Author: Chaitanya Charan

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 93 – 10.16.1-7 Krishna’s mode of entry into Kaliya’s lake reflects his playful confidence

If someone is managerially incompetent or immoral, can their continuance in power be justified by saying that it is Krishna’s plan?

When our natural varna can’t be changed, does taking brahmana diksha makes us all brahmanas?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 90 – 10.15.26-36 – Dhenuka’s tools to kill – his hind legs – are used to kill him by whirling and hurling

Is consciousness intrinsically divine – is it the same as the mind?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 89 – 10.15.13-25- The gopas ask Balarama-Krishna to get fruits by eliminating Dhenuka

How are yajna, dana and tapa relevant in today’s world?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 87 – 10.15.1-6 Krishna dedicates the beauty of Vrindavana is meant for Balarama

How can we better use sleep to grow spiritually?

Develop the vision that nurtures devotion

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 86 – 10.14.53-61 – Vrajavasis love their children as parts of Krishna and therefore love the Whole more

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 85 – 10.14.43-52 – Unravelling the mystery of the Vrajavasis disproportionate love for Krishna

Why is scientific knowledge like gravity not present in scripture?

The search for meaning 1 – How science points to spirituality

Hanuman’s journey through the cave – Persevering through life’s obstacles – Hindi

Nara-Narayana Rishi – Twins who teach tapasya – Hindi

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 84 – 10.14.37-42 – Brahma acknowledges his insignificance before Krishna’s magnificence and munificence

Why does Indra commit so many mistakes?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 83 – 10.14.31-36 – Brahma glorifies Vrajavasis and aspires for their dust

Why did Vishvamitra lose his power on creating another heaven?

Are all spiritual explanations of life’s sufferings just mental adjustments?

What is the concept of the evil eye – what is its rational and scriptural basis

Aren’t we trivializing initiation by equating the promises of initiation with the promises of hearing Krishna’s pastimes?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 82 – 10.14.25-30 Devotion is the doorway and pathway to a life beyond illusion and liberation

When initiation frees us from all sins, why do initiated devotes suffer?

When you say that you are struggling with selfish desires, what do you mean?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 81 – 10.14.19-24 Krishna’s pastimes are unknowable yet relishable

When we fail in life, how can we immediately understand that past karma is at work?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 80 – 10.14.13-18 – Brahma contextualizes his bewilderment in terms of his and others’ past bewilderment

When spiritual growth requires faith, what can we do if doubts keep coming?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 79 – 10.14.7-12 – Practicing devotion gratefully while accepting responsibility for our difficulties opens the door to liberation

When people don’t get what they desire, they sometimes become angry and sometimes depressed – are anger and depression twins

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 78 – 10.14.1-6 Krishna is known by devotional hearing, not by intellectual probing

When love for Krishna is so far away for most of us, should we even talk about it in our classes?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 77 – 10.13.57-64 – Brahma realizes his folly in testing Krishna’s glory

Appreciating Rath Yatra – RATH acronym – Hindi

When Krishna doesn’t reciprocate, how can we avoid becoming cynical?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 76 – 10.13.50-56 – Brahma sees all universal opulences sheltered in the Vishnus expanded from Krishna

Significance of Ratha Yatra in Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition – Place, Purpose, Process – Hindi

What lesson does the Mohini Murti pastime teach?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 75 – 10.13.39-49 – The content of metaphors may be opposing, but their intent is concurring

What is the easiest way to control our emotions?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 74 – 10.13.28-38 Krishna’s illusion is so powerful that even Balarama requires special situation to see through that illusion

Bridging the gap between what we are and what we want to be

Going back to Godhead 3 – How to offer our consciousness to Krishna

Going back to godhead 2 – We are unqualified, but not disqualified

The significance of Baladeva Vidyabhushana’s Govinda Bhaiya – History, Strategy and Legacy

Was Ravana intelligent in fighting Rama, knowing that his followers would get liberation by being killed by Rama?

