Author: Chaitanya Charan

Bhagavatam-daily 252 – 11.12.09 – Religious activities should increase our Krishna consciousness, not our self-consciousness

When thinking is done by the soul, how can our thoughts be material?

When infinity is an attribute of Bhagavan, how can he manifest in a finite form?

When matter is indestructible what’s wrong with attraction to material forms?

Why are we attracted towards forms and not attracted towards Krishna’s forms?

Aren’t those who doubt whether Deities can perform miracles faithless skeptics?

Does seeing natural laws instead of Deities’ reciprocation amount to shallow Krishna consciousness?

CC daily 149 – M 6.213 – Don’t mistake heartfelt erudite appreciation with self gratification

Gita 05.23 – The war against lust is a war of attrition

Bhagavatam-daily 251 – 11.12.08 – Even the unqualified become liberated by bhakti

Why are personalists better than impersonalists? What is the destination of impersonalist?

Going beyond misconceptions about Deity Worship

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Why did the Pandavas blindly follow Kunti’s uninformed words to share Draupadi?

CC M 21.136 – Savor the sweetness that supersedes superlatives

CC daily 148 – M 6.212 – Ecstasy and sobriety are both meant for service

Gita 05.22 – The so-called pleasure is the source of trouble

Bhagavatam-daily 250 – 11.12.07 – Association of devotees is equivalent to the association of Krishna

What are ISKCON’s views on adoption, in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy?

Should a devotee cardiac surgeon avoid doing angioplasty because it uses an animal product injection?

Prabhupada’s legacy lives on

CC daily 147 – M 6.211 – Our achievements are due to not our greatness but devotees’ desires and Krishna’s mercy

If soul doesn’t need food, why is cooking needed in the spiritual world?

Should we be humble with nondevotees who may exploit us?

Do mental, emotional and psychological refer to the same thing?

How do we understand the statement that women are less intelligent?

Even after practicing bhakti why do we still have worldly desires?

Gita 05.21 – Give up outer pleasure and seek inexhaustible inner happiness

Bhagavatam-daily 249 – 11.12.06 – Association benedicts not just the elevated but also the degraded

Bhagavatam-daily 248 – 11.12.05 – Association’s potency is not just declared but also demonstrated

Bhagavatam-daily 247 – 11.12.04 – Social division is not to be eternalized because social designation itself is not eternal

Bhagavatam-daily 246 – 11.12.03 – Association makes bhakti accessible to all humans – and nonhumans too.mp3

Bhagavatam-daily 245 – 11.12.02 – Association gives access to Krishna’s omnipotence internally and externally

Bhagavatam-daily 244 – 11.12.01 – The primacy of bhakti is not exclusive but is inclusive

Bhagavatam-daily 243 – 11.11.49 – Krishna teaches not as a pedant but as a friend

CC daily 146 – M 6.210 – Lord Chaitanya’s mercy makes the defeated delighted, not devastated

When a ghost possesses a person, how do two souls function in the same body?

Does a science student need to give up all faith in science for practicing bhakti?

CC daily 140 – M 6.204 – Sarvabhauma’s transformation is not just intellectual but all-encompassing

How can we overcome loneliness?

Does God play dice with the universe?

Gita 05.20 – Equanimity is meant to make us not emotionless, but purposeful

CC daily 145 – M 6.209 – Don’t laugh at others – laugh with others

CC daily 144 – M 6.208 – Lord Chaitanya shares supremely the supreme ecstasy of the supreme devotee

CC daily 143 – M 6.207 – Sarvabhauma’s ecstasy overload makes him swoon

Gita 05.19 – Sameness of perception is the situation of liberation

CC daily 142 – M 6.206 – Sarvabhauma’s scholarship supersedes that of Keshava Kashmiri in disposition and content

Gita 05.18 – Spiritual realization grants equal vision towards all

CC daily 141 – M 6.205 – Liberation in devotion is the zenith of liberation

Gita 05.17 – Spiritualize all the channels of consciousness to gain liberating knowledge

CC daily 139 – M 6.203 – Krishna’s defining depiction reflects his loving disposition

Gita 05.16 – Knowledge illumines our inner territory and reveals the indwelling Lord

Bhagavatam-daily 242 – 11.11.48 – Association sustains devotion

CC daily 138 – M 6.202 – The bhakti conception of the divine is polymorphic mono-theism

Gita 05.15 – The judge is not responsible for the criminal’s conviction

How can I serve with someone who doesn’t like me?

A spiritual wonder down under (Reflections on my outreach tour to Melbourne)

If science just uses pre-existing mechanisms how does that apply to computer codes and programs?

Does scripture have mathematical equation for relativity?

Can yoga be copyrighted?

Is yoga a cure-all?

Can there be something called Christian yoga?

Is yoga Hindu or not?

World Yoga Day – Let’s Go Beyond Political and Physical Posturing

Bhagavatam-daily 241 – 11.11.47 – Absorption comes from both attraction and determination

CC daily 137 – M 6.201 – Self-criticism is for our disposition not our composition

Gita 05.13 – The bodily city metaphor conveys our difference from our sensory gates

Gita 05.14 – The more we become detached, the more we master the body

Bhagavatam-daily 240 – 11.11.46 – Specific details of Krishna’s forms are not to be transcended but to be treasured

If God’s will is the universal cause for everything, why do some events such as quakes that happen only at specific places?

When heavenly residents have subtle bodies dont all bodies contain all elements?

When doctors find treatments nature endows germs with resistance to medicies – why?

When likings are relative to species, what’s wrong with a hog’s attraction to stool?

CC daily 136 – M 6.200 – Pride alters our destination by distorting our vision

Gita 05.12 – Action per se is not binding – attached action is

Bhagavatam-daily 239 – 11.11.45 – See social service as a form of devotional service, not its replacement

How do we differentiate between the mind and the intelligence when the mind can also speak good things?

How do we know which is our voice, the minds voice and the Supersoul’s voice?

Gita 05.10 – Live in the world but be not of the world

Gita 05.11 – Change the motivation for action from gratification to purification

Gita 05.09 – Contact of senses & sense objects is not the problem – infatuation with the contact is

How can we use emotional intelligence to manage our relationships?

As we will become attached to services we like should we also take services we dont like?

Does the soul’s composition change from the material world to the spiritual world?

How can the soul carry subtle elements from one body to another?

When the Supersoul is with the soul how can it be covered by the material energy?

Do elderly people in the spiritual world remain eternally elderly?

Bhagavatam-daily 238 – 11.11.44 – Worship of Krishna is eminently accessible through his devotees

CC daily 135 – M 6.198-99 – What the Bhagavatam teaches in principle it demonstrates in practice

Bhagavatam-daily 237 – 11.11.43 – See various worshipable things as pathways to the supreme worshipable

CC daily 134 – M 6.196-97 – Krishna’s qualities pull our mind towards him – other spiritual goals don’t

Should we seek financial security first so that we can focus more on bhakti later?

In Gita 6.35 what does abhyasa and vairagya mean?

How do we differentiate between sentimental practice of bhakti and sentiments coming from bhakti?

How can following rules lead to developing of spontaneous love?

Should we seek satisfaction by serving according to our nature of sacrifice by doing whatever we are told to do?

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Gita 05.08 – Don’t take credit for actions done by bodily mechanisms

CC daily 133 – M 6.187-95 – Sarvabhauma is outplayed at his own game