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How to make our Sunday talks relevant Chaitanya Charan with Caru P on the ISKCON Relevance Project podcast
3 conceptions of renunciation frustration, aversion, redirection – Chaitanya Charan
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4 life-lessons from Lord Ganesh – Ganesh Chaturthi special – Chaitanya Charan
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Developing our personal relationship with Bhagavad gita SB Keshava Maharaj and Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
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When is doing something externally without inner feeling good and when is it bad?
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Chaitanya Charan · When Is Doing Something Externally Without Inner Feeling Good And When Is It Bad
If a prescribed homeopathic medicine that contains 90% alchohol, can we take it?
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If someone has committed suicide, how can we help their relatives?
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When our hearing becomes mechanical, what can we do?
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200 Save Earth by sharing Srimad Bhagavatam – The Monk’s Podcast with Vaisesika Prabhu
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Appreciating Radharani: universal, Gaudiya and personal perspectives, Radhashtami 2022
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Prostitutes in Krishna’s Dwarka: How to understand Bhagavatam 1.11.19? – Chaitanya Charan
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Karthikeya 2 vs PK Logical approach to religion done right and wrong?
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Appreciating the Bhagavad Gita from Sanjaya’s perspective (Gita 18.74-78): GREAT acronym
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Experiencing Krishna in various ways, even through fear, confusion & heartbreak: Janmashtami class
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Why does Arjuna refer to Krishna by specific names in specific verses of the Bhagavad Gita?
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Karthikeya 2 Movie: A Bhagavad – Gita Perspective
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Why should we mention DaVinci code when Christian missionaries only portray our culture negatively?
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How Balarama reveals Krishna’s heart in Vrindavana Mathura and Dwarka ? – Balarama appearance day
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How dukhalayam Bhagavad gita 8.15 is a teaching of positivity not negativity?
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Hearing with the ears, the head and the heart – Chaitanya Charan on Vedasara P’s Heartspace podcast
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Why was Balarama kind to Duryodhana and harsh to Romharshana? – Balarama appearance day reflection
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A Bhagavad Gita perspective on India’s 75th Independence Day celebrations
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When God doesn’t seem to be equal to everyone – Bhagavad gita 09.34
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Brahminical culture what it was and how it was preserved through two kinds of brahmanas
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Why wisdom sometimes enlightens and sometimes doesn’t
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Could the 63 millions deaths due to abortion be deaths that had to happen due to mass karma?
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From lower taste to higher taste through higher vision
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How do the nine forms of devotional service combined with the three modes lead to 81 categories of devotional service?
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Why wisdom sometimes enlightens and sometimes doesn’t
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When seeking material things from God is spiritually unhealthy — & when it isn’t
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Atmarama verse’s importance in understanding the Absolute Truth Bhagavatam discussion with Caru Prabhu
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Are Jordan Peterson’s ideas relevant for Bhakti theology? QA with Chaitanya Charan
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Could the 63 millions deaths due to abortion be deaths that had to happen due to mass karma?
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Do men have no right to speak on abortion because they have never carried a baby?
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Three understandings of surrender in the Bhagavad Gita
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In today’s culture that teaches no respect for elders, how can we share spirituality?
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Roe V Wade reversed A Bhagavad-gita perspective on the US removal of women’s right to abortion
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3 Difficulties in approaching Bhagavatam cosmology
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Is the universal form Krishna literally material or is it a divine form manifested in matter like his deity form?
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Why do scriptures urge women to do vat-savitri puja to get the same husband for seven lives when the goal of life is to attain liberation?
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If ultimate aim of the human life is to get liberation from cycle of birth and death then why do scriptures recommend women to perform “Vat Savitri” puja to get same husband for Seven lifes (Saat Janam)? Is this practice at all mentioned in scriptures?
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Answer: The scriptures talk about multiple levels of spirituality. And within karma kanda, which is an important part of the scriptures as vast majority of the scriptures talks about karma kanda although it is not the conclusion of the scriptures. Within that the idea is material enjoyment is ultimately the goal of life and the purpose of dharma is to help us get better material enjoyment. So within the karma kanda sections, it is mentioned that our worldly relationships can be perpetuated at the material level not by avoiding death but by replicating those relationships in future lives. That’s how the problem of death which sabotages all material enjoyments is attempted to be circumvented in karma kanda and as a part of karma kanda there are these sort of rituals where the material relationships are prayed and their worship is done. Prayers and worships are done to perpetuate the material relationships for many many life times.
Now if we go beyond karma kanda to gyan kanda, there we have the idea that all the relationships are false. And one should just cut off the bonds of these relationships and move forward to go on towards spiritual life and attain moksha. Beyond that if we come further to bhakti, things become little more complex. Bhakti in and of itself does not reject material relationships but it spiritualize those relationships. That’s why in the seventh canto of Srimad Bhagvatam, chapter fourteen talks about ideal family life. In that chapter, it is mentioned that if the wife assists the husband in performing devotional service and both of them render devotional service together then that devotional connection can be continued not just in the next life in swarga but it can be perpetuated in the spiritual world eternally.
The idea here is primarily that we don’t reject the material relationships, we spiritualize them. But at the same time the focus is not on spiritualizing the relationship, the focus is on spirituality, focus is on Krishna. And once we are centered in Krishna then we can spiritualize the relationship concomitantly. Yes these kind of things are there in scriptures but devotees who aspire not just for moksha but beyond moksha to reside in spiritual world where there are eternal relationship centered with Krishna. In the practice of devotional service in this world we try to replicate a similar Krishna centered reality in our home and we try to make all our relationships Krishna centric. Hence we may not at a material level aspire for perpetuating the relationships but we can aspire to focus on serving Krishna and dovetailing all our relationships in that way. That’s how we can spiritualize our relationships and all our relationships […]