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[Bhagavatam class at ISKCON, Chowpatty, Mumbai]

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My most attended program for a Western audience was at the Ohio State University. Naveen Krishna Prabhu, along with an inspired team, has been conducting a weekly vegetarian cooking class, which has over the years blossomed into a full-fledged program. Over one hundred and fifty students attended the program where I spoke on “Focus on conscious intention, not circumstantial emotion.” I explained how our intentions are often sabotaged by our emotions, and how we can subordinate our emotions to our intentions using spiritual wisdom and meditational practice.

After the class, a Chinese girl asked, “How can we conquer all our fears?” I answered that fear is an essential psychological defense mechanism that alerts us to danger, just as pain alerts us to physical danger. Fear is not the problem; fearfulness is. When fear continues to be present even when there is no danger, then fear morphs into fearfulness. The way to overcome it is by filling ourselves with positive, protective, purposeful thoughts – and the most efficacious of such thoughts are thoughts about our spiritual core and the whole to which we belong.

This article is part of a series of articles about the recent Western tour. Full article can be read here

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• Can someone say that my nature is to talk insensitively – Hindi?
• How can we intelligently neglect some people’s criticism of us?
• If we don’t see others’ faults, how can we guide them to improve – Hindi?
• When the mind is like software, then how can pills for treating the hardware – the brain – cure mental problems?
• Why did Krishna allow the desecration of Deities by foreign invaders in medieval times?
• Will banning beef lead to economic problems?
• Why do serious devotees sometimes die prematurely?

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.20.12)

Many artists are only recognised for their greatness once they are dead but Beethoven was famous during his life but then, he went deaf. Can you imagine that!? It was practically the worse thing that could have affected him. For a musician, the ear is essential. People who cannot sing, it is not that they cannot sing – they cannot listen! Music begins with listening. It is all about the ear, really!

Beethoven, with the perfect ears, who he could perfectly hear different tones and notes, went deaf. It was a setup, he became bigger and bigger, he was the greatest and then he went deaf, lost it! He had to go through the agony of everything being taken away!

In spiritual life, it is also like this. In spiritual life, in the course of our service we may get recognition; we may get so many facilities and so on, many external attributes. Over the years, you collect a library of your books, your fancy chadaars and everything. But in a spiritual crisis, all that we have is the Krsna consciousness within! Therefore, we have to make commitments within. Internally, we have to say, “Yes Krsna, I will put you first. I will put you before my senses. I will put you before my mind. Yes, whatever you say.”

The ISKCON Brooklyn Temple President has refused to comply with the GBC's recent notice for his removal and has locked the Brooklyn Temple and removed the "ISKCON" sign from the face of the building

After viewing the installed Kalashes and Chakras, Sadbhuja and Rangavati prabhus have decided that the Dome brackets which hold the Kalashes in place need a color adjustment to match the gold color of the titanium nitrate Kalashes and Chakras. They have created a new design which includes painting sections of the Dome brackets gold.

To fulfill the need for a durable, weather-resistant and long-lasting paint they have turned to a German based company named Keim known for its high quality paints. Their paint is very unique because it is a ready-to-use mineral based silicate paint whose pigments and minerals are engineered to meet the challenges of extreme climatic conditions and is renowned for its proven durability to last for over one hundred years. It is water-repellent, offers high vapor permeability and forms an insoluble, chemical bond with the mineral substrate. There is evidence of this in Germany, Austria and other European countries where Keim’s paint has been used on royal mansions and other important structures and buildings that are over one hundred years old.

They have further plans to use Keim’s paint on other outside areas of the structure as well as inside in the coffered pillars and on the pillars.

