Author: Chaitanya Charan

How to think effectively – ACTS acronym

When people betray us – Ramayana wisdom

How can we become determined like Hanuman?

Isn’t it useless to share spirituality with people who have no spiritual interest?

How the Bhagavatam is the means of conquest in material existence – Meditation on narayanam namaskrtya verse

The complex relationship between appearance and substance in spiritual life

Gita insights for managing the mind – Chapter Ten Analysis

Damodarashtakam Texts 5-8 – Hindi

Damodarashtakam Texts 1-4 – Hindi

How do we distinguish between material anxiety and spiritual anxiety?

Does everything in bhakti need to fall in the nine limbs of bhakti?

How to become resilient

The Gita shares not just light but also warmth

Why the self is missing in the selfie

If our love is finite, how can it help us reach the infinite?

What is the difference between vibhuti and shaktyavesha avatar?

If the finite can’t become the infinite, then what is liberation?

Damodarashtakam 3 – The unique loveliness of the Krishna conception of God

Gita’s key to happiness

Damodarashtakam 2 How Krishna is the God of love who fulfills our longing for love

Gita Lite 4 – Chps 9-11

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 3 – How to see and seek God amid adversities

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 2 – How to process adversities constructively

Just as people become obsessed with their mundane heroes, can we become obsessed with our spiritual heroes?

How the infinite manifests in the finite – Various religious conceptions

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 1 – What caused the exiles

What can we do to protect ourselves from ever sinking to the level of being strengthless and faithless?

Rise above the ego’s need to be right by focusing on devotional purpose

Did Krishna protect Draupadi only after she stopped trying to protect herself – does surrender mean we stop trying to do anything?

If a tragedy makes us forget everything good and makes us do bad things, what can we do?

Sharad Purnima Significance

Change your picture of the world and of God from low resolution to high resolution

How devotion transcends the caste system and other institutional hierarchies

Damodarashtam 1 – The vision of the divine from the generic to the stunningly specific

If animals’ instincts come from the Supersoul, why are animals considered spiritually unintelligent?

How can we help someone who is in coma?

How can we connect with people during outreach while staying detached from the world’s illusions?

Do all embryos in the womb pray to God?

Why does the Gita not mention the word guru and refer in plural to seers of the truth in 4.34?

How our strength and our faith are integrated in bhakti

From your place, at your pace, access God’s grace

Gita lite 3 – Chps 6-8

Gita lite 2 – Chps 3-5

Gita lite 1 – Chps 1-2

How to stop overthinking – Attribute, Analyze, Anchor, Act

Mahabharata controversies – how life was unfair to both Karna and Arjuna

A grateful heart is a powerful heart Prabhupada’s Jaladuta prayer

Arjuna had Krishna’s constant guidance – how can we be guided?

The significance of Rama Vijayotsav – How goodness punishes wickedness and forgives weakness

How God helps those who help themselves – Bhakti Basics explained

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 5 – Why is the embryo’s prayer not answered

How can we realize that we are souls?

If the soul is complete, why is purification needed?

How character is deformed and reformed – Ramayana wisdom

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 4 – What the embryo’s desire to stay in the womb implies

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 3 – What is a human soul

Why should we focus more on satisfying the soul than on satisfying the body?

Science and Spirituality – From the study of matter to the study of what matters

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 2 – How can the embryo know God

Do the ends justify the means, as your Mahabharata explanations imply? Won’t that justify terrorism too?

Mainstream media credibility crisis – A spiritual perspective

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 1 – How can the embryo with ana undeveloped brain speak prayers?

How to understand Krishna’s blessings – Mukunda Mala Stotra 1 – BULL acronym

How to use our free will properly – QA with children

How hearing the Bhagavad-gita raised Sanjay’s standard of longing

When duty is a societal construct, why can’t we just follow our heart’s calling without caring for society’s opinion?

How can we work dispassionately when doing our duty requires passion?

How do we know whether we are in harmony with our true nature and God’s plan – what does harmony feel like?

If we are to not make judgments, why is Krishna making judgments and taking sides in the war?

Does the Supersoul sanction all our undesirable desires?

How devotion is like a good habit – and how it is more than a good habit

Facing our fears – 4 principles – IDEA acronym

Six limbs of surrender 4 – Offering ourselves by accepting ourselves

Six limbs of surrender 3 – Understanding how God protects

Six limbs of surrender 2 – Accept the favorable, avoid the unfavorable

Why settle for less – why not keep seeking till we find the best?

How can we know whether we are succeeding or failling in bhakti?

How can we find which work bests suits our nature?

When Duryodhana slipped and fell, why did the Pandavas remain silent?

What are our movement’s core values?

How can we know which spiritual path to follow?

Should we be liberal while introducing people to bhakti and conservative letter?

When facing serious problems, should we first focus on solving problems and then practice bhakti?

Six limbs of surrender 1 – The Medical Metaphor

Should a devotee profession try to become a CEO to demonstrate how devotees can be materially successful too?

If we can’t accept people where they are, what can we do?

Presenting scripture for dummies

How to decide what to do

Can you explain the various stages in chanting – namaprada, namabhasa, shudda-nama?

If we learn to depend on mentors, but then they aren’t available when needed, what can we do?

If someone is depressed and suicidal, how can we help them?

How can we de-stress ourselves in today’s high-pressure work environment?

How do we deal with fear of rejection?

Even after knowing eternal pleasures why do we keep chasing temporary pleasures?

Is the voice of conscience always the voice of God?

How can we practically keep our intention above our emotion?

When people are distressed, should we think philosophically or should we just help them?

Comparing exiles in Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavatam – How to face distress

How Jiva Goswami and Bhaktivinoda Thakura expertly expanded the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition

3 Metaphors for Effective Parenting