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August 2015
721)
Gita 07.19 – Krishna is not a dispensable filler; he is an indispensable shelter
October 2013
720)
07.08 – Slave not to get worldly recognition; strive to give Krishna recognition
719)
06.25 – Those who take a strong stand internally stand strong externally
718)
16.10 – When one makes lust a god, lust makes one a devil
717)
16.01 – Charity is not just an activity but also a mentality
716)
14.19 – Let the thoughts that go away from Krishna take our thoughts towards Krishna
715)
06.06 – The mind makes us a stranger to ourselves
714)
09.22 – When worry accelerates the imagination, let faith become the brake
713)
06.28 – The purpose of discipline is not to torture ourselves, but to transcend ourselves
712)
16.12 – Our bonds are not prisoner’s shackles, but puppeteer’s strings
711)
14.05 – We are compelled to do as we choose to desire
710)
06.18 – Be not self-conscious; be conscious of the self
709)
10.10 – Might my own thing not be my own thing?
708)
04.23 – What raises motion to action is motivation
707)
16.15 – Those who crave to look big are small
706)
12.11 – Krishna accommodates even those who can’t accommodate him
705)
02.45 – Possessor, possess thyself!
704)
05.05 – See beyond divergent ideas to convergent ideals
703)
05.22 – The body is a visa to pleasure, not a passport
702)
03.20 – Devotion encompasses both reconnection of the world and its renunciation
September 2013
701)
03.32 – Confusion in attribution obscures illumination – end confusion with devotion
700)
18.57 – Seek shelter to wear the armor; use the armor to feel the shelter
699)
18.63 – Life is not a fixed match, but Krishna can help us fix it
698)
What the Gita is meant to show
697)
18.71 – The words will change us – provided we don’t change the words
696)
09.30 – We may fall down, but we don’t have to fall away
695)
07.29 – Don’t reduce the spiritual to the practical; let the spiritual expand the practical
694)
08.09 – Remembrance of Krishna’s immanence brings resilience on our march to transcendence
693)
13.23 – Krishna knows the ultimate inside story – and he keeps it inside
692)
08.14 – Seek not moments of devotion; seek momentum in devotion
691)
05.21- What comes fast doesn’t last; what does last doesn’t come fast
690)
08.15 – The world is a hospital; be hospitable to the doctor
689)
10.11 – Ignite the light that makes the inner world bright and right
688)
06.22 – Do not ensure heartbreaks; insure against heartbreaks
687)
09.21 – Seek not higher material happiness; seek higher than material happiness
686)
18.46 – Complement spirit with spirituality for complete success
685)
10.08 – Krishna speaks his glories not to prove his position but to improve our disposition
684)
02.07 – Those who overestimate their intelligence underutilize their potential
683)
07.03 – Focus on how close you are, not how far you are
682)
12.09 – Strive more for the gift of presence than the presence of gifts
681)
06.14 – Krishna is not just the object of meditation but also its objective
680)
09.14 – The more we expect meditation to be a break from hard work, the more meditation becomes hard work
679)
18.66 – Whatever karma may get us to, Krishna will get us through
678)
02.24 – Enlightenment raises us from the fear of death to the death of fear
677)
07.01 – The propellant of spirituality is not detachment but attachment
676)
18.58 – Empower your thoughts to break free from their tired and tiring avenues
675)
06.32 – Cultivate compassion for the complete being of all living beings
674)
05.26 – The greatest danger is the danger of forgetting the danger
673)
05.11 – Purity transforms the roads to misery into the roads to ecstasy
672)
14.27 – To think outside the box, think about Krishna
671)
01.45 – Let the example of power come after, never before, the power of example
August 2013
670)
15.10 – Strive not to look good in the eyes of the world; strive to get good eyes to look at the world
669)
03.36 – The greatest threat to individual freedom is the individual
668)
02.40 – Things may belong, but for how long?
667)
04.09 – The goal of spiritual life is to make spiritual life the goal
666)
16.04 – Obsession with fame deprives us of prema
665)
01.44 – Choose the self-definition that is eternal and factual, not fickle and fallible
664)
15.09 – When we mistake the mind’s petulance to be bhakti’s impotence, we sentence ourselves to perpetual dissonance
663)
04.14 – Seek to know Krishna not theoretically but transformationally
662)
02.45 – Be flexible, but not fickle
661)
06.18 – Illusion means that the content of our experience blinds us to its context
660)
11.26 – Confront reality before reality confronts us
659)
10.41 – Krishna is better than the best that the world can offer
658)
18.61 – Krishna is not doing things to us; he is doing things for us
657)
10.10 – To hear Krishna accurately, first hear about Krishna attentively
656)
16.16 – When desires crowd the mind, dilemmas cloud the intelligence
655)
02.58 – To minimize weariness, maximize wariness
654)
