PK exposes insightfully the shenanigans of godmen and the gullibility of their followers. But in its negative stereotyping of religion. It mixes superstitions with meaningful spiritual practices and reduces God to an irrelevant cipher.
GK for PK! Responds to the issues raised in PK by drawing on logic, humor, scripture, science and common sense. Some of the questions answered are:
• Can we reject as wrong numbers the rituals that don’t make sense?
• Do people who are afraid go to temples?
• Are there two gods: the god who created man and the god whom man created?
• How can worshiping a cow get one a job?
• Does a stone smeared with colored power become God?
• Why are we not born with our religion stamped on us?
• Why does God not respond to our prayers?
Concise and penetrating, these twenty-five ansers illumine universal principles of living and loving that can help you see religion, God and life in a refreshingly new light.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chaitanya Charan
Chaitanya Charan is a monk and spiritual author. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Government college of Engineering, Pune. He subsequently served as a software engineer in a prominent multinational software corporation. He also secured 2350 out of 2400 in GRE, gaining the top rank in Maharashtra.
Seeing the prevalent problems of street, depression, addiction and overall misdirection- all caused by a lack of spirituality- he left inspired to dedicate his life to the cause of sharing the spiritual wisdom of the Bhagavad-gita under the aegis of ISKCON.
He is a member of ISKCON’s leading intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, and is the associate-editor of ISKCON’s global magazine, Back to Godhead.
He is the author of the world’s only Gita-daily feature, wherein he writes daily a 300-word inspirational reflection on a verse from the Bhagavad-Gita. Till now he has written over fourteen hundred Gita meditations that are posted on www.gitadaily.com and are read through daily feeds by thousands from all over the world. He also answers questions by seekers on his site www.thespiritualscientist.com, where his over two thousand audio answers and several hundred articles are available.
His articles have been published in many national newspapers including Indian Express, Economics Times and Times of India in the Speaking Tree column. His writings in English have been translated into several foreign languages including German, Chinese and Romanian and several Indian languages including Kannada, Telgu, Bengali, Hindi and Marathi.
He is the author of fourteen books: Energy – Your Sutra for positive Thinking; Science and Spirituality; The Spiritual Scientist series, volumes 1 and 2; Recession- Adversity or Opportunity?; Why do we need a temple?; Frequently Unanswered Question; Idol Worship or ideal Worship?; The Gita for Daily Enrichment; Oh My God! Re-answering the Questions; My Little Bhakti Companion; Timeless Insights on Today’s Issues; 10 Leadership Sutras from Bhagavad-gita and GK for PK.
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