Vedic Scriptures

Was Ashwatthama gambled – how authentic is the TV Mahabharata?

Gita 14.09 The longer a pleasure lasts, the greater its lure

​Should we see adversities in material life as impetuses for practicing karmany va dhikaraste?

Gita 14.08 The mode of ignorance begins with not knowing and leads to false knowing

Angada’s journey – Unity within begets unity without

​Sugriva’s journey from doubt to faith

Gita 14.07 Passion is composed of attachment, gives rise to craving and binds us to work

The Gita is elevating and accommodating – Overview of chapters 1-12

​Disproportionate punishment can be atrocious – Ashwattama pastime analysis 2

Gita 14.06 Anything that keeps us away from realizing our spirituality is binding, even if it is illuminating

Gita 14.05 Modes are a combination of matter that trigger emotion which matter in isolation doesnt

Gita 14.04 The seed-giving father is also the soul-attracting liberator

Gita 14.03 We determine our bodies and our bodies determine us

Gita 14.02 Death can’t be avoided, but affliction due to death can be

Beware of the temptation to punish 1- Ashwattama pastime analysis

Gita 14.01 The Gita uses diverse frames of analysis to reiterate its consistent conclusion

When Vibhishana went over to the side of virtue, why didn’t Vidura do the same?

When Lakshmana left Sita unguarded because of her harsh words, whose mistake was it?

Vritrasura lila analysis 2 – The heroic leader and the hidden devotee

Vritrasura lila analysis 1 – The setting for the stunning twist in the storyline

Gita 13.35 Knowledge helps us perceive and achieve spiritual reality

Gita 13.34 Consciousness can be the channel to illumination – and to illusion too

Gita 13.33 The soul is not entangled, but the mind is

Gita 13.32 The soul is situated in the body, but its consciousness doesn’t have to imprisoned in the body

Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity

Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body

Gita 13.29 See beyond people’s particular actions to Krishna’s universal positive intention

Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see

Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension

Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality

Uddhava Gita nectar 4 – Understanding the different gopis’ varying understandings of Krishna

How was Bhishma’s abducting Amba, Ambika and Ambalika moral?

When Karna was already killed by destiny, why did Krishna invite Karna to the Pandavas side?

If Karna chose wrongly because of attachment, didn’t Bhishma do the same?

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 4 – Understanding human intelligence

Why is the Bhagavatam’s tenth canto divided into chapters according to the location of pastimes?

Uddhava Gita nectar 3 – The gopis’ ecstatic samadhi

Uddhava Gita nectar 2 – Love explained – Comparing materialist, Abrahamic, impersonalist and bhakti worldviews

Uddhava Gita nectar 1 – Krishna acknowledges the gopis’ heartbreak

Yayati pastime analysis – From indulgence to transcendence

Is Gandhiji’s commentary on the Gita ok?

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 3 – Understanding material nature

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 2 – Understanding Maya

Chatur Shloki Bhagavatam 1 – Understanding the Absolute Truth

Bhagavatam study 35 01.7.52-58 Law codes alone aren’t enough for justice – an expert judge is needed

Bhagavatam study 34 01.7.44-51 Differences in opinion arise from differences in focus of perception

Why does the Gita refer to people following scripture (17.11) while describing people without scriptural faith?

How can we explain Krishna’s conspiracies in the Mahabharata?

Bhagavatam study 33 01.7.38-43 Ashwatthama’s actions were inexcusable and punishable

Bhagavatam study 32 01.7.30-37 The protector from provocation tests by provoking

Bhagavatam study 31 01.7.22-29 Krishna relieves from the dangerous fire – literal and metaphorical

How do impersonalists interpret the Gita’s clearly personalist verses?

PRAHLAD acronym – 7 glories qualities of Prahlad Maharaj

Gita 12.13 Devotion manifests as action, even aggression, without mundane passion

What is the difference between knowledge in the three modes and intelligence in the three modes?

Gita 12.12 Serenity comes by rising from piety to spirituality

Gita 12.11 To be self-situated, begin with selflessness

Gita 12.10 Bhakti means dedicating our external to the eternal internal instead of the ephemeral internal

Gita 12.09 If absorption in Krishna is unattainable, seek attraction through connection

Gita 12.08 Bhakti changes not our outer location but the locus of our inner world

Was Ravana revenging the dishonor of Shurapanakha by kidnapping Sita?

Sugriva: Comfort – Material and Transcendental

Did Draupadi love Karna?

Wasn’t Hanuman’s anger in burning Lanka excessive?

How could Arjuna ask Krishna to become his charioteer?

Is Tulsi-Ramayana more biased against Ravana than Valmiki-Ramayan?

When Hanuman was a monkey, why did Sita see him as a man and decline to be carried by him?

Did Vibhishana betray his brother by defecting to Rama’s side?

If Arjuna being a kshatriya was anyway going to fight, why did Krishna speak the Gita?

Gita 1​1.30 The all-devouring feature of the universal form reveals how the war is a yajna

Why did Arjuna kill Bhishma unfairly?

Was Arjuna a better archer than Karna because he got better training facilities?

Why did Dasharatha not go with Rama to the forest when he felt separation from him?

When Vasudeva and Devakis son was going to kill him, why did Kamsa keep them in the same prison cell?

Was Ravana virtuous because he didn’t violate Sita forcibly?

​Gita 1​1.29 To be enriched with speed on the path of self-destruction is tragic

Draupadi – dishonored yet honorable

​Gita 11.28 The life and the death of the dharmic is auspicious

Bhagavatam study 30 – 1.7.15 -21 – Arjuna pacifies griefstruck Draupadi with fierce sweet words

​Gita 11.27 The comprehensive vision of the universes includes its gruesome features

Bhagavatam study 29 – 1.7.8-14 – Krishna attracts those who are not attracted to anything

Gita 11.26 The event of death is virtue-neutral, but the destination after death isn’t

Bhagavatam study 28 – 1.7.1-7 – Vyasa offers bhakti as the remedy for the worlds malady

Gita 11.25 The sight of the unfamiliar in the familiar is disorienting

Bhagavatam study 27 – 1.6.32-38 – Krishnas glories fulfill our search for pleasure

Why do jnanis need many lives to become jnanavan?

Why are the eka-bhakti jnanis of Gita 7.17 considered jnana-mishra?

​Gita 11.24 Repetition is not always rambling – it can be for stress or beauty

Bhagavatam study 26 – 1.6.23-31 – Devotion offers the supreme liberation

Gita 11.23 The universal form’s predatory features arouse fear even in Arjuna

Bhagavatam study 25 – 1.6.16-22 – Spiritual desire cleanses material desire

​Gita 11.22 The vibhutis are astounded by the virata rupa

Bhagavatam study 24 – 1.6.8-15 – Spiritual vision makes the heart-breaking heart-freeing

When the Vedas also talk about transcendence, why does Gita 2.45 ask us to go beyond the Vedas?

Does the Gita flow from 2.58 to 2.61 reflect rise from karma-yoga through jnana-yoga and dhyana-yoga to bhakti yoga?

Does Gita 2.12 actually counter impersonalism?

Does Gita 2.11 refer to the life-air or to the soul?

What is the difference between kula dharma and jati dharma?

Bhagavatam study 23 – 1.6.1-7 – Even when our disposition changes, our position may not change

Does the well-river example of Gita 2.46 illustrate transcending the Vedas recommended in Gita 2.45?