Author: Chaitanya Charan

What happens to a person who commits suicide while remembering Krishna?

How can we seek higher purpose when things are going right not just when things start going wrong?

Gita 16.08 From atheism to hedonism is a natural slide

What causes a midlife crisis – can devotees suffer from it?

Should evolution be taught in schools?

How can devotees learn to be satisfied with whatever services they can do?

Gita 16.07 Observe others actions not to condemn but to help

Gaura Purnima lecture 2016 – Transcription uploaded

Appreciating Nityananda Prabhu’s mercy devotional ambitiousness and humility

Maintaining balance amidst disruptive emotions and situations

Gita 16.06 Knowing the inclination of the road where our car is is education not condemnation

Devotees who succeed in getting external results are looked up to in our movement – what to do?

Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver

What can brahmacharis do if they feel choked in their ashram?

Gita 16.03 Giving appropriate honor promotes harmony demanding excessive honor disrupts harmony

How is our intelligence partly our friend and partly our enemy?

Gita 16.02 Our godliness needs to be seen in our harmonious interactions with others

If we are too passionate to separate ourselves from our mind what to do?

Gita 16.01 Godliness is both a decision and a disposition

Wasn’t Arjuna passionate about archery – can we be passionate about something and still be devotional?

We want appreciation for making our contribution – what to do about this wanting?

Is bhakti philosophy pessimistic – Hindi?

3 Day Seminar on Understanding Emotions Behaviours & Relationships in the Three Modes

When we live in a competitive world how can we avoid comparing ourselves with others?

How can we avoid collateral damage while working in our offices?

How our mind messes our relationships 2 – Focus on contribution not expectation

When India is the land of spirituality why was it overrun by so many invaders – why does it still have a colonial mentality?

Is Reincarnation for Real – Evaluating the Evidence

How our mind messes our relationships 1 – Understanding instincts and impulses

Why is Hinduism portrayed so negatively in the media and academia?

Is satisfaction a brahminical virtue that is impractical for kshastriyas and other varnas?

Can self-help techniques be used in Krishna’s service?

Why are some people attached to godly things and some to ungodly things?

The Bhagavad-gita as a leadership guide

Changing ourselves by changing our situation standpoint and self-identification

Can harmonization with contemporary culture lead to dilution of tradition?

How can we get rid of unwanted thoughts?

How does hypnosis work?

Ambition, Satisfaction & Devotion 2 – Hospital metaphor for harmonizing material and spiritual growth

Ambition, Satisfaction & Devotion 1 – Outside-in Ambition vs Inside-out Ambition

How is the moon the mind’s predominating deity?

With artificial intelligence advancing rapidly, what will differentiate humans from future machines?

How can we communicate the need of regulation to people who are gung-ho about freedom and rights?

Managing the mind 4 – Training the mind by dividing and castigating

Managing the mind 3 – Understanding inclination, infatuation and intention

Managing the mind 2 – Understanding how the mind affects our free will

When things don’t make sense, look for a deeper sense

Managing the mind 1 – The many meanings of the word ‘mind’ and their correlation with the Gita’s understanding

Getting our emotions to work for, us, not against us

From Fear to Surrender 4 – FEAR acronym – 4 steps for overcoming fear

QA session at ISKCON Bahrain

If we can do a service well and see others doing that service poorly, should we stay uninvolved to avoid becoming proud or critical?

I get dreams to act violently against Muslims – what should I do?

From Fear to Surrender 3 – FEAR acronym for analyzing fear 2 – Attachment and Redirection

From Fear to Surrender 2 – FEAR acronym for analyzing fear part 1 – Faith and Education

From Fear to Surrender 1 – Understanding how our fears originate

When our acharyas wanted an institution, how can we deal with people’s aversion to religious institutions?

If others do politics to sideline us from our service, should we also do politics to continue our service?

The most dangerous jumping is jumping to conclusions

How Gaudiya Vaishnavism used drama in bhakti

How is the Gita relevant today – Marathi

Why do devotees sometimes die in ghastly accidents?

How can we increase the quality in our existing devotional commitments?

When neither distress nor taste motivates us consistently in bhakti, how can we become consistent?

How can I overcome my attraction to watch every detail of my favorite actress?

How can we be materially successful while practicing bhakti?

Bhagavatam study 70 1.13.51-60 Determination directed towards renunciation brings spiritual elevation

Is disorder also a part of Krishna’s plan for creation?

Should we correct others when we don’t have the authority to do so and others aren’t receptive?

Bhagavatam study 69 1.13.46-50 When we can’t protect ourselves from kala, karma and guna, how can we protect others?

Technology, Spirituality and the Search for a Meaningful life

Bhagavatam study 68 1.13.39-45 Know when to exercise control in the service of the supreme controller and when to release control

Overcoming fear, desire and anger to take shelter of Krishna

Dealing with insecurities – Hindi

From fictional enjoyment to spiritual enjoyment through explanations, exponents and experiences – Hindi

Understanding various ways Krishna protects – Bhagavatam characters analysis

The mind is like a madhouse – 4 strategies for managing it – Hindi

For meditation, we need the right object and the right conception

In the computer metaphor for explaining the self, comparing the soul with the user mixes the inanimate with the animate – isn’t it better to compare consciousness with electricity?

If the devotional ambience around us is unfavorable because devotees are rude, what should we do?

Why do the Vedas give all rights to men and no rights to women, who simply have to obey men?

When we have to choose between two ways of serving Krishna, what should we do?

Duryodhana felt no moral compunction while persecuting the Pandavas, but Dhirtrashtra did – why the difference?

QA transcriptions uploaded on 07-Dec-17

The soul has knowledge that is presently covered – does this mean the soul knows exact scriptural verses?

Gita Essence lecture series transcriptons uploaded.

Prabhupada life-story 16 – Establishing the foundation

When Abhimanyu was killed, how was Arjuna overcome by illusion?

Prabhupada life-story 15 – From spiritual shoppers to spiritual seekers

Shikshashtakam series transcriptions uploaded

If we use our extrovert nature to serve Krishna, are we functioning in the mode of passion?

Prabhupada life-story 14 – Incorporating ISKCON – The seven visionary purposes

Bhikshu Gita series transriptions uploaded.

QA transcriptions uploaded on 04-Dec-17

If devotees use certain statements to demean other bhakti traditions, what to do?

Do we need only devotional principles to change our past’s influences – can other things help?

When we are frustrated, is it possible to think logically as explained in classes?

If past mental impressions stay despite a long practice of bhakti, what to do?

Duryodhana character analysis 3 – Envy perpetuates dissatisfaction and invites destruction

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – Ambition distorted by envy becomes cancerous