Author: Chaitanya Charan

How can we be Krishna conscious when we are not staying with devotees in a youth center – Hindi?

What is the difference between purity and goodness – Hindi?

While doing our service is seeing everything in connection with Krishna necessary?

Scripture is a torch to see the world a mirror to see the self and a window to see God

World Religions – From Bhakti Universal to Bhakti Confidential

Understanding who is the doer – Analyzing instincts impulses and intelligence

Once we slip down a slope we can’t control how far we slip down Gita 03.36

The mind can make a soldier into a deserter or even a betrayer Gita 05.22

Meta-thinking is vital for fruitful thinking Gita 14.23

If people hold on to their beliefs, how can we elevate them?

Why do Hindus leave shoes outside their place of worship but Christians don’t?

When scripture says our parents are God why do some young devotees renounce their parents?

How can bhakti philosophy unite world religions?

Light to see the world – Science, Spirituality and Life’s Big Questions

How can we avoid getting caught in petty things?

Do microbes forming on rocks demonstrate that life comes from matter?

Can future scientific advancement detect the existence of God?

As humans can do a wide variety of activities doesn’t that prove we have free will?

What comprises science – what are the boundaries that define science?

What does knowledge in the mode of ignorance mean in today’s world?

Is there some science other than modern for explaining matter?

Don’t waste your mental energy on people on whom you won’t waste your time Gita 11.55

Address misery first by recognizing its fundamental cause then its circumstantial cause Gita 09.33

How do tantrics get special power?

How can we go beyond being exclusivist and pluralist to becoming inclusivist?

When so many humans are doing bad karma today how is the human population increasing?

How can people from other religions realize that they are servants of Krishna?

When Krishna is the source of both material and spiritual worlds which world comes first?

Does dharma mean religion?

Within a religion when there are many paths how do we know our path?

What is the Vedic perspective of Buddhism?

How is Shankaracharya’s path to be seen in the inclusive understanding of dharma?

When sanatana-dharma is inclusive why are most Hindus pluralists?

When a bad thing happens does optimism mean seeing it as the best thing that could have happened?

Does positive thinking mean that we shouldn’t think about the past – then how will we learn from it?

How can Chrisitan conversions in India be countered – can Hindus be united for this purpose?

Some Christians say that Kalki will be Jesus come again not Krishna come again – how to respond?

How central is cow slaughter to Islam?

If Islam considers idolatry the greatest sin how can it co-exist with Hinduism?

Why do post-modern Leftist scholars in India separate Islam from terrorism but not Hinduism from the caste system?

As different paths conceive God differently do they all lead to the same goal?

Don’t give your enemies weapons to beat you with Gita 03.36

Ask not how could he have done that – ask what is to be done next Gita 03.39

World Religions 3 – Islam – Beyond the politically correct and the politically incorrect to the philosophically correct

World Religions 2 – Christianity – Beyond authoritarian and humanitarian religion to transcendence

World Religions 1 – Appreciating religious diversity amidst spiritual universality

Analyzing Social Media 1 – What it does for us and what it does to us

Devotion renunciation and aversion are differentiated by the direction of emotion

Dumbness is not inability to understand gibberish – it is inability to see gibberish for what it is Gita 18.63

Before Nirjala Ekadashi can we take some juices or pills to increase our fasting capacity?

From the karmic perspective what is the difference between ignorant wrongdoings and intentional wrongdoings?

Why do scriptures not describe technology such as bulbs?

Gita 14.11 Don’t chase the objects in perception – clean the doors of perception

Gita 16.08 Materialism strips not only the other world of reality but also this world of meaning

Gita 08.20 Those who reject a world beyond this world sentence themselves to pointless business in this world

How to cultivate positive thinking in bhakti

How can we be always surrendered to Krishna?

How can we know whether the mind’s story is false or real?

How can we know when we are planning and when the mind is fear-mongering?

If when our mind tells a story and we consult a friend whose mind is telling the same story how can we avoid illusion?

The mind tells the most stories during chanting – how to counter?

Why does devotion change our mind’s tendencies temporarily?

Gita 18.58 Devotion brings the inner morale to combat outer problems

Gita 16.11 Technology is not just the provider of facility – it is also the shaper of mentality

Gita 14.04 Dialogue requires methodological humility

Does chanting automatically make us kinder or do we have to strive to become kinder?

Does chanting require effort or does chanting make us happy?

Why is the mind considered a sense?

How can we focus on chanting when the mind wanders?

When Tvashta gave Narayana-kavacha that made Indra invincible how could Tvashta himself be killed?

How can we remain respectful to the devatas while describing their non-supreme position or their non-ideal activities?

Just as the mind is personified are other things such as Bhakti devi and Kali also personifications?

How can we balance giving due priority to chanting with other important services?

Talk show – How is the Gita relevant today?

If people anger us how can we control ourselves?

Does a good result indicate intelligence-guided action and a bad result indicate mind-driven action?

If during book distribution people are abusive, how can we stay calm?

How can we make the right choices within bhakti?

How can we know that the purpose we are pursuing is the best purpose?

How can we prevent our emotions from affecting our decisions?

How can we be practically grounded on the spiritual level?

Can we fulfill all the purposes for our existing in this world?

Gita 14.11 Our mind can be a transmitter distorter or reflector of our consciousness

Gita 01.46 – When emotions block our consciousness Gita wisdom removes the blockage

Talk Show – Understanding Karma and Destiny

Are our problems caused by our past karma or arranged by Krishna?

Are poor people responsible for their poverty?

How can the Gita’s knowledge help poor people?

Are there two ways of thinking – the mind’s way and the soul’s way?

How can bhakti increase our ability to think which is a material ability?

Does the Gita give spiritual solutions to all material problems?

How can I overcome procrastinating tendency?

Talk show – What your phone can teach you about your mind 1

Gita 16.24 Religious tolerance is better fostered by deeper religious adherence than by greater religious indifference

How to respond when others serve in ways that don’t make sense to us – should we criticize them?

Do interruptions in our remembrance of Krishna occur because of circumstances or consciousness?

What does seva-smarana mean?

Is the mood of dasyam not present in Goloka Vrindavan because it is madhurya dhama?

Are paid pujas done in temple not commercialization of religion?

What standard of Deity worship should householders follow?