Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

If someone takes retirement and then feels unengaged and disoriented, what should they do?
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Focus on life, not on the mind’s commentary on life
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[Sunday feast class at ISKCON, Central New Jersey, USA]

Podcast

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Where does the power of mantras lie – in letters or meaning or somewhere else?
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[Class at Bhakti Center, New York, USA]

Podcast

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If everything is God’s will, how do we have free will?
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[Class at Bhakti Center, New York, USA]

Podcast

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Does the mind look for change and the soul look for the unchanging?
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Does our spiritual master know everything about us?
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Unity in diversity and diversity in unity – The Absolute’s relationship with us
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[Congregation program at Princeton, USA]

Podcast

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Podcast Summary

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Gratitude is not just an attitude but also an awareness
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[Talk at Gratitude Yoga Studio, Princeton, USA]
Podcast
http://www.thespiritualscientist.com/audio/ccd%20classes/desiretree/2018%20classes/04-18%20classes/Gratitude%20is%20not%20just%20an%20attitude%20but%20also%20an%20awareness.mp3

 
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How can we explain morality to moral relativists?
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Will anxiety be addressed in the long-term by bhakti or should we try to address it in the short-term too?
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How can we remember Krishna while we are working in a materialistic environment?
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Resolutions in the three modes – and in transcendence
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[Class at ISKCON, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA]

Podcast

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If during a class some children are distracting everyone, why isn’t anything done about it?
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How can we perceive Krishna’s love amidst our and others distresses and conditionings?
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Is our attraction to Krishna a conditional attraction generated by devotional conditions?
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Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts (2)
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Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? (2)
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Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 2
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[Talk at Raleigh, USA]

Podcast

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Podcast Summary

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Science & Spirituality – Why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality
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[Talk to Duke University students, Durham, USA]

Podcast

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Podcast Summary

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Science & spirituality why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality from Chaitanya Charan

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During chanting, can we have aids to get the mind from the physical level to the spiritual level?
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When science requires only working assumptions, why do you say that science requires faith?
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Why is the population increasing.mp3
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Are our mistakes part of Krishna’s plan? – 1
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[Class at Raleigh, USA]

Podcast

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Podcast Summary

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Our defining power is the power to choose our thoughts
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[Talk at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA]
Podcast
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How can we develop our relationship with the eternal using the temporary mind?
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If I don’t have much work at my office, should I go and ask for more work?
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Is Krishna situated in the mind or the heart – how are the two related?
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4 reflections for overcoming fear of failure
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[E-address to Commonwealth Games participants]
Podcast
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Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 2
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[Talk at Charlotte, USA]

Podcast

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Podcast Summary

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Does accepting our emotions mean that our getting angry is not a matter of concern?
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How can we avoid making a ruinous mistake like Ravana made?
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When we are telling ourselves to concentrate, who is telling this – the soul or the intelligence – and to whom?
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Three ways of perceiving Krishna’s love
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[Class at Charlotte, USA]

Podcast

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Interrupting the mind’s train of thoughts 1
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[Congregation Program at Charlotte, USA]

Podcast

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If some Vaishnava sampradayas reject the worship of Radharani, how to respond?
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How do we know that Krishna accepts our gratitude? (Vedic Wisdom)
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When we can’t remember Krishna purely now, how will our remembering him at death take us to him?
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Was Ravana a good person who just committed one mistake?
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Does religion cause war?
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[Sunday feast class at ISKCON, Washington DC, USA]
Podcast
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The mind may stray away, but don’t let it stay away
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[Sunday feast class at ISKCON, Baltimore, USA]

Podcast

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