Articles by Chaitanya Charan das
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Let Go of the Burden of Hate
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
Suppose a person is carrying a huge boulder on their back. When asked why they are carrying it, they reply, “I want to throw it on my enemy’s head.” If their enemy lives far away and carrying that boulder that far is likely to break their own back, then they will end up hurting themselves far more than their enemy. We wouldn’t usually burden our back thus, yet we frequently burden our heart thus.
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It Is Never Too Late
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
Sometimes we feel that life has passed us by that it is now too late to do many of the things we wanted to achieve in our life. Such thoughts demoralize us and prevent us from taking the small incremental steps on the path to improvement that may still be possible for us. “It is never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot
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Tolerating Phases of Bad Fortune
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
We sometimes go through phases of bad fortune when things keep going wrong, one after another. Whatever we do to set things right only makes them worse. Gita wisdom helps us understand that such phases deliver us concentrated doses of reactions to our past karma. To navigate such phases, or even to just survive them, we need patience and tolerance. Kneejerk reactions can cause aggravation, even devastation.
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Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Spirituality is the study of the totality of reality, whereas science is the study of a subset of that reality. If we consider total reality as a big circle, then physical reality is a small circle within that big circle and science studies that physical reality.
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
An Indian Union Minister of State recently triggered a furor by stating that evolution is unproven scientifically and shouldn’t be taught in schools.
Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
By our intelligence and efforts, we can stave off everything undesirable and attain everything desirable. Or so we are taught to believe. The notion that we are the controllers of our life is so central to our worldview that we define our success and even our self-worth in terms of our capacity to mold our circumstances to our will. Given such self-conceptions, uncontrollable situations don’t just frustrate us – they shatter us. No wonder mental health problems have risen with the spread of modernity.
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Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost… When we imbue our activism with the inspiration to harmonize with the whole, our activism makes an enduring difference – in our own lives, in our social circle and in the world at large.
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Is There any Scientific Proof of the Existence of Higher and Lower Planetary Systems?
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
There are different models of reality. Science is basically a map of reality and that map is meant for a particular perspective. For example, you are in place A and you want to go to place B to meet a friend. Someone gives you a map to get to place B.
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan Das | Spiritual Scientist – ISKCON News,
9 Apr 2018
“When evolution becomes an all-explaining truth-claim, it no longer remains a science, but becomes an ideology.” Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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Chaitanya Charan Das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The idea of activism – of being a part of some cause that helps makes things better in the world – is increasingly catching on. It has become much cooler than what it was a few decades ago, when greed ruled the roost. What has led to activism’s increased appeal?
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Chaitanya Charan Das - ISKCON News,
20 Jul 2015
Everyone has to grow old, get diseased and die. Before that, everyone has to undergo the three types of miseries: environmental, relational and physical. The ways in which the wealthy suffer may be different from the ways in which the not-so-wealthy suffer, but that variety doesn’t change the reality that everyone suffers.
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