Integrating the Scientific method and the Spiritual vision for all-round human growth
Bhagavad Gita 
May 2013
- Gita 13.21-22 Material existence as a virtual reality
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 12.12-20 – The last rung in the Gita’s downward ladder of love
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 12.1-11 Arjuna’s question refers to Brahmavada not Mayavada
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.47-55 – How Virat Rupa revelation ends in glorification of bhakti
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.28-46 The Frightening Virat Rupa – Kala Rupa
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.1-27 The Magnificent Virat Rupa
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.19-42 How the Vibhutis manifest Krishna’s glory
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.19-42 How the Vibhutis manifest Krishna’s glory
- Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.1-7 – Review of the first nine chapters of the Gita
April 2013
- What does the statement that Prabhupadas purports are more important than even the translations really mean? And are scriptures written such that they cannot be misinterpreted?
- What is the real translation of Gita 7.21?
- Why does the Gita say that “for a respectable person, dishonor is worse than death” and also say “consider honor and dishonor are the same”?
March 2013
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.73-78 Concluding messages from the Gita
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.65-72 – Comprehending dharman parityajya and vraja in 18.66
- What is the basis for saying that the mode of goodness is right?
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.62-64 Why bhakti is the conclusive message of the Gita
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.54-62 Bhakti is the summit of spirituality but also reaches down to wherever we are
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.40-53 Rising to the brahman platform through devotionalized karma yoga within varnashrama
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.36-39 Choose happiness based on intelligence
- 18.35 Sustaining our determination is our responsibility
- 18.29-34 Intelligence in the three modes and its difference from knowledge in the three modes
- Gita Overview Mumbai18.22-28 How the modes shape the doer and the deed
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.18-21 The motivations and components of action
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.12-17 Five factors of action
- Gita Overview Mumbai 18.1-9 When renunciation does and doesn’t bear fruit
- Gita Overview Mumbai 17.23-28 How om tat sat sanctifies and spiritualizes
- 17.15-22 Being soft-spoken and satisfied are matters of choice not just of nature.MP3
- Gita Overview Mumbai 17.11-14 Understanding svabhava svakarma and svadharma
- Gita Overview Mumbai 17.5-10 When austerities become demoniac
- Gita Overview Mumbai 17.3-4 Panchopasana and religions in various modes
- Gita Overview Mumbai 16.21-17.2 – Scripture takes us beyond nature nurture and culture
- 16.13-20 The demoniac treat religion as a social cosmetic
- Gita Overview Mumbai 16.8-12 Atheists abuse science for demoniac purposes
- Gita Overview Mumbai 16.1-7 Understanding pravrtti and nivrtti
- Gita Overview Mumbai 15.15-20 Trishloki Gita refutes Mayavada unambiguously
- Gita Overview Mumbai 15.9-14 Krishna arranges for even our material enjoyment
- Gita Overview Mumbai 15.1-8 Analysis of the upside-down tree metaphor
- Gita Overview Mumbai 14.22-27 Become an observer of the consciousness
- Why does Prabhupada’s Gita 6.46 translation of karmi not include nishkama karmis?
- Gita Overview Mumbai 14.17-21 Knowledge arises from sattva not abhyasa
- Gita Overview Mumbai 14.11-16 How knowledge became redefined as the quest for power not truth
- Gita Overview Mumbai 14.1-10 Characteristics of the three modes
- Gita Overview Mumbai 13.20-35 A coherent understanding of the 6 items taught in Chp 13-
- Gita Overview Mumbai 13.13-19 Understanding five koshas and achintyabhedabheda in the Gita
- Gita Overview Mumbai 13.8-12 Role of bhakti in jnana and of jnana in bhakti
- Gita Overview Mumbai 13.1-7 Vyashti and Samashti approaches to understanding reality
- Gita Overview 12.12-20 Unraveling the mysterious hierarchy of 12.12
- Gita Overview Mumbai 12.1-11 Progression from Virata Rupa to Impersonal Brahman
- Gita Overview Mumbai 11.41-55 Pure devotion reveals all visions
February 2013
- Gita Overview Mumbai 11.24-40 Material destruction paves the way for spiritual ressurection
- Gita Overview Mumbai 11.1-23 The background to understand Vishva-rupa – Yoga aishvarya to rupa aishvarya
- Gita Overview 10.34-42 – Krishna as victory adventure and other opulent manifestations
- Gita Overview Mumbai10.25-33 – Metaphors for understanding Krishna’s glories
- Is ISKCON’s claim for a paramapara connection to understand the Gita not an attempt to monopolize the Gita?
