Bhagavad Gita

Don’t waste your mental energy on people on whom you won’t waste your time Gita 11.55

Address misery first by recognizing its fundamental cause then its circumstantial cause Gita 09.33

Don’t give your enemies weapons to beat you with Gita 03.36

Ask not how could he have done that – ask what is to be done next Gita 03.39

Dumbness is not inability to understand gibberish – it is inability to see gibberish for what it is Gita 18.63

Gita 14.11 Don’t chase the objects in perception – clean the doors of perception

Gita 16.08 Materialism strips not only the other world of reality but also this world of meaning

Gita 08.20 Those who reject a world beyond this world sentence themselves to pointless business in this world

Gita 18.58 Devotion brings the inner morale to combat outer problems

Gita 16.11 Technology is not just the provider of facility – it is also the shaper of mentality

Gita 14.04 Dialogue requires methodological humility

Gita 14.11 Our mind can be a transmitter distorter or reflector of our consciousness

Gita 01.46 – When emotions block our consciousness Gita wisdom removes the blockage

How can the Gita’s knowledge help poor people?

Does the Gita give spiritual solutions to all material problems?

Gita 18.63 The call to the heart complements the call to the head

Gita 18.38 Don’t be so caught in choosing the right seat as to fail to choose the right train

Gita 17.01 Worldviews are meant to be vision-enhancers not vision-diminishers

Gita 17.16 Purity has to be cultivated as an austerity before it can be savored as a state

Gita 16.11 Use developed human consciousness to decrease material fears not increase them

Gita 18.22 – Rise from tunnel vision through funnel vision

Gita 13.13 Bhakti wisdom frames our knowledge and our need for knowledge within our aspiration for eternity

Gita 12.08 Living in Krishna is a matter of not just relocation but also of realization

Gita 02.07 When surface identities lead to conflicting duties seek the fundamental identity

Gita 10.6 See genealogy as an arena for manifesting Krishna’s actions in this world

Gita 18.38 Contact of senses and sense objects is not just physical but also visual

Gita 02.08 Don’t let comforts lure you away from life’s purpose

Gita Essence 3 – The transformational power of love – World-knowledge as the vehicle for love

Gita Essence 2 – The transformational power of love – God-knowledge as the fuel for love

Gita 18.78 Human excellence and divine omnipotence herald victory

Gita 01.42 Today’s war against family increases self-centeredness and obstructs spiritual growth

What does seeing but not acting with equal vision mean?

Gita 18.22 – A truncated representation of reality is not reality

Gita Essence 1- The transformational power of love – Self-knowledge as the basis of love

Gita 16.24 – The transition from description to prescription requires discretion

How free is our free will?

Gita 02.58 Inevitable exposure to sense objects is different from initiated or instigated exposure

Gita 16.09 All truth-claims are power-claims – This is also a truth-claim and a power-claim

Gita 14.26 – Bhakti is both a state and a process

Gita 18.63 – Don’t sway others – inspire them

Gita 14.05 – The modes comprise objective reality and color subjective perception

If we are detached from our goals what will inspire us to work?

IDEA acronym – The Bhagavad-gita in essence

Why does the Gita not have any Duryodhana uvaca though he speaks several verses?

How can we know that the Gita hasn’t changed over the centuries?

Why does the Gita begin with Dhritarashtra not Krishna?

When the Gita Mahatmaya talks about Gita recitation countering various sinful reactions is that karma kanda or is it bhakti?

Significance of Chatur-Shloki Gita – Location Content & Import

The eye to see the I

Does Gita 12.8-11 refer to progressive levels or alternative ways?

The Gita’s five subjects analyzed as a guide to action

What is the connection of vibhuti yoga with perceiving spiritual reality?

In Gita 6.5 can both atma be translated as the mind – elevate the mind with the mind?

What I have learned from the Gita

Why does the Gita use a battlefield setting?

​In Gita 17.1 do shraddha and nishtha refer to different things?

What is the essence of the Bhagavad-gita?

Demystifying Gita 18.66 – Does surrender mean giving up dharma?

Who all heard the Gita – why were Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra able to hear?

Are all commentaries on Bhagavad-gita of equal value?

For what purpose did Krishna speak the Bhagavad-gita?

For whom is the Bhagavad-gita spoken?

In the Bhagavad-gita what is the significance of the word Bhagavan?

What is the Bhagavad-gita?

What is the spirit of Bhagavad-gita?

Who is fit to understand Bhagavad-gita?

Why did Krishna choose Arjuna as the recipient of Bhagavad-gita?

​Why does Krishna descend to this world – to kill demons or to teach the Gita?

​Did everyone on the Kurukshetra battlefield see Krishna’s universal form?

Does Krishna tell Arjuna that you are a kshatriya at the level of a brahmana?

Does the Gita recommend doing yajna-dana-tapa or giving it up?

​​​​Which aspect of the universal form did Duryodhana see?

​What does the Gita’s call to control the mind by practice and renunciation mean practically?

​​In guna-karma mentioned in Gita 4.13, can karma be developed but not guna?

​Why does the Gita give its essence of bhakti in its middle and not at its end?

​Does Krishna’s call to Arjuna to rise beyond the three modes imply that we all can transcend our nature born from the modes?

​Channeling our emotions on the path of yoga – Gita 06.20-23

What is the flow of the from Gita 6.20 to 6.23?

​What does the Gita 4.11 – everyone is on my path – mean?

​Who is a sthita–prajna?

Does the Gita tell us what kind of goals should we set for ourselves?

​How can a leader be benefited by the Gita’s leadership sutras?

​How can the Gita help us in change management?

​Should we differentiate between pre-Gita leadership and post-Gita leadership?

​Why did Arjuna need to hear the Gita – did he as a leader not have that spiritual knowledge earlier?

​How is Krishna the enjoyer of the sacrifices done without knowing his supremacy?

​What is the meaning of Gita 2.47 – don’t think of yourself as the cause of the result?

​How are the attached the cause of the fruit and the detached not?

Understanding the practicality of karmany evadhikaraste (Gita 02.47)

​Gita Leadership Sutras 5-10

​Gita Leadership Sutras 2-4

​Gita Leadership Sutras Intro & Sutra 1

​How to persevere when humility feels very difficult to achieve?

​Can the Gita’s verses be translated differently from what Prabhupada did?

How can the Gita’s spiritual knowledge be compared to nuclear weapons knowledge?

Does the Bhagavad-gita teach that everything that happens is good?

How can one practice bhakti without going through other yogas?

How can knowledge of other yogas help in practicing bhakti?

​How can we cultivate gravity for controlling the mind, as told in the Gita 17.16?

How are Krishna’s self-contradictory statements in Gita 9.4 and 9.5 to be understood?