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March 2015

• 630) No need to be oblivious of news

December 2014

• 629) Don’t provoke newcomers; teach them tactfully
• 628) Without sufficient food, people won’t receive spiritual instruction – distribute prasad

October 2014

• 627) Follow Vedic principles without disturbing the state
• 626) How festivals such as birthdays are celebrated in Vedic culture

August 2014

• 625) The holy name’s potency is not meant to justify perpetuating our sinful mentality
• 624) Sincerity is more important than procedure
• 623) Do not offend the holy name by knowingly committed sins
• 622) The difference between karma and bhakti is in intention
• 621) No sin in killing for self-defence
• 620) Violence has its utility, but it shouldn’t be abused
• 619) Don’t centralize – train for individual growth
• 618) Don’t blame others – accept responsibility
• 617) Krishna offers special mercy to those who seek him
• 616) Vasana cannot be annihilated, but it can be redirected
• 615) The Lord is not responsible for our bondage – we are
• 614) Place yourself in spiritual association to better become spiritual
• 613) Whatever belongs to us actually belongs to Krishna

July 2014

• 612) Act to set an example for others
• 611) Follow the great – don’t imitate them
• 610) Don’t disturb people about their personal affairs
• 609) Leader teaches by example
• 608) Tactfully avoid confrontation
• 607) By giving to the Lord, we don’t lose – we gain
• 606) Don’t criticize others – invoke their devotion
• 605) Don’t spoil children by artificial standard of sense gratification
• 604) Avoid criticism that creates enmity
• 603) Transcend anxiety by avoiding partisanship
• 602) The ocean of mercy is eminently worthy of mastery
• 601) Even offenders should chant
• 600) Association is like a crystal stone
• 599) Simple process, supreme benefit
• 598) Practice yoga by bringing the mind on Krishna repeatedly
• 597) Devotion leads to virtue
• 596) Elevate one’s mode by intelligence and guidance
• 595) Doubting in the beginning is a sign of intelligence
• 594) Not all piety is fortunate – strive for spiritual piety
• 593) Faithful devotion attracts blessings
• 592) Different religions arise from varying faiths in the modes

May 2014

• 591) Try to live naturally
• 590) Hearing is the way to spiritual learning
• 589) Seek a purpose beyond purposeless material existence
• 588) After devastation, the first life appears in water
• 587) To love means to serve
• 586) Service is unavoidable
• 585) Prabhupada approves Monier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary
• 584) Ethics is the basic principle of purification
• 583) How we are different from God
• 582) Let the body not distract you from success in life
• 581) Creatively offer food in goodness to Krishna
• 580) Krishna tests to increase our devotion
• 579) We need ethics to come to goodness
• 578) How to make the whole world peaceful and prosperous just by Eating and Dancing?

April 2014

• 577) Serving God with one’s extraordinary talent means successful life
• 576) By simply attempting to realize God, one is guaranteed birth in a wealthy or aristocratic family
• 575) Human form of life not to work hard like asses, swine and dogs
• 574) Why is man given a better life than that of the Pig?
• 573) Human life means heavy responsibilities
• 572) Don’t be proud of being a strict Vegetarian
• 571) Long life is meaningful only if it is God-centered
• 570) Escape from the Greatest danger by doing a few God-centered activities
• 569) Just doing Good work is not enough, it will also bind one to this Material world like Bad work
• 568) Caution: Humanitarianism, if it is not God-centered can result in Karmic bondage
• 567) One liner definitions of Karma, Akarma and Vikarma
• 566) Work that breaks the laws of nature will result in further bondage
• 565) The root of sin is deliberate disobedience to God
• 564) Don’t just become a strict vegetarian but also become a devotee of the Lord
• 563) Animals don’t break the Laws of Nature, so no question of incurring Sin
• 562) Animals can kill without incurring Sin, Humans cannot
• 561) A laborer cannot claim ownership of a thing just because he manufactured it
• 560) Be satisfied with the quota that God has set aside for you
• 559) Vedic Knowledge is coming down to us from God
• 558) Due to four imperfections in us, we can never deliver perfect knowledge
• 557) The Padma Purana outlines evolution of a different kind
• 556) The body illustrates achintyabhedabheda tattva
• 555) Vani and vapuh are non-different

