Currently Browsing: Chapter 16

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October 2013

• 53) 16.10 – When one makes lust a god, lust makes one a devil
• 52) 16.01 – Charity is not just an activity but also a mentality
• 51) 16.12 – Our bonds are not prisoner’s shackles, but puppeteer’s strings
• 50) 16.15 – Those who crave to look big are small

August 2013

• 49) 16.04 – Obsession with fame deprives us of prema
• 48) 16.16 – When desires crowd the mind, dilemmas cloud the intelligence

July 2013

• 47) 16.01 – Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear
• 46) 16.22 – Anger makes our response to a problem a bigger problem than the problem itself

June 2013

• 45) 16.24 – End the tradition of abuse with the tradition of love
• 44) 16.13-14 – Beware of the universal solvent that dissolves everything including us
• 43) 16.21 – Greed makes the wealthy needy

May 2013

• 42) 16.12 – A liberty that ends in slavery
• 41) 16.09 – An emptiness that is worse than loneliness
• 40) 16.09 – Why sentence ourselves to meaninglessness, purposelessness and joylessness?

April 2013

• 39) 16.02 – When we best serve Krishna by keeping out of his business
• 38) 16.12 – A prison of promises and pretenses
• 37) 16.17 – Is our religion a sanctuary for the soul or a gymnasium for the ego?
• 36) 16.9 – Why put faith in faithlessness?
• 35) 16.13-14 – Our convictions are far more important than our possessions

March 2013

• 34) 18.66 – Religion is meant for God; God is not meant for religion
• 33) 16.24 – Scriptural study strengthens the intelligence, stabilizes the mind and sustains the heart

February 2013

• 32) 16.04 – Are we trying to control without because of being uncontrolled within?

January 2013

• 31) 16.09 – Emptiness, Loneliness, Pointlessness
• 30) 16.09 – A talk that no one walks
• 29) 16.04 – Is the knife cutting to heal or to wound?
• 28) 16.02 – What we speak about others speaks about us
• 27) 16.16 – Are we living our life at the center or at the periphery?
• 26) 16.11 – Filling our mind, emptying our pocket, starving our heart – is this progress?

December 2012

• 25) 16.10 – The great achievement of materialism
• 24) 16.09 – Are we being fooled into giving ourselves a collective pat on the back?
• 23) 16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?

November 2012

• 22) 16.16 – Why life seems so complex…

October 2012

• 21) 16.09 – Materialism is wrong and wrongheaded

September 2012

• 20) 16.18 – Hell is not meant to cause us suffering but to save us from suffering
• 19) 16.23 – The obnoxious is obnoxious because it is noxious

August 2012

• 18) 16.15 – Weary, dreary, scary – Isn’t there a better life?
• 17) 16.15 – We cannot get pure devotion by mere donation

July 2012

• 16) 16.15: Is the purpose of eating to get fatter?

June 2012

• 15) 16.10: When style violates sense, style deserves to be violated

April 2012

• 14) 16.12: Are we wasting our desires?
• 13) 16.09-10: The Earthbound are Dearth-bound
• 12) 16.16 – Are possibilities paralyzing us?

March 2012

• 11) 16.08: Are we becoming a society of materialistic fanatics?
• 10) 16.21-22: Are mental parasites sucking our energy?
• 9) 16.09: When ignorance seeks to fly with intellectual wings…

February 2012

• 8) 16.03: Searching for the villain can’t help us in finding the hero
• 7) 16.04: Pride (P + Ride) takes us on a Perilous Ride

January 2012

• 6) 16.17: All bluff, no stuff – “Isn’t that enough?”
• 5) 16.08-09: The immaterial is not immaterial
• 4) 16.11: Cry, Vie, Lie, Die, Fie – Tie

December 2011

• 3) 16.07-20: The Bhagavad-gita is open-minded, not empty-minded
• 2) 16.02: Finding the fault of faultfinding

November 2011

• 1) 16.24: Look for the right lighthouse