Chapter 16

16.10 – When one makes lust a god, lust makes one a devil

16.01 – Charity is not just an activity but also a mentality

16.12 – Our bonds are not prisoner’s shackles, but puppeteer’s strings

16.15 – Those who crave to look big are small

16.04 – Obsession with fame deprives us of prema

16.16 – When desires crowd the mind, dilemmas cloud the intelligence

16.01 – Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear

16.22 – Anger makes our response to a problem a bigger problem than the problem itself

16.24 – End the tradition of abuse with the tradition of love

16.13-14 – Beware of the universal solvent that dissolves everything including us

16.21 – Greed makes the wealthy needy

16.12 – A liberty that ends in slavery

16.09 – An emptiness that is worse than loneliness

16.09 – Why sentence ourselves to meaninglessness, purposelessness and joylessness?

16.02 – When we best serve Krishna by keeping out of his business

16.12 – A prison of promises and pretenses

16.17 – Is our religion a sanctuary for the soul or a gymnasium for the ego?

16.9 – Why put faith in faithlessness?

16.13-14 – Our convictions are far more important than our possessions

18.66 – Religion is meant for God; God is not meant for religion

16.24 – Scriptural study strengthens the intelligence, stabilizes the mind and sustains the heart

16.04 – Are we trying to control without because of being uncontrolled within?

16.09 – Emptiness, Loneliness, Pointlessness

16.09 – A talk that no one walks

16.04 – Is the knife cutting to heal or to wound?

16.02 – What we speak about others speaks about us

16.16 – Are we living our life at the center or at the periphery?

16.11 – Filling our mind, emptying our pocket, starving our heart – is this progress?

16.10 – The great achievement of materialism

16.09 – Are we being fooled into giving ourselves a collective pat on the back?

16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?

16.16 – Why life seems so complex…

16.09 – Materialism is wrong and wrongheaded

16.18 – Hell is not meant to cause us suffering but to save us from suffering

16.23 – The obnoxious is obnoxious because it is noxious

16.15 – Weary, dreary, scary – Isn’t there a better life?

16.15 – We cannot get pure devotion by mere donation

16.15: Is the purpose of eating to get fatter?

16.10: When style violates sense, style deserves to be violated

16.12: Are we wasting our desires?

16.09-10: The Earthbound are Dearth-bound

16.16 – Are possibilities paralyzing us?

16.08: Are we becoming a society of materialistic fanatics?

16.21-22: Are mental parasites sucking our energy?

16.09: When ignorance seeks to fly with intellectual wings…

16.03: Searching for the villain can’t help us in finding the hero

16.04: Pride (P + Ride) takes us on a Perilous Ride

16.17: All bluff, no stuff – “Isn’t that enough?”

16.08-09: The immaterial is not immaterial

16.11: Cry, Vie, Lie, Die, Fie – Tie

16.07-20: The Bhagavad-gita is open-minded, not empty-minded

16.02: Finding the fault of faultfinding

16.24: Look for the right lighthouse