Author: Chaitanya Charan

Is there a difference between the spirit soul and the spiritual body that he possesses?

Does the spirit soul remain the non-doer in the spiritual world just like he is the non-doer of his activities in the material world?

Does one need to be materially opulent to preach Krishna consciousness?

SB 11.23.28 – Misfortune is mercy if it makes us detached

16.01 – Charity is not just an activity but also a mentality

What prevents us from applying what we hear? How can we correct it?

If we like to hear do we still need to chant more to make spiritual advancement?

14.19 – Let the thoughts that go away from Krishna take our thoughts towards Krishna

Karttika – Spiritual Opportunism for Krishna’s pleasure

SB 11.23.27 – Contemplating the ultimate futility of everything material motivates us to focus on the ultimate glory of devotion

SB 11.23.26 – Let the power of illusion remind us of the al-powerful

Lakshmi Puja – Narayana, not Lakshmi, is Lakshmi-devi’s greatest blessing

Krishna Saradiya Rasayatra – The celebration of sublime and supreme love

Narottam Das T – Pure devotion trumps caste

Murari Gupta – Devotion – single-minded and broad-minded

Krishnadas Kaviraja G – Masterly integration of scholarship and devotion

Raghunatha Dasa G – The sweetness of devotional renunciation

Raghunatha Bhatta G – Harmonize apara and para dharmas

Dussehra – Victory in the inner war

Durga Puja – Durga Devi’s Role in the cosmic master plan

SB 11.23.25 – The resources we have for purifying ourselves are fast running out

SB 11.23.24 – Devotion enables us to make the best contribution in an interdependent world

SB 11.23.23 – Why stay captivated by the abode of misery instead of being attracted by the abode of ecstasy?

SB 11.23.22 – Focusing on our gifts makes us receptive towards the supreme gift

SB 11.23.21 – Devotion protects us from corruption by our own greed and victimization by others greed

SB 11.23.20 – Greed makes people monstrously insensitive and destroyes relationships

In what consciousness should we attend festivals centered on demigod worship that we are obligated to attend?

Madhavacarya’s contributions to re-establishing pure devotion

Four empowerments from hearing

SB 11.23.19 – Let money be a tool to Krishna, not Krishna a tool to money

SB 11.23.18 – Don’t let money replace Krishna in the altar of our heart

SB 11.23.17 – Letting money become our default object of thought leads only to misery

SB 11.23.16 – Greed makes our thinking uni-dimensional

06.06 – The mind makes us a stranger to ourselves

09.22 – When worry accelerates the imagination, let faith become the brake

06.28 – The purpose of discipline is not to torture ourselves, but to transcend ourselves

16.12 – Our bonds are not prisoner’s shackles, but puppeteer’s strings

14.05 – We are compelled to do as we choose to desire

06.18 – Be not self-conscious; be conscious of the self

Take up anxiety – but for Krishna not for oneself

10.10 – Might my own thing not be my own thing?

Don’t be disturbed by the nature of human society

04.23 – What raises motion to action is motivation

Why no one can disturb a devotee

16.15 – Those who crave to look big are small

How we can spiritualize our activity

12.11 – Krishna accommodates even those who can’t accommodate him

How long is the impersonal conception useful?

Spiritual master is not just a person but also a truth

02.45 – Possessor, possess thyself!

SB 11.23.14 – Obsession with artha doesn’t allow us to use it for dharma or even for kama

Is the world a playground or a battleground?

Can hearing classes on the internet substitute for going to the temple to hear classes?

Aren’t we blaming the victim when we say that women’s revealing dresses are the cause of crimes against them?

05.05 – See beyond divergent ideas to convergent ideals

Prabhupada is counting on all of us

SB 11.23.13 – Renunciation is a gift that can come anytime Be ready to grab it

Adjustment according to place, time and object is essential to make outreach effective

05.22 – The body is a visa to pleasure, not a passport

Do women have the right to dress however they like? Is modest dressing old-fashioned?

03.20 – Devotion encompasses both reconnection of the world and its renunciation

SB 5.11.16 – The mind is the foundational designation on avoiding which all other designations crumble

Gender should be no bar for preacher

Can we attain a level where nothing that Krishna does can stop us from loving him?

03.32 – Confusion in attribution obscures illumination – end confusion with devotion

SB 5.11.17 – We can’t neglect the mind by being mind-conscious; we need to be conscious of a reality higher than the mind

Books are not meant just for outside distribution, but also for inside preparation

18.57 – Seek shelter to wear the armor; use the armor to feel the shelter

SB 5.11.15 – Seek a drive that will end misery not one that will continue misery endlessly

Let the Lord rescue us from the material ocean

18.63 – Life is not a fixed match, but Krishna can help us fix it

SB 5.11.14 – Krishna is closer to us than the mind – seek his shelter to break free from the mind

Surrender is for our interest, not Krishna’s interest

What the Gita is meant to show

SB 5.11.13 – The Lord is transcendental and self-revelatory – beg for his mercy by consistent meditation

18.71 – The words will change us – provided we don’t change the words

SB 5.11.12 – See the mind’s notions as temporary and illusory – and stay fixed in our real and eternal identity

The process of devotional service is always a success.

09.30 – We may fall down, but we don’t have to fall away

SB 5.11.11 – Don’t be caught in the million misconceptions of the mind, focus in meditation on the One who is beyond them all

07.29 – Don’t reduce the spiritual to the practical; let the spiritual expand the practical

Understand the plan of the Lord

Prabhupada’s war stratey for penetrating America

Why approach Krishna indirectly when you can approach directly?

08.09 – Remembrance of Krishna’s immanence brings resilience on our march to transcendence

SB 5.11.10 – To end acceptance of material identity and activity accept devotional identity and activity

Does the Vishva-rupa’s devouring the Kauravas prove that the Hindu God is a cannibal, as preachers of some other religion claim?

How can a butcher be advanced in spiritual knowledge as the Vyadha Gita in the Mahabharata depicts?

What does the Mahabharata pastime of Draupadi and all the Pandavas except Yudhisthira falling before they reach the top of the Himalayas signify?

When the Gita says the world is duhkhalayam, does that mean we should face all duhkha passively?

While hearing scripture, should we seek solutions to our current problems through the hearing or just focus on hearing about Krishna?

SB 5.11.9 – The mind’s home territory is matter, so be patient in counterting its reluctance to contemplate spirit

How Krishna’s creation pastimes and Vraja pastimes are non-different

13.23 – Krishna knows the ultimate inside story – and he keeps it inside

When Lord Chaitanya didn’t insist that Haridas Thakura be allowed entry into Jagannatha temple, why do ISKCON’s non-Hindu devotees want entry?

Why do some temples not allow non-Hindus from entering? Is this rule scriptural or merely cultural?

Isn’t it self-promotion to put one’s own lectures on the internet for the world to hear?

Why do Krishna and all incarnations descend according to such a tightly fixed schedule in particular yuga in specific Manavantara etc?

When Krishna has all the qualities of all the other incarnations, why are other incarnations needed?

Without knowledge of Krishna, progress is partial or hallucinatory