Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan das

Can those undergoing near-death experiences choose not to return to their body?
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During near-death experiences, is everything that happens predetermined or can the experiencer choose?
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How do we balance our fundamental and functional identities?
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If we understand that we are souls, do we need to reject the whole life we have built on our bodily identity?
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Who were the vanaras in the Ramayana – what happened to them?
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Is a woman’s unchaste dressing responsible for a man’s misbehaviour?
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How much of traditional culture needs to be replicated to practice bhakti today?
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Are we the makers of our destiny?
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[Talk at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA]

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Are we the makers of our destiny?

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When we take or get blessings from someone, what actually happens?
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Is all the archaeological evidence wrong – did cavemen not exist?
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While understanding scripture according to time-place-circumstance, which factors need to be considered?
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Isn’t ISKCON sectarian that it stops devotees from hearing from other Vaishnava groups?
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The ninth canto contains many stories of shocking debauchery by sages such as Brihaspati – what is their point?
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When the Gita Mahatmaya talks about Gita recitation countering various sinful reactions, is that karma kanda or is it bhakti?
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Devotion as sentiment, commitment and attainment
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[Sunday feast class at ISKCON, Dallas]

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When a devotee does bhakti activities for someone else, what actually happens?
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If it doesn’t work, get out – is such a utilitarian attitude in bhakti towards things like marriage justifiable?
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How can we reconcile contradictions between knowledge from science and knowledge from scripture?
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Shouldn’t modern science be renamed as so-called science?
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The more scientific people become, the more atheistic they become – is this true?
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Is Vedic apara-vidya a better painkiller than modern knowledge?
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When we face mental health issues, how can we deal with them spiritually and what can we learn from it?
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Who all are the active factors in our inner world – soul or mind or Maya?
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Significance of Chatur-Shloki Gita – Location, Content & Import
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[Congregation program at Dallas, USA]

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Be not fretful or fearful – be faithful
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[Congregation program at Dallas, USA]

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How to deal with indulgences that we aren’t able to give up?
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Did many devotees leave ISKCON because they couldn’t see suffering as Krishna’s mercy?
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Will those with low self-esteem mistake tolerating injustice to be humility?
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How to decide between tolerating a situation or changing it?
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Why do we promote our suffering as if it is the worst?
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For a pure devotee, is the subtle body dissolved or does it still remain?
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Does the soul go to the next body by its own desires or is it taken by the mind?
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How can we know what is a principle and what a detail?
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How can the tension between rigidity and fluidity be resolved in a living tradition?
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Understanding attachment, detachment, commitment 3 – Devotion as emotion, disposition and cultivation
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[Evening program at Atlanta, USA]

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How can we appreciate good devotees who are offensive about some issues?
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