Author: Chaitanya Charan

The patchwork doesn’t work

If material happiness is like tickling then what about the happiness from humour?

18.45 – Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness

Question: If spiritual happiness is eternal, why is our experience of that happiness temporary?

06.17 – Plans may not work, but planning works

Actual life begins after material life ends

Can devotees sell products made by killing flowers?

Don’t curb desires; change their quality

15.07 – Are we trying to live someone else’s life?

Why is the Bhagavatam considered to be the nirnayak scripture?

What was Srila Prabhupada’s position on Goswami Tulasidas?

Is chanting on electronic counter equal to chanting on Tulsi beads?

i have dreams of Krishna in which he wants me to do something.but i forget the exact thing on waking. How can i know what he wants?

How can I overcome the fear that the future may bring unexpected problems in my spiriutal life?

03.36 – Spiritual culture is the bridge from hypocrisy and perversity to purity

How Krishna consciousness removes disturbance of the mind…

Why do ISKCON Leaders share platform with impersonalists ?

17.02 – On the value of judgments and the judgment of values

What should be a devotee’s attitude towards scientists?

When yoga becomes a vain search after a phantasmagoria…

Do we need the faith that the spiritual master will never fall to be able to surrender to him?

Identifying our ultimate enemy

02.52 – Untrue ways of being true to oneself

Gopashtami class – Spiritualizing rites of passage like birthdays

Sound creates and destroys material creation

10.08 – Krishna is not just God; he is my God

Do those who study the Gita go to Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavana?

How can I deal with uncertainties about the guru system in ISKCON?

How did Krishna forget the Bhagavad-gita, as he states in the Mahabharata?

What is the scriptural basis for the idea that the proces of KC and not the guru transforms us?

Prepare for death by learning the art of denial

15.07 – Let us long to belong

Should we resist the mind or wait for it to calm down? What is the right way to control the mind?

Should spiritualists be afraid that scientific research may disprove their faith?

09.33 – The world is in a mess – as usual

The central point of the Bhagavad-gita

How did you first realize that there was a Supreme God?

“Yoga means cooperation with the Supreme”

14.06 – Why is morning the best time for spiritual activities?

14.26 – The unemotional emotionality of the Gita

Devotees shouldn’t be afraid of material danger

Will knowing more and more about Krishna from the Bhagavatam give us love for him?

12.19 – Do we have our own inner sanctuary?

How the best philosophers understand demigod worship

Are there clear references to “love” in the Gita? Are the words “devotional service” and “love” synonymous?

10.05 – Why are we half-trusting Krishna?

What is the scriptural basis and the practical method for the idea of observing our thoughts?

The Lord cannot be understood by picking up expressions from a dictionary

Is Krishna’s love conditional or unconditional?

09.27 – Let Krishna permeate, pervade and possess our heart

The first principle of spiritual life

Is the mind a special material element to which material laws dont apply?

07.06 – From the reality of nature to the nature of reality

Can we ever say that our attachments are holding us when actually we are always responsible?

Meat-eaters can kill other animals but not cows

When material circumstances make it difficult or impossible for us to render devotional service what should we do?

06.05 – Are we falling for the mind’s “no time” trick?

Cowardly heads of state make society hellish

04.17 – Ask not “Why this?” but “How now?”

If Prthu M is an avatara why did he take birth from a material body?

Tolerance saves us from the darkest regions of material anxiety

02.19 – Are we giving death more than its due quota?

The consciousness that can free us from envy

As spiritual happiness is eternal and the happiness we experience in spiritual activities is temporary is this happiness material?

06.16 – Beyond Captivity to Futility and Utility

How ghosts suffer and cause suffering to others

How should we respond when Deities break?

Can we experience spiritual happiness with material senses and mind?

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 10.12-10.25 Understanding the concept of Vibhuti

15.18 – Enlightenment that is universal, beneficial and non-imitable

In addition to food for the body, humanity needs food for the mind and ear

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 10.1-10.11 Knowledge about Krishna – the rarity the speciality and the methodology

18.37 – Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar

Scarcity can be removed not by humanitarian relief alone but by transcendental relief

Is faith in Krishna a matter of human choice or divine grace?

Gita Study 2012 9.26-9.34 Why is a sinful devotee considered saintly?

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 Gita 9.16-9.25 The Krishna factor in worship of the Universal Form and demigods

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 9.10-9.15 The four kinds of causes and the three kinds of jnana-yajna

What is the difference between ahankara as concept and as object?

Why did Bhishma and Drona fight on the side of the Kauravas?

Did Lord Rama eat meat?

Does initiation change the gotra of a person?

06.08 – Happiness comes not by the stocking of information but the flowing of service

The slippery slope from non-vegetarianism to cannibalism

07.23 – Be not fanatical but fanatically focused

Seek guidance not from inexeperienced politicians but from liberated souls

What is the Vedic perspective on the movie “Oh My God”?

04.36 – Are we blaming the sinking of the boat on gravity?

The singular Lord acts in plural ways

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 9.1-9.9 The glory of knowledge about Krishna

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.23-8.28 Bhakti is superior to the paths of devayana and pitrayana

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.14-8.22 How the Gita identifies the supreme abode with Krishna’s abode

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.10-8.13 Understanding yoga-mishra bhakti

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 8.5-8.9 How to think of Krishna constantly

Is there any logical or empirical support for the idea of higher worlds and higher beings talked about in Vedic literature?

What is a wormhole and how is it connected with mystic siddhis?

Please share some tips for memorizing verses

Why does Sanskrit have words with many meanings Why are the concepts open to varying interpretations?

15.07 – Why pursue pleasure in a prison of protoplasm?

Krishna pushes the button of creation and starts a chain reaction