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Live from #FB Bandstand Q&A on reincarnation with Chaitanya Charan Das

How can we balance scriptural study and practical service?

When we practice bhakti culture in our temples or youth centers are we not practicing spiritual bhakti?

If our past bad habits keep dragging us down what should we do?

Can we get tangible results in bhakti as we get in our worldly relationships?

If spirituality tells us to fast and science tells us to not fast what should we do?

Should we be detached from feeling happy when we chant well?

Does humility mean feeling that we are fallen or does it mean not letting our ego come int the way of our service?

Unusual experiences

How can we differentiate between our cheating propensity and our tendency to be illusioned by duality – Hindi?

If our intelligence becomes weak what is the solution – Hindi?

Learning from the audience

If we see devotees living materialistically how can we prevent that from rationalizing our materialism – Hindi?

Increasing our willpower through restriction redirection and reconstruction – Hindi

Tap the power of thoughts don’t be trapped by them – Hindi

What role does our nature play in our taking shelter of Krishna?

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Is intelligence not always a good thing?

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Spiritualizing our relationships 5 – Focus more on our intentions than on others’ dispositions

What is the conscious mind and the subconscious mind?

When anger arises what uddipana can we use to control it?

Does self-realization as understood in psychology – understanding our strengths and weaknesses – come automatically by bhakti practice?

If we see devotees’ love for us as Krishna’s love coming through them are we not depersonalizing devotees?

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

Is forgiving those who have hurt us necessary for moving on in our life?

Do we have free will?

What can we resist temptation?

How can we harmonize ourselves with our situation when say our boss works by opposite principles?

What does having faith amidst problems mean practically?

Our addictions originate not in uncontrollable desires but in unmet needs

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Is it easier to go from aversion to renunciation than from attachment to renunciation?

Do like-minded people become more understanding or does understanding make people more life-minded?

What kind of affirmations are most effective?

How can we become more mindful?

If a bad relationship has made me paranoid about relationships what can I do?

How can we prevent our career from interfering with our relationships?

I broke a one-sided relationship but now I feel I should have tried more – what should I do?

How can we know what can be changed and what can’t be?

Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior

How can we explain tangibly what consciousness is?

Is our nature never changeable – Hindi?

If people can’t change their nature how can they improve – Hindi?

Why do we so easily forgive ourselves – Hindi?

How can we decide when to give up one service and take up some other service?

Should a brahmachari change his ashrama if his astrological chart is unfavorable for renunciation?

When a problem goes on for a long time and our attempts to solve it only aggravate it what should we do – Hindi?

Authenticity Superficiality Purity – Understanding the difference

For transmitting spiritual knowledge cultivate fixity of purpose and flexibility of process

How do we differentiate between ego and self-confidence?

How can we better appreciate the relevance of spiritual classes as well as academic studies?

How is detachment empowering?

What is the difference between purity and goodness – Hindi?

How can we avoid getting caught in petty things?

What does knowledge in the mode of ignorance mean in today’s world?

Ask not how could he have done that – ask what is to be done next Gita 03.39

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How can I overcome procrastinating tendency?

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How to respond when others serve in ways that don’t make sense to us – should we criticize them?

When we are in a position of guiding others how can we know how much to control them and how much to let them go?

Does duty means doing that which we don’t like to do?

How can we avoid impulsive reaction to hostile people?

How to deal with relatively harmless addictions?

Gita 18.37 Freedom without framework is paralyzing not liberating

Gita 18.38 Don’t be so caught in choosing the right seat as to fail to choose the right train

Gita 17.01 Worldviews are meant to be vision-enhancers not vision-diminishers

Gita 17.16 Purity has to be cultivated as an austerity before it can be savored as a state

How can spiritual knowledge address today’s burning social issues?

Can someone be destined for failure?

How important is it for we ourselves to be detached?

What is a healthy attitude towards guilt induced after sense indulgence?

Managing stress coming from disorganization disposition destiny and decision

If we fail in a field can we infer that field is not our nature?

How much anxiety should we take up while being ambitious in our professional life?

How do we deal with the anxiety caused by inability to deliver what we are expected to do?

How can we sense better how a person is going to behave and prepare our response better?

How can we decide whether to try to change something or to let go?

If our conditionings keep popping up what can we do?

If our actions unintentionally hurt others will we get the reaction?

Attitude in outreach 2 – Explain the philosophy before the morality – Be respectfully compassionate

Attitude in outreach 1 – Present the product before the process – Be a role model

How can we control impulsive behavior?

How can we know whether our decisions are right or wrong?

If strong speaking alienates people should we still speak strongly or speak sensitively?

Meditation on Niagara Falls

Focus on life’s big why not everyday’s small whys

Gita 18.63 – Don’t sway others – inspire them

How can we help others to not see problems at the bodily level?

How can we realize that we are different from our mind?

Should we use the sandwich method when correcting others?