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Who are the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas?
Devotees of Viṣṇu are called Vaiṣṇavas, devotees of Kṛṣṇa are called Kārṣṇas, and the devotees of Śrī Rādhā (Gaurī) are called Gauḍīyas (Gaurīyas).
Lord Gaurāṅga’s devotees, who are under the shelter of parakīya-mādhurya-rati and who follow Śrī Rūpa, are called Gauḍīyas. The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas follow Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the incarnation of Lalitā. Therefore they can be defined as followers of Śrī Svarūpa and Śrī Rūpa. Therefore Mahāprabhu commented to Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Prabhu, “This is the behavior of your Gauḍīya devotees.”
The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas are interested in mañjarī-bhāva, and Śrī Rādhā-Govinda, Śrī Rādhā-Gopīnātha, and Śrī Rādhā-Madana-mohana are their worshipable Deities.[…]
Generally, Lord Gaurāṅga’s devotees are known as Gauḍīyas (Gaurīyas), and the devotees in Gauḍadeśa (Bengal) are also called Gauḍīyas, just as the devotees in Utkala (Oḍissa) are called Oḍiyās.
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura
Amṛta Vāṇī - Nectar of Instructions for Immortality
***Phonemes [r] and [ḍ] are both retroflex and sound almost similarly. Gaurīyas and Gauḍīyas are homonyms

Iskcon Center Vesu (Surat) Rathyatra And Book Distribution Report (Album with photos)
“Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity.Without books, our preaching has no solid basis”- Srila Prabhupada’s Letter to Cyavana 26-12-71.
Embracing these divine words of Srila Prabhupada in their hearts and acting accordingly, The devotees from Surat has once again emerged victorious in their 4 hours combat against Maya during a fabulous Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra in the Vesu area of Surat city on 30-7-17.
Troops of devotees entered the residential buildings of this posh area and bombarded mostly each and every house with the weapons in the form of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
Other groups of devotees marched along the roads with their hands loaded with Prabhupada books surrounding the Rathyatra of the Lord of the universe who was mercifully delivering the conditioned souls by His beautiful sidelong glances.
This Transcendental 4 hours battle came to end in a moment and by Prabhupada’s divine mercy the devotees were able to distribute the books as follows:
342- Maha big books
21- Big books
56- Medium books
1543- Small books
5 Annual BTG subscriptions. H.G. Radhacharàn prabhu and H.G.Radhesh prabhu administered the proper arrangements in the Rathyatra and book distribution respectively.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada transcendental book distribution.
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Troupes of neon-vested Segway riders and strolling tourist families exploring Golden Gate Park on Sunday made way for an especially vibrant interruption: the Festival of Chariots, an annual Hindu parade and celebration with roots going back millennia in India. Held since 1967 in San Francisco, the festival drew hundreds of smiling worshipers who helped pull three large chariots along John F. Kennedy Drive that carried likenesses of Lord Jagannath — who to many Hindus is known as Lord of the Universe or Krishna — his brother, Lord Baladeva, and his sister, Subhadra. Men knelt to touch their forehead to the ground and women in jewel-toned saris danced with the procession. The large wooden carts were painted with elephants and swans, draped with garlands of carnations, and capped by tall red tents meant to resemble temples. “This is a way to bring the lord outside and into the park,” said Haladhara Rupa of Dublin, who wore a traditional purple-blue kurta, or long shirt, and billowing white dhoti pants over bright green running shoes. “You can bring the lord in a joyous way.” Continue reading "Devotees celebrate with Festival of Chariots in San Francisco
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“Whenever I get report of my books selling, I feel strength. Regarding book sales figures, please endeavor in this way. This is the only solace of my life. When I hear that my books are selling so nicely, I become energetic like a young man.” – Srila Prabhu pada, September 2, 1974 Continue reading "North European BBT’s Report for 2016
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“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell” – Oprah Winfrey

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Suppose we are busy working in our house. If someone knocks on the door, and knocks softly, we may not hear them, especially if we are not expecting anyone. But if that person keeps knocking and knocking, we may feel as if we have no alternative except to open the door.

If we consider our consciousness to be like a house, then various stimuli from the outer world are like visitors that knock on the door of our consciousness. When opportunity knocks, it knocks softly. So, we need to be alert enough to notice and grab it.

