Gita Daily Chapterwise
- 01.28 – Transforming a battlefield into a classroom
- 01.29 - Might our worst fear point to our best hope?
- 05.11 - The balance between “matter alone matters” and “matter doesn’t matter”
- 10.05 – Why are we half-trusting Krishna?
- 10.08 - Bring the momentum of emotion into the moment of meditation
- 10.08 - Krishna is not just God; he is my God
- 10.09 - Are we bandaging an infected wound without cleaning it?
- 10.10 - Love is the ultimate knowledge – and is the way to the ultimate knowledge
- 10.10 – Invest emotion to relish transformation
- 10.11 - Devotional service is the arena to become lost and found
- 10.41 - Krishna is Krishna’s best blessing
- 10.41 - The truth of beauty, the beauty of truth
- 12.04 - The enlightened vision and the benevolent disposition
- 12.07 - Are we holding on to a straw instead of a lifeline?
- 12.07 – Go beyond the beyond
- 12.08-12 - Navigating our way between the ideal and the real
- 12.09 - Map changes – and change maps
- 12.09 – Aspire not for feelings but for relationship
- 12.10 - Krishna wants our presence more than our presents
- 12.10 – If we can’t offer our heart to Krishna, then we can offer what’s in our heart to Krishna
- 12.12 - Renunciation is not deprivation but emancipation
- 12.13 - Are we praying for others or preying on others?
- 12.13 - Be grateful for everything we can live without
- 12.13 - Love that is too big to allow room for hatred in the heart
- 12.18-19 - Bad times test our faith – and so do good times
- 12.19 – Belonging that leads to blissful being
- 12.19 – Do we have our own inner sanctuary?
- 12.20 - Devotion is the switch that activates our dormant virtues
- 13.08 - Are we letting knowledge steal our humility?
- 13.08 - How humility boosts our self-esteem…
- 13.08 – How an accountability vacuum can suck our devotion
- 13.09 – When it requires courage to be afraid
- 13.11 - Are we mistaking solitude to be loneliness?
- 13.12 - Is education changing the teacher within?
- 13.23 - Are we conscious that Krishna is conscious of us?
- 13.28 - We see not by staring but by hearing
- 14.06 – Why is morning the best time for spiritual activities?
- 14.11 - Are we clearing the inner fog?
- 14.12 – Are we mistaking an inner lacking for an outer lacking?
- 14.23 - Be consciousness-conscious
- 14.24 - We are just extras in others’ plots
- 14.26 - The unemotional emotionality of the Gita
- 15.03 - Sharpen the head, ripen the heart
- 15.07 - Are we trying to live someone else’s life?
- 15.07 - Let us long to belong
- 15.07 - Playing God or playing with God?
- 15.07 - Why pursue pleasure in a prison of protoplasm?
- 15.09 – Might a 20/20 vision lead to blindness?
- 15.10 - How can we pursue that which we don’t perceive?
- 15.10 – Blinded and addicted or illumined and liberated?
- 15.10 – Is our sight causing us to lose sight?
- 15.11 – When will the over-estimate be over?
- 15.15 - Is the noise without muting the voice within?
- 15.15 - No time to learn the language of faith?
- 15.15 - Nothing can separate us from the infinite love of the infinite
- 15.15 – Krishna is responsive; we are responsible
- 15.18 - Enlightenment that is universal, beneficial and non-imitable
- 15.19 - The best direction for the motion of emotion
- 16.02 - What we speak about others speaks about us
- 16.02 - When we best serve Krishna by keeping out of his business
- 16.04 – Are we trying to control without because of being uncontrolled within?
- 16.04 – Is the knife cutting to heal or to wound?
- 16.09 - A talk that no one walks
- 16.09 - Are we being fooled into giving ourselves a collective pat on the back?
- 16.09 - Emptiness, Loneliness, Pointlessness
- 16.09 – Why sentence ourselves to meaninglessness, purposelessness and joylessness?
- 16.10 - The great achievement of materialism
- 16.11 - Filling our mind, emptying our pocket, starving our heart – is this progress?
- 16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?
- 16.13-14 – Our convictions are far more important than our possessions
- 16.16 - Are we living our life at the center or at the periphery?
- 16.16 – Why life seems so complex…
- 16.17 - Is our religion a sanctuary for the soul or a gymnasium for the ego?
- 16.24 - Scriptural study strengthens the intelligence, stabilizes the mind and sustains the heart
- 16.9 - Why put faith in faithlessness?
- 18.66 - Religion is meant for God; God is not meant for religion
- 17.02 - On the value of judgments and the judgment of values
- 17.09 - Are we courting suffering with the tongue?
- 17.14 - Differences that make a real difference – and differences that don’t
- 17.15 - When self-righteousness obscures rightness…
- 17.16 - How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?
- 17.16 – Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice
- 17.19 - True austerity is supplicative not manipulative
- 18.04 - Don’t massage or pinch the false ego; pat it onwards
- 18.22 - Are we meant to be characters in a cartoon show?
- 18.33 - Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way
- 18.37 - Be cruel to be kind
- 18.37 - Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar
- 18.38 - Are we drinking poison to quench thirst?
- 18.38 - The human talent for misery
- 18.45 - Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness
- 18.48 - Forgive the unavoidable, avoid the unforgivable
- 18.56 - The summit that reaches down to the trenches
- 18.57 – Fighting vices is like fighting weeds: we are always slightly behind
- 18.58 - Are we seeking counsel from our fears instead of from Krishna?
- 18.58 - Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place
- 18.58 - The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna
- 18.58 - When Krishna doesn’t understand…
- 18.65 - Realization comes by riveting to the relationship, not the ritual
- 18.66 - The bond that sets us free
- 18.66 – Love values, but value love more
- 18.73 - The sacrifice of life, the life of sacrifice
- 18.76 - Love of words in the words of love
- 02.06 - Our problems introduce us to ourselves
- 02.07 - Are we strong enough to admit that we are not strong enough?
- 02.08 - When we find ourselves in trouble, do we also find ourselves?
- 02.08 – Losing our way to find our way
- 02.11 - Are we using religion as a cloak instead of as an armor?
- 02.11 - Learning begins with unlearning
- 02.13 - Do we recognize that we haven’t recognized ourselves?
- 02.14 – Imprisoned by circumstances, liberated by consciousness
- 02.15 Are we rejecting the eternal because the temporary has rejected us?
- 02.19 - Are we giving death more than its due quota?
- 02.22 - Have we become the slaves of our clothes?
- 02.27 – Watching TV while a cobra comes to bite?
- 02.30 - Break the wall that blocks the path from the past to the future
- 02.38 – A package in which the best and the worst aren’t bound together
- 02.44 – Are riches cutting us off from the richness of life?
- 02.52 – Untrue ways of being true to oneself
- 02.56 - When neither the summits nor the valleys matter…
- 02.58 - Are we trying to move up while looking down?
- 02.62-63 - Are we sending our intelligence on a vacation?
- 02.64 - Are we mistaking the lifeline to be a handcuff?
- 02.67 – Detect the storm of temptation when it is still a blip
- 02.69 - Might we be running in the right direction on the wrong train?
- 03.07 - Is nothing the place where something is hiding?
- 03.16 - When comforts become ends, life becomes a dead end
- 03.21 - Why not model the desired example instead of desiring the model example?
- 03.26 - Might we be burning the very bridge that we want others to cross?
- 03.26 - Standards are for inspiration not condemnation
- 03.30 - Better to be exhausted than rusted
- 03.36 - Spiritual culture is the bridge from hypocrisy and perversity to purity
- 03.39 - Are we mistaking torture to be pleasure?
- 03.41 - The mental avatar of AIDS
- 03.41 - Where is the glory in a backdoor victory over attachments?
- 03.41 – Pause is not inaction but action
- 03.43 - Keeping our skeptical antenna on high alert
- 04.04 – The call to faith is for focusing, not forsaking, of intelligence
- 04.11 - Might we be protecting our heart from Krishna instead of for Krishna?
- 04.11 - When strengths make us weak and weaknesses make us strong
- 04.11 – To get devotion in our life, let’s put life in our devotion
- 04.17 - Ask not “Why this?” but “How now?”
- 04.17 - Should we be happy when we are happy?
- 04.19 - Are we mistaking the causal to be casual?
- 04.36 - Are we blaming the sinking of the boat on gravity?
- 04.36 - The power that supersedes nature, nurture and culture
- 04.38 - Seek pleasure in the pursuit of meaning, not meaning in the pursuit of pleasure
- 04.42 – Are we putting too much faith in doubt?
- 05.18 – Gita wisdom frees humanity from speciesism
- 05.20 - When life makes us emotionally seasick…
- 05.21 - The road that turns into a roadblock
- 05.21 - We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth
- 05.22 - Are we mistaking the red signal to be the green signal?
- 05.22 - Long in shadow, short in substance
- 05.22 - The heaven that turns out to be hell
- 05.22 – The false currency that keeps us trading in the stock exchange of illusion
- 05.23 - The way to transcendence is through tolerance not indulgence
- 05.25 - Are we like doctors who give medicines to everyone except themselves?
- Are our desires locking us into a world of frustration or releasing us into the world of fulfillment?
- 06.05 - Are we falling for the mind’s “no time” trick?
- 06.05 - Is it human nature to want to transcend human nature?
- 06.05 – When a salesperson knocks at the inner door…
- 06.06 - The mind is not just a liar but also a traitor
- 06.06 - When the mind throws sand into our eyes...
- 06.06 – When the mind tempts us to play the victim game
- 06.08 - Happiness comes not by the stocking of information but the flowing of service
- 06.16 – Beyond Captivity to Futility and Utility
- 06.17 - Plans may not work, but planning works
- 06.18 - Is the body a playground for passion or a temple for devotion?
- 06.21 - When attention seems like detention…
- 06.22 - Stability and maturity that takes us beyond adversity
- 06.24 - Let’s guard our consciousness the way we guard our homes
- 06.24 – Are we placing in the treasury that which belongs to the dustbin?
- 06.26 - Parent the childlike mind by being vigilant and diligent
- 06.32 - Let’s learn to laugh with others, not laugh at others
- 06.35 - Bind the blind mind
- 06.40 – On decreasing our emotional distance from the truth
- 07.04 - Ahankara = aham + car
- 07.06 - From the reality of nature to the nature of reality
- 07.14 - We are our own devils
- 07.23 - Be not fanatical but fanatically focused
- 07.26 – Might we be blocking the progress of a work in progress?
- 08.07 - Let our potentials – not our problems – define us
- 08.07 - “Now and then” or “from now on”?
- 08.07 – Are we changing the world or is the world changing us?
- 09.02 - Let reason be our minister, not our master
- 09.10 - Accidents are no accidents
- 09.10 – The incomprehensible comprehensibility and the comprehensible incomprehensibility of the universe
- 09.27 - Let Krishna permeate, pervade and possess our heart
- 09.30 – What defines us as devotees is not how we fall, but how we rise
- 09.31 - Transcend the labor pains of devotion through loving anticipation
- 09.31 - When the Absolute Truth doesn’t speak the absolute truth
- 09.33 - The world is in a mess – as usual
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Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
one article of 14th chapter(14.23) is in the section of 13th chapter.
Corrected; thanks for pointing out.