- Does the Gita’s instruction that we work without expecting results mean that we work without salaries?
January 2013
- Why did Krishna say to Arjuna that he had not shown the Universal Form to anyone else when he had shown it to Yashoda and Duryodhana?
- When Krishna doesn’t recommend roots as items to be offered to him why do we offer him potatoes?
- “Brahman spoke through Krishna by entering into him like a ghost.” How do we respond to this idea?
- As devotees are sincerely trying to live according to principles can the mithyachari Gita verse 3.6 be applied to them?
- Please explain how we become co-creators with God through sex, as you mention in your Gita-dailies
- If dharma is our essential nature, then why does the Gita (18.66) ask us to abandon dharma?
- Is the classification of the four kinds of miscreants in Gita 7.15 strict?
- Is the tree at Jyotisar in Kuruskhetra the spot where the Gita was spoken?
December 2012
- Why does Krishna describe Maya as daivi in the Gita 7.14?
- Chatur Shloki Gita 10.8-11 – Gita Jayanti (2012) – Hindi
- Number Magic in the Bhagavad-gita
- What is the difference between renunciation in passion and ignorance?
November 2012
- Are there clear references to “love” in the Gita? Are the words “devotional service” and “love” synonymous?
- Can we experience spiritual happiness with material senses and mind?
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 10.12-10.25 Understanding the concept of Vibhuti
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 10.1-10.11 Knowledge about Krishna – the rarity the speciality and the methodology
- Gita Study 2012 9.26-9.34 Why is a sinful devotee considered saintly?
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 Gita 9.16-9.25 The Krishna factor in worship of the Universal Form and demigods
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 9.10-9.15 The four kinds of causes and the three kinds of jnana-yajna
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 9.1-9.9 The glory of knowledge about Krishna
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.23-8.28 Bhakti is superior to the paths of devayana and pitrayana
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.14-8.22 How the Gita identifies the supreme abode with Krishna’s abode
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.10-8.13 Understanding yoga-mishra bhakti
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.5-8.9 How to think of Krishna constantly
October 2012
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.1-8.5 Understanding the link between objects words and concepts
- How does the word bhavana in Gita 2.66 refer to fixed mind?
- What is the higher taste for jnanis?
- Is God everything? What exactly does the verse “vasudevah sarvam iti” mean?
September 2012
August 2012
- Why did the Lord give spiritual knowledge to the sun-god when he had already given it to Brahma?
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.24-30: Are Mayavadi interpretations of Gita justified?
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.15-23: Those who don’t surrender, surrender, and surrender to Krishnetara
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.04-14: How Krishna pervades the material world as its essence
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.01-03 – Understanding phenomenon and noumenon
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 – 06.42-47: The Glory of Bhakti
- What is the difference between householder devotees and karma-yogis?
- Why Srila Prabhupad is using “the Lord’s not forgetting” as proof for his having transcendental body?
- What is importance of Sandwich analogy to explain Bhagavad Gita from philosophical perspective?
- How the Bhagavad-gita is special among all books in the world – Gita Jayanti class
July 2012
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 6.35-41: Understanding the Gita flow from dhyana-yoga to bhakti-yoga.mp3
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 6.29-34 Krishna’s position in the path of dhyana-yoga
- If Krishna says “Go beyond the Vedas” in Bhagavad Gita, then why do we take the Hare Krishna Mantra from the same Vedas?
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 06.22-28 Transforming emotions from obstacles to pathways towards samadhi
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 06.15-21 Taking the mind through the five stages of mind control
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 – 06.08-14 Going from knowledge to realization
- What is the basis for saying that Arjuna engaged in contemplation according to Gita 2.62-63 when he did not fall down as the verse predicts?
- What is the basis for equating Arjuna’s Gandiva bow with our determination?
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 06.01-07 Understanding how the mind deludes
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 05.24-29: How knowing Krishna brings peace
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012: 05.17-23 The four investments for gaining knowledge of Krishna.mp3
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012: 05.09-16 Understanding who is the actual doer
- Gita Study Mumbai 2012 05.01-08: How Krishna subtly but surely changes Arjuna’s conceptions about the hierarchy of karma yoga and jnana yoga
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 04.34-42 Glories of transcendental knowledge
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 04.26-33 Different kinds of yajnas and their underlying principles
- Gita study Mumbai – 2012 04.18-25 How the internal consciousness prevents bondage
- Does the Supersoul control the the soul’s desires?
