Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

I have joined as a brahmachari but am opposed and troubled by my relatives. How should I stay strong?
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From Chandan Kumar i am a practicing devotee joined pdc batch. as i told about the one year course at home they are not in favour of that.currently by receiving many calls from the home and hearing crying and words against the practice of devotional sevice i am getting disturbed too much with in. please guide me so […]

05.21- What comes fast doesn’t last; what does last doesn’t come fast
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Our culture allures us with the promise of immediate pleasure: “Eat this, smell this, touch this – and you will enjoy real fast.” Material pleasures may come fast – just by the contact of the senses with the sense objects. But they never last. Because the capacity of the sense objects to give pleasure is […]

How impersonalism is also a type of God worship
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Such people [impersonalists] think themselves to be the Supreme Lord, and in this mentality they worship themselves. This is also a type of God worship, for they can understand that they are not the material body but are actually spiritual soul; at least, such a sense is prominent. Generally the impersonalists worship the Supreme Lord […]

SB 5.11.7 Chanting is not a ritual but a route to rise to reality beyond the reach of the mind
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SB 5.11.6 – To break free from the mind’s vicious embrace, embrace Krishna’s lotus feet manifesting as his holy names
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08.15 – The world is a hospital; be hospitable to the doctor
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Patients admitted in a hospital know that the doctor’s counsel is essential for their recovery. If some patients were inhospitable to the doctor, we would be appalled by their irrationality: is this a mental hospital? Yet, might we ourselves be acting like those patients? Gita wisdom indicates that the disease of misdirected desires afflicts us. […]

The mystic power of the Lord
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There is no difference between His [the Lord’s] mind and Himself (as there is a difference between ourselves and our present material mind) because He is absolute spirit. Simultaneously the Lord is present in everything; yet the common man cannot understand how He is also present personally. He is different from this material manifestation, yet […]

SB 5.11.5 The struggle to change what we hold in the mind can grant life’s greatest achievement
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When money offers security amidst uncertainty how can one give up material ambition for spiritual pursuits?
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From Milind Sonawane The most common reason to hold ones possessions and strive for more is to address eventualities which money can resolve, such as disease, hospitalization, accidents or incidences leading to physical or mental dis-ability or any such life’s situation which money can ease out. All of this applicable to one self or his […]

How can we love Krishna when he is not like a normal person and doesn’t reciprocate immediately?
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Does loving Krishna always protect us from all heartbreaks?
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What about when the spiritual master or a dear devotee departs, when a trusted devotee falls or when a loved one dies or betrays us?
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How Prabhupada’s sannyasa was a part of Krishna’s master-plan
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Faith means faith in surrender to Krishna
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After reading Bhagavad-gita one should promptly come to the conclusion of Bhagavad-gita: one should give up all other engagements and adopt the service of the Supreme Lord, Krsna, the Personality of Godhead. If one is convinced of this philosophy of life, that is faith. Bhagavad Gita As It Is 9.3 purport  

10.11 – Ignite the light that makes the inner world bright and right
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Whenever power goes off, the resulting darkness makes us tentative, insecure, even paralytic. No wonder we constantly strive to keep our outer world well lit. Yet we rarely strive to keep our inner world similarly lit. In fact, we frequently don’t even realize that our inner world is often shrouded in a disturbing and distressing […]

When famous religious teachers are accused of crime, how can we expect people to keep faith in religion?
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From Pancha Pandava P
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Can the level of language in Gita-daily articles be made simpler?
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From Man Mohan P Thank you very much for providing BG articles for free. I have one request,if the English vocabulary used in articles can be made simple (normal or common vocab as in Srila Prabhupada’s books),it may be more understood by common people having normal English background like me without the help of dictionary. Please […]

How can we excel in our work if we are detached and don’t set goals?
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From Kedar
Hare Krishna Prabhuji. How can we do our best and put all our efforts in discharging our own professional duties without aspiring for the results. In the context of material activities, I find it difficult to excel unless we have goals.
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In spiritual war, don’t lose hope; develop strength
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Devotional service is more or less a declaration of war against the illusory energy. As long as one is not strong enough to fight the illusory energy, there may be accidental falldowns. But when one is strong enough, he is no longer subjected to such falldowns. Bhagavad Gita As It Is 9.30 purport

06.22 – Do not ensure heartbreaks; insure against heartbreaks
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Where our heart is, that’s where we are. Usually, our heart is in material things; we long for them fervently. As all material things are temporary, our attachment to them ensures the inevitable breaking of our heart. Again and again. Lifetime after lifetime. Gita wisdom opens the door out of this tradition of heartbreaks by […]

How Krishna-katha extinguishes the blazing fire of material existence (tava kathamritam explanation) – Hindi
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How can any energy of Krishna be inferior?
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From: Latha M
“This material world is the manifestation of the inferior energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” BG 9.8
how can lords energy be inferior? He is supreme and everything about the lord is superior. can you please clarify this doubt ….

Are sexless marriages the best marriages?
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From Rahul
Srila Prabhupad had said ” All Men should remain as Brahmacharis and All Women should get married” . So by saying so , does srila Prabhupad mean sexless marriages are the best kind of marriages and are highly respected.What is the Vedic pres…

What does Prabhupada’s statement “All men should remain as brahmacharis and all women should get married” mean?
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SB 5.11.2 Let the hope for material improvement not distract us from the chance for spiritual advancement
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09.21 – Seek not higher material happiness; seek higher than material happiness
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We want to make things better, to make our life better, to make the world better. This urge for betterment drives our various activities – economical, social, cultural, political, and even religious. Gita wisdom informs us that this urge is natural because we are meant for a better life than what we presently have. We […]

Attach yourself to the bosom of the Lord
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Everyone should attach himself to the bosom of the Supreme Personality of Godhead so that he can be eternally happy. The devotional service of the Supreme Lord is the only process by which all problems of all classes of men can be solved. Everyone should therefore take to Krishna consciousness and make his life perfect. […]

Are demigods bhavagrahi? Otherwise when demigod worship is done improperly, how does it produce results?
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18.46 – Complement spirit with spirituality for complete success
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“I will never give up; I will keep fighting till I succeed.” Those with such spirit who succeed against insurmountable odds often become heroes. Fierce tenacity is laudable and even essential for achieving anything glorious. To raise our drive to achieve to a higher level, indeed, to the highest level, Gita wisdom urges us to […]

The creation is to accommodate our inclinations, not the Lord’s
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The creation takes place to accommodate the inclinations of the various living entities, and so the Lord does not become involved with it.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is 9.8 purport