do?

Appreciating the purpose of worship of the devatas

How can we preach with sincere devotees who are desensitized to newcomers’ sensitivities?

Can the principles of bhakti solve the world’s practical problems?

How can we be grateful to Krishna in all situations?

Does complete faith in Krishna make us fearless?

Can Krishna be interchanged with any other god as our object of worship?

How can bhakti help us overcome our emotional fears?

When we ask Krishna to protect us are we treating him as our servant and are we advanced enough for him to intervene?

When we want to go to the spiritual world is our devotion motivated or unmotivated?

Sharpening our focus – going beyond piety to spirituality and the mental to the spiritual

Since something I built my life on collapsed I have started hating God – what can I do?

Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s presentation of devotion and of Ratha Yatra as a global festival of devotion

Love of God may just be a sentiment in some religions – how can we know it is for real?

Should devotees do sandhya as a daily sadhana as per their family tradition?

We talk a lot about practicing bhakti but not about practicing morality – why?

If someone chants a lot of rounds but doesn’t behave properly with their spouse how do we understand?

Do gopis know Krishna’s future pastimes?

I desire to start a new business – is this desire compatible with bhakti?

The jnanis concepton of the Absolute Truth lacks potency – please explain?

How can we have steady faith that Krishna cares for us?

Deal with desire not by indulgence or resistance but by intelligence and transcendence

How can we understand Prabhupada’s statement that there is no love in this world?

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

Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada: Appreciating the empowering breadth of your trust in Krishna

When problems trouble us and we can’t put our heart in our service what can we do?

How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

While studying in college how can we not identify ourselves as students?

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

Can bhakti change a person’s nature – Hindi?

How could Lava-Kusha defeat Rama who is the undefeatable Lord?

Is being emotionally invested in Krishna different from being emotionally invested in services to Krishna?

Announcement – Weekly Class

For preaching is it enough to simply hear classes of senior devotees and repeat?

Should we take food offered at gurudwara if it contains onion-garlic?

If someone follows a spiritual path without much knowledge of Krishna how will they advance spiritually?

Might a devotee be born in a Muslim family?

Why do you speak more on bhakti than on karma which the Gita stresses?

If dedicated senior devotees face great distress new devotees ask what is the point of practicing bhakti – how to answer?