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Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows

Develop your personal relationship with Krishna (Uddipana explained) | Wisdom Munches 10

Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 6

Practice the process of joy with joy small – SB 1.2.16-22 | Bhagavatam Study | Bhakti Vaibhav

Sahajiya – What it is, and what’s wrong with it Chittagong 12.6.24

Does becoming tolerant mean letting oneself be manipulated?

Damodarashtakam verse 2 line 3_ Prayer for better chanting

Damodarashtakam verse 2 line 2_ Prayer for better chanting

Damodarashtakam verse 1 line 4_ Prayer for better chanting

Damodarashtakam verse 1 line 3_ Prayer for better chanting

As life is so short, should we spend it in learning Sanskrit or just focus on chanting?

When we are unable to apply the philosophy what can we do?

If a disease limits our bhakti, should we see it as our past karma or as Krishna’s mercy?

How can we make bhakti accessible without diluting it? – Chaitanya Charan

When is doing something externally without inner feeling good and when is it bad?

When our hearing becomes mechanical, what can we do?

9 forms of devotional service part 2 – Pada Sevanam Archanam Vandanam Dasyam Sakhyam Atma-Nivedanam

If those who chant a lot face material problems, are they chanting too much

Understanding Indian and western attitudes in approaching and practicing Krishna consciousness

How can we experience Krishna’s love at our stage?

How is mantra meditation different from other forms of meditation?

Why ethics matter while practicing bhakti in today’s world, The Monk’s Podcast 127 with Rasamandala Prabhu

How yoga culminates in bhakti, The Monk’s Podcast 125 with Garuda Prabhu

Mindfulness

Does surrender mean simply leaving our fate to God – then why practice bhakti-yoga to attain him?

How can we distribute our time between hearing and chanting?

How does prayer affect karma?

How the ritual and the spiritual interrelate

QA on racism Q 10 How do we as spiritualists manifest empathy (para-dukha-dukhi)?

Learning prayerfulness based on Bhagavatam prayers

The Monk’s Podcast 8 with Shyamananda Prabhu – Rituals – what they are and why they matter

The Monk’s Podcast 5 with Shyamananda Prabhu- Living in the present – The bhakti-yoga way

Remembrance and guidance – the essence of devotion

If we have prayed to Krishna once, should we repeat that prayer regularly?

Should we focus only on doing one thing at a time and not even do devotional things in parallel with physical activities such as walking

Isn’t the Gita’s instruction to remain equipoised seem too idealistic?

How can we become more contemplative in daily life?

What is the difference between a jnani and jnani-yogi?

How can we balance body, mind and consciousness?

Can buddhi-yoga refer to all three yogas – karma, jnana and bhakti?

How are jnana and karma uncovered in bhakti?

Why does the Gita consider karma-yoga better than jnana-yoga when jnana-yoga is higher in the yoga ladder?

How can we know if worldly desires come from our heart or our mind – What happens if such desires come while chanting?

When we are criticized, is defending ourselves detrimental for our bhakti?

Does everything in bhakti need to fall in the nine limbs of bhakti?

Can you explain the various stages in chanting – namaprada, namabhasa, shudda-nama?

3 ways to engage our desires with Krishna 2 – Desiring Krishna and desiring for Krishna

What is the role of ritualistic activities in bhakti – should we continue the rituals from our family traditions?

How can we avoid over-endeavoring in our service at the cost of our devotion?

How can we change the chain of thoughts in our mind?

What’s the most effective way to combat anger?

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

Going back to Godhead 3 – How to offer our consciousness to Krishna

Should devotees give up all pious religious duties and focus only on bhakti?

For chanting, why are Tulsi beads recommended?

Do great devotees like Prahlad just focus on Krishna and not bother about problems at all?

Controlling the mind through yoga and bhakti – similarities and differences Gita 06.21

Does focusing on Krishna require that we always be in the mode of goodness?

Lust when unfulfilled leads to anger does that means the short tempered have excessive lust that is un satisfied

When the holy name is self-fulfilling, why do we need other things such as elaborate analysis of the mind?

If we can’t chant attentively, is it better to chant less with greater attention?

The heart of yoga is yoga of the heart

Can prayer change our karma?

Practical application of the Gita – MAIL acronym

If bhakti practice and devotee association agitates our mind, can we practice bhakti in isolation?

Krishna is close to us, but we are far away from him

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

Bhagavatam study 102 1.18.36-43 Avoid offenses carefully and avoid getting offended easily

Gita 18.18 Analysis of the components of action is meant to direct towards non-reactive action

Gita 18.02 Devotional attachment is the best way to avoid worldly attachment

What are dynamic and static understandings of bhakti?

The power of gratitude 2 – How to cultivate gratitude

How can we get the impetus to chant seriously?

Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows -2

Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows -1

If we are already connected with Krishna why do we need to chant?

Where does the power of mantras lie – in letters or meaning or somewhere else?

How can we remember Krishna while we are working in a materialistic environment?

When we can’t remember Krishna purely now, how will our remembering him at death take us to him?

Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed

Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively not destructively

How philosophy and experience harmonize in bhakti

How chanting works on the mind – and how the mind works during chanting

How chanting helps us understand ourselves and our mind

How can we act at the level that we are not our bodies – Hindi?

Is the higher taste of bhakti available only for those who practice bhakti exclusively while living in a temple?

How can we avoid becoming discouraged on seeing that the modes are pulling us down?

When neither distress nor taste motivates us consistently in bhakti, how can we become consistent?

For meditation, we need the right object and the right conception

Do we need only devotional principles to change our past’s influences – can other things help?

If past mental impressions stay despite a long practice of bhakti, what to do?

Let personal conception of God lead to personal dealings with God’s parts

Understanding how bhakti-yoga and the holy name work

Even when we have knowledge, we can’t apply it – what to do?

If we don’t have gratitude, how does it matter in bhakti?

What role does sleep play on the spiritual path?

If our family members don’t practice regulative principles is it right to disconnect from them?

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 2 – Understanding Nivrtti

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 1 – Understanding Anartha

How can we be grateful to Krishna in all situations?