01.01 Will we have to lose everything before we lose our blindness?
653)
06.26 – Let’s not renew what we need to remove
652)
09.28 – Liberation is not just about what we are released from but also about what we are released to
651)
02.14 – Tolerance fosters not impotence but perseverance
650)
01.08 – Attachment makes the absent present
649)
03.39 – When a wildfire appears to be the cure for a burn, a wildfire is burning our head
648)
06.08 – Let research reinforce, not replace, search
647)
05.23 – As long as we mistake the irresistible to be essential, we deprive ourselves of the essential
646)
07.09 – Rise from “willpower is power” to “willpower is his power”
645)
09.14 – Let determination enthrone, not dethrone, devotion
644)
01.36 – Don’t treat Krishna as a showpiece; let him show how to put the pieces of life together
643)
02.15 – If we let all that happens matter, then we don’t let all that matters happen
642)
09.12 – Seeing the infinite through finite filters makes finite illusions infinite
641)
06.45 – Bhakti is not a part of life; life is a part of bhakti
640)
18.22 – Tune in to yourself to best tune in to the world
July 2013
639)
07.13 – Krishna is concealed, but not contained, by the modes
638)
15.03 – As long as we desire to bring matter under our captivity, we remain in its captivity
637)
05.20 – The biggest battle in life is to keep the biggest battle the biggest battle
636)
04.04 – When we give Krishna the benefit of doubt, he gives us the benefit of freedom from doubt
635)
18.42 – If we can’t ban sin from the heart, we can still banish it
634)
15.19 – Life’s driving force is existence’s crowning reality
633)
10.14 – Life is too precious to be wasted in doubting
632)
08.08 – To end our forgetfulness, let’s first commit to end our forgetfulness of our forgetfulness
631)
09.04-05 – The Gita is not self-contradictory, but self-revelatory
630)
16.01 – Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear
629)
18.38 – Discover the right way to enjoy our right to enjoyment
628)
08.15 – We can’t change the nature of nature, but we can change the nature of desire
627)
15.15 – Krishna’s inner presence is to coach us, not catch us
626)
09.13 – Krishna is not only the anchor to which we connect, but also the anchor by which we connect
625)
11.32 – Time makes the unpalatable unavoidable; Krishna makes the unavoidable palatable
624)
02.68 – Beware of the heart attack that makes us morally unconscious
623)
07.18 – Don’t just bring Krishna into your life; let Krishna bring you into his life
622)
14.16 – Our happiness depends far more on the thoughts within than on the things without
621)
11.33 – We need mountains to conquer ourselves – and bhakti offers us the best mountains
620)
05.23 – Pass the test, get the taste
619)
10.10 – Be intelligent enough to know what to do when you don’t know what to do
618)
12.09 – Anticipate spontaneous devotion, but cultivate conscientious devotion
617)
11.08 – Bhakti renders the metaphysical physical and the physical metaphysical
616)
04.02 – The divorce of the raja from the rishi perverts the ruler into an exploiter
615)
09.32 – Spiritual growth depends on disposition, not position
614)
18.46 – Preoccupation with occupation is not devotion
613)
03.30 – Be a warrior, not a worrier
612)
05.29 – Krishna is the best enjoyer – and the best source of enjoyment
611)
06.25 – Disbelieve the mind’s disastrous misdiagnosis
610)
16.22 – Anger makes our response to a problem a bigger problem than the problem itself
609)
18.28 – Fretting is like overcooking a rotten vegetable in our head
June 2013
608)
18.42 – Those who respect the command of God command the respect of the world
607)
10.09 – When the world has got so much from us, why should Krishna get less?
606)
08.08 – Leave no space to space out
605)
11.33 – After we win the battle, our real battle begins
604)
03.37 – Lust is worse than our worst enemy
603)
03.06 – Spiritual advancement comes not just by change of activity but by change of mentality
602)
11.54 – Krishna is beyond the range of the head, but not beyond the reach of the heart
601)
09.33 – Our heart may not have a place for Krishna, but Krishna has a place for our heart
600)
18.26 – Life in goodness is not life in slow motion
599)
14.22 – Look at the mind before you look with the mind
598)
08.07 – Feed the heart a healthy diet, not a deadly diet
597)
05.29 – Krishna may be beyond our reach, but we are not beyond his reach
596)
03.30 – Fight for all that you have with all that you have
595)
13.29 – We suffer not because we are last but because we are lost
594)
16.24 – End the tradition of abuse with the tradition of love
593)
18.58 – Life determines our problems; we determine their size
592)
05.20 – No problem is so dreadful and no pleasure is so wonderful that it is worth losing our inner connection with Krishna
591)
02.63 – Let the road from the eyes to the heart not bypass or bulldoze the head
590)
14.12 – Let where we crave to be not drag us away from where we need to be
589)
16.13-14 – Beware of the universal solvent that dissolves everything including us
588)
14.06 – Use the intelligence in Krishna’s service, not Krishna in the intelligence’s service
587)
16.21 – Greed makes the wealthy needy
586)
06.05 – The mind not only befools but also betrays us
585)
07.19 – Have the intelligence to doubt the supremacy of the intelligence
584)
05.21 – Disdain the pain that is a pain to miss
583)
04.11 – From our place, at our pace, Krishna offers his embrace
582)
12.07 – Rise from defiance through reliance to transcendence
581)
04.04 – Be curious not superstitious, cautious not suspicious
580)
07.03 – Accepting that we are ordinary is extraordinary
579)
06.22 We may be broke but we don’t have to be broken
578)
05.22 – Are we mistaking the cause of torture to be the source of shelter?
577)
04.40 – See skepticism with skepticism
May 2013
576)
06.06 – Throw light on the daylight robbery that doesn’t come to light
575)
08.16 – Life takes off when we understand how soon life takes us off
574)
16.12 – A liberty that ends in slavery
573)
08.15 – Beyond the love that hides to the love that guides
572)
18.61 – The first purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life
571)
05.16 – The inner light reveals not just the worst within but also the best within
570)
02.71 – Fight the inner war that counters the outer war
569)
09.30 – Might we be sentencing to the jail those who need the hospital?
568)
13.09 – The futility of utility; the utility of futility
567)
12.13 – Let’s love Krishna too much to be fanatical
566)
10.14 – Is spiritual shopping taking the place of spiritual seeking?
565)
03.37 – Red carpet or red light?
564)
16.09 – An emptiness that is worse than loneliness
563)
11.33 – We are never too small to do a big service and never too big to do a small service
562)
02.07 – Are we strong enough to admit that we are not strong enough?
561)
07.26 – Might we be blocking the progress of a work in progress?
