Author: Chaitanya Charan

When should we concern ourselves with helping other devotees and when should we mind our own business?

How can we differentiate between yukta-vairagya and bhoga-vrtti?

How the Krishna consciousness movement contributes to world peace

18.22 – Tune in to yourself to best tune in to the world

Wasn’t Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s rejecting his spiritual master Bipin Bihari Goswami offensive?

Can one go back to Godhead just by chanting without taking initiation?

How should we prepare for giving our first Bhagavatam class?

Does Lord Chaitanya appear in all Kali yugas or only in this Kali yuga?

Why were prostitutes present in Ayodhya?

SB 8.3.17 The Lord never tires in connecting with us; why should we tire in connecting with him?

Is the Gita’s message life-negating?

Materialists are conspicuous by their ability to exploit others

Can we be fully dependent on Krishna? How?

Does everyone have to take sannyasa to go back to Godhead?

07.13 – Krishna is concealed, but not contained, by the modes

How can Parshurama be affected by sinful reactions?

If rains come due to kirtan, then are floods due to too much kirtan?

SB 8.3.16 We need purification to approach the Lord, but he can approach us through revelation even when we are impure

As Gajendra had been a Vaishnava king, why did he offer impersonal prayer?

15.03 – As long as we desire to bring matter under our captivity, we remain in its captivity

Is the bridge between India and Lanka Rama-setu?

The natural principle for bodily maintenance

SB 8.3.15 Use philosophical contemplation to discover the connection of everything with Krishna

How can we offer correction without committing offenses?

Should devotees bathe in Radha-Kunda?

How should we receive criticism constructively?

Is using Radha Kunda tilaka authentic?

05.20 – The biggest battle in life is to keep the biggest battle the biggest battle

Mistaking spiritual focus as old-fashioned is unfortunate

SB 8.3.14 The unreal appears real because of the real; so be attracted to the real, not the unreal

What is the basis of the authenticity of those Chaitanya Charitamrita teachings that are not present in the Vedic scriptures?

What is the disciplic succession by which Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami got the knowledge to write the Chaitanya Charitamrita?

How can I understand and apply the Gita?

If all living beings are God’s children, then isn’t killing plants but not animals like killing the handicapped child of a parent while sparing the healthy child?

Why do we get the same karmic reactions in hell, lower species and human form too?

Where does the soul go after death – heaven, hell or lower species?

What are the 7 secondary relationships? Do demons have those relationships with Krishna?

Leadership Sutras based on the Bhagavad-gita

04.04 – When we give Krishna the benefit of doubt, he gives us the benefit of freedom from doubt

Distress doesn’t disturb a devotee’s devotional service

How can we remember Krishna constantly and also do our work properly?

Is it right to say that we have a right to happiness when we are sinful, having rejected Krishna?

If our KC becomes weak away from devotee association, does it mean that our core conviction is weak?

What’s the significance of “new” in the “New Vedic Cultural Center”, the ISKCON temple at Pune?

If we chant while doing other activities, won’t that chanting be inattentive and thereby offensive?

SB 8.3.13 Nothing that happens is outside the Lord’s plan. Pray to comprehend our part in it.

SB 8.3.12 The innumerable forms of the Lord manifest his infinite love for us

How do the modes and the astrological planets inter-relate?

18.42 – If we can’t ban sin from the heart, we can still banish it

Krishna helps us from within and without

When does medical treatment interfere with nature?

Do engineers have secure future in devotional life?

15.19 – Life’s driving force is existence’s crowning reality

God is all-good; God is all-merciful

Is a devotee born in a brahmin family working in a bank a brahmana or a vaishya?

How many types of bodies are there in the spiritual world?

Should one give charity even while being in debt?

Doesn’t the idea that devotees deliver their ancestors indicate bodily identification?

Can devotees perform agnihotra sacrifice?

SB 8.3.11 To let Krishna give us transcendental happiness, we need to direct our consciousness towards transcendence

Isn’t the Goswamis’ having boatful of gold atyahara?

How can we learn to contemplate on scriptural verses?

Why did Prabhupada recommend worship of Narasimha amongst all avataras? Isn’t this against the principle of peace?

10.14 – Life is too precious to be wasted in doubting

What is the purpose of the Bhagavad-gita?

How were Ikshvaku kings rulers of the earth when Ravana was in Lanka?

Does the Rantideva pastime exemplify social service?

SB 8.3.10 Praying for revelation is far better than playing with speculation

Transcription service announcement

Matter, not spirit, is formless

08.08 – To end our forgetfulness, let’s first commit to end our forgetfulness of our forgetfulness

Can we use the word “our spiritual glory” when actually we are meant to be humble servants in spiritual life?

Is obesity a medical problem or a behavioral problem?

If we are in a service that doesn’t inspire us how long can we continue in that service?

SB 8.3.9 Let Krishna do his ascharya karma in the heart

Can devotees use positive thinking techniques like visualizations and affirmations?

If devotees don’t notice our service, then is our service authorized or whimsical?

09.04-05 – The Gita is not self-contradictory, but self-revelatory

Isn’t it better to do one thing at a time instead of chanting inattentively while doing other things?

Is it ok to celebrate Holi to attract new people to the temple?

How can we differentiate between humility and humiliation?

Do those who don’t accept that Prabhupada descended from the spiritual world comprise an apasampradaya?

See miseries as reminders of spiritual reality

What does the sentence “From your place at your pace join the race” mean?

SB 8.3.8 The Lord’s coming to us is far more extraordinary than our going to him

16.01 – Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear

Does Krishna protect his devotee-students from bullies at school?

Are sahajiyas better than Mayavadis?

Will those who reject Gaur-Nitai go to hell?

Don’t you like me? You haven’t answered my question for a long time.

God is more sorry than we are for our sufferings

Is it right for devotees to say that they are Krishna-tarians when it conveys the idea that we are consuming Krishna the way vegetarians consume vegetables?

SB 8.3.7 By glorifying those who are close to the Lord our heart goes closer to the Lord

What are the kind of questions that fall under counseling questions which you won’t be answering on the site?

18.38 – Discover the right way to enjoy our right to enjoyment

How can devotees engage in charity so that they will not become bound in karma?

How can we sustain the momentum in spiritual life year after year?

Why do we need to preach?

During their spiritual advancement, do devotees see the Supersoul in their heart? How?

Does commitment to ideology make us blind to objective understanding?