Integrating the Scientific method and the Spiritual vision for all-round human growth
18 Chapter Eighteen 
June 2013
May 2013
- 18.61 – The first purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life
- 18.58 – Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place
April 2013
March 2013
- 18.58 – When Krishna doesn’t understand…
- 18.56 – The summit that reaches down to the trenches
- 18.38 – Are we drinking poison to quench thirst?
- 18.22 – Are we meant to be characters in a cartoon show?
- 18.66 – Love values, but value love more
February 2013
- 18.66 – The bond that sets us free
- 18.57 – Fighting vices is like fighting weeds: we are always slightly behind
- 18.76 – Love of words in the words of love
- 18.73 – The sacrifice of life, the life of sacrifice
January 2013
- 18.04 – Don’t massage or pinch the false ego; pat it onwards
- 18.38 – The human talent for misery
- 18.48 – Forgive the unavoidable, avoid the unforgivable
December 2012
- 18.58 – Are we seeking counsel from our fears instead of from Krishna?
- 18.37 – Be cruel to be kind
- 18.58 – The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna
- 18.33 – Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way
November 2012
- 18.45 – Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness
- 18.37 – Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar
October 2012
September 2012
- 18.63 – Don’t give up the intelligence; go beyond the intelligence
- 18.73 – When relevance becomes irrelevant…
- 18.40 – Beyond Denial and Dismissal to Determination
- 18.32 – When the conscience is dumbed and numbed and dumped…
- 18.76 – Are our thoughts impoverishing or enriching us?
August 2012
- 18.66 – The Gita is Categorical and Rhetorical
- 18.70 – Veneration, comprehension, application, transformation: The four stages in our relationship with the Gita
- 18.58 – Let’s not tell Krishna how big our problems are; let’s tell our problems how big Krishna is
- 18.55 – Claiming that the unknown is unknowable is claiming to know the unknown
July 2012
- 18.76: The two wonders of Gita wisdom
- 18.42: Shun senselessness or shun the senseless mind
- 18.57 – Krishna-thoughts are soothing, satisfying, strengthening and sublimating
- 18.58: If no time for meditation, then time for frustration
- 18.22: The monomania of machines, mechanistic thinking and mechanical behavior
June 2012
- 18.67: What are our thoughts giving us: frustration or jubilation?
- 18.54: Comparison: The futile pastime of the mind
- 18.73: Krishna’s message paves the way for his ultimate miracle
April 2012
- 18.36: Are we waiting for a holy cloud to form around our heads?
- 18.38: Material Letdown and Spiritual Breakdown: The Twin Troubles of Transgression
- 18.76-77: Meditation is not a dulling duty, but a thrilling opportunity
- 18.63: Krishna walks with us, but not for us
March 2012
- 18.63: The Gita transforms the head into a runway for the heart
- 18.58: True to oneself or true tool to one’s self?
February 2012
- 18.64-65: Love that doesn’t appoint to DIS-appoint
- 18.32: Rationalize = Rational + lies: Glamorizing lewdness as “boldness”
January 2012
- 18.58: With Krishna, we flourish; without Krishna, we perish
- 18.66: Surrender is not about giving up, but about going up
- 18.73 – An intellectual adventure with an emotional climax
- 18.58: Our fear of insignificance traps us in insignificance
- 18.33-35: Gita insights for New Year resolutions
December 2011
- 18.73: Questioning our questions
- 18.37: Lack of devotional appetite is natural yet unnatural
- 18.55: Familiarity is not understanding
- 18.78: The Gita guarantees ultimate success
- 18.73: From “Is God with me?” to “Am I with God?”
- 18.65: The Bhagavad-gita enthrones the path of love