Author: Chaitanya Charan

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

Devanand Pandit – Devotion is the key to unlock the nectar in the Bhagavatam

If gambling makes people do foolish things, why are kshatriyas ordained to gamble when challenged?

Though Yudhishthira is the oldest Pandavas, why does Gita chp 1 mention him after Arjuna & Bhima?

Are the four defects hierarchical: imperfect senses cause illusion, illusion causes mistakes etc?

Among the four defects, can the first three be unintentional, but cheating is always intentional?

As all the bodily forms we take are temporary, does that mean the eternal and real is formlessness?

Riches bring misery both by absence and presence

What can we do when religions use surrogate advertising for converting unsuspecting needy people?

Is institutionalization alien to Vedic culture? Did Gaudiya acharyas import if from Christianity ?

When Hinduism is not a missionary religion, why does ISKCON stress missionary activities so much?

A time for fury and a time for forgiveness

If we are served more prasad than what we can eat, can we throw it away?

When even Americans are concerned about Christian conversions in India, why is ISKCON unconcerned?

When Prabhupada did many things different from his spiritual master, how did he not change anything?

How spiritual happiness is unlimited

Choose between difficult happiness and impossible happiness

SB 01.05.07 – Krishna is able and eager to guide us – we just need to express our desire for guidance

SB 01.05.06 – The Lord is detached yet masively active – Meditating on him makes us similarly effective

SB 01.05.05 – Remove the blocks that prevent Krishna’s wisdom from entering our head and his mercy from entering our heart

How can we identify false ego while doing services?

When do questions move from being inquisitive to offensive? What kind of questions can be asked?

Is chanting with beads more blissful because the fingers are connected with certain brain parts?

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The Lord is the only rest for our heart

Why the Lord is never attracted to material beauty

SB 01.05.02 – Don’t let the quest for physical and mental productivity deprive us of spiritual productivity

SB 01.05.03 – The materially magnificent can’t compensate for the spiritually deficient

How life is filled with misery

When sex is an experience of Krishna, as the Gita states, why does Yamunacharya spit at sex desire?

Is Ramananda Raya’s decoration of devidasis a standard devotional practice or an exception?

Is it possible for a human being to be entirely free from sex desire?

SB 01.15.28 – Remembrance of Krishna removes inner disturbance even when outer disturbance remains

SB 01.15.27 – When material reality consumes us, philosophy provides the foundation for seeking shelter in spiritual reality

SB 01.15.25-26 – Our spirituality protects our humanity from degenerating into bestiality

The immense potency of devotional service

The mind is ever changing and unreliable

When a grain becomes more valuable than tons

SB 01.15.24 – Choosing faith can ensure that the very things which may drag us away from Krishna will impel us towards him

Special Days Meditations (41)

The mind’s solutions are worse than the problems

SB 01.15-22-23 – Krishna can integrate into his spiritual masteraplan disasters, even self-induced disasters – always choose faith, not doubt

Are the beliefs “kshatriya martyrs attain heaven” & “jehadi suicide bombers attain paradise” different?

When so many microbes are present in a cm, isn’t the idea of a God who loves everyone impractical?

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita 18.65 call to worship Krishna alone and no other Vishnu form fanatical?

Don’t descriptions of Krishna’s form make us imagine as spiritual our material attraction to forms?

Is Gita 18.55’s impersonal message (vishate tad anantaram) overridden by Prabhupada’s translation?

If the Gita is a manual why is it so confusing? Why couldn’t it have been clearer?

Is the Gita an attempted reconciliation of different Upanishadic thoughts and not a revelation?

SB 01.15.21 – Everything can be reduced to nothing in one moment – seek that which is the source of everything

SB 01.15.20 – Beyond all the wrongs of our life – material and spiritual – is the treasure of remembrance of Krishna

SB 01.15.19 – Humble remembrance of our excesses in our relationship with Krishna lets him break the wall between us

SB 01.15.18 – Krishna is an eminently personable God – approach him personally

SB 7.9.29 – Lust is the fire that seems like a nectar

Don’t mistake pseudo-devotion for real devotion

SB 01.15.17 – In the moment of highest glory remember the object of highest glory to attain the destination of highest glory

SB 01.15.16 – Let the activity or passivity of our surrender not distract us from the glory of the one to whom we surrender

SB 01.15.15 – We win over our anarthas not by our power but when Krishna disempowers them

SB 01.15.14 – See the Krishna factor to make memories of our achievements into memories of Krishna’s benevolence

What is the destination of those people who die after receiving blessings of advanced devotees?

Does “knowing in truth” (Gita 4.9) happen by “experiences of Truth” or by “understanding”?

When Prabhupada’s perfect purports to the Gita are there, why are Gita daily articles needed?

Considering “gurushu naramati..”, isn’t thinking about spiritual teachers’ human failings offensive?

Don’t project notions about a mundane lord on the Supreme Lord

The discoverer behind all discoveries

SB 01.15.13 – By acknowledging the orgin of our talents in Krishna and keeping him as the goal of our accomplishments, we complete the circle of loving reciprocation

SB 01.15.12 – Our devotion is the basis for, not a distraction from, our practical accomplishments

SB 01.15.11 – Dangers are opportunities to realize the reality of Krishna’s shelter

SB 01.15.10 – Let our chanting and our dramatic and traumatic times symbiotically increase our relationship with Krishna

Does ISKCON promote subtle emotional enjoyment in the name of spiritual enjoyment?

Is ISKCON’s conception of God like the Abrahamic religion’s jealous God?