InnerStrength

Prabhupada_’s message included and transcended the past, present and future – Disappearance day talk

How can we make bhakti accessible without diluting it? – Chaitanya Charan

Till what point should we tolerate?

How is the Bhagavad gita applicable for students?

When we see something wrong happening, should we humbly tolerate or stand up for justice?

How can we maintain our faith amid extreme difficulties?

How to disagree without disrespecting

Is a devotee’s suffering caused by Krishna, not karma?

When the soul is an individual, how can the same soul be manifest as Arjuna, Arjuniya gopi and Ramananda Raya?

​How to stay mentally healthy without succumbing to temptation?

Haridasa Thakura’s glories 1, Transcendence amid Intolerance, HARI acronym

Amid danger, how can we be watcful without being fearful?

When we are in anxiety searching for a new job, how can we maintain our spiritual practices?

How to forgive ourselves if we have made a serious mistake?

Bhagavad Gita Testing

How can we become determined like Hanuman?

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 2 – How to process adversities constructively

If a tragedy makes us forget everything good and makes us do bad things, what can we do?

How our strength and our faith are integrated in bhakti

Facing our fears – 4 principles – IDEA acronym

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

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

Staying steadfast amid confusing situations

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

Staying stable in unstable situations – Samarpan brahmachari class – Hindi

Self-acceptance – Comparing Vidura and Dhritarashtra

When spiritual growth requires faith, what can we do if doubts keep coming?

When Krishna doesn’t reciprocate, how can we avoid becoming cynical?

Overcoming discouragement 3 – Tap your power by opening a new TAB

Overcoming discouragement 2 – Empower yourself with gratitude

Overcoming discouragement 1 – Why we feel discouraged

Is it possible to be constantly on guard against temptation?

If someone is facing with a life-threatening disease, how can we explain to them that life has a higher purpose?

If someone has been betrayed repeatedly and has become cynical, how can they recover?

How temptation attacks visibly and invisibly – Lessons from Indrajita’s attack on Rama-Lakshmana

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

Our worst enemy is inside us – and so is our best friend – Analyze, Confront, Empower

Can we love ourselves? – HOPE acronym

Narasimha Chaturdashi – How Hiranyakashipu and Prahlada reside in our hearts

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

Hanuman Jayanti talk – Balance ability with maturity

If someone imposes something on us because of their ego or authority, what can we do?

How spiritual knowledge helps us see opportunity in adversity

From insecurity to inner security

How to stay spiritually strong amidst material difficulties

How can we persevere amidst distractions?

Gita 02.03 Identify behavior that is out of character with our character

Gita 02.02 Fight against lower emotions by fighting for higher emotions

Gita 02.01 The intensity of Arjuna’s emotion conveys the potency of Krishna’s solacing wisdom

If our bhakti practice is not removing our conditionings, how to avoid being discouraged?

Gita 01.30 When we face challenges bigger than ourselves, we look for omens to sense the intentions of forces bigger than ourselves

How to develop self-confidence

If the mind pushes us forcefully towards wrong, how can the mind be directable?

Gita 01.24 The position of maximum visibility is also the position of maxiumum vulnerability

Stop fighting battles that are already lost and start fighting the battle that is never lost – Vritrasura pastime analysis 3

Focus on potentials, not on problems

When life hurts 3 – When our good deeds causes problems – Prahlad pastime analysis

Finding security in insecurity

Security in Insecurity – Learning to flourish amidst change

If material deprivation makes us discouraged in devotion, what can we do?

How Gita wisdom helps us to deal with pain

Does fear of temptation indicate lack of devotion?

Overcoming discouragement in spiritual life

Role of self-confidence in bhakti

Growing through adversities

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

The power of gratitude 1 – How gratitude empowers us

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

See pain as a protector and a pointer

When life doesn’t seem fair three reflections for self-empowerment

How are some people emotionally tough even when they don’t practice bhakti?

How does bhakti shelter us amidst physical and emotional pain?

If a desire is irresistible what to do?

Are we the sum of our thoughts?

Is determination situated in the intelligence or in the mind?

Bring out the Hanuman within not the Ravana within

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 4 – How Hanuman provoked to deter Ravana from war

Tap the minda don’t be trapped by the mind 2 – Why mind control backfires

How can we use fear in Krishna’s service?

Winning with emotional intelliigence 1 – Personal competence through self management

How are some people such as skydivers more fearless than devotees?

If we fight against obstacles to serve Krishna in a particular way are we not dependent on Krishna?

How to control the mind with the intelligence 3 – Conversion

How to control the mind with the intelligence 1 – Conviction

When fear accelerates the imagination let faith be the brake

When fear comes likes a forceful river what to do?

If I feel fearful because others keep reminding me of my past mistakes what to do?

Why does Krishna test devotees?

Gita 16.13 Let the mind’s chariot take us where we want to go not where it wants to go

How can we avoid becoming discouraged on seeing that the modes are pulling us down?

Gita 16.11 We make our beliefs and our beliefs make us

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

Getting our emotions to work for, us, not against us

When neither distress nor taste motivates us consistently in bhakti, how can we become consistent?

Science, Spirituality and Self-empowerment

How can we detach ourselves from what others think about us?

Overcoming negative emotions 5 – Self-doubt

How is temperament more important than talent?

How can we deal with self-doubt?

Overcoming negative emotions 3 – Fear