Author: Chaitanya Charan

How can we balance between varnashrama and Vaishnava principles in daily life?

How can one maintain a devotional attitude while cultivating a lot of knowledge?

The veda-vadi must becomea a tattva-vadi

Do we need to hate Advaitavada to practice bhakti?

14.23 – Navigating the troughs of our consciousness

Never try to overtake the spiritual master

Mahabharata Characters 2 – Karna 1 (Hindi)

Mahabharata Characters 1 – Bheeshma (Hindi)

Applying duhkalayam ashashvatam to social administration

16.09 – Materialism is wrong and wrongheaded

Worldly events will go their own way; why waste time talking unnecessarily about them?

07.16 – Digging the grave of materialism – functional and fanatical

The Wisdom and Devotion of Queen Kunti (Hindi)

How Krishna arranged for Prabhupada to dance (Hindi)

The Prayers of the Prachetas

Tricks do not mitigate the miseries of material life

How simian monkeys lose their sex glands to human monkeys…

Anxiety Epidemic – Youth meeting at Juhu with QA.mp3

When we are unable to express our questions should we just wait for purification to remove that doubt?

Why do the different Vaishnava traditions have a different understanding of the Absolute Truth?

09.26 – Devotion is Krishna’s appetizer

If Vaishnava traditions with an understanding of Gods relationship with the world different from that of the Gaudiyas can take their followers back to godhead how important is this understanding for us as practicing Gaudiyas?

How long should we go on questioning about Krishna when all our acharyas have already accepted him?

10.14 – When the shadow of scripture claims to be its light…

Tolerate bodily pains and pleasures, and focus on the Absolute Truth

How does the word bhavana in Gita 2.66 refer to fixed mind?

Prabhupada says Brahma falls whereas Haridas Thakura doesnt but they are the same. Then why the difference? person

What is the higher taste for jnanis?

How does the spiritual soul first get material desires?

06.20 – Is “there are no absolute truths” an absolute truth?

Is happiness in the gaps between miseries really happiness?

No exception to the rule: “To every rule there is an exception”

If one can chant the name of Allah or Jesus with love and reach God, then why cant one chant the name of Ganesh or Shiva with love and reach Him?

13.05 – A call to visionary obedience

Necessity is no justification for criminality

Does the fact that whatever happens to us is a result of our own karma imply that we passively accept whatever happens to us or not bother about the results on others of what we do?

13.35 – What is the medium through which we experience the world?

05.24 – Materialism centers on gaining; spirituality centers on regaining

Don’t concoct pleasure in imagining that dead relatives have been reborn

Illicit sex is not invisible

What is the one scientific discovery that can prove or disprove the Vedic view of the universe?

13.08 – Accept but don’t expect respect

If aquatics are lower than plants in the Vedic evolutionary scale then why is eating aquatics forbidden and eating plants allowed?

Why is Krishna not keeping the increasing population under control?

What should be done when during pregnancy the life of the mother is under threat and doctors recommend abortion?

Why do the local devotees in Vrindavan refer to Srila Prabhupada as “Swami Maharaja”?

Is drinking urine medicially or spiritually beneficial?

Abortionists will be aborted

09.02 – Bhakti is not just cultural or historical but also universal and eternal

How the association of a pure devotee can benefit the whole world

When Brahma is an incarnation of the Lord. then how can he be illusioned by maya and how can a person become Bramha?

Is God everything? What exactly does the verse “vasudevah sarvam iti” mean?

08.19 – Material existence: Linear progress or cyclic process?

Iconophobes! Don’t poke your nose into that which you have no access.

How should we respond to stories of Krishna miraculously intervening in the life of some contemporary devotee?

The criterion of advancement of civilization

05.21 – Does our pleasure have to cost others misery?

01.10 – What went wrong with the great materialist dream?

Protesting will not help at the time of transmigration

08.15 – Is paradise something we will create or something we were created into?

Material dependence on others is degrading

Should we use sugar made with bone ash?

09.14 – See spiritual advancement in overall dedication not ritual specialization

Don’t let laxity hamper the world’s most important movement

12.08-10 – Locating ourselves on the Gita’s ladder of love

The cheating propensity pervades material existence

03.39 – Sex is extraordinarily ordinary

So much happiness is waiting for us

04.24 – Is the material life of devotees spiritual?

What should be the attitude of devotees towards conspiracy theories like say 9-11 was staged by America?

Civilization is meant to develop the potent spiritual instincts of human beings

Writing for Krishna: The Price and the Prize

08.07- Striking a deal between the extraordinary and the ordinary

Devotee’s sufferings are never the same as those of materialist’s

What is the Krishna conscious perspective of nondevotees with good moral qualities like Jains?

16.18 – Hell is not meant to cause us suffering but to save us from suffering

Krishna is the sun that enables us to see ourselves

07.03 – Our spirituality is a specialty, not an abnormality

Chastisement is preferable to debasement

Is the Virat Rupa Real or False? If it is false then was Vamanadeva’s revelation to Bali Maharaj false?

Is the Universal Form Material or Spiritual? How is it different from the Deity form?

10.18 – The goal of spiritual knowledge is not just discovery but also recovery

The holy name solves our fear problem

11.32 – A Sage Look at Time Management

Cater medicine to counter the catering of poison

When senior devotees speak and act in ways that are uninspiring or disturbing how should we see and respond?

Intelligence is the representation of Paramatma,then why does our intelligence sometimes fail to take the right decision?

09.13 – How the small soul becomes great…

No distinction between philosophical discourse and kissing by the Lord

16.23 – The obnoxious is obnoxious because it is noxious

Why do Vishnu and Shiva have several common names?

Don’t just censor but also channelize the instinct to read

If pure devotees know everything from all perspectives then why do they have differences as in different commentaries?

How should we (Krishna Conscious persons) react if we get terribly cheated by someone?

When we are 100% spiritual we see everything as spiritual. Then what is the difference between material and spiritual?

Spiritual happiness depend on external sources, so isnt it outside-in not inside-out?

Is chanting the mahamantra starting with Hare Rama a namapradha?

What is the correct pronunciation of Rama in the mahamantra?

How are scriptures preserved when the parampara is lost?

02.61 – Blunt the desire for enjoyment with engagement