Author: Chaitanya Charan

Misdirected interest is sign of disease

09.14 – Let determination enthrone, not dethrone, devotion

No room for jealousy in transcendental science

01.36 – Don’t treat Krishna as a showpiece; let him show how to put the pieces of life together

What is the reason for rituals that don’t promote liberation such as wife worshiping to get the same husband for seven lives

Is the soul conscious in the period between death and the next birth?

Is dressing the Deities in sandesh authorized?

What is the difference between free will and desire?

Are birthday celebrations for devotees authentic from the Vedic perspective?

Associate with those who have not forgotten Krishna

SB 8.3.21 Krishna being transcendental understands our difficulties and sees beyond to them to our devotional heart

02.15 – If we let all that happens matter, then we don’t let all that matters happen

If a person is attached to a family member will he be reborn in the same family?

How can we stop our family members from using items having animal products?

When trying to figure out Krishna’s lesson for us makes us indecisive what should we do?

How did Darwin spoil our culture?

How did Macaulay spoil our culture?

SB 8.3.20 Give yourself the chance to relish the anand-samudra

To be both honest and wise, be Krishna conscious

What is the conscious mind and the unconscious mind?

Are the Vedic scriptures faith-based theology or logic-based philosophy?

How can we deal with doubts rising on seeing that many leading Prabhupada disciples are no longer practicing KC?

Why do many Vedic sages engage in behavior that is lower than the moral standards of modern Vedic practitioners and even many modern atheists?

How can we absorb ourselves in devotional service?

When all did Krishna reveal the universe in his mouth to Mother Yashoda?

09.12 – Seeing the infinite through finite filters makes finite illusions infinite

The way to forming an ideal society

SB 8.3.19 Speak the Lord’s glories not to remind him but to remind ourselves of them and to express our faith to him

06.45 – Bhakti is not a part of life; life is a part of bhakti

When we could learn so much about Krishna’s glories by asking him about, say, how quantum mechanics and relativity are reconciled, why are his simple pastimes like playing with children considered the highest?

When knowledge comes easier than faith, why does CC say that faith develops in the madhyama stage and knowledge in the uttama stage?

When should we concern ourselves with helping other devotees and when should we mind our own business?

How can we differentiate between yukta-vairagya and bhoga-vrtti?

How the Krishna consciousness movement contributes to world peace

18.22 – Tune in to yourself to best tune in to the world

Wasn’t Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s rejecting his spiritual master Bipin Bihari Goswami offensive?

Can one go back to Godhead just by chanting without taking initiation?

How should we prepare for giving our first Bhagavatam class?

Does Lord Chaitanya appear in all Kali yugas or only in this Kali yuga?

Why were prostitutes present in Ayodhya?

SB 8.3.17 The Lord never tires in connecting with us; why should we tire in connecting with him?

Is the Gita’s message life-negating?

Materialists are conspicuous by their ability to exploit others

Can we be fully dependent on Krishna? How?

Does everyone have to take sannyasa to go back to Godhead?

07.13 – Krishna is concealed, but not contained, by the modes

How can Parshurama be affected by sinful reactions?

If rains come due to kirtan, then are floods due to too much kirtan?

SB 8.3.16 We need purification to approach the Lord, but he can approach us through revelation even when we are impure

As Gajendra had been a Vaishnava king, why did he offer impersonal prayer?

15.03 – As long as we desire to bring matter under our captivity, we remain in its captivity

Is the bridge between India and Lanka Rama-setu?

The natural principle for bodily maintenance

SB 8.3.15 Use philosophical contemplation to discover the connection of everything with Krishna

How can we offer correction without committing offenses?

Should devotees bathe in Radha-Kunda?

How should we receive criticism constructively?

Is using Radha Kunda tilaka authentic?

05.20 – The biggest battle in life is to keep the biggest battle the biggest battle

Mistaking spiritual focus as old-fashioned is unfortunate

SB 8.3.14 The unreal appears real because of the real; so be attracted to the real, not the unreal

What is the basis of the authenticity of those Chaitanya Charitamrita teachings that are not present in the Vedic scriptures?

What is the disciplic succession by which Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami got the knowledge to write the Chaitanya Charitamrita?

How can I understand and apply the Gita?

If all living beings are God’s children, then isn’t killing plants but not animals like killing the handicapped child of a parent while sparing the healthy child?

Why do we get the same karmic reactions in hell, lower species and human form too?

Where does the soul go after death – heaven, hell or lower species?

What are the 7 secondary relationships? Do demons have those relationships with Krishna?

Leadership Sutras based on the Bhagavad-gita

04.04 – When we give Krishna the benefit of doubt, he gives us the benefit of freedom from doubt

Distress doesn’t disturb a devotee’s devotional service

How can we remember Krishna constantly and also do our work properly?

Is it right to say that we have a right to happiness when we are sinful, having rejected Krishna?

If our KC becomes weak away from devotee association, does it mean that our core conviction is weak?

What’s the significance of “new” in the “New Vedic Cultural Center”, the ISKCON temple at Pune?

If we chant while doing other activities, won’t that chanting be inattentive and thereby offensive?

SB 8.3.13 Nothing that happens is outside the Lord’s plan. Pray to comprehend our part in it.

SB 8.3.12 The innumerable forms of the Lord manifest his infinite love for us

How do the modes and the astrological planets inter-relate?

18.42 – If we can’t ban sin from the heart, we can still banish it

Krishna helps us from within and without

When does medical treatment interfere with nature?

Do engineers have secure future in devotional life?

15.19 – Life’s driving force is existence’s crowning reality

God is all-good; God is all-merciful

Is a devotee born in a brahmin family working in a bank a brahmana or a vaishya?

How many types of bodies are there in the spiritual world?

Should one give charity even while being in debt?

Doesn’t the idea that devotees deliver their ancestors indicate bodily identification?

Can devotees perform agnihotra sacrifice?

SB 8.3.11 To let Krishna give us transcendental happiness, we need to direct our consciousness towards transcendence

Isn’t the Goswamis’ having boatful of gold atyahara?

How can we learn to contemplate on scriptural verses?

Why did Prabhupada recommend worship of Narasimha amongst all avataras? Isn’t this against the principle of peace?

10.14 – Life is too precious to be wasted in doubting

What is the purpose of the Bhagavad-gita?

How were Ikshvaku kings rulers of the earth when Ravana was in Lanka?

Does the Rantideva pastime exemplify social service?

SB 8.3.10 Praying for revelation is far better than playing with speculation

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