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India Train Crash: A Bhagavad Gita Perspective

Responding to attacks on devotees in Bangladesh

The Kashmir Files Reflection: Tolerance at the cost of truth destroys both

Prabhupada — the transcendentalist who embodied the best of the traditionalist, the existentialist and the utopianist

How to overcome hypertension, anxiety and depression during the pandemic

While the world slept …

By using the lower case pronoun for Krishna, aren’t you minimizing his position?

“Unplanned” movie exposes the planned denial of reality surrounding abortion

The knowledge of the arrogant defeats the purpose of knowledge

When people just don’t get it …

From possessions that dispossess to the possession that delivers

Praising by criticizing – The paradoxical ways of expressing love

Teaching evolution in schools: what science explains and what explains science

Tolerating phases of bad fortune

Seeing ourselves clearly through others’ eyes

Everything is a miracle

Be open-minded not empty-minded

From the Blue Whale Challenge to the Blue Whole Challenge

It is never too late

Meditation on Vrindavan – relishing Krishna-lila and sharing Krishna-shiksha

Meeting with HH Gopal Krishna Maharaj – Learning to sense the contemporary pulse

Balaram appearance day at the lotus feet of Lord Balarama

Activism is our rent for living on the earth

How my laptop was stolen and recovered – and what I recovered in between

Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada: Appreciating the empowering breadth of your trust in Krishna

Gita daily appreciation

London visit

HH Radhanath Maharaj: Training through a Mock QA session

Sadhu-sanga

Science and Spirituality – From confrontation to reconciliation

The power of appreciation

Unusual experiences

Chaitanya Charan author of best-seller Demystifying Reincarnation on Facebook Live Fri Aug 11 2-3 P.M

Learning from the audience

A Nigerian speaking Hindi at Denver Airport

Challenging Christian conceptions – Bhakti in Mormon heartland Utah?

Beyond Conversion to Conversation – Christian-Vaishnava inter-faith meet at Washington DC:

Beyond emotion to intention – Talk at Ohio State University

Temptation leans on the doorbell

Gratitude and originality in spiritual creativity

Spirituality in the age of science – Balancing science spirituality and audience interest

Talking on karma and appreciating the audience’s karma – Talk at Princeton University Princeton

Caring for the minds of those who care for sick minds – Program at Carrier Clinic Central New Jersey

Minding the Intel Mind

2017 Spring tour of the West

Does God laugh at our plans?

When Krishna thrusts his mercy inconceivably (Reflections on the departure of Vaishnava Seva Prabhu’s father)

The relief of turning away from the social mirror

The Abnormal Normal

Who is our worst enemy?

The tragic irony of the miserly

Behind the book – Interview with Chaitanya Charan, author of “Demystifying Reincarnation”

Are past-life memories frauds? – Analysis with the case study of a Muslim-to-Hindu reincarnation 

Demystifying Reincarnation – Chaitanya Charan’s latest book is now available on amazon.com

Why religion seems dispensable

Let go of the burden of hate

Don’t just stand – take a stand

Niagara falls & the flow of life – A meditation

Interview with Asia Today (Arizona based newspaper)

“Have you had a near-death experience?”

Constructive response to destructive criticism

The Creator’s Cruelty and the Saints’ Selflessness

Don’t let the drink take the drinker

The life of devotional dynamism

The desirer of desire

Christmas gift for the Bhagavad-gita: 200,000 Facebook followers on Gitadaily

What I have learned from the Gita

Timeless insights, timely re-sights

Our decision, our destination (Subhashita commentary)

Why did Rama abandon Sita?

The setting inspires talks on “What cricket can teach us about life”

Feasting on Krishna’s glories on Ekadashi

Modernization Without Westernization – Reflections on the Middle East’s spiritual potential

Don’t identify with the mind – identify the mind

Opening minds while getting one’s own mind opened (Reflections on visit to Bahrain 2016)

On self-mastery: Fight the archer, not the arrow

“What’s your name?” & “What’s in a name?”

Moments of bhakti & momentum in bhakti

Spirituality for caregivers – Talk at psychiatric hospital in New Jersey

Science & Spirituality talk show at Cambridge University – Undoing an unfortunate divorce?

Appreciating Srila Prabhupada’s transcendence in sharing krishna-bhakti (Prabhupada disappearance day meditation)

“What dogs, birds and elephants teach us about our habits” – talk at a Christian school in Panama

Remembering Srinathji Prabhu – an intellectual, non-patronizing patron of intellectuals

“Proactive Leadership” talk at UDELAS Universidad Especializada de las Américas

“The power of your mind” talk at Hotel El Panama

Science amidst bhakti – rasabhasa or rasa access?

Prabhupada pilgrimage places on America’s eastern and western coast

Association of ISKCON Los Angeles Temple President, H G Svavasa Prabhu

Speaking on the Mahabharata outside Bharata – at Princeton

Shiksha from Shikshashtakam

Criticized? Clarify, counter – or ignore? (Subhashita commentary)

Flight wings give wings to the flight of realization

The Meaning of Vyasa Puja – “He came, he gave, he conquered”

“Don’t be so confidently pessimistic”

Fasting from water while holding water in the mouth

Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that everything that happens is good?

Praise and the praiseworthy (Subhashita commentary)

Appreciating the perennial learning mood of Radheshyam Prabhu

Get hope from the extraordinary, seek shelter in the ordinary

Exploring human nature near divine nature