Author: Chaitanya Charan

Krishna is always pleased with all those who practice devotional service

Demanding to see God is ludicrous

18.58 – Are we seeking counsel from our fears instead of from Krishna?

How can we succeed in leading a principle-centered life?

Why does Krishna love cows when whatever qualities they have are simply given to them by nature?

How do we understand Prabhupada’s statement that planets float because of air not gravity?

If a devotee goes to Goloka Vrindavana, does that mean he can never see great personalities like Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, Lord Hanuman, Parvati etc.?

Why is Lord Shiva glorified as if he is supreme in the Bhag 8.7?

06.18 – Is the body a playground for passion or a temple for devotion?

Are we forgetting the central reality?

How can we reconcile scientific and spiritual knowledge?

How should we respond to religious conversions happening in India?

03.21 – Why not model the desired example instead of desiring the model example?

How milk is like nectar

What is Krishna consciousness perspective on sex education in general and in schools in particular?

“Accident” theories are more unbelievable than the Lord’s mystic power

16.09 – Are we being fooled into giving ourselves a collective pat on the back?

Why does Krishna describe Maya as daivi in the Gita 7.14?

Can neuroscience make people happy, thereby making spirituality unnecessary?

If scientific theories are incorrect how do the scientific inventions work?

Does the multiverse theory disprove the existence of God?

When Krishna doesnt need to discover anything, as do scientists, is it right to call him the supreme scientist?

When we hear rumours about a senior devotee, how should we respond?

The goddess of fortune is the exclusive property of the Lord

01.29 – Might our worst fear point to our best hope?

How a devotee is never alone

13.08 – How an accountability vacuum can suck our devotion

How can we avoid unwanted and offensive thoughts?

How can chanting Hare Krishna solve all problems?

Chatur Shloki Gita 10.8-11 – Gita Jayanti (2012) – Hindi

When nondevotees dress like devotees…

18.37 – Be cruel to be kind

Number Magic in the Bhagavad-gita

How do we respond to atheists who say that we have no proof for heaven?

How do we respond to atheists who say nature has no space for god?

18.58 – The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna

How can we control the mind when it pushes us towards harmful actions?

How the Lord’s birth is transcendental

What is the significance of Gayatri Mantra? What result does one get by chanting this mantra?

Is Sita the daugher of Ravana?

The opulence of a devotee is different from that of a materialist

17.16 – How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?

If we can go back to Godhead from any mode then what is the need to come to goodness?

When Krishna does so many immoral activities how can he be God?

Why did Lord Chaitanya not initiate Tukaram M in the Hare Krishna mantra?

Is only heavy drinking harmful and occasional drinking good for health?

Does the father get the sin if his children misuse the money he gave them?

If Buddha is an incarnation then how do we understand his previous incarnations as animals mentioned in the Jataka tales?

Aren’t devotees like a group of people with limited knowledge and analysis?

What is the aim of varnashrama divisions?

02.58 – Are we trying to move up while looking down?

How can we be confident, assertive, positive without becoming proud?

Will banning guns for law-abiding citizens help when law-breakers have guns with them?

Extravagance is the cause of all distresses

02.62-63 – Are we sending our intelligence on a vacation?

When all the other elements have specific locations why not ether?

13.28 – We see not by staring but by hearing

How scripture protects one in household life…

How can we handle tragedies like the Connecticut school massacres?

How KC is the solution to all problems I – Polticial problems – Corruption

Mahajanas 2 – Narada Muni (Hindi)

04.36 – The power that supersedes nature, nurture and culture

Who is jagad-guru and who is not?

How does spiritual knowledge free us from misery, as the Bhagavad-gita promises?

03.41 – The mental avatar of AIDS

What to do when perplexed

How de we understand the verse that nondevotees have no good qualities?

02.11 – Are we using religion as a cloak instead of as an armor?

When spirituality becomes envious and atheistic…

Why a disciple shouldn’t demand from guru or Krishna…

13.09 – When it requires courage to be afraid

16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?

The necessity of following scriptures cuts across sectarian boundaries

How do we reconcile the Vedic idea that the sun moves around the earth with the scientific idea that the earth moves around the sun?

Which form of Vishnu is referred to by the Sahasra Shirsha purusha prayers as none of the Vishnu forms actually have 1000s of heads?

Why was ancestor worship by meat offerings allowed in earlier ages?

Are farm communities meant to offer eco-friendly alternatives for the unsustainable modern civilization?

What did Prabhupada mean when he said that 50% of his mission was still remaining?

The key to extraordinary spiritual power

09.10 – The incomprehensible comprehensibility and the comprehensible incomprehensibility of the universe

If the process of KC delivers us then how do we understand the verse that the guru is the only way to Krishna’s mercy?

12.08-12 – Navigating our way between the ideal and the real

What is liberation? What is bondage?

What is the basis for taking the number of wives of Chitraketu non-literally?

When circumstances make our chosen standards unsustainable, what should we do?

How can we break the habit of believing that we wont be able to keep our promises?

05.21 – We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth

Be bold but not foolhardy

Mahajanas 1 – Brahma (Hindi)

What is the substance of devotional service?

18.33 – Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way

How do we respond to skeptics’ claims that NDEs are products of culturally conditioned imagination?

Is time material or spiritual? Does it exist in the spiritual world? What is its role in creation?

How exactly do the demons killed by Krishna become liberated?

Feeling our feelings

Endeavor either for the Absolute Truth or for illusion

03.41 – Where is the glory in a backdoor victory over attachments?

Has science debunked Indra?

When scriptural truths are branded by scientists ‘pseudoscience’, how do rationalistic people put faith on them?

What are the practical steps for maintaining and improving our relationships with devotees?