Whereas we need to be alert to notice when opportunity knocks, we need another kind of resourcefulness when temptation knocks. If a visitor leaned on the doorbell, it would ring on and on and on, leaving us with no option but to open the door. Temptation is such an insistent visitor. When it appears in our consciousness, it just keeps propositioning us repeatedly and relentlessly. Over time, its siren call consumes our consciousness so completely that we feel as if we have to put everything else aside and just give in to it.

How does temptation ring the doorbell incessantly? By appearing irresistible. Initially, temptation allures us with the promise of pleasure that seems immense and immediate and irresistible. However, once we indulge in it a few times, then the desire becomes increasingly forceful, goading us towards indulgence. Being goaded, we indulge not so much because the pleasure is so irresistible, but because the torment of not indulging is so unbearable. Thus, the incessant and loud ringing of the bell of our consciousness by temptation manifests initially as the promise of irresistible pleasure and eventually as the misery of intolerable torment. Either way, we feel driven to open the door just to silence the bell. But as soon as we open the door, temptation barges into our consciousness and takes it hostage, as the Bhagavad-gita (02.44) warns. With our consciousness thus captivated, temptation impels us into self-defeating actions that cause tribulation and degradation.

Significantly however, we don’t have to open the door. If a persona non grata is leaning on the doorbell, we can just turn off the power to the doorbell. How can we turn off the power to the bell when temptation rings it? By not thinking about the temptation. What gives any stimulus, the power to disturb us is the attention we give it. If we turn our attention to something else, that stimulus becomes disempowered.

To turn our attention away from temptation when it allures us, we need to have ready at hand activities that can engage and absorb us. We will readily have such activities if we have cultivated for our life some higher purpose, a purpose that brings out our higher, nobler, purer side. Gita wisdom explains that the highest purpose is spiritual purpose – the purpose of lovingly harmonizing our spiritual core with the supreme spiritual reality. This supreme reality manifests as the all-attractive, all-pure, all-powerful supreme, Krishna. Thinking about him, engaging in his service and redefining our life as an offering of loving service to him brings sublime, supreme fulfillment. And we can access this fulfillment by practicing bhakti-yoga, which trains our consciousness to connect with him. To the extent our consciousness becomes thus devotionally enriched, to that extent we can pull our attention away from temptation without inordinate difficulty.

And just like an unwanted visitor goes away when their repeated ringing elicits no response, so too does temptation go away when we don’t respond to it.

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yad atra skhalitaṁ kiñcid                 vidvāṁsaḥ pūrayantu tat

yad atra sauṣṭhavaṁ kiñcid                         tad guror eva me na hi

yad — that which; atra — here; skhalitaṁ — is faulty; kiñcid — whatever; vidvāṁsaḥ — the learned souls; pūrayantu — may kindly correct; tat — that; yad — that which; atra — here; sauṣṭhavam — is beautifully done; kiñcid — whatever; tad — that; guror — belongs to my guru; eva — certainly; me — mine; na — it is not; hi — certainly

“Whatever errors are present in this commentary, may the learned souls correct it; and whatever good is found here, it is due to my gurus, not me.” (Krama Sandarbha introduction, Jiva Goswami)

When authors write a book, they usually include a section for acknowledgments where they give credit to all those who helped them in writing that book. But few authors go to the extent as to give all credit for the good in the book to others. They naturally want credit for what they feel is their creativity, their hard work, their original contribution.

However, in devotional and spiritual circles, especially circles that draw from a venerable lineage of teachers, books often feature acknowledgements such as that expressed by Jiva Goswami here. Are these spiritual authors expressing excessive humility, refusing to take credit where it is due? Or is a deeper truth operational?

In any intellectual or artistic work, no one starts from scratch. We use the language thinkers before us have developed, and we draw extensively from their ideas.

Of course, we may claim credit for having brought those words and ideas together distinctively. However, even for that distinctive integration, we are more a channel than the source. All insightful works rely on inspiration, and inspiration comes from outside of ourselves, giving us in fully developed form ideas that we simply receive and write. The Bhagavad-gita (15.15) indicates that the source of inspiration is the indwelling Supreme Lord. In that sense, we can’t take sole credit for either the points or their integration.

