Episodes
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âGetting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world⊠Focus on your main duty.â - Epictetus / if you sincerely want Truth, thatâs god consciousness / duty drags you back on track / western vs eastern attitudes toward duty / Too much choice makes a person miserable / duty makes the mind more peaceful / duty is prescribed specifically according to oneâs mindset / the days of the employer / weâre indebted to our forefathers, the great sages, human society, etc. / one connected with the Supreme has no more debts / Brahmaâs non-envious demeanor / all yogic rules and regulations serve one goal - to always remember Krishna
SB 7.10.23-26
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I want to be initiated into the path of Bhakti but I struggle to chant the required 16 rounds per day, so I feel guilty - can you please share some advice? / How can I keep myself and my daughter on the path of Bhakti when we live far away from other devotees? / Can you explain the analogy from Srimad Bhagavatam - that when oneâs face is decorated, the reflection of oneâs face in a mirror is also decorated?
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Episodes manquant?
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It does not matter that you are in the material world - so long as you stay connected through hearing spiritual content / St. Francisâs counterintuitive formula for life / the courage to lead a spiritual life / St. Francis gets naked / your net worth is your spirit to contribute / by bringing your awareness to the purity of a devotee's love, our own awareness is purified / decorating oneself with the qualities of patience, tolerance, and kindness, etc. / devotees purify all places
SB 7.10.13-22
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Thomas Merton on climbing the ladder of success / analyze what your win is before you start the hustle / in a generation or two we will be forgotten / the Bhakti-yogiâs goal is a pure, soft heart / accepting that we are both very close and very far from the goal / âAs soon as we have material desires, we lose our spiritual identity.â - Bhaktivedanta Swami / even as we live in the material world, by regularly hearing the sacred texts, our hearts and minds remain absorbed in spirit
SB 7.10.8-12
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Can there be competition on the spiritual platform? / can there be fear on the spiritual platform? / âYour problem is that you are not afraid enough of mayaâ A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami / by contemplating the objects of the senses âŠâŠ. / 2 types of perfected Bhakti Yogis - the eternally perfect and those who achieve perfection through practice / âloveâ desiring material benefit in exchange for their devotional service is no better than a merchant / a âmasterâ who bestows benedictions motivated by a desire for prestigious is just as bad / filtering out all the impurities that contaminate pure love in the heart / Weâre all searching for unconditional love
SB 7.10.1-7
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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran / if external beauty is our currency, the market is gonna crash / for the Bhakti-yogi - the primary concern is the quality of their own heart / somehow, winning the lottery doesnât buy happiness / one can reframe lifeâs struggle and pain as a purification of the heart / if we lean into Bhakti (and focused on the internal work) we could solve the worldâs problems / religion doesnât cause war - but the superficial understanding of it does / youâve gotta start working on not being a dirty old man when youâre young / the more entitled we are, the less happy / satisfy the root, all the leaves are satisfied / foreshadowing the rasa of the 10th canto
SB 7.9.52-54
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Itâs not ALL about the journey - there is a goal to yoga / OM is the bow;
the self is the arrow; God is said to the target / Marcus Aurelius on having a purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward / when Raghu received the pretentious âDo lessâ instruction / Bhagavad-gita showed how to focus all of your worldly responsibilities as part of your spiritual goal / the hodgepodge lodge of spirituality / the relative value of silence, vows, study, austerities, duties, mantras, etc. / spiritual posers / all becomes revealed through love and serviceSB 7.9.46-51
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Where does desire reside, in the mind or in the self? / Is everything Krishnaâs grace, or are there pockets of free will where His Grace doesnât penetrate? / How to give life advice to someone who is resistant? / How to keep an elevated mind when experiencing chronic pain? / How to make my life an offering?
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How can I learn tolerance and not get upset with people? / What should I keep in mind when raising my children? / How to explain my Bhakti practice to people who donât like the fact that I have changed?
