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April 2018
751)
Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity, not popularity
750)
Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity
749)
Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy
748)
Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed
747)
Gita 17.16 Austerity of mind transforms our inner disruptive enemy into a constructive friend
746)
Gita 17.15 Speech is meant not just for commnication but also for purification
745)
Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively, not destructively
March 2018
744)
Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3
February 2018
743)
Gita 17.12 Yajna is like modern technology – can fuel the illusion that we are controllers and enjoyers.mp3
742)
Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world, focus on contribution from yourself.mp3
741)
Gita 17.10 Food in ignorance isn’t nourishing, satisfying or appealing.mp3
740)
Gita 17.09 Food in passion is is sensually stimulating but eventually distressing and disease-inducing.mp3
739)
Gita 17.08 Food in goodness provides profusely both nutrition and satisfaction
738)
Gita 17.07 Food, sacrifice, charity and austerity represent broad patterns of the soul’s interaction with its encasing circles
737)
Gita 17.06 Defying scripture, be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body, is demonic
736)
Gita 17.05 Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity
735)
Gita 17.04 Our level of consciousness determines who we feel is worshipable
734)
Gita 17.03 The relationship between our existence and our faith is causal, constitutional and consequential
733)
Gita 17.02 See not just people’s ideological faith – see also their functional faith
732)
Gita 17.01 The Gita universalizes and contextualizes the analytical framework of the three modes
731)
Gita 16.24 Knowing scripture is our responsibility and our opportunity
730)
Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next
729)
Gita 16.22 To pursue our self-interest, we need to purge out self-defeating desires
728)
Gita 16.21 The metaphorical usage stresses the reality and gravity of the demoniac forces of lust, anger and greed
727)
Gita 16.20 Demoniac action and demoniac destination is perpetuated by demoniac disposition
726)
Gita 16.19 Devilish delights doom the demonic to deadly destinations
725)
Gita 16.18 When bad situations make us take shelter of our bad side, we become bad people
724)
Gita 16.17 Self-complacence and impudence perpetuate ignorance
723)
Gita 16.16 Desires and fears cover our consciousness completely with illusion
722)
Gita 16.15 The ungodly want to look good, not become good
721)
Gita 16.14 Greed makes the covetous murderous
720)
Gita 16.13 Let the mind’s chariot take us where we want to go, not where it wants to go
719)
Gita 16.12 Sensual desires are ropes of enslavement, not roads to enjoyment
718)
Gita 16.11 We make our beliefs and our beliefs make us
717)
Gita 16.10 Taking shelter of lust amidst problems is like taking shelter of kidnappers when threatened by thieves
716)
Gita 16.09 The ungodly are born for destructive action unless they do drastic course correction
January 2018
715)
Gita 16.08 From atheism to hedonism is a natural slide
714)
Gita 16.07 Observe others actions not to condemn, but to help
713)
Gita 16.06 Knowing the inclination of the road where our car is is education, not condemnation
712)
Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver
711)
Gita 16.03 Giving appropriate honor promotes harmony, demanding excessive honor disrupts harmony
710)
Gita 16.02 Our godliness needs to be seen in our harmonious interactions with others
709)
Gita 16.01 Godliness is both a decision and a disposition
708)
Gita 15.20 Using the knowledge and devotion we presently have propels us symbiotically towards life’s perfection
707)
Gita 15.19 Bhakti is not non-intellectual or anti-intellectual – it is trans-intellectual
706)
Gita 15.18 Fragmentation is not the cause of illusion, disharmonization is
705)
Gita 15.17 Liberation is not just elevation out of illusion but also connection with the supreme reality
704)
Gita 15.16 Purification means to change our emotional center
703)
Gita 15.15 The purpose of perceiving the spiritual through the material is to perceive the spiritual in its own right
November 2017
702)
Gita 15.14 The world’s origin and operation points requires something beyond the world
701)
Gita 15.13 The existence of multiple factors congenial to our existence points to transcendence
700)
Gita 15.12 We need the eyes to see what our eyes need to see
699)
Gita 15.11 What we see depends on what we want to see
698)
Gita 15.10 We need knowledge to see our vulnerability in material existence
697)
Gita 15.09 The mind makes chasing mirages the soul’s tragic habit
October 2017
696)
Gita 15.08 The essence of growth is evolution in our conception of life
695)
Gita 15.07 Even when the mind is directed by the senses, it still directs the senses
694)
Gita 15.06 The spiritual world is self-luminous and its luminosity is malleable to Krishna’s will
693)
Gita 15.05 Surrender means to give up everything for Krishna – even the feeling of hopelessness
692)
Gita 15.04 The Personal Absolute is not a way to transcendence – he is the summit of transcendence
691)
Gita 15.03 Detachment cuts not the world but our own attachment to the world
690)
Gita 15.02 We are bound by action and knowledge can guide us to action that leads to liberation
689)
Gita 15.01 The metaphor of the upside-down tree points to the reality beyond the reflection
688)
Gita 14.27 Brahman refers not just to the impersonal spiritual but also the generically spiritual
687)
Gita 14.26 Health is a product of medication but it is also a precondition for medication
686)
Gita 14.25 As long as we are materially motivated, we will be materially agitated
685)
Gita 14.24 To be equipoised, be situated in the self, not in the world
684)
Gita 14.23 We are not our scars, be they physical or emotional
683)
Gita 14.22 Be a non-judgemental non-committal observer of your emotions
682)
Gita 14.21 When the disease is subtle, we need education to perceive the symptoms of sickness and health
681)
Gita 14.20 Those who transcend the modes transcend miseries
680)
Gita 14.19 Seeing that our actions are impelled by the modes inspires us to resist the desires induced by the modes
679)
Gita 14.18 Goodness leads to elevation, passion to stagnation, ignorance to degradation
678)
Gita 14.17 Different modes foster different emotions, dispositions and destinations
677)
Gita 14.16 Piety purifies, craving torments and intoxication stupefies
676)
Gita 14.15 The modes are not just psychological constructs, they are also post-mortem destination shapers
675)
Gita 14.14 A disposition of knowledge and purity elevates to the destination of the knowledgeable and the pure
674)
Gita 14.13 The mode of ignorance block us in both contemplation and action
673)
Gita 14.12 Desires that drive us with the lure of pleasure are insatiable
672)
Gita 14.11 Illumination of knowledge regulates the input and output through the doorways of the senses
671)
Gita 14.10 The modes are neither in segregation nor in integration but are in competition
670)
Gita 14.09 The longer a pleasure lasts, the greater its lure
September 2017
669)
Gita 14.08 The mode of ignorance begins with not knowing and leads to false knowing
668)
Gita 14.07 Passion is composed of attachment, gives rise to craving and binds us to work
667)
Gita 14.06 Anything that keeps us away from realizing our spirituality is binding, even if it is illuminating
666)
Gita 14.05 Modes are a combination of matter that trigger emotion which matter in isolation doesnt
665)
Gita 14.04 The seed-giving father is also the soul-attracting liberator
664)
