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How to not feel dissatisfied because of our limitations

How to improve our intelligence for managing our emotions and actions – Hindi

Responsible Relationships 3 – Focus on your values, not on others’ behaviour

Dealing with faultfinding mentality – 3 reflections

How do we deal with fear of success because after success, failure will come?

From Stress Management to Self Management

3 principles for inner empowerment – Intelligence, Identification, Intention

Appreciating life’s ARC – Achievements, Relationships, Consciousness

How to develop self-confidence

From sentimentalism to sentiment 1 – FEEL acronym – Firmness and Education

FEAR acronym – How to find inner security

Gita 01.05 Our mode of description reflects our intention

Does becoming spiritually advanced means treating all situations and all people equally?

Are Krishna’s feelings like our feelings or different from our feelings?

The power of purpose

Gita 01.03 Context can convert compliment into criticism

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

The truth that warms the heart influences more than the truth that lights the way

Rise from being full of thoughts to being thoughtful – 4 reflections

Understanding “emotions”, “negative emotions” and “overcoming negative emotions”

Is our attempt to mitigate destiny also determined by destiny?

Is not trusting those who have cheated us a weakness of the mind?

Understanding, identifying and managing the mind

If good karma can’t change bad karma, how does atonement work?

Bhagavatam transforms intensity of distress into velocity in devotion

If Duryodhana was generous enough to give the arrows to Arjuna why was he so hateful?

Overcoming negative emotions 2 – Acceptance, Aspiration, Analysis, Action

Overcoming negative emotions 1 – Explanation, Experimentation, Evaluation, Elevation

Is our definition of happiness depriving us of happiness – Having, Doing, Being

How Gita wisdom addresses mental health problems

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

Bringing out the best within us

How can we process criticism without feeling hurt?

If we are criticized, should we neglect it or try to correct ourselves?

3 attitudes for becoming steady in life

No price is too high to possess ourselves – RECAP acronym

If our mental software is corrupted, should we try to counter it or rise above it?

Gita 18.52 Take shelter of renunciation to cultivate inner absorption

Gita 18.51 Use intelligence to counter the mind’s centrifugal force

Dhritarashtra character analysis 2 – Do we need to lose everything before we lose our attachments?

Dhritarashtra character analysis 1 – Attachment makes us stone-hearted

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

Gita 18.50 The Gita’s purpose is not to describe spiritual paths but to analyze them for making an informed choice

Gita 18.49 Our spiritual evolution goes through multiple levels of perfection from engagement through disengagement to devotion

How to become peaceful and purposeful

SELF acronym – The self that is missing in the selfie

Gita 18.47 Acknowledging our present diversity is essential for realizing our spiritual commanality

Our emotional wounds can’t be healed by technology – we need spiritualty

Does becoming fully conscious make it difficult to connect with others who are not that conscious?

Committing is not limiting – it is elevating

From ritual to spiritual 3 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – The brahmanis selfless devotion

Dhruva pastime analysis 3 – DHRUV acronym – Realization and reconciliation result from devotion

Increasing willpower – by increasing the distance between us and our feelings, and our feeling and our actions

From ritual to spiritual 2 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – Understanding the brahmans

Dhruva pastime analysis 1 – Everyone faces distress, the fortunate find the right direction – DHRUV acronym

PAST acronym – 4 reflections to go past your past

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 18 – 10.3.32-38 How past life connections make sense of present-life situations

Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature

QA at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, New Zealand

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 17 – 10.3.26-31 Devaki acknowledges Krishna as the provider of the supreme safety and strives for his safety

Why was Ekalavya treated so unfairly?

How can renunciates sublimate the need for sexual pleasure?

Gita 18.38 The pleasure of titillation leads to the agony of tribulation

To think or not to think – 4 reflections for a happy mind

3 roles of intelligence in bhakti

Gita 18.37 Spiritual knowledge gives us the purpose to persevere through the poison till the nectar

Don’t let your expectations of life come in the way of life

Gita 18.36 Some pleasures are the start of sorrow – and some the end of sorrow

Gita 18.35 To hold on to thought-patterns that hurt us is to abuse our determination

Selfie – Self = IE – Two things that technology provides and two things that spirituality provides

Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion

Gita 18.33 What intelligence discerns, that determination sustains

When people are so confused that they can’t discern their own material inclinations, how can we engage them in bhakti?

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

How can we distance ourselves from jealousy?

How do we tap our strengths and get rid of our weaknesses?

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

Managing the voice inside the head 2 – Identification Direction Transformation

How can unspiritual people face life’s problems positively?

Seek not just to get better things seek to get better thoughts

Self-pity humility and maturity explained – Bhagavad-gita 18.35

If some people are more emotional than others can they still manage their emotions?

To blame is to be lame – stop seeking scapegoats

How understanding destiny empowers

If meeting our expectations makes us over-confident what can we do?

Does repeated practice improve our instincts?

Changing ourselves by changing our situation standpoint and self-identification

Ambition, Satisfaction & Devotion 1 – Outside-in Ambition vs Inside-out Ambition

Managing the mind 3 – Understanding inclination, infatuation and intention

Managing the mind 2 – Understanding how the mind affects our free will

When things don’t make sense, look for a deeper sense

Managing the mind 1 – The many meanings of the word ‘mind’ and their correlation with the Gita’s understanding

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

From Fear to Surrender 4 – FEAR acronym – 4 steps for overcoming fear

QA session at ISKCON Bahrain

From Fear to Surrender 3 – FEAR acronym for analyzing fear 2 – Attachment and Redirection

From Fear to Surrender 2 – FEAR acronym for analyzing fear part 1 – Faith and Education

From Fear to Surrender 1 – Understanding how our fears originate

The most dangerous jumping is jumping to conclusions

How is the Gita relevant today – Marathi