Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

What love is and what love isn’t
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[Congregation program at Brisbane, Australia]

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SELF acronym – The self that is missing in the selfie
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[Talk at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia]

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Our emotional wounds can’t be healed by technology – we need spiritualty
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[Youth meeting at Melbourne, Australia]

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The world of science is not the world we live in
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[Corporate talk at Hotel Chapellis for O’Neill Group employees, Melbourne, Australia]

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Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine’s gifts to the divine
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Committing is not limiting – it is elevating
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[Congregation program at Melbourne, Australia]

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From ritual to spiritual 3 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – The brahmanis selfless devotion
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[Seminar at Community Hall, Melbourne, Australia]

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Dhruva pastime analysis 3 – DHRUV acronym – Realization and reconciliation result from devotion
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[Bhagavatam class at ISKCON, Melbourne, Australia]

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Dhruva pastime analysis 2 – DHRUV acronym – Humility and honesty leads to authentic bhakti
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[Bhagavatam class at ISKCON, Melbourne, Australia]

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Increasing willpower – by increasing the distance between us and our feelings, and our feeling and our actions
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[Congregation program at Melbourne, Australia]

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Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection
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3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 3 – Balance & Commitment
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[Seminar at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, New Zealand]

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3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 2 – QA
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[Seminar at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, New Zealand]

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3 principles for spiritual community building – Session 1 – Authenticity
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[Seminar at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, New Zealand]

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From ritual to spiritual 2 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas – Understanding the brahmans
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[Seminar at Community Hall, Melbourne, Australia]

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Dhruva pastime analysis 1 – Everyone faces distress, the fortunate find the right direction – DHRUV acronym
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[Bhagavatam class at ISKCON, Melbourne, Australia]

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From ritual to spiritual 1 – Analysis of Krishna’s pastime with the ritualistic brahmanas
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[Seminar at Community Hall, Melbourne, Australia]

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Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction
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What can we do when we see terrible things happening in the world?
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Transcriber: Sudeep Naik

Question: What can we do when we see terrible things happening in the world?

Answer: Whatever actions we do are reflections of the consciousness we have. Consciousness of different people is directed in different ways. Suppose we are walking on a road and we step on someone, as soon as we realize that we stepped on someone we immediately apologize. Normally a person is sensitive, when they cause pain to others, they feel sorry and apologize. However, sometimes some people may deliberately step on someone. They feel pleasure when they cause pain to others. At extreme level, people are sadistic or psychopaths. They feel pleasure in causing pain to others. Such people do not feel any remorse as there is no conscience left. These are different levels of awareness.

Wars happen, people kill, damage ecology, because their consciousness is at a particular level. Our consciousness is directed at the level where we find pleasure. Somebody who is compassionate, kind hearted feel pleasure in bringing joy to others. Somebody who is self-centered, sadistic get pleasure in causing pain to others. Somebody who is materialistic or technologically infatuated get pleasure in watching TV or playing video games.

We need to raise our consciousness because the more our consciousness evolves upwards, the more we become a part of the solution. Einstein said, “Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” Practice of spirituality raises our consciousness upwards. We may be associated with some field – finance, engineering, politics, education etc. However, irrespective of the field, our consciousness will make us either a positive contributor or a negative contributor in that field. Spirituality help raise our consciousness which help us become more of a positive contributor. The world is a big place and we do not have control on how people act. However, we have control on how we act. Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world”. If each of us try to raise our consciousness then we can become the part of the change.

Suppose we are sitting in a room and the power goes off then we may get annoyed, complain or yell. However, we can switch on the flashlight in our mobile. The flashlight does not replace the room light but gives enough illumination to take few steps forward. Similarly, the world around us is a dark place. It is easy to curse the darkness that we are surrounded with. Yes, there are many problems, but it is much more productive to light at least one light. That light is the light of our own consciousness. If we can spiritualize our consciousness, then whichever area we are in we will be able to contribute and who knows we may start a chain reaction by which others elevate their own consciousness as well. A small change can lead to a big change over a period. On the mountaintop, it starts with a trickle of water […]

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When people are distressed, should we think philosophically or should we just help them?
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Transcribed by: Sudeep Naik

Edited by: Keshavgopal Das

Question: When people are distressed, should we think philosophically, or should we just help them?