Gita 14.03 We determine our bodies and our bodies determine us
663)
Gita 14.02 Death can’t be avoided, but affliction due to death can be
662)
Gita 14.01 The Gita uses diverse frames of analysis to reiterate its consistent conclusion
August 2017
661)
Gita 13.35 Knowledge helps us perceive and achieve spiritual reality
660)
Gita 13.33 The soul is not entangled, but the mind is
659)
Gita 13.32 The soul is situated in the body, but its consciousness doesn’t have to imprisoned in the body
658)
Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity
657)
Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body
656)
Gita 13.34 Consciousness can be the channel to illumination – and to illusion too
July 2017
655)
Gita 13.29 See beyond people’s particular actions to Krishna’s universal positive intention
654)
Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see
653)
Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension
652)
Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality
June 2017
651)
Gita 13.25 The many ways to see within are meant to show the same truth within
650)
Gita 13.24 Sankhya and bhakti are different in form, but similar in essential content and ultimate purpose
649)
Gita 13.23 One purusha is controlled by nature, the other is the controller of nature
648)
Gita 13.22 Our desire to enjoy matter subjects us to material distress
647)
Gita 13.21 Material causality is not complete causality
646)
Gita 13.20 Matter is eternal, but material forms are temporary
645)
Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection
March 2017
644)
Gita 13.18 All objects of knowledge are meant to direct us to the objective of knowledge
643)
Gita 13.17 The all-round glory of the Absolute includes its glory as the destroyer
642)
Gita 13.16 The Gita’s Absolute reflects not naive anthropomorphism but profound sophistication
February 2017
641)
Gita 13.15 The Absolute’s paradoxical attributes underscore its transcendental inconceivability
640)
Gita 13.14 The knowable’s all-pervasiveness points to its transcendence of our capacity to know
639)
Gita 13.13 That which grants the immortal is the most vital knowable
638)
Gita 13.12 Knowledge means to what is the most important to know
637)
Gita 13.11 The way of devotion is different from the way of the masses
636)
Gita 13.10 Detachment is not meant to make us hard-hearted
635)
Gita 13.09 To cultivate detachment from matter, contemplate the distresses of material existence
634)
Gita 13.08 The Gita is not a glorification of war, but a delineation of dharma
633)
Gita 13.07 Consciousness is shaped, not sourced, by changes of matter
632)
Gita 13.06 The subtle points towards the spiritual
631)
Gita 13.05 Study matter for functioning and transcending
630)
Gita 13.04 Use your sphere of influence for bringing about the ultimate change
629)
Gita 13.03 Knowledge means to know both matter and spirit
628)
Gita 13.02 Our field reflects our sphere of influence
627)
Gita 13.01 The meanings of words exist not just in dictionary but also in context
626)
Gita 12.20 The concluding verse reiterates and reinforces the starting verse
625)
Gita 12.19 Seek satisfaction not by horizontal improvement, but by vertical advancement
624)
Gita 12.18 To rise above material dualities, break free from material association
623)
Gita 12.17 Conserve your emotional energy by focus on service
622)
Gita 12.16 Complement spiritual devotion with material dispassion
621)
Gita 12.15 Avoid agitation coming from the social and the mental
620)
Gita 12.14 To sustain satisfaction, seek absorption
619)
Gita 12.13 Devotion manifests as action, even aggression, without mundane passion
618)
Gita 12.12 Serenity comes by rising from piety to spirituality
617)
Gita 12.11 To be self-situated, begin with selflessness
616)
Gita 12.10 Bhakti means dedicating our external to the eternal internal instead of the ephemeral internal
615)
Gita 12.09 If absorption in Krishna is unattainable, seek attraction through connection
614)
Gita 12.08 Bhakti changes not our outer location but the locus of our inner world
January 2017
613)
Gita 12.07 Bhakti-yoga complements human agency with divine agency
612)
Gita 12.06 Devotional renunciation centers not on what we renounce but on for whom we renounce
611)
Gita 12.05 Attachment to oneness leaves us with nothingness to be attached to
610)
Gita 12.04 Don’t treat impersonalists impersonally – they are not all the same
609)
Gita 12.03 To say that the Absolute is indescribable is to describe it
608)
Gita 12.02 Closeness unites more than oneness
607)
Gita 12.01 Pantheism and impersonalism both conceive of the Absolute as diffused
606)
Gita 11.54 Pure devotion grants the topmost spiritual vision
605)
Gita 11.53 Krishna can’t be known by the Vedas, although the Vedas are meant for knowing him
604)
Gita 11.52 Vision results not just from perception but also comprehension
603)
Gita 11.51 Right emotion results from right perception
602)
Gita 11.50 The many-handed changes through the four-handed to the two-handed
601)
Gita 11.49 If we maintain a service disposition, Krishna will reveal a conducive vision
600)
Gita 11.48 Pious action doesn’t qualify us for devotional vision
599)
Gita 11.47 The vision of the universal form, even its destructive feature, is a rare favor
598)
Gita 11.46 Darshan of Vishva-rupa and Vishnu-rupa provide visual demonstration of verbal exposition
597)
Gita 11.45 The vishva-rupa causes jubilation, the kala-rupa causes trepidation
596)
Gita 11.44 Humility in the forgiveness-seeker and magnanimity in the forgiver uplifts both
595)
Gita 11.43 Our response on coming to know others’ greatness is shaped by our relationship with them
594)
Gita 11.42 Intimacy comes not by formality or informality but by affinity
593)
Gita 11.41 Knowledge reveals the power asymmetry to be in the opposite direction
592)
Gita 11.40 Acknowledge Krishna’s presence everywhere and appreciate it where it is specially manifest
591)
Gita 11.39 Appreciate the Absolute Truth in both bheda and abheda aspects
590)
Gita 11.38 Knowledge of the Absolute helps us see how the things we know manifest the one we need to ultimately know
589)
Gita 11.37 God in this world is like an author in a book – the cause outside the cause-effect chain
588)
Gita 11.36 What brings joy to the godly causes misery to the ungodly
587)
Gita 11.35 The kala rupa makes the fearless fearful
586)
Gita 11.34 Assurances are reassuring when they are not just generic but also specific
585)
Gita 11.33 Harmonizing with the divine will is the perfection of human expertise
584)
Gita 11.32 Question about the identity of the familiar refers to the unfamiliar within the familiar
December 2016
583)
Gita 11.31 Encountering the fearful kala rupa in the vishva-rupa is disconcerting
September 2016
582)
Gita 11.30 The all-devouring feature of the universal form reveals how the war is a yajna
581)
Gita 11.29 To be enriched with speed on the path of self-destruction is tragic
580)
Gita 11.28 The life and the death of the dharmic is auspicious
579)
Gita 11.27 The comprehensive vision of the universes includes its gruesome features
578)
Gita 11.26 The event of death is virtue-neutral, but the destination after death isn’t
577)
Gita 11.25 The sight of the unfamiliar in the familiar is disorienting
576)
Gita 11.24 Repetition is not always rambling – it can be for stress or beauty
August 2016
575)
Gita 11.23 The universal form’s predatory features arouse fear even in Arjuna
574)
Gita 11.22 The vibhutis are astounded by the virata rupa
573)
Gita 11.21 The celestials are not just the universal form’s components but also its respondents
572)
Gita 11.20 The universal form induces awe – both wonder and fear
571)
Gita 11.19 – The universal form is not just blinding but also burning
570)
Gita 11.18 – The universal form is the eternal personal protector of dharma
569)
