Truth without compassion often becomes cruelty. Truth without context often becomes distortion. Truth without relevance often becomes gossip. Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 18.22 When we no longer find the shocking shocking, we should at least find our own loss of conscience shocking. Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 18.32 The mind may not light the fire of destructive desire, but it often deludes us into pouring the gasoline of obsessive imagination onto that fire. Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 6.34
Truth without compassion often becomes cruelty. Truth without context often becomes distortion. Truth without relevance often becomes gossip. Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 18.22 When we no longer find the shocking shocking, we should at least find our own loss of conscience shocking. Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 18.32 The mind may not light the fire of destructive desire, but it often deludes us into pouring the gasoline of obsessive imagination onto that fire. Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 6.34

Bhagavatam 11th canto study

Learning Points

Bhagavatam-daily 1 - 11.06.40 - Philosophy offers shelter when the world's shelters fail
Bhagavatam-daily 2 - 11.06.41 - Submission is the way out of confusion
Bhagavatam-daily 3 - 11.06.42 - Trust not just Krishna's power, but also his intelligence
Bhagavatam-daily 4 - 11.06.43 - We can't tolerate separation from Krishna, but the mind misleads us
Bhagavatam-daily 5 - 11.06.44 - Hearing about Krishna is auspicious and delicious
Bhagavatam-daily 6 - 11.06.45 - How devotion rises from unsteady to spontaneous
Bhagavatam-daily 7 - 11.06.46 - Krishna's remnants make the lower taste unappealing
Bhagavatam-daily 8 - 11.06.47 - What the impersonalists attain with difficulty devotees attain that and more with ease
Bhagavatam-daily 9 - 11.06.48 - Krishna manifested through his pastimes acts as a sword and a magnet
Bhagavatam-daily 10 - 11.06.49 - Don't project suspicion induced by the imitation on the original
Bhagavatam-daily 11 - 11.07.01 - Krishna appreciates our faith in him amidst adversity
Bhagavatam-daily 12 - 11.07.02 - Krishna is the object of prayers for everyone - even those who are the object of prayers
Bhagavatam-daily 13 - 11.07.03 - Our choice of faith attracts the gift of faith
Bhagavatam-daily 14 - 11.07.04 - The departure of Krishna's outer manifestation impels us to take shelter of his ever-accesssible manifestations
Bhagavatam-daily 15 - 11.07.05 - Today's culture aggravates, rationalizes and exploits people's lower side
Bhagavatam-daily 16 - 11.07.06 - The light of devotion illumines this dark age
Bhagavatam-daily 17 - 11.07.07 - To accept the fleeting as lasting is illusion
Bhagavatam-daily 18 - 11.07.08 - See beyond material good and bad to Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 19 - 11.07.09 - Seeing our connectedness with Krishna keeps us safe
Bhagavatam-daily 20 - 11.07.10 - Don't let relative security distract from absolute security
Bhagavatam-daily 21 - 11.07.11 - When there's no impurity, right action comes spontaneously, not intellectually
Bhagavatam-daily 22 - 11.07.12 - Devotional vision and benevolent intention protects us from fall
Bhagavatam-daily 23 - 11.07.13 - Philosophy deepens our intellectual absorption in Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 24 - 11.07.14 - Yoga is not mechnical, but personal
Bhagavatam-daily 25 - 11.07.15 - Bhakti makes the dushkara sulabha and su-sukham
Bhagavatam-daily 26 - 11.07.16 - Material improvement can't replace spiritual advancement
Bhagavatam-daily 27 - 11.07.17 - Even the gods are illusioned; Krishna alone isn't
Bhagavatam-daily 28 - 11.07.18 - Meditate on Krishna's benevolence to terminate ambivalence
Bhagavatam-daily 29 - 11.07.19 - Use intelligence to take the initiative for delivering oneself
Bhagavatam-daily 30 - 11.07.20 - To become your own guru, observe and infer in harmony with guru
Bhagavatam-daily 31 - 11.07.21 - Bhakti enables us to best tap our human speciality
Bhagavatam-daily 32 - 11.07.22 - The father loves the path by which the lost child returns home
Bhagavatam-daily 33 - 11.07.23 - Perceiving the difficult to perceive defines human intelligence
Bhagavatam-daily 35 - 11.07.25 - Renunciation comes not from frustration but from illumination
Bhagavatam-daily 36 - 11.07.26 - Presence of knowledge begs questions about its source and use