March 2014

• 554) Everyone can be trained for preaching, irrespective of gender
• 553) A severed hand may appear like a hand but it has no Potency
• 552) “Hindu,” “Muslim,” or “Christian” is simply a rubber stamp
• 551) Incompleteness is due to incomplete Knowledge
• 550) Transmigration of Soul is Scientific, it is not just a Hindu belief
• 549) Satisfy God and You will automatically be Satisfied
• 548) Don’t concoct purpose in purposeless material existence

February 2014

• 547) Vedic knowledge is infallible, it is given by infallible God himself
• 546) God cannot be formless, that would make him incomplete
• 545) Yajna Means Work for Vishnu
• 544) Aspire to get out of the Prison, not to get a better cell within the Prison
• 543) God is simultaneously identical with His creation and yet exists in His completeness
• 542) Want to become Deathless? Take the “Back to Godhead” treatment
• 541) Litmus test of a Religious person
• 540) Don’t avoid religion just because it has been misused
• 539) Preach about Krishna for Krishna
• 538) Another meaning of the word yoga is “plus”
• 537) How to quickly dry up an ocean of tears?
• 536) What is the most wonderful thing in this world?
• 535) A man without aim is ship without rudder
• 534) God helps those who help themselves
• 533) Mistaking the Maidservant as the Master
• 532) The definitive way to verify anyone who claims to be “God”
• 531) The Mathematics of Charity
• 530) Intelligence can change everything for the better
• 529) Bees are attracted to honey, while flies are attracted to sores

January 2014

• 528) Either to the prison or to the university – It’s our choice
• 527) Our energy is coming from God, recycle it back to him!
• 526) This life creates one’s next life
• 525) God’s Water Supply System – Mind boggling design
• 524) All Species – Arranged not evolved
• 523) Kill mental concoction by the sword of Service
• 522) The troubles of single and householder life compared
• 521) Understand God from God
• 520) The First Lesson – Not This Body
• 519) Time – Stronger than the Strongest

December 2013

• 518) Morning sadhana is vital
• 517) How spiritual happiness is unlimited
• 516) Why the Lord is never attracted to material beauty
• 515) The immense potency of devotional service
• 514) When a grain becomes more valuable than tons
• 513) Don’t project notions about a mundane lord on the Supreme Lord
• 512) The discoverer behind all discoveries
• 511) The basic principle of missionary activities
• 510) The way to effective education
• 509) Don’t make mundane distinctions between different krishna-kathas
• 508) Will counteracting the causes of falling down also prevent falling away?
• 507) Why Krishna is the Lord of the intelligence
• 506) Let hearing inject us with healing
• 505) Let devotion permeate the whole family and the whole day
• 504) How to know that the heart is being transformed
• 503) Spiritual perfection requires theoretical and practical knowledge
• 502) How impersonalism leads to materialism
• 501) Let the tongue not be unchaste
• 500) Perfect guarantee for eternal life
• 499) Hearing is the most important function in bhakti
• 498) Why the Supersoul is not a full representation of Absolute Truth
• 497) Don’t run away from the lap of the mother

November 2013

• 496) Purification brings fearlessness
• 495) Bhakti-yoga is the only source of happiness
• 494) The grossest type of anartha
• 493) How is hearing a service to Krishna?
• 492) The Lord is the most affectionate mother
• 491) How to become fearless
• 490) Don’t let jugglery of names bewilder you
• 489) What is liberation?
• 488) The point that is missing in our love
• 487) Tears are the price for devotional perfection
• 486) Learn the book Bhagavata from the person Bhagavata
• 485) Bhagavatam fills humanity’s missing need

October 2013

• 484) By giving power of attorney to the mind, we let ourselves be robbed
• 483) Take up anxiety – but for Krishna not for oneself
• 482) Why no one can disturb a devotee
• 481) How we can spiritualize our activity
• 480) Spiritual master is not just a person but also a truth
• 479) Prabhupada is counting on all of us
• 478) Adjustment according to place, time and object is essential to make outreach effective
• 477) Gender should be no bar for preacher

