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How does Hanuman embody humble ambitiousness?

How the mind becomes unclear and how to clear it

God as the supreme therapist 5 – Cultivating qualities is integral to cultivating devotion

When distancing ourselves from our desires isn’t enough what to do?

If our scriptural knowledge makes us proud what can we do?

God as the supreme therapist 4 – How association works and how to make it work

Do you need to break up with your phone?

Hanuman and Prabhupada were given a purpose – when we haven’t been given one how should we live?

Can spiritual growth and career growth go together?

God as the supreme therapist 3 – Devotional detachment is not freedom from emotions but freedom of emotions

Why did Bhima abandon Hidimibi – did he marry her simply to gain political power?

Did Krishna use Ghatothkacha as a sacrificial pawn?

If we like to read a lot and others don’t like our reading so much what to do?

How do we gain trust while interacting with unknown people?

God as the supreme therapist 2 – To be others’ well wisher means to channel their emotions towards proper use of their free will

Intelligence means to know which thoughts to contemplate and which to neglect

Healing the earth by healing the heart

God as the supreme therapist 1 – Discerning the Prahlada and Hiranyakashipu mentalities within us

How can we avoid labelling and judging others?

When different people consider different courses of action as right how to reconcile?

Amidst so many materialistic temptations today how can we stay devotional?

How can we alert others to future dangers without discouraging them?

Were Internet and wifi present at the time of the Mahabharata?

Why does Krishna make it so difficult for us to come to him?

Do intellectuals find it more difficult to love Krishna?

Appreciating Radhanatha Maharaj’s contributions towards helping devotees practice bhakti sustainably

If peer pressure makes us do materialistic things what to do?

When the abducted Sita was not the real Sita why was Rama distressed by her abduction?

Learning to be kind to ourselves

When the mind wants to change unchangeable circumstances what to do?

If we are to hate the sin aren’t we to be averse to sin?

Bhakti in three modes 3 – Bhakti in goodness brings sustainability purity and harmony

Making sense of life through karma and reincarnation

How to decide how much to be satisfied with?

How are some people emotionally tough even when they don’t practice bhakti?

Bhakti in three modes 2 – Bhakti in passion equates material success with spiritual advancement

How to be detached without becoming irresponsible

If we identify that we are feeling self-pity what do we do next?

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

Bhakti in three modes 1 – Bhakti in ignorance is self-righteous and hurtful

To blame is to be lame – stop seeking scapegoats

Are rocks alive – can we become rocks in our future life?

If someone takes retirement and then feels unengaged and disoriented what should they do?

Focus on life not on the mind’s commentary on life

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

If everything is God’s will how do we have free will?

Does the mind look for change and the soul look for the unchanging?

Does our spiritual master know everything about us?

Unity in diversity and diversity in unity – The Absolute’s relationship with us

Gratitude is not just an attitude but also an awareness

How can we explain morality to moral relativists?

Will anxiety be addressed in the long-term by bhakti or should we try to address it in the short-term too?

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

Resolutions in the three modes – and in transcendence

If during a class some children are distracting everyone, why isn’t anything done about it?

How can we perceive Krishna’s love amidst our and others distresses and conditionings?

Is our attraction to Krishna a conditional attraction generated by devotional conditions?

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 2

Science & Spirituality – Why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality

During chanting, can we have aids to get the mind from the physical level to the spiritual level?

When science requires only working assumptions, why do you say that science requires faith?

Why is the population increasing?

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 1

Our defining power is the power to choose our thoughts

How can we develop our relationship with the eternal using the temporary mind?

If I don’t have much work at my office, should I go and ask for more work?

Is Krishna situated in the mind or the heart – how are the two related?

4 reflections for overcoming fear of failure

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2

Does accepting our emotions mean that our getting angry is not a matter of concern?

How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?

When we are telling ourselves to concentrate, who is telling this – the soul or the intelligence – and to whom?

Three ways of perceiving Krishna’s love

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1

If some Vaishnava sampradayas reject the worship of Radharani, how to respond?

How do we know that Krishna accepts our gratitude?

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

Gita 17.22 We need discrimination to ensure that doing good actually does good

Was Ravana a good person who just committed one mistake?

The mind may stray away, but don’t let it stay away

How can the mind be our friend?

Do we need to give up guilt and worry to practice bhakti?

Gita 17.21 – Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation

If my office workload has decreased but I can’t chant or hear much what should I do?

Understanding how the mind acts as a mirror that distorts our self-conception

How does bhakti shelter us amidst physical and emotional pain?

Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity not popularity

How to reconcile the Gita – do your own duty even if imperfectly – with the Gita – do what you are good at, according to your nature?

Screen what appears on your inner screen – Learn to manage the mind

When our nature is to be spiritual why are we not attracted to Krishna?

Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity

If we move to a temple whose mood is different from that of our native temple what to do?

Science Spirituality and The Search for Meaning

How can we internalize the mood and mission of our teachers?

Is purification of the intelligence the same as purification of the mind?

Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy

How understanding destiny empowers

While analyzing our mind how to avoid paralysis by analysis?

When we are not the doers – material nature is – why are we held responsible for our actions?

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