Author: Chaitanya Charan

How can we channelize our emotions in devotional service?

When the Lord’s glance is purifying why did Mohini-Murti’s glance not purify the demons?

When Krishna knows everything, how did he not know that Rahu & Ketu were impersonatings as demigods?

Churning the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 3

Kill mental concoction by the sword of Service

How can a stone image be God?

How can devotees do their material activities in spiritual consciousness?

Churing the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 2

The troubles of single and householder life compared

When God is present everywhere, why should we worship him in the temple images?

Why has God given us free will?

If God is complete and doesn’t desire anything, doesn’t he desire our deliverance?

Churing the ocean, the Bhagavatam and the heart – 1

Why do we need big temples when God doesn’t need them?

Understand God from God

Why do bad things happen to good people?

The First Lesson – Not This Body

What is the cause of earthquakes?

Time – Stronger than the Strongest

Doesn’t the Bhagavad-gita (9.8) state that God is the destroyer? So isn’t he the cause of earthquakes too?

Are earthquakes acts of God?

Does hell exist? What about the hell menu card?

When priests tell people about future sufferings and make them do rituals, aren’t they acting like hooligans who threaten people to extort money?

Doesn’t religion make people feel helpless by teaching that everything is destined and nothing is in their hands?

Doesn’t religion make people violent?

Do godmen who live in luxury represent God?

What qualifications should we look for in gurus?

When God is in our heart, why do we need any guru to come between us and him?

Doesn’t the institutionalization of religion kill its spirit?

Why has religion become an exploitative business in the name of God?

Aren’t some rituals like those in which the offered milk gets drained into a gutter wasteful? Wouldn’t it be better if that milk was offered to beggars instead?

Isn’t the idea that religious rituals provide happiness just sentimental imagination?

Vedic Conception of God is beyond polytheism, monotheism and henotheism ( SB 06 03 05 at ISKCON Juhu)

SB 01.05.23 – Everyone has to struggle through purification – let the example of the pure inspire us

SB 01.05.22 – All our abilities and acitivities are spiritualized when we endeavor to offer our heart

SB 01.05.21 – Remember the Lord’s compassion to inspire concentration in meditation

SB 01.05.20 – Take heart from Krishna’s closeness when the heart seems cold

Why do temples spend so much money on expensive religious rituals when beggars are starving outside the temples? Wouldn’t God be more pleased if his starving children – those beggars – are fed?

Why do temples provide special queues for quick darshan to those who give more donations? Shouldn’t everyone be equal in the house of God?

Pushya Abhishek – The festival of sensory spirituality demonstrates the beauty of Krishna and the glory of bhakti

Why should we offer our hair, a dirty part of our body, to Balaji? And as this hair is later sold, kya ye shraddha ka dhanda nahi hain?

Are rituals needed in religion?

Ganga Sagara Mela – Cherish austerity done for a noble cause

Makara Sankranti – Harmonize with the cosmic movements to move from darkness towards light

SB 01.05.19 – We can’t avoid being haunted – so better to be haunted by the higher taste than the lowe taste

As we wouldn’t chant “Papa, papa” if we wanted a chocolate from our father, why should we chant “Krishna, Krishna” if we want something from him?

Is religion meant to teach us to love God or to fear God?

SB 01.05.18 – Using dharma to get that which one can get otherwise underutilizes dharma

Is religion made by man or by God?

What is the definition of religion?

SB 01.05.17 Unsuccessful para dharma is far superior to successful apara dharma

SB 01.05.16 – Progression can become a regression if there is no knowledge of destination

Does God help atheists and oppose godmen, as OMG depicts?

Do we need middlemen to approach God?

Role of religious leaders in taking India forward

SB 01.05.15 Don’t use license to rationalize for staying at the material level

SB 01.05.14 Don’t let material sounds aggravate the mind’s oscillatory tendency – let spiritual sounds minimize it

SB 01.05.13 All good qualifications attain perfection when used for the supremely good purpose of glorifying the all-good Lord

Is ignorance a thing? What does “ignorance is nothing but the absence of knowledge” mean?

Is chanting 16 rounds practical for an engineering student (or for anyone in our fast-paced times)?

Doesn’t technology save lives? Casualties in USA are less than in India due to disaster predictors.

If serving the Lord is more important than serving parents, why did Pundalika keep Vitthal waiting?

Are spiritualists seeking a soul driving the brain like illiterates seeking a horse driving a car?

The transcendental is not meant to gratify the physical and the mental

Why are we bound to certain patterns of thinking? Doesn’t that make us like pre-programmed robots?

Why do so many saints from so many traditions desire to merge with the Absolute Truth?

When the Gita instructs sarva dharman parityajya why does a devotee need to perform apara dharma?

SB 01.05.12 – Cultivate conscientious concentration by contemplating the valuelessness of everything else

How Vedanta makes the transcendental accessible

Don’t try to imprison the transcendental in the sensual

Jiva Goswami – Scholarship perfected in the service of pure devotion

Jagadish Pandita – The Lord reciprocates wonderfully with the desire to serve

Is teaching children about religion before they can think on their own child abuse?

SB 01.05.11 – Those who let the peripheral distract them from the central live at the periphery of life

SB 01.05.10 – Don’t let deceptive surface attraction distract from lasting attraction to the essence

SB 01.05.09 – Don’t let the variety and the quantity distract from the quality and the intensity of devotion

SB 01.05.08 – When the heart doesn’t find satisfaction Krishna nothing else brings satisfaction

Happy New Year – Karmi, Jnani and Bhakti attitudes towards the celebration

If someone is really determined in one’s devotional service, why would that person fall?

How can we practice humility in a competitive world where everyone parades their credentials?

Do we need a personal culture with many devotee teachers? Does it mean that one guru is not enough?

Reciprocate with transcendental sound with an openness to transcendence

The Ultimate Dance

Is offering the heart to Krishna easier and more fulfilling than offering the head?

How can an aspiring devotee-precher put one’s heart in a career that increases people’s illusions?

How can we avoid the ego’s feeling that service to others is demeaning?

If Krishna frees the surrendered of sinful reactions , why do pure devotees suffer?

How can we avoid pride during times of material success and remain thankful to Krishna?

In our efforts to become pure, pride somehow or the other sneaks in. How to avoid this?

When we have to spend time on family duties, how can we stay strong in our devotional standards?

What can we do when the mind gets agitated by a tempting sense object that can’t be avoided?

We surrender to Krishna’s will sometimes but mostly act for our own pleasure. What is our hope?

When something happens, how do we decide whether it was due to past karma or present actions?

Sankirtan – Where dance and meditation intersect for spiritual therapy

Sankirtan churns feelings of separation and union to increase attraction to Krishna

Lord Chaitanya – The Divine Alchemist

Morning sadhana is vital

Mahesh Pandit – The Lord and his associates elevate everyone by their grace

Uddharana D T – Bhakti can deliver anyone and even use anyone for delivering bhakti to others

The oneness of love between the Lord and the devotee