- Gita study Mumbai 2012 – Different approaches for scriptural study
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 04.10-17 Understanding Krishna’s nature
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 04.07-09 The three obstacles to knowing Krishna
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 04.01-06 How the parampara is continued or lost
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 03.37-43 Lust is not just dangerous but also treacherous
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 03.31-36 The middle way between total supression and unrestricated expression
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 03.25-30 Four differences between karma kandi and karma yogi
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 3.21-24 Are Krishna’s action are immoral
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 3.14-20 Playing our part in the cycle of sacrifice
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 3.9-13 Understanding the principles and mechanism of yajna
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 3.1-8 The principles and purposes underlying renunciation
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.67-72 Going beyond sense control to mind control
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.62-66 Avoiding undesirable contemplation
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.55-61 Becoming a sthita prajna
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.48-54 Understanding and living the three definitions of yoga
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.46-47 Understanding 4 parts of karmanya va dhikaraste
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.26-38 Refuting materialism
- Gita study mumbai 2012 – 2.39-45 How karma yoga is superior to karma kanda
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 2.17-25 Characteristics of the soul
- Gita study mumbai 2012- 2.1-16 Gita begins by refuting mayavada
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 1.27-46 Giving up horizontal relationship for vertical relationship
- Gita study Mumbai 2012- 1.1-1.25 Introducing Mahabharat character
- In the Bhagavad gita verse 14.6, what does ‘being conditioned by a sense of happiness and knowledge mean’?
- Do BG 18.20 and 18.21 support a Brahmavad conception of God?
- How hearing does wonders BG 7.1
- Why are the chapters of the Bhagavad-gita named differently by different acharyas?
June 2012
- Understanding “action in inaction and inaction in action” as mentioned in Bhagavad-Gita 5.17.
- When Krishna spoke the Gita to the sun-god, was that Gita exactly the same as was spoken to Arjuna?
- Why does Prabhupada say in Bhagavad Gita 2.62 purport that Lord Shiva is not able to control his senses?
- Why does Srila Prabhupada translate karma-yoga as “devotional service”?
May 2012
- When the soul obviously moves, how do we to explain the Gita 2.24 statement that the soul is immovable?
- Is Vyasadeva not doing self-glorification when he writes “by the mercy of Vyasa” in the Gita ?
- Why does Krishna refer to himself in the third person in the Gita?
- Krishna has himself given the Vedas; then why does he tell us to go beyond the Vedas in the Gita 2.46?
- My heart tells me that jnana-yoga is the best path for me. What should I do?
April 2012
- What happens to demigods when yajna is stopped?
- How do we understand the scriptural statement that we are not the doers?
- Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that all paths lead to the same goal?
- If consciousness is spiritual, then why is it said to a part of the material field in Chp 13 of the Gita?
- Systematic overview of all Bhagavad-gita verses in 50 hours
- In the Gita 1.1, why is Dhritarashtra’s asking “What did they do?” in the past tense instead of the present tense?
- How can one understand “action in inaction and inaction in action”
March 2012
- Gita Overview Hindi
- Gita Overview 2 (2.1-2.30)
- Gita Overview 5 (2.54-3.8)
- Gita Overview 1 (1.1-1.46)
February 2012
- Why does Srila Prabhupada add electricity in the translation of 15.6?
- Why does Srila Prabhupada give two contradictory translations of the word “vraja” in 18.66?
- Why does the Gita say that “I am intelligence among women?”
January 2012
- Why is “Sri Bhagavan uvaca” in the Bhagavad Gita translated as “The Blessed Lord”? said”
- Are there any references in the Gita to the chanting of the holy names?
- Is the Bhagavad-gita an extremist book?
December 2011
- Is the metaphorical interpretation of the Gita’s battlefield setting authorized?
- Why does the Bhagavad-gita call for violence?
- Bhagavad-gita for the Jet-age
- The Gita’s Secret Message Of Love
- Why is the Bhagavad-gita so pessimistic?
- Emotional Exchanges between Krishna and Arjuna in the Gita
- The Gita’s Message of Love