Lecture Series

Gita 04.24 – When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual

Gita 04.23 – Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity

Bhagavatam-daily 210 – 11.11.15 – Transcend duality by being fixed in a reality higher than duality

Gita 04.22 – See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability

Bhagavatam-daily 209 – 11.11.14 – Our mentality determines whether we are in the body or are beyond it

Bhagavatam-daily 208 – 11.11.13 – Dream to come out of the dream

Gita 04.21 – Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire

Bhagavatam-daily 207 – 11.11.12 – Detachment enables us to be situated in matter but not bound by it

Gita 04.20 – The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter

Bhagavatam-daily 206 – 11.11.11 – See the world with a clinical perspective like a viritual reality

Gita 04.19 – Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant

Bhagavatam-daily 205 – 11.11.11 – Beware of the internal sabotage of our defense mechanism

Gita 04.18 – Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization

Bhagavatam-daily 204 – 11.11.09 – Maximizing the contact of senses and sense objects is the expressway to entanglement

Gita 04.17 – Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible

Bhagavatam-daily 203 – 11.11.08 – Embodied existence is not a dream – bodily misidentification is

Gita 04.16 – Don’t simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning

Bhagavatam-daily 202 – 11.11.07 – Enlightenment means to realize not just our oneness with the Absolute but also our difference

Gita 04.15 – Follow the successful to be successful

Bhagavatam-daily 201 – 11.11.06 – Quench the thirst for happiness by diving into the Lord’s glories

Bhagavatam-daily 200 – 11.11.05 – Krishna is potent and benevolent

Gita 04.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position protects us from karmic subjugation

Bhagavatam-daily 199 – 11.11.04 – Accepting our smallness brings wisdom

Gita 04.13 – Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating

Bhagavatam-daily 198 – 11.11.03 – Be not self-conscious or Maya-conscious – be Krishna conscious

Gita 04.12 – Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion

Bhagavatam first canto study 6 – 1.2.9-1.2.15 – Bhakti leads to realization of the Absolute Truth

Gita 04.11 – Appreciate the profundity of Krishna’s reciprocity and universality

Bhagavatam first canto study 5 – 1.2.1-1.2.8 – The Bhagavatam’s speaker and subject are radically exalted

Bhagavatam-daily 197 – 11.11.02 – Does material existence have no existence?

Gita 04.10 – Overcome 3 obstructive attitudes for taking shelter of Krishna

Bhagavatam-daily 196 – 11.11.01 – Our subjective perception is not the objective reality

Gita 04.09 – Attainment of Krishna is not rebirth, but release from rebirth

Bhagavatam-daily 195 – 11.10.37 – Non-imitable observable attributes characteristize the advanced

Gita 04.08 – Let Krishna establish dharma within

Bhagavatam-daily 194 – 11.10.36 – The difference between the bound and the entangled eludes the eye

Gita 04.07 – Universality of opportunity defines and distinguishes dharma

Bhagavatam-daily 193 – 11.10.35 – Desire drags us from the real world to the reel world

Gita 04.06 – Don’t presume familiarity with concepts due to familiarity with terms

Bhagavatam-daily 192 – 11.10.34 – Good becomes bad when made into God

Gita 04.05 – Krishna spiritual position is not affected by his material location

Bhagavatam-daily 191 – 11.10.33 – Defiance of God sentences us to fearful life

Gita 04.04 – Accept responsibility for clear communication – don’t affix blame for unclear communication

Bhagavatam-daily 190 – 11.10.32 – Dependence on Krishna makes us independent of illusion

Gita 04.03 – Krishna reveals his glory to those who delight in that glory

Bhagavatam-daily 189 – 11.10.31 – The more we understand that we are controlled, the more we can break free

Gita 04.02 – The Gita lives through those who live the Gita

Bhagavatam-daily 188 – 11.10.30 – Krishna as time impels us to turn towards Krishna as Bhagavan

Gita 04.01 – Yogic knowledge comes from transcendental source through extra-terrestrial route to terrestrial recipient

Gita 03.43 – Use intelligence to pursue transcendence and subdue lust

Gita 03.42 – In the line of fire from lust the soul is the last

Gita 03.41 – Regulation is the foundation for purification

Bhagavatam first canto study 4 – 1.1.4-1.1.23 – The sages’ questions

Bhagavatam-daily 187 – 11.10.29 – Enjoying by closing eyes doesn’t do away with consequences

