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An overview of the Vedic literature

How everything is perfect and complete
How to understand and apply the Lord's proprietorship of everything
How karma can be spiritualized
How modern civilization is soul-killing
Why the Ishvara is inconceivable
Understanding Deity Worship as an example of the Lord's inconceivability
How spiritual vision develops in the three levels of devotees
Rise from mistaken oneness to real oneness
How the Ishvara integrates inconceivable attributes
Three kinds of so-called knowledge
The contrasting results of vidya and avidya
Integrate spiritual and material knowledge while living in the world
How Demigod Worship harmonizes with Krishna worship
How to understand and deal with impersonalists – Brahmavadis and Mayavadis
Logical and scriptural examination – Do all paths lead to the same goal?
How Krishna consciousness and service to humanity concur and differ
Devotional service grants immortality
How Bhagavan is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Truth
Prayers to the Absolute Truth culminate in devotional service
How devotional service prepares us for passing the exam of death
How the omnipotent Lord guides the devotee to perfection

Preface and overview of The Nectar of Instruction

Combating the urges of speech, mind and anger
Combating the urges of tongue, belly and genitals
Avoiding atyahara and prayasa
Avoiding prajalpa and niyamagraha
Avoiding jana-sanga and laulya
Cultivating enthusiasm and determination on the path of bhakti
Cultivating patience and following the regulative principles
Giving up bad association and following in the right footsteps
How giving and receiving gifts and prasad nourishes our bhakti
Having heart-to-heart discussions with devotees
Associating properly with the three levels of devotees
Associating carefully with advanced devotees
Avoid seeing devotees with material vision
Practice devotional service not for its taste but for its healing potency
How Prabhupada through ISKCON has implemented Rupa Goswami's Upadesha-sara
Understanding the reality and the glory of the spiritual world with its transcendental hierarchy
The exalted love of Radharani
How love reigns supreme in Goloka Vrindavana

Kurukshetra’s pious setting and Sanjaya’s mystical vision

Karna – Absent yet present on the battlefield
Bhima’s herculean appetite and strength
Arjuna’s first three reasons for not fighting – compassion, enjoyment and sinful reaction
How destruction of dynasty leads to all-round devastation
The spiritual meaning of arya and its current negative connotations
Verbalization without internalization
How the soul is indestructible Part 1
How the Gita’s understanding of the soul and reincarnation is superior to that given in other religions?
Clarifying the characteristics of the soul 2
How Krishna counters Arjuna’s no enjoyment
Contrasting karma yoga with karma kanda
Two definitions of yoga and its general understanding
Seek the happiness that is beyond pleasure and pain
Control, Concentration, Conquest Three stages in self-majesty
Rising from material enjoyment to spiritual fulfillment
Understanding Prabhupada’s strategy in presenting the Gita
Three reasons why karma yoga is preferable to jnana yoga
Is the concept of demigods controlling natural phenomena like rains scientifically tenable
Yajnas differentiate humans from animals
Are all the activities of Krishna exemplary
What does the “modes are the doers” mean
Two mis quoted verse fragments from the Gita
What does the “modes are the doers” mean
Intelligence saves us from becoming willing captives of Lust
How Krishna teaches and restores spiritual knowledge
What does understanding Krishan tattvatah mean
How Krishna reciprocates with different people
How the karma of a karma yogi doesnt cause bondag
The universal principle and purpose underlying various yajnas
How to receive and relish spiritual knowledge
Categorize spiritual knowledge to develop faith and learn to suspend doubts
Unity of purposes underlies the diversity of processes
Understanding how the three doers interact
The four inner faculties that we need to on invest in Krishna to become illumined by Knowledge
Become a seasoned fighter in the war against temptations
Fill the mind with the positive to rid it of the negative
Sannyasa and yoga both require freedom from material desires which in turn requires a controlled mind
Applying yoga principles in the path of Bhakti
Understanding 5 aspects of yama and niyama and 5 stages in mind control
Samadhi as understood in ashtanga yoga and in bhakti-yoga
The yogi sees the all pervasive and the personal Absolute Truth as one
The mind’s four deadly characteristics
How the deviated yogi eventually attains perfection
Attachment to Krishna is the ultimate perfection of yoga

