Author: Chaitanya Charan

​Do we need to combat social threats to dharma to preserve an environment conducive for practicing dharma in future?

Balaram Jayanti class – Balaram acts as the via media between Krishna and the Vrajavasis as well as the conditioned souls

Fasting from water while holding water in the mouth

How we defeat ourselves – and how we can stop doing so

Understanding how to understand scripture – Ladder of abstraction and nature of attribution

Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that everything that happens is good?

Gita Insights on Terrorism

How can we understand which qualities are good and which bad?

How to avoid becoming indecisive when encountering different advices from different people?

How can we avoid being misled by people who are confident but wrong?

Why don’t we like the good and dislike the bad?

How can we live in the present alone without learning from the past or preparing for the future?

How to respond when things go wrong?

How can we know ourselves well enough to make wise choices with lifelong consequences?

How can we better execute our plans?

How to persevere despite our failures in following standards?

Is the mind alone the link between the gross body and the soul – or are the intelligence and false ego also included?

How can one practice bhakti without going through other yogas?

How can knowledge of other yogas help in practicing bhakti?

How can we differentiate between the mind’s voice and the Supersoul’s voice?

Is citta a part of the subtle body?

Praise and the praiseworthy (Subhashita commentary)

Appreciating the perennial learning mood of Radheshyam Prabhu

Get hope from the extraordinary, seek shelter in the ordinary

Exploring human nature near divine nature

Learning to live with the mind – 2

How can we harmonize our inclination with higher instruction while serving?

How can we develop the mood of serving Krishna in everything we do?

​How can we avoid ego while doing what we like to do?

How can we avoid indulging in a thing while thinking negatively about avoiding it?

Cow vigilantism: Fanaticism even for a good cause blinds people to the goodness of the cause 

Frustration and absorption in technological no man’s land 

Visit to Govardhan Ecovillage

Visit to Govardhan Eco Village

How can we give bhakti to beggars and other poor people?

Can enterprising devotees open devotional schools for offering both material and spiritual welfare?

​Why is Krishna not revealed in the Vedas – why was Bhagavatam needed to reveal him?

Does a culture of free mixing among genders make bhakti impossible to practice?

Why is Lord Chaitanya considered supremely merciful?

​Why are ISKCON programs in the West attended mostly by Indians?

​How can we avoid pride while giving spiritual knowledge to others?

​How can we cultivate gravity for controlling the mind, as told in the Gita 17.16?

​Why does Rupa Goswami talk about vaco-vega and jihva-vega separately?

​Learning to live with the mind 1 – Gita 6.27-36

​How can we know when we have endeavoured enough and should now wait for mercy?

​How is the whole world full of question-answers?

How are Krishna’s self-contradictory statements in Gita 9.4 and 9.5 to be understood?

Should we strive for perfection in our service?

Won’t doing service in contaminated consciousness license the contaminating influences?

If we do a service in contaminated consciousness, will that service contaminate others too?

​Why is the Paramatma considered impersonal?

​If I don’t have much time to write, how can I write?

Making our outreach relevant

Do different people perceive Krishna’s mercy differently?

​Can we extend our life by medicines?

What is the Vedic perspective on Islam?

Should we study scripture deeply and slowly or rapidly to get an overview?

​Can we use self-help books that give techniques that help us in our bhakti?

How do we see the joy of living in the present from the bhakti perspective?

​Should we always seek devotional stimuli with the mind?

​Should we chant while feeling separated from Krishna or while feeling that they are in front of us as the Deities?

​When we perceive that we are different from our thoughts, how do we infer who we really are?

Practicing humility in a culture of promotion

​How can we balance brahmana and kshatriya roles?

​How can we connect to people’s emotional concerns without diluting our message?

What does the regulative principle no illicit sex mean?

Can we chant slowly if we find that absorbing?

Does chanting progress from uttering to hearing to visualizing Krishna’s form?

​What spiritual bliss can we have as sadhakas – how is it different from sattvika happiness?

​How can we share our realisations without coming off as proud?

​When all forms of God exist eternally, what does Krishna is the source of all those forms means?

Should we make ​​blanket statements first and then teach nuances?

​Bhagavatam canto 6 study 4 – 2.32-3.11 Boost inner resolution with external facilitation

​Bhagavatam canto 6 study 3 – 6.2.1-28 Bhakti’s potency is not a license for immorality

​Did Bhima hate Duryodhana and not follow hate the sin, not the sinner?

​How can we sustain our resolutions?

​God did it – is this scripture’s only explanation for all material phenomena?

​Don’t let astonishment over mystical or technological marvels distract from bhakti

​How does Krishna decide when to protect and when to not protect?

​Can we just take shelter of bhakti when nothing solves our problems?

​Can phala-shrutis be used to attract people looking for material benefits?

​When even after chanting we still have problems should we tell others chant and be happy?

​Should we preach about the material benefits of bhakti given in scripture?

​Are we meant to reject the mind or to engage it?

​If we shouldn’t identify with feelings, why are we told to identify with devotional feelings?

​Are a laptop and a rainbow both brain signals and are so equally real?

​Does matter acquire form only when there is observing consciousness?

Should wives conduct themselves in a way that their husbands don’t look elsewhere?

When children don’t have intention to practice bhakti, does giving them devotional samskaras help?

​Bhagavatam canto 6 study 2 – 6.1.28-68 Lust is not gender-specific – it troubles everyone

​Stimulate desired emotions through right setting

​Do the Yamadutas know about bhakti?

​If dharma is about principles, how does it differ from belief system?

Are both people who chant simply out of piety and those who chant as sadhana at namabhasa level?

Did Ajamila by caring for his son develop bhakti?

If the soul immovable, how do the Yamadutas drag the soul?

​Does Krishna sometimes violate the other three legs of dharma but never violate mercy?

​Does Krishna intervene in the system of karma or lets it act even on devotees?

Bhagavatam canto 6 study 1 – 6.1.1-27 Nothing purifies as thoroughly as bhakti

​What exactly are the modes? How does raja guna give rise to lust?