Was Ravana from north India?

To what extent is metaphorical understanding of scripture acceptable or unacceptable?

The painkiller of entertainment is easily available, but does the cure of enlightenment needs to be given by someone enlightened

Should devotees give up all pious religious duties and focus only on bhakti?

Detachment doesn’t make us hard-hearted, attachment does – Learning from Kaikeyi

On attaining success, how can we be happy without becoming proud?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 73 – 10.13.21-27 How Krishna as the expanded gopas and calves reciprocated love with the motherly gopis and cows

Do actions always speak louder than words?

Overcoming discouragement 3 – Tap your power by opening a new TAB

Overcoming discouragement 2 – Empower yourself with gratitude

Overcoming discouragement 1 – Why we feel discouraged

Go beyond comfortable happiness

Scripture without guru is deluding

Going back to godhead 1 – Three ways to cultivate spiritual desire – RAP acronym

Just as our strengths are manifestations for a higher being, are our weaknesses manifestations of some being?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 72 – 10.13.11-20 – Krishna makes even a big disturbance into a no disturbance

How strengths become weaknesses and weaknesses become strengths – Learning from Ravana and Vibhishana

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 71 – 10.13.01-10 – Taste for absorption is the test of devotion

How the Bhagavatam reveals the conception of God

Is it possible to be constantly on guard against temptation?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 70 – 10.12.37-44 – If ecstasy pulls us out of our service, we need to pull ourselves out of that ecstasy

Politics, Social Organization and Bhagavad-gita

Is frustration a wrong motive for starting spiritual life?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 69 – 10.12.29-36 – Krishna fulfilled the desire of the gopas to have Agha’s body as a plaything

If someone hurts us repeatedly, is that because of our past karma?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 68 – 10.12.18-28 – Our perceptions are shaped by our conceptions

If someone is facing with a life-threatening disease, how can we explain to them that life has a higher purpose?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 67 – 10.12.12-17 The inability to tolerate others’ happiness defines the demonic

If someone has been betrayed repeatedly and has become cynical, how can they recover?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 66 – 10.12.1.12 That the extraordinary appears ordinary is extraordinary

If Sita in Lanka was Vedavati, why do we say Sita, not Vedavati, prayed for Hanuman?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 65 – 10.11.50-59 Huge demons become like moths on coming before the Krishna-fire

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 64 – 10.11.41-49 For Krishna, killing demons is all in a day’s play, that too before breakfast

If kshatriyas were allowed to eat meat, why is meat-eating considered wrong for everyone?

Understanding the mind of God

How should devotees see scientific research involving animal testing or organ donation?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 63 – 10.11.30-40 The extraordinary Lord gave and got joy in ordinary play

How may we be cynical in our relationship with Krishna?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 62 – 10.11.19-29 The Vrajavasis move to protect Krishna and Gokula both

How science and God go together as mechanical and personal explanations of reality

How to live at the junction of order and chaos – Learning from Dasharatha’s destiny

If we keep doing something that we had resolved to give up, what to do?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 61 – 10.11.1-9 Vrajavasis doubt Krishna’s supernatural power, but don’t disbelieve it

If we can’t go to heaven in human bodies, how do some kings like Dasharatha fight for the gods in heaven?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 60 – 10.11.10-18 By giving to Krishna, even if we appear to be losers, we are still gainers

How temptation attacks visibly and invisibly – Lessons from Indrajita’s attack on Rama-Lakshmana

For chanting, why are Tulsi beads recommended?

If Brahma is the creator of the universe, from where did the lotus on which he was born come?

Understanding difficult pastimes such as Rama’s banishing Sita

If the author is not present in the book, how is Valmiki present in Ramayana?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 59 – 10.10.36-43 The Lord grants not just physical mobility but also spiritual mobility

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 58 – 10.10.28-35 Though God has a body, he is not limited by or to his body