Author: Chaitanya Charan

How can atma be translated as the Supreme Lord?

Nothing is in my control – why worry?

What karma should we avoid so that we won’t have to suffer?

What is the use of getting reactions for wrongdoings without knowing those wrongdoings?

When humans kill animals for eating is it that animal’s destiny or are humans interrupting God’s plan?

If someone commits suicide was it their destiny or are they interrupting God’s plan?

Why did Rama abandon Sita?

The setting inspires talks on “What cricket can teach us about life”

Feasting on Krishna’s glories on Ekadashi

Modernization Without Westernization – Reflections on the Middle East’s spiritual potential

If bhakti means to give up all designations then how do we see our duties to our country?

How can we cope with enduring sadness?

What is the difference between the mental and the spiritual?

How can we say our thanks to God?

Why does corruption exist in religious organisations – can it be minimized?

What is the essence of the Bhagavad-gita?

How can a bar waiter transform one’s occupational duty into devotional service?

How to deal with devotees in ISKCON who criticize ISKCON?

How can we overcome lust?

How can we avoid distractions amidst today’s internet age?

Is love for our parents brothers sisters Maya – does such love have no meaning or value?

Are the sense and mind different – which of them drives us?

Hanuman manifests a combination of bhakti and shakti

How can we remember while serving the Deities that they are persons?

If we don’t have the opportunity to explore won’t we lose our desire to learn?

If we are in a situation where we can’t develop our talents what can we do?

Can pursuing our material talents help us in our spiritual life?

How can chanting help us in our life practically?

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How can we know our most dangerous attachments?

What if we want to preach but are given other services? – Hindi

How can we resist temptation? – Hindi

Understanding surrender – Hindi

The world sees results, Krishna sees efforts

​What is the relation between Valimiki Ramayana and Rama-charita-manasa?

​What factors determine the mental pitch we get?

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​Help your mind to learn using association and intelligence

​When chanting doesn’t feel blissful how can we make it always blissful?

​What kind of mental pitch is favourable for bhakti?

​How did Prabhupada provide sadhana-bhakti and raganuga bhakti together?

​How can we overcome the tendency to overthink?

​How can we avoid second guessing ourselves while doing creative work?

Before we can evaluate our desire we end up indulging in it – what to do?

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​What was the technology of the pollution-free Pushpaka vimana?

How can we avoid falling repeatedly to a wrong desire?

​What is stillness of mind?

If someone says the sparks of Krishna’s splendor are enough for me how can we connect them with Krishna?

​Where are the mind intelligence and ego located?

What is the devotional reason why Rama sent Sita away?

​How do prioritize between our duty to our parents and to our wife and children?

​​Why Rama banished Sita – Hindi

Counter the inner negative conversation of doubt and desire

Bhakti yoga – cultural practice or spiritual science?

Won’t cultivating satisfaction take away our urge to improve?

When we make choices where does our karma fit in?

When God knows the future is our free will really free?

How can we know what our prescribed duty is in today’s world?

What is wrong with we as God’s children asking him for our material needs?

Does scripture guide us for spiritual decisions or also for material decisions?

Material solutions to problems lead to bigger problems – so should we seek material solutions?

How can we overcome the infection of karma and jnana?

How can we know whether we are depending on our own endeavors or on Krishna?

Does the mind tempt us because of the modes or do the modes tempt us because of the mind?

How can we maintain our spiritual alertness amidst worldly association?

Bhikshu Gita 6 – See the mind’s aversion to concentration as a trick of illusion (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.47)

Don’t identify with the mind – identify the mind

When real problems such as recession threaten us how can we deal with the anxiety?

Bhakti is not about attachment or detachment but about commitment – please explain.

Is all anxiety bad – can’t anxiety inspire us to perform better?

How can we weaken our bad desires and strengthen our good desires?

How can we avoid forgetting our resolutions?

Bhikshu Gita 5 – Happiness comes by raising the standard of longing (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.46)

Opening minds while getting one’s own mind opened (Reflections on visit to Bahrain 2016)

We get only temporary happiness and that too after lot of struggle – does God not want us to be happy?

How do non-devotees without sadhana and siddhanta sometimes have better sadachara than devotees?

How can we fix the mind on Krishna?

Why do we get karmic reactions for one life in another life?

What are the sizes of the soul and the mind?

How can those unaware of scripture differentiate between the mind and the intelligence?

How can we inculcate Krishna consciousness in our children?

What is Maya – are women Maya?

How can inductive-deductive-abductive reasonings be correlated with pratyaksha-anumana-shabda?

Do our default settings come from our past karma or our association?

If having too many commitments makes us resentful what can we do?

What is more powerful – the soul or the mind?

How should we preach – gently or forcefully?

Do the spikes of desire vanish when we become spiritually advanced?

What is the difference between being religious and being spiritual?

How can we attract materially comfortable people who don’t feel the need for spirituality?

Learning from the guru named death

QA on Practical application of bhakti

Bhikshu Gita 4 – The mind distracts us from bhakti in the name of bhakti (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.45)

If someone is going through a bad phase astrologically how does the mind affect their problems?

How much does the mind affect problems in astrologically compatible relationships?

If yajna produces rains how did the West that did no yajna have rains?

How can we constantly remember that we are not the doers?

If we keep curbing most of our impulses aren’t we living a fake life?