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Facing our fears – 4 principles – IDEA acronym

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

If we learn to depend on mentors, but then they aren’t available when needed, what can we do?

Vamana pastime analysis 2 – When the branch under us break, seek Krishna’s help to spread your wings

Mandodari’s lament 2 – How can we transform ourselves – Hindi

What can we do when we see terrible things happening in the world?

When our material responsibilities impede our spiritual growth, what can we do?

From the mind to the heart – Practicing bhakti with our mind and without it too

How to see old truths with new eyes

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

Why does God give some people an evil mind?

Negative and positive thinking in spiritual life

Subduing Kaliya, subduing ego

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

Understanding human nature 1 – Two levels of innateness

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

How Balarama’s causeless mercy on Duryodhana was still less for Duryodhana

Self-acceptance – Comparing Vidura and Dhritarashtra

When our natural varna can’t be changed, does taking brahmana diksha makes us all brahmanas?

Develop the vision that nurtures devotion

Why does Indra commit so many mistakes?

When we fail in life, how can we immediately understand that past karma is at work?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 79 – 10.14.7-12 – Practicing devotion gratefully while accepting responsibility for our difficulties opens the door to liberation

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

Bridging the gap between what we are and what we want to be

Detachment doesn’t make us hard-hearted, attachment does – Learning from Kaikeyi

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

Overcoming discouragement 2 – Empower yourself with gratitude

Go beyond comfortable happiness

Going back to godhead 1 – Three ways to cultivate spiritual desire – RAP acronym

Just as our strengths are manifestations for a higher being, are our weaknesses manifestations of some being?

Is it possible to be constantly on guard against temptation?

Is frustration a wrong motive for starting spiritual life?

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

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

How to live at the junction of order and chaos – Learning from Dasharatha’s destiny

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 59 – 10.10.36-43 The Lord grants not just physical mobility but also spiritual mobility

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

7 purposes of ISKCON explained

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

Are our present sufferings because of our past karma?

How do we balance not repressing ourselves and avoiding things unfavorable to Krishna consciousness

Understanding our outer world, our inner world and how to direct them

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

Shouldn’t the desire for sense gratification go down in those who are advancing in Krishna consciousness?

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

How to immigrate to the spiritual world – Hindi

While struggling with conditionings how can we avoid the extremes of becoming hopeless and becoming shameless?

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

How to keep our spiritual life fresh

4 principles to get past our past – PAST – Positivity, Association, Spirituality and Time

If someone gets a special service that we long for, how can we see that devotionally?

The living bhakti tradition – a museum or a garden?

Gita 01.39 Our sense of honor coming from our lineage can raise us but can also stop us from rising to the highest

Ramayana series 2 – Ravana’s recklessness – Attachment makes us overvalue things

What is the difference between consciousness, conscience and guilt?

How to transform our heart 2 – Vritrasura’s dramatic transformation

How to transform our heart 1 – Vritrasura’s dramatic transformation

By helping others we may feel a sense of self-worth, but won’t it increase our ego too?

Finding security in insecurity

We need to forgive ourselves to give ourselves to Krishna

Security in Insecurity – Learning to flourish amidst change

How Gita wisdom helps us to deal with pain

Can saying that Krishna sees inside-out lead to devotees refusing to be accountable to other devotees?

Does fear of temptation indicate lack of devotion?

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

If bhakti practice doesn’t make us joyful, what can we do?

Overcoming discouragement in spiritual life

Is remembering Krishna the highest service and all other services are for those who can’t remember him constantly?

The home as the decentralized transmitter of devotional culture

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 54 – 10.10.1-9 The curse that takes us away from the things that take us away from Krishna is mercy

The time to understand time is now

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 53 – 10.9.18-23 The kingdom of God is the kingdom of love

Role of self-confidence in bhakti

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

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 42 – 10.8.1-6 The saintly come to the worldly to expand the consciousness of the wordly

What is the difference between attachment and affection?

Share the spiritual treasure with the world – SHARE acronym

If we resentful towards some other devotee, how can we overcome the resentment?

From exploration to realization to absorption – our devotional journey

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – PURE acronym – 2

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – 1

Gita 18.56 The bhakti university takes seekers from any level to the summit of spiritual perfection

Devotion is not just emotion – it is conscious continuous cultivation

How the pre-modern, modern and post-modern ages respectively stressed the spiritual, physical and mental

How practical is it to reach enlightenment in today’s fast-paced world?

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – If we don’t want help, even God can’t help

Gita 18.48 See beyond the unpalatable to the essential to pursue the transcendental

Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine’s gifts to the divine

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

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 2 – QA

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 1 – Authenticity

Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction

Gita 18.39 Pleasure in ignorance begins in ignorance and ends in increased ignorance

3 ways to look for blessings amidst problems

How can bhakti wisdom help us to become more forgiving?