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Akrodha Paramananda song meaning, Nityananda Trayodashi 2023 class at Nashik, Hindi

How can the light of religion help a world in conflict?

If our institutional faith is shaken while our personal faith is strong, how can we progress?

Is the Gita’s teaching about transcending the modes, not just coming to goodness, relevant to the corporate world?

How can I grow spiritually when I have diverse spiritual interests and am hesitant about institutional affiliation?

How can the Gita’s teaching on work as worship inspire corporate excellence?

Is it better to set big goals that are inspiring or small goals that are achievable?

Does the Gita provide skills or only will and values?

How can we become more disciplined?

How can we know the mood of our spiritual master?

Why are temples closed during eclipses?

What are the consequences of not following Bhagavad-gita?

When we tolerate amid difficulties, how can we tolerate not out of helplessness but out of purposefulness?

How can we develop attachment to Krishna if we don’t have it initially?

If eating meat is sinful, then are all the countries that are primarily non-vegetarian destined for hell? (Hindi)

If the soul is eternal, why is the world’s population increasing (Hindi)

Is initiation absolutely important when the guru inspiring us is not accessible?

Can we hear bhajans sung by someone not from our movement?

Is our existence itself an unfairness and a mystery, wherein many big questions have no answers?

Had all the Jews who were killed by Hitler done bad karma that led to their genocide

When a helpless girl is raped, does the Gita say that it happened due to her past karma? (Hindi)

Does our breath make the sound so ‘ham – does that suggest we are God?

If someone is abused despite praying to Krishna for protection, isn’t it easier for them to reject God?

If it’s impossible to find happiness without Krishna, aren’t we being forced to love him?

Can we hear beautiful bhajans if they are not sung by devotees?

How do we understand Prabhupada’s seemingly anti-woman statements?

Why does Krishna not make another world where we can be happy without him?

Do our intentions to control the mind also come from the mind – or do they come from the soul with its own mind?

If we have performed shraddha on Ekadashi, will we therefore go to hell, ref Bhag 7.14.20-23. How to atone?

What is the root cause of misdeeds? Is it avidya? How is it removed by bhakti?

Just as there is a separate Brahma in every universe, is there a separate Narada as his son?

How can Brahma be Narada’s guru when Narada’s body is spiritual and Brahma’s body is material?

Book distribution inspiration – how can we motivate ourselves spiritually for distributing Prabhupada’s books during the marathon?

How do we balance spiritual life with material life?

When other sampradayas quote certain verses from scripture to prove that their particular founder is also an incarnation of God – How do we respond to such scriptural references?

Cricket Mania A Bhagavad-gita perspective; Seeing Kishna everywhere as his vibhuti; Wellington 2022

Understanding dementia – A Bhagavad-gita perspective – Chaitanya Charan

If nature is inherently divine, then are the laws of nature, as explained by scientists, also divine?

If we have lost a loved one, how can we deal with the grief?

What is God’s role in our sufferings, in the light of the Bhagavatam 10.14.08 verse tat te ‘nukampam?

If freewill is connected with desires and choices then how can we develop our intelligence so that we can desire and choose better

How dependent is karma on destiny and destiny on karma?

Should we celebrate festivals like Tulsi Vivah that were not celebrated during Prabhupada’s times?

Kantara movie – A Bhagavad-gita perspective – Chaitanya Charan

202 Bhagavad-Gita’s multi-level progression of the human-divine relationship, The Monk’s Podcast with Garuda Prabhu

Prabhupada_’s message included and transcended the past, present and future – Disappearance day talk

Parallels between Damodara-lila and Bhagavad-gita – part 2

201 The letter of scripture and the spirit of scripture The Monk_’s Podcast with Yogeshvara Prabhu

Parallels between Damodara-lila and Bhagavad-gita – part 1

Krishna himself has expended as Radharani, then why does he have to come as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to understand Radharani?

World Mental Health Day Special Bhagavad-gita Insights for a Healthy Mind

How to know when we are getting realization and when doing speculation?

