The Bhakti Podcast
Join us for insightful discussions on Bhakti Yoga, where ancient wisdom meets modern life. Each episode provides deep, practical insights into spiritual awakening, enriched with real-world examples to guide and inspire your journey.
Episodes
Spiritual service. Exclusively cooking for Krishna. Krishna does not eat junk food. The compassion of Vasudeva Datta. Uncontaminated and wholesome. How to make a home altar and offer food. Honouring not eating prasadam. Can I also become a pure devotee? “But it may take some time”. Attracted like iron to a magnet. Let’s not be a miser. Under Krishna’s protection. The magical pot. Para dukha dukhi. I carry what they lack and preserv...
Meditation while cooking. Pure devotion and mixed devotion. Why are we getting karmic reactions when we are not the doer? The modes of material nature explained. Two kinds of karma. Arjuna’s dilemma. God is only enjoying. Enjoying like Krishna. Partial and complete destruction explained. The coverings of the universe. The monkey and the cat way. Despite all struggles success is guaranteed. Pleasing Krishna or mechanical service. St...
Yoga practice in a secluded and sacred place. Purification of the heart. The process for this age. Feeling the suffering of others. Reaching the Supersoul. Training the restless mind. Partial realisation of Krishna. Spiritual greed. Slow in spiritual realisation. I forgot what I should remember at the time of death. 100 faces of death. “I want to become like you”. The best and only means of spiritual realisation. Quarrel and hypocr...
Fully satisfied. Book knowledge and mundane scholarship. Spiritually saturated. Realised knowledge. Apparent contradictions. Material and spiritual identities. Pure love devoid of awe and reference. Bewilderment of Lord Brahma. Sarupya mukti explained. Gopastami pastime. Umbrella and shoes for the cows. Speaking to the cows. At the gates of Vaikuntha. Residing outside of Vaikuntha. Material rasa. Extended selfishness. Aparadha and ...
Personal identity. After liberation devotional service continues. Mental speculation. Understanding who or what is God. The good fortune of meeting a pure devotee. Conversant with the science of Krishna consciousness. After brahman realisation devotional service really begins. The different levels of God realisation. The green bird entering the green tree. The truth becomes revealed. Our constitutional position. Becoming free from ...
Brahman realisation, the first step in self realisation. Impersonal philosophy: the wisdom of the Overself. Karma activities. The impersonal conception can be helpful up to a point. Brahman is everything and more. Eternal servant of the Lord. Advaita and dvaita. Raganuga bhakti. Krishna expands Himself. Subala sakha’s intimate service. Radharani disguises herself as Subala sakha. What is our eternal identity? Krishna arranges for o...
“A spiritual master never sleeps.” Recreation: chanting, dancing and feastimg. Prasadam and controlling the tongue. “Eat that!” “I know what Krishna wants me to know”. “You are not the most anything”. Lower than the worm in the stool. Nitya siddhas. Eternally individuals. Remembering one’s previous birth. The situation of the child in the womb. Extravagance. Eating flesh. Awareness of the spiritual energy. Untainted by sense gratif...
Russian dolls. The Santa Fee express. The impersonal conception can be helpful up to a point. Seeing God face to face. The brahma bhuta platform. Bhakti tinged with material desires. I want more of this Krishna. No more lamentation and no more material desires. Bhagavan means full of opulences. Brahman is not the last word in self-realisation. Sweet rice with sand. The story of the touchstone. Cultivating spiritual attachment. Spir...
Mental discipline. The yoga ladder. The flickering mind. Controlling the wind. Always think of Me. Krishna eats alone. Interchangeable senses. The boy, the father and the offering. Manasa puja, worship in the mind. The madhyama position. Constant remembrance. Love and be loved. Searching for a worthy object of our love. I want to forget Krishna, but He does not allow me. The ring of fire. Just by being the mother or a father of a d...
From sraddha to prema. Spiritual intelligence. Determination and faith. Bitter at the beginning, nectar at the end. A business deal with God or a loving relationship? The thief who wanted to steal from Krishna. Druva Maharaja, broken pieces of glass. Loosing spiritual enthusiasm, why? Material designations falling away. Suddha satva, pure goodness. The sparrow and his eggs. Who is a devotee? Three types of association. Humility, to...
The difference between someone in knowledge and someone in ignorance? Gradual purification. Far superior taste. Temporary enjoyment. Soul satisfaction, tranquility and peace. Spiritual engagement. Controlling our lower nature. Established in real self-realisation.
The incessant flow of material desires. Material desires - a mental concoction. What is our svarupa? Material rasa and spiritual rasa. The centre of loving affection. We agree to suffer in the hope for happiness. The path of no return. Goloka pastimes.
Mind control through determination and faith. Controlling the wind. Spiritual enthusiasm. No anxiety or lamentation. What is sinful? The chain of action and reaction. The path of karma. Heavenly enjoyment. The ripe old age of 10,000 years. Reaching brahma loka. The gopal mantra. Obtaining advanced association by divine arrangement. Sadhu sanga is essential. Bhajana kriya. Vaishnava seva. Nama aparadha-offensive chanting. The ten of...
What is the Brahman conception. “I want you to see”. The last word in self-realisation. The Russian dolls. The example of the train: light, form and activities. The reasons for Lord Buddha’s appearance. The cheating of the atheists. Sankaracharya, the Vedas and his final instruction.
The vision of eternity. Consciousness, the symptom of the soul. Observing one’s own mind. Achieving complete freedom. Unlocking the bliss from within. Nothing is impersonal in essence. “I created man in my image”. The desire for variety. Mental speculation, impersonalism and mayavada. Atheism in disguise. Sankaracharya’s last instruction. Seeing with equal vision. The evolution of consciousness. Three gateways to the human form of ...
Sankhya yoga explained. Extravagance in eating and sleeping, mating and fighting. After the war there is good preaching. Why not surrender now? Krishna first appeared in the mind of Vasudeva. Material and spiritual variety. After many birth and death the metal speculated will surrender to Krishna, why not now? Vaishnavas are not cowards. Garbodhana samskara explained. Foodstuff in the mode of goodness. Chanting is the best service....
Reviving the divine consciousness of one’s previous life. Beyond Vedic rituals. Attraction to the yogic principles. Nitya siddhas, perfected souls. Three stages of spiritual advancement. Patita Pavana Jagannatha. “Now we are together again”. The story of Bharata Maharaja. Nuclear winter. Suffering in the hope for happiness. The brahmana who became a dog.
We are the observer. What kind of servant am I? Our spiritual ID explained. Neti neti, the process of elimination vs the process of authority. Identification with the hero in a movie. Beyond the Viraja river. The frightening experience of the messengers of Yamaraja. The most pious soul in the universe. The gateway to Goloka. The highest planet in the universe. What is our svarupa? Sakhya (friendship) and vatsalya (parental affectio...
- How to attain the Absolute.
- Karma yoga, jñana yoga and buddhi yoga.
- The way of the highest intelligence.
- Superior guidance from within.
- Constant remembrance and loving devotion.
- The nine limbs of bhakti.
- The situation of the child in the womb.
- Duty versus love.
- The untrained mind is not reliable.
- Feeling love for Krishna within the heart.
- Compatible, like-minded association vs formal association.
- Three levels of asso...
Characteristics of pure devotion. From karma to pure bhakti. The bliss bar Experience. Material and spiritual tastes. The free sample and superior taste. The difference between love and lust. Fire brigade devotees are magnanimous souls. The watering process of bhakti.
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