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Bhakti in three modes

When Scriptural Explanations Seem Like Excuses … HG Chaitanya Charan Das

Appreciating Lord Rama Vedic Vaishnava And Gaudiya Vaishnava Perspectives

Concise Concepts – Who Exactly Is An Avatar

Understanding The Concept Of Dashavatara

Is God’s love conditional? – Lessons from Ramayana

Understanding why Vedic scriptures consider Rahu as the cause of Eclipses

Similarities and differences in cosmological descriptions of Vedic and modern sources of cosmology

Understanding why Bhagavatam considers Sun to be closer to the earth than the moon

Resolving conflicts between Science and Scriptures

Do the Vrajavasis know that Krishna is God or do they not know that he is God?

Gods Transcendence Means That He Is Free From Taking Sides And Free For Taking Sides

Dont Be So Afraid Of The Irrational As To Deny The Possibility Of The Transrational Gita 04.39

If we really have free will, how does God control everything? – Chaitanya Charan

Understanding the spiritual world: its relevance, rationale, resplendence

Can one action lead to a different karmic reaction? Can the reaction to be arson?

How can we get fresh insights while studying scripture?

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

Is the soul is eternal, how is Krishna the cause of the soul?

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

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?

When we take or get blessings from someone, what actually happens?

Why does God not answer our prayers? (PK answered 5)

Is a devotee’s suffering caused by Krishna, not karma?

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

What is the difference between revelation and realization?

Evolution Bhagavatam What are the issues for devotees The Monk s Podcast 165 with Akhandadhi Prabhu

Western perceptions of India & how they affect bhakti outreach, The Monk’s Podcast 144, Yogesvara Prabhu

What Maya is and what it isn’t, The Monk’s Podcast 138 with Gopal Hari Prabhu

Are our svabhava and prarabdha-karma two results of our past karma?

Do karmic actions and reactions happen at gross and subtle levels – do our present actions add to our destined pleasure or pain?

Is Tilaka’s Gita commentary focusing on karma yoga a misinterpretation of the Gita?

Can the souls between lives learn from guides and choose their next lives – what is the Vedic perspective?

How exactly is change the only constant in the world?

How We Devalue Scripture How We Devalue Science – Chaitanya Charan on Wisdom of the Sages podcast

How can we say that the essence of Gita is Bhakti Yoga?

When scriptures depict animals speaking human languages, how is that to be understood?

Can scripture be understood in multiple ways? – The Monk’s Podcast 108 with Radhika Raman Prabhu

Gita key verses course 47 – Why some people are knowledgeably ignorant or intelligently foolish – Gita 18.35

When we know that our senses are defective and that Big Pharma can be manipulative, how can we work in or with science without cognitive dissonance

Understanding Bhagavatam cosmology

Why do some people find meaning in things and others don’t?

Even when we know that worldly pleasures are temporary, why do we still crave for it?

Why do we attribute some people’s actions to their present association and others’ actions to their past lives?

If misery is an undeniable reality, then is its opposite – joy – also an undeniable reality?

Why can some people readily accept Krishna’s supremacy and some can’t?

Did Krishna protect Draupadi only after she stopped trying to protect herself – does surrender mean we stop trying to do anything?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 85 – 10.14.43-52 – Unravelling the mystery of the Vrajavasis disproportionate love for Krishna

The search for meaning 1 – How science points to spirituality

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 78 – 10.14.1-6 Krishna is known by devotional hearing, not by intellectual probing

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

Detachment is not absence of emotion, it is absence of emotional dependence

How intelligence and devotion interact on the spiritual path – 3 reflections

Does Krishna sometime violate the revealed scriptures?

Won’t saying that God is not the sole controller imply that he is helpless in certain situations?

If Krishna takes hundred steps towards us when we take one step towards him, is he partial or impartial?

Are Krishna’s feelings like our feelings or different from our feelings?

Our longing for love – comparing materialist, Abrahamic, impersonal and bhakti explanations

Who or what is Krishna?

Is our attempt to mitigate destiny also determined by destiny?

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 52 – 10.9.13-17 Krishna’s form appears finite but is infinite

If good karma can’t change bad karma, how does atonement work?

Why does Western science find it so difficult accept the concept of the soul?

Does the mind have any power to change reality or does everything happen according to karma?

Understanding Krishna’s love 1 – Knowledge

Are some sections of the scriptures outdated? – Understanding the compassionate intent of the Vedas 2

Understanding the compassionate intent of the Vedas 1 – Are the Vedas agnostic?

Should we not do good to others because to get the good reaction we will have to take birth again?

What is the causal body or karana-sharira?

What does akarma mean – does akarma free us from past karma?

Is seeing believing 3 – Resolving science-spirituality conflicts

Is seeing believing 2 – What the map of science misses

What is the scriptural basis for the idea that only desire and endeavor are in our hands?

If someone’s religion allows meat-eating then is their eating meat a sin?

Can karmic reactions come at the mental level?

Ghosts and God – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible

When souls should be losing human bodies because of bad karma why is the population increasing?

If a well-thought decision turns out to be a mistake then do we get the karma for it?

To deny destiny is to deny ourselves the chance of making our destiny

Making sense of life through karma and reincarnation

Does the mind look for change and the soul look for the unchanging?

Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3

Is everything that happens Krishna’s plan?

If thoughts come from the intelligence and feelings from the mind then do thoughts grow into feelings?

What science can tell us about ourselves – and what it can’t

Managing the mind 1 – The many meanings of the word ‘mind’ and their correlation with the Gita’s understanding

Why do devotees sometimes die in ghastly accidents?

Is disorder also a part of Krishna’s plan for creation?

In the computer metaphor for explaining the self, comparing the soul with the user mixes the inanimate with the animate – isn’t it better to compare consciousness with electricity?

Why do the Vedas give all rights to men and no rights to women, who simply have to obey men?

When the mind becomes a mirror for the pure soul, does the soul perceive itself through the mind or without it too?

Understanding how bhakti fulfills the purpose of scripture – and how we can help

Demystifying Reincarnation 16 – The soul’s defining characteristics and levels of consciousness

If a relative of mine is getting influenced by Christian missionary propaganda, what should I do?

How do we explain the non-physical is differentiated as the mind and the soul?

Gita 02.20-30 Go beyond lamentation by understanding the eternality of the soul and the multiplicity of its reincarnations

Understanding religion and bhakti in the three modes

If our intelligence can never supersede Krishna’s intelligence, how can our will supersede his will – how can we act independent of him?

Is our free will infinite, just the facility to fulfill it is finite?