Author: Chaitanya Charan

Understanding Krishna first-person and third-person references in the Gita – part 1

12.13 – Let’s love Krishna too much to be fanatical

SB 7.9.22 How we are being crushed by the wheel of time and how we can break free

SB 7.9.20 As all material inquisitiveness ends in Krishna let us put aside the inquisitiveness and focus on Krishna

How do others’ prayers affect my exam performance?

SB 7.9.21 Only by kindling spiritual desires can we stop the mind from generating material desires

Pure Krishna consciousness is our birthright

The special place of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu among the Vedic scriptures – Hindi

10.14 – Is spiritual shopping taking the place of spiritual seeking?

How all living beings manifest different gradations of Brahman

Meditating on the Sanskrit and Bengali prasadam prayers – Hindi

SB 7.9.19 Let the apparent protectors not distract me from the actual protector

SB 7.9.18 The Lord’s pastimes are not for entertainment but for being entered into

SB 7.9.17 The whole business of material desirables and undesirables is undesirable; I desire only your service

SB 7.9.16 A healthy fear of material existence engenders a healthy longing for Krishna

SB 1.7.4-7 – Vyasa’s mystic vision as the seed of the Bhagavatam

03.37 – Red carpet or red light?

Don’t mistake lack of qualification as sectarian discrimination

NoI 10 Text 3 – Three directions we may go on deviating from bhakti

16.09 – An emptiness that is worse than loneliness

Material varieties are not exactly illusions but reflections

NoI 9 Text 3 How neglect of regulative principles destroys bhakti

NoI 8 Text 2-3 – Devotional service is not sentimental speculation or imaginative ecstasy

Gita 13.21-22 Material existence as a virtual reality

SB 7.9.15 See beyond the adversity at the surface of reality to the love at its substance

SB 7.9.14 Remember the Holy Name to get deliverance from the Hiranyakashipus within

SB 7.9.13 – The Lord appears for our protection and his pleasure

11.33 – We are never too small to do a big service and never too big to do a small service

Why is your answer in the OMG book to the milk-pouring-on-shiva-linga question so wishy-washy?

Inferring the transcendence of the Lord

02.07 – Are we strong enough to admit that we are not strong enough?

SB 7.9.12 – Krishna’s glorification is for our purification and so doesn’t rest on material or spirtiual qualification

SB 7.9.11 – The ultimate experience of devotional mysticism

SB 7.9.10 – False shelters that keep us away from the true shelter

SB 7.9.9 – What Krishna knows and what he wants to know when we approach him

No spiritual advancement without sense control

NoI 7 Text 2 – Three levels of contamination due to asat-sanga

The traditional system of responding to nature outdoors leads to so much unhygienic and dirty situations? How is that superior to the modern system of indoor washrooms?

SB 7.9.8 The feeling that we are disqualified makes us qualified

07.26 – Might we be blocking the progress of a work in progress?

We need to come to goodness to start getting inner guidance

SB 1.5.19 The higher taste has permanently destroyed us for the lower taste

NoI 6 Text 2 – Identifying over-endeavor in spiritual life

16.09 – Why sentence ourselves to meaninglessness, purposelessness and joylessness?

What does it mean to say that we are envious of Krishna?

How can bhakti help me when my grandfather is suffering terribly with a terminal disease?

NoI 5 Text 2 – Sociological and philosophical reasons to avoid atyahara

NoI 4 Text 1 – The exalted level of the “sharira avidya jala” prayer

Be broad-minded, not cripple-minded

Cherish the attitude to become a perfect gosvami

SB 1.5.18 Why not try the one thing we have never achieved

SB 1.5.14 Let the wind not distract the mind

The process of bhakti yoga in a nutshell SB 1.2.12

15.10 – How can we pursue that which we don’t perceive?

18.58 – Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place

SB 1.5.12 Re-education of values is essential for the redirection of the heart

Waste of time is an incalculable loss

10.10 – Love is the ultimate knowledge – and is the way to the ultimate knowledge

NoI 3 Text 1 – How to spiritualize anger in devotional service – Mumbai 2013

NoI 2 Text 1- The need and the means for authentic atonement – Mumbai 2013

NoI 1 Preface – Understanding the right attitude for a sadhaka – Mumbai 2013

SB 1.5.2 Put peripherals aside to focus on Krishna unrestrictedly and undistractedly

How renunciation helps one maintain one’s self-respect

Seek real family association with Krishna

18.73 – Send resentment to retirement

03.07 – Is nothing the place where something is hiding?

The spiritual master helps us discover how best to serve Krishna

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 12.12-20 – The last rung in the Gita’s downward ladder of love

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 12.1-11 Arjuna’s question refers to Brahmavada not Mayavada

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.47-55 – How Virat Rupa revelation ends in glorification of bhakti

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.28-46 The Frightening Virat Rupa – Kala Rupa

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 11.1-27 The Magnificent Virat Rupa

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.19-42 How the Vibhutis manifest Krishna’s glory

Gita Study Pune 2013 – 10.1-7 – Review of the first nine chapters of the Gita

Chronological and Conceptual flow of the Bhagavatam (SB 3.22.8)

02.08 – Losing our way to find our way

How the spiritual master’s grace is received through the ears

06.32 – Let’s learn to laugh with others, not laugh at others

Scriptural revelation is an expression of the Lord’s inconceivable power

17.16 – Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice

Bodily dresses that offer more or less opportunity for liberation

Madanamohana alone protects us from the infatuation of Madana

Is religion the opium of the masses?

04.17 – Should we be happy when we are happy?

17.19 – True austerity is supplicative not manipulative

New life comes not from sex but from the soul

14.12 – Are we mistaking an inner lacking for an outer lacking?

How bhakti-yoga is the best yoga

13.23 – Are we conscious that Krishna is conscious of us?

A propaganda that is simply bogus

Is ISKCON present eternally in the spirtual world? Can we see Srila Prabhupada there?

05.22 – The false currency that keeps us trading in the stock exchange of illusion

God consciousness should engender respect for all living beings

15.09 – Might a 20/20 vision lead to blindness?

God’s presence in us make us temples, not the Deity in the temples

04.11 – Might we be protecting our heart from Krishna instead of for Krishna?

We cannot bribe the Personality of Godhead

06.24 – Let’s guard our consciousness the way we guard our homes

KC doesn’t cause miseries to disappear, but it makes them ineffective

What does the statement that Prabhupadas purports are more important than even the translations really mean? And are scriptures written such that they cannot be misinterpreted?