Bhagavatam-daily 37 - 11.07.27 - Go beyond the maya of papa - and punya
Bhagavatam-daily 38 - 11.07.28 - Ability present, activity absent is astonishing
Bhagavatam-daily 39 - 11.07.29 - Burning oneself to feel the relief of coming out of fire is not pleasure
Bhagavatam-daily 40 - 11.07.30 - Saintly association impels us to question our definition of happiness
Bhagavatam-daily 41 - 11.07.31 - The intelligence for spiritual enquiry is a great fortune
Bhagavatam-daily 42 - 11.07.32 - Constant learning mood heralds adventures in wisdom and devotion
Bhagavatam-daily 43 - 11.07.33 - Learning is not for earning or controlling, but for harmonizing
Bhagavatam-daily 44 - 11.07.34 - Learning attitude ensures that we learn not just occasionally but constantly
Bhagavatam-daily 45 - 11.07.35 - Shelter comes not by ritual formalization but by learning disposition
Bhagavatam-daily 46 - 11.07.36 - Respecting people opens their heart to Krishna's message
Bhagavatam-daily 47 - 11.07.37 - Real strength means to be strong enough to let small things pass
Bhagavatam-daily 48 - 11.07.38 - Practice selflessnes by focusing on the ultimate object of service
Bhagavatam-daily 49 - 11.07.39 - Focus is not fanatical - it is logical choice for great achievement
Bhagavatam-daily 50 - 11.07.40 - Sense of purpose and urgency will keep us undistracted by circumstances
Bhagavatam-daily 51 - 11.07.41 - Detachment coming from analysis is reinforced by experience coming from bhakti
Bhagavatam-daily 52 - 11.07.42 - We stay disentangled by staying devoted
Bhagavatam-daily 53 - 11.07.43 - To transcend worldly ups and downs open yourself to higher reality
Bhagavatam-daily 54 - 11.07.44 - Bathe in the purifying river of saintly association
Bhagavatam-daily 55 - 11.07.45 - Light within the purifying flame of devotion
Bhagavatam-daily 56 - 11.07.46 - Take shelter of Krishna however that manifests to us
Daily-Bhagavatam 57 - 11.07.47 - Don't let limitation of expression become limitation of intention
Daily-Bhagavatam 58 - 11.07.48 - Unchanging substance below changing appearance brings security
Daily-Bhagavatam 59 - 11.07.49 - Intelligently see the invisible but inexorable bodily change
Daily-Bhagavatam 60 - 11.07.50 - Focus more on reciprocation than renunciation
Daily-Bhagavatam 61 - 11.07.51 - Live beyond the world, as does the sun
Daily-Bhagavatam 62 - 11.07.52 - Don't let worldly relationships consume all our emotions
Daily-Bhagavatam 63 - 11.07.53 - Don't settle down into psuedo-security
Daily-Bhagavatam 64 - 11.07.54 - Focus on Krishna to harmonize other relationships
Daily-Bhagavatam 65 - 11.07.55 - Don't expect the future to be a continuation of the comfortable present
Daily-Bhagavatam 66 - 11.07.56 - Counter temptation by intelligence, vigilance and diligence
Daily-Bhagavatam 67 - 11.07.57 - Let horizontal love remind us of vertical love
Daily-Bhagavatam 68 - 11.07.58 - Appreciate the inconceivable even in the material
Daily-Bhagavatam 69 - 11.07.59 - As the infant needs parent, the soul needs Krishna
Daily-Bhagavatam 70 - 11.07.60 - Parent in the service of the supreme parent
Daily-Bhagavatam 71 - 11.07.61 - Don't let love stop with this world
Daily-Bhagavatam 72 - 11.07.62 - See food as the grace of God
Daily-Bhagavatam 73 - 11.07.63 - Temporary shelter is a danger if it distracts from eternal shelter
Daily-Bhagavatam 74 - 11.07.64 - Direct affection where it will bring satisfaction, not affliction
Bhagavatam-daily 75 - 11.07.65 - Don't let emotion rule action amidst tribulation
Bhagavatam-daily 76 - 11.07.66 - Attachment constricts our intelligence
Bhagavatam-daily 77 - 11.07.67 - A time for commiseration, a time for education
Bhagavatam-daily 78 - 11.07.68 - In scriptural study focus on practical application, not historical precision
Bhagavatam-daily 79 - 11.07.69 - What we lament about reflects our consciousness level
Bhagavatam-daily 80 - 11.07.70 - Choose that purpose of life which will never leave us purposeless
Bhagavatam-daily 81 - 11.07.71 - Devotion protects us from the frustration and destruction of lamentation
Bhagavatam-daily 82 - 11.07.72 - Seek shelter from merciless hunters in the mercful Lord
Bhagavatam-daily 83 - 11.07.73 - Don't delight in duality - delight in Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 84 - 11.07.74 - When the prison door is open don't turn your back to it
Bhagavatam-daily 85 - SB 11.08.01 - Why struggle to increase the pleasure that is unchangeably finite?
