Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

The success of calling Krishna is in the call itself – Govinda damodara stotra
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Bhagavatam-daily 262 – 11.12.19 – Krishna manifests as the senses and the sense perception mechanism to ultimately spiritualize our consciousness
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Bhagavatam-daily 261 – 11.12.18 – Sacred fire and sacred sound are manifestations of and means to Krishna.mp3
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CC daily 164 – M 6.241 – Lord Chaitanya is the topmost propagator of the topmost limb of bhakti
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CC daily 163 – M 6.239-40 – Awareness of our insignificance before Krishna animates our devotion
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CC daily 161 – M 6.237 – Singular focus on Krishna reflects not fanaticism but intensity of devotion and compassion
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CC daily 160 – M 6.236 – Minimization or rejection of devotion represents the ultimate pride
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CC daily 159 – M 6.235 – Deathstyle represents the death of the intelligence at the hands of style
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Bhagavatam 11.08.37 – Realizing that detachment is freedom, not deprivation, is blessing
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How can we avoid blaming our spiritual life for our not being fast enough or ambitious enough in our material life?
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The Lord is the destroyer of the distress of the distressed
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Bhagavatam-daily 260 – 11.12.17 – We depend on Krishna even if we deny that dependence
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Bhagavatam-daily 259 – 11.12.16 – Deference doesn’t mean settling for ambiguity
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Bhagavatam-daily 257 – 11.12.14 – Bhakti provides what other paths do and more
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Focus on the universality of suffering, not its variety
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Among the many games that the mind plays, comparison is one of its favorites – and one that is rarely favorable in terms of how it affects us.

By comparing our situation with that of others, the mind makes us feel superior if our situation happens to be better. Or, as is more often the case, the mind imagines the grass to be greener on the other side and makes us feel dissatisfied. What if we actually have problems that are bigger than those of others? Even then, the mind’s comparisons submerge us in feelings of self-pity, thereby undermining whatever ability we have to deal with those problems.

The mind’s comparisons submerge us in feelings of self-pity, thereby undermining whatever ability we have to deal with those problems.

More importantly, the mind’s obsession with comparison by highlighting the difference between different people’s material situations blinds us to a far more fundamental and valuable truth: the universality of suffering. When our mind fills us with thoughts of how others are wealthier, healthier or better-looking than us, then we get caught in fantasizing about how we can improve our material situation and lamenting over not being able to do so. But such comparing, craving and griping are a colossal waste, or at least a gross underutilization, of our mental energy because improving our material situation can never provide lasting happiness. Why? Because this world is a miserable place for everyone, whatever their material situation. Everyone has to grow old, get diseased and die. Before that, everyone has to undergo the three types of miseries: environmental, relational and physical. The ways in which the wealthy suffer may be different from the ways in which the not-so-wealthy suffer, but that variety doesn’t change the reality that everyone suffers.

Pertinently, the Bhagavad-gita (09.33) reminds us that this world is a perishable and miserable place for everyone and urges us to strive for spiritual improvement by practicing devotional service. This injunction doesn’t mean that we give up all attempts for material improvement; certainly, we can and should strive to do justice to our God-given talents by using them constructively, but we shouldn’t make the material improvement that may come thereof our life’s primary ambition and we shouldn’t buy into the illusion that such material improvement will make us happy. It won’t. To the contrary, as long as we play the mind’s game of comparison, we will stay miserable. No amount of material improvement will remove that misery because the mind will always find something with which to unfavorably compare our situation and thereby make us miserable. We need to cure the mind’s diseased mentality with Gita wisdom. The Gita’s unambiguous, unsentimental, uncompromising declaration that this world is a place of misery puts a brake on the mind’s comparison game. And its exhortation to practice devotional service redirects our focus from material improvement to spiritual improvement.

The mind will always find something with which to unfavorably compare our situation and thereby make us miserable. 

This world is like a hospital. Just as patients gain […]

CC daily 155 – M 6.229-231 – Lord Chaitanya’s definition of success is the conquest of the heart
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Does humility mean dishonestly blaming ourselves for things we haven’t done?
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Maharaj Yudhishthira blamed himself for the Kurukshetra war and Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami considered himself to be lower than Jagai and Madhai. These are clearly not true things. So does humility mean not being honest about the reality?

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Gita 06.07 – To attain peace, focus on conquering the inner enemy, not dealing with outer enemies
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