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Examining mythology 4 – The Monk’s Podcast 100 with Shyamananda Prabhu

Examining mythology 3 – The Monk’s Podcast 99 with Shyamananda Prabhu

The Monk’s Podcast 76 with Yogesvara Prabhu – Holocaust, karma and compassion

The Monk’s Podcast 72 with Krishna Kshetra Maharaj – Churning the Bhagavatam – Dashavatara 1 – Matsya

The Monk’s Podcast 61 with Yogesvara Prabhu – Is spirituality anti-science?

The Monk’s Podcast 20 with Shyamananda Prabhu – How to see failure positively

The Monk’s Podcast 3 with Shyamananda Prabhu and Hari Vamsa Prabhu – Eco-Friendly and Anthropo-Friendly

The Monk’s Podcast 2 with Shyamananda Prabhu and Hari Vamsa Prabhu – Karma-and-Corona

The Monk’s Podcast 1 with Shyamananda Prabhu – Corona crisis and unnatural living

Naam Ramayana 3 – Rama exhibits his miraculous abilities

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 3

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 2

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 1

Science and Spirituality – From the study of matter to the study of what matters

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 2 – How can the embryo know God

Do the ends justify the means, as your Mahabharata explanations imply? Won’t that justify terrorism too?

Does the Supersoul sanction all our undesirable desires?

Staying steadfast amid confusing situations

Vamana pastime analysis 1 – When good people do good things at a heavy cost

How should we approach texts like Gopal Champu and Anand Vrindavan Champu – are authentic translations available?

Analyzing Govardhan Lila 1 – How Krishna is the best provoker

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 93 – 10.16.1-7 Krishna’s mode of entry into Kaliya’s lake reflects his playful confidence

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 90 – 10.15.26-36 – Dhenuka’s tools to kill – his hind legs – are used to kill him by whirling and hurling

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 84 – 10.14.37-42 – Brahma acknowledges his insignificance before Krishna’s magnificence and munificence

Are all spiritual explanations of life’s sufferings just mental adjustments?

What is the concept of the evil eye – what is its rational and scriptural basis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 80 – 10.14.13-18 – Brahma contextualizes his bewilderment in terms of his and others’ past bewilderment

What lesson does the Mohini Murti pastime teach?

Was Ravana intelligent in fighting Rama, knowing that his followers would get liberation by being killed by Rama?

To what extent is metaphorical understanding of scripture acceptable or unacceptable?

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

Overcoming discouragement 1 – Why we feel discouraged

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 72 – 10.13.11-20 – Krishna makes even a big disturbance into a no disturbance

How strengths become weaknesses and weaknesses become strengths – Learning from Ravana and Vibhishana

How the Bhagavatam reveals the conception of God

Politics, Social Organization and Bhagavad-gita

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 69 – 10.12.29-36 – Krishna fulfilled the desire of the gopas to have Agha’s body as a plaything

If someone hurts us repeatedly, is that because of our past karma?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 68 – 10.12.18-28 – Our perceptions are shaped by our conceptions

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 67 – 10.12.12-17 The inability to tolerate others’ happiness defines the demonic

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 66 – 10.12.1.12 That the extraordinary appears ordinary is extraordinary

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 65 – 10.11.50-59 Huge demons become like moths on coming before the Krishna-fire

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 64 – 10.11.41-49 For Krishna, killing demons is all in a day’s play, that too before breakfast

Understanding the mind of God

How temptation attacks visibly and invisibly – Lessons from Indrajita’s attack on Rama-Lakshmana

4 principles for improving relationships – Daksha-Sati pastime analysis

Relationships flourish by sharing, not by dominating – Rama Lakshmana interactions

What is Spirituality – Questions and Answers

Gita Jayanti talk – The Gita provides Partha with paramartha

What is the significance of Shukadeva Goswami’s prayers in Bhagavatam 2.4?

Wisdom from Ramayana – What inspired me to write this book

Wisdom from Ramayana – New Book

Demons in Krishna-lila 6 – Bakasura – From Appearance to Substance to Transcendence

Gita 02.05 Deliberation is desirable, but depth of deliberation is decisive

When the source of liberation becomes the source of illusion 2 – Mohini-murti pastime analysis

The Gita tells us to do karma, but also asks us to understand karma – what karma does it refer to?

Was Sati’s reaction to her father’s actions justified or was she also implicated?

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 2?

Gita 18.64 Krishna’s tone rises from informational analysis to impassioned advocacy

With our current knowledge of the material world, what can we understand about the spiritual world?

How science and spirituality go together

Bhagavad-gita and Modern Psychology 1 – Is there anything beyond emotionality and rationality?

Does God laugh at our plans? – part 2

Are rocks alive – can we become rocks in our future life?

Understanding various ways Krishna protects – Bhagavatam characters analysis

Demystifying Reincarnation 15 – The Gita’s model of the self and its explanatory potential

Understanding Gita Wisdom – Interview on People of Bhakti at Bhakti Radio Network

Is hypnotic regression to past lives for real?

How do we explain the non-physical is differentiated as the mind and the soul?

Just as Nalakuvera-Manigriva were given remembrance their past lives, why can’t we be given remembrance of our past lives?

Understanding the spiritual world, the power of bhakti and Narottama Das Thakura’s contribution to the bhakti tradition

Ramayana reflections – Maricha represents worship in fear

How our vision alters our perception – Gita study 01.24-36

How can we deal with gossipy or critical family members?

How do some people get guidance in the state of being half-awake, half-asleep?

Science, Spirituality & Self-improvement

Do scientific theories disprove spiritual truths?

Is spiritual science a valid branch of science?

Demystifying Reincarnation is now available as an ebook

Science and Spirituality – From confrontation to reconciliation

Unusual experiences

How can we understand our nature – Hindi?

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Announcement about a new weekly feature – Wisdom on Wisdom (WOW)

Does God laugh at our plans?

Karma & Reincarnation radio show – English with Tamil translation

To evaluate devotion by its material benefits is like evaluating dancing by the distance covered Gita 02.44

If we can’t decide whether a particular desire is good or bad what should we do?

When dharma has gone down so much now why is Krishna not appearing?

How can we connect our IT job with Krishna?

Can the soul remember its eternal position?

How can we understand that the attractiveness of all attractive things comes from Krishna?

Light to see the world – Science, Spirituality and Life’s Big Questions

Gita 17.01 Worldviews are meant to be vision-enhancers not vision-diminishers

Understanding Destiny 1 – What is pre-determined and what isn’t

Kali Yuga predictions – Superficiality Audacity Anxiety Spirituality

How can we understand unbelievable statements from scripture?