Bhagavatam-daily 86 - 11.08.02 - Apply python's attitude by being an optimizer, not a maximizer
Bhagavatam-daily 87 - 11.08.03 - Don't spend more mental energy on the body than necessary
Bhagavatam-daily 88 - 11.08.04 - Use bodily energy to unlock consciousness from the body
Bhagavatam-daily 89 - 11.08.05 - Absorption in the unlimited keeps us unagitated
Bhagavatam-daily 90 - 11.08.06 - When we experience oceanic Krishna within, river-like material ups and downs can't disturb
Bhagavatam-daily 91 - 11.08.07 - Illusion makes the destructive seem attractive
Bhagavatam-daily 92 - 11.08.08 - The fashion and cosmetic industries make the fire more seductive for moth-like humans
Bhagavatam-daily 93 - 11.08.09 - Madhukari-vrtti means to collect modestly and not from one place
Bhagavatam-daily 94 - 11.08.10 - Focus on essence takes us beyond peripheral differences among scriptures
Bhagavatam-daily 95 - 11.08.11 - Even when seeking Lakshmi for Narayana, don't pursue Lakshmi more than pursuing Narayana
Bhagavatam-daily 96 - 11.08.12 - Don't let possessions possess you
Bhagavatam-daily 97 - 11.08.13 - Sexual discipline is not fanatical but essential for the spiritually purposeful
Bhagavatam-daily 98 - 11.08.14 - Desire divorced from dharma drives us to disaster
Bhagavatam-daily 99 - 11.08.15 - Material accumulation by hi-tech means heightens anxiety
Bhagavatam-daily 100 - 11.08.16 - See analogy in the light of its purpose to avoid misunderstanding
Bhagavatam-daily 101 - 11.08.17 - Let the ear lead to truth, not to illusion
Bhagavatam-daily 102 - 11.08.18 - Don't underestimate the danger of sonic temptation
Bhagavatam-daily 103 - 11.08.19 - Don't fall for the bait of glamorized unhealthy food
Bhagavatam-daily 104 - 11.08.20 - Fasting is incomplete without focusing on Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 105 - 11.08.21 - Learn to differentiate pseudo-hunger from hunger
Bhagavatam-daily 106 - 11.08.22 - A saint's learning from a prostitute demonstrates the world's utilization even amidst the world's renunciation
Bhagavatam-daily 107 - 11.08.23 - To equate love with love-making is to lose lasting love
Bhagavatam-daily 108 - 11.08.24 - Don't condemn sinner but don't condone sin either
Bhagavatam-daily 109 - 11.08.25 - The best charity is different from our conceptions about charity
Bhagavatam-daily 110 - 11.08.26 - Depending on anyone except Krishna makes us vulnerable to frustration
Bhagavatam-daily 111 - 11.08.27 - Pray for the leap from frustration to renunciation
Bhagavatam-daily 112 - 11.08.28 - Let the imagery of war energize spiritual life
Bhagavatam-daily 113 - 11.08.29 - Knowledge and renunciation are symbiotic - and corollary to bhakti
Bhagavatam-daily 114 - 11.08.30 - Eureka moments help us see our own plight
Bhagavatam-daily 115 - 11.08.31 - Giving up the proximate and potent Lord for anyone else is pathetic
Bhagavatam-daily 116 - 11.08.32 - Making money by sexually provoking others is reprehensible
Bhagavatam-daily 117 - 11.08.33 - Contemplate the body's nature to get a illusion-countering cerebral jolt
Bhagavatam-daily 118 - 11.08.34 - Why desire anyone other than the infallible Lord who delivers eternal happiness
Bhagavatam-daily 119 - 11.08.35 - Bhakti makes the body the means to the Lord
Bhagavatam-daily 120 - 11.08.36 - Confront the tempting mind with the question - How much?