September 2013

• 476) Books are not meant just for outside distribution, but also for inside preparation
• 475) Let the Lord rescue us from the material ocean
• 474) Surrender is for our interest, not Krishna’s interest
• 473) The process of devotional service is always a success.
• 472) Understand the plan of the Lord
• 471) Why approach Krishna indirectly when you can approach directly?
• 470) How Krishna’s creation pastimes and Vraja pastimes are non-different
• 469) Without knowledge of Krishna, progress is partial or hallucinatory
• 468) How impersonalism is also a type of God worship
• 467) The mystic power of the Lord
• 466) Faith means faith in surrender to Krishna
• 465) In spiritual war, don’t lose hope; develop strength
• 464) Attach yourself to the bosom of the Lord
• 463) The creation is to accommodate our inclinations, not the Lord’s
• 462) Knowledge about soul shouldn’t be just conceptual but also practical
• 461) Burdens do not burden the Lord
• 460) The Lord reciprocates as is our mentality and sincerity
• 459) What is infinite from our perspective is insignificant from the perspective of eternity
• 458) What is the purpose of studying the Vedas?
• 457) How God is inconceivable – and how he can be understood
• 456) How there is no conflict between personalism and impersonalism
• 455) How the jurisdiction of material science is limited
• 454) All knowledge that connects us with Krishna is transcendental
• 453) What is actually auspicious?
• 452) Success is sure for the rigid practitioner
• 451) The Krishna consciousness movement is meant for global peace and happiness
• 450) Don’t sacrifice spiritual principle for social approval
• 449) Stumbling blocks are no blocks for mercy

August 2013

• 448) Devotees may be perplexed but they are never discouraged
• 447) The test of determination and sincerity
• 446) The bare facts of existence
• 445) Try strenuously to control desire
• 444) The city of the body is actually an ocean of misery
• 443) Exploiting the words of God for business is demonic
• 442) What the Gita is – and isn’t
• 441) Rulers are meant to protect citizens from lust
• 440) How we lose our natural spiritual bliss
• 439) Even if we can’t practice, we can still have faith
• 438) Empower yourself with the simple principles of life taught by the Gita
• 437) Sincerity counts far more than show
• 436) Integrate food into spiritual therapy
• 435) Enlightened compassion
• 434) Train the mind to make it unable to remember anything other than Krishna
• 433) Why the mind acts dangerously
• 432) The Krishna consciousness movement is meant to train the mind
• 431) Krishna consciousness is the path of light and liberation
• 430) Chanting is both easy and beneficial
• 429) Avidya is the foundation for ahankara
• 428) False shelters perpetuate the struggle for material existence
• 427) Imitation of a good thing is desired
• 426) Recover spiritual health by regular cultivation of Krishna consciousness
• 425) Misdirected interest is sign of disease
• 424) No room for jealousy in transcendental science
• 423) Associate with those who have not forgotten Krishna
• 422) To be both honest and wise, be Krishna conscious
• 421) The way to forming an ideal society
• 420) How the Krishna consciousness movement contributes to world peace
• 419) Materialists are conspicuous by their ability to exploit others

July 2013

• 418) The natural principle for bodily maintenance
• 417) Mistaking spiritual focus as old-fashioned is unfortunate
• 416) Distress doesn’t disturb a devotee’s devotional service
• 415) Krishna helps us from within and without
• 414) God is all-good; God is all-merciful
• 413) What is the purpose of the Bhagavad-gita?
• 412) Matter, not spirit, is formless
• 411) See miseries as reminders of spiritual reality
• 410) God is more sorry than we are for our sufferings
• 409) A child is born not just through the genitals but through the heart
• 408) Spiritual irresponsibility plunges us into an ocean of reproachment
• 407) Go beyond piety to spirituality to gain liberation
• 406) The human junction calls for an intelligent decision
• 405) Why work harder than the animals for what the animals get?
• 404) Everything in the spiritual world is pleasantly scented – even stool and urine
• 403) Don’t mistake the Lord’s pervasion of everything to be pantheism
• 402) A Vaishnava worships demigods by glorifying their devotion to the Supreme
• 401) Don’t compromise with misery; cure it
• 400) The Lord doesn’t need a temple; we do
• 399) God does not belong to any religion
• 398) No one is more attractive or more authoritative than Krishna
• 397) Recite Bhagavatam to extinguish the fire of material existence, not the fire of the belly
• 396) What is the main purpose of life?
• 395) Worshiping matter instead of Vishnu is not progress; it is blindness
• 394) How material enjoyment increases our suffering
• 393) Be not the deluded by maya’s promises of happiness
• 392) We are always vulnerable, never safe
• 391) Material happiness is an illusion
• 390) The two phases of Maya’s activities
• 389) How we are victimized by sense gratification
• 388) Sense gratification blinds us to the consequences