560)
16.09 – Why sentence ourselves to meaninglessness, purposelessness and joylessness?
559)
15.10 – How can we pursue that which we don’t perceive?
558)
18.58 – Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place
557)
10.10 – Love is the ultimate knowledge – and is the way to the ultimate knowledge
556)
18.73 – Send resentment to retirement
555)
03.07 – Is nothing the place where something is hiding?
554)
02.08 – Losing our way to find our way
553)
06.32 – Let’s learn to laugh with others, not laugh at others
552)
17.16 – Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice
551)
04.17 – Should we be happy when we are happy?
550)
17.19 – True austerity is supplicative not manipulative
549)
14.12 – Are we mistaking an inner lacking for an outer lacking?
548)
13.23 – Are we conscious that Krishna is conscious of us?
547)
05.22 – The false currency that keeps us trading in the stock exchange of illusion
April 2013
546)
15.09 – Might a 20/20 vision lead to blindness?
545)
04.11 – Might we be protecting our heart from Krishna instead of for Krishna?
544)
06.24 – Let’s guard our consciousness the way we guard our homes
543)
18.65 – Realization comes by riveting to the relationship, not the ritual
542)
16.02 – When we best serve Krishna by keeping out of his business
541)
03.26 – Might we be burning the very bridge that we want others to cross?
540)
05.22 – Are we mistaking the red signal to be the green signal?
539)
08.07 – “Now and then” or “from now on”?
538)
16.12 – A prison of promises and pretenses
537)
02.64 – Are we mistaking the lifeline to be a handcuff?
536)
16.17 – Is our religion a sanctuary for the soul or a gymnasium for the ego?
535)
05.21 – Are our desires locking us into a world of frustration or releasing us into the world of fulfillment?
534)
04.38 – Seek pleasure in the pursuit of meaning, not meaning in the pursuit of pleasure
533)
09.30 – What defines us as devotees is not how we fall, but how we rise
532)
15.07 – When fulfilling desires doesn’t translate into fulfillment
531)
10.10 – Invest emotion to relish transformation
530)
02.14 – Imprisoned by circumstances, liberated by consciousness
529)
05.11 – The balance between “matter alone matters” and “matter doesn’t matter”
528)
02.13 – Do we recognize that we haven’t recognized ourselves?
527)
15.07 – Completeness comes not by material amelioration or mechanical reconnection, but by emotional redirection
526)
12.13 – Love that is too big to allow room for hatred in the heart
525)
12.07 – Are we holding on to a straw instead of a lifeline?
524)
02.30 – Break the wall that blocks the path from the past to the future
523)
10.41 – Krishna is Krishna’s best blessing
522)
06.22 – Stability and maturity that takes us beyond adversity
521)
04.19 – Are we mistaking the causal to be casual?
520)
16.9 – Why put faith in faithlessness?
519)
16.13-14 – Our convictions are far more important than our possessions
518)
09.31 – When the Absolute Truth doesn’t speak the absolute truth
517)
10.08 – Bring the momentum of emotion into the moment of meditation
March 2013
516)
12.10 – If we can’t offer our heart to Krishna, then we can offer what’s in our heart to Krishna
515)
15.19 – The best direction for the motion of emotion
514)
06.06 – When the mind tempts us to play the victim game
513)
12.19 – Belonging that leads to blissful being
512)
18.58 – When Krishna doesn’t understand…
511)
18.56 – The summit that reaches down to the trenches
510)
18.38 – Are we drinking poison to quench thirst?
509)
18.22 – Are we meant to be characters in a cartoon show?
508)
18.66 – Love values, but value love more
507)
18.66 – Religion is meant for God; God is not meant for religion
506)
15.15 – Nothing can separate us from the infinite love of the infinite
505)
02.08 – When we find ourselves in trouble, do we also find ourselves?
504)
12.18-19 – Bad times test our faith – and so do good times
503)
15.15 – Krishna is responsive; we are responsible
502)
02.15 – Are we rejecting the eternal because the temporary has rejected us?
501)
09.02 – Let reason be our minister, not our master
500)
09.10 – Accidents are no accidents
499)
02.27 – Watching TV while a cobra comes to bite?
498)
16.24 – Scriptural study strengthens the intelligence, stabilizes the mind and sustains the heart
497)
03.41 – Pause is not inaction but action
496)
04.04 – The call to faith is for focusing, not forsaking, of intelligence
495)
08.07 – Are we changing the world or is the world changing us?
494)
04.11 – When strengths make us weak and weaknesses make us strong
493)
13.08 – Are we letting knowledge steal our humility?
492)
15.10 – Blinded and addicted or illumined and liberated?
491)
04.42 – Are we putting too much faith in doubt?
490)
15.03 – Sharpen the head, ripen the heart
489)
05.23 – The way to transcendence is through tolerance not indulgence
488)
05.18 – Gita wisdom frees humanity from speciesism
487)
02.11 – Learning begins with unlearning
486)
02.38 – A package in which the best and the worst aren’t bound together
February 2013
485)
17.15 – When self-righteousness obscures rightness…
484)
02.22 – Have we become the slaves of our clothes?
483)
02.67 – Detect the storm of temptation when it is still a blip
482)
09.31 – Transcend the labor pains of devotion through loving anticipation
481)
12.09 – Aspire not for feelings but for relationship
480)
16.04 – Are we trying to control without because of being uncontrolled within?
479)
05.21 – The road that turns into a roadblock
478)
18.66 – The bond that sets us free
477)
02.44 – Are riches cutting us off from the richness of life?
