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Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 11

Desire Management 2

Desire Management 1

From karma to Krishna – the human search for understanding | Bhagavatam 2.10.22 | Chowpatty, Mumbai

We differentiate our senses from our mind and say that the senses are driving us but is it notthat ultimately the mind is driving us?

Are the Bhagvad Gita and Shrimad-Bhagvatam meant for less intelligent people?

Are the Mahabharata real or stories?

Are the gods of different religions different? (PK answered 25)

Are jnana and karma complementary instead of hierarchical?

Are our mistakes Krishna’s mercy?

Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 10

6 Gopi Gita | Texts 12-13 | Desire management

The wild mind will make us homeless at home Gita 06.34

The choices you make make you Gita 17 03

The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions Gita 17 16

The notion that love can exist outside of sacrifice is a dangerous lie Gita 09 14

We are like birds on a branch — our wings need to grow before the branch breaks

Watch the mind, or the mind will catch you Gita 06 34

Let your practices make you a spiritual fruit, not a religious nut Gita 18 66

Choose the good when… Gita 02.49

Mindless feeds don’t feed our mind, they feed our mindlessness Gita 16 16

No one has a right to mistreat you, not even you Gita 06 05

Materialism reduces you to a number and glamorizes things that make you number Gita 16 09

Problems are like burdens whose weight increases with the attention we give them Gita 18 58

To forget that the world is a hurtful place is to place ourselves on a path full of hurts Gita 08 15

The mind makes us spin like dirty laundry and leaves us dirtier Gita 06 34

Our future is shaped not just by how many options we have Gita 09.06

How to foster intrinsic self worth, not extrinsic self worth? Gita 18 14

Be childlike, not childish Gita 12 13

Those who relapse aren’t always witless or will less, they are often weapon less Gita 02 60

To live life fully, leave life regularly take breaks before life breaks you Gita 06 17

Some people get many insights… Gita 16.06

To savor what is most sweet, we often need to shed the most sweat Gita 18 37

More damaging than the lies we tell others are the lies we tell ourselves Gita 03 06

We have to risk going too far to know how far we can go Gita 18 37

Those who don’t respect themselves are most agitated when others don’t respect them Gita 16 04

Fanatics use God’s name to give God a bad name Gita 16 17

The night after a quake, the stars still shine in the sky… the beauty of life Gita 18.35

Seek God’s help for doing his will or else Gita 18 58

Reason can’t reach beyond reason, but it can give us reason to reach beyond reason Gita 07 07

Opinions are like onions know when they need to be sealed and when peeled Gita 02 06

The Mind Overpowers Us By Making Us Believe That We Are Powerless Gita 15 07

Just as bigotry can blind emotionally, ideology can blind intellectually Gita 18 22

If we are robbed repeatedly by the same suspect, it is our intelligence that is suspect Gita 03 43

Obscenity is objectionable not because… Gita 05.22

Pointless pleasures strip life of meaning more than do pointless problems Gita 03.16

Even if we are feeling miserable, that doesn’t give us the right to make others miserable Gita 17 16

Even if we fare well in life, we still have to say farewell to life Gita 08 16

Don’t justify your weaknesses, rectify them Gita 03.21

As long as we don’t mine under the mind, the mind will undermine us Gita 06.07

For inner change, momentum matters more than movement Gita 06.25

Those who underestimate their mind undermine their intelligence Gita 02.63

Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 7

Philosophical Education Teaches Us How To Think Ideological Indoctrination Tells Us What To Think

When we tolerate amid difficulties, how can we tolerate not out of helplessness but out of purposefulness?

How can we develop attachment to Krishna if we don’t have it initially?

If eating meat is sinful, then are all the countries that are primarily non-vegetarian destined for hell? (Hindi)

If the soul is eternal, why is the world’s population increasing (Hindi)

Is initiation absolutely important when the guru inspiring us is not accessible?

Can we hear bhajans sung by someone not from our movement?

Is our existence itself an unfairness and a mystery, wherein many big questions have no answers?

Had all the Jews who were killed by Hitler done bad karma that led to their genocide

When a helpless girl is raped, does the Gita say that it happened due to her past karma? (Hindi)

Does our breath make the sound so ‘ham – does that suggest we are God?

If someone is abused despite praying to Krishna for protection, isn’t it easier for them to reject God?

If it’s impossible to find happiness without Krishna, aren’t we being forced to love him?

Can we hear beautiful bhajans if they are not sung by devotees?

How do we understand Prabhupada’s seemingly anti-woman statements?

Why does Krishna not make another world where we can be happy without him?

Do our intentions to control the mind also come from the mind – or do they come from the soul with its own mind?

Just as there is a separate Brahma in every universe, is there a separate Narada as his son?

How can Brahma be Narada’s guru when Narada’s body is spiritual and Brahma’s body is material?

How do we balance spiritual life with material life?

When other sampradayas quote certain verses from scripture to prove that their particular founder is also an incarnation of God – How do we respond to such scriptural references?

Understanding dementia – A Bhagavad-gita perspective – Chaitanya Charan

If nature is inherently divine, then are the laws of nature, as explained by scientists, also divine?

If we have lost a loved one, how can we deal with the grief?

What is God’s role in our sufferings, in the light of the Bhagavatam 10.14.08 verse tat te ‘nukampam?

If freewill is connected with desires and choices then how can we develop our intelligence so that we can desire and choose better

How dependent is karma on destiny and destiny on karma?

202 Bhagavad-Gita’s multi-level progression of the human-divine relationship, The Monk’s Podcast with Garuda Prabhu

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

If we get a dream in which our spiritual master is displeased with us, what does that mean?

Self-Acceptance, Team Spirit and Success – Wisdom from Ramayana

Is the Bhagavad-gita relevant in the age of science – MAIL acronym

Krishna demonstrates through his devotees how to respond to adversity wisely

Think Choose Relish: 3-point essence of the first three verses of Srimad Bhagavatam

Ravana -Ten Heads, Zero Brains – Keeping our desires in control

When analyzing issues, how do we know whether we are putting them in the right context such as material or spiritual?

Moving toward self-mastery through fear of dishonor and detachment – Gita 2.31.63

“Do demons exist?” and lessons from Kabandha – Ramayana wisdom

Why did Vidura not instruct Dhritrashtra to apologize to the Pandavas and to thereby become offense-free for practicing bhakti?

Rama at home in exile 1 – The power of acceptance

Are we meant to face our destiny or to fulfill our destiny?

Are we the sum of our thoughts?

How philosophy and experience harmonize in bhakti

Are the Vedas actually ambiguous or just nonspecific about ultimate purpose?