Author: Chaitanya Charan

If some people are more tolerant by their nature does that tolerance mean they are advanced devotees?

Is bhakti the only way to higher taste – or are there other ways too?

Is multi-tasking desirable or undesirable?

What exactly is polymorphic monotheism?

Is the God of different religions one or different?

​​​​If religion is meant to love God what about Buddhism which doesn’t refer to God?

​Why does God let difficulties happen in our life – please explain based on your personal life?

​How do we see people who use their faith to justify their bigotry?

​Diwali meditation on Science and spirituality

Does the soul choose its parents in its next life?

​Do the Puranas talk about caste by birth and the Gita, caste by qualities?

​Why were the lower castes so abused in the caste system, though it was given by Krishna?

Won’t saying that don’t pursue worldly pleasures demotivate students from academic performance?

How can we control sense gratification?

What is ISKCON doing to address the fear that terrorists may attack temples?

​Why would kshatriyas, especially devotees like Arjuna, hunt?

​Pressing on when things don’t make sense

Is bhakti meant for setting things right in our life or for liberating our soul?

​Why was Arjuna Krishna’s favorite among the Pandavas?

How did Draupadi have so much devotion for Krishna, more than that of even the Pandavas?

Among the Gita’s four varnas, what is your varna?

Does Krishna tell Arjuna that you are a kshatriya at the level of a brahmana?

​If we don’t grieve at someone’s death, aren’t we devaluing them?

Is our next body shaped by our desire or by our mind?

Does the Gita recommend doing yajna-dana-tapa or giving it up?

​Near death experiences demystified

​How does bhakti counter anxiety?

What role does time play in differentiating between wants and needs?

How can we regulate our material wants in our spiritual life?

Why was Bharat Maharaja punished with a deer body for his compassion?

​Are all our material choices pre-determined by our past karma?

When Krishna is in our heart and knows our desires why do we need to pray to him?

Spirituality for caregivers

Can devotees ask Krishna for a material thing such as a child?

How Rama tests Bharata – and how we can pass the test of desires

​Learning to manage our desires – Gita 02.64-72

​Did Karna ever feel that he had made a wrong choice by fighting for Duryodhana?

​When did Kunti reveal to Karna that he was her son – why?

​When Krishna descends to destroy the miscreants why does he try for peace with the miscreant Kauravas?

Does Krishna ask Karna for his punya when Karna is about to die?

​How to share bhakti with our relatives who are addicted to materialism?

​How to deal with the conflict of feeling like giving charity and fearing that it may be misused?

​What to do if the association of some devotees makes us negative and agitated?

​​​​How can we use our intellectual faculty to elevate ourselves and others spiritually?

​QA on Science & Religion at Cambridge University

Devotionally, we need to be humble. Professionally, we need to promote ourselves. How to reconcile?

How can we reduce the time we spend on devices?

​How does the mind make decisions?

​How to deal with the mind if it traps us in the same behaviour repeatedly?

​How can we expand our resolutions from time-bound to lifelong?

What to do if the mind acts on us even before we realize what is happening?

​Why are academic scholars of a tradition often derided by the tradition?

How does scripture explain evolution?

​Are scientific claims of journey to other planets compatible with scripture?

“What dogs, birds and elephants teach us about our habits” – talk at a Christian school in Panama

Sumanta-Akrura parallels and ADD acronym for dealing with doubts

​What happens to our accumulated karma when we surrender to Krishna?

Why do some pious people face prolonged suffering before death?

What is the destination of those who have died too young to have done any good or bad?

Does the soul of those who die prematurely come back?

​Do all the millions who commit suicide become ghosts?

​How can we help the souls of those people who have committed suicide?

​Rasa Lila or rash lila 2- The historical misunderstanding

​Rasa Lila or rash lila 1- The philosophical misunderstanding

​Tap the triangularity of desires through good association

How to avoid getting distracted by the mind during our idle time?

Does the soul age?

​Is the form of the soul similar to our present form?

​Is wanting to rise in the corporate world due to the mode of passion?

​Why do distractions come more when we chant?

What to do if we can’t contain our anger but expressing it will hurt others?

​Why is the atheistic West more prosperous than religious India?

​If we become too target-oriented while doing a service, should we give up that service?

​Understanding why Rama banished Sita

Remembering Srinathji Prabhu – an intellectual, non-patronizing patron of intellectuals

“Proactive Leadership” talk at UDELAS Universidad Especializada de las Américas

​Initially, bhakti doesn’t give as much happiness as sensuality – how to persevere then?

​As the spiritual is not visible or quantifiable, how can we know that we are not pursuing something delusional?

​What can we learn from Yudhishthira’s gambling?

​Why are there contradictions among different religions?

​Can becoming spiritual make us lazy and unambitious?

​Why does Krishna in the hearts of terrorists allow them to murder people?

​Was the Pandavas’ killing Bhishma and Drona according to dharma?

​Are the varnas applicable today?

​Respond to adversity with dignity

“The power of your mind” talk at Hotel El Panama

Is dharma practical in this age?

Do impersonalists who do jnana-tapasa attain liberation?

How can we balance our material commitments and spiritual aspirations?

Did Krishna feel confused about which pure devotee to support – Arjuna or Bhishma?

​​​​Which aspect of the universal form did Duryodhana see?

​How does bhakti invert social hierarchy?

Your enemy is inside you – and so is your friend – with Spanish translation

​Is dharma the same in all ages?

​When we all lose everything at death, how does making better choices matter at death?

​If spirituality helps us make better choices, who decides which choices are better?

How has your spirituality helped you to practically solve the world’s problems?

​Can’t laughter help us feel better?

Tap the power of your mind​ – with Spanish translation

​Key to success – Go DEEP