Gita 11.17 – The blinding brightness conveys the universal form’s glory
568)
Gita 11.16 – Description of vision stimulates identification of the source of that vision
567)
Gita 11.15 – Arjuna’s vision encompasses the whole universe from top to bottom
566)
Gita 11.14 – Arjuna’s mood changes from submissive discussion to prayerful veneration
565)
Gita 11.13 – The universal form reconciles the one and the many
564)
Gita 11.12 – Human perception and description are inadequate before divine self-revelation
563)
Gita 11.11 – The visual demonstration reinforces the philosophical exposition
562)
Gita 11.10 The first impression of the universal form is astonishing
561)
Gita 11.09 The universal form is the ultimate mystical vision
560)
Gita 11.08 Our vision is a function of our qualification
559)
Gita 11.07 The universal form transcends limitations of space and time
558)
Gita 11.06 – We see with the information that helps us makes sense of what we see
557)
Gita 11.05 – The many forms within the one form – variety manifests within divinity
556)
Gita 11.04 – Devotee desires to see Krishna but doesn’t demand
555)
Gita 11.03 – Arjuna’s desire to know Krishna’s glory comes not from doubt but from devotion
554)
Gita 11.02 – Freedom from delusion comes by understanding the ephemeral and the eternal beyond the ephemeral
553)
Gita 11.01 – Those enlightened by divine mercy desire similar enlightenment for others
552)
Gita 10.42 – Appreciate Krishna’s opulence by appreciating the potency of his fragment
551)
Gita 10.41 See the attractiveness of the attractive not as Maya but as sparks of Krishna
550)
Gita 10.40 – Krishna’s infinitude brings not confusion, but jubilation
549)
Gita 10.39 – God is the one without whose existence no existence is possible
548)
Gita 10.38 – Punishment may not stop wrong desiring, but it can stop wrong doing
547)
Gita 10.37 – Krishna’s manifestations encompass all the three worlds
July 2016
546)
Gita 10.36 The thrill of victory and adventure is an experience of Krishna
545)
Gita 10.35 – The beauty of music and nature manifest Krishna’s opulence
544)
Gita 10.34 – The comprehensiveness of death’s stealing represents Krishna
543)
Gita 10.33 – Re-envision attraction to language and words to become attracted to Krishna
542)
Gita 10.32 – Krishna manifests as all phases of action in material existence
541)
Gita 10.31 – The power of powerful weapons and warriors points to Krishna
540)
Gita 10.30 – God manifests as the godly among the ungodly
539)
Gita 10.29 See the prominent powers in the Vedic cosmos as manifestations of the supreme power
538)
Gita 10.28 The life that emerges from love manifests the divine
537)
Gita 10.27 – The ruler manifests God’s opulence, for good or for bad
536)
Gita 10.26 – The transcendental manifests among the celestial
535)
Gita 10.25 – Japa is an opportunity to offer our most treasured possession – consciousness
534)
Gita 10.24 – Channel feelings of awe from giant things towards the source of all awe
533)
Gita 10.23 – The heavenly treasurer’s treasure comes from the supreme
532)
Gita 10.22 – God’s opulence pervades and sustains all life everywhere
531)
Gita 10.21 – Celestial glory manifests transcendental glory
530)
Gita 10.20 – The transcendent divinity is pervasively immanent in space and time
529)
Gita 10.19 – Our eagerness to hear Krishna’s glories is auspicious for us and delightful for Krishna
May 2016
528)
Gita 10.18 – Bhakti is joyful and fruitful
527)
Gita 10.17 – Recollection and participation are reconciled by understanding God’s immanence
526)
Gita 10.16 – Desire for details of a subject demonstrates deep devotion to that subject
525)
Gita 10.15 – Vedic theology is not polytheism, but multi-level monotheism
524)
Gita 10.14 – Accept Krishna’s position and message the way Arjuna accept it
523)
Gita 10.13 – The sages’ reiteration of Krishna’s words boosts our conviction and devotion
522)
Gita 10.12 – Krishna is transcendence beyond transcendence
521)
Gita 10.11 – The way to drive out darkness is to turn on the light
520)
Gita 10.10 – Krishna gives us the intelligence to attain him
519)
Gita 10.09 – Devotion means to center our emotion, action and discussion on Krishna
518)
Gita 10.08 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position transforms our disposition
March 2016
517)
Gita 10.07 – Appreciation of Krishna’s greatness guarantees absorption in him
516)
Gita 10.06 – Realize the greatness of our universal genealogy
515)
Gita 10.05 – Krishna asks Arjuna to fight, yet is the source of the qualities that engender peace
514)
Gita 10.04 – Krishna offers the good beyond the bad and the good
513)
Gita 10.03 – Understanding Krishna’s position frees us from sins
512)
Gita 10.02 – Appreciating the glory of the object of devotion enhances devotion
February 2016
511)
Gita 10.01 – The Gita is an endearing combination of lofty exposition and intimate affection
510)
Gita 09.34 – Direct your cognition, emotion and action towards Krishna
509)
Gita 09.33 – Go beyond incompatible material existence to compatible spiritual existence
508)
Gita 09.32 – Bhakti brings universality to spirituality
507)
9.31 – For devotees connected with Krishna, the happily ever after is guaranteed
506)
Gita 09.30 – Krishna never abandons devotees even when they fall
505)
Gita 09.29 – Krishna is neither impartial nor partial – he is reciprocal
504)
Gita 09.28 – Bhakti accommodates even those for whom bhakti is an afterthought
503)
Gita 09.27 – Bhakti accommodates seekers at multiple levels
502)
Gita 09.26 – Krishna is hungry for the reciprocation of affection
501)
Gita 09.25 – Different paths lead to different goals
500)
Gita 09.24 – Education about reality is not discrimination against certain features of reality
499)
Gita 09.23 – The Gita’s multi-level monotheism is the balance between Abrahamic monotheism and Greco-Roman polytheism
498)
Gita 09.22 – Seek spiritual security not just in the soul but in Krishna
497)
Gita 09.21 – Blindness to mortality, even if it be in heaven, is still blindness
496)
Gita 09.20 – Karma-kanda leads to elevation, but not liberation
495)
Gita 09.19 – In Krishna contradictions are transcended and reconciled
494)
Gita 09.18 – God is not a remote controller – he is the pervasive sustainer
493)
Gita 09.17 – Krishna is the sustainer of our sustainers
492)
Gita 09.16 – See beyond the technical to the transcendental
March 2020
491)
Gita 09.15 – Jnana yajna is not the same as jnana-yoga
February 2016
490)
Gita 09.14 – See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication
489)
Gita 09.13 – Krishna’s attractiveness is original and inexhaustible
488)
Gita 9.12 – Rejecting real currency as fake leaves one impoverished
487)
Gita 09.11 – To claim the impersonal to be Krishna’s param bhava is contextually and grammatically indefensible
486)
Gita 09.10 – Nature is not causally complete without an ultimate cause
485)
Gita 09.09 – Krishna is concerned but not sentimental
January 2016
484)
Gita 09.08 – We are helpless before material natures inexorable cyclicity
483)
Gita 09.07 – Repetition of discussion is meant for elevation of vision
482)
Gita 09.06 – Krishna limits not our freedom but the scope of our freedom
481)
Gita 09.05 – God’s self-contradiction points to his inconceivable multi-level manifestations
480)
Gita 09.04 – God relates with the world through the impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent
479)
Gita 09.03 – Bhakti harmonizes the temporary with the eternal
478)
Gita 09.02 – Knowledge that gives the greatest power is the greatest knowledge
477)
Gita 09.01 – Krishna’s glory can be appreciated by the devoted, not the envious
476)
Gita 08.28 – Yogi gets what other paths offer and gets more too
475)
Gita 08.27 – Devotional consistency is more important than chronological accuracy
474)
Gita 08.26 – Disinvest emotion from matter before it crashes
