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May 2020

• 56) Rama Navmi class – Glory Revealed Amid Adversity
• 55) Understanding Prahlada’s provocative response to Hiranyakashipu’s angry question
• 54) How God protects – Lessons from Prahlada-Narasimha pastime

April 2020

• 53) Rama Navmi class – Glory Revealed Amid Adversity

November 2019

• 52) Diwali Meditation – The light that illumines and the light that doesn’t
• 51) Govardhan Puja – The rising of consciousness from anna-maya kosha to ananda-maya kosha

October 2019

• 50) Sharad Purnima Significance
• 49) Damodarashtam 1 – The vision of the divine from the generic to the stunningly specific
• 48) The significance of Rama Vijayotsav – How goodness punishes wickedness and forgives weakness

September 2019

• 47) Radhashtami meditation 2 – Appreciating the two separations endured by Sita and Radharani
• 46) Radhashtami meditation 1 – Appreciating the sacrificing spirit of Sita and Radharani

August 2019

• 45) Krishna demonstrates through his devotees how to respond to adversity wisely
• 44) Prabhupada demonstrates how to be both faithful and resourceful for expanding Krishna consciousness
• 43) Krishna descends to show the path to happiness – Sudama pastime analysis
• 42) Krishna descends to raise us from transactional love to transformational love
• 41) How Krishna made the two lives of the gopis one – and how he can make our two lives one too
• 40) How Balarama acts as Krishna’s best friend – Balarama Purnima class

May 2019

• 39) Narasimha Chaturdashi – How Hiranyakashipu and Prahlada reside in our hearts

March 2019

• 38) Should devotees fast on Mahashivaratri?

December 2018

• 37) Gita Jayanti talk – The Gita provides Partha with paramartha

November 2018

• 36) The Spiritual Significance of Thanksgiving – Occasion, Expression, Intention
• 35) Govardhana lila lessons – Krishna disempowers and empowers – and opens channels for reciprocating love
• 34) Diwali meditation 6 – Naraka Chaturdashi – Call the Lord to free us from our hell
• 33) Diwali meditation 5 – Damodara-lila – May the love that conquers the Supreme conquer our heart
• 32) Diwali meditation 4 – Govardhana Puja – Celebrate the bounty of nature with bountiful offerings to nature and the Lord of nature
• 31) Diwali meditation 3 – Bali Pratipada – Surrendering everything fills our heart with the Lord of everything
• 30) Diwali meditation 2 – Dipotsava – Light the home with lamps and the heart with love
• 29) Diwali meditation 1 – Lakshmi Puja – Material fortune is a tool to spiritual fortune
• 28) How Halloween celebration points to our longing for Krishna

September 2018

• 27) Understanding rasa-lila 8 – Appreciating Krishna’s mystifying reciprocation
• 26) Understanding Rasa-lila 7 – Gopi-gita 3
• 25) Understanding Rasa-lila 6 – Gopi-gita 2
• 24) Understanding Rasa-lila 5 – Gopi-gita 1
• 23) Radhashtami class – Radharani demonstrates selfless love and blesses us with selfless love
• 22) Understanding rasa-lila 3 – Arrogance keeps us locked in ourselves, both apara-dharma and para-dharma get us out of ourselves
• 21) Understanding rasa-lila 2- How Bhagavatam establishes para-dharma without trivializing apara-dharma
• 20) Understanding rasa-lila 1 – How the supreme Shelter (Ashraya) becomes sheltered (Ashrita)
• 19) Janmashtami Krishna-katha 4 – How Krishna appears in Vrindavan
• 18) Janmashtami Krishna-katha 3 – How Krishna appears in Mathura
• 17) Janmashtami Krishna-katha 2 – How Krishna freed the princesses from Naraka
• 16) Janmashtami Krishna-katha 1 – How Krishna freed the kings from Jarasandha and how Krishna frees us

August 2018

• 15) Appreciating the divine Krishna-Balarama relationship

June 2018

• 14) Snana-Yatra Meditation – Understanding how God can fall sick – Hindi

May 2018

• 13) Mother’s day Meditation – Conception, Commercialization, Spiritualization

April 2018

• 12) Understanding how Narasimhadeva delivers both Prahlada and Hiranyakashipu

March 2018

• 11) Significance of Holi Bonfire and Color Festival

October 2017

• 10) LIGHT acronym – 5 Meditations on Diwali
• 9) GIRI acronym – 4 lessons from Govardhana lila

December 2016

• 8) Appreciating Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s historic contributions in historical context

October 2016

• 7) ​Diwali meditation on Science and spirituality

August 2016

• 6) Krishna is universal yet personal – Janmasthami meditation 3
• 5) Krishna teaches “Prepare for the worst, strive for the best” – Janmasthami meditation 2
• 4) Krishna teaches “Contribution without position” – Janmasthami meditation 1
• 3) Krishna descends to elevate us to happiness – Janmashtami class (Hindi)

April 2016

• 2) ​Appreciating Rama’s appreciation of Lakshmana – Ramanavmi class

April 2013

• 1) Ram Jinka Nama Hai song explanation – Rama Navmi 2013 Hindi