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So when you don’t know somebody closely, it’s easy to like people. And then you get really close to people and you see their qualities and their faults. And we all have faults. So then , you know, your friendship starts to get thinner because we see each other’s faults and we disagree, and yada Read more

In one city, we had a four-part weekend seminar on overcoming negative emotions because we all have some. We have some positive ones and we have negative ones and the negative ones can be debilitating depending. Meditation helps move one from those, to overcome. Not necessarily the circumstance that is outside of Read more

It’s a really good example. He doesn’t refer to Bhagavad Gita, but he is saying a Bhagavad Gita principle which is this principle of destiny. Here I am, in a Nazi concentration camp and I am a Jewish man. And every day, the guards would come by purposefully, and rattle the chain on the outside […]Read more

Over Endeavoring is in Prabhupada’s words keeping it simple is, when it becomes a disturbance to your devotional practice you make a modest effort. We say in America, give it a college try; you make a plan, you act in a reasonable manner to fulfill the plan, and you don’t cut into your spiritual life. Read more

Diplomacy VS Crookedness It depends on diplomacy. Diplomacy can be healthy or toxic. Diplomacy is manipulative in toxic way, but diplomacy can be discriminating. That is to say, austerity of speech according to what Srila Prabhupada explains in Bhagavad-gita is – speaking the truth pleasingly.   So, Read more