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As soon as people enter our familiarity perimeter, our mind starts comparing us with them. Comparison is its favorite pastime. However, unlike Krishna’s pastimes that [...]

We often think of those with developed intellect as wise. We may even see a developed intellect as an indicator, or at least a facilitator, [...]

One of our innermost drives is the drive to show the world that we are someone significant. This drive impels us to win medals, which [...]

When children are tickled, they start laughing. Does their laughter indicate that they are happy? Not really. If happiness could be had just by tickling, [...]

Life confronts us with challenges both externally and internally. External upheavals – financial and political, for example – are like tornadoes that twist and topple [...]

Ours is an age of rights; we recognize that every individual has certain inviolable rights.  As our rights consciousness expands, it is befitting that we [...]

Our mind gets excited by any chance for material enjoyment. We have repeatedly experienced for ourselves that material enjoyment is at best an exasperating anti-climax, [...]

Few things obsess the contemporary mind as much as the latest styles. Most people today are possessed by the craze to parade themselves with the [...]

Words are indispensable tools for communicating our ideas and feelings with others. These verbal tools have become increasingly critical in our hi-tech age of phones [...]

We like our job one day and detest it the next day; we feel excited about our devotional activities sometimes and bored at other times. [...]

Our time is among our most wanted resources. Our fast-paced culture places so many demands on us that fitting all the items on our to-do [...]

The notion that we are ourselves God is the false ego’s ultimate weapon. The false ego is the subtlest of all the subtle material elements. [...]

The endless problems of life may wear us out and make us long for a problem-free life. Such a longing, however, is unrealistic and unfulfilling. [...]

When dust enters into the carburetor of a finely tuned engine, the engine can no longer function optimally. Though the dust initially seems inconsequential, after [...]

Loving anyone is a challenge. The poets frequently sing about the thrill of falling in love at first sight, but they rarely sing about the [...]

Bending our impulses to our principles and thereby attaining self-mastery is vital for us to make tangible spiritual progress. At the same time, it is [...]

Television channels charge phenomenally for their prime time. Knowing that maximum TV audience is available during this time, they allocate those slots to the highest [...]

Some of us may feel that our faith in Krishna would stabilize and increase if we could see his power through miracles: “If Krishna is [...]

When we embark on our inward spiritual journey towards Krishna, our mind blocks us with naughty desires and our intelligence, with knotty doubts. Bhakti removes [...]

Love has its own life, and it needs its own food to survive and thrive. The food that love feasts on is the glory, the [...]

As spiritual seekers, werecognize that immoral sinful pleasures are obstacles on the spiritual pathway. What we may not recognize is that even innocent pious pleasures [...]