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âCaught in that sensual music all neglect, Monuments of unageing intellect.â â William Butler Yeats / all the great wisdom traditions were able to recognize the inability for sense gratification to deliver happiness / the devotee has one optimistic eye and one pessimistic eye / your senses have their own agenda for you / Prahlad doesnât want to be delivered alone / sex desire is like an itch - the more you scratch it the more it itches
SB 7.9.40-45
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John Coltrane â âGod breathes through us so completely, so gently we hardly feel it, yet, it is our everything.â / spirituality starts as a vague intuition thereâs more / Coltraneâs symbolism of Divine love in all 12 keys / the greatest secret of the sacred text - there is a person behind everything and He can be connected to through love / Vishnu as the soul of the universe / the universe manifests as a tree grows from a seed / Brahma meditates and discovers God spread throughout his own body and senses / Little Prahlad drops the universal manual in our laps!
SB 7.9.32-38
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The Nrisimha Avataraâs heart frolics with his own playful pastimes / He fascinates the great sages / He enlightens His devotees from within their hearts / although ferocious, He is very soft and kind to devotees / He is here and there and everywhere / Prahladâs gratitude to his guru / Prahlad identifies Vishnu as the designer behind the universeâs design / the inconceivable brilliance in the design of the elm seed / we are not creators we are manipulators
SB 7.9.28-31
A Girl Can Touch The Sky continues its theatrical release following sold-out screenings with Q & A sessions in Birmingham, U.K., and Dublin, Ireland.
The NYC screening with Q & A chaired by Shikha Uberoi (Indiaâs former No.1 professional tennis player and social entrepreneur) has been confirmed for Saturday, June 22nd, 6-8 pm as part of the Her Vision International Film Festival at Slate, Manhattan.
Tickets can be purchased at https://slate.ticketsauce.com/e/4th-annual-her-vision-international-film-festival/tickets
You can see the trailer, reviews and the link to book tickets at www.agirlcantouchthesky.com
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Leo Tolstoy - âJoy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.â / figuring out how to use your gift as an offering / material enjoyment is junk food- service is nourishment / the unique Bhakti idea of serving the servant / the whole point is to be connected / desires for future happiness are like a mirage in the desert / the counterintuitive truth - true happiness is derived though serving other (not through being served) / Lord Vishnu is impartial
SB 7.9.24-27
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all the great wisdom cultures draw our attention to our helplessness to the force of time / all your money won't another minute buy / the 3 modes of material nature - without our knowledge, external influences are working their way into your mind / basically, weâre all like defiant teenagers / ahem⊠um, debating Christian and atheist philosophers, the concept of karma kind of solves the whole thing / weâre being crushed by the wheel of time / Prahladâs perspective as a witness of the destruction of a materialist at the highest level
SB 7.9.20-23
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While serving in active duty as a sergeant in the US Army in war-torn Iraq, Partha-sarathi Dasa maintained his devotion and encouraged it in the hearts of others.
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Why donât you guys present a higher Vedic standard? / Why donât you guys present a more tolerant standard? / How can I support someone who doesn't share my beliefs?
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reading the world's patterns, recognizing the truths operating through them, coming to terms with those truths / the Taoist law of reverted effort - when humans try to fix things by their actions, the effect will be the exact opposite of that desired / the great paradox of our time: everything is both better and worse than ever before / material pursuit guarantees material problems / are we resisting the internal growth our problems are designed to initiate / happiness is found in the never changing, misery is found in the ever-changing
SB 7.9.17-19
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"Your future, your hard dangerous path is this: to mature and to find God in yourselves.â Herman Hesse / weâve gone from letters, to emails, to written text messages, to emojis / weâve gone from Shakespeare, to movies, to YouTube, to scrolling reels / focus on the higher call â let go of petty annoyances / Michael Jordanâs vices and virtues / Vishnuâs nature is innately, completely satisfied / frustration through resistance to the flow of giving to Krishna / the comfort in atheism
SB 7.9.10-17
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selfishness is the core of our bondage / the quality of your heart, while giving, makes a difference / world peace canât be done? / why Bhakti is translated as devotional service / faith without works is dead / eternal love is a higher aspiration than eternal peace / Prahlad's prayer with a heart softened by love / why our material opulences canât touch the heart of God
SB 7.9.4-9
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âIn essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.â - St. Augustine / in fighting over inessential details we miss the essence / Bhagavatam is sarva-vedÄnta-sÄraáč - the essence of all the Vedic literature / if the inessential details arenât bringing us to the essence, we can drop them / the mind unburdened by material concerns can appreciate the mercy of Vishnu / even anger and thievery can bring you closer to God / the paw or the claw
SB 7.8.54 - 7.9.3
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