Author: Chaitanya Charan

Deity worship is essential for householders

16.04 – Is the knife cutting to heal or to wound?

How deliberation leads to God consciousness

Doesn’t blaming the culture for the Delhi gang-rape mean that we shift the blame away from the criminals?

Why is sleep considered to be a characteristic of intelligence in the Bhag 3.26.30?

Mahajanas 4 – Kumaras

Why did the Vrajavasis not go to Mathura to meet Krishna when they were suffering in separation from him?

03.43 – Keeping our skeptical antenna on high alert

How KC is the solution to all problems 5 – Economic problems

A learned person doesn’t differentiate between enemies and friends

02.69 – Might we be running in the right direction on the wrong train?

As sexual abuses are so widespread in society isn’t sex education essential to protect potential victims of abuse?

Which is easier: going to hell or going back to godhead?

12.09 – Map changes – and change maps

Why the soul is so difficult to understand

As vaccination can prevent diseases that come as karmic reactions has science disproved or defeated the law of karma?

Why do I need a personal Guru, if all the knowledge is available and all doubts get resolved on websites like Vedabase or your website, thespiritualscientist.com?

Why did Krishna go to Kubja though she was known to be a society woman?

15.07 – Playing God or playing with God?

Is Maya eternal? Why does she illusion the jiva but not God?

The expert management of the supreme expert

As milk is today produced by causing violence to the cow should devotees take such milk?

Some people say that no species drink milk beyond infancy, so our drinking milk is unnatural. How do we respond?

Why is stitched cloth not used for Deity Worship?

Why do devotees use silk when it involves killing of silkworms?

05.22 – The heaven that turns out to be hell

Devotee’s material position is not material

If Jesus is a pure devotee why was he not protected, as was Prahlada?

Is there any scriptural basis to the quantum physics idea that the observer determines the observation?

Why are we selective about the analysis or purports of the scriptures?

16.02 – What we speak about others speaks about us

Don’t magnify material goals as desirable

What is the position of grihasthas in ISKCON? Should brahmacharis criticize them?

How do we respond if someone says I am satisfied in my material life and am not spiritually ambitious?

Why is Jiva Goswami known as the Siddhanta acharya of the Gaudiya sampradaya?

18.48 – Forgive the unavoidable, avoid the unforgivable

Pleasing Narayana is much easier than pleasing people

Aspire for the Lord’s benedictions, not the demigods’ benedictions

16.16 – Are we living our life at the center or at the periphery?

The cruelty of modern civilization

How KC is the solution to all problems 4 – Ecological problems

As devotees are sincerely trying to live according to principles can the mithyachari Gita verse 3.6 be applied to them?

08.07 – Let our potentials – not our problems – define us

Are the abuses against women in India due to the negative view of women in the Vedic tradition?

Distress is an opportunity

03.16 – When comforts become ends, life becomes a dead end

If the sexualization of the culture is to be blamed for the Delhi gang- rape, then doesn’t that imply the criminals are not to be blamed?

How the bodily concept deludes even scientists

If “Svetasvatara Upanishad ” is dedicated to Lord Shiva , why is it dedicated to Krsna by Vaishnava Acharyas?

Why does one have to break Ekadashi at a specific time?

06.24 – Are we placing in the treasury that which belongs to the dustbin?

Neither friends can help, nor enemies harm

What was the karma of the girl who got so brutally raped?

Not all benedictions are benedictions

12.07 – Go beyond the beyond

Please explain how we become co-creators with God through sex, as you mention in your Gita-dailies

Delhi Gang-Rape and the modern Shurapanakha

15.15 – Is the noise without muting the voice within?

Should one worship Krishna unfavorably?

Do all the residents of Dhams go back to the spiritual world?

05.22 – Long in shadow, short in substance

Is the world an illusion?

Mahajanas 3 – Lord Shiva

14.11 – Are we clearing the inner fog?

Is Krishna partial?

Does one have to come to goodness in terms of one’s activities before one can become transcendental?

How KC is the solution to all problems 3 – Psychological problems

Did Krishna return to Vrindavan as per his promise? Please explain the pastime.

16.11 – Filling our mind, emptying our pocket, starving our heart – is this progress?

If dharma is our essential nature, then why does the Gita (18.66) ask us to abandon dharma?

Know people by their actions

Is the classification of the four kinds of miscreants in Gita 7.15 strict?

Is the size of the Supersoul in the heart literal or figurative?

Is the tree at Jyotisar in Kuruskhetra the spot where the Gita was spoken?

Which all are the bonafide religious practices of the world?

06.06 – When the mind throws sand into our eyes…

Envy and devotion don’t go together

17.09 – Are we courting suffering with the tongue?

Why is Brahma requesting the Lord Varaha to kill Hiranyaksha before twilight hours when the Lord is omnipotent?

Do Prabhupada books contain only preliminary points of Gaudiya philosophy, not its advanced tenets?

How a devotee transcends bodily consciousness

Beware of the delusions induced by the senses

06.40 – On decreasing our emotional distance from the truth

Why the upper planets can’t be perceived

Does the Hare in the maha-mantra refer to Hari or to Radharani?

Why did acharyas like Bhaktisiddhanta ST and Bhaktivinoda T not support the Indian national movement?

What is the Krishna conscious perspective on patriotism?

How KC is the solution to all problems 2 – Cultural Problems – Sexual Assaults

Why did Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati give sannyasa to himself?

01.28 – Transforming a battlefield into a classroom

Winning the Race Against Time – New Year Eve class (Hindi)

The Lord’s partiality is his qualification, not disqualification

How do we refute the Mayavadi interpretation of ‘om purnam adah’?

How do we respond to the Mayavadi notion of a two-level Brahman?

Is the Absolute Truth inexpressible by words, even the words of scriptures?

How can we know that Balarama’s gopis are different from Krishna’s gopis?

What is the practical use of abstract philosophy when the world is facing so many practical problems?

16.10 – The great achievement of materialism

From survival of the fittest to survival in eternal life

15.11 – When will the over-estimate be over?