SpiritualInsight

Understanding the unborn’s understandings

Arjuna Far Sighted But Not Far Sighted Enough – Gita Verses 10 Gita 1.41 – 43

How God acts in the world-Scriptural & contemporary worldviews, Bhaktivedanta Manor, London

Anger Management How Anger Destroys Montreal

What is the Bhagavad-gita perspective on chatGPT?

Gita 14.11 Inner illumination helps us to separate observation from evaluation

How can the light of religion help a world in conflict?

How to know when we are getting realization and when doing speculation?

Why wisdom sometimes enlightens and sometimes doesn’t

Is the universal form Krishna literally material or is it a divine form manifested in matter like his deity form?

When we take or get blessings from someone, what actually happens?

Is a devotee’s suffering caused by Krishna, not karma?

When the soul is an individual, how can the same soul be manifest as Arjuna, Arjuniya gopi and Ramananda Raya?

Shakespeare Revisited Universal Themes Spiritual Insight The Monks Podcast 126 with Hanumat Preshaka M

Gita key verses course 43 – Are some people innately bad – Gita 16.06

Understanding the mind – Unpacking the Puranjana allegory

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 77 – 10.13.57-64 – Brahma realizes his folly in testing Krishna’s glory

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 76 – 10.13.50-56 – Brahma sees all universal opulences sheltered in the Vishnus expanded from Krishna

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 74 – 10.13.28-38 Krishna’s illusion is so powerful that even Balarama requires special situation to see through that illusion

Scripture without guru is deluding

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 71 – 10.13.01-10 – Taste for absorption is the test of devotion

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 61 – 10.11.1-9 Vrajavasis doubt Krishna’s supernatural power, but don’t disbelieve it

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 58 – 10.10.28-35 Though God has a body, he is not limited by or to his body

How do we realize that Krishna consciousness is like 5 million dollars and worldly things are like 5 dollars

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 56 – 10.10.15-22 Narada curses to cure the cause of the misbehavior, not just to punish the misbehavior

Does sarva dharman parityajya mean that we should give up our rationality and just surrender?

Did Ravana have immense knowledge?

Does spirituality cure depression or manage depression?

How the laws of nature work and what role Krishna plays in them

The Problem of Pain – Materialistic, Abrahamic and Dharmic explanations

When does philosophical speculation change to mental speculation – what makes certain explanations of scripture unacceptable? (Vedic wisdom)

Intelligence is seen not just through aptitude but also through activity

Gita 01.31 What we think of as long-term may not be long-term enough

Gita 01.24 The position of maximum visibility is also the position of maxiumum vulnerability

Gita 01.05 Our mode of description reflects our intention

Gita 01.02 Sanjaya addresses not just the content of Dhritarashtra’s question but also its intent

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 51 – 10.9.7.12 Yashoda catches the Lord whom the yogis can’t catch

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

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 49 – 10.8.46-52 Transcendental and contextual explanations for the fortune of Nanda and Yashoda

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 47 – 10.8.32-41 Krishna shows the universe in his mouth once again

Doesn’t the universal form vision indicate that the war was destined?

Was the Kurukshetra war Krishna’s plan?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 46 – 10.8.26-31 Vraja ladies complain about Krishna’s pranks cheerfully

Understanding Rasa-lila 7 – Gopi-gita 3

Understanding Rasa-lila 6 – Gopi-gita 2

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 45 – 10.8.20-25 Krishna’s childhood activities fill Vraja ladies with anxiety and ecstasy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 44 – 10.8.13.19 Garga conceals and reveals Krishna’s identity

Understanding Rasa-lila 5 – Gopi-gita 1

Radhashtami class – Radharani demonstrates selfless love and blesses us with selfless love

Understanding Rasa-lila 4 – Radharani’s apparent pride expresses her selfless love

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 43 – 10.8.7-12 Religious celebration is meant for spiritual purification, not social congregation

Seeing Krishna’s mercy amidst adversity – Bali M pastime analysis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 41 – 10.7.31-37 Krishna’s first revelation of the universe in his mouth

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 40 – 10.7.27-30 Krishna silences Trinavarta to minimize anxiety for Vrajavasis

Dhritarashtra character analysis 1 – Attachment makes us stone-hearted

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

From ritual to spiritual 1 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 19 – 10.3.39-46 Omnipotent Krishna can act through transcendental or normal means

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

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

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

How Krishna can be seen – and how he can’t be seen

Why does Shiva Puarana say that Shiva is the source of Brahma and Vishnu?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 14 – 10.3.1-10 The celestial, terrestrial and psychological characteristics that celebrate the Lord’s appearance

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

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 12 – 10.2-31-36 Krishna’s lotus feet make the insurmountable material ocean insignificant

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 11 – 10.2.25-30 The devatas glorify the true nature of the Absolute Truth

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

Why is Islam the most violent religion?

Bhagavatam study 109 1.19.34-40 When God remains anonymous through coincidences devoteees identify and glorify him

Gita 18.33 What intelligence discerns, that determination sustains

Bhagavatam study 107 1.19.19-24 Knowledge comes alive thorugh those live that knowledge

Bhagavatam study 105 1.19.7-12 The universal sages come to see of the royal sage

Gita 18.23 To gain knowledge, we need basic knowledge about where to seek knowledge

Bhagavatam study 96 1.17.43-18.3 The recent past is just like the present

Bhagavatam study 95 1.17.37-42 Undestanding how restricting area of residence is a form of punishment

Bhagavatam study 93 1.17.24-30 Avoid both extremes of taking everything in scripture only literally or only metaphorically

Bhagavatam study 92 1.17.18-23 The cause of suffering is sometimes incomprehensible

Gita 18.16 To think that we are the sole doers is to have deluded intelligence

When terrorists kill people are those people killed because of their own karma?

How can we make difficult decisions responsibly?

Is seeing believing 3 – Resolving science-spirituality conflicts

Is seeing believing 2 – What the map of science misses

Is seeing believing 1 – Even science explains the visible with the invisible

Where do intuitions come from – are they related with instincts or impulses?

When the abducted Sita was not the real Sita why was Rama distressed by her abduction?

Was Ravana a good person who just committed one mistake?

Gita 17.21 – Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation

Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity

How understanding destiny empowers

Do we seek only an operational knowledge of scripture and not actual knowledge?

Do we seek only an operational knowledge of scripture and not actual knowledge

In Paramatma realization is God the subject or the object?

To show our world to others we need to see it with fresh eyes

Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world focus on contribution from yourself.mp3

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

QA session at ISKCON Bahrain

Duryodhana felt no moral compunction while persecuting the Pandavas, but Dhirtrashtra did – why the difference?

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

Duryodhana character analysis 3 – Envy perpetuates dissatisfaction and invites destruction