Author: Chaitanya Charan

Spiritual but not religious – Analyzing four permutations

Can we say that intelligence comprises of knowledge processing discrimination analysis and determination?

How should we deal with people involved in non-devotional dharmic causes?

Is determination situated in the intelligence or in the mind?

How can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind?

How can we encourage a devotee to do service with someone they don’t like?

Bring out the Hanuman within not the Ravana within

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 4 – How Hanuman provoked to deter Ravana from war

Does the soul in an animal body learn anything spiritual?

What is the relationship between soul consciousness and heart?

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 3 – Keeping our intention above our emotions

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 2 – Earning trust through emotional intelligence

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 1 – When we hide ourselves from the Lord he hides himself from us

When Garuda is a pure devotee why does he eat fish?

Ramayana series 3 – Rama-Lakshmana – Does destiny control everything?

In Kali-yuga thoughts don’t incur reactions – what does that mean practically?

How can we help materially entrapped people to become spiritual?

Ajamila knew scripture – yet he fell down. Why?

How can we balance between bhakti and studies?

If our spouse is sentimentally following a different spiritual path how should we deal with it?

If our speaking about Krishna doesn’t transform others does that mean we lack the purity that empowers senior devotees’ words to be transformational?

Is wanting to go back after death to Krishna selfish and wanting to go to Prabhupada selfless?

Ramayana series2 – Vali-Sugriva – Don’t judge without understanding

If we have free will how does Krishna know the future?

How do we understand scriptural stories in which mountains are conscious?

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

Are pleasures such as traveling to see new places considered addictive?

Why to become spiritual now

Why is atma translated as the Supreme in Ishopanishad mantra 6?

In Paramatma realization is God the subject or the object?

To show our world to others we need to see it with fresh eyes

In the Prasthana-traya what does nyaya mean – how does it relate with Vedanta-sutra?

What is the Moksha Dharma that Prabhupada sometimes quotes?

Where is the verse om purnam adah .. from – why is it included as the Ishopanishad invocation?

The Absolute truth covered by maya is called matter – What does this mean?

How are fruitive activities the engagements of one’s reactions from past good or bad deeds?

How can we say that we are spiritually equal when in the spiritual world every soul is different?

Matters that matter more than matter – Origin Value Meaning

Ramayana series 1 – Manthara-Kaikeyi – How manipulators mislead

Prayers to Rama 1 – May my devotion flow to you undiluted and undistracted

Is bhakti a conditioned attraction of the mind or the natural attraction of the soul?

How the mind tells its stories by inducing forgetfulness faith and feelings

If bhakti is beyond the modes why do we need to come to the mode of goodness?

How to avoid judging others?

Can capacity to find faults be an empowerment from Krishna?

When the mind is restless how are performers like archers able to focus on one point?

How philosophy and experience harmonize in bhakti

How chanting works on the mind – and how the mind works during chanting

Tap the mind don’t be trapped by the mind 3 – From shakshi bhava to seva bhava

If seva-dhyana comes in the way of nama-dhyana, what to do?

Did some of the leaders of our movement fall down because of being haunted by demonic forces?

Does destiny determine our free will too?

How are some people fearless of death?

Winning with emotional intelliigence 2 – Social competence through relationship management

Tap the minda don’t be trapped by the mind 2 – Why mind control backfires

Tap the mind dont be trapped by the mind 1 – The pressure for pleasure

How does bhakti-yoga help us overcome anger?

How can we use fear in Krishna’s service?

Can affirmations helps us to manifest our destiny?

Winning with emotional intelliigence 1 – Personal competence through self management

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Can an atheist be spiritual?

How can we be authentic while living according to others’ expectations?

How are some people such as skydivers more fearless than devotees?

Understanding how bhakti addresses anxiety

How can we help our teenage kids who are infatuated with their gadgets?

When not being passionate is seen as weakness in a passionate world how can we function as devotees?

How we spend more time avoiding pain than seeking pleasure – and why we shouldn’t

How can we know whether our experience of Krishna is imagination or revelation?

If we fight against obstacles to serve Krishna in a particular way are we not dependent on Krishna?

Appreciating Radhanath Maharaj’s contributions in the light of ISKCON history

When the higher taste doesn’t seem higher

If we neglect all the emotions of the mind are we being impersonalistic?

How did you come to Krishna consciousness – Hindi?

If wanting to do a lot of service spoils our health how to stay balanced?

Choosing healthy emotions with intelligence association and devotion

How to control the mind with the intelligence 3 – Conversion

Are the past and the future illusions – is the present the only reality that we should live in?

We often direct our anger towards those who can’t hurt us – how to avoid getting angry – Hindi

When happiness is a subjective experience can there be any absolute happiness?

How to control the mind with the intelligence 2 – Concentration

How to control the mind with the intelligence 1 – Conviction

While pursuing ultimate reality is happiness the purpose or a byproduct?

When fear accelerates the imagination let faith be the brake

The search for pleasure is often the source of the greatest trouble

If we don’t speak about high standards won’t low standards become the standard

If our service forces us into agitating situations how can we keep ourselves safe – Hindi?

If our contemplation doesn’t translate into determination where are we getting stuck?

When our mind hears selectively is that due to intelligence or ego?

What the self seeks beyond the selfie

If someone says that being spiritually open-minded means believing that life doesn’t have an objective purpose how to respond?

How are our present emotions related to our soul?

How does bhakti practice change the influence of the modes on us?

Why would Yudhishthira always choose the timid approach?

Avoid distractions using intelligence directed towards transcendence

When people don’t offer us moral support but dishearten us by bombarding philosophy what to do – Hindi?

If our aesthetic side is not nourished by regimented bhakti practices what to do?

What can we do practically to make our devotional identity our defining identity?

To transcend our emotions we need to begin by accepting our emotions

Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Changing our input in relationships