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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