473)
Gita 08.25 – Yogi’s spiritual exit velocity needs to be greater than the world’s gravity pull
472)
Gita 08.24 – Astrological positions and psychological dispositions contribute to the soul’s liberation
471)
Gita 08.23 – The Gita unifies diverse Vedic concepts in a devotional framework
470)
Gita 08.22 – Everything is in Krishna and Krishna is in everything
469)
Gita 08.21 – Our longing for home is our longing for the spiritual world
468)
Gita 08.20 – The spiritual is not just non-manifest but also nonmaterial
467)
Gita 08.19 – Recognizing our lack of control over the destructible material imples us to direct our consciousness to the eternal spiritual
466)
Gita 08.18 – Matter becomes unmanifest, but material form is destroyed
465)
Gita 08.17 – The immortal is not eternal
464)
Gita 08.16 – The world is like a jail or hospital – returning to it is undesirable
463)
Gita 08.15 – Attaining Krishna is the eternally inalienable attainment
462)
Gita 08.14 – What is difficult in one perspective is easy in another perspective
461)
Gita 08.13 – External recitation and internal recollection propel us to spiritual liberation
460)
Gita 08.12 – In yoga, the technical is a necessary preliminary to the transcendental
459)
Gita 08.11 – Liberation in yoga requires renunciation
458)
Gita 08.10 – Yoga restrains the negative, bhakti energizes the positive
457)
Gita 08.09 – Systematic contemplation begins with tangible information
456)
Gita 08.08 – Practice to take consciousness beyond endlessly deceptive material reality to Krishna
455)
Gita 08.07 – Devotion is not about rejecting the outer world but about offering the inner world
December 2015
454)
Gita 08.06 – Our emotional disposition becomes our physical position
453)
Gita 08.05 – Our choice at the junction determines our destination
452)
Gita 08.04 – Everything is ultimately a manifesatation of Krishna
451)
Gita 08.03 – Spirituality is our nature
450)
Gita 08.02 – Death is not the termination of life but its testing ground
449)
Gita 08.01 – Terms have specific and generic meanings
448)
Gita 07.30 – Teacher’s incomprehensible statements test student’s interest and attentiveness
447)
Gita 07.29 – Detect misery to correct it
446)
Gita 07.28 – Dont expect immediate steady determination – use present determination, even if unsteady
445)
Gita 07.27 – Go beyond duality by spirituality
444)
Gita 07.26 – Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence
443)
Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron
442)
Gita 07.24 – To deflect a clear critique of impersonalism is to violate both the meaning and the context
441)
Gita 07.23 – Accommodation is not recommendation
440)
Gita 07.22 – Krishna accomodates within the house of the Vedas even those who cant worship him
439)
Gita 07.21 – Krishna is much more merciful than the God in the Prodigal Son metaphor
438)
Gita 07.20 – Don’t let desire steal your knowledge
437)
Gita 07.19 – Krishna is not a dispensable filler; he is an indispensable shelter
May 2015
436)
Gita 07.18 – Krishna is so hungry for love that he deems those who become his devotees charitable
435)
Gita 07.17 – Jnana favorable to bhakti intensifies our connection with Krishna
434)
Gita 07.16 – Approaching Krishna for any reason is auspicious
433)
Gita 07.15 – Scriptural categorization of non-devotees is living, not frozen
432)
Gita 07.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position brings intellectual force to our call of devotion
431)
Gita 07.13 – The modes sabotage our prospects of coming out of material existence
430)
Gita 07.12 – The Gita’s vision of God is not pantheistic but panentheistic
429)
Gita 07.11 – Kama manifests the divine when harmonized with dharma
428)
Gita 07.10 – All seeds are exhaustible, but Krishna is the inexhaustible seed
427)
Gita 07.09 – Krishna underlies diverse manifestations as earth, fire, life and ascetic
426)
Gita 07.08 – Krishna is the essence that makes all taste accessible through water
425)
Gita 07.07 – Krishna is the substance underlying all appearance
424)
Gita 07.06 – Nothing exists outside the purview of Krishna’s energies
423)
Gita 07.05 – The Absolute Truth is immutable, but its energies are mutable
422)
Gita 07.04 – Sankhya when seen devotionally reveals Krishna’s glory
421)
Gita 07.03 – The rarity of knowing Krishna reveals the mercy we have the opportunity to relish
420)
Gita 07.02 – Understand the appearance and the substance of everything
419)
Gita 07.01 – Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga
418)
Gita 06.47 – The perfection of yoga is not disconnection from matter but connection with Krishna
April 2015
417)
Gita 06.46 – Focus on transcendence is superior to any material attainment – gross or subtle
416)
Gita 06.45 – Past-life attraction and present determination leads yogi to perfection
415)
Gita 06.44 – Past-life’s spiritual practice manifests as inexplicable irresistible attraction to transcendence
414)
Gita 06.43 – Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse
413)
Gita 06.42 – Having past spiritual impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate
412)
Gita 06.41 – The deviated yogi loses neither materially nor spiritually
411)
Gita 06.40 – Krishna reveals how an apparently lose-lose situation is actually win-win
410)
Gita 06.39 – Doubts are natural due to our limitedness – seek the unlimited
409)
Gita 06.38 – The problems we perceive reflect our level of consciousness
408)
Gita 06.37 – Considering future problems is a sign of intelligence
407)
Gita 06.36 – Mind control is essential – and possible by proper process
406)
Gita 06.35 – The supreme teacher offers guidance – and confidence
405)
Gita 06.34 – The mind is dangerous like an unstoppable storm
404)
Gita 06.33 – Seeing equally is tough, but seeing devotionally is easier
403)
Gita 06.32 – The topmost yogi sees everyone with benevolence, not indifference
402)
Gita 06.31 – See oneness in Krishna’s various manifestations – not Krishna and the soul
401)
Gita 06.30 – The perception of Krishna everywhere takes one beyond the reach of illusion
400)
Gita 06.29 – By seeing sameness in the material, yogi penetrates to the supreme spiritual substance
399)
Gita 06.28 – To get the best happiness, connect with God, not sense objects
398)
Gita 06.27 – Joy is the natural fruity of purity
March 2015
397)
Gita 06.26 – Overcome discouragement with the inner light and the inner map
396)
Gita 06.25 – Don’t expect overnight change – determinedly make gradual changes
395)
Gita 06.24 – Determination means rejection of dejection
394)
Gita 06.23 – Yoga brings disconnection from our infatuation with misery
393)
Gita 06.22 – Seek the achievement beyond hankering and lamentation
392)
Gita 06.21 – The intelligence opens the door to trans-sensory happiness
391)
Gita 06.20 – Stop outer obsession to begin inner perception
390)
Gita 06.19 – Minimize the wind of disturbing desires to maximize the flame of meditation
389)
Gita 06.18 – Self-control leads to real self-awareness
388)
Gita 06.17 – Material regulation cataylzes yogic liberation
387)
Gita 06.16 – Take responsibility for determining bodily balance
386)
Gita 06.15 – Yoga brings mental regulation and spiritual liberation
385)
Gita 06.14 – Use material dispassion to establish spiritual connection
384)
Gita 06.13 – Physical position is meant to facilitate mental absorption
383)
Gita 06.12 – Concentration is the foundation for purification
382)
Gita 06.11 – Seek a balance between externals and internals
381)
Gita 06.10 – Popular yoga is not spiritual yoga
380)
Gita 06.09 – Equal vision towards those who relate unequally is challenging
379)
Gita 06.08 – Realization brings satisfaction and equal vision
378)
Gita 06.07 – The controlled mind disregards dualities and discovers the Supersoul
377)
Gita 06.06 – Train the mind as a horse is trained
376)