Additionally, in spiritual circles, originality has a sense distinct from its sense in contemporary circles. Nowadays, originality refers to coming up with an insight that no one has come up with till now. In traditional spiritual circles, originality refers to that which is as close to the origin as possible. If we were traveling using a map and wanted to understand the symbols in the map, we would need the second kind of originality, not the first kind. We wouldn’t need to come up with some new meaning for those symbols; we would need to know that meaning intended by the map-maker. When we understand that meaning, we can properly navigate the terrain depicted in the map.

The Bhagavad-gita (16.24) indicates that scripture is a guidebook for helping us make sound decisions. Thus, scripture is like a map for our life-journey. Naturally therefore, when scriptural commentators keep this purpose in mind, they consider their commenting successful if they convey the import given by the previous teachers who had successfully used scripture as a guide for their life-journey. The Gita (04.10) states that many in the past have attained perfection by living in the light of its spiritual knowledge– and it urges us to do the same (04.15).

When we are able to explain a map to someone, helping them find the directions to the desired destination, we don’t feel proud of our creativity – we feel grateful to those who made the map and to those who taught us to read it properly. Similarly, when we are able to explain scriptural knowledge effectively, helping people find the way to enduring spiritual growth, we don’t feel proud of our creativity – we feel grateful: to the universal spiritual master, the Lord, who has given scripture to humanity; and to the exalted lineage of spiritual masters who have made those scriptural directions accessible to each generation for millennia.

And if we make some mistakes in reading the map, we feel grateful when those who are better map-readers than us correct our reading. While explaining a map, our purpose is not to prove that our understanding is right, but to ensure that we gain and share the right understanding. When we share spiritual knowledge in such a mood, we endear ourselves to our Lord, and he guarantees our spiritual elevation and liberation (18.68-69).

Thus, the mood of profound humility amidst devotional creativity is founded in philosophical reality, and it helps us go closer to the ultimate reality, our eternal Lord.

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• As sadhus, should we focus on internal change through sadhana or social change through activism?
• I was initiated earlier by a priest – how do I see it when seeking initation from a Vaishnava guru?
• Should we use the words “fools and rascals” just as Srila Prabhupada did?
• When a close relative troubles us, do we need to tolerate infinitely?
• Understanding how dharma culminates in prema
• When we can’t overcome our bad habits, what to do – Hindi? 

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Fifty complete newcomers to Krishna consciousness packed out a recent seminar on “Conscious Living” at the Bhakti Yoga Center in Panama City recently.

15 days, 11 temples and $1 million U.S. in pledges! This was the amazing result of the first tour to the small temples of the Maharashtra region of Western India.

Inspired by the amazing success of his recent Vyasa Puja TOVP fundraising event which also raised $1 million U.S., His Holiness Lokanath Maharaja, Chairman of the Western India District Council, personally orchestrated the recent first leg of the Maharashtra tour, calling temple leaders on the phone every day and creating a transcendental competition to give more to the TOVP. Every single devotee enthusiastically responded to this ‘Call to Action’. Even devotees who had given at his Vyasa Puja celebration upgraded their pledges, being overwhelmed by the ecstatic mood of the competition and festival of kirtan and abhisheka for Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord Nrsimha’s Sitari.

“We far exceeded our expectations here in Maharashtra. It wasn’t anticipated that such small temple communities would step forward and give so much”, said Vraja Vilas prabhu, the TOVP Global Fundraising Director. “We owe a debt of gratitude to Lokanath Maharaja for his complete support of the tour, to Radhanath Maharaja and his many disciples in temples in Maharashtra, to the WIDC (Western India District Council) and to all the temple leaders for their unconditional cooperation and expert organization of our schedule as Lord Nityananda’s Padukas, Lord Nrsimha’s Sitari, Jananivas prabhu and myself traveled continuously for 30 days”.

