Author: Chaitanya Charan

Is detachment not included in 64 items of bhakti because it makes one hardhearted?

How can we keep our mind genuine during our daily activities?

Gita 10.04 – Krishna offers the good beyond the bad and the good

Gita 10.03 – Understanding Krishna’s position frees us from sins

Gita 10.02 – Appreciating the glory of the object of devotion enhances devotion

When Bhagavatam talks about karma as a cause, shouldnt we see karma causally?

If someone’s child has cancer should we not offer charity to avoid interfering with karma?

What is the difference between detachment and carelessness?

If suffering is not because of karma then what is its cause?

Does the guru literally come back lifetime after lifetime till the disciple is delivered?

Isn’t faultfinding necessary for correcting and benefiting others?

How can we cultivate humility without becoming negatively self-centered?

If our mantra shouldn’t be “I am fallen” why do we sing daily trnad api sunicena?

What does the Pandavas didn’t deserve to live mean in Bhagavatam in 1.9.12?

What is the difference between repentence and self-blame?

Gita 10.01 – The Gita is an endearing combination of lofty exposition and intimate affection

Gita 09.34 – Direct your cognition, emotion and action towards Krishna

Gita 09.33 – Go beyond incompatible material existence to compatible spiritual existence

Gita 09.32 – Bhakti brings universality to spirituality

Gita 9.31 – For devotees connected with Krishna, the happily ever after is guaranteed

Gita 09.02 – Knowledge that gives the greatest power is the greatest knowledge

Gita 09.30 – Krishna never abandons devotees even when they fall

Avoiding the three misdirectons in the blame game (Bhagavatam 1.16.24)

Is serving according to our nature lower than serving as per instruction?

Can lack of intellectual nourishment stop or slow our bhakti?

As consciousness in lower species is too covered to perceive suffering, what is the problem with falling to lower species?

Why did Krishna not inform Karna initially that he was Kunti’s son?

Does study of philosophy in Prabhupada’s books automatically awaken rasa?

How can we develop creative skills for writing?

Are devotees living in farm communities better situated than those living in cities?

If our profession indirectly contributes to breaking the regulative principles, what can we do?

If some new devotees want to donate organs, what should we tell them?

Gita 09.29 – Krishna is neither impartial nor partial – he is reciprocal

If different strategies work in outreach with different people, how can we know in advance how best to share bhakti?

How can we resist temptations?

How to preach to people who want to speak their own ideas and not hear?

Why did Krishna manifest four arms while teasing Rukmini?

Why did Barbarika’s mother tell him to fight on the weaker side instead of on the Pandavas’ side?

Was the solar eclipse a predicted event or created by the Lord to help Arjuna?

Kurukshetra – Arena of fratricide and reunion

When our chanting is not good what can we do?

How can we increase our concentration in chanting?

How can we study scripture systematically?

Gita 09.28 – Bhakti accommodates even those for whom bhakti is an afterthought

The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 3

The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 2

The highest study in the land of higher studies (Reflections on my US trip 2015) – Part 1

How can a devotee coming from impersonalist background give up those leanings?

Should we hear Mayavadis submissively as Lord Chaitanya heard Sarvabhauma?

Can devotee-couples avoid having kids to avoid distraction in bhakti?

How can we reconcile being sensitive with Prabhupada’s being rigid?

What is the difference between zonal division present in ISKCON and zonal acharya system?

How to understand statistics that indicate the world is more peaceful than in the past?

When the mind becomes our friend, does it become the same as the intelligence?

Gita 09.26 – Krishna is hungry for the reciprocation of affection

Sensitively transforming others’ hearts – Analysis of Lord Chaitanya’s delivering Sarvabhauma

When Buddha and Kalki appear in Kali-yuga, why is Vishnu called Tri-yugi?

When Sarvabhauma was an impersonalist how could he appreciate symptoms of love of God in Lord Chaitanya?

If I don’t have enough sattva to study sabda constantly, should I not become a brahmachari?

When staying silent amidst injustice is wrong, why did Yudhishthira passively accept the Kauravas’ atrocities?

Is dissatisfaction because of not being able to read scripture regularly good?

Spirituality and Business

Gita 09.25 – Different paths lead to different goals

What does worshiping the Lord through our work mean?

What is meditation?

All our problems aren’t mental – how to deal with real problems?

LOAD acronym – How work becomes workload

Gita 09.24 – Education about reality is not discrimination against certain features of reality

Is it necessary to research our nature?

Is resentment caused by outer events or inner mentality?

How to cooperate joyfully with devotees of radically different natures?

Does demoniac goodness become divine goodness by bhakti?

Can we transcend goodness without coming to goodness?

Does our nature change as become purified?

“Chant and be happy” is not just causal but also parallel (Bhagavatam 1.2.22)

How is consciousness carried through food?

Is being over-intellectual dangerous for devotion?

Should we not do service if we are not pure?

Gita 09.23 – The Gita’s multi-level monotheism is the balance between Abrahamic monotheism and Greco-Roman polytheism

Why is sleepiness during chanting sometimes resistible and sometimes not?

Why does the mind suddenly get agitated sometimes?

Why does the sound of mantras produce purification whereas other sound doesn’t?

How does hearing a pastime produce an entirely unrelated result?

How to understand scriptural promises about result of hearing pastimes?

Does the soul go closer to God during sleep?

If everything has a cause, why should God not have a cause?

How are optimism and pessimism related to the modes?

If scripture gives knowledge in goodness, how can it help us know what is beyond goodness?

Why does the Supersoul sanction our unhealthy choices?

How do the soul, Supersoul and nature contribute to action?

How can we convince the mind of truths that are beyond science?

How is the soul full of knowledge?

Understanding the scopes of science and spirituality

How can we focus on Krishna without imagining or speculating?

Is absorption in Krishna a combination of all the four levels of consciousness?

How do our actions leave impressions on the mind?

How is the body sustained when the soul leaves the body?

Does the soul leave the body during dreams?

Why don’t we have consciousness during sleep?

Gita 09.22 – Seek spiritual security not just in the soul but in Krishna