476)
06.26 – Parent the childlike mind by being vigilant and diligent
475)
12.10 – Krishna wants our presence more than our presents
474)
12.20 – Devotion is the switch that activates our dormant virtues
473)
18.57 – Fighting vices is like fighting weeds: we are always slightly behind
472)
04.11 – To get devotion in our life, let’s put life in our devotion
471)
18.76 – Love of words in the words of love
470)
14.23 – Be consciousness-conscious
469)
06.35 – Bind the blind mind
468)
12.12 – Renunciation is not deprivation but emancipation
467)
17.14 – Differences that make a real difference – and differences that don’t
466)
03.26 – Standards are for inspiration not condemnation
465)
02.06 – Our problems introduce us to ourselves
464)
06.06 – The mind is not just a liar but also a traitor
463)
18.73 – The sacrifice of life, the life of sacrifice
462)
12.13 – Be grateful for everything we can live without
461)
10.41 – The truth of beauty, the beauty of truth
460)
13.12 – Is education changing the teacher within?
459)
13.11 – Are we mistaking solitude to be loneliness?
January 2013
458)
16.09 – Emptiness, Loneliness, Pointlessness
457)
06.05 – Is it human nature to want to transcend human nature?
456)
12.13 – Are we praying for others or preying on others?
455)
12.04 – The enlightened vision and the benevolent disposition
454)
15.15 – No time to learn the language of faith?
453)
10.11 – Devotional service is the arena to become lost and found
452)
18.04 – Don’t massage or pinch the false ego; pat it onwards
451)
16.09 – A talk that no one walks
450)
10.09 – Are we bandaging an infected wound without cleaning it?
449)
18.38 – The human talent for misery
448)
16.04 – Is the knife cutting to heal or to wound?
447)
03.43 – Keeping our skeptical antenna on high alert
446)
02.69 – Might we be running in the right direction on the wrong train?
445)
12.09 – Map changes – and change maps
444)
15.07 – Playing God or playing with God?
443)
05.22 – The heaven that turns out to be hell
442)
16.02 – What we speak about others speaks about us
441)
18.48 – Forgive the unavoidable, avoid the unforgivable
440)
16.16 – Are we living our life at the center or at the periphery?
439)
08.07 – Let our potentials – not our problems – define us
438)
03.16 – When comforts become ends, life becomes a dead end
437)
06.24 – Are we placing in the treasury that which belongs to the dustbin?
436)
12.07 – Go beyond the beyond
435)
15.15 – Is the noise without muting the voice within?
434)
05.22 – Long in shadow, short in substance
433)
14.11 – Are we clearing the inner fog?
432)
16.11 – Filling our mind, emptying our pocket, starving our heart – is this progress?
431)
06.06 – When the mind throws sand into our eyes…
430)
17.09 – Are we courting suffering with the tongue?
429)
06.40 – On decreasing our emotional distance from the truth
428)
01.28 – Transforming a battlefield into a classroom
December 2012
427)
16.10 – The great achievement of materialism
426)
15.11 – When will the over-estimate be over?
425)
18.58 – Are we seeking counsel from our fears instead of from Krishna?
424)
06.18 – Is the body a playground for passion or a temple for devotion?
423)
03.21 – Why not model the desired example instead of desiring the model example?
422)
16.09 – Are we being fooled into giving ourselves a collective pat on the back?
421)
01.29 – Might our worst fear point to our best hope?
420)
13.08 – How an accountability vacuum can suck our devotion
419)
18.37 – Be cruel to be kind
418)
18.58 – The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna
417)
17.16 – How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?
416)
02.58 – Are we trying to move up while looking down?
415)
02.62-63 – Are we sending our intelligence on a vacation?
414)
13.28 – We see not by staring but by hearing
413)
04.36 – The power that supersedes nature, nurture and culture
412)
03.41 – The mental avatar of AIDS
411)
02.11 – Are we using religion as a cloak instead of as an armor?
410)
13.09 – When it requires courage to be afraid
409)
16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?
408)
09.10 – The incomprehensible comprehensibility and the comprehensible incomprehensibility of the universe
407)
12.08-12 – Navigating our way between the ideal and the real
406)
05.21 – We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth
405)
18.33 – Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way
404)
03.41 – Where is the glory in a backdoor victory over attachments?
403)
05.25 – Are we like doctors who give medicines to everyone except themselves?
402)
07.14 – We are our own devils
401)
03.30 – Better to be exhausted than rusted
400)
13.08 – How humility boosts our self-esteem…
399)
14.24 – We are just extras in others’ plots
398)
05.20 – When life makes us emotionally seasick…
397)
02.56 – When neither the summits nor the valleys matter…
November 2012
396)
15.10 – Is our sight causing us to lose sight?
395)
06.05 – When a salesperson knocks at the inner door…
394)
16.16 – Why life seems so complex…
393)
18.45 – Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness
392)
06.17 – Plans may not work, but planning works
391)
15.07 – Are we trying to live someone else’s life?
390)
03.36 – Spiritual culture is the bridge from hypocrisy and perversity to purity
389)
17.02 – On the value of judgments and the judgment of values
388)
02.52 – Untrue ways of being true to oneself
387)
10.08 – Krishna is not just God; he is my God
386)
15.07 – Let us long to belong
385)
09.33 – The world is in a mess – as usual
384)
14.06 – Why is morning the best time for spiritual activities?
383)
14.26 – The unemotional emotionality of the Gita
382)
12.19 – Do we have our own inner sanctuary?
381)
10.05 – Why are we half-trusting Krishna?
380)
09.27 – Let Krishna permeate, pervade and possess our heart
379)
07.06 – From the reality of nature to the nature of reality
378)
06.05 – Are we falling for the mind’s “no time” trick?
377)
04.17 – Ask not “Why this?” but “How now?”
376)
02.19 – Are we giving death more than its due quota?
