Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan

When advice works and when vice works – 1

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When advice works and when vice works – 2

What your phone can teach you about your mind 1 – Deal with your default settings maturely What your phone can teach you about your mind seattle  What your phone can teach you about your mind 2 – Hardware improvement doesn’t solve software problems What your phone can teach you about your mind seattle  What…

​What cricket can teach us about life 1

What cricket can teach us about life 2

What cricket can teach us about life 3

Vamana pastime analysis 1 – When good people do good things at a heavy cost

Vamana pastime analysis 2 – When the branch under us break, seek Krishna’s help to spread your wings

Understanding what is our quota in material life – 1

Understanding what is our quota in material life – 2

Understanding the unborn’s understandings 1 – How can the embryo with an undeveloped brain speak prayers? Understanding the unborn’s understandings 2 – How can the embryo know God Understanding the unborn’s understandings 3 – What is a human soul Understanding the unborn’s understandings 4 – What the embryo’s desire to stay in the womb implies…

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 1 – Horse & Wolf – Hindi

Understanding the mind through four animal metaphors 2 – Dog & Sheep – Hindi

Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 1 Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada’s prayer markine bhagavata dharma from Chaitanya Charan Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma – 2 Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada’s prayer markine bhagavata dharma from Chaitanya Charan Understanding Surrender – Meditation on Prabhupada’s prayer Markine Bhagavata Dharma –…

Understanding rasa-lila 1 – How the supreme Shelter (Ashraya) becomes sheltered (Ashrita) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=283455372276144 Understanding rasa-lila 2- How Bhagavatam establishes para-dharma without trivializing apara-dharma https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=2150021595220795 Understanding rasa-lila 3 – Arrogance keeps us locked in ourselves, both apara-dharma and para-dharma get us out of ourselves https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=1296601320481742 Understanding Rasa-lila 4 – Radharani’s apparent pride expresses her selfless love…

Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 1 – Misunderstanding ourselves Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand from Chaitanya Charan Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 2 – Misunderstanding ourselves Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand from Chaitanya Charan Understanding how our mind makes us misunderstand 3 – Misunderstanding Krishna Understanding how our mind makes us…

Understanding Destiny 1 – What is pre-determined and what isn’t

Understanding Destiny 2 – Destiny determines the scope of our free will, not our free will

Understanding attachment, detachment, commitment 1 – Frustration is not renunciation

Understanding attachment, detachment, commitment 2 – Detachment is not hardheartedness – it is levelheadedness

Understanding attachment, detachment,…

Those eighteen days – Day 1 Those eighteen days – Day 2 Those eighteen days – Day 3 Those eighteen days – Day 4 Those eighteen days – Day 5 Those eighteen days – Day 6 Those eighteen days – Day 7 Those eighteen days – Day 8 Those eighteen days – Day 9 Those…

The Son of the Sun – Part 1 The Mahabharata is a fascinating book with many of its characters not clearly black or clearly white, but multiple shades of grey. Karna is an intriguing character – virtuous, yet choosing the side of the vicious Kauravas; born as a warrior, but treated lifelong as charioteer’s son;…

The power of gratitude 1 – How gratitude empowers us

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The power of gratitude 2 – How to cultivate gratitude

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199 Focusing on the practical in the scriptural – The Monk’s Podcast with Kaustubha Prabhu 198 Presenting Lord Chaitanya to today’s world via biography writing – The Monk’s Podcast Yogesvara P 196 Systematic outreach for sustainable community development – The Monk’s Podcast with Aniruddha P 195 Pursuing writing as an art in bhakti, The Monk’s…

Tap the mind, dont be trapped by the mind 1 – The pressure for pleasure

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Tap the mind, don’t be trapped by the mind 2 – Why mind control backfires

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Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – How the modes turn good intentions into not-so-good actions Spiritualizing our relationships from Chaitanya Charan https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=2182085372020405 Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – Changing our vision of others Spiritualizing our relationships from Chaitanya Charan https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=2182139908681618 Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Changing our vision of our role in relationships Spiritualizing our relationships from Chaitanya Charan https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=2182515751977367 Spiritualizing…

Spiritualizing our relationships 1 – The more despiritualized we are, the more desensitized we become Spiritualizing our relationships 2 – To improve relationships, decrease expectation and increase contribution Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior Spiritualizing our relationships 4 – Accept yourself to relate better with others Spiritualizing our relationships…

What is destiny?

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Growing through adversities

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Making healthy choices

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Spiritual Perspectives on Material Beauty 1 – Bring out each other’s higher side, not lower side

Spiritual Perspectives on Material Beauty – 2 – Should we be disgusted with the body?

Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 1 – The mind is the passenger, don’t let it become the driver https://www.facebook.com/watch/ChaitanyaCharana/?ref=embed_video Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 2 – What we are driving matters, but where we are driving matters more https://www.facebook.com/watch/ChaitanyaCharana/?ref=embed_video Spiritual Lessons from Car Driving 3 – Our attitude is our steering wheel https://www.facebook.com/watch/ChaitanyaCharana/?ref=embed_video Spiritual Lessons…

Prahlad Prayers 1 Krishna’s glorification is for our purification, not our glorification Prahlad Prayers 2 The damsel in distress redefines distress Prahlad Prayers 3 Linking manisha with Hrshikesha makes us manisha Prahlad Prayers 4 Upward mobility can’t save us from mortality ​Prahlad Prayers 5 Those who cherish the spiritual can channel the material Nityananda Trayodashi…

Six limbs of surrender 1 – The Medical Metaphor

Six limbs of surrender 2 – Accept the favorable, avoid the unfavorable

Six limbs of surrender 3 – Understanding how God protects

Six limbs o…

Shikshashtakam 1 Overview and flow of the ashtakam Shikshashtakam series at alachua from pustagopika26 Shikshashtakam 2 Text 1 The mind as a window, a TV screen and a mirror Shikshashtakam series at alachua from pustagopika26 ​Shikshashtakam 3 Text 1 The flower metaphor for the blossoming of consciousness Shikshashtakam series at alachua from pustagopika26 ​Shikshashtakam 4 Text 1 From the partial nectar…

Shakuni Character Analysis 1 – The mind rationalizes selfishness as selflessness

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Shakuni Character Analysis 2 – Evaluate whether our relationships bring out our b…

Sensitivity in relationships 1 – Why we need to be sensitive and why we aren’t

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Sensitivity in relationships 2 – From judgment to encouragement

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Self destruction Strategies 1 – Mistake self-pity to be humility

Self-destruction strategies 2 – Be a perfectionist

Self-destruction strategies 3 – Treat the peripheral as the essential

Self-destruction strategies 4 – Let gu…

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 1

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 2

Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 3

Responsible relationships 1 – Hurt people hurt people

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Responsible Relationships 2 – Make judgments, but don’t be judgmental

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Reincarnation 1 – Preview of scientific, historical and philosophical analysis

Reincarnation 2 – Europe’s incredible delusion – we have only one life

Reincarnation 3 – Five intuitive contemplations for self-discovery

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Ramayana Series 1 – Dasharatha’s dilemma https://www.facebook.com/watch/ChaitanyaCharana/?ref=embed_video Ramayana series 2 – Maricha’s miscalculation – Our destination is not as important as our action https://www.facebook.com/watch/ChaitanyaCharana/?ref=embed_video Ramayana series 3 – Shurapanakha’s slyness – Beware of those who manipulate us using our weakness https://www.facebook.com/watch/ChaitanyaCharana/?ref=embed_video Ramayana series 4 – SEES acronym – 4 explanations why Rama abandoned Sita https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=2087632298132380…

Ramayana series 1 – Manthara-Kaikeyi – How manipulators mislead

Ramayana series2 – Vali-Sugriva – Don’t judge without understanding

Ramayana series 3 – Rama-Lakshmana – Does destiny control everything?

Ramayana Reflection – Why Rama abandoned Sita

Ramayana Reflection – Hanuman in Lanka 1 – Overcoming Obstacles

Ramayana Reflection – Hanuman in Lanka 2 – Discouraged yet determined

Ramayana Reflection – Hanuman in Lanka 3 – E…

Ramayana series 1 – Comparing Dasharatha and Dhritarashtra – What we do is not as important as why we do it https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=1940775015969924 Ramayana series 2 – Ravana’s recklessness – Attachment makes us overvalue things https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=287382915216771 Ramayana series 3 – Shurapanakha’s manipulativeness – Exploiting others’ weaknesses doesn’t make us strong https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=308409816438309 Ramayana series 4 – Sita’s…

Rama at home in exile 1 – The power of acceptance

Rama at home in exile 2 – The power of diligence

Radhashtami meditation 1 – Appreciating the sacrificing spirit of Sita and Radharani

Radhashtami meditation 2 – Appreciating the two separations endured by Sita and Radharani

QA on racism Q 1 From a spiritual perspective, why does racism exist? QA on racism Q 2 Does racism exist because of the caste system? QA on racism Q 3 Do people of particular skin colors belong to particular castes? QA on racism Q 4 Are varna and ashrama the only two hierarchies present…

QA on humility 1 – How are the various points of Lord Chaitanya’s verse on humility inter-related? QA on humility 2 – While being tolerant, how can we ensure that we aren’t abused by others? QA on humility 3 – How can we be humble with those who are exploitative? QA on humility 4 –…

Prabhupada: The moments that made his movement – Part 1 The Man … “It’s an astonishing story. If someone told you a story like this, you wouldn’t believe it. Here’s this person, he’s seventy years old, he’s going to a country where he’s never been before, he doesn’t know anybody there, he has no money,…