June 2013

• 387) All other processes are tributaries in the river of devotional service
• 386) What the spiritual master’s training should do to us
• 385) The motive of social decoration blocks philosophical illumination
• 384) Those who are sectarian mistake devotional service to be sectarian
• 383) Why different seekers see the same Absolute Truth differently
• 382) All the demigods are material representations of the Supreme Lord
• 381) Are we trying to cleanse ourselves with drain water instead of Ganges water?
• 380) Uncover consciousness with the sunlight of scriptural wisdom
• 379) All that glitters may not be gold but it is not nothing
• 378) The unified spiritual perception underlying the diversified sense perception
• 377) Control the senses by offering them the supreme engagement
• 376) The only way to see the Lord face to face
• 375) Perception of the disagreeable arises from attachment
• 374) Real brahma-darshanam happens by bhakti
• 373) When Krishna gives everything why go to anyone else?
• 372) The only process that takes us beyond falldown
• 371) Partial interest in elevating principles can obstruct ultimate elevation
• 370) Any God-centered literature is preferable to mundane literature
• 369) Impersonalism can cause even the greatest to fall back to the material world
• 368) Both Mayavadis and Vaishnavas want to merge into the Supreme
• 367) The difference between unpurified consciousness and purified consciousness
• 366) How impersonlism aggravates religious materialism
• 365) Vedic animal sacrifice was not a substitute for a slaughterhouse
• 364) Bodily fitness is the side-result, not the main result, of yoga practice
• 363) The perfection of yoga and the imitation of yoga
• 362) Why the Puranas sometimes glorify demigods to be supreme
• 361) The best souls not only see the good in others but also magnify it
• 360) See every body as a temple of the Lord
• 359) Our relatives can hurt us more than our enemies
• 358) How good qualities become bad

May 2013

• 357) How spiritual distress is also blissful
• 356) Degradation of the defiant vindicates the Vedic principles
• 355) How the varnashrama system is sanatana
• 354) The Vedas are the bridge across the ocean of material existence
• 353) Offenses open the door to further abominable actions
• 352) A perfection that is a concoction
• 351) A new phase of progressive life
• 350) The darkest region of craziness
• 349) What human society needs to understand
• 348) Awarding fearlessness is the greatest act of charity
• 347) Pure Krishna consciousness is our birthright
• 346) How all living beings manifest different gradations of Brahman
• 345) Don’t mistake lack of qualification as sectarian discrimination
• 344) Material varieties are not exactly illusions but reflections
• 343) Inferring the transcendence of the Lord
• 342) No spiritual advancement without sense control
• 341) We need to come to goodness to start getting inner guidance
• 340) Be broad-minded, not cripple-minded
• 339) Cherish the attitude to become a perfect gosvami
• 338) Waste of time is an incalculable loss
• 337) How renunciation helps one maintain one’s self-respect
• 336) Seek real family association with Krishna
• 335) The spiritual master helps us discover how best to serve Krishna
• 334) How the spiritual master’s grace is received through the ears
• 333) Scriptural revelation is an expression of the Lord’s inconceivable power
• 332) Bodily dresses that offer more or less opportunity for liberation
• 331) Madanamohana alone protects us from the infatuation of Madana
• 330) New life comes not from sex but from the soul
• 329) How bhakti-yoga is the best yoga
• 328) A propaganda that is simply bogus
• 327) God consciousness should engender respect for all living beings

