Lecture Series

Gita 18.78 The Gita’s purpose is not just to proclaim God’s position but primarily to transform man’s disposition

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 38 – 10.7.13-18 The potency of blessings increases with the purity of the blesser

Gita 18.77 Recollecting Krishnas universal form stimulates wonder in some and fear in others

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 37 – 10.7.7-12 Vrajavasis try to protect the one who protects everyone

Gita 18.76 The Gita’s conversation is memorable and relishable

Bringing out the best within us

Making healthy choices

Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita’s wisdom

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 36 – 10.7.1-6 Krishna’s childhood pastimes are both entertaining and enlightening

Growing through adversities

What is destiny?

Gita 18.74 The Gita describes a mahatama and makes its hearer into a mahatma

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 35 – 10.6.35-44 Bhagavatam highlights the extraordinariness of the Vrajavasis

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 34 – 10.6.24-34 Contact with Krishna is miraculously purifying

Gita 18.73 Harmony with the divine infuses our fleeting insignificant lives with lasting significance

Gita 18.72 A philosophical conversation amidst emotional tribulation testifies to Arjuna’s sincerity and Krishna’s potency

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 33 – 10.6.15-23 The Vrajavasis invoke God for the protection of God

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 32 – 10.6.7-14 Putana deceived the Vrajavasis, but Krishna deceived her

Gita 18.71 Krishna compassionately offers connections at decreasing levels of commitment

Appreciating Prabhupada’s sacrifice, wisdom and legacy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 31 – 10.6.1-6 Sukadeva G reveals the spoiler to relieve Parikshit M anxiety

Gita 18.70 See the sanctity of Gita study in terms of intent, content and result

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 4 – How Krishna appears in Vrindavan

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 3 – How Krishna appears in Mathura

Gita 18.69 See the superlative as an exhortation to devotional action

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 30 – 10.5.26-32 Relationships are the foundational wealth that is essential for anything to be enjoyable

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 2 – How Krishna freed the princesses from Naraka

Janmashtami Krishna-katha 1 – How Krishna freed the kings from Jarasandha and how Krishna frees us

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 29 – 10.5.21-25 See adversities as actions of destiny to stay composed

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 28 – 10.5.15-20 When Krishna came to Vraja, so did the goddess of fortune

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 27 – 10.5.7-14 Krishna’s birth floods Vraja with joy

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 26 – 10.5.1-6 Let celebration center on purification, not gratification

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 25 – 10.4.38-46 Bad disposition with bad association is brutally bad

Gita 18.68 The bhakti cure cures more those who share the cure more

Gita 18.67 Though ultimately every heart longs for divine love, not every heart is presently ready for divine love

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 24 – 10.4.25-37 Kamsa’s change of heart doesn’t last for long

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 23 – 10.4.17.24 Others’ past bad karma doesn’t rationalize our present misdeeds towards them

Gita 18.66 The call to rise above dharma is not a call to slip below dharma

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 22 – 10.4.10-16 Kamsa’s self-recrimination is self-serving

Gita 18.65 Promises in a close relationship reflect and affect the closeness of the relationship

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 21 – 10.4.1-10 Heartless Kamsa rejects Devaki’s heartfelt plea

Gita 18.64 Krishna’s tone rises from informational analysis to impassioned advocacy

Gita 18.63 Knowledge guides our free will by showing us the consequences of our actions

Gita 18.62 The deepest peace comes by not an external serene situation but by an internal spiritual connection

Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 20 -10.3.47-53 Just as the ocean gave way to Rama, Yamuna gave way to Krishna

Gita 18.60 How we act is determined by our material nature but for what purpose we act isnt

Gita 18.59 Ego means to think that we know better than God

Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can’t be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – PURE acronym – 2

Gita 18.57 Take shelter of the intelligence to convince yourself of the need to take Krishna’s shelter

When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – 1

Gita 18.56 The bhakti university takes seekers from any level to the summit of spiritual perfection

Gita 18.55 Don’t divorce the literal reading of one word from the overall context of the text

Gita 18.54 Devotion doesn’t culminate in liberation, liberation culminates in devotion

Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual

Gita 18.52 Take shelter of renunciation to cultivate inner absorption

Karna character analysis – Are we doomed by destiny or by our own decisions?

Ashwatthama character analysis – Just because we are empowered doesn’t mean that we are right

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – If we don’t want help, even God can’t help

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – Are some people innately evil?

Gita 18.51 Use intelligence to counter the mind’s centrifugal force

Dhritarashtra character analysis 2 – Do we need to lose everything before we lose our attachments?

Dhritarashtra character analysis 1 – Attachment makes us stone-hearted

Understanding the mind and how it makes us unconscious

Gita 18.50 The Gita’s purpose is not to describe spiritual paths but to analyze them for making an informed choice

Gita 18.49 Our spiritual evolution goes through multiple levels of perfection from engagement through disengagement to devotion

Gita 18.48 See beyond the unpalatable to the essential to pursue the transcendental

Gita 18.47 Acknowledging our present diversity is essential for realizing our spiritual commanality

Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine’s gifts to the divine

From ritual to spiritual 3 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – The brahmanis selfless devotion

Dhruva pastime analysis 3 – DHRUV acronym – Realization and reconciliation result from devotion

Dhruva pastime analysis 2 – DHRUV acronym – Humility and honesty leads to authentic bhakti

Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 3 – Balance & Commitment

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 2 – QA

3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 1 – Authenticity

From ritual to spiritual 2 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – Understanding the brahmans

Gita 18.44 Protecting cows protects the cow protectors from greed

Gita 18.43 Kshatriyas control in service of the supreme controller

Dhruva pastime analysis 1 – Everyone faces distress, the fortunate find the right direction – DHRUV acronym

From ritual to spiritual 1 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas

Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction

Gita 18.41 Varnashrama provides customized spirituality for elevating people from where they are

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 19 – 10.3.39-46 Omnipotent Krishna can act through transcendental or normal means

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 18 – 10.3.32-38 How past life connections make sense of present-life situations

Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature

Gita 18.39 Pleasure in ignorance begins in ignorance and ends in increased ignorance

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 17 – 10.3.26-31 Devaki acknowledges Krishna as the provider of the supreme safety and strives for his safety

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 16 – 10.3.20-25 The divine’s complexion is sometimes a description and sometimes a signification

Gita 18.38 The pleasure of titillation leads to the agony of tribulation

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 15 – 10.3.11-19 Krishna’s appearance dissipates the darkness without and within

Gita 18.37 Spiritual knowledge gives us the purpose to persevere through the poison till the nectar

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 14 – 10.3.1-10 The celestial, terrestrial and psychological characteristics that celebrate the Lord’s appearance

Gita 18.36 Some pleasures are the start of sorrow – and some the end of sorrow

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 13 – 10.2.37-42 Why the unborn Lord is born is both inferable and inconceivable

Gita 18.35 To hold on to thought-patterns that hurt us is to abuse our determination

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 12 – 10.2-31-36 Krishna’s lotus feet make the insurmountable material ocean insignificant

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 11 – 10.2.25-30 The devatas glorify the true nature of the Absolute Truth

Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion