Planet ISKCON

Managing the mind 1 – The many meanings of the word ‘mind’ and their correlation with the Gita’s understanding

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Managing the mind 2 – Understanding how the mind affects our free will

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Managing the mind 3 – Understanding inclination, infatuation and intention

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Managing the mind 4 – Training the mind by dividing and castigating

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Duryodhana character analysis 1 – Are some people innately evil?

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

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Dhritarashtra character analysis 1 – Attachment makes us stone-hearted

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

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Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 1 – When we hide ourselves from the Lord, he hides himself from us

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Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 2 – Earning trust through emotional intelligence

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Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 3 – Keeping our intention above our emotions

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Krishna’s moods in the Bhagavad-gita 1 – Chp 1-9

Krishna’s moods in the Bhagavad-gita 2 – Chp 10-12

Krishna’s moods in the Bhagavad-gita 3 – Chp 13-18

Is seeing believing 1 – Even science explains the visible with the invisible

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Is seeing believing 2 – What the map of science misses

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Is seeing believing 3 – Resolving science-spirituality conflicts

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Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1

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Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2

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Improving Japa 1 – Understand how and when we get distracted

Improving Japa 2 – Concentrate by cultivating interest and appreciating importance

How to transform our heart 1 – Vritrasura’s dramatic transformation

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How to transform our heart 2 – Vritrasura’s dramatic transformation

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Renunciation of false ego – Indra’s Prayers after Govardhana lila

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Seeing Krishna’s mercy amidst loss – Krishna’s instructions after Govardhana lila

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God as the supreme therapist 1 – Discerning the Prahlada and Hiranyakashipu mentalities within us

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God as the supreme therapist 2 – To be others’ well wisher means to channel their emotions towards proper use of their free will

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God as the supreme therapist 3 – Devotional detachment is not freedom from emotions but freedom of emotions

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God as the supreme therapist 4 – How association works and how to make it work

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God as the supreme therapist 5 – Cultivating qualities is integral to cultivating devotion

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God as the supreme therapist 6 – Seek not the facility to do whatever we desire – seek the clarity to discern our deepest desire

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God as the Supreme therapist 7 – Understanding how Narasimhadeva gave strength to Prahlada

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Gita lite 1 – Chps 1-2

Gita lite 2 – Chps 3-5

Gita lite 3 – Chps 6-8

Gita Lite 4 – Chps 9-11

Gita lite 5 – Chps 12-15

Gita Essence 1- The transformational power of love – Self-knowledge as the basis of love

Gita Essence 2 – The transformational power of love – God-knowledge as the fuel for love

Gita Essence 3 – The transformational power of love – World-knowledge as the vehicle for love

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body, but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 5 – Which comes first – giving up lower taste or getting higher taste – Hindi

From sentimentalism to sentiment 1 – FEEL acronym – Firmness and Education

From sentimentalism to sentiment from Chaitanya Charan

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From sentimentalism to sentiment 2 – FEEL acronym – Expression and Learning

From sentimentalism to sentiment from Chaitanya Charan

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

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

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

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From passion to compassion 1

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From Passion to Compassion 2 – From religion in passion to devotion in goodness

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From Passion to Compassion 3 – Compassion needs to be felt as compassion

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From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 1

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 2

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 3

From misunderstanding to understanding – Rama katha 4

From Maya to Lila 1 – Illusion originates not in the object, but in the subject

From Maya to Lila 2 – The desired may be an illusion, the desirer isn’t

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 1 – Understanding how love culminates in bhakti

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 2 – How Karma and Jnana Culminate in Bhakti

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 6 – Parakiya-rasa is not immoral, but trans-moral

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 7 – Love in separation is the culmination of love

From Grudging to Gratitude QA 1

From Grudging to Gratitude QA 2

From Grudging to Gratitude 1 – Grudging is like driving with brakes pressed

From Grudging to Gratitude 2 – See beyond the immediate cause of suffering

From Grudging to Gratitude 3 – Learn to re-interpret reality devotionally

From Grudging to Gratitude 4 – Forgiving internally and externally by focusing on Krishna

From Fear to Surrender 1 – Understanding how our fears originate

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From Fear to Surrender 2 – FEAR acronym for analyzing fear part 1 – Faith and Education

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From Fear to Surrender 3 – FEAR acronym for analyzing fear 2 – Attachment and Redirection

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From Fear to Surrender 4 – FEAR acronym – 4 steps for overcoming fear

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From destructive competition to constructive competition – 1

From destructive competition to constructive competition from Chaitanya Charan

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From destructive competition to constructive competition – 2