Bhagavatam-daily 121 - 11.08.37 - See the disappearance of tormenting desires as Krishna's mercy
Bhagavatam-daily 122 - 11.08.38 - Misery is not due to unfulfilled desire, but desire itself
Bhagavatam-daily 123 - 11.08.39 - Use detachment for increasing devotion, not challenging temptation
Bhagavatam-daily 124 - 11.08.40 - Take shelter by being materially satisfied and spiritually dynamic
Bhagavatam-daily 125 - 11.08.41 - Recognize the danger to realize the need for a rescuer
Bhagavatam-daily 126 - 11.08.42 - We become our protectors by accepting Krishna's protection
Bhagavatam-daily 127 - 11.08.43 - Peacefulness amidst distress shows authentic detachment
Bhagavatam-daily 128 - 11.08.44 - Worldly desire is the cause of suffering and is itself suffering
Bhagavatam-daily 129 - 11.09.01 - Posssessiveness produces pain
Bhagavatam-daily 130 - 11.09.02 - Courage is seen not just in fighting but in choosing one's fights
Bhagavatam-daily 131 - 11.09.03 - Seek krida and rati in devotion, not possession
Bhagavatam-daily 132 - 11.09.04 - Even the ignorant can inspire seekers of the transcendent
Bhagavatam-daily 133 - 11.09.05-08 - Use presence of mind to deal effectively with practical problems
Bhagavatam-daily 134 - 11.09.09 - All lessons don't have to be taught to be learned
Bhagavatam-daily 135 - 11.09.10 - Minimize the noise of conflict and gossip
Bhagavatam-daily 136 - 11.09.11 - Strive for mind control while doing spiritual practices
Bhagavatam-daily 137 - 11.09.12 - Exhaust the fuel of material desire by kindling spirtual desire
Bhagavatam-daily 138 - 11.09.13 - Life's small events can teach us more than the so-called big events
Bhagavatam-daily 139 - 11.09.14 - Let nothing distract from spiritual purposefulness
Bhagavatam-daily 140 - 11.09.15 - Don't reinvent the wheel - just use it for Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 141 - 11.09.16 - Remember the world's hugeness to not be sucked in our own small world
Bhagavatam-daily 142 - 11.09.17 - Avoid frenzy by meditating on the inactivity during annihilation
Bhagavatam-daily 143 - 11.09.18 - God is beyond all designations, even religious designations
Bhagavatam-daily 144 - 11.09.19 - Time predates space, doesn't parallel it as another dimension in spacetime
Bhagavatam-daily 145 - 11.09.20 - Free will requires existence of arena for its execution
Bhagavatam-daily 146 - 11.09.21 - Krishna emanates and transcends material existence
Bhagavatam-daily 147 - 11.09.22 - Our destination is shaped by the intersection of psychology and reincarnation
Bhagavatam-daily 148 - 11.09.23 - Don't see the spiritual world merely as a geographical neighbor of the material world
Bhagavatam-daily 149 - 11.09.24 - Our learning depends on our thirst for learning
Bhagavatam-daily 150 - 11.09.25 - The body is doomed - don't doom yourself with it
Bhagavatam-daily 151 - 11.09.26 - Be grateful not to the body but to Krishna who gives the body and the intelligence to use it well
Bhagavatam-daily 152 - 11.09.27 - Don't serve the body-guru - serve Krishna with the body
Bhagavatam-daily 153 - 11.09.28 - The human form makes pointless material existence purposeful
Bhagavatam-daily 154 - 11.09.29 - Tap immediately the rare potential of the human form
Bhagavatam-daily 155 - 11.09.30 - Realization manifests as renunciation and humility
Bhagavatam-daily 156 - 11.09.31 - Take responsibilty of internalizing the guru's teachings from different perspectives
Bhagavatam-daily 157 - 11.09.32 - Sharing spiritual knowledge enriches both student and teacher
Bhagavatam-daily 158 - 11.09.33 - Don't just learn - learn to learn
