Author Archives: Chaitanya Charan
Bhagavad Gita Overview Chapter 12
World Religions
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World Religions 1 – Appreciating religious diversity amidst spiritual universality World religions 1 – appreciating religious diversity amidst spiritual universality World Religions 2 – Christianity – Beyond authoritarian and humanitarian religion to transcendence World religions 2 – christianity – beyond authoritarian and humanitarian religion to transcendence World Religions 3 – Islam – Beyond the politically…
Wisdom on Wisdom
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Emerson’s Thought-stealing Ancients – Wisdom on Wisdom 1 Nietzsche’s Desirer of desire – Wisdom on Wisdom 2 The future is in the future, not the past – Wisdom on Wisdom 3 Pleasure is a smooth-talking lawyer – Wisdom on Wisdom 4 Pain is new for the sufferer, old for the observer – Wisdom on Wisdom…
Winning with emotional intelligence
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Winning with emotional intelliigence 1 – Personal competence through self management
Winning with emotional intelliigence 1 – Personal competence through self management from Chaitanya Charan
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When the source of liberation becomes the source of illusion
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When the source of liberation becomes the source of illusion 1 – Mohini-murti pastime analysis
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When the source of liberation becomes the source of illusion 2 – Mo…
When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar
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When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – 1
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When spiritual life gives poison instead of nectar – PURE acronym – 2
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When life hurts
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When life hurts 1 – when a small mistake causes huge problems – Parikshit M pastime analysis
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When life hurts 2 – When people attack us – Gajendra pastime analysis
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When advice works and when vice works
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Understanding what is our quota in material life – 1
Understanding what is our quota in material life – 2
Understanding the unborn’s understandings
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 and commitment
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Monk’s Podcast
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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, don’t be trapped by the mind
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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 – Alachua 2018
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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
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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…
Spiritual Seekers Retreat ?
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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
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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
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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…
Special Days Meditations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Series
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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
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Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 1
Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 2
Seeking Karuna Amidst Corona seminar part 3
Responsible Relationships
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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
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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 at Phoenix
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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
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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?