18 Chapter Eighteen

18.57 – Seek shelter to wear the armor; use the armor to feel the shelter

18.63 – Life is not a fixed match, but Krishna can help us fix it

18.71 – The words will change us – provided we don’t change the words

18.46 – Complement spirit with spirituality for complete success

18.66 – Whatever karma may get us to, Krishna will get us through

18.58 – Empower your thoughts to break free from their tired and tiring avenues

18.61 – Krishna is not doing things to us; he is doing things for us

18.22 – Tune in to yourself to best tune in to the world

18.42 – If we can’t ban sin from the heart, we can still banish it

18.38 – Discover the right way to enjoy our right to enjoyment

18.46 – Preoccupation with occupation is not devotion

18.28 – Fretting is like overcooking a rotten vegetable in our head

18.42 – Those who respect the command of God command the respect of the world

18.26 – Life in goodness is not life in slow motion

18.58 – Life determines our problems; we determine their size

18.61 – The first purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life

18.58 – Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place

18.73 – Send resentment to retirement

18.65 – Realization comes by riveting to the relationship, not the ritual

18.58 – When Krishna doesn’t understand…

18.56 – The summit that reaches down to the trenches

18.38 – Are we drinking poison to quench thirst?

18.22 – Are we meant to be characters in a cartoon show?

18.66 – Love values, but value love more

18.66 – The bond that sets us free

18.57 – Fighting vices is like fighting weeds: we are always slightly behind

18.76 – Love of words in the words of love

18.73 – The sacrifice of life, the life of sacrifice

18.04 – Don’t massage or pinch the false ego; pat it onwards

18.38 – The human talent for misery

18.48 – Forgive the unavoidable, avoid the unforgivable

18.58 – Are we seeking counsel from our fears instead of from Krishna?

18.37 – Be cruel to be kind

18.58 – The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna

18.33 – Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way

18.45 – Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness

18.37 – Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar

18.58 – Hunted, haunted – transcended

18.63 – Don’t give up the intelligence; go beyond the intelligence

18.73 – When relevance becomes irrelevant…

18.40 – Beyond Denial and Dismissal to Determination

18.32 – When the conscience is dumbed and numbed and dumped…

18.76 – Are our thoughts impoverishing or enriching us?

18.66 – The Gita is Categorical and Rhetorical

18.70 – Veneration, comprehension, application, transformation: The four stages in our relationship with the Gita

18.58 – Let’s not tell Krishna how big our problems are; let’s tell our problems how big Krishna is

18.55 – Claiming that the unknown is unknowable is claiming to know the unknown

18.76: The two wonders of Gita wisdom

18.42: Shun senselessness or shun the senseless mind

18.57 – Krishna-thoughts are soothing, satisfying, strengthening and sublimating

18.58: If no time for meditation, then time for frustration

18.22: The monomania of machines, mechanistic thinking and mechanical behavior

18.67: What are our thoughts giving us: frustration or jubilation?

18.54: Comparison: The futile pastime of the mind

18.73: Krishna’s message paves the way for his ultimate miracle

18.36: Are we waiting for a holy cloud to form around our heads?

18.38: Material Letdown and Spiritual Breakdown: The Twin Troubles of Transgression

18.76-77: Meditation is not a dulling duty, but a thrilling opportunity

18.63: Krishna walks with us, but not for us

18.63: The Gita transforms the head into a runway for the heart

18.58: True to oneself or true tool to one’s self?

18.64-65: Love that doesn’t appoint to DIS-appoint

18.32: Rationalize = Rational + lies: Glamorizing lewdness as “boldness”

18.58: With Krishna, we flourish; without Krishna, we perish

18.66: Surrender is not about giving up, but about going up

18.73 – An intellectual adventure with an emotional climax

18.58: Our fear of insignificance traps us in insignificance

18.33-35: Gita insights for New Year resolutions

18.73: Questioning our questions

18.37: Lack of devotional appetite is natural yet unnatural

18.55: Familiarity is not understanding

18.78: The Gita guarantees ultimate success

18.73: From “Is God with me?” to “Am I with God?”

18.65: The Bhagavad-gita enthrones the path of love

18.37: The Secret of Enlightened Enjoyment

18.64: When demoralized, let’s turn to the Bhagavad-gita

18.25: A moment of indulgence, a lifetime of repentance