InnerGrowth

Karma & Relationships

Bhikshu Gita Series

We are like birds on a branch — our wings need to grow before the branch breaks

Some people get many insights… Gita 16.06

Why spiritual evolution is of paramount importance in our lives – Chaitanya Charan

I am a fallen soul | Wisdom Munches 4 | Chaitanya Charan

The more we consider others’ need the more we can free ourselves from our greed Gita 05.21

Even if our consciousness can’t be elevated it can still be expanded Gita 02.13

As long as we lack purity we live in poverty no matter how much money we have Gita 14.12

If saving lives means something more than delaying death then we all have the opportunity to save l

Technological Advancement Without Spiritual Advancement Makes Us Powerfully Powerless Gita 16.12

What we contemplate mentally we cultivate mentally Gita 02.62

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

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

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

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

Why do scriptures urge women to do vat-savitri puja to get the same husband for seven lives when the goal of life is to attain liberation?

If those who chant a lot face material problems, are they chanting too much

Journaling in bhakti – The Monk’s Podcast 115 with Candramauli Maharaj

Journaling for Inner Growth

If our love is finite, how can it help us reach the infinite?

How hearing the Bhagavad-gita raised Sanjay’s standard of longing

Krishna descends to raise us from transactional love to transformational love

How strengths become weaknesses and weaknesses become strengths – Learning from Ravana and Vibhishana

If someone hurts us repeatedly, is that because of our past karma?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 67 – 10.12.12-17 The inability to tolerate others’ happiness defines the demonic

How can we explain the need for spiritual education to secular people?

Gita 01.43 Hearing is important, but from whom we are hearing is even more important

Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual

How can those in passion come to goodness to understand their nature?

If our weaknesses make us lose perspective what can we do?

Gita 17.26 Any inclination to seek elevation of consciousness is praiseworthy

Should we appreciate the good qualities in nondevotees?

In what context did you say that to err is divine and to forgive human?

Can we see everything that happens as Krishna’s mercy that he is giving us our own bad karma for making us take shelter of him?

Amidst suffering should we see that Krishna has chosen us to go through this for some purpose?

Understanding tradition and its conformers, deformers reformers – and presenters

When Indra commits so many mistakes why is he considered a great person?

Seeker within achiever without

What is spirituality and why we need it

By practicing spirituality how does our inner world change?

Does spirituality come from without within or within without?

Seek not just to get better things seek to get better thoughts

Is purification of the intelligence the same as purification of the mind?

If we feel more attracted to managerial services than scriptural study are we in the mode of passion?

Can an atheist be spiritual?

If we neglect all the emotions of the mind are we being impersonalistic?

What the self seeks beyond the selfie

Reflections on the last verse spoken by Krishna in the Gita – Hindi

Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world focus on contribution from yourself.mp3

How are humility and honesty different – why are they needed in spirituality?

Gita 16.09 The ungodly are born for destructive action unless they do drastic course correction

Managing the mind 4 – Training the mind by dividing and castigating

How the mind harvests the bad within – and how to harvest the good within

When we decide to change ourselves how can we know that those changes will be for good?

To be devoted means to look for devotional openings constantly

I was an honest disbeliever instead of being a hypocritical believer yet I suffered – why?

How can our vertical and horizontal progress be harmonized?

Transformation is inevitable – positive transformation has to be intentional

How can we become aware of our default settings?