From destructive competition to constructive competition from Chaitanya Charan

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From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 1 – Understanding Anartha

Chaitanya Charan das from Chaitanya Charan

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 2 – Understanding Nivrtti

Chaitanya Charan das from Chaitanya Charan

From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 3 – Understanding Artha

Chaitanya Charan das from Chaitanya Charan

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From anartha-nivrtti to artha-pravrtti 4 – Understanding Pravrtti

Chaitanya Charan das from Chaitanya Charan

Free will and God’s will 1 – God is the cause of all causes, not all effects

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Free will and God’s will 2 – Understanding the trigger, cause and target of our weaknesses

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Free will and God’s will 3 – How God helps us free our free will

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Emotionally intelligent spirituality 1 – Don’t work for or against emotions – work with them for Krishna

Emotionally intelligent spirituality 2 – Let immediate and ultimate solutions work cooperatively, not competitively

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – How the entitlement mentality degrades

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Duryodhana character analysis 2 – Ambition distorted by envy becomes cancerous

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Duryodhana character analysis 3 – Envy perpetuates dissatisfaction and invites destruction

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Does God laugh at our plans? – part 1

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Does God laugh at our plans? – part 2

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Diwali meditation 1 – Lakshmi Puja – Material fortune is a tool to spiritual fortune

Diwali meditation 2 – Dipotsava – Light the home with lamps and the heart with love

Diwali meditation 3 – Bali Pratipada – Surrendering everything fills our heart with the Lord of everything

Diwali meditation 4 – Govardhana Puja – Celebrate the bounty of nature with bountiful offerings to nature and the Lord of nature

Diwali meditation 5 – Damodara-lila – May the love that conquers the Supreme conquer our heart

Diwali meditation 6 – Naraka Chaturdashi – Call the Lord to free us from our hell

Demystifying Reincarnation 1 – Incredible delusion or credible vision?

Demystifying Reincarnation 2 – Hypnotically induced past life memories and Xenoglossy

Demystifying Reincarnation 3 – Past life memories – Any normal explanation?

Demystifying Reincarnation 4 – Past life memories – Guesses or Hyperboles?

Demystifying Reincarnation 5 – Astonishing birth marks and birth defects

Demystifying Reincarnation 6 – Past-life memories – Frauds by parents?

Demystifying Reincarnation 7 – Past life memories – Fraud by investigators?

Demystifying Reincarnation 8 – Near Death Experiences – Hallucinations or Guesses?

Demystifying Reincarnation 9 – Near Death Experiences – Partial consciousness?

Demystifying Reincarnation 10 – Near Death Experiences – Conscious when unconscious?

Demystifying Reincarnation 11 – Consciousness – Intuitions that point beyond the brain

Demystifying Reincarnation 12 – Where is the programmer of the brain

Demystifying Reincarnation 13 – Reincarnation accepted across history and geography

Demystifying Reincarnation 14 – Reincarnation in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism

Demystifying Reincarnation 15 – The Gita’s model of the self and its explanatory potential

Demystifying Reincarnation 16 – The soul’s defining characteristics and levels of consciousness

Demystifying Reincarnation 17 – The Mechanism of Reincarnation

Demystifying Reincarnation 18 – Common Questions about Reincarnation

Demystifying Reincarnation 19 – Reincarnation reveals justice amidst injustice

Demystifying Reincarnation 20 – The Freedoms of the Reincarnation Worldview

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

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

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

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Developing service attitude 1 – Service attitude transforms knowledge into realization

Service attitude transforms knowlege into realization from Chaitanya Charan

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Developing service attitude 2 – How to see reciprocation in our service

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Demons in krishna-lila 1 – How the metaphorical points to the transcendental and how Putana represents false guru

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Demons in krishna-lila 2 – Shaktasura – Overcoming Lethargy

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Demons in krishna-lila 3 – Trinavarta – Giving up useless argumentation

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Demons in krishna-lila 4 – Vatsasura – Weakness is forgivable, wickedness isn’t

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Demons in Krishna lila 5 – Aghasura – Cruelty and violence

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Demons in Krishna-lila 6 – Bakasura – From Appearance to Substance to Transcendence

Daksha-Shiva conflict 1 – How misconceptions give rise to conflicts – Hindi

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Daksha-Shiva conflict 2 – The proud consider others proud – Hindi

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Daksha-Shiva conflict 3 – How our mind makes us sectarian – Hindi

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Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 1 – What caused the exiles

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 2 – How to process adversities constructively

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 3 – How to see and seek God amid adversities