Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

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Heart attack. Recession. Earthquake. All of us have our fears. Fears that check even choke our energy, making things far more difficult than they need to be. How do we deal with fear? Some people increase their wealth or power, hoping that one day they will become so big that no fear will intimidate them. […]

From Saipriya Does Lord Krishna help devotees when they face challenges in school with teachers, bullying by classmates and friends? To hear the answer podcast, please click here  

From Jacob P
One place Srila Prabhupada is saying that sahajias are much much better than mayavadis and that they are devotees.
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From Jacob P “Somewhere it is said that if you do not accept Gaura-Nitai you are a demon. And something more I think. Like you are going to hell. I do not remember , but very heavy. How to understand? There are four sampradayas and going to Vaikuntha is also good. Can you explain and […]

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From His kingdom the Personality of Godhead sends His bona fide servants to propagate this message by which one can return to Godhead, and sometimes the Lord comes Himself to do this work. Since all living beings are His beloved sons, His parts and parcels, God is more sorry than we ourselves to see the […]

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We all feel that enjoyment is our right. And Gita wisdom declares that we are right. But it cautions us against assuming that this right makes any and every form of enjoyment right. To understand, let’s compare enjoyment with eating. We all have a right to eating. But does that make eating anything and everything […]

From Trivikrama P Does that mean prabhu that If devotees were to do charity, then that good karma will not bind them? Since you suggested that devotees should do acts of charity(wherever possible, spiritual or material), does it mean that the charity done by devotees will not bind them? I once heard in H.H. Radhanath […]

From Shashi Shankar
After years of sadhna, we might feel that there is nothing happening in our life spiritually. How to sustain the momentum year after year?
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From Atmanand Biradar Krishna told in bhagvadgita starting only you surrender to me then you come to me . Krsna told in bhagvad gita at the end whoever preach my message they are very dear to me. why we need to preach ? To hear the answer podcast, please click here

From: Rahul While reading Bhagavad Gita I came across verse 13.25 and the translation is as follows “Some percieve the Supersoul within themselves through meditation others through the cultivation of knowledge and still others through working without fruitive desires.” How can a devotee percieve the supreme soul which is present within his body.I can understand […]

From: Keshav Is the Marxist view that , ” Idealogy leads to blindness after a distance ” true ? Any person in real life follows a idealogy and also the truth is relative for everyone ,so how can one be sure of his path ? When a person follows a idealogy ,his thoughts , his […]

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The heart is situated within the chest, and although instrumentally the son is born with the aid of the genitals, he is actually born from within the heart. According to the heart’s situation, the semen takes the form of a body. Therefore according to the Vedic system, when one begets a child his heart should […]

“And they lived happily ever after.” This is the common end of most novels and movies. That is the dream of all of us, isn’t it? Puzzlingly, the Bhagavad-gita seems to puncture our dreams. It declares (08.15: duhkhalayam ashasvatam) the world has two essential characteristics that are the polar opposites of the “happily ever after” […]

From: Meenal Manikantan
Is it ok to ask for a specific wish in our prayers, like good conduct of your wards, good health and devotional inclination of your family?
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From Sushant:     Today, in my college, a handicapped child came in search of help with his father.He sits in a wheel chair and he said that he needed an amount of 2 lakh rupees to continue his medical treatment which his father could not afford himself alone.He expressed that he wants to go […]

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From Manoj P

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The father, spiritual master or husband must be able to release the dependent from repeated birth and death. If he cannot do this, he plunges himself into the ocean of reproachment for his unlawful activities. Everyone should be very responsible and take charge of his dependents just as a spiritual master takes charge of his […]

“Krishna is present in my heart. That means he has the best vantage point to catch all the wrongs that I do.” If such fears bother us, that’s usually because we have mistakenly divorced Krishna’s inner presence from his overall purpose. Such a mistake may happen because we may carry into our devotional life past […]

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From Aravind P
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From Hari Katha P: Thank you for your nice reply but some where I feel the answer is still missed that whether Lord Buddha’s mention was prophecy or history. In this regard, I have done little research and found that According to Srila Jiva goswami- the present known Buddha is not the same Lord Buddha […]

From Ashutosh P
How and Who decides that the involvement in the stock market is cautious and won’t effect the mind? I can get involved thinking I am quite careful but in reality it may be just opposite. So how to define it??
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From Sunil
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From: Trivikrama Das When  I do so much hearing of lectures from teachers, I often find that I cannot recollect all that has been heard by me. (infact many things). How to best engage in the hearing process so that it can be recollected and reproduced at all times. Does it mean that so  much […]

Generally people think that one should act very piously in order to be relieved from misery, but this is not a fact. Even though one engages in pious activity and speculation. he is nonetheless defeated. His only aim should be emancipation from the clutches of maya and all material activities. Speculative knowledge and pious activity […]

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A boat in an ocean keeps bobbing due to the unending waves. To stay steady, it needs an anchor. Similarly, the waves of unending dualities – heat and cold; pleasure and pain; honor and dishonor – keep our mind perpetually restless. To steady it, we need an anchor. The best anchor is Krishna. To understand […]

From: Vikram Kumar
Why this question is my last question, why I’m believing so much that all lectures seems right(what is said by isckon devotee) no question comes. Is it blind faith? Is it harmful for me or it is good only?
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From Narendra Bhati
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From: vivektiwari According to vedic culture we are not just body and mind but we are soul and we as a soul already a part of supreme soul(Krishna) and our main aim of life is to go back to the supreme soul. then why do take birth on the earth  means why do we get […]

From: shreyashnadage
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From: Mounika wherever our intention is there then our attention goes there right? That means senses goes to sense objects then we get Desires ( here mind comes into picture? or Intelligence comes into picture?) Thoughts( Thinking feeling Willing)? words & actions? Prabhuji , could you please explain above terminology ?? How do they come […]