krishna consciousness

How can we overcome inconsistency in deity worship caused by our wavering feelings?

If our material life takes us temporarily away from our spiritual life how can we later regain our spiritual enthusiasm?

If our material activities interfere with our spiritual life how can we see those activities as spiritual?

If our family members don’t support our bhakti, what should we do?

Was the Mahabharata war predestined?

How can we spiritualize our work without disturbing our colleagues?

How did Krishna as Shanti-duta use sama dama bheda and danda?

If bhakti practice makes us less emotional is that good?

How does repetition in bhakti lead to attraction when normally repetition leads to satiation?

Is our affection for Krishna to be cultivated as between wife-husband or spontaneous as between child-parent?

How can we know that deceased devotees go back to godhead?

Redirecting our desires and our speech towards Krishna

Do we make our destiny or are we made by our destiny?

Lord Chaitanya demonstrates that the heart is higher than the head

Relishing Shikshashtakam – Appreciating how meditation on the holy name blossoms to meditation on Krishna

Shouldn’t bhakti be a natural evolution in our love not an imposition based on being told whom to love?

Is obsession with spiritual things ok?

What is the difference between attachment and obsession?

How to balance attachment and detachment in daily life?

How can we focus on our spiritual advancement without becoming selfish?

If we can’t stop overeating how can we control ourselves?

Balancing intensity and sensitivity in bhakti – Learning from HH Radhanath Maharaj’s example

When we become responsible in our material life our employers may exploit us – how to avoid?

Is starting spiritual life because of frustration undesirable?

Accepting that we are beyond the brain, how can we know whether we are the mind or the soul?

How can we make our wandering consciousness more connected to the body?

Is the brain the generator of emotions or the responder to emotions?

Can we get to higher consciousness only through near-death experiences or by other means?

Are the mind and the brain interchangeable?

As devotee-students do we have to lead two lives?

How much of traditional culture needs to be replicated to practice bhakti today?

When the Gita Mahatmaya talks about Gita recitation countering various sinful reactions is that karma kanda or is it bhakti?

QA session with Dallas congregation

QA session with Dallas youth

Devotion as sentiment commitment and attainment

When a devotee does bhakti activities for someone else what actually happens?

If it doesn’t work get out – is such a utilitarian attitude in bhakti towards things like marriage justifiable?

When we face mental health issues how can we deal with them spiritually and what can we learn from it?

Be not fretful or fearful – be faithful

How to deal with indulgences that we aren’t able to give up?

Will those with low self-esteem mistake tolerating injustice to be humility?

How to decide between tolerating a situation or changing it?

Why do we promote our suffering as if it is the worst?

For a pure devotee is the subtle body dissolved or does it still remain?

How can we know what is a principle and what a detail?

How can the tension between rigidity and fluidity be resolved in a living tradition?

Understanding attachment detachment commitment 3 – Devotion as emotion disposition and cultivation

How can we appreciate good devotees who are offensive about some issues?

If we are more attached to Krishna and less attached to family responsibilities does that incur bad karma?

If our chanting is simply mechanical will that please Krishna?

How can we cultivate more of a family atmosphere in our movement?

Can the desire for subtle sex – pride adoration distinction – be dovetailed in bhakti?

Won’t neglecting our attachments and focusing on bhakti lead to rationalizing our wrong actions?

To get stimulated out of sleep can I visit Facebook first thing after waking up?

If we are following the principles to be initiated but have to wait for long in queue does Krishna see us as initiated or uninitiated?

If senior devotees behave unethically how can we maintain our inspiration?

Understanding attachment detachment commitment 2 – Detachment is not hardheartedness – it is levelheadedness

How to deal with the emotions and inclinations that take us away from Krishna?

If we have a vision to do something but the authorities are not supportive what to do?

Shouldn’t we expect to grow to the higher stages of bhakti?

Shouldn’t we take up challenging services to become humble & dependent on Krishna?

How can we find the service by which we can best contribute?

Why were the Pandavas treated so badly by their elders – in similar circumstances are we meant to be submissive?

Suppose a talented dedicated devotee encounters failure repeatedly – how to respond?

How can we counter the mind’s tendency to see the negative even in devotee association?

Understanding attachment detachment commitment 1 – Frustration is not renunciation

Nityananda Trayodashi – How Nityananda Prabhu glorifies Lord Chaitanya – Hindi

When we are not our bodies, why do devotee marriage boards want to know the candidate’s caste – Hindi?

How can we overcome the unhappiness felt on seeing others go away from bhakti – Hindi?

Why did Dhritarashtra stay silent when Duryodhana insulted Vidura (Hindi)?

I was initiated earlier by a priest – how do I see it when seeking initation from a Vaishnava guru?

Does presenting scripture as meant for moral instruction lead to the rejection of scripture’s transcendental teachings?

The life of devotional dynamism

Prabhupada’s legacy lives on

​How did Prabhupada provide sadhana-bhakti and raganuga bhakti together?