Lecture Series

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 3 – Avoid attachment to renunciation

Sensitivity in relationships 3 – Dealing with insensitive people

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 2 – Regulate attachment even to things that help in devotion

Sensitivity in relationships 2 – From judgment to encouragement

Sensitivity in relationships 1 – Why we need to be sensitive and why we aren’t

Nourishing the creeper of devotion 1 – The danger of becoming religious but not spiritual

Healthy self-understanding 5 – Concluding QA session

Healthy self-understanding 4 – Reasons to be kind to ourselves

Healthy self-understanding 3 – Misunderstandings about humility and tolerance

Healthy self-understanding 2 – How the mind can hurt the self

Balancing forgiveness and justice 2 – What forgiveness isn’t and what it is

Balancing forgiveness and justice 1 – Why deterrence is essential

Free will and God’s will 3 – How God helps us free our free will

Free will and God’s will 2 – Understanding the trigger cause and target of our weaknesses

Free will and God’s will 1 – God is the cause of all causes not all effects

How reincarnation makes sense of our existence and that of animals too

If someone’s religion allows meat-eating then is their eating meat a sin?

Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows -2

Memorizing scriptural verses – Whys and hows -1

How science and spirituality go together

How science points to spirituality

What is spirituality and why we need it

What science can provide – and what it can’t

Bhagavad-gita and Modern Psychology 3 – Changing our mind by changing our relationship with the mind

Bhagavad-gita and Modern Psychology – 2 – Where mindfulness works and where it falls short

Bhagavad-gita and Modern Psychology 1 – Is there anything beyond emotionality and rationality?

Managing the voice inside the head 2 – Identification Direction Transformation

Does God laugh at our plans? – part 2

Does God laugh at our plans? – part 1

Managing the voice inside the head – 1

God as the Supreme therapist 7 – Understanding how Narasimhadeva gave strength to Prahlada

God as the supreme therapist 6 – Seek not the facility to do whatever we desire – seek the clarity to discern our deepest desire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science & Spirituality – Why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality

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

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1

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

Gita 17.21 – Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation

Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity not popularity

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

Science Spirituality and The Search for Meaning

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

How understanding destiny empowers

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

Gita 17.16 Austerity of mind transforms our inner disruptive enemy into a constructive friend

Gita 17.15 Speech is meant not just for commnication but also for purification

Bhagavatam study 73 1.14.18.33 – When we apprehend the worst-case scenario we look for alternatives

Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively not destructively

Bhagavatam study 72 1.14.12.17 – Inversion of natural order prophesies inauspiciousness

Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3

Bhagavatam study 71 1.14.1.11 – Departure of the order-sustaining Lord leads to disruption of that order

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 4 – How Hanuman provoked to deter Ravana from war

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 3 – Keeping our intention above our emotions

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 2 – Earning trust through emotional intelligence

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 1 – When we hide ourselves from the Lord he hides himself from us

Ramayana series 3 – Rama-Lakshmana – Does destiny control everything?

Ramayana series2 – Vali-Sugriva – Don’t judge without understanding

Ramayana series 1 – Manthara-Kaikeyi – How manipulators mislead

Tap the mind don’t be trapped by the mind 3 – From shakshi bhava to seva bhava

Winning with emotional intelliigence 2 – Social competence through relationship management

Tap the minda don’t be trapped by the mind 2 – Why mind control backfires

Tap the mind dont be trapped by the mind 1 – The pressure for pleasure

Winning with emotional intelliigence 1 – Personal competence through self management

How to control the mind with the intelligence 3 – Conversion

How to control the mind with the intelligence 2 – Concentration

How to control the mind with the intelligence 1 – Conviction

Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Changing our input in relationships

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Changing our vision of our role in relationships

Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – Changing our vision of others

Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – How the modes turn good intentions into not-so-good actions

Gita 17.12 Yajna is like modern technology – can fuel the illusion that we are controllers and enjoyers.mp3

Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world focus on contribution from yourself.mp3

Gita 17.10 Food in ignorance isn’t nourishing satisfying or appealing.mp3

Gita 17.09 Food in passion is is sensually stimulating but eventually distressing and disease-inducing.mp3

Gita 17.08 Food in goodness provides profusely both nutrition and satisfaction

Gita 17.07 Food sacrifice charity and austerity represent broad patterns of the soul’s interaction with its encasing circles

Gita 17.06 Defying scripture be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body is demonic

Gita 17.05 Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity

Gita 17.04 Our level of consciousness determines who we feel is worshipable

Gita 17.03 The relationship between our existence and our faith is causal constitutional and consequential

Gita 17.02 See not just people’s ideological faith – see also their functional faith

Gita 17.01 The Gita universalizes and contextualizes the analytical framework of the three modes

Gita 16.24 Knowing scripture is our responsibility and our opportunity

Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next

Gita 16.22 To pursue our self-interest we need to purge out self-defeating desires

Gita 16.21 The metaphorical usage stresses the reality and gravity of the demoniac forces of lust anger and greed

Gita 16.20 Demoniac action and demoniac destination is perpetuated by demoniac disposition

Gita 16.19 Devilish delights doom the demonic to deadly destinations

Gita 16.18 When bad situations make us take shelter of our bad side we become bad people

Gita 16.17 Self-complacence and impudence perpetuate ignorance

Gita 16.16 Desires and fears cover our consciousness completely with illusion