Gita 03.40 – Lust has taken over our knowledge-acquiring mechanism

Bhagavatam-daily 186 – 11.10.28 – Animal slaughter and fascination with vampires reflects tamo-guna

Gita 03.39 – The eternal enemy blinds, binds and burns

Bhagavatam-daily 185 – 11.10.27 – Obsession with pleasure causes degeneration of character

Gita 03.38 – No one is exempt from lust’s delusion

Gita 03.37 – Inner enemies are more dangerous than outer enemies

Bhagavatam-daily 184 – 11.10.26 – Seek to not forget the temporariness of reality, but to transcend it

Gita 03.36 – Alien desires become our own and impel us to sin

Bhagavatam-daily 183 – 11.10.25 – Infatuation with gratification induces oblivion of impending tribulation

Gita 03.35 – Credit lies in sticking to duty under duress, not in changing duty

Bhagavatam-daily 182 – 11.10.24 – Seek change not in scale of pleasure, but in its nature

Gita 03.34 – Don’t let sensory urges steal dharmic credits

Bhagavatam-daily 181 – 11.10.23 – Heaven is a station – seeing it as a destination is illusion

Gita 03.33 – Our varna nature needs to be channelized, not repressed

Bhagavatam-daily 180 – 11.10.22 – Karma-kanda is a technique that can backfire at minor error

Bhagavatam-daily 179 – 11.10.21 – Extension of vision from this world to the next doesn’t help without extension of conception of self

Gita 03.32 – Turning away from Krishna defeats the purpose of knowledge

Gita 03.31 – Krishna’s words are eternal and faith-worthy

Bhagavatam-daily 178 – 11.10.20 – Expose the tricks by which the mind denies our mortality

Gita 03.30 – Focus not on detaching from the entangling but on attaching to the liberating

Just delight in the Lord’s glories – he govinda he gopala song meaning

Bhagavatam-daily 177 – 11.10.19 – Death represents our ultimate failure to sustain relationships

Gita 03.29 – The wise should elevate, not agitate, the ignorant

Bhagavatam-daily 176 – 11.10.18 – Material expertise is no insurance from misery

Surrender by service and meditation – Sarvasva tomara meaning

Gita 03.28 – To know the truth means to see how spirit can stay disentangled from matter during action

Bhagavatam-daily 175 – 11.10.15 – See the frustration of our material plans as confirmation of our spiritual purpose

Treasure the supreme realization – ekhona bujhinu prabhu meaning

Gita 03.27 – Mistaking initiation of action with its execution is illusion

Bhagavatam-daily 174 – 11.10.16 – Holding that consciousness is eternal but not transcendental is misleading

Bhagavatam-daily 173 – 11.10.15 – Karma-mimamsa accepts the Vedas but defeats their purpose

Gita 03.26 – Don’t exhibit your high level – attract people to one level higher

Gita 03.25 – The detached and the attached differ not in action but in intention

Bhagavatam-daily 172 – 11.10.14 – Don’t let variety become the mother of illusion

Bhagavatam-daily 171 – 11.10.13 – The flame of purificatory knowledge incinerates all illusions

Bhagavatam-daily 170 – 11.10.12 – The guru’s flame of knowledge ignites the disciple’s flame through instruction

Bhagavatam-daily 169 – 11.10.11 – Spiritual curiosity changes the default object of our consiousness

Gita 03.24 – Krishna turns on its head Arjuna’s argument about varna-sankara

Bhagavatam-daily 168 – 11.10.10 – See the Lord as the source of illusion – and illumination

Bhagavatam-daily 167 – 11.10.09 – Variety of levels of consciousness is due to variety of mediums, not of sources

Bhagavatam-daily 166 – 11.10.08 – See beyond visible object to invisible active principle

Gita 03.23 – Walk your talk

Gita 03.22 – Krishna’s supreme position redefines duty as lila

Gita 03.21 – We learn from others’ examples and set examples for others

Gita 03.20 – Examples make the conceptual tangible

Gita 03.19 – Detached dutifulness opens the door to perfection