Gita 06.05 – The responsibility for controlling the mind rests on us
375)
Gita 06.04 – Rigorous renunciation characterizes the yogarudha stage
374)
Gita 06.03 – Different levels require different methods for progress
373)
Gita 06.02 – Renunciation of matter and connection with spirit share the same purpose
372)
Gita 06.01 – Renunciation means to give up the shelter of work’s fruits
371)
Gita 05.29 – Peace comes by devotion to the all-powerful, all-loving Lord
370)
Gita.05.28 – Controlling the external and the internal brings liberation
369)
Gita 05.27 – Shut out the sense objects to seek inwards
368)
Gita 05.26 – Success on the spiritual path will come surely and soon
February 2015
367)
Gita 05.25 – Removing impurities empowers us to rip apart the facade of dualities
366)
Gita 05.24 – The inner is the way to the spiritual
365)
Gita 05.23 – The war against lust is a war of attrition
364)
Gita 05.22 – The so-called pleasure is the source of trouble
363)
Gita 05.21 – Give up outer pleasure and seek inexhaustible inner happiness
362)
Gita 05.20 – Equanimity is meant to make us not emotionless, but purposeful
361)
Gita 05.19 – Sameness of perception is the situation of liberation
360)
Gita 05.18 – Spiritual realization grants equal vision towards all
359)
Gita 05.17 – Spiritualize all the channels of consciousness to gain liberating knowledge
358)
Gita 05.16 – Knowledge illumines our inner territory and reveals the indwelling Lord
357)
Gita 05.15 – The judge is not responsible for the criminal’s conviction
356)
Gita 05.14 – The more we become detached, the more we master the body
355)
Gita 05.13 – The bodily city metaphor conveys our difference from our sensory gates
354)
Gita 05.12 – Action per se is not binding – attached action is
353)
Gita 05.11 – Change the motivation for action from gratification to purification
352)
Gita 05.10 – Live in the world but be not of the world
January 2015
351)
Gita 05.09 – Contact of senses & sense objects is not the problem – infatuation with the contact is
350)
Gita 05.08 – Don’t take credit for actions done by bodily mechanisms
349)
Gita 05.07 – Inner purity ensures outer action without reaction
348)
Gita 05.06 – Renunciation without yogic connection is distressing
347)
Gita 05.05 – Sankhya and yoga aim for the same destination, yet they aren’t same
346)
Gita 05.04 – See beyond the diversity of process to the commonality of purpose
345)
Gita 05.03 – Renunciation in action is lasting renunciation
344)
Gita 05.02 – The path that takes us away from bondage fastest is the best
343)
Gita 05.01 – Understand meanings of terms from context, not from preconception
342)
Gita 04.42 – Win the inner war with spiritual knowledge and fight the outer war
341)
Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic
340)
Gita 04.40 – Don’t let doubts deprive you of happiness
339)
Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge
338)
Gita 04.38 – Don’t reduce jnana to jnana-yoga
337)
Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes
336)
Gita 04.36 – The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge
335)
Gita 04.35 – Knowledge takes us beyond illusion and reveals connection of everything with Krishna
334)
Gita 04.34 – Learn from guru how to do karma as yajna and attain jnana
333)
Gita 04.33 – Let action be permeated by knowledge and culminate in knowledge
332)
Gita 04.32 – Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation
331)
Gita 04.31 – Happiness in this world and the next don’t have to be mutually exclusive
330)
Gita 04.30 – The knowers of yajna attain purification, satisfaction and liberation
329)
Gita 04.29 – Infuse pranayama with the imagery of yajna
328)
Gita 04.28 – Apply the yajna priniciple to a broad spectrum of religious activities
327)
Gita 04.27 – Ceassation of all sensory and respiratory activity is a yajna
326)
Gita 04.26 – The mood of sacrifice spiritualizes both the householder and the renounced orders
325)
Gita 04.25 – Re-envision both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda as yajna
324)
Gita 04.24 – When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual
323)
Gita 04.23 – Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity
322)
Gita 04.22 – See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability
321)
Gita 04.21 – Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire
320)
Gita 04.20 – The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter
319)
Gita 04.19 – Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant
318)
Gita 04.18 – Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization
317)
Gita 04.17 – Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible
316)
Gita 04.16 – Don’t simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning
315)
Gita 04.15 – Follow the successful to be successful
314)
Gita 04.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position protects us from karmic subjugation
313)
Gita 04.13 – Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating
312)
Gita 04.12 – Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion
311)
Gita 04.11 – Appreciate the profundity of Krishna’s reciprocity and universality
310)
Gita 04.10 – Overcome 3 obstructive attitudes for taking shelter of Krishna
309)
Gita 04.09 – Attainment of Krishna is not rebirth, but release from rebirth
308)
Gita 04.08 – Let Krishna establish dharma within
307)
Gita 04.07 – Universality of opportunity defines and distinguishes dharma
306)
Gita 04.06 – Don’t presume familiarity with concepts due to familiarity with terms
305)
Gita 04.05 – Krishna spiritual position is not affected by his material location
304)
Gita 04.04 – Accept responsibility for clear communication – don’t affix blame for unclear communication
303)
Gita 04.03 – Krishna reveals his glory to those who delight in that glory
302)
Gita 04.02 – The Gita lives through those who live the Gita
301)
Gita 04.01 – Yogic knowledge comes from transcendental source through extra-terrestrial route to terrestrial recipient
300)
Gita 03.43 – Use intelligence to pursue transcendence and subdue lust
299)
Gita 03.42 – In the line of fire from lust the soul is the last
298)
Gita 03.41 – Regulation is the foundation for purification
297)
Gita 03.40 – Lust has taken over our knowledge-acquiring mechanism
296)
Gita 03.39 – The eternal enemy blinds, binds and burns
295)
Gita 03.38 – No one is exempt from lust’s delusion
294)
Gita 03.37 – Inner enemies are more dangerous than outer enemies
293)
Gita 03.36 – Alien desires become our own and impel us to sin
292)
Gita 03.35 – Credit lies in sticking to duty under duress, not in changing duty
291)
Gita 03.34 – Don’t let sensory urges steal dharmic credits
290)
Gita 03.33 – Our varna nature needs to be channelized, not repressed
289)
Gita 03.32 – Turning away from Krishna defeats the purpose of knowledge
288)
Gita 03.31 – Krishna’s words are eternal and faith-worthy
December 2014
287)
Gita 03.30 – Focus not on detaching from the entangling but on attaching to the liberating
286)
Gita 03.29 – The wise should elevate, not agitate, the ignorant
285)
Gita 03.28 – To know the truth means to see how spirit can stay disentangled from matter during action
284)
Gita 03.27 – Mistaking initiation of action with its execution is illusion
283)
Gita 03.26 – Don’t exhibit your high level – attract people to one level higher
282)
Gita 03.25 – The detached and the attached differ not in action but in intention
281)
Gita 03.24 – Krishna turns on its head Arjuna’s argument about varna-sankara
280)
Gita 03.23 – Walk your talk
279)
Gita 03.22 – Krishna’s supreme position redefines duty as lila
278)
Gita 03.21 – We learn from others’ examples and set examples for others
277)
Gita 03.20 – Examples make the conceptual tangible
276)
Gita 03.19 – Detached dutifulness opens the door to perfection
275)
