Author: Chaitanya Charan

Bhagavatam-daily 236 – 11.11.42 – Don’t see God as reduced to the world or as disconnected from the world

Are Prabhupada’s standards being diluted by, say, singing mahamantra in Bollywood song tune?

How can I overcome confusion about which spiritual master to choose?

What is the relationship between intelligence and consciousness?

If even sinful devotees are considered saintly should we not look for trustworthiness in relating with devotees?

If descending to lower species is the greatest fear why does Bhaktivinoda T not fear an insect birth?

If morality can be developed without religion, will religion become redundant?

How does the reconditioning of the soul from one body to another happen?

Gita 05.07 – Inner purity ensures outer action without reaction

Bhagavatam-daily 235 – 11.11.41 – By giving our dearmost things to Krishna, we make Krishna our dearmost thing

Gita 05.06 – Renunciation without yogic connection is distressing

CC daily 132 – M 6.185-86 – Attraction of the liberated to the Lord demonstrates the transcendence of his qualities

Can working devotee-mothers send their children to child care?

Do the Vedas already contain a Theory of Everything?

Hasn’t Stephen Hawking already come up with a Theory of Everything?

Can’t scientists experiment about origins using Large Hadron Collider?

Are abnormal behaviors caused by nervous breakdowns or by ghosts?

If the soul is eternal why does it need food?

Should we work without worrying about result or work for Krishna?

Why does Prabhupada give Sanskrit word-to-word translations that aren not found in Sanskrit dictionaries?

Personal Management Mantra – Productivity in Activity through Spirituality

Bhagavatam-daily 234 – 11.11.40 – Maintaining the sanctity of Deity worship protects our vision from sliding to the mundane

Is it ok to savor the good feelings we get while practicing bhakti?

If the number of our breaths is fixed do exercises that accelerate our breathing decrease our lifespan?

How can we stay busy in Krishna consciousness?

CC daily 131 – M 6.183-84 – Lord Chaitanya defeats Sarvabhauma without dishonoring him

Gita 05.05 – Sankhya and yoga aim for the same destination, yet they aren’t same

CC daily 130 – M 6.182 – Impersonalism gives Vedic facade to voidism

Scientific, Christian and Bhagavatam conceptions of God

Gita 05.04 – See beyond the diversity of process to the commonality of purpose

Bhagavatam-daily 233 – 11.11.39 – The counter for duplicity is not just honesty but also simplicity

How to avoid boredom while hearing the same points being repeated in classes?

In Gita 3.1 what does intelligence and fruitive work refer to?

Bhagavatam-daily 232 – 11.11.38 – The desire to become bigger keeps us a beggar

How should we pray in front of the Deities?

How do we know whether we are accepting and rejecting while surrendering based on the mind or the intelligence?

Why are the Bhagavatam’s and science’s conceptions of the universe so different?

CC daily 129 – M 6.181 – Rationalization enables us to believe what we want to believe

Gita 05.03 – Renunciation in action is lasting renunciation

Bhagavatam-daily 231 – 11.11.37 – Don’t let technical minutiae blind you to transcendental purpose

Conceptions of time in science, Christianity and Bhagavatam

CC daily 128 – M 6.180 – Don’t make peoples emotion come in the way of their reason

Gita 05.02 – The path that takes us away from bondage fastest is the best

Gita 05.01 – Understand meanings of terms from context, not from preconception

If time is an independent reality why do different people perceive it differently?

If time moves only forward how do we explain hypnotic regression?

Bhagavatam-daily 230 – 11.11.36 – Pass higher test to quickly gain higher taste

Counter anxiety by spirituality

Managing the mind 2 – Catch the ventriloquist with intellectual and emotional energy

Managing the mind 1 – The mind is the TV and the thief

Importance of celibacy in the world’s spiritual traditions

How important are close relationships with devotees?

How can we prevent ability from making us proud?

CC daily 127 – M 6.179 – Understand scripture not by coming up with an original interpretation, but by coming to the original intention

How can brahmacharis avoid feeling superior to grihasthas?

Gita 04.42 – Win the inner war with spiritual knowledge and fight the outer war

PK and the criteria for finding the right path

Gita as a leadership guide

Is mathematics a source of absolute knowledge as its concepts are not dependent on imperfect senses?

Is science not needed to help people see the truth of Vedas as people want practical proofs that science can offer?

Is thinking only about God and not at all about the world not a restriction of the mind?

Is scripture inferior to science because scriptural knowledge is not verifiable by experiments?

In the name of not worrying, how can we avoid becoming irresponsible?

Can we program our mind for achieving success?

Why is pleasure easily accessible in material life but not in spiritual life?

How can we avoid becoming proud on getting a position of power?

Bhagavatam-daily 229 – 11.11.35 – Let spiritual sound shape your inner and outer world

CC daily 126 – M 6.178 – Use the three-fold typology to understand import of scripture

Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic

Spiritual Advancement and Material Ambitiousness

Science proves its faith as factual by experiment – so isn’t it a preferable way of gaining knowledge?

How do we deal with faultfinding mentality wrt uncleanliness among our loved ones?

Despite having so many time-saving devices, why do we not have time?

How can we manage our relations with nondevotee family members?

Do all paths lead to the same goal?

How do we get rid of the propensity to want to prove our greatness to the world?

Why not accept nature as God and do social service without becoming religious?

How do we know there is life after death?

Bhagavatam-daily 228 – 11.11.34 – The infinite by his infinite mercy becomes accessible in a finite form to the finite

CC daily 125 – M 6.177 – Sarvabhauma’s last-ditch strategies dont last

Gita 04.40 – Don’t let doubts deprive you of happiness

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge

Bhagavatam-daily 227 – 11.11.33 – The glorification of devotion is not a denigration of reason

CC daily 124 – M 6.176 – Sarvabhauma fights till the end

Gita 04.38 – Don’t reduce jnana to jnana-yoga

CC daily 123 – M 6.175 – tat tvam asi is a statement of direction not conclusion

Bhagavatam-daily 226 – 11.11.32 – Give up whatever comes in the way of bhakti, even if it is dharma

Emotion Commotion Devotion – Nourishing our emotions in a culture of emotional exploitation

How can we give up addictions so that we can practice bhakti?

How do the modes affect our intelligence’s capacity to choose our emotions?

When our professional and family responsibilities already fill our schedule, why should we take the additional burden of practicing bhakti?

How do we deal with emotions of others – friends, relatives and devotees?

How do we deal with the inner conflict created by having within us both dharmic knowledge and worldly emotions?

Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes

When subtle body evolves from nonhuman body to human body, is it right to say that the only evolution is spiritual not material?

Karna’s tragic choice

Extra-terrestrial life – Scientific and scriptural approaches to the subject

Difference between humans and animals – Christian, scientific and Bhagavatam understandings

CC daily 122 – M 6.174 – Lord Chaitanya turns the impersonalist strategy of maha-vakya on impersonalists

If someone doesn’t have a photographic memory, is that injustice or does it mean he is meant to excel in some field that doesn’t require such a memory?