How Krishna is the source of everything

How Krishna pervades everything as its essence
Why we need to surrender to Krishna and those who do and do not surrender
Those who surrender to Krishnetara – devatas and brahman
Why we can’t understand Krishna’s position – and how we can understand
How destruction of dynasty leads to all-round devastation
Remembrance of Krishna is essential for attaining perfection through the path of yoga
Contemplating on the temporariness of material nature gives us the impetus for fixing the mind on Krishna
Differnt kinds of maps for looking at reality serve different purposes – focus on the devotional map
Realization comes when we use our anumana to harmonize our pratyaksha with shabda
Krishna dispassionately and inconceivably oversees the substenance creation and destruction of the material world
Mayavadis and pure devotees are situated at opposite ends on the spectrum of the understanding Krishna
How universal form worship and demigod worship are also Krishna worshipi
Devotional serivce not karma kanda
Five glories of devotional service
How the Gita builds up towards a personal devotion
The two effects of knowing Krishna’s greatness
The Chatur shloki establishes Krishna’s supreme position and his supremely merciful intervention
How Krishna’s glories are endlessly relishable
Let the one among the many point us to the one above the many
All opulences come from Krishna but all opulences don’t take us to Krishna
Relate with the universal principle of Krishna’s
We have no frame of reference for understanding how astonishing the Universal Form is
The awesome fearsome features of the Universal Form
How the devotee is always successful by the Lord’s grace
The Universal Form is glorious but the two-handed form is all the more glorious
Krishna’s two-handed form is the highest of all forms
How bhakti is preferable to worship of avyakta, be it Brahman or atma
How our acharyas demystify one of the Gita’s most confusing verses
Cultivating the qualities that endear us to Krishna

Understanding the concept of kshetra from multiple perspectives

The components of kshetra and jnana
The inconceivability of the jneya – how it is avijneya
How the purusha gets caught in prakrti and how he can get out
How the jnana chakshu helps us to see and attain brahman
How the modes bind the soul to matter
How the modes compete and how we can choose
The modes and reincarnation – progressive and regressive trajectories
Transcending the modes – the inner characteristics, outer behavior
Understanding the metaphor of the upside-down tree
Krishna dispassionately and inconceivably oversees the substenance creation and destruction of the material world
Jnana-chakshu to appreciate Krishna’s benevolence at the material level (Part 01)
How the tri-shloki Gita establishes Krishna as the Purushottama
The godly qualities that lead to liberation
The errors and disasters of demoniac modern times
The demoniac’s ruinous obsession with lust and greed
Krishna provides scripture to protect us from demoniac passions
Bhuta-upasana and Panchopasana
See beyond externals to understand how the modes affect even religious-seeming activities
Austerity and charity in the three modes
Raising of faith from non-scriptural to scriptural to transcendental
Frustration is not the qualification for renunciation
Analysis of action as per sankhya
Action and doer in the three modes
Intelligence and determination in the three modes
Happiness in the three modes
How varnashrama paves the way to transcendence
Rising from karma yoga through jnana yoga to bhakti yoga
How our svabhava controls us
How the Gita’s conclusive message is a call to love
Krishna’s eagerness to share his confidential message
Gita removes illusion and restores determination

Bhakti Rasa and Uttama Bhakti

Uttama Bhakti and Kleshaghni
Remaining five characteristics of devotional service
Sadhana Bhakti & Adhikara
Bhakti surpasses liberation & is independent of everything material
The Items of Bhakti Explained
Offenses & Deity Worship
Hearing, remembering and other items of bhakti
Five potent forms of devotional service
From Vaidhi Bhakti to Raganuga Bhakti
Raganuga Bhakti
Bhava Bhakti
Prema Bhakti