Gita 03.18 – The independent are bound to neither action nor renunciation
274)
Gita 03.17 – Only those who rejoice internally are released from external duty
273)
Gita 03.16 – Those who don’t sacrifice waste their life
272)
Gita 03.15 – Yajna makes the transcendental accessible
271)
Gita 03.14 – The principle of cosmic exchange is not pre-scientific but universal
270)
Gita 03.13 – See God not just as the provider of food but also as its enjoyer.mp3 Gita 11.37 kasmac ca te nameran mahatman .mp3
269)
Gita 03.12 – Secular humanism makes humans honest thieves
268)
Gita 03.11 – We live not just in a universe but in a universal government
267)
Gita 03.10 – Don’t let familiarity take the mystery out of nature
266)
Gita 03.09 – Nature of action is determined by its intent, not its form
265)
Gita 03.08 – Material duty maintains material stability and facilitates spiritual focus
264)
Gita 03.07 – Regulation is more conducive for advancement than renunciation
263)
Gita 03.06 – Outer renunciation with inner sensual contemplation is self-delusion
262)
Gita 03.05 – Inaction is unnatural, materially and spiritually
261)
Gita 03.04 – Don’t equate the external with the essential
260)
Gita 03.03 – Krishna’s instructions are not contradictory, but multi-level
259)
Gita 03.02 – When scripture doesn’t fit into our mental framework, the framework needs change
258)
Gita 03.01 – The Gita’s complex multi-level message is intellectually challenging and fulfilling
257)
Gita 02.72 – Nirvana may be extinction, but brahma-nirvana is not
256)
Gita 02.71 – Peace comes not by relocation, but by renunciation
255)
Gita 02.70 – Be filled with higher purpose to transcend lower desires
254)
Gita 02.69 – Be special above the ordinary, not among the ordinary
253)
Gita 02.68 – Be a soul-deliverer, not a soul-killer
252)
Gita 02.67 – Be swept by the wind of spiritual desire, not material desire
251)
Gita 02.66 – Without inner connection, we end with agitation and frustration
250)
Gita 02.65 – Purification makes external intelligence internal
249)
Gita 02.64 – Material regulation is the launching pad for spiritual liberation
248)
Gita 02.63 – Irritation, delusion, oblivion, stupefaction, destruction – Last 5 of 8 stages to falldown
247)
Gita 02.62 – Whatever catches our attention catches us
246)
Gita 02.61 – Control, concentration, conquest – three stages in dealing with the senses
245)
Gita 02.60 – Endeavoring and discerning are not enough for sense control
244)
Gita 02.59 – Complement renunciation of the material with contemplation on the spiritual
243)
Gita 02.58 – Withdraw consciousness inwards as a basic defense mechanism
242)
Gita 02.57 – Stay unaffected by the material by being focussed on the spiritual
241)
Gita 02.56 – Emotional non-entanglement with the material characterizes the seer
240)
Gita 02.55 – Rejection of mental desires and satisfaction in the self define the self-realized
239)
Gita 02.54 – Non-literal meaning illumines when literal meaning stumps
238)
Gita 02.53 – Persistent absorption comes by consistent rejection of distraction
237)
Gita 02.52 – Shastra without guru can be a deluding forest for the intelligence
236)
Gita 02.51 – Same action with higher motivation bestows higher destination
235)
Gita 02.50 – Yoga facilitates individualized artistic infusion of work with devotion
234)
Gita 02.49 – The good becomes bad when it becomes the enemy of the best
233)
Gita 02.48 – Yoga requires material indifference to provide spiritual transcendence
232)
Gita 02.47 – Make sense of four counterintuitive assertions by seeing the full picture
231)
Gita 02.46 – Understand multivalence of Veda to grasp how transcending the Vedas fulfills their purpose
230)
Gita 02.45 – Gain possession of the soul by giving up obsession with matter
229)
Gita 02.44 – Prevent attachment from abducting consciousness by intelligence and taste
228)
Gita 02.43 – The Vedic masterplan uses dharma to raise people from kama to prema
227)
Gita 02.42 – Flowery words of Vedas distract from their ultimate wisdom
226)
Gita 02.41 – Intent shapes intelligence
225)
Gita 02.40 – The spiritual path comes with a no-loss and a fear-relieving guarantee
224)
Gita 02.39 – Use buddhi to transform theoretical sankhya into practical yoga
223)
Gita 02.38 – To reconcile the Gita’s contradictions, recognize the multi-level nature of its discussions
222)
Gita 02.37 – Knowledge of atma and dharma redefines lose-lose situation as win-win
221)
Gita 02.36 – Behave respectably to bring respectability to Krishna’s message
220)
Gita 02.35 – The variance between our intention and people’s perception causes mortifying misconception
219)
Gita 02.34 – Engage the power of honor to encourage honorable action
218)
Gita 02.33 – Honorable position brings obligation of tangible contribution
217)
Gita 02.32 – Dharma rewards success according to each varna’s definition of success
216)
Gita 02.31 – Dharma is not a blanket injunction but an individualized customization
215)
Gita 02.30 – Knowlege of the soul is not a call for resignation but for action
214)
Gita 02.29 – Perception, verbalization, reception and incomprehension wrt soul are all amazing
213)
Gita 02.28 – The mutability of everything materially magnifies the futility of grief
212)
Gita 02.27 – See death not as a future event, but as an ongoing process
211)
Gita 02.26 – Materialism makes meaning meaningless and lamentation pointless
210)
Gita 02.25 – Contemplate the inconceivable to relish the spiritual
209)
Gita 02.24 – The soul can’t be stopped from going anywhere nor forced to go anywhere
208)
Gita 02.23 – The utter indestrutibility of the soul underlies the path of difficult duty
207)
Gita 02.22 – The dress metaphor redefines death not as a miserable termination but as a welcome transition
206)
Gita 02.21 – Integrate knowledge of the soul with the purpose of that knowledge
205)
Gita 02.20 – The soul doesn’t undergo the six changes that matter does
204)
Gita 02.19 – The soul’s non-doership points to the complexity of matter-spirit interaction
203)
Gita 02.18 – The immeasurability of soul points to its non-literal non-metaphorical measure
202)
Gita 02.17 – Nothing can destroy the soul because it pervades everything
201)
Gita 02.16 – Matter has no existence in the sense of having no lasting consequence
200)
Gita 02.15 – Those unaffected by the temporary attain the eternal
199)
Gita 02.14 – The material is peripheral, unavoidable and ephemeral – so tolerate it
198)
Gita 02.13 – The body is changing, not just growing – so focus on the unchanging
197)
Gita 02.12 – Spirit is not just eternal but also plural
196)
Gita 02.11 – The ability to harmonize the walk with the talk characterizes the wise
195)
Gita 02.10 – Change in the seeker’s mood evokes change in the teacher’s mood
194)
Gita 02.09 – The decision of inaction reflects desperation to learn
193)
Gita 02.08 – Outer success can’t remove inner distress
192)
Gita 02.07 – Arjuna exhibits 3 characteristics of an ideal disciple
191)
Gita 02.06 – Find way through lose-lose problems by seeking emotional distance
190)
Gita 02.05 – Hard choices have to be made to avoid harder consequences
189)
Gita 02.04 – Resolve conflicts among different roles by raising consciousness.mp3
188)
Gita 02.03 – Fight degrading temptation by remembering honoroble position
187)
Gita 02.02 – Arya – Spiritual denotation, historical concoction and modern connotation
186)
Gita 02.01 – Arjuna’s analysis only aggravates his agony
185)
Gita 01.46 – When the eye disheartens, let the ear hearten
184)
Gita 01.45 – Sound arguments from a fragmented perception are actually unsound
183)
Gita 01.44 – Arjuna’s reasoning is wrong, but his capacity for reasoning is laudable
182)
Gita 01.43 – Hell forever is a subjective feeling, not an objective fact
181)
Gita 01.42 – Three meanings of dharma
180)
Gita 01.41 – Unwanted progeny – what does unwanted mean?