How can we know that today’s Bhagavad Gita is as it is as it was spoken by Krishna to Arjuna?

If we get a dream in which our spiritual master is displeased with us, what does that mean?

Krishna being omnipotent can be present in his deity, but how can Prabhupada be present in his deity?

How can we get fresh insights while studying scripture?

To go to Krishna, do we need to attain a particular stage in bhakti?

Why is Prabhupada was so strong in criticizing mayavadis and so mild in criticizing muslims?

If the same event can be explained at multiple levels, are different explanations meant for people at different levels?

Why shouldn’t we be just positive and not bother about things like death?

How can we make bhakti accessible without diluting it? – Chaitanya Charan

Appreciating Radharani universal, Gaudiya and personal perspectives, Radhashtami 2022

How to make our Sunday talks relevant Chaitanya Charan with Caru P on the ISKCON Relevance Project podcast

3 conceptions of renunciation frustration, aversion, redirection – Chaitanya Charan

4 life-lessons from Lord Ganesh – Ganesh Chaturthi special – Chaitanya Charan

Developing our personal relationship with Bhagavad gita SB Keshava Maharaj and Chaitanya Charan Prabhu

If a prescribed homeopathic medicine that contains 90% alchohol, can we take it?

When is doing something externally without inner feeling good and when is it bad?

If someone has committed suicide, how can we help their relatives?

When our hearing becomes mechanical, what can we do?

200 Save Earth by sharing Srimad Bhagavatam – The Monk’s Podcast with Vaisesika Prabhu

Appreciating Radharani: universal, Gaudiya and personal perspectives, Radhashtami 2022

Prostitutes in Krishna’s Dwarka: How to understand Bhagavatam 1.11.19? – Chaitanya Charan

Karthikeya 2 vs PK Logical approach to religion done right and wrong?

Appreciating the Bhagavad Gita from Sanjaya’s perspective (Gita 18.74-78): GREAT acronym

Experiencing Krishna in various ways, even through fear, confusion & heartbreak: Janmashtami class

Why does Arjuna refer to Krishna by specific names in specific verses of the Bhagavad Gita?

Why should we mention DaVinci code when Christian missionaries only portray our culture negatively?

How Balarama reveals Krishna’s heart in Vrindavana Mathura and Dwarka ? – Balarama appearance day

How dukhalayam Bhagavad gita 8.15 is a teaching of positivity not negativity?

Hearing with the ears, the head and the heart – Chaitanya Charan on Vedasara P’s Heartspace podcast

Why was Balarama kind to Duryodhana and harsh to Romharshana? – Balarama appearance day reflection

A Bhagavad Gita perspective on India’s 75th Independence Day celebrations

When God doesn’t seem to be equal to everyone – Bhagavad gita 09.34

Brahminical culture what it was and how it was preserved through two kinds of brahmanas

From lower taste to higher taste through higher vision

How do the nine forms of devotional service combined with the three modes lead to 81 categories of devotional service?

Why wisdom sometimes enlightens and sometimes doesn’t

When seeking material things from God is spiritually unhealthy — & when it isn’t

Atmarama verse’s importance in understanding the Absolute Truth Bhagavatam discussion with Caru Prabhu

Are Jordan Peterson’s ideas relevant for Bhakti theology? QA with Chaitanya Charan

Could the 63 millions deaths due to abortion be deaths that had to happen due to mass karma?

Do men have no right to speak on abortion because they have never carried a baby?

Three understandings of surrender in the Bhagavad Gita

Why don’t we make the Bhagavad-gita compulsory in schools in India?

In today’s culture that teaches no respect for elders, how can we share spirituality?

Roe V Wade reversed A Bhagavad-gita perspective on the US removal of women’s right to abortion

3 Difficulties in approaching Bhagavatam cosmology

Is the universal form Krishna literally material or is it a divine form manifested in matter like his deity form?

​How could Yudhishthira stake his own wife in gambling?