375)
06.16 – Beyond Captivity to Futility and Utility
374)
15.18 – Enlightenment that is universal, beneficial and non-imitable
373)
18.37 – Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar
372)
06.08 – Happiness comes not by the stocking of information but the flowing of service
371)
07.23 – Be not fanatical but fanatically focused
370)
04.36 – Are we blaming the sinking of the boat on gravity?
369)
15.07 – Why pursue pleasure in a prison of protoplasm?
368)
07.04 – Ahankara = aham + car
367)
06.21 – When attention seems like detention…
October 2012
366)
03.41 – Are we pinching a sleeping tiger?
365)
02.41 – A business that is more serious than business
364)
13.09 – Understanding comes by going beyond visible specifics to invisible universals
363)
18.58 – Hunted, haunted – transcended
362)
10.8 – Why think about Krishna?
361)
07.16 – Bringing and keeping Krishna on our curiosity radar
360)
15.5 – Divorcing our longest and worst life-partner
359)
02.44 – Are my attachments holding me or am I holding my attachments?
358)
02.16 – Are we eternalizing the present?
357)
02.58 – Training ourselves to avoid mental potholes
356)
02.68 – Are we using technology or are we being used by technology?
355)
10.9 – What is Krishna’s place in our secret life?
354)
10.10 – Transform disappointment into his-appointment
353)
02.38 – The world is a station, not a destination
352)
14.23 – Navigating the troughs of our consciousness
351)
16.09 – Materialism is wrong and wrongheaded
350)
07.16 – Digging the grave of materialism – functional and fanatical
349)
09.26 – Devotion is Krishna’s appetizer
348)
10.14 – When the shadow of scripture claims to be its light…
347)
06.20 – Is “there are no absolute truths” an absolute truth?
346)
13.05 – A call to visionary obedience
345)
13.35 – What is the medium through which we experience the world?
344)
05.24 – Materialism centers on gaining; spirituality centers on regaining
343)
13.08 – Accept but don’t expect respect
342)
09.02 – Bhakti is not just cultural or historical but also universal and eternal
341)
08.19 – Material existence: Linear progress or cyclic process?
340)
05.21 – Does our pleasure have to cost others misery?
339)
01.10 – What went wrong with the great materialist dream?
338)
08.15 – Is paradise something we will create or something we were created into?
337)
09.14 – See spiritual advancement in overall dedication not ritual specialization
336)
12.08-10 – Locating ourselves on the Gita’s ladder of love
September 2012
335)
03.39 – Sex is extraordinarily ordinary
334)
04.24 – Is the material life of devotees spiritual?
333)
08.07- Striking a deal between the extraordinary and the ordinary
332)
16.18 – Hell is not meant to cause us suffering but to save us from suffering
331)
07.03 – Our spirituality is a specialty, not an abnormality
330)
10.18 – The goal of spiritual knowledge is not just discovery but also recovery
329)
11.32 – A Sage Look at Time Management
328)
09.13 – How the small soul becomes great…
327)
16.23 – The obnoxious is obnoxious because it is noxious
326)
02.61 – Blunt the desire for enjoyment with engagement
325)
18.63 – Don’t give up the intelligence; go beyond the intelligence
324)
11.32 – The present is all that we have – and all that we will ever have
323)
2.63 – The mad mind’s dietary priority: Never eat anything first except the head
322)
12.07 – What are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves?
321)
13.23 – Spiritual enforcement can reach where legal enforcement can’t
320)
02.69 – Might we be hitting the bull’s eye of the wrong target?
319)
18.73 – When relevance becomes irrelevant…
318)
04.42 – Why is the sword sleeping in the hand?
317)
18.40 – Beyond Denial and Dismissal to Determination
316)
18.32 – When the conscience is dumbed and numbed and dumped…
315)
04.09 – Are we giving ourselves permission to love Krishna?
314)
04.10 – Not just another worldview, but another world to view.
313)
12.15 – Gita wisdom is explicitly descriptive and implicitly prescriptive
312)
18.76 – Are our thoughts impoverishing or enriching us?
311)
09.32 – Bhakti enfranchises everyone – even those disenfranchised by conventional religiosity
310)
10.09 – Happiness is always a byproduct, never a product
309)
09.33 – The loose ends never end
308)
02.66 – Are we getting the happiness sequence right?
307)
04.09 – Might we be worshiping a false god?
306)
10.41 – Worldly beauty agitates, dissatisfies, pollutes; Krishna’s beauty pacifies, cleanes
305)
02.03 – What we do reflects on what we do
August 2012
304)
02.48 – Put the world out of the equation
303)
18.66 – The Gita is Categorical and Rhetorical
302)
02.61 – Are we winning the misery championship with our eyes?
301)
18.70 – Veneration, comprehension, application, transformation: The four stages in our relationship with the Gita
300)
13.32 – How the world sees us is not as important as how we see the world
299)
12.06 – When we do what we can do, Krishna helps us to do what we can’t do
298)
15.10 – The eye to see the I
297)
10.14 – See eye-to-eye with Krishna to gain an enlightened eye and an enlivened I
296)
10.18 – The Bhagavad-gita is infinitely pregnant with wisdom
295)
02.22 – We are dressed by and for our desires
294)
08.16 – Double Empowerment for Destination Eternity
293)
16.15 – Weary, dreary, scary – Isn’t there a better life?
292)
06.08 – What does seeing stone and gold equally mean?
291)
07.15 – Are needles determining our needs?
290)
03.30 – Expecting the default to change by default is a dangerous fault
289)
18.58 – Let’s not tell Krishna how big our problems are; let’s tell our problems how big Krishna is
288)
04.39 – Faith bridges the distance between scriptural revelation and personal realization
287)
04.35 – Are we outsourcing our thinking?
