Gita 18.50 The Gita’s purpose is not to describe spiritual paths but to analyze them for making an informed choice
Gita 18.49 Our spiritual evolution goes through multiple levels of perfection from engagement through disengagement to devotion
Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection
Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction
Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature
Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion
Gita 18.31 Confusing between long-term purposes and short-term pleasures characterizes intelligence in passion
Gita 18.22 Knowledge in ignorance makes us obsessed with one fragment of reality and one kind of action
Gita 18.20 Seeing commonality alone is not vision in goodness – seeing spirituality as the foundation of commonality is
Gita 18.08 Desire for bodily pleasure and fear of bodily trouble both keep us in the cage of bodily consciousness
Gita 18.06 Karmic bondage is like emotional dependence – focus not just on the action but also on the motivation
Gita 18.05 To be mana-isha, we need not just a mana free from ishvara-bhava, but a mana fixed on ishvara
Gita 18.03 Gita 18.03 Appreciate others thoughtfulness even if it doesn’t lead to the best conclusion
Gita 17.27 Sat is not just a word for recitation – it is a conviction to cultivated and infused into action
Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy
Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed
Gita 17.12 Yajna is like modern technology – can fuel the illusion that we are controllers and enjoyers.mp3
Gita 17.09 Food in passion is is sensually stimulating but eventually distressing and disease-inducing.mp3
Gita 17.07 Food sacrifice charity and austerity represent broad patterns of the soul’s interaction with its encasing circles
Gita 17.03 The relationship between our existence and our faith is causal constitutional and consequential
Gita 16.21 The metaphorical usage stresses the reality and gravity of the demoniac forces of lust anger and greed