Bhagavatam-daily 159 - 11.10.01 - Take shelter of Krishna according to your nature
Bhagavatam-daily 160 - 11.10.02 - Understand the deceptiveness of material appearance of things
Bhagavatam-daily 161 - 11.10.03 - Sense objects are insubstantial like dream objects
Bhagavatam-daily 162 - 11.10.04 - For the best, give up not just the bad but also the good
Bhagavatam-daily 163 - 11.10.05 - The purpose of sadhana is the change of desires
Bhagavatam-daily 164 - 11.10.06 - Let speech elevate, not downgrade, consciousness
Bhagavatam-daily 165 - 11.10.07 - Be self-interested, but after knowing the true self
Bhagavatam-daily 166 - 11.10.08 - See beyond visible object to invisible active principle
Bhagavatam-daily 167 - 11.10.09 - Variety of levels of consciousness is due to variety of mediums, not of sources
Bhagavatam-daily 168 - 11.10.10 - See the Lord as the source of illusion - and illumination
Bhagavatam-daily 169 - 11.10.11 - Spiritual curiosity changes the default object of our consiousness
Bhagavatam-daily 170 - 11.10.12 - The guru's flame of knowledge ignites the disciple's flame through instruction
Bhagavatam-daily 171 - 11.10.13 - The flame of purificatory knowledge incinerates all illusions
Bhagavatam-daily 172 - 11.10.14 - Don't let variety become the mother of illusion
Bhagavatam-daily 173 - 11.10.15 - Karma-mimamsa accepts the Vedas but defeats their purpose
Bhagavatam-daily 174 - 11.10.16 - Holding that consciousness is eternal but not transcendental is misleading
Bhagavatam-daily 175 - 11.10.15 - See the frustration of our material plans as confirmation of our spiritual purpose
Bhagavatam-daily 176 - 11.10.18 - Material expertise is no insurance from misery
Bhagavatam-daily 177 - 11.10.19 - Death represents our ultimate failure to sustain relationships
Bhagavatam-daily 178 - 11.10.20 - Expose the tricks by which the mind denies our mortality
Bhagavatam-daily 179 - 11.10.21 - Extension of vision from this world to the next doesn't help without extension of conception of self
Bhagavatam-daily 180 - 11.10.22 - Karma-kanda is a technique that can backfire at minor error
Bhagavatam-daily 181 - 11.10.23 - Heaven is a station - seeing it as a destination is illusion
Bhagavatam-daily 182 - 11.10.24 - Seek change not in scale of pleasure, but in its nature
Bhagavatam-daily 183 - 11.10.25 - Infatuation with gratification induces oblivion of impending tribulation
Bhagavatam-daily 184 - 11.10.26 - Seek to not forget the temporariness of reality, but to transcend it
Bhagavatam-daily 185 - 11.10.27 - Obsession with pleasure causes degeneration of character
Bhagavatam-daily 186 - 11.10.28 - Animal slaughter and fascination with vampires reflects tamo-guna
Bhagavatam-daily 187 - 11.10.29 - Enjoying by closing eyes doesn't do away with consequences
Bhagavatam-daily 188 - 11.10.30 - Krishna as time impels us to turn towards Krishna as Bhagavan
Bhagavatam-daily 189 - 11.10.31 - The more we understand that we are controlled, the more we can break free
Bhagavatam-daily 190 - 11.10.32 - Dependence on Krishna makes us independent of illusion
Bhagavatam-daily 191 - 11.10.33 - Defiance of God sentences us to fearful life
Bhagavatam-daily 192 - 11.10.34 - Good becomes bad when made into God
Bhagavatam-daily 193 - 11.10.35 - Desire drags us from the real world to the reel world
Bhagavatam-daily 194 - 11.10.36 - The difference between the bound and the entangled eludes the eye
Bhagavatam-daily 195 - 11.10.37 - Non-imitable observable attributes characteristize the advanced
Bhagavatam-daily 196 - 11.11.01 - Our subjective perception is not the objective reality
Bhagavatam-daily 197 - 11.11.02 - Does material existence have no existence?
