Questions:

2min

Can you elaborate on the teaching that we should accept Krishna as our maintainer and protector and how this relates to the teaching that we shouldn’t ask Krishna for material things?

15min

How is one to deal with situations that may seem as blessings but could be entangling one in material pride?

22min

Sometimes it’s said that everything is in the Vedas, and sometimes it’s said that the Vedas only deal with certain essential things. Can you explain this?

27min

Why is it called prana pratistha when a deity is installed?

28min

Is it okay to use offered Tulasi leaves in one’s herbal infusion?

29min

It is said that Sri Madhavendra Puri was a kalpa-vrksa tree in Krsna-lila. Does that mean he’s part of Balarama’s sandhini potency that is said to make up the immovable beings in Vrindavana dhama?

39min

We often hear about Krishna playing the fifth note on his flute. What about other notes that he plays?

47min

Can one converse with Krishna in one’s mind?

54min

If it’s helpful for our spiritual practice, where can we find the new debates online around whether bhakti is or is not inherent in the jiva?

Atulananda Swami is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and initiating guru based in Chile.

Krishna Caitanya das, deep thinker and cowboy, will speak on topics from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu.

Madan Gopal das is interviewing Archana-siddhi dasi about her sadhaka journeys with a backdrop of Joseph Campbell's stages of a hero's journey. Looking at our spiritual quest through the eyes of a hero's journey helps us embrace both the beauty and messiness we encounter on the way. Cultivating this vision helps the spiritual practitioners to accept everything that happens in their lives as favorable to obtaining their ultimate goals in bhakti. The interviews are also a way to help connect our international sanga.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam specifically propounds the supreme dharma of humanity, which is love for Bhagavān — our very source and refuge. To be infused with transcendental love for Bhagavān, authentic and unambiguous knowledge about Him and His essential being is of utmost importance. Since Bhagavān has innumerable forms, such as Viṣṇu, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, and Nṛsiṁha, the question must be asked, are They all equiprimordial in Their constitutional status or is there some hierarchy of being among Them? To address this question, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī wrote this book, Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha.

The conventional and for the most part unexamined point of view is that Kṛṣṇa is simply an avatāra of Viṣṇu. In Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī uproots this misconception, demonstrating that Bhagavān Viṣṇu, being ontologically related to the play of creation and hence to immanence, is Himself implicitly included within a more complete transcendent Whole (avatārī), technically known as Svayaṁ Bhagavān, who is clearly identified in the text as Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

Swami B. A. Ashram, author of 'O My Friend, O My Friend' about Srila Prabhupada's inner life, will speak on saranagati, the sixfold path of surrender.

Swami B. P. Padmanabha, full time teacher since many years, will speak on Bhramara-gita.

Questions:

1 min:

We see Sadhakas become attracted to or inspired by different angas of bhakti. Is that attraction a result of karmic disposition, bhakti giving special mercy in that direction, or is it the will of the jiva in response to the mercy of bhakti.

7 minute:

Can you please elaborate on the inner eye mentioned in this comment?

"The eye is necessary: divya-darśan [divine vision], dīkṣā [initiation]. Dīkṣā means to acquire such an eye, the inner eye. Divya-jñān [divine knowledge] is a second eye, another eye within. At the sacred thread ceremony, the upanayana is meant to be imparted: another eye to see things around you. This is the eye of judgement, a theistic eye."

16 min

If someone's inner vision reveals aspects of Bhagavan and awakens feelings for Him that aren't relatable or supported by others in their life, should one simply remain silent in solitude, prayerful that someone supportive will come?

27 min

Being mainly drawn to this feeling of friendly love with Krsna as the lovely cowherd boy, how do we develop our attraction to other forms of the Lord? How do we develop our relationship with Radharani?

33 min

Two statements:

1) Krishna is merciful to the most fallen

2) He rarely gives Bhava and Prema

How to harmonise these two statements?

44 min

I saw in a post by Swami Ashram about the paintings of then and now. Is it entirely by the grace of the guru that someone can see that window (into the spiritual world) in order to capture and transmit and also perceive as it is? Could you elaborate on this further please.

49 min

Today is the day of Ratha Yatra. Can you say some words on this?

Atulananda Swami is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and initiating guru based in Chile.

Krishna Caitanya das, deep thinker and cowboy, will speak on topics from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu.