Gita In Action Podcast

What does it really mean to forgive someone? Does forgiveness mean trusting them again? Rebuilding the relationship? Letting go of boundaries? Or pretending that what happened didn’t hurt?

In this special episode of Gita In Action, Radha sits down with Bhagavad Gita teacher and author Chaitanya Charan for a conversation on forgiveness, relationships, trust, and boundaries through the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita.

Together, we explore the difference between forgiving someone and trusting them, why forgiveness doesn’t always require reconciliation, and how sometimes the healthiest response may actually be creating distance.

Chaitanya Charan also shares a powerful framework for understanding forgiveness at the level of our intentions, emotions, and actions—and why healing our own wounds is different from deciding what kind of relationship we should have with the person who hurt us. audio1885818895

We also explore the power of the “sacred pause” before reacting, what it means to forgive wisely, and an unexpected question at the end: How do we forgive ourselves? 

Forgiveness doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting.

Sometimes forgiveness is simply choosing to heal—and then deciding wisely what comes next.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life.

What does it actually mean to become “fixed” in spiritual knowledge?

In this episode of Gita In Action, we explore Bhagavad Gita 14.2–14.4 and the difference between simply understanding spiritual knowledge and actually allowing it to change the way we live.

So much of our lives is spent trying to understand, achieve, control, and figure everything out. We can even bring that same mentality into our spiritual lives. But what if the Bhagavad Gita isn’t something we’re meant to conquer with our intellect? What if it’s something we’re meant to take shelter of?

We explore what it means to move from knowledge to realization, why surrender doesn’t mean giving up, how our need for control can keep us from trusting God, and how spiritual wisdom gradually becomes the ground we stand on—even when everything around us is changing.

We also discuss Krishna as the source of material nature and all living beings, what that teaches us about our relationship with Him, and how seeing everything as a gift can begin to change the way we relate to our lives.

Because the goal isn’t simply to know the Bhagavad Gita.

It’s to allow the Bhagavad Gita to change us.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life.

Why do we keep getting pulled into the same patterns, desires, attachments, and ways of thinking—even when we know they aren't making us happy?

In this class, we begin Chapter 14 of the Bhagavad-gītā and explore Krishna's teaching on the three modes of material nature: goodness, passion, and ignorance.

These subtle forces influence our thoughts, desires, motivations, choices, and even what we believe will make us happy.

But Krishna isn't giving us this knowledge simply so we can get better at analyzing ourselves. The analysis has a purpose: to help us recognize what's influencing us, understand what's keeping us bound, and ultimately discover how to become free.

We explore why trying harder isn't always enough, why the things we once thought we couldn't live without can eventually lose their grip on us, and how taking shelter of something higher can begin to change our entire relationship with material life.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life.

Bhagavad-gītā Chapter 14, Text 1 | Gita In Action with Radha & Friends

What does the Bhagavad Gita say about who we really are beyond the body and mind?

In this episode of Gita In Action, we review Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 and explore Krishna’s teachings on the field and the knower of the field, the soul and Supersoul, material nature, consciousness, conditioning, spiritual vision, and liberation.

We explore what it means to understand that we are not simply our bodies, minds, emotions, personalities, or conditioning—and how that realization can change the way we see ourselves, other people, and God.

How do we stop identifying so deeply with our conditioning? How can we recognize Krishna’s presence within the heart? And how does spiritual knowledge move from something we intellectually understand to something that actually transforms the way we live?

Chapter 13 takes us from identification to understanding, from understanding to vision, from vision to relationship, and ultimately toward freedom.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life.

What if the deepest part of you has never been damaged by anything you’ve been through?

In this episode of Gita in Action, we finish Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita with verses 13.33–13.35 and explore Krishna’s teachings on the unchanging nature of the soul, consciousness, and what it actually means to become spiritually free.

Using the analogies of the sky and the sun, Krishna helps us understand how the soul can move through changing bodies, circumstances, conditioning, successes, failures, and even painful experiences without losing its spiritual nature. And just as the sun illuminates the world through its light, Krishna describes consciousness as the symptom of the soul—the light through which we experience the body and the world around us.

We explore the difference between the body and the conscious being experiencing it, the individual soul and the Supersoul, and why simply knowing “I am not this body” is very different from actually living from that understanding.

Life can shape us. Our experiences can affect our minds, personalities, relationships, and even our bodies. But Krishna offers us something incredibly hopeful: none of it reaches all the way down to the deepest level of who we are.

What you’ve been through is real. But it isn’t the entirety of who you are.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life. ❤️

What if being different didn’t have to mean being separate?

In this episode of Gita in Action, we explore Bhagavad Gita 13.31–13.32 and what it means to develop spiritual vision—to honor the very real differences between us without allowing those differences to become division.

Krishna invites us to look beneath bodies, personalities, beliefs, roles, and circumstances to recognize the deeper spiritual reality we share. And as that vision grows, something begins to change: the circle of those we recognize as connected to us gets bigger.

Different doesn’t have to mean separate. Unity doesn’t require sameness.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life. ❤️

In this special episode of Gita in Action, Radha sits down with Kripamaya Prabhu and Krishna Bhava, longtime practitioners and original disciples of Srila Prabhupada, to talk about what more than 50 years of spiritual life has actually taught them.

They share how they found Krishna consciousness as teenagers, what it was like to meet Srila Prabhupada, and how the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita have carried them through marriage, raising children, loss, aging, and the things in life we simply cannot control.

We also get into some of the questions that can come up for Western seekers encountering bhakti for the first time: Is Hare Krishna a cult? How does Krishna consciousness fit alongside Christianity and other spiritual traditions? And what does bhakti have to say to someone struggling with patriarchal conceptions of God?

And after more than five decades of practice, Kripamaya and Krishna Bhava reflect honestly on what they would do differently—including being less judgmental, having a softer heart, prioritizing family, and realizing that sometimes the best way to help the people we love is to work on ourselves.

A beautiful, honest conversation about what spiritual wisdom looks like after a lifetime of actually trying to live it.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life.

How much of what we call “me” is actually just conditioning?

In Bhagavad-gita 13.30, Krishna explains that material nature is acting—but that doesn’t mean we have no responsibility for our choices. In this conversation, we explore the difference between who we really are and the patterns we’ve practiced, why our conditioning doesn’t have to define us, how this understanding can help us forgive ourselves and others, and why what we choose to feed matters.

Your conditioning may explain where you’re starting from—but it doesn’t have to determine where you’re going.

Ancient wisdom. Modern life.