Bhagavatam-daily 198 - 11.11.03 - Be not self-conscious or Maya-conscious - be Krishna conscious
Bhagavatam-daily 199 - 11.11.04 - Accepting our smallness brings wisdom
Bhagavatam-daily 200 - 11.11.05 - Krishna is potent and benevolent
Bhagavatam-daily 201 - 11.11.06 - Quench the thirst for happiness by diving into the Lord's glories
Bhagavatam-daily 202 - 11.11.07 - Enlightenment means to realize not just our oneness with the Absolute but also our difference
Bhagavatam-daily 203 - 11.11.08 - Embodied existence is not a dream - bodily misidentification is
Bhagavatam-daily 204 - 11.11.09 - Maximizing the contact of senses and sense objects is the expressway to entanglement
Bhagavatam-daily 205 - 11.11.11 - Beware of the internal sabotage of our defense mechanism
Bhagavatam-daily 206 - 11.11.11 - See the world with a clinical perspective like a viritual reality
Bhagavatam-daily 207 - 11.11.12 - Detachment enables us to be situated in matter but not bound by it
Bhagavatam-daily 208 - 11.11.13 - Dream to come out of the dream
Bhagavatam-daily 209 - 11.11.14 - Our mentality determines whether we are in the body or are beyond it
Bhagavatam-daily 210 - 11.11.15 - Transcend duality by being fixed in a reality higher than duality
Bhagavatam-daily 211 - 11.11.16 - The equal vision is principle-centered, not pleasure-centered
Bhagavatam-daily 212 - 11.11.17 - The wise act as foolish to avoid being entangled with the foolish
Bhagavatam-daily 213 - 11.11.18 - Know not just the letter of the Vedas but their purpose too
Bhagavatam-daily 214 - 11.11.19 - Good without God is no good
Bhagavatam-daily 215 - 11.11.20 - Knowledge even if Vedic is barren without Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 216 - 11.11.21 - Go beyond material variety by delighting in spiritual variety
Bhagavatam-daily 217 - 11.11.22 - Krishna is not a judging God but an accomodating God
Bhagavatam-daily 218 - 11.11.23 - Devotion channelizes our active nature towards Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 219 - 11.11.24 - Have an integrated, not fragmented, understanding of bhakti
Bhagavatam-daily 220 - 11.11.26 - Dont reduce bhakti to your conceptions - expand your conceptions
Bhagavatam-daily 221 – 11.11.27 – To take the bhakti treatment seriously, boost your faith in Krishnas healing expertise
Bhagavatam-daily 222 – 11.11.28 – God is not just the best in a category - he is beyond all categories
Bhagavatam-daily 223 – 11.11.29 – Mercy is given from a superior position, but not with a superior disposition
Bhagavatam-daily 224 – 11.11.30 – Even if desires dont get out, we can wait them out
Bhagavatam-daily 225 – 11.11.31 – Determination is more enriching than wealth
Bhagavatam-daily 226 – 11.11.32 – Give up whatever comes in the way of bhakti, even if it is dharma
Bhagavatam-daily 227 – 11.11.33 – The glorification of devotion is not a denigration of reason
Bhagavatam-daily 228 – 11.11.34 – The infinite by his infinite mercy becomes accessible in a finite form to the finite
Bhagavatam-daily 229 – 11.11.35 – Let spiritual sound shape your inner and outer world
Bhagavatam-daily 230 – 11.11.36 – Pass higher test to quickly gain higher taste
Bhagavatam-daily 231 – 11.11.37 – Don’t let technical minutiae blind you to transcendental purpose
Bhagavatam-daily 232 – 11.11.38 – The desire to become bigger keeps us a beggar
Bhagavatam-daily 233 – 11.11.39 – The counter for duplicity is not just honesty but also simplicity
Bhagavatam-daily 234 – 11.11.40 – Maintaining the sanctity of Deity worship protects our vision from sliding to the mundane
Bhagavatam-daily 235 – 11.11.41 – By giving our dearmost things to Krishna, we make Krishna our dearmost thing
Bhagavatam-daily 236 – 11.11.42 – Don't see God as reduced to the world or as disconnected from the world
