Author: Chaitanya Charan

Demystifying Reincarnation 10 – Near Death Experiences – Conscious when unconscious?

Beauty is a spark of Krishna but it makes us forget Krishna – what to do?

How can we make people in the lower modes interested in Krishna?

How will avoiding the association of agitating people help if agitation is in our karma?

Isn’t the mode of goodness alone enough for serving Krishna – during the churning of the milk ocean why were the other modes needed?

Demography and spirituality

Understanding the five functions of intelligence

Use goodness to practice bhakti and correct our disconnect with reality

Ghosts Spirits & Reincarnation – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible

The inner war is unavoidable Gita 03.43

Demystifying Reincarnation 9 – Near Death Experiences – Partial consciousness?

Demystifying Reincarnation 8 – Near Death Experiences – Hallucinations or Guesses?

A mentally retarded child can’t do any karma – what determines his future life?

A mentally retarded child can’t pursue any worthwhile goal – what is the point of such a life?

When problems drag our emotions away from Krishna how can we focus on him?

How is karma connected with our future destination?

What externals can help us stay spiritually grounded?

Can a spiritual mind know the destiny?

How is an action classified as good karma or bad karma?

How can we minimize our past karma’s impact on us?

Are hungry people starving because of their past karma?

Does karma contribute to our achievements?

How can we prevent our leisure time from being consumed by worrying?

During the evolution of life on the earth when did the soul enter into the picture?

In past life memories might the investigators be committing frauds?

What is the concept of a soulmate?

What happens to children who remember their past lives after they grow up?

Can children be trained to remember their past lives?

How can we see virtual reality in terms of spiritual philosophy?

How can we increase our remembrance of Krishna when we come to the temple?

Demystifying Reincarnation 7 – Past life memories – Fraud by investigators?

Demystifying Reincarnation 6 – Past-life memories – Frauds by parents?

Demystifying Reincarnation 5 – Astonishing birth marks and birth defects

Demystifying Reincarnation 4 – Past life memories – Guesses or Hyperboles?

Isn’t it better to read Prabhupada books instead of wasting time on social media?

Transformation is inevitable – positive transformation has to be intentional

To traverse the path to self-improvement balance aspiration with awareness

Metaphorical Meditations on the Holy Name 1 – The Holy Name grounds consciousness in the source of its source

Be aware of not just the destination but also the starting point

Social Media Analysis 3 – Greater accessibility brings greater responsibility

Demystifying Reincarnation 3 – Past life memories – Any normal explanation?

Behind the book – Interview with Chaitanya Charan author of “Demystifying Reincarnation”

Are past-life memories frauds? – Analysis with the case study of a Muslim-to-Hindu reincarnation 

Demystifying Reincarnation – Chaitanya Charan’s latest book is now available on amazon.com

Demystifying Reincarnation 2 – Hypnotically induced past life memories and Xenoglossy

Demystifying Reincarnation 1 – Incredible delusion or credible vision?

Why didn’t the Pandavas think that the Kauravas were simply instruments of their own past karma?

Is the Mahabharata that occurred in another age even relevant today?

Is the Mahabharata an excellent drama or is it historically true?

If everything in the Mahabharata is arranged by Krishna’s plan why do we blame Duryodhana or Karna?

Why is Arjuna considered the greatest archer when all his power came from Krishna?

If Dhritarashtra had stopped Duryodhana from fighting how would the Gita have been spoken?

When Dhritarashtra was forced by the modes to support Duryodhana why is he blamed?

Did the celestial voice stopping Duryodhana from committing suicide interfere with his free will?

Are Christian missionaries in India funded from the West?

Are some people utterly incapable of understanding God’s form – are some religion’s revelations customized for such people?

Will Christians in the kingdom of God see Christ as described in the Bible or as sages described in the Vedic literature?

Why does Christianity have stronger missionary tradition that Hinduism?

Did Greek thought come from Vedic thought?

If we feel more devotionally connected with Krishna while hearing than while taking darshan what should we do?

Why can’t the soul be seen with microscopes – where is it located in organisms that have no heart?

How can conservation of energy be reconciled with temporariness of matter?

What is the reference point for saying that the soul is small?

How can we prove that life has the purpose of loving Krishna?

How can we understand that the attractiveness of all attractive things comes from Krishna?

Are there different levels of seeing Krishna?

How is Rama’s treatment of Sita justified?

If guru-shishya parampara was always present how could monism become so prominent?

Can we have a thoughtless mind?

Why do we feel sleepy during chanting but not kirtan or prasad?

Does the mind have more impressions from the present life than from past lives?

How can we stop day dreaming?

What happens to the mind when we sleep?

Analyzing Social Media 2 – How social is social media?

Seek not just the self – seek the soul Gita 02.21

Remembering Srila Prabhupada’s mood and sacrifice – Hindi

Tamal Krishna Maharaj books appreciation

Drinking water and sleeping are both bodily needs – why is sleeping considered in the mode of ignorance?

How to balance between shunning social media and being obsessed with social media?

What is the spiritual perspective on death due to dowry harassment apart from past karma?

How to see spiritually the grief I feel after my mother has passed away?

Is violence against women in India caused by the objectification of women as sense objects in Indian sacred texts?

How does telepathy occur?

Is the mind like a TV on which pictures are projected?

Can the mind travel out of the body?

Are material objects less pure than us?

How is detachment empowering?

When the soul moves from one body to another is there complete conservation of the mind?

Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder – A Vedic Perspective

What does fixing the mind on the lotus feet of Krishna mean?

Why religion seems dispensable

We can’t replace the mind but we can re-place it

Analyzing various perceptions and conceptions of God

Reincarnation Research – Science Pseudo-Science & Scientism

How can we overcome the mind’s rationalizations?

If the mind is not a person who proposes desires to us?

Is the mind personal or impersonal?

If the software is compared to the mind what is the intelligence compared to?

How is controlling the mind by focusing it on Krishna different from focusing it on some material object?

How can we help people who are following some apasampradaya – Hindi?