April 2013

• 326) God’s presence in us make us temples, not the Deity in the temples
• 325) We cannot bribe the Personality of Godhead
• 324) KC doesn’t cause miseries to disappear, but it makes them ineffective
• 323) Let us remember the basic principle of love
• 322) Imagination leads only to further imagination, not to reality
• 321) Redirect reading propensity from fiction to the Lord’s pastimes
• 320) The goal of yoga is not mystic power, but spiritual insight
• 319) How material activity can be spiritualized
• 318) Wake up from the dream of material consciousness by Krishna consciousness
• 317) How to ensure that disturbances don’t disturb us
• 316) Don’t invent unnecessary necessities
• 315) Time is absolute and real
• 314) Why demigod worship is recommended – and why it is unnecessary
• 313) Avoid association of those with poor character – even if they are devotees
• 312) Service attitude makes disordered society orderly
• 311) Absence of sevice attitude makes brahmana worse than shudra
• 310) False mastership makes us real servant
• 309) Don’t make a minor controvery major
• 308) Human life is meant for cooperating with the whole
• 307) How the unseen guidance of Krishna wakes us up to real life
• 306) What is the highest perfectional charity?
• 305) The last reaction of avidya
• 304) How the senses can be stopped from mischievous activities
• 303) How our miseries are hallucinations
• 302) Laborious jugglery of words is a gift of the illusory energy
• 301) Devotees stay free from hankerings
• 300) The antiseptic against material infection
• 299) No retirement in spiritual life
• 298) The purpose of temples
• 297) The significance of the Lord’s cakra

March 2013

• 296) Pure bhakti is the only way to avoid sinful action and suffering
• 295) When government turns predator…
• 294) The standard of pure devotion is to regret past sinful activities
• 293) Spread the Hare Krishna movement to counter governmental mismanagement
• 292) Devotional service can protect us in all circumstances
• 291) Do devotees need to consult horoscope for marriage?
• 290) All incarnations have a coherent purpose
• 289) For self-control, we need the protection of the Lord
• 288) Chanting is always superbly effective
• 287) Dovetailing our natural tendencies
• 286) The basic principle of spiritual life
• 285) Krishna becomes our internal spiritual master through the external spiritual master
• 284) Playboys are shudras
• 283) Conceptions of oneness – manufactured and authentic
• 282) The only insurance against falldown is stage
• 281) Throw yourself on the bow of the holy name towards Krishna
• 280) Sharpen the weapon of jnana by service
• 279) Varieties in the material world originate in real prototypes in the spiritual world
• 278) Deviations in the four ashramas
• 277) No need to spend lavishly on ritualistic ceremonies
• 276) Animal killing for both religion and food is abominable
• 275) Overcome lusty desires by determination
• 274) Austerity for spiritual advancement is not as dangerous as struggle for material improvement
• 273) What is time?
• 272) Avoid an argumentative attitude
• 271) What temples are meant for – and not meant for
• 270) How the time factor enables us to come closer to Krishna
• 269) Observe the time factor intelligently
• 268) Genuine devotees feel themselves lower than other devotees
• 267) Victimized by sex because of lack of education and culture
• 266) We are not interested in a bluff of spiritual advancement
• 265) How the entire material world becomes spiritualized

February 2013

• 264) Yoga-nidra is not nidra
• 263) Bad association makes material existence intolerably miserable
• 262) So-called distress is a gift from Krishna
• 261) There is no difference between happiness and distress
• 260) Suffering in the name of happiness
• 259) See beyond appearances while taking shelter
• 258) Is a devotee an escapist?
• 257) Devotee’s life span is not limited by karma
• 256) Why live in a kingdom of hallucinations?
• 255) Expert management of pious and impious activities
• 254) The two side effects of devotional service
• 253) What is real desirelessness?
• 252) The Lord never gives condemned benedictions
• 251) Is manufacture of gold the criterion for godhood?
• 250) Be careful to choose a right guru
• 249) Even if we can’t render full service, the Lord understands and accepts
• 248) Humility amidst opulence is the Lord’s special mercy
• 247) The consequences of false prestige
• 246) How is the demoniac mentality vanquished?
• 245) How the Lord establishes a devotee in devotional service
• 244) Use the temporary body to attain the eternal
• 243) The self-contradictions of the Mayavadis
• 242) Disciples shouldn’t dump their karma on the spiritual master
• 241) Krishna always acts to save us from deviation
• 240) Can a devotee ask the Lord for material benedictions?
• 239) Krishna is attentively, incessantly and tolerantly trying to deliver us
• 238) Fight from a position of safety and strength
• 237) No need to be obsessed with economic development

January 2013

• 236) The most dangerous of the dirty things within our hearts
• 235) Krishna consciousness is meant for all-embracing welfare activities for the world
• 234) Everything is encouraging and inspiring in Krishna consciousness
• 233) To go back to Godhead means to reject this material world
• 232) Understanding how we are not proprietors
• 231) Is bhakti for the less intelligent?
• 230) Devotees are compassionate like Krishna
• 229) Chanting equally powerful in all ages and especially powerful in this age
• 228) What is materialistic education?
• 227) Deity worship is essential for householders
• 226) How deliberation leads to God consciousness
• 225) A learned person doesn’t differentiate between enemies and friends
• 224) Which is easier: going to hell or going back to godhead?
• 223) Why the soul is so difficult to understand
• 222) The expert management of the supreme expert
• 221) Devotee’s material position is not material
• 220) Don’t magnify material goals as desirable
• 219) Pleasing Narayana is much easier than pleasing people
• 218) Aspire for the Lord’s benedictions, not the demigods’ benedictions
• 217) The cruelty of modern civilization
• 216) Distress is an opportunity
• 215) How the bodily concept deludes even scientists
• 214) Neither friends can help, nor enemies harm
• 213) Not all benedictions are benedictions
• 212) Should one worship Krishna unfavorably?
• 211) Is the world an illusion?
• 210) Is Krishna partial?
• 209) Know people by their actions
• 208) Envy and devotion don’t go together
• 207) How a devotee transcends bodily consciousness
• 206) Why the upper planets can’t be perceived

December 2012

• 205) The Lord’s partiality is his qualification, not disqualification
• 204) From survival of the fittest to survival in eternal life
• 203) Krishna is always pleased with all those who practice devotional service
• 202) Demanding to see God is ludicrous
• 201) Are we forgetting the central reality?
• 200) How milk is like nectar
• 199) “Accident” theories are more unbelievable than the Lord’s mystic power
• 198) The goddess of fortune is the exclusive property of the Lord
• 197) How a devotee is never alone
• 196) How the Lord’s birth is transcendental
• 195) The opulence of a devotee is different from that of a materialist
• 194) What is the aim of varnashrama divisions?
• 193) Extravagance is the cause of all distresses
• 192) How scripture protects one in household life…
• 191) Who is jagad-guru and who is not?
• 190) What to do when perplexed
• 189) When spirituality becomes envious and atheistic…
• 188) Why a disciple shouldn’t demand from guru or Krishna…
• 187) The necessity of following scriptures cuts across sectarian boundaries
• 186) The key to extraordinary spiritual power
• 185) What is liberation? What is bondage?
• 184) Be bold but not foolhardy
• 183) What is the substance of devotional service?
• 182) Endeavor either for the Absolute Truth or for illusion
• 181) Poverty means poverty of knowledge
• 180) There is nothing but God within and without
• 179) Are we mistaking the slaps to be pleasures?

November 2012

• 178) How to see the Lord eye to eye
• 177) Why fight a losing battle when we can fight a winning battle?
• 176) Are we leading a colossal hoax of a life?
• 175) The patchwork doesn’t work
• 174) Actual life begins after material life ends
• 173) Don’t curb desires; change their quality
• 172) How Krishna consciousness removes disturbance of the mind…
• 171) When yoga becomes a vain search after a phantasmagoria…
• 170) Identifying our ultimate enemy
• 169) Sound creates and destroys material creation
• 168) Prepare for death by learning the art of denial
• 167) The central point of the Bhagavad-gita
• 166) “Yoga means cooperation with the Supreme”
• 165) Devotees shouldn’t be afraid of material danger
• 164) How the best philosophers understand demigod worship
• 163) The Lord cannot be understood by picking up expressions from a dictionary
• 162) The first principle of spiritual life
• 161) Meat-eaters can kill other animals but not cows
• 160) Cowardly heads of state make society hellish
• 159) Tolerance saves us from the darkest regions of material anxiety
• 158) The consciousness that can free us from envy
• 157) How ghosts suffer and cause suffering to others
• 156) In addition to food for the body, humanity needs food for the mind and ear
• 155) Scarcity can be removed not by humanitarian relief alone but by transcendental relief
• 154) The slippery slope from non-vegetarianism to cannibalism
• 153) Seek guidance not from inexeperienced politicians but from liberated souls
• 152) The singular Lord acts in plural ways
• 151) Krishna pushes the button of creation and starts a chain reaction
• 150) How the devotee becomes transcendental like the Lord
• 149) The cause of scarcity is not over-population but mismanagement

