Gita Verse by Verse (512)
- Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity, not popularity
- Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity
- Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy
- Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed
- Gita 17.16 Austerity of mind transforms our inner disruptive enemy into a constructive friend
- Gita 17.15 Speech is meant not just for commnication but also for purification
- Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively, not destructively
- Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3
- Gita 17.12 Yajna is like modern technology - can fuel the illusion that we are controllers and enjoyers.mp3
- Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world, focus on contribution from yourself.mp3
- Gita 17.10 Food in ignorance isn’t nourishing, satisfying or appealing.mp3
- Gita 17.09 Food in passion is is sensually stimulating but eventually distressing and disease-inducing.mp3
- Gita 17.08 Food in goodness provides profusely both nutrition and satisfaction
- Gita 17.07 Food, sacrifice, charity and austerity represent broad patterns of the soul’s interaction with its encasing circles
- Gita 17.06 Defying scripture, be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body, is demonic
- Gita 17.05 Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity
- Gita 17.04 Our level of consciousness determines who we feel is worshipable
- Gita 17.03 The relationship between our existence and our faith is causal, constitutional and consequential
- Gita 17.02 See not just people's ideological faith - see also their functional faith
- Gita 17.01 The Gita universalizes and contextualizes the analytical framework of the three modes
- Gita 16.24 Knowing scripture is our responsibility and our opportunity
- Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next
- Gita 16.22 To pursue our self-interest, we need to purge out self-defeating desires
- Gita 16.21 The metaphorical usage stresses the reality and gravity of the demoniac forces of lust, anger and greed
- Gita 16.20 Demoniac action and demoniac destination is perpetuated by demoniac disposition
- Gita 16.19 Devilish delights doom the demonic to deadly destinations
- Gita 16.18 When bad situations make us take shelter of our bad side, we become bad people
- Gita 16.17 Self-complacence and impudence perpetuate ignorance
- Gita 16.16 Desires and fears cover our consciousness completely with illusion
- Gita 16.15 The ungodly want to look good, not become good
- Gita 16.14 Greed makes the covetous murderous
- Gita 16.13 Let the mind’s chariot take us where we want to go, not where it wants to go
- Gita 16.12 Sensual desires are ropes of enslavement, not roads to enjoyment
- Gita 16.11 We make our beliefs and our beliefs make us
- Gita 16.10 Taking shelter of lust amidst problems is like taking shelter of kidnappers when threatened by thieves
- Gita 16.09 The ungodly are born for destructive action unless they do drastic course correction
- Gita 16.08 From atheism to hedonism is a natural slide
- Gita 16.07 Observe others actions not to condemn, but to help
- Gita 16.06 Knowing the inclination of the road where our car is is education, not condemnation
- Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car's wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver
- Gita 16.03 Giving appropriate honor promotes harmony, demanding excessive honor disrupts harmony
- Gita 16.02 Our godliness needs to be seen in our harmonious interactions with others
- Gita 16.01 Godliness is both a decision and a disposition
- Gita 15.20 Using the knowledge and devotion we presently have propels us symbiotically towards life’s perfection
- Gita 15.19 Bhakti is not non-intellectual or anti-intellectual - it is trans-intellectual
- Gita 15.18 Fragmentation is not the cause of illusion, disharmonization is
- Gita 15.17 Liberation is not just elevation out of illusion but also connection with the supreme reality
- Gita 15.16 Purification means to change our emotional center
- Gita 15.15 The purpose of perceiving the spiritual through the material is to perceive the spiritual in its own right
- Gita 15.14 The world's origin and operation points requires something beyond the world
- Gita 15.13 The existence of multiple factors congenial to our existence points to transcendence
- Gita 15.12 We need the eyes to see what our eyes need to see
- Gita 15.11 What we see depends on what we want to see
- Gita 15.10 We need knowledge to see our vulnerability in material existence
- Gita 15.09 The mind makes chasing mirages the soul's tragic habit
- Gita 15.08 The essence of growth is evolution in our conception of life
- Gita 15.07 Even when the mind is directed by the senses, it still directs the senses
- Gita 15.06 The spiritual world is self-luminous and its luminosity is malleable to Krishna's will
- Gita 15.05 Surrender means to give up everything for Krishna - even the feeling of hopelessness
- Gita 15.04 The Personal Absolute is not a way to transcendence - he is the summit of transcendence
- Gita 15.03 Detachment cuts not the world but our own attachment to the world
- Gita 15.02 We are bound by action and knowledge can guide us to action that leads to liberation
- Gita 15.01 The metaphor of the upside-down tree points to the reality beyond the reflection
- Gita 14.27 Brahman refers not just to the impersonal spiritual but also the generically spiritual
- Gita 14.26 Health is a product of medication but it is also a precondition for medication
- Gita 14.25 As long as we are materially motivated, we will be materially agitated
- Gita 14.24 To be equipoised, be situated in the self, not in the world
- Gita 14.23 We are not our scars, be they physical or emotional
- Gita 14.22 Be a non-judgemental non-committal observer of your emotions
- Gita 14.21 When the disease is subtle, we need education to perceive the symptoms of sickness and health
- Gita 14.20 Those who transcend the modes transcend miseries
- Gita 14.19 Seeing that our actions are impelled by the modes inspires us to resist the desires induced by the modes
- Gita 14.18 Goodness leads to elevation, passion to stagnation, ignorance to degradation
- Gita 14.17 Different modes foster different emotions, dispositions and destinations
- Gita 14.16 Piety purifies, craving torments and intoxication stupefies
- Gita 14.15 The modes are not just psychological constructs, they are also post-mortem destination shapers
- Gita 14.14 A disposition of knowledge and purity elevates to the destination of the knowledgeable and the pure
- Gita 14.13 The mode of ignorance block us in both contemplation and action
- Gita 14.12 Desires that drive us with the lure of pleasure are insatiable
- Gita 14.11 Illumination of knowledge regulates the input and output through the doorways of the senses
- Gita 14.10 The modes are neither in segregation nor in integration but are in competition
- Gita 14.09 The longer a pleasure lasts, the greater its lure
- Gita 14.08 The mode of ignorance begins with not knowing and leads to false knowing
- Gita 14.07 Passion is composed of attachment, gives rise to craving and binds us to work
- Gita 14.06 Anything that keeps us away from realizing our spirituality is binding, even if it is illuminating
- Gita 14.05 Modes are a combination of matter that trigger emotion which matter in isolation doesnt
- Gita 14.04 The seed-giving father is also the soul-attracting liberator
