Author: Chaitanya Charan

How to avoid relaxing into worldly enjoyment after doing our service wholeheartedly?

How can we avoid struggling in vain to control situations that are not in our control?

As science keeps people away from God can scientists be considered reincarnations of demons?

If someone has done something wrong isn’t it better to tell them straight instead of pausing and speaking later?

What causes timidity – how can we overcome it?

How can we control our mind especially during chanting?

What is the wws concept?

When Krishna is unlimited how can he be a person?

Have people who can remember their past lives done some special good karma?

Choosing our mental battles

Reincarnation – Reality Rationality Opportunity

How do we balance between chanting and getting knowledge?

We chastise someone out of love but it spoils the relationship – what to do?

What is the consequence of the offense of inattentive chanting?

Should we attribute problems in daily life to our poor chanting?

How to replace envious thoughts with loving thoughts?

How can we control our emotions?

What does achintya in achintyabhedabheda refer to?

Why is scriptural knowledge needed in daily life?

Misunderstandings spread like cancer – beware

Is Krishna as the holy name a sound vibration or is he beyond all sound vibrations?

What exactly is the holy name – does its potency lie in the words or the meaning or somewhere else?

How can we overcome our past conditionings?

Will our conscience ever become stronger than the mind?

To anchor our consciousness in Krishna do we need external calm or can we directly get inner calm?

If we don’t have devotee association how can we practice bhakti?

How to overcome anxieties about issues that have life-changing consequences?

How can we be concerned but not disturbed – is it simply by faith?

How can we become intense in our chanting?

To master the mind become conscious of your consciousness

Focus on the Bhagavatam’s universal purpose beyond its specific details – invest one’s emotions in Krishna not the world

Does courtesy japa help us attain Krishna after death?

When past karma blocks our bhakti what can we do?

How do I choose my spiritual master?

Amidst problems should we just let Krishna solve them or should we work to solve them?

While making choices how can we take Krishna’s shelter?

If karma daiva and kala lead to phala what is Krishna’s role?

If parents have two children – one bright one dull – is it the parents’ karma or the childrens’ karma?

When our sadhana oscillates because of material ups and downs what can we do?

Overcome anxiety by focusing on state of thoughts not state of things

Self-control Strategies – Contemporary analysis of Nectar of Instruction Text 1

Is destiny determined by past karma alone or by present karma too?

When is our friends’ influence helpful and when unhelpful?

Why did Krishna save Parikshit, but not Abhimanyu?

Should we learn from problems or move away from them?

Is our intelligence destined – does it determine when we take to spiritual life?

Is our marital partner destined?

If destiny evens out in the long run, then does it really matter?

Devotional practices calm our mind, but only briefly – what to do?

Does our past impede our bhakti – how can we overcome those impediments?

Why was Vyasadeva dissatisfied even after writing Vedic literature that glorify Krishna?

Do we need to always feel existential dissatisfaction to practice bhakti intensely?

How can we be emotionally connected with Krishna without becoming sentimental?

With what purpose should we read Srila Prabhupada’s books?

How can we make a plan that is effective even if Krishna’s plan turns out to be different?

How can we say no to the things we like?

Don’t hear the mind’s story – hear Krishna’s story

Let incidental dissatisfaction trigger existential dissatisfaction

PURE acronym – 4 attitudes for progressing in spiritual life

God loves me – is this just a psychological feeling or a spiritual reality?

Do relationships interfere with our inner growth?

All loving relationships in this world are temporary – what does that mean?

How do we know which desires are healthy and which unhealthy?

Should we pray to God for things or just be content with what we have?

How can we persist in our resolutions?

When we face much worldly anxiety, how can we practice spirituality?

How are we non-sectarian when our practices are isolating?

How can we advance spiritually while having family and job responsibilities?

Where do the differences among religions come from?

How do we define the Paramatma?

Does pursuing knowledge reflect materialistic consciousness – will it keep us dissatisfied?

How can we choose our mantra?

Romanticizing Reincarnation – The danger of divorcing knowledge from its purpose

Reincarnation – what explains it and what it explains

What are simple steps to fix our mental software?

Where do our fears originate – are they just conceptions?

Do happiness-distress have objective reality or are they just mental constructs?

Focus on the best in the past, be present in the present and shape the future

QA with children on Ramayana-Mahabharata

When Arjuna was sinless, why did he have to go to hell?

How can we prove that God exists?

Did Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection make his blood pure, making him into God?

How to preach to Christians who argue that Jesus is the only way?

How important is the exact pronunciation of Rama in the maha-mantra?

How can those with an impersonal understanding of God be helped to taste bhakti?

Although material things are temporary, those things matter to us – how can we balance our material and spiritual side?

How can we make our subconscious choices wise choices?

Go beyond fight or flight to sight

Overcoming resentment amidst difficult situations

Managing the mind – we control, Krishna converts

While choosing, how can we know which desire is coming from external influences and which from internal inspiration?

How can we choose rightly among various religions?

Why do some good devotees suddenly do some terrible things?

Sometimes our actions don’t produce results, but do those results manifest eventually?

How can we trust Krishna when he is so unpredictable?

Why would anyone be tempted to be discouraged?

Can focusing on our intention impede creativity?

What is the root of our procrastinating tendency?

What is the meaning of life?

How long does it take to experience lasting love – what about the love we find in this world?