SelfRealization

Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 16

The three level model of the self (Atma) according to Bhagavad-gita

Why spiritual evolution is of paramount importance in our lives – Chaitanya Charan

What is the meaning of life? – Chaitanya Charan

Inner transformation – from wild forest to agricultural field to Vrindavan | Bhagavatam 10.63.26

Appreciating our spiritual identity can anchor us amid the turbulence of contemporary society 02.16

By overemphasizing identity identity politics ends up obscuring identity Gita 02.13

Social isolation can be an opportunity to realize how we all are spiritually connected Gita 06.10

Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 7

God Takes Our Potential Seriously Do We Gita 18.61

When We Say No To God Its Mostly Because We Dont Know God Gita 07.19

To Perceive God We Dont Need Any Instrument We Only Need To Become His Instrument. Gita 11.33

Evil Has No Independent Power Yet It Is Incredibly Powerful. Gita 07.14

Does our breath make the sound so ‘ham – does that suggest we are God?

Atmarama verse’s importance in understanding the Absolute Truth Bhagavatam discussion with Caru Prabhu

Three understandings of surrender in the Bhagavad Gita

How to see our past in a Krishna conscious way 1 – Dhruva pastime analysis

Bhagavad Gita Testing

How to work with detachment & divine attachment – Bhagavad-Gita chapter 18 overview

Gita key verses course 27 Is the ultimate reality personal or impersonal – Gita 07.24

How can hearing Krishna’s rasa-lila with the gopis free us from lust?

Gita key verse course 20 What is meditation – What are spiritual experiences – Are they just hallucinations – Gita 06.22

Gita key verses course 19 What is yoga – Gita 06.11

Govardhan Puja – The rising of consciousness from anna-maya kosha to ananda-maya kosha

Gita lite 5 – Chps 12-15

If the finite can’t become the infinite, then what is liberation?

Gita’s key to happiness

Gita Lite 4 – Chps 9-11

How can we realize that we are souls?

Subduing Kaliya, subduing ego

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

Bhagavad Gita Chapters 15-18 Overview

Does the upside-down tree metaphor of Gita chapter 15 imply that there’s a separate tree for each individual soul?

How is Paramatma realization an evolution from Brahman realization?

Is Brahman the effulgence of the Absolute or is it the realization of our own eternality?

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

Gita applied Chapter 2 – The Gita separates the soul from the body and harmonizes both too

Gita 01.01 The Gita’s first word dharma conveys its essential, universal theme

Which path of yoga burns our karma to what extent?

Gita 01.37 Consciousness that is contaminated becomes conquered and covered

How the Bhagavad-gita’s first and last words reflect its empowering message

Understanding rasa-lila 3 – Arrogance keeps us locked in ourselves, both apara-dharma and para-dharma get us out of ourselves

Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual

Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection

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

Does spirituality come from without within or within without?

What the self seeks beyond the selfie

Why does Krishna test devotees?

Gita 16.16 Desires and fears cover our consciousness completely with illusion

Is bhakti philosophy pessimistic – Hindi?

Is satisfaction a brahminical virtue that is impractical for kshastriyas and other varnas?

The soul has knowledge that is presently covered – does this mean the soul knows exact scriptural verses?

When the mind becomes a mirror for the pure soul, does the soul perceive itself through the mind or without it too?

Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 1 – Misunderstanding ourselves

The driver controls the car, but the soul doesn’t directly control the body – can you explain?

From anartha nivrtti to artha pravrtti (04)

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

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

Bhagavatam study 66 01.13.24-29 Detachment emerges from education that changes our definition of success

The Bhagavad-gita is a yoga text for emotional empowerment

Demystifying Reincarnation 12 – Where is the programmer of the brain

Learning to not go up and down with life’s ups and downs – Gita 02.54-57

What is the best way to understand spirituality?

If someone likes to practice bhakti in solitary devotional activities will they advance more slowly?

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

Does humility mean feeling that we are fallen or does it mean not letting our ego come int the way of our service?

Gita daily appreciation

If the expansion of our consciousness stops with humanity will it reach Krishna?

Sadhu-sanga

How can we overcome the mind’s habit of contemplating sense objects – Hindi?

How much does our spiritual progress depend on our endeavor and how much on Krishna’s mercy – Hindi?

What role does our nature play in our taking shelter of Krishna?

Is intelligence covered by the mode of ignorance unintelligent?

Why does the Gita in chapter sixteen describe divine qualities in three full verses and demoniac qualities in just one verse?

How is simplicity as an austerity of the body in Gita 17.14 different from simplicity as an austerity of the mind in Gita 17.16?

Can the self be realized without realizing Krishna?

Does self-realization as understood in psychology – understanding our strengths and weaknesses – come automatically by bhakti practice?

Is the self located in the brain?

What is consciousness – why does science have difficulty in understanding it?

Why can’t scientists understand that our identity is spiritual?

Do we have free will?

Are people who have out-of-body experiences out of their mind?

Who are we – how can we understand the Gita’s answer from a scientific perspective?

When we perceive internally how can we differentiate between the mind and the soul?

How does the three-level model of the self reconcile science and spirituality?

Can people with an empty stomach practice bhakti – shouldn’t material needs be fulfilled first?

Can all karma be offered to Krishna or does ugra-karma have to be given up?

If bhakti is transcendental why is cultivating the mode of goodness important?

Our addictions originate not in uncontrollable desires but in unmet needs

Is it better to be overwhelmed by knowledge or by ignorance?

What is wrong with seeking the desirable and avoiding the undesirable?

Can you explain some section of scripture that we can’t easily understand?

The relief of turning away from the social mirror

Is it easier to go from aversion to renunciation than from attachment to renunciation?

How can our vertical and horizontal progress be harmonized?

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

What is the best way to understand the Bhagavad-gita?

We are never alone – we are always with our thoughts

Does the subtle body dissolve on purification?

If impulses can be controlled why can’t instincts be controlled?