The mood of the devotees was one of personal sacrifice for the TOVP with the understanding that service to Mayapur and specifically to the TOVP project would please Srila Prabhupada and show their love for him through the spirit of cooperation and bring about the empowerment and success of their own preaching projects. This mood was also emphasized by Srila Prabhupada:

“The more you help develop Mayapur, the more Lord Chaitanya will bless your area of the world and it will flourish”

Letter to Hari-sauri

Ambarisa and the TOVP Team wish to thank His Holiness Lokanath Maharaja, His Holiness Radhanath Maharaja and all the leaders and devotees in Maharashtra for making this tour such a grand success and for showing by their example the attitude of combined service to guru and Krishna.

We look forward to the second half of the Maharashtra/Western India tour in 2018 to continue the transcendental competition.

To donate to the TOVP, please visit the TOVP website at: https://tovp.org/donate/seva-opportunities/

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Heart Felt Thank You And Prannams for the effort and all the wonderful devotees and volunteers for making this year Ratha Yatra festival a huge success!!! Your service personally, financially, or by just attending was much appreciated. Huge thanks goes out to devotees who came all the way from different parts of Ireland to be a part of this blissful event and special thanks to Alek Prabhu for capturing the event photos! Continue reading "Dublin Rathayatra 2017
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A Monk’s lesson from a tree (1 min video)
Sivarama Swami’s advice.
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An Angel in Disguise.
Sukhayanti Devi Dasi: I guess angels come in all forms and shapes and may appear in the least expected places and circumstances. When I think of angels, I imagine those beautiful, magical figures with wings, sent by God to Earth for some divine purpose. Well, my angel did not have any wings and I cannot remember if she was beautiful or not as her physical appearance was of little significance. She was not magical per se; however, her appearance and the circumstances in which she came into and went out of my life, for me, was quite magical.
I was a young 22 year old woman who had just joined the Hare Krishna movement. Out of my own desire and drive, I decided to daily go out onto the streets of Germany and distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books. I did not have much conviction in the cause, in fact I was full of doubts; yet something drew me to that service.
When I had first joined the movement, and started studying those same books that I would later go out and distribute, I felt like finally, for the first time in my life everything made sense. All those burning questions in my mind and in my heart were instantly answered. It is not that I did not ever ask the questions before. I did, to some extent or another. I asked the teachers at my school and the books I read; I even looked a bit into the religion into which I was born. However, no answer was ever able to come close enough to satisfying me. Something was missing.
Then, when I met the Hare Krishna’s and joined the temple, I felt at home. Naturally, I wanted to share with others this valuable gift that I had received. However, although convinced to some degree of the value of my newly acquired belief, many doubts and concerns were still ringing through my brain. One such thought was that of me joining a secret, horribly dangerous, brainwashing cult. I knew it to be nonsense as it would have been an insult to my intelligence and good judgment to ever suggest that I was part of a religious cult. However, the mind who so expertly and easily plays tricks with us kept on whispering in my ears, “are you sure you are not being brainwashed?”. Laughing at the thought, I would shoo it away, only to find it coming back to attack me some days later.
Living in Germany did a lot to contribute to my mind’s playful games. In Germany of 2006, the Hare Krishna movement was still very much perceived as a cult. Whether it still is now I do not know, but it sure was back then. I remember walking down the streets with the books in my hands trying to hand them out to the various people I encountered and every once and a while hearing them say something nasty in German cautioning each other that I am from a cult. I would mainly ignore the remarks or try to brush them off as ridiculous when responding, but that mind of mine was so happy to cling on to each and every remark as it instantly told me “see, I told you so…”.
The day I met my angel was a regular day out on the streets of Germany. We were in a small town walking up and down the streets trying to hand out books and get a donation for them in return. I was not a great book distributor; in fact, I was quite horrible at it. But I was persistent and so I kept going out daily. After many refusals and maybe having succeeded in distributing a couple of books, I came to meet my angel.
She was a women, perhaps in her 40’s, with a very kind and gentle face. I stopped her and immediately felt a connection. I put one of my books in her hand and went on to deliver my usual lines. I had a good feeling about her and was convinced that she would take one of my books. Just as I was telling her that she can take the book in exchange for a small donation to help cover the printing costs, another lady approached us from behind. As she passed by us she spoke quickly but clearly enough for both of us to hear: “Be careful, she is from a cult”. She kept walking as she spoke, and disappeared in the distance.
I stood there speechless. My mind was racing, thinking, “oh no! here we go again, she was just about to take the book but now she will become alarmed, throw the book back in my hand and walk away horrified, to escape the evil danger she was in”.
To my surprised nothing of that sort happened. The lady stood there looking deeply into my eyes with a gentle smile on her face. I do not remember her saying anything, but her eyes spoke to me beyond anything words could ever express. It was as if she was telling me not to worry, and not to listen to every nonsense others had to say. Her smile gave me courage and strength as well as conviction. Her smile told me that I should always have faith in myself and never doubt my ability to decipher between right and wrong, good and evil. She kept the book in her hand, reached down to her wallet and handed me a donation, and with that she walked away, disappearing out of my life just as quickly as she came in.
I cannot say for sure, of course, that she was really an angel, but for me she was. It felt as though God had simply sent her my way so that I may find the strength to believe in myself and not be influenced by others. The way in which she completely ignored the other lady as though she never existed and as though she had not heard a word she said told me that I also need to ignore what is not beneficial for me and keep on focusing on what is true and important.