286)
03.26 – Do not make a virtue out of alienating people
285)
04.34 – Tap HIS grace by Humbleness, Inquisitiveness and Service-mindedness
284)
13.22: Might we be human silkworms?
283)
18.55 – Claiming that the unknown is unknowable is claiming to know the unknown
282)
09.10: Why attraction to the supernatural is natural…
281)
13.10-11: Inner resonance leads to outer coherence
280)
13.09 – Suspended between the unknowable and the unavoidable
279)
10.09 – “Live for the moment?” But does the moment live for me?
278)
02.44: Endless nibbling at the tastes of this world dulls our taste for Krishna
277)
03.32: Spiritual advancement comes not by defining, but by refining
276)
02.28 – Did nothing in life prepare you for life?
275)
16.15 – We cannot get pure devotion by mere donation
July 2012
274)
03.39: When the heat hits…
273)
04.38 – Patience is not apathy, but humility
272)
03.41: It is never too late – and it is already too late
271)
18.76: The two wonders of Gita wisdom
270)
04.39 – The devotional chain reaction of faith and knowledge
269)
07.19: Simple-heartedness is not simple-mindedness
268)
05.22: Go down the horror lane of memory
267)
18.42: Shun senselessness or shun the senseless mind
266)
02.62-63: A tiny crack, a mighty crash
265)
18.57 – Krishna-thoughts are soothing, satisfying, strengthening and sublimating
264)
06.25: The mind may stray away; let it not stay away
263)
18.58: If no time for meditation, then time for frustration
262)
04.02: From the love of power to the power of love
261)
13.12: When lifestyle gets in the way of living….
260)
08.07: Let’s make our Krishna-connection our steering wheel, not our spare wheel
259)
13.08: Resting on our laurels? No resting! Not our laurels!
258)
14.13: Insanity is not compulsory
257)
02.41: The first thing, the main thing, the only thing
256)
05.10: From touch-me-not to touched-me-not
255)
15.06: Life in the spiritual world is not an eternity of daytime television
254)
15.20: Peeling the Cosmic Onion
253)
02.16: Checked, but never checkmated
252)
06.44: Haunted by happiness
251)
18.22: The monomania of machines, mechanistic thinking and mechanical behavior
250)
05.22: Be restrained to avoid being strained
249)
02.69: Is the social mirror making a fool out of us?
248)
07.15: Is the donkey the role model of the Gita?
247)
04.08 – Let’s not reduce Krishna to a cosmic constable.
246)
16.15: Is the purpose of eating to get fatter?
245)
12.19: An inner drive that is beyond cheers and jeers.
244)
15.11: The material pleasure-seeker is non-material
243)
10.10: Fidelity, Flexibility, Felicity.
June 2012
242)
10.11: Gita wisdom acts as a personalized mirror for reflection (pun intended)
241)
08.07: Bhakti takes us beyond the naughty and the knotty.
240)
02.67: The morning is for mooring our heart to Krishna.
239)
04.02: The harmony of the sword and the word.
238)
02.40: Today’s medals will be tomorrow’s baubles.
237)
13.08: Hubris is the recipe for debris.
236)
15.07: Might we ourselves be the aliens?
235)
18.67: What are our thoughts giving us: frustration or jubilation?
234)
15.05: Tried, tired – and retired
233)
18.54: Comparison: The futile pastime of the mind
232)
14.06: The vice of the wise
231)
05.21: Happiness through a perpetual tickling machine?
230)
06.22: When life tornadoes and torpedoes us…
229)
07.25: We can’t violate Krishna’s rights
228)
03.16: Take exception to the hope for an exception
227)
16.10: When style violates sense, style deserves to be violated
226)
17.15: Are our words acting as windows or as walls?
225)
03.43:The mind traps us materially and trips us spiritually
224)
11.55: Are we treating Krishna as an optional filler in our life?
223)
15.07: Beware of the spiritual masquerade of the false ego
222)
09.33: Seek not a problem-free life, but a purpose-filled life
221)
02.44: Allowing temptations in the consciousness is like allowing dust in the carburetor
220)
04.10: Loving Krishna is a challenge that only the best are privileged to have
219)
02.59: Is our self-mastery determination’s feat or devotion’s fruit?
218)
14.06: Who is getting our prime time?
217)
18.73: Krishna’s message paves the way for his ultimate miracle
216)
06.05: Treat the mind’s promises with a bucketful of salt
215)
10.18: Relish the ultimate feast of the heart
214)
09.13: Fasting is an opportunity to sacrifice not just the evil, but also the good for Krishna
213)
09.14: Focus on not fasting from food but feasting on Krishna
212)
10.41: “So much, O Krishna, do I long for you”
May 2012
211)
06.26: Change of values is a more reliable parameter of inner life than change of desires
210)
01.14: Krishna is a God who respects human intelligence and individuality
209)
02.15: When life doesn’t make sense…
208)
05.21: We don’t have to labor under unquestioned and questionable assumptions
207)
13.34: Subordinate the empirical and the rational to the scriptural
206)
02.62-63: What we hold mentally holds us mentally
205)
13.08-12: Information is not enough in formation of character
204)
06.27: We deserve a break – from the mind
203)
06.28: The new life outside begins with the new life inside
202)
02.58: Titillating the senses ends in all pain, no gain
201)
03.43: Why do our resolutions crash between takeoff and landing?
200)
06.25: Am I convinced that the prize exceeds the price?
199)
14.10: Beyond indecision and indiscretion to introspection and inspiration
198)
07.03 – Relish a thrilling, fulfilling, unifying awareness
197)
06.08: Study makes us steady and sturdy
196)
14.26: If we wait for inspiration, we are waiters, not worshipers
195)
15.07: Go Beyond the External – and the Internal
194)
11.32: When the clock ticks and tricks…
193)
13.22: Processing the Raw Material of Reality into the Finished Product of Realization
192)
05.29: Don’t Turn Your Back to the World; Raise Your Eyes Beyond the World
191)
06.33-36: Our Days of Cowering to the Mind are Over
190)
05.21: Renunciation is not un-ambitious, but super-ambitious
189)
03.41: Are we watching what we watch?
