Chaitanya Charan

To stay civilized, every society needs to instill in its members a healthy fear of the law, which essentially means fear of the consequences of [...]

At the start of the Bhagavad-gita, when Arjuna is confronted with the prospect of fighting a brutal war against his venerable elders, he pauses. Throughout [...]

We are often fascinated by characters depicted in novels and movies. Fans fill blogs analyzing every single dialogue spoken by fictional characters in, say, Star [...]

Our mind often acts as our enemy (Bhagavad-gita 06.06). One way it acts inimically is by discouraging us whenever we attempt anything worthwhile: “You are [...]

Suppose someone is walking on a road with their eyes blindfolded and ears plugged. If they struggled only to remove the ear plugs that blocked [...]

Suppose someone is living in a pandemic area. If they have developed immunity to that disease, they may think they are safe. However, if they [...]

We often value our work based on the paycheck it provides — the bigger the paycheck, the better the work. Such assessment is understandable because [...]

Our ego often acts like a trident that pierces us with three prongs: grandiosity, blame and shame.  Grandiosity: When we set out to achieve something, [...]

Some people feel, “Devotion involves pursuing God beyond this world, whereas ambition involves pursuing worldly gain. The two are therefore incompatible.”  Not necessarily.  It’s true [...]

  Modern history is often a compilation of facts and figures, wars and conquests, births and deaths. Traditionally however, especially in spiritual cultures, history was [...]

Suppose we know certain people who talk too much and waste our time. When we meet them, we will politely but firmly restrict our meeting [...]

                                  We may try to share our beliefs with [...]

Suppose a crazy psychopath has taken a child hostage and is using that child as a shield against the police seeking to rescue. At such [...]

Many people want to or claim to stand for God. That means they want to represent God and to challenge those who malign [...]

We sometimes succumb to such improper actions and succumb so frequently and so grievously that we may feel that there is an unscalable distance between [...]

If unseasonal rain ruins a celebrity’s makeup, then how they actually look becomes exposed.  Makeup can generically refer to the carefully crafted appearance that people [...]

Some people say, “I am rational; I don’t accept irrational ideas such as faith.”  While rationality is a vital tool in the human search for [...]

Some people think that jumping over the world, with all its problems and complications, is the way to reach God. Yes, spiritualists don't want to [...]

We sometimes feel, “Good things rarely happen to me, but bad things happen repeatedly. Things happen to me, never for me. If only [...]

Suppose a person is so sick as to not have the strength to lift even small objects. We won’t condemn them for being weak; we [...]