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182 How to guide effectively – The Monk s Podcast with Radha Gopinath P and Shyamananda Prabhu
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181 Challenges in implementing varnashrama – The Monk s Podcast 181 with Bhakti Vikas Maharaj
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When we desire something is it the soul desiring or is it simply the mind desiring?
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Chaitanya Charan · When We Desire Something Is It The Soul Desiring Or Is It Simply The Mind Desiring

Is there anything spiritual about our nature or is it simply result of our past desires & karma according to which Krishna has given us our body & mind with their nature?
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Chaitanya Charan · Is There Anything Spiritual About Our Nature?

179 Varna and ashram roles of women: Impact of the Industrial Revolution The Monk’s Podcast Urmila Mataji
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180 – 8 universal teachings of the Bhagavad-gita (Gita Jayanti Special), The Monk’s Podcast Garuda Prabhu
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Is spiritual tourism to India dangerous for one’s mental health?
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Chaitanya Charan · Is spiritual tourism to India dangerous for one’s mental health?

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How can we make our children great devotees like Prahlad?
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178 Gita & political philosophy series 1: Freedom & State Power, The Monk’s Podcast with Govinda Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 178 Gita & political philosophy series 1: Freedom & State Power, The Monk’s Podcast 178 – Govinda P

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177 Ethics in epics: Decoding Bhishmas choices – The Monks Podcast with Shyamananda Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 177 Why did Bhishma not stand up against evil? The Monk’s Podcast with Shyamananda P

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Is New Year celebration a scam A Bhagavad gita perspective talk
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Is hearing devotees speak in confidence about their grievances with devotee-leaders a Vaishnava-apradha?
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Chaitanya Charan · Is hearing devotees speak in confidence about theirgrievances with devotee-leadersaVaishnava-apradha

Are the four defects due to our conditioning or due to our finiteness?
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Chaitanya Charan · Are The Four Defects Due To Our Conditioning Or Due To Our Finiteness

Why might devotees learned in bhakti scriptures leave bhakti?
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Chaitanya Charan · Why might devotees learned in bhakti scriptures leave bhakti

How can we deal with our past mistakes, especially if some devotees bring up those mistakes repeatedly?
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Chaitanya Charan · How can we deal with our past mistakes,especially if some devotees bringup those mistakes repeatedly

If others become envious about us, what can we do?
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Chaitanya Charan · If others become envious about us, what can we do

What is the source of intuition higher modes or Krishna?
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Chaitanya Charan · What is the source of intuition higher modes or Krishna

While making decisions, how can we know whether we are in touch with the Supersoul?
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Chaitanya Charan · While making decisions, how can we know whether we are in touch with the Supersoul?

How can we pass on inheritance to our children in a way that they won’t misuse by acting in the lower modes?
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Chaitanya Charan · How can we pass on inheritance to our children that they won’t misuse by acting in the lower modes?

Appreciating Radhanatha Maharajas holistic faithfulness to the Gaudiya tradition including to the flexibility of the tradition
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Chaitanya Charan · Appreciating Radhanatha Maharajas Holistic Faithfulness & flexibility To The Gaudiya Tradition
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Appreciating Radhanath Maharaja’s expertise in community building
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Do we need a shiksha guru when we don’t get personal guidance from our diksha-guru?
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Chaitanya Charan · Do we need a shiksha guru when we don’t get personal guidance from our diksha-guru?

The Omicron variant A Bhagavad Gita perspective
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Chaitanya Charan · The Omicron variant – A Bhagavad Gita perspective
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How Gaudiya Vaishnavism can inspire eco-friendly living, The Monk’s Podcast 176 with Radhika Raman Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 176 The Monk’s Podcast, How Gaudiya Vaishnavism can inspire eco-friendly living – Radhika Raman P

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Protecting dharma 2 Lessons from history guidelines for today – The Monks Podcast 175 with Govinda Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 175 What is dharma and how can it be protected? part 2, The Monk’s Podcast 175 with Govinda P

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Why do you put an unlimited God into the small box of a particular scripture, group or practice?
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Chaitanya Charan · Why Do You Put An Unlimited God Into The Smallbox Of A Particular Scripture, Group Or Practice

Prabhupada — the transcendentalist who embodied the best of the traditionalist, the existentialist and the utopianist
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Prabhupada — the transcendentalist who integrated the best of the traditionalist, the existentialist and the utopianist
Traditionalists live for the past, existentialists live for the present, utopianists live for the future. Religious teachers are often presumed to be traditionalists, but Prabhupada was a transcendentalist: he lived for the supreme transcendental reality, Krishna. And in his service to Krishna, he drew the best from the past, focused on the best in the present and aspired for the best in the future. Let’s see how.

