It's very important that we accept our human experience and elements of being broken. Trying to be perfect when we are broken as a recipe for disappointment and slow progress. Accepting the brokenness that we have and in others, including the leaders, will allow us to mature and progress in a healthy way.

Please don't forget your strengths. Often, when we're trying to improve and develop ourselves, we focus on our weaknesses and areas that we are not doing well. However, it's so important that we focus at least half our time ,or actually more, developing our strengths. Remember, what you focus on the most ,you get more of. So, it's so important to know yourself well and leverage your strengths and develop them, and at the same time try to improve in areas that are difficult and are not your strengths. So, much self-development and spiritual improvement focuses on the negative and areas which are frustrating. You don't have to be perfect to be happy. So why focus on your imperfections?

This is a live overview presentation at the Recharge Festival December 2024 in New Zealand. It is an overview of the whole program, where i talk about the mindset and skillset for overcoming our struggles, and the 3 ingredients for manifesting our goals and dreams in devotional service.

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This podcast is with my God brother Vilas Sindhu das who is at a mature age like myself, and is a great example of how we should look as we go on in our spiritual journey towards old age. Health is really key and so important as we age. We need to question some of our beliefs, and dietary habits in our movement if we want to stay healthy and fit as we age!

there are key fundamental things we should be doing that are common sense if we want to get old gracefully and healthy.

Often when we are trying to improve and better our lives we primarily focus on the problems all the things we are not so good at. Yes, those things should be addressed, but not at the expense of not knowing your strengths and not having a focus on developing them, as well. You must see the strengths and the good that we are doing alongside the areas we are trying to get better at

It's really imperative, as stated in the nectar of instruction, where the first three favourable items are all about attitude, that we develop a fighting warrior spirit if we want to progress in our spiritual life. Like a mongrel dog attitude of fighting to survive at all costs .. As Prabhupada says in the 10th Canto - You simply have to remain alive in KC in order to inherit the kingdom of God ..

What is the real problem with your problems?

This is a live example of a classic struggling Devotee and how they focus so much on the problems that they have and how the solution is simple

It's so important for the beginners and those in the early stages of Bhakti to understand and to know what their greatest practical assets are that will help them go through their struggles to reach higher levels of Bhakti. What are they? Fortified intelligence and a strong developed & Attitude (EQ). BG 2:14

One of the most essential ingredients necessary for tackling the difficulties of our neophyte journey towards perfection, is to understand how important it is to fortify the intelligence and build emotional resilience. One of the most often overlooked verses of Bhagavad-Gita is Text 14 work Krishna instructs us to tolerate happiness and distress in this world. This is such a deep verse and often we don't understand or think too much about the depth of this important 'attitude' that is crucial for navigating to higher stages of Bhakti