Bhagavatam-daily 237 – 11.11.43 – See various worshipable things as pathways to the supreme worshipable
Bhagavatam-daily 238 – 11.11.44 – Worship of Krishna is eminently accessible through his devotees
Bhagavatam-daily 239 – 11.11.45 – See social service as a form of devotional service, not its replacement
Bhagavatam-daily 240 – 11.11.46 – Specific details of Krishna's forms are not to be transcended but to be treasured
Bhagavatam-daily 241 – 11.11.47 – Absorption comes from both attraction and determination
Bhagavatam-daily 242 – 11.11.48 – Association sustains devotion
Bhagavatam-daily 243 – 11.11.49 – Krishna teaches not as a pedant but as a friend
Bhagavatam-daily 244 – 11.12.01 – The primacy of bhakti is not exclusive but is inclusive
Bhagavatam-daily 245 – 11.12.02 – Association gives access to Krishna's omnipotence internally and externally
Bhagavatam-daily 246 – 11.12.03 – Association makes bhakti accessible to all humans - and nonhumans too.mp3
Bhagavatam-daily 247 – 11.12.04 – Social division is not to be eternalized because social designation itself is not eternal
Bhagavatam-daily 248 – 11.12.05 – Association's potency is not just declared but also demonstrated
Bhagavatam-daily 249 – 11.12.06 – Association benedicts not just the elevated but also the degraded
Bhagavatam-daily 250 – 11.12.07 – Association of devotees is equivalent to the association of Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 251 – 11.12.08 – Even the unqualified become liberated by bhakti
Bhagavatam-daily 252 – 11.12.09 – Religious activities should increase our Krishna consciousness, not our self-consciousness
Bhagavatam-daily 253 – 11.12.10 – Radharani's love is the summit of selflessness
Bhagavatam-daily 254 – 11.12.11 – Relativity of the gopis' perception of time demonstrates their intensity of love
Bhagavatam-daily 255 – 11.12.12 – Krishna uses impersonalist imagery to convey devotional glory
Bhagavatam-daily 256 – 11.12.13 – Devotion transcends mundane morality
Bhagavatam-daily 257 – 11.12.14 – Bhakti provides what other paths do and more
Bhagavatam-daily 258 – 11.12.15 – Surrender is the path to fearlessness
Bhagavatam-daily 259 – 11.12.16 – Deference doesn't mean settling for ambiguity
Bhagavatam-daily 260 – 11.12.17 – We depend on Krishna even if we deny that dependence
Bhagavatam-daily 261 - 11.12.18 - Sacred fire and sacred sound are manifestations of and means to Krishna.mp3
Bhagavatam-daily 262 - 11.12.19 - Krishna manifests as the senses and the sense perception mechanism to ultimately spiritualize our consciousness
Bhagavatam-daily 263 – 11.12.20 – Let perception of variety enhance appreciation of its one source
Bhagavatam-daily 264 – 11.12.21 – Krishna is the source and the essence of the material manifestation
Bhagavatam-daily 265 – 11.12.22 – The Bhagavatam's sophisticated analogies provide intellectual absorption in Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 266 – 11.12.23 – The godless are like reverse-swans
Bhagavatam-daily 267 – 11.12.24 – Both Gitas teach using and transcending jnana
Bhagavatam-daily 268 – 11.13.1 – We need to come to goodness before acting in pure goodness
Bhagavatam-daily 269 – 11.13.2 – Dont reject the material - connect with the material that takes us to the transcendental
Bhagavatam-daily 270 – 11.13.3 – Goodness helps us to best live in the ocean while bhakti takes us to the shore
Bhagavatam-daily 271 – 11.13.4 – Observe and alter the ten factors that determine the mode influencing us
Bhagavatam-daily 272 – 11.13.5 – The Vedic plan is not just inclusive but also progressive
Bhagavatam-daily 273 – 11.13.6 – Cultivate goodness as a foundation for spiritual takeoff
Bhagavatam-daily 274 – 11.13.7 – Guided destruction facilitates regeneration
