Chapter 09 Archives - Page 9 of 14 - Chaitanya Charan Das, Bhagavad Gita ISKCON

Education provides insight; experience provides taste

Chaitanya Charan2016-03-09T08:59:36+05:30March 9, 2016|Chapter 09, Text 01|

Spiritual growth results from a harmonious combination of education and experience. Spiritual education helps us understand the higher reality existing beyond the visible. The reality [...]

Seek security not just in the soul but in Krishna

Chaitanya Charan2016-03-08T09:00:18+05:30March 8, 2016|Chapter 09, Text 22|

Life’s uncertainties often make us feel insecure. Our insecurities can be grouped into two broad categories: those related with providing for what we need and [...]

If you can’t offer with a pure heart, offer to get a pure heart

Chaitanya Charan2016-03-07T08:58:35+05:30March 7, 2016|Chapter 09, Text 28|

Devotional growth is essentially the growth of our loving relationship with Krishna. To make this relationship mutually satisfying and spiritually liberating, we need to connect [...]

The verdict comes from the judge but is not caused by the judge

Chaitanya Charan2015-11-23T14:58:44+05:30November 23, 2015|Chapter 09, Text 09|

Suppose a person robs a bank, and is apprehended by the police and convicted by a judge. In that robber’s going to the jail, all [...]

Gita 09.27 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:53+05:30November 15, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 27, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan But the question comes what [...]

You are no stranger to God

Chaitanya Charan2015-11-13T08:41:59+05:30November 13, 2015|Chapter 09, Text 17|

If we need to approach an important person for some help, we will hesitate if we had no prior relationship with him. But if he [...]

Gita 09.25 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:54+05:30November 13, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 25, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan So Krishna will give a [...]

Don’t uproot in doubt what was planted in faith

Chaitanya Charan2015-11-12T09:03:29+05:30November 12, 2015|Chapter 09, Text 03|

Suppose a person carefully plants saplings in a garden. But, on seeing no fruits forthcoming and thinking impatiently that no fruits will ever come, that [...]

Gita 09.24 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:54+05:30November 12, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 24, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Krishna is Lord of all [...]

Gita 09.23 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:55+05:30November 11, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 23, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now Krishna will talk about [...]

Gita 09.20 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:56+05:30November 8, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 20, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan So now Krishna will talk [...]

Gita 09.19 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:56+05:30November 7, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 19, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Krishna continues to mention how [...]

Gita 09.15 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:57+05:30November 3, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 15, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan So there are number of [...]

Gita 09.12 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:57+05:30October 30, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 12, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now Krishna explains those who [...]

Gita 09.08 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:58+05:30October 26, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 08, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now Sri Krishna will continue [...]

Gita 09.07 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:59+05:30October 25, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 07, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now after describing this mat-sthānīty [...]

Gita 09.04 explained

Chaitanya Charan2025-09-13T16:56:59+05:30October 22, 2015|Bhakti Shastri Class, Chapter 09, Text 04, Explanation|

Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan So let us look at [...]

Enlightenment ends the mind’s search for alternatives to Krishna

Chaitanya Charan2015-10-17T15:32:54+05:30October 17, 2015|Chapter 09, Text 13|

We are all searching for some object as a source of love and pleasure. Gita wisdom explains that we are actually searching for Krishna, the [...]

Devotion is the culmination of intellectual illumination and emotional connection

Chaitanya Charan2015-09-30T06:25:07+05:30September 30, 2015|Chapter 09, Text 13|

Some people downplay devotion deeming it a feeling enjoyed by non-intellectual sentimentalists. Yes, devotion is a feeling that is accessible even to non-intellectuals. But it [...]