- Gita 14.03 We determine our bodies and our bodies determine us
- Gita 14.02 Death can't be avoided, but affliction due to death can be
- Gita 14.01 The Gita uses diverse frames of analysis to reiterate its consistent conclusion
- Gita 13.35 Knowledge helps us perceive and achieve spiritual reality
- Gita 13.33 The soul is not entangled, but the mind is
- Gita 13.32 The soul is situated in the body, but its consciousness doesn't have to imprisoned in the body
- Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity
- Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body
- Gita 13.34 Consciousness can be the channel to illumination - and to illusion too
- Gita 13.29 See beyond people's particular actions to Krishna's universal positive intention
- Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see
- Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension
- Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality
- Gita 13.25 The many ways to see within are meant to show the same truth within
- Gita 13.24 Sankhya and bhakti are different in form, but similar in essential content and ultimate purpose
- Gita 13.23 One purusha is controlled by nature, the other is the controller of nature
- Gita 13.22 Our desire to enjoy matter subjects us to material distress
- Gita 13.21 Material causality is not complete causality
- Gita 13.20 Matter is eternal, but material forms are temporary
- Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection
- Gita 13.18 All objects of knowledge are meant to direct us to the objective of knowledge
- Gita 13.17 The all-round glory of the Absolute includes its glory as the destroyer
- Gita 13.16 The Gita's Absolute reflects not naive anthropomorphism but profound sophistication
- Gita 13.15 The Absolute's paradoxical attributes underscore its transcendental inconceivability
- Gita 13.14 The knowable's all-pervasiveness points to its transcendence of our capacity to know
- Gita 13.13 That which grants the immortal is the most vital knowable
- Gita 13.12 Knowledge means to what is the most important to know
- Gita 13.11 The way of devotion is different from the way of the masses
- Gita 13.10 Detachment is not meant to make us hard-hearted
- Gita 13.09 To cultivate detachment from matter, contemplate the distresses of material existence
- Gita 13.08 The Gita is not a glorification of war, but a delineation of dharma
- Gita 13.07 Consciousness is shaped, not sourced, by changes of matter
- Gita 13.06 The subtle points towards the spiritual
- Gita 13.05 Study matter for functioning and transcending
- Gita 13.04 Use your sphere of influence for bringing about the ultimate change
- Gita 13.03 Knowledge means to know both matter and spirit
- Gita 13.02 Our field reflects our sphere of influence
- Gita 13.01 The meanings of words exist not just in dictionary but also in context
- Gita 12.20 The concluding verse reiterates and reinforces the starting verse
- Gita 12.19 Seek satisfaction not by horizontal improvement, but by vertical advancement
- Gita 12.18 To rise above material dualities, break free from material association
- Gita 12.17 Conserve your emotional energy by focus on service
- Gita 12.16 Complement spiritual devotion with material dispassion
- Gita 12.15 Avoid agitation coming from the social and the mental
- Gita 12.14 To sustain satisfaction, seek absorption
- Gita 12.13 Devotion manifests as action, even aggression, without mundane passion
- Gita 12.12 Serenity comes by rising from piety to spirituality
- Gita 12.11 To be self-situated, begin with selflessness
- Gita 12.10 Bhakti means dedicating our external to the eternal internal instead of the ephemeral internal
- Gita 12.09 If absorption in Krishna is unattainable, seek attraction through connection
- Gita 12.08 Bhakti changes not our outer location but the locus of our inner world
- Gita 12.07 Bhakti-yoga complements human agency with divine agency
- Gita 12.06 Devotional renunciation centers not on what we renounce but on for whom we renounce
- Gita 12.05 Attachment to oneness leaves us with nothingness to be attached to
- Gita 12.04 Don't treat impersonalists impersonally - they are not all the same
- Gita 12.03 To say that the Absolute is indescribable is to describe it
- Gita 12.02 Closeness unites more than oneness
- Gita 12.01 Pantheism and impersonalism both conceive of the Absolute as diffused
- Gita 11.54 Pure devotion grants the topmost spiritual vision
- Gita 11.53 Krishna can't be known by the Vedas, although the Vedas are meant for knowing him
- Gita 11.52 Vision results not just from perception but also comprehension
- Gita 11.51 Right emotion results from right perception
- Gita 11.50 The many-handed changes through the four-handed to the two-handed
- Gita 11.49 If we maintain a service disposition, Krishna will reveal a conducive vision
- Gita 11.48 Pious action doesn't qualify us for devotional vision
- Gita 11.47 The vision of the universal form, even its destructive feature, is a rare favor
- Gita 11.46 Darshan of Vishva-rupa and Vishnu-rupa provide visual demonstration of verbal exposition
- Gita 11.45 The vishva-rupa causes jubilation, the kala-rupa causes trepidation
- Gita 11.44 Humility in the forgiveness-seeker and magnanimity in the forgiver uplifts both
- Gita 11.43 Our response on coming to know others' greatness is shaped by our relationship with them
- Gita 11.42 Intimacy comes not by formality or informality but by affinity
- Gita 11.41 Knowledge reveals the power asymmetry to be in the opposite direction
- Gita 11.40 Acknowledge Krishna's presence everywhere and appreciate it where it is specially manifest
- Gita 11.39 Appreciate the Absolute Truth in both bheda and abheda aspects
- Gita 11.38 Knowledge of the Absolute helps us see how the things we know manifest the one we need to ultimately know
- Gita 11.37 God in this world is like an author in a book - the cause outside the cause-effect chain
- Gita 11.36 What brings joy to the godly causes misery to the ungodly
- Gita 11.35 The kala rupa makes the fearless fearful
- Gita 11.34 Assurances are reassuring when they are not just generic but also specific
- Gita 11.33 Harmonizing with the divine will is the perfection of human expertise
- Gita 11.32 Question about the identity of the familiar refers to the unfamiliar within the familiar
- Gita 11.31 Encountering the fearful kala rupa in the vishva-rupa is disconcerting
- Gita 11.30 The all-devouring feature of the universal form reveals how the war is a yajna
- Gita 11.29 To be enriched with speed on the path of self-destruction is tragic
- Gita 11.28 The life and the death of the dharmic is auspicious
- Gita 11.27 The comprehensive vision of the universes includes its gruesome features
- Gita 11.26 The event of death is virtue-neutral, but the destination after death isn't
- Gita 11.25 The sight of the unfamiliar in the familiar is disorienting
- Gita 11.24 Repetition is not always rambling - it can be for stress or beauty
- Gita 11.23 The universal form's predatory features arouse fear even in Arjuna
- Gita 11.22 The vibhutis are astounded by the virata rupa
- Gita 11.21 The celestials are not just the universal form's components but also its respondents
- Gita 11.20 The universal form induces awe - both wonder and fear
- Gita 11.19 - The universal form is not just blinding but also burning
- Gita 11.18 - The universal form is the eternal personal protector of dharma
- Gita 11.17 - The blinding brightness conveys the universal form's glory
- Gita 11.16 - Description of vision stimulates identification of the source of that vision
- Gita 11.15 - Arjuna's vision encompasses the whole universe from top to bottom
- Gita 11.14 - Arjuna's mood changes from submissive discussion to prayerful veneration
- Gita 11.13 - The universal form reconciles the one and the many
- Gita 11.12 - Human perception and description are inadequate before divine self-revelation
- Gita 11.11 - The visual demonstration reinforces the philosophical exposition
- Gita 11.10 The first impression of the universal form is astonishing
- Gita 11.09 The universal form is the ultimate mystical vision
- Gita 11.08 Our vision is a function of our qualification
- Gita 11.07 The universal form transcends limitations of space and time
- Gita 11.06 - We see with the information that helps us makes sense of what we see
- Gita 11.05 - The many forms within the one form - variety manifests within divinity
- Gita 11.04 - Devotee desires to see Krishna but doesn't demand
- Gita 11.03 – Arjuna’s desire to know Krishna’s glory comes not from doubt but from devotion
- Gita 11.02 - Freedom from delusion comes by understanding the ephemeral and the eternal beyond the ephemeral
- Gita 11.01 - Those enlightened by divine mercy desire similar enlightenment for others
- Gita 10.42 - Appreciate Krishna's opulence by appreciating the potency of his fragment
- Gita 10.41 See the attractiveness of the attractive not as Maya but as sparks of Krishna
- Gita 10.40 - Krishna's infinitude brings not confusion, but jubilation
- Gita 10.39 - God is the one without whose existence no existence is possible
- Gita 10.38 - Punishment may not stop wrong desiring, but it can stop wrong doing
- Gita 10.37 - Krishna's manifestations encompass all the three worlds
- Gita 10.36 The thrill of victory and adventure is an experience of Krishna
- Gita 10.35 - The beauty of music and nature manifest Krishna's opulence
- Gita 10.34 - The comprehensiveness of death's stealing represents Krishna
- Gita 10.33 - Re-envision attraction to language and words to become attracted to Krishna
- Gita 10.32 - Krishna manifests as all phases of action in material existence
- Gita 10.31 - The power of powerful weapons and warriors points to Krishna
- Gita 10.30 - God manifests as the godly among the ungodly
- Gita 10.29 See the prominent powers in the Vedic cosmos as manifestations of the supreme power
- Gita 10.28 The life that emerges from love manifests the divine
- Gita 10.27 - The ruler manifests God's opulence, for good or for bad
- Gita 10.26 - The transcendental manifests among the celestial
- Gita 10.25 - Japa is an opportunity to offer our most treasured possession - consciousness
- Gita 10.24 - Channel feelings of awe from giant things towards the source of all awe
- Gita 10.23 - The heavenly treasurer's treasure comes from the supreme
- Gita 10.22 - God's opulence pervades and sustains all life everywhere
- Gita 10.21 - Celestial glory manifests transcendental glory
- Gita 10.20 - The transcendent divinity is pervasively immanent in space and time
- Gita 10.19 - Our eagerness to hear Krishna's glories is auspicious for us and delightful for Krishna
- Gita 10.18 - Bhakti is joyful and fruitful
- Gita 10.17 - Recollection and participation are reconciled by understanding God’s immanence
- Gita 10.16 - Desire for details of a subject demonstrates deep devotion to that subject
- Gita 10.15 - Vedic theology is not polytheism, but multi-level monotheism
- Gita 10.14 - Accept Krishna's position and message the way Arjuna accept it
- Gita 10.13 - The sages' reiteration of Krishna's words boosts our conviction and devotion
- Gita 10.12 - Krishna is transcendence beyond transcendence
- Gita 10.11 - The way to drive out darkness is to turn on the light
- Gita 10.10 - Krishna gives us the intelligence to attain him
- Gita 10.09 - Devotion means to center our emotion, action and discussion on Krishna
- Gita 10.08 - Knowledge of Krishna's position transforms our disposition
- Gita 10.07 - Appreciation of Krishna's greatness guarantees absorption in him
- Gita 10.06 - Realize the greatness of our universal genealogy
- Gita 10.05 - Krishna asks Arjuna to fight, yet is the source of the qualities that engender peace
- Gita 10.04 - Krishna offers the good beyond the bad and the good
- Gita 10.03 - Understanding Krishna's position frees us from sins
- Gita 10.02 - Appreciating the glory of the object of devotion enhances devotion
- Gita 10.01 - The Gita is an endearing combination of lofty exposition and intimate affection
- Gita 09.34 - Direct your cognition, emotion and action towards Krishna
- Gita 09.33 - Go beyond incompatible material existence to compatible spiritual existence
- Gita 09.32 - Bhakti brings universality to spirituality
- Gita 9.31 - For devotees connected with Krishna, the happily ever after is guaranteed
- Gita 09.30 - Krishna never abandons devotees even when they fall
- Gita 09.29 - Krishna is neither impartial nor partial - he is reciprocal
- Gita 09.28 - Bhakti accommodates even those for whom bhakti is an afterthought
- Gita 09.27 - Bhakti accommodates seekers at multiple levels
- Gita 09.26 - Krishna is hungry for the reciprocation of affection
- Gita 09.25 - Different paths lead to different goals
- Gita 09.24 - Education about reality is not discrimination against certain features of reality
- Gita 09.23 - The Gita's multi-level monotheism is the balance between Abrahamic monotheism and Greco-Roman polytheism
- Gita 09.22 - Seek spiritual security not just in the soul but in Krishna
- Gita 09.21 - Blindness to mortality, even if it be in heaven, is still blindness
- Gita 09.20 - Karma-kanda leads to elevation, but not liberation
- Gita 09.19 - In Krishna contradictions are transcended and reconciled
- Gita 09.18 - God is not a remote controller - he is the pervasive sustainer
- Gita 09.17 - Krishna is the sustainer of our sustainers
- Gita 09.16 - See beyond the technical to the transcendental
- Gita 09.15 - Jnana yajna is not the same as jnana-yoga
- Gita 09.14 - See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication
- Gita 09.13 - Krishna's attractiveness is original and inexhaustible
- Gita 9.12 - Rejecting real currency as fake leaves one impoverished
- Gita 09.11 - To claim the impersonal to be Krishna's param bhava is contextually and grammatically indefensible
- Gita 09.10 - Nature is not causally complete without an ultimate cause
- Gita 09.09 - Krishna is concerned but not sentimental
- Gita 09.08 - We are helpless before material natures inexorable cyclicity
- Gita 09.07 - Repetition of discussion is meant for elevation of vision
- Gita 09.06 - Krishna limits not our freedom but the scope of our freedom
- Gita 09.05 - God's self-contradiction points to his inconceivable multi-level manifestations
- Gita 09.04 - God relates with the world through the impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent
- Gita 09.03 - Bhakti harmonizes the temporary with the eternal
- Gita 09.02 - Knowledge that gives the greatest power is the greatest knowledge
- Gita 09.01 - Krishna's glory can be appreciated by the devoted, not the envious
- Gita 08.28 - Yogi gets what other paths offer and gets more too
- Gita 08.27 - Devotional consistency is more important than chronological accuracy
- Gita 08.26 - Disinvest emotion from matter before it crashes
- Gita 08.25 - Yogi's spiritual exit velocity needs to be greater than the world's gravity pull
- Gita 08.24 - Astrological positions and psychological dispositions contribute to the soul's liberation
- Gita 08.23 - The Gita unifies diverse Vedic concepts in a devotional framework
- Gita 08.22 - Everything is in Krishna and Krishna is in everything
- Gita 08.21 - Our longing for home is our longing for the spiritual world
- Gita 08.20 - The spiritual is not just non-manifest but also nonmaterial
- Gita 08.19 - Recognizing our lack of control over the destructible material imples us to direct our consciousness to the eternal spiritual
- Gita 08.18 - Matter becomes unmanifest, but material form is destroyed
- Gita 08.17 - The immortal is not eternal
- Gita 08.16 - The world is like a jail or hospital - returning to it is undesirable
- Gita 08.15 - Attaining Krishna is the eternally inalienable attainment
- Gita 08.14 - What is difficult in one perspective is easy in another perspective
- Gita 08.13 - External recitation and internal recollection propel us to spiritual liberation
- Gita 08.12 - In yoga, the technical is a necessary preliminary to the transcendental
- Gita 08.11 - Liberation in yoga requires renunciation
- Gita 08.10 - Yoga restrains the negative, bhakti energizes the positive
- Gita 08.09 - Systematic contemplation begins with tangible information
- Gita 08.08 - Practice to take consciousness beyond endlessly deceptive material reality to Krishna
- Gita 08.07 - Devotion is not about rejecting the outer world but about offering the inner world
- Gita 08.06 - Our emotional disposition becomes our physical position
- Gita 08.05 - Our choice at the junction determines our destination
- Gita 08.04 - Everything is ultimately a manifesatation of Krishna
- Gita 08.03 - Spirituality is our nature
- Gita 08.02 - Death is not the termination of life but its testing ground
- Gita 08.01 - Terms have specific and generic meanings
- Gita 07.30 - Teacher's incomprehensible statements test student's interest and attentiveness
- Gita 07.29 - Detect misery to correct it
- Gita 07.28 - Dont expect immediate steady determination - use present determination, even if unsteady
- Gita 07.27 - Go beyond duality by spirituality
- Gita 07.26 - Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence
- Gita 07.25 - Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron
- Gita 07.24 - To deflect a clear critique of impersonalism is to violate both the meaning and the context
- Gita 07.23 - Accommodation is not recommendation
- Gita 07.22 - Krishna accomodates within the house of the Vedas even those who cant worship him
- Gita 07.21 - Krishna is much more merciful than the God in the Prodigal Son metaphor
- Gita 07.20 - Don't let desire steal your knowledge
- Gita 07.19 - Krishna is not a dispensable filler; he is an indispensable shelter
- Gita 07.18 - Krishna is so hungry for love that he deems those who become his devotees charitable
- Gita 07.17 - Jnana favorable to bhakti intensifies our connection with Krishna
- Gita 07.16 - Approaching Krishna for any reason is auspicious
- Gita 07.15 - Scriptural categorization of non-devotees is living, not frozen
- Gita 07.14 - Knowledge of Krishna's position brings intellectual force to our call of devotion
- Gita 07.13 - The modes sabotage our prospects of coming out of material existence
- Gita 07.12 - The Gita's vision of God is not pantheistic but panentheistic
- Gita 07.11 - Kama manifests the divine when harmonized with dharma
- Gita 07.10 - All seeds are exhaustible, but Krishna is the inexhaustible seed
- Gita 07.09 - Krishna underlies diverse manifestations as earth, fire, life and ascetic
- Gita 07.08 - Krishna is the essence that makes all taste accessible through water
- Gita 07.07 - Krishna is the substance underlying all appearance
- Gita 07.06 - Nothing exists outside the purview of Krishna's energies
- Gita 07.05 - The Absolute Truth is immutable, but its energies are mutable
- Gita 07.04 - Sankhya when seen devotionally reveals Krishna's glory
- Gita 07.03 - The rarity of knowing Krishna reveals the mercy we have the opportunity to relish
- Gita 07.02 - Understand the appearance and the substance of everything
- Gita 07.01 - Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga
- Gita 06.47 - The perfection of yoga is not disconnection from matter but connection with Krishna
- Gita 06.46 - Focus on transcendence is superior to any material attainment - gross or subtle
- Gita 06.45 - Past-life attraction and present determination leads yogi to perfection
- Gita 06.44 - Past-life's spiritual practice manifests as inexplicable irresistible attraction to transcendence
- Gita 06.43 - Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse
- Gita 06.42 - Having past spiritual impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate
- Gita 06.41 - The deviated yogi loses neither materially nor spiritually
- Gita 06.40 - Krishna reveals how an apparently lose-lose situation is actually win-win
- Gita 06.39 - Doubts are natural due to our limitedness - seek the unlimited
- Gita 06.38 - The problems we perceive reflect our level of consciousness
- Gita 06.37 - Considering future problems is a sign of intelligence
- Gita 06.36 - Mind control is essential - and possible by proper process
- Gita 06.35 - The supreme teacher offers guidance - and confidence
- Gita 06.34 - The mind is dangerous like an unstoppable storm
- Gita 06.33 - Seeing equally is tough, but seeing devotionally is easier
- Gita 06.32 - The topmost yogi sees everyone with benevolence, not indifference
- Gita 06.31 - See oneness in Krishna's various manifestations - not Krishna and the soul
- Gita 06.30 - The perception of Krishna everywhere takes one beyond the reach of illusion
- Gita 06.29 - By seeing sameness in the material, yogi penetrates to the supreme spiritual substance
- Gita 06.28 - To get the best happiness, connect with God, not sense objects
- Gita 06.27 - Joy is the natural fruity of purity
- Gita 06.26 - Overcome discouragement with the inner light and the inner map
- Gita 06.25 - Don't expect overnight change - determinedly make gradual changes
- Gita 06.24 - Determination means rejection of dejection
- Gita 06.23 - Yoga brings disconnection from our infatuation with misery
- Gita 06.22 - Seek the achievement beyond hankering and lamentation
- Gita 06.21 - The intelligence opens the door to trans-sensory happiness
- Gita 06.20 - Stop outer obsession to begin inner perception
- Gita 06.19 - Minimize the wind of disturbing desires to maximize the flame of meditation
- Gita 06.18 - Self-control leads to real self-awareness
- Gita 06.17 - Material regulation cataylzes yogic liberation
- Gita 06.16 - Take responsibility for determining bodily balance
- Gita 06.15 - Yoga brings mental regulation and spiritual liberation
- Gita 06.14 - Use material dispassion to establish spiritual connection
- Gita 06.13 - Physical position is meant to facilitate mental absorption
- Gita 06.12 - Concentration is the foundation for purification
- Gita 06.11 - Seek a balance between externals and internals
- Gita 06.10 - Popular yoga is not spiritual yoga
- Gita 06.09 - Equal vision towards those who relate unequally is challenging
- Gita 06.08 - Realization brings satisfaction and equal vision
- Gita 06.07 - The controlled mind disregards dualities and discovers the Supersoul
- Gita 06.06 - Train the mind as a horse is trained
- Gita 06.05 - The responsibility for controlling the mind rests on us
- Gita 06.04 - Rigorous renunciation characterizes the yogarudha stage
- Gita 06.03 - Different levels require different methods for progress
- Gita 06.02 - Renunciation of matter and connection with spirit share the same purpose
- Gita 06.01 - Renunciation means to give up the shelter of work's fruits
- Gita 05.29 - Peace comes by devotion to the all-powerful, all-loving Lord
- Gita.05.28 - Controlling the external and the internal brings liberation
- Gita 05.27 - Shut out the sense objects to seek inwards
- Gita 05.26 - Success on the spiritual path will come surely and soon
- Gita 05.25 - Removing impurities empowers us to rip apart the facade of dualities
- Gita 05.24 - The inner is the way to the spiritual
- Gita 05.23 - The war against lust is a war of attrition
- Gita 05.22 - The so-called pleasure is the source of trouble
- Gita 05.21 - Give up outer pleasure and seek inexhaustible inner happiness
- Gita 05.20 - Equanimity is meant to make us not emotionless, but purposeful
- Gita 05.19 - Sameness of perception is the situation of liberation
- Gita 05.18 - Spiritual realization grants equal vision towards all
- Gita 05.17 - Spiritualize all the channels of consciousness to gain liberating knowledge
- Gita 05.16 - Knowledge illumines our inner territory and reveals the indwelling Lord
- Gita 05.15 - The judge is not responsible for the criminal's conviction
- Gita 05.14 - The more we become detached, the more we master the body
- Gita 05.13 - The bodily city metaphor conveys our difference from our sensory gates
- Gita 05.12 - Action per se is not binding - attached action is
- Gita 05.11 - Change the motivation for action from gratification to purification
- Gita 05.10 - Live in the world but be not of the world
- Gita 05.09 - Contact of senses & sense objects is not the problem - infatuation with the contact is
- Gita 05.08 - Don't take credit for actions done by bodily mechanisms
- Gita 05.07 - Inner purity ensures outer action without reaction
- Gita 05.06 - Renunciation without yogic connection is distressing
- Gita 05.05 - Sankhya and yoga aim for the same destination, yet they aren't same
- Gita 05.04 - See beyond the diversity of process to the commonality of purpose
- Gita 05.03 - Renunciation in action is lasting renunciation
- Gita 05.02 - The path that takes us away from bondage fastest is the best
- Gita 05.01 - Understand meanings of terms from context, not from preconception
- Gita 04.42 - Win the inner war with spiritual knowledge and fight the outer war
- Gita 04.41 - Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic
- Gita 04.40 - Don't let doubts deprive you of happiness
- Gita 04.39 - Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge
- Gita 04.38 - Don't reduce jnana to jnana-yoga
- Gita 04.37 - The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes
- Gita 04.36 - The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge
- Gita 04.35 - Knowledge takes us beyond illusion and reveals connection of everything with Krishna
- Gita 04.34 - Learn from guru how to do karma as yajna and attain jnana
- Gita 04.33 - Let action be permeated by knowledge and culminate in knowledge
- Gita 04.32 - Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation
- Gita 04.31 - Happiness in this world and the next don't have to be mutually exclusive
- Gita 04.30 - The knowers of yajna attain purification, satisfaction and liberation
- Gita 04.29 - Infuse pranayama with the imagery of yajna
- Gita 04.28 - Apply the yajna priniciple to a broad spectrum of religious activities
- Gita 04.27 - Ceassation of all sensory and respiratory activity is a yajna
- Gita 04.26 - The mood of sacrifice spiritualizes both the householder and the renounced orders
- Gita 04.25 - Re-envision both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda as yajna
- Gita 04.24 - When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual
- Gita 04.23 - Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity
- Gita 04.22 - See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability
- Gita 04.21 - Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire
- Gita 04.20 - The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter
- Gita 04.19 - Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant
- Gita 04.18 - Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization
- Gita 04.17 - Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible
- Gita 04.16 - Don't simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning
- Gita 04.15 - Follow the successful to be successful
- Gita 04.14 - Knowledge of Krishna's position protects us from karmic subjugation
- Gita 04.13 - Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating
- Gita 04.12 - Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion
- Gita 04.11 - Appreciate the profundity of Krishna's reciprocity and universality
- Gita 04.10 - Overcome 3 obstructive attitudes for taking shelter of Krishna
- Gita 04.09 - Attainment of Krishna is not rebirth, but release from rebirth
- Gita 04.08 - Let Krishna establish dharma within
- Gita 04.07 - Universality of opportunity defines and distinguishes dharma
- Gita 04.06 - Don't presume familiarity with concepts due to familiarity with terms
- Gita 04.05 - Krishna spiritual position is not affected by his material location
- Gita 04.04 - Accept responsibility for clear communication - don't affix blame for unclear communication
- Gita 04.03 - Krishna reveals his glory to those who delight in that glory
- Gita 04.02 - The Gita lives through those who live the Gita
- Gita 04.01 - Yogic knowledge comes from transcendental source through extra-terrestrial route to terrestrial recipient
- Gita 03.43 - Use intelligence to pursue transcendence and subdue lust
- Gita 03.42 - In the line of fire from lust the soul is the last
- Gita 03.41 - Regulation is the foundation for purification
- Gita 03.40 - Lust has taken over our knowledge-acquiring mechanism
- Gita 03.39 - The eternal enemy blinds, binds and burns
- Gita 03.38 - No one is exempt from lust's delusion
- Gita 03.37 - Inner enemies are more dangerous than outer enemies
- Gita 03.36 - Alien desires become our own and impel us to sin
- Gita 03.35 - Credit lies in sticking to duty under duress, not in changing duty
- Gita 03.34 - Don't let sensory urges steal dharmic credits
- Gita 03.33 - Our varna nature needs to be channelized, not repressed
- Gita 03.32 - Turning away from Krishna defeats the purpose of knowledge
- Gita 03.31 - Krishna's words are eternal and faith-worthy
- Gita 03.30 - Focus not on detaching from the entangling but on attaching to the liberating
- Gita 03.29 - The wise should elevate, not agitate, the ignorant
- Gita 03.28 - To know the truth means to see how spirit can stay disentangled from matter during action
- Gita 03.27 - Mistaking initiation of action with its execution is illusion
- Gita 03.26 - Don't exhibit your high level - attract people to one level higher
- Gita 03.25 - The detached and the attached differ not in action but in intention
- Gita 03.24 - Krishna turns on its head Arjuna's argument about varna-sankara
- Gita 03.23 - Walk your talk
- Gita 03.22 - Krishna's supreme position redefines duty as lila
- Gita 03.21 - We learn from others' examples and set examples for others
- Gita 03.20 - Examples make the conceptual tangible
- Gita 03.19 - Detached dutifulness opens the door to perfection
- Gita 03.18 - The independent are bound to neither action nor renunciation
- Gita 03.17 - Only those who rejoice internally are released from external duty
- Gita 03.16 - Those who don't sacrifice waste their life
- Gita 03.15 - Yajna makes the transcendental accessible
- Gita 03.14 - The principle of cosmic exchange is not pre-scientific but universal
- Gita 03.13 - See God not just as the provider of food but also as its enjoyer.mp3 Gita 11.37 kasmac ca te nameran mahatman .mp3
- Gita 03.12 - Secular humanism makes humans honest thieves
- Gita 03.11 - We live not just in a universe but in a universal government
- Gita 03.10 - Don't let familiarity take the mystery out of nature
- Gita 03.09 - Nature of action is determined by its intent, not its form
- Gita 03.08 - Material duty maintains material stability and facilitates spiritual focus
- Gita 03.07 - Regulation is more conducive for advancement than renunciation
- Gita 03.06 - Outer renunciation with inner sensual contemplation is self-delusion
- Gita 03.05 - Inaction is unnatural, materially and spiritually
- Gita 03.04 - Don’t equate the external with the essential
- Gita 03.03 - Krishna's instructions are not contradictory, but multi-level
- Gita 03.02 - When scripture doesn't fit into our mental framework, the framework needs change
- Gita 03.01 - The Gita's complex multi-level message is intellectually challenging and fulfilling
- Gita 02.72 - Nirvana may be extinction, but brahma-nirvana is not
- Gita 02.71 - Peace comes not by relocation, but by renunciation
- Gita 02.70 - Be filled with higher purpose to transcend lower desires
- Gita 02.69 - Be special above the ordinary, not among the ordinary
- Gita 02.68 - Be a soul-deliverer, not a soul-killer
- Gita 02.67 - Be swept by the wind of spiritual desire, not material desire
- Gita 02.66 - Without inner connection, we end with agitation and frustration
- Gita 02.65 - Purification makes external intelligence internal
- Gita 02.64 - Material regulation is the launching pad for spiritual liberation
- Gita 02.63 - Irritation, delusion, oblivion, stupefaction, destruction - Last 5 of 8 stages to falldown
- Gita 02.62 - Whatever catches our attention catches us
- Gita 02.61 - Control, concentration, conquest - three stages in dealing with the senses
- Gita 02.60 - Endeavoring and discerning are not enough for sense control
- Gita 02.59 - Complement renunciation of the material with contemplation on the spiritual
- Gita 02.58 - Withdraw consciousness inwards as a basic defense mechanism
- Gita 02.57 - Stay unaffected by the material by being focussed on the spiritual
- Gita 02.56 - Emotional non-entanglement with the material characterizes the seer
- Gita 02.55 - Rejection of mental desires and satisfaction in the self define the self-realized
- Gita 02.54 - Non-literal meaning illumines when literal meaning stumps
- Gita 02.53 - Persistent absorption comes by consistent rejection of distraction
- Gita 02.52 - Shastra without guru can be a deluding forest for the intelligence
- Gita 02.51 - Same action with higher motivation bestows higher destination
- Gita 02.50 - Yoga facilitates individualized artistic infusion of work with devotion
- Gita 02.49 - The good becomes bad when it becomes the enemy of the best
- Gita 02.48 - Yoga requires material indifference to provide spiritual transcendence
- Gita 02.47 - Make sense of four counterintuitive assertions by seeing the full picture
- Gita 02.46 - Understand multivalence of Veda to grasp how transcending the Vedas fulfills their purpose
- Gita 02.45 - Gain possession of the soul by giving up obsession with matter
- Gita 02.44 - Prevent attachment from abducting consciousness by intelligence and taste
- Gita 02.43 - The Vedic masterplan uses dharma to raise people from kama to prema
- Gita 02.42 - Flowery words of Vedas distract from their ultimate wisdom
- Gita 02.41 - Intent shapes intelligence
- Gita 02.40 - The spiritual path comes with a no-loss and a fear-relieving guarantee
- Gita 02.39 - Use buddhi to transform theoretical sankhya into practical yoga
- Gita 02.38 - To reconcile the Gita's contradictions, recognize the multi-level nature of its discussions
- Gita 02.37 - Knowledge of atma and dharma redefines lose-lose situation as win-win
- Gita 02.36 - Behave respectably to bring respectability to Krishna's message
- Gita 02.35 - The variance between our intention and people's perception causes mortifying misconception
- Gita 02.34 - Engage the power of honor to encourage honorable action
- Gita 02.33 - Honorable position brings obligation of tangible contribution
- Gita 02.32 - Dharma rewards success according to each varna's definition of success
- Gita 02.31 - Dharma is not a blanket injunction but an individualized customization
- Gita 02.30 - Knowlege of the soul is not a call for resignation but for action
- Gita 02.29 - Perception, verbalization, reception and incomprehension wrt soul are all amazing
- Gita 02.28 - The mutability of everything materially magnifies the futility of grief
- Gita 02.27 - See death not as a future event, but as an ongoing process
- Gita 02.26 - Materialism makes meaning meaningless and lamentation pointless
- Gita 02.25 - Contemplate the inconceivable to relish the spiritual
- Gita 02.24 - The soul can't be stopped from going anywhere nor forced to go anywhere
- Gita 02.23 - The utter indestrutibility of the soul underlies the path of difficult duty
- Gita 02.22 - The dress metaphor redefines death not as a miserable termination but as a welcome transition
- Gita 02.21 - Integrate knowledge of the soul with the purpose of that knowledge
- Gita 02.20 - The soul doesn't undergo the six changes that matter does
- Gita 02.19 - The soul's non-doership points to the complexity of matter-spirit interaction
- Gita 02.18 - The immeasurability of soul points to its non-literal non-metaphorical measure
- Gita 02.17 - Nothing can destroy the soul because it pervades everything
- Gita 02.16 - Matter has no existence in the sense of having no lasting consequence
- Gita 02.15 - Those unaffected by the temporary attain the eternal
- Gita 02.14 - The material is peripheral, unavoidable and ephemeral - so tolerate it
- Gita 02.13 - The body is changing, not just growing - so focus on the unchanging
- Gita 02.12 - Spirit is not just eternal but also plural
- Gita 02.11 - The ability to harmonize the walk with the talk characterizes the wise
- Gita 02.10 - Change in the seeker's mood evokes change in the teacher's mood
- Gita 02.09 - The decision of inaction reflects desperation to learn
- Gita 02.08 - Outer success can't remove inner distress
- Gita 02.07 - Arjuna exhibits 3 characteristics of an ideal disciple
- Gita 02.06 - Find way through lose-lose problems by seeking emotional distance
- Gita 02.05 - Hard choices have to be made to avoid harder consequences
- Gita 02.04 - Resolve conflicts among different roles by raising consciousness
- Gita 02.03 - Fight degrading temptation by remembering honoroble position
- Gita 02.02 - Arya - Spiritual denotation, historical concoction and modern connotation
- Gita 02.01 - Arjuna's analysis only aggravates his agony
- Gita 01.46 - When the eye disheartens, let the ear hearten
- Gita 01.45 - Sound arguments from a fragmented perception are actually unsound
- Gita 01.44 - Arjuna's reasoning is wrong, but his capacity for reasoning is laudable
- Gita 01.43 - Hell forever is a subjective feeling, not an objective fact
- Gita 01.42 - Three meanings of dharma
- Gita 01.41 - Unwanted progeny - what does unwanted mean?
- Gita 01.40 - Protecting women and ensuring good progeny are important social responsibilities
- Gita 01.39 - As soon as dharma weakens adharma attacks
- Gita 01.38 - Don't let the anartha-maddened make us similarly mad
- Gita 01.37 - Greed gives us a tunnel vision of reality
- Gita 01.36 - Contemplate contextual karmic considerations before acting
- Gita 01.35 - Arjuna's profit-loss calculations miss the most important factor
- Gita 01.34 - Arjuna's evolved emotion and reason ready to be raised to the summit by Gita wisdom
- Gita 01.33 - The contrasting words of Arjuna and Duryodhana reveal their consciousness' levels
- Gita 01.32 - Whom we live for determines the quality of our life
- Gita 01.31 - Material long-term is not long-term enough
- Gita 01.30 - Where materialism shows a dead end spirituality shows the way ahead
- Gita 01.29 - The inner attack of emotions does what no outer attack of enemies could have done
- Gita 01.28 - To avoid being consumed by material emotions, cultivate spiritual emotions
- Gita 01.27 - Undiscerning visual perception erodes spiritual conviction
- Gita 01.26 - The brutality of the imminent fratricide sinks in
- Gita 01.25 - Over-reliance on visual perception ends in illusion
- Gita 01.24 - Conquer lethargy to attain excellence in service
- Gita 01.23 - How the evil got so many allies
- Gita 01.22 - A last sight of the battling brethren
- Gita 01.21 - The surprising request to see what is already known
- Gita 01.20 - The monkey standard is permeated with the divine monkey's presence
- Gita 01.19 - Kauravas' bravado battered and shattered by Pandavas' bravery
- Gita 01.18 - The Pandavas' illustrious sons gallantly serve their parents
- Gita 01.17 - Weapons are warrior's ornaments
- Gita 01.16 - The individual conches manifest individual warrior's virility
- Gita 01.15 - The top trio in the Pandava army start the action
- Gita 01.14 - The dramatically humble entry of the hero
- Gita 01.13 - Rituals of war express and stimulate the martial spirit
- Gita 01.12 - The valorous grandsire stops the politicking
- Gita 01.11 - The manipulator misses the one who matters most
- Gita 01.10 - Mulitiple meanings of same word reveal the possibilities of multiple interpretations
- Gita 01.09 - Listing the warriors' qualities for enlisting their commitment
- Gita 01.08 - Attachment makes the absent present
- Gita 01.07 - Repetition of known information conveys prioritization
- Gita 01.06 - Their great warriors counterbalance our greater strength
- Gita 01.05 - Affiliations were shaped by long-term affinity not short-term antipathy
- Gita 01.04 - Our inner frame of reference shapes our outer focus of reference
- Gita 01.03 - The politician seeks martial dedication by emotional manipulation
- Gita 01.02 - Duryodhana's choice of conversant reveals his political intent
- Gita 01.01 - The transcendental manifests as the geographical
- Gita 17.21 - Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation
- Gita 17.22 We need discrimination to ensure that doing good actually does good
- Gita 17.23 Everything is sustained by its connection with the Absolute
- Gita 17.24 The many meanings of the word "brahma" in the Gita
- Gita 17.25 Recitation of tad signifies and stimulates the pursuit of transcendence
- Gita 17.26 Any inclination to seek elevation of consciousness is praiseworthy
- Gita 17.27 Sat is not just a word for recitation - it is a conviction to cultivated and infused into action
- Gita 17.28 Having no faith in anything higher makes performance of religious activities unfruitful
- Gita 18.01 What is used to refer is not as important as what is being referred to
- Gita 18.02 Devotional attachment is the best way to avoid worldly attachment
- Gita 18.03 Gita 18.03 Appreciate others thoughtfulness even if it doesn’t lead to the best conclusion
- Gita 18.04 Just as indulgence can be indiscriminate, so can renunciation
- Gita 18.05 To be mana-isha, we need not just a mana free from ishvara-bhava, but a mana fixed on ishvara
- Gita 18.06 Karmic bondage is like emotional dependence - focus not just on the action but also on the motivation
- Gita 18.07 Renunciation done in illusion can’t take us out of illusion
- Gita 18.08 Desire for bodily pleasure and fear of bodily trouble both keep us in the cage of bodily consciousness
- Gita 18.09 Renunciation in goodness means to know that we as parts just need to do our parts
- Gita 18.10 Take the route that takes us to the destination, not the route that looks the easiest
- Gita 18.11 To pursue liberation, give up the idea of giving up action
- Gita 18.12 Intelligence sees consequence and fosters detachment
- Gita 18.13 The journey from illusion to illumination requires philosophical education
- Gita 18.14 God is the fifth factor as well as the foundation of all factors
- Gita 18.15 Spiritual consciousness ensures that our actions give a favorable result
- Gita 18.16 To think that we are the sole doers is to have deluded intelligence
- Gita 18.17 When we act without false ego, we stay free of reactions
- Gita 18.18 Analysis of the components of action is meant to direct towards non-reactive action
- Gita 18.19 The Gita's flow verses make its question-directed discussion more accessible
- Gita 18.20 Seeing commonality alone is not vision in goodness - seeing spirituality as the foundation of commonality is
- Gita 18.21 To equate others physical appearance with spiritual substance is vision in passion
- Gita 18.22 Knowledge in ignorance makes us obsessed with one fragment of reality and one kind of action
- Gita 18.23 To gain knowledge, we need basic knowledge about where to seek knowledge
- Gita 18.24 Disconnection from our Lord leads to the consumption of our consciousness by passion
- Gita 18.25 To see our actions disconnected from the past and the future is to see in illusion
- Gita 18.26 The doer is not a non-doer but is a component in doing
- Gita 18.27 Our actions reflect our self-conception and our world-conception
- Gita 18.28 Doers in ignorance act destructively for others and even for themselves
- Gita 18.29 To drive purposefully, we need to know the destination, the path and the vehicle
- Gita 18.30 Intelligence means to see beyond appearance to consequence
- Gita 18.31 Confusing between long-term purposes and short-term pleasures characterizes intelligence in passion
- Gita 18.32 Intelligence in ignorance mistakes the binding to be freeing
- Gita 18.33 What intelligence discerns, that determination sustains
- Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion
- Gita 18.35 To hold on to thought-patterns that hurt us is to abuse our determination
- Gita 18.36 Some pleasures are the start of sorrow - and some the end of sorrow
- Gita 18.37 Spiritual knowledge gives us the purpose to persevere through the poison till the nectar
- Gita 18.38 The pleasure of titillation leads to the agony of tribulation
- Gita 18.39 Pleasure in ignorance begins in ignorance and ends in increased ignorance
- Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature
- Gita 18.41 Varnashrama provides customized spirituality for elevating people from where they are
- Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction
- Gita 18.43 Kshatriyas control in service of the supreme controller
- Gita 18.44 Protecting cows protects the cow protectors from greed
- Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection
- Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine's gifts to the divine
- Gita 18.47 Acknowledging our present diversity is essential for realizing our spiritual commanality
- Gita 18.48 See beyond the unpalatable to the essential to pursue the transcendental
- Gita 18.49 Our spiritual evolution goes through multiple levels of perfection from engagement through disengagement to devotion
- Gita 18.50 The Gita's purpose is not to describe spiritual paths but to analyze them for making an informed choice
- Gita 18.51 Use intelligence to counter the mind's centrifugal force
- Gita 18.52 Take shelter of renunciation to cultivate inner absorption
- Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual
- Gita 18.54 Devotion doesn't culminate in liberation, liberation culminates in devotion
- Gita 18.55 Don't divorce the literal reading of one word from the overall context of the text
- Gita 18.56 The bhakti university takes seekers from any level to the summit of spiritual perfection
- Gita 18.57 Take shelter of the intelligence to convince yourself of the need to take Krishna's shelter
- Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can't be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice
- Gita 18.59 Ego means to think that we know better than God
- Gita 18.60 How we act is determined by our material nature but for what purpose we act isnt
- Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord
- Gita 18.62 The deepest peace comes by not an external serene situation but by an internal spiritual connection
- Gita 18.63 Knowledge guides our free will by showing us the consequences of our actions
- Gita 18.64 Krishna's tone rises from informational analysis to impassioned advocacy
- Gita 18.65 Promises in a close relationship reflect and affect the closeness of the relationship
- Gita 18.66 The call to rise above dharma is not a call to slip below dharma
- Gita 18.67 Though ultimately every heart longs for divine love, not every heart is presently ready for divine love
- Gita 18.68 The bhakti cure cures more those who share the cure more
- Gita 18.69 See the superlative as an exhortation to devotional action
- Gita 18.70 See the sanctity of Gita study in terms of intent, content and result
- Gita 18.71 Krishna compassionately offers connections at decreasing levels of commitment
- Gita 18.72 A philosophical conversation amidst emotional tribulation testifies to Arjuna's sincerity and Krishna's potency
- Gita 18.73 Harmony with the divine infuses our fleeting insignificant lives with lasting significance
- Gita 18.74 The Gita describes a mahatama and makes its hearer into a mahatma
- Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita's wisdom
- Gita 18.77 Recollecting Krishnas universal form stimulates wonder in some and fear in others
- Gita 18.78 The Gita’s purpose is not just to proclaim God’s position but primarily to transform man’s disposition
- Gita 18.76 The Gita's conversation is memorable and relishable
- Gita 01.01 The Gita's first word dharma conveys its essential, universal theme
- Gita 01.02 Sanjaya addresses not just the content of Dhritarashtra's question but also its intent
- Gita 01.03 Context can convert compliment into criticism
- Gita 01.04 Duryodhana tries to change Drona's emotion for the opposite side from affection to anger
- Gita 01.05 Our mode of description reflects our intention
- Gita 01.06 Duryodhana diplomatically continues to incite Drona against the Pandava army
- Gita 01.07 Be aware of how what we say to one person may be heard by others
- Gita 01.08 We need to be calm-headed, not cold-blooded
- Gita 01.09 Duryodhana's slip of tongue leads to his speaking the truth unintentionally
- Gita 01.10 Symmetry of structure stresses contrast in content
- Gita 01.11 The protector too needs to be protected
- Gita 01.12 Just because we get others to do what we want them to do doesn't mean we have won them over to our side
- Gita 01.13 Actions that throw caution to the winds are preceded by caution
- Gita 01.14 The Gita's audio-visual camera starts with the character of the questioner's interest, but shifts now to the central characters
- Gita 01.15 The devoted see God before they see the world, the undevoted see only the world
- Gita 01.16 Yudhishthira doesn't come first in the list of warriors but is still their undisputed leader
- Gita 01.17 Don't let minor grammatical disputes overshadow major narrational and philosophical thrust
- Gita 01.18 The Pandavas lost Pandu but gained Drupada as a father figure
- Gita 01.19 The Pandavas win the mental battle before the physical battle
- Gita 01.20 Life is so unpredictable that it can unbalance the unflappably balanced
- Gita 01.21 The non-partisan position of the Gita's revelation points to its universality
- Gita 01.22 Asking to see something that is already known points to a dynamic that is not known
- Gita 01.23 Virtue doesn't count when determining the military count in a fight
- Gita 01.24 The position of maximum visibility is also the position of maxiumum vulnerability
- Gita 01.25 What catches ouar attention is determined by what is prominent in our external situation and in our internal disposition
- Gita 01.26 When we can't fight the circumstances that make us fight against our loved ones, we have to fight against our loved ones
- Gita 01.27 The sequence of perception determines the consequence on our emotion
- Gita 01.28 Our thought-train’s journey from intentions to actions is diverted by our emotions
- Gita 01.29 Know which emotion is mental and which spiritual not just by content, but also by context and consequence
- Gita 01.30 When we face challenges bigger than ourselves, we look for omens to sense the intentions of forces bigger than ourselves
- Gita 01.31 What we think of as long-term may not be long-term enough
- Gita 01.32 Don't let the means to an end become an end that diverts us from the actual ends
- Gita 01.33 When various purposes pull us in different directions, we need to prioritize our purposes
- Gita 01.34 To retaliate and cause death requires courage, but to not retaliate at the cost of one's own death requires greater courage
- Gita 01.35 Our pleasure-pain calculation determines our decisions and is determined by our worldview
- Gita 01.36 The ethical tension between kula-dharma and kshatriya-dharma leads to emotional over-reaction and physical inaction
- Gita 01.37 Consciousness that is contaminated becomes conquered and covered
- Gita 01.38 To restrain a violent madman, their restrainers may have to fight like the madman
- Gita 01.39 Our sense of honor coming from our lineage can raise us but can also stop us from rising to the highest
- Gita 01.40 Dharma prevents human society from being ruled by the law of the jungle
- Gita 01.41 When the family is disrupted, the faith of the children is also devastated
- Gita 01.42 Disruption of dharma leads to overpopulation of disruptive souls, causing total breakdown of dharma
- Gita 01.43 Hearing is important, but from whom we are hearing is even more important
- Gita 01.44 When our emotion rules our reason, we rationalize a one-sided view of reality
- Gita 01.45 The war was not to gain a kingdom but to protect the rule of law
- Gita 02.01 The intensity of Arjuna's emotion conveys the potency of Krishna's solacing wisdom
- Gita 02.02 Fight against lower emotions by fighting for higher emotions
- Gita 02.03 Identify behavior that is out of character with our character
- Gita 02.05 Deliberation is desirable, but depth of deliberation is decisive
- Gita 02.06 The decision that seems a no-brainer turns out to be a brain-exhauster
- Gita 02.07 Seek first to understand the question to best understand the answer
- Gita 01.46 The significance of our actions depends not just on the actions but also on the situations in which we do those actions
- Gita 02.04 Fight not for or against some material cause - fight for Krishna
- Gita 11.55 - Absorption comes by harmonizing action and intention
- Gita 11.55 The same chapter that calls for war also calls for giving up animosity
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