Author: Chaitanya Charan

It’s said that phalena parichayate. we can know the quality of endeavors by the result. but then we say Krishna doesn’t care about results but our endeavors. Is this not contradictory?

18.36: Are we waiting for a holy cloud to form around our heads?

07.11: Might we be devaluing sex by glamorizing it?

15.15: Block out the Blackout

Isn’t good or bad a state of mind? Why then are the regulative principles necessary?

Was there no sankirtan before Lord Chaitanya?

02.69: Are we shrinking our options for happiness?

Is the face the index of the mind?

Can our character be changed after we grow beyond 20?

12.09: Are we mistaking the goal to be the fuel?

When we see cause-effect relationship within this life itself, doesn’t that make karma irrelevant?

As only pure devotees are promoted to the spiritual world, why are doorkeepers needed there?

What is the need for marriage between devotees in Vaikuntha?

Is there any way we can perceive the nature of the soul?

06.06: The mind is predictably dangerous and dangerously unpredictable

What exactly are the stars?

Why do we not celebrate the apperances of avataras like Matsya, Kurma and Varaha?

10.34: A Disaster Movie in Slow Motion

Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi Special

What should a devotee do when material desires start increasing and chanting doesn’t help?

06.30 – Devotion implies meditation independent of location

13.14-15: Philosophical Banana Peels

Is it wrong to hear and read about God from multiple sources, like disciples of Srila Prabhupada?

Are the characteristics of the child determined by the soul’s own karma or the consciousness of the parents at the time of conception?

What is the difference between the mind, intelligence, consciousness and the soul?

How do the Brahmavadis conceive the forms of the Lord?

How do we understand the scriptural statement that we are not the doers?

Can corruption be eliminated from human society completely or will it continue till the time of judgement?

How can Lord Chaitanya have initiated Saint Tukaram when they lived at different times?

Isn’t belief in karma psychologically damaging?

What exactly are dreams?

07.16: Breaks that are much more than brakes

08.07 – Scared of the Sacred?

Introduction to Philosophy 1: 6 Systems of Indian Philosophy

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16.12: Are we wasting our desires?

Why is Lord Chaitanya not accepted as Lord Krishna by other sampradayas?

When exactly was the Ramayana written – before, during or after the pastimes of Lord Rama?

How can we trust the Vedas when many Vedic texts have been destroyed and incomplete knowledge is harmful?

How do people who eat onion-garlic still seem to be in goodness?

18.38: Material Letdown and Spiritual Breakdown: The Twin Troubles of Transgression

Is Vishnu a primary name or a secondary name?

Is there any explanation for Bermuda Triangle in the scriptures?

Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that all paths lead to the same goal?

Srila Prabhupada’s visionary propagation of India’s spiritual culture: The Power of One Spiritual Indian

How can we help people understand why Srila Prabhupada used words like “rascals” and “fools”?

10.08: The Gita Shows the Route to the Root

16.09-10: The Earthbound are Dearth-bound

Is putting faith in Krishna consciousness like leaping across a chasm with nothing more than the hope that we will make it to the other side?

If all the cells in the body change, then how do the externally imprinted tattoos stay on?

Whom do I trust is actually the truth?

If all the cells in the body are changing, they how do tattoos stay on for a long time?

If consciousness is spiritual, then why is it said to a part of the material field in Chp 13 of the Gita?

What does it mean practically to always remember Krishna?

Will our svarupa stay vacant if we start worshiping some other form of the Lord?

How is the Supersoul in the heart different from the Lord in every atom?

Do all incarnations have spiritual bodies?

Why should large amounts of money be spend on temples and Deities?

Why is prana-pratistha needed when the photo of Krishna is non-different from Krishna?

Srila Prabhupada’s Contributions to Society

Brief biography of Srila Prabhupada: The Ambassador of the Kingdom of God

06.05: Who will save me from me?

Why does Krishna love the brahmanas more than other varnas?

Is there any pleasure in the Brahmajoyati ?.

Why is India poor despite so much religiosity and the West so properous despite its materialism?

When we are suffering, does that mean that God is angry with us?

02.11-2.30: A dramatic and majestic expansion of our conception of life

How My Cancer Became a Blessing

Systematic overview of all Bhagavad-gita verses in 50 hours

Should I try to resolve every doubt that comes when reading scriptures?

How to avoid worldly distractions in concentrating on Krishna?

What does Prabhupada mean when he refers to Drona’s leniency?

If the soul is changeless, then how does it change from its svarupa to a seed form?

How can we become free from irritability?

What could be the reason for the feeling that someone is pressing and pulling me at night?

07.08: Rumble, Grumble, Tumble? Or Humble?

Why did Lord Rama kill the shudra Shambuka for doing the pious activity of tapasya?

History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism – Post-Prabhupada ISKCON

02.16: Be Intense, not Tense

How can we know whether someone is following parampara?

Isn’t it more peaceful to appease temptation than to battle it?

Gita Overview English Lecture

09.02: Conformation brings confirmation

Transcripts of Audio Question-Answers

02.44: Chemical highs cheat us of spiritual highs

18.76-77: Meditation is not a dulling duty, but a thrilling opportunity

Is there any evidence of life after death besides what written in the Vedic scriptures?

If women become devotees, do they need to stick to their traditional roles? Can’t they have their own careers?

What is the meaning of lila or pastimes? Can our activities also be called lila?

How are material time and spiritual time related to the fall of the jiva as given in Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Bhaktyaloka?

Rama-Lila lectures in Hindi

How to overcome base passions like anger, hate, fear etc?

Are possessions by the goddess genuine?

Lord Brahma is the first acharya in the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya, but why is he not considered pure devotee?

What exactly are ghosts? How can we protect ourselves from them?

09.33: The discovery of the democracy of misery

How do the ancestors of everyone go to Pitraloka irrespective of their individual karma?

Why did the Lord make us with the nature to love and serve?

If initiation and other devotional activities remove the past karma of devotees, then why do they get diseases and other problems?

10.08: Knowledge about Krishna is not for pooling, but for pulling