Author: Chaitanya Charan

Bhagavatam-daily 225 – 11.11.31 – Determination is more enriching than wealth

If someone doesnt have a photographic memory is that injustice or does it mean he is meant to excel in some field that doesnt require such a memory?

How can we increase nama-ruchi?

How can we serve according to our nature when knowing our nature takes time?

GK for PK

Bhagavatam-daily 224 – 11.11.30 – Even if desires dont get out, we can wait them out

Gita 04.36 – The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge

CC daily 121 – M 6.173 – Impersonalist notion of illusion is itself an illusion

The purpose of the world – atheistic, theistic and Bhagavatam understandings

Why does the world offer more wrong options than right options?

Should we force our teenage children to take to bhakti or leave it to Krishna’s will?

When people say we don’t care about next life karmic consequences how should we preach to them?

Why did God give us free will when he knew we could misuse it?

How do we reconcile science and spirituality when they are contradictory?

Gita 04.35 – Knowledge takes us beyond illusion and reveals connection of everything with Krishna

CC daily 120 – M 6.172 – Impersonalist interpretation for preserving Vyasas correctness ascribes bigger mistake to him

Bhagavatam-daily 223 – 11.11.29 – Mercy is given from a superior position, but not with a superior disposition

Obstacles on the spiritual path at the level of intelligence, mind and faith

Gita 04.34 – Learn from guru how to do karma as yajna and attain jnana

CC daily 119 – M 6.171 – See the world not as a product of illusion but as an arena for purification

Bhagavatam-daily 222 – 11.11.28 – God is not just the best in a category – he is beyond all categories

Conceptual, conversational and chronological background of the Bhagavatam’s creation narrative

How can we continue in bhakti when our faith in devotees is shaken?

How can we avoid pride while doing service?

We feel more eager to read news than scripture – what to do?

How can we strengthen our faith in Krishna amidst difficulties?

Why do both Krishna and Lord Chaitanya appear in Vaivasvata Manu’s period?

Do those who live in Vrindavan live on the lap of Krishna?

Bhagavatam-daily 221 – 11.11.27 – To take the bhakti treatment seriously, boost your faith in Krishnas healing expertise

CC daily 118 – M 6.170 – Parinama vada explains the nature of reality, whereas vivarta vada runs into stone-walls

Bhagavatam-daily 221 – 11.11.27 – To take the bhakti treatment seriously, boost your faith in Krishna’s healing expertise

Love is in the SOUND

Why does mantra chanting calm the dying?

Is there a relationship between mantra chanting and physical healing?

Can mantra chanting help us to access all the knowledge that was known to humanity in the past?

How does mantra singing help in emotional healing?

CC daily 117 – M 6.163-69 – Mayavada deems the way out of prison as a way within the prison

Bhagavatam-daily 220 – 11.11.26 – Dont reduce bhakti to your conceptions – expand your conceptions

Gita 04.33 – Let action be permeated by knowledge and culminate in knowledge

Gita 04.32 – Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation

Bhagavatam-daily 219 – 11.11.24 – Have an integrated, not fragmented, understanding of bhakti

CC daily 116 – M 6.161-62 – Krishnas form is not a product of illusion but the pathway out of illusion

Bhagavatam-daily 218 – 11.11.23 – Devotion channelizes our active nature towards Krishna

CC daily 115 – M 6.158-60 – All of Krishnas energies – even his illusory energy – serve him lovingly

As qualities in goodness are favorable to bhakti should devotees try to cultivate them?

Have all devotees already practiced yoga, jnana, tapa and all such processes for transcendence?

Gita 04.31 – Happiness in this world and the next don’t have to be mutually exclusive

What is the effect of hearing rasa-lila pastimes with mundane intentions?