Transcendentalist beyond traditionalist

Traditionalists believe that the past was the reservoir of everything good and that turning back the clock is the only way to human flourishing. They spend much of their time, emotion, energy and intelligence in lamenting how dreadful the present is and in nostalgically reminiscing how wonderful the past was.
Prabhupada certainly held that we had much to learn from the past. In our contemporary infatuation with progress, we have cut ourselves off from the past’s treasure trove of enriching wisdom. Therefore, Prabhupada presented and represented the wisdom that had been prevalent in India in the past. But he didn’t consider that wisdom as belonging to the past; it was timeless and transcendental, having its source in the supreme transcendental reality, Krishna. Because he knew that the timeless is timely at all times, he didn’t feel the need to center his outreach efforts on turning back the clock.
Recognizing that many of the religious rituals and cultural customs of the past couldn’t be replicated in the present, he downplayed those mores of the past. Steering clear of a naive idolization of the past, Prabhupada judiciously selected from the past those things which would help people today to come closer to Krishna. He engaged his students in spiritual practices that were doable and transformational for them. In a similar spirit of not fighting unnecessarily against the flow of history, he didn’t insist on rejecting the many facilities provided by modernity, especially by modern technology. In fact, he went far beyond acknowledging the utility and even necessity of technology for daily living in today’s world; he even encouraged the use of technology for sharing spiritual wisdom more efficiently and extensively.
Striking an even grander note in that same vein, he envisioned his movement as a global synthesis of the East and the West. Speaking metaphorically, he talked about how two people — one blind and one lame — can help each other. The lame man can show the way to the blind man and the blind man can carry the lame man, and thus both can reach their destination. Unpacking the metaphor, he asserted that India was like the lame man and the West was like the blind man. The two needed to work together for raising human consciousness and promoting the world’s welfare. How is this metaphor relevant to our discussion on transcendental vis-a-vis traditional? Because through the metaphor, Prabhupada conveys that India today needs to join forces with the West, not change itself to the India of […]

Did Bhaktivinoda Thakura give a nonliteral understanding of Bhagavatam cosmology and chronology just to appease his British audience?
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Chaitanya Charan · Cosmology Nonliteral For British Audience

What is the difference between revelation and realization?
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Chaitanya Charan · What Is The Difference Between Revelation And Realization

Gopi Gita Appreciation part 7 The Monks Podcast 174 with Madhavananda Prabhu & Amarendra Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 174 Gopi Gita Appreciation part 7 The Monks Podcast 174 with Madhavananda Prabhu & Amarendra Prabhu
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What is dharma and how can it be protected part 1 The Monks Podcast 173 with Govinda Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 173 What is dharma and how can it be protected? part 1, The Monk’s Podcast 173 with Govinda P

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Gopi Gita Appreciation part 6 The Monks Podcast 172 with Madhavananda Prabhu and Amarendra Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 172 Gopi Gita Appreciation part 6 The Monks Podcast 172 – Madhavananda Prabhu and Amarendra Prabhu
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What does depending on Krishna mean, practically, The Monk’s Podcast 171 with Radheshyam Prabhu
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Chaitanya Charan · 171 What does depending on Krishna mean, practically, The Monk’s Podcast 171 with Radheshyam P

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Gopi Gita Appreciation part 5, The Monk’s Podcast 170 – Madhavananda Prabhu & Amarendra Prabhu
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Why our personal experiences matter in our spiritual journey, The Monk’s Podcast 169-Yogesvara Prabhu
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Big projects in bhakti Reasons concerns and suggestions The Monk s Podcast 168 with Shyamananda Prabhu
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Working with Hindu organizations for common causes, The Monk’s Podcast 167 with Mahaprabhu Prabhu
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