A look at the causes and cures for faultfinding, a major obstacle to spiritual progress.

By choosing service to Krishna over service to material illusion, we can progress toward fearlessness.

I Don’t Have the Time to Exercise My Marriage!

“Where is your bookbag? The bus is outside!”
“I’m late and I can’t find my car keys!”
“I have to be at the temple at 10:00. Can you take Laxmi to work and Nanda to play practice?”
“I don’t have time to talk right now; I have to get to the store before it closes.”

Raising kids and realizing Krishna—do they go together?
"ONE WHO CANNOT deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother, or a worshipable demigod" (Shrimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.18).

A mother's extraordinary love for her premature son draws
those around her closer to transcendental knowledge of the soul.

Hare Krishna couples know from the start that their life together has a spiritual purpose.

"My co-workers' reaction to this incident pushed me to examine my own attitude toward suffering."

AFTER GIVING Arjuna knowledge of matter and spirit, Lord Krishna tells him, "Deliberate on this fully, and then decide what you wish to do." Our children also have to choose between material and spiritual life. To prepare them for this choice, do we need to give them experiences of both? Do our children need any experience of materialism to choose Krishna consciousness?

An investigation into the causes of suffering.

DHARMA, religion personified, had taken on the form of a bull [as described in the pages of the Shrimad Bhagavatam 1th Canto]. Shaking in fear, he stood trembling on one leg, his other three legs broken. Kali, who personifies the present age of quarrel and hypocrisy, raised his club and swung it again and again, beating Dharma's legs.

Humility and a healthy self-esteem are compatible on the path of spiritual progress.

As a family therapist, I counsel people both within and outside the Hare Krishna movement. I recently received an email from a young woman devotee who was unhappy in her relationship with her abusive husband but was conflicted about leaving him.