Guru… Genuine Guru & Spiritual Progress over Multiple Lifetimes 26 Oct 2017 QUESTION: I fully agree with what you said (The Truth is in Your Heart???), guru is a necessity. But I would like to ask what has to be the qualities…
Uncategorized The Truth is in Your Heart??? 25 Oct 201725 Oct 2017 Many people claim that the truth and God is in your heart, so you don’t need a guru or the vedas to find god and truth. Sometimes they use Gītā…
Guru… Questions About Prema and Changing Gurus 10 Oct 201710 Oct 2017 Q1:- Possessiveness of Krishna happens at Prema, but is the seed of it in Sādhana? In sādhana our relationship to Krishna is only a theory that we try to emulate…
Chanting Quantity of Nāma-Japa? 9 Oct 201710 Oct 2017 QUESTION: Why is nama-japa so highly stressed for bhaktas - even for the most beginning yogis? ISKCON (and most of its branches, I suppose) places this stress on doing a…
Uncategorized What is Love? 4 Oct 2017 Here I try to explain the difference between Rāga and Prīti (Rati/Kāma and Prema/Bhakti) to the astrology crowd, and with astrological references. https://youtu.be/kE3Xk9NKbpE
Uncategorized 3 Reasons to Study the Gita 20 Jun 2017 1. To Understand Vedic Culture... If you want to understand Vedic culture, but don’t know how, realizing that studying the Vedas is an impossibly big and difficult ambition - then…
Uncategorized “Don’t Learn Too Much (You’ll Find Out we Don’t Know what we are Talking About)” 19 Jun 2017 Here are some remarks people apparently still encounter from senior people in ISKCON when they talk about their intention to deeply study Śāstra and Sanskrit. I will add my brief…
origin of jiva If we are Parts of God, Why are we so Ignorant? 24 Apr 2017 QUESTION: If consciousness stems from the "Ultimate Consciousness", which is perfectly refined and brilliantly aware, why is our consciousness SO unrefined and SO unaware? Is our consciousness really so unrefined and…