Author: Chaitanya Charan

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?

Could the unbelievable stories about Krishna not be some poets’ fabrications?

The basic principle of missionary activities

Six steps to spiritual perfection – Bhagavad Gita 07.01

What does sound travels to ether mean when science says ether doesn’t exist?

As Brahma has come as Haridasa Thakura what is the meaning of the statement that Maya could tempt Brahma but not Haridas Thakura?

Does having some ambitions in life mean having material attachments and doing tenth offence?

Why do we take shelter of Krishna more in difficult times like exam period but not during sadhana and service?

How is the material world non-existent as Prabhupada states in the Gita introduction?

In Gita 13.12 is there any difference between atma-vinigrahah and indriyartheshu vairagya?

What is the meaning of kavitam in the na dhanam na janam verse?

In the namo-brahmanya devaya prayer, why does hitaya come twice?

What does Shad-Goswami Ashtakam mean by ‘the devouring mouth of liberation’?

Should a devotee oppose crimes like rapes? Should he feel compassion for the criminal?

Does Prabhupada’s request to cooperate with devotees mean that we allow them to exploit us?

How can we pray for those who are troubling us?

How can sitting erect like Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati help in our chanting?

How can a devotee use the ambition to research in Physics in Krishna’s service?

How can a student who wants to become a brahmachari in future feel inspired to do academic studies?

How can we avoid getting caught in doubts about unimportant issues while studying scriptures?

When God Fails – The Bhakti Message in Krishna’s Peace Messenger Pastime

The way to effective education

Did Ekalvaya fight in the Kurukshetra war?

If Vrajavasis love each other doesn’t that mean Krishna is not all-attractive for he can’t exclusively attract their love?

How do we understand our love for our relatives from the soul point of view?

Why does Srila Prabhupada criticize Mayavadis but not mlecchas who desecrate Deities?

Can we use Tulasi as medicine in life-threatening diseases?

Why do devotees quote as authorities scientists who belong to Christian-funded institutes?

When devotee-scientists’ books are criticized by mainstream scientists can we quote them as scientific evidence for KC?

Gita Jayanti – The Gita guides us to act with adequate contemplation and appropriate emotion, thereby granting abundant satisfaction

Sexual Energy on the Riot (A spiritual perspective on the Tejpal scandal)