Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

Prabhupada life-story 14 – Incorporating ISKCON – The seven visionary purposes
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Do we need only devotional principles to change our past’s influences – can other things help?
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Duryodhana character analysis 3 – Envy perpetuates dissatisfaction and invites destruction
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[Seminar at ISKCON, Perth, Australia]

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Duryodhana character analysis 2 – Ambition distorted by envy becomes cancerous
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[Seminar at ISKCON, Perth, Australia]

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Gita Jayanti class – The Gita brings a message of fearlessness to a fear-filled world
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[Festival class at ISKCON, Perth, Australia]

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Gita Jayanti talk – Appreciating the Gita’s message by contemplating the starting and ending names of Arjuna and Krishna
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When jnana and karma are different philosophies, how can they both give the same result, as the Gita’s sixth chapter states?
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Transcriber: Sharan Shetty

Edited by: Keshavgopal Das

Question: When jnana and karma are different philosophies, how can they both give the same result, as the Gita’s sixth chapter states?

Answer: When Krishna is using the words karma and jnana, he is not necessarily using the words to refer to whole philosophical systems. Arjuna and Krishna are not discussing broad philosophical treatises, they are discussing courses of action, that is why, karma in that context refers to the path of action and jnana refers to the path of inaction or the path of renunciation based on contemplation. There are some connections between the sankhya (which is being talked over there) and the sankhya (which is a philosophy) but they are not exactly the same because words have contextual meaning and context-independent meaning. Here, in the context, Krishna says to Arjuna , in Gita 5.2, nihsreyasa-karav ubhau. This means both will lead to long term benefit, but both will not lead to the exact same benefit. Krishna is not specifying any identical ultimate goal, he is broadly saying that both will lead to nihsreyasa or long term benefit. Therefore, in that context, both are similar.

When Krishna is using the word karma, he is not using it to refer to karma-kanda, he is actually using it to refer to karma yoga because in the context of karma-kanda, Krishna has already told in Gita 2.47, karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana (You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action). The progression from karma-kanda to karma yoga has already happened before Chapter Three. Krishna is talking here about karma yoga which does not mean romanticizing and enjoying the world. Krishna explains karma yoga as working with detachment. There are various places where Krishna is saying asaktah – work with detachment. Among the path of detached action and contemplative knowledge, karma yoga is better, although both will lead to long term benefit.

The yoga ladder, in itself, is an overall truth in which jnana yoga is placed above karma yoga. However, in the Gita’s context, there are very few verses which are actually speaking positively about the jnana yoga, path of inaction. Krishna wants Arjuna to act and so he always stresses on action, not on renunciation. The very fact that Arjuna wanted to renounce the world indicates that he considered renunciation to be higher than action and from a broad cultural understanding; renunciants are respected even by the kings. Renunciation being respectable is a broad Vedic understanding and Krishna is not challenging it. Renunciation of the world for the contemplation of higher reality is considered higher than engagement in the world for the purpose of enjoying the world. So, in the Gita, the hierarchy of renunciation being higher than action, in principle, is already accepted. However, in the context of Arjuna, inaction is not preferable. For him, the path of detached action is preferable. That is why, Krishna is speaking […]

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Duryodhana character analysis 1 – How the entitlement mentality degrades
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[Seminar at ISKCON, Perth Australia]

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When the mind becomes a mirror for the pure soul, does the soul perceive itself through the mind or without it too?
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Why our moods keep changing – and what we can do about it
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[Sunday feast class at ISKCON, Perth, Australia]

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Let personal conception of God lead to personal dealings with God’s parts
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[Bhagavatam class on Srimad-Bhagavatam 03.28.20 at ISKCON, Perth, Australia]

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Go beyond rationality and imagination to revelation for relishing Krishna’s lotus feet
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[Bhagavatam class on Srimad-Bhagavatam 03.28.21 at ISKCON, Perth, Australia]

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 4 – QA
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[Retreat on Instincts, Impulses, Intelligence at Melbourne, Australia]

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 3 – Misunderstanding Krishna
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[Retreat on Instincts, Impulses, Intelligence at Melbourne, Australia]

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand from Chaitanya Charan

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 2 – Misunderstanding ourselves
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[Retreat on Instincts, Impulses, Intelligence at Melbourne, Australia]

Podcast

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand from Chaitanya Charan

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 1 – Misunderstanding ourselves
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[Retreat on Instincts, Impulses, Intelligence at Melbourne, Australia]

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Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand from Chaitanya Charan

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Facing our fears – FEAR acronym
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[Hall program at Perth, Australia]

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What makes relationships spiritual and sustainable – Marriage reception talk
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[Talk at ISKCON, Melbourne, Perth]

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Emotionally intelligent spirituality 2 – Let immediate and ultimate solutions work cooperatively, not competitively
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[Seminar at ISKCON, Melbourne, Australia]

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The driver controls the car, but the soul doesn’t directly control the body – can you explain?
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Emotionally intelligent spirituality 1 – Don’t work for or against emotions – work with them for Krishna
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[Seminar at ISKCON, Melbourne Australia]

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