Author: Chaitanya Charan

Bhagavatam study 46 1.9.25-30 Bhishma’s departure is glorious in every way

​Bhagavatam study 45 1.9.17-24 By doing the Lord’s will, we understand his benevolence

​Bhagavatam study 44 1.9.11-16 Concern for others’ suffering decreases our own suffering

How do we draw the line between self-pity and humility and assertiveness?

Do non-devotees have no good qualities?

Shikshashtakam 3 – Humility and tolerance empower us to focus on our purpose

​Bhagavatam study 43 1.9.1-10 The experts adjust contextual practices to fulfill essential purpose

Bhagavatam study 42 1.8.45-52 Yudhisthira argues against his blamelessness

​Bhagavatam study 41 1.8.38-44 Devotional prayers take us towards pure devotion

Why did Rama worship Shiva?

When we have pressure to get a new job, can we adjust our spiritual commitments to focus on our career?

Does Krishna care for us even when we are not practicing spiritual life seriously and have messed up our material life?

Bhagavatam study 40 1.8.32-37 The unborn takes birth to end our rebirth

How to understand Prabhupada’s statement that planets move because of cosmic air, not gravity?

How can we make our communication more crisp and clear?

​How can a devotee pursue a PhD in science without getting carried away by science?

​When we talk about Krishna, do we refer to the universe?

How to overcome fear of what comes after death?

Does surrendering to Krishna means not caring for our material responsibilities?

Does bathing in sacred rivers free one from all sins?

​Bhagavatam study 39 1.8.26-31 Krishna-lila can be understood through love

​Are our intuitions more likely to be coming from God when we are calm than when we are agitated?

​Does forgiving someone end all associated karmic consequences?

​Do fate and destiny refer to the same thing?

​Does goodness take away the competitive spirit needed for succeeding in today’s world?

​Was Karna destined to be defeated?

Can devotion cure psychological disorders?

​Is the inner voice God’s voice?

Should we pursue our career as per our education or as per our inspiration?

​Prahlad Prayers 5 Those who cherish the spiritual can channel the material

Prahlad Prayers 4 Upward mobility can’t save us from mortality

Prahlad Prayers 3 Linking manisha with Hrshikesha makes us manisha

Prahlad Prayers 2 The damsel in distress redefines distress

Prahlad Prayers 1 Krishna’s glorification is for our purification, not our glorification

The dual dimensions of artha

​Bhagavatam study 38 1.8.23-25 Material adversity makes spiritual opportunity a necessity

Gita 15.20 Using the knowledge and devotion we presently have propels us symbiotically towards life’s perfection

How to control revengeful thoughts?

​How can we share Krishna through our profession?

​Do we always have to eat what we cook – does bhakti change our karma?

Does depending on Krishna mean using our analytical framework in his service or giving up that framework?

Does the Gita recommend different yogas for different people?

​Why should we follow rules and give up our freedom?

Can some foods or medicines change our destiny?

​How do our conditionings shape our behavior without determining it?

​How is daiva different from destiny?

​How to understand when some sages feel greater bliss in impersonal realization than in personal realization?

​Do pure devotees always experience themselves as different from the body?

​As yogis see Paramatma within, do bhaktas see Bhagavan within?

How is the mind converted by bhakti?

​Do we control the mind first or do we situate ourselves in our svarupa first?

During chanting, can we experience the holy name touching the soul?

​How can we understand the intelligence and ego to be different from the mind and the soul?

How does the holy name penetrate beyond the mind, intelligence and ego?

Bhagavatam study 37 1.8.17-22 The prayer progresses from philosophical to personal

Gita 15.19 Bhakti is not non-intellectual or anti-intellectual – it is trans-intellectual

Bhagavatam study 36 1.8.1-16 – What is materially impossible is possible for Krishna

​Should we strive to change those things that require a lot of effort to change?

Can some people get things without endeavoring?

​How does endeavor figure in people who get good things easily?

Is our duty towards others unlimited, irrespective of how they behave?

​What role do star signs play in our destiny?

If scripture is eternal, are all pastimes given in scripture destined?

Gita 15.18 Fragmentation is not the cause of illusion, disharmonization is

The dual dimensions of artha (Guest Column in Financial Chronicle)

While choosing a spouse, is matching astrological charts essential?

​Does the precision of astrological predictions imply that we don’t have free will?

Can developing our talents obstruct us in bhakti?

​Are we forced to act according to our nature?

​When the modes control us, how do we have free will?

What is the spiritual perspective on organ donation?

Make your own destiny 3

​Make your own destiny 2

Make your own destiny 1

Gita 15.17 Liberation is not just elevation out of illusion but also connection with the supreme reality

Gita 15.16 Purification means to change our emotional center

Gita 15.15 The purpose of perceiving the spiritual through the material is to perceive the spiritual in its own right

Gita 15.14 The world’s origin and operation points requires something beyond the world

Gita 15.13 The existence of multiple factors congenial to our existence points to transcendence

Gita 15.12 We need the eyes to see what our eyes need to see

PRAY acronym: Revisiting our conceptions about praying

Gita 15.11 What we see depends on what we want to see

Gita 15.10 We need knowledge to see our vulnerability in material existence

Seek artha in both its senses – wealth and meaning

Gita 15.09 The mind makes chasing mirages the soul’s tragic habit

Gita 15.08 The essence of growth is evolution in our conception of life

Gita 15.07 Even when the mind is directed by the senses, it still directs the senses

Gita 15.06 The spiritual world is self-luminous and its luminosity is malleable to Krishna’s will

The pointlessness of atheism

When modern civilization collapses in future, should devotees have a Vedic alternative ready?

What does Prabhupada’s statement about 50% of his mission being incomplete mean​?

Bhakti Shastri – Nectar of Devotion (13)

Bhakti Shastri – Nectar of Instruction (19)

Bhakti Shastri – Sri Isopanisad (22)

Bhakti Shastri – Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 – 18 (33)

Bhakti Shastri – Bhagavad Gita Chapter 07 – 12 (30)

Bhakti Shastri – Bhagavad Gita Chapter 01 – 06 (48)

Gita 15.05 Surrender means to give up everything for Krishna – even the feeling of hopelessness

Gita 15.04 The Personal Absolute is not a way to transcendence – he is the summit of transcendence

Gita 15.03 Detachment cuts not the world but our own attachment to the world