When does devotion exempt us from karmic consequences? - Does the Bhagavad-gita’s concluding verse (18.66) — the surrendered are protected from karmic consequences — license [...]
Why ethics matter in devotion? - Devotees sometimes believe that their devotion raises them above the jurisdiction of ethical accountability. Technically, the belief that one’s [...]
Does the world hate me? - Suppose we greet someone at a get-together and they don’t respond. We may be taken aback. Suppose several people [...]
Do the ends justify the means? - Suppose someone is driving a heart attack victim to a hospital. Naturally, they will try to drive as [...]
How our experience may increase our ignorance - Suppose someone has hurt us badly, several times. We may start seeing them as a villain, a [...]
Handling the gun of doubt - If we are traveling through a dangerous area, we need a good gun. Similarly, to function in an illusion-filled [...]
Four stages in managing desires — Desire Management series 9 - To understand how desire management can progress in our inner world, let’s compare it [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now in next verse Krishna [...]
Why are we studying spirituality? - We now live in an age where education has become very structured and systematized, wherein educational success is measured [...]
When devotion doesn’t feel good - Suppose a disease weakens us and kills our appetite. If we are provided a healing and energizing medicine, we [...]
Two views of the role of intelligence in bhakti - Bhakti practitioners often view intelligence ambivalently. On a negative side, they feel that overuse of [...]
Going beyond counting our blessings - Counting our blessings is an oft-recommended activity for cultivating gratitude and positivity: When we count our blessings, we learn [...]
When we feel devotionally weak - While practicing bhakti, suppose we feel attracted not to Krishna, but to the world’s allurements. Seeing our devotional weakness, [...]
Should education be realistic or idealistic? - Suppose schools started teaching kids, “The world is such a terrible place that you can’t even survive unless [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Bg 18.77 tac ca saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya [...]
How to make difficult decisions- Throughout our life, we make decisions, consciously or unconsciously, about what to eat, what to read, whom to spend time [...]
Mindlessly mindful? - Mindfulness is often equated with greater awareness of both our outer and inner worlds. Still, not every detail of the outer world [...]
Beyond mindfulness to purposefulness - Suppose we are working in customer support and a disgruntled customer is speaking with us rudely, even obnoxiously. Still, we [...]
When morality feels like a burden - When we try to follow moral standards to live purely, we sometimes feel harassed by temptations that keep [...]
What does it mean to “follow our heart”? - Suppose we have to decide about complex and consequential issues such as choosing a career, a [...]
Do emotions reside in the mind? - To understand, consider an analogous question: do sensations reside in the body? Suppose a 20 kg dumbbell is [...]
