Author: Chaitanya Charan

Bhagavatam-daily 203 – 11.11.08 – Embodied existence is not a dream – bodily misidentification is

CC daily 100 – M 6.105-107 – Mercy can make a barren heart fertile

Why do people consider the Bhagavatam’s history to be mythological?

How do we deal with the material-spiritual conflict in our heart?

Gita 04.16 – Don’t simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning

How can we make the effect of hearing last for long?

Do devotees have to give up humor?

How can we face problems caused by others without falling for the blame game?

Information Satisfaction Purification Conviction – Four Benefits of Hearing

Bhagavatam-daily 202 – 11.11.07 – Enlightenment means to realize not just our oneness with the Absolute but also our difference

CC daily 99 – M 6.104 – The Lord establishes peace without by demonstrating renunciation of that which disrupts peace within

Gita 04.15 – Follow the successful to be successful

CC daily 98 – M 6.103 – The Lord who chants and inspires chanting is the Kali-yuga avatara

Accepted limitation facilitates elevation – resented limitation doesn’t

Bhagavatam-daily 201 – 11.11.06 – Quench the thirst for happiness by diving into the Lord’s glories

Bhagavatam-daily 200 – 11.11.05 – Krishna is potent and benevolent

CC daily 97 – M 6.98-102 – Every avatara performs lila but every avatara is not lila-avatara

Gita 04.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position protects us from karmic subjugation

Bhagavatam-daily 199 – 11.11.04 – Accepting our smallness brings wisdom

Does Krishna’s not being able to remember the Gita later in the Mahabharata prove that some higher being spoke the Gita through him?

When chanting is so simple why do we feel so lazy – how can we chant constantly?

How should we see unbrahminical behavior of brahman-initiated devotees?

As advanced spiritualists have no material desires, do they get no dreams while sleeping?

If tamasic people are attracted to ghastly worshipable forms, then are those who worship Narasimha tamasic?

Why is Rama Navmi fast broken in some temples with grains and in others without grains?

CC daily 96 – M 6.93-97 – The name Tri-yugi has a import that goes beyond law to love

Gita 04.13 – Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating

Does God have favorites?

Bhagavatam-daily 198 – 11.11.03 – Be not self-conscious or Maya-conscious – be Krishna conscious

Gita 04.12 – Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion

Is Christianity Mayavada because many Christians consider Jesus to be God?

Bhagavatam first canto study 6 – 1.2.9-1.2.15 – Bhakti leads to realization of the Absolute Truth

Sensitivity in preaching amidst natural calamities

CC daily 95 – M 6.88-92 – To see without seeing is illusion

Gita 04.11 – Appreciate the profundity of Krishna’s reciprocity and universality

Bhagavatam first canto study 5 – 1.2.1-1.2.8 – The Bhagavatam’s speaker and subject are radically exalted

Lakshmi Narasmiha Karavalamba Stotra Meaning 1

Bhagavatam-daily 197 – 11.11.02 – Does material existence have no existence?

CC daily 94 – M 6.85-87 – Scholarship is not the qualification for knowing God

CC daily 93 – M 6.79-84 – The Lord is beyond logic

Gita 04.10 – Overcome 3 obstructive attitudes for taking shelter of Krishna

Bhagavatam-daily 196 – 11.11.01 – Our subjective perception is not the objective reality

Gita 04.09 – Attainment of Krishna is not rebirth, but release from rebirth

Lord Narasimha – Half-man half-lion full-God

CC daily 92 – M 6.73-78 – Sarvabhauma desires to facilitate the Lord’s Vedantic study by re-initiation

Bhagavatam-daily 195 – 11.10.37 – Non-imitable observable attributes characteristize the advanced

