Author: Chaitanya Charan

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies

Radharani is the epitome of pure selfless service

Learning to not go up and down with life’s ups and downs – Gita 02.54-57

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness

When Prabhupada says that God can never be illusioned how can we understand that Krishna comes under Yoga-Maya?

Should we study books about God’s greatness and sweetness progressively or in parallel?

Should we not read advanced krishna-lila because we aren’t mature or read it because we need to know our ultimate goal?

By focusing on future spiritual happiness are we running away from living in the present?

Does spiritual knowledge decrease our tendency to find faults with the present?

If a rat is chewing at our foot should we tolerate it?

Demystifying Reincarnation is now available as an ebook

As we are controlled by material nature do we really have free will?

How can we better apply what we have read?

If we don’t understand much on studying scripture how can we inspire ourselves to study?

Can dreams be considered unreal because they are temporary?

Are dreams real or not?

When our services sometimes cause anxiety how can we understand that devotees are peaceful?

If bhakti is triggered by external stimuli does such bhakti come from the heart?

Understanding consciousness and its four levels – Jagruti Svapna Sushupti and Turya

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika

Meeting with HH Gopal Krishna Maharaj – Learning to sense the contemporary pulse

Christians say Jesus is the only way – do ISKCON devotees say Prabhupada is the only way?

How is inner growth more important than external growth in bhakti?

How does the hierarchy in bhakti differ from mundane hierarchy?

Why doesn’t mainstream science accept the evidence for past-life memories?

Can we heal our emotional hurts by knowing about our past lives?

How can we go from blaming to forgiving?

What is the nature of eternal life?

From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 2 – How Karma and Jnana Culminate in Bhakti

Reincarnation and the Search for Meaning – Evidence Explanation & Evolution

Balaram appearance day at the lotus feet of Lord Balarama

How can we prevent the hurts from our past become our emotional baggage in a future life?

Can excessive forgiveness lead to weakness?

What makes us complacent about applying the solution of bhakti to the problem of our known weaknesses?

Who is it that observes the mind has wandered off?

How can we understand Prabhupada’s statement that there is no love in this world?

If we have fear or mistrust towards God how does the process of bhakti work for us?

Is our relationship with our guru a vertical relationship or a horizontal relationship?

Kusum Sarovar meditation – Cherishing the culture rich with spiritual stimuli

The mind is not the problem – the mindset is

From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 1 – Understanding how love culminates in bhakti

How much can analysis help in controlling desires?

Can an animal become a ghost – Hindi?

When Gajendra comes to Krishna because of distress what is the role of his previous life actions – Hindi?

Our parents are destined – are our friends also destined?

Self-help social help and spiritual help – understanding how they work together

Prabhupada life-story 02 – From political activist to spiritual activist

How do we understand Prabhupada’s statement that most of my disciples will go to heaven – Hindi?

The soul can’t be cut but can God cut the soul – Hindi?

Isn’t everything that happens to a surrendered devotee good?

Gajendra Moksha Katha 5 – Which comes first – giving up lower taste or getting higher taste – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

Activism is our rent for living on the earth

The Blue Whale Challenge and the desperate human need for self-validation

How can we overcome anger?

LEAD acronym – 4 Leadership Sutras from Bhagavad-gita

What is the best way to understand spirituality?

Why does nature hide spiritual truths – why don’t all of us have past-life memories or near-death experiences?

If we happen to be a negative influence on others by discouraging them what should we do?

My friends tell me that engineering studies are a waste of time – should I pursue some other career?

Those who believe that their mind is their friend become their own enemies

DEEP acronym – What our phone can teach us about our mind

OASIS – Five reflections for self-improvement

Discover the Baahubali within you

How my laptop was stolen and recovered – and what I recovered in between

Is Chitraketu’s accepting Parvati’s curse even when he was not at fault meant to instruct us to accept whatever happens to us – Hindi?

How can we fix the mind on the heart – Hindi?

If justice needs to be seen to be done how does this apply when karmic justice gives us results for unknown actions – Hindi?

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi

How do we deal with over-expecting parents who ask why we have got 95 marks out of 100 not 100

Can our material progress and spiritual progress go together

How is the world meant to allow both theists and atheists to justify their beliefs

Is it right to blame others for our failure

Do our stars determine whether we become spiritual

4 lessons about our mind from our phone – Distortion Discretion Determination, Devotion

Others deserve our empathy not our irritability

When too many spiritual apps sites and books confuse us about what to read or hear what to do?

If someone likes to practice bhakti in solitary devotional activities will they advance more slowly?

If our family attachments impede our spiritual advancement how can we be detached and still be responsible?

Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada: Appreciating the empowering breadth of your trust in Krishna

Live from #FB Bandstand Q&A on reincarnation with Chaitanya Charan Das

When problems trouble us and we can’t put our heart in our service what can we do?

How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

While studying in college how can we not identify ourselves as students?

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

When we practice bhakti culture in our temples or youth centers are we not practicing spiritual bhakti?

On holy days if new people can either fast or do service what should we encourage them to do?

If our past bad habits keep dragging us down what should we do?

Can we get tangible results in bhakti as we get in our worldly relationships?

How can we explain philosophy to those who don’t accept the authority of scripture?

If spirituality tells us to fast and science tells us to not fast what should we do?

Should we be detached from feeling happy when we chant well?

Akrura Katha 3 – Understanding cultural bhakti philosophical bhakti spiritual bhakti and Vraja bhakti

Prabhupada life-story 01 – A devotionally vibrant childhood

Srila Prabhupada life-story – New video-audio series

If while chanting some bad thoughts come in our mind is that a sin?

In our offices how can we be socially involved in contemporary discussions without getting spiritually distracted?

Does humility mean feeling that we are fallen or does it mean not letting our ego come int the way of our service?