Chaitanya Charitamrita

198 Presenting Lord Chaitanya to today’s world via biography writing – The Monk’s Podcast Yogesvara P

When the soul is an individual, how can the same soul be manifest as Arjuna, Arjuniya gopi and Ramananda Raya?

Chota Haridasa pastime: What it teaches & what it DOES NOT TEACH

The power of humility & sensitivity – How Mahaprabhu transformed Prakashananda Saraswati

Nityananda Trayodashi Special Discourse 2022

Four ways Nityananda Prabhu glorifies Mahaprabhu – PADA acronym

Can we say Mahaprabhu’s teachings are the culmination of all previous teachings?

Haridasa Thakura’s glories 1, Transcendence amid Intolerance, HARI acronym

Are Radharani and Lakshmi devi the same person?

Sanatana Goswami’s surrender to Lord Chaitanya Adversity, Adventure and Advancement

Universal Dimensions of Chaitanya Ramananda Samvada

How Lord Nityananda Complements Lord Chaitanya – Part 2

Why is the conclusion of the Gita–18.66–rejected as external in the Chaitanya-Ramananda Samvada?

How Lord Nityananda Complements Lord Chaitanya – Part1

Parallels in Krishna lila and Gaura lila

How Lord Chaitanya manifested, shared and savoured love for Krishna

How Lord Chaitanya thwarted Kali’s attacks – Based on Kavi Karnapura’s Chaitanya Chandrodya Nataka

Gaur Purnima class – How Lord Chaitanya defeated the attacks of Kali and how he empowers us to defeat those attacks

Gaur Purnima class – How Ratha Yatra fulfilled external and internal reasons for Lord Chaitanya’s appearance

What was the need for Ramananda Raya to massage young girls?

Lord Chaitanya demonstrates that the heart is higher than the head

Relishing Shikshashtakam – Appreciating how meditation on the holy name blossoms to meditation on Krishna

Nityananda Trayodashi – NITAI acronym for appreciating Nityananda Prabhu’s glories – Hindi

How can spontaneous devotion be practiced in shanta-rasa?

What is the significance getting darshan of Radharani’s lotus feet on Radhashtami day?

If it is Radharani’s love that binds Krishna, then is her love greater than Yashoda’s?

Appreciating the devotional despair of Damodarashtakam

Appreciating Tattva Sandarbha

​In what mood can we recite the later Shikshashtakam verses that describe exalted devotion?

​What does sarvatma snapanam in Shikshashtakam mean?

​After Uddhav sees the gopis’ exalted love for Krishna, why does he still speak about Krishna to them?

Religious tolerance, intolerance and transcendence – Reflections on Haridasa Thakura pastimes

Did the songs of Narottam Das Thakura and others not protect the popular Gaudiya tradition?

Did the Goswami’s books not help preserve the Gaudiya tradition after their departure?

How did the Gaudiya tradition become deviated by the time of Bhaktivinoda Thakura?

In Shikshashtakam 1, why does knowledge come after emotion?

Radhashtami class – Appreciating the transcendence of the Radha-Krishna relationship

​Radhashtami class – When Krishna leaves the gopis and Radharani during rasa lila

Shikshashtakam 12 Text 8 Radharani manifests the highest summit of love

Shikshashtakam 11 Text 7 Treasure devotional memories to propel your devotion

Shikshashtakam 10 Text 6 Curb sentimentality but cherish sentiments

Shikshashtakam 9 Text 5 The subtle interplay of endeavor and grace in bhakti

Shikshashtakam 8 Text 4 Let your bhakti be Krishna-centered, not renunciation-centered

Shikshashtakam 7 Text 3 Tolerance means to call off our war with reality

Shikshashtakam 6 Text 3 Humility means to not let our ego interfere with our purpose

​Shikshashtakam 5 Text 2 The mysterious non-difference of Krishna and his holy name

​Shikshashtakam 4 Text 1 From the partial nectar to the complete nectar

​Shikshashtakam 3 Text 1 The flower metaphor for the blossoming of consciousness

Shikshashtakam 2 Text 1 The mind as a window, a TV screen and a mirror

Shikshashtakam 1 Overview and flow of the ashtakam

Why is Lord Chaitanya considered supremely merciful?

​Stimulate desired emotions through right setting

Shikshashtakam 7 – Go beyond sentimentality to spiritual sentiments

​Does Krishna go through childhood, boyhood and youth stages in the spiritual world?

​Why did Krishna close his eyes on seeing Putana?

​Did Jayadeva Goswami introduce eroticism is krishna-bhakti?

Shikshashtakam 6 – Calling for mercy elevates us from our fallen condition

Shikshashtakam 5 – Channel the avalanche of desire

Shikshashtakam 3 – Humility and tolerance empower us to focus on our purpose

Why did Nityananda Prabhu curse Shivananda Sena’s son to die?

​How does Shivananda Sena exemplify the three great strengths in bhakti?

​Why does Radharani not wear tilaka?

How did ordinary people see Lord Chaitanya’s ecstatic trances?

GAURA acronym – 5 glorious qualities of Lord Chaitanya

Can we relish the same level of love for Krishna that Radharani relishes?

Is Radharani attracted to Krishna because he is handsome?

Is Lord Chaitanya’s lila too elevated for general people?

Gaura Purnima lecture – Lord Chaitanya manifested the three internal reasons for his descent in his Ratha-yatra lila

Is our sampradaya’s credibility weakened because of having shiksha links instead of diksha links?

When our sampradaya is of shiksha, why are diksha-gurus deemed so important and shiksha-gurus deemed unimportant?

What is the significance of Lord Chaitanya’s chastising Balabhdara Bhattacharya?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi part 3

How does fear enhance our relationship with Krishna?

Why couldn’t Krishna have killed miscreants without leaving Vrindavan?

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 3 – Srila Prabhupada made the transcendental practical

Are the gopis separated from Krishna even in the spiritual world?

Why is the Gaudiya sampradaya a branch of the Brahma-Madhva sampradaya and not its straight continuation?

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 2 – Learn to relish bhakti rasa

Appreciating Gaudiya Vaishnavism 1 – Bhakti inverts social hierarchy

How did Nimai Pandit’s name become Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?

Why did Lord Chaitanya first become a scholar and then a devotee?

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi – Part 2

Devotion amidst persecution – Lord Chaitanya delivers Chand Kazi Part 1

Dasha Mula Tattva 13 – Study scripture with focus on the purpose of scripture

Dasha Mula Tattva 12 – Enter higher rasas by purification, not imitation

Does one need to know one’s svarupa to be liberated?

Dasha Mula Tattva 11 – Love is not just feeling but also doing

Why do senior devotees sometimes join apasampradayas?

Dasha Mula Tattva 10 – Mayavada is the inversion, not contradiction, of Vaishnavism

Dasha Mula Tattva 9 – Association is the way to liberation

Dasha Mula Tattva 8 – Maya binds us not as prisoners but as puppets

Dasha Mula Tattva 7 – Achintyabhedabheda is the most evolved understanding of Vedanta

Dasha Mula Tattva 6 – The Absolute Truth delights and shares delights through three internal energies

Dasha Mula Tattva 5 – The Absolute Truth and its energies are one in synthesis, different in analysis

Advaita Acharya 1 – Compassionate call to the Lord

Which is the abode for sakhya rasa?

What is the spiritual significance of the Gopinath Patnaik story?

When Yashoda’s rasa is vatsalya, how is her bhakti coming from Radharani whose rasa is madhurya?

What happened to Radharani after Krishna left for Mathura?

Appreciating Prabhupada’s resourcefulness and sharing his legacy – Prabhupada Disappearance day class