Author: Chaitanya Charan

08.16 – Double Empowerment for Destination Eternity

Intelligence is like a father and comes from the Supreme Father

Why did Yudhishthira consider the wicked Dhritrashtra as a respectable elder who had to be obeyed? Why didnt he consult Krishna?

16.15 – Weary, dreary, scary – Isn’t there a better life?

Human life is not meant for cheap happiness

Why did Yudhishthira gamble despite knowing its consequences?

Are dinosaurs and ghosts included in the 8.4 million species?

Why is Tukaram Maharaj especially glorified among various Maharashtrian saints in ISKCON?

Is mother earth a jiva a demigod or a metaphor?

06.08 – What does seeing stone and gold equally mean?

Bhakti-yoga: The highest form of religion, the only source of happiness

Why cant we have the morning program at 6 am so that more people can participate?

07.15 – Are needles determining our needs?

Lord Buddha is the emblem of theism for atheists

03.30 – Expecting the default to change by default is a dangerous fault

How knowledge leads to renunciation

18.58 – Let’s not tell Krishna how big our problems are; let’s tell our problems how big Krishna is

Do those who die on a battlefield get liberation?

Why do ISKCON Temples have Ganesh at entrance and not have bell?

04.39 – Faith bridges the distance between scriptural revelation and personal realization

A self-test for assessing spiritual advancement

How does Lord Jagannatha reciprocate in Puri when the temple priests are so rude?

Why are there fossils of dinosaurs but not of Rakshasas?

04.35 – Are we outsourcing our thinking?

03.26 – Do not make a virtue out of alienating people

Is the Yamuna purer than Ganga? On whose banks was the Bhagavatam spoken?

Mukunda Mala Stotra 21 – 3 When prescribed duties become like oblations in ashes

Polytheistic materialism is a perversity of religion

The danger in neglecting to think of the Lord

The Expert Tightrope Dancer – 2012 Vyasapuja Offering to Srila Prabhupada

Dovetailing our propensities in Krishna’s service – SB 1.5.32

Utilizing fame in Krishna_s service_SB 1_12_5

Team work in the Ramayana

04.34 – Tap HIS grace by Humbleness, Inquisitiveness and Service-mindedness

When all killing brings karmic reactions how can we do pest control?

Krishna can be known not by challenging but by submitting

User Friendly spirituality and Krishna consciousness

13.22: Might we be human silkworms?

Relishing the glories of the Holy Name

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.24-30: Are Mayavadi interpretations of Gita justified?

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.15-23: Those who don’t surrender, surrender, and surrender to Krishnetara

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.04-14: How Krishna pervades the material world as its essence

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 07.01-03 – Understanding phenomenon and noumenon

Gita Study Mumbai 2012 – 06.42-47: The Glory of Bhakti

Mukunda Mala Stotra 21 – 2: When fasting becomes a mere fat reducing exercise

Mukunda Mala Stotra 21 – 1: When scriptural study becomes like crying in the wilderness

Janmashtami meditation: Krishna is committed to our freedom. Are we?

Temples are centers of learning that enable us to find the Lord within

Science of Transforming the Modes

Please explain the union of Parasara Muni and Satyavati.

Why does Krishna accept a bluish complexion when blue is considered to be in the mode of passion?

Is Debating wrong?

What are the things we need to be attached to and detached from during the initial and advanced stages of spriitual life?

If Dhruva Maharaj attained the Lord in 6 months can we go back to godhead in six years?

How do we understand and explain that the Vedas are self-evident truths?

Krishna is more anxious for our welfare than we are

Goal of a devotee is to know Krishna

From knowledge to realization

Rituals and Essence – Understanding why we do what we do

Art of Becoming Happy – Seminar given at Tech Mahindra

Preaching with emotional sensitivity

Liquid beauty – Going beyond false beauty to real beauty

Glorious Vedic culture is being destroyed

Get_Beget_Forget_Regret 08-08-30 _SB 2_1_3

BHISHMA acronym: Parallels between Bhishman and Srila Prabhupada

Heroism – Real vs Virtual

18.55 – Claiming that the unknown is unknowable is claiming to know the unknown

KAILASH acronym – 7 insights from the Kailash story

Krishna’s childhood boyhood pastimes

Anand Vrindavana Champu – Childhood pastimes of Krishna SB 10.23.22

Krishna lila from Gopal Champu

09.10: Why attraction to the supernatural is natural…

Like a baby hankers for the mother, let us hanker for the Lord

13.10-11: Inner resonance leads to outer coherence

Mukunda Mala Stotra 17 – The holy name offers us employment with the ultimate master

Why are there talking animals in Ramayana but not in Mahabharata?

Mukunda Mala Stotra 9 – No better happiness than the remembrance of Krishna

13.09 – Suspended between the unknowable and the unavoidable

The use and abuse of varnashrama.

When we dont get results due to our karma, does service get affected by our karma?

Why does the Lord send Kali if he wants the souls to come back to him?

What is the difference between householder devotees and karma-yogis?

War Against Maya – Mahabharata Days 12 and 13

How Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura preached amidst nationalism and impersonalism

Lord Balarama – Tattva and Lila

10.09 – “Live for the moment?” But does the moment live for me?

Mukunda Mala Stotra 16 – The only rescue from the waves of material existence

Let’s stop searching for water in the desert

Understanding the Universal Form

02.44: Endless nibbling at the tastes of this world dulls our taste for Krishna

Mukunda Mala Stotra 8 – The lake that rescues from the desert

Why Srila Prabhupad is using “the Lord’s not forgetting” as proof for his having transcendental body?

Spiritual enquiry frees us from material enquiry

03.32: Spiritual advancement comes not by defining, but by refining

Mukunda Mala Stotra 10 – 2 Krishna is competent and eager to reciprocate with us

How can we say no to the mind when its force seems irresistible?

Why do senses go wild in worldly atmosphere after they have been peaceful in devotional atmosphere?

What is the authenticity of the story that Parikshit M stayed in a tower to protect himself?

What is the meaning of the fifth canto – faith in structure of the universe – protecting the sixth canto – faith in the holy name?

What is importance of Sandwich analogy to explain Bhagavad Gita from philosophical perspective?