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Beauty is a spark of Krishna, but it makes us forget Krishna – what to do?
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Isn’t the mode of goodness alone enough for serving Krishna – during the churning of the milk ocean, why were the other modes needed?
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Ghosts, Spirits & Reincarnation – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible
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[Youth meeting at ISKCON, Juhu, Mumbai]

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Ghosts, Spirits & Reincarnation – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible

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Demystifying Reincarnation 9 – Near Death Experiences – Partial consciousness?
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Demystifying Reincarnation 8 – Near Death Experiences – Hallucinations or Guesses?
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A mentally retarded child can’t do any karma – what determines his future life?
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Demystifying Reincarnation 7 – Past life memories – Fraud by investigators?
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Demystifying Reincarnation 6 – Past-life memories – Frauds by parents?
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Demystifying Reincarnation 5 – Astonishing birth marks and birth defects
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Demystifying Reincarnation 4 – Past life memories – Guesses or Hyperboles?
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Isn’t it better to read Prabhupada books instead of wasting time on social media?
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Transformation is inevitable – positive transformational has to be intentional
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Metaphorical Meditations on the Holy Name 1 – The Holy Name grounds consciousness in the source of its source
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Social Media Analysis 3 – Greater accessibility brings greater responsibility
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Demystifying Reincarnation 3 – Past life memories – Any normal explanation?
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Behind the book – Interview with Chaitanya Charan, author of “Demystifying Reincarnation”
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(This interview appeared originally at http://www.privytrifles.co.in/2017/06/behind-book-chaitanya-charan.html)

Welcome to Reviews and Musings. Talking about your latest book Demystifying Reincarnation, how important it is for us to understand the deeper meaning of our lives in today’s times?

Understanding life’s deeper meaning is especially important in today’s times because we have so many options to choose from. Just as it’s possible to spend a whole day surfing superficially on the net looking at this picture or that movie or that news without learning anything worthwhile or even enjoying anything substantially, so too can we spend our whole life surfing superficially, doing this and that, without ever connecting with our essence, without understanding what it is that makes us us, without manifesting that which we are meant to contribute during our life-journey.

The importance of meaning in life is higlighted by classic books such as Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankyl. Based on the author’s survival amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, it explains how without a purpose for life, we lose the drive to live. A lack of a sense of overall meaning and purpose of life is the cause of the many mental health problems facing society nowadays ranging from depression to suicidal urges. They all have their specific, complex triggers, but they also originate in a universal malaise: the alienation and disorientation coming from meaninglessness and purposelessness.

Psychologist William Sheldon of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons echoes, “Deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human makeup. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction—for orientation.”

This need for orientation is addressed by the world’s great spiritual wisdom-traditions, if we just open ourselves to them.

 

Reincarnation has always been an intriguing subject. Talked at length, discussed with curiosity but never accepted and believed widely. Why do you think it is so?

I feel there are two reasons: excessive skepticism and excessive sensationalization. The scientific method has made us all skeptical of things that seem spooky, that smell of the supernatural. Much of such skepticism is warranted – it has equipped us to reject the many superstitions that held sway over people in the past. Still, we can go overboard in our devotion to skepticism. It’s worth remembering that skepticism can only tell us what is wrong, never what is right. Using skepticism to gain knowledge is like using the brakes to move a vehicle; it can protect us from going off-course, but it can’t take us ahead on-course.

Unfortunately, such skepticism has been further indirectly fuelled by whatever cases of reincarnation do come in the public eye. This happens primarily through Bollywood movies where reincarnation is romanticized as a convenient dramatic tool to fulfill in another life a love that was thwarted in this life. Reincarnation ends up becoming just another concept, something akin to vampires, that’s acceptable in the fictional world, but not taken seriously in the real world.

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