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Amid danger, how can we be watcful without being fearful?

What difference is it going to make in my life? How is the Gita relevant today? – MAIL Acronym

Why does Krishna talk about controlling the senses to Arjuna when the purpose of the conversation seems to be to incite Arjuna to fight?

Don’t associate with Mayavadis – what does this mean practically?

When we are in anxiety searching for a new job, how can we maintain our spiritual practices?

How to forgive ourselves if we have made a serious mistake?

How can we know if a particular guru is an uttama-adhikari or not?

Why is there no description of a pandemic in the Vedic scriptures?

The Monk’s Podcast 91 with Giriraj Maharaj – End-of-life care and bhakti wisdom

What does follow your heart mean – does it involve the conscience or the soul?

Krishna told Arjuna to kill but Narada told Mrigari to not kill?

If we get different instructions from different authorities, which include our spiritual master, what should we do?

How are karma and jnana the cause of material desires?

How to use our free will properly – QA with children

Bhagavad-gita chapter 2 overview – How to decide the right thing to do and stay undisturbed while doing it

If people aren’t ready to take the giant leap of faith to come to Krishna, how can we help them?

When we see some devotee doing something wrong, what should we do?

Making difficult decisions – Hindi

The painkiller of entertainment is easily available, but does the cure of enlightenment needs to be given by someone enlightened

Scripture without guru is deluding

If aspiring disciples feel that they can’t get their guru’s association, what can we tell them?

How can motivate us to move on in our spiritual life – can the saints’ realizations inspire – don’t we need our own experiences?

Gita 01.40 Dharma prevents human society from being ruled by the law of the jungle

How may we be misled by externals when seeking a spiritual guide?

Gita 01.26 When we can’t fight the circumstances that make us fight against our loved ones, we have to fight against our loved ones

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

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 31 – 10.6.1-6 Sukadeva G reveals the spoiler to relieve Parikshit M anxiety

If we feel inspired to do a service other than what we are instructed, what should we do?

Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord

Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can’t be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice

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

Effective Leadership of spiritual communities

When the mind starts misleading, does the Supersoul intervene?

Should we serve Krishna as we feel inspired or as we are instructed?

If we have a million options to choose from how to decide?

How can we make difficult decisions responsibly?

How to effectively study and apply the Gita

God as the supreme therapist 6 – Seek not the facility to do whatever we desire – seek the clarity to discern our deepest desire

Appreciating Radhanatha Maharaj’s contributions towards helping devotees practice bhakti sustainably

How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?

How can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind?

Gita 17.06 Defying scripture be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body is demonic

Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next

Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver

What can brahmacharis do if they feel choked in their ashram?

How is our intelligence partly our friend and partly our enemy?

If we are too passionate to separate ourselves from our mind what to do?

I get dreams to act violently against Muslims – what should I do?

How is the Gita relevant today – Marathi

When we have to choose between two ways of serving Krishna, what should we do?

When taking decisions, how do we balance using our intelligence and having faith in Krishna?

The need for appropriate adaptors when transmitting the current of bhakti

If circumstances make following bhakti principles impossible, what should we do?

Where can I get mantra diksha?

How do we help people who hold that nature is their god?

QA on dealing with material desires, excessive workload, inattentiveness in chanting and other bhakti principles

How can we know our prescribed duty?

When faced with problems how to decide how many solutions to try out?

If a devotee familiar to us starts blaspheming our spiritual master how should we deal with that devotee?

Meeting with HH Gopal Krishna Maharaj – Learning to sense the contemporary pulse

Balaram appearance day at the lotus feet of Lord Balarama

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

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

HH Radhanath Maharaj: Training through a Mock QA session

I broke a one-sided relationship but now I feel I should have tried more – what should I do?

How do we deal with mental flashbacks?

If the natures of a husband and a wife are not complementary but contradictory how can they function?

I have a disagreeable boss who is also atheistic – how can I deal with him?

If a relationship is severely strained but it has to go on what to do?