Bhagavatam-daily 275 – 11.13.8 – Illusion makes us to stick to the source of suffering
Bhagavatam-daily 276 – 11.13.9 – To think we are what we are not is our foundational illuson
Bhagavatam-daily 277 – 11.13.10 – The mind's oscillation keeps us in illusion
Bhagavatam-daily 278 – 11.13.11 – Awareness of consequence without alteration of lifestyle is non-transformational
Bhagavatam-daily 279 – 11.13.12 – We may be contaminated by the modes, but we dont have to be controlled by them
Bhagavatam-daily 280 – 11.13.13 – Connect regularly with transcendence to prevent sliding into ignorance
Bhagavatam-daily 281 – 11.13.14 – The purpose of yoga is to help the mind find rest in Krishna
Bhagavatam-daily 282 – 11.13.15 – The Kumaras are exalted souls eminently qualified for enlightenment
Bhagavatam-daily 283 – 11.13.16 – Inspiration can't be extracted by law or blood
Bhagavatam-daily 284 – 11.13.17 – Beware of the sense objects to which you are attracted and those which are attracted to you
Bhagavatam-daily 285 – 11.13.18 – Spiritual safety comes not by position but by devotion
Bhagavatam-daily 286 – 11.13.19 – The essence-shower enlightens the essence-seeker
Bhagavatam-daily 287 – 11.13.20 – Devotees want to know the identity of not just God but also his specific manifestations
Bhagavatam-daily 289 – 11.13.22 – Impersonalim reduces all inquiry to incoherence
Bhagavatam-daily 290 – 11.13.23 – Both spiritual and material monism are fallacious
Bhagavatam-daily 291 – 11.13.24 – Agnosticism reduces God to irrelevance and non-existence
Bhagavatam-daily 292 - 11.13.25 - Use your capacity to control to connect with the supreme controller
Bhagavatam-daily 293 - 11.13.26 - Resist the lower natural by embracing the higher natural
Bhagavatam-daily 294 - 11.13.27 - Contemplate one's observer position to cultivate dispassion
Bhagavatam-daily 295 - 11.13.28 - Spiritual is not just above goodness - it is way above
Bhagavatam-daily 296 - 11.13.29 - Rejection of illusion brings release from anxiety
Bhagavatam-daily 297 - 11.13.30 - Wake up from the dream, not within the dream
Bhagavatam-daily 298 - 11.13.31 - Absorption in higher reality counters infatuation with lower reality
Bhagavatam-daily 299 - 11.13.32 - The absence of memory is also a memory
Bhagavatam-daily 300 - 11.13.33 - Faith in Krishna is similar to and different from other kinds of faith
Bhagavatam-daily 301 - 11.13.34 - Don't equate continuity of form with continuity of substance
Bhagavatam-daily 302 – 11.13.35 – Don't equate the temporarily real with the eternally real
Bhagavatam-daily 303 – 11.13.36 – Devotion is the ultimate intoxication
Bhagavatam-daily 304 – 11.13.37 – Austerity is meant not to torment the body but to transcend the body
Bhagavatam-daily 305 – 11.13.38 – Krishna questions the question before answering the question
Bhagavatam-daily 306 – 11.13.39 – Unity of purpose underlies diversity of processes
Bhagavatam-daily 307 – 11.13.40 – Purification is not the depriver of happiness - impurity is
Bhagavatam-daily 308 – 11.13.41 – Enlightenment is not just accepting the reality of the spiritual but also accepting its primacy
Bhagavatam-daily 309 – 11.14.1 – See the diversity of paths neither fanatically nor uncritically
Bhagavatam-daily 310 – 11.14.2 – Diversity of paths accommodates variety of desires
Bhagavatam-daily 311 – 11.14.3 – The knowledge beyond history manifests in history
Bhagavatam-daily 312 – 11.14.4 – Sonic succession is more important than seminal succession
Bhagavatam-daily 313 – 11.14.5-7 – Vedic variety reflects universal demography
Bhagavatam-daily 314 – 11.14.8 – We need the living tradition to protect us from deviation
Bhagavatam-daily 315 – 11.14.9 – Spiritual universality accomodates material variety
Bhagavatam-daily 34 - 11.07.24 - Learning from the past is a shortcut to learning