Author: Chaitanya Charan

All the demigods are material representations of the Supreme Lord

How can we maintain a positive attitude in devotional life when we face reversals?

Is it practical to live in the mode of goodness in our fast-paced culture?

How can we avoid blurting out and learn to think before speaking?

How can devotees choose a career that is compatible with our devotional life?

If we need some material skills for serving Krishna can we pray for those skills?

Why should we practice bhakti?

If bhakti is perfect then why does it contain restrictions?

How can we increase our taste for reading Prabhupada’s books?

How do the terms substance and form apply in the Vedic context?

14.22 – Look at the mind before you look with the mind

Are we trying to cleanse ourselves with drain water instead of Ganges water?

Why do natural disasters wreck havoc in holy places like in Kedarnath?

When devotees bathe several times each day arent they wasting water?

Why is Arjuna’s name not mentioned in the guru-shisya parampara at the start of the Gita when Krishna gave him knowledge in parampara?

Uncover consciousness with the sunlight of scriptural wisdom

When hens produce more eggs than in the past then where do the extra souls come from? Do all eggs contain souls?

Does knowledge progress in moving from personal vision to impersonal vision?

Understanding the Spiritual Reality and Parakiya Rasa

Heredity, Destiny, Divinity – Channelizing the factors that shape us

All that glitters may not be gold but it is not nothing

08.07 – Feed the heart a healthy diet, not a deadly diet

05.29 – Krishna may be beyond our reach, but we are not beyond his reach

The unified spiritual perception underlying the diversified sense perception

Control the senses by offering them the supreme engagement

SB 7.9.34 Accepting the futility of searching with the senses starts of our real search

What exactly is humility? How can we cultivate humlity apart from chanting and praying for it? How can we avoid becoming proud of our humility?

How can we use the holy name meditations for improving our chanting?

Do we need to come to the stage of ruchi to go BTG? If we chant but don’t remember Krishna at the time of death, will we go back to him?

What is the position of Dattatreya? Did he teach impesonalism? Does he have eka-mukha and tri-mukha forms?

When some devotees use harsh words to condemn other spiritual paths, I feel uncomfortable but i dont want to offend those devotees. What should I do ?

03.30 – Fight for all that you have with all that you have

SB 7.9.33 The intellectual search for first principles takes us to the cause of all causes

The only way to see the Lord face to face

How can we please the spiritual master, as Prabhupada repeatedly states in his books? Does this refer to diksha guru or shiksha guru? What to do when we don’t have much association with the spiritual master?

What does it mean that we should have implicit faith in the spiritual master, as Prabhupada says in his books

When should an upcoming devotee start reading Bhagavatam?

Does the pure devotee feel pain when the body meets with an accident or undergoes surgery?

What does the metaphor of river merging into the ocean actually imply? Does it support impersonalism?

13.29 – We suffer not because we are last but because we are lost

Some people are telling that aliens are controlling the earth. Is it true?

Is there any online database or on paper of all the vedic scriptures intact for instant access?

Perception of the disagreeable arises from attachment

With technology we can predict and prepare for natural disasters and save people, something that we couldn’t do in the past. So how can it be said that we are progressing in the wrong direction?

If science is wrong why do devotee go to a hospital when they fall sick and not to a temple?

Is Prabhupada’s appearance and activities predicted in scriptures? If so please tell them

Are the revelations in other religious traditions as for example they do not accept the law of karma?

Is chanting a service to Krishna or our expression of love to Krishna?

The mind says spiritual life is good when we are in devotee association but it says material life is good when we are in nondevotee association. How can we know when the mind is cheating us?

Scientists talk about end of the earth. Is such a thing true?

A devotee is practicing sincere bhakti. Suddenly he dies in accident with material desire. Will he go BTG or he takes birth according to his desire?

What is written in the Kuran regarding Jihad?

There are examples of different species combine together totally new species are formed, couldn’t evolution have occurred in this way?

As you preach to influential people then why don’t you preach to BJP, SANGH-PARIVAR people and end communal politics and riots?

Modern medicine contains alcohol and meat extracts. Does taking such medicines cause sinful karma. What to do when there is no option?

How will Brahma take back the Tiruapti temple if mad humans exploded a H-bomb in that temple?

Kamasutra is the scripture which is against Vedas. Please explain.

Is falldown or progress in bhakti predestined by karma or destiny? What role does karma or destiny have in determining our bhakti?

What is difference between the mind and the intelligence?

Is it true that Ramakrishna Paramhamsa has seen God? If yes, then which God?

How can we not lose faith in Krishna when we are faced with lots of suffering?

Is chanting the holy name and reading scriptures without preaching enough to take us back to godhead?

I feel that without association I can continue bhakti. Please explain why association is essential.

What is the deep meaning of philosophy? It cannot be ultimate as scientist give ultimate in mathematical formulae and experiments.

It is impossible to not see women with an enjoying mentality. Please guide.

How can we avoid lust?

Prabhupada says one who is not able to control mind is animal but in Gita Arjuna says that he cannot control mind. Please explain

16.24 – End the tradition of abuse with the tradition of love

Real brahma-darshanam happens by bhakti

Science says that universe contracts and expands but how… when Mahavishnu takes breath only one time in million years?

Normal temples have deities of Krishna and other demigods should prasadam offered in such temple be taken or not?

What actually happens and the end of every yuga?

If somehow it is known before birth that the child in womb is crippled can it be aborted?

If a person is born mad and to abuse god is his habit then how he can be elevated to KC?

Who experiences pain: body or soul?

How can we say our spiritual experiences are not just chemical reactions?

To become Krishna conscious do we need to change our complete behaviour or do we just need to learn respect and love for Vaishnavas?

Why has God created a mind that misleads us?

Is there any quick way to control the mind?

Radharani and Padmavati took birth on lotus only. Why didn’t they take natural birth?

Why is Krishna not descending now when there is so much adharma?

The Vedas say na tasya pratima asti. Then why do we worship the Deities and the laminations of the Deities?

Is the relationship between Krishna and the soul like that between two quantum entangled particles?

Why do we require faith to understand spirituality where as we don’t require faith to know science ,only proof can work?

How can we improve our intelligence to control our mind?

After death are we reborn into the cycle of 84 lakh species or does it depend on our desire at the time of death?

Lord Rama says janani janma bhumischa svargad api gariyasi. How to understand it?

When we become devotees should we not read newspaper or magazines and read only spiritual books? So how will we improve our general knowledge?

Do you feel that only if you follow Iskcon principles you will be elevated? Are all others lacking somewhere?

Can we make other organizations merge with ISKCON and have just one way?

Plz give geometrical dimensions not just one ten thousandth of hairtip. As soul is unchangeable, does it remain as it is when it goes back to spiritual world?

18.58 – Life determines our problems; we determine their size

Why does Prabhupada put in his translations references to Krishna that are not actually there in the Sanskrit verses of the Gita?

How a devotee transcends worldly miseries through absorption SB 3.22.37

When Krishna gives everything why go to anyone else?

Directing the four lanes of our consciousness – intellectual emotional devotional and motivational – towards Krishna Gita 5.17

05.20 – No problem is so dreadful and no pleasure is so wonderful that it is worth losing our inner connection with Krishna

The only process that takes us beyond falldown

02.63 – Let the road from the eyes to the heart not bypass or bulldoze the head

Partial interest in elevating principles can obstruct ultimate elevation