Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

Overcoming obstacles 8 – Focus less on detachment from the world and more on attachment to Krishna – part 2
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Overcoming Obstacles in Spiritual Life – Alachua 2017

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Overcoming obstacles 7 – Focus less on detachment from the world and more on attachment to Krishna – part 1
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Overcoming Obstacles in Spiritual Life – Alachua 2017

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Overcoming obstacles 6 – Focus not on how the world sees you, but on how you see the world – part 2
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Overcoming obstacles 5 – Focus not on how the world sees you, but on how you see the world – part 1
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Gita 13.14 The knowable’s all-pervasiveness points to its transcendence of our capacity to know
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Gita verse-by-verse Podcast

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Overcoming obstacles 4 – Let intelligence be your minister, not your master – part 2
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Overcoming obstacles 3 – Let intelligence be your minister, not your master – part 1
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Overcoming obstacles 2 – Focus not on rejecting desire, but on selecting desire – part 2
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Overcoming obstacles 1 – Focus not on rejecting desire, but on selecting desire – part 1
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[Seminar in Alachua Learning Center, Alachua, USA]

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Gita 13.13 That which grants the immortal is the most vital knowable
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Gita verse-by-verse Podcast

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Can our material identity be spiritualized – which dharma spiritualises it?
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Gita 13.12 Knowledge means to what is the most important to know
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Were the ancient sages humbler than the modern acharyas as only the latter mention their names in their compositions?
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Who remembers Krishna – the mind or the soul, or the mind in the conditioned stage and the soul in the liberated state?
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When the mind is external to the soul, what does externally serving and internally remembering Krishna mean?
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When the Upanishads say the Absolute Truth is unchanging, how do bhakti teachers say that even Krishna’s abode is changing?
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Does mithya mean illusion or hallucination – is the material world illusion or hallucination?
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How can we understand the ideal without becoming impractical and fanatical?
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As intelligence can make us calculative or over-smart, how can we remain simple while being intelligent?
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When intelligence can be used or misused, is intelligence a power of our consciousness or a gift from the Supersoul?
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Tap your inner power by understanding your inner hierarchy – Gita 03.42
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[Evening program at ISKCON, Orlando, USA]

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Gita 13.11 The way of devotion is different from the way of the masses
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Gita 13.10 Detachment is not meant to make us hard-hearted
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Gita 13.09 To cultivate detachment from matter, contemplate the distresses of material existence
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Gita 13.08 The Gita is not a glorification of war, but a delineation of dharma
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Gita 13.07 Consciousness is shaped, not sourced, by changes of matter
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Gita 13.06 The subtle points towards the spiritual
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Gita 13.05 Study matter for functioning and transcending
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Gita 13.04 Use your sphere of influence for bringing about the ultimate change
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Gita 13.03 Knowledge means to know both matter and spirit
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Does Gita 12.8-11 refer to progressive levels or alternative ways?
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How do we see people who come to the temple but don’t practice bhakti seriously – Hindi?
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How can a person suffering from an incurable disease overcome resentment – Hindi?
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Why is the intelligence said to come from goodness and the mind from passion – Hindi?
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When the intelligence is subtler than the mind, why does the Gita ask us to control the mind and not the intelligence – Hindi?
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Applying spiritual wisdom to persevere through senseless suffering
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[Bhagavatam class on 11.1.3 on Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Appearance day]

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Gita 13.02 Our field reflects our sphere of influence
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