Gita 04.30 – The knowers of yajna attain purification, satisfaction and liberation

CC daily 114 – M 6.157 – Krishna’s energies may get materially contaminated, he doesn’t

Bhagavatam-daily 217 – 11.11.22 – Krishna is not a judging God but an accomodating God

Gita 04.29 – Infuse pranayama with the imagery of yajna

Bhagavatam-daily 216 – 11.11.21 – Go beyond material variety by delighting in spiritual variety

CC daily 113 – M 6.152-56 – Impersonalism is not just non-scriptural, but also anti-scriptural

Gita 04.28 – Apply the yajna priniciple to a broad spectrum of religious activities

CC daily 112 – M 6.150-51 – Use arthapatti to reconcile all scripture, not lakshana to reject some scripture

Bhagavatam-daily 215 – 11.11.20 – Knowledge even if Vedic is barren without Krishna

Bhagavatam-daily 214 – 11.11.19 – Good without God is no good

Gita 04.27 – Ceassation of all sensory and respiratory activity is a yajna

Devastation by Disinformation (Ramayana Reflections 2)

CC daily 111 – M 6.145-49 – The eyes before creation are transcendental, not material

Bhagavatam-daily 213 – 11.11.18 – Know not just the letter of the Vedas but their purpose too

Gita 04.26 – The mood of sacrifice spiritualizes both the householder and the renounced orders

CC daily 110 – M 6.143 – The ablative, instrumental and locative point to the personal Absolute Truth

CC daily 109 – M 6.142 – In the Upanishads the impersonal conception gives way to the personal

Gita 04.25 – Re-envision both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda as yajna

Krishna can bring good out of everything – even our mistakes

Bhagavatam-daily 212 – 11.11.17 – The wise act as foolish to avoid being entangled with the foolish

Bhagavatam-daily 211 – 11.11.16 – The equal vision is principle-centered, not pleasure-centered

Gita 04.24 – When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual

CC daily 108 – M 6.140-141 – Harmonize the contradictory-seeming scriptural statements by proper comprehension

Gita 04.23 – Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity

CC daily 107 – M 6.137-139 – Secondary meaning makes the self a higher authority than scripture

Bhagavatam-daily 210 – 11.11.15 – Transcend duality by being fixed in a reality higher than duality

Gita 04.22 – See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability

Bhagavatam-daily 209 – 11.11.14 – Our mentality determines whether we are in the body or are beyond it

CC daily 106 – M 6.130-136 – Giving precendence to secondary meanings over primary subverts scripture’s intent

Bhagavatam-daily 208 – 11.11.13 – Dream to come out of the dream

Gita 04.21 – Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire

CC daily 105 – M 6.123-129 – Wordlessness keeps our heart closed to others

Bhagavatam-daily 207 – 11.11.12 – Detachment enables us to be situated in matter but not bound by it

Gita 04.20 – The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter

CC daily 104 – M 6.118-122 – The double use of a pregnant compound word foreshadows the impending transformation

Bhagavatam-daily 206 – 11.11.11 – See the world with a clinical perspective like a viritual reality

Gita 04.19 – Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant

CC daily 103 – M 6.110-117 – The cultured dont let disagreements degenerate into disrespect

Bhagavatam-daily 205 – 11.11.11 – Beware of the internal sabotage of our defense mechanism

Gita 04.18 – Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization

CC daily 102 – M 6.109 – Dont mistake empowerment by Maya to be empowerment by Krishna

Will accepting reincarnation make people more lazy or more responsible?

Can an OBE be repeated and experimented upon?

Are there any scientifically verified cases of past-life memories?

Are there any NDEs that conclusively prove the existence of the soul?

Bhagavatam-daily 204 – 11.11.09 – Maximizing the contact of senses and sense objects is the expressway to entanglement

Gita 04.17 – Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible

How do we counter the explanation of NDEs as mind-body split?

What are the proofs for reincarnation accepted by mainstream scientists?

Cant past-life memories be coincidences among the earth’s eight billion people’s stories?

Near Death Experiences or Near Eternity Experiences?

CC daily 101 – M 6.108 – Strive for a Krishna-centered, not self-centered, vision of argumentation