October 2012

• 148) Beware of upstart spiritual groups
• 147) How to examine incarnation-claimant and penalize pretender
• 146) One’s actions are one’s natural advertisements
• 145) What tax exaction is meant for and is not meant for…
• 144) The test of good government
• 143) Untrue praise is an insult
• 142) The present government is like hell
• 141) Don’t be misled by the bodily conception that is the basic principle of suffering
• 140) What is the basis of the whole process of Vedic civilization?
• 139) Be very expert in disobeying the mind’s orders
• 138) It is time to put an end to our nonsensical stage performance
• 137) How can we become free from service to the mind?
• 136) A good dream is no good
• 135) The veda-vadi must becomea a tattva-vadi
• 134) Never try to overtake the spiritual master
• 133) Worldly events will go their own way; why waste time talking unnecessarily about them?
• 132) Tricks do not mitigate the miseries of material life
• 131) How simian monkeys lose their sex glands to human monkeys…
• 130) Tolerate bodily pains and pleasures, and focus on the Absolute Truth
• 129) Is happiness in the gaps between miseries really happiness?
• 128) Necessity is no justification for criminality
• 127) Don’t concoct pleasure in imagining that dead relatives have been reborn
• 126) Illicit sex is not invisible
• 125) Abortionists will be aborted
• 124) How the association of a pure devotee can benefit the whole world
• 123) Iconophobes! Don’t poke your nose into that which you have no access.
• 122) The criterion of advancement of civilization
• 121) Protesting will not help at the time of transmigration
• 120) Material dependence on others is degrading
• 119) Don’t let laxity hamper the world’s most important movement
• 118) The cheating propensity pervades material existence

September 2012

• 117) So much happiness is waiting for us
• 116) Civilization is meant to develop the potent spiritual instincts of human beings
• 115) Devotee’s sufferings are never the same as those of materialist’s
• 114) Krishna is the sun that enables us to see ourselves
• 113) Chastisement is preferable to debasement
• 112) The holy name solves our fear problem
• 111) Cater medicine to counter the catering of poison
• 110) No distinction between philosophical discourse and kissing by the Lord
• 109) Don’t just censor but also channelize the instinct to read
• 108) Aprakrta sound can be understood only by inspiration or initiation
• 107) Scripture in essence is a technical science of spiritual values
• 106) Devotees are interested in guiding, not governing
• 105) How to bring about a radical change in the atmosphere of the world
• 104) The Lord is not a shopkeeper in the mental speculator exchange
• 103) India has failed the world
• 102) The wonderful creative energy of the Lord
• 101) The root cause of quarrel
• 100) The first condition of devotional service
• 99) See the best in the worst
• 98) Speaking nonsense, receiving with no sense
• 97) Even the best material literature is spiritually impotent
• 96) Modern education fosters a doggish mentality
• 95) The Emblem of all knowledge
• 94) Devotee’s old age or diseases is impetus for guaranteed eternal life
• 93) Potent hearing requires pure living
• 92) The Mathematics of Religious Charity
• 91) How can we see Krishna in the pages of the Srimad Bhagavatam?
• 90) Use time for realizing identification of spiritual values
• 89) The two torchbearers for the dark age of Kali
• 88) Let us not leave behind a mere planmaking story

