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Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das
When God Fails – The Bhakti Message in Krishna’s Peace Messenger Pastime
The way to effective education
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Knowledge received by submissive inquiries and service is more effective than knowledge received in exchange for money. Srimad Bhagavatam 2.5.1 Purport
Did Ekalvaya fight in the Kurukshetra war?
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If Vrajavasis love each other doesn’t that mean Krishna is not all-attractive for he can’t exclusively attract their love?
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From: Keshav If everyone loves Krishna in Vrindavan,then does it mean people do not love anyother thing ? Do the parents of Gopas love Krishna or their son ? If it is different then comparision will be made as their can not be two love in absolute world. How can a girl who is married ,love his husband […]
How do we understand our love for our relatives from the soul point of view?
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From: Keshav Is the love of Soul toward God and love of Soul toward other soul different ? A Question which Bhagavat Gita does not answers is, It is said that there is a relationship between God and Soul , but what is the inter-relationship between two Souls ? When we meet our dear ones after a […]
Why does Srila Prabhupada criticize Mayavadis but not mlecchas who desecrate Deities?
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Can we use Tulasi as medicine in life-threatening diseases?
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Why do devotees quote as authorities scientists who belong to Christian-funded institutes?
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When devotee-scientists’ books are criticized by mainstream scientists can we quote them as scientific evidence for KC?
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Gita Jayanti – The Gita guides us to act with adequate contemplation and appropriate emotion, thereby granting abundant satisfaction
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Sexual Energy on the Riot (A spiritual perspective on the Tejpal scandal)
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The accusation of sexual abuse leveled against Tarun Tejpal, former Tehelka editor, highlights the dangerous riot of sexual energy in today’s culture. Irrespective of the truth of the allegation, the undeniable tragic truth is that sexual abuse, even if under-reported, is widespread in our society. But as long as such abuses happen in remote villages, […]
Don’t make mundane distinctions between different krishna-kathas
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The pure devotees of the Lord, however, can equally relish the nectar in the form of the profound philosophical discourses and in the form of kissing by the Lord in the rasa dance, as there is no mundane distinction between the two.
– Srimad Bhagavatam…
Will counteracting the causes of falling down also prevent falling away?
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As we can’t independently control matter, how do our senses function in the world?
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Should we avoid discriminating between male and female to avoid agitation by lust?
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How can we increase our tolerance to temptations?
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Do instincts come from genes or from the Supersoul’s guidance?
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If dharma is the innate characteristic of a thing, how can it differentiate humans from animals?
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If we feel grief-struck on losing a loved one, how do we relate with Krishna thereafter?
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From Tamil Mani P Supposing a loved one dies early as a result of a disease or some unnatural causes, how can we remain equipoised, when even Krishna’s greatest disciple, Arjuna, mourned the death of his son? How do we compensate (or relate to Krishna) for having shown our feelings of distress at the death […]
How do we understand Prabhupada’s statements about the Holocaust?
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Prabhupada has said that Hitler was destroyed by the bad publicity done by the Britishers
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Which varna do doctors belong to?
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I have heard some devotees say that they belong to the shudra varna because they deal with the body, a material thing.
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How to be your own spiritual master
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Why Krishna is the Lord of the intelligence
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One is highly intelligent by the grace of the Lord, and one is a fool by the same control. Therefore the Lord is Dhiyam-pati, or the Lord of intelligence.
SB 01.15.09 – Krishna provides the best intelligence inputs
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Holy Name Meditation Podcast
Let hearing inject us with healing
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Transcendental topics of the Lord act like injections when received by the sincere devotee from a person who is perfectly uncontaminated by material tinges. In other words, reception of the messages of Srimad-Bhagavatam from professional men, heard by …
SB 01.15.08 – Our calls to Krishna may not break the wall that separates us but they show him we want the wall broken
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Let devotion permeate the whole family and the whole day
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Any member of the family who is above twelve years of age should be initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, and all the members of the household should be engaged in the daily service of the Lord, beginning from morning (4 a.m.) till night (10 p.m.)…
Odana Sasthi – A Glimpse of Intimate Devotion
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What is the Gita’s position on deontology?
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What is the Gita’s etiology?
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What is the Gita’s ontology?
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What is the Gita’s soteriology?
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What is the Gita’s eschatology?
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I am a comparative philosophy student trying to understand the Bhagavad-gita. Can you please give specific Gita verses while answering the question?
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How can we best offer prayers from the Bhagavatam?
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Please give some details regarding prayers offered by different exalted devotees in srimad bhagavatam, can we choose any particular prayer and recite everyday as part of our sadhana if it is so, how much importance should we give/in what way we should understand the translation of the slokas while we recite as a daily routine. […]
How to know that the heart is being transformed
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The reaction of change in the heart is exhibited by gradual detachment from the sense of material enjoyment by a false sense of lording it over the world and an increase in the attitude of rendering loving service to the Lord.
– Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.2…
SB 01.15.07 – Let material triumphs become contributors not distractors in our devotion
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Does Gita 9.32 which says that anyone can begin bhakti apply to those who fall while practicing bhakti?
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The question is based on this article: Never lose heart on the path of the heart I just have a faint feeling that there is intermixing of two concepts here: 1) Qualification to start on devotional path 2) Fall downs of […]
Is the Gita 18.66 exclusivist or inclusivist in spirit?
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Krishna focuses on where we want to go, not where we have been
Is Krishna’s focus in this verse on the point that we surrender to him alone or on that our past doesn’t matter?
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If we need to see intellectually before we can see visually, what about non-intellectual practitioners?
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From Chiranjeev The question is based on this article: We need to see intellectually before we can see visually what about those people, who do Spiritual practices just as a tradition they learnt from their upbringing?? They don’t try […]
Isn’t unconsciousness of Krishna more harmful than unconsciousness of our faults?
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The question is based on this Gita-daily article: Being unconscious of our faults is the worst unconsciousness and the biggest fault Answer Podcast