Author: Chaitanya Charan

When nondevotees dress like devotees…

18.37 – Be cruel to be kind

Number Magic in the Bhagavad-gita

How do we respond to atheists who say that we have no proof for heaven?

How do we respond to atheists who say nature has no space for god?

18.58 – The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna

How can we control the mind when it pushes us towards harmful actions?

How the Lord’s birth is transcendental

What is the significance of Gayatri Mantra? What result does one get by chanting this mantra?

Is Sita the daugher of Ravana?

The opulence of a devotee is different from that of a materialist

17.16 – How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?

If we can go back to Godhead from any mode then what is the need to come to goodness?

When Krishna does so many immoral activities how can he be God?

Why did Lord Chaitanya not initiate Tukaram M in the Hare Krishna mantra?

Is only heavy drinking harmful and occasional drinking good for health?

Does the father get the sin if his children misuse the money he gave them?

If Buddha is an incarnation then how do we understand his previous incarnations as animals mentioned in the Jataka tales?

Aren’t devotees like a group of people with limited knowledge and analysis?

What is the aim of varnashrama divisions?

02.58 – Are we trying to move up while looking down?

How can we be confident, assertive, positive without becoming proud?

Will banning guns for law-abiding citizens help when law-breakers have guns with them?

Extravagance is the cause of all distresses

02.62-63 – Are we sending our intelligence on a vacation?

When all the other elements have specific locations why not ether?

13.28 – We see not by staring but by hearing

How scripture protects one in household life…

How can we handle tragedies like the Connecticut school massacres?

How KC is the solution to all problems I – Polticial problems – Corruption

Mahajanas 2 – Narada Muni (Hindi)

04.36 – The power that supersedes nature, nurture and culture

Who is jagad-guru and who is not?

How does spiritual knowledge free us from misery, as the Bhagavad-gita promises?

03.41 – The mental avatar of AIDS

What to do when perplexed

How de we understand the verse that nondevotees have no good qualities?

02.11 – Are we using religion as a cloak instead of as an armor?

When spirituality becomes envious and atheistic…

Why a disciple shouldn’t demand from guru or Krishna…

13.09 – When it requires courage to be afraid

16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?

The necessity of following scriptures cuts across sectarian boundaries

How do we reconcile the Vedic idea that the sun moves around the earth with the scientific idea that the earth moves around the sun?

Which form of Vishnu is referred to by the Sahasra Shirsha purusha prayers as none of the Vishnu forms actually have 1000s of heads?

Why was ancestor worship by meat offerings allowed in earlier ages?

Are farm communities meant to offer eco-friendly alternatives for the unsustainable modern civilization?

What did Prabhupada mean when he said that 50% of his mission was still remaining?

The key to extraordinary spiritual power

09.10 – The incomprehensible comprehensibility and the comprehensible incomprehensibility of the universe

If the process of KC delivers us then how do we understand the verse that the guru is the only way to Krishna’s mercy?

12.08-12 – Navigating our way between the ideal and the real

What is liberation? What is bondage?

What is the basis for taking the number of wives of Chitraketu non-literally?

When circumstances make our chosen standards unsustainable, what should we do?

How can we break the habit of believing that we wont be able to keep our promises?

05.21 – We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth

Be bold but not foolhardy

Mahajanas 1 – Brahma (Hindi)

What is the substance of devotional service?

18.33 – Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way

How do we respond to skeptics’ claims that NDEs are products of culturally conditioned imagination?

Is time material or spiritual? Does it exist in the spiritual world? What is its role in creation?

How exactly do the demons killed by Krishna become liberated?

Feeling our feelings

Endeavor either for the Absolute Truth or for illusion

03.41 – Where is the glory in a backdoor victory over attachments?

Has science debunked Indra?

When scriptural truths are branded by scientists ‘pseudoscience’, how do rationalistic people put faith on them?

What are the practical steps for maintaining and improving our relationships with devotees?

Is the scientific claim that jellyfish are immortal true?

Poverty means poverty of knowledge

05.25 – Are we like doctors who give medicines to everyone except themselves?

07.14 – We are our own devils

There is nothing but God within and without

03.30 – Better to be exhausted than rusted

What is the Vedic perspective on capital punishment?

What is the origin, authenticity and relevance of Tantra?

Oh My God: Has religion become a business?

If Narada Muni is an incarantion then is he a jiva-tattva or Vishnu-tattva?

How could 64 crore people have fit in the small area known as Kurukshetra?

What is the difference between renunciation in passion and ignorance?

Is fault finding good or bad? If its bad then how can we overcome it? 

Does soul have shape? Does that shape change from body to body?

Was the milk drinking miracle in 1995 real miracle or was it due to scientific reasons?

Are we mistaking the slaps to be pleasures?

13.08 – How humility boosts our self-esteem…

14.24 – We are just extras in others’ plots

05.20 – When life makes us emotionally seasick…

Does one have to live in poverty to be able to call out to Krishna sincerely as Bhag 1.8.26 suggests?

If the spiritual world is thrice the material world doesnt that make the total creation finite?

If Drona rejected Eklavya due to his character deficiency, then why didnt he reject Duryodhana too?

02.56 – When neither the summits nor the valleys matter…

How to see the Lord eye to eye

15.10 – Is our sight causing us to lose sight?

Why fight a losing battle when we can fight a winning battle?

06.05 – When a salesperson knocks at the inner door…

Are we leading a colossal hoax of a life?

16.16 – Why life seems so complex…

Is initiation essential? What if devotees after initiation become proud?