August 2012

• 87) Real religion for a royal edition of the animals
• 86) No remedy for a pseudodevotee – except authentic devotional service
• 85) Bhagavatam gives specially selected historical facts
• 84) Sufficient hearing counters our polluted aim of life
• 83) Self-realization means to act for that which is the impetus for all activities
• 82) When machines victimize and degrade us…
• 81) The virat-rupa is an imaginary meditational tool for neophyte worshipers
• 80) Using our freedom to attain the truth
• 79) How far can we go in the cosmic hierarchy?
• 78) Intelligent introspection and implementation
• 77) Varying percentages of godly qualities in different personalities
• 76) Intelligence is like a father and comes from the Supreme Father
• 75) Human life is not meant for cheap happiness
• 74) Bhakti-yoga: The highest form of religion, the only source of happiness
• 73) Lord Buddha is the emblem of theism for atheists
• 72) How knowledge leads to renunciation
• 71) A self-test for assessing spiritual advancement
• 70) Polytheistic materialism is a perversity of religion
• 69) The danger in neglecting to think of the Lord
• 68) Krishna can be known not by challenging but by submitting
• 67) Temples are centers of learning that enable us to find the Lord within
• 66) Krishna is more anxious for our welfare than we are
• 65) Like a baby hankers for the mother, let us hanker for the Lord
• 64) The use and abuse of varnashrama.
• 63) Let’s stop searching for water in the desert
• 62) Spiritual enquiry frees us from material enquiry
• 61) Realize the nullity of the material phenomena
• 60) While negating the negative, don’t negate the positive

July 2012

• 59) Bad association is suicidal
• 58) What is wrong with material enjoyment?
• 57) Don’t waste time in vain research for material happiness
• 56) Why is devotional service superior to material enjoyment?
• 55) History and historical persons are useless products of flickering time
• 54) There is no happiness in the material world
• 53) An insignificant jugglery of names like the babble of sea waves
• 52) Don’t concoct an incarnation by popular vote
• 51) Develop a factual reluctance to enjoy the temporary
• 50) The process is simple, but the application is difficult
• 49) What is liberation?
• 48) Be anxious to hear
• 47) Human life begins when religion begins
• 46) Original and pure sex psychology
• 45) God’s unique designing capacity
• 44) Is a devotee an escapist?
• 43) See disunity among devotees as spiritual
• 42) Exploitative attitude breeds misery
• 41) How our violence against animals rebounds on us
• 40) So-called happiness for a few at the cost of millions
• 39) Producing a new species of humanity
• 38) Which government is better?
• 37) Where is the progress?
• 36) The basic principle of economic development
• 35) A universal program for world governance
• 34) To consider man as God or God as man are both misconceptions

June 2012

• 33) Cheap relation with the Lord is condemnable even materially, what to speak of spiritually
• 32) Why are the Vedic historical narrations not chronological?
• 31) Top-heavy administration of untrained rulers is useless spiritually and materially
• 30) What is the essence of the training in brahmacari life?
• 29) Ashrama-dharma is meant for releasing the prisoners of matter
• 28) Varna is for the body, ashrama is for the soul
• 27) Fashion for few, famine for many is not the standard of civilization
• 26) Killing of animals is a symptom of barbarian society
• 25) Why education causes the misuse of human intelligence
• 24) The only desire of a pure devotee
• 23) The best way to establish our relationship with the Lord
• 22) Absolute dependence on the Lord is the source of the greatest happiness
• 21) Through tribulation, the Lord snatches a fallen soul from the mire of material existence
• 20) Faith in authority is unavoidable while acquiring knowledge
• 19) Ungrudgingly accept tribulations as benedictions
• 18) No need to lament if the cause of suffering is beyond human control
• 17) Aim for not avoidance of suffering, but adherence to dharma
• 16) How capital punishment is beneficial
• 15) Krishna’s bent of mind
• 14) Krishna descends to eradicate our false sense of enjoyment
• 13) Transcendence is not just blissful, but also variegated
• 12) Don’t be gullible in the name of being gentle
• 11) What makes historical facts transcendental…
• 10) How the Lord frees us from all material hankerings
• 9) The Lord steals our mind away from miseries
• 8) The theme of Shrimad-Bhagavatam
• 7) Hearing and chanting, even if mechanical, is beneficial, though not fully
• 6) Unscrupulous imaginations of the monists

May 2012

• 5) Unholy contact is the cause our suffering
• 4) The feeling of worldly happiness is an illusion
• 3) There’s nothing new in the material world; so why waste time in archaeology?

January 2012

• 2) Are the Puranas authoritative?
• 1) The Lord is not affected by worldly emotions