Why do we have to give up material pleasures to experience spiritual pleasures?
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Maturity means to not let our emotionality interfere with our responsibility
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In our fast-paced, want-filled culture, it’s easy to get stressed out and suffer emotional breakdowns. Perhaps the emotion most likely to disrupt the lives of most people today is anxiety. The whole process of becoming mature centers on becoming effective in managing our emotions. Babies are governed by their emotions – if they feel pain […]

Mahabharata Characters 26 – Yudhisthira 04 – The Pandavas dishonoured and dispossessed
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If we concede that scripture doesn’t contain literal report of conversations then where will the erosion of scriptural authority end?
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Answer Podcast My thanks to Hari Parshad Prabhu for the following references: From Srila Sridhar Swami’s commentary on introduction to Bhagavad Gita: tam eva bhagavad-upadiṣṭam arthaṁ kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyanaḥ saptabhiḥ śloka-śatair upanibabandha | tatra ca prāyaśaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-mukhād viniḥsṛtān eva ślokān alikhat | kāṁścit tat-saṅgataye svayaṁ ca vyaracayat Translation: Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa composed 700 verses from that purport spoken […]

Why are certain important verses quoted by acharyas not found in the scriptures?
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Answer Podcast Devotee-scholars’ research is uncovering the presence in scripture of many verses whose sources were earlier unknown or debated. One excellent sample of such scholarship is this document compiled by a devotee-scholar and friend Hari Parshad Prabhu: Prabhupada verses – sources found by Hari Parshad P Specific reference to verses about Mayavada: mayavadam asac […]

I was born in another sampradaya, but became introduced to seriously bhakti through ISKCON. Which sampradaya should I follow?
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How the Gita’s ninth chapter reveals its bhakti essence
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Lecture Podcast Lecture Highlights: 9.13-14: Inner disposition and outer action of devotees Concept of bhakti developed in the Gita: 2.61, 3.30, 4.9, 5.25, 6.14-15, 6.30, 6.47, 7.1, 8.14 Varying initial focuses of concentration in ashtanga-yoga: 5.27 and 6.13 Unvarying eventual and final focuses: 6.14, 6.30, 6.47, 7.1 Four ways Gita’s chp 9 glorifies bhakti: 1. […]

Mahabharata Characters 25 – Yudhisthira 03 – The virtuous victimized in the vicious gambling match
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How can India’s wisdom-literature be introduced in the education without the saffronization of the syllabus?
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Mahabharata Characters 24 – Yudhisthira 02 – The world’s king glorifies the supreme king
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How does the nishkama karma yogi attain knowledge and liberation? Through the same path or by adopting another yoga?
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Are the jnanis mentioned in Gita 7.16-18 impersonalists as the example of Kumaras suggests or devotees as Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakura’s commentary states?
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How should we respond to indiscriminate violence against other communities done in the name of religion as a response to distortion of respected images?
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Mahabharata Characters 23 – Yudhisthira 01 – Sticking to integrity amidst injustice
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