Answer: It is natural for a compassionate heart to want to help people. At the same time, we must see how best we can help someone since we all have limited resources. We also must think what is the most effective way in which we can help others. Suppose there is a hospital and next to it there is a medical college. There are people in the emergency department of the hospital and somebody needs to treat them. If some relative of the person in emergency department comes running to the medical college and says, “What you all students are sitting here in this classroom? Somebody is dying there, go and help them.” It may appear that the students are sitting for hours reading something, and when so many people are dying, they should do some practical help. However, for them to do something practical they need to learn medical science. It may appear that the students are stone hearted. However, the medical knowledge equips the students to help people in a more effective way. If they just run to emergency, they may be able to offer some basic help like bandaging or first-aid but if they become qualified doctors they can offer much better help.

When I was in college, I was a part of a social service organization where I would go to slums near my college and offer free tuitions to children. I found most of the kids came from dysfunctional families. Their fathers were alcoholics, they would suffer from domestic violence etc. Slowly as the children started to open to me, I felt that by teaching them Mathematics or English, how much am I really going to help them. Their lives were in such a mess that they needed help at a different level. Then after talking to our organization leaders, we decided that we will help people break free from alcohol. I used to go to slums, my friend would go to a nearby village. We worked together, and we succeeded in making one village dry (free from alcohol). At that time, it was a big achievement for us. One evening my friend came back from that village and he looked shattered. He told that previous week there were local elections and one of the candidates freely distributed three truckloads of alcohol. To his surprise not only the fathers but even their kids were drunk.

We thought that through education we can open doors for people. We also thought that by helping people to leave alcohol we are helping them to walk through those doors. But then we realized that there is something within people which sabotages them. I realized that not only those people but something within me also is self-destructive. I was very short tempered at that time. In fact, I was infamous for my anger. There is something within […]

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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 19 – 10.3.39-46 Omnipotent Krishna can act through transcendental or normal means
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PAST acronym – 4 reflections to go past your past
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 18 – 10.3.32-38 How past life connections make sense of present-life situations
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What’s the most effective way to combat anger?
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Transcriber: Suresh Gupta

Question: What is the most effective way to combat anger?

Answer: Combating anger happens at three broad levels – the spiritual, psychological and physical.

At a spiritual level, if we do not have spiritual awareness, we think that we are meant to be the controllers, and everything should work according to our plans. When we are unable to exert our control, anger is just a natural response. With spiritual wisdom, we can understand that in the broader scheme of things we are not the controllers but we are co-operators. There is a higher plan in which we are meant to play our part. If things are not happening according our plan, we need to recalibrate how to function. Redefining ourselves as co-operators and not controllers substantially decreases anger.

Anger depends on how we process what has happened. And that depends on how we conceive ourselves. For example, if somebody shouts at us, naturally we feel hurt. If that person is someone whom we have a good relationship with, we do not expect them to act in that way. Suppose the person who shouts at us is a stranger, who is under the influence of drugs. More often than not, we do not care because they are lost in their own world. Therefore, while the event of shouting is the same, how we react to somebody yelling at us is dependent on how we are processing it. How we process it, depends on how we conceive ourselves in relationship to the other person.

Spiritual practices help us instil the belief that we are not the controllers. The more we do spiritual practices the more our anger will go down both at the conscious and sub conscious levels. Consciously, we start to understand that we are not the controllers. At the sub conscious level, if we do meditation, regularly come to spiritual association, we will find that within few months of practice those situations which would have provoked us earlier, are not affecting us so much.

At the psychological level, all of us need to express ourselves in some way. We deal with our emotions in two ways: express or repress. With spiritual knowledge, we open a third option – process. Processing means that we care about our anger. Let me explain using my own example.

Earlier I used to get angry very much. Even now I get angry. When I am angry on someone, I write an e-mail to the person. However, I have a policy that if I have written a mail in anger, I will not press the send button for twenty-four hours. By writing email, I vent my anger out. If I do not write, the anger will burn me. If I write and send it, anger will burn the other person. Hence, I follow an intermediate option – I express it by writing but do not send it. Whenever anger and thoughts are held inside us, they congest and choke […]

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Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature
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