Photos from the the San Diego Friday Evening Screening of award-winning film, “Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement, and the Swami who started it all” With His Grace Yadhubara Prabhu taking questions and answers after the showing. Photos by ISKCON San Diego’s photographer extraordinaire, Purusa Prabhu.
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The Gathering for the Yajna (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: 700 devotees from around the world gathered today in the eve of Woodstock to discuss plans for our many programs at Krsna’s Village of Peace.
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“Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part, Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.” [Marcus Valerius Martialis: Roman poet, 41 – 102 AD] Continue reading "The Line Up
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Most by college program organizers asked me to speak on “Spirituality in the age of science.” Not wanting to speak the same content again and again, I started approaching the topic from different angles in different talks. And I soon discovered that I had enough approaches to address this topic in a full book. One such talk centered on “The hard problem of consciousness” at the Texas A and M university, College Station. I explained how consciousness is the basis of all our knowledge – even the denial of consciousness requires the presence of consciousness. While research may show which areas of the brain are activated when we have different emotions and experiences, the emotions and experiences themselves can’t be reduced to anything mechanical, be it neural or digital.

At the universities where I spoke on the mind, the audience frequently asked many questions about emotions and relationships. Even among Indian college students in the US, dating is very common. While many youths in India demand the freedom to choose their partners themselves, talking with students in a campus where such choices were the norm revealed the flip side of that freedom: anxiety. Most of the students were in various phases of uncertainty, insecurity or animosity based on whether their relationships with their significant other was forming, fraying or breaking.

This article is part of a series of articles about the recent Western tour. Full article can be read here

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• Are the Vedas mythological because they talk about mysticism?
• How can karma such as fighting in army be spiritualized?
• How can we make our presentation more crisp and condensed?
• ​How can we develop taste for chanting?
• How can we make the effect of hearing last for long?
• If somebody asks questions arrogantly, how should we respond?
• Is repressing the sexual instinct harmful?
• Why is the Shambhu aspect of Lord Shiva glorified as the topmost devotee?
• Was sati suicide or murder?
• Does the definition of success vary from person to person or is it universal?
• When we face real problems, can we spiritually raise ourselves above those problems?
• When we face real problems, can we spiritually raise ourselves above those problems?
• When we have to choose between two good options, how do we choose?
• When chanting is so simple why do we feel so lazy – how can we chant constantly?
• Why is the desire for sex stronger than the desire for any other sense gratification?

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