BGV 18

Gita 18.78 The Gita’s purpose is not just to proclaim God’s position but primarily to transform man’s disposition

Gita 18.77 Recollecting Krishnas universal form stimulates wonder in some and fear in others

Gita 18.76 The Gita’s conversation is memorable and relishable

Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita’s wisdom

Gita 18.74 The Gita describes a mahatama and makes its hearer into a mahatma

Gita 18.73 Harmony with the divine infuses our fleeting insignificant lives with lasting significance

Gita 18.72 A philosophical conversation amidst emotional tribulation testifies to Arjuna’s sincerity and Krishna’s potency

Gita 18.71 Krishna compassionately offers connections at decreasing levels of commitment

Gita 18.70 See the sanctity of Gita study in terms of intent, content and result

Gita 18.69 See the superlative as an exhortation to devotional action

Gita 18.68 The bhakti cure cures more those who share the cure more

Gita 18.67 Though ultimately every heart longs for divine love, not every heart is presently ready for divine love

Gita 18.66 The call to rise above dharma is not a call to slip below dharma

Gita 18.65 Promises in a close relationship reflect and affect the closeness of the relationship

Gita 18.64 Krishna’s tone rises from informational analysis to impassioned advocacy

Gita 18.63 Knowledge guides our free will by showing us the consequences of our actions

Gita 18.62 The deepest peace comes by not an external serene situation but by an internal spiritual connection

Gita 18.61 Though we are controlled by material nature, we are still within the control of our Lord

Gita 18.60 How we act is determined by our material nature but for what purpose we act isnt

Gita 18.59 Ego means to think that we know better than God

Gita 18.58 The destructive voice can’t be tuned out unless we tune in to the divine voice

Gita 18.57 Take shelter of the intelligence to convince yourself of the need to take Krishna’s shelter

Gita 18.56 The bhakti university takes seekers from any level to the summit of spiritual perfection

Gita 18.55 Don’t divorce the literal reading of one word from the overall context of the text

Gita 18.54 Devotion doesn’t culminate in liberation, liberation culminates in devotion

Gita 18.53 Determined disconnection from the material paves the way to the spiritual

Gita 18.52 Take shelter of renunciation to cultivate inner absorption

Gita 18.51 Use intelligence to counter the mind’s centrifugal force

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 18.48 See beyond the unpalatable to the essential to pursue the transcendental

Gita 18.47 Acknowledging our present diversity is essential for realizing our spiritual commanality

Gita 18.46 See work as an offering the divine’s gifts to the divine

Gita 18.45 Inclusive spirituality centers on rejection of work, but on its reconceptualization and redirection

Gita 18.44 Protecting cows protects the cow protectors from greed

Gita 18.43 Kshatriyas control in service of the supreme controller

Gita 18.42 Brahmanas cultivate material material regulation and spiritual redirection by intellectual conviction

Gita 18.41 Varnashrama provides customized spirituality for elevating people from where they are

Gita 18.40 To attain harmony with our spiritual nature, we need engagement that is in harmony with our psychophysical nature

Gita 18.39 Pleasure in ignorance begins in ignorance and ends in increased ignorance

Gita 18.38 The pleasure of titillation leads to the agony of tribulation

Gita 18.37 Spiritual knowledge gives us the purpose to persevere through the poison till the nectar

Gita 18.36 Some pleasures are the start of sorrow – and some the end of sorrow

Gita 18.35 To hold on to thought-patterns that hurt us is to abuse our determination

Gita 18.34 When one worldly desire trumps all other material desires, what results is determination in passion

Gita 18.33 What intelligence discerns, that determination sustains

Gita 18.32 Intelligence in ignorance mistakes the binding to be freeing

Gita 18.31 Confusing between long-term purposes and short-term pleasures characterizes intelligence in passion

Gita 18.30 Intelligence means to see beyond appearance to consequence

Gita 18.29 To drive purposefully, we need to know the destination, the path and the vehicle

Gita 18.28 Doers in ignorance act destructively for others and even for themselves

Gita 18.27 Our actions reflect our self-conception and our world-conception

Gita 18.26 The doer is not a non-doer but is a component in doing

Gita 18.25 To see our actions disconnected from the past and the future is to see in illusion

Gita 18.24 Disconnection from our Lord leads to the consumption of our consciousness by passion

Gita 18.23 To gain knowledge, we need basic knowledge about where to seek knowledge

Gita 18.22 Knowledge in ignorance makes us obsessed with one fragment of reality and one kind of action

Gita 18.21 To equate others physical appearance with spiritual substance is vision in passion

Gita 18.20 Seeing commonality alone is not vision in goodness – seeing spirituality as the foundation of commonality is

Gita 18.19 The Gita’s flow verses make its question-directed discussion more accessible

Gita 18.18 Analysis of the components of action is meant to direct towards non-reactive action

Gita 18.17 When we act without false ego, we stay free of reactions

Gita 18.16 To think that we are the sole doers is to have deluded intelligence

Gita 18.15 Spiritual consciousness ensures that our actions give a favorable result

Gita 18.14 God is the fifth factor as well as the foundation of all factors

Gita 18.13 The journey from illusion to illumination requires philosophical education

Gita 18.12 Intelligence sees consequence and fosters detachment

Gita 18.11 To pursue liberation, give up the idea of giving up action

Gita 18.10 Take the route that takes us to the destination, not the route that looks the easiest

Gita 18.09 Renunciation in goodness means to know that we as parts just need to do our parts

Gita 18.08 Desire for bodily pleasure and fear of bodily trouble both keep us in the cage of bodily consciousness

Gita 18.07 Renunciation done in illusion can’t take us out of illusion

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 18.04 Just as indulgence can be indiscriminate, so can renunciation

Gita 18.03 Gita 18.03 Appreciate others thoughtfulness even if it doesn’t lead to the best conclusion

Gita 18.02 Devotional attachment is the best way to avoid worldly attachment

Gita 18.01 What is used to refer is not as important as what is being referred to