Gita 04.08 – Let Krishna establish dharma within

CC daily 91 – M 6.64-72 – Sarvabhauma takes responsibility for Lord Chaitanya

CC daily 90 – M 6.58-63 – Lord Chaitanya entrusts himself to Sarvabhauma

CC daily 89 – M 6.50-57 – Sarvabhauma’s affection for the Lord awakens

CC daily 88 – M 6.41-49 – Sarvabhauma’s devotion overcomes Lord Chaitanya’s renunciation

Bhagavatam-daily 194 – 11.10.36 – The difference between the bound and the entangled eludes the eye

Gita 04.07 – Universality of opportunity defines and distinguishes dharma

Bhagavatam-daily 193 – 11.10.35 – Desire drags us from the real world to the reel world

Gita 04.06 – Don’t presume familiarity with concepts due to familiarity with terms

Bhagavatam-daily 192 – 11.10.34 – Good becomes bad when made into God

Gita 04.05 – Krishna spiritual position is not affected by his material location

Bhagavatam-daily 191 – 11.10.33 – Defiance of God sentences us to fearful life

Gita 04.04 – Accept responsibility for clear communication – don’t affix blame for unclear communication

How can karma such as fighting in army be spiritualized?

What does “avyakta” mean in the Gita’s eighth chapter?

How can we work for Krishna and avoid contaminating association in our workplaces?

CC daily 87 – M 6.37-40 – The holy name brings the Lord’s consciousness from internal to external

Bhagavatam-daily 190 – 11.10.32 – Dependence on Krishna makes us independent of illusion

When Upadeshamrita is for seekers, why does it start by telling who can become a guru?

How are other rasas higher than shanta rasa?

In what sense is the Brihad Aranyaka Upansihad before the Ishopanishad?

How can the finite soul experience infinite happiness?

Which is the best way to read scripture?

Why is the irreligious West prosperous and religious India poor?

Is pain is caused by bodily attachment, how can painkillers stop the pain?

Gita 04.03 – Krishna reveals his glory to those who delight in that glory

Is anand present in the cit aspect of the Absolute Truth too?

How is Krishna attained by doing duty – doesn’t one need to rise to love for him?

How does mastery in yajna lead to Krishna consciousness?

As Krishna is the ultimate beneficiary, is devata prasad also Krishna-prasad?

If yajnas are not done will there be no rains?

What is the destination of those who take devatas’ prasad?

Bhagavatam-daily 189 – 11.10.31 – The more we understand that we are controlled, the more we can break free

CC daily 86 – M 6.30-36 – Nityananda Prabhu’s ecstasy attracts Jagannatha’s mercy

Gita 04.02 When time brings things down, let Krishna take things up

Gita 04.02 – The Gita lives through those who live the Gita

If brahmajyoti is nondifferent from Krishna, as is his holy name, what’s wrong with meditating on brahmajyoti?

CC daily 85 – M 6.21-20 – Gopinatha Acharya’s deep devotion to Lord Chaitanya

Bhagavatam-daily 188 – 11.10.30 – Krishna as time impels us to turn towards Krishna as Bhagavan

Why do Hindus worship ghastly gods with skulls?

Is Jesus the only way to God and Hinduism the lie of the Devil?

If Lakshmi is the Goddess of wealth, why are Hindus so poor?

Is God too big to be contained in a picture?

Does the system of karma and rebirth imply that there is no forgiveness?

Is super-consciousness the same as Krishna consciousness?

If Krishna acts exemplarily why did he perform rasa-lila?

Gita 04.01 – Yogic knowledge comes from transcendental source through extra-terrestrial route to terrestrial recipient

CC daily 84 – M 6.14-20 – A providential meeting between the Lord’s associates advances his pastime

Meaningless material existence becomes meaningful through the human form (Churning the Bhagavatam 1)

Why did Dhirtarashtra ask for eyes to see the universal form but refuse the eyes to see the Kurukshetra war?

Why are Krishna and Arjuna both referred by the name Jishnu?

Are the names Ramayana and Narayana related?

When Lord Shiva is the destroyer why is he considered auspicious?

Gita 03.43 – Use intelligence to pursue transcendence and subdue lust