Author: Chaitanya Charan

Matter, not spirit, is formless

08.08 – To end our forgetfulness, let’s first commit to end our forgetfulness of our forgetfulness

Can we use the word “our spiritual glory” when actually we are meant to be humble servants in spiritual life?

Is obesity a medical problem or a behavioral problem?

If we are in a service that doesn’t inspire us how long can we continue in that service?

SB 8.3.9 Let Krishna do his ascharya karma in the heart

Can devotees use positive thinking techniques like visualizations and affirmations?

If devotees don’t notice our service, then is our service authorized or whimsical?

09.04-05 – The Gita is not self-contradictory, but self-revelatory

Isn’t it better to do one thing at a time instead of chanting inattentively while doing other things?

Is it ok to celebrate Holi to attract new people to the temple?

How can we differentiate between humility and humiliation?

Do those who don’t accept that Prabhupada descended from the spiritual world comprise an apasampradaya?

See miseries as reminders of spiritual reality

What does the sentence “From your place at your pace join the race” mean?

SB 8.3.8 The Lord’s coming to us is far more extraordinary than our going to him

16.01 – Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear

Does Krishna protect his devotee-students from bullies at school?

Are sahajiyas better than Mayavadis?

Will those who reject Gaur-Nitai go to hell?

Don’t you like me? You haven’t answered my question for a long time.

God is more sorry than we are for our sufferings

Is it right for devotees to say that they are Krishna-tarians when it conveys the idea that we are consuming Krishna the way vegetarians consume vegetables?

SB 8.3.7 By glorifying those who are close to the Lord our heart goes closer to the Lord

What are the kind of questions that fall under counseling questions which you won’t be answering on the site?

18.38 – Discover the right way to enjoy our right to enjoyment

How can devotees engage in charity so that they will not become bound in karma?

How can we sustain the momentum in spiritual life year after year?

Why do we need to preach?

During their spiritual advancement, do devotees see the Supersoul in their heart? How?

Does commitment to ideology make us blind to objective understanding?

SB 8.3.6 Let us not mistake our ignorance of meaning to be the absence of meaning

A child is born not just through the genitals but through the heart

08.15 – We can’t change the nature of nature, but we can change the nature of desire

Is it ok to ask for a specific wish like our family’s well being in our prayers?

If devotees don’t help the needy because of fear of being bound by good karma, aren’t they sacrificing basic humanity for spirituality?

When cows are souls who were cow-killers in their past life, why is killing them considered so sinful?

Why do we glorify George Harrison so much when he was not chanting 16 rounds or following the regulative principles?

SB 8.3.5 Let the darkness around become the impetus to seek the undiminishing light

Do we need to chant 25 rounds on Ekadashi?

Spiritual irresponsibility plunges us into an ocean of reproachment

15.15 – Krishna’s inner presence is to coach us, not catch us

SB 8.3.4 Philosphical contemplation on the Lord’s position stabilizes our inner position

How can we ensure that honest communication doesn’t become Vaishnva apradh?

Is the Buddha mentioned in the Bhagavatam different from the historical Buddha?

How and Who decides that the involvement in the stock market is cautious and won’t effect the mind?

Why do you fellas have a problem with evolution? What will you do when genetic cures become the norm?

How can we better recollect what we hear in classes?

Go beyond piety to spirituality to gain liberation

SB 8.3.3 Krishna being immanent and transcendent is eminently capable of helping us

09.13 – Krishna is not only the anchor to which we connect, but also the anchor by which we connect

I dont get any questions on hearing lectures. Is this good or bad?

Can a devotee who longs to go to Golok end up going to one of the Vaikunthas? Can souls from Vaikunthas go to GolokA?

Why do we as eternal souls get entangled in the cycle of birth and death?

How can a deaf and dumb person chant the holy names?

Do we have to first purify our mind and then our intelligence and then our existence?

The human junction calls for an intelligent decision

When we fall in our devotional standards, we feel guilty and become discouraged. How should we go ahead at such times?

11.32 – Time makes the unpalatable unavoidable; Krishna makes the unavoidable palatable

SB 8.3.2 Philosophical absorption in the Lords glories is not meant only for study time or preaching time

Is dealing in shares in the stock market against the principle of no gambling?

Krishna asked Arjuna to fight but Buddhism supported Ashoka’s resolve not to fight Why the difference?

Why work harder than the animals for what the animals get?

Is the state of faith at the level of chidanti sarva samshya same as that at Nistha stage?

Is there benefit even if we chant without hearing?

How can there be stool and urine in the spiritual world?

SB 7.9.50 The resolution to engage in devotional service with the implicit prayer for aid in keeping that resolution is the conclusive prayer

02.68 – Beware of the heart attack that makes us morally unconscious

If I am facing problems with my counselor’s behavior towards me, should i tell him directly or to some other senior devotee?

Draupadi called out to the Lord for protection whereas Prahlad just remembered the Lord with faith in his protection. Which attitude is higher?

When the yuga dharma now is chanting, why do we still worship the Deity?

As Buddha is mentioned in the Bhagavatam does it prove that it was written after the time of Buddha?

Are divorces among ISKCON devotees happening because most devotees have Western gurus who subsconsciously Western culture among their disciples?

Everything in the spiritual world is pleasantly scented – even stool and urine

Is spiritual life a supplement or a complement to material life?

SB 7.9.49 Go beyond the irreligious and the religious to the transcendental Lord

07.18 – Don’t just bring Krishna into your life; let Krishna bring you into his life

When we as sadhakas face sufferings, are they due to our past karma or due to Krishna’s arrangement especially when bhakti is said to remove all karmic reactions?

What does the term Gita wisdom refer to in your Gita-daily articles, when it refers to points not present in the Gita?

We devotees are ready to hurt our loved ones for the sake of Krishna and religious zealots are ready to kill others to please their God. What is the difference?

Don’t mistake the Lord’s pervasion of everything to be pantheism

As guilt due to falldown can also be a temptation, should one just neglect guilt and keep practicing devotional service?

If a devotee due to repeated falls feels that I wont be able to go BTG and so becomes discouraged how should we respond to that devotee?

14.16 – Our happiness depends far more on the thoughts within than on the things without

A Vaishnava worships demigods by glorifying their devotion to the Supreme

SB 7.9.48 Devotion is not about disconnecting ourselves from the world but about reconnecting everything including ourselves with its source

What should one do if after practising years of devotional service also, one gives in to temptations and falls down?

How can we always be conscious that the Paramatma is present within our heart and hear his inner voice?

When fake godmen are destroying the spiritual life of people isnt it the duty of the government or ISKCON to end this nonsense?

What happens if an unqualified person chants the Gayatri mantra?

What does the Gita 2.47 purport statement “One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action” mean?

What we speak about others speaks more loudly about us than what we speak about ourselves

Be grateful not just for all that we have, but also for all that we can live without

Pray for others; prey not on others

Krishna wants our presence more than our presents

Tie the bond that sets us free – the bond of devotion to God that frees us from infatuation with the world

Memorizing scripture doesn’t burden the head; it unburdens the heart

Studying the sacred scriptures strengthens the intelligence, stabilizes the mind and sustains the heart

Why should Krishna get less from us than what the world has got?

Let reason be our minister, not our master