Author: Chaitanya Charan

What is the relationship between our intelligence and our desires?

What is wrong with aversion to sense objects?

How can we cultivate sentiments without becoming sentimental?

Do the modes determine our moods or our modes determine the modes?

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 2

Beyond sentimentality to sentiments

Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity

Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body

Gita 13.29 See beyond people’s particular actions to Krishna’s universal positive intention

When Prabhupada speaks so strongly against Mayavadis, how can we avoid becoming judgmental?

Why does the Bhagavatam 11.28.1 ask us to not praise others?

Can we engage in any desire without being bound by it?

How can we know that we are conscious while tables are not conscious?

How can we prepare for giving classes?

You are bigger than your habits

Cultivating non-judgmental attitude 1

How can we teach our children right and wrong without coming off as judgmental?

Why focus on sound alone for raising our consciousness – why not exercise, food etc?

What is the channel by which the soul gives signals to the brain?

Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see

How can we infuse our scriptural study with devotional emotion?

Can we apologize to Krishna?

How can we know what is Krishna’s plan and what is Maya’s action?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi part 3

When we are unable to focus on chanting, what can we do?

How do the Vedas correlate with the Gita?

How can we focus on the present while serving Krishna?

When we use our imagination in devotional service, will whatever we imagine come true?

How is sense pleasure not imaginary but a product of imagination?

Do brahmavadis know that something exists beyond brahman?

How can we deal with the doubts that obstruct us in our relationships with others?

Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension

Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality

How can we maintain our principles in a materialistic corporate environment?

How can we act intelligently when adolescence impels us to act rebelliously?

How can we guide others when different people want different levels of instruction?

Do animals have souls – if yes, then how are humans different from animals?

What is happiness – how can we achieve it?

What is a human being’s purpose on earth?

What is the soul – is it real?

What is the relationship between science and Krishna consciousness?

Will becoming spiritually advanced automatically resolve our relationship problems?

How does fear enhance our relationship with Krishna?

Why couldn’t Krishna have killed miscreants without leaving Vrindavan?

How do we balance between our spiritual and material lives?

How to respond to people who say that they are satisfied with their mental maps?

Is humanity more important or is spirituality more important?

If my child is very sick, how can my spirituality help me?

When we have material problems, should we just focus on spiritual advancement or try to solve it materially?

Harmonizing our spiritual and material lives

Uddhava Gita nectar 4 – Understanding the different gopis’ varying understandings of Krishna

How was Bhishma’s abducting Amba, Ambika and Ambalika moral?

When Karna was already killed by destiny, why did Krishna invite Karna to the Pandavas side?

If our feelings come from the soul, how does brain chemical deficiency cause depression?

If Karna chose wrongly because of attachment, didn’t Bhishma do the same?

Does prolonged expectation for a thing make us value it more- does this apply to the gopis separation from Krishna?

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 3 – Srila Prabhupada made the transcendental practical

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 4 – Understanding human intelligence

Are the gopis separated from Krishna even in the spiritual world?

If even the gopis’ lost hope in separation from Krishna, what is the hope for us?

Why is the Bhagavatam’s tenth canto divided into chapters according to the location of pastimes?

Gita 13.25 The many ways to see within are meant to show the same truth within

Why does God send different teachers who teach different paths?

Why is the Gaudiya sampradaya a branch of the Brahma-Madhva sampradaya and not its straight continuation?

How are scriptures relevant today

Uddhava Gita nectar 3 – The gopis’ ecstatic samadhi

Uddhava Gita nectar 2 – Love explained – Comparing materialist, Abrahamic, impersonalist and bhakti worldviews

Uddhava Gita nectar 1 – Krishna acknowledges the gopis’ heartbreak

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 2 – Learn to relish bhakti rasa

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 1 – Bhakti inverts social hierarchy

Yayati pastime analysis – From indulgence to transcendence

FREE – 4 ways spirituality makes us better achievers

Gita 13.24 Sankhya and bhakti are different in form, but similar in essential content and ultimate purpose

Gita 13.23 One purusha is controlled by nature, the other is the controller of nature

Gita 13.22 Our desire to enjoy matter subjects us to material distress

How are spiritual experiences different from chemically-induced experiences?

Who damaged bhakti culture more – Muslims or Britishers?

Gita 13.21 Material causality is not complete causality

Is the spiritual an energy like material energies such as thermal or electrical energies?

How did Nimai Pandit’s name become Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?

Why did Lord Chaitanya first become a scholar and then a devotee?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi – Part 2

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi Part 1

Gita 13.20 Matter is eternal, but material forms are temporary

Can any pastime be analyzed metaphorically for some moral instruction?

Is Gandhiji’s commentary on the Gita ok?

How do we explain the authenticity of the Lord’s pastimes to skeptics who doubt Vyasadeva’s saintly authority?

What were the sources based on which the sages who wrote the Lord’s pastimes?

How do laws of nature invalidate design – don’t laws require a designer?

Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection

When problems distract us from bhakti, isn’t it better to solve the problems and then focus on bhakti?

How can we know the balance between the painkiller of material things and the cure of spirituality?

Gita 13.18 All objects of knowledge are meant to direct us to the objective of knowledge

Go beyond get, beget, forget, regret

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 3 – Understanding material nature

When scientists criticize intelligent design, how can we establish that God is the explanation for explainability?

If everything unconnected with Krishna is Maya, then are all systems for valuing different things differently also Maya?

When Maya is so powerful, what is our hope for being delivered?

When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?

Are there any practicing brahmavadis today or are all impersonalists mayavadis?