05 Chapter Five

How can I protect my NRI-nephew from being carried away by materialism?

05.05 – See beyond divergent ideas to convergent ideals

05.22 – The body is a visa to pleasure, not a passport

05.21- What comes fast doesn’t last; what does last doesn’t come fast

05.26 – The greatest danger is the danger of forgetting the danger

05.11 – Purity transforms the roads to misery into the roads to ecstasy

05.20 – The biggest battle in life is to keep the biggest battle the biggest battle

05.23 – Pass the test, get the taste

05.29 – Krishna is the best enjoyer – and the best source of enjoyment

05.29 – Krishna may be beyond our reach, but we are not beyond his reach

05.20 – No problem is so dreadful and no pleasure is so wonderful that it is worth losing our inner connection with Krishna

05.21 – Disdain the pain that is a pain to miss

05.22 – Are we mistaking the cause of torture to be the source of shelter?

05.16 – The inner light reveals not just the worst within but also the best within

02.71 – Fight the inner war that counters the outer war

05.22 – The false currency that keeps us trading in the stock exchange of illusion

05.22 – Are we mistaking the red signal to be the green signal?

05.21 – Are our desires locking us into a world of frustration or releasing us into the world of fulfillment?

05.11 – The balance between “matter alone matters” and “matter doesn’t matter”

05.23 – The way to transcendence is through tolerance not indulgence

05.18 – Gita wisdom frees humanity from speciesism

05.21 – The road that turns into a roadblock

05.22 – The heaven that turns out to be hell

05.22 – Long in shadow, short in substance

05.21 – We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth

05.25 – Are we like doctors who give medicines to everyone except themselves?

05.20 – When life makes us emotionally seasick…

05.24 – Materialism centers on gaining; spirituality centers on regaining

05.21 – Does our pleasure have to cost others misery?

05.22: Go down the horror lane of memory

05.10: From touch-me-not to touched-me-not

05.22: Be restrained to avoid being strained

05.21: Happiness through a perpetual tickling machine?

05.21: We don’t have to labor under unquestioned and questionable assumptions

05.29: Don’t Turn Your Back to the World; Raise Your Eyes Beyond the World

05.21: Renunciation is not un-ambitious, but super-ambitious

05.22: FIT intelligence immunizes us to illusion

05.21: Why give up the ocean for a drop?

05.22 – The pleasure that is pregnant with suffering

05.29: Krishna’s ways: Not always pleasant, but always benevolent

05.29: Don’t romanticize or demonize the world; utilize it to realize Krishna

05.23: Tolerance is the stopper between temptation and transgression