188)
02.69: “Who am I?”or “What is my?”
187)
08.15: Are we shooting the messenger instead of pondering the message?
186)
02.62-63: Are we the Cheerleaders of Our Mind?
185)
03.39: Oblivious – LI = Obvious
184)
12.19: What is the Home of Our Thoughts?
183)
10.11: The Light that brings Lightness
April 2012
182)
18.36: Are we waiting for a holy cloud to form around our heads?
181)
07.11: Might we be devaluing sex by glamorizing it?
180)
15.15: Block out the Blackout
179)
02.69: Are we shrinking our options for happiness?
178)
12.09: Are we mistaking the goal to be the fuel?
177)
06.06: The mind is predictably dangerous and dangerously unpredictable
176)
10.34: A Disaster Movie in Slow Motion
175)
06.30 – Devotion implies meditation independent of location
174)
13.14-15: Philosophical Banana Peels
173)
07.16: Breaks that are much more than brakes
172)
08.07 – Scared of the Sacred?
171)
16.12: Are we wasting our desires?
170)
18.38: Material Letdown and Spiritual Breakdown: The Twin Troubles of Transgression
169)
10.08: The Gita Shows the Route to the Root
168)
16.09-10: The Earthbound are Dearth-bound
167)
06.05: Who will save me from me?
166)
02.11-2.30: A dramatic and majestic expansion of our conception of life
165)
07.08: Rumble, Grumble, Tumble? Or Humble?
164)
02.16: Be Intense, not Tense
163)
09.02: Conformation brings confirmation
162)
02.44: Chemical highs cheat us of spiritual highs
161)
18.76-77: Meditation is not a dulling duty, but a thrilling opportunity
160)
09.33: The discovery of the democracy of misery
159)
10.08: Knowledge about Krishna is not for pooling, but for pulling
158)
16.16 – Are possibilities paralyzing us?
157)
03.39: Slick about sin or sick about sin?
156)
04.35: Loving the unlovable is the characteristic of God – and the character of the godly
155)
09.14: A Prize Beyond the Palliative of Peace
154)
18.63: Krishna walks with us, but not for us
153)
04.09: The Mystery of Avatara: The Descent and the Scent of Love
March 2012
152)
02.68: Catch the eye, catch the I
151)
12.16: Adept to adopt and adapt
150)
07.15: Is our intelligence building a wall or a bridge?
149)
06.25: Glue the mind to meditation, not mediation
148)
10.10: Emotional liquidity that is above, not below, intellectual solidity
147)
10.41: Our heart deserves more than a consolation prize
146)
09.02: Bhakti makes the spiritual journey a joyful journey
145)
13.10-11: Let’s make our memory our treasury
144)
15.07: To be apart or to be a part?
143)
10.34: Is the immediate encroaching on the ultimate?
142)
03.21: The Gita lives through those who live the Gita
141)
18.63: The Gita transforms the head into a runway for the heart
140)
16.08: Are we becoming a society of materialistic fanatics?
139)
14.17: Beyond rapidity and vapidity to clarity and serenity
138)
02.23: Can’t set things right? See things right
137)
02.60: The way to say “No” is to say “Yes”
136)
09.11: Avoid a void
135)
16.21-22: Are mental parasites sucking our energy?
134)
09.10: Fantastic? Yes. Fantasy? No.
133)
11.04: Pride demands and blames, humility begs and waits
132)
14.13: Are we being dulled and lulled?
131)
09.13-14: Transforming our heart into a garden blossoming with the flowers of love
130)
03.36: When our impulses hold our values hostage…
129)
06.22: Happiness: Three unworthy Us vs one worthy U
128)
09.18: Krishna is a coach, not a critic
127)
18.58: True to oneself or true tool to one’s self?
126)
16.09: When ignorance seeks to fly with intellectual wings…
125)
06.36: Conquer Provocative Mind with Evocative Mantra
124)
07.15: Are we violating our own human rights?
123)
06.06: The mind can impel, not compel
122)
07.24: When excess makes a good thing worse than bad…
February 2012
121)
07.14: The Merciless Microscope of Maya
120)
02.44: When spiritual life seems dry and tasteless….
119)
08.20: Death is a nightmare from which we have the power to wake up
118)
15.18: Our Choice: Infinite Longings or Longing for the Infinite?
117)
13.08: Humiliation is false ego frustrated, humility is false ego rejected
116)
06.44: How long will we run away from Krishna?
115)
16.03: Searching for the villain can’t help us in finding the hero
114)
07.19 – Krishna is everything, but everything is not Krishna
113)
14.12: Desire the worthy, not the trendy
112)
03.36: A game that we can’t win and can’t quit
111)
03.41: Response to Temptation: Welcome Tune or Alarm Bell?
110)
09.30-31: Krishna’s love is unconditional yet conditional
109)
09.14: Love is in the SOUND
108)
05.22: FIT intelligence immunizes us to illusion
107)
10.41: The Sense, the Nonsense and the Trans-Sense of Worldly Mania
106)
18.64-65: Love that doesn’t appoint to DIS-appoint
105)
15.12-14: Matters that matter more than matter
104)
04.02: Not turning back the clock, but turning on the compass
103)
15.15: Krishna is ever-waiting, ever-willing and ever-working
102)
15.10: “Seeing is believing” is an insult to human intelligence
101)
10.33: Time expresses Krishna’s tough love
100)
03.32: Krishna is attained not by playing with the intellect but by striving with the will
99)
05.21: Why give up the ocean for a drop?
