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If we don’t have full faith are we hedging our bets?

Do different people need different percentages of material and spiritual life?

When we ask Krishna to protect us are we treating him as our servant and are we advanced enough for him to intervene?

When we want to go to the spiritual world is our devotion motivated or unmotivated?

When we decide to change ourselves how can we know that those changes will be for good?

Should we try to learn from our past when our perception of our past will always be distorted by our biases?

Is anger reduced by becoming spiritual or by developing the brain’s frontal lobe that is associated with controlling emotions?

Can there be something called spiritual science?

FEAR acronym – Learning to deal with our fears

Do gopis know Krishna’s future pastimes?

I desire to start a new business – is this desire compatible with bhakti?

Deal with desire not by indulgence or resistance but by intelligence and transcendence

Prabhupada life-story 05 – Indian Partition – Transcendence amidst turbulence

Improving Japa 2 – Concentrate by cultivating interest and appreciating importance

Should we learn from the past or consider that whatever happened is God’s will?

Go beyond the mind’s transitory feelings to the heart’s transcendental feelings

For devotees are things happening beyond our control due to destiny or Krishna’s mercy?

In outreach what needs to come first – knowledge and inspiration or facilities?

Among knowledge inspiration and facilities if we can’t provide all three to others what is the most important thing to provide?

Bring out the best you 2 – Social help

When we can’t give up our conditionings is just calling out to Krishna the solution?

How can we know that we are subconsciously justifying our anger?

If connection with Krishna makes the inauspicious auspicious then if a devotee gets caught in sinful activities is that also good?

If someone has hurt us badly should we tell them that they have hurt us?

Renunciation doesn’t make devotion attractive – devotion makes renunciation attractive

How can we know whether our wrongdoing is accidental or intentional?

How is forgiveness related to the modes of material nature?

If we get dreams of our past profession even after having retired for over ten years is that good or bad?

Is retaliation in the mode of passion?

What is the difference between tolerance and passivity?

By focusing on future spiritual happiness are we running away from living in the present?

Does spiritual knowledge decrease our tendency to find faults with the present?

How can we better apply what we have read?

How does the hierarchy in bhakti differ from mundane hierarchy?

How can we go from blaming to forgiving?

What makes us complacent about applying the solution of bhakti to the problem of our known weaknesses?

Is our relationship with our guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

How much can analysis help in controlling desires?

Isn’t everything that happens to a surrendered devotee good?

Gajendra Moksha Katha 5 – Which comes first – giving up lower taste or getting higher taste – Hindi

How can we overcome anger?

What is the best way to understand spirituality?

Those who believe that their mind is their friend become their own enemies

Discover the Baahubali within you

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi

Is it right to blame others for our failure

4 lessons about our mind from our phone – Distortion Discretion Determination, Devotion

Others deserve our empathy not our irritability

When too many spiritual apps sites and books confuse us about what to read or hear what to do?

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

If our family attachments impede our spiritual advancement how can we be detached and still be responsible?

Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada: Appreciating the empowering breadth of your trust in Krishna

When problems trouble us and we can’t put our heart in our service what can we do?

How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

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

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

When we practice bhakti culture in our temples or youth centers are we not practicing spiritual bhakti?

On holy days if new people can either fast or do service what should we encourage them to do?

If our past bad habits keep dragging us down what should we do?

Can we get tangible results in bhakti as we get in our worldly relationships?

How can we explain philosophy to those who don’t accept the authority of scripture?

Should we be detached from feeling happy when we chant well?

Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti philosophical bhakti spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

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

Meditation on Kaliya lila – Devotion grants access to a rich panorama of divine emotions

Gita daily appreciation

When the gopis criticize Akrura for taking Krishna away are they not offending Akrura?

If a devotee repeatedly struggles in different services how can we engage that devotee?

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

How can we keep fighting against our senses till we get Krishna’s mercy?

One moon is better than a thousand stars – what does this imply in terms of outreach strategies?

Akrura Katha 2 – Devotional disposition in association deepens our devotion

Akrura Katha 1 – When no one understands us Krishna understands

Sadhu-sanga

When we can study scripture without doing the Bhakti Shastri course why is the course needed?

The power of appreciation

How can we understand our nature – Hindi?

Can bhakti change a person’s nature – Hindi?

How can we differentiate between our cheating propensity and our tendency to be illusioned by duality – Hindi?

What is the difference between the mind and the intelligence – Hindi?

Why do we sometimes act circumstantially rather than scripturally – Hindi?

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

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

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

Is what we are going to get in life determined at birth – Hindi?

To always remember Krishna practically means to remember that he is the controller of things outside our control – Hindi

Beyond emotion to intention – Talk at Ohio State University

Temptation leans on the doorbell

Gratitude and originality in spiritual creativity

Spirituality in the age of science – Balancing science spirituality and audience interest

Talking on karma and appreciating the audience’s karma – Talk at Princeton University Princeton

Is intelligence not always a good thing?

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?

Minding the Intel Mind

Does God laugh at our plans?

Morality may be relativized but the consequences of immoral indulgence can’t be relativized Gita 03.17

Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions