Author: Chaitanya Charan

How can chanting help us in our life practically?

What cricket can teach us about life Series

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?

What cricket can teach us about life 3

What cricket can teach us about life 2

​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?

​What cricket can teach us about life 1

​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?

How do we differentiate between the mind and the heart?

Is passion needed while functioning in this world?

If a devotee can’t find an astrologically compatible match, can they pursue astrologically incompatible matches where other things match?

Bhikshu Gita 3 – The mind makes the unreal seem real and the real seem unreal (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.44)

Bhikshu Gita 2 – The mind makes it difficult for people to change – be understanding (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.43)

Demystifying Gita 18.66 – Does surrender mean giving up dharma?

Navigating the social and emotional turbulence of adolescence

Is a devotee teacher cheating students by teaching them scientific theories about creation?

How can we remove bad impressions from our mind?

Does God want us to torture ourselves by fasting on holy days?

How can we survive spiritually when suddenly we lose devotee association?

How do we know that the knowledge coming through disciplic succession is authentic?

How do we convince people that scriptures are true, not fictional?

Why did Rama not stand by Sita when she was defamed?

Was Ravana an ideal brother who stood by his sister at all costs?

Bhikshu Gita 1 – Minimize misery by identifying the misery caused by the mind (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.42)

How can we cultivate humility in our bhakti?

Some devotees take a vow to chant lots of rounds and keep chanting all day – is that ok?

What is the significance getting darshan of Radharani’s lotus feet on Radhashtami day?

Why did Balarama favor Duryodhana?

Will you please talk something about Devi Bhagavatam?

What are the duties of a modern woman who wants to practice bhakti?

How can we attain true peace?

Why is the Bhagavatam called the Amala Purana?

If Vyasadeva wrote the Bhagavatam, how is he present in the Bhagavatam?

Can we chant while traveling or walking?

Who all heard the Gita – why were Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra able to hear?