98)
07.26: The logic-free logic of love
97)
04.09: Bridging the valley between amusing and amazing
96)
12.13: Loving as much as our heart longs
95)
18.32: Rationalize = Rational + lies: Glamorizing lewdness as “boldness”
94)
03.43: Dwell, Desire, Decide, Degrade – No! Discriminate
93)
16.04: Pride (P + Ride) takes us on a Perilous Ride
January 2012
92)
04.02: The Original Originality of the Gita
91)
17.15: Memorizing scripture doesn’t burden our head; it unburdens our heart
90)
02.42-43: When materialism dons a religious costume
89)
02.29: Life’s amazing secret
88)
15.12-15: Krishna is not just somewhere out there; he is also close by in here
87)
18.58: With Krishna, we flourish; without Krishna, we perish
86)
06.05: Did I change my mind or did my mind change me?
85)
14.22: Could our feelings be not our feelings?
84)
03.37: The Black Hole of Lust
83)
07.24: Those who desire to be fused are confused
82)
02.16: Rooted in the unchanging, branching into the changing
81)
02.44: Attachments steal our freedom of thought
80)
18.66: Surrender is not about giving up, but about going up
79)
09.29: Krishna is impartially partial
78)
02.64: Am I free to choose my definition of enjoyment?
77)
04.01: Krishna’s immortal legacy for all of us
76)
10.10: The Gita provides not just eyes, but also wings
75)
06.30: Reality is more fascinating than what we have been allowed to believe
74)
16.17: All bluff, no stuff – “Isn’t that enough?”
73)
18.73 – An intellectual adventure with an emotional climax
72)
15.10: The self-imposed misfortune of trusting the untrustworthy
71)
16.08-09: The immaterial is not immaterial
70)
06.32: Retreat within to treat without
69)
13.16: When Krishna seems far away….
68)
05.22 – The pleasure that is pregnant with suffering
67)
18.58: Our fear of insignificance traps us in insignificance
66)
16.11: Cry, Vie, Lie, Die, Fie – Tie
65)
05.29: Krishna’s ways: Not always pleasant, but always benevolent
64)
05.29: Don’t romanticize or demonize the world; utilize it to realize Krishna
63)
14.10: Why self-help doesn’t help…
62)
18.33-35: Gita insights for New Year resolutions
December 2011
61)
07.16 – Not just survival value but also value to survival
60)
02.17: Is that me?
59)
18.73: Questioning our questions
58)
18.37: Lack of devotional appetite is natural yet unnatural
57)
15.18: Krishna is realer than reality
56)
18.55: Familiarity is not understanding
55)
08.07 – The dynamic interplay of the ‘here’ and the ‘hereafter’
54)
03.06: Spend Quality Time with God
53)
18.78: The Gita guarantees ultimate success
52)
18.73: From “Is God with me?” to “Am I with God?”
51)
04.07: My message of love, Will you ban?
50)
16.07-20: The Bhagavad-gita is open-minded, not empty-minded
49)
13.09: Reclaiming Immortality: The Concern is the Lack of Concern
48)
02.16: Value change, but don’t change values
47)
02.11: Beyond lamentation to love
46)
13.08: Humility opens the door to wisdom
45)
03.34: We are products, but not prisoners of our past
44)
09.30-31: Love not just ideal people, but also real people
43)
03.16: Ever Visible, Never Experiencable
42)
09.22: Reforming Our Priorities
41)
02.70: Ever Flowing, Never Flooding – The Dynamics of Inner Peace
40)
11.32: History is His-story
39)
16.02: Finding the fault of faultfinding
38)
02.07: Let’s stop serving God as advisors
37)
04.35: Not just Believing, but Belonging
36)
18.65: The Bhagavad-gita enthrones the path of love
35)
01.46 – The Genius of the Bhagavad-gita
34)
06.20-23: Going Beyond the Reach of Misery
33)
What does prayer do? ()
32)
08.07: Bhakti integrates our emotional and rational faculties
31)
Happiness results not just from the state of mind, but the state of being ()
November 2011
30)
05.23: Tolerance is the stopper between temptation and transgression
29)
09.22: If we can worry, we can meditate
28)
Hurry Worry Sorry ()
27)
09.10: Why give up when we can grow up?
26)
Not length of life, but depth of love ()
25)
02.66-67: Ending our history of dissatisfaction
24)
18.37: The Secret of Enlightened Enjoyment
23)
11.33: From mission impossible to mission unstoppable
22)
02.14-16: Concerned but not disturbed by change
21)
Neither doctrine, nor ritual, but love affair ()
20)
Krishna Consciousness – From Death to Deathlessness ()
19)
Krishna Consciousness – Our Love-hungry Heart ()
18)
Krishna Consciousness – Meaning for the Head ()
17)
02.42-43: Are we mixing up our means and our ends?
16)
10.10: Transform pains and strains into gains
15)
18.64: When demoralized, let’s turn to the Bhagavad-gita
14)
Time is irrecoverable and unstorable ()
13)
The cutting edge of discrimination ()
12)
When the good seems better than the best ()
11)
13.22: Ending our divorce with reality
10)
Self-denial opens the door to self-fulfillment ()
9)
16.24: Look for the right lighthouse
8)
The Tormentor of the Tormentors of the Mind ()
7)
18.25: A moment of indulgence, a lifetime of repentance
6)
The Treasure of the Pauper ()
5)
Why does Krishna allow material adversities in the lives of his devotees? ()
4)
17.15: Thoughtless words can inflict cureless wounds
3)
02.62-63: Whatever catches our attention catches us
2)
10.41: Destruction by distraction
1)
Our values are our real valuables