Author: Chaitanya Charan

How to be detached without becoming irresponsible

If we identify that we are feeling self-pity what do we do next?

If we are already connected with Krishna why do we need to chant?

When people just don’t get it …

Bhakti in three modes 1 – Bhakti in ignorance is self-righteous and hurtful

To blame is to be lame – stop seeking scapegoats

Are rocks alive – can we become rocks in our future life?

If someone takes retirement and then feels unengaged and disoriented what should they do?

Focus on life not on the mind’s commentary on life

Where does the power of mantras lie – in letters or meaning or somewhere else?

If everything is God’s will how do we have free will?

Does the mind look for change and the soul look for the unchanging?

Does our spiritual master know everything about us?

Unity in diversity and diversity in unity – The Absolute’s relationship with us

Gratitude is not just an attitude but also an awareness

How can we explain morality to moral relativists?

Will anxiety be addressed in the long-term by bhakti or should we try to address it in the short-term too?

How can we remember Krishna while we are working in a materialistic environment?

Resolutions in the three modes – and in transcendence

If during a class some children are distracting everyone, why isn’t anything done about it?

How can we perceive Krishna’s love amidst our and others distresses and conditionings?

Is our attraction to Krishna a conditional attraction generated by devotional conditions?

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 2

Science & Spirituality – Why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality

During chanting, can we have aids to get the mind from the physical level to the spiritual level?

When science requires only working assumptions, why do you say that science requires faith?

Why is the population increasing?

Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 1

Our defining power is the power to choose our thoughts

How can we develop our relationship with the eternal using the temporary mind?

If I don’t have much work at my office, should I go and ask for more work?

Is Krishna situated in the mind or the heart – how are the two related?

4 reflections for overcoming fear of failure

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2

Does accepting our emotions mean that our getting angry is not a matter of concern?

How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?

When we are telling ourselves to concentrate, who is telling this – the soul or the intelligence – and to whom?

Three ways of perceiving Krishna’s love

Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1

If some Vaishnava sampradayas reject the worship of Radharani, how to respond?

How do we know that Krishna accepts our gratitude?

When we can’t remember Krishna purely now, how will our remembering him at death take us to him?

Gita 17.22 We need discrimination to ensure that doing good actually does good

Was Ravana a good person who just committed one mistake?

Does religion cause war?

The mind may stray away, but don’t let it stay away

How can the mind be our friend?

Do we need to give up guilt and worry to practice bhakti?

Gita 17.21 – Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation

If my office workload has decreased but I can’t chant or hear much what should I do?

Understanding how the mind acts as a mirror that distorts our self-conception

How does bhakti shelter us amidst physical and emotional pain?

Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity not popularity

How to reconcile the Gita – do your own duty even if imperfectly – with the Gita – do what you are good at, according to your nature?

Screen what appears on your inner screen – Learn to manage the mind

When our nature is to be spiritual why are we not attracted to Krishna?

Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity

If we move to a temple whose mood is different from that of our native temple what to do?

Science Spirituality and The Search for Meaning

How can we internalize the mood and mission of our teachers?

Is purification of the intelligence the same as purification of the mind?

Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy

From possessions that dispossess to the possession that delivers

How understanding destiny empowers

While analyzing our mind how to avoid paralysis by analysis?

When we are not the doers – material nature is – why are we held responsible for our actions?

Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed

Praising by criticizing – The paradoxical ways of expressing love

Cultivating Cooperation in Krishna consciousness

Why we are sometimes wise and sometimes otherwise

Gita 17.16 Austerity of mind transforms our inner disruptive enemy into a constructive friend

If we feel more attracted to managerial services than scriptural study are we in the mode of passion?

Will future scientific progress explain consciousness and spirituality in mathematical terms?

Net Surfing or Net Suffering?

Gita 17.15 Speech is meant not just for commnication but also for purification

How do we strengthen the intelligence?

How do the modes correlate with an analysis of the mind’s functioning?

QA session at Columbus 2018 Spring

From state of the art to state of the heart

If meeting our expectations makes us over-confident what can we do?

Bhagavatam study 73 1.14.18.33 – When we apprehend the worst-case scenario we look for alternatives

By engaging our material nature in bhakti are we constructing our spiritual nature or reviving it?

Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively not destructively

Is anxiety a disorder?

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How to go through dry phases in our chanting?

Bhagavatam study 72 1.14.12.17 – Inversion of natural order prophesies inauspiciousness

Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3

Do we seek only an operational knowledge of scripture and not actual knowledge?

Learning to live with emotional lows

Bhagavatam study 71 1.14.1.11 – Departure of the order-sustaining Lord leads to disruption of that order

How Krishna steals our distresses

Does repeated practice improve our instincts?

Does anyone who die in a dhama on a holy day go back to Godhead?

If a desire is irresistible what to do?

Should we take other devotees plates for washing if they don’t want to give?

Should we have expectations while practicing bhakti?

Shouldn’t we speak strongly to get everyone on the fast track to Krishna?

Are we the sum of our thoughts?

What is the destination of good non-spiritual people such as Stephen Hawking?