Bhagavad Gita

What is the difference between knowledge, intelligence and self-realization?

Why did Srila Prabhupada call his Gita commentary As It Is? (Bhagavad-gita)

Gita key verses course 1 What is the Gita – How is the Gita relevant today – Gita 01.01

Is the Gita a later insertion in the Mahabharata?

How the Gita expresses Krishna’s love by directing us to balance this world and the next world

Gita lite 5 – Chps 12-15

Gita insights for managing the mind – Chapter Ten Analysis

The Gita shares not just light but also warmth

Gita’s key to happiness

Why does the Gita not mention the word guru and refer in plural to seers of the truth in 4.34?

Gita lite 3 – Chps 6-8

Gita lite 2 – Chps 3-5

Gita lite 1 – Chps 1-2

How hearing the Bhagavad-gita raised Sanjay’s standard of longing

When duty is a societal construct, why can’t we just follow our heart’s calling without caring for society’s opinion?

How can we work dispassionately when doing our duty requires passion?

How do we know whether we are in harmony with our true nature and God’s plan – what does harmony feel like?

If we are to not make judgments, why is Krishna making judgments and taking sides in the war?

Does the Supersoul sanction all our undesirable desires?

Gita 6.37-45 – How our spirituality continues beyond our present life

Is the Bhagavad-gita relevant in the age of science – MAIL acronym

Bhagavad-gita chapter 2 overview – How to decide the right thing to do and stay undisturbed while doing it

Politics, Social Organization and Bhagavad-gita

Bhagavad Gita Chapters 15-18 Overview

Bhagavad Gita Chapters 13-14 Overview

Does sarva dharman parityajya mean that we should give up our rationality and just surrender?

Does the upside-down tree metaphor of Gita chapter 15 imply that there’s a separate tree for each individual soul?

If repression can’t accomplish anything – Gita 03.33 – why should we restrain our senses, Gita 03.34?

How our outer world and our inner world deludes – and how bhakti delivers

Moving toward self-mastery through fear of dishonor and detachment – Gita 2.31.63

Gita applied Chapter 2 – The Gita separates the soul from the body and harmonizes both too

Gita 01.01 The Gita’s first word dharma conveys its essential, universal theme

Gita applied Chapter 1 – Duryodhana’s illusion is short-sighted, Arjuna’s illusion is far-sighted

Which path of yoga burns our karma to what extent?

Controlling the mind through yoga and bhakti – similarities and differences Gita 06.21

Krishna’s moods in the Bhagavad-gita 3 – Chp 13-18

Krishna’s moods in the Bhagavad-gita 2 – Chp 10-12

Krishna’s moods in the Bhagavad-gita 1 – Chp 1-9

The Gita’s transformational power explained through four special words in its last verse

4 significant words in the Gita’s last verse – Hindi

Gita Jayanti talk – The Gita provides Partha with paramartha

In Gita 09.32, why are women put in a separate category from the various varnas?

Gita 02.07 Seek first to understand the question to best understand the answer

Gita 02.06 The decision that seems a no-brainer turns out to be a brain-exhauster

Gita 02.05 Deliberation is desirable, but depth of deliberation is decisive

Does any Gita verse say that the soul is on a multi-life journey of spiritual evolution?

Gita 02.03 Identify behavior that is out of character with our character

Essence of the Gita – Identity, Activity, Destiny

Gita 02.02 Fight against lower emotions by fighting for higher emotions

Gita 02.01 The intensity of Arjuna’s emotion conveys the potency of Krishna’s solacing wisdom

Gita 01.46 The significance of our actions depends not just on the actions but also on the situations in which we do those actions

Appreciating Sanjaya’s appreciation of the Gita

Gita 01.45 The war was not to gain a kingdom but to protect the rule of law

Gita 01.44 When our emotion rules our reason, we rationalize a one-sided view of reality

Gita 01.43 Hearing is important, but from whom we are hearing is even more important

Gita 01.42 Disruption of dharma leads to overpopulation of disruptive souls, causing total breakdown of dharma

Gita 01.41 When the family is disrupted, the faith of the children is also devastated

Gita 01.40 Dharma prevents human society from being ruled by the law of the jungle

Gita 01.39 Our sense of honor coming from our lineage can raise us but can also stop us from rising to the highest

Gita 01.38 To restrain a violent madman, their restrainers may have to fight like the madman

Gita 01.37 Consciousness that is contaminated becomes conquered and covered

Gita 01.36 The ethical tension between kula-dharma and kshatriya-dharma leads to emotional over-reaction and physical inaction

Gita 01.35 Our pleasure-pain calculation determines our decisions and is determined by our worldview

Gita 01.34 To retaliate and cause death requires courage, but to not retaliate at the cost of one’s own death requires greater courage

Gita 01.33 When various purposes pull us in different directions, we need to prioritize our purposes

Gita 01.32 Don’t let the means to an end become an end that diverts us from the actual ends

Gita 01.31 What we think of as long-term may not be long-term enough

Gita 01.30 When we face challenges bigger than ourselves, we look for omens to sense the intentions of forces bigger than ourselves

Practical application of the Gita – MAIL acronym

Gita 01.29 Know which emotion is mental and which spiritual not just by content, but also by context and consequence

Gita 01.28 Our thought-train’s journey from intentions to actions is diverted by our emotions

Gita 01.27 The sequence of perception determines the consequence on our emotion

Gita 01.26 When we can’t fight the circumstances that make us fight against our loved ones, we have to fight against our loved ones

Gita 01.25 What catches ouar attention is determined by what is prominent in our external situation and in our internal disposition

Gita 01.24 The position of maximum visibility is also the position of maxiumum vulnerability

Gita 01.23 Virtue doesn’t count when determining the military count in a fight

Gita 01.22 Asking to see something that is already known points to a dynamic that is not known

Gita 01.21 The non-partisan position of the Gita’s revelation points to its universality

Gita 01.20 Life is so unpredictable that it can unbalance the unflappably balanced

Gita 01.19 The Pandavas win the mental battle before the physical battle

The Gita tells us to do karma, but also asks us to understand karma – what karma does it refer to?

Gita 01.18 The Pandavas lost Pandu but gained Drupada as a father figure

Gita 01.17 Don’t let minor grammatical disputes overshadow major narrational and philosophical thrust

What is the significance of Duryodhana’s use of the past tense in Gita 01.09?

Gita 01.16 Yudhishthira doesn’t come first in the list of warriors but is still their undisputed leader

Gita 01.15 The devoted see God before they see the world, the undevoted see only the world

Gita 01.14 The Gita’s audio-visual camera starts with the character of the questioner’s interest, but shifts now to the central characters

Gita 01.13 Actions that throw caution to the winds are preceded by caution

Gita 01.12 Just because we get others to do what we want them to do doesn’t mean we have won them over to our side

Gita 01.11 The protector too needs to be protected

Gita 01.10 Symmetry of structure stresses contrast in content

Gita 01.09 Duryodhana’s slip of tongue leads to his speaking the truth unintentionally

Gita 01.08 We need to be calm-headed, not cold-blooded

Gita 01.07 Be aware of how what we say to one person may be heard by others

How Gita wisdom helps us to deal with pain

Gita 01.06 Duryodhana diplomatically continues to incite Drona against the Pandava army

Gita 01.05 Our mode of description reflects our intention

Gita 01.04 Duryodhana tries to change Drona’s emotion for the opposite side from affection to anger

Gita 01.03 Context can convert compliment into criticism

Gita 01.02 Sanjaya addresses not just the content of Dhritarashtra’s question but also its intent