179)
Gita 01.40 – Protecting women and ensuring good progeny are important social responsibilities
178)
Gita 01.39 – As soon as dharma weakens adharma attacks
177)
Gita 01.38 – Don’t let the anartha-maddened make us similarly mad
176)
Gita 01.37 – Greed gives us a tunnel vision of reality
175)
Gita 01.36 – Contemplate contextual karmic considerations before acting
174)
Gita 01.35 – Arjuna’s profit-loss calculations miss the most important factor
173)
Gita 01.34 – Arjuna’s evolved emotion and reason ready to be raised to the summit by Gita wisdom
172)
Gita 01.33 – The contrasting words of Arjuna and Duryodhana reveal their consciousness’ levels
171)
Gita 01.32 – Whom we live for determines the quality of our life
170)
Gita 01.31 – Material long-term is not long-term enough
169)
Gita 01.30 – Where materialism shows a dead end spirituality shows the way ahead
168)
Gita 01.29 – The inner attack of emotions does what no outer attack of enemies could have done
167)
Gita 01.28 – To avoid being consumed by material emotions, cultivate spiritual emotions
166)
Gita 01.27 – Undiscerning visual perception erodes spiritual conviction
165)
Gita 01.26 – The brutality of the imminent fratricide sinks in
164)
Gita 01.25 – Over-reliance on visual perception ends in illusion
163)
Gita 01.24 – Conquer lethargy to attain excellence in service
162)
Gita 01.23 – How the evil got so many allies
161)
Gita 01.22 – A last sight of the battling brethren
160)
Gita 01.21 – The surprising request to see what is already known
159)
Gita 01.20 – The monkey standard is permeated with the divine monkey’s presence
158)
Gita 01.19 – Kauravas’ bravado battered and shattered by Pandavas’ bravery
157)
Gita 01.18 – The Pandavas’ illustrious sons gallantly serve their parents
156)
Gita 01.17 – Weapons are warrior’s ornaments
October 2014
155)
Gita 01.16 – The individual conches manifest individual warrior’s virility
154)
Gita 01.15 – The top trio in the Pandava army start the action
153)
Gita 01.14 – The dramatically humble entry of the hero
152)
Gita 01.13 – Rituals of war express and stimulate the martial spirit
151)
Gita 01.12 – The valorous grandsire stops the politicking
150)
Gita 01.11 – The manipulator misses the one who matters most
149)
Gita 01.10 – Mulitiple meanings of same word reveal the possibilities of multiple interpretations
148)
Gita 01.09 – Listing the warriors’ qualities for enlisting their commitment
September 2014
147)
Gita 01.08 – Attachment makes the absent present
146)
Gita 01.07 – Repetition of known information conveys prioritization
145)
Gita 01.06 – Their great warriors counterbalance our greater strength
144)
Gita 01.05 – Affiliations were shaped by long-term affinity not short-term antipathy
143)
Gita 01.04 – Our inner frame of reference shapes our outer focus of reference
142)
Gita 01.03 – The politician seeks martial dedication by emotional manipulation
141)
Gita 01.02 – Duryodhana’s choice of conversant reveals his political intent
140)
Gita 01.01 – The transcendental manifests as the geographical
June 2018
139)
Gita 17.21 Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation
138)
Gita 17.22 We need discrimination to ensure that doing good actually does good
137)
Gita 17.23 Everything is sustained by its connection with the Absolute
136)
Gita 17.24 The many meanings of the word “brahma” in the Gita
135)
Gita 17.25 Recitation of tad signifies and stimulates the pursuit of transcendence
134)
Gita 17.26 Any inclination to seek elevation of consciousness is praiseworthy
133)
Gita 17.27 Sat is not just a word for recitation – it is a conviction to cultivated and infused into action
132)
Gita 17.28 Having no faith in anything higher makes performance of religious activities unfruitful
131)
Gita 18.01 What is used to refer is not as important as what is being referred to
130)
Gita 18.02 Devotional attachment is the best way to avoid worldly attachment
129)
Gita 18.03 Gita 18.03 Appreciate others thoughtfulness even if it doesn’t lead to the best conclusion
128)
Gita 18.04 Just as indulgence can be indiscriminate, so can renunciation
127)
Gita 18.05 To be mana-isha, we need not just a mana free from ishvara-bhava, but a mana fixed on ishvara
126)
Gita 18.06 Karmic bondage is like emotional dependence – focus not just on the action but also on the motivation
125)
Gita 18.07 Renunciation done in illusion can’t take us out of illusion
124)
Gita 18.08 Desire for bodily pleasure and fear of bodily trouble both keep us in the cage of bodily consciousness
123)
Gita 18.09 Renunciation in goodness means to know that we as parts just need to do our parts
July 2018
122)
Gita 18.10 Take the route that takes us to the destination, not the route that looks the easiest
121)
Gita 18.11 To pursue liberation, give up the idea of giving up action
120)
Gita 18.12 Intelligence sees consequence and fosters detachment
119)
Gita 18.13 The journey from illusion to illumination requires philosophical education
118)
Gita 18.14 God is the fifth factor as well as the foundation of all factors
117)
Gita 18.15 Spiritual consciousness ensures that our actions give a favorable result
116)
Gita 18.16 To think that we are the sole doers is to have deluded intelligence
115)
Gita 18.17 When we act without false ego, we stay free of reactions
114)
Gita 18.18 Analysis of the components of action is meant to direct towards non-reactive action
113)
Gita 18.19 The Gita’s flow verses make its question-directed discussion more accessible
112)
Gita 18.20 Seeing commonality alone is not vision in goodness – seeing spirituality as the foundation of commonality is
111)
Gita 18.21 To equate others physical appearance with spiritual substance is vision in passion
110)
Gita 18.22 Knowledge in ignorance makes us obsessed with one fragment of reality and one kind of action
109)
Gita 18.23 To gain knowledge, we need basic knowledge about where to seek knowledge
108)
Gita 18.24 Disconnection from our Lord leads to the consumption of our consciousness by passion
107)
Gita 18.25 To see our actions disconnected from the past and the future is to see in illusion
106)
Gita 18.26 The doer is not a non-doer but is a component in doing
105)
Gita 18.27 Our actions reflect our self-conception and our world-conception
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Gita 18.28 Doers in ignorance act destructively for others and even for themselves
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Gita 18.29 To drive purposefully, we need to know the destination, the path and the vehicle
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Gita 18.30 Intelligence means to see beyond appearance to consequence
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Gita 18.31 Confusing between long-term purposes and short-term pleasures characterizes intelligence in passion
100)
Gita 18.32 Intelligence in ignorance mistakes the binding to be freeing
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Gita 18.33 What intelligence discerns, that determination sustains
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Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion
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Gita 18.35 To hold on to thought-patterns that hurt us is to abuse our determination
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Gita 18.36 Some pleasures are the start of sorrow – and some the end of sorrow
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Gita 18.37 Spiritual knowledge gives us the purpose to persevere through the poison till the nectar
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Gita 18.38 The pleasure of titillation leads to the agony of tribulation
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Gita 18.39 Pleasure in ignorance begins in ignorance and ends in increased ignorance
August 2018
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Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature
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Gita 18.41 Varnashrama provides customized spirituality for elevating people from where they are
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Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction
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Gita 18.43 Kshatriyas control in service of the supreme controller
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Gita 18.44 Protecting cows protects the cow protectors from greed
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Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection
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Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine’s gifts to the divine
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Gita 18.47 Acknowledging our present diversity is essential for realizing our spiritual commanality
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Gita 18.48 See beyond the unpalatable to the essential to pursue the transcendental
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Gita 18.49 Our spiritual evolution goes through multiple levels of perfection from engagement through disengagement to devotion
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Gita 18.50 The Gita’s purpose is not to describe spiritual paths but to analyze them for making an informed choice
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Gita 18.51 Use intelligence to counter the mind’s centrifugal force
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Gita 18.52 Take shelter of renunciation to cultivate inner absorption
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Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual
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Gita 18.54 Devotion doesn’t culminate in liberation, liberation culminates in devotion
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Gita 18.55 Don’t divorce the literal reading of one word from the overall context of the text
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Gita 18.56 The bhakti university takes seekers from any level to the summit of spiritual perfection
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Gita 18.57 Take shelter of the intelligence to convince yourself of the need to take Krishna’s shelter
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Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can’t be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice
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Gita 18.59 Ego means to think that we know better than God
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Gita 18.60 How we act is determined by our material nature but for what purpose we act isnt
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Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord
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Gita 18.62 The deepest peace comes by not an external serene situation but by an internal spiritual connection
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Gita 18.63 Knowledge guides our free will by showing us the consequences of our actions
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Gita 18.64 Krishna’s tone rises from informational analysis to impassioned advocacy
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Gita 18.65 Promises in a close relationship reflect and affect the closeness of the relationship
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Gita 18.66 The call to rise above dharma is not a call to slip below dharma
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Gita 18.67 Though ultimately every heart longs for divine love, not every heart is presently ready for divine love
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Gita 18.68 The bhakti cure cures more those who share the cure more
September 2018
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Gita 18.69 See the superlative as an exhortation to devotional action
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Gita 18.70 See the sanctity of Gita study in terms of intent, content and result
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Gita 18.71 Krishna compassionately offers connections at decreasing levels of commitment
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Gita 18.72 A philosophical conversation amidst emotional tribulation testifies to Arjuna’s sincerity and Krishna’s potency
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Gita 18.73 Harmony with the divine infuses our fleeting insignificant lives with lasting significance
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Gita 18.74 The Gita describes a mahatama and makes its hearer into a mahatma
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Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita’s wisdom
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Gita 18.77 Recollecting Krishnas universal form stimulates wonder in some and fear in others
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Gita 18.78 The Gita’s purpose is not just to proclaim God’s position but primarily to transform man’s disposition
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Gita 18.76 The Gita’s conversation is memorable and relishable
October 2018
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Gita 01.01 The Gita’s first word dharma conveys its essential, universal theme
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Gita 01.02 Sanjaya addresses not just the content of Dhritarashtra’s question but also its intent
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Gita 01.03 Context can convert compliment into criticism
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Gita 01.04 Duryodhana tries to change Drona’s emotion for the opposite side from affection to anger
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Gita 01.05 Our mode of description reflects our intention
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Gita 01.06 Duryodhana diplomatically continues to incite Drona against the Pandava army
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Gita 01.07 Be aware of how what we say to one person may be heard by others
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Gita 01.08 We need to be calm-headed, not cold-blooded
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Gita 01.09 Duryodhana’s slip of tongue leads to his speaking the truth unintentionally
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Gita 01.10 Symmetry of structure stresses contrast in content
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Gita 01.11 The protector too needs to be protected
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Gita 01.12 Just because we get others to do what we want them to do doesn’t mean we have won them over to our side
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Gita 01.13 Actions that throw caution to the winds are preceded by caution
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Gita 01.14 The Gita’s audio-visual camera starts with the character of the questioner’s interest, but shifts now to the central characters
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Gita 01.15 The devoted see God before they see the world, the undevoted see only the world
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Gita 01.16 Yudhishthira doesn’t come first in the list of warriors but is still their undisputed leader
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Gita 01.17 Don’t let minor grammatical disputes overshadow major narrational and philosophical thrust
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Gita 01.18 The Pandavas lost Pandu but gained Drupada as a father figure
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Gita 01.19 The Pandavas win the mental battle before the physical battle
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Gita 01.20 Life is so unpredictable that it can unbalance the unflappably balanced
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Gita 01.21 The non-partisan position of the Gita’s revelation points to its universality
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Gita 01.22 Asking to see something that is already known points to a dynamic that is not known
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Gita 01.23 Virtue doesn’t count when determining the military count in a fight
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Gita 01.24 The position of maximum visibility is also the position of maxiumum vulnerability
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Gita 01.25 What catches ouar attention is determined by what is prominent in our external situation and in our internal disposition
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Gita 01.26 When we can’t fight the circumstances that make us fight against our loved ones, we have to fight against our loved ones
November 2018
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Gita 01.27 The sequence of perception determines the consequence on our emotion
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Gita 01.28 Our thought-train’s journey from intentions to actions is diverted by our emotions
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Gita 01.29 Know which emotion is mental and which spiritual not just by content, but also by context and consequence
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Gita 01.30 When we face challenges bigger than ourselves, we look for omens to sense the intentions of forces bigger than ourselves
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Gita 01.31 What we think of as long-term may not be long-term enough
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Gita 01.32 Don’t let the means to an end become an end that diverts us from the actual ends
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Gita 01.33 When various purposes pull us in different directions, we need to prioritize our purposes
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Gita 01.34 To retaliate and cause death requires courage, but to not retaliate at the cost of one’s own death requires greater courage
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Gita 01.35 Our pleasure-pain calculation determines our decisions and is determined by our worldview
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Gita 01.36 The ethical tension between kula-dharma and kshatriya-dharma leads to emotional over-reaction and physical inaction
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Gita 01.37 Consciousness that is contaminated becomes conquered and covered
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Gita 01.38 To restrain a violent madman, their restrainers may have to fight like the madman
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Gita 01.39 Our sense of honor coming from our lineage can raise us but can also stop us from rising to the highest
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Gita 01.40 Dharma prevents human society from being ruled by the law of the jungle
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Gita 01.41 When the family is disrupted, the faith of the children is also devastated
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Gita 01.42 Disruption of dharma leads to overpopulation of disruptive souls, causing total breakdown of dharma
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Gita 01.43 Hearing is important, but from whom we are hearing is even more important
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Gita 01.44 When our emotion rules our reason, we rationalize a one-sided view of reality
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Gita 01.45 The war was not to gain a kingdom but to protect the rule of law
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Gita 02.01 The intensity of Arjuna’s emotion conveys the potency of Krishna’s solacing wisdom
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Gita 02.02 Fight against lower emotions by fighting for higher emotions
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Gita 02.03 Identify behavior that is out of character with our character
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Gita 02.05 Deliberation is desirable, but depth of deliberation is decisive
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Gita 02.06 The decision that seems a no-brainer turns out to be a brain-exhauster
December 2018
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Gita 02.07 Seek first to understand the question to best understand the answer
November 2018
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Gita 01.46 The significance of our actions depends not just on the actions but also on the situations in